Chapter 712 Explosion
In the dark and empty desert, the dazzling sun suddenly burst out in the night sky. The dazzling light illuminates all directions, turning the vast desert night into day, and then turning the day into a blazing furnace.
In the endless light that was enough to melt eyeballs, the scorching heat turned all life in the light into gray smoke. After the dazzling light lasted for a few seconds, it gradually began to calm and dim, and the extremely high temperature in the space just now also gradually subsided at this time.
Finally, the light faded, the bright sun in the sky disappeared, and the entire desert returned to its appearance at night, but its shape had changed greatly.
On an area of several square kilometers, the Japanese sand dunes have completely changed into another appearance, from fine tons of quicksand to clear crystals. The residual heat is still in the hot air. At a glance, it is all glass land and crystal hills. In these thick crystal layers, there are many still solidified red viscous substances flowing, like blood vessels flowing under the skin of the human body. This glass land that seems to be out of purgatory reflects the light of the stars and the moon in the night sky, making the surrounding scene look extremely weird and dreamy.
"What a marvelous and terrifying sight! Is this the power of the church's cutting-edge weapons? It's breathtaking..." Somewhere in the distance, Dorothy sighed and whispered as she looked down at the magnificent and marvelous scene on the ground from a high-altitude corpse reconnaissance puppet.
In order to deal with the Filthy Order that has been making trouble over the Buserite issue, Dorothy came into contact with the battleship intelligence core named Evie, which was sent by the Church of Redemption to secretly protect and monitor Vanya's completion of the ascension ceremony.
The Holy Steel Ship is a secret cutting-edge military weapon held by the church. It is a powerful flying battleship built with a large amount of extraordinary power. Its combat effectiveness and combat status are far superior to the powerful ships of the church navy.
It is said that the source of the Holy Steel Ship is a contract from ancient times between the Church and the White Stonemasons. According to this contract, the Church can spend huge amounts of resources to let the White Stonemasons forge weapons for itself. The Holy Steel Ship is the product of this ancient contract. It is not known how many Holy Steel Ships the Church has now, and it is not clear what the level divisions among the Holy Steel Ships are. But what can be confirmed is that all Holy Steel Ships directly obey the orders of the major cardinals and the Pope, and the higher-level Holy Steel Ships have combat effectiveness beyond the Red Army.
Dorothy had guessed that Evie might be an AI of some kind of war weapon since Kankdar, but she could not confirm it until she came to Buserite. Dorothy pretended to be a caravan to deliver food to Vanya's camp. This operation itself was suspicious. It could fool ordinary people but not Evie. So after Dorothy's food caravan sold all the food, Evie came to her directly.
Evey immediately judged that the group of grain sellers in front of her were the group that protected Vanya during the time of Kankdar, and judged that they were the so-called members of the Heavenly Judge Cult. Dorothy also knew this, so she simply followed Evey's wishes and had initial contact and communication with her, and invited her to join them in dealing with the Red Man of the Immortal Cult.
On the issue of Buserit, Dorothy and Evey's interests are basically the same. Evey herself also has the mission of contacting the Heavenly Judge Cult, so cooperation between the two sides is a natural thing.
After confirming the cooperation, Dorothy first successfully profiled Jawaharlal, and then implanted a puppet mark in Jawaharlal to let him communicate with Amayaba after his mind was profiled. After that, Dorothy used Jawaharlal as a springboard to release spiritual threads to entangle with Amayaba and distract her attention, while Evie accumulated energy in the sky and released a wide-area killing trick to bombard Amayaba.
After experiencing nearly 3,000 degrees of scorching, the surface sand of the large desert area under the Holy Steel Ship Evi was directly melted by the high temperature, and the heavy solidified into a thick crystal layer and covered a large area of several square kilometers. Within the range of Evi's scorching, any life, no matter how big or small, whether it is mosquitoes, floating bacteria, or spores, cannot survive this degree of high temperature. The large-scale flying insect swarm that Amayaba incarnated and other invisible floating microorganisms were all burned at this moment.
At this moment, above the sky, inside a church-like Gothic steel giant ship, in a hall that looked like a chapel, Vanya, dressed in a white nun's uniform, was kneeling in the center, quietly maintaining a prayer posture. At this moment, she had established a ritual link with the entire ship. Each holy steel ship of Evie's level was equivalent to a mobile temple. Evie itself was not only a powerful firepower projection platform, but also a temple-level ritual field that could be present at the front line anytime and anywhere. At this moment, Vanya was inside the Sister of Extinction, and could rely on its ritual field to amplify her abilities.
"Under the area covered by the pure light... there is no life of any kind left. We are now beginning to conduct further in-depth exploration..."
Vanya murmured this at the ritual center of the Iron Chapel, and then she began to use the amplification of the temple-level ritual to further expand her powerful life perception ability of the Path of the Virgin Mary to further areas and deeper underground.
Due to the particularity of the path of the epidemic, its extraordinary derivatives can appear in very small forms. When they are small to the microbial level, the "light" ability is usually not very useful for detection. There will be a situation where the "light" can be seen, but it is too small to be detected. It is not that the "light" ability cannot detect such a small extraordinary derivative, but even if it is detected, the "light" ability user's own consciousness finds it difficult to track and notice that there is something wrong with such a small thing.
For example, things with different spiritual traces will show different colors of light under the vision of the "Light", but if this thing is only the size of a bacterium, then even if it glows, it will be difficult for the extraordinary "Light" to detect and see it.
At this time, the ability of the Path of the Virgin, which can directly sense the existence of life within a range, is even more useful. Compared with other "light" branches, the Path of the Virgin has a strong enhancement in the detection of life. This enhancement, combined with the enhancement of the temple-level ritual field, can make Vanya instantly transform into a wide-area life radar. All life forms within a radius of tens of kilometers, whether macroscopic or microscopic, cannot escape her perception.
"A large number of traces of extraordinary life activities were found underground. Please be careful, the cultist is not completely finished yet. Her offspring is rapidly expanding and multiplying underground!"
After her perception ability spread to the underground, Vanya frowned slightly and said, then she used the ability of the temple to visualize the information she perceived and displayed it in space. Suddenly, a clear three-dimensional picture appeared in front of Evie's phantom on the spire of the church bridge.
It was an illusory three-dimensional picture, showing a large and intricate tunnel with tons of numerous tunnels. In the tunnels, there were countless tons of red dots constantly surging. These were all derivatives of the Amyaba plague insects.
Amaya did not transform herself completely into the swarm of flying insects. To be on the safe side, she also transformed part of herself into sandworms with the ability to burrow through the ground and swim in the sand, and went underground. They rapidly multiplied in a group of natural caves hundreds of meters underground. After the swarm of insects on the surface were completely killed by the high temperature, the underground swarm of insects still survived, relying on the thick sandstone strata.
"What a high-quality, exquisite map... It's better than what I made myself. Is this the result of being blessed by the power of 'Qi'? Interesting..."
Looking at the high-precision dynamic three-dimensional map appearing in front of her, Evey couldn't help but sigh in her heart, and then she immediately waved her hand, mobilized the countless turrets equipped on the giant steel ship, turned the muzzles towards the ground, and opened fire.
“BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!”
Amidst continuous roars, Evie looked at the glass ground below and poured down golden artillery fire. Countless exploding crystals emitting golden light continued to explode on the ground. Countless crystal hills were destroyed in an instant. Huge cracks spread all over the ground, and crystal fragments flew out in all directions amid the roar of artillery fire.
The smallest caliber extraordinary secondary guns installed on the Evi ship's hull are more powerful than the largest caliber fixed fortress guns used in the mortal world today. One shot can blow out a huge crater the size of half a football field. So many secondary guns continuously fired at the inclined firepower below, and for a moment, the vast land that could be seen below was submerged in flames, dust and smoke. The earth kept shaking in the violent vibration, and the vibration and roar were transmitted directly to Bastis, dozens of kilometers away. Combined with the strong light before, the residents there became frightened and knelt on the ground and prayed anxiously.
Under the continuous and powerful artillery fire from Evie, the glass earth was completely shattered, the ground was turned up layer by layer, large tracts of land were stripped off as a whole, and the objects buried underground were being plowed out under the bombardment of heavy artillery.
Before long, the strata within a diameter of nearly one kilometer had been stripped back to a height of two to three hundred meters. Just as the artillery fire was finally about to reach the intricate underground tunnels, Vanya suddenly shouted out, sensing something.
"The creatures in the tunnel are showing highly spiritual reactions! Please be careful!"
Just as Vanya finished her words, hundreds of spherical objects with flying wings rushed out of the smoke and dust from the roaring sea of artillery flames below, and rushed straight towards Evie. Seeing this, Evie immediately started up the countless close-in defense weapons installed on both sides of the ship. Many close-in defense cannons and close-in defense machine guns opened fire one after another, accurately destroying those fat ball flying insects with solid shells.
However, after those spherical objects were destroyed, a thick fog erupted instantly. The fog quickly dispersed in the space and spread everywhere. For a moment, a large green cloud was formed, hovering between Evie and the ground where the fireworks were raging.
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