pjbooks Chapter 331 Catching Heretics? The Radar Burned Out as Soon as It Was Activated!
Chapter 331 Catching Heretics? The Radar Burned Out as Soon as It Was Activated!
Two hundred kilometers north of Jiangcheng, above a desolate wasteland.
Three black heavy military transport planes pierced through the clouds, their doors wide open.
The wind was extremely violent, and several fully armed men in black stood at the hatch.
Qi Feng fastened his helmet and glanced at the high-dimensional radar indicator on his wrist.
"Jump!"
Dozens of dark figures leaped down from thousands of meters in the air.
The deceleration parachute suddenly opened in mid-air, and upon landing, dozens of people immediately formed a tactical defensive formation.
Qi Feng is the captain of the Hound Special Operations Team, a tough guy who has reached the third level of special operations.
He held a high-dimensional mental shackle specially designed for high-level heretics in his hand, and wore an absolute power collar around his neck.
This set of equipment usually sits gathering dust in the headquarters' underground warehouse, but Lei Zhen dug it all out today.
"Attention all units." Qi Feng lowered his voice. "Target's danger rating is extremely high. Activate protective force fields for all personnel."
Lei Zhen's voice, tinged with suppressed anger, came through the communicator:
"Qi Feng, satellite imagery shows that the Bone Insect nest less than three kilometers directly in front of you has just disappeared from infrared detection. The target is definitely still nearby. Go up and put the shackles on!"
"clear."
Qi Feng gave a tactical hand signal, and the squad immediately advanced in a fan-shaped flanking maneuver.
The two-kilometer distance was covered in less than five minutes by these skilled three-wheelers.
But the closer Qi Feng got to the coordinates, the more uncertain he felt.
There wasn't even the slightest sound of strange beasts moving around; the silence was unsettling.
When they crossed a sloping hill with their guns at the ready and saw what lay ahead, the men in the front row suddenly stopped in their tracks.
There was not a trace of an insect nest in sight.
A large crater, more than 500 meters in diameter, lay across the ground, covered with grayish-white powder, occasionally mixed with a few pieces of shell.
The three-turn worm mother, which was marked as extremely dangerous in the internal documents, was reduced to half a body, with green bodily fluids flowing everywhere.
There were no scorch marks from artillery fire at the scene.
There were no elemental remnants from the bombardment of high-level spells.
All of them bear the marks of being violently flattened.
"Captain..." The assault soldier next to him swallowed hard, pointing to the powder on the ground, "How many armor-piercing rounds would it take to make this bad?"
"No firearms were used." Qi Feng squatted down, picked up a bit of powder and rubbed it together. "It was pure mental crushing. The insects, shells and all, were completely crushed."
The surrounding operators gasped.
Qi Feng stood up, turned around, and ordered, "Technician! Bring the high-dimensional radar over and scan for any remaining mental wavebands! See which direction the target ran in!"
An operative carrying a square instrument ran forward, inserted the probe into the soil, and deftly pressed the power button.
The radar screen lit up, beginning to capture particles in the air that had not yet completely dissipated.
Qi Feng leaned closer to look at the screen.
Less than two seconds after powering on, the curve on the screen suddenly spiked uncontrollably, breaking through the red warning line.
"Alarm alert! Captain, the purity of this frequency band is off!" The technician frantically tried to cut off the power. "The particles are extremely destructive; our equipment can't withstand them!"
Before the words were even finished...
boom!
The high-dimensional radar, costing millions of dollars, emitted a burst of blue electric sparks directly from the receiver on top.
The screen emitted a plume of black smoke and was rendered unusable on the spot.
The agents were so frightened that they retreated repeatedly.
The technician stood frozen in place, staring at the machine billowing smoke.
Qi Feng snatched the communicator.
"Director Lei! Something's gone wrong!"
In the command room, Lei Zhen had just sat down and picked up his teacup: "Did you catch them?"
"Catch my ass! The target's long gone!" Qi Feng's voice betrayed his barely concealed panic. "Director Lei, there were no signs of combat at the scene. It was a one-sided rout! Our high-dimensional radar was just turned on; it measured the residual energy in the air, and it burned up instantly!"
"What did you say?" Lei Zhen suddenly stood up.
"The radar is overloaded and broken!" Qi Feng gritted his teeth. "Director Lei, this is definitely not an ordinary person. The purity of this mental energy is ridiculously high. The moment our protective force field got close to this residual energy, its energy level started dropping rapidly!"
Lei Zhen stared at the images of the ruins being transmitted back synchronously on the big screen, his eyes twitching uncontrollably.
Burning up the high-dimensional radar?
That's top-of-the-line equipment specifically designed to deal with the ultimate outer path of the third turn!
A possibility flashed through Lei Zhen's mind, and his back was instantly soaked with cold sweat.
Jiangcheng has always been peaceful, so how could such an outrageous young heretic suddenly appear?
Even his elite troops were instantly killed.
Are there even top-tier heretics protecting them?
This level of purity, this irrational method, is definitely the awakening of some revered figure who has been dormant for decades.
Their Jiangcheng branch has run into a steel plate weighing hundreds of tons!
"Retreat!" Lei Zhen roared into the microphone, his throat dry. "The entire Hound Squad is retreating immediately! Scramble back to the safe zone! Don't go and die!"
"The pursuit plan..."
"What's the point of chasing them! We've already sent the coordinates to those big shots at headquarters in Kyoto. This is beyond our control! Jiangcheng is under complete defensive tightening; nobody is allowed to leave the city!"
Lei Zhen slumped into a chair, wiping the cold sweat from his forehead.
If Qi Feng and his men had stubbornly charged in, they wouldn't even have left behind ashes.
……
Thirty kilometers away from the location of the hound squad.
Chen Yifan sneezed.
He rubbed his nose and kicked over a level 58 berserk rhinoceros monster in front of him.
This is the last high-level beast in this area that is worth looking at.
Hundreds of corpses lay scattered around, all dying in the same way: their brains had been blasted apart.
Chen Yifan watched as the experience bar slowly climbed forward a little, and pouted in dissatisfaction.
"It's too stingy and inefficient."
He wandered around the outskirts of Jiangcheng for half a day and found that most of the larger herds of beasts had been cleared out.
While the hound squad was anxiously imagining the reappearance of the old monster, Chen Yifan was only thinking about finding monsters to grind.
He pulled out the electronic map Xia Nan had given him from his storage space and swiped it across the screen a couple of times.
"One hundred kilometers to the north, there is a place called the Corrupted Blood Basin, where there is also a large settlement of third-tier monsters."
Chen Yifan stroked his chin and put the map away.
He activated [Return to Shadow] under his feet, and his figure merged directly into the shadows in front of him.
The next three days and two nights were spent in total.
This desolate land north of Jiangcheng was struck by an unprecedented catastrophe.
The group of third-tier lord-level monsters that had been entrenched here for decades and which even the military had to avoid suffered a devastating blow.
There was no tactical maneuvering, and no teamwork.
He was a young man, hands in his pockets, pushing his way through the crowd.
When encountering small groups of monsters, mental energy transforms into an invisible guillotine, sweeping away them from every angle.
When faced with a tough, highly resistant monster, he didn't bother looking for its weaknesses. Instead, he condensed his mental energy into a heavy hammer and smashed it to pieces.
When hungry, I'll nibble on some high-level psionic jerky; when sleepy, I'll take a nap in the shadows.
This was a completely unreasonable, one-sided massacre.
three days later.
Deep within the Blood-Soaked Basin.
The sky here is shrouded in dark red miasma year-round, and every step you take on the soil leaves a bloody mark.
"roar!"
A terrifying roar echoed throughout the basin.
A mutated three-headed hellhound, over forty meters long and covered in bone spurs, was frantically shaking its head.
[Target: Cerberus (Rare Lord)]
[Rank: Lv.59]
This monster, which was only one step away from the fourth level of advancement, was now gushing black blood from all three of its mouths.
Chen Yifan stood on a mound of earth a few dozen meters in front of it, without taking a single step back.
"Why are you shouting so loudly?"
He raised his right hand and slowly closed his five fingers together.
In mid-air, a massive spiritual force instantly materialized, squeezing out a gigantic, invisible hand that grabbed the largest head in the middle of the three-headed dog.
"Get down here, you son of a bitch."
Chen Yifan suddenly pressed his wrist down.
boom!
The three-headed dog's massive body was slammed into the ground, creating a huge crater. Debris mixed with blood and flesh flew everywhere.
The giant hand of spirit did not stop, and twisted it in one smooth motion.
A crisp cracking sound rang out. The three-headed dog convulsed violently twice, then fell completely lifeless.
[Ding! Slayed Lv.59 Cerberus, gained 55000 experience points.]
A crisp notification sound rang in my mind.
Immediately afterwards, a dazzling golden light suddenly burst forth from Chen Yifan's body.
The light created a wave of energy that dispersed a large area of the surrounding miasma.
[Ding! Experience points are full.]
Congratulations! You have reached level 50!
[Ding! You have reached the first job advancement level cap (Lv.50), triggering a level lock. Please complete the second job advancement awakening quest to continue gaining experience.]
Level 50.
The ultimate ceiling of a single turn.
Chen Yifan only took less than a week.
In those three days, he leveled up a total of seven levels.
The panel now displays a full seventy free attribute points.
He opened his personal panel and let out a satisfied sigh.
The air in this wilderness is much sweeter than inside the city walls of Jiangcheng.
As usual, all seventy free attribute points were allocated to the [Spirit] stat without any reservations.
In addition to the fixed attributes that come with the upgrades these past few days, my spirit has increased by over a hundred points!
"Add some points," Chen Yifan silently thought to himself.
hum!
This time, the feedback from adding points was no longer that gentle warmth.
The moment the attribute points were injected, a muffled roar came from Chen Yifan's head.
Suddenly everything went black.
He staggered two steps and knelt heavily on one knee in the mud.
My heart rate spiked instantly.
"Holy crap... what's going on...?"