Wen Shifei's pupils suddenly shrank to the size of needles! The hairs on her body instantly stood on end! A cold premonition of death, enough to freeze her blood, instantly gripped her!
"Get down--!!!" She roared with all her strength, and suddenly pushed Lu Cheneng, who was carrying Ajie beside him, to the back of a huge gear set that was half buried in the ground!
Boom——!!!!
Almost at the same moment when she completed the action, a beam of energy light as thick as a giant python, wrapped with dazzling blue and white arcs of destruction, like a spear of judgment cast by the gods, slammed heavily at the place where they had stood a second ago!
A deafening explosion resounded! A violent energy shockwave instantly swept across! A charred black pit several meters in diameter was blasted into the solid ground, and the metal at the edge instantly melted into red-hot molten iron! Countless rusted metal fragments and burning garbage were blasted dozens of meters into the air, like a devastating rain of fire! The scorching air waves, carrying metal fragments and radioactive dust, slammed into the huge gear set where Wen Shifei and Lu Cheneng were hiding, emitting a dense "clang clang" sound like a rain of collisions! The entire gear set was shaking violently!
Wen Shifei was slammed hard against the cold metal gears by the shockwave. Her internal organs seemed to shift, her vision went black, and she nearly fainted. She bit the tip of her tongue tightly, forcing herself to wake up with the excruciating pain, and struggled to look up at the sky.
Under the towering, cracked dome of the fortress, three figures like the god of death were floating in the air hundreds of meters high!
Clad in matte black, angular, and heavily armored, they were far larger than ordinary scavengers, their forms imbued with a power and murderous aesthetic. Their thick shoulder armor resembled battering rams, while their leg armor blasted a stream of pale blue ions to maintain their hovering position. They lacked a discernible head structure, only a massive, crimson-glowing, cyclopean sensor on their chests, scanning the horizon with a cold gaze, like the single eye of a beast from the abyss. The weapons they wielded were not ordinary laser rifles, but rather thick, barrel-like devices, the muzzles still lingering with the destructive energy of the previous, terrifying blow.
"Executioner..." Wen Shifei's voice trembled with uncontrollable despair. She recognized these iconic killing machines! General Tiebi's personal ace! The fortress's most fearsome scavengers! They had actually... caught up with us so quickly?! And they had even used this devastating heavy weapon!
The single crimson eye on one of the Executioners' chest slowly rotated, coldly locking onto the gear cluster where they were hiding. Its heavily armored arm lifted, and the thick barrel began to charge once more. A faint blue light rapidly converged deep within the muzzle, emitting a low, deadly hum! The other two Executioners spread out like ghosts, closing in from two other directions. Their heavy armor landed with a dull thud, shaking the ground slightly. Instead of cannons, they each unleashed massive arm blades gleaming with high-frequency oscillating energy and massive metal claws swirling with high-voltage electricity.
Blockade! Lore!
Wen Shifei's heart sank into a bottomless abyss. Facing an enemy of this level, the three of them were injured and disabled, and there was no chance of winning at all!
"Target confirmed: Lu Chenent. Threat level: high. Clear obstacles and capture the target." A cold, emotionless, synthesized voice that had undergone multiple electronic voice changes emanated from the fully charged executioner in the lead, like the sentence of the god of death.
The blue-white light from the muzzle instantly reached its peak! The torrent of destruction was about to descend again!
At this critical moment!
“Woooooooooooooo!!!”
A roar that was suppressed to the extreme, but filled with endless pain and desire for destruction, suddenly erupted from the shadow beside Wen Shifei!
It’s Lu Cheneng!
He had unknowingly let go of Ajie from his shoulders and carefully placed him in the deepest recess of the gear train. He slowly stood up and stood between Wen Shifei and Ajie.
His head hung low, his tousled hair obscuring his features. But his left mithril arm, dangling at his side, seemed to be completely ablaze! From the spiderweb-like cracks on his arm, a faint silvery glow was no longer visible; instead, a blinding, blazing silver-white light, like liquid metal, erupted! The light even penetrated the tattered sleeves covering his arm, illuminating half of his body in an icy silver glow! A far more violent and icy metallic pressure, filled with pure destructive intent, spread out from him like a tangible storm!
Buzz——!!!
A violent metal resonance force field instantly enveloped an area of dozens of meters! All the scattered metal fragments on the ground, the rusted steel plates, and even some of the metal parts of the executioner's armor, vibrated and jumped wildly as if given life! A deafening "clang" resonance echoed! The air seemed to have turned into a sticky metal slurry, filled with a suffocating sense of oppression!
Lu Chensheng suddenly raised his head!
In his only remaining right eye, there was no trace of human reason or emotion left! Deep within his pupil, only a blazing, cold, silver-white flame remained, seemingly consuming everything! The underlying hue of that flame was abyssal despair and a raging, all-destructive fury! He locked his gaze fixedly on the muzzle of the Executioner's charging cannon in the sky, and an inhuman roar emanated from his throat, like a thoroughly enraged prehistoric beast!
The next second, he moved!
Instead of dodging, he faced the impending destructive cannon muzzle, like a silver arrow released from a bowstring, soaring into the sky with a sharp whistle that ripped through the air and a violent silver light trailing behind him. He resolutely soared into the sky! Mithril raised his left arm high, clenching it into a fist. The flowing silver light condensed on the tip of his fist into a point of light that was too bright to look at!
boom--!!!
The executioner's destructive bombardment and Lu Chenen's fist burning with silver flames collided violently in mid-air!!!
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