"Let everyone around you enter a fighting state, and be sure to guard the area around the top of the mountain." El said to Stian, the flames in the crater in front of him turned into thick smoke in about ten seconds, and the thick smoke column even appeared in a short time.
It couldn't be blown away by the strong wind for a while. The pervasive smell of gunpowder smoke seemed to have penetrated the protective armor of the airship and entered his sense of smell.
"How many people are still out of the cave network?"
"It's probably only about ten percent of the total number of people now. They are the furthest away from the crater. Even if you choose the shortest route based on the map, it will take a long time. But I think the number of people should be enough. Now there are people gathered nearby.
The number of nearly a thousand people, according to the plan you made not long ago, Captain Il, was distributed step by step on the mountain beside the crater. And whether it was the airship or them, the longer-lasting flares also
The supplies are enough. It will definitely be enough to round up the prey in the time it takes to use them." Stian replied, "And I personally think that the next action is probably not to round up, but to find prey in the crater.
Corpse. Even if there is no death, serious injury is inevitable."
El did not comment on Stian's words. He mentally agreed with half of Stian's conjecture and kept the other half as unknown.
At this time, four other airships broke through the clouds below, raised an angle of thirty degrees and climbed rapidly along the mountain. Under Il's order, the four airships hovered in the sky near the crater.
, did not attack again, but adjusted the lift device under the navy blue steel body to an angle, relying on the huge artificial wind to accelerate the dispersal of the continuous thick smoke shrouding the crater.
The thick smoke turned back at an angle from the source and spread towards the sky, quickly dyeing it a darker color. At this moment, the other six airships turned on their searchlights, and the beams spread out in mid-air, illuminating the area below.
Huge patches of ground.
After a few minutes, the thick smoke became lighter, and the remaining smoke floated up like a layer of mist, always covering the crater. The scenery below could be seen more clearly. A piece of fire burned
Black, there are more than a dozen huge cracks on the outer edge of the mountain pass. I don't know how long it will take to completely crack and roll down. The ice layer has almost completely melted and turned into a shallow lake, falling into the crater. There may only be the bottom one.
Didn't the ice melt in the erosion of the fire?
The rock collapsed, full of large and small craters and bullet holes. Shrapnel was embedded in the hard mountain, a scorching trace of plundering. Indeed, no one was complete. Under such an intensive attack, there was no more damage.
With a hard object as a shield, the metal fragments alone can cause a fatal large-scale attack. The body cannot block such a torrent.
The melted ice water was almost boiling, and pieces of steam with a strong sulfur smell rose up, but it was blown away by the wind the next moment. It was unclear what was under the lake, because there was a layer of smoke dissolved after the explosion floating on the water, flashing
The bright gray-black color is like the duckweed that grows wildly in the fields in early summer, spreading over a large area.
"All airships are ready to launch. If there is any movement, use 10% of the ammunition to attack." The other six airships also lowered to a certain height at this time. Il opened his cross pupils and stared down.
, as if you want to completely penetrate the mountain with your gaze.
The surroundings suddenly became quiet, and all observation units focused their attention on the rising steam and fine ripples on the water.
Time passed by in this tense atmosphere for unknown reasons. In less than two or three minutes, huge invisible pressure emerged from the gaps in the air. A sense of violence rose in everyone's hearts at the same time, and their heartbeats and breathing also increased.
Unconsciously it became much faster.
The sun accelerated its fall in silent silence, and as the natural light quickly disappeared, only the light of the searchlight and the brief white light of lightning were left.
Finally, in the corner of everyone's eyes, the last ray of dim sunlight disappeared, and the entire space became dimmer. At the same time, an invisible buzzing sound passed through the air and the mountain, and spread into everyone's heads. It seemed that
It was as if the sun had really set just a moment ago.
There was also a change under the water at this moment. Under the shining gray-black gunpowder smoke, a flickering red light lit up. A series of bubbles suddenly rushed out of the water, and "Gululu" exploded. In the blink of an eye.
In a matter of seconds, the water inside the crater was heated to a boiling state by some heat source, and the steam rolled upwards. But the next moment, the faint red light suddenly burned, and the red color also turned into a dazzling color in the blink of an eye.
The blazing white light once overwhelmed the gradually spreading light of thirty or forty beams of searchlights.
"Attack!" Before Il could finish his words, the terrifying heat carried by the blazing white light evaporated all the water in the crater in an instant, and a huge steam explosion rushed into the sky with steam smoke like snow-white dust.
The next moment it was penetrated into a bright white color with a faint red tint.
"Boom, boom, boom -" Immediately afterwards, a substantial ripple of air expanded and rose from the crater. The huge thrust dragged the entire piece of steam dust into the air, revealing the covered form. The ripple was terrifying.
The heat of the volcano completely distorts the air wherever it passes. The bullets fired in the past are also affected by this air wave, and the trajectory is curved and flies to other places. The gas in the crater is also completely repelled by the impact force, forming in the blink of an eye.
A vacuum zone.
Stian looked down, with a solemn expression as if he was about to squeeze out the water from his body. There was surprise, or speculation due to rapid thinking, but more of a fear of choosing not to believe it.
El immediately stopped the attack and squinted his eyes slightly. Only then did he finally see the scene inside the crater clearly. Even though the air was slightly distorted, the colors there were very eye-catching and were not affected by air refraction at all.
He could clearly see a man covered in blood standing there. The lava around him had already been filled with bullets and shrapnel, and there were even many scratch marks on the body. But El believed that such injuries were more serious.
Most of it is the shock damage caused by the impact.
That was exactly the prey that Ir had only seen in photos. However, the difference in actual appearance was very huge. It entered the scaly state and its appearance was almost completely changed. The scales had made the human face disappear. The side of the prey
There is a silver-white ball about half the height on the top. It is full of round holes and is still extremely smooth without any scratches. The corners of the mouth have been completely torn, and you can see the sharp snow-white hair that cannot be hidden through the mouth.
Fangs. On his arm that was slowly lowering the blood, he was holding two weapon-like hexagonal prisms, and less than half of the surface was covered with blood.
The prey itself seems to be the source of heat, and the surrounding space seems to be unable to withstand the distortion and deformation of the heat, making the shadow look like a dream scene and unreal. The faint red lines are slowly disappearing from the prey's body at this moment.
Hidden under black scales.
Only the bright red pit in front of him with a diameter of about ten meters emitted a ray of light, drawing out a similarly curved and undulating shadow.
The condensed lava was melted by something, and a large bottomless hole was directly ablated. Bright colors spread all over the walls of the deep hole. The molten red lava was flowing towards the bottom of the deep hole.
It is also mixed with connected and flashing arcs, weaving into layers of bright nets that lead all the way to the inside of the mountain.
As if he felt something, in El's eyes, the prey raised its head, and its bright red pupils faced him through the distorted air. He saw that face, filled with laughter and madness over the scales.
His mouth was open, and even though blood flowed from the torn corner of his mouth every time he spoke a word, Il had to admit that it was a textbook pronunciation and mouth shape.
"I wish you good luck." The prey said, and then in El's eyes, a black tail sprang out from behind the prey, inserted into the hole of the ball next to it, held up the ball, and then the body turned into a shadow and rushed towards
The raised outer edge of a volcanic crater.
"Buzz--" The vibrating sound was like the roots of an ancient tree, shaking the space. (To be continued)