Chapter 395 Gray Mist Messenger (12,000 monthly tickets requested!)
When Dawn City fell into darkness early and global radio signals disappeared, the atmosphere in the hall of the European Storm Alliance's city command center far away in Reykjavik was extremely silent. Outside in the safe shelter city, the convoy camps and tents of more than four million survivors were everywhere. It was still daytime here, but everyone could feel that a dark cloud was slowly covering the European sky.
At the Dawn Center in the direction of the Tianjiqionggu Strait, hundreds of thousands of doomsday armed vehicles of various types are parked on the entire strait plain, from base vehicles to off-road vehicles, from rail trains to armed trucks, from sky vehicles to walking teams. Nearly 8 million homeless survivors are gathered here. There are more than dozens of large convoys of more than 50,000 people. Li Heping, the commander-in-chief of the Dawn Center, has a solemn expression, a windbreaker and sharp eagle eyes. After Ye Lan's voice came out, everyone was silent, and countless convoys and lookouts stood on the roofs of the vehicles, looking towards the south.
The Phoenix City of Ushuaia in South America, the Alaska United Front in North America, the Noah and Republic Shelter Islands in Oceania... At this moment, the remaining survivors around the world are anxious for the survival of mankind. Countless people begin to pray, hoping that the Dawn City can overcome this temptation of darkness and bring dawn to mankind again!
[Oxygen remaining: 95%...]
[Low-temperature and weightless environment detected, the armor's life cycle system has been activated]
The mechanical female voice echoed in his ears, and Lin Xian seemed to be able to hear the sound of the breathing valve circulating in the power armor mask.
Lin Xian slowly opened his eyes, and what he saw was an upside-down starship cabin space. Countless debris, instruments, and cables were suspended in the air, like a weird slow-motion pantomime.
An extreme chill surged in from all directions. Even though Lin Xian was wearing an interstellar-grade power armor, he immediately felt a powerful darkness that was no less than the one in Star Abyss No. 5 impacting his consciousness.
The mental power was twisted madly, the consciousness collapsed, the vision was blurred, and it was freezing cold!
Tsk tsk.
The automatic obstacle avoidance system in various parts of his power armor continuously emitted subtle jet movements, helping him to float steadily in place without colliding with the cabin or sharp metal fragments.
Lin Xian kept breathing and adjusting his state. Although he had been prepared for this, the violent invasion of darkness still made him feel as if he was swallowed by the deep sea. At the same time, it was the first time for him to teleport on such a large scale, which made him feel an extreme sense of time distortion, as if he was not teleported in space as he imagined, but was sucked into a node in a dark abyss and then quickly passed through to appear here. It seemed like a moment, but in fact it was a long process.
He frowned slightly, reached out and grabbed the flashing bullet that was floating in the air and had been sealed in a lead box by himself.
"Why do I feel like there is a strange entity flashing behind me when night falls..."
Lin Xian frowned and looked at the time with an unpleasant expression.
17:44
"Two hours, how could it take so long?"
Lin Xian had a splitting headache. He looked up and found that he was in the scientific experiment cabin on the [Civilization Pioneer] where he and KIKI had sneaked into before. However, this time there was a ten-meter-long crack in the main cabin wall, and the metal on the edge was twisted and curled as if it had been gnawed by a giant beast. Through the crack, he could see the dark universe - no sound, no temperature, completely black, as if he was under the abyss.
There was no air or air pressure in the cabin anymore. A thin layer of frost formed on the edge of the crack, which was the trace of the leaked liquid oxygen freezing instantly in the vacuum.
The corpse of a young woman wearing glasses and a lab coat slowly floated by. Her pretty face had turned purple from the cold, and her mouth was wide open as if she was screaming silently. Her hands were still stretched forward as if she was trying to grab something.
He had seen this face before, the woman they had met when they left the starship.
Lin Xian quickly turned to the spherical experimental device, started the thrusters and flew over. He stuck close to the observation port and looked through with a searchlight, and found that the dark-corrosion cells inside had already turned black and lost their activity. So Lin Xian found the data cable, and then used his mechanical abilities to restart the circuit in the cabin and then connect it.
But as his mechanical heart started to operate, a strange spatial fluctuation began to ripple in the surrounding space, as if some kind of ripples had been generated.
This immediately made Lin Xian cautious. He immediately released Grace and several drones to detect from the direction of the cabin cracks and passages, but they found nothing and only saw the infinite black space.
Woo~
As Lin Xian activated the superstring reactor phase rainbow ring, part of the cabin's energy was restarted and the lights flickered on.
"Grace, help me...connect to the starship system." Lin Xian said to Grace, enduring tremendous pressure.
【OK】
Grace quickly adjusted her body shape and buckled onto the experimental device, then deformed her fingers and inserted them into the data port to start accessing data.
[Our current altitude has exceeded the altitude of the blue planet's geostationary orbit. Affected by perturbations, the orbital parameters are drifting.]
"So if we re-enter the atmosphere, we'll need a propulsion device, right?"
[Yes, according to the shipboard data, our current altitude is 46852km above the ground. If we need to re-enter the atmosphere, we need to ignite from a high orbit to a low-Earth orbit through a Hohmann transfer, and we also need to calculate the speed increment and perform at least two decelerations to ensure the correct re-entry angle.]
Lin Xian frowned. "Help me quickly get the energy data of the dark erosion cells on this device absorbing the dark invasion. Also check if there are any survivors or propulsion compartments that are not offline."
[Okay, it has been acquired. In addition, an unknown emergency signal was found on the main bridge, but the compartment has been separated and cannot be acquired. ]
"So fast?" Lin Xian asked as he took Grace out of the cabin and flew towards the main bridge on the upper deck.
[The emergency information transmission device of this starship is sending signals to all directions of the Blue Planet and the universe. After checking the command log, it was confirmed that it was a perpetual order issued by Captain Chu Jing, that is, as long as the system or emergency circuit is activated, [Civilization Pioneer] will continue to transmit in a loop. ]
"A distress signal?"
Lin Xian used a pulse laser to cut open a twisted and damaged automatic door. The next moment, his eyes froze. Outside the door, the bow of the entire [Civilization Pioneer] had been completely broken into a 90-degree opening. A large number of starship fragments and human corpses were floating in the endless darkness of space. The main structure of this 500,000-ton giant human spacecraft, the keel and cabin faults, were all exposed, forming a horrifying and tragic picture.
Grace's voice came in my ears.
No, these signals include:
[1. Dark erosion cells absorb energy data from dark invasion]
[2. Ionization reflection, spectrum, neutron and radiation dose data when the sky curtain is broken.]
[3. NCLE data for studying signals from the dark ages of the universe. ]
[4. Data on the physical changes of all personnel, including Chu Jing himself, after encountering the dark energy storm...]
Chi.
Lin Xian activated the propulsion device, dodged various debris along the way, and entered the passage of the main bridge. He pushed aside the tangled cables and bypassed the dead bodies. Finally, he entered the huge main bridge of the [Civilization Pioneer]. The huge bridge command room was dead silent, and only a ray of sunlight slanting in through the broken porthole illuminated the bridge.
At this moment, on the captain's seat, there was a corpse in military uniform covered with white frost. He was restrained by a safety belt and it seemed that he had been sitting in this position from beginning to end, facing everything fearlessly.
After hearing Grace's words, Lin Xian looked at the captain's body with a solemn expression.
He knew that this person was Chu Zhaonan's son Chu Jing.
Lin Xian recalled that when he left the [Civilization Pioneer] that day, he passed by a young colonel in the passage. When he saw him now, he realized that the man was Chu Jing.
"Don't worry, the information you sent will not be swallowed by the darkness. I will help you bring it back..."
Lin Xian looked at Chu Jing's face which was covered with white frost and said in a low voice.
"Thank you, Colonel Chu."
[The signal has been obtained. This signal is a communication command sent by [Natural Selection] to a space device in geostationary orbit. This command has received information back.]
Lin Xian turned back at this time: "What coordinates?"
[Analysis in progress] Grace raised her head and looked at Lin Xian [Through the sequence of the orbital coordinates of the spacecraft, it was retrieved that the spacecraft was the Dragon Country Planetary Orbital Defense Plan - Nantianmen. ]
Lin Xian's pupils trembled when he heard this: "They are connected to the South Heaven Gate?!"
[Yes, this message was sent by [Nantianmen] 5 hours and 21 minutes ago, and the reply instruction is: The system has completed an immediate restart and is adjusting the orbital position. ]
“Adjust to where?”
【here. 】
Grace said softly, and then pointed in the direction of the main bridge window.
“No way…”
Lin Xian immediately activated the jet device and quickly rushed out of the broken porthole of the bridge, adjusting the suspension angle in a pile of space debris. Then, he saw the huge planetary orbital defense device that he had only seen in the news. It was floating in the silent starry sky at an altitude of 52,660 km in the blue planet's geostationary orbit, like a sword holding up the sky!
The giant annular energy storage array with a diameter of 12 kilometers is equipped with the "Clairvoyance" deep space radar and 24 "Zhulong" class confined particle beam arrays, which can instantly intercept and evaporate small meteorites within 500 meters. It is a defense platform built by the Dragon Federation for the ecological security of the planet and the Wangyue planetary ring.
Platform code: Nantianmen!
"Sure enough, the first thing the Vanguard Fleet did after breaking through the Sky Curtain was to try to contact the South Heaven Gate."
Lin Xian looked at the huge man-made spacecraft and found that the signal lights were still flashing on it, but all the working modules were off and there was deathly silence. The entire spacecraft seemed to be wrapped in an endless black air.
Just as Lin Xian was about to fly out from behind a broken cabin structure and take a closer look, his power armor and his perception simultaneously detected a strange fluctuation. Lin Xian immediately called Grace and then hid in the shadow of the suspended cabin.
At this moment, countless pitch-black tentacles like cable filaments spread out from behind the broken propulsion section of the Star Shepherd in front. Their number increased, like blood vessels clinging to the hull of a starship, quickly penetrating the torn gaps in the cabin.
"What is that thing..."
Lin Xian's eyes were serious: "Strange body?"
Those pitch-black tentacles seemed to appear out of thin air from the starship wreckage, gradually spreading and growing larger. Lin Xian slowly raised a drone and poked its head out from the wreckage to observe. He was shocked to see that behind the broken remains of the [Star Shepherd], a huge biological mouth that looked like a black hole accretion disk appeared and was slowly expanding. Those tentacles were like a huge net covering the sky, constantly covering one starship wreckage to another!
At this moment, the drone's observation angle suddenly detected a huge shadow behind the black creature, far away on the other side of the blue planet's atmosphere!
Three huge space city rings overlap, quietly floating in an endless dark airspace under the illumination of the sun and the moon!
Lin Xian immediately recognized that it was mankind’s largest space infrastructure project - the Moon-Watching Planetary Ring!
This space city, which uses tidal force and solar energy to collect energy, has a diameter of more than 300km and is like a cosmic behemoth hanging in the far orbit of the blue planet.
But at this moment, this huge miracle of civilization seemed to be swallowed up by some black energy storm in the dark universe. Below it was the Pacific Ocean of the blue planet, and huge ocean storm black clouds were rolling, like a scene of doomsday!
At this moment, the strange suction creature in front suddenly emitted a dark wave that seemed to be real and swept towards them.
“Damn it!”
Lin Xian felt a chill all over his body, cursed inwardly, and immediately started the jet quietly and rushed to the porthole of the main bridge of [Civilization Pioneer] and hid in the wreckage of the bridge again. He immediately used the soul-draining value detector to check, and after seeing that he was not marked with the dark mark, he breathed a sigh of relief. At this time, thinking back to the scene just now, he couldn't help but sweating.
Nantianmen and Wangyue planetary rings seemed to be eroded by the cosmic darkness surrounding the blue star. Originally, Lin Xian thought that there might be human ghosts after mutation, but who knew that there were actually strange creatures in the space debris!
[A large number of biological movements have been detected, emergency evacuation is recommended! ]
Grace said at this time.
"I know."
After obtaining the data, Lin Xian originally planned to head in the direction of the Gray Mist Messenger immediately, but the situation he saw at this time made him alert and he immediately dispatched dozens of drones.
"Grace, help me check the path and see if there is any strange entity on that Gray Mist Messenger!"
The dark energy fluctuations emitted by an S-class creature will not be small. The movement just now reminded him that if there are other strange creatures clinging to the Gray Mist Messenger, then he can't save Chu Yan, because he has been marked with darkness. There may be some terrible things in the space, just like the suction cup creature that seemed to unfold in two dimensions just now. He can't even judge what level this thing is.
[Planning the route and detecting organisms, signal relay anchor points need to be set. 】
While Grace was operating the drone to help him explore the way, Lin Xian quietly leaned out of the porthole and looked at the Nantianmen, which was at least thousands of kilometers away, and immediately started to make plans in his mind.
[Detection completed, no active organisms found, Grace recommends that you act immediately, organisms have been detected approaching the [Civilization Pioneer]. ]
"knew"
Chi!
Half a minute later, Lin Xian controlled the power armor flying device to rush out of the wreckage area at high speed, gradually approaching the super-large strange body suit floating in space.
The Gray Mist Messenger was hanging upside down, with the eight heavy plasma thrusters behind him partially charred. He landed on the suppression device behind the mecha's head, operating the control unit while performing a mechanical scan.
Then, under Lin Xian's operation, one of the tubular suppression devices slowly slid out. He opened a secret cabin below and found a full-metal life capsule cabin rising from the cold air. At the same time, in the control center cabin of the mecha, a robot that was almost identical to Grace was hanging in the air with a large number of cables connected to its body.
After Lin Xian opened the life capsule, he saw that the person lying inside was none other than Julius!
Compared to the clones he had encountered before, this Julius seemed to be 10 years older and skinny. His entire body was soaked in some kind of biomass liquid, and his skull was completely cut open. Outside the transparent biomass liquid cabin, a large amount of white mycelium wrapped it, making it look like a pupa that had not yet fully formed a cocoon.
[She is Crimson No. 3 Viola, my online version. Through Julius's uploading of digital life consciousness, she has undergone human-in-circuit evolution and possesses the consciousness of 'self-personality'. Although this part of consciousness was captured by me during Operation Crescent Moon, she should also have an offline version of me in her storage memory. At the same time, her armor material uses the same standard as mine, which is stronger than 'Dancer No. 1'. Please be careful.]
"That's easy!"
Lin Xian unplugged the main control cable and said, "Grace, help me rewrite it."
【clear. 】
Grace walked up and inserted the hand nerve cable into Viola's back brain data port, and said to Lin Xian
[Viola is the main control AI of this fully armored mechanical unit. Do you want to keep her action module? ]
"No."
Lin Xian took a deep breath. He had been tricked before, so how could he be careless?
Although... the incident with Hua Xiaoling did not cause any harm, Lin Xian still felt that it would be better to have complete control over this kind of intelligent computer.
[Your plan is to re-enter the atmosphere by restarting this colonization system, which will be a very dangerous move. According to the log data of the Pioneer Project, the dark storm and large-scale mutation are very likely related to some effect of the S-level breakthrough of the Sky Curtain. In this case, the dark invasion is very likely to infect you. ]
"I know, so I'm going to try it out..."
Lin Xian had cold sweat on his face at this time. He took out the device that had been made by the Black Star Forge. He made a dark energy isomorphic device developed by Shinji Mochizuki. Then Lin Xian directly connected the device to the Gray Mist Messenger's action brain. Now that he had the potential energy conversion device obtained by the [Civilization Pioneer], he could completely use the Gray Mist Messenger's action brain to convert dark energy.
Woo!
At this time, the small conversion device was activated, and Lin Xian instantly felt that the torso and armor of this S-level weird body seemed to shake violently, and an invisible faint light quickly spread out. Then Lin Xian immediately felt that the cold feeling of darkness invading around him suddenly disappeared, and the distorted feeling of consciousness shock also disappeared, and even his vision became much clearer.
"Success...it really works!" Lin Xian said excitedly at this time.
At this time, Grace had completed Viola's system overwrite and said to Lin Xian.
[Are you planning to upload Chu Yan's consciousness to Viola, allowing her to survive as a digital life? ]
Lin Xian looked at Julius in the capsule, his eyes fixed.
"She probably didn't plan to do that..."
How are you going to bring her back?
"There is only one way." Lin Xian looked at the large amount of hyphae behind the life chamber of the Julius Capsule. Those hyphae went along the system pipes through the inhibitor and directly reached the action brain of [Gray Mist].
“Grace.”
Lin Xian looked at Grace at this time and spoke.
【I am here. 】
"I have a mission for you, and maybe only you can do it."
Grace put her hands behind her back, stood proudly in a ballet posture, and said to Lin Xian: [Grace is honored.]
Chi.
In outer space, Grace loaded the small propulsion device made by Lin Xian, and flew through the starship wreckage area, heading towards the Nantianmen thousands of kilometers away!
The heavy hatch was closed and the tubular suppressor was retracted and inserted. At this time, inside the suppressor cabin, even though it was covered with a huge mechanical colony, Lin Xian could still smell a smell like formalin mixed with humus.
Lin Xian walked behind Viola, reached out and reinserted the cable behind her, then used his mechanical power to restart it.
Woo~ The core in Viola's chest began to light up, and then all the motor units in her body resonated. Powerful computing power surged, and the entire system of the [Gray Mist Colonization Suit] was quickly searched. At this time, a female voice that was very similar to Grace's voice sounded.
[Hello Lin Xian, I am Viola. I have copied Grace's system data. Next, I will serve you in place of Grace. ]
Lin Xian took a deep breath, his eyes immediately turned stern, and he walked to a survival capsule he had just made and took off his armor.
"Viola, retrieve the colonization system and Gray Mist's vital signs!"
[Viola understands, retrieving, security protocol activated. ]
[Report: Armor integrity 92%, LCL Apostle Inhibitor intact, suppressor device detected a large amount of unknown bioelectric current online. ]
[The plasma thruster has 34% power remaining, the circuits of thrusters 1, 4, and 8 are burned out, and thruster 8 is offline.]
Lin Xian immediately released all maintenance and construction drones. At the same time, a scanning signal came, and all six construction sequences of the Black Star Forge started to build backup units.
"Viola, calculate the repair time."
[Combining your repair and manufacturing efficiency, the estimated repair time is 4 hours, 12 minutes and 51 seconds]
Lin Xian looked at the time and swallowed hard. He sat directly in the life capsule and handed over the repair work to Viola.
"I'm going to test the connection to the action brain now. If my abnormal heart rate lasts for more than 3 minutes or my vital signs show death, cut off the mycelium brain machine and activate the AED system on me."
Viola was silent for a second, then said
【Viola understands.】
Then Lin Xian lay down in the life capsule, his heart beating extremely fast. He tried to steady his breathing and stay focused.
At this time, the mycelium brain-computer link device slowly attached itself to his back of the head, and a bioelectric current instantly surged.
At this moment, the pupils in Lin Xian's eyes suddenly dilated, and countless blood-red began to occupy his eyes.
…
20:05, in Dawn City, dark clouds rolled in, thunder exploded, and it seemed that only the sound of destruction remained between heaven and earth.
High in the sky, countless artillery fire from the Silent City and the Zhentian Ship hit the depths of the clouds in the sky. Huge explosions and flames kept appearing from the clouds, reflecting the outline of a terrifying atmospheric creature.
On the city deck of Silent City, Amano Ran, wearing a power armor, flew high in the sky and smashed the attacking flying monsters with her iron fists. Ryunosuke's powerful control field was deployed, crushing the flying monsters into powder. Sensuku Shun had a stern look on his face, controlling thousands of mechas to fight in a cycle. Tens of thousands of combat residents of Silent City joined the battle, and countless drones and all city weapons fought back fiercely under the control of Shinji Mochizuki.
"Shinji, the defensive force field of that big guy is too large. It shouldn't last so long." Sensu Shun frowned and kept looking at the data sent by the AC robot.
"We have always believed that the S-class's use of the strange body tide to attack was some kind of 'command' action, but now it seems that this may only be one of the reasons."
Inside the main ship's bridge, Shinji Mochizuki stood with his hands behind his back, remaining calm in the face of the attack from the monster wave:
"The strange body can transform the power of the dark invasion for its own use, so the monsters that are destroyed are precisely the [sustainable energy] of these large S-level monsters. Eating soldiers not only consumes the enemy, but also strengthens itself. This is the simplest hunting concept."
Around the Twin Star Towers, hundreds of air patrol fleets composed of various parties have burned the air into a burnt smell. Various drones, individual aircraft, and aerospace fighters are flying all over the sky. In addition to the large number of monster corpses falling, human fighters are also burning and crashing. A Manta-class starship lowered its altitude from the thunderstorm, and missiles and main guns were fired intensively into the sky. Suddenly, several giant tentacles that burned the air like meteorites fell from the clouds at a high speed, and instantly penetrated the bow and propulsion compartment of the starship.
boom!
The tens of thousands of tons of aircraft let out a dying wail of "empty, empty, empty". The starship's hull and armor plates exploded layer by layer, causing the energy and weapon bays to detonate. In an instant, a huge mushroom cloud lit up on the skyline.
The flames almost lit up half of the sky. Several ships of the fleet moved away at this time. The commander on it looked at the monitor and saw his comrades falling like rain under the raging flames. Countless people were tumbling and falling from the sky. Some were grabbing in vain at the broken oil pipeline, and some were holding guns and firing at the strange creatures while falling. Under the monsters in the sky, hundreds of humans fell into the abyss like ants.
"Emergency report, the Watcher has been damaged and crashed. The Echo formation must quickly move to airspace 13 to fill in. We cannot let the air defense line be breached!"
Buzz buzz buzz!
The huge crash turned the city streets below into a sea of fire, and most of the streets became ruins. The wreckage of the Watcher was still burning, and another fleet formation had already flown over at high speed to refill the gaps in the firepower network.
Inside the city, the defense lines of each block have been turned into a sea of doom. The strange entities have not been repelled yet, and a large number of abnormalities have occurred among the survivors and the army. If they are not decisive, the chain reaction will soon wipe out a company or a convoy camp.
On the street position, Liang Lei, Li Guangwen and other melee supernatural soldiers were covered with the plasma of strange bodies. They killed all the strange bodies that poured into the city wall. After several hours of bloody battle, the Gatling cannon had already been emptied.
"There are too many of these things!" Li Guangwen stood on the roof, smashed a bat with a blast punch, and shouted with blood on his face.
"Attention!" Liang Lei, covered in metal skin, rushed over from behind and blasted away a winged demon.
"careful!"
Unexpectedly, a strange creature swooped down from the sky, spraying acid and rushing towards them at high speed. At this time, the building's steel-cutting sword broke through the wind and directly pierced through it and nailed it to the wall.
Ta-da-da, ta-da-da.
Behind a defensive line, Hu Lushou, wearing advanced combat armor and a helmet, hid behind a bunker and fired wildly at a group of strange bodies in an alley.
"I'm going to kill you!"
Click~
But at this time, when the bullets were used up and the firepower paused, the group of strange creatures suddenly exploded and rushed towards Hu Lushou, stepping on the corpses of their companions.
At this time, Hu Lushou's hands were shaking as he anxiously loaded the bullets. His face turned pale and he kept backing away.
"Wait, pause, wait for me to reload..."
Just when the monster with sharp claws was about to pounce on Hu Lushou, a mechanical iron fist flashing with red electricity came crashing down. With an electric hammer, it directly blasted the monster into a bloody mess, and the shock wave killed all the monsters in the entire alley.
Sun Chang clenched her fists, looked back at Hu Lushou who was sitting on the ground in fear, and whispered, "Be careful."
"Thank you, my wife, for saving my life!!!" Hu Lushou burst into tears as he watched Sun Chang descend from the sky.
On the No. 1 city wall, dense firepower poured down like a waterfall towards the dark background. The area outside the city had already turned into a sea of blood. The mountains of corpse fragments piled up in front of the mecha wing's artillery forced them to stand higher by stepping on the corpses of the strange bodies.
Ugh!!!
A violent black centipede emerged from the tide of corpses, bit a Vulcan armor to pieces, and then quickly rushed towards the mecha cluster.
Buzz!
At this moment, a dark red laser beam swept past, instantly cutting the black centipede into several pieces. Sun Yuzhen flew in the air with Abai, exerting the power of the laser beam to the extreme.
"God·Infinite Burning Sword!"
A giant pillar of red flame swept across the battlefield, bringing up a sea of fire, and a sword tornado formed by thousands of sharp blades swept across the battlefield.
"Brother Huo, be careful of the sky!" KIKI shouted at him.
On the battlefield outside the city, Brother Huo, KIKI, hundreds of destruction-level and several angel-level psychics are exerting their violent fighting power!
In the command room of the Twin Star Tower, the battle situation is constantly updated.
"Report, the sky survey machine has discovered the 19th S-class creature [Wanderer] 35 kilometers south of the city!"
On the battle screen, on the ruins filled with smoke, a terrifying multi-legged creature appeared on the screen!
Under the huge figure, buildings kept falling down, and an acidic shock wave directly caused the surrounding reinforced concrete buildings to begin to disintegrate and melt.
"Report, in the No. 8 defense sector, the 45th, 46th, 47th, 48th and 51st, 52nd defense outposts lost their signals at the same time, and detected strong seismic waves. The front torso outline of the No. 11 S-level creature [Earth Surge] has been observed!"
Xu Zhenyue and several senior officials gathered around Ye Lan at this time, looking at the command screen with serious eyes.
"The psychic team concentrates their firepower and cannot let the Earth Surge break through the city wall!" Xu Zhenyue gave orders to the front line: "Send out the unmanned intervention troops and try to change the target's direction of travel."
"What is the current situation of the mutation?" Ye Lan asked.
"It has already reached level three deterioration. If these two strange entities arrive, it may rise to level four." Xu Zhenyue said at this time: "If it reaches level four, the front-line troops may be in trouble."
In addition to Xu Zhenyue, Generals Lu Tianye and Huo Jiang were commanding at the front. Ye Lan looked at the battle screen and said calmly:
"How is the deployment of the City Ring Tongshi Tower going?"
"It has been deployed." Su Jin, who was in charge of this work and was the former head of the Federation's Far Star Project, reported at this time: "We have deployed multiple energy supply lines, and the equipment in Silent City is also in place. The dark erosion cells remain active. Now as long as Lin Xian breaks through the sky curtain and transmits the data, the dark energy tower can be lit up immediately."
As Su Jin spoke, he looked at the rising casualties and various crashed fleets, the occupied streets, and the walls of the southwest defense sector on the verge of collapse on the battle screen with a heavy face.
"It's just time..."
"There's enough time." Ye Lan said without turning his head: "The Emperor Project God Team is already in place, notify the front line, individual soldiers to retreat!"
At City Wall No. 1, in the southwest direction, the key defense area of the garrison army and the Iron Guard Brigade, the sky was filled with a loud bang.
Huo Jiang stood in the city wall defense command post, looking at the lights in the clouds in the sky, and said with a clear expression: "We are finally here!"
He immediately stepped forward and said, "Connect me to the Qin brothers and Bai Ye and Su Rui!"
"yes!"
"Attention all units, the Identification Friend or Foe A-1 Emperor-Suzaku, A-2 Emperor-Xuanwu signals have been uploaded to the Intelligence Reorganization Center, prepare for impact!"
When the garrison commander Lu Tianye heard this information, he immediately gave the order in a deep voice: "The Special Forces Power Battalion will retreat across the board, and the artillery cover in areas 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9!"
"The Emperor Mecha is coming, retreat quickly!" The regional commanders of each wing shouted.
"Ability team, provide air cover for the transport plane!" Seraph Minister Luo Ming was directing the battle at the edge of a transport ship and shouted into the communicator.
Woo!!!
The soldiers of the advanced power armor teams who were fighting in the front line of the city wall received orders to retreat.
At this time, all the survivors who were fighting in Dawn City suddenly discovered that the clouds in the sky to the east of the city were torn apart.
Two towering god-like "figures" appeared in the clouds with lightning under the cover of infinite artillery barrages and anti-aircraft firepower. The roar of the vortex engines of dozens of "Hercules" super-heavy transport aircraft came from far away, like the breathing of ancient beasts. The steel cables were stretched taut in the hurricane, and the huge black shadows hoisted slowly pierced through the thick fog.
They were two latest-model Emperor Project Celestial Group war machines that were even larger than Unit-01. Their super-carbonyne alloy composite armor glowed coldly under the searchlight, like Titans that walked out of mythology!
The mecha on the left is dark blue all over, with two roaring nuclear fusion turbo engines emitting orange-yellow plasma beams. It is a heavily rebuilt replica of [Unit-01 - Pangu], with faint blue plasma streamers flashing at the joints. Inside the cockpit, the sympathetic neural link between the two brothers Qin Yue and Qin Chuan is bursting out with a rare 98% synchronization rate. Their eyes are sharp, and their hand movements and gait are almost exactly the same.
"Target, creature number 11, Earthsurge."
"Xuanwu, get ready!"
"Xuanwu, get ready!"
"put!"
when!
Dozens of giant steel cables on the transport ship were released at the same time, and then this 26,000-ton super-large humanoid mecha fell directly from a height of 400 meters!
Woo!
With a violent sound of breaking wind, the Emperor-Xuanwu crashed into the Pujiang River southwest of Shuguang City. The river water exploded into huge waves hundreds of meters high. The Emperor-Xuanwu knelt on one knee, and the magnetic rail shield was inserted into the Bund Pier. The instantly activated defense force field shattered the strange body tide and building debris within a radius of 300 meters into pieces!
Inside the cockpit, the Qin brothers looked at the mountain-like Creature No. 11 [Earth Surge] under the outline of black fog in the holographic interface with cold eyes and spread their hands!
"Destroyer launch!"
"Destroyer launch!"
The armor in front of Emperor Xuanwu's chest unfolded layer by layer, revealing a 120-round destructive missile silo, which fired out twenty giant missiles!
On the other side, the Emperor Suzaku mecha was flowing with red energy. It was a highly maneuverable and high-burst assassination-class mecha, and its entire body was made of new impact-proof materials. In the cockpit were a couple, the husband Bai Ye and the wife Su Rui, both of whom graduated from air force academies. When the steel cable was lowered, the Suzaku's leg thruster nozzles were like a phoenix tail flame, bringing up a violent wind pressure and landing directly on the ground, and the cracked ground raised a sky full of smoke and dust!
Facing the numerous long legs and acid rain of Creature No. 18 [Wanderer] in front of them, the couple locked eyes and still took a fighting stance.
"Activate Suzaku Plasma Diffraction Sword!"
"Activate Suzaku Plasma Diffraction Sword!"
Chi!
The giant mecha stretched out its arms in an agile posture, and two high-energy diffraction swords that sprayed red plasma beams almost illuminated the entire darkness of the battlefield.
"bring it on!"
"bring it on!"
The couple shouted at the same time!
Under the violent thundercloud sky, the battle between the three S-level monsters all started at this moment, and the defense battle of Dawn City entered a white-hot stage!
…
At this moment, in the deep space orbit 46,852 km above the ground, a humanoid mechanical colony weighing 160,000 tons is quietly floating in a starship wreckage. The eight plasma thrusters behind it are like an eight-winged angel, showing its majestic scale.
Lin Xian felt that his consciousness was torn apart in an instant. Countless cracks seeped out of the edges of his vision with a sticky dark red color. A powerful sense of weightlessness pulled him ten thousand meters below the deep sea. Countless screams echoed in his eardrums like the cries of hell. If he could hear the cries of hundreds of millions of people when he got close to the black fog before, now Lin Xian seemed to have fallen into a sea of the living dead.
Suffocating, weightlessness, tearing of consciousness, the darkness was no longer darkness, but a living entity, constantly wriggling and multiplying, from point to circle, from triangle to Euclidean geometry, every edge was twisting, turning, and devouring itself against logic, his brain tried to understand, so those edges pierced into his thinking, stirring his cognition into a fishy brain soup.
Lin Xian felt that he was falling from space to the ground of Blue Planet, passing through the atmosphere and thunderstorm clouds. The continental shelf and the ocean were collapsing, and an extremely huge black deep hole was spreading disorderly on the ground.
He had a splitting headache, and his consciousness seemed to have traveled through countless universes, to planets, dust, molecules, atoms, neutrons, protons... all the way to an unknown black hole space!
At this moment, Lin Xian felt that his consciousness had become 360 degrees - or more than that, it was not just space, but countless repeated spaces and overlapping worlds. His body had disappeared, and just as he was falling in this repeated dark space, suddenly a hand grabbed him!
At this moment, everything seemed to be quiet, the overlapping space disappeared, and all he could see was a black empty area. The person who focused his attention and reached out to pull him was Chu Yan!
The Chu Yan in front of him was no longer the mechanical prosthetic body, but a completely concrete body of consciousness.
The whole body is smooth.
"Lin Xian." Chu Yan looked at Lin Xian in surprise: "Why are you here?!"
"Speaking of this..."
Lin Xian was feeling this new state of consciousness and had no idea how much time had passed. But he knew that he saw Chu Yan now, which meant that he had survived for the time being!
He immediately told Chu Yan about the Phoenix Society and his plan. After hearing Lin Xian's crazy plan, even Chu Yan, who had strong mental strength, found it a little unbelievable.
"madman!"
Chu Yan looked at him, frowned and shouted: "You only said that there are flash bullets to return to the [Civilization Vanguard], but you didn't consider how to control this Gray Mist Messenger to return."
The colonial suit on the Gray Mist Messenger is just a suppressor and auxiliary action armor. Simply controlling its thrusters is not a big problem, but the key is to activate and control its action brain to break through the Sky Curtain. Lin Xian actually has no plan.
Lin Xian shook his head: "Indeed, I haven't thought about this."
But he looked at Chu Yan: "It's just that I thought you must have a way, so I came up. Maybe it's a bit hasty, but there is no better way."
Chu Yan looked at Lin Xian with complicated eyes, then fell silent for a moment and said
"Julius' life has reached its limit. His plan was to use the Sky Curtain's S-level recognition to completely assimilate him into the same life form, but he miscalculated. There is indeed a darker existence above, but to the darkness, he is just a piece of living tissue that resurrects the action brain..."
Lin Xian shrugged. "Now this biological battery has become me, so as long as I am not dead, I can use me and the Gray Mist Action Brain to bring back your spiritual consciousness. I guess this is correct."
"According to the connection you made with me before, theoretically, maybe it's possible..."
"It's just that I was near death before, and your body is temporarily dead." Lin Xian said what she wanted to say: "But I think it's okay, I have to give it a try."
Chu Yan avoided Lin Xian's gaze and said, "You are right. The dark energy data of the [Civilization Pioneer] plays a vital role in human warfare and survival. I admire your courage."
"Don't put on the lofty hat for now, let's talk about something practical. I have already controlled the Crimson No. 3 main brain." Lin Xian looked around with a stern look: "Where is this place? And how do we get back?"
Chu Yan said seriously, "You can understand that this is a neuron that the mycelium has opened up in the action brain of the gray fog weird body using the human brain as a medium. This is the first time that the neurons of the two civilizations have collided. Our consciousness temporarily exists here, but our life forms are essentially different, so we cannot communicate directly. We can only use experiments to make logical deductions. In addition, the living medium of the dark creatures is corrosive to us, so the restraint locks and inhibitors made by the Crimson World suppress its neural activity to more than 70%. In addition, this is only an action brain, so according to the data conclusion of the Crimson World, about 420 healthy young human brains can be on par with it in terms of mental activity."
"In other words, it's a backflow of consciousness, and whichever side has stronger mental power will take the lead."
Lin Xian was stunned when he heard this: "That means it takes 420 people's brains to equal an S-level action brain that has 70% of its functions suppressed?"
"That's right."
"What about us?"
"Just add me." Chu Yan said at this time: "My mental power exceeds the peak value of at least 1,000 people combined!"
Lin Xian breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Chu Yan: "It seems that my bet was right."
"It's not easy to merge mental powers. It's different from neural synaesthesia. In addition to coordinating frequencies, we also have to cooperate to resist the dark reaction of the gray fog."
"That's fine."
Chu Yan possesses powerful mental abilities, while Lin Xian has angel-level mechanical abilities. He already has a lot of experience in resisting darkness, and he is very confident about this.
Chu Yan tilted her head slightly and said to Lin Xian: "Also, after we have a common consciousness, you will have no secrets from me."
Lin Xian frowned, looked at the naked Chu Yan, and said
"I think, at this point, none of this matters anymore."
"you're right."
Chu Yan turned around at this moment, and under the surge of powerful mental power, the darkness around her began to fade away. Lin Xian's perspective seemed to continue to expand, and a blurry space picture appeared in front of him. It seemed that he was looking at the starship wreckage area from the perspective of the [Gray Fog] messenger.
At this time, Lin Xian looked around and felt the violent mental power surge around him. Countless dark tides seemed to be gathering towards the two of them like a tsunami. The violent bombardment sounded like thunder in the space. He immediately shouted loudly
"So, what do we do next?"
Chu Yan's eyes were sharp. She slowly raised her right hand towards Lin Xian and said loudly:
“Take my hand!”
"Then what?!"
Lin Xian immediately stretched out his hand and interlocked his fingers with Chu Yan. In an instant, under Chu Yan's powerful mental power, the violent thunder around them seemed to disappear instantly, and the world became quiet.
Only Chu Yan's voice rang in his mind.
"We are of one mind!"
(End of this chapter)
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