230: Chapter 230 Steel City

Golden light flickered.

The Mechanical Dragon carried Chen Fan back through the Holy Gate.

After exiting the range of the golden light, Davian continued to fly forward for some distance, still feeling uneasy.

Only after flying very far did the two of them look back behind them.

When Chen Fan realized the tentacle had not chased them out, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Damn, that was almost a logout.

No wonder the system wanted to close the dungeon; damn, it turns out the tentacle was feeding.

If players had been let in, wouldn't they all have died upon entering?

However, I clearly had the tentacle item with me, so why could it still sense my presence?

A whole string of question marks appeared in Chen Fan's mind.

He even carefully checked his system storage to confirm the tentacle item was still there.

He thought about it for a long time but couldn't figure it out. Chen Fan had to let it go.

The Death God Leviathan followed, looking puzzled, tilting its head:

"What's wrong?"

"Nothing, let's go back and try again."

Chen Fan shook his head and said nothing more.

The Mechanical Dragon returned to the front of the Holy Gate.

Chen Fan took out the last gold key and gave it a try.

However, no matter how he poked at it, there was no reaction.

"Well, it turns out it's one lock per key."

Shaking his head, Chen Fan prepared to retreat.

He didn't have the guts to enter the Night Instance again.

In fact, for the next time the Night Instance opens, he would have to wait for others to go in first.

"However, I actually forgot about this thing."

Chen Fan patted his head and took out the superpower controller.

"If the materials produced by the Death God Leviathan are used by others, this thing can control it. You can use it as you see fit during future aerial battles."

Davian nodded, "It seems it's not very useful at the moment."

"Indeed, the dragon can wipe out all the planes with one breath of fire. However, it has another, much greater use."

Chen Fan shrugged. If the energy center is installed on the aircraft carrier and enough energy is injected into it, all planes can be automatically repaired.

This saved him a lot of trouble. Now that the air force was gradually taking shape, he had to get it installed as soon as possible.

Narrowing his eyes, Chen Fan sensed the location of the aircraft carrier.

It was still a few hours away from Superpower Metropolis.

"Hmm, where to now? Should we go back?"

Chen Fan shook his head, "I have a guess, and if it's correct, our gains this time should increase."

Immediately, he opened the dungeon sea chart.

Like other sea charts, except for a very small part of the area, the rest was covered by black fog.

"Ruituocuipu, when your missiles are launched, do they carry surveillance vision?" Chen Fan asked on the Crew Member channel.

Ruituocuipu curled his lips, "If they carried vision, I could just fire one at the edge of the sea chart, and you'd have the entire line of areas detected, right? Dreaming of something so nice? Why don't you just ascend to heaven?"

"..."

Chen Fan felt a bit awkward and scratched his head:

"Then I'll just have to find another way."

"The description of Skyfire says it can be unleashed on any place I've been to."

"As long as I can unleash Skyfire on the map, it means I've been there."

"In the Daytime Instance, there are only three places I've been to."

"Savage Island, Steel City, and Superpower Metropolis."

"Whether it's Savage Island or Steel City, there should be places I haven't explored yet."

The corners of Chen Fan's mouth curled up slightly as he began to unleash Skyfire on the map.

"Skyfire!"

[Unknown area, cannot be unleashed.]

"Skyfire!"

[Unknown area, cannot be unleashed.]

...

After continuously unleashing it for over two hours, even the other main warships had arrived.

Chen Fan still hadn't found a place he had been to before.

After all, the sea chart was so large, and the range of Skyfire was only 100 meters in diameter.

Moving it bit by bit to unleash it was undoubtedly like looking for a needle in a haystack.

However, Chen Fan had plenty of patience.

Today is the first day of the dungeon, and the allied forces are probably still building their own new main city, so they don't have the energy to deal with District One.

So he had to take advantage of this opportunity to find more development opportunities.

So Chen Fan returned to the aircraft carrier, installed the energy center, and stored 100 million superpower supplies in it.

These superpower supplies were enough for the consumption of the entire air force combat department and for repairing damaged aircraft.

Immediately, he lay down on the soft bed, muttering constantly:

"Skyfire!"

"Skyfire!"

"..."

He didn't know how long it lasted or how many times he had muttered it.

Chen Fan's consciousness gradually became blurred, and the sound from his mouth gradually grew quieter.

Just as he was about to fall asleep.

Suddenly, a "boom" startled him awake.

"Holy crap, Skyfire!?!"

Chen Fan threw off the quilt, his eyes fixed on a certain area on the map.

After waiting for five minutes, Chen Fan couldn't wait to continue unleashing it:

"Skyfire!"

"Boom—"

"Got it! This is it!"

Chen Fan snapped his fingers and reported a coordinate to several ship captains.

Instantly, five warships started up simultaneously.

This time, Chen Fan didn't risk riding the Mechanical Dragon to go ahead; instead, he brought all the warships to sail together.

The reason was simple: he had never successfully fought his way into Steel City.

So he didn't know the specific strength of the other side.

Although there was a high probability that they couldn't do anything about the Mechanical Dragon, what if they could?

He had racked his brains operating for so long to have his current strength. If he suffered losses due to arrogance, that would be truly unjustifiable.

Chen Fan crossed his arms and observed the sea chart carefully.

It would take more than three hours of sailing to reach the target location.

Setting an alarm for three hours, Chen Fan fell into a deep sleep.

...

On the other side.

Steel City.

A messenger ran swiftly toward the barracks.

"Report, sir, the strange energy has not appeared again."

"Continue to investigate and report back."

"Yes, sir!"

The messenger saluted and quickly trotted back.

Half an hour later, another messenger ran over:

"Report, sir, it still hasn't appeared."

"Continue to investigate and report back."

"Yes, sir!"

Watching the messenger run away, General Wu frowned slightly.

"This strange energy appeared twice in a short period of time, evaporated a large circle of seawater, and then it was gone?"

Beside him, an old man stroked his beard and said in a deep voice:

"Could it be those people from before?"

"Before?"

General Wu narrowed his eyes: "The attack power of those people was so weak; if I weren't afraid of a trap, I would have gone out and killed them long ago."

"You must not."

The old man shook his head, "Recent rumors are tense; surrounding cities have encountered some abnormal situations, so we must not be careless."

General Wu snorted and sat back in his chair: "Old Li, in my opinion, you are just too cautious."

"We have nuclear bombs; who dares to provoke us?"

Old Li shook his head, "There is always someone better. It's possible the enemy has things beyond our understanding."

"Beyond our understanding? Heh."

General Wu shook his head, disdainfully: "Unless they can carpet-bomb us with missiles and directly destroy our installations."

"Otherwise, beyond understanding?"

"Let them bring it out and show me?"