58: Chapter 58 Intercepting the Fuyou Alliance! The Aerial Death God at Three Times the Speed of Sound
Outside the Captain's private quarters, the Regional Channel was being flooded with messages.
Su Nian walked quickly into the cockpit in her high heels, carrying a glass of freshly prepared juice.
Her tight white sweater hugged her incredibly impressive assets, which swayed violently with her steps, enough to make one's head spin.
"Brother Yu Feng, the Regional Channel is exploding," Su Nian said as she placed the juice on the center console, her fingertips sliding rapidly across the holographic screen.
"Someone is posting a region-wide SOS bounty. The reward is three bottles of Junior Mental Power Strengthening Potion!"
Yu Feng had just finished an after-sex cigarette and was leaning back on the large leather bed, resting with his eyes closed.
Hearing the words "Mental Power Strengthening Potion," his eyelids snapped open, and a sharp, piercing light flashed in the depths of his eyes.
After he had injected the Intermediate Strengthening Potion earlier, his Strength, Constitution, and Agility had all soared, but his Mental Power alone was stuck at 15 points.
These three bottles of potion were like a pillow being delivered just as he was about to doze off.
A red, bolded SOS message was pinned to the top of the channel.
[Player Li Jili (Coordinates: Heart of the Xuanyin Forest Sea): Help!!! My Level 4 passenger plane engine has been destroyed! I'm being besieged by a swarm of 5th-Order Xenogeneics, 'Blood-Sucking Bats'! Whoever saves me, I'll give you both bottles of Junior Mental Power Potion I got from a Silver Treasure Chest yesterday! Real photos attached!]
In the picture, a swarm of giant bats with wingspans exceeding five meters and bodies covered in black bone spikes were frantically gnawing on the armor of a battered passenger plane. Sparks flew from the armor, which was nearly being torn open.
The players in the channel had completely lost it.
"5th-Order Blood-Sucking Bats? Forget it, this is impossible. Last time, a full Level 5 heavy-armored fleet was torn into pieces by those beasts at the edge of the Xuanyin Forest Sea."
"These monsters are incredibly fast and have built-in sonic interference; fire control radars can't lock onto them at all. Whoever goes there is a dead man."
"Li Jili, just have a peaceful journey. Take those potions to your grave. The brothers will burn some paper money for you during the holidays."
The requester, Li Jili, sent a desperate voice message to the channel, his voice filled with the broken wailing of someone facing death.
Just then, a message with an exclusive golden border popped up.
[Vice Leader of the Fuyao Alliance · Xu Qingyao (Lv.6 storm guest plane): 1,500 kilometers from the scene. Li Jili, hold on. Your potions belong to the Fuyao Alliance now.]
As soon as this message appeared, the entire channel instantly reached a boiling point.
"Holy crap! Goddess Xu from the Fuyao Alliance has stepped up!"
"She just upgraded to a Level 6 plane yesterday. I heard it's equipped with a High-Frequency Sonic Interception Net, which perfectly counters Blood-Sucking Bats!"
"Li Jili, you must have been blessed by your ancestors! With Goddess Xu taking action, your life is saved!"
Li Jili wept with joy, frantically kowtowing and thanking her in the channel.
Yu Feng sat in the pilot's seat, watching the screen full of fawning comments, a cold and cruel sneer curling at the corner of his mouth.
With one hand, he drew a straight line on the holographic star map. Target coordinates: Heart of the Xuanyin Forest Sea.
"They're less than a thousand kilometers from us." Shen Tiantian ran into the cockpit barefoot. Looking at the star map, her cute little face showed a hint of nervousness.
"Captain, those are 5th-Order social Xenogeneics, and the magnetic field there is chaotic. Are we going to snatch them?"
"Snatch?" Yu Feng's fingers tapped rhythmically on the control stick. "This is called the reasonable acquisition of spoils."
He suddenly pushed the throttle to the max.
"Thunder Engine, start."
BOOM—!!!
Deep within the 120-ton steel beast, four ultra-large turbine engines erupted with blinding arcs of eerie blue thunder.
The entire fuselage jolted, and the accompanying Armor-Piercing Sonic Boom instantly blasted a terrifying hole through the surrounding thick ice clouds!
The normal flight speed was forcibly tripled!
The dark passenger plane turned into a bolt of violent black lightning, ruthlessly tearing through the sky with an utterly unreasonable and overbearing posture.
Twenty minutes later.
The field of vision ahead darkened rapidly. A vast, boundless scorched forest abruptly loomed over the ice plains.
The Xuanyin Forest Sea.
The trees here were over a hundred meters tall, their entire bodies as black as ink, with branches twisted like mummified corpses struggling in agony.
There wasn't a glimmer of light within the forest; thick black mist rolled frantically like viscous ink, and it was so deathly silent that not even the sound of wind or snow could be heard.
Eerie, oppressive, and extremely dangerous.
"Beep beep beep—"
Just as they entered the airspace above the forest sea, the AI computer issued a low-frequency alarm:
"High-intensity magnetic field interference detected. Automatically switching to optical holographic imaging and underlying logic locking."
Yu Feng held the control stick steady as the dark passenger plane descended, gliding smoothly just above the black canopy.
"Project the terrain imaging over here."
The holographic screen flickered, and a high-definition perspective of the forest floor was spread out.
"Yu Feng... look at the ground!"
In the image, beneath a thick layer of black withered leaves, the ground was densely covered with a layer of bone-white objects. Zooming in, they were all humanoid skeletons, ranging from 2 meters to over 30 meters in height! The edges of the bones were extremely smooth, and some were even wearing rusted pieces of some kind of uniform metal armor.
The AI computer quickly provided analytical data: [Bone carbonization level detection complete. Target time of death confirmed: At least 120 years ago.]
The cockpit instantly fell into a deathly silence.
One hundred and twenty years?
Players from all over the world had been forcibly dropped onto this Desolate Continent for barely ten days in total. Where did these skeletons come from?
"Does this mean there was another civilization here before we arrived?" Su Nian swallowed hard, a flicker of panic in her eyes. "Or... has this survival game already been played for countless rounds?"
No one could answer that question. A spine-chilling sense of dread crept up everyone's backs and straight to their heads.
The secrets hidden in this wasteland were deeper than they had imagined.
"Radar alarm! A large number of high-energy targets are rapidly approaching from the ten o'clock direction!" Shen Tiantian's hands flew across the control console.
From deep within the forest sea, a thick black mist swept toward them like a tsunami.
Within the black mist, hundreds of massive Blood-Sucking Bats with hideous fangs were tracing eerie, zigzagging trajectories through the air, diving straight for the dark passenger plane.
They were incredibly fast, appearing as little more than black blurs to the naked eye.
CLANG—!
The largest 5th-Order Blood-Sucking Bat leader, with blood-red eyes, arrogantly charged at the very front.
Its sharp bone claws, capable of tearing through tank armor, slammed hard against the glass viewport on the left side of the dark passenger plane.
The screeching sound of metal friction echoed outside the cabin.
A cruel excitement flashed in the bat leader's eyes as it prepared to enjoy the pleasure of shredding steel.
But in the next second, its expression froze.
On that layer of dark blue super nano crystal steel armor, only a faint white scratch had been made.
And that white mark healed instantly in less than half a second, without even a single flake of debris falling off.
The bat leader hung outside the cabin, its crimson eyes staring fixedly through the glass.
Inside the glass, Yu Feng was holding a cup of mixue ice orange, leisurely sipping from the straw, which made a "slurp slurp" sound.
One human and one monster stared at each other through the glass.
The scene was utterly ridiculous.
"Pfft." Yan Xue couldn't help herself and burst out laughing while covering her mouth. "Why does this monster's expression look a bit aggrieved?"
"It thought it was cutting tofu, but it ended up biting a diamond," Yu Feng said, shaking his head as he set down his cup.
The armor defense of a Level 6 passenger plane was as high as 2,000, granting immunity to all physical penetration below the 4th-Order. This 5th-Order monster's physical attack against the super nano crystal steel was nothing more than a light scratch.
SCREECH—!!!
Realizing it was being played like a fool, the bat leader let out an incredibly piercing sonic scream.
The hundreds of Blood-Sucking Bats around it instantly flew into a frenzy.
They swarmed onto the dark passenger plane like falling dumplings. Sharp claws and fangs gnawed frantically, and their sonic attacks distorted the air violently.
However, the 120-ton steel beast remained suspended in mid-air, steady as a mountain. The armor took only minor damage, which was Repaired in an instant.
"Defense test complete. Absolutely perfect." Yu Feng patted the center console with great satisfaction.
He shed his lazy demeanor, his eyes turning cold and hard as iron.
"Su Nian, take over fire control. Lock all targets."
"Understood, Captain." The morbid killing intent in Su Nian's eyes instantly boiled over as she slammed her hands onto the fire control panel. The AI computer chip's terrifying processing power went into full gear, and hundreds of red locking circles instantly lit up on the holographic screen.
"They're done scratching," Yu Feng said, his thumb pressing down heavily on the fire button. "Now, it's our turn to clear the field."
BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM—!!!
Four automatic DEFA Aircraft Cannons erupted with a terrifying metallic roar at that very moment!
What does a maximum fire rate of six thousand rounds per minute look like?
In four seconds, exactly four hundred thick Tungsten Alloy High-Explosive Armor-Piercing Shells, forming a terrifying tongue of fire that was nearly a solid line, ruthlessly shredded the black mist outside the windows!
There was no room to dodge.
There was no suspense, only physical evaporation.
The bat leader clinging to the window didn't even have time to scream before its torso was hit by three 80mm armor-piercing shells.
Its hard bone-spike armor shattered like paper, and its massive body instantly turned into a brilliant firework of flesh and blood in mid-air!
In just one short second.
The fire net swept out in a fan shape.
The hundreds of Blood-Sucking Bats surrounding them were like fallen leaves swept by a gale; not even a complete corpse remained as they were beaten into a foul-smelling rain of blood, showering down into the black forest below.
Instant kill! Total annihilation!
Shen Tiantian's mouth hung open, and the wrench in her hand fell to the floor with a "clatter."
Even though Su Nian knew the cannons were powerful, seeing such pure firepower suppression with her own eyes still left her shaking, her full chest heaving violently.
Too brutal! This was the absolute dominance of Level 6 heavy weaponry!
"System, auto-loot." Yu Feng leaned back into his seat.
[Ding! Successfully killed 1 5th-Order Xenogeneic and 312 4th-Order Xenogeneics!][Obtained: 1 5th-Order Dark Crystal Core, 300 4th-Order Dark Crystal Cores, 1 Nano Crystal Steel, 50 Mutated Bat Venomous Fangs...]
Yu Feng looked at the spoils on the panel, his brow furrowing into a deep frown.
"Four seconds, and four hundred tungsten alloy armor-piercing shells are gone. Converting that into scrap metal refining costs, that's a damn fortune! And only one Nano Crystal Steel dropped?"
"Killing these paupers is a total loss!"
This mood-killing complaint made Yan Xue and the others, who were still immersed in the shock, roll their eyes simultaneously.
This man had the firepower of a god, but his heart was blacker than a capitalist's.
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