The shrieking roar of the "Razor" drones ripped through the dead silence above the fortress. Like twenty streams of light from hell, they swooped down with a precise will of destruction! Their wings deformed in the dive, becoming as sharp as true razors. Their surfaces were coated with a dark coating that absorbed radar waves, making them visible only to the naked eye amidst the piercing roar of their engines and the blazing glare of their cannon fire.
The fortress's anti-aircraft firepower awoke the instant the alarm sounded! The automated turrets whirred with a dull thud, and thick energy beams, like angry spears of light, interwoven into a loose web of death, fiercely shot into the sky! Laser beams seared the air with a sizzling sound, and high-explosive missiles, trailing long flames, exploded into blinding balls of fire among the drones!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Violent explosions echoed across the sky above the fortress! A Razor was struck simultaneously by several energy beams, exploding into a ball of flaming metal fragments! Another was directly hit in the engine by a missile, and it spun like a bird with broken wings, slamming into the ruins below, trailing billowing black smoke!
But more "Razors" were like slithering venomous snakes, relying on their superior maneuverability and stealth to nimbly evade the fire network, their dives at tricky and deadly angles! Their targets were extremely clear—several key defensive turret nodes on the upper levels of the fortress, and a secondary energy center exposed on the surface, gleaming with a faint blue light!
Chichichi--!
The sound of intense machine gun fire rang out! High-explosive armor-piercing rounds, each as thick as a thumb, rained down like a storm of metal! The solid alloy turret armor was ripped apart and pierced like paper by such close-range fire! The soldier operating the turret didn't even have time to scream before he was reduced to a burning pile of wreckage, along with the turret! Vast breaches were instantly ripped through the fortress's anti-aircraft firepower!
The even more deadly "Razor" bypassed all interceptions like a ghost, dived to the lowest point, and the small shaped charge bomb mounted under the belly was unhooked, and with a precisely guided tail flame, it slammed into the exposed secondary energy center!
"Energy center!" Someone in the command center cried out in despair!
At this critical moment!
A cold, swift, space-tearing silver light shot out from the upper observation deck of the fortress!
It’s Lu Cheneng!
He leaped from the edge of the observation deck like a human cannonball! His newly formed mithril left arm erupted in a dazzling mercury light, merging with the tightly grasped demonic blade! The blade sliced through the air with an agonizing, piercing sound! His figure traced an almost impossible arc through the air, so fast that it left a fleeting energy afterimage behind him!
The tail flame of the shaped charge bomb is close at hand!
Lu Cheneng's mithril left arm wielded the magic blade. There were no fancy moves, just the simplest slash that condensed all his will, speed, and strength!
Swish——!
A silver blade light that was condensed to the extreme flashed by like a crescent moon!
No violent explosion!
The shaped charge, powerful enough to destroy the entire energy center, was split in half by the silver blade's incomparable precision less than ten meters from its target! The energy core within was instantly destroyed, triggering a much smaller, but still scorching, internal explosion! Flames and debris spread at low altitude!
Lu Cheneng landed steadily in the shockwave of the explosion, his mithril arm drooping slightly, the mercury sheen of his magic blade slowly flowing, as if he had simply performed a trivial task. His only remaining right eye swept the sky coldly.
"Anti-aircraft fire! Covering fire! Don't let them get up!" His deep voice came through the communicator and clearly reached the ears of every soldier at the artillery position, with an unquestionable calm strength.
Shocked by Lu Chen's inhuman attack, the morale of the anti-aircraft firepower instantly increased! Regardless of the risk of being exposed, the remaining firepower points madly poured fire on the "Razors" who tried to climb back out!
Boom! Boom!
Two more "Razors" were blown up in mid-air!
In the end, less than half the "Razors," battered and wounded, scrambled into the clouds, disappearing from the fortress's sight. But they had accomplished their mission—one-third of the fortress's upper defense nodes had been destroyed, leaving a massive gap in the anti-aircraft firepower network. While the secondary energy center had been saved, nearby buildings and personnel had suffered heavy losses. The acrid smell of gunpowder smoke and burning, mingled with the stench of blood, filled the air, bringing with it the heavy price of victory.
Lu Cheneng stood amidst the shattered ruins, his mithril arm dangling at his side, the tip of his demonic blade touching the ground. He felt the icy coolness of the mithril arm and the power surging through his body. He also felt the burning pain in the core of his brain, like a rekindled ember, deepen with each swing of the blade. Power comes with a price, and that was crystal clear.
Beacon's tall figure waded through the thick smoke and dust, approaching him. Its cold electronic prosthetic eye scanned his glowing mithril arm and magic blade, finally resting on his face. "Well done. But this is a warning. Next time, it won't be so easy."
Lu Cheneng didn't look back. His gaze was cast towards the deadly ruins shrouded in leaden clouds in the direction of the old city. He said in a low voice, "The holes in the fortress need to be filled. Marcus... doesn't he want to talk? Tell him, I'll wait for him tonight at the ruins of the Broken Bridge in the old city."
The old city area and the ruins of the "Broken Bridge".
This was once a transportation hub connecting the old and new urban areas. Now, all that remains is a massive, twisted, and broken section of alloy bridge deck, lying like the wreckage of a giant beast across a bottomless chasm. Below lies a rushing, fetid river of industrial wastewater. The cold night wind whistles through the broken steel and concrete, creating an eerie, whimpering sound.
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