Chapter 1047 The Light That Purifies Everything
Chapter 1047 The Light That Purifies Everything
The dazzling light obscured the afterglow of the setting sun, and it seemed as if two suns appeared in the fiery red sunset glow.
One was hanging in the sky, and the other was hanging above the head.
Especially the one hanging above the head, it was as dazzling as the high beam in the tunnel.
Everyone on the Enlightenment position couldn’t help but raise their heads and look at the dazzling light.
And even in an instant, those pairs of pupils all oozed blood and lost all vision.
”Don’t look up! Don’t look up!”
The intermittent roar of the commander came from the communication channel, and the combatants on the position hurriedly turned their sight away.
However-
it was too late.
The blazing light took away not only their sight, but also everything they had.
It was a neutron ray that was dozens, even hundreds, or thousands of times more powerful than a solar flare!
The high-energy particles released at high speed formed a plume beam like a waterfall in the air!
The fatal beam of light penetrated the protection of the earth’s magnetic field and the atmosphere, descended on the surface indiscriminately, and spread an unprecedented aurora in the sky at the equator! The
Enlightenment soldiers squatting in the open-air bunker were the first to suffer.
Exposed to the high-energy neutron plume, they only felt their bodies warm, and then all the cells in their bodies seemed to be boiled in an instant, their pupils were dimmed, and blood could not stop pouring out of their nostrils and mouths, and they embraced eternal death in an instant.
On the battlefield of hundreds of kilometers, soldiers wearing exoskeletons died in large numbers, and mutants holding large-caliber rifles lay on the ground and twisted, wailing uncontrollably in the face of the invisible opponent.
Even the genetically modified people wearing power armor could not help but kneel on one knee in pain, and finally fell to the ground with blood spitting out of their mouths.
The continuous irradiation of the neutron plume is different from a momentary nuclear explosion, but a real annihilation, just like the continuous bombing of hundreds or even thousands of neutron torpedoes!
The strengthening of the flesh did not help them to be exempted from the fatal injury, at most it only delayed their death.
Including those cyborg soldiers who had undergone transformation surgery.
The removal of some flesh and blood did not really turn them into another kind of creature other than organic matter.
Like the genetically modified and mutants, those machine parts only prolonged their death pain at most.
”That light… what on earth is it?!”
”It’s so itchy… something… is going to grow out of my body…”
”Ahhh!”
In the communication channel filled with noise, screams and wails came one after another, like a purgatory on earth.
And before long, the screams and wails disappeared one after another. The
continuous neutron plume destroyed the communication facilities deployed on the surface one after another.
At the same time, tens of thousands of Enlightenment soldiers and mutant cannon fodder dissipated like dust under the irradiation of the dazzling light, leaving only those pure war machines. In addition to the
soldiers standing on the surface, the officers hiding in the concrete fortifications also suffered from the torment of the high-energy particle rays.
The concrete that was more than ten meters thick was not the alloy door of the shelter. Facing the all-pervading neutron rays, it was quickly riddled with holes, as if it did not exist.
Blood gushed out of his mouth and nose, and Munger, wearing an exoskeleton, fell to the ground weakly, unable to move even a finger.
The lighting facilities were completely paralyzed.
Including the communication system, and even the exoskeleton on his body, all of them were anchored.
He could only watch the blood flow all over the ground, and drowned in the pool of blood with a heart full of reluctance and regret, and finally died quietly in the dark underground facility.
Everything is over…
The light that fell from the sky directly wiped out the Enlightenment Society’s lifelong efforts and decades of accumulation from the surface of the earth, leaving only some data backed up on scrap copper and iron.
Looking at the officers who suddenly died and fell to the ground, Tianhong’s face showed a hint of surprise, and then he looked up at the ceiling above his head.
”Is that…”
Thunder?
He had heard of that weapon, but he had not expected the Alliance to use it here, and he had not expected the Lagrange Point Space Station to have no reaction.
Unless –
while the Alliance’s ground forces were attacking the Enlightenment’s base, the Lagrange Point Space Station was also attacked!
But how could this be possible? !
The Orion missile cruiser was clearly still parked in synchronous orbit, and the crew members were even touring the surface –
the moment he thought of this, Tianhong suddenly reacted, and the red light in his electronic eyes shrank slightly.
So that’s it.
That was the Alliance’s trick!
While their attention was completely focused on the Orion missile cruiser, the Alliance’s armed forces had quietly moved towards the Lagrange Point Space Station! The
angry current surged on the intellectual plug-in, and he clenched his fists to suppress the surging anger.
The speaker, burned by neutron radiation, finally uttered a low curse.
”…I was tricked.”
…
The dazzling aurora filled the sky for hundreds of kilometers, and the brilliant light even stole the limelight from the sunset.
The deserted battlefield was full of blood and dead bodies.
They would not rot.
At least not for a while.
The hot neutron plume not only took their lives, but also inactivated the bacteria on their bodies, and penetrated several kilometers under the soil!
Except for the residents in the shelter, no one survived!
Just as the “thunder of punishment” continued to shine on this sinful land, the ruins in the north of the Ravenka Industrial Zone were crowded with people.
A pair of doubtful eyes looked at the distant horizon, watching the second sun that rose from the aurora at some unknown time.
They were all wastelanders living in this area, scavengers who migrated with the sandstorm.
Faced with the strange phenomenon they had never seen before, their reaction was no more far-sighted than the natives on the Gaia planet.
Some people stood at a loss, while others hid under the eaves in panic, or crawled on the ground and prayed devoutly to an unknown existence.
A disheveled child looked up at the aurora he had never seen before, and curiously tugged at his father’s sleeve.
”Dad… what is that?”
The scavenger with wrinkles on his face raised his head, his eyes under the cloak staring at the increasingly bright light, and a hint of surprise appeared in his turbid pupils.
There –
is it the center of the Great Desert?
He didn’t know what the shining light meant, but he felt that the sky was filled with an indescribable sacredness and majesty.
For a long time, it has been regarded by countless wastelanders as the center of chaos and a forbidden zone for life.
It is full of strange species, mutants who hurt people without blinking, mysterious armed forces that capture survivors, and mechanical bodies that attack living things indiscriminately.
Therefore, even though it was the center of the prosperous world in the old times, few scavengers dared to approach it.
I didn’t expect that the deepest part of hell would actually wait for the day when the sun rises.
Perhaps, as the wastelanders in this area have said, the wasteland era is about to end…
…
At the sentry post in the west of the Great Desert, the East Empire soldiers on duty were carrying rifles in their hands, staring straight at the direction where the second sun rose, their eyes fascinated.
On the sand dunes not far from the outpost, two high-ranking centurions were standing side by side.
In order to see more clearly, Symes reached out and moved the brim of his officer’s hat, and then simply took it off.
Staring at the boiling sky, he muttered to himself after a long while.
”Is that the power of the ‘SOG’ system…”
General McLen, who was standing aside, nodded and said with a complicated expression.
”Yes.”
The weapon was originally in the hands of the Stone City, and it almost fell into his hands.
For a long time, the emperor of the Eastern Empire has been unable to sleep or eat because of the weapon hanging high above his head.
And now that the Alliance has finally taken out this big sword, His Majesty and the ministers are even more uneasy…
Symes wiped the sweat from his forehead and said with a hint of relief.
”It’s a weapon from the prosperous era. Even the aftermath of the attack is so amazing… Fortunately, this thing is disposable, and the Alliance only has one.”
General McClane glanced at his colleague beside him, and after thinking for a moment, he suddenly spoke.
”General Symes, if you were the commander of the Alliance, how would you use this weapon?”
Symes said without hesitation.
”Use it? I won’t use it at all. It’s best to let it stay on the launcher.”
”I think the same as you.”
Adjusting the officer’s hat on his head, General McClane squinted and looked at the aurora in the distance that looked like the morning glow.
”The deterrent power of strategic weapons will be reset to zero at the moment of use… Especially this kind of weapon with only one bullet.”
I always feel that what this guy said is meaningful.
General Symes frowned, and suddenly thought of something, and his pupils shrank a little in an instant.
”You mean… the Alliance has mastered new deterrent means?”
McClane did not answer this question, but squinted his eyes and stared at the burning sky, giving an ambiguous answer.
”Maybe it’s more than that.”
At least in his opinion, the real problem is probably not that the Alliance has mastered some new means of deterrence, but that they no longer need to rely on strategic deterrence to maintain their influence.
Unlike those survivors who are still in the glory of the past, they have walked out of the shadow of the prosperous era.
And they brought others with them…
…
The dazzling light stayed in the air for only a quarter of an hour.
However, for the Enlightenment Society, which was burned by the light, that short quarter of an hour seemed as long as a century.
Without a target to follow, the tactical drones lay on the ground like headless flies. The
three-meter-high humanoid combat armor restarted the system and tried to take over the trench where only corpses were left.
However, the bulky metal shell standing in the trench of the infantry was either stuck in the left leg or stuck in the waist, which looked awkward no matter how you looked at it.
Not only that.
Without the flexible infantry to fill the front line, the originally solid defense line suddenly became riddled with holes.
Although those combat armors have more abundant firepower and mobility that infantry cannot achieve, firepower and mobility are not everything in war. No
matter how powerful those big guys are, there are always places they can’t take care of.
In the final analysis, war is never just a simple calculation of combat power, but a collision between systems.
The neutron plume that fell from the sky not only eliminated tens of thousands of soldiers and cannon fodder, but also directly eliminated the ecological niche originally occupied by infantry.
These vacant positions cannot be replaced immediately by intelligent weapons.
Although the strategic idea of fully replacing infantry with intelligent weapons is not impossible, there must be tactics to match it.
Otherwise, no matter how many intelligent machines are filled in, they will only serve as harder cannon fodder.
With the end of the strategic strike, the aurora in the sky dissipated along with the setting sun, and the whole land gradually closed in the curtain of night.
At the same time, incendiary bombs rose into the sky, replacing the bloody sunset to illuminate the battlefield full of corpses.
Hot dust was boiling at the edge of the earth, and the dust raised by the tank tracks and armored wheels was like a sandstorm that engulfed the sun and the moon.
After discovering the strange phenomenon in the distance, the humanoid combat armor deployed on the first line of defense immediately raised the 20mm heavy machine guns on both sides of the body, spewing flames forward. The
thick tracer rubbed dazzling sparks on the front armor and turret of the latest Alliance No. 4 tank, but did not even leave a dent the size of a fingernail.
The only thing that could pose a danger to these armored forces were the missiles with tracking functions.
However, the Alliance had already prepared for this. The Yunting flapping-wing aircraft covering the wings of the armored forces carried two sources of interference for guided weapons: infrared illumination and radio.
Not only that!
The “Thunder” fighter jets that whizzed through the air dropped two EMP missiles, directly sending a round of electromagnetic pulses to the entire area.
The missiles that burst out of the chambers were like headless flies, either rushing into the sky or diving into the sand. They were not as threatening as those unguided recoilless guns! In
just a few breaths, the steel torrent of the alliance had already advanced to the border of the battle area.
Looking at the rows of iron lumps stuck in the “carrot pit” like live targets in the distance, the mole brother sitting in the Chimera armored vehicle grabbed the communicator and shouted excitedly.
”Fire!”
The formation composed of Chimera armored vehicles took the lead in launching an attack!
The 37mm armor-piercing incendiary bombs were like rows of burning fire feathers in the night, and instantly blasted the humanoid combat armor trying to retake the trench into scraps!
At the same time, the Yunting flapping-wing aircraft flying on both sides also jumped up with a “woosh!”, and while pulling up the flight altitude, they instantly poured tons of rockets towards the defense line that Tianren barely took over from the Enlightenment Society!
As for the steel spearhead composed of tanks, it still stabbed towards Tianren’s defense line with unabated momentum!
The flames of the explosion connected on Tianren’s position. The symphony of metal and gunpowder collision lasted less than a dozen minutes. Looking around, the rolling yellow sand was full of burning steel!
However,
these iron lumps did not sit still and wait for death.
They had no concept of morale, let alone death and destruction.
Seeing that it was only a matter of time before the first line of defense collapsed, Tianhong immediately stopped the reinforcement of the first line of defense and retracted the remaining humanoid combat armor and ground fire vehicles to the second line of defense, leaving only a large number of drone hives and anti-aircraft fire points scattered and hidden in the depth between the two lines of defense.
It was a wreckage full of reinforced concrete, some of which belonged to houses in the pre-war era, and some to space stations.
Usually, the Enlightenment Society instigated mutants to recycle alloy materials from this ruins to make their war machines, and at this moment, these ruins that could never be dismantled became their natural shelter!
Once the armored forces and aircraft of the Alliance entered this area, they would be attacked from all directions by self-destructive drones!
However, Tianren still underestimated the mental pressure he brought to the survivors in the wasteland, and the Alliance’s determination to completely eliminate them from this land.
At the same time when the armored forces of the alliance were about to break through the first line of defense, two dazzling flames streaked across the dark night sky, and then exploded into a ball of hot plasma in the air!
It was a cruise missile launched from the South China Sea Alliance missile cruiser deployed in the western waters! The
electromagnetic pulse, which was several times larger than before, enveloped the entire area in an instant, and tens of thousands of self-destructing drones had just taken off and hit the ground like falling raindrops.
Not only the small drones were severely damaged, but also the humanoid combat armors that were evacuating from the battlefield were affected to varying degrees. The originally orderly evacuation gradually became chaotic.
At this time, the armored spearheads of the alliance had penetrated the first line of defense of the heavenly people. One by one, the No. 4 tanks parked on the high slope raised the barrels of the vehicle-mounted electromagnetic guns and began to carry out targeted elimination of the retreating humanoid combat armors and self-propelled artillery!
In the face of the kinetic energy of the ship gun level, even the ceramic steel removed from the space station was as brittle as paper.
Looking at the completely defeated front, Tianhong standing in the command room had a stunned expression on his face.
These guys…
are they really just wastelanders? !
Even with the help of the residents of the shelter, the combat qualities they showed were too incredible.
Tianqi was a member of the Torch Church before, and he might not be good at commanding operations, but he was at least a quasi-active officer of the Human Alliance regular army! How could
these beggars who pick up garbage –
robbers who are fooling around with the legacy of the prosperous era –
fight on equal terms with him who participated in the three-year war!
Anger surged in the intellectual plug-in, and the originally expressionless Tianhong could no longer control the anger in his heart. The flexible parts of his face twisted along with the twisted intelligent program.
Just when he was furious, a group of cavalrymen riding on death claws had broken through his second line of defense.
”Prepare for battle!!!”
Edgepad shouted loudly, leading the pet under his crotch to rush forward, and fired a portable rocket at the nearest humanoid armor!
In front of the high-tech humanoid mecha, the players carrying rocket launchers and riding on the backs of lizards looked like a joke no matter how they looked at it.
And in the whole desert, I am afraid that only the Willant people who have experienced their skills can’t laugh.
The 20mm machine gun is difficult to adapt to close-range strafing.
In addition to the obstruction of obstacles, even if those humanoid mechas drive all their computing power, it is difficult to keep up with the Death Claws’ tails that are running around like ghosts.
What a pity.
There is no central processor that can take charge of the overall information on this chaotic battlefield to provide computing power support for these equipment, and the only combatants who can replace the central processor to guide them have been completely consumed in the previous strategic strikes.
On the other hand, their opponents, the Death Claws wearing exoskeletons, are as fast as lightning.
Driven by the instinct of life and the desire to kill, these animals born for fighting all burst out with extremely strong combat power and battlefield adaptability, almost becoming one with the masters on their backs, frantically harvesting one war machine after another that could not take care of both ends!
Soon, the third line of defense deployed by Tianren at the entrance of Shelter No. 13 also became shaky, and the tightly closed alloy giant door seemed to be dead and did not open for a long time.
That door may not open.
Or, the fortress has fallen from the inside and there is no need to continue defending it.
Tianhong, who took over the command from Morton, was completely crazy.
Faced with an irreversible defeat, he issued an order to “fight to the last moment”, and then took Morton’s guards to the battlefield, betting the last chip for this gamble that had already been decided!
In fact, it would not make any difference even if they did not bet on it.
The Alliance had no reason and no one in ten thousand possibility to show mercy to them.
After all, those guys took the initiative to clear out all the living people on the battlefield.
And those who were left were not even considered human beings in the eyes of those wastelanders. They
just looked like humans.
”You are courting death! We will not let you go! When the day comes, we will slaughter you all! Including you blue rats!”
Tianhong, who was fighting on the front line, fired at the attacking Death Corps while roaring at the troops that were pouring in like a tide with the few remaining radios.
Maybe because his intellectual plug-in was burned out, he even used the nicknames that the Weilants gave to the residents of the shelter.
However, he did not expect that his roar would not only fail to undermine the morale of these organic creatures, but make the players who were charging forward more excited.
”Brothers! Come on!!!”
”The BOSS is coming!!!”
”Ahhhh!!!”
”Mine!! All mine!!!”
The players, who were originally exhausted, were all like chicken blood at this moment.
Feeling the increasingly fierce attack, Tianhong had a stunned expression on his face, and was completely overwhelmed.
But the stunned emotion did not last long.
Soon, an armor-piercing incendiary bomb pierced his shoulder and tore his right arm directly off his body. Electric
sparks flew wantonly, and he was about to stretch out his left hand to pick up the gun on the ground with a roar, but another axe flew over and cut off his other arm.
Looking at the man who walked in front of him, he stopped struggling unnecessary, just sneered and threw down two words.
”…Haha, don’t be too happy too soon. The Enlightenment Society… is just a chess piece.”
”We… will come back.”
After hearing these last words, Taran, who had been uninterested at first, suddenly brightened up. He immediately grabbed the axe on the ground and chopped off the head of the bionic man with a bang, fearing that someone would get it first!
Wow!
I thought it was just an ordinary elite monster, but I didn’t expect it to have two lines!
I’m afraid it’s a big fish!
Holding the lump of iron in his hand, Taran immediately opened the communication channel and couldn’t wait to share the joy of the moment with his good brothers in the Desert Corps.
”BOSS!!! I got it!”
There was no surprise –
the friendly blessings of the brothers echoed in the communication channel.
Desert Eagle: “Gan! My BOSS!!!” Junichiro
Shokawa: “Mmp! How could it be robbed by you, a dog!”
Taran: “????”
(End of this chapter)
