Lin Dong sat in a supersonic fighter jet, greeting his squad members through his headset.
"Everyone, pay attention. We're going to brilliantly eliminate that evil dragon this time. Ideally, we'll be the first squad to complete the objective. Team, can our fighter jets fly any faster?"
At supersonic speed, Lin Dong's voice was slightly distorted.
The pilot in the same fighter jet as Lin Dong said, "Major Lin Dong, the fighter jet has reached its maximum safe speed. We cannot accelerate further."
"How is that possible? This is the fastest it can go?" Lin Dong said disbelievingly, "It can definitely go faster."
"No, any faster would be too dangerous," the pilot replied.
An hour and forty minutes later, Lin Dong felt the fighter jet's speed begin to decrease.
Lin Dong quickly asked, "What's going on? Why has the speed slowed down?"
The pilot said, "Major Lin Dong, we've entered the refueling zone. We need to refuel."
A massive aircraft appeared in front of the supersonic jet.
"Aerial refueling mode initiated."
First, a fighter jet approached the tanker aircraft to refuel.
After the first one was finished, then came the second...
Lin Dong, sitting inside the fighter jet, grumbled, "Why do we even need aerial refueling? Couldn't we have just set up an airport here from the start? We could have launched directly from there."
The pilot explained, "Major Lin Dong, aerial refueling is essential. After all, we launched our attack as soon as we learned of the evil dragon's lair. With such limited time, we have to rely on aerial refueling."
Lin Dong had to admit the logic. Before the operation, they hadn't known the exact location of the evil dragon's volcanic island. The elves had said it was to the west, but was it truly in the sea off the western continent? What if it wasn't?
Lin Dong contacted the pilot of the aerial refueling aircraft via headset.
"Buddy, is our squad the first to arrive for refueling?"
The aerial refueling pilot replied, "Of course, it's you. You're the first squad to reach our aerial refueling tanker."
Lin Dong was satisfied with the answer.
"Accelerate, accelerate! We need to be the first to complete the mission."
As the six fighter jets had only flown a short distance, another squad arrived behind them.
The captain of that squad, as soon as he connected to the aerial refueling tanker's communication, asked, "Buddy, am I the first?"
The aerial refueling pilot replied wearily, "Of course, you're the first."
"Then what about those fighter jets ahead?"
"They're just passing by. They're going to refuel at other spatial refueling tankers."
"That's good. I was really worried I wasn't first."
The aerial refueling pilot felt utterly exasperated. Why did every arriving squad ask if they were the first?
"Initiate aerial refueling docking program."
Hundreds of kilometers away from this spatial refueling tanker, another aerial refueling tanker was positioned. The two tankers were circling and providing relay refueling for the passing fighter jets.
These aerial refueling tankers had taken off as soon as the evil dragon's volcanic island was discovered. They were flying while the nuclear missiles were en route. They were still flying when the nuclear missiles struck the evil dragon's volcanic island. Their extended flight time allowed them to provide refueling services for supersonic fighter jets at such a distance. Of course, more importantly, these aerial refueling tankers were also supersonic aircraft.
Different supersonic aircraft had different speeds. The supersonic fighter jets Lin Dong and his team were using could reach Mach 6, while these aerial refueling tankers could only reach Mach 2.5.
The military weapons experts of the Dragon Country had put a lot of effort into disassembling and transporting these supersonic aircraft to this location.
After refueling, Lin Dong's squad flew for another hour and fifteen minutes before finally encountering the target, the evil dragon, in the sky above a sea area on the western continent of the magical world.
The grey evil dragon, upon seeing the six fighter jets approach, exclaimed in horror, "What? More mechanical constructs?"
The grey evil dragon's mind immediately recalled the scene of the mechanical constructs destroying the evil dragon's volcanic island.
"Escape!"
The grey evil dragon turned and flew in another direction.
But how could Lin Dong let this grey evil dragon escape?
"Has that evil dragon entered firing range?"
"Ten seconds until firing range."
The supersonic fighter jets continued to fly for another ten seconds.
"The evil dragon is within firing range."
Lin Dong activated the weapon system. "Hahaha, you wicked and evil dragon. It is I who will eliminate you!"
The machine guns on the fighter jet unleashed a barrage of fire at the grey evil dragon.
Over thirty bullets were fired, but none hit the grey evil dragon.
Lin Dong felt a pang of shame and said, "It seems I haven't mastered the technique for using machine guns yet."
The grey evil dragon, seeing the bullets fired from the aircraft, was stunned: "Just this? Where's the explosion? It seems this thing doesn't explode."
The grey evil dragon instantly felt its confidence return. Energy gathered in its maw, and it unleashed a breath of dragon fire.
One fighter jet executed a roll, evading the dragon's breath.
Voices came through the communication channel.
"Major Lin Dong, I request permission to fire!"
Lin Dong ordered, "Permission granted!"
The grey evil dragon, having missed its attack, began to gather magic again for a second breath.
"Rat-a-tat-tat!"
The machine gun fire hit the dragon's head, causing the grey evil dragon to be thrown off balance, and its breath landed elsewhere.
"You think you can use dragon breath to deal with us? Too naive. Watch as I, Yi Da Ke, eliminate you, you evil dragon."
Lin Dong commanded, "Fighter jets, pursue and fly alongside that evil dragon. I want to attack it directly."
The pilot said, "Major Lin Dong, that's too dangerous. Let's just use missiles."
"Missiles? Oh, right. We still have missiles. Launch the missiles!"
The belly of one aircraft opened, releasing a missile.
The missile left the aircraft and immediately flew towards the grey evil dragon.
Seeing the missile trailing flames, the grey evil dragon, ignoring the surrounding aircraft, turned and fled. The missile looked somewhat similar to the nuclear bomb that had destroyed the volcanic island. It had been terrified by the nuclear bomb and, seeing a similar-looking missile, assumed it was another nuclear bomb.
The adjacent fighter jets immediately opened fire with their machine guns, attempting to stop the evil dragon.
Even after taking several hits, the grey evil dragon desperately tried to escape.
The missile accelerated in mid-air, quickly surpassing the evil dragon's flight speed.
The missile directly struck the grey evil dragon.
The grey evil dragon's injuries worsened.
Lin Dong declared, "Do you think you can escape? Fire all missiles at it."
The other five fighter jets also launched their missiles.
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
The grey evil dragon could no longer maintain flight and plummeted into the sea.
Lin Dong shouted, "Continue firing with machine guns, don't let it pretend to be dead!"
The six fighter jets' machine guns simultaneously targeted the grey evil dragon below, ensuring its complete demise...