282: Chapter 283 "The War of Sequences" [Clone City]: Desperate Situation! Three People Under the Dark Red Laser

"Boom!!!"

A deafening explosion accompanied by a massive shockwave instantly swept through the entirety of Clone City, which had been transformed into a cage of flesh and blood. The dark red laser, concentrating thirty percent of the Clone Tower's Power of Corruption, produced an intense light that lasted for a full half-minute after hitting the target location.

Compressed energy, searing enough to vaporize steel, spread frantically. Within a radius of several hundred meters, the dark red flesh was instantly scorched into charcoal and turned into a sky full of ash by the shockwave. Towering buildings of flesh collapsed and melted like paper under the laser's impact. Even the black snowflakes falling from the sky, the floating purple balloons, and the splashing silver parts were completely annihilated the moment they touched the energy's aftershocks.

The three people, tied up like zongzi with colorful ribbons, were completely swallowed by the destructive white light of the energy generated by the dark red laser.

Passerby Man still kept his eyes closed, feeling the temperature rise rapidly as the dark red laser approached. Relying on the intuition of his Talent, Person of Calamity, he knew he was currently "relatively safe" and would not face a "certain death" calamity. He had already prepared himself for the intense impact. The pitch-black, slender Serpent of Calamity wound tightly around his neck; the sensation of cold scales against his skin was the Dream Spirit's greatest comfort to him.

Gear Boy's charred, bleeding palms still tightly gripped the bronze-colored enhanced gear. Exhausting the last of his Dream Power, he mobilized the remaining mechanical parts in his spatial backpack. At the fastest speed of his life, he assembled a field generator in front of him capable of creating a shield that could withstand massive damage for a short period. This was a field generator blueprint from the Ultra-Era Tech Empire that he had obtained from the Clone Tower's database, specifically designed for defensive fields used by small spaceships during Universe Transmigration through asteroid belts. After exhausting all his mechanical parts and drastically reducing the device's operational time and lifespan, Gear Boy barely finished the [Defensive Field Generator — Civilian Small Spaceship — Low-End Inferior Version] when they were a hundred meters from the flesh-and-blood ground. Because he had compressed the field's generation duration, and considering the potential short-term persistent negative states like high temperature, high pressure, and high radiation after the dark red laser hit, Gear Boy decisively chose to activate the device when the laser was within a hundred meters. Thus, Gear Boy's eyes were fixed on the rapidly approaching dark red laser, one hand holding the field generator while the other was ready at any moment to embed the Dream Spirit, the enhanced gear, into the pre-reserved slot of the field generator to complete the device's enhancement and activation simultaneously. Even Gear Boy knew that in the face of this terrifying dark red laser, this makeshift defensive field was no different from paper.

The crazed smile on Carnival Clown's face had long since faded. The invisible waves constantly emanating from his body affected the surrounding space, and the toy box strange at his waist rapidly opened and closed, with toys emitting various colored lights ready to pour out at any moment. Suddenly, Carnival Clown's previously stiff body relaxed once more, the corners of his mouth curving to an arc impossible for ordinary people. He looked meaningfully at the dark red flesh-and-blood ground just inches away, opened his mouth to laugh, revealing two rows of pale, neat teeth, and shrieked, "Hahahaha~ Finally! The last participant of the Disorderly Celebration has finally appeared! Come! Let us revel together! Hahahaha!!"