31: Chapter 31 A First Try

Immediately after, that grand and cold mechanical system voice echoed through everyone's minds once again.

" [ System-wide Important Announcement (Area 997)! ] "

" [ The Hail Disaster has ended. ] "

" [ The final carnival has begun! The third wave of giant Floating Island and the ultimate supply rain have been reset and refreshed! ] "

" [ Duration: Limited to 48 hours! ] "

" [ After 48 hours, the first monthly regional comprehensive settlement will officially begin! The settlement will be based on a comprehensive ranking of individual combat power, vehicle level, supply reserves, etc. ] "

" [ Friendly reminder: The survivor ranked first will receive the [Unique Divine Power Gift] bestowed by the system! ] "

As soon as this announcement was made, the regional chat channel, which had been silent for several hours, was instantly detonated like a powder keg!

" "Unique Divine Power Gift"?! Just hearing that name sounds incredibly badass! "

" Charge! Grab supplies! Grab the Floating Island cores! I must upgrade my vehicle to LV3 in these two days! "

" Stop sleeping! Everyone assemble! The Tianqing Guild is locking onto all large Floating Island! Death to anyone who stands in our way! "

Everyone went crazy.

That phrase, "Unique Divine Power Gift", was like a piece of bloody fresh meat dangling in front of vicious dogs, stimulating the nerves of every survivor.

Inside the [ Cloud Top Fortress ], the atmosphere instantly became heavy and fanatical.

" Boss, what should we do? " Luo Ning held her submachine gun, licking her lips with excitement in her eyes.

" Of course we must compete for it. "

Zhou An stood up and walked to the panoramic porthole.

The moment Zhou An finished speaking, the ink-purple clouds high above were suddenly torn apart!

" Rumble—! "

The world shook.

Thousands of massive black shadows, like meteorites thrown from the heavens by the gods, slowly pierced through the clouds with deafening roars, descending into the extreme high-altitude contention zone between 19,000 and 20,000 meters!

This scene was extremely spectacular.

On some Floating Island, waterfalls flowed upwards, the water turning into ice crystals in mid-air; others were covered in dense ancient forests; some even had broken ancient ruins standing on them, emitting an alluring dark golden light.

" The system shows that the total number of Floating Island descending in the area is about... ten thousand. "

Li Muzi quickly reported the data, her voice sounding a bit tight.

" And now, there are at least three hundred thousand survivors gathered in this area! Three hundred thousand people fighting for ten thousand islands, this is a true shura field! "

Zhou An ignored the frantically flashing distress signals on the public channel; his gaze was locked tightly onto a red dot directly in front of the radar screen, an extremely huge one emitting a blinding dark golden light.

" Fifteen kilometers away from us, there is a giant ancient ruin Floating Island. "

Zhou An's eyes were sharp, " Target locked, that's the one! "

However, the radar showed that the attraction of that giant Floating Island was clearly not limited to this.

" Boss, radar alert! At the edge of our detection, there are at least six or seven high-speed armed airships and one heavy warship, not inferior in size to ours, speeding towards that ancient ruin Floating Island! "

Luo Ning reported loudly.

Zhou An sneered, slammed the throttle forward with both hands, and simultaneously pressed the black cube switch newly embedded in the main console.

" [ Void Warp Stealth Field ], active mode engaged! "

" Let them fight over it; we'll go invisible and be the oriole. "

As Zhou An pressed the black cube switch, a layer of extremely subtle honeycomb-like spatial ripples instantly rippled across the hull surface of the [ Cloud Top Fortress ].

Immediately after, this steel behemoth weighing hundreds of tons, like an ice cube melting into water, completely disappeared in the high-altitude clouds.

There was no radar echo, no engine roar, and even optical reflections were perfectly swallowed by that legendary-grade force field.

" This... this is too magical! " Li Muzi stood in front of the panoramic porthole, watching the wind howling outside, yet she couldn't hear a single sound of airflow tearing against the armor.

On the radar panel, the green dot representing themselves had completely turned into an unlockable ghost garble.

" Sit tight, the show is about to begin. "

Zhou An sneered, controlling the invisible [ Cloud Top Fortress ] as if strolling in a courtyard, ghost-like sliding into the airspace of that giant ancient ruin Floating Island.

By this time, the periphery of the Floating Island had already turned into a meat-grinder-like shura field.

Smoke filled the air, and the firelight from explosions almost illuminated the dark golden ruins.

In that airspace, two factions were fighting until their eyes turned red.

One side was a "Wolf Pack" composed of seven or eight LV2 heavy armed helicopters, with a scarlet dripping blade emblem painted on the fuselage; it was the [ Blood Blade Guild ], known for its fierce plundering.

The other side was a heavy armored cruiser, no less in size than ours, with a dazzling golden scepter engraved on the hull—this was the [ Divine Domain Guild ], an old-school hegemon ranked in the top three.

" You hypocrites of the Divine Domain! We of the Blood Blade discovered this ruin first! Get out of the way, or we'll go down together today! "

The frontline commander of the [ Blood Blade Guild ] roared hysterically.

" Mere LV2 scrap metal dares to clamor? Charge the main guns of the entire ship, and blast this pack of mad dogs down for me! "

The captain of the [ Divine Domain Guild ] responded coldly.

The artillery fire from both sides intertwined crazily in mid-air; from time to time, helicopters would fall while emitting black smoke, and the LV3 cruiser of the [ Divine Domain Guild ], due to being focused, had its energy shield flickering violently, its durability dropping rapidly.

" Boss, when should we make our move? " Luo Ning looked at the chaotic battle outside, excited like a child who had seen a toy, " That LV3 warship's shield is about to break; do you want me to give them a hard hit? "

" Not yet. "

" Let them exhaust themselves first. When they are at their most deadlocked and least guarded, that is the best time for us, this ghost, to strike. "

Ten minutes later.

Only four armed helicopters of the [ Blood Blade Guild ] remained, and the shield of the [ Divine Domain Guild ]'s cruiser finally shattered under the dense concentrated fire, with burning holes everywhere on its armor.

Just as both sides were preparing for the final, brutal boarding battle—

" Now! " Zhou An's eyes sharpened, and he slammed the weapon control lever down.

" [ Electromagnetic Rail Main Cannon ], target: the two helicopters on the left wing of the [ Blood Blade Guild ], tandem lock! Fire! "

" Hum—Boom!!! "

Without any warning, and without any radar alarm!

An extremely thick, high-energy electromagnetic beam of deep blue, carrying a destructive aura, shot out from the void without any warning!

The speed of this beam was extremely fast; it instantly pierced through one armed helicopter on the left wing of the [ Blood Blade Guild ], and without losing momentum, it instantly vaporized the other helicopter behind it like a candied hawthorn skewer!

Metal fragments filled the sky, accompanied by a rain of blood.

" What happened?! Who fired that shot?! "

The [ Blood Blade Guild ] commander was scared out of his wits, watching his two subordinates instantly evaporate, and roared in terror on the channel.

" Did you [ Divine Domain Guild ] hide a secret cannon?! "

The captain of the [ Divine Domain Guild ] was also confused and sweating coldly at this moment: " Bullshit! My shield is already broken, where would I get high-energy weapons?! Radar operator! What does the radar show?! "

" Re... report captain! The radar is blank! There is nothing! That beam... it's like it spawned out of thin air! "

Just as both sides fell into a brief panic and ceasefire because of this extremely eerie scene, the Grim Reaper in the void raised its scythe again.

A smile curled on the corner of Zhou An's mouth.

" [ Plasma Bombardment Matrix ], target: the main thrusters of the [ Divine Domain Guild ] LV3 cruiser. Saturation strike! "

" Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh—! "

In mid-air, dense plasma light spheres appeared extremely abruptly, like a rain of flowers, pouring down towards the tail of the [ Divine Domain Guild ] cruiser!

" Rumble—! "

A series of violent explosions erupted at the tail of the [ Divine Domain Guild ] cruiser, and the armor, which had lost its shield protection, was instantly melted through by the high-temperature plasma.

Amidst the huge roar, the cruiser's two main propulsion engines were directly scrapped, the hull lost its balance, and it began to tilt desperately toward the airspace below.

" Enemy attack! There is an invisible enemy attacking us! "

" It's a stealth module! It must be an Epic or even Legendary-grade stealth module! This is impossible! How could anyone have obtained this kind of dimension-reduction strike equipment at this stage?! "

The captain of the [ Divine Domain Guild ] let out a desperate and shrill scream, but in the face of an absolute disparity in military power, any tactics and roars were futile.

" Escape! Run! This Floating Island is haunted! Retreat! "

The pilots of the two remaining helicopters of the [ Blood Blade Guild ] had already been scared out of their wits; they didn't even dare to look at the ancient ruin Floating Island again, pushed the throttle to the end, and fled frantically like two stray dogs.

And that [ Divine Domain Guild ] cruiser that had lost power, after lingering for a few minutes in mid-air, the captain pressed the abandon ship/escape pod button with extreme frustration, ejected and escaped with a few core members, leaving that expensive LV3 warship to turn into a ball of fire and fall into the airspace below.

Less than five minutes.

The originally noisy and tragic periphery of the Floating Island was now silent as death.

Except for the smell of smoke lingering in the air and the slowly falling wreckage, no other guild's ships could be seen.

" They... all ran away just like that? "

Luo Ning raised her head from the weapon console, smacking her lips with some unfulfilled desire: " My twin machine guns hadn't even had time to warm up, why did they stop fighting? "

Zhou An didn't speak, just reached out and turned off the active mode of the [ Void Warp Stealth Field ], switching the fortress back to a low-energy passive stealth state.

The massive [ Cloud Top Fortress ] slowly emerged from the void, carrying an overbearing aura, and hovered steadily directly above this giant ancient ruin Floating Island.

" Small fry cleared. "

Zhou An turned around, looking at Luo Ning and Li Muzi, whose eyes were flashing with fanaticism, and his mouth curled up slightly:

" Let's go, let us see what kind of good things are hidden in this giant ruin. "