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Chapter 1716 Classic Scenes

The massive bomber let out a metallic roar of exhaustion, its fuselage trembled violently, its wings almost torn apart, and it made a near 90-degree extreme side turn, tearing through the air, and frantically plunged into a deeper chasm below and to the side, trying to use the terrain to avoid the impending, inescapable light-speed attack!
And in that very millisecond, the dark blue-white beam of light, representing absolute death, tore through the sky once more!

It swept precisely and coldly across the location where "Deep Hammer II" had been just a second ago! The edge of the beam mercilessly grazed the wake region of the bomber, which had not yet completely dissipated after dropping the MOP!

boom--! ! !
Even across the vast distance and amidst heavy electromagnetic interference, a muffled and terrifying explosion could be heard from the command center's sound system!
It wasn't a direct hit from the particle beam, but rather the terrifying energy aftershocks that detonated the flares and chaff clouds that "Deep Hammer II" had released for interference, but which hadn't yet dissipated!

Even more terrifying, the destructive energy storm carried by the particle beam instantly swept over the tail of the bomber!

On the main screen, the dot on "Deep Hammer II" suddenly dimmed, flickered violently, and then traced a trajectory of uncontrolled descent, accompanied by the pilot's agonizing and chaotic cries: "Tail! Tail severely damaged! Loss of all hydraulic pressure! Control failure! We...we're falling! Eject! Eject!!!"

The blinding red alarm instantly drowned out the data stream from Unit 2! Only the piercing alarm and a final, dull thud remained on the communication channel before utter silence descended.

"No—!" A suppressed cry of alarm and despair erupted from the command center.

General Angeleira swayed, his fingers digging deep into the hard composite material of the command platform, his knuckles turning white, and his face instantly losing all color.

A life, a masterpiece worth hundreds of millions of dollars, representing the pinnacle of human aviation industry, was lost right before our eyes.

However, his bloodshot eyes were fixed intently on another screen—the guidance signal of the MOP!
That heavy point of light, representing humanity's last conventional hope, is hurtling toward its target along a trajectory so perfect it's almost cruel!
The GPS/INS (Global Positioning/Inertial Navigation) guidance system stubbornly worked under strong electromagnetic interference, and the terminal infrared imaging seeker (IIR) struggled to capture the predetermined strike point in the billowing smoke and dust—the center of the reactor ruins that had just been exposed by the "giant lizard" and was shimmering with an ominous glow!

"MOP signal stable! Terminal guidance activated! Hit countdown...5...4..."

The weapons officer's voice was choked with emotion, yet it carried an almost prayerful focus.

Everyone stopped breathing.

Time stretched out indefinitely. Even the alarming energy readings coming from Connors, indicating that the "giant lizard" was absorbing energy from the reactor, seemed distant.

In the center of the main screen, a blurry image, magnified countless times and desperately transmitted back by a high-altitude drone, shows:
Below, the "giant lizard" had a thick, shimmering armored back covered in energy beams. It seemed to sense the deadly threat from above, and its massive body was making clumsy and violent attempts to evade it.

Above, a black dot with a deathly shriek is piercing through the thin clouds and billowing smoke with the force of a meteorite impact, its target the deep, hellish opening it has just dug!

In the distant high sky, a desperate, eerie blue light, signifying the completion of the particle beam weapon's charging, once again converged wildly on a massive crystalline structure on the "giant lizard's" back, clearly intending to destroy this deadly "nail" at the last moment!
“3…2…1…IMPACT!!!”

The weapons officer's voice boomed like thunder!

The screen jolted violently, then was engulfed by an indescribable, intense light and heat! The expected, earth-shattering explosion did not follow first.

The first thing to happen was that the earth rose up violently like waves!
Immediately afterwards, a terrifying column of smoke and dust, hundreds of meters in diameter, mixed with lava, dust, gravel, and scorching metal vapor, erupted from the center of the "giant lizard" excavation site with overwhelming force, shooting straight into the sky like a fountain from hell!
The shockwave, like an invisible giant hammer, spread wildly in all directions in a ring shape from the epicenter!

Wherever it passed, the already crumbling ruins were completely flattened and blown away like sandcastles!
Even images transmitted from drones tens of kilometers away at high altitudes were violently shaken and blurry, before the signal was lost!

Inside the command center, a terrifying, extremely dull shockwave, delayed by half a second, was transmitted through a highly sensitive seismic sensor!
The floor beneath my feet groaned, the ceiling lights swayed wildly, and some unsecured equipment crashed to the ground with a clatter.

Success? Failure?

Everyone's heart was in their throat, their eyes glued to the main screen.

The deep red cursor representing the "giant lizard" flashed violently, signifying an energy burst, before its massive life signal and energy readings plummeted like a rollercoaster!
"Energy readings have plummeted! Target's vital signs... have disappeared?! Repeat, target's core energy signal has disappeared!"

The electronic warfare officer's voice was filled with unbelievable ecstasy and trembling.

"Geological sensors! Subsurface shock wave echo confirmed! MOP successfully penetrated to the predetermined depth! Explosive yield fully released! Reactor ruins structure...completely collapsed!"

Connors' voice trembled with excitement, accompanied by the buzzing of overloaded sensors in the background.

"We succeeded? We...we succeeded?!"

Suppressed cheers began to spread through the command center.

General Angelela's tense body relaxed slightly, and a trace of fatigue from surviving a disaster crept onto his brow.

However, at this very moment when hope was rising—

On the main screen, the cursor representing the "giant lizard" did not completely go out after falling to a very low point!

It suddenly rebounded violently upwards! Its energy reading, like the last gasp of a dying beast, surged wildly and out of control, far exceeding the peak value during the previous particle beam charging!
In the live footage (transmitted by another drone that narrowly escaped the shockwave), a ghostly blue light, more dazzling and malevolent than the core of the sun, burst forth from within the towering column of smoke and dust!
The earth no longer rose up, but instead churned and collapsed violently like a boiling pot of porridge!
A terrifying, bottomless crater, more than one kilometer in diameter, is forming!
"Warning! Unanalyzable ultra-high energy level reaction detected! Energy properties... same as particle beam weapons, but intensity increased exponentially! It... it's about to explode! Range... the range is immeasurable! Far exceeding any of the 'Giant Lizard's' previous attacks!"

The electronic warfare officer's face was ashen.

(End of this chapter)