When the remaining power of the volley finally disappeared, the sinkhole turned into a sea of fire.
Dozens of burning mushroom clouds burned the forest in the air, which had thousands of vines intersecting with each other.
The huge recoil caused all the railway guns to tremble. The support legs were uprooted, and the wheels that derailed left deep marks on the ground, which was as hard as iron.
The radiation released by the powerful crystal reaction had yet to disappear, and visible spirit energy ripples spread out in the air. The artillery officers put on their anti-radiation suits and lead aprons and rushed forward to have the railway guns return to their original positions so that they could load the second round of shells.
Normal soldiers could not work in a hellish environment. Hence, the ones who rushed forward were practically suicide squads formed by superhumans.
Perhaps the suicide squad members were just one-star superhumans, and at most, two-star superhumans at Spirit Transformation Realm.
They did not have exquisite killing moves or peerless fighting strength like Meng Chao and Lu Siya either.
But they still used their bodies, which were burned by spirit flames and made of steel, to fight in a battle that changed the progress of civilization.
Since the radiation was too strong, the suicide squad members had to leave the railway guns every minute and go to the "safe zone" one hundred meters away to catch their breaths for a while.
They removed their lead plates and anti-radiation suits. Their pale faces were covered in sweat the size of soybeans.
Some people even suffered from too much radiation, and pustules and black spots appeared on their skin.
But when normal soldiers volunteered to take their place to carry out their duties, the young officers of the Red Dragon Army waved their hands without hesitation and rejected the soldiers' good will. Once they gulped down gene medicine and cell repair fluid, they put on their armor and rushed to the railway guns with super radiation.
The second round of cannon fire was accompanied by the humans' roars. It exploded in the sky above the sinkhole.
Since Meng Chao and the other exploration squad members had made ample preparations, the railway guns' attacks were very targeted.
They aimed at the depths of the sinkhole, where there were a lot of underground holes and the spirit energy magnetic field reactions were really strong.
Meng Chao and the other exploration squad members locked onto fifteen underground holes that were as complicated as mazes.
Some of the entrances had strange spirit flames gushing out of them. At first glance, they could tell that they were dangerous places.
If they directly sent soldiers to attack, it was likely that even thousands of soldiers and horses would not be able to fill these bottomless pits.
But Dragon Citizens had absolute firepower advantage and had been suffering from the late stage of Firepower Deficiency Syndrome since decades ago. They would not engage in close-quarters combat with the monster civilization and use blood to drown every inch of land in a fierce battle against them.
A problem that could be solved with a railway gun would definitely not be solved by a Transcendent.
If the problem could be solved by Extraordinaires, there was no need to sacrifice the precious lives of ordinary soldiers.
The Earth Drilling Cannonball, which had been strengthened and had a special structure, penetrated the rock stratum dozens of meters thick and exploded in the underground space.
Even if the explosion did not kill the monster's mastermind, it would burn away all the oxygen underground.
As long as the other party was still a carbon-based organism, there was no reason for it not to fall for this trick.
As the Torrent of Steel surged forward, the Dragon City Cavalry opened up more and more tunnels and cannons in the depths of the forest.
Thousands of heavy cannons large and small had been pushed to the edge of the sinkhole. They could look down from the high vantage point and pour their firepower into the sinkhole fearlessly.
Even the Huge Dragon's Might Cannons fired from the main camp dozens of kilometers away.
Even though the accuracy of the cannons was not as high as when they could see with the naked eye and shoot at close range, the terrifying power of one cannon shot made accuracy meaningless.
The scene in front of him made Meng Chao remember his previous life.
It made him understand why the countless Other World races in his previous life would scream in fear when they saw Dragon City's Torrent of Steel. "Extraordinary Disaster! Extraordinary Disaster! "
The pride of being a natural disaster rose in his heart.
When the dense bombardment of the sinkhole lasted for a total of three hours and the ninth underground cave was completely destroyed, the Dragon City Cavalry finally located the ultimate nest of the monster civilization.
First, a red spirit flame that was nearly one thousand meters tall shot out from the depths of the ground and tore a bloody hole in the smoke-filled sky.
Then, waves of shrill howls that were each louder than the last came from the flames in the sinkhole and the smoke that filled the sky.
Deformed and twisted mushroom clouds were torn apart, and a gigantic insect-type monster appeared in the destructive whirlwind.
At first glance, it looked like the Ghost-eyed Golden Winged Flame Beetle, the first superbeast Meng Chao killed after he returned to the past.
But based on the size of its four shining golden wings and the mushroom cloud, its wingspan was at least one hundred meters long.
From a certain standpoint, a moth that was nearly one hundred meters long could stir up fear in humans even more than a dinosaur that was nearly one hundred meters long.
Besides, the large Ghost-eyed Golden Winged Flame Beetle had a picture on its wings that was one hundred times more complicated than that of a normal butterfly. It was as if one hundred profound eyes had opened at the same time and wanted to absorb all the souls of the humans on the battlefield.
The humans who accidentally saw its wings turned stark pale, as if they had been struck by lightning. Their mental defenses were in danger.
"Apocalyptic Beast!"
When Meng Chao sensed the peerlessly fierce presence it released, goosebumps rose on his skin, and he instinctively blurted out those words.
The large Ghost-eyed Golden Winged Flame Beetle that was as fierce as an Apocalyptic Beast flapped its wings twice and crossed the sea of fire to reach the edge of the sinkhole.
More than ten armored airships levitated at the edge of the sinkhole. They risked their lives to observe the effects of the bombardment and calibrate the trajectories of the heavy artillery.
When they saw the Apocalyptic Beast pouncing on them, they scattered like a swarm of startled bees.
But the armored airships were not as fast as supersonic fighter jets when they turned around and fled.
The large Ghost-eyed Golden Winged Flame Beetle had already shaken off a large amount of phosphorescent powder on its wings and was using the spirit flames it spewed out of its mouthparts to ignite them.
In the sky, above the red sea of fire the humans had ignited, a dark blue sea of fire that looked like it was going to be incredibly cold appeared.
One of the armored airships did not manage to dodge in time and was about to sink into the dark blue sea of fire.
The pilot operated the crystal engine with all his might. As the engine roared and exploded, he squeezed out the maximum potential of the engine. It was as if someone was kicking the armored airship repeatedly, allowing it to escape the purple sea of fire by a hair's breadth. Then, it fell into the depths of the forest crookedly.
The monster that followed closely behind it wanted to chase after it, but it did not seem to be able to catch its breath. The second wave of flames it spat out was weak. It was like a wriggling snake, and before it could swim more than one hundred meters, it disappeared.
"That's impossible …"
Meng Chao was shocked.
Based on its size and presence, the large Ghost-eyed Golden Winged Flame Beetle was definitely an Apocalyptic Beast, the king of monsters.
But if it was a real Apocalyptic Beast, it would definitely not let a small armored airship escape its hunting range.
Even if it was dizzy from being bombarded by the heavy artillery, it would still be impossible.
"This Apocalyptic Beast … doesn't seem to have fully developed."
Lu Siya narrowed her eyes and observed it for a while before she said, "Its wings are still wet!"
Meng Chao's mind raced, and he came to a realization.
Indeed, while the wings of the large Ghost-eyed Golden Winged Flame Beetle were wide, they were wrinkled and wet. There was a lot of adhesive liquid on them, as if they had not fully spread out.
Its body did not seem full either. Quite a lot of its body parts had shriveled up, and it was also covered in adhesive liquid. There was even something similar to a cocoon attached to the adhesive liquid.
Its tail still had a lot of the characteristics of a larva. It did not have the glowing tentacles commonly seen on butterfly-type monsters.
This was an Apocalyptic Beast that had yet to fully evolve.
They were "premature babies" whose "metamorphosis" was forcibly interrupted by the cannon fire of humans.
At that moment, more monstrous shadows of large monsters appeared in the sea of fire in the depths of the sinkhole.
Meng Chao saw a monster that was around seventy meters long. It had the body of a pterosaur and the head of a plesiosaur. It also had a crystalline, semi-transparent shell that looked like a layer of crystal armor. It seemed to be able to absorb all the heat from the raging sea of fire, and through a complicated process of refraction, reflection, and diffraction, it would be released in a certain direction.
It was the Crystalline Nine-headed Dragon, the one that gave humans the greatest headache among Apocalyptic Beasts!
However, adult Crystalline Nine-headed Dragons were usually more than one hundred meters long, and they had nine heads that could regenerate. Even if eight of them were destroyed in one go, as long as one of them remained, they would have the chance to flee and make a comeback.
This Crystalline Nine-headed Dragon, which had obviously shrunk a lot, only had four heads, and the crystal shell did not cover every inch of its skin. At most, it covered its vital parts, and in the gaps between the vital parts, there was still fragile and tender pink flesh, but it was licked by the tongues of fire and burnt to a pitch-black state.
This was also a "premature baby".
There was another Apocalyptic Beast. It looked like the amalgamation of a spider and a flea that had been magnified tens of thousands of times. It had more than fifty limbs that were thin and long, and they looked like sickles.
When it swung its blade-like limbs, it was enough to make trypophobia sufferers have a heart attack.
However, it was not fully developed either. The shell that covered its blade-like limbs was not sturdy. Instead, it was wet and soft, just like the wings of the large Ghost-eyed Golden Winged Flame Beetle.
It had dozens of blade-like limbs for nothing, but it could not even support its body, which was dozens of meters long. It swayed after taking two steps, and it looked like it was about to fall.
Meng Chao knew that many of the large Apocalyptic Beasts had organs that were similar to anti-gravity engines or maglev generators.
They used the repulsive force between their vitality magnetic fields and the planet's magnetic field to break free of gravity and support their bodies that were nearly one hundred meters long and weighed nearly ten thousand tons to stand on the ground.
Their limbs were just icing on the cake.
If the maglev or anti-gravity organs were forcefully awakened before they were fully developed and sent into battle, they would run into the awkward situation of being crushed by their own weight.
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