Xia Chusee's eyes darkened slightly. Gritting her teeth, she quickly turned the control stick, making a sharp turn that rotated the entire aircraft one hundred and eighty degrees, changing its direction from north to south again.
Now, the miniature missile speeding towards them from the opposite direction was clearly visible.
Xia Chujian immediately calmed down. Without a second thought, she pressed a button, locked onto the incoming miniature missile, and launched one of her own, directly colliding with the missile targeting their aircraft.
*BOOM!* A blinding flash of light illuminated the darkness, and a small mushroom cloud bloomed in the night sky.
Xia Chujian smiled.
She knew that once locked onto by a missile, there was no escape unless they directly destroyed the missile targeting them!
The peak C-grade psychic, seeing his miniature missile neutralized in such an unbelievable way, was enraged.
"How is this possible?! How is this possible?! I am a peak C-grade! A peak C-grade! The highest psychic level in that team is only mid-D grade?! This is impossible!"
While roaring in his lozenge-shaped aircraft, he recklessly unleashed his psychic power, vowing to directly kill everyone in the opposing aircraft.
The condition of his teammates in the aircraft suddenly deteriorated. Li Fu and Ping Qiong, with their lower psychic levels, had already started bleeding from all seven orifices.
But Xia Chujian didn't see any of this. She was completely unaffected by any external factors, entering a state of undisturbed warfare.
While the opponent was desperately launching his psychic attack, Xia Chujian had already activated the aircraft's weapon control system, launching a fierce assault on the lozenge-shaped aircraft! Although their team's aircraft had no bullets left, they still had a few miniature missiles.
That was all they had left.
Xia Chujian locked onto the enemy aircraft and mercilessly pressed the missile launch button.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Six miniature missiles roared out together, attacking the seemingly high-end lozenge-shaped aircraft from six directions: above, below, left, right, front, and back!
No matter which direction the aircraft tried to escape, there would be a miniature missile waiting for it! Unless the opponent could simultaneously lock onto the positions of all six miniature missiles and launch a simultaneous attack.
Theoretically possible, but in reality, the two aircraft were too close.
Even if the opponent could simultaneously lock onto the positions of all six miniature missiles and launch six missiles at the same time, it would only result in both aircraft being blown to pieces by the twelve colliding missiles.
This was a dead end where advancing meant death, and retreating meant death!
*BOOM!* A deafening explosion. The opponent didn't resist at all, and all six missiles struck the lozenge-shaped aircraft simultaneously! Xia Chujian had expected at most one missile to hit, but she didn't expect to score a 'six-hit combo'…
The lozenge-shaped aircraft was instantly blown to pieces, falling to the ground like a meteor shower.
Was it that easy to eliminate them? That was a genetically evolved psychic!
Xia Chujian didn't dare to relax her vigilance. She continued to search through the smoke after the explosion and indeed saw that the man hadn't been killed. He jumped out of the billowing flames, plummeting downwards.
He was parachuting! Xia Chujian wished she could immediately pull out her sniper rifle and give him a bullet, but she had to manually control the aircraft's steering, or the entire aircraft would crash.
Just as she was cursing in frustration, a cloud of black mist suddenly filled the space above the entire Southern District.
Not only was it extraordinarily dark, but the black mist seemed like a viscous liquid. Under its shroud, everyone and everything seemed to be trapped in a quagmire, unable to move.
In an instant, Xia Chujian felt the resistance in front of her increase a hundredfold. The aircraft was as if it had fallen into glue, practically frozen in place.
At the same time, a faint roar echoed in the night sky.
Ye Shijie and the others, who were about to regain consciousness, fell into a deathly silence once more, their faces turning blue-purple, and their life force rapidly draining away.
Sweat was starting to bead on Xia Chujian's palms.
"Calm down… I must stay calm…"
The situation was incredibly bizarre. Her mind was in chaos for a moment, but then she steadied herself.
No matter what happened ahead, her primary goal was to deal with the psychic who had ambushed them. She couldn't let him escape alive!
Seeing that the aircraft was struggling to move in the viscous black mist, Xia Chujian gritted her teeth and tried releasing the automatic steering controls.
Perhaps because of the influence of the viscous black mist, the aircraft was falling, but the rate of descent was very slow, as if something was blocking it in mid-air.
Therefore, she had plenty of time to deal with the parachuting psychic first, and then control the aircraft.
Xia Chujian's mind raced. She grabbed the gun case and assembled her Adjudicator No. 7 sniper rifle in five seconds.
Her other hand pressed a button on the console, and a gap slowly appeared in the aircraft's translucent hatch.
Xia Chujian's sniper rifle was pushed against it.
The psychic powerhouse who had parachuted from the lozenge-shaped aircraft was not far below her, also falling, but clearly affected by the viscous black mist, the speed of descent was infuriatingly slow.
What Xia Chujian didn't know was that the psychic powerhouse had already lost control of his body when the faint roar sounded.
His head was splitting, wishing he could roll around clutching his head, but he couldn't even lift his arms.
The psychic pressure filling the heavens and earth was unheard of and unseen.
The man's heart was clenched by immense fear, regretting taking on this mission.
Xia Chujian, however, felt nothing. She pulled down the special night vision goggles on her helmet, raised her sniper rifle, and in the cross-shaped lens, she saw the man slowly opening his parachute.
Just then, another change occurred.
In the sniper scope, a huge tentacle appeared from the sky! It was two or three times larger in diameter than the elephant trunk-like tentacles she had seen in that six-story building! Xia Chujian quickly looked up, gazing upwards.
She wanted to know where these tentacles came from.
Before, she had only seen tentacles extending from the trafficker's mouth.
But now she was in mid-air, and the direction from which the tentacle was extending was even higher than her. Could there be someone in the sky?!
As a result, she saw that in the night sky above her, the round moon was no longer the moon, but wriggling, wriggling, turning into a rectangle.
It was like a door, with black clouds rolling inside, and nothing could be seen.
The soul-reaping tentacle was extending from the rectangular moon door!
What exactly was behind the rectangular moon door? Xia Chujian hugged the iron-hard sniper rifle in her arms tightly, trying to embolden herself.
Only this gun could give her a sense of security now.
She could tell that this tentacle was more powerful than the last one.
Because it swayed in the air and split into two.
One plunged towards the psychic powerhouse who was slowly descending with the parachute, piercing through the parachute from top to bottom with a chi la sound, and then penetrating from the top of the man's head, directly blasting the man into a cloud of blood mist! At the same time, the other tentacle flew towards Xia Chujian's aircraft.
The tentacle gradually narrowed, and the tip was as sharp as a cone.
With a bang, the tip of the cone-like tentacle plunged fiercely into Xia Chujian's aircraft.
A hole appeared in the top of the aircraft, and the tentacle broke through the cabin, pointing directly at the top of Xia Chujian's head.
Xia Chujian, who had been holding the sniper rifle, raised her hand without hesitation. The barrel of the sniper rifle, which had just been against the gap in the corner of the hatch, directly pushed up against the tentacle that was about to burst through the top of her head.
The tentacle seemed to sense the obstruction, and the tip of the cone suddenly opened, like a dark red starfish, right above the muzzle of her gun.
Then, in the center of the starfish-like tentacle, a long vertical pupil appeared, staring at her fixedly.
The vertical pupil was filled with black mist, not like an eye, but like a mirror, reflecting scenes from who knows where.
Boundless blackness, bottomless evil.
It was the kind of slimy, disgusting gaze with extreme malice.
Xia Chujian's whole body broke out in goosebumps.
She abruptly closed her eyes and said fiercely, "Get the hell out of here! I hate tentacles the most!"
Xia Chujian desperately pulled the trigger of Adjudicator No. 7 sniper rifle.
Ka-ching! Ka-ching! Ka-ching!
She ejected the magazine three times in a row, firing three shots like lightning.
The sniper bullets shot towards the vertical pupil at the tip of the tentacle, and the huge recoil directly pressed Xia Chujian into the seat, her right shoulder almost suffering a comminuted fracture from the butt of the sniper rifle.
The tentacle seemed to not have expected this kind of crazy operation, and froze directly in mid-air.
Then, an earth-shattering roar came.
Like a wisp of black smoke, the thick tentacle that had pierced through this small combat aircraft vanished before her eyes, disappearing in front of her, as if it had never existed.
Not only did this tentacle disappear, but the other tentacle that had just blasted the psychic powerhouse outside also disappeared at the same instant.
Only the hole in the top of the cabin proved that she had not been hallucinating, but that something had indeed broken into the cabin and even wanted to kill her!
Xia Chujian frowned.
This time, it was completely different from the tentacles she had killed last time.
Xia Chujian remembered the last time, she had blasted those tentacles into scattered limbs, which also emitted the aroma of gunpowder scorching carbon-based high-protein organisms.
But this time, she could feel that her sniper bullets seemed to hit a void, not knowing where they flew...
But the tentacles in front of her did disappear, so her sniper bullets did hit, but didn't hit completely?
What the heck was that?!
Xia Chujian's pupils suddenly constricted, and a chill rose from her spine.
The blood in her whole body rushed to her brain, adrenaline soared, and she didn't dare to relax her vigilance at all, still holding up the sniper rifle, aiming at the hole in the top of the cabin that had been penetrated by the tentacles.
At the same moment, in the field of vision of her scope, she saw a gray figure leap out from the rectangular moon gate above!
Then, an even thicker tentacle chased after the gray figure from behind the rectangular moon gate, unwilling to let it go.
After the tentacle protruded from the rectangular moon gate, it began to split in the air, one dividing into two, two dividing into four, four dividing into eight, eight dividing into sixteen...
Just endlessly splitting like this, in an instant, this dark night sky was full of dense tentacles.
The only thing they avoided was the location of Xia Chujian's aircraft.
But Xia Chujian didn't know all this. She was shivering in the aircraft, closing her eyes tightly, her finger almost unable to pull the trigger.
As a patient with tentacle phobia and trypophobia, this scene was a double mental pressure.
At this moment, she really understood what "mental attack" meant! It was even more terrifying than a mental attack, it was mental pollution, an existence that made one want to gouge out their eyes after just one glance.
Xia Chujian groped to turn on the stealth mode of the aircraft, and then silently recited the merciful and compassionate "Namo Star-te-lin Bodhisattva" in her heart, set up the Star-te-lin 800 Fully Automatic Smart Machine Gun, and prepared to fight back desperately.
Just then, beams of bright light cut through the thick black fog, and swept towards the dense tentacles extending from the rectangular moon gate.
Xia Chujian could feel the white light shining across the sky outside the aircraft even with her eyes closed.
She turned on the visor's visual protection mode before daring to open her eyes and look out through the helmet's special visor.
Suddenly, her spirits lifted! That wasn't ordinary light, that was the power of a portable miniature laser rocket launcher! Xia Chujian watched with fascination, instantly feeling that her body and mind were cleansed, no longer feeling fear and disgust.
This was the legendary laser standard weapon!
She had only seen videos of it on the Star Network, not to mention the price, the key was that it was not sold to the public at all, and only certain elite personnel within the Empire could be equipped with it.
Compared to this, the latest sniper rifle in her hand was no longer appealing.
This was the difference between conventional weapons and space-based weapons...
Xia Chujian looked in the direction of the light source, wanting to see which hero was equipped with such sophisticated weapons.
...
Below the aircraft was the ground of the southern district of Mulan City.
At this time, Yi Nanping, a lieutenant of the 12th team of the 3rd district of the Imperial Special Security Bureau Mulan City branch, was leading his team in a life-and-death struggle with the thick black fog.
They left Building 334 in the West 089 district and went straight to the next task, came to ambush in Wuyou Lane in the South 404 district of Mulan City, and had been observing the high altitude.
So they saw the desperate fight between the two aircraft in the night sky just now, and also saw the saturated operation of an ordinary combat aircraft, counter-killing the more high-end shuttle-shaped aircraft.
But their focus was not on these two aircraft, but on the round silver-white moon above their heads.
When he saw the silver-white moon wriggling, wriggling, and turning into a rectangular moon gate, Yi Nanping gave his team members the order: get in position! Unexpectedly, a thick black fog quickly descended from the rectangular moon gate in the sky, and several long tentacles rushed out, indiscriminately attacking aerial targets.
The person who parachuted from the exploding shuttle-shaped aircraft, and the combat aircraft that had just won against the shuttle-shaped aircraft, were all their targets.
First, the parachutist was headshot by the tentacles, directly turning into a cloud of blood mist.
Then the small combat aircraft that had just won was also penetrated from the top by the tentacles, and it was likely that there were no survivors inside.
Only because of the viscous characteristics of the black fog, the penetrated aircraft was still floating in the air and did not fall.
But strangely, the two tentacles then let out a roar and suddenly disappeared from mid-air, which made them a little puzzled.
Happy Chinese New Year everyone! Good luck!
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