69: Chapter 69: The Devastation of Fort Knox! Four Thousand Five Hundred Tons of Gold!

"Hiss, hiss, hiss, hiss—"

Ten thousand Type-Zero Electromagnetic Rifles fired simultaneously, the ear-piercing sonic booms completely tearing through the night sky over Fort Knox.

The purple tungsten steel projectiles turned into a dense rain of death, mercilessly sweeping toward the United States armored division waiting in battle formation ahead.

The row of M1A2 main battle tanks charging at the very front had frontal armor seven hundred millimeters thick and were reinforced with depleted uranium armor plating.

But in the face of electromagnetic projectiles traveling at Mach 5, these heavy tanks were like fragile cardboard boxes.

The projectiles instantly pierced the front of the tanks, and the high-temperature kinetic energy directly detonated the ammunition storage at the bottom of the hull.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Dozens of seventy-ton main battle tanks exploded violently in a chain reaction simultaneously.

The heavy turrets were blown dozens of meters into the air by the massive impact, and the tank crews inside were vaporized instantly by the thousands-of-degree heat before they could even scream.

The United States soldiers behind the defensive line were completely stunned.

Their pride and joy, the kings of land warfare, couldn't even last a second against this Eastern warlord's mecha.

"Counterattack! Armor-piercing rounds, fire!"

The garrison commander hid in an underground bunker, screaming frantically into the communicator.

The remaining tanks and infantry fighting vehicles fired in a panic, and dense artillery shells rained down toward the mecha phalanx.

Smoke filled the air.

But after the flames of the explosions dissipated, ten thousand pitch-black steel monsters continued to advance with synchronized steps.

The purple energy shields manifesting on the surfaces of the mecha deflected all the physical projectiles, causing them to drop into the dirt.

It was a completely one-sided massacre where they couldn't even break the defenses.

"Sir! The ground armored forces have suffered a total collapse! The enemy's weapons have strong electromagnetic penetration; our body armor is completely useless!"

A blood-covered communications soldier rushed into the bunker, his voice filled with despair.

The garrison commander's face turned pale, and he grabbed the communications soldier by the collar.

"Get the Apache squadron in the air! Use air-to-ground missiles to scour the area!"

Behind the camp.

Fifty Apache attack helicopters launched urgently.

The propellers whipped up massive gusts of wind.

The helicopter pilots looked at the dense swarm of black mecha below and immediately locked onto their targets.

"Hellfire missiles, launch!"

Over a hundred anti-tank missiles, trailing long plumes of fire, whistled down from the sky toward the ground.

Facing the rain of missiles falling from the sky, the Clone Legion didn't even make a move to dodge.

One thousand Mecha Soldiers raised their muzzles simultaneously, aiming at the helicopter formation in the sky.

Purple light flashed.

The firing rate and precision of the Type-Zero Electromagnetic Rifles were calculated directly by the fire-control computers inside the mecha.

Huge fireballs exploded one after another in the sky.

The fifty expensive Apache attack helicopters were blown up in mid-air by the dense electromagnetic projectiles before they could even turn around.

The burning wreckage of the helicopters fell into the camp like rain, triggering even larger-scale fires.

Having lost their armored forces and air support, the remaining twenty-thousand-plus United States infantrymen became lambs waiting for the slaughter.

The mecha legion stepped over the burning tank wreckage and charged into the infantry positions.

There was no mercy.

The muzzles spewed purple light of death, cutting soldiers in half in droves, and blood and viscera covered every inch of Fort Knox.

Screams and explosions intertwined, turning this place into a true hell on earth.

Tens of thousands of meters in the sky.

The leviathan-class aerospace carrier hovered silently in the stratosphere.

Inside the massive command cabin, the temperature was comfortable and the lighting was soft.

Chu Feng sat in the black command chair, holding a glass of top-tier red wine that Evelyn had just poured.

Below the transparent crystal floor, the sky-high flames in the Fort Knox camp could be clearly seen.

Helena was naked at Chu Feng's feet.

Her long golden hair was scattered across the carpet.

Her azure eyes stared fixedly at the sea of fire below, her delicate body trembling uncontrollably.

Being massacred one-sidedly down there was the United States' most elite armored division.

But in front of these black mecha, they were just like a group of ants scalded to death by boiling water.

Only now did she truly understand how ridiculous the idea of The White House attempting to negotiate peace with Chu Feng was.

A man possessing this kind of era-surpassing military power had no need for recognition from any nation.

He could wipe any city on Earth off the map at any moment.

Chu Feng put down his wine glass, his large hand pressing onto Helena's snow-white back, slowly sliding down along her smooth spine.

Helena stiffened, then very submissively lay on Chu Feng's lap, pressing her cheek against the man's knees, not daring to make a sound.

"Boss. All ground armed forces have been cleared. There are no survivors."

The cold voice of the mother nest ai rang out inside the command cabin.

On the screen, the ground camp of Fort Knox had turned into ruins.

Thirty thousand corpses lay strewn about in pools of blood.

The Clone Legion stepped over the gore-covered ground and arrived in front of a giant semi-underground structure in the deepest part of the camp.

At the entrance of the structure was embedded a super blast-proof door weighing twenty-five tons.

The door was crafted from special tungsten steel and was over two meters thick.

There were no keyholes, and all the combination locks were inside the door.

Once locked from the inside, even if people outside used every conventional explosive available, they wouldn't be able to damage it in the slightest.

This was the Kentucky national vault, reputed to be the safest in the world.

Several Clone Warriors walked up to the twenty-five-ton blast-proof door.

They slung their electromagnetic rifles onto their backs and pulled high-frequency thermal fusion cutting guns from their tactical vests.

Ten thermal fusion guns activated simultaneously.

Orange-red high-energy beams shot out, aiming directly at the hydraulic locking mechanism in the center of the door.

The terrifying heat of five thousand degrees instantly scorched the surrounding air, distorting it.

The special tungsten steel, capable of withstanding the shockwave of a nuclear bomb, began to rapidly turn red and soften under the continuous searing of the thermal fusion beams.

The "sizzling" sound of melting metal echoed through the ruins.

In less than three minutes.

A hole one meter in diameter was burned straight through the center of the two-meter-thick door.

Scalding molten iron flowed down the door panel onto the ground, emitting acrid white smoke.

A Clone Warrior kicked the red-hot door panel.

"Boom!"

Losing the support of the lock, the twenty-five-ton blast-proof door collapsed heavily inward, crashing onto the concrete floor of the underground passage and shaking dust from the surrounding walls.

"Enter."

Chu Feng issued the order in the command cabin.

One hundred Mecha Soldiers stepped over the scalding molten iron and rushed into the underground passage with their guns raised.

Passing through the long corridor, their view suddenly opened up.

The true core underground vault of Fort Knox was finally exposed to the view of the helmet cameras.

Looking at the footage transmitted back on the large screen, Chu Feng's eyes brightened slightly.

The area of the vault was astonishingly large; one couldn't see the end at a glance.

There were no shelves in the space.

Everything that met the eye was gold bricks neatly stacked on the ground.

Standard gold bricks were stacked together, forming golden phalanxes.

Under the illumination of the underground lights, they emitted a suffocating luster of money.

Four thousand five hundred tons of physical gold!

This was the national foundation accumulated by the United States over more than a hundred years of plundering the entire world.

Besides the gold.

In the deepest part of the vault, there were also hundreds of special display cabinets sealed with bulletproof glass.

What was stored in the display cabinets were not antiques.

Instead, they were meteorite specimens emitting strange light, unknown biological tissues in special containers, and a large number of technological blueprints marked as "Top Secret."

As expected, this kind of national-level top-secret vault hid things more valuable than gold.

"System, recycle everything and convert it into Wealth Points!"

Chu Feng issued the command directly in his mind.

The moment the command took effect.

A dazzling light flashed through the massive underground vault.

The four thousand five hundred tons of physical gold piled up like a mountain, along with the hundreds of secret display cabinets in the depths, rapidly decomposed and dissipated in the light.

In his mind, the system notification sounds exploded one after another like thunder.

[Ding! Detected four thousand five hundred tons of high-purity physical gold reserves. Receiving in full...]

[Congratulations to the host for obtaining Wealth Points: 1,800,000 points!]

[Ding! Detected multiple extraterrestrial high-energy meteorite specimens and unknown biological tissues. Triggering special item high-level recycling mechanism...]

[Congratulations to the host for obtaining Wealth Points: 1,200,000 points!]

A full three million Wealth Points!

Plus the original balance of five hundred thousand points.

Chu Feng immediately pulled up his account balance.

[Current total Wealth Points: 3,500,000 points!]

Three million five hundred thousand!

This huge sum was enough to let him do whatever he wanted in the system mall!

Not only could he continue to expand the scale of his army, but he could also buy more strategic-level weapons of mass destruction that surpassed Earth's technology!

Chu Feng curled his lips.

He turned his head and looked at Helena, who was kneeling at his feet.

"Four thousand five hundred tons of gold." Chu Feng pinched Helena's delicate chin with his fingers, "The national treasury of your United States now belongs to me."