"Hey, hey, isn’t it a bit wasteful to use the near-Earth defensive weapon like that? There’s no engineer to maintain it, and if it malfunctions, you’ll lose a powerful weapon. Besides... what if the train convoy gets hit accidentally in that direction?"

On the moving train, KIKI heard Lin Xian’s arrangement and immediately spoke up.

Lin Xian heard this and remained calm, responding blandly: "We all misunderstood before, thinking this was a weapon used as a strategic threat. But now that the Tower People’s actions have fully begun and global peril is upon us, leaving this weapon idle is a huge loss. We should use it whenever humanity has not perished completely, especially for the S-Class. Taking down one isn’t a loss; taking down two is breaking even."

"Uh... Saying it like that, you seem to have a point."

"And this is not my only purpose," Lin Xian pondered, "In the Tower People’s civilization game, those [Angels] gain information and abilities through mutual devouring until they evolve into perfect life forms. Now it seems that the eerie mist from the Abnormal Bodies we kill is merging into the earth, perhaps being devoured by those high-level S-Class, and then the S-Class being devoured by the Abyss Demon in Star Abyss, and ultimately the world-class..."

"Step by step, doesn’t this feel like playing Snake?"

KIKI raised an eyebrow at these words: "Oh~ I get it, the Giant Ocean God on Sea Rock Island... So your goal is to disrupt these world-class entities that have emerged from devouring and merging?"

Lin Xian nodded, No. 04 ’Giant Ocean God’ roaming, No. 02 ’Floating Giant Corpse’ moving, No. 05 ’Chaos’ appearing in Colorado Canyon, No. 03 ’Heavenly Snake’ devouring the Asia-Pacific, and the gigantic crust parasitic creature dormant in Siberia, ’No. 01’!

Each of these monsters possesses earth-shattering energy, each appearing before humanity is enough to make the world despair. Lin Xian can hardly imagine how terrifying it would be if these creatures merged into so-called [Angels].

"Of course, it’s all just guesswork whether the merging can actually be disrupted," Lin Xian said solemnly, "But at least it can cause considerable damage to these monsters. They’ve occupied 90% of Blue Star; if we don’t fight back, we won’t have any chance."

"Moreover, the power released by South Heavenly Gate might cause accidental harm, but if there are troops still holding out there, this is also a signal."

"Are you trying to tell the survivors in that area that the Phoenix Society hasn’t abandoned them, giving them hope?" KIKI said, her eyes brightening, looking at Lin Xian with surprise: "Wow, you’ve thought this through quite thoroughly."

Lin Xian turned his head to look at KIKI: "Phoenix Society is currently making breakthroughs in converting dark energy into nuclear degenerate thermonuclear effects. If successful, I wonder whether the 90-million-ton ’Republic’s Fury’ can be withstood by the Tower People."

"I’ve said the discovery of dark energy synchronicity frequency can definitely be a key to turning our advantage. Phoenix Society should have inherited quite a bit of the Federation’s nuclear arsenal, right?"

"I wouldn’t know about that," Lin Xian shook his head: "Now it’s meaningless to care about this..."

At this moment, Grace’s voice came through

[Orbital calibration complete, second firing confirmed.]

Lin Xian’s eyes sharpened: "Fire!"

...

North America, Red Stone Rift Valley

Air combat has reached a fever pitch, the Thunder Air Fleet’s Floating Battle Armor’s firepower lines almost ignite the scarlet airspace, several kilometers high, countless tendrils hang down from the massive crimson cloud layer, strangling the ground. Multiple aerial combat squadrons composed of dozens of Lightning Fighters are weaving excitedly under those tendril canopies.

"Viper Squadron, infiltration attack! Alternate cover!"

Squadron leader Chen Feng’s voice exploded in the channel, at the top of the cloud layer, twelve fighters like silver shuttles ripped through the scarlet canopy, missile racks on the belly of the aircraft popped open, swarming missiles trailed white streaks biting at the flesh-colored tendrils hanging from the cloud.

Boom boom boom!

Missiles hit several tendrils accurately, directly breaking two of them. The broken tendrils whistled down like gigantic broken chains reaching for the cloud.

"Crossfire net!"

Chen Feng’s fighter rolled into the gap between tendrils, fire control radar locked again, firing two more missiles in quick succession. Amid explosive noise, fragmented pieces fell like torrential rain, exposing the crimson muscle fibers within the cloud layer.

"Captain! Bat-like Alien Demon cluster, heading our way from the 7 o’clock direction!!"

"Split into two sides, maneuver to gain distance first!"

Buzz!

With a sonic boom, the fighters rapidly maneuvered through the sky. The cloud layer suddenly collapsed on the horizon, tens of thousands of bat-shaped flying monsters poured down like an asphalt waterfall, oppressively descending, fiercely agitating the cloud layer’s creatures. Countless tendrils whipped frenziedly, instantly destroying three fighters!

Beep beep beep beep!

"Disconnection with aircraft 2, 5, and 6!"

"Aircraft 7 has lost maneuverability!"

"Withdraw from the tendril airspace!" Chen Feng watched as the signals on the fighter computer extinguished one after another, immediately gritting his teeth and shouted, he pulled the control stick hard, the fighter in a sideways flying posture avoided the sweeping tendrils, and then said: "Can’t enter the cloud layer, fire all missiles, prioritize the nearest tendril as the target!"

In a rapid shuttle, another fighter was hit by the flying monster group at high speed, the densely packed swarm, it disintegrated in mid-air before it could even explode.

"Break through!"

"Careful, there’s another one ahead!"

The channel erupted with the wingman’s roar: "Captain! Your tail wing is on fire!"

Chen Feng looked at the instrument panel, countless alarm lights lit up, his expression fierce, suddenly cut off the automatic fire suppression system, directly unlocked the last two missile safeties, locking onto an upper tendril: "Aircraft 3 take over command, slow down, I’ll clear the path for you."