256: Artillery fire washes the ground, technology is out, and now it's time for warriors

Smoke and dust surged like a tide, and missiles rained down.

The pale blue beams of light flashing through the gaps between countless missiles brought a touch of science fiction beauty to the apocalyptic battlefield scene.

Birds in the forest also sensed the danger, flapping their wings and chirping as they flew high into the sky.

The lucky ones passed through the missile gaps and flew above the high altitude, narrowly escaping death.

The unlucky ones, such as those whose flight path was in front of a missile's trajectory, were pierced by a cold blue beam of light and fell lifelessly from the sky.

As the birds and beasts were startled, countless wild animals on the ground, sensing the danger, also began to roar and stampede.

This primeval forest, which had existed for who knows how many years, seemed to have come alive.

Amidst the rolling smoke and dust, extraordinary attacks like wind blades, lightning beams, and ice blades soared from the dense forest, flying towards the missiles.

Most of the attacks were locked onto the moment they left the forest, then annihilated by pale blue beams of light fired from drone and mecha muzzles.

Only a very small number of attacks, such as lightning, light beams, and sonic waves, which were extremely fast and difficult to detect and defend against, could hit the missiles and detonate them in mid-air.

Of course, this was only a very small portion.

The missiles detonated prematurely accounted for less than one-thousandth of the total.

The vast majority of missiles still followed their predetermined trajectories, accurately hitting their targets.

“Boom boom boom boom boom~~~”

Amidst the endless smoke and dust, countless severed limbs and broken arms, along with missile fragments and ancient tree branches, were blasted into the sky.

“What good ingredients? A bit of a waste.”

Muttering to himself, Yang Dian reached out and tapped his wristband again:

“Zero, open the combat map.”

As his voice fell, a beam of light shot from the wristband, projecting an incredibly detailed map in front of Yang Dian.

When Yang Dian opened the map not long ago, it was marked with dense red dots and a very small number of blue dots.

Evidently, the red dots represented Mutant creatures hostile to humans, including but not limited to jackals, bears, tigers, leopards, and many insects that, even after Awakening, still acted on instinct... The very few blue dots represented creatures that were friendly to humans.

But at this moment, a large number of red dots had disappeared from the map, while the previously very few blue dots had become the majority.

His gaze swept over the data in the upper right corner, and Yang Dian raised his eyebrows again.

Including insects, the known number of Mutant creatures inside Shennongjia exceeded 12,000.

However, the number of Mutant creatures marked at this moment did not exceed 100.

Among them, two beast-king type creatures, specifically targeted by thermobaric bombs and hydrogen-based missiles, had lost their life aura and were blasted into an unknown number of pieces.

Withdrawing his gaze from the projection, Yang Dian looked at the primeval forest, where mushroom clouds bloomed everywhere, and couldn't help but exclaim:

“This is technology~”

“Under artillery bombardment, or even nuclear cleansing, which carbon-based life form could survive?”

“There’s no need to be so modest.” Yue Shan shook his head and said:

“We Martial Artists have keen instincts. Once we sense danger and realize we’re locked onto by missiles, we can dig holes directly underground.”

“Digging tens or hundreds of meters deep, even large-yield nuclear cleansing is useless.”

“Of course, if we’re locked onto by Scarface in conjunction with a space-based satellite, our freedom restricted, forced to stand there and take a purple egg, that’s another matter.”

Yang Dian nodded, indicating that Yue Shan's words were reasonable.

He then looked at the second wave of missiles rising from the missile launchers, heading towards the beast-king type creatures, and couldn't help but smile:

“Uncle Yue, it seems it’s not our turn to appear this time.”

“Isn’t this good?” Yue Shan also smiled:

“Without us having to act, it means the military is capable of defending the border and securing the people, and we can also devote more thought to developing the Alien Planet, can’t we?”

Saying that, Yue Shan looked at Yang Dian with anticipation:

“How much longer until your egg hatches?”

Yang Dian took out the unknown creature's egg from his pocket and looked at it.

“Soon.” He pointed to the few remaining golden vertical lines on the back of the unknown creature's egg:

“Once these golden vertical lines completely disappear, it will be able to break out of its shell.”

Squeezing the somewhat soft unknown creature's egg, Yang Dian was still a little curious:

“I wonder what this thing is. After I took it away, the Alien Planet's will seemed like it wanted to devour me.”

“That intensity of aversion is only slightly less than punching the Alien Planet's star core and stealing a star core fragment…”

During their conversation, the wristband vibrated, and a message popped up at the top of the light screen.

Group: High-End Combat Power, Global Flight.

“Old Daoist Qingfeng: How are things on your side?”

Yang Dian glanced at the single-digit hostile Mutant creatures remaining after another wave of concentrated missile fire, and began to compose a message.

“Things are good here, the battle will be over soon. Daoist, how is the battle situation on your…”

Before he could finish composing the sentence, the ground beneath his feet suddenly began to shake.

Then, a pale blue light wave emerged from the core of Shennongjia, sweeping across the world in an instant.

Yang Dian didn't sense any threat from that light wave.

But the moment he touched the light wave, his wristband emitted a burnt smell, and the light screen projected in front of him disappeared.

Looking as far as his eyes could see.

Dense drones and helicopters fell from the sky like raindrops, and the missile launchers that had been continuously firing rockets instantly fell silent.

The mechas were not much better off.

Affected by the blue light wave, the mechas, which integrated modern high technology, also shut down.

However, fortunately, the mechas had a backup energy System.

Before they hit the ground, the backup energy System restarted, carrying the mechas back into the air.

Then, the mecha's shoulder armor opened, and countless ultra-small missiles sprayed blue flames, flying towards where the blue light wave had appeared.

But before the ultra-small missiles could reach their destination, an even deeper blue light wave rose from the core of Shennongjia, sweeping across the world once again.

The affected ultra-small missiles still charged forward at supersonic speed.

But they seemed to have lost their guidance System.

Either they collided in mid-air and detonated.

Or they deviated from their trajectory and flew straight up into the sky.

Or they fell to the ground, causing huge explosions.

The mechas, once again affected by the blue light wave, lost power again and fell straight down.

Fortunately, the mecha's shock absorption System was powerful, so it wouldn't directly kill the person inside.

He casually pulled out his phone from his spatial wristband.

The blue light did not involve spatial attributes, so the phone in the spatial wristband was fine.

After checking the satellite System for what he had just filmed, Yang Dian immediately opened the [High-End Combat Power, Global Flight] group.

“Something unexpected has happened here. A blue light wave erupted from the core area of Shennongjia, covering a diameter of 15 kilometers. All electronic devices within this range that were in an activated state have been destroyed.”

“Besides that, I also felt a slight sense of threat from the core area, but the threat is not great. Uncle Yue and I will go check it out first.”

After sending the message, Yang Dian flexed his wrist again and, with a thought, rose from the ground:

“Uncle Yue, it’s our turn to appear.”