Infinite: Starting from Infiltrating Other Spaces

"that's all......"

"No need for that trouble."

Li Xia listened for a while before finally speaking:

"The rest of you protect Stark and Banner's lab. Wanda and Quicksilver, you two go too. Leave the outside to me alone."

"If I were there, they definitely wouldn't send any real people, so we'd only have to deal with the robots."

"But that's not just a few dozen robots, it's tens of thousands of robots!"

"Yes, I know. Where is the lab?"

"New Jersey—but..."

The ring of fire reappeared. Seeing Li Xia already inside, Iron Man stroked his chin, then suddenly opened his hands and said to Howl, who had become his friend:

"Has he always been this fearless? There are tens of thousands of robots, not tens of thousands of monkeys!"

Okay, tens of thousands of monkeys are scary too, I mean—tens of thousands of...flies? Mosquitoes? Ants?

Awoo also spread his hands out in a very American style:

"If you knew what kind of opponents the boss was fighting against every time he went all out, you wouldn't be surprised."

"What adversary could be more terrifying than aliens or robots..."

Stark muttered something, but still followed them into the Ring of Fire. The group faced each other, but having come this far, there was absolutely no way they could back down.

.....................

Li Xia stood on a desolate field, looking at the vast open spaces around him, and couldn't help but admire Stark's excellent location.

Isn't this just telling the other side that the area is deserted and that they can unleash all sorts of powerful weapons?

He stepped on the ground, which was a thick alloy cover plate flush with the ground.

This is the ground entrance to Stark's secret laboratory.

The entire laboratory is buried 30 meters underground. With alloy walls and multiple electromagnetic shielding, its safety level is maximized. The only weak point is the passage leading to the surface.

So what we need to do now is simple: stand here and keep all the enemies heading for the lab at bay on the surface.

According to Stark's deduction, once the experiment is launched, Skynet will receive the information immediately. Its efficiency is far higher than that of humans, and the time from decision to execution will not exceed 3 seconds.

Therefore, he was left with a window of opportunity of at most 3 hours, and as it turned out, Stark's judgment was correct.

After a period of calm lasting two hours and fifty minutes, a low hum came from the distant horizon, like the flapping of wings of a swarm of giant bees, growing louder and louder as it approached.

Li Xia looked up and saw countless black dots rapidly enlarging in the twilight—dozens of cruise missiles, trailing long orange-red flames, tearing through the air and hurtling towards him with sharp whistles.

Following closely behind the missiles was a massive, dark mass of super-large military transport aircraft. These transport aircraft looked rather rudimentary, without even any paint scheme.

However, the number of these transport aircraft was extremely large. When Skynet was building its robots, it also equipped them with transport aircraft in accordance with the required number.

Li Xia narrowed his eyes, ignoring the missiles completely. With a flick of his wrist, a longbow that looked menacing appeared in his hand.

He flipped over, drew his bow, and already held several ordinary silver bullets between his fingers.

"Buzz!"

A sudden burst of air erupted beneath him, ripping up the surrounding soil, and as the bowstring trembled, a stream of light burst forth from in front of him.

A transport plane in the distance suddenly shook and then disintegrated in mid-air, with debris from the explosion spreading in all directions and even affecting nearby aircraft.

"Bang bang bang"

The bowstring vibrated incessantly, and with each vibration, an airplane exploded in mid-air.

Those inside, who had been monitoring the outside through surveillance equipment, were stunned. They looked at the screen and then at Eagle Eye.

He said nothing, yet he said everything. Both are bows, so why couldn't you shoot down the plane from over ten kilometers away?

Skynet reacted extremely quickly; the massive formation of aircraft immediately dispersed, descended to a lower altitude, and all cabin doors were opened instantly.

Countless humanoid combat robots leaped down like dumplings being dropped into a pot, their rear-mounted thrusters spewing out pale blue flames as they crashed down from hundreds of meters in the air, creating a devastating, metallic rainstorm.

Very clever indeed...

Li Xia casually fired a few more bullets, detonating the incoming missile. Amidst the flames and shockwaves of the explosion, he looked into the distance.

The muffled thud of the tracks crushing the ground made the earth tremble slightly. Dozens of main battle tanks lined up in a standard attack formation, their gun barrels turned around in unison, the dark muzzles pointing in their own direction.

On both sides of the tank, there were also countless combat robots, so numerous that they stretched as far as the eye could see.

"Whoosh—Boom!!"

The rocket swarm arrived first.

A dense barrage of rockets swooped down with overwhelming force, sending towering flames soaring into the sky. The blast waves swept debris and dust in all directions, engulfing the entire open space in smoke and flames in an instant.

Almost simultaneously, the ground forces unleashed their full firepower.

The tank cannon roared deafeningly, and high-explosive shells streaked towards the target.

The approaching robots set up heavy machine guns and fired wildly, tracer bullets trailing bright red trajectories, crisscrossing in the air and weaving into a dense, luminous giant net.

People gathered toward Li Xia's location. The flashes of exploding shells, the whistling of bullets cutting through the air, and the hum of machinery mingled together, making their eardrums ache.

At the very heart of the fire and smoke, Li Xia still stood quietly in the same spot.

All attacks stopped outside his body, making no further progress.

This is the barrier between humans and gods.

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It's too late, my boss suddenly dragged me away on a business trip today.

I'm speechless. He called me around 9 PM, drove straight to my doorstep, and I got in the car, completely bewildered, and drove off.

I took a three-hour bus ride to get there, spent a few hours playing on my phone in the lobby, and then took another three-hour bus ride back, completely bewildered.

On the way back, he told me he felt bored driving alone and wanted to find someone to chat with?

Chapter 13 Devastating Victory

The barrier between humans and gods is not a shield, nor is it a physical entity.

It is just as its name suggests, only because the god's status is too high, causing a misalignment with the surrounding environment.

In other words, this is because the formula describing its own existence is too self-consistent and perfect, which leads to 'God' being an individual.

They won't blend into the world they live in like others; it's a natural barrier.

It has no durability or so-called defensive capabilities; it can only keep out external interference below a certain limit.

Even the incarnations of the ancient gods must connect themselves with the original bodies of the ancient gods in order to open the barrier of the complete form.

Even though Li Xia is only a demigod at this moment, the boundary between human and god that he carries will not be so easily broken by some bullets.

He stood there on the alloy gate, and within three feet of him was a pure land.

The hail of bullets outside did not cause any trouble for them; countless sparks burst forth just three feet away.

Inside the underground laboratory, several people were stunned.

If Li Xia's New York a year ago was a display of unparalleled energy, then this was a different story.

Inside the Skynet factory, knocking out the Hulk with a single punch demonstrates overwhelming power.

What it is now displaying is a terrifying level of defensive power.

No, are there really no weaknesses at all?

Black Widow looked at the screen, tilted her head, and said:

"Thor, can you do that?"

Thor gripped his hammer, remained silent for a moment, and then said in a low voice:

"Bullets are useless to me, but I can't deflect them like he does."

and----"

He can ignore bullets, but he cannot ignore the impact of an explosion.

Thor hesitated for a moment, then shook his head:

“I can’t stand still like him.”

He didn't say it very clearly, but everyone understood what Saul meant.

"Does he intend to just stand there and not move?"

Rod bit his finger, pointing nervously at the screen:

"I've already seen the A-10 attack aircraft. Aren't we going to try to retaliate? Believe me, those guys are capable of anything."

I used to work in that building too; who knows what else might be waiting for us.

"That's because the boss wants to block the entrance to the cave."

Awoo said nonchalantly:

"Don't worry, conventional weapons can't break through the boss's defenses unless they use nuclear weapons—holy crap!"

A red light suddenly flashed in the laboratory, and a cold, automated voice echoed:

"Nuclear strike detected en route. Full lockdown mode to be activated. Countdown: 20, 19, 18..."

Everyone was horrified. Black Widow stared in disbelief at the red dot on the screen:

"Are they crazy? This is right next to New York!"

As Aowu desperately flew towards the entrance of the passage, he shouted in the team channel:

"Boss! A nuclear bomb! They've gone mad!"

"Yes, I can feel it."

Li Xia's voice came from beside them. Everyone turned around and saw that he had arrived at their side at some point.

"Humans may not launch nuclear weapons here, but Skynet will; it has never cared about human lives."

In fact, if they hadn't interfered, during the first Avengers game, they planned to drop a nuclear bomb in the heart of New York.

Human life has absolutely no weight in the eyes of those politicians.

This secret laboratory, located dozens of meters underground, was built by Stark at great expense and possesses extremely strong defensive capabilities.

He also secretly connected this place to the backdoor of the US military system, effectively sharing the entire US surveillance network.

That's why the traces of the nuclear bomb were discovered so early.

Moreover, nuclear bombs are completely ineffective against underground fortresses that extend nearly 100 meters underground and have a closed life support system.

In just those two sentences, the cold system voice had already finished the countdown.

A strange, long cry rang in everyone's ears, and a blinding white light, ten thousand times stronger than the midday sun, exploded from the sky, instantly engulfing the entire field of vision.

The monitoring screen was instantly filled with pure white, and amidst the crackling static of electricity, all external feeds became unusable.

Above the Earth's surface, the temperature soared to tens of millions of degrees Celsius in a fraction of a second.

Everything on the ground was vaporized directly under extreme heat, even the melting process was omitted, turning into wisps of ionized mist that were instantly engulfed by the surging fireball.

The fireball, a mix of orange-red and blazing white, expanded rapidly, growing to several kilometers in diameter within seconds, as if it had opened a giant fiery eye. Wherever its gaze passed, everything was crushed into ashes.

The violent shockwave, originating from the epicenter, swept wildly outwards in a ring, blowing everything in its path. Heavy tanks were tossed dozens of meters into the air like toys, emitting unpleasant screeching sounds.

Dust mixed with vaporized matter, forming an incredibly hot and terrifying storm that spread outwards once again.

Only then did the enormous roar explode like thunder.

A massive mushroom cloud was slowly rising, brazenly displaying its destructive power.

The deafening roar, dull to the extreme, struck everyone's eardrums like a heavy hammer. The alloy walls of the underground laboratory creaked, and objects around them crashed and fell.

The overhead lights flickered violently, and everyone was jolted, instinctively grabbing onto whatever was nearby for support.

The ground trembled continuously, shaking like a magnitude 10 earthquake, as if the entire underground fortress was about to collapse at any moment.