One day later
Elena woke up from her sleep in a daze.
She hadn't slept so soundly in the past half month... Sleeping in the car gave Elena an inexplicable sense of security.
"Wake up, is that the royal city of Skarre?"
Lu Cheng's voice rang in Elena's ears, and Elena opened her eyes instantly.
"Home?"
Elena seemed to be in a trance, and she looked out of the car window with some excitement.
But soon the scenery outside the window completely extinguished Elena's excitement, and she was thrown into a basin of liquid nitrogen and frozen into residue.
"Is that the royal city?"
Elena put her hands on the car window and looked at the scenery outside.
Two off-road vehicles were parked on a high slope some distance away from the Royal City of Skarre. This location was told to Lu Cheng by General Hubert, and from here one could see the entire picture of the Royal City.
It was now late at night. The scarlet moon in the sky was extremely dazzling. Dark red light particles were floating on the ground, just like dark red snow rising up from the ground to the sky.
The glorious city in Elena's memory had disappeared, replaced by ruins completely covered by scarlet fluid.
The scarlet fluid was entwined around the outer walls of the Skare King City like vines... and the plains outside the walls were filled with blood crystal beasts entangled in the sticky liquid.
The number was so large that it almost drove Elena to despair. It was a number that needed to be counted in tens of thousands.
"The blood... the blood is spreading. Let's... leave! The ground crystals of this country have long been eaten by blood crystal beasts. There's no... no hope!"
Charlotte looked at the horrifying scene outside the window, and her whole body began to tremble.
She had only seen this description in legends. When the blood crystal beast completely devoured a country's geomagnetic core, the country would be completely contaminated by blood and become a land of death that no human could enter.
"There's still light from the protective barrier in the inner city! There are still people fighting these blood crystal beasts!"
Elena saw the white light lighting up the inner city area. It was one of the few magics that could work on blood crystal beasts. It was the defensive barrier released by the crystal core of the earth veins.
This barrier can only protect the inner city area at most. The outer city area has long since become a country of blood crystal beasts, and the people of the outer city area, Scarre, have become captives of these monsters, no... it should be said that they are food.
"Captain, what should we do?"
Lu Cheng heard Tiehuan's questioning voice through the intercom in the vehicle. Lu Cheng did not answer Tiehuan and just remained silent.
"Mr. Lu Cheng, thank you for taking us all the way home."
General Hubert patted Princess Elena on the shoulder and opened the door to the back seat of the SUV.
"General Hubert, where are you going?" Elena noticed that this time Hubert picked up his weapon and prepared to get out of the car.
"To fulfill my obligations."
After General Hubert finished speaking, he saw Elena wanted to follow him, so he reached out and pushed her back into her position.
"Your Highness Elena! You and Prince Kanser are our last hope! Lord Lucheng... I don't force you to give us assistance in this desperate situation, but I implore you to protect Your Highness Elena."
General Hubert's meaning was very clear when he said this.
The royal city was corroded by the blood crystal beasts to this extent. In his opinion, even if Lucheng had weapons as powerful as "guns", it would be impossible to defeat so many blood crystal beasts.
So General Hubert can only hope that Elena, the last descendant of Skarre, can survive. As a general, he is ready to fight the enemy to the end on his own land.
"General Hubert! Lu Cheng and the others haven't given up yet!" Elena spoke up immediately.
"Even with Lord Lu Cheng's weapons, it is impossible to completely destroy so many blood crystal beasts." General Hubert was already in a pessimistic state.
"What's impossible to wipe out? We can still deal with these guys even if their numbers are several times greater. You can talk about life and death later. Let me think about it for a while."
Lu Cheng interrupted the rather tragic farewell between Elena and Hubert with his voice... and Lu Cheng tapped the steering wheel impatiently with his fingertips.
Lu Cheng was looking at the large group of blood crystal beasts outside the city wall in the distance. He estimated that there were about 10,000 to 15,000 of them, and their sizes ranged from one meter to three meters.
This number is indeed despairingly large, at least in this age when swords are used as weapons.
But these guys on the plain are just targets for Lu Cheng. Lu Cheng is thinking about what weapons can be used to eliminate these targets at once without affecting the civilians who may survive in the outer city area.
"Iron Ring, can you control the cruise missile?"
Lu Cheng asked the demolitionist in his team on the radio. The demolitionist's blasting range was not limited to ordinary bombs.
"Yes, I'm very good at it...but Captain, do we have rockets of this level in our equipment?" Tiehuan asked.
"There wasn't one just now, but there is one now...get off."
After Lu Cheng gave the order, he opened the car door and got out.
The soldiers from Skarre and members of the Lucheng team have also arrived at the off-road vehicle.
Lu Cheng summoned a portal directly on an open ground next to the off-road vehicle. This time the portal was big enough to throw the entire Pioneer into it.
Lu Cheng reached into the portal and took out a radio communication headset.
"Plan C."
Lu Cheng directly conveyed these three words into the headset, and the other side of the headset quickly responded with "understood".
Not long after, under the astonished gazes of Pictorial and Feng Kite, a honeycomb rocket launcher slowly emerged from the portal.
The honeycomb rocket launcher is six meters tall, and people standing in front of it can only look up.
"Why are you so surprised? We are not fighting alone. We have countless logisticians and scientific researchers assisting us behind you."
Lu Cheng threw the black box that controlled the rocket launcher to Tiehuan.
"Captain, after we kill those pterodactyls flying in the sky, are we going to go there by helicopter?"
Feng Kite is still thinking about the helicopter. In fact, he asked on the way why not take a helicopter directly to the royal capital.
But the magnetic field of this world is too strange, so Lu Cheng decided to give up the idea of long-distance flight for the sake of caution.
However, it is still possible to manually control the short distance from here to the Royal City, provided that the pterodactyl hovering above the Royal City is killed first.
The giant pterosaurs hovering over the Royal City of Skare are none other than the blood crystal beasts that have been discovered on Earth. They quickly died of exhaustion after appearing on Earth, and only a pile of bones were left when they were discovered.
But in this world, these pterosaurs are very active, hovering over Skarre like a group of dark clouds.
In this situation, if a helicopter is sent up, it will probably be like Black Hawk Down.
"If we want to get on the helicopter, we must first turn off that thing that looks like an energy shield." Lu Cheng picked up the telescope and looked at the inner city area of the Royal City of Skare.
The inner city area of Skarre was protected by a transparent energy, which Elena described as a magic barrier...the pterodactyls kept hitting the barrier from high altitude.
Ripples like water appeared on the surface of the barrier, but the barrier was shrinking as the pterosaurs hit it.
If the barrier is closed, Lu Cheng cannot guarantee whether he will find the earth vein core first or the blood crystal beast will devour the earth vein core first.
"So the only way is to drive through?"
Pictorial's voice sounded eager to try. She had driven the Pioneer II along the way and crushed countless blood crystal beasts.
"Don't be in a hurry. Kill the blood crystal beast outside the city wall first. Is the iron ring... ready?" Lu Cheng glanced at the iron ring that was setting up to place the black box on the ground.
"It's set up. You can control it manually later." Tiehuan said.