"What should we do?"
Meng Chao asked Long Feijun with his gaze. "Should we take the risk and get closer to confirm our coordinates?"
"Get closer!"
Long Feijun thought about it before he gritted his teeth and came to a decision. Then, he explained to Meng Chao, "This area is the only flat and stable place in the bumpy mountain area. If our armored airship squadron wants to descend into Hidden Fog Last Territory en masse, this is the best landing spot.
"So, even if there's danger, we have to get closer and understand just what the hell these UHV transmission towers covered in moss, vines, and branches have turned into!"
Meng Chao nodded.
He tightened his grip around Golden Tooth Bloody Soul.
The dark golden chain wrapped around his arm swam about slowly as if it had a life of its own. It let out faint scraping sounds.
Under Long Feijun's orders, the hatch at the back of Kun-peng's airbag opened. A super high-pressure spirit energy charged out, causing the steam whistle to let out a piercing whistle.
This was the siren that signified the highest level of combat readiness.
For a period of time, Kun-peng looked like a sailing battleship from the 18th century on Earth. The cannons on both sides of the pod were opened, and countless black cannons stretched out.
The Heaven Realm superhumans who were resting in the pods released their strongest vitality magnetic fields.
Some of them even used maglev to fly out of the pod and patrol the area. They only relied on safety ropes to connect to Kun-peng.
As the angle of the propellers and tail fins was adjusted, Kun-peng tilted down a little and charged into the sky above the forest, where the fog was even thicker.
Looking down from here, the jungle was like a deep sea with black waves frozen in place.
When they sensed the ripples from the armored airship, countless animals shuddered in the depths of the forest.
Since they exposed their location, they started killing each other. Roars and screams of pain rose nonstop.
The Heaven Realm superhumans' presences were like a layer of shining armor with spikes. It quietly showed off Kun-peng's strength. Not many monsters were foolish enough to fly over and provoke the giant in the sky.
The UHV transmission towers drew closer.
Meng Chao narrowed his eyes and looked into the distance.
Through the fog, Meng Chao noticed that these strange things were even stranger than the pictures the Piranhas and Lu Siya had taken.
They did not look like green giants. They looked like huge green zombies.
Eight hundred meters away from the UHV transmission tower, Long Feijun stopped "Kun Peng".
He wanted to have Kun Peng circle the UHV transmission tower and scan the terrain around it to see whether it matched with the map drawn by Piranha and Lu Siya.
If the data matched and they could determine their current coordinates, there would be no need for them to take the risk of venturing deeper. When they saw the large green zombies, Long Feijun and Meng Chao were just like everyone else. They felt their skin crawl.
As for firepower reconnaissance, it could be done with ship-borne rockets and suicide drones.
Unexpectedly, just as the Kun Peng was about to turn its propellers in the opposite direction, it stopped in midair.
"Slurp, slurp, slurp, slurp." A few strange tentacles suddenly shot out from the mist below them.
"What is this?!"
Meng Chao cursed in his heart.
He could see that the green tentacles looked like cables covered in moss.
He didn't know that the cables of the UHV transmission tower could extend so far.
Moreover, there were gray claws growing on the ends of these cables. They really looked like the claws of demons.
There seemed to be a pair of scarlet eyes on the claws.
They also seemed to be able to sniff out the spirit energy ripples released by the crystal engines and accurately shot at the engines and propellers.
The sirens kept blaring nonstop. Kun Peng made an emergency maneuver. The Vulcan cannons on the sides of the pods and above the airbags started firing madly.
The superhumans patrolling around the armored airship swung their cold weapons and created a dense wave of saber shadows that cut at the cables.
More than ten cables were cut on the spot.
But one of them managed to crawl into the depths of the propellers. It easily tore through the outer shell and clamped down on the gears and propeller shaft inside.
The crystal engines instantly let out piercing cracking sounds and spat out a lot of sparks and black smoke.
The cables became taut and extended into the depths of the fog to forcefully pull Kun Peng to a stop.
It was as if there was a green giant wrestling with the armored airship.
More cables covered in moss came out of the fog.
"Cut it!"
A machine gunner had fallen off the airbag during the violent tremors just now. He relied on the safety rope to hang on the side of the airbag and could not climb up for a period of time.
Long Feijun did not have time to save him. Instead, he dismantled the entire heavy machine gun tower and held it in his arms. Then, he fired at the cables that came at him like nine pythons.
While he fired, he turned his head around and roared.
Meng Chao quickly pounced on the crystal engines.
Golden Tooth Bloody Soul slashed at the cables wrapped around the propellers.
At that moment, to avoid another cable that stabbed into the cockpit, Kun Peng performed an emergency maneuver that nearly tore its keel apart.
Perhaps it was because he had swung his saber thousands of times over the past half an hour, which made his arms feel numb and his palms burn.
Or perhaps it was because the armored airship had suddenly tilted and removed 50% of the force under Meng Chao's feet.
The slash did not manage to cut the cable. It only managed to tear off two-thirds of it.
But the moss covering the cable squirmed like flesh. Soon, the wound healed.
Then, with sizzling sounds, electricity gushed out of the cable like a tidal wave. It bound the propellers and crystal engines and turned them into bright fireballs.
"How is this possible?"
Meng Chao was dumbfounded.
If the moss, vines, and branches had covered the UHV transmission towers and turned them into green giants, there would have been a theoretical possibility.
But where did such powerful electricity come from?
Could it be that there was a power plant hidden behind the UHV transmission towers?
But that was impossible. Since they were UHV transmission towers, the electricity they sent to them must have come from a large power station that was incredibly far away. It was impossible for them to have transmigrated to the Other World with Dragon City!
After the cable blew up the first crystal engine, it greedily tried to rush to the second crystal engine.
Meng Chao composed himself and shouted. His muscles bulged, and his spine turned into a raging dragon. Golden Tooth Bloody Soul instantly changed its form from a battle-axe to a spiked mace.
Meng Chao slashed at its head, and while enduring the pain from the electricity, he finally cut it in half.
But before Meng Chao could catch his breath, the sound of metal scraping against metal rose, and a terrifying and unbelievable scene appeared in the fog.
More than ten UHV transmission towers came to life.
They did not just swing the cables like the tentacles of demons.
They did not just move a few meters or dozens of meters in just a few days, as Battle God Lei Zongchao had pointed out.
Instead, they swayed left and right, staggered, and ran toward Kun-peng like a mental patient who had broken free of his restraints!
Meng Chao gulped.
His spirit energy nearly made his eyeballs explode. With the help of the binoculars, he could see that the UHV transmission towers had really risen from the ground.
But they relied on the vines wrapped around the base of the towers to grow thousands of tentacles in all directions like the roots of a towering tree.
The tentacles expanded and contracted like earthworms, causing the UHV transmission towers to move forward like multi-legged insects.
Even the nightmares of Apocalyptic Beasts would not have such terrifying things appear.
Long Feijun made a prompt decision and ordered Kun-peng to fire at full speed while retreating at full speed. He hoped that he could leave the hunting range of the UHV transmission towers.
But the UHV transmission towers were hollow. Aside from a sturdy metal frame, the rest of the "flesh" and "organs" were made of moss and vines.
Even if bullets riddled the green giant with holes, it would recover in a few minutes.
Even if he used the incendiary bombs that had fire crystals added to them, and the flames burned the vines and branches black, after the moss covered them like a tide, they would grow new sprouts at a visible speed.
Kun-peng had already lost two of its crystal engines.
The remaining engines and propellers were also running at full capacity.
The power system was in danger, and they could not increase their speed at all.
A few of the UHV transmission towers spread out to form an encirclement.
Based on this speed, Kun-peng would definitely not be able to rise to a safe height before it was bound by hundreds of cables and dragged down!
"What should we do?"
Everyone gritted their teeth.
They knew that the Hidden Fog Domain was incredibly strange.
But they did not expect that it would be this strange. Right after they entered the depths of the Hidden Fog Domain, they were attacked head-on.
"Release the Peregrine Falcons!"
Long Feijun's eyes were bloodshot, and he made his decision.
Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!
The covers under the pods opened, and offensive drones that looked like steel birds were released.
The special alloy shell carved with runic symbols could effectively block spirit energy magnetic field interference, so the microchips and bionic brains inside the drones could work normally.
The preset map and attack pattern allowed them to fight against the tentacles of the UHV transmission towers without humans' commands.
The neuron autonomous learning system that mimicked a monster's brain and the data exchange system in the war zone could even allow the Peregrine Falcons to gradually grasp the target's attack and defense patterns after a few of their drones were destroyed by the tentacles. They would then jump around nimbly and avoid the tentacles' attacks. Then, they would accurately crawl into the "heart" of the UHV transmission tower.
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
The drones exploded in the green giant's arms, and balls of purple and red spirit flames flew out.
Even though the drones had limited ammunition, the spirit flames were soon extinguished by the squirming moss. They did not cause any substantial damage to the UHV transmission towers.
But their greatest use was not to attack directly.
Instead, after they were extinguished by spirit flames, they would charge into the air and not disappear for a long time. Like arrowheads, they provided the clearest guidance for the heavy artillery bases outside the Hidden Fog Domain. Boom!
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The air burned, and the ground trembled.
The heavy artillery bases outside the Hidden Fog Domain, with dozens of railway guns as the core, started roaring.
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