Ark Journey

The temperature here is getting lower and lower, and even the surrounding environment is as warm as spring compared to it.

The earth turned into a cage, and the solid ice that broke out of the ground tightly surrounded the inner guard and the black land under his feet.

"caught you."

Frost Star, who was severely exhausted, breathed a sigh of relief, and then huge ice cones began to appear above the battle formation and smashed down into the cage made of solid ice.

The trapped inner guard swung his sword at the icicle in front of him, but his movements were not as sharp as before, and the machete that could usually cut through most things could only cut the damn thing in half. When he wanted to draw the sword to cut again, the broken part had already been repaired.

Xue Zhi, who had been watching from the sidelines, noticed something interesting: some dark colors that were slowly climbing up the icicles that made up the cage.

"The erosion of the country has slowed down? It seems that low temperatures can inhibit the speed of their spread."

The inner guard who had capsized in the gutter could never have imagined that he would encounter such strong resistance in such a place. It was almost impossible for an ordinary infected warlock to trap him to death with numbers.

It’s a pity that he’s now facing a very talented and powerful spellcaster and the cream of the crop of the entire Yeti team.

But even so, it still takes a lot of effort to kill an inner guard. He is fighting a desperate battle and has already broken the third ice cone that was thrown at him. Moreover, the erosion of the country is getting worse. Perhaps it won't be long before this cage is damaged.

Up to now, the inner guards have not actually suffered any harm.

Estimating that the mobile city had already gone beyond the country's impact range, Xue Zhi patted Faust's shoulder.

"That's about it, Faust, let's finish him off."

Faust, who had been waiting for a long time, raised his gun impatiently.

"Yes."

After a simple aim, a gunshot rang out, and Faust hardly felt the recoil.

The inner guard who was fighting desperately below suddenly fell backwards, and a large piece of his helmet was missing out of thin air. The evil fragments that came into contact with the real world immediately began to react, and the gray kingdom arrived.

A gray hemisphere began to expand with the cage as its center, swallowing up everything it touched, whether it was ice or earth.

"Played well."

After praising Faust, Xue Zhi looked at the still expanding country and said:

“It’s really scary no matter how many times I watch it.”

"This is?"

Froststar wasn't sure what was happening yet, but her spells were ready and she was worried about a surprise attack from the enemy.

However, Xue Zhi's voice above her head dispelled her concerns.

"The target has been solved. Let's deal with those two high-speed warships. They have been fighting for so long. It's time for them to fight back."

At the same moment when the country broke out, the two high-speed warships stopped firing. They used smoke launchers to create a wall of smoke to conceal their whereabouts and are currently trying their best to turn and seek retreat.

Petrov's hands were covered in sweat as he held onto the captain's chair. He couldn't imagine that the man was gone just like that.

"What the hell are these infected? Retreat! Retreat!"

Chapter 60: Capture of High-Speed Battleship

Through the thick smoke, Xue Zhi understood their thoughts.

"Want to run?"

A gust of wind blew by, and the smoke screen that had just formed was blown away.

Looking at the suddenly clear scenery on the monitor, Petrov, who thought the wind was naturally formed, leaned back in his chair and sighed silently in his heart.

[Ursus, are you unwilling to help us now? ]

The operator's report brought Petrov back to reality.

"Captain! The enemy attack is forming!"

Petrov noticed that a huge ice cone was forming on the platform protruding from the mobile city, so he perked up and gave the order promptly.

"Activate defense mode, transfer the energy over, let vehicle number two go first, we will cover the rear! Everyone, prepare to resist the impact!"

"Yes!"

Petrov still vividly remembered the vibration of the car body when it was just scratched and the situation where he almost lost control. Now he had to face it head-on. All he could do was hold on to the handrail beside him and pray to His Majesty the Emperor.

As the order was given from inside, Xue Zhi saw that the vehicle with the huge cannon suddenly slowed down, and the unknown components on top of the car body suddenly began to turn and emit a faint light, and then a layer of translucent shield covered the car body.

"'Todai Shoku'! Energy shield!?"

An ice cone hit it, and there seemed to be nothing here, but it broke into two parts in mid-air as if it had knocked down something hard. At the same time, the translucent shield flashed and went out, and a few bright electric sparks flashed on the body of the car, and black smoke came out, but it was still moving.

Xue Zhi, who had seen everything, was no longer shocked.

"Ah? That's it? I was counting on you to take a few more hits, but you could only take one? And it broke right away."

Petrov, who managed to keep his balance after a violent shaking, gave another order.

"Begin maneuvering! If the enemy hits us with just one shot, we'll have to go and see the emperors!"

However, how maneuverable can such a large thing be, especially when the shield is instantly overloaded and energy is running rampant in the pipes of the vehicle body.

Froststar, who gathered the strength of the entire Snow Monster Squad of 500 people, smashed out another ice cone, and this time she chose the target that was a little farther away.

The one nearby is not in a hurry. Sparks and black smoke are constantly coming out of the car body, and it is obvious that it can't run far.

"go."

[Great! Maybe if so many of us cast spells together, we can quickly get rid of that weirdo.]

The ice cone cut through the air and flew away with tremendous kinetic energy.

Looking at the ice cone flying quickly over his own battleship, Petrov realized that its target was another battleship and shouted.

"Oops!"

There was a sound of metal tearing, and the warship, which was turning at high speed, was hit on the right rear side. For a moment, the heavy body of the ship bounced high up, and when it landed, a large number of components were broken from the impact.

At the same time, the huge kinetic energy transmitted to the car body by the ice cone destroyed its balance. The big guy without a set of tracks stumbled for a while before finally stopping steadily. Thick black smoke and flames poured out from the wound.

"It looks like the penetration capability is sufficient, but it's a pity that there was no explosion, otherwise this high-speed battleship would not be able to survive."

Amidst the fire and smoke, the crew members opened the roof and side doors and planned to evacuate on foot, but they were so dizzy that they fell headfirst into the snow as soon as they climbed out. Fortunately, the snow was thick enough, otherwise they would have fallen hard.

Xue Zhi stretched out her hand and grabbed both the car and the people and pulled them over here from a distance of more than 1 kilometer.

"Still want to run? Come here."

During this time, Xue Zhi used her mental power to scan the car body and pulled out an unconscious person who was trapped by the transformation mechanism, and at the same time healed his injuries.

After making sure that there was no one inside, Xue Zhi put out the burning fire and blocked the engine and gun barrel with ice.

"The shells are all gone? That's fine, at least we can bring them to the mobile city safely."

By the time he finished doing all this, Frost Star had already intercepted another high-speed warship.

So Xue Zhi grabbed that one as well.

"It's done."

After using her mental power to scan a large area around her to make sure there were no more enemies, Xue Zhi jumped down from the wall with Faust.

"Brother Xue, this..."

While falling, Faust took the weapon whose name he didn't know yet and planned to return it to Xue Zhi.

Xue Zhi didn't take it, but handed over another holster instead.

"This weapon is called a gun. You are good at shooting, so I'll give it to you. Try to study it carefully. Its characteristics are very interesting. Remember to use it to protect everyone in the Reunion Movement."

"Thank you, Brother Xue!"

Faust was very happy to get the new weapon, and he had already started thinking about how to test it.

After landing, Xue Zhi found an open place to put down the two high-speed warships and a dozen people that had been towed over.

Next to him was the Patriot who was leading the team to surround this area, and behind the two of them was Frost Star who was rushing over.

Xue Zhi pointed at the two damaged high-speed battleships and asked:

"Patriot, do you know anything about this weapon?"

The Patriot shook his head.

"The battles I led were mainly infantry. Although we sometimes received artillery support, I have never seen them at such a close distance."

"alright."

The soldiers lying on the ground had just recovered from the terrible feeling of their battleship being destroyed and being forced to fly.

Petrov, who was helped to stand up by a soldier, saw the hill-like patriots at first sight, and then he realized that he had been captured.

"you..."

"what!"

Before he could say anything, he was interrupted by a scream from a soldier next to him.

This attracted most people's attention.

At the Patriot's signal, several military doctors from the Integration Movement approached the soldier struggling and rolling on the ground, and gave a diagnosis after a brief examination.

"Acute mineral sickness, should I give him the medicine directly?"

"Use it. We don't have the habit of abusing prisoners."

"Yes."

The people around were stopped by Xue Zhi's telekinesis, although only one or two people wanted to rush over to stop the military doctor.

After being fed a tube of purified water, the soldier's condition visibly stabilized.

Seeing that everything was fine here, Xue Zhi turned her attention to Petrov. The man was dressed like an officer and even had someone supporting him.

"Okay, now we can talk, right?"

"We have nothing to talk about with the infected."

Petrov was unsure when he said this, because the people in front of him were more than the average infected people he had imagined, and he didn't know how to save his own life and the lives of his men.

He had just taken a quick look around and found that almost all of them had survived the battle. However, Petrov believed that his men would rather die on the battlefield than be killed after being captured.

Chapter 61: Preliminary Research

Seeing that the officer was so determined, Xue Zhi narrowed her eyes.

"Tough guy?"

And this simple action gave Petrov the chills.

The patriot standing aside called out to the people around him:

"Lock these people up first, and let our interrogator try it out later."

Xue Zhi looked at him in confusion.

"There is such a profession in the Integration Movement?"

"It was just established a few days ago. In the foreseeable future, we will inevitably have to deal with prisoners, so we must train some talents in this area."

"Too."

Faced with a group of heavily armored men surrounding him, Petrov glanced at his thin arms and legs and his subordinates who had not yet recovered, then surrendered obediently.

Now they could only hope that his toughness just now would not bring any bad consequences to their group.

After these people were escorted away, Xue Zhi looked at the two high-speed warships that were damaged to varying degrees with great interest.

He even walked forward and broke off a piece of the still intact external armor plate.

"This thing is quite interesting. I wonder if we can replicate it."

The thick armor plate felt light to the touch, so it was probably not made of metal. Furthermore, Xue Zhi did not find any explosives or the like after probing with her mental power.

And from some damaged armor sections next to it, it can be seen that this thing is very dense and the pores are almost invisible.

"It's not reactive armor, but just ceramic armor? Then the technical content of this thing is not low. I don't know how thick the homogeneous steel plate is equivalent to."

The Patriot who followed over also tried to break off a piece of armor from the high-speed battleship. He held it in his hand and played with it, while thinking in his mind how to destroy them.

"Patriot, can you destroy this armored vehicle with one strike?"