Dimensional Hotel-Chapter 639: The Abandoned Land

An armed and modified "Elf" shuttle flew out from a nearby abandoned building, and this was merely part of the ambush.

Soon, two swift dark shadows appeared between the ancient buildings that formed a high wall, their black coating and distinctive twin-barrel rapid-fire cannons made Luo frown—that was a heavy attack drone manufactured by the Black Dot Group.

But Old Qiao didn’t like this type of drone... he didn’t really trust those fully automated systems that completely removed "humans from the loop."

In a flash of thought, the two heavy attack drones had already started pouring out firepower, the twin-barrel rapid-fire cannons emitted a sharp whistle, and high-energy particles wrapped in force fields slashed scorching trails in the air like a whip lashing out at the shuttle’s shield, then the "Elf" shuttle from above opened its belly—what was originally a cargo space was forcibly filled with a launch system, and two light "Hyena" missiles detached from the rack, spewing propellant flames as they rapidly approached.

The missiles attacked, the shield was damaged, and the alarms of various system interferences filled the cockpit, flashing red lights illuminated Luo’s eyes, yet just as the Guard Captain beside her began to tense up, she suddenly burst into laughter.

She even laughed out loud—in her growing laughter, she directly punched the main console.

Part of the control console shattered, sparks and smoke erupted from the panel, and Luo’s body leaned forward—as if she were hunting, the mechanical limbs gleaming with silver light extended from her back, with two of them directly piercing into the broken hole on the main control console.

The living metal melted in the smoke, seeping into the shuttle’s main control line, sparks flickered on the surface of the mechanical limbs, and the various devices around the cockpit suddenly started howling as if going mad, then all the alarms subsided—they no longer polluted human ears futilely, instead they roared directly in Luo’s mind, as she felt the engine’s scorching heat, the shield’s pricking pain, and the mild dizziness of being radar-locked, she slowly pulled the corners of her mouth.

The engine roared, and the shuttle maneuvered in the air in a way completely beyond its design limits, two fighting missiles collided with each other in the air, followed by a strong interference appearing around the shuttle, the two heavy attack drones biting at its rear visibly deviated from their trajectory.

One of the drones wobbled its way closer, Luo suddenly looked up, staring at the black war machine—her eyes glimmered with a peculiar light, the mechanical limbs at her back were almost bathed in fine electric light, and the antenna system of the shuttle began to project her "thoughts" to its surroundings, in nearly an instant, all the lights on the surface of that heavy drone went out, it fell as if dead, and then suddenly rebooted while falling, then abruptly turned, charging toward the "Elf" in the high sky preparing to launch a second wave of missiles.

Luo heard that "Elf" sending out a call, the pilot’s voice sounded panicked: "Drone has been taken over! Repeat, drone has been taken over... Someone hacked into my life-support system... I can’t breathe! I can’t breathe—"

A dazzling explosion of fire erupted in the air, the "Elf" was repeatedly hit by its own drone companion, high-energy particle groups fired by rapid-fire cannons tore apart its shield and armor, yet in the fire and smoke spreading endlessly, the second and third armed shuttles appeared again under the shadows of the massive wall.

Luo’s mind tingled slightly, she perceived more signals from light assault units, along with more drones, and the various noises from weapon systems activating in the ruins of nearby high walls. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

She began diving toward the endless abyss beneath the Iron Nest, the power core of the shuttle let out a sharp, unbearable screech, a series of high-energy beams striking from above swept across the flimsy light shield, outside the porthole, a series of intensely fluctuating flashes lit up—the shield’s burning feedback transformed into the pain of falling into scorching fire in Luo’s mind, yet she felt increasingly exhilarated, even revealing an ever more brilliant smile.

"Yes, yes, just like this pain... can’t get complacent, complacency means death... this is right, this is right, it’s all back... Old Qiao! It’s all back! Old Qiao—this is what I’m familiar with!!"

She laughed happily, slapping the now-useless control console with her hands, like a child suddenly receiving a gift, like that foolish girl who just signed a work contract thinking she’d soon pay off her student loans—she called out on all reachable channels, projecting her mind into every feedback signal source she could find, desperately hacking into every electronic system she could discover, whether it was a shuttle, a drone, some unlucky pilot’s life-support system or merely a long-abandoned camera in some corner of the nearby ruins.

The artificial spine sent a burning pain, living metal surged beneath the skin, the electronic brain was filled with sharp noise, and her spirit and mind spread across the signal network, constantly dissociating into various non-human forms, forcibly collapsing back into the shape of a "human."

She hadn’t felt this way for a long time.

In a flash of feedback signal, she even felt as if she saw that iron monster’s stunned face for a split second.

She heard a hoarse noise, that voice stirring in her brain: "You’ll die here today! Everything will be clean!"