193: Chapter 193 Chips

"Boom!"

With a deafening boom, the cabin roof was ripped wide open by a griffin.

Gale-force winds instantly poured in, and the intense pressure difference nearly sucked out one unlucky soul near the opening.

The griffin thrust half its body inside, opening its bloody maw to bite.

"Get lost!!"

A bolt of lightning flashed by.

Su Xiaoxiao made her move.

She grabbed the overhead handrail with one hand and pointed her magic staff with the other.

"Void Thunder Punishment!"

Purple lightning instantly pierced the griffin's head, blasting it into a charred husk.

But this was merely a drop in the bucket.

There were thousands more outside!

"We can't go on like this! The plane is going to crash!"

Chen Xi made an immediate decision and looked at Ye Fei:

"Ye Fei! Try to control them! Make them scatter!"

"I'll try!"

Fighting back the nausea from airsickness, Ye Fei rushed to the breach, the Mark of the Lord of Myriad Spirits on her wrist glowing brilliantly.

"I am the Lord of Myriad Spirits! Hear my command! Retreat!!"

An invisible, imperial pressure spread outward.

However...

This time, her usually infallible pressure completely failed!

Those Iron-Feather Griffins seemed not to hear her voice at all; they didn't even pause, continuing to attack the plane frantically, their eyes filled only with cold killing intent.

"It's useless?!"

Ye Fei's face turned deathly pale:

"Captain! I can't sense their souls!"

"There seems to be something in their brains... blocking my psychic link!"

"What?"

Chen Xi's heart sank.

Just then, a griffin had its head shattered by the aircraft's cannons, and half its corpse fell into the cabin.

Chen Xi was quick-witted; he grabbed the corpse and probed his fingers into its shattered skull.

The next second, he felt something hard and cold.

He pulled hard.

A precision electronic chip, stained with blood and brain matter, appeared in his hand!

"A chip?!"

Chen Xi's pupils constricted, and he held up the chip for everyone to see:

"These aren't ordinary beasts!"

"They are modified bio-weapons! They have control chips implanted in their brains!!"

"No wonder..."

Ye Fei suddenly realized, and at the same time felt a deep chill:

"They've been stripped of their self-awareness and turned into machines controlled by others... That's why my pressure was ineffective!"

"This is a trap!"

Chen Xi abruptly looked toward the Shadow Sect team in the corner.

He saw the faceless captain, who was currently watching the scene coldly through his mask, seemingly holding something resembling a remote control in his hand.

Although he couldn't see his expression, Chen Xi could feel that he was smiling.

"Since you want to play..."

Killing intent surged in Chen Xi's eyes as he crushed the chip into powder:

"Then I'll play along with you to the end!"

"Xiao Xiao!"

Chen Xi roared, making a crazy decision:

"Since we can't hold the plane, let's stop trying!"

"Get out there!!"

"Even if we're in the sky, I want you to kill all these beasts!!"

"Understood!"

Lightning crackled in Su Xiaoxiao's eyes.

After advancing to SS-rank, she already possessed the ability to hover in mid-air.

"Thunder Shadow Thousand Flashes!!"

She transformed into a dazzling bolt of lightning, charging directly out of the breach and into the sky-covering beast tide!

Rumble—!

Ten thousand meters above, thunderclouds rolled.

A Valkyrie clad in lightning armor, holding her magic staff, stood proudly in the clouds.

"Void Thunder Prison: Ten Thousand Thunder Heavenly Jail!!!"

With her sharp cry, countless thick purple pillars of lightning bombarded outward in all directions, centered on the transport plane!

This was a feast belonging to lightning!

It was also the first collision between technology and divine power!

Meanwhile, inside the chaotic cabin, Chen Xi stared fixedly at the Shadow Sect captain; the "Miracle Mecha: Xingtian" card he had just crafted was slightly hot in his hand.

"Come on... let's see if your chips are tougher, or my mecha!"

Ten thousand meters above, the gale howled.

Following Su Xiaoxiao's earth-shattering lightning bombardment, the Iron-Feather Griffins fell from the sky like dumplings.

However, the already battered military transport plane, having endured such high-intensity impacts and the aftershocks of the lightning storm, finally let out a groan of overload.

"Warning! Left engine flameout! Right wing hydraulic system failure!"

"The plane is about to crash! All personnel, prepare for impact!!"

The pilot's desperate roar came over the broadcast, and immediately after, the entire plane began to spin violently, like an out-of-control meteorite trailing thick black smoke, smashing fiercely toward the ruins shrouded in grey fog below.

"Hold onto me!!"

Inside the cabin, the world was spinning.

Although Chen Xi's face was pale, his eyes remained terrifyingly calm.

He gripped the handrail on the cabin wall tightly with his left hand and flung out several cards with his right.

"Gravity Field: Reversal!"

"Wings of Wind: Group Protection!"

Several rays of light instantly enveloped the four members of the Nirvana Battle Team.

At the critical moment just before the plane hit the ground, a massive anti-gravity wave lifted everyone's bodies, offsetting most of the lethal impact force.

"Rumble—!!!"

Accompanied by a deafening boom, the massive transport plane plowed fiercely into a desolate ruin.

The fuselage broke, flames soared into the sky, and the immense inertia carried the wreckage, gouging a trench hundreds of meters long into the ground until it finally stopped after crashing into an ancient stone tower.

Dust filled the sky, and rubble flew everywhere.

"Cough, cough... Is everyone okay?"

Chen Xi pushed away half a seat that was pressing on him, crawled out of the ruins, and immediately checked on his teammates.

"I'm fine... just a bit dizzy."

Li Murou rubbed her head and crawled out from the other side, looking covered in dirt.

With the protection of Chen Xi's cards, plus Su Xiaoxiao and Ye Fei's high-attribute physical fitness, the four of them, though disheveled, miraculously hadn't suffered any serious injuries.

As for the other three teams on the plane, while they also had their own life-saving methods, they clearly hadn't had it as easy.

Many people were wailing, and those from the Shadow Sect team had disappeared into the shadows the moment they landed, nowhere to be seen.

"Is this... the Fallen Wasteland?"

Su Xiaoxiao gripped her magic staff and looked around vigilantly.

What met her eyes was a ruin filled with an absurd and eerie atmosphere.

Not only were there ancient stone pillars and totems, but large amounts of metal wreckage from unknown eras were also scattered about.

Rusted gears, broken cables, and overgrown mutated plants were intertwined, giving one an extremely oppressive sense of disorder.

Moreover, it was too quiet here.

It was so quiet that there wasn't even a trace of insect chirping or bird calls, only the dull, mechanical rumbling that occasionally came from the distance.

"Be careful."

Chen Xi narrowed his eyes, his unease growing stronger:

"Shen Ye was right, the energy fluctuations here... are extremely chaotic."