66: Chapter 66 Colliding with the Holy Light Church! The Shepherd!

The alarm within the blockade sounded sharply.

The engines of three heavy armored vehicles roared as they drifted sideways, blocking the middle of the road.

Large-caliber machine guns on over a dozen sentry towers turned in unison, their dark muzzles locking onto the Ghost Fortress.

A middle-aged man wearing a gold-trimmed white robe and holding a metal scepter strode onto the roof of the lead armored vehicle.

He picked up a megaphone, assuming a condescending posture.

"Sinners ahead! Stop your vehicle and accept the judgment and purification of the Holy Light!"

"Hand over the main control of this vehicle and kneel in repentance; perhaps Lord The Shepherd will forgive your souls!"

The sound waves from the megaphone carried a strange penetrating power, with faint mental fluctuations mixed into the audio, attempting to permeate the vehicle shell.

The B-class energy deflection shield rippled slightly, filtering out those mental impurities completely.

Even Shen Wanxing was completely unaffected.

Chen Chen didn't even open the window.

The communication channel switched to the second level.

"Qin Hongye, do you see the one with the megaphone?"

Second-level sniper position.

Qin Hongye lay extremely low, her right eye pressed against the electromagnetic scope.

The crosshair was locked steadily on the white-robed man's glabella.

Her A-class Eagle Eye talent brought every pore on the target's skin into view—distance 1,100 meters, wind speed six knots from the southwest, high air humidity but not affecting the trajectory.

All parameters were automatically calculated in her mind, taking less than 0.3 seconds.

"Lock acquired."

"Shoot off his megaphone. Leave him a lesson while you're at it."

"Understood."

Qin Hongye adjusted the elevation angle by a hair's breadth.

Her index finger pulled the trigger.

An extremely short sound of tearing electricity— "Ssh—"

The specially made alloy projectile accelerated in the electromagnetic rail, breaking the sound barrier upon exiting the muzzle.

From firing to impact, the interval was less than half a second.

Bridge entrance.

The white-robed man was preparing to continue shouting, his mouth just opening.

"Bang!"

The metal megaphone exploded into a pile of debris.

The kinetic energy aftermath tore along his palm—three fingers were severed at the root, blood spraying over half a meter high and splattering onto his white robe.

The scream pierced the eardrums of all the fanatics.

Clutching his severed fingers, the white-robed man rolled off the car roof, falling to the ground and twitching violently.

The whole scene fell into chaos.

The fanatics of the Holy Light Church didn't hear the gunshot at all—the electromagnetic accelerated projectile of the Gauss rifle was far faster than the speed of sound; the sound was still on its way when the projectile arrived.

They only saw the priest's megaphone explode for no reason, and three fingers disappear into thin air.

The machine gunners on the sentry towers frantically turned their muzzles, but they couldn't even find the direction of the fire.

Some fired blindly into the sky.

Others jumped directly from the sentry towers.

Qin Hongye lay behind the second-level firing port, the corners of her mouth curving up.

1,100 meters, silent.

Precisely hitting the designated area rather than killing.

This was the first pledge of allegiance she had submitted to her new boss.

"Enemy attack! Fire! Fire!"

Over a dozen large-caliber machine guns fired simultaneously, dense bullets smashing into the Ghost Fortress.

"Clang, clang, clang—"

The bullets hit the pale blue translucent light film without even causing a ripple, directly deflected by the B-class energy deflection shield and scattering all over the ground.

"Is that it?" Jiang Yanxue sneered.

"Don't waste time." Chen Chen gripped the joystick. "Shen Wanxing, prepare to collect the bodies."

He slammed the engine power to the maximum.

The Ghost Fortress let out a violent roar from where it stood, charging toward the blockade at a speed of 180 kilometers per hour!

"Is he crazy?!" the fanatics on the armored vehicles shouted in terror.

Eighteen tons of mass, plus the frictionless acceleration of magnetic levitation.

The moment of impact.

The three heavy armored vehicles blocking the middle of the road were directly sent flying into the air upon impact.

The reinforced heavy serrated bumper directly tore through the side skirts of the armored vehicles, the screeching sound of twisting metal echoing through the sky.

The Ghost Fortress broke through the blockade.

"Roof machine guns, sweep left and right."

Chen Chen pressed the button on the weapon console.

The hemispherical weapon hatch opened smoothly, and two c-class twin vehicle-mounted heavy machine guns rose.

No manual operation was needed; the system Radar automatically locked onto surrounding high-heat targets.

"Da-da-da-da—"

Tongues of fire spewed out.

Armor-piercing incendiary rounds exploded among the crowd and vehicles, with severed limbs and burning metal fragments flying everywhere.

A one-sided crushing.

The Holy Light Church's blockade was completely torn apart in less than a minute.

Just then.

An extremely vast, cold, and viscous mental fluctuation suddenly erupted from a pure white RV deep within the bridge.

This mental power directly penetrated the physical armor, slamming hard against the Ghost Fortress's B-class energy deflection shield.

The surface of the shield flickered with intense blue ripples.

"Warning! Sustaining high-intensity mental impact! Shield energy dropped by 2%!"

The system prompt sounded.

Inside the carriage, Shen Wanbing groaned, her face turning pale instantly. Her Radar talent was most sensitive to this kind of mental attack; if not for the shield blocking it, this single strike could have caused her brain to crash.

"The Shepherd." Chen Chen spat out three words.

The fifth-ranked powerhouse had finally made a move.

"Sinner... you have dirtied my pasture."

A hoarse, gender-neutral voice echoed directly in the minds of Chen Chen and the others.

This was not a megaphone; this was pure mental transmission.

Deep within the bridge, the door of that pure white RV opened.

A figure shrouded in a white robe and wearing a crown of thorns slowly walked out.

In his hand, he held a thick book emitting a faint glow, and under his feet, he stepped on a circle of white halo.

With his appearance, the fanatics who were originally screaming suddenly stopped struggling.

They didn't even care about the flames and severed limbs on their bodies; one by one, they staggered to their feet, their eyes erupting with blinding white light.

"For the Holy Light, offer up your flesh and blood."

The Shepherd gently closed the book in his hand.

Hundreds of fanatics simultaneously let out beast-like roars, actually detonating the explosives and energy cores on their bodies, transforming into a rain of blood that filled the sky.

This rain of blood did not fall to the ground but rapidly converged in mid-air, condensing into a flesh giant over ten meters tall.

The giant was covered in white crosses, and in its hand, it gripped a giant sword condensed from bones and blood.

"Go, crush them." The Shepherd pointed at the Ghost Fortress.

The flesh giant roared and charged forward with large strides. Every step made the viaduct tremble violently.

"What the hell is this thing?!" Jiang Yanxue gripped the Shadow Instant-Kill Blade tightly.

"Mental power manifestation combined with flesh sacrifice." Chen Chen was expressionless.

He glanced at the Radar panel; the energy level of this flesh giant was already approaching the peak of Tyrant-class.

"Qin Hongye, shoot that The Shepherd."

Second level.

Qin Hongye's crosshair captured The Shepherd's head.

She pulled the trigger.

The Gauss projectile whistled out.

Just at the moment the projectile was about to hit The Shepherd, a translucent mental power shield suddenly appeared in front of him.

"Bang!"

The projectile shattered the shield, but its kinetic energy was completely neutralized, and it dropped to the ground.

"Physical attacks are ineffective?" Qin Hongye gritted her teeth.

Chen Chen snorted coldly, "Shen Wanbing, turn off the active Radar and cut the mental link."

Shen Wanbing immediately complied.

The flesh giant had already charged to the front of the Ghost Fortress, raised its huge bone sword, and slashed down fiercely.

"Boom!"

The bone sword hacked onto the energy deflection shield, erupting with blinding bright light.

The shield flickered violently.

"Shield energy dropped by 15%."

Chen Chen slammed on the brakes.

"Su Xiaoqi, stay in the vehicle."

"Jiang Yanxue, guard the vehicle door."

Chen Chen pushed open the vehicle door and jumped down directly.

Facing that ten-meter-tall flesh giant and the distant The Shepherd, Chen Chen twisted his neck, his joints making crisp, popping sounds like beans.

"Mental type, huh."

Chen Chen raised his right hand.

"I'd like to see if your mental power can withstand the laws of physics."

[Absolute Control: Gravity Field]!

Activated at full power!

With Chen Chen as the center, the space within a twenty-meter radius suddenly let out an unbearable groan.

Twenty times gravity!

This was the limit multiplier he could exert after his mental attribute reached 55 points.

The charging flesh giant's movements came to an abrupt halt.

Its massive body instantly lost balance under the pull of twenty times gravity.

"Crack!"

The bones in the giant's legs were directly crushed by its own weight.

Its massive body crashed to the ground, slamming onto the steel bridge deck and creating a huge crater in the bridge surface.

The Shepherd in the distance finally changed expression.

He tried to control the giant to stand up, but the twenty times gravity pressed down on the giant, rendering it unable to move.

Chen Chen drew his Armor-Piercing Military Dagger and walked step by step toward the flesh giant pressed to the ground.

"Did you think hiding in the back like a coward would work?"