Hou Jinghao and Li Chengzong, among others, shifted their targets to the soldiers.
Seeing this, Li Tai scurried back to the vehicle.
He wanted to take off his armor, but he could only do so after returning and taking a cold shower.
Even if the armor turned back into liquid after jumping into the lake, it would solidify again shortly after he got out.
This was incredibly frustrating!
And those old beasts!
They were also a bunch of wolves, seeing how the brother was blasted, his face turned green…
Fang Er ignored them and had Hao Danqiu contact the other units via their portable radios.
Soon, telegrams started coming back.
The First Division’s Second Battalion found terrain resembling a desert several hundred miles from their camp.
The Sixth Division’s First Battalion discovered a continuous, undulating cavern system connected to the ground above, with countless stone pillars standing tall.
Liu Meng found a large lake, a freshwater lake, with creatures in it that had fish bodies and snake tails, resembling the “hu jiao” mentioned in the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
Ma Chao found a mushroom forest, a mushroom forest like giant trees, where they encountered a group of creatures with bird bodies and single legs, seemingly the mythical Bifang.
Other units found nothing.
He had Hao Danqiu and his men dismember the Xuan Gui into pieces and load them onto the trucks.
Fang Er stared at the calm surface of the lake, unsure if there were other Xuan Gui or anything else within it.
After waiting for a long time, he saw no anomalies on the lake’s surface.
He bent down, his right hand reaching into the lake, and a large amount of liquid Tai Jin was collected into the system’s warehouse.
He wondered why the surrounding environment was so much lower than the command post; a distance of over a thousand kilometers felt like the difference between Hainan and the Northeast!
“Plop!”
While he was pondering, Li Chengzong, wearing only his underwear, suddenly darted from behind and jumped into the lake.
After splashing around for a bit, he swam out with great excitement.
“Damn, this thing is simply miraculous!”
Excess Tai Jin dripped off his body, while the remaining part clung to his skin, forming a layer of armor.
“Brother Fang, how about we head back for now?”
Only his eyes, nostrils, and mouth were exposed. His voice was muffled through the armor, but he couldn’t suppress the excitement in his tone.
“Boom!”
As soon as he finished speaking, a deafening roar, like thunder on a clear day, erupted from the other side of the lake.
All eyes snapped towards that direction.
On the empty lakeshore opposite them, a pinpoint of light flickered, and moments later, the light expanded rapidly, forming a deep blue portal.
Fang Er’s heart instantly felt a sense of foreboding.
This scene was all too similar to the opening of the era’s passage!
“Everyone, retreat! Maintain vigilance!”
“Whoosh…”
“Whoosh…”
“Whoosh…”
As soon as his words fell, streaks of flowing light shot out from the deep blue portal, resembling some kind of aircraft. Their hull was spindle-shaped, each about thirty meters long.
“Hahahaha, Yanhuang Star, prostrate yourself before us!”
A strange voice, like the blue-skinned creature from before, directly echoed in everyone’s minds.
“I prostrate your mother’s…!”
Hearing the voice, Fang Er could no longer contain himself. Seeing that Li Chengzong, Li Tai, and Hao Danqiu had retreated far enough, he waved his hand, and an aircraft carrier appeared behind him, separating him from the others.
Then, with his backhand, he threw another aircraft carrier into the Tai Jin Lake, instantly creating a colossal wave tens of meters high.
This reaction was almost instinctive, and even Li Tai and the others hadn’t reacted yet.
Before the giant wave could hit them, he had already flown into the air in his gold-mining ship, staring intently at the flying ships opposite.
It was only then that he realized what was happening!
It turned out that the gibberish the blue-skinned creature had babbled before being smashed to death was actually meaningful!
If he wasn’t mistaken, there must be some sound-activated portal device nearby, like a stargate in a sci-fi movie.
Or perhaps, the blue-skinned creature had equipment that could directly contact beyond Earth!
The aircraft carrier in the lake landed closer to Fang Er and his group, but with the obstruction of the second aircraft carrier behind it, it didn’t cause any harm to Li Tai and the others.
The spindle-shaped ships opposite seemed unprepared for such a reception. Some reacted quickly and dodged, while the rest were all knocked down by the waves!
“Damn it, hurry onto the ship! Let’s blast them with the naval guns!”
Li Chengzong had already reacted and was calling for Hou Jinghao and the others to run towards the helicopters.
With the aircraft carrier being tens of meters tall, climbing it with bare hands was almost impossible!
Fang Er was already charging towards the enemy in his gold-mining ship. With the system’s help, although it wasn’t of much assistance in other ways, he could still switch his position using temporal distortions.
Looking at the portal opposite, from which more spaceships were still emerging, his scalp tingled.
Damn it, he had poked a hornet’s nest!
Flying to the center of the Tai Jin Lake, only about half a mile from the opposite side, a set of Stinger anti-aircraft missiles appeared on his shoulder.
With no time to make a choice, he simply aimed and pressed the switch.
“Whoosh…”
He casually discarded the empty launcher.
The missile, trailing flames, flew straight towards its target.
Three hundred meters!
Two hundred meters!
Fang Er held his breath. He wasn’t sure if this thing could inflict a fatal blow on the enemy.
Or, would the enemy have a defensive shield like the blue-skinned creature!
“Sizzle…”
Just as the missile was about to hit its target, the spindle-shaped spaceship instantly fired a wrist-thick dazzling beam of light, hitting the Stinger anti-aircraft missile with pinpoint accuracy.
At the same time the light beam appeared, Fang Er could even feel intense ionization waves in the air!
“Boom…”
The missile detonated mid-air. Hundreds of meters away, the gold-mining ship was pushed back dozens of meters by the shockwave.
After dealing with the missile, the spindle-shaped spaceship remained stationary, and the light beam swept towards Fang Er!
Where the light beam passed, the ground melted, and the Tai Jin in the lake instantly solidified.
Damn it!
Laser weapons?
Or something else?
Fang Er’s face paled in horror. With no time to consider the question, he frantically controlled the gold-mining ship to escape.
Damn it, they were already using dimensional-reduction attacks, what could he do!
“Whoosh…”
But at this moment, a tearing sound reached his ears. He looked back and saw an F-18 flying towards them.
At almost the same altitude as him, his system-enhanced vision allowed him to see Hou Jinghao in the cockpit at a glance.
Holy crap!
Has this guy’s brain been kicked by a donkey?
The total height of the underground world was only about a hundred meters. Wasn’t he afraid of smashing himself into pieces?
If anything went wrong, ejecting would smash him directly into the ceiling!
The kind that couldn’t even be pried loose!