Chapter 20: Ground Cracks
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Matsumoto Masaga was too relieved of our guild's actions, and now it was causing them trouble, even though our guild people were busy sorting out the remaining ranks. But this does not mean that we have completely lost our ability to attack, just at the critical moment when the Russian players dismantled the shells, they actually found a dense group of mosquitoes flying in, mosquitoes are not surprising, the key is that it is not normal for such a large number of mosquitoes to fly neatly to one location.
At this time, far away on the other side of the valley, on the deck of Isengard, the powerful reconnaissance capabilities of the giant mosquito outpost were concentrated on covering the location where the Japanese players had gathered. If Matsumoto Masaka hadn't concentrated around the shells, we might not have paid attention to this place, but the problem is that so many players from the Japanese leadership are all gathered in one place, which has to make us raise our minds, and we will pay attention to something, and the reconnaissance text sent by the giant mosquito outpost actually found that the huge cannon shells that were not detonated according to the law fell on the walls of Hiroshima Castle, and a large number of high-level Japanese personnel gathered nearby were busy, obviously they were defusing the bombs.
Walmart quickly judged that this was an unexploded dud, although I don't know why it fell in this position, but we all know that this thing is not good to use, we are really sorry for ourselves, after learning that the reconnaissance mosquito sent by the giant mosquito outpost can self-detonate, we quickly made a plan to detonate the shell. Although it is a bit of a feeling to burn the piano and cook the crane, for us it is now a traveler who is about to starve to death.
The self-detonation ability of the Scout Mosquito was originally used to destroy evidence, so it was not very powerful and lethal, and it was obviously not enough to detonate such a large shell with a few mosquitoes, so we finally decided to win by numbers, so there was the scene of mosquito swarms that Japanese players saw.
Swarms of self-detonating mosquitoes buzzed like a swarm of bombers through the open warheads and into the shells, and the guys began to look for possible detonating devices. Walmart led a large number of German technicians to directly guide the mosquitoes to land at the place where they needed to be blasted through a video signal in the giant mosquito outpost, and Russian players knew that it was not good to see so many mosquitoes entering, but they did not dare to make much action for fear of detonating the shells. You can only slowly climb into the inside of the shell, and you can't touch anything here, because if you are not careful, it will cause an explosion, and you have to go in.
The Russian youth who took the lead fainted on the spot when he saw the dense mosquitoes in the warhead, because the places where those mosquitoes stopped were the most untouchable places, Matsumoto Masaga didn't plan to go in, but when he saw so many mosquitoes, he really didn't feel at ease and followed him in, but he was stupid as soon as he came in, and the large detonating devices and equipment in the warhead were densely packed with big mosquitoes, and the eyes of all the mosquitoes lit up like light bulbs at the moment he entered, Countless pairs of red eyes flickered densely, and everyone knew that the final moment had come.
Burst...... Rumble...... Rumble...... At the moment when the self-detonating mosquito detonated, a spark flickered on the detonator of the shell, and then a wire was blown off and fell, and when the wire crossed the ground, a blue electric spark was launched, and then the whole shell flew out like a missile, followed by a detonation, and the whole bomb instantly turned into countless shrapnel and flew out, instantly sweeping the entire Hiroshima, the shock wave was like a big broom sticking to the ground, all the buildings were scattered like shredded paper, and the surrounding land was in shambles. The cannon in the center of the city was struck** and retreated some distance. As a result, the hanger on which the shell was knocked down. The hanger fell, unluckily, and smashed into the shells stacked next to it. A huge mushroom cloud suddenly rose from the center of Hiroshima. Across a mountain, we all felt a shocking vibration. The Japanese army, which was being reorganized around Hiroshima, bore the brunt of the shock wave. A large number of personnel were directly swept into the air by the shock wave, the heavy infantry was a little better, barely left the ground, and the light infantry and mages and the like were unlucky. All of them were carried away by the strong wind and fell dozens of meters away from the seven orifices spurting blood.
The shaking of the earth was so violent that the crust of the already unreliable Japanese region was fractured, and with a loud bang, several nearby mountains collapsed at the same time, and lava erupted from more than a dozen places like a high-pressure fountain, and the most powerful pillar actually soared more than 2,000 meters before it began to reverberate. The hot lava was cooled out of the crust in the air, and as a result, this provided thermal insulation for the lava inside, and huge lava stone bombs were scattered in a radius of dozens of kilometers, and our army and the rest of the Japanese army were damaged, some of these large stone balls were only the size of a fist, and some weighed more than three tons, and all of them were splashed with damage, and as soon as they landed, they immediately exploded and sprayed the magma inside in all directions, burning all around a charred black.
Originally, we only wanted to use this explosion to destroy the outer defenses of Hiroshima, and the highest hope was to break the cannon by the way to give us time to prepare, but we did not expect the actual effect to be so exaggerated, the chain reaction caused by the butterfly effect, and the fact that a few self-detonating mosquitoes actually triggered the earth's crustal activity, and Japan, an extremely fragile area of lava formations, decided that such a large-scale explosion could not be carried out, otherwise this would be the current situation.
The radius of destruction of the lava rock projectile gradually expanded, and we did not expect that the range of danger would be so large. Afflicted upon us ourselves. Some of the larger chunks of lava actually flew to Isengard's side, and the personnel on the deck who were containing the comma aircraft were so frightened that they had to keep an eye on the sky and be ready to dodge the lava shells that could fall from the sky. Fortunately, our comma aircraft did not land by taxiing, and these aircraft that could not control their flight trajectory would not taxi. So the way they landed was to hit the barricade net directly, and after hanging it up, the ground crew recovered it, and now this advantage has brought us a lot of benefits, at least the uneven flight deck made by the lava does not affect us in any way.
Isengard's deck is now in chaos, too. The ground shook and could collapse at any moment, and Rose stood on the deck and shouted to the technicians, "Back back, back off, Isinger back at full speed." ”
Red Moon shouted, "Take off, take off while retreating, we can't stand on the ground anymore." ”
Almost at the moment when Isinger just got up, the mountain range in front of him actually cracked again, and a whole mountain slowly sank into the ground less than two kilometers in front of us, and all players who saw this scene were stupefied.
After the whole mountain sank, a huge pit appeared on the ground, and then lava appeared at the bottom of the pit, and the red magma seeped up from the leylines and quickly filled the whole crater, and the mountain became a lava lake in less than ten minutes.
"Damn, get out!" I don't care about the image now, I'm anxious to jump there and curse. "Hey, heavenly, go get our army back, over there, speed up for me. Clean up the foredeck and let the giant butterfly city force the landing, we have to save people. …… Yes, leave the puppet alone, that thing can automatically transmit energy crystals, and the shell is worthless, give me the gunman, quickly. ”
There was chaos on the huge take-off deck of Issinger, a large number of flight units returning to rush personnel, our army had just been forced to the mountain by the lava, but now that one was sinking down, how could we watch it? The entire crust around Hiroshima collapsed, as if the ancient continental plates had been warped, and the rock layers were sliding under the lava layers, and the Pacific plates washed ashore instead. The seawater is no longer visible on the beach, it is not that the ocean is retreating but it is preparing for a greater disaster, in my knowledge, I can judge that once the sea water blown away by the shock wave is smashed back again, it will be a larger tsunami, and the sea water that washes ashore will flow to the lowest place, it will inevitably come into contact with the lava, once the lava surface is cooled, the pressure below will make it explode, and the high-temperature cracked seawater will react with the chemicals in the lava to form a sea of sulfuric acid and a large number of toxic gases. It's going to be hell on earth in no time. We didn't expect the structure of Japan's crust to be so realistic, and even the natural environment had to be taken into account in the war.
Isinger jumped on the ground and retreated to the southwest, now I don't care if the kinematics can withstand it, anyway, the parts that can work are working, and it is better to burn a few engines than to fall into the magma, Isinger is not a submarine, and a submarine can't sneak in lava!
Giant Butterfly City cooperated with other war fortresses to force a landing on the mountain peak, and a large number of players risked their lives to direct the NPC troops to quickly enter the cabin. In some places, the ground has completely cracked, and many people have been swallowed up by the volcano. Shura Ziyi, who was rescuing people, suddenly found that there was a small plateau not far away and the main land was divided by lava. More than 3,000 people were trapped in that playground-like area.
"Over there, find a way to save people." Shura Ziyi pointed over there and shouted.
The operator in the Spider Fortress said, "Let's go." ”
The Spider Fortress rushed over quickly, but the ground in front of it suddenly collapsed halfway through, and more lava was sent out of the ground under pressure, turning a large area of land that was relatively safe into small islands in the lava sea. The Spider Fortress suddenly jumps without slowing down. Boom accurately landed on the nearest lava island, and then jumped again on the next island landing, after three or two jumps, there was no suitable land in front of the springboard, but at this time, a fragment of the city wall in the Hiroshima area actually floated over, the specific gravity of the lava is very large, the rocks can float, the spider fortress saw the right time, jumped on the city wall a little and jumped again, and accurately landed on the island that remained more than 3,000 people, and quickly stuffed the personnel into the cabin after the spider fortress quickly turned around and jumped, As soon as the spider silk shot out and hit a piece of land, the spider fortress jumped far away from before, and just behind the spider fortress, the small land that had just stood with more than 3,000 people had disappeared into the lava, and there was nothing left if it was one step too late.
After the Spider Fortress successfully returned, it dropped its personnel and returned again to save the others. Now that hillside has become a small area of land. Large fortresses can't be docked, only the ability of the spider fortress to jump can shuttle back and forth on it, and the whole transfer is obviously too late, all we can do is to help with the transportation as much as possible. My space door could have saved a lot of people, but the problem is that with the fixed position of the space door sinking on land, it has become suspended in mid-air, and people can't enter at all, and I have no chance to open the space door today, and there is no way to adjust it.
The Guild's receipts, the dragons, and the remaining Snow Eagle forces are doing their best to rescue the people. However, the lava balls that fly in the sky from time to time are also very fatal, and in order to save people, we have more than 300 snow eagles and seven dragons smashed into the lava river by lava shells and turned into steam, we can't do anything about it!
The power of the earth is something we can't disobey, and the mountains full of people finally sank, and we only shot out 800,000 troops, and most of the rest were swallowed up by lava and disappeared under the red liquid surface, and the battlefield was solemn, although I knew that it was a game, it still made people want to cry.
In terms of losses alone, the Japanese army is much more tragic than ours, although the army we rescued is only 800,000, but one-third of the main force of our guild is air cavalry, so the actual losses are far less severe than the Japanese side, the army we rescued is about one-third of the total army strength, plus the air force and players are all safe and sound, so our combat effectiveness is still preserved, but the millions of troops on the Japanese side are almost wiped out except for some players who were spared, and they have to accompany a city down.
Although this victory is not a victory has helped us a lot, but such a heavy loss makes each of us look not very good-looking, these NPC armies are the main force of the battle, every time we think of such heavy losses, we would rather exchange players for these NPCs, at least it is only a matter of time before players practice another level, but the cost of repurchasing these NPCs is as high as hundreds of millions of crystal coins, how can I not feel distressed?
The two valleys where we fought just now were originally sandwiched between two mountains, but now even the mountains are gone, and the cracks in the ground are gradually chasing after Isinger, and from time to time there are hundreds of square meters of rocks warped up, and then there is lava seeping out under the ground to wrap these rocks in.
Although the withdrawal had ended prematurely because the two mountains had sunk and all the remaining personnel had been killed, Isenger was not a sports car after all, it was too big to be fast, and the ground was breaking faster than the lava flowing, and it looked like it was about to burn over.
I once again remind everyone to take off quickly, just now they were busy and dizzy, and now the technicians remember that we can fly! In a panic, Isenger fled at full speed and rose into the air. Watching the city slowly leave the ground, everyone's expressions were obviously much better, but just when the city was just a few meters above the ground, suddenly there was an earth-shattering loud noise inside Issinger. The huge tremor instantly threw us all to the ground. The city shook violently, and a ball of flame erupted from a bullet hole in front of the city, and then the whole city began to slide down at an angle, and only a few seconds later there was a loud bang, and we all felt the vibration of the city hitting the ground, and Isenger was clearly re-landing.
"How?" Hongyue asked angrily.
A technician was sent: "No...... Oh no. ”
"What's wrong?"
"Shells. The dumb bomb that didn't explode just exploded. ”
"What? Isn't that thing dumb? Why did it suddenly explode again? "I almost jumped off the ground.
The technician explained, "Originally, we had fixed the thing according to Walmart's instructions, but the shaking of the escape and earthquake just now was so strong that all the support frames were shaken apart. When the shell was lifted off, it tumbled because the city took off too fast and did not stay level, as a result of which it crashed into the wall and caused an explosion. The shaking destroyed the power pipes of the gravity defiance device. Some of the gravity-defying devices have been shut down, and the city now has enough anti-gravity equipment left to sustain flights. ”
"What about the tracked propulsion equipment?" Red Moon asked.
"The track equipment has also been damaged to a certain extent, and the guide wheel mechanism of some tracks was destroyed when it fell just now, but the rest of the tracks can still move normally, but the speed will be slower."
"Don't worry about it, run first, even if all the mobile devices are scrapped, it's better than being swallowed by lava now."
"Yes." The technician immediately turned around and ran to direct the repair and evacuation work.
"It's really a house leak that happened to rain overnight." Rose looked at the lava field behind her. "Those cracks are already spreading to our side, it seems that with Isengard's current speed, he can't outrun the lava anyway, we have to find a way!"
Su Mei said: "It doesn't matter, the key problem is that it must have hit the ground when it fell just now, and the already fragile ground must have collapsed faster when it was knocked open." ”
General Wu suddenly said: "Divine Arrow missiles?" ”
"And three more." Walmart replied quickly.
General Wu pointed to the edge of a mountain range on our side: "Launch them all and blast them at the foot of that mountain." ”
"Huh?" Walmart looked at the bottom of the hill and didn't know what it meant.
I immediately understood what the general meant, "Walmart, do it." If it's not enough, you can use a thunderbolt or something else to attack together. ”
"Yes, okay, I see." Walmart was a little confused, but did so.
Dragging the smoke to move Eisinger suddenly launched the last three arrows, and at the same time a blue and white electric ball also flew out, and the place pointed by General Wu was blasted out of a big crater with a loud bang, and then the situation was not right, a stream of magma suddenly erupted from under the big pit, and the red magma soared up nearly a thousand meters before it began to fall, Isenger was attacked by lava shells again, a large number of lava rock bombs fell from the sky, and we slammed our heads and hid in the hangar. The rest of the staff on the deck didn't dare to be directly exposed, all of them were in groups of five, two of them supported the magic shield, and the remaining three were staff.
Although Isinger was attacked by lava, but this lava stone bomb did not pose direct damage to Ichengh, and there was actually no danger, and the attack commanded by General Wu only hit a lava fountain, which made everyone a little confused, but soon everyone understood.
Cracks quickly began to appear in the area where the lava had been blasted. The ground collapsed and the mountains began to tilt, and a huge mountain began to capsize like a sinking ship. In fact, the solution that General Wu came up with was to put pressure on the lava. The ground burst is because the pressure is too great, the fragile surface can not withstand these pressures, so all the cracking allows the lava below to flow out, the place where General Wu ordered the attack is at the foot of the mountain, where the thickness of the stratum is the same as the flat ground, but the pressure is greater than that on the flat ground, where the explosion of the gap will lead the lava under the ground to erupt from here. But as soon as the lava came out, the pressure below was gone, and the mountain naturally tilted in this direction, and the mountain toppled over. The overturning of a mountain has led to a larger volcanic eruption, and the lava is spewing more violently than before, but not in a direction from our side.
Seeing that the lava chased to the feet of Isengard, he stopped again. We were finally out of danger, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief and went limp.
In the bleak wilderness of Japan, Issinger was still moving slowly, and everyone was not in a good mood. I'm still sad for the NPC armies, and the Japanese are sad for the defeat of the whole campaign, and the area where Isinger is now is supposed to be a relatively prosperous part of Japan. However, at this time, it was extremely desolate, and the entire power of Japan was gathered near Hiroshima. The natural disaster just now has almost destroyed everyone. There aren't many people in Japan who can move around here anymore. Even if someone is alive, the current situation does not allow them to attack such a large target, and Issinger is not something that a team of three or five thousand people can shake casually, especially when the Japanese side is short of personnel.
In fact, Issinger was also very miserable, and he was hit by a few shells on the way here, and it is still smoking. The sudden explosion of the dud bomb just now caused the entire second deck to the third deck to burn, and the fire has not been extinguished yet. The troops who had just received the withdrawal were full of wounded, and many places were hit by lava shells, and there were smoked solidified rocks everywhere, and it was a mess. Issinger's current foreign trade is actually very dilapidated, the scarred city is dragging tens of millions of tons of weight on the ground and crawling slowly, and from time to time there are some strange creaking sounds, in fact, it is the sound of mechanical gears being overwhelmed, mainly because of the destruction of several tracked thrusters. Now that the propulsion force has decreased, the speed has to be forcibly maintained, and as a result, the remaining power equipment has to be overloaded. And since the gravitational resistance device was damaged when that dud suddenly exploded, our Issinger could no longer fly, and now could only crawl on the ground like a tank, with a few black smoke trailing behind him.
The city is now busy, everyone is fighting fires, saving people, and after a simple emergency meeting, even I can't get sick and join the labor force.
Rose and I went to the area where the most bullets were shot at the bottom of the city, where two shells exploded, and now the interior was scorched black, and the battle just now was chaotic, and I didn't have time to come and see this area. Now I know how strict the situation is. I went to see the area where the dud hit it, but the shell didn't explode at the time, and this is a different story, the cabin built next to the wall is completely gone. The armored walls rolled like blooming flowers, and the posture was strange. The sky-blue rock layers had been blasted into stone dust, the ground was completely occupied by these large and small rubble, fragments of metal could be seen everywhere, some exposed wires and energy pipes flickered a few electric sparks from time to time, and the smoked black walls hung with the remains of something that could no longer be seen to be what it was.
I climbed to the edge of the armor layer and looked out, the armor layer that Issinger was proud of had opened the skylight, and the large hole with a diameter of more than 40 meters could clearly see the outside environment, and I could even smell a smell of smoke in my nose. The salty smell of sea water and volcanic sulphur from outside the city poured in through this large hole, and it was particularly unpleasant to mix with the smell of smoke in the city.
"Can it be fixed here?" Rose asked Walmart behind me.
"The outermost layer of rock is the Divine Stone, which itself can grow automatically, so all it takes is time. We have the armor plate ourselves, just cut off the deformed part of the current gap and weld the new steel plate to it. The construction pipeline is in the process of being repaired and should be completed soon. ”
I turned around and asked, "How's the power layer?" ”
"It's hard to say, so we'll find out if we go and see."
"Alright then, go check it out."
When we get to the power level, we know that the situation here is not very optimistic. Several of the support frames supporting the crawler thrusters were actually bent, and they were outrageously deformed. The originally neat power pipes are now falling, and some of the wiring is directly exposed, giving the impression that it could break at any moment.
At the top of the Esinger, I didn't think that the noise of the equipment was so loud that we had to shout into someone's ear to hear what to say. The staff here almost always communicate with gestures. Walmart told us that the sound here was not so loud, mainly due to the deformation of the gears. Just go back and overhaul it and you'll be fine.
We also see the gravity defy device. However, the damage was really bad, and most of the gravity resistance devices inserted in the track cleats were deformed and twisted due to the tremendous pressure. Some of them also had overload explosions, and even worse, the power pipes were washed out a lot due to energy backflow, and in some places the entire pipes burst from the inside, and they had to be replaced with new ones if they wanted to repair them.
I yelled at Walmart, "How long will it take for these devices to be fixed?" ”
"Ah, what did you say?" Walmart asked aloud.
I shouted again into Walmart's ear, "I asked...... These devices ...... Fix...... How long it takes. ”
"Oh." Walmart nodded and looked around before shouting, "Parts." We want parts. There is no way to fix these without parts. ”
"Parts what? …… I can't hear clearly! ”
Rose also shouted, "Let's talk about it in another place, shall we?" It's so noisy here! ”
"Okay!"
I couldn't stand the noise below, and when we got back to the upper power room, we realized that our voices were a little hoarse, and Walmart re-said, "I just said I wanted parts below." ”
"Oh, I hear you, please don't be so loud, it's not that noisy in here anymore." In fact, there is only one layer above the crawler power layer, and there is only one floor between the two floors, but the noise here is much better in comparison, and it looks like a factory at most, although it is a little noisy, at least you can hear the sound of talking.
Rose said: "The parts are easy to do, aren't there a lot of them in the steel city?" You should be able to catch up with the teleportation, right? ”
Walmart nodded: "It should be possible to teleport over, but the cost is a little higher." ”
"Now is not the time to think about money." Although I usually look very picky, it is because of frugality. It's not that I don't understand the importance of the flow of funds, "Walmart, you can do it, the teleportation fee is still a small matter, the key is to let Issinger fly as much as possible, and the giant cannon in Hiroshima is no longer there." We have to leave the island of Honsu and return to Kyushu, where the Japanese can organize an army to attack us at any time, but it will be different in Kyushu, where the Japanese have no sea power, and we in Kyushu will not be threatened by heavy firepower. ”
Rose continued, "So we must let Issinger regain his ability to fly, otherwise we won't be able to cross the Closed Strait." ”
"Okay, I've got that." Walmart nodded in agreement.
After the repair problem was explained, I was forced to join the labor, and I collected the metal fragments in the ruins with everyone, and threw some of the unusable ones out of the city, and stored them in a centralized manner if they had recycling value, and hundreds of flame mages were also cutting the holes made by the shells while we were cleaning up, and we had to make the holes neat so that we could put the new armor back.
When I built Isinger, I took into account the convenience of replacing parts, so I designed a modular structure, and today I finally showed the advantages, but despite this, the maintenance is still a big project, and it is estimated that I will not be able to repair it before I return to Kyushu.
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