Chapter 813: A Dance in the Flames (4)
"Get all the people around you into battle mode, and be sure to guard the area around the top of the mountain. Ill said to Stien, the crater in front of him, the flames were all thick after ten seconds, and the thick column of smoke could not even be blown away by the wind for a short time. The smell of gunpowder smoke seemed to have penetrated the airship's protective armor and entered his sense of smell.
"How many people still haven't come out of the cave network?"
"It's about 10 percent of the total number of people now. They are the farthest away from the crater, and even if the nearest route is chosen according to the map, it will take a long time to get there. But I think the number of people should be enough, and now there are close to a thousand people gathered nearby, and according to the plan made by Captain Il not long ago, they are distributed in a stepped shape on the mountain next to the crater. And whether it's the airship or them, the flares that last longer are also replenished. In the time it takes to use them, it is certainly enough to complete the round-up of the prey. "And I think the next thing to do is probably not to round up, but to search for the carcass of the prey in that crater." Even if there is no death, serious injuries are inevitable. ”
Il did not comment on Stien's words, he mentally agreed with half of Stien's conjecture, and kept the other half as unknown.
At this moment, four other airships broke through the clouds below and rose rapidly up the mountain at a thirty-degree angle. Under Il's order, the four airships hovered in the sky near the crater, and did not attack again, but all adjusted the lift device under the navy blue steel body, and posed at an angle, relying on the huge man-made wind to accelerate the dispersal of the continuous smoke that shrouded the crater.
The smoke turned back an angle from its roots and drifted towards a patch of sky, quickly turning it into a darker color. At this moment, the other six airships turned on their searchlights, and the beams of light spread out in midair, illuminating the huge patches of ground below.
After a few minutes, the smoke faded a little, and the remaining smoke floated up in a mist that remained on the crater. The scenery below can already be seen more clearly. A black patch after being scorched by the flames, there were more than a dozen huge cracks on the outer edge of the mountain pass, and it would not be long before they completely cracked and rolled down. The ice melted almost completely, turning into a shallow lake that fell into the crater. Probably only the ice at the bottom didn't melt in the flames.
The rocks were crumbling, full of craters and bullet holes, shrapnel embedded in the hard mountain, a scorching trail of looting. It is true that there is no place in its entirety, and under such a dense attack, there is no harder object as a shield, and only the metal fragments can form a deadly large-scale attack. And it doesn't stop such a torrent.
The melted ice water was almost boiling, and flakes of steam with a strong sulfur smell rose, but the next moment it was blown away by the wind. It was impossible to see what was beneath the surface of the lake, for there was a layer of gunpowder smoke that had dissolved after the explosion floating on the surface of the water, shining gray-black, and spreading out a large area like duckweed growing wildly in the fields in early summer.
"All airships are ready to launch and use 10 percent ammunition to attack as soon as there is movement. The other six airships had also lowered to a certain height, and Il spread his crossed pupils and stared down as if to penetrate the mountain with his gaze.
It was unknown when it became quiet, and all observers focused their eyes on the steaming and finely rippling water.
Time passed in this tense atmosphere for unknown reasons, and less than two or three minutes passed, a huge invisible pressure emerged from the cracks in the air. The feeling of violence rose to everyone's hearts at the same time, and their heartbeat and breathing unconsciously became much faster.
The sun quickened its fall in a silent silence, and as the natural light quickly faded away, all that remained was the light of a searchlight, and the brief white light of lightning.
Finally, out of the corner of everyone's eyes, the last faint rays of sunlight disappeared, and the whole space became a little darker. At the same time, an invisible humming sound passed through the air and the mountain, and into everyone's heads. It was as if the sun had really gone down a moment ago.
At this time, there was a change under the surface of the water, and a little red light lit up under the shiny gray-black smoke. A series of bubbles suddenly scrambled out of the water, and the "grunt" exploded. In the blink of an eye, the stagnant water inside the crater was all heated to a boiling state by some kind of heat source, and the steam rolled upward, but the next moment, that faint red light suddenly burned, and the red also turned into a dazzling blazing white light in the blink of an eye, once overpowering the light of thirty or forty searchlights gradually dispersed.
"Attack!" Before Il's words could fall, the terrifying heat of the blazing white light evaporated all the water in the crater in an instant, and a huge steam explosion rushed into the sky with a snow-white dust-like vapor smoke, and the next moment it was pierced into a bright white color with a faint red color.
Immediately afterward, a solid ripple of air expanded from the crater, and the huge thrust dragged the entire sheet of vapor dust into the air, revealing the obscured form. The ripple carried a terrifying heat, and the air in its path was completely distorted, and the bullets that shot through it were also affected by this wave of air, and the trajectory bent and flew to other places. The gas inside the crater was completely repelled by the impact, and a vacuum was formed in the blink of an eye.
Sitian looked down, her solemn expression as if she was about to squeeze out the moisture from her body. Inside, there is surprise, or speculation under the rapid rotation of the mind, but more often than not, the fear of choosing not to believe.
Il's eyes narrowed slightly. It was only then that I finally got a clear view of the inside of the crater. Even if the air is slightly distorted, the colors are very striking and are not affected by the refraction of the air at all.
I clearly saw a man covered in blood standing there, the lava around him was already embedded with bullets and shrapnel, and even the body had many scratch marks. But Il believed that such injuries were more of a shock damage caused by shocks.
That's the kind of prey that Il-Il had only seen in photographs. It's just that the difference in actual physiognomy is very huge, and when it enters a state of scaling, the appearance has almost completely changed, and the scales have made the face appearance of human beings disappear. Next to the prey was a silvery-white ball about half its height, covered with round holes, still smooth and unscratched. The corners of the mouth were completely torn, and the sharp snow-white fangs that could not be hidden could be seen through the mouth. On the arm that was slowly bleeding, two weapon-like hexagonal prisms were clenched, and the surface was also covered in blood.
The prey itself seems to be the generator of the heat source, and the surrounding space seems to be unable to withstand the heat and distort and deform, making the shadow look like a dream scene, without real taste. The faint red lines are slowly disappearing from the prey's body at this moment, disappearing under the black scales.
Only a bright red pit about ten meters in diameter in front of him emitted a ray of light, pulling out a shadow that was also curved and undulating.
The condensed lava was melted by something, directly ablating a bottomless hole, bright colors all over the four walls of the deep cave, and those all molten fiery red lava were flowing to the bottom of the deep cave.
It is also mixed with flashing arcs of electric wires, weaving layers of brilliant nets that lead to the interior of the mountain.
As if sensing something, in Il's eyes, the prey raised its head at this time, and its bright red pupils faced him through the distorted air. He saw the face, a smile and madness that hung over the scales.
The mouth was open, and even though blood was pouring from the torn corners of his mouth with every word he spoke, Il had to admit that it could serve as a textbook pronunciation and mouth shape.
"Good luck. The prey said, and then in Il's eyes, a black tail sprang out from behind the prey, inserted into the hole in the ball next to it, and after holding up the ball, its body turned into a shadow, and rushed to the outer edge of the crater.
The sound of "buzzing" and shaking like the roots of an ancient tree shook the space. 2k reading web