blogombal Chapter 715 - 627: I Will Crown You (2)
Chapter 715 - 627: I Will Crown You (2)
The competition for the black box continues.
Golden arcs of electricity flickered as the Four-leaf Phoenix Tree leapt between buildings, leaving afterimages sweeping swiftly over people’s heads, weaving into a net. In the recorded moment, the young man ignored gravity, running on the outer wall, then swiftly climbed, and with another blink, he was already a hundred meters high in the sky.
In this situation, he was undoubtedly the fastest and most likely contender on the field to win the black box, and outside, various sizes of bets were placed, with the wealthy betting large sums that the Four-leaf Phoenix Tree would be the first to get the black box.
The twin Silent Hands closely followed behind the young man, sections of the buildings behind the Four-leaf Phoenix Tree exploded, iron shards swept like a storm, as Silent Hand opened its bloody maw from the building and darted back inside like a spiraling meat grinder.
Angelina raised her gun aiming at the Four-leaf Phoenix Tree in the air, invisible threads entwined, fixing her gun’s tip, targeting Xiao Xinzhu, while Yu Lan charged in with a dancing Giant Scythe.
"He’s too fast," Tang Xin reminded. "Youyou."
"I know!"
Bai Youyou shouted, and the Heavy Hammer slammed down, gravity within a hundred meters centered on her instantly intensified, and all buildings and people, including the Four-leaf Phoenix Tree, felt a crushing pressure descend from above.
The black box in the air plummeted like a cannonball toward the ground again, causing the Four-leaf Phoenix Tree, who was about to touch the black box, to curse, and he swapped positions with Lu Shuhang, then instantly switched again with Xiao Xinzhu.
In midair, Xiao Xinzhu pulled forcefully, and the rapidly descending black box suddenly stopped; upon closer inspection, an invisible web had somehow enveloped the space above the skyscraper.
"Got it," Zhou Zhao smiled.
Soon, his smile froze and was replaced by amazement.
The roar of engines echoed across the field as the two ’Tianyou Sharks’ armed fighters, hovering around, flew out from behind the buildings and bombarded toward Xiao Xinzhu’s direction, destroying the web along with it.
"This is..."
The members of Assassin’s Creed widened their eyes.
Zzz... Zzz... Zzz...
They all looked at Xu Xiaoyou, whose handheld intercom was unusually conspicuous in the night, and the stable and powerful reply of a soldier came along with electromagnetic disturbance.
"Commander, do you confirm to continue bombing your location?"
"Of course, keep bombing until I order to stop," Xu Xiaoyou said.
"You madman!" Lu Shuhang growled. "Do you know what you’re doing?"
Under any circumstances, confronting military firepower directly is an extremely foolish move, akin to courting death; moreover, units within the instance were already heavily boosted in Attributes, and the ’Tianyou Shark’ is the latest military product from Cosmic Heavy Industries, designed for conquering extreme environments like deserts.
Unlike traditional rotorcraft helicopters, the Tianyou Shark resembles a dragonfly more closely, flying through the vibration of two pairs of intersecting bionic wings. Its streamlined fuselage could easily slice through sandstorms, reaching speeds as high as 1000 kilometers per hour, armed with two anti-aircraft cannons, firing up to 30,000 armor-piercing rounds per minute, enough to shred dunes and uncover bunkers hidden fifteen meters beneath the sand veins.
These two ’Tianyou Sharks’ have firepower comparable to the bionic Titan ’Sand Scorpion’.
"I know exactly what I’m doing," Xu Xiaoyou said, drawing two art-level [Military Crown] Skill Cards and using them on the two ’Tianyou Sharks’.
"That is victory."
A dark red glow brushed over the tightly fitted flight armor, revealing dense red lines on the raven-blue fuselage, the overloading heat forced its internal cooling system to operate at full capacity, behaving like a beast eager to unleash, constantly spewing steam under the crimson floodlight.
The [Military Crown] was the only art-level skill card Xu Xiaoyou currently had, its effect being to activate the ’Predecessor Overlimit’ state for military units, boosting its potential by 300%, with the cost that after the ’Predecessor Overlimit’ ends, the military unit would be directly scrapped.
Used on the most advanced Titan, this art-level skill card could achieve over 90% of its effect, but now Xu Xiaoyou couldn’t care less.
The flickering flames tore through the night, the anti-aircraft guns spun violently, spitting out incandescent bullets, and the roar made people’s eardrums quiver, shredding everything along the way in a metallic storm!
"Four-leaf Phoenix Tree, get them inside the building!" Lu Shuhang yelled upon seeing this.
"I’m on it!" Four-leaf Phoenix Tree shouted.
He decisively abandoned the black box and started running forward, a streak of golden light flashed, arcs filled the air, and in the blink of an eye, the four members of Assassin’s Creed appeared inside the building, including Xiao Xinzhu, who had been shot in the shoulder.
Bai Youyou glanced towards Tang Xin in the bombing zone, then looked up at the black box, raised her hand without hesitation, the gravity of the black box flipped once more, sending it soaring high into the sky.
"I’ll take care of her, you go get the black box," Angelina suddenly said.
Bai Youyou was momentarily stunned, as Angelina flashed behind Tang Xin, bending down to pick up the girl and similarly hiding inside the building.
Soon, Bai Youyou responded, smacking the ground with the Heavy Hammer, sending countless slabs of stone flying, using them to leap into the air.
Her base stats were very high, the only one on the scene able to move in the midst of bombardment, but she would also have to pay a significant price.
"Lu Shuhang, she’s going for the black box!" Four-leaf Phoenix Tree spoke rapidly.
"No, the black box is too high up; my gate can’t reach such heights," Zhou Zhao looked grim.
The four members of Assassin’s Creed were pinned inside the building, strong firepower suppressing them into difficulty.
Yu Lan was about to step forward when blinding red light reflected in her eyes, the massive fuselage appeared outside the window like a grim reaper’s shadow, as tangible darkness was completely unleashed from the cage.
In a moment, the unleashed firepower shattered the entire floor’s glass, columns splintered and collapsed, the rebar snapped, the walls became ruins in the metal storm, their surfaces frantically eroded away, reduced to dust!
Four-leaf Phoenix Tree pulled Yu Lan back, leading the four to continue relocating, dodging machine-gun fire.
Blood trickled from the young man’s lips.
Using Divine Speed so frequently, Four-leaf Phoenix Tree felt as if his lungs were about to burst.
"We can’t go on like this; we need to take those helicopters down, Zhou Zhao!"
"Easier said than done!"
Zhou Zhao clicked his tongue as several ivory doors, Horn Gates, unfolded before him.
He raised his hand, light gathered briefly at his fingertips, several pixelated light waves shot into the doors, layer by layer amplified, all landing on the armor, leaving a few shallow marks.
"Damn it, completely impossible to break through defense, harder by ten thousand times than Ausen Technology Innovation’s area BOSS. What on earth did Dark Gold Rose use on them?"
Everyone stood helpless, watching as Bai Youyou’s distance to the black box continued to shorten.
"Cover me."
The young man’s steady voice came through the communications channel, and everyone was slightly stunned.
Lu Shuhang rushed out from behind the building.
"I’m going to grab the black box."