Chapter 1153: Besieged City
The one who started it all, will he have no descendants?
Dialing the communication number of the blonde girl, Nicole von Sasha, accidentally exposed Chen Fei himself.
Chen Xiao'er dared to make the first move, so don't blame others for responding in kind. The guilty has an origin and debt has an owner. Now that he's in the Heavy Criminal Prison, it saves others from coming to find him; who knows how many people wish to personally kill this guy.
What else could Chen Fei do? Wait until the passage to the surface is opened, invite the other party down for a visit, and then take a look... Holy crap! Thousands of Combat Mech, just ask if you're scared or not?
This is a civilizational-scale combat standard, not village-level, and certainly not city-level. If released entirely, even small sovereignties ranking outside the top 100 in national power would be utterly panicked.
Habulav's city automatic defense system suddenly activated, missiles and rockets roared into the sky, artillery shells continuously falling outside the city with earth-shattering explosions.
This anomaly caught the attention of more and more people, even internal conflicts subsided considerably for the time being.
After all, the "flooding" of Mutants is no small matter. If a large enough scale is formed, the entire Habulav could be wiped out in one go; city-breaking, such things have happened before.
Some people who couldn't reach Area C in time began to evacuate to the nearest refuge. These places also had water and food reserves but lacked Combat Personnel.
Seeing the number of people at Training Hall No. 11 in Area C approaching ten thousand, the combatants number only over a hundred, with only seven being A-level supernatural power users and high-end combat power above the Earth Order. This included Miyoshi Monk and Heseman Brown. Their only advantage might be deploying all the target Mech from nearby training halls for defense, more reliable than the city walls, and also mobile.
The elevator shaft originally leading directly to the surface was tightly blocked due to the complete collapse of the building on the surface. Chen Fei had to dig from below to reach the surface from the underground Heavy Criminal Prison. Luckily, the distance wasn't too long, about 50 meters in vertical height; the inclined upward passage only needed to be dug over 200 meters, perfectly avoiding the mountain of building debris directly above.
Combat Mechs were drilling and placing explosives for rock fragmentation while Ability Users took turns casting spells and using Psi Skills. Most of the excavated rocks and soil were placed in the Life Space of the "Boundary Pearl," and dumped randomly; a small amount was used to reinforce the passage to prevent it from being buried again in another earthquake.
The over 200-meter distance took more than six hours to dig, finally successfully opening up a passage five meters in diameter, sloping upward, with even the corners neatly finished.
A pungent odor rushed into the passage entrance just emerged from the surface, and Chen Fei, at the forefront, couldn't stop himself from sneezing loudly.
Looking up, countless massive two-colored fireballs, mixed with red and blue, were floating slowly toward the city. Some, upon hitting the ground, exploded into countless fiery shards, shooting in all directions.
The entire city was ablaze, the firelight reddening half the sky; the distant skyscrapers had all turned into ruins.
Several Combat Aircraft screeched across the sky, dropping powerful bombs in the distance, releasing shockwaves instantaneously, and a chilling mushroom cloud slowly rose.
The view from the "Macroscopic Perspective" was indeed different from being on the ground.
Within that perspective range, Habulav was shrouded in thick smoke, and outside the city, a dense swarm of Mutants, like a tide, was surging in from all directions. Also, enormous beings as huge as mountains were approaching step by step.
"What, what is going on?"
A stunned Earth Element Ability User, brought over as a laborer, stared at the scene that seemed like the end of the world.
Due to the forced intervention by Chen Fei's Combat Mech army, the scale of internal conflict in the underground Heavy Criminal Prison was limited, especially those newly stepped out of their cells were quickly driven back, even if they formed initial riot gangs. Due to the lethal weapons and various disabling arsenals of the Combat Mech, ruthlessly unleashed, a large-scale jailbreak riot was quashed before it even started.
The main damage to the underground building complex was due to the shock losses caused by the collapse of the surface buildings.
"Mutants, they're Mutants, how can there be so many Biochemical Blazing Bombs? Ah, it's 'Flooding'! The 'Flooding' has erupted!"
Another Ability User who followed out recognized the red and blue two-colored fireballs flying in the sky; these were special attack methods evolved by Mutants, using complex chemical components for projection, possessing the high heat capable of melting steel and rock,
while also having strong corrosive properties. The smoke from the ground erosion and burning carried potent toxicity, easily causing irreversible scarring damage to biological lungs.
These primitively evolved Mutants have indeed developed some highly threatening abilities.
The news of the Mutant "Flooding" outbreak outside Habulav quickly spread into the underground building complex of the Heavy Criminal Prison, causing many to look grim.
In internal human conflicts, surrendering might at least leave a sliver of life, but facing the Mutants, surrender is useless; it's either you die, or I live.
"It's time to take action, 'Adam,' proceed with opening up the second surface passage!"
While Chen Fei was issuing commands to the Artificial Intelligence AI, a "Spatial Branding" flickered, and a 180-meter-long Attack Ship was released, extracting a Target Low Temperature Nuclear Fusion Energy Tower from the Skylight City "Atlantis" within the "Boundary Pearl" Life Space, installing it on the Attack Ship to complete the energy supply system.
This Attack Ship rose slowly into the sky, hovering directly above the ruins of the surface building of the Heavy Criminal Prison, activating the Magic Shield and Protective Barrier one by one, and the side hatch slowly opened as one Tactical Jet after another whistled out.
Immediately after, a second Attack Ship was released, further strengthening the defense over the Heavy Criminal Prison.
Those on the ground seeing this scene had their mouths wide open, struggling to close them.
"Everyone, open the second passage; don't just stand there, go to work."
Chen Fei urged the still-dazed Ability Users.
A cunning rabbit would have three burrows; the Heavy Criminal Prison needed more than one passage to the surface to restore traffic with the ground.
The Ability Users who assisted in opening the first passage immediately turned around and headed back underground, their emotions now far more stable than before.
The surface was extremely dangerous now. Staying underground behaved more safely. For those people, the Combat Mech became more protective rather than oppressive deterrence.
"Containers" loaded with a large number of Combat Mech were deployed, these were standard box configurations, extremely handy for storage management; those previously released in the Heavy Criminal Prison were loose configurations.
"'Adam,' establish a stronghold in the Heavy Criminal Prison, then deploy troops to support Area C."
Chen Fei did not rashly take over the defense of Habulav but made a cautious choice.
His forces were enough to fill the city, but acting arbitrarily might easily lead to attacks from Habulav, especially from the automated defense systems.
The Combat Mechs and Flying Ship Group, controlled by the Artificial Intelligence AI "Adam," were not part of Habulav's military system at all, being regarded as an enemy target was only natural.
Establishing a garrison and splitting the forces to Training Hall No. 11 in Area C were conservative maneuvers that wouldn't trigger sensitive nerves easily.
However, in Chen Fei's view, Habulav, already surrounded tightly by the mutant ocean, was doomed to fall. The city's automated defense system, having lost primary arsenal support, began to gradually fail due to supply shortages, making it difficult to project the massive firepower that initially caused significant damage to the mutants.