CIATB Chapter 168 Clearing the Area!
Chapter 168 Clearing the Area!
"One of the gatekeepers, problem solved."
"Keep going."
Zhang Yan's voice echoed through the silent underground space via loudspeaker.
It was so casual, it was as if it were saying, "I threw away the trash by the door."
Li Zhan and the others shuddered violently.
They recovered from that extreme shock.
The doorman?
That one strike could shatter a hundred-meter-tall pillar.
That ancient killing machine with such high defense that even armor-piercing bullets couldn't penetrate it.
According to this young man.
Just a... doorman?
Li Zhan's Adam's apple bobbed with difficulty.
He looked at Zhang Yan's face, which was almost too young.
For a moment, I didn't know what expression to wear.
Zhang Yan ignored them.
He leaped gracefully from the cockpit, which was several meters high.
He clapped his hands as if he had only accomplished a trivial task.
Then, he raised his hand and tapped the seemingly ordinary digital watch.
"Put it away."
[Command confirmed.]
[Initiate space reclamation process.]
next second.
What happened next made Li Zhan and the others' eyes almost pop out of their sockets.
The white mecha "White Tiger" stood there like a mountain.
The space around it began to visibly distort.
The massive machine seemed to be being kneaded and compressed by an invisible hand.
Finally, it transformed into a white stream of light.
With a "whoosh," it darted into the ordinary-looking digital watch on Zhang Yan's wrist.
Disappeared.
It vanished into thin air.
Li Zhan: "..."
Heavy Hammer: "..."
ghost:"……"
lightning:"……"
doctor:"……"
The five members of the Dragon Scale Special Forces team felt as if their brains, their CPUs, had completely burned out.
If that battle, which felt like a dimensional reduction attack, shattered their worldview...
So, what they are seeing now is like picking up the fragments of their worldview, throwing them into a shredder, and grinding them over and over again a hundred times.
Space technology?
Space folding technology that only exists in science fiction novels?
Moreover, it's integrated into a small watch?
This……
This is beyond the scope of scientific explanation.
This is theology!
"Alright, stop standing there."
Zhang Yan's voice snapped them out of their daze.
He strode forward, heading straight towards the deepest part of the main hall, towards the enormous pit.
"Um... Brother Yan!"
Qin Xiao finally calmed down from his frenzied emotions.
He quickly caught up with Zhang Yan, his face still flushed.
"That...that...is it a space device? Is it? Is it?"
Like a curious child, he followed Zhang Yan around, asking questions incessantly.
"Um."
Zhang Yan gave a perfunctory reply.
His gaze remained fixed on the deep pit ahead.
After dealing with that "watchdog".
He could sense it more clearly.
The energy fluctuations that came from the bottom of that deep pit were even more powerful and pure.
That's the root cause of this anomaly.
Li Zhan and the others finally came to their senses.
They looked at each other and saw the same confusion and bitterness in each other's eyes.
However, their excellent military discipline allowed them to quickly adjust their mindset.
They picked up their guns again and switched to standard tactical formation.
They protected Zhang Yan and Qin Xiao in the very center.
But this time...
They adopted a very humble posture.
Gone is the days of that arrogant protection of the "burden."
Instead, they resembled a group of cautious guards.
It is protecting an unfathomable monarch.
The group quickly arrived at the edge of the deep pit.
A hot wind, mixed with the smell of ozone and metal, rushed in from below.
A deep pit, bottomless.
Only the eerie blue arcs of electricity flickered and leaped in the darkness.
It made a "crackling" sound.
"Captain, the energy reading has exceeded the limit again!"
"Radiation levels exceed safety limits by a thousand times!"
"There is a strong, unknown force field below that our equipment cannot effectively detect!"
The team members' reports rang out one after another.
Each one represents a deadly danger.
Li Zhan's expression was extremely solemn.
He looked at the deep darkness and said in a deep voice.
"Ready, rappelling equipment."
"Heavy Hammer, you stay up there and provide backup."
"The rest of you, come down with me."
however.
He had barely finished speaking.
Zhang Yan then spoke.
"No."
He turned his head and looked at Li Zhan, as well as the special forces members behind him who were on high alert.
His eyes were calm and expressionless.
"That's enough for you."
Li Zhan was taken aback.
"Mr. Zhang, what do you mean by this?"
"It means..."
Zhang Yan's tone remained calm. "You can't go to the places that are next."
Why?
Li Zhan frowned.
Although he had already witnessed Zhang Yan's godlike methods.
However, as a soldier, obeying orders is his duty.
His mission was to protect Zhang Yan and explore the ruins.
Now that you've given up halfway, what's going on?
"No reason."
Zhang Yan seemed too lazy to explain.
"That's an order."
Li Zhan's brows furrowed even deeper.
He said in a deep voice, "I'm sorry, Mr. Zhang, I only follow the orders of my superiors."
"My mission is to protect your safety."
"Protect me?"
Zhang Yan seemed to have heard a funny joke.
He extended a finger and pointed to a completely empty patch of ground about ten meters to the left of Li Zhan.
"What do you think is there?"
Li Zhan glanced in the direction he was pointing.
There's nothing there.
"Yeah?"
A playful smile curved Zhang Yan's lips.
He did nothing.
He just snapped his fingers.
"Smack."
A crisp, light sound.
Under the horrified gazes of Li Zhan and the others.
The empty ground suddenly distorted and rippled violently, like water with a stone thrown in.
next second.
A metal monster, entirely black and scorpion-like in appearance, but with a size comparable to an armored vehicle.
It appeared out of thin air.
It has always been lurking there.
Using some kind of optical camouflage or spatial stealth technology.
They perfectly evaded detection by all of the Dragon Scale Squad's high-tech equipment!
If they had taken just a few more steps forward...
The consequences would be unimaginable.
Li Zhan's back was instantly soaked with cold sweat.
He didn't even realize that he and his entire squad had just narrowly escaped death!
The mechanical scorpion that had revealed itself seemed to have no idea that it would be exposed.
Its tail barbs gleamed with a cold, eerie green light.
Two huge metal pincers suddenly opened, as if to launch an attack.
But Zhang Yan only glanced at it coldly.
"roll."
One word.
An invisible, immense spiritual pressure instantly enveloped the mechanical scorpion.
That ancient weapon, brimming with murderous intent.
It acted as if it had encountered a natural enemy.
The entire machine began to tremble violently.
It withdrew its aggressive stance.
The massive body kept retreating.
Finally, with a "plop," he jumped directly into the deep pit behind him.
They vanished without a trace.
Li Zhan: "..."
Qin Xiao: "..."
The entire Dragonscale Squad: "..."
Zhang Yan withdrew his gaze and looked back at Li Zhan, who was completely stunned.
"Now, do you still think you can protect me?"
"You will only be a burden to me here."
"Do you understand?"
Li Zhan's lips moved slightly.
In the end, however, he couldn't utter a single word.
humiliation.
An unprecedented humiliation.
But he couldn't refute it.
Because what Zhang Yan said was true.
In this eerie ruin...
They are known as the strongest special forces unit in China.
They were like a group of primitive people holding wooden sticks.
Zhang Yan, on the other hand, was piloting an interstellar warship—a god.
"Let's go back."
Zhang Yan's voice came through.
Tell Qin Changfeng that I have taken over this area.
"This is for your own good."
After saying that, he ignored the group of special forces soldiers who were already questioning their existence.
He turned around and looked at the bottomless darkness.
Take a leap.
The whole person felt like a weightless feather.
It drifted down into that endless abyss.
Li Zhan instinctively rushed to the edge of the pit.
But all they saw was Zhang Yan's back being quickly swallowed up by the surging blue arcs of electricity.
He stood by the pit for a long, long time.
Finally, he raised his hand and gave a standard military salute to the darkness.
He picked up the communicator and connected with Qin Changfeng, who was far away in Beijing.
His voice was hoarse and strained.
"Report, General."
"This is Dragon Scale."
"Mission... Mission objective..."
He took a deep breath and spoke slowly and deliberately.
"Entering the realm of the gods."
"We mortals cannot follow."
"Request: Retreat."