High Martial Arts: I Extend My Life by Killing Monsters

In the last five days of his life, Lu Chengchuan obtained a Life-Spending System. As long as he spends lifespan in it, he will become stronger and stronger, but what use is this to him? It’s no diff...

Chapter 212 Dud

The bombing plan is about to begin, and Lu Chengchuan still wants to see if it will be effective.

At this time, Zhou Yaning came in from outside. Lu Chengchuan turned around to look at her and found that her Qi had become stronger again, and the intensity of her aura was far greater than before.

"You've become stronger again." Lu Chengchuan said.

After only five or six days of not seeing each other, Zhou Yaning has become much stronger.

"I'm far behind you."

Speaking of this, she couldn't catch up with Lu Chengchuan at all. This guy has been ahead of them from the very beginning, and his strength is still unfathomable.

"Let's stop bragging about each other. When will the bombing plan begin?"

"Almost there. It'll start in about an hour."

They had to find a place to watch in an hour. The terrain here was a bit low and they couldn't see Anyang City.

After waiting for more than half an hour, they arrived at the top of the mountain and looked down at Anyang City from a high vantage point.

Everyone calculated the time. Almost half an hour had passed. Then a cannon shot was heard, followed by countless interlaced cannon shots.

Countless shells streaked across the sky and quickly landed on Anyang City.

The shells fell but did not explode for a long time. Everyone kept looking at Anyang City without saying a word. Soon the second round of bombing came and shells fell into the city again.

The second round of shells fell, but the explosion still did not sound.

"What does this mean? The army fired only duds?"

These two rounds of bombing can't do anything to them. What does this mean? Two rounds of duds were fired in a row.

Just when everyone was puzzled, the third round of artillery shells fell, but still did not explode. This time the army knew something was wrong, and there was no bombing for the next ten minutes.

"Why is that? They can't all be duds. Even if they were test firing, they wouldn't have to fire three rounds."

Everyone on the mountain was talking about it. They had been preparing for a bombing for several days, so the army would not play a prank on them, right?

"Let's wait for news. I feel...it's not a problem with the shells." Zhou Yaning asked his teammates to calm down.

If it's not a problem with the shells, then there's a problem with Anyang City, maybe it's the blood mist protective shield.

After waiting for more than half an hour, several more booming cannon shots were heard. This time the army fired dozens of shells, which soon fell into the city, but as expected, did not explode.

"What's going on! Why didn't the shell explode?"

At the artillery firing position, the leader of the artillery unit was questioning his subordinates. Three rounds of artillery shells were fired, but not even a sound was heard.

You can't say that it was corruption in their artillery unit that caused the artillery shells to fail to fire.

"Commander, we've checked several times. I guarantee it with my head! There's absolutely no problem with the shells!"

"There are a few monsters on your head! Go get checked! I'm telling you, if there's something wrong with you, I'll use your head as a sacrifice!"

The technicians were checking the artillery and shells. They were puzzled. Everything was obviously fine, so how could an accident happen at the last minute?

This scene was happening at every artillery position. No one understood what was going on. From top to bottom, everyone rushed to check.

Two hours later, Zhou Yaning received a call that the bombing plan was cancelled.

"Stop bombing, let's go back."

Everyone returned to the military base, and the bombing plan failed. When they returned to the base, they still didn't understand why.

"It's probably because of the blood mist. There's no other explanation."

Everyone speculated on the reason, and the blood mist cover was more likely. That thing couldn't be just a decoration, otherwise the dome wouldn't release so much energy for it.

"What's the principle? How could so many bombs become ineffective in an instant?"

Everyone was troubled by this problem, and the army quickly sent people to conduct experiments. A group of experts and technicians came to the edge of the city with several artillery shells.

"Check the shells and make sure they are all right before sending them in."

The technicians checked the shells and eliminated any possible faults. Several soldiers slowly moved the shells behind the blood mist cover.

After placing the bomb, the soldier walked outside and everyone ran to hide behind the temporary shelter.

"Three, two, one, explode!"

As the countdown reached its final second, the detonation team pressed the remote detonation button. The moment the button was pressed, everyone looked into the blood mist, anticipating what would happen.

But it was extremely quiet up ahead, not even the buzz of a mosquito.

"It didn't explode. Let's go in and take a look."

As expected, the bomb did not explode. The soldiers went in and found the bomb lying quietly on the ground.

"Move out and be careful."

The soldiers moved the bomb out again and placed it in an open area. They left it there for ten minutes to make sure it would not explode before everyone went up to check.

After a thorough inspection, they still found no problems with the bomb, only that the detonation signal had been triggered.

After reconnecting to the signal, the group retreated a few hundred meters away. When they were sure the signal was intact, they pressed the button again.

"boom!!"

There was a loud bang and the bomb exploded instantly, creating a big hole in the ground.

"Is it a signal problem?"

Seeing the shell successfully detonated, one of them raised a question.

As soon as he finished speaking, someone shook his head.

"No, the signal isn't the key. It's that there's some kind of power within the blood mist that prevents the explosion."

This is not just a signal problem. The shells they fired were not remotely controlled and detonated. There was a special power in the blood mist cover, and it was that power that prevented the shells from exploding.

"How do we do this?"

They are just ordinary people, they cannot feel that special power, and they don’t have relevant instruments for them to observe it. Can they bring back an answer?

"We can only go back. There is nothing we can do."

Everyone had no choice but to pack up and return to base. As for the answer, there was no answer at all, and they could only offer guesses.

......

"Brother Lu, do you think that cover can really make the shells ineffective?" Qian Xiaoling asked boredly in a tent at the base.

I thought I would see a big show today, but it turned out to be all duds.

"Probably. This has never happened before."

Lu Chengchuan tended to think that the bomb did not explode because of interference from the blood mist shroud, but he was just guessing, and he could not give a substantial reason.

"What force can render the shells ineffective? My mental interference can only weaken the signal. The shells don't need a chain signal to be remotely detonated."

Qian Xiaoling was really curious. After such a thing happened, the official researchers had to find a way to solve it.

"Who knows, monsters may also have special abilities."

Because the shells were ineffective, the bombing plan was stopped and they could rest again.

Another week passed, and the researchers still didn't understand what was going on. The bombing plan was completely stopped, the monsters stopped appearing, and the people from the Investigation Bureau could leave.

"What is going on? What should we do if the monster comes out again? Brother Lu, what do you think we should do?" On the way back to the city, Qian Xiaoling couldn't help but ask a few questions.

"I told you to just drop a nuclear bomb. They're not very willing to do that and they want to retake Anyang City."