Chapter 678: The Triumph of Speed
The ring-shaped object that appeared in his mind was the space-time gate stabilizer, and unfortunately, no matter what kind of magic it was, it could not directly show the existence of the space-time gate, but it was only determined by the special physical properties of the space-time gate itself. Therefore, there is only such a ring in the scene that the man with glasses restores through magic, and there is no dark space-time gate displayed in the image.
And he didn't immediately think of the direction related to the space-time gate. He looked at the ring-shaped object quietly for a while, and in this short gap, 100,000 kilometers away from his head, a trace of inconspicuous light flashed away.
Since it was still daytime, no one saw this with the naked eye, but after 1 second, everyone in the second base felt his impact, because that was the only warning after the Budapest's main guns fired.
Under the command of the nameless trainee captain who received the order, a shell weighing 10 kilograms and only the size of a football was successfully discharged. The smooth metal ball was accelerated to the extreme, and it took less than 5 seconds to cross the distance between the battleship and the earth, which is now only 110,000 kilometers, and reached its target only one second later than the fire emitted by the rifle fire.
Then, the shell, which was about to decide the fate of countless people, smashed into the ruins of the second base so hard. Compared to it, everything on the ruins is still, and if time could be slowed down indefinitely, someone would be able to see such a strange sight.
Half a millisecond before the cannonball hit the ground, the prophecy and teleportation circle on the glasses man lit up one after another, but they only lit up for a short moment. Not enough for a person to blink or let what is in front of them develop on the retina.
The reason why the two tandem circles can light up for a moment is because the range of action of the prophecy circles is a full 1,000 kilometers, and it takes 2 milliseconds for the complex magic circuit to identify the anomaly of a cannonball, and it takes a few tenths of a millisecond to light up the first warning signal.
And before the next millisecond arrives, when the activation part of the teleportation circle is just activated by the magic power. The shells had hit the ground and formed a dense ultra-high temperature fireball that transcended the substance. Before the teleportation circle could actually activate the spell building part, both the ornate robes and their wearers were engulfed in rapidly expanding fireballs.
In the remaining 1 millisecond, the layers of protective magic and its wielder themselves completely dissipated into elementary particles under the baptism of heat, and all signs of existence were destroyed. Within 3 seconds of the "long" following, the fireball gradually expanded to its maximum size, reaching a diameter of 5 km and began to detract. A powerful shockwave burst out of the fireball blast and continued to wreak havoc on everything around it.
The man in glasses thought that the prophecy spells and emergency teleportations solidified on his robes would allow him to deal with any possible danger, but it turned out that the trigger range of a thousand kilometers and the two advanced spells that took 11 thousandths of a second to form were still too short and slow for this cannon fire close to the speed of light.
The only thing to be thankful for is that his death was instantaneous and did not suffer any unnecessary suffering. Compared to many of his peers before and behind him, this death can be regarded as very decent, and in the upcoming Great Age of the Traveler, countless people will be affected by his deeds. Although he himself has already been destroyed by the baptism of artillery fire!
Shen Chao arrived with reinforcements at the end of the first round of artillery fire and the second round of artillery fire was being prepared, due to the tight time, he could only transfer one big ship at a time, so he only had time to bring the executor that had not yet completed the transformation to support.
However, the moment he returned to the main plane, he unexpectedly suffered the consequences of his orders, and under the oppression of an unknown force, his eyes suddenly went black. Then the body as strong as an ox fell straight to the ground as if it had lost its weight. Even the members of the guards around him couldn't reflect it.
Shen Chao, who had never lost a battle, fell into a severe coma without resistance. A large number of his entourage were frightened by Shen Chao's sudden fall, and the members of the guard immediately cordoned off the scene, and the Budapest learned of the change after the second round of shelling, and quickly approached the far side of the moon to rendezvous.
In the following minutes, Custer, who had previously been in charge of Space Zero, rushed to the scene to take over the command and issued a series of orders. On his orders. No one wasted time checking the results, and even if they did, they wouldn't find anything, and the man with glasses and his assault army had already returned to the earth as elementary particles.
As soon as the Budapest entered the Executor's huge airport, the latter began to leap and quickly leave the solar system. Space Station Zero was also put on maximum alert a few minutes later. And on the ground. The two shellings had completely destroyed all traces of the existence of the second base, and the entire island had completely disappeared, leaving only a large hole hundreds of meters wide and nearly a thousand meters deep. The sea water is slowly filling the space inside the big hole.
The tsunami wave created by the first round of shelling has washed into some inhabited islands hundreds of kilometers away, although the initial 200-meter-high wave has been reduced to a height of tens of meters, but it still easily destroyed a large number of man-made buildings, fortunately, it is not the tourist season, and the actual casualties are very low.
The Hawaiian Islands were most affected by the tourism industry, which was more than 2,000 kilometers away from the origin of the explosion and had plenty of warning time, but the tsunami still caused some economic damage to some important sites.
And just as the tsunami was weakening into strong waves over the coast of Hawaii, a rapid phone call was heard by an ordinary middle-aged man in a large city on the West Coast of the United States. This middle-aged man was used to being called Mr. Rest.
But almost no one has called him that in recent times, for he looks decadent, with a frustrating beard and hair that looks like it hasn't been done in a week or two.
If it weren't for the fact that the house he lived in was relatively high-end, and his clothes and furniture looked more stylish, ordinary people would easily think of him as a street bum. But Mr. Lester didn't seem to care, and when he saw the phone ringing, he just slowly put down the cigarette and alcohol in his hand, and then coughed twice before picking up the phone.
However, a few seconds after picking up the phone, Mr. Rest's eyes slowly lit up, and after a few calls, he quickly changed out of his already stinky clothes, hurriedly shaved his beard and roughly groomed his hair, and then grabbed his car keys and rushed to the garage. Drove his car to a weather station outside the city.
Of course, this seemingly ordinary weather station is not really a private organization, but a hidden outlet of the government's monitoring program, and the weather station sign is only to hide people's eyes and ears from reporters and other good people.
This scruffy-looking middle-aged man is none other than the stationmaster of this site, and more than a year ago. He was also a senior intelligence officer at the CIA. He was assigned to such a small site because of the complete failure of a series of reconnaissance operations he had led and the loss of several elite agents to the Intelligence Agency.
This serious failure has seriously frustrated his future, which is why he shows that he is lost all the time. Inside, Mr. Lester did not think he had done anything wrong, and he and his agents did their best to investigate the vision of "New Bermuda".
Although the disappearance of the nuclear submarine two years ago was disguised as an accident by the government departments, this does not mean that no one cares about the truth. Naturally, such a major event as the disappearance of a nuclear submarine cannot be brushed aside, so the investigation of the location of the incident has not stopped in the past two years.
But strange interference made any aerial observations impossible, and field trips were all missing. Mr. Lester is not the only one who has lost his future because of this investigation. The hundreds of kilometers of the sea is like a bottomless pit, and anything that enters it will be silent.
The Directorate-General seems to know this, too. That's why they, the losers, can be assigned to a small department to be on standby, rather than being fired outright. However, the phone call just now gave him an unprecedented opportunity, because his subordinates had just received news from the General Directorate that Langley headquarters had asked him to attend a high-level video conference by name, and it was rumored that there had been an "explosive" new change in "New Bermuda".
Mr. Lester didn't know how big this "explosive" turn was, but he knew that this was the best chance for his official reinstatement, so he was so eager to rest his appearance and rush back to his place of work.
By the time he rushed back to his office, the video conference had already begun. No one seems to care about its delay, and the moderator of the meeting is presenting the latest gathered intelligence. See his face appear on the screen. Just nodded his head. By the way, the satellite image that is being displayed is taken down.
Mr. Rest, who had just arrived, noticed that the image was a zoomed-in of a private island in the New Bermuda area when he was last photographed two years ago. The private island was the main suspect in his investigation, but nothing was found.
"Gentlemen, please note that this is the end of the retrospective introduction, and now I will inform you of the latest findings. Our satellite imagery is still being collated and returned. It's important to note that this is the first time we've had satellite images of the area in two years, and no one knows if this will be sustainable, so please look closely at the images to see the difference. โ
After the moderator finished speaking, he showed a huge satellite image through the remote data link. There are some scale annotations and preliminary textual annotations on the image, and it is difficult to see that this is the same area as the previous one without the comparison charts and latitude and longitude data to support it.
In the same spot, the private island shown in the previous image had disappeared completely, replaced by a huge hole, and it was clear that the sea water was pouring into the large hole at high speed, emitting hot water vapor, like a small volcanic eruption. If it weren't for the favorable direction and strength of the wind, they wouldn't even be able to see through the massive fog to see the large hole hundreds of meters wide. (To be continued......)
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