248: Chapter 248 Higher-Dimensional Observers

"Kid Chen Xi, you really slept heavily this time. If you hadn't woken up, I would have let those old fogies at the Academy of Sciences slice up your freakish body for research." Lei Zhentian laughed heartily, walking to the bedside and unceremoniously pulling over a chair to sit down, his eyes filled with unabashed admiration and awe.

"Speaker Lei, Vice Commander-in-Chief Li. What's the situation outside now?" Chen Xi didn't waste time on pleasantries and went straight to the point.

Hearing this question, the smiles on Lei Zhentian's and Li Zhenhai's faces instantly vanished, replaced by a gravity as heavy as Mount Tai.

"The remnants of the Star Council have been uprooted and purged by us within a week. The internal threats to Earth have been temporarily resolved, but..." Li Zhenhai took a deep breath and handed an encrypted tactical tablet to Chen Xi.

"Before you lost consciousness, we repeatedly analyzed the video Shen Ye sent back from the Extreme North Ice Field." Li Zhenhai's voice was terrifyingly low. "Shen Ye was right. Those aren't ordinary fierce beasts, but a true High-Dimensional Life Vanguard."

Chen Xi took the tablet. Playing on the screen was that terrifying star gate built deep within the ten-thousand-year-old glacier, emitting an eerie blue light, along with the floating [High-Dimensional Observers] with polyhedral heads.

"According to the joint analysis of satellite remote sensing and the magic detection matrix, that star gate under construction has an energy level more than ten times that of the half-finished one in the Pantheon square!"

Lei Zhentian said through gritted teeth,

"Once those alien scumbags finish building the star gate and stabilize the spatial coordinates, what descends won't be projections, but the true bodies of 'gods'! At that time, the entire Earth will be hit by a high-dimensional reduction attack and turned into a speck of cosmic dust!"

"Did the military not send anyone to clear them out?" Chen Xi's gaze turned cold.

"We did!"

Li Zhenhai clenched his fists, his knuckles turning white.

"I personally gave the order to dispatch the Southern District's most elite 'Xiao Long' Special Flight Squadron—three thousand elite Professionals above Lv.60, carrying the Federation's latest Magic-guided God-slaying Weapons—and conducted three large-scale surprise air drops!"

"And the result?"

"Wiped out... not a single survivor." Li Zhenhai closed his eyes in pain, his voice trembling. "The attack methods of those High-Dimensional Observers are completely irrational. They are immune to all physical and conventional magic attacks from the three-dimensional world. The blue rays they release can even erase our soldiers directly from the 'concept'! That is a true dimension-reduction strike! Our army... couldn't even get within ten kilometers of the star gate!"

A deathly silence fell over the hospital room.

Even Lin San, a fellow top-tier tank, found his breathing becoming heavy upon hearing the words 'wiped out, not a single survivor.'

"Desperate?" Chen Xi suddenly gave a light chuckle.

He casually tossed the tactical tablet recording despair and death aside, threw back the covers, and walked barefoot to the large floor-to-ceiling window. He looked down at the thousand-year-old imperial capital below, which was being rebuilt from the flames of war and glowing with vitality.

"High-dimensional beings... conceptual erasure... it does sound quite intimidating."

The corners of Chen Xi's mouth curled up bit by bit. In his crimson-gold eyes, that mad battle intent that had made even the gods tremble in the Pantheon square reignited.

"Since conventional armies can't deal with high-dimensional rules, then we'll use high-dimensional rules to deal with them."

Chen Xi turned around and looked at the stunned Lei Zhentian and Li Zhenhai, saying word for word:

"Sirs, prepare the fastest stealth shuttle for me."

"I don't need a large force, and I don't need fire support."

"In this war concerning Earth's survival, conventional tactics have already failed."

"Chen Xi, you... what are you going to do?!" Li Zhenhai stood up abruptly. "That's suicide! You are our humanity's only hope now!"

"Suicide?"

Chen Xi sneered. He slowly raised his right hand. The [Heaven-Reaching Divine Domain] card, emitting a nine-colored divine glow, and the fragmented [Starry Sky Gate] card danced between his fingertips like butterflies through flowers.

"In my dictionary, Chen Xi, the word 'suicide' has never existed."

"Since these high-and-mighty 'gods' want to treat Earth as a pasture and use dimension-reduction strikes on us..."

Chen Xi suddenly clenched his fist, the sound of cracking knuckles echoing in the hall. His voice was like a judgment from a demon god of the Nine Underworlds:

"Then today, I will personally lead the Nirvana Battle Team to the Extreme North Ice Field!"

"I will tear down that star gate they are so proud of and turn it into nourishment for my new cards!"

"I'll let those alien scumbags know exactly what a tragic price they must pay for provoking an Earthly Card Maker!"

"Nirvana Battle Team, assemble!"

"Target: Extreme North Ice Field! We're going to... slay gods!!!"

Federation Calendar, year 2126, Winter Month.

A "Ghost-X" supersonic reconnaissance-resistant shuttle, painted deep black like the night sky, was tearing through the violent, ten-thousand-year blizzard over Siberia at a terrifying speed of Mach 3, like a black sword piercing into the deepest part of the Extreme North Ice Field.

Inside the cabin, the temperature was adjusted to be as warm as spring, but the murderous aura permeating the air was even colder than the minus eighty degrees Celsius outside.

The five members of the Nirvana Battle Team were now fully armed, sitting quietly in their respective seats.

Su Xiaoxiao closed her eyes to rest, her silver-purple hair fluttering slightly in the weak electrostatic field.

She wore a set of [God's Punishment Empress Armor], crafted by the Military Academy of Sciences using the nation's entire treasury of resources and mixed with Void Meteorite Iron.

This armor could not only perfectly bear the world-destroying Void Thunder within her body but also provide near-frictionless spatial gliding capability when she activated [Thunder Shadow Thousand Flashes].

At this moment, she was like a peerless sword hidden in its scabbard, waiting for the moment it was drawn to wash the earth with lightning.

Li Murou held her [harp of time reversal], which had completely evolved into an SS-rank weapon.

Having gone through countless trials on the brink of life and death, the once delicate young lady's eyes had long since shed their innocence, replaced by absolute confidence in her ultimate control over the laws of time.

Around her, a snowflake or two would occasionally drift through the gaps in the cabin. But as soon as they came within a meter of her, the snowflakes would eerily suspend in mid-air and even begin to fly backward and upward—a terrifying manifestation of leaking time force fields.