Chapter 793 - Premature Babies
Chapter 793: Premature Babies
When the residual power of the volley finally dissipated, the crater had already turned into a sea of fire.
Dozens of burning mushroom clouds had burned the forest in the air where thousands of vines interweaved.
The tremendous recoil caused all the cannons on the train to shake three times. The wheels, which had been uprooted and derailed, left deep marks on the ground that was as hard as iron.
Before the radiation released by the intense crystal reaction dissipated, spirit energy ripples that could be seen by the naked eye were still rippling in the air. The officers of the artillery unit, wearing radiation-proof clothes and lead clothes, rushed forward to quickly reset the cannons on the train and load the second round of shells.
Ordinary soldiers could not operate in the harsh environment that was like hell. Therefore, almost all the soldiers who rushed forward were the death squad formed by superhuman individuals.
Perhaps, the death squad members were only at the one-star Spirit Tattoo Realm, and at most, they were low-level superhuman individuals at the two-star Spirit Transformation Realm.
They did not have the exquisite killing skills and unparalleled strength like Meng Chao and Lu Siya.
However, they still used their bodies that were ignited by spirit flames and cast iron and copper to carry out the battle that would change the course of civilization.
Since the radiation was too intense, every minute, the death squad members had to retreat from the railway guns and go to the “safe zone” a hundred meters away to take a breather.
They took off their lead plates and radiation suits, and their pale faces were covered in sweat the size of soybeans.
Some people even suffered from excessive radiation, with pustules and black spots appearing on their skin.
However, when the ordinary soldiers volunteered to perform their duties in their place, the Red Dragon Army’s young officers waved their hands without hesitation and refused the soldiers’ good intentions. After gulping down gene agents and cell repair agents, they rushed toward the super-strong radiated cannon. They put on their armor once again and charged toward the highly radioactive railway guns.
The second round of cannon fire was accompanied by the angry roars of the humans and exploded in the sky above the sinkhole.
As Meng Chao and the other exploration team members had made ample preparations beforehand, the bombardment of the railway guns was very targeted.
They were all aimed at the depths of the sinkhole, where there was a large number of underground cavities and where the spiritual and magnetic reactions were particularly strong.
Meng Chao and the other exploration team members had locked onto fifteen such labyrinth-like cavities in total.
The entrances of several cavities were constantly spewing out demonic spirit flames. At a glance, it was obvious that they were a dragon’s den and a tiger’s den.
If they were to directly send soldiers to attack, it was likely that even thousands of soldiers and horses would not be able to fill up these bottomless cavities.
However, the people of Dragon City who held an absolute advantage in firepower and had suffered from the late stage of “firepower deficiency syndrome” decades ago would not play any tricks of engaging in close combat, engaging in a great battle, and drowning every inch of land with blood with the monster civilization.
A problem that could be solved with a railway gun was definitely not a superhuman.
A problem that could be solved with a superhuman did not need to sacrifice the precious lives of ordinary soldiers.
After being strengthened and modified, the special structure of the “earth-drilling cannonball” penetrated through a rock layer dozens of meters thick and exploded violently in the underground space.
Even if the monster mastermind could not be blown to death, all the oxygen underground had to be burned dry.
As long as the other party was still a carbon-based creature, there was no reason not to fall for this trick.
As the steel torrent rolled forward, the Dragon City Army opened up more and more attack channels and heavy artillery positions in the depths of the jungle.
Thousands of heavy artillery, large and small, were pushed to the edge of the sinkhole. They could look down from above and unscrupulously pour their firepower into the depths of the sinkhole.
Even the Firebird Cannon was fired from the base camp dozens of kilometers away.
Although the shooting accuracy could not be as high as the naked eye’s observation and close-range shooting, the terrifying power of one shot, which was several miles away, made the “shooting accuracy” meaningless.
The scene in front of him once again awakened Meng Chao’s memory fragments from his previous life.
It made him understand why countless otherworld races in his previous life, when they saw the steel flood of the Dragon City civilization, would shout in terror, “Alien Catastrophe! Alien catastrophe!”
The pride of being a “catastrophe” was born naturally.
When the intensive bombardment of the sinkhole lasted for three hours, and the ninth underground hole was blown up, the Dragon City Army finally locked onto the ultimate nest of the monster civilization.
First, a scarlet spirit flame nearly a thousand meters high shot out from the depths of the ground and pierced a bloody hole in the sky filled with smoke.
Then, between the pit full of flames and the smoke filled the sky, came waves higher and higher, and incomparably shrill howls.
The distorted mushroom clouds were torn apart, and between the destructive hurricanes, a humongous insect-type monster appeared.
At first glance, this guy looked like the first super beast that Meng Chao had killed after his rebirth— the ghost-eyed golden-winged blazing flame bug.
However, judging from the size of its four glittering wings and the mushroom cloud, its wingspan was at least 100 meters long.
In a sense, a moth that was nearly 100 meters long was more capable of playing with the terrifying heartstrings of humans than a dinosaur that was nearly 100 meters long.
Not to mention the super giant ghost-eyed golden-winged flame bug, the pattern on its wings was a hundred times more complicated than that of an ordinary butterfly. It was as if a hundred deep eyes were opening at the same time, wanting to absorb all the souls of humans on the battlefield.
The humans who accidentally saw its wings all turned pale as if they had been struck by lightning. Their mental defense line was on the verge of collapse.
“Apocalyptic Beast!”
Sensing the ferocious aura it released, Meng Chao had goosebumps all over his body. He subconsciously blurted out.
It was too late. At that moment, the enormous ghost-eyed golden-winged flame bug, which was almost as ferocious as an apocalyptic beast, only flapped its wings twice before it crossed the Sea of fire and flew to the edge of the crater.
At the edge of the sinkhole, more than ten armored airships were floating. They were risking their lives to observe the bombing effect and provide ballistic alignment for the heavy cannons.
When they saw the Apocalyptic Beast pouncing on them, they dispersed like a swarm of frightened bees.
However, the armored airships were not as fast as the supersonic fighter jets after all.
The super giant ghost-eyed golden-winged flame bug had already shaken off a large amount of phosphorus powder on its wings and ignited it with the spiritual flames that were shot out from its mouth.
In the sky, above the crimson sea of fire that had been ignited by human beings, a deep blue sea of fire that seemed to be extremely cold suddenly appeared.
One of the armored airships could not dodge in time and was about to fall into the deep blue sea of fire.
The pilot tried his best to drive the crystal engine. With the roaring and exploding of the engine, the maximum potential of the engine was squeezed out again and again. It was as if someone had kicked the back of the armored airships again and again, allowing it to escape the invasion of the purple sea of fire by a hair’s breadth, it crashed into the depths of the forest.
The monster that followed it wanted to chase after it, but it seemed that it could not catch its breath. The second flame that it spat out was weak, like a small snake. It disappeared before it could swim a hundred meters.
“This is impossible…”
Meng Chao was very surprised.
Judging from its size and aura, this super giant ghost eye golden-winged flame bug was definitely the king of monsters—an Apocalyptic Beast.
However, if it was a real doomsday beast, it would never allow a small armored airship to escape from its hunting range.
Even if it was dizzy from the heavy bombardment, it would still be impossible.
“This Apocalyptic Beast… doesn’t seem fully developed yet.”
Lu Siya narrowed her eyes and observed it for a while before she said, “Its wings are still wet!”
Meng Chao suddenly realized what was going on.
That’s right. Although the wings of the enormous ghost-eyed golden-winged flame bug were broad, they were wrinkled and wet. There was a lot of mucus on them, as if they had not fully unfolded yet.
Its body was not full, either. Many parts of its body had shriveled up and were also covered in mucus. There was even something that looked like a cocoon attached to the mucus.
Its tail, in particular, still retained the characteristics of a large number of larvae. It did not have the glowing tentacles that were commonly seen on butterfly-type monsters.
It was an Apocalyptic Beast that had yet to complete its evolution.
It was a premature baby that had been forcefully interrupted by the human cannon fire from breaking out of its cocoon and becoming a butterfly.
At this moment, in the depths of the crater, in the Sea of fire, more and more ferocious demonic shadows of super-large monsters appeared.
Meng Chao saw a monster that was 60 to 70 meters long. It had a body that looked like a pterosaur and a head that looked like a plesiosaur. Its body was also covered in a translucent shell that looked like a layer of crystal armor, it seemed to be able to absorb all the heat from the surging sea of fire. Through the complicated refraction, reflection, and diffraction, it could be released in a certain direction.
It was the most troublesome apocalyptic beast among humans—the Nine-headed Diamond Dragon!
However, the adult Nine-headed Diamond Dragon was usually more than a hundred meters long, and it had nine highly reproducible heads. Even if eight of them were exploded, as long as there was one head left, it would have a chance to escape and make a comeback.
The Nine-headed Diamond Dragon, which had obviously shrunk a lot, only had four heads. The crystal shell could not cover every inch of the skin on its body. At most, it covered its vital parts, and in the gaps between the vital parts… the flesh, which was still fragile and tender, was licked by the tongues of fire and burnt black.
It was also a premature baby.
There was also an Apocalyptic Beast that looked like a mixture of spiders and fleas that had been magnified tens of thousands of times. However, it had more than fifty slender, sickle-like limbs.
When the densely-packed blade limbs were waved, it was enough to make any agoraphobic person have a heart attack.
However, it was not fully developed either. The carapace covering the blade limbs was not hard, but like the wings of the super giant ghost-eyed golden-winged flame bug, it was wet and soft.
It had dozens of blade limbs, but even its body, which was dozens of meters long, could not support it. After taking two steps, it was shaking as if it was going to fall down.
Meng Chao knew that many enormous Apocalyptic Beasts had organs such as “anti-gravity engines” or “maglev generators” growing inside their bodies.
They used the repulsive force between the life magnetic field and the planet’s magnetic field to break away from the gravity and support their bodies that were almost a hundred meters long and weighed almost ten thousand tons to stand on the earth.
The so-called limbs were just icing on the cake.
If the maglev and anti-gravity organs were awakened before they were fully developed and put into battle, they would be faced with the awkward situation of being crushed by their own weight.