Volume 16 Tower of Babel Chapter 1005 Root System
Before Ke Lan could make a decision, the Giant Knight had already caught up with him - even though Ze Luo had pushed down a large number of buildings as roadblocks in his pursuit route, these large blocks of reinforced concrete were no stronger than tofu in front of the Giant Knight.
It didn't need to take a detour at all. It kept swinging the executioner sword in its hand, and anything that stood in its way was crushed to pieces... More than a dozen mansions were razed to the ground, which only slowed it down by a few seconds.
Such a huge commotion was naturally noticed by the soldiers who came in with Ke Lan. After discovering that Ke Lan and Ze Luo were being chased and killed by the giant knight, these soldiers instantly forgot Ke Lan's order to "stay where they are" and started shooting at the giant knight.
This kind of diversionary shooting did not hurt the Giant Knight at all. Even an anti-material sniper rifle could not penetrate the rusty armor on his body... but the lack of damage did not mean that he would not feel annoyed. The Giant Knight paused in his pursuit of Ke Lan, and after a short period of accumulating strength, he threw the executioner sword forcefully at the soldiers.
The distance between the two was as far as one kilometer, but the execution sword seemed to have its own propellers. It managed to cross the distance of one kilometer and smashed heavily into the center of the crowd!
The soldiers who were directly hit by the execution sword were blown into a bloody mist, and those who were a little closer were blown away by the shock wave... But no matter how far or near, the fate of every soldier was the same. The moment the execution sword fell, their internal organs had all been shattered, and there was no point in rescuing them.
The execution sword thrown by the giant knight was like a cannonball. With the landing point as the center, the radius within fifty meters was fatal to ordinary people. Only a few enhanced people with slightly higher levels did not die immediately, but that was all... Their internal organs also suffered irreversible damage. The shock wave penetrated the armor and muscles and directly acted on the most fragile organs in the body. Sticky blood overflowed from their seven orifices, and the chest with broken ribs rose and fell irregularly. With every breath, blood foam containing tissue fragments would spray out of the nostrils.
Except for Ke Lan and Ze Luo, all the first batch of airborne troops were wiped out.
Ke Lan didn't even have time to mourn or be angry, because after throwing out the execution sword, the giant knight jumped up, landed heavily in front of Ke Lan, and then slammed !
Ze Luo originally wanted to use the power of space to pull the two people out of the attack range of the shield, but maybe because the giant knight was too close, the "magic ban" effect directly enveloped the two of them, and Ze Luo's space power was completely blocked. Fortunately, Ke Lan hugged Ze Luo in his arms and rolled on the ground, narrowly avoiding the fate of being beaten into a pulp in an unsightly posture.
“Bang!!”
The edge of the giant shield was less than half a meter away from Ke Lan. The huge impact force and roar made Ke Lan's ears buzz - fortunately, his body strengthening level was high enough, so he was not killed like those soldiers by the shock wave caused by the shield hitting the ground.
With a somersault, Ke Lan ran away - not only could he not engage in a head-on confrontation, he couldn't even let the opponent get close to him - once he got close, the "magic ban" effect of the giant knight would directly seal Ze Luo, the humanoid plug-in, into a blank slate. Once Ze Luo's ability was sealed, the two would lose their last capital for confrontation.
"Perhaps we should call in the Yaguna Tor's Star Destroyer to attack... But the Star Destroyer can only be used once, and the original plan was to use it to open a passage directly to the roots of the giant tree... Moreover, even if we use the Star Destroyer to attack this guy in front of us, Yaguna Tor may not be able to lock on to the target, and we can't contact the people who are still on the battleship now..."
“Bang!!”
Another shield strike smashed the luxury hovercraft where Ke Lan was hiding a second ago into the ground—to be precise, it smashed it into a thin sheet of iron embedded in the ground...
Ke Lan tried to aim his gun at the gap in the giant knight's helmet and shoot the bullet into it... He did so and succeeded, but the bullet that penetrated the helmet only caused the sight locked on Ke Lan to go out for a few seconds. Moreover, when the sight went out, the giant knight did not lose his target, and his pursuit steps and attacking movements did not stop at all.
You can't escape, but you can't kill him either... The armor on the giant knight looks rusty, but it has the same defensive power as Nino alloy. Ke Lan took a huge risk and attached a crystal energy bomb to the opponent's leg armor, but when the smoke and dust from the explosion cleared, he found that the leg armor where the bomb was attached was not damaged at all... If there is any change, it may be that some of the rust on it has been removed.
This set of armor is most likely a relic of the Alpha civilization... along with the execution sword and off-hand shield... no, perhaps it's even earlier. The aesthetics of the Alpha civilization deviates greatly from that of human civilization, and this medieval knight style was most popular during the Hive Civilization period.
The product of the Hive City civilization, combined with the "magic-forbidden" effect on the Giant Knight, Ke Lan couldn't help but think of what Ze Luo had said to him when he had just entered the Ark - inside the Ark, the traces of "that kind of power" that remained were very obvious.
The most direct way to obtain that kind of power is to explore the nests that have suffered "disasters".
This is a relic that is older than the Alpha civilization. Not only is the legacy of the Hive Civilization sealed there, but also the nightmare that has not dissipated for tens of thousands of years...
The execution sword flew back into the giant knight's hands at some point, and the sword and shield attacked alternately. The dodging space of Ke Lan and Ze Luo was further compressed... Finally, the two were forced into a dead end.
As if it saw a dead end ahead blocked by high walls and electric fences, the Giant Knight's continuous attacks finally stopped. It looked down at Ke Lan and Ze Luo, holding the execution sword high in its hand.
It seemed to have triggered an amplification device on the execution sword or the armor. The "forbidden magic" field expanded rapidly the moment the sword blade was raised above the head, from the original three meters to twenty meters away, not only covering Ke Lan and Ze Luo, but even the high wall behind them was included in the range of the "forbidden magic" field.
Expanding the "forbidden magic" area seemed to be a considerable burden for the Giant Knight. Its footsteps became heavy and slow, and it approached the two step by step.
"Do you think we can't escape if you block Ze Luo's spatial ability?" Ke Lan turned around, gave the giant knight a middle finger, then clenched his right fist and pounded the wall behind him!
"boom!!"
There was a loud bang, and the concrete wall was directly pierced by Ke Lan's fist, but Ke Lan was not satisfied with this. Instead, he sank his arm down with force to expand the hole again.
In the blink of an eye, a hole with a diameter of 30 centimeters appeared on the wall... This hole was too big for Ke Lan to pass through, but it was more than enough for the slender Ze Luo - she crawled through the hole to the other side of the wall, and ran more than ten steps in one breath before she escaped from the "forbidden magic" area. She turned around and used the invisible big hand condensed by the power of space to remove a steel beam from the dome, and flattened the wall behind Ke Lan.
The dead end was cleared, Ke Lan fled quickly, and the Giant Knight put away the "Forbidden Magic" field upon seeing this, and the two sides once again entered the initial pursuit mode.
"It's not a solution to drag it on like this..." Ke Lan said to Ze Luo, "Even if it can't kill us, if we miss the deadline and the giant tree's roots successfully penetrate the ground of Alpha, we will completely lose the battle. The only weapon that can destroy the giant tree is the annihilation bomb we carry, so we must get rid of it!"
"But I can't exert my power on it, and it's hard to cause any effective damage to it by using space power to manipulate physical objects." Ze Luo responded, "Among the available means we have, the only one that has a chance of killing it is the annihilation bomb."
"The annihilation bomb is not a viable method. We can't waste it here..." At this point, Ke Lan suddenly had an idea. "Oh, right, the annihilation bomb can't be used, but we just need to find a weapon with enough power, right?"
"Where do you want to find it?" Ze Luo asked, "The nearest military camp is 19 kilometers away, and the equipment depot with heavy weapons is 200 kilometers away. As for the Ark's external defense weapons, they cannot lock onto targets inside the Ark."
"No, my weapons don't refer to weapons in the literal sense. I mean anything that can produce lethal effects... There's no need to run to a place as far as 200 kilometers away. There's one just three kilometers away from us!"
"Three kilometers?"
"The power reactor under the North First District!" Ke Lan whispered, "Although the power reactor under the North First District is not one of the largest main power reactors on the Ark, as the main energy source of the North First District, its explosion power is enough to blow a big hole through the Ark. We just need to lead this guy to the top of the power reactor, let the ground collapse, and wait for it to fall into the power reactor. Then use the crystal energy bomb to detonate the power reactor, and we can create a big explosion... The power is definitely no less than a 100,000-ton nuclear bomb!"
The plan had been decided, and the next step was to implement it. In the ensuing chase, Ke Lan led the giant knight around the North Area 1 power reactor. During this process, Ze Luo secretly used the Space Blade to cut open the ground above the power reactor and cut open all the load-bearing steel structures, leaving only the last little bit of "skin and bones " intact.
"It should be about time..." After making a full circle, Ke Lan changed direction and retreated to the top of the power reactor. The giant knight, who was completely unaware of Ke Lan's plan, quickly chased in.
"Now! Break it!" Ke Lan shouted. Behind him, a giant fist formed by the power of space slammed down on the ground. The last connection of the load-bearing steel structure was torn apart instantly. The entire ground split into four or five parts and fell down!
The giant knight who lost his support also fell down. Seeing that the opponent had no ability to stay in the air, Ke Lan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. He stood on a space barrier fixed in mid-air, took out the last crystal energy bombs on his body, tied them together, and installed the detonator.
After he did all this, a huge hole with a diameter of more than 300 meters appeared under his feet. The buildings and the ground that were originally located on the hole had fallen into the abyss. At the bottom of the abyss was an "Ark Power Furnace" that was like a furnace.
The Ark's power furnace has several reactors as its energy supply source, or in other words, the original power furnace is actually several nuclear reactor units connected together... However, after the Ark landed on Alpha, the Alpha civilization technology obtained from the ruins was added to it, which brought the power furnace's power and energy conversion efficiency to a new level, and the original name of "Ark Reactor Unit" was abandoned.
The Giant Knight fell on top of the power reactor. The weight of the Giant Knight, his armor, sword and shield smashed a huge pit on the top of the power reactor. Just as the Giant Knight pulled himself out of the deformed metal reactor shell, a bundle of crystal energy bombs flashing dangerous red light fell from above and landed accurately at his feet.
The moment the crystal energy bomb touched the top of the power reactor, the countdown of the detonator returned to zero - accompanied by a loud bang, the entire roof of the power reactor was torn open, and the raging energy impact swept the giant knight into the interior of the power reactor.
"Be prepared to resist the impact!" Ke Lan shouted in a low voice, and Ze Luo quickly took the two away from the cave entrance, and at the same time superimposed several layers of space barriers to resist the power that would burst out after the power reactor was detonated...
But the two waited for ten seconds, and the expected big explosion never happened - except for the loud noise when the crystal energy bomb exploded just now, no other sound came from the bottom of the cave.
"What's going on?" Ke Lan hesitated for a moment, then turned back to the edge of the cave and looked down.
The inside of the exploded power reactor was completely empty. Neither the critical nuclear fuel nor the piled-up energy crystals were visible... Instead, there were dense, pale roots...
These roots occupied the entire power reactor, devouring all of its fuel. The giant knight that fell into the power reactor was wrapped by countless roots and turned into a white sphere... It was still struggling, but its strength was becoming weaker and weaker...
