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Chapter 478 Relief
The night sky was sparkling with stars, and the sea breeze was salty and refreshing.

Zhongtian Beiji's sweaty hands gripped the helicopter's control stick as he piloted the Sikorsky S-76 over the dense forest.

Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at Ant in the back seat, who was diligently studying the island's tourist map, and the phrase involuntarily came to mind: "The difference between people is greater than the difference between people and dogs."

He first heard the name Ant when his younger brother, Gou Chen, was involved in a special mission at the Toy City.

Gouchen regretfully failed to seize the hidden chamber and was severely beaten, almost dying again.

At that time, Zhongtian Beiji's impression of the ID "蚍蜉" was nothing more than "a promising and lucky newcomer" who was worth keeping an eye on secretly and could be offered a bounty on the black market to gather intelligence, etc.

When Zhongtian Beiji encountered Ant in the [Celestial Lawyer] mission, he was even more impressed by the latter.

Daring to think and act, meticulous thinking, kind face but ruthless hands, and the ability to quickly adapt to any worldview, no matter how outrageous, are all essential qualities of top players, and Ant undoubtedly demonstrates these qualities.

At that time, Zhongtian Beiji already knew that unless he could quickly find out the ant's true identity in the real world and directly verify it offline,

Otherwise, based solely on the difficulty of the script's mission, it would be almost impossible to kill this person.

When rumors began to circulate that [Star Casting Anvil] and [Evil Science Alliance] were cooperating closely, Zhongtian Beiji knew that it was impossible to stop the latter's rise.

Then, a few days ago, the London incident broke out. Zhongtian Beiji, who was in the live broadcast room the whole time, saw the Zerg God Abomination Mech kill a Lv35 Arcane Master with a single elbow strike.

What else can I say? I can only smile with relief.

He now understood how the sect elders who played villainous roles in fantasy novels felt when they saw protagonists who were invincible, incredibly fast runners, and evolved at a speed comparable to a rocket.

A reclusive Taoist priest from the countryside refuses to hand over an ancient treasure.

"A Despicable and Shameless Foundation Establishment Cultivator Kills a Sect Spy"

Multiple sects unite to defeat the Golden Core Demon Lord.

The Nascent Soul cultivator is breaking through the Heavenly Tribulation.

The esteemed Earth Immortal has arrived today at his faithful Kunlun Mountain.

Leveling up in a few weeks, advancing to a rank in a few months—even the protagonists in my fantasy novels level up this fast.

Zhongtian Beiji was unaware that during the Battle of London, Li Sheng had devoted 80% of his combat strength to the massive mechanical swarm that had been saturated with Qilin blood.
He deliberately and completely extinguished the idea of ​​seizing the hidden space; wasn't it enough that he didn't fight for it?

"There are fires in the valley ahead. No suitable landing site has been found yet. A rappelling may be necessary."

Zhongtian Beiji said calmly, gripping the control stick firmly and slowly pushing it forward.

Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a faint point of light appearing in the far distance to the left rear of the helicopter.

The point of light hung below the clouds, as elusive and difficult to see as a candle flame in the wind.

A chill swept through Zhongtian Beiji's body in an instant. His sixth sense, honed from years of struggling on the edge of life and death, made him subconsciously aware that deadly danger was approaching.

"Missile attack!!"

He shouted at the top of his lungs, pulling the control stick with all his might to make the helicopter turn sideways.

This S-76C+ was equipped with two Turbomeca Arriel 2S1 engines, which provided an improvement in power compared to the original S-76.

The helicopter turned to the right, tilting its rotor to generate lateral thrust, turning more than 30 degrees in 3 seconds and climbing rapidly upwards.

Li Sheng reached out and firmly grasped the handle, defying his body's survival instincts, and actively pulled open the cabin door, leaning out of the violently shaking helicopter to look outside.

Saw

The light spot to the left rear flickered rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, it crossed the entire forest, narrowly missing the helicopter just a few meters below.

Boom!

The roar of the explosion echoed through the dense forest, flames shot into the sky, and the rolling heat wave pushed the helicopter slightly upward.

Li Sheng stepped onto the tilted helicopter deck and moved to the right to look down. He saw a large crater in the ground, and several towering trees around it were ablaze.

The air-to-air missile is most likely the US military's AIM-120.

Li Sheng's mind raced. The AIM-120 had a maximum range of 100 kilometers and a maximum speed of approximately Mach 4.

With a diameter of 18cm and a length of 3.7m, the tail flame is barely visible from a distance of 10km with a field of view of only 0.01° (below the human eye's resolution limit of 0.02°).

If a missile is detected at a range of 5 kilometers, the time window for human reaction is less than 3.7 seconds.

Most civilian helicopters, including the Sorsky S-76C+, generally have a roll response time greater than 3 seconds.
In other words, the total effective reaction time for a helicopter pilot to see an incoming missile, choose evasive maneuvers, and make evasive maneuvers is only 0.7 seconds.

Zhongtian Beiji's reaction speed was already close to the human limit, but before he could even catch his breath and calm the arrhythmia caused by the surge of adrenaline,

A point of light appeared again in the clouds in the night sky to the left and behind. "Fuck!!!"

When Zhongtian Arctic entered the area, it started swearing and cursing, and the civilian helicopters had no missile approach warning system (MAWS), let alone countermeasures such as flares/chaff.

He was completely focused, almost becoming one with the helicopter, pulling the stick to the left to make a roll, while simultaneously turning the rudder to the right and raising the vertical stabilizer to its full extent.

This maneuver, known as the barrel roll, was executed by the precise control of the Silsky S-76C+, which rolled sideways in the air like a barrel.

All the unsecured objects in the cabin fell down with a rustling sound, but Li Sheng held on tightly to the handrail to avoid falling.

Half a second later, the second AIM-120 air-to-air missile grazed the highest point of the helicopter's barrel roll trajectory, but missed.

"I go."

Even someone as mentally strong as Li Sheng couldn't help but feel his eyelids twitch. The AIM-120 air-to-air missile was loaded with 22 kilograms of high-explosive fragments, and the Sirsky helicopter still had nearly a thousand liters of fuel left.

If you get hit, it's considered a favor from the system if they leave the player with a whole corpse.

"here you go,"

Li Sheng breathed a sigh of relief and patted Zhongtian Beiji on the shoulder, "If Zobayan had your skills, Kobe wouldn't have crashed."

"I was lucky too."

Zhongtian Beiji was still shaken and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

Thanks to Whale Song and Prometheus for their open-source high-fidelity VR technology, he often plays flight simulation games in his spare time to relax, flying various airplanes, helicopters, gliders, and FPV drones.

After catching his breath, Li Sheng picked up the walkie-talkie and contacted the Oracles, "Hey, we were just attacked by two AIM-120 air-to-air missiles. The US military has been deployed, most likely from the US military base in San Juan."

The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, located in the eastern Greater Antilles of the Caribbean Sea, is one of the autonomous territories of the United States.

On the east side of San Juan International Airport in Puerto Rico, there is a U.S. military base, where the 156th Airlift Wing of the National Guard is deployed, mainly equipped with C-130 Hercules transport aircraft, C-17 transport aircraft, and various fighter jets.

It is only 135 kilometers away from Little St. James Island, or Epstein Island, as the crow flies.

Just as players suspected, the SVIP on this island wields immense power, capable of directly summoning the National Guard, bypassing the Pentagon, and launching missiles directly.

If they can get the National Guard, then it's not unreasonable to get the Coast Guard, or even the airborne troops, in the future.

Fortunately, the players had blown up a shuttle bus on the airport runway beforehand, blocking the runway.

"Our airport runway"

The intermittent voice of the divine oracle came through the walkie-talkie, mixed with noisy radio waves. Before Li Sheng could hear it clearly, two more points of light lit up in his left rear view.

What can I say?
The player was also relieved, as the overload limit of a civilian helicopter is 2.5G, and it was impossible to avoid two terminal active radar-locked missiles flying at Mach 4.

"Prepare for a crash."

Zhongtian Beiji shouted, pushed the control stick forward, and as the plane plunged downwards, he unbuckled his seatbelt, opened the cabin door, and, seizing the opportunity, jumped out, leaping into the lush canopy of a tall tree and hanging from it like a monkey.
As for Li Sheng, he grabbed the descent rope, descended rapidly, and swung forcefully towards the rear of the helicopter.

Gray Rain, in its slime form, quickly transformed into a whip, which snapped precisely onto the vines in mid-air, preventing Li Sheng from falling further.

"call"

Hearing the sound of the helicopter crashing and exploding ahead, and seeing the towering flames, Li Sheng breathed a sigh of relief. He carefully grabbed the vines, slowly moved to the treetop, and climbed down the trunk.

As soon as his feet touched the ground again, Li Sheng took out his walkie-talkie and contacted the oracle, but no matter how hard he tried to decipher it, he could only hear words such as "Beware of supernatural monsters."

Immediately afterwards, the walkie-talkie started making a continuous static sound and could no longer communicate.

"What's going on here?" Li Sheng frowned and turned to look south.

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

At the same moment, the Joker, who had just occupied the airport and was feeling smug, was pushing the Oracle, who was sitting in a wheelchair, as they fled down the hillside, panting heavily.

Down the mountain, a bear-shaped monster, nearly six meters tall with flames burning in its eyes, clearly not any creature from Earth's history, roared and easily pushed aside the wrecked shuttle bus like building blocks.

A runway was cleared for the airport.

"This is a battlefield of treacherous trenches. I knew the mission wouldn't be this simple. The reward pool is still growing!"

The oracle roared silently: the largest bear species ever to have appeared in the history of Earth was the South American short-faced bear, whose fossils show that it weighed 1600-1800 kilograms, roughly equivalent to nine sons.

That bear-like monster was at least four times larger than the short-faced bear, able to devour a cow in one bite and a whole liangzi in two bites—as for why a cow only needed one bite while a liangzi required two, that was naturally because a clove of garlic had to be added between the bites.

In short, the Demon Bear's survivability far exceeds that of the weakened players.
This world itself possesses supernatural powers.

(End of this chapter)