Chapter 465: Crossing the Storm
"Super-guided lightning sword?"
"What?"
The air pressure in the main bridge was extremely low. Chen Sixuan and Qian Dele turned around to look at Lin Xian. It seemed that everyone was hearing this name for the first time.
Lin Xian, who was sitting in the captain's seat, also frowned. After thinking for a few seconds, he opened his eyes and shouted to Ning Jing and Shu Qin, "Magnetic anchor array, prepare plan 3!"
At this time, Ning Jing and others who were in charge of the arsenal ship looked at each other. Without much hesitation, they immediately found the counterattack plan in the weapon system.
At the same time, Lin Xian ordered Viola: "Plan the flight path of the array attack formation."
[Okay, can you guide it toward the sea?]
"No, towards that!" Lin Xian pointed to the huge ghost-touchable shadow in the clouds in the sky on the left wing.
【clear!】
After the arrangements were completed, Lin Xian called out to everyone: "Everyone, wear your power armor, just in case!"
"Director Ding!"
When Ding Junyi, Xiao Yuan and others in the research cabin heard Lin Xian's words, they all immediately started to put on their power armor.
Lin Xian also put on his Starry Sky Nano-Power Armor and sat in the captain's seat, fully armed. He explained to Chen Sixuan and the others, "The Sky Train is equipped with the Silent City's superconducting levitation magnetic anchor array device. Mochizuki Shinji previously synchronized many disaster contingency plans with me, all of which were plans they had encountered and dealt with. One of them was to use the magnetic anchor array to form a flying array when encountering extreme thunderstorms or strong arc-type anomalies. Using superconducting potential differences to controllably guide lightning, this should be a solution."
"Is this called a super-conducting lightning sword?" Qian Dele picked up a small fan and fanned himself. He turned back to look at the ball of lightning that was about to descend, muttering, "This middle school personality is really contagious. There's clearly already one in the car."
Buzz buzz buzz!
The sky suddenly ripped apart! A lightning storm cascaded down like a blue waterfall, instantly ripping and ionizing the air, emitting a ghostly shriek. The acrid smell of ozone surged into everyone's nostrils. Countless spherical lightning bolts tumbled and tangled, each collision blasting apart a scarlet electric grid spanning a hundred meters. The temperature index soared wildly, and the anti-glare coating on the portholes hissed as the plasma licked at them, as if it would melt through at any moment. The entire main bridge was illuminated by the jumping blue-purple arcs of electricity.
"Array launch!" Inside the main bridge, Lin Xian's voice was almost drowned out by the fury of thunder and lightning.
Tsk! Tsk! Tsk——!
Twenty-four cold, dark blue light tracks suddenly lit up on the flanks of the Sky Train. Twenty-four pyramidal magnetic anchor arrays, like swiftly shot star arrows, cut through the swirling rain and searing ion streams, piercing the raging sea of plasma fire with pinpoint accuracy. There was no explosion, only a harsher whistling of electricity. Twenty-four sword-like array aircraft formed a superconducting blade in the air, their superconducting force field filaments instantly taut and linked! A dark blue film of light, resembling liquid glass, rapidly stretched and took shape between the arrays!
In an instant, a streamlined "giant sword," constructed purely from an energy field and hundreds of meters long, soared high above the sea! It pierced through the violent lightning storm from all directions, madly attracting and colliding with the sword's body. It was immediately tamed, stretched, and twisted into dazzling, high-frequency crackling arcs of pulling electricity, tightly wrapped around the blue giant sword's spine! The mighty thunder was forcibly restrained and tamed at this moment, condensing into a crimson electric python that swirled endlessly around the sword! The energy of the entire world seemed to stagnate and converge at this point, and a planetary-scale destructive force that made all things tremble descended!
"Electrostatic force field at full power!" Lin Xian's eyes narrowed as he saw the superconducting missile array penetrate the lightning storm, and he immediately gave the order.
Woo!
At this moment, a blue light film flashed above the Sky Train and then disappeared. However, when the heavy rain poured towards the hull, it was evaporated by a weak electric arc, raising a thin film of mist.
At this moment, the giant super-conducting lightning sword, forged from the entire thunderstorm, instantly pierced through the storm clouds! The tip of the sword pointed directly at the strange tentacled form that was faintly visible in the distant clouds! The next moment—
A light bright enough to temporarily blind a person flashed instantly, leaving everything in front of their eyes pale. Then, a huge roar resounded through the sky!
boom!!!!!!!!!
It was as if the sky was exploded!
The tip of the superconducting array sword acted like the guide wire of a lightning rod. The moment it pierced the strange form, it instantly channeled and unleashed the storm of spherical lightning in the sky. Everyone watched as the waterfall of lightning vanished in the blink of an eye, as if space were being violently pulled inward by an invisible force! Millions of crimson electric pythons, entwined and condensed on the giant sword, engulfed in the thunderstorm, like a galaxy bursting its banks. The interlaced red and white rays of destructive light instantly expanded and devoured! A ring-shaped lightning umbrella of immeasurable diameter, composed of pure energy and with sharp, serrated edges, violently expanded, violently tearing through the gray sea of clouds, creating a tragic hole that covered half the sky!
The light was so intense that even the low clouds vaporized instantly! The unknown, unseen entity, whose true form had yet to be revealed, didn't even utter a single wail as its massive main body crumbled, disintegrated, and evaporated under the piercing impact of the lightning, transforming into tiny, charred black powder dancing wildly across the sky!
Only a few broken, huge, translucent tentacles wrapped with sporadic arcs of electricity remained, like the remains of limbs discarded by gods. With burning red broken ends and curling black smoke, they rolled powerlessly from the edge of the huge energy void and fell into the roaring inky sea below!
The Sky Train, which was flying at subsonic speed, suddenly shook violently at this moment!
The electrostatic force field generator on the surface of the ship was instantly overloaded, emitting a shrill sound that was close to its limit. The violent electromagnetic shock wave swept across, and all the lights in the cabin went out instantly. The emergency dark red light source had just been activated and was interfered with by the residual current, causing it to flicker wildly, like a flickering candle in a haunted house. The tingling sensation caused by the ionization of air molecules climbed up everyone's scalp, and their hair stood on end!
"careful!"
"Don't move."
[The system is not damaged and is restarting]
In this dark moment, Lin Xian, Chen Sixuan and others looked through the gloomy scene towards the sky where they were flying past. There, huge atmospheric mica was washing away the glowing filamentous mist that was floating in the sky, and then they passed completely without a head-on collision.
“Woo—”
It seemed like only a breath had passed, and accompanied by a dull sound of energy gathering, all the lights and instruments in the bridge lit up again, and everyone was sweating nervously.
"Everyone, is everything okay?"
"No problem." Monica responded from the Sky Bridge, "The one blocking the road has been killed. That was a good move by Troublemaker Dong."
"We are fine." KIKI also responded below.
"Thank goodness the Sky Train is fully equipped, otherwise we'd just have to weather the lightning storm."
"Will that giant jellyfish catch up?" Sasha, who took over the helmsman position and was excited about controlling the Sky Train, asked hurriedly.
"That thing doesn't look like it can keep up with the speed. We should still worry about the front!" Luo Yang said with a serious expression.
Lin Xian's expression changed slightly. At this moment, the wind was howling and roaring non-stop. Outside the porthole, the brief respite was extinguished by an even more terrifying scene.
Ahead, a breathtakingly vast cyclonic sea appeared at the edge of their vision! A sky-high gray-black wall of wind, like the arm of an ancient demon god, swirled and churned furiously, sweeping up the inky waters and creating a series of water curtains between sky and sea that obscured the sun. Gray-black and inky black tangled madly, hurricane-force winds and raging waves blended seamlessly into a chaotic demonic eye devouring the world! It was impossible to tell which was sea and which was sky; there was only a swirling, crushing, destructive gray-black abyss, closing in on the tiny Sky Train with the force of a collapsing world!
"The wind speed is very strong, and our radar is subject to many restrictions. KIKI, Monica, you must be careful to avoid multiple seaspouts and be careful of enemies in the clouds!" Chen Sixuan's face was full of disbelief. The horrific celestial phenomenon in front of her was as terrifying as a planetary collision.
snap
Qian Dele dropped the small fan in his hand to the ground with a "clack", and his mouth opened slightly: "My goodness, what kind of super storm is this? It's simply a doomsday storm. Is this a celestial phenomenon that can appear on the Blue Planet?"
"Does it matter? We can just rush over!" Sasha's face was extremely serious at this moment.
Deep in the living compartment, Mo Xiaotian was held tightly in Sun Yuzhen's arms, and he and Xiaoyuan huddled in the corner. The cabin wall was shaking violently, and there was chaos outside. Only the constantly exploding pale lightning illuminated the terrified and nervous faces of Sun Yuzhen and Xiaoyuan.
Mo Xiaotian curiously peered through the gap in the adult's arm, watching the lightning streak tearing through the darkness outside the porthole. He couldn't help but stretch out his tiny index finger, curiously trying to reach for the light. "Crack!" A closer bolt of lightning split the clouds, and the sharp arc of electricity seemed to penetrate the porthole! The little fellow was so frightened that he quickly withdrew his hand and burrowed into Sun Yuzhen's arms, not daring to move.
“Boom—!”
The violent turbulence suddenly drew her attention back to the Sky Bridge! The wind and rain cut her face like a knife. Shiori looked up suddenly, a look of disbelief and astonishment on her pretty face: "There are things... overhead, a lot of them. Prepare to fight!" Her voice was as thin as a thread in the storm, but it was unusually sharp.
Huo Ge and Monica instantly cast their gazes towards the terrifying wall of cloud, churning with lightning and rain! Originally a chaotic gray-black, as the Sky Train approached, a dense, countless black specks began to appear deep within the swirling storm clouds! Tiny as mosquitoes and flies, they maintained an eerie stability amidst the turbulent currents, rapidly magnifying in their field of vision!
"A swarm of monsters or raindrops?" Huo Ge asked hesitantly.
"Have you ever seen raindrops that can turn?" Monica's face was solemn. Through the storm curtain, she gradually made out the approaching 'raindrops'. Those black dots had hideous, membranous wings covered in bone spurs, several times wider than those of ordinary Winged Demons! Even more terrifying, their sheer number, like a giant, stirred beehive, swooping down and closing in on the Sky Train's location!
"It's really a demon tide, prepare to die!"
Without any hesitation, Lu Xingchen's eyes became fierce, and the infinite rings on his hand exploded at high speed, and the whole person soared into the sky like a flaming cannonball!
"God·Great Flame Sea!"
Fire erupted from Lu Xingchen's hands, and then he gathered fire in his hands and waved them. The violent and blazing flames swept across like a giant whip, instantly engulfing the fastest-swooping group of winged demons into the sea of fire!
The high temperature evaporated, the heavy rain vaporized, and a red flame rolled at high speed between heaven and earth.
At the same time, Monica's red lips uttered a tangible sound wave, and her eyes flashed. Under her powerful supernatural power, a sonic howl, so sharp that it broke the limits of human hearing, condensed into an almost visible, air-distorting fan-shaped shockwave, rapidly slicing through the swooping winged demons! Countless winged demons, as if colliding with an invisible meat grinder, their wings instantly shattered, and they fell wailing!
"The sky is full of mutant winged demons! There are huge numbers! We have to speed up..." Monica's cold voice sounded in the communication channel, and was instantly drowned out by the more terrifying sound of waves.
Boom! Crash!
A dull thud echoed from the lower deck of the ship! Ah Bai's voice, as if strangled, ripped out the next second: "Here they come! Underwater! A whole bunch, so fast! Too many!" Before he finished speaking, his eyes lit up with high-energy lasers, like two scarlet swords, piercing the sea below, which was surging like boiling black oil! Wherever the beam of light swept through, the sea water instantly evaporated into a large cloud of scorching white steam. More than a dozen strange sea creatures, shaped like spears, with huge fish eyes and wide, transparent membrane wings, that had just broken through the water were directly pierced and vaporized!
"Telekinetic force field! Hold on!!" KIKI's cold and arrogant voice rang out in the strong wind. She and Ryunosuke's figures were looming on the edge of the ship's belly. They stretched out their arms, their faces as pale as paper, and veins on their foreheads bulging! Two invisible but extremely tough mental force fields were forcibly stretched out, like huge invisible nets, facing the schools of flying thorn fish that were sprayed like high-pressure water guns! The transparent flying thorn fish collided with the force field, making a dense muffled "puff puff" sound, and their speed dropped suddenly. The hard bone spears and membrane wings collided with huge impact ripples! The intensive collisions made KIKI and Ryunosuke frown.
The number increased, like accurate bullets bursting out from the bottom of the sea, and began to be fired intensively.
"Our marks are becoming more and more obvious. These are strange creatures that can chase us at high speed. We have to speed up. There may be something bigger coming." KIKI said in the communication band while using telekinesis to control the situation.
"Sasha, speed up, don't worry about anything else, break the sound barrier!" On the main bridge, Lin Xian made a quick decision.
This storm is full of dangers. If you are not careful, you may be doomed. But in this situation, there is no chance to seek stability. The sooner you get out of the center of the storm, the farther away from the crisis.
Sasha nodded, pushed the control lever directly, adjusted the parameters, and the Sky Train accelerated in the air again!
"Fire coverage!!" Ning Jing's roar exploded in the artillery channel of the bridge!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The triple-mounted orbital star-shaking cannon roared like thunder. The thick solid shells, with shock waves that shattered the air, penetrated the storm and the fish school, exploding into a foul-smelling mist of flesh and blood! The scorching plasma cannons were like molten spears, frantically sweeping the swarm of winged demons swooping in from the air, each explosion singeing a demonic shadow! Dense plasma beams intertwined into a web of destruction, accurately killing any fish that tried to penetrate the telekinetic field! More intense, eardrum-rupturing explosions rang out from the upper deck of the ship—the 1130 close-in weapon system reached its maximum firing rate! The overwhelming metal storm tore apart any living creature that approached the hull, and shell casings rained down into the churning sea below!
The entire world was reduced to a symphony of destruction—cannon fire raged, lasers streaked, winged demons screamed, flying fish stabbed, telekinetic barriers groaned and trembled under the pressure, and the hurricane roared like a demon's roar! The Sky Train transformed into a bloodbathed metallic behemoth, all weapons blasting furious flames, desperately tearing at the dual veils of death from the sky and the sea!
The communication channel was now silent on all sides.
Every collision, every explosion, caused the massive ship to tremble violently. The whine of twisted metal mingled with the deafening noise of battle, like the final roar of a dying beast! Everyone gritted their teeth.
I don't know how much time passed, as if I was trapped in an endless dark quagmire, and the violent wind gradually faded away with the hissing of the shield rubbing against each other.
The sound of gunfire grew sparse, ultimately leaving only one or two unwilling muffled thuds. The roiling black wall of water outside the porthole gradually faded to a murky, dark yellow, then slowly transitioned to a reassuring, still gloomy, leaden gray, a shimmering hue of daylight. The massive cyclonic wall of wind that had ground the world into chaos had been left far behind by the Sky Train.
Inside the ship, the exploding alarms stopped, the pungent smell of burning and scorching ions in the air had not yet dissipated, but the oppressive feeling of world-destroying destruction had already receded, and the crackling sound of overheated gun barrels and the occasional "click" sound of electricity from the light tubes became the only noise in this sudden and huge silence.
Everyone was still under high pressure and tension, as if they had just struggled to the surface from the deep sea, greedily breathing in the air that was not fresh but no longer burned their throats.
"We're leaving the cyclone."
"It's still a level 2 mark!"
"It's okay." Lin Xian untied the power armor mask, his forehead covered with cold sweat. He directly ordered Viola: "Disperse and release decoy bombs, and cooperate with weapons warfare to carry out mobile annihilation. Leave the storm area now, and you shouldn't be able to provoke any big guys."
【Viola understood and was preparing a 'fishing' plan.】
“Huh~”
Sasha heaved a sigh of relief and leaned back in her chair, saying bitterly, "It was so exciting. I saw a lot of monsters in the storm, but luckily I didn't run into them head-on."
On the Sky Bridge, the flames subsided. Monica turned her head to look at the gradually moving away black sea. At this moment, the sky gradually cleared up. Only the huge engine maintained the low hum of a steady cruise, like a heart, beating powerfully and gently in the great silence after surviving the disaster.
The storm was finally left behind.
(End of this chapter)
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