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Chapter 496 Takeaway
Piles of blue smoke poured down like waterfalls, creating violent air convection that formed a gale that swept across the wasteland.

Even a fool could tell that such brightly colored smoke was harmful to the human body. Reyes immediately took out a glass bottle, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, from his backpack. The bottle was filled with seawater, and a wooden sailing warship flying a skull and crossbones pirate flag was sitting still inside.

boom!
Reyes smashed the glass bottle, and a torrent of seawater poured out like an aquarium collapsing. The pirate ship model grew rapidly in the wind, expanding to its normal size.

"Get on the Black Pearl quickly."

Reyes shouted and jumped onto the pirate ship first. White Horse Tombstone carried the astronaut like a sack of potatoes and followed the others onto the deck.

The seawater that had been poured out did not seep into the soil, but instead condensed at the bottom of the ship, supporting it.

As the sails billowed to their limit, the pirate ship sped away at a speed comparable to a speedboat.

None of the four players were novices, and they glided effortlessly across the turbulent deck. Claudia, who had switched back to human form, watched the azure smoke descending from the sky, estimating its speed as it fell, and casually patted the pirate ship's railing. "This looks like something from our guild?"

"Yes."

Reyes nodded. The Jalisco Cartel, as one of the largest criminal organizations in Mexico, has a wide range of businesses, including but not limited to smuggling contraband, illegal mining, human trafficking, human smuggling, telecommunications fraud, money laundering, etc., with annual revenue of up to 15 billion US dollars.

After deducting the costs of recruiting soldiers, bribing officials, winning over local people, and funding adult higher education (referring to assassin training camps), all of such enormous profits flowed into the hands of the organization's high-ranking members who were considered superhuman.

Furthermore, due to the chaotic situation in Mexico, the local superhumans live in constant fear of being assassinated by their rivals, which makes their willingness and ability to consume particularly high.

The Black Pearl is a high-end flagship ship that Reyes ordered from the Witches' Alliance guild at a high price. It looks like a sailing wooden ship, but it actually integrates a large number of magical technologies.

Reyes placed his hands on the helm and rhythmically turned the wooden handle to input commands.

The wooden planks at the bottom of the boat automatically sprang open to the sides, revealing twelve high-powered engines of the Mercury speedboat. Magical runes appeared on the surface of each engine, which roared and the propeller blades spun so fast that they were just afterimages.

hum-

The pirate ship suddenly accelerated and flew close to the ground.

The bow compressed the air in front of it, creating a visible white compressed airflow. Reyes remained unfazed, put on his goggles, and simultaneously remotely controlled the ropes around the deck, which snaked over to secure his hands, feet, and torso, allowing him to continue standing and controlling the rudder.

Claudia stroked the long handle of her scythe, and crimson blood flowed from the blade, congealing beneath her to form a blood throne, stabilizing her stance.

The white horse tombstone stands firm in the gale, with the astronaut still on its shoulder.

As for Li Sheng, he and Hui Yu, who weighs over 800 kilograms, held hands, and each used their other hand to hold tennis rackets dipped in soapy water and blow bubbles in the airflow.

Are you two SpongeBob and Patrick? How old are you?

Unaware that Gray Rain was actually less than two years old, Claudia took a deep breath, took out a finely crafted telescope from her backpack, and looked at the blue smoke slowly descending high in the sky.

Its components include heavy metal particles, crystalline powder, and a highly corrosive acidic gas.

Mid- to high-level superhumans all carry fully enclosed heavy-duty chemical protective suits in their backpacks, with lead plates or even tungsten-based composite materials that can withstand gamma rays added inside, allowing them to walk on flat ground at nuclear leak sites.

but.
A dense cacophony of calls, like flocks of birds, echoed from high above. Crystalline particles within the smoke, propelled by the wind, hurtled at high speeds against the towering stone pillars, leaving behind a dense network of pits on their surfaces.

The pirate ship had already reached its maximum speed, but it still couldn't break through the wasteland before the smoke reached the ground.

Upon seeing this, Reyes immediately slowed down, punched the rudder, and activated all the protective magic arrays.

In an instant, the area around the pirate ship lit up with a dazzling array of colors, like the RGB lighting effect of a Razer mouse, and withstood the impact of the dust and smoke in the wind.

Claudia also acted at the right time, tearing open a magic scroll to form a thin film of bubbles on the surface of the ship and around everyone to isolate the acidic gas.

The group remained tense, waiting silently. Finally, the blue smoke descended to the ground, instantly carbonizing and shattering the withered weeds in its wake, and even corroding the soil below, creating countless tiny pits.

The water bubble membrane makes a rustling sound as it is being eroded, and it can temporarily block acidic gases.

Just in case, Claudia switched back to her bat form and asked the white horse tombstone in a soft voice, "What did you see in the metal pipe?" "Backpacks, a lot of astronaut backpacks."

The white horse tombstone removed an action camera from its chest, pressed a button, and projected the image into the air.

She had just climbed to the top and opened the metal gate to take a look, and found that the giant pipe was piled with hundreds of broken and rusty astronaut life support backpacks.

Each backpack is covered with clusters of sparkling blue crystals.

When the white horse tombstone was placed inside the pipe, it appeared to cause a resonance, causing the crystal clusters to shatter and release toxic fumes.

Li Sheng said thoughtfully, "If the density of astronaut backpacks in every pipe of the dome is the same, then there are at least seven or eight hundred thousand of them here."

"So many?" Gray Rain was surprised at first, then realized, "If you take all the backpacks with you, just the precious metal scraps inside could make you millions on Zhuanzhuan and Xianyu, right?"

If you're already a player, why would you care about a few million?

Claudia couldn't help but say, "Recycling the backpack is not as valuable as recycling the metal pipes. As long as you can cut the pipes off, they are all extraordinary materials."

That's just talk. In the real world, even C130 grade super-strong concrete that can withstand 155mm shells only has a compressive strength of 130 MPa.

The special building materials used in the killing field have a compressive strength that can reach 1500MPa or higher, twice that of titanium alloys, making them quite difficult for even high-level superhumans to dismantle.

"Really? That's great."

Li Sheng and Hui Yu instantly pulled out a flame cutter and an angle grinder, excitedly preparing to take to the sky and begin demolition.

"Please stop using your supernatural powers, you two."

Reyes quickly stopped them, saying that once they had cut off a complete section of the pipe with an angle grinder, they could play GTA6.

Suddenly, Reyes seemed to remember something and asked hesitantly, "Mr. Ant, do you have a device that allows you to move at high speed? Why don't you take us straight out of this area?"

He had also watched online videos explaining the London attacks and knew that ants possessed the ability to travel 700 kilometers at the speed of light in a single trip.

"Yes, but not necessary."

Li Sheng shook his head. The floating engine consumed a lot of spiritual energy each time it was released, and the arrow range of the [Guiding Radar] was limited, making it very easy to go out of range.

Traveling ten or twenty kilometers is manageable, but if you don't see the terrain ahead clearly, and you travel hundreds of kilometers at once, you can easily end up in deadly areas such as volcanoes, liquid nitrogen pools, dry toilets, or even the principal's air-conditioned office.

"I have a better way."

Li Sheng took out five levitation engine modules, attached them to the surface of the ship, and the pirate ship immediately floated in the air, propelled by the Mercury engine, and floated into the sky.

The acidic fumes, being denser than air, all settled at the bottom, creating a protective barrier near the highest dome that was immune to corrosion.

"Phew." The white horse tombstone breathed a sigh of relief and gave a genuine thumbs-up. "Well done."

Reyes nodded in approval, but his eyes flickered slightly.

No wonder this ant was marked as an extremely dangerous target by the FBI's Paranormal Incidents Unit. Reyes could think of several uses for that anti-gravity ability alone.

Imagine filling a 10,000-ton ocean-going cargo ship with concrete, taking it to a near-Earth orbit 1,000 kilometers away, and letting it fall freely. The kinetic energy generated when it hits the ground would be equivalent to 120,000 tons of TNT, eight times that of the Hiroshima atomic bomb.

America's missile defense systems are mostly concentrated on the West Coast, and advanced superhumans prefer to live in bustling cities on both the East and West Coasts. If this 10,000-ton cargo ship were to crash into the central United States, it would be virtually impossible to intercept.

The key is that ants can move at the speed of light, making them difficult to defend against; it's like one of them is an intercontinental ballistic missile.

The absurdity lies in the fact that this guy is incredibly audacious, actually elbowing the Clock Tower Guild single-handedly.
If an American gamer is arguing online with Ant (for example, accusing StarCraft Anvil of shortchanging customers and cheating consumers), while simultaneously ordering a local pizza delivery via their phone, then Ant's cargo ship meteorite might arrive before their pizza.

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(End of this chapter)