"Wow …"
For the second time, Chu Zhiyun could not help but let out a weird sound while she stared at the back of Thangka's head in disbelief.
"Are you sitting tight, monitor?"
Thangka's hands were moving among the runes and numbers like two streaks of lightning. With his quick operation, the maximum output of the shuttle was increased nonstop. 130% … 150% … 180%!
In other words, after only five minutes of modification by Thangka, the high-speed reconnaissance shuttle that had been as fast as lightning was almost twice as fast as before!
How — how was it possible?
It was not just the spiritual energy circuits and the structure of the magical equipment. More importantly, 180% of the maximum speed would inevitably bring a tremendous load and overload. How could beginners like Thangka and Chu Zhiyun handle it?
They would probably hit the wall the moment it was started, wouldn't they?
But with everything coming to this point, Chu Zhiyun did not have any other options. Besides, she was awed by the vague vibe on Thangka and did not have the strength to refute. She could only hold Tiantian in her arms tightly and check the safety devices and the buffer gel spray. Touching her burning forehead, she nodded and said, "Sit tight!"
"Then … let's go!"
Thangka snapped his fingers softly. Two bright green buffer gels were immediately sprayed out from the left and right sides of the cockpit, enshrouding the three of them tightly. Thangka's head was still exposed, which happened to be caught by a silver neural interaction helmet.
The light belts on the two sides of the neural interaction helmet flickered quickly. The shuttle seemed to be still, but the world around it was retreating quickly into thin, long gray lines. It was not until a long time later that Chu Zhiyun realized that they were already flying!
"This is —"
Chu Zhiyun bulged her eyes and looked at the world that had almost been dragged into two gray walls.
She discovered that Thangka was not bragging at all. He had truly 'tamed' the high-speed reconnaissance shuttle. While it was rushing at the highest speed, it had kept its altitude as low as possible. The distance between the bottom of the shuttle and the ground was only the distance of one's palm.
In such a way, they could cover their existence with the help of the skyscrapers nearby and the thermal radiation and reflection on the ground itself. Even if the Holy Light Academy and the purge troop activated large-scale scanning, the odds of them being discovered would be significantly lower.
Also, the shuttle did not make any sound when it was rushing forward. The optical camouflage system that Thangka had adjusted had added a layer of bright gray camouflage outside of the spiritual shield. At first glance, it looked like a shallow ripple in the air that flashed by!
But it was not hard to imagine how difficult and dangerous such an approach.
The closer they were to the ground, the more obstacles there would be ahead. The streets, the dilapidated walls, the debris of shuttles and crystal tanks on the road, and even the low-altitude jumping mines for anti-armor purposes were all fatal killers.
Their speed was already more than five hundred kilometers per hour.
At such a speed, even a shard that was not very sharp could pierce through their engine units and even their fuel tanks, destroying the shuttle and killing them!
Even though Chu Zhiyun was one of the most distinguished elite students of the Holy Light Academy, whose eyesight, computational ability, and reflexes were among the best of her peers, it was barely possible for her to distinguish the objects in front of her at a speed of five hundred kilometers per hour. The skyscrapers slashed at them brutally like black sabers. She felt that she was being decapitated time and time again, and she could not help but feel the urge to scream.
Thangka, on the other hand, was not in a hurry at all. He seemed to be taking a stroll in the maze of a city. Quite a few times, the shuttle brushed against the glass walls of the skyscrapers and took a turn at the distance of a hair, but not a single glass was broken.
At the next intersection, when they encountered a collapsed skyscraper whose middle was broken, Thangka did not choose to pass by the debris but crawled into the gap at the center of the debris. After a series of dazzling operations, the shuttle passed through the debris of the skyscraper directly!
Chu Zhiyun felt that her heart was about to jump out of her throat.
At this time, Thangka let out a long and beautiful yawn.
"Ah … woo …"
Thangka smacked her lips in boredom.
"Tang, Thangka, what's wrong with you!"
Chu Zhiyun asked with a trembling voice.
"Ah, what, I'm fine, what do you mean 'what's wrong'?"
Thangka turned her head and looked at the class leader strangely, "Why do you ask?"
"Ah!"
Chu Zhiyun screamed, "Don't turn your head, look at the road, look at the road, we're going to crash, we're going to —"
Thangka continued to look at the class leader innocently. Her hands continued to operate like a torrential downpour. The shuttle tilted forty-five degrees and passed through the gap between two skyscrapers with almost no gap.
Then, Thangka let out another big yawn, to the point that tears came out.
"You, you're yawning?"
Chu Zhiyun did not know how to describe her feelings at this moment.
"Yeah, I couldn't sleep last night and didn't rest well, so I'm a bit tired."
Thangka rubbed her eyes and said, "That's why the speed is so slow, don't mind it."
"The speed … is so slow?"
Chu Zhiyun found that when it came to the question of "speed", she and Thangka seemed to have completely different definitions.
She also found that Thangka, who was sleepy, had a very unique temperament. It was the kind of temperament that made people very, very indescribable, but also very, very resentful and itching to beat him up.
"Besides, there's a kid on the shuttle, let's drive slowly. Although it's a bit boring, ah … ugh … but, safety first!"
As Thangka spoke, she stretched her hand out of the protective gel and groped under the seat for a while. Unexpectedly, she found a can of mixed tropical fruit juice. With a click, she opened the tab and took a big gulp. She let out a satisfied sigh and continued, "Let's warm up the power unit first. When we get out of the city and into the open countryside, let's speed up!"
It was only then that Chu Zhiyun realized, as if she had just woken up from a dream, that Tiantian did not cry at all when they were moving around at a speed of five hundred kilometers per hour, and she did not feel any weightlessness, excess weight, overload, or any other discomfort.
When she looked down, she found that Tiantian was curiously looking at the jelly-like gel around him, and through the gel, he was looking at the world outside at lightning speed!
"Giggle!"
Noticing that his sister was looking at him, the little guy laughed happily, not at all bothered by the temporary separation from his mother.
"When did you start to like drinking fruit juice? Why didn't I know?"
Chu Zhiyun looked at Thangka's sneaky, smiling face, and the more she looked, the more confused she felt.
"There are still many things you don't know, but it doesn't matter, I'll let you know slowly in the future, my most respected class leader!"
Thangka said, "Now you just need to trust me absolutely and leave everything to me, and nothing will be a problem! I promise, we will smoothly escape from this damn city and our damn destiny in the past, and we will find shelter — a real shelter!
"And those pig-headed, no, brainless bastards should still be foolishly searching for our traces in the north of the city right now, right? Humph, by the time they realize something is wrong, we will already be comfortably soaking in a hot bath in the shelter! Do you believe me, class leader? "
"Yes …"
Chu Zhiyun frowned slightly and said, "I want to believe you, but the shining exclamation mark on the control panel, and the string of numbers behind the exclamation mark that are getting smaller and smaller, doesn't it mean that dozens of flying swords are stabbing at us?"
Thangka was slightly stunned, and the narrow cockpit was suddenly filled with ear-piercing alarms.
And behind them, dozens of flashing, crisscrossing sword auras were so close that they could even be seen with the naked eye.
"How is that possible!"
Thangka's pupils instantly constricted to the limit, and as if she had been slapped hard in the face, she was so angry that snot bubbles came out of her nose.
When his hand speed soared again, Chu Zhiyun finally understood what Thangka meant by "boring" just now. She felt that she was not inside a high-speed reconnaissance vehicle, but riding on a whistling meteor, a drill that could drill through three-dimensional space!
Crack! Crack! Crack!
The speed of the shuttle was instantly increased to at least seven hundred kilometers per hour, and after making thirty-seven small-scale changes in direction in just one second, the speed was instantly reduced to three hundred and fifty kilometers per hour, almost reaching the metal fatigue limit of the frame and the shell. Finally, the dozens of chasing flying swords were all shaken off.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The flying swords exploded one after another around the shuttle, raising surging tides made of heat and debris that attacked them one after another, each higher than the last.
After all, what they were driving was only a reconnaissance vehicle with light shields and light armor. Even though it had been modified by Thangka, it was impossible for it to take the attacks of so many flying swords head-on and be unscathed.
Cracks appeared on the tempered glass, and the alloy shell was dented by the blast, with tiny gaps even torn by the debris.
Under the super high speed that surpassed sound waves, even the tiny gaps that were invisible to the naked eye could lead to disasters. Thangka had no choice but to reduce the speed while cursing.
But when they saw the pursuers behind them clearly, they did not even have the strength to curse.
From all directions of the entire New Joy City, between the skyscrapers, thousands of Crystal Suit and armed shuttles rose, shooting out cold beams of light in the mist like a swarm of glittering locusts.
All the beams of light were aimed at their location, which meant that the flying sword attack just now was not a fluke, and the enemy had indeed grasped their coordinates.
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