572. Chapter 555: Space-Based Nuclear Blast
Sky Boat City was divided into upper, middle, and lower levels, with several cargo holds at the bottom. At some point, the armored soldiers and exorcists residing in the lower levels would occasionally hear piercing, agonized screams.
The mournfulness and tragedy of these screams sent chills down the spines of all who heard them.
If these soldiers hadn't personally witnessed groups of exorcists escorting batches of demon monsters into the lower levels, they would have suspected the Sky Boat was haunted by the ghostly wails and wolf howls that echoed intermittently.
In the Sky Boat's lower holds, a sudden, sci-fi-like island had appeared at some unknown time, occupying over a hundred li of the Lower Level Space.
Various unmanned maglev vehicles transported all sorts of materials, traveling across this highly technological dream island.
The island was patrolled everywhere by iron soldiers of various builds and appearances, with wings growing from their backs and golden crosses flashing in their pupils – Seraphim! At the island's center, in a heavily guarded main control room built entirely from ultra-high strength alloy, a sweet and cute short-haired beauty with big eyes, wearing a jumpsuit with a jacket over it, sat in a gaming chair, holding a controller in both hands.
Her thumbs moved so fast they left afterimages on the controller.
One of her eyes was covered by her hair, adding a touch of gloom to her otherwise sweet face. Coupled with her frantic shouts of, "Bomb, bomb, all of you die for me!"
She looked every bit like a hardcore gamer girl. On the virtual screen in front of her, which was as large as a wall, hundreds of fighter jets were screaming as they dived towards a giant city in the mountains.
"Rat-a-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat—"
As the woman pressed the fire button on her gaming controller, the onboard autocannons of the fighter jets targeted the Golden-haired Monkey on the virtual screen. Countless bullets, as dense as a rainstorm, poured towards the Golden-haired Monkey.
Heavy aerial bombs and Hellfire missile swarms were dropped into the Monster City.
"Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom—"
"First Blood!"
"Double Kill!"
"Triple Kill!"
Watching the demon monsters being blown away one by one on the virtual screen, the short-haired woman's face revealed a crazy smile.
However, her smile quickly froze. On the screen, amidst the rolling smoke, a streak of golden light lit up, screaming as it shot into the sky.
It was the Golden-haired Monkey, completely unharmed.
He reached out a hand, and a Great Staff as thick as a bowl, shimmering with golden light, appeared in his hand out of thin air.
He gripped the Great Staff and threw it into the air.
The Golden Light Great Staff shot out like a rocket, instantly breaking the sound barrier and traversing thousands of meters of space, blowing up a circling fighter jet in the air into a ball of raging flames.
Rumble! The next moment, the Golden Light Great Staff split into two, two into four, four into eight. Countless Great Staffs, flashing with golden light, shot out in all directions, covering the sky and earth.
No matter how the short-haired woman maneuvered the fighter jets with her controller, they continuously turned into giant fireballs in the sky.
The short-haired woman angrily slammed the controller onto the ground and picked up the phone nearby.
"Pythagoras, is the Space-Based Weapon deployment finished? I need to use it now!"
"The Space-Based Weapon has been successfully deployed. However, after calculating the different world gravity, the strike weapon has been changed to H3462!"
"Quickly give me the authorization code!" Upon hearing the H3462 code, the short-haired woman's face instantly flushed red.
"Experiment in progress, Lilith, please wait!" After hearing the reply on the phone, the short-haired woman impatiently stepped onto an aircraft and headed to the island's Lower Level Space.
Following the circular tunnel, the short-haired woman arrived at a Biological Laboratory. Calling it a laboratory was misleading; it was actually more like a Slaughterhouse piled high with waste.
A pungent smell of blood permeated the surroundings. A small pool of blood water had accumulated on the ground, where over a dozen demon monsters lay wailing incessantly.
A giant robot with golden clockwork springs on its head and wearing experiment focusing lenses stood blankly in front of these demon monsters, holding a sharp scalpel, seemingly thinking about something.
The robot wore a dazzlingly white white coat, its pockets bulging with several small instruments. If not for its body size and appearance, it looked exactly like a doctor from an emergency center.
A crow demon with wings growing from its back lay there; its wings had been skillfully dissected by a scalpel. The black wings floated in front of the robot. Where the wings were severed, strands of muscle and nerves were clearly exposed in the air.
The technique for cutting off the wings was extremely precise, without damaging the muscles and nerves that controlled the wings.
A moment later, the giant robot, seemingly in thought, squatted down, picking and choosing among the several demon monsters. It selected a gray wolf that hadn't transformed into human form.
Ignoring the tears welling up in the gray wolf's eyes, the scalpel swiftly moved a few times across the gray wolf's back. The wolf fur on the gray wolf's back was instantly shaved clean.
The giant robot pulled out a marker pen from its white coat pocket and made two extremely precise marks on the main muscle groups on the gray wolf's back.
From his actions, it seemed he was preparing to cut an opening along the two marks to transplant the two wings of the crow demon onto the wolf demon's body.
After gesturing with the scalpel over the gray wolf's back muscles for a moment, Dr. Vegapunk's Wisdom Clone, Pythagoras, made a dull mechanical sound from its mouth: "Detection Result: Muscle groups are too weak, insufficient to flap the wings and make the body fly.
Hmm, needs some other attempts!"
Pythagoras flipped its palm, and a delicate syringe appeared with a flash of cold light. "Howling Moon Wolf King Demonic Core Extraction Fluid, Match rate 89!"
Pythagoras ruthlessly plunged the syringe into the gray wolf's back muscles. A tube of dark, viscous pill liquid like ink was injected into the gray wolf's body.
The gray wolf screamed in agony, suddenly jumped up from the ground, and let out a heart-rending wail.
The evil Lilith, standing on the aircraft, hovered around the gray wolf with ghoulish pleasure, enjoying the changes in this little demon.
She forcefully patted the muscle wound on the gray wolf's back: "The rejection problem is actually solved?"
A dull reply sounded from inside the giant robot Pythagoras: "I used Seraphim Genes as an intermediate medium! And added a bit of X-Gene Substance extracted from the Wolverine Clone's body, sufficient to solve the Experiment Subject's physical body rejection problem!"
Saying this, he pushed all the liquid in the syringe Inside the Body of that unlucky little gray wolf demon. The gray wolf, originally emaciated from excessive blood loss, its body rapidly swelled up.
The emaciated muscles expanded rapidly like rising steamed buns. In just a short moment, this wolf-dog sized gray wolf turned into the size of a calf, its entire body's fur sleek and glossy.
Before this gray wolf could properly feel the surging strength, the sharp scalpel in his hand had already busily cut open the gray wolf's back muscles and grafted that pair of enormous wings onto its body.
Pythagoras's thick robot arm extended several small mechanical hands. These small hands, more slender than a baby's finger, moved nimbly, skillfully peeling away the gray wolf's muscle and nerve tissue and connecting them to the wings.
The gray wolf demon screamed in pain, howling towards the sky. The crow demon nearby, whose wings had been cut off, also let out mournful cries. Crackle!
Pythagoras raised his hand, and a bolt of electric current struck the crow demon's body. The high temperature electric current passing through its body instantly electrocuted the crow demon into a pile of charred remains.
Several demon monsters nearby, used as backup experiment subjects, were originally lying there groaning. Seeing this scene, they instantly fell silent in fear. In the empty Room, only the screams of the gray wolf undergoing surgery could be heard continuously.
Pythagoras seemed completely undisturbed by the gray wolf's screams, unhurriedly continuing the surgery.
The short-haired beauty Lilith, on the other hand, seemed to greatly enjoy these screams.
Until the surgery was completed and he began uploading the experiment data, did she remember the real reason she came here.
"Pythagoras! Give me the Space-Based Weapon authorization code!"
"H7363R7VD721!" Pythagoras said, while pulling out a bottle of ointment from his white coat and applying it to the wound on the gray wolf's back, he gave the Space-Based Weapon authorization code to Lilith.
"How long until the Space-Based Weapon orbital weapons are deployed!?"
"The Main Body did not bring the manufacturing equipment for Space-Based Weapons. According to the current progress, to complete Space-Based Weapon deployment will require three years!"
"Lilith, H3462 is sufficient to handle most crises!"
The gray wolf, with the ointment applied, let out a mournful wail. The wings on its back flapped violently, quickly lifting it up to fly out like a gale.
Poor gray wolf, it had never learned to fly. It had just flown less than a thousand meters when it crashed headfirst into the laboratory wall, crashing so hard its head bled profusely, and slid down the silver-gray wall.
Lilith, having obtained the H3462 authorization code, did not stay long in this Biological Laboratory and returned to the Main Control Room on the aircraft.
Lilith looked at the Golden-haired Monkey on the screen and put her hands on her hips smugly:
"Oh ho ho ho ho, Dead Monkey, let's see if you die this time!"
Lilith quickly entered the authorization code and the coordinates of Flower and Fruit Mountain on the operation platform, then pressed the launch button without hesitation.
After clearing out all the drone fighters by swinging his Staff, the Golden-haired Monkey didn't even look at the countless demon monsters killed by the fighter jet bombs. He flashed to a piece of drone fighter wreckage, casually picked up a piece of wing wreckage, examining this human creation.
The Golden-haired Monkey's complexion was somewhat grim. The destructive power displayed by these mechanical puppets was no less than that of ordinary great demons, and even surpassed them.
If humanity truly popularized this strength, then they, the demon monsters, would have no place left in this world.
The Golden-haired Monkey wrapped his tail around the restrained Kakuzu, pulling him in front of him. Baring his fangs, he questioned Kakuzu:
"Are these mechanical puppets also weapons manufactured by you humans!? Where is the manufacturing base for these things?"
Kakuzu turned his head away and did not respond to the demon monster. As a ninja, he naturally understood the fate of falling into the hands of this demon monster.
"Is it these few hearts of yours that give you confidence?!"
The Golden-haired Monkey reached out a hand. With a rip, a bloody monkey claw extended from behind Kakuzu's back. In the monkey claw, he was still clutching a beating heart.
The Golden-haired Monkey retracted his arm, gripping the bloody heart, he stuffed it directly into his mouth. As he crunched down, blood water flowed down the Golden-haired Monkey's mouth. He bared his teeth and revealed a smile like an evil ghost.
Buzz buzz buzz—
What the Golden-haired Monkey didn't see was that fifty thousand meters high in Low Earth Orbit, a silver-white satellite quietly arrived. The bottom hatch of the silver-white satellite opened, revealing a massive bomb weighing tens of tons.
Blue flames sprayed from the bomb's tail, providing it with a powerful thrust during its descent.
The 'H' in the designation H3462 stands for 'Nuclear Weapons'! Before humanity initiated Interstellar Civilization, nuclear weapons, this king of bombs, was humanity's ultimate weapon.
Dr. Vegapunk's improved Space-Based Weapon System replaced the tungsten rods with Nuclear Bombs.
With the two combined, the Space-Based Weapon possessed world-destroying energy. Exploding all at once, it was enough to destroy cities and mountains, burying tens of millions of living beings! Above Flower and Fruit Mountain, the sky suddenly darkened, as if a giant shadow had enveloped the world.
All sounds ceased, heaven and earth fell silent.
"What!"
The Second Taibao of Flower and Fruit Mountain, the Golden-haired Monkey, two beams of golden light shot out from his pupils. Looking up at the massive nuclear warhead screaming down from ten thousand meters high, a huge sense of crisis rose in his heart.
Realizing the terrifying power contained within this iron lump, he was about to fly up to destroy that iron lump!
Just then, Kakuzu, who was wrapped by his tail, enduring the severe pain of being pierced through the chest, showed the Golden-haired Monkey a resolute smile.
"Dead Monkey! Let's go down together!"
Kakuzu opened his mouth and bit down, crushing a tooth in the back of his jaw. His entire body's flesh and blood directly transformed into countless tentacles. The tentacles extended, clutching the Golden-haired Monkey tightly like an octopus.
Snap snap snap snap—
With a forceful struggle, the flesh tentacles wrapped around his body instantly snapped.
Kakuzu's desperate strike didn't even last ten seconds, but it was precisely the few seconds he bought that the Space-Based Nuclear Bomb reached its attack range.
Endless radiance erupted, as if a Supergiant had exploded. Heaven and Earth instantly turned a blinding white! Time seemed to lose meaning under the immense power of this world-ending instant.
Rumble!!! The entire world seemed to groan and tremble!
A giant mushroom cloud rose from Flower and Fruit Mountain. That mushroom cloud contained terrifying light and heat, shooting straight into the sky, rising thousands of meters into the high altitude, like a volcanic eruption, clearly visible from a hundred li away.
High temperature comparable to the sun's core and violent shockwaves! The high temperature fireball formed instantly by the explosion expanded violently outwards, compressing the surrounding air into high-pressure airwaves, spreading outwards at supersonic speed, spreading in all directions without restraint.
The land cracked, the Monster City walls collapsed. No matter if you were a thick-skinned elephant spirit or a sharp-toothed wolf monster, all matter, both tangible and intangible, instantly vaporized and disappeared under this terrifying power.
Rumble! World-shaking roars echoed incessantly. Mountain ranges within an area of hundreds of kilometers trembled, the surface soil layer evaporated and decomposed.
The surface was violently ripped up by the savage impact, lakes evaporated, turning into water vapor; hills crumbled and were leveled!
(end of chapter)