Chapter 835 - 708: Reading the Newspaper

The scorching heat wave triggered by the artillery fire ravaging the city caused the propeller plane to wobble. Mei Wenyi in the cockpit was dumbfounded and involuntarily murmured, "Fan, Van Fleet ammunition?"

Shendai Rain Prayer, who was engaged in slaughtering the Horror Maggot Beast, said over the communication channel, "Not counted."

The Van Fleet ammunition refers to the high-intensity fire suppression tactics employed by the US Army with extraordinary ammunition consumption during the Korean War.

Although well-known, both contemporary critiques and later analyses consider the Van Fleet ammunition to be an unsuccessful tactic.

It was not only hugely wasteful but also caused over 8,000 friendly casualties to the United Nations Army.

The green blood of the Horror Maggot Beast dripped along the blade. Shendai Rain Prayer paused his swinging motion and observed the city ravaged by artillery fire for two seconds before affirming, "It’s precision bombing."

According to explosion mechanics, the energy of the explosive spherical wave decays with the cube of the distance in three-dimensional space, most of which gets wasted into the air.

However, the lethal effect seeks diffusion on a two-dimensional plane.

The specific "destructive power" is proportional to the 2/3 power of the yield. Thus, increasing the yield to expand the lethal range becomes less and less efficient.

It is precisely because of this understanding that, from the initial design, the Forbidden Army War Car pursued extreme informatization.

Bang bang bang bang!

The precision of each shell reached the centimeter level, continuously and accurately striking the weak joints of the barbed wire snakes entwining the Mage Tower, causing them to wobble and fall.

The Forbidden Army War Car has undergone three major upgrades, with version 1.0 corresponding to the Battle of Toy City period,

all vehicles were networked, collecting vast amounts of information through photoelectric systems, radar, and auxiliary reconnaissance drones, and transmitting it in real-time to the Magic Cannon Master, Li Cheng.

On usual days when Li Cheng activates the Multi-threaded Brain Domain Method, he can perform micro-operations, instructing certain vehicle turrets in a specific area to turn 15° to the left.

If he himself is engaged in high-intensity combat and cannot spare the mental energy, he will let the vehicles equipped with intelligent systems make autonomous decisions, choosing to transfer, advance, retreat, or open fire.

With high mobility and a variety of shells, it fought the regular forces of Toy City on equal footing.

Inside the helmet, a murky roar from Spenerak sounded. He gripped the sword hilt tightly and pressed down forcefully,

causing the Hell Fortress to shake violently. The ruins of the anti-aircraft tower collapsed on their own, as higher and larger fortifications rose in place. The new turret on top of the fortification slowly rotated, roaring open fire towards the connection area of distant forests and grasslands.

The shells vibrantly killed the insects and small rodents hidden under the fallen leaves. Blue sulfur flames ignited the surrounding woods, yet there were hardly any remains of war cars.

’Teleportation? No, it’s not teleportation.’

From the perspective of the micro maggots attached to the shells, Spenerak clearly saw footsteps and tread marks on that muddy field, where all the vehicles had driven autonomously, transferring positions in advance.

The Forbidden Army War Car 2.0 was introduced after the Mechanical Swarm joined.

A single swarm integrates functions like early warning detection, battlefield perception, and data distribution, equivalent to an early warning aircraft, radar station, and communication network center.

As soon as the Hell Fortress’s shells were airborne, the radar on the swarm’s back detected the shell trajectory, predicted the landing point, and notified the distant Forbidden Army War Car to transfer positions.

"Hahaha, do you think you can hit me?"

Merlin mocked loudly; as a senior at the Bell Tower, he knew too well.

After the London campaign ended, the British Government, whose face was completely swept off, was extremely unwilling. Think tanks like the UK Royal Joint Military Research Institute RUSI secretly reviewed the campaign analysis and conducted war game simulations. The conclusions they came to were rather embarrassing.

If both the Bell Tower and Pifu were excluded simultaneously, and the Great Britain Army faced the Swarm and the Forbidden Army War Car alone, they might not even win.

Currently, Great Britain is purely a shame of the Five Permanent Members, with most of the domestic Transcendents absorbed by the guild, and the army construction is an utter mess.

Of 472 generals, each 6 Royal Navy generals on average share one main surface warship, every 2 Army generals share one tank, and each Royal Air Force general corresponds to one fighter jet.

In order to save face during the war games, British think tanks finally resorted to nonsensical rhetoric, "Our Great Britain has a 70% hit rate with a single anti-aircraft missile, so 210% with three, the advantage is ours!"

At that time, it was still 2.0; now, the Forbidden Army War Car has evolved to 3.0,

with each Forbidden Army controlling dozens of conventional unmanned tanks underneath.

These war cars closely follow around their respective vehicles, not requiring battlefield awareness or pursuing high-speed mobility, using all redundant weight to replace it with larger and thicker barrels and more comprehensive shells.

With shells against zombies mixed with glutinous rice and black donkey hooves; anti-spiritual energy shells with untouchable ashes; anti-robot shells with graphite fibers;

At this moment, those landing in the Hell Fortress were anti-demon shells, mixed with Holy Water, High Monk relics, and shards of Saints’ Holy Relics.

A significant portion of the astronomical profits of the Star-casting Anvil was invested in the Forbidden Army War Car, this gold-eating beast. When the shells fell, not only was there the sound of artillery, but faintly also the clatter of a money counter.

Hell Fortress and the Forbidden Army exchanged artillery fire, while amidst the mountains, the Mechanical Swarm used its pincers to firmly grip the Cold God, smashing it against the peaks again and again.

The Cold God’s surface was covered with a streamlined Frost Shield, cracking with each blow, the immense impact almost shattering all its bones.

The Swarm didn’t fare any better, as the Rule-level Ice Sealing Power gradually froze the moisture in the Tree Bark Armor, and the cold seeped into the Swarm’s pincers.

Lubricants, blood, motor oil, and other liquids froze into ice, expanded in volume, squeezed out along the joints of the Biomass Armor, forming clusters of various colored ice.

With a crack, the Cold God broke free from the stiff pincers, floated into the air, and a freshly frozen Ice Blade appeared in its hand.

Before he could tighten his grip on the hilt, two beams of golden light launched a surprise attack from behind, knocking him off balance.

The Sun-absorbing Chicken came stomping over, its hatred for annihilation irreconcilable, in the literal sense their eyes bulged with rage. With a flap of its wings, it took flight, and its beak pecked hard on the Cold God’s back, knocking it down heavily.

This was the Cold God’s first time facing two monsters...

Oh no, it’s actually the righteous duo of Swarm and Sun-absorbing Chicken against him.

No verbal communication was needed, the two giant beasts took turns attacking in perfect harmony, not giving the Cold God a moment to breathe.

At the same time, Li Cheng entered the humanoid rock crevice that Don Juan had previously carved, holding the Furnace of Eight Trigrams.

At the end of the crevice was the kneeling back of the Demon God Bachin.

Half of his body was gone, his skin flayed, and his eardrums burst from the excessive noise, constantly oozing blood.

In the perspective of the Information Integration Glasses, his vitality was rapidly declining.

"You might be wondering why we, the 72 Pillar Demon Gods, obey King Solomon. Even willingly die for him."

Perhaps feeling Li Cheng’s presence through the vibrations in the rock, Bachin weakly whispered: "At first it might have been the binding of secret techniques, magic contracts, until he showed us the vastness of the killing field..."

In the urgent battle situation, Li Cheng uncharacteristically refrained from debating, and raised his hand to fire an Ape-man Degeneration Bullet, simultaneously launching the Eight Diagrams Demon Cannon.

Swish!

The Degeneration Bullet and demon cannon passed through Bachin’s semi-transparent body, striking the rock layer—Bachin chose to burn what little life energy he had left, using teleportation ability to place himself in a Subspace, leaving only an illusion in the real world.

Bachin’s voice was unwavering, "Infinite killing field, infinite possibilities, for the Summoners of the Main World, the All Heavens and Myriads of Worlds are nothing but a theme park.

Capable of acting recklessly, taking whatever they desire, plundering resources to strengthen themselves."

"Not too bad,"

Li Cheng remained unfazed, decisively opening the wood-charging port of the Furnace of Eight Trigrams, switching the type of Extraordinary Materials, continuing his attack, "compared to some literary works, we Players level up relatively slowly."

Don’t be deceived by the likes of Side of Truth, Hornheim, and other Players who leapt from mortals to Level 40 in four years, playing with Divine Countries in the Little Universe, there was actually quite a lot of extra time spent leveling up in Script Worlds. Much more than just four years.

Haven’t you seen Doflamingo in "One Piece"? Only two months in Pushing City prison, and the newspapers claim Straw Hat Boy fought BIG MOM, ascended to the Five Emperors, defeated Kaido, battled Yellow Monkey and the Five Old Stars on Future Island, followed by a lengthy series of gods contesting, with the former Pirate King Roger becoming a travel blogger on Instagram.

This speed of power escalation is much faster than Players, only Fire Qilin Fei next door could compare, speedrunning a hundred-thousand-year instance in seven days.

The deafened Bachin couldn’t hear what Li Cheng was saying, mumbling to himself: "But for us non-Summoners, the killing field is an unadulterated, eternal prison.

There is no escape, no end, no future.

Even if one acquires the Summoner’s qualifications, it’s just jumping from one prison to another."

Bachin paused for a moment, two gems, one red and one green, appeared in his palm, "Solomon told us, it shouldn’t be this way.

He showed us the hope to escape the cycle..."

As he finished speaking, Bachin’s life energy was completely burned out, falling out of Subspace, his body instantly torn apart by the spiritual energy stream blasted from the Furnace of Eight Trigrams.

But before that, the two gems had already been teleported away. The green gem appeared in the sky, shattering on its own, anchoring the surrounding space for hundreds of kilometers, locking the exit function of the Player panels, and all teleportation and flash abilities.

The red gem appeared in the palm of the Cold God, who, with a sudden change of expression, grasped it firmly.

It seemed as if Bachin’s whispered word "hope" still echoed in the air. The Cold God clutched the red gem, instantly flashing before the head of the Mechanical Swarm, thrusting the Ice Blade forward with all his might.

The blade pierced through the gap of the tree bark helmet, triggering the full explosion of the Ice Sealing Power within, freezing both the helmet and the Swarm’s head inside into a solid block of ice.