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"Boom!" A burst of flames exploded on the side of the platform, followed by a second burst. The continuous flames almost completely stripped away the lower layer of the platform, and the huge wheels rolled and jumped on the ice field.

The bomb's power was enough to destroy the lower level, completely destroying the landship's power and running gear, as well as the cargo hold and crew quarters. However, the upper level remained intact. Either there wasn't enough time to install bombs on the upper level, or the intrusion of the evil spirits severed some of the wiring, preventing the upper level from exploding.

Of course, there is also the possibility that the purpose of the bomb was to destroy the landship from falling into enemy hands, rather than destroying everything on the landship. They also hoped that they could successfully counterattack and recapture the landship, and destroying its movement and power would be enough.

“Continue exploring, but be careful this time. Turn all the detectors up to the maximum. We were lucky this time; someone found a hole under the floor. We might not be so lucky next time.” The person who found the bomb was a professional scavenger who dug up various ruins in the Kazdel Desert. As soon as he reached the location of the bomb, his professional instincts told him that there was a hidden compartment underneath.

I initially thought it was some kind of treasure, but after managing to get someone to come and take a look, all I found inside was a cube the size of a backpack, and a working monitor displaying the exact numbers 15:17...

"The demons have all come out!" A large number of demons seemed to realize they were under attack, and the blasted holes allowed those demons that had difficulty moving inside the ship to crawl out. However, on the open ground, these demons, which were not particularly large, did not last long against the concentrated firepower.

"Continue operations, eliminate the remaining enemy, assess the damage, and recover renewable materials."

Chapter Fifty-Four: The Fall

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The bombs weren't just in the bottom compartment; in fact, it seems that bombs were planted throughout the entire platform, but only those in the bottom compartment actually took effect.

Judging from the photos, it seems that the reason it has been able to hold on until now is that the bottom compartments use more stable synthetic jade parts and Originium batteries. These are things that can replenish their energy from the environment through radiation from other high-energy particles, which is why they have been able to hold on until now.

This characteristic of actively participating in quantum field effects, proactively interacting with other particles, and playing a unique role and influence in the process of energy transfer, absorption, and release is an intrinsic property of Originium particles, and therefore, it will not change with the passage of time.

This means that the detonation power source and the explosive itself of these bombs can maintain considerable, or even extremely long-term, stability, comparable to nuclear fuel cells, which rely on particle decay for sustenance.

However, even with this loss, the cargo in the lower deck and a lot of valuable equipment were all destroyed, including the two spare reactors that had not yet been dismantled, as well as the largest shipboard platform nuclear fusion reactor.

"It's truly a pitiful sight..." Kroos, the most experienced mechanic in all of Kazdel in terms of scavenging and repairing junk, strolled through the ruins of the collapsed warehouse. Scrapped pipes and charred, deformed parts were scattered everywhere on the ground and walls. "Has the damage report been compiled yet?"

"Preliminary statistics have been completed. More than 30 boxes of unidentified mechanical and electronic equipment have been completely destroyed. Near the upper production workshop, due to the shock and power surge from the explosion, four rare gas protection systems were damaged, one high-precision ion etching machine was damaged, and two photoresist production lines suffered serious equipment loss. We have not yet found the missing parts."

"Was it taken away by evil spirits?"

"That's roughly it. The evil spirit will envelop part of the equipment, and under the previous stress response, some things will inevitably be damaged."

“Understood. Prioritize salvaging the repairable parts,” Kroos said, ticking off several items on the list. “Any new discoveries?”

"The team is currently clearing the upper lair. No new discoveries have been made yet. Various electronic laboratory devices have been packed and disassembled, but due to the extended time, most have suffered severe damage, some even rendering them unusable." "What about the upper demonic lair?"

"The cleanup is still ongoing, but it's not a big problem. The biggest demons were alerted by the bombs and have all been dealt with. The remaining targets are all easy to handle."

"Hmm," Kroos drew a few lines on the terminal, "Let's leave it at that for now and continue the dismantling and recycling operation. The equipment here is very important to us." It can fill a lot of Kazdel's high-precision design and production capacity, especially those high-precision ion etching equipment. If it can be repaired, it will be a huge boost.

Meanwhile, the clearing of the underground garage and other nests continued. After several days of clearing, the Rainbow Team, nearly exhausted, finally completed the initial clearing of the protective zone. A total of eight large jamming devices and one jamming device hastily made by the Polar Behemoth entered the final calibration stage. Meanwhile, in the sky...

As an aviation strategist, Adnia lay half-reclined in the cockpit, receiving intuitive sensory signals from the neural access points on her full-body protective suit. The feeling of the wind blowing across the fuselage was very comfortable.

The polar snowstorms have stopped for some time, and the clear weather will continue, but no one knows how long it will last. After all, the closer you get to the polar regions, the closer you get to a storm reservoir.

Black crystalline forests spread across the gray earth, reflecting the sunlight in a dazzling display. The large ones, as big as small hills, are nests, while the smaller ones are cemeteries. Further away, an aurora-like curtain forms intersecting walls, the illusory light created by the friction of high-energy particles with the atmosphere.

"Swift No. 3, reporting your situation."

“Everything is normal, the temperature and weather are normal.” The Sarkaz girl moved her head slightly, and the curved cockpit displayed new data and ground images. “Nothing strange is happening on the ground either.”

"Be vigilant. We predict that the resurgence and redistribution of demonic forces will occur within the next two days."

“Received,” Adnia said, gripping the control stick and slowly pulling down the accelerator, slightly reducing the speed.

The colossal aircraft also lowered its altitude, allowing the spherical camera equipment at the bottom to better observe the ground. "Command, I've spotted something... a little different in area E-8." Adnia climbed back up, the aircraft slightly veering and circling the area. "It seems to be some kind of opening."

"Receiving image feedback... Please wait."

"Wait, command post, is something glowing in the pit?" Adnia noticed that there seemed to be some kind of reflective object in the large hole.

"Stay alert, don't get close..."

With a deafening roar, the aircraft began to tremble violently, making a series of clanging sounds. "Command, I've been hit! I've been hit! Repeat, I've been hit!" The screen displayed a barrage of warning messages. Based on the neural pathways, it seemed that the aircraft had been hit in the wing, but the injury was not serious.

Adonia quickly switched several devices and emergency systems on and off, regained its posture, and pulled up to a higher angle, followed by a second attack.

"Command, there is anti-aircraft fire on the ground!"

"Can the target be observed?"

"I don't know, they're hiding in the pit. Damn it, who has had their mind read?" Unseen attacks kept piercing through Adonia's aircraft. Even though she had increased her speed as much as possible, she was hit in several places. Fortunately, the War Knight MKII's fuselage was sturdy enough, otherwise it would have crashed by now.

"Adonia, mission terminated, return to base!"

"Received!" The aircraft shut down the abdominal observation platform, activated the afterburner, and switched to high-speed mode. As large amounts of LCL fluid gurgled and poured into the cockpit, the aircraft flew towards a higher altitude, preparing to enter supersonic mode to escape the reconnaissance zone. The next round would involve switching to a cheaper drone to check the situation.

"Boom!" Another thunderous roar, a bright arc of electricity grazed the side of the aircraft, and then all the screens went black instantly. Then Adnia felt a sharp pain as if someone had broken her legs. The damage control report said that one engine had been damaged by a powerful electrical surge, and the other engine had also malfunctioned. The shutdown of the two rocket engines made the acceleration process of the entire aircraft slow and difficult.

"Damn it, the reconnaissance pod I brought—oh no—command center, you're in trouble!"

A dense black torrent flowed underground. Near the defensive line, the ground bulged and then cracked, spewing out large amounts of black demonic structures like gushing oil, with viscous black lumps of flesh slamming and crackling on the ground.

"Swift 3, hurry up and return to base, faster!" The aircraft swept across the sky, leaving behind a vast, turbid current.

Meanwhile, in the office area, "Ready?" Looking up at the antenna tower-like structure on the roof, "OK, turn on the anti-phase wave jammer!" Power surged from the generator, and then the ancient equipment started up layer by layer. "Hurry up, you old thing!"

The black waves in the distance were already visible to the naked eye, and this time the demons began to appear in the distance with weapons and armor structures, as if they had been beaten up several times and finally managed to glean some usable information.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!" A volley of shells swept overhead and landed in the waves, stirring up futile splashes and flames. "Click!" The last antenna was ready. "Activate!"

Silently, an invisible anti-phase wave spread out, and the demon at the front seemed to crash into a transparent wall, splashing black water everywhere. The demon at the front was in a hurry to escape, but the demons behind could not stop and crashed into the one in front. The large demon covered in flames crushed these sub-deities, and juices splashed everywhere.

"It's in effect!"

"The effect wasn't very good; the blocking distance was almost half of what we expected..."

As they were speaking, the high-powered ancient interference device suddenly emitted a noise, the intensity of the anti-phase wave dropped sharply, and the evil spirits were visibly approaching. Just as they were about to cross the withdrawal line, these ancient artifacts finally withstood this first activation in a thousand years and maintained a stable state.

Meanwhile, the demons inside the lair, which was covered by a large interference field, also became restless and abandoned the lair, running away, especially in the garage area.

"It's like ants moving house!" All sorts of monsters poured out from various passages, only to be stopped by gunfire and cannonballs. Shield guards in heavy armor swept the startled demonic offspring from the ship's side until an elevator was pierced by the torrent of flesh and blood, revealing a real demon with hundreds of eyes.

"Fire!" The main cannon, almost pressed against its face, along with a bunch of secondary cannons and rocket launchers, fired simultaneously. Instantly, the upper half of the demon was sliced ​​off, and black liquid and foul-smelling blood splattered hundreds of meters away.

The base was then subjected to barrages of various light and heavy shipborne weapons, visibly shredded, torn apart, and charred. As the last remnants of the demon were reduced to ashes, the newly produced jammers on the mothership's ground side were activated, supplementing the jamming field strength to some extent.

"Why don't you make more jammers and then pave a highway for them?"

The jammer can only instill fear and retreat in evil spirits, not actually stop them. If a passage is laid out, the evil spirits will ignore the interference field and forcibly invade and destroy the jammer.

"Furthermore, the jammer consumes a lot of energy. Our shipborne version can only block the invasion of evil spirits, while these were produced after the ship was docked. It would be best to directly use the facilities left by our ancestors to repair them." Moreover, many of the jammer's core components are quite difficult to produce.

"Command, I'm in trouble this time!" Adnia trailed black smoke as she approached. The demons blocked outside the interference barrier continued to attack her, seemingly some kind of arc weapon. Now, many of the devices were malfunctioning.

"The ejection system seems to be malfunctioning. I'm trying my best to control it," Adnia said, biting her lower lip. However, the more she tried to control it, the slower the flight speed became, and the easier it was to be hit. Finally, one of the wings could not withstand the weight and tore off the fuselage.

"Help! Help! I can't control my flight attitude! Help!" Boom! The aircraft crashed through the crystal forest, carving a long path on the ground, and slowly came to a stop while spinning.

"Send rescue personnel immediately!" The place where she fell was very close to the safe zone. If it were within the pre-set area, it would be right in the safe zone. But now it was a distance away from the safe zone, about 50 to 60 meters away, which seemed like an insurmountable chasm.

"Cough cough!" The crash made it hard for Adnia to breathe. A cloud of foam rose in the ruptured cockpit as LCL fluid leaked rapidly. This fluid protected her from dying from the impact of the crash.

All the system screens were either off or mostly off, leaving only meaningless flashing. Adnia laboriously reached out and opened the side locker, breaking free from the shackles of the neural link wires. She gripped the pistol handle tightly and waited in terror for her fate in the cabin, which was only lit by dim red emergency lights.

The sound of demonic limbs crawling across the cockpit shell was clearly audible. The armored layer outside the double-layered cockpit shell effectively protected the pilot from being torn apart or captured by the demons immediately, but her fear was like a bright and alluring flame attracting a large number of demons closer.

"Don't overthink it. Calm down, calm down. You haven't been directly targeted and stared at by the demon yet. You're still safe. Take a deep breath and think about some happy things, like delicious food or beautiful scenery, as the manual says."

"I, I'll try my best!" The pilot took a deep breath with difficulty. The internal air circulation system seemed to have malfunctioned. In the stuffy and suffocating cockpit, the deep breaths only made her sweat profusely. It felt as if she could inhale a large amount of fear through her nose.

"Rat-a-tat-tat!" The faint sound of gunfire could be heard. It was not easy to train pilots who could fly War Knights. The doctor dispatched as many rescue personnel as possible, but breaking through a large number of demons without harming the pilots inside the severely damaged War Knights was too difficult.

"Squeak~" Finally, the demon sensed Adnia's overwhelming fear. Its flesh groped along the seams of the cockpit's outer armor, slowly tearing through the sturdy armor. However, the process was slow, and the demon was very patient. The crack widened little by little, and light streamed through the horrifying face. "Ah!!!"

"Bang!" Gunfire ricocheted inside the cockpit, bullets shattering the last layer of protective glass and embedding themselves in the demon's terrifying body. However, they served no practical purpose other than driving the demon into utter hysteria.

The Rainbow Team, on the other hand, is getting close to the crash site.

"Cross cover, Lord!"

"Understood!" The machine gun swept across the wreckage, attracting the attention of some of the demons. They began to try to read the minds of these people, but only found a blank. This anomaly made the demons stand up, abandoning their prey that had been completely captured by fear, and turn to look at the Rainbow Squad.

This is why the Doctor sent them to clean up the lair. The demons cannot locate them using fear. In previous operations, they had difficulty alerting a large number of demons, making the infiltration process safer. If it were ordinary operators, their visibility would be as conspicuous as fireflies in the dark.

However, Rainbow Squad also attracts more aggro than any other target. Demons are more interested in targets that are completely immune to being read and will try to capture them more often than other targets.

"Hey, you ugly thing, come with me!" Flash clapped his hands and ran in another direction. The demons that were entrenched on the wreckage twisted their limbs and chased after him, while the other smaller demons continued to try to tear open the armor.

"Bang!" Ash, holding the gun with both hands, quickly shot down the target in front of him. He ripped open the broken metal and found the poor girl inside, completely dominated by terror, constantly pulling the trigger, but there was no ammunition in the chamber.

"Hey! Hey! Calm down!" Ash seized the opportunity to grab her gun, pinned her hands down, and quickly checked her pupils and wounds. "Not bad, severe fear stress reaction." Ash took out a pneumatic syringe from the pouch on his leg and gave Adnia a sedative, then forcefully restrained the Sarkaz girl and carried her out.

"Give me a hand, this guy is struggling like a bull!" Even in power armor, you can feel the obvious strength of the other party. So, what kind of monsters are Terrans? This little girl makes Shuanghua feel like she is competing with a bull from her own ranch.

Fortunately, the girl was eventually subdued by the power armor, and the sedative gradually took effect, calming her down. "Good, we've taken out a pilot."

"At least her life was saved." Even on Earth, her condition would probably only warrant psychological intervention, and if it didn't work, she would have no choice but to retire.

"Retreat! Those things are back!" As if realizing their prey had been captured, the demons began to charge towards them. Fortunately, the Rainbow Squad was completely unaffected by their fear impact and turned to run towards the safe zone without the slightest hesitation. In the end, the demons could only rage helplessly outside the safe zone for a while before dispersing because they could no longer sense any of their prey's presence.

"Medical area, a critically injured patient infected with demonic energy. Immediately begin anti-infection treatment. Close contact with demonic energy has caused pupil dilation and the onset of neural distortion!" Warfarin, with a grave expression, jogged alongside the stretcher into the medical room.

"Tie her up, don't let her move!" Adnia struggled violently on the treatment bed. The close contact with the demon had destroyed and infected her mind and nervous system, and rebuilding them would not be easy.

However, warfarin can only address the organic lesions to the best of his ability. The neuromorphic cell aberrations caused by the near-field demonic fear field can be neutralized simply by the anti-infection agent made from white crystals. However, subsequent treatment will depend on the progress of her psychological therapy. If she is unlucky, she will have no choice but to retire and go back to farming.

"2ml diluted with saline solution, 1:10, quick!" Warfarin held her down, biting down on her neck, the anesthetic fluid secreted by his teeth rapidly injected. His assistant had already prepared the medication. "Intravenous injection, all the way in!"

After the anti-infectant was injected, Adnia's breathing stabilized a little. Next came the routine treatment and physical therapy phase, which would be very complicated and troublesome. This was because in the era without jammers, fighting demons often meant you needed two armies, one to deal with the demons and one to deal with the former.

Chapter Fifty-Five: A Short Break

Chapter 55

Nightmares, endless nightmares. In this recurring nightmare, Adonia felt as if she were in an inescapable swamp, letting the stench of rotting mud engulf her.

My bleak childhood has long been shattered into fragments I can no longer recall. All I can remember are the fleeing crowds, the burning and collapsing houses, and those horned, ferocious figures wielding weapons, swaying in the flames and lunging at every survivor.

Her mother's body lay beneath the rubble, her dull, gray-white eyes staring intently at her, like invisible claws gripping her heart. Just then, an even more violent tremor forced Adnia to barely free herself from the mire.

The Polar Beast slowly entered the anchorage area. Its tracks rolled over the frost-covered ground, causing the ice to crack and the ship to rock uncontrollably. The ship was more rocky and uncomfortable on land than at sea.

"here it is……"

"Medical room, you're lucky. No amputation, and nothing else will be missing," the Sarkaz girl in her nurse's uniform said calmly. "How are you feeling?"

"Uh~" Adnia looked at herself with an expression of not knowing what to say. They were classmates in the same intermediate academy, but one of them entered the promising Aviation Mage Academy, while the other failed by one point and seemed to have gone to the medical school. Although she didn't know why she was on the same ship, she had never seen her before.

"To be honest, I'm not so envious now, otherwise I would be lying here." The Sarkaz girl looked at her old classmate, who was likely about to enter retirement, with pity, knowing she might never be able to return to the world above the clouds.