290: Whale fall.

“Where is that singing coming from?”

A melodious folk song echoed in everyone’s ears.

Outside the porthole, large patches of sparkling clouds appeared.

Looking closely, they were actually swarms of butterflies.

The butterflies flapped their wings, emitting a mesmerizing dust.

Under the refraction of the sunlight, dazzling rays of light scattered.

In a daze, Mike Os felt his spirit falter, and his consciousness slowly sank into a quagmire.

In a trance, he saw that the Robin was not sailing on the sea, but rather through the lush mountains of Lizhou.

“Something’s not right…”

“We’ve fallen into an illusion!”

Mike Os was, after all, an Emperor-Ranked Professional.

If it weren’t for a Divine-Grade skill Cultivated to its extreme, he would not have fallen into an illusion.

He suddenly woke up and warned everyone on the bridge: “Cover your ears! Close your eyes! This is Lizhou’s Mountain Patrol Gu Formation!”

But it was already too late.

The officers, operators, and Professionals on the entire ship had all fallen into the illusion.

The Robin sky carrier battle group had already entered “unmanned” mode.

“Machina! Activate the electromagnetic array immediately!”

Everyone else was intoxicated, only Mike Os was sober.

As the strongest Emperor of the Free Federation, Mike Os understood himself and his enemies better than anyone.

When he saw the clouds formed by these butterflies, he immediately reacted.

This was the most famous defensive Formation in the Lizhou region of Jiuzhou, the Mountain Patrol Gu Formation!

And the appearance of the Mountain Patrol Gu Formation meant that the Robin battle group had been targeted by their natural enemy, the Witchcraft Poison Master!

sky carriers are invincible in most situations, but they are uniquely vulnerable to Professions that use insect-type beast companions.

Insect-type beast companions can be large or small, with the smallest comparable to nano-robots.

Once these insects enter the machinery, a system crash is an inevitable outcome.

Before that, these insects had no obvious aggressiveness, and the shield would not identify them as threat targets.

That is to say… these insects would not be filtered out by the shield.

They could penetrate directly, approaching the fleet without any obstruction.

Of course, the Free Federation was not entirely unprepared for this.

Upon realizing the sky carrier’s weakness, Mike Os took the lead in creating a defensive module called the “electromagnetic array.”

When activated, it could release a dense electromagnetic field within a certain range to defend against insect swarms.

However, as it was a new module, it still needed to be activated by a command.

Mike Os was still relatively calm at this point.

As long as the electromagnetic array was activated, the insect swarm would no longer be a threat.

But he forgot one thing… [Denied. You do not have permission to issue commands to the Robin battle group.]

“What!?”

Mike Os was stunned, then roared: “The insect swarm is attacking the battle group! If you refuse my command, we will crash!”

[Denied. You do not have permission to issue commands to the Robin battle group.]

His commands were constantly denied, and Mike Os was burning with anxiety.

This wasn’t Machina at all!

This was simply a Machina with a disability!

In the last moments, he tried to communicate with the President in the White House.

Unfortunately, having lost his authority, he had to rely on operators to connect communications.

And now, all the operators and officers on the bridge were dancing wildly.

“If you can’t dance to the song, learn to dance to the song~”

“Ah, brother, however you sway, I’ll sway~”

“Stop it!!!”

Mike Os yelled at the operators.

But no one responded to him.

An officer next to him even tried to pull his hand, wanting to dance along.

“Stop dancing! Stop f***ing dancing!!!”

Mike Os slapped the officer to the ground, then rushed to the control panel, wanting to activate the electromagnetic defense array himself.

The moment his hand touched the control panel, a burst of electric sparks erupted!

Seeing this, Mike Os felt a bad premonition.

Immediately, he felt an itch on the hand that touched the control panel, as if insects were crawling on it.

“It’s over, the insects have already gotten in…”

Mike Os face turned ashen, and he let out a long sigh.

At this moment, he realized.

Before the Mountain Patrol Gu Formation appeared, countless nano-sized insects had already drifted into the sky carrier with the flow of air.

Presumably, by now, the intricate machinery of the Robin battle group was crawling with insects.

Just as he thought this, a faint clicking sound echoed in Mike Os ear.

The lights above him also became flickering.

Knowing the sky carrier in detail, he didn’t even need to look to know which parts those sounds were coming from.

Chips, circuits, gears… The sky carrier’s billions of components had been corroded and were gradually losing function.

The Robin sky carrier, like a colossal beast infected by a virus, had all its organs, muscles, and bones gradually failing under the virus’s devastation.

Meanwhile, the crew members on the ship were still lost in the illusion, unable to extricate themselves.

Watching all this, Mike Os let out a desolate laugh and slumped into his chair.

The battle was lost.

There was no need to struggle anymore.

The Robin battle group was bound to crash above the Glass Islands.

As an Emperor-Ranked Professional, Mike Os naturally had the ability to escape.

But how far could he run?

The other Professionals’ combat power primarily came from their equipment.

And Machina Professionals’ combat power came from their mechanical creations.

It could be said… the Robin sky carrier battle group was Mike Os equipment.

Leaving the Robin was no different from taking off a suit of armor.

He wouldn’t even have to wait for Lin Xuan to capture him; even those Witchcraft Poison Masters could take him alive.

As a Five-Star General of the Free Federation and its strongest Emperor.

Mike Os absolutely could not accept being captured alive by the enemy.

He re-lit his extinguished pipe and murmured, “Let me and the Robin be buried together at the bottom of the sea…”

Boom!

Boom!

Dense explosions continued ceaselessly, the entire sky was reddened by the flames, and the sea turned into a bloody expanse.

The Robin sky carrier slowly tilted, like a dying behemoth, reaching the end of its life.

Grandma Zu led a group of Witchcraft Poison Masters, standing on the pockmarked beach, looking up at the sky.

Before long, the mountain-like wreckage broke through the clouds and plunged into the sea, stirring up tsunami-like waves and storms.

The entire scene was as breathtaking as a whale fall.

In the scorching storm, Grandma Zu took a deep breath and said to her Gu for transmitting sound: “Your Majesty, the Robin has crashed in the Glass Islands…”

“I know.”

Northeastern sea area of Jiuzhou.

Qin Yang stood on his dragon carriage, enjoying the gentle caress of the sea breeze.

At this moment, eight sky carriers were hovering in front of him.

These warships were the frigates abandoned by the Sejong the Great.

After the destruction of the Sejong the Great, these warships were also caught up by Qin Yang.

Under the harassment of He Zhiyi’s insect swarm, they quickly raised white flags, and all crew members boarded the deck, surrendering collectively.

The dragon carriage slowly approached, hovering above the fleet of warships.

Qin Yang looked down at the kneeling prisoners of war, a plan forming in his mind.

His next step was to combine the Throne of Bones with the Asura Training Ground to create a Secret Realm that could continuously revive.

But this required many guinea pigs.

These prisoners of war would be perfect test subjects.

However, these were all matters for later.

Qin Yang looked at a Korean-looking officer and said, “Open communications. I want to speak with the Free Federation.”