pjbooks Chapter 283 Gods are Awakening Everywhere
Chapter 283 Gods are Awakening Everywhere
Wen Yue cocked the crossbow, and the armor-piercing bullet passed through the maintenance depot, leaving a bowl-sized hole in the center of the explosion-proof glass.
The silver-masked man sitting in the reflection was pierced by a crossbow bolt, his long robe billowing backward and pinned to the wall behind the glass.
The next second, its body shattered into hundreds of reflective fragments.
The debris hit the ground, seeped into the walls along the brickwork, and surged toward the cable layer below the maintenance depot.
"Seal the pipeline!"
Qin Wuyi grabbed the canvas bag, and six metal discs flew toward the four corners of the repair warehouse.
Two of them were driven into the ventilation shaft, and four were stuck in the power supply, drainage, freight rails and data bus.
Blue and white lines crisscrossed between the discs.
A series of scraping sounds came from inside the wall.
The silver debris got stuck at the junction of the pipelines, changed direction, and crawled into the main cable of the maintenance depot.
The overhead lights went out in rows.
Xiao Qianyu stepped on the spatial beacon.
She disappeared from beside the maintenance platform and landed in front of the power distribution cabinet thirty meters away, as the Dragon King's Halberd swept across.
The cabinet doors, cable trays, and conduits inside the wall were cut off at waist height.
Dozens of cables dangled down, their silver crystal wires crawling along the copper core at such a speed that they were just afterimages.
Shen Xinglin thrust his lance into the floor.
The spearhead splits apart, with four armor-piercing blades gripping the edge of the steel plate.
He lifted it up, and the two-meter square floor flipped up, revealing the crisscrossing lines underneath.
"Old Zhao."
Zhao Leiguang had already rushed out.
With the Earth's Twin Shields raised in front of him, the Pulse Core propelled him over the repair platform.
Two utility vehicles were crashed into the wall along the way.
He leaped into the cable trench, his two shields striking together in the middle.
Boom!
The silver crystal wire was pressed into the bottom of the pit, but it continued to move under the shield, drilling towards thinner cables.
Zhao Leiguang glanced down and placed his feet on the edge of the shield.
"They're quite good at arching."
"Let's add some warmth to the first snow."
Lin Chuxue ran over, dragging her staff, with a lollipop still in her mouth.
She laid the Blood Explosion Magic Array into the cable trench, and purplish-black energy poured down from between the array patterns.
The crystal ray rose up and struck the shield, hitting it seven times in a row, its speed decreasing with each impact.
The stench of burning flesh seeped out from the ditch.
The silver layer peeled off one by one, and the remaining crystals burned into ash, which mixed into the putty on the outer sheath of the cable.
Lin Chuxue put away her staff.
"It's ripe."
Zhao Leiguang moved the shield aside and rubbed it twice with the sole of his shoe.
"Overcooked, inedible."
Wen Yue peered out of the crossbow barrel from the second-floor suspension bridge.
"You can dip it in sauce."
"Thanks, I want to live to receive my pension."
All the lights in the repair bay were turned on.
The reflections of everyone fell back onto the bulletproof glass, where only the holes left by the armor-piercing bullets remained.
There are no enemies.
After the tactical terminal restored the signal, alarms filled the screen.
The three defense teams in the northern area of the base received orders from headquarters five minutes ago and have already left their posts.
The transfer order number, electronic seal, and access key were all verified.
The person who issued the document had been killed in action two hours earlier.
Lu Yan pulled the transfer order to the offline area to check the data flow.
The upload node is located in the maintenance repository.
That silver projection just now used the files of fallen soldiers stored in the base system.
It left behind mechanical moths that infiltrated the armored vehicles, forcing them into the underground interrogation area.
When the path failed, it used the maintenance depot's data bus to send out a forged dispatch order.
What's stored in the North Zone?
A staff officer on duty opened the base's supplies list.
"Relics containment items".
"The stone tablets, remnants of soldiers, and sacrificial artifacts sent from all the war zones across the country are all there."
Qin Wuyi grabbed her denim jacket.
"The Qin family's nine stone slabs are also located in the North District."
Lu Yan pressed the team channel.
"Level 1 combat readiness, proceed to the northern district."
The maintenance depot is three kilometers away from the North District warehouse.
The first team did not wait for the bus.
Xiao Qianyu deployed spatial beacons along the way, and the group teleported three times, landing on the sealed-off area outside the warehouse.
The alloy gate has been opened.
The door lock showed no signs of forced entry, and the access records indicated that the guard personally granted permission.
Six soldiers lay dead by the door, their weapons, magazines, and protective gear still on their bodies.
Su Yunqing squatted down to examine it.
"No external injuries, vital signs are normal."
A soldier opened his eyes and grabbed her wrist.
"Where are the intruders?"
What's the last thing you remember?
"Change shifts."
The soldier looked at the digital clock on the wall.
"Why is half an hour less?"
The other five people woke up one after another.
Their memories were all frozen at the same time; even their positions remained unchanged.
Thirty minutes were neatly sliced out of their minds.
Lu Yan stepped over the gate.
The warehouse is over 400 meters deep, with steel display racks stretching from the ground to the dome.
The stone tablet, broken halberd, bronze drum, animal bones, and tattered military flag are sealed inside a separate barrier.
Some of the containers were covered with yellow talismans, while others had seven layers of lead plates nailed to their surfaces.
Deep inside the warehouse, a lift platform is parked on the second basement level.
The storage boxes next to the platform were open.
There are nine stone slab slots, one of which is empty.
Qin Wuyi walked to the box and placed her palm on the remaining stone slab.
The patterns on the stone slab surface lit up one by one.
The metal discs inside his canvas bag clanged against the bag's sides.
Qin Wuyi untied the bag.
Dozens of discs flew out and arranged in sixteen directions in mid-air, rotating with the patterns on the stone slab.
A scraping sound came from the ground.
Lines of light illuminated beneath the display shelves, radiating from the center of the warehouse to the four walls.
The line of fire passed through the alloy gate, crossed the outer wall of the base, and extended further into the distance.
A landscape painting rose into the sky.
Coastlines, mountains, rivers, and cities are all outlined with array patterns.
Dozens of coordinates are highlighted on the map.
The headquarters channel was then connected.
Reports from various theater commands flooded the tactical screens.
Deep in the Qinling Mountains, war drums echoed from a valley that had been closed off for many years.
The drumbeats lasted for 120 breaths, and the monsters from the three nearby secret realms retreated to the outside of the valley, not daring to cross the boundary marker.
A bronze pillar was discovered on the seabed of the East China Sea by an exploration vessel.
The column is 67 meters in diameter, and the chain extends into the trench; the sonar cannot detect the end of it.
In the snowy northern plains, patrol aircraft captured images of human-shaped tracks where a knife was being dragged along.
The footprints stretched for two hundred kilometers, and seven monster lairs along the way were cut open, with the cuts pointing in the same direction.
In the mountains of Sichuan, satellites captured rows of footprints.
Each footprint could fit an armored vehicle; the herds of animals in the mountains are migrating to both sides.
More reports are coming into the channel.
Relics shielded the city from meteorites, and bronze bells tolled on their own, suppressing the out-of-control secret realm outside the city.
Some seals have been broken, and monsters are gathering at the resurrection coordinates.
On the national map, red and gold dots are mixed together, and their number is still increasing.
After Houtu returned to her place, the veins beneath the earth were reconnected.
Those relics that have been separated for thousands of years are now transmitting signals to each other through the earth's veins.
Something has woken up.
Something else smelled the door opening.
Inside the tactical room, a projector covers the entire wall.
When Wen Yue returned from the medical area, she placed a hot towel next to Lu Yan.
Lu Yan took the towel, wiped the ash and blood off his face, leaned back in his chair and exhaled.
"Traces of divine activity have appeared throughout the country."
"With the return of the Goddess Houtu, the earth has reconnected with those dormant powers."
Zhao Leiguang pointed to the bronze pillar of the East China Sea.
"Who owns this pillar?"
"It wasn't written in the report."
"It can't be a clothesline."
Wen Yue sat back down in the crossbow box.
"Go pull it out and ask."
"I'm responsible for taking the damage, not for going into the sea to feed the fish."
Qin Wuyi did not participate in the argument.
He filled in the positions of the nine stone slabs in the landscape painting.
The eight directions are closed, leaving a gap in the northwest corner.
The missing stone slab governs battle formations, warfare, and killing.
The silver dot representing the stone slab has left Jincheng and is rapidly moving along the earth's veins towards the Qinling Mountains.
Lu Yan retrieved the traffic records around the base.
There were no vehicles, no flights, and no signs of spatial warp-through.
The stone slab is hidden within the earth's veins.
After the mobile sanctuary took it, it used the Mountain and River Formation to open an underground passage.
The system has begun matching individuals with divine attributes.
Three seconds later, a prompt appeared on the tactical screen.
[A suspected site containing the remains of a military deity has been opened.]
[Related Heritage: Military texts, military formations, terrain and landscape.]
Current status: External forces are attempting to seize control.
Qin Wuyi stared at the northwest gap.
"The Qin family's battle formation diagram can locate historical sites."
"Nine stone slabs can open the door."
"My job is to lead the formation."
Lu Yan tossed the analysis report of the silver crystal residue aside.
"It has its sights on you, and it's never just for those who preach the way of heaven and earth."
"The battle formation diagram handed over by the Qin family is the only way to enter the military ruins."
"It took a stone slab and already had half a key in its hand."
Zhao Leiguang fastened the two shields back to his back.
How do you open a door with only half a key?
Qin Wuyi retrieved the metal disc.
"Break down the door."
"The Mobile Sanctuary excels at this."
The landscape painting suddenly started moving.
The coordinates of the Qinling Mountains changed from gold to blood red.
Footage of the frontline reconnaissance team dominated the main screen.
The camera was shaking violently.
The mountain split open, and loose rocks rolled down the steep slope, while dust covered the valley entrance.
A row of armored terracotta warriors emerged from the mountainside.
Armor plates clashed, long spears pressed down on shoulders, and the procession stretched from the valley to behind the mountains.
one thousand.
Five thousand.
Over 10,000.
They traversed broken logs and rocky slopes, with the central platform being pulled by eight terracotta horses.
A tattered flag was planted on the high platform.
The flag is missing half of its surface, leaving only the character "姜" (Jiang).
The scouts hid behind the ridge, and the camera panned to the direction where the terracotta warriors were marching.
A highway sign stood in the distance, shrouded in dust.
Chang'an, 270 kilometers away.
A hurried shout came through the communication.
"They didn't march through Chaoxing Gate!"
"They're heading towards Chang'an!"
Lu Yan tossed the hot towel back onto the table and stood up to fasten his combat uniform.
"First squad, boarding."
"Go to the Qinling Mountains."
Qin Wuyi put away the array plate and followed the others.
On the tactical screen, the army that had been dormant for thousands of years had already crossed the first mountain.
The tattered flag unfurled in the wind.
Below the character "Jiang," there was an extra line of military orders, half-dried with blood.
Entering the country.
To attack a city.