Chapter 444: The Threat of Damocles
Some time ago, the Mediterranean, in the midst of a storm that obscured all view. The churning waves laid down, revealing the three-masted galleon that was swaying in the waves.
The wall of light that kept out all damage slowly disappeared. Menek put away the banner in his hand: "Actually engraved an alchemy matrix on that thing, if we are hit, even we will suffer." ”
The churning waves gradually stopped, and the aftermath of the blow that seemed to be the Sword of Destruction gradually stopped. But the storm was still howling, and the waves that had not been dead for a long time were striking again, and the black black water was about to shatter the fragile sailing ship floating on it again.
The sound of fierce artillery fire suddenly sounded from the hull of the ship, and the guns raised from the deck fired fiercely at the figures floating in the sky.
"Well, I underestimated you." The man in the beak mask in the sky waved his cane forward, and appeared in front of him like an ideal land isolated from the world.
"It's this troublesome spirit again......" Ash frowned, and in the underground of Yanjing, the guy who called himself Odin set off such a spirit and blocked all their attacks.
"There is no such thing as absolute protection, all we lack is the power to break that shield." Menek said, slowly walking over to a large cannon port.
The muzzle of the cannon was about enough for a man to enter, and he had specially prepared the soot for himself, just to deal with the kind of enemy that could fly very high and had a hard shell.
The man in the beak mask floating in the sky shook his head as if he understood what they were going to do, and said, "This can't let you succeed, such a troublesome speech, even if it is me, it will be very troublesome if it is affected." ”
He raised his hand high, as if calling for something, and the dark sky was lit up again, and several red rays of light gathered behind the dark clouds, and then tore through the dark sky and fell on the stormy sea.
The lighthouse, which had been struggling to support itself in the wind and rain, was shattered, and the fragments of the building fell into the dark sea, and before they could make a wave, they were covered by the rising waves. Ange, who had already been transferred to the ship, wiped the rain from his face and looked up at the several crimson rays of light falling from the sky.
This time, the target is not against them, but at the entire sea...... Or the Nibelungen hidden beneath this water, and the dragon king within.
Suddenly, a pillar of light hit the smoke-emitting crater of Etna. Stimulated by external forces, the red magma that had been brewing in the mountains for a long time burst out, and the magma columns hundreds of meters high flew into the sky, and the sky of Sicily completely burned in the frightened eyes of the residents who had not yet had time to evacuate.
Somewhere in the harbor, the naval soldiers gathered here, whether they believed it or not, quickly drew crosses on their chests, chanted the blessing of the Lord, and then watched with horror as a white line on the sea in the distance turned into waves tens of meters high, slapping towards them. The waves seemed to be mixed with some strangely shaped architectural fragments, as well as the corpses of some strange creatures with fishtails in their bodies.
But before the soldiers who saw these exclaimed in surprise, the waves tens of meters high pushed the huge warships anchored at the edge of the harbor and smashed them down......
The same thing happened throughout Italy on the Mediterranean coast, as did the neighboring French ports and Corsica. While the country's leaders were still arguing over lengthy meetings, disaster had struck the heart of the Mediterranean.
Beneath the rough sea, countless fragments of buildings that do not belong to this side of the world and corpses of dragons float up, and deeper, there are huge beings clashing at the bottom of the sea...... Hidden beneath the Mediterranean Sea, the Nibelungen, the gates of Nuotun were opened.
"It's not easy to get you out, my sister......" The beak masked man chuckled softly as he flew upwards and gradually disappeared into the dark clouds.
"Does the dignified Dragon King actually want to escape?" Menek looked up and shouted.
"It's not my way of fighting." The man in the beak mask took off his top hat and bent down to them, "Thank you for your efforts to force my sister to such a point that I can find this Nibelungen that she hid. ”
He straightened up and chuckled, "Then in return, I'll help you make this Nibelungen that has devoured so many lives disappear." ”
He stood beneath the dark clouds, and several blazing fires fell behind him, leaving scarred wounds on the ocean and the earth. Then at some point, the dark clouds behind him dispersed, revealing the unusually clear sky behind him, which was the exact opposite of the tyrannical weather within the clouds.
The sun shone down, bringing light and warmth to the storm-surrounded sea. But at this moment, everyone's attention is not on the long-lost sun. In the far corner of the sky, there is a huge man-made object that is so conspicuous that it can be seen even above the surface. It reflects the luster of metal in the sun, and its strange shape and growing size make people wonder if it will fall in the next second.
Then, it really fell, with a strong fire and light.
"I like to return to you the waste abandoned by humans in space, and I like what Behemoth has prepared." The man in the beak mask raised his top hat lightly, "Well, I hope that your strange abilities can help you, I can't wait to meet you again." ”
As he spoke, his figure gradually disappeared into the storm, only to hum softly as his figure was about to disappear. In addition to the storm he had summoned, there was an even larger storm wall, like a cage blocking his retreat.
He held his cane, looked at the slowly rotating storm wall, and sighed for a long time as if he understood something: "I didn't expect that I would be the last one to step into the trap......
In the crater of Etna, a corner that the average human can see, huge bronze giants stand on top of the magma that dots the mountain. The magma sword was stuck in the mountain, and the magma that had been flowing towards the city of Catalia at the foot of the mountain strangely changed its route and surged towards the greatsword forged from the volcanic body.
The girl in a bohemian dress sat on the shoulders of the giant god, and the poisonous volcanic ash of the blazing tropics blew her hair and skirt, but the blazing wind blew on her like the sea breeze on the seashore in the middle of summer.
Natsumi stretched his waist and said a little lazily: "In the past, you wanted to use a volcano to burn the whole world, but there were times when you came to stop the volcano from erupting. ”
"Don't you feel your face hurt when you say cool words at this time?" Within the alchemy center of the giant god, Conrad responded with a dissatisfied expression, "Aren't you who wanted to subvert human cities in the past also stop the spread of the earthquake now?" ”
In the forest under the volcano, Xia Tang sat on the ground, surrounded by all kinds of snack bags. He just ate his snack and looked at the brightly lit city beneath Mount Etna.
At the foot of the hill, the city's wide roads are clogged with traffic. Airports were closed due to volcanic eruptions, and ports everywhere were closed due to storms. In less than half a day, the connection between the whole of Sicily and the Italian peninsula was disconnected.
The panicked crowd shouted on the flooded road, hoping that someone would get out of the way. The woman holding the child cried loudly, hoping that someone would leave with her child......
He looked at the creatures with some amusement, then threw away the empty bag in his hand, tore open a packet of potato chips again, and chewed them with relish. Sure enough, compared to those humans who messed up on their own, the snacks in his hands were more attractive.
The panicked humans at the foot of the mountain did not realize that the magma that had been worrying them after the eruption did not sweep the city at the foot of the mountain, and the earthquake that accompanied the eruption was still silent.
Having prevented the danger that might have been enough to destroy the island, the dragon kings on the mountain watched the panicked city in silence. Tomorrow and tomorrow have not yet really struck, but chaos is already spreading in the city.
After a long time, Xia Micai sighed weakly: "Although it is only incidental, but saving such a person really makes people feel no sense of accomplishment at all." ”
"Don't worry about human affairs, just don't forget our purpose." Inside the alchemy hub of the giant god, Ronald looked up at the outside.
His eyes seemed to pass through the storm, and he saw the figure with the beak mask in the secret and storm: "Finally, after countless years of separation, our brothers and sisters gathered on this sea again...... You say yes, right? Koyatl. ”
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"Well, I don't know if this will be useful for the current situation, but according to the data from the ESA and NASA, the Sword of Damocles has been moving in low-Earth orbit with the trajectory of the moon before. And its muzzle, at first, was also aimed at the moon. A rapporteur said cautiously.
"It doesn't matter what it was aiming at anymore, even if the aliens on the moon are secretly watching this side now, the focus now is on how to stop that big guy from falling from the sky." An elder glared at the previous rapporteur, then turned back and asked, "Armament Department, how is the plan to stop the satellite from falling?" ”
Within the call channel, the internal channel of the equipment department has been noisy, but it is all some topics that have nothing to do with the current focus, what zi, and Zeon with inexplicable slogans such as useless soldiers and liberating souls bound by gravity, that is, no one answers the questions of the patriarch.
It wasn't until the patriarch who asked the question had a vascular protrusion on his forehead that no one seemed to remember that the current situation was somewhat urgent.
"I'm Deputy Director Carl, and Director Akadulla is currently busy forming Titans, purging the remnants of the Zeon and the New Zeon forces in the Institute, and I'll report to you for the time being." Karl, another head of the armament department, stepped forward.
He cleared his throat and replied to the patriarch who had just asked: "With all due respect, Your Excellency, we do not have the power to strike at outer space now, and even entering outer space requires long-term preparations. And we have no idea what the target is, and we have no idea how big its current mass volume is, so we can only estimate it. ”
He continued: "As for the use of nuclear bombs to eliminate targets, that is simply nonsense, outer space is not in the atmosphere, and a nuclear bomb that can be used in the atmosphere is not very easy to use in outer space." ”
"Wait for the target to enter the atmosphere before launching a nuclear strike." There are other patriarchal proposals.
"We don't recommend that." Deputy Director Karl shook his head, "Putting aside the radiation and pollution after the use of nuclear bombs, the debris that the target cracks in the atmosphere will become a new threat. At that time, not only the Mediterranean, but also the whole of Europe, West Asia and North Africa will be affected. ”
The entire central control room was silent, and the collision images simulated by the main computer were playing on the screen.
"And more importantly, the Sword of Damocles is completely unfamiliar to us now, and we don't know what kind of alchemical transformation the enemy who seized the Sword of Damocles has done to it." "If it is transformed into a huge alchemy bomb, then it is not impossible to expand the scope of damage after it is rashly detonated, and it is not impossible to affect half of Asia and the whole of Africa. ”
The central control room was silent for a moment, everyone looks at me, I look at yours, but they can't come up with a feasible plan at all.
On the main screen, the image of the sword of Damocles falling straight into the Mediterranean Sea is playing. The entire Italian peninsula, as well as Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, will be wiped off the map, the waves will sweep across the Implia Peninsula and the Balkans, the three peninsulas of southern Europe may cease to exist, and all cities on the Mediterranean coast of Asia and Africa will be hit by a tsunami......
"This ...... Wouldn't it be too much of an exaggeration? It's nothing more than a satellite down. The young school director in the crowd asked in disbelief.
"This is already the result of a conservative estimate." Deputy Director Carl shook his head and said, "The current sword of Damocles has collected almost all the garbage in space, and no one can count how much human beings have left in space in history." ”
Some patriarchs couldn't believe it and asked, "Can we just watch the sword of Damocles fall?" ”
"Of course...... Deputy Director Karl's expression was serious, "No, although there is no way to make a mobile suit about twenty meters tall to push it back, it is still no problem to make an interceptor rocket to change the trajectory it has fallen." ”
"Introduction, codenamed RX93, a new interceptor rocket made by the Anaheim Branch of the Department of Armament in California, was originally intended to intercept asteroids falling from outer space." The main computer screen lit up, and the black-and-white rocket stood silently on the launch pad.
Deputy Director Carr confidently introduced: "Although the incident happened suddenly, it is already on standby at Vandenberg Air Force Base. We will use it to change the trajectory of the falling satellite, and push the fallen sword of Damocles into uninhabited areas in the Indian Ocean or the Pacific Ocean. ”
"Is this really okay?" One of the patriarchs asked, "I mean, is it really too late to get out of North America?" ”
Deputy Director Carl smiled confidently: "Don't worry, you will never let it fall in Australia." ”