326: Chapter 326 Recruitment, Hellfire

If he had forty or fifty thousand small Mechanical Dragons, why would he need airplanes?

More importantly, he could resurrect these Mechanical Dragons directly using supplies!

The Mutated Tentacle in the sky of the Night Instance appeared in Chen Fan's mind.

If he wanted to deal with that thing in the future, air units would be essential.

Therefore, he had to acquire these Mechanical Dragons.

And not right now; he had to wait until they landed and were fully controlled, then let Jiu Jiu collect them!

The more he thought about it, the clearer Chen Fan's plan became.

Since that was the case, he couldn't let the Hellfire destroy the small Mechanical Dragons.

Chen Fan turned toward the Hellfire and shouted in a low voice:

"Recruit."

"Spirit Control."

[Special creature, insufficient intimacy, unable to Recruit.]

As expected, the recruitment failed.

This result did not surprise Chen Fan.

However, the system's prompt made his eyes light up.

Could it be that as long as the intimacy was sufficient, he could Recruit it?

He didn't have enough intimacy with wild Hellfire, but he did with the ones he owned!

Chen Fan looked at the Sacrifice of Chaos in his skill bar, the corners of his mouth curling upward.

Summoning another Sailor, Chen Fan opened the Spirit World and leaped down into the large pit.

Given the current situation, all nearby areas were likely under surveillance.

The massive disturbance caused by the Hellfire's descent would be hard to hide from surveillance.

Therefore, the only place where Chen Fan could release the Sacrifice of Chaos was the Earth's core.

"Davian, fly the Mechanical Dragon near the large pit."

"Yes, Master."

Davian acknowledged the order and controlled the Mechanical Dragon to descend.

At this moment, the Hellfire was almost in a frenzy, constantly waving its arms and attacking the air units flying around it.

Those air units seemed to be playing hide-and-seek with the Hellfire, not in any hurry to attack.

Every time they got close and drew the Hellfire's attention, they would immediately dodge.

The entire sky was being burned until it gradually distorted.

Just when everyone's attention was drawn to the Hellfire.

Chen Fan entered the bottom of the large pit once more.

After activating Thin Burial, Chen Fan endured the pain and let out a low roar:

"Sacrifice of Chaos."

Instantly, ten meteors streaked across the sky, plummeting toward the large pit and drawing everyone's attention.

"What is that?"

"My god, don't tell me ten more Hellfires are coming?"

"Quick, report to headquarters, there's a new situation."

"Are you stupid? The Administrator is watching this area; headquarters must already know."

"Regardless, report it anyway!"

The Sacrifice of Chaos released by Chen Fan instantly terrified the air units.

Just this one Hellfire was already enough of a struggle for them; they had to wait for reinforcements from headquarters to mount an effective counterattack.

Ten more?

They might as well stop fighting, give up, and let the Administrator intervene.

However, after waiting for a long time, the thing they feared did not happen.

Standing before them was still only one Hellfire.

Thus, they quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

However, in the deepest part of the Earth's core, Chen Fan looked ahead, speechless.

Ten ten-thousand-meter-class Hellfires were packed so tightly they were practically pressed against each other.

If the previous Hellfire hadn't destroyed much of the surrounding space when it emerged from the core, there wouldn't even have been enough room to accommodate them here.

"If I can't Recruit them successfully, these big guys probably won't even be able to get out."

Chen Fan pursed his lips, then his expression turned serious.

"Recruit."

"Spirit Control."

[Recruitment successful: Hellfire x1.]

"It works!"

The moment the system prompt sounded, Chen Fan's eyes lit up.

He suppressed his excitement and recruited them one after another.

[Recruitment successful: Hellfire x1.]

[...]

Soon, all ten ten-thousand-meter-class Hellfires were recruited as Crew Members.

With a smirk, Chen Fan waved his hand and collected all the Hellfires into his Crew Member space.

Then, he looked into the space.

Ten miniature versions of the Firemen, shrunk countless times, lay blankly on the ground.

"Haha, awesome!"

Chen Fan activated Shapeshift Exchange and appeared on the Mechanical Dragon.

"Brother, did it work?"

Seeing Chen Fan's joyful expression, Jiu Jiu guessed what happened and asked excitedly.

"Mm, it worked."

Chen Fan nodded and glanced at the cooldown time. "Wait three more days, and I can release the next wave."

"After the Hellfire becomes a Crew Member, does it still consume energy?"

"It does. Before I collected them into the Crew Member space, they were consuming 0.01% per second. After being collected, they don't consume any."

"That's a pity. If they didn't consume energy, you could hoard thousands or tens of thousands of Hellfires, hehe."

Chen Fan chuckled, "Even with the Arcane Aura, I can only release it once every three days. In a year, that's at most a thousand or so Hellfires."

"A thousand is enough, though."

"If I released a thousand Hellfires, they'd run out of energy in ten seconds."

Chen Fan shook his head. He didn't intend to hoard that many Hellfires.

Because after becoming Crew Members, the Hellfires could instantly resurrect after death. So two hundred was enough; that way, he could use them without any loss.

Chen Fan's gaze turned back to the 15,000-meter Hellfire.

By now, the surrounding air units had fled even further away to avoid its attacks.

"How are these people planning to deal with this big guy?"

Jiu Jiu watched the fleeing air units, looking a bit confused.

After such a long time, they had already lost many fighter jets. The Mechanical Dragons, due to their superior mobility, had suffered few losses.

"I don't know. I suspect it has something to do with this so-called Administrator."

Chen Fan shook his head and swept his gaze toward the nine suns in the sky.

He didn't know if it was an illusion, but he felt that the light emitted by these suns had dimmed slightly.

"Did you guys notice that the sun's light has dimmed a bit?"

"Eh, it seems so! It was a bit dazzling before, but now it looks just right," Jiu Jiu nodded repeatedly.

Davian narrowed his eyes and stared for a moment. "Master, the light of each sun has dimmed by 20%."

"Oh?" Chen Fan gave him a surprised look. He hadn't expected Davian to have this ability.

"Wait, no! The sunlight has dimmed even more," Jiu Jiu exclaimed.

Just then, the light emitted by the suns began to dim rapidly, visible to the naked eye.

In less than a minute, only a ring of light remained. The entire world immediately plunged into darkness.

The 15,000-meter-tall Hellfire instantly became the focus of the entire world.

"What's going on? Why did the lights go out again?"

"Could it be that the Administrator has taken over?"

"Brothers, the light is insufficient after the lights went out, move further away."

"Don't panic, wait for instructions."

After some communication, the air units scattered further and moved even further away.

Suddenly, a much clearer voice rang out: "Air units, move away."

Upon hearing this voice, Chen Fan narrowed his eyes.

If the previous voice sounded like a mechanical tone, devoid of life, then this current "Administrator" voice sounded much more vibrant.

It was as if the current Administrator was a real person.