Chapter 406
Chapter 406 Since You’re After Excitement, Why Not See It Through to the End
Although she had never witnessed such a scene, she could tell from the atmosphere what kind of place this was.
This was probably the Demon Stronghold.
Before they even began their reconnaissance, they had already collided head-on with their ultimate target; she couldn’t quite figure out whether this was a stroke of luck or a misfortune.
At this moment, Ling Mo seemed to realize the same thing—obviously, such a grand affair couldn’t have been orchestrated by humans; the only explanation could point in one direction.
He pondered for a couple of seconds, and then immediately materialized a big treasure—a super massive annihilation bomb. This thing had explosive power rivaling that of a nuclear bomb but with a much smaller explosion radius and no radiation damage.
This was a good thing he had only recently created; it was derived from the strongest long-range weapon carried by that mecha he had modified a bit after stripping it down.
Speaking of which, that mecha had indeed brought him plenty of good things. It could almost be called the catalyst for his independent innovation. First, he had to mimic to gradually draw a tiger without relying on the cat.
Seeing this, Xia Xinyan paused, intending to say something, when Ling Mo directly launched the annihilation bomb.
The warhead almost instantly hit the enormous castle in the distance, producing an earth-shattering explosion. Even from such a distance, they felt the tremendous shockwave that the blast produced.
Once everything settled down, the two finally saw the result of the explosion.
—Nothing happened.
Not even a speck of debris fell from the castle, the building’s quality simply astonishing.
However, this trial attack was not entirely without effect; the next moment, all the monsters in the city let out enraged roars that seemed to fill the air with hatred instantly, even more deafening than the previous explosion.
In the blink of an eye, monsters from all directions began flooding towards them, scaring the fat man into a shiver: “What the hell is going on?! What did you do, Ling?!”
“I sent them a friendly greeting,” Ling Mo took a deep breath, “Get ready to run, Zhang Dazhao. Do your best to survive.”
“……Damn it! You’re freaking…”
The rest of his words were drowned out as Ling Mo and Xia Xinyan started to take off.
Staying here under these circumstances was definitely waiting for death; alone, they wouldn’t stand a chance against this Demon Castle. No matter how strong they were, they would be overwhelmed by the tide of monsters.
As Ling Mo flew swiftly towards the city’s outskirts with Xia Xinyan, she also opened the team communication: “Monica! Take Bai Yu and the others and get out! Assemble outside the city!”
No… In this situation, they might not even be able to assemble outside the city; this was not a game after all. Since they had already drawn the monsters out of the Demon Stronghold, it wasn’t like they could just escape a certain distance and expect these monsters to lose their hatred and go about their business.
She genuinely regretted not being able to stop Ling Mo earlier; was this guy truly committed to being an explosive lunatic?! Wasn’t nuclear bombs enough? He switched to other bombs with similar power?!
Unfortunately, as much as she wanted to complain, all they could do now was quickly notify the outside team to prepare and find a way to minimize the impact of this event.
So, after shouting out to Monica, Xia Xinyan switched to the channel to contact the standby team outside the city: “Can you hear me…”
All that came through the channel was static.
This meant that the channel was cut off.
It was a situation she had never encountered before. Since they had the communication penetrator on standby in the team, they hadn’t experienced a communication breakdown in ages. Even if there were specialized abilities, they were unlikely to affect the penetrator’s effectiveness unless… there was some kind of spatial rupture.
This was the situation Xia Xinyan least wanted to see.
Unfortunately, she guessed correctly.
As they flew towards the edge of the city while enduring the rain of anti-aircraft fire from numerous monsters below, what greeted their eyes was not the familiar suburban scene but a vast emptiness.
As if from a certain boundary, there was nothing beyond it. There were no buildings left, not even a blade of grass on the ground, and the terrain itself had no undulation, like a game map that hadn’t loaded yet; nothing existed beyond the basic ground.
The sense of shock brought by this situation was immense, as if the city had been severed from reality, and they too were cast away together with it.
It was Ling Mo’s first time encountering such a situation, leaving him a bit bewildered: “What’s going on?”
“Spatial rupture,” Xia Xinyan quickly replied, “Some space-type ability users can create independent spaces over a certain range, but I’ve never seen an entire city severed like this.”
Space-type abilities are indeed very extraordinary; they’re on par with Ling Mo’s abilities in terms of being overpowered. Of course, that’s just a surface comparison—when it comes to actual combat, Ling Mo generally has more odds in his favor due to his broader range of techniques.
However, perhaps because of the nature of spatial abilities, those who possess such powers are remarkably few, and even fewer are on the leaderboard, with almost no space-types among the top contenders, so it was normal for Ling Mo not to have seen one before.
But if they encountered such abilities, it was always a headache.
Like the situation they were in now.
Perhaps it wasn’t because of Ling Mo’s bomb but because after Monica had dragged this castle up from underground, the city had already been severed, and the sudden appearance of the ominous clouds could have been one of its side effects.
Unless they found the caster, there was no way to break this spatial rupture through force.
In this situation, Xia Xinyan knew without thinking where the caster was.
She turned to look at the castle, her tone a bit strange: “Mo Mo… it seems… we’ll have to confront that thing.”
Otherwise, even if they weren’t drowned by the countless undead below, they’d end up exhausting themselves here.
Ling Mo seemed prepared as well; he immediately opened communication: “Zhang Dazhao, where are you now?”
“I’m coming to find you guys!” The fat man’s voice came through the communication, and they also heard it growing louder from afar. They turned to see him dragging a shield to protect his lower region from incoming anti-aircraft fire, looking terrified, “What the hell is going on?! What boss did you provoke?! This is too exciting, right?!”
Ling Mo didn’t answer the fat man’s question but asked again in the communication: “Monica, is your position safe now?”
“It’s absolutely safe with me around, so feel free to do whatever you want,” Monica said casually, as if they were out on a picnic.
Ling Mo nodded: “Then get ready.”
Saying this, he manifested a strengthened annihilation bomb: “Since we’re going for excitement, why not see it through to the end.”
