Volume 10: Ancient Battleship Chapter 505: Justice from Heaven
"W-what?"
Even though the three deadly monsters were less than fifteen meters away from the warrant officer, he couldn't help but raise his head and glance at the sky.
He saw a mountain... a mountain floating in the sky!
This "mountain" was like an elongated water drop, with a smooth surface glowing with the unique luster of Nino alloy, and a conical tail with three halos of successively shrinking diameters - this was not a mountain at all, but some kind of flying vehicle he had never heard of!
It was so big that the warrant officer couldn't take it all in at a glance... If it hadn't been floating high enough, he might not have been able to even see the outline of the aircraft.
This thing floated almost silently over the Mukach base, like a cloud, without making any sound, and darkness enveloped the warring parties without warning... At this time, even in the places where the fighting was the most intense, people couldn't help but raise their heads and look into the sky.
An indescribable feeling of oppression surged from the lieutenant's heart. He suddenly felt his throat was very dry, and a burning pain was spreading... The three seeds of corrosion had already rushed forward, and their elongated tentacles chopped down at his head, but the warrant officer had no desire to dodge - before the thing in the sky appeared, he still thought that the defenders of the Mukach base could fight the invaders. Even if they would pay a heavy price, they were still able to defend the base... But when this thing appeared, the warrant officer suddenly felt that all their resistance was meaningless.
"Your mother still has a hammer."
The warrant officer thought in despair.
If he was not mistaken... the thing in the sky seemed to be made of super-high purity Nino alloy. As a senior veteran, the warrant officer knew very well how dense the Nino alloy was. He could not even imagine how powerful the driving device of this thing must be to allow such a thing to float in the sky.
Even if the Ark's fleet could come to support them, they would have no chance of winning.
It would be better to just be killed by the Seed of Erosion... At least, I wouldn't have to see the tragic scene of the entire base being flattened by that thing in the sky.
The warrant officer closed his eyes.
He could even hear the sound of the tentacles tearing through the air, bringing with them a fishy smell that blew towards him.
Damn, if only he could have a cigarette in his mouth at this moment - he remembered that in many movies, those free and handsome characters did this before they died.
Even if there were no cigarettes, a glass of wine would be nice. If he had known, he would have asked Pons to hand over the hip flask. Although drinking was strictly prohibited during duty hours, the warrant officer knew that Pons always kept an exquisite tin hip flask in the secret pocket inside his backpack.
It was filled with top quality wine.
Last year, this guy started dating a girlfriend who was in charge of marketing for high-end liquor. However, when this drunkard boasted to his comrades, he never mentioned how pretty the marketing girl's face was or how good her figure was. Every time he mentioned his girlfriend, he said that she had sent him some top-quality wine. Although many of these wines were defective products that failed quality inspection, they were definitely rare good things for these soldiers who could hardly return to the Ark for several months.
Many past events flashed before the officer's eyes, from when he first joined the army, to his first time firing a gun, to his first kill... Blurred images flashed like old slides, and those long-forgotten memories kept flooding into his mind...
This is probably the legendary "revolving lantern" that appears before a person dies?
The warrant officer took a deep breath and silently waited for death to come.
The pain... shouldn't last long, right?
It seemed like an eternity had passed, and the tentacles that should have whipped him and tore his body apart had yet to fall.
What's going on?
The warrant officer muttered to himself, "It's been about ten seconds, right? Why... am I still alive?"
Could it be that the three monsters were attracted by other targets? That was not right. The tentacles were about to hit me. In less than half a second, I would become a corpse. There was no reason for them to stop at this time.
The warrant officer opened his eyes slightly and looked straight ahead.
The alley was empty, and the three seeds of corrosion disappeared without a trace.
"Um?"
The warrant officer opened his eyes completely - the three erosion seeds had indeed disappeared, but there were three pools of clear liquid on the ground. In these three pools of liquid, there were a few tiny tentacle tips and a few transparent and colorless pieces of meat. The nerve tissue in these "remains" had not completely died, and the muscles were still twitching rhythmically.
"Those three... Seeds of Erosion...were killed?" The warrant officer felt like his brain had short-circuited. He would rather believe that the three Seeds of Erosion had left the alley than believe that they had turned into these things on the ground.
Even if someone killed the Corrosion Seeds, they wouldn't leave behind any bodies, right? Only a few seconds had passed, and there were only this much of the three Corrosion Seeds that were larger than adult men?
Even if they were shot into sieves with active bullets, it would take some time for the bodies to necrotize and degrade... What's more, the warrant officer didn't hear any sound of gunfire at all.
Several special warheads of active ammunition lay quietly in the liquid. They were 0.45-inch pistol bullets. These were the bullets that the warrant officer had just fired. The amount of powder in these bullets was not enough to have a fatal effect on the seeds of erosion unless they hit the core, let alone evaporate their bodies.
Could it be some new type of active ammunition with soluble bullets, used for sniping from a distance?
The warrant officer looked around in confusion. He was the only one in the alley. From this position, if he wanted to shoot at the three Corrosion Seeds from outside the alley, the only angle he could come from was...
He raised his head.
"Impossible..." He muttered to himself as he looked at the huge creature floating above the base.
At this moment, the walkie-talkie hanging on his shoulder suddenly rang. Although it was mixed with a lot of electrical noise, the warrant officer could still recognize Sergeant Pons' voice.
The other party's tone was extremely excited, even mixed with a hint of madness: "Warrant Officer! Warrant Officer, are you still there?! Look, look at that monster, the biggest monster that came out from the ground! That monster! And that thing that suddenly appeared in the sky! I don't know if it's an enemy, our enemy... but it seems to be attacking that monster!"
Pons said incoherently.
Although his word order was extremely confusing, the warrant officer still understood what he wanted to express - the big guy that appeared above the base was attacking the "giant centipede".
What was going on? The warrant officer couldn't help but raise his head and take a deep look at the giant teardrop-shaped aircraft... Could it be that this big guy was a friendly force?
When did we... Ark... humans have such weapons?
The warrant officer's expression changed slightly, and he quickly turned his eyes to search the surroundings. Soon, he found what he was looking for.
It was a small building that was blown down by a shell. The collapsed load-bearing wall happened to be leaning against another house that was not too seriously damaged, forming a slope for climbing. Following this slope, the warrant officer quickly climbed to the roof, took out the binoculars, and turned to look in the direction of the first blocking line.
That location is where the ground collapsed and the giant centipede broke out of the ground.
I saw a faint beam of light that seemed to have no lethal power shooting out from the bottom of the water droplet aircraft, covering the giant centipede. The giant centipede was struggling violently, but it could not break free from the restraint .
The flesh and blood on the surface of the giant centipede was rapidly disintegrating, but the flesh and blood separated from it did not fall down. Instead, it completely ignored the gravity of Alpha Star and flew towards the big guy above...
A large amount of blood even formed a high-speed rotating blood column... This scene reminded the warrant officer of a weather phenomenon called "dragon sucking water".
"Water dragon" is just a common name. In meteorology, the scientific name of this thing is called "tornado".
Tornadoes are caused by the rapid rotation of air currents, which carry moisture, dust and sand from the ground into the air. On Earth, the most powerful tornadoes are enough to destroy masonry houses and uproot . On Alpha, the most destructive tornado recorded was the "Wilson Serpent I" that occurred on Wilson Plains. The "Wilson Serpent I" directly destroyed the "Wilson Military Base" under construction and caused the deaths of more than 500 soldiers and workers. A survivor said that he even witnessed a heavy engineering crawler weighing more than 100 tons being swept up several hundred meters into the sky by the tornado and then falling down. Its power is no less than a 200mm caliber heavy artillery firing a direct shot at the ground.
However, whether it is the super tornado on Earth or the "Wilson's Serpent No. 1", it is impossible to kill the Seed of Erosion. The research institute even threw a Seed of Erosion into a wind turbine with wind force more than ten times stronger than that of the "Wilson's Serpent". However, except for a few tentacles that were sucked into the turbine and were cut off by the blades, the Seed of Erosion suffered almost no damage.
This is just an ordinary erosion seed, and the mutant species' physical strength is even greater than this.
As for this giant centipede, you have to know that it penetrated the foundation of the base that was poured with more than 10 million tons of molten steel... But now, its body looks like it is made of paper - the paper used is the kind of inferior toilet paper that is passed off as good quality and will fall apart if it is torn without even getting it wet...
Moreover, if there really existed a force that could tear apart such a monster, then the Mukah base would probably have been razed to the ground. However, the wreckage of buildings near the pit, which was also shrouded in the light column, did not move at all.
Not to mention the spectacular sight of entire houses and cars being sucked into the air, even gravel as small as sand did not move at all and lay quietly on the ground.
The beam of light seemed to only cause damage to the giant centipede... The warrant officer noticed that there were many corpses of human soldiers on the ground in the area within the beam of light, but these corpses were also not affected in any way .
"Really... are they friendly forces?" The warrant officer dazedly switched the intercom to the public channel, only to find that no one in the base knew the origin of the big guy in the sky, and everyone was asking similar questions.
Moreover, everyone discovered another thing that shocked them extremely - the erosion species that invaded the base, whether they were ordinary species or mutant species, all died suddenly in an incredible way in an instant, and not even a complete corpse was left behind.
Some people said that he saw with his own eyes that the flesh and blood of the seeds of erosion turned into a thin thread and was sucked into the air and into the interior of the giant aircraft above.
If this big guy is attacking the giant centipede...then were the three seeds of corrosion just now also killed by it?
It killed the Seed of Corrosion and saved itself, but did not attack itself...
The warrant officer believed that if this big guy wanted to kill the humans in the base, it would be effortless, but it did not do so.
Could this thing really be a secret weapon secretly developed by the Ark’s top management?
No! With such a large volume, the resources and manpower required to build it would definitely be an astronomical figure. If there really was such a project, it would be impossible to hide it... Besides, it has only been fifty-one years since the Ark landed on Alpha. In fifty-one years, unless part of the Ark was dismantled, there would be no time to build such a big thing.
Moreover, the shell of this thing is high-purity Nino alloy... With such a large amount, even if all the things containing Nino alloy in human hands were melted down, it would only be a drop in the bucket.
This thing could never be created by humans!
Just as the warrant officer was thinking this, a slightly younger voice suddenly sounded from the microphone of the walkie-talkie.
Not only his walkie-talkie, but all the communication equipment in the base, including the communication terminals of Lieutenant General Maginot and Colonel Levi who were sitting in the helicopter with their eyes wide open, also received voice messages from the public channel at the same time.
"Everyone, don't panic. This ship is codenamed 'Yaguna Kator' and has been ordered to depart from the Molten Mine Area to come to the aid of the Mukach Military Base. The operation number is SSTW5509, and the temporary identification code of the ship is ZZZ999."
"The Molten Mine District? Didn't the Molten Mine District already fall? There...how could it have appeared from there?" Maginot said in astonishment.
Suddenly, he felt that the young voice sounded familiar. He searched his memory for a long time before finding a name that matched the voice.
"You are... you are Ke Lan?! Ke Lan from the God Hunting Group?! Is it you?" Makino completely disregarded his own image and shouted in the public channel.
Everyone in the base heard the name.
"It's me. Long time no see, Lieutenant General Maginot. What a coincidence, I didn't expect to meet you here." The young voice responded.
