And on the other side of the earth, around the World Tree.
The situation has been deadlocked for two hours.
Ever since the giant insects surrounded Crystal City, the actions of the alien invaders have temporarily ceased.
But Ji Chaoyang and his men did not stop there. After all, the enemy was still an enemy and they should eliminate as many as possible. They had plenty of weapons and excellent weapons manufacturing capabilities, so they did not have to worry about the weapons inventory at all.
So, after that, the World Tree began to launch missiles outward continuously!
Although the alien invaders were overwhelming, they were all relatively small aircraft and did not have strong defense capabilities. Therefore, these aircraft were destroyed by crazy explosions in the bombardment of the World Tree missiles.
However, this army was temporarily unable to cause damage to the World Tree that was wrapped by the giant insects, so they began to retreat.
They retreated to a location a hundred kilometers away from the World Tree.
A hundred kilometers away is beyond the range of their World Tree missiles. It’s not that they can’t hit it, but the accuracy will be greatly reduced.
Their missiles have made a big trade-off in range for speed, and can only attack targets within a hundred kilometers. This is their defense strategy, but now it seems...
It seems a bit insufficient.
As a result, the situation became deadlocked for a while.
This stalemate lasted for two full hours.
And two hours is two hundred hours for people in the World Tree, which is more than eight days!
But they dared not let their guard down, because they didn't know when the other party would attack again, so they could only keep an eye on the situation outside in batches and around the clock.
"Are you tired? Go and have a rest. I'll take care of this."
Qi Xuefei brought Ji Chaoyang a cup of tea.
"It's okay." Ji Chaoyang picked up the teacup and took a sip. "I'd better watch here. I'm worried. We have high-quality oranges. I'm very energetic now."
"No matter how energetic you are, your body can't hold on." Qi Xuefei frowned.
"I've been sitting here without moving, how could I be tired?" Ji Chaoyang said with a smile.
"..." Qi Xuefei was silent for a moment, then sat down next to him, "You... can already see tomorrow's future, right? Did you... see a bad future?"
Ji Chaoyang fell silent and didn't say anything for a long time.
"Is it true..." Qi Xuefei looked at Ji Chaoyang's gloomy face and said, "Tell me, what kind of future do you see?"
“… Actually, I don’t know whether the future I see is good or bad.”
Ji Chaoyang looked at the scene outside the World Tree on the screen.
At this time, outside the World Tree, there was a scene of devastation.
Black smoke was billowing in all directions. The jungle had been burned to ashes. The fierce forest fire continued to spread outward and had been burning for two hours without stopping.
This caused the outside of the World Tree to be shrouded in choking smoke, and everything seemed covered in a layer of gray-black smoke.
"In my prophecy, the giant insect seemed to be punctured and collapsed to the ground, no longer able to protect the World Tree. The army of alien invaders also invaded the Crystal City and fought with the giant beast."
Ji Chaoyang said.
"My prophecy can now last for half an hour. In my last prophecy, they have slaughtered all the behemoths, destroyed most of the external weapons of the World Tree, and surrounded the entire World Tree."
Qi Xuefei's eyes trembled, and she let out a breath: "When did this happen?"
"Tomorrow, around noon."
It is almost noon now.
"...According to your prediction, we can only hold out for one day..." Qi Xuefei pursed her lips, "One day..."
"For the World Tree, it's not one day, but one hundred days." Ji Chaoyang reminded, "I'm telling you this, don't tell others, I don't want them to know that we will be defeated one hundred days in advance."
The explorers did not tell anyone about Xu Xin and his team's expedition, because this matter needed to be kept highly confidential. Otherwise, if the other party knew about it, the difficulty of implementation would be greatly increased.
Therefore, if other people knew that they would be defeated in one day, it would be equivalent to telling them that they would die after one day in the outside world and one hundred days in the World Tree.
Then their morale would probably hit rock bottom, and might even cause chaos.
The future that Ji Chaoyang foresaw was not unchangeable. If this situation really happened, the time they would be breached would probably be advanced, which was absolutely unacceptable. After all, their mission was to buy time for Xu Xin and the others.
If this news was really exposed, in order to avoid causing chaos, the only way for Ji Chaoyang and his men was to tell them their retreat route and the news of the World Tree in the Sea to stabilize the morale of the troops.
However, the World Tree in the Sea is now a secret that cannot be disclosed, and things like the retreat route must not be known to the enemy, so the fewer people who know about it, the better.
Moreover, once they know that they will definitely fail and there is a way out after failure, will they still be as tense as they are now to face foreign enemies
No, so, in that case, not only would they risk exposing their retreat route, but even the time they could hold out would probably be shortened.
So, after considering all this, Ji Chaoyang decided not to tell the news to those who were preparing for war.
"I understand." Qi Xuefei nodded, "I won't tell you, but... if that's the case, then we can only hold on for one day at most?"
Ji Chaoyang nodded slowly: "At least in my calculations, there is no way to delay the time of being breached, so I have been observing the changes outside to see if there are any variables."
He looked again at the army of flying vehicles that were as dense as mosquitoes a hundred kilometers outside.
It now seems that these large armies of aircraft are most likely just large armies of drones.
They learned from the monsters that although the number of alien invaders had increased a lot in the past thousand years, there were only about 100,000 people.
On this "harsh" planet, not many alien invaders would consider reproducing.
Therefore, it is impossible that there are alien invaders inside these aircraft.
In addition, these aircraft rushed towards this side without caring whether they were useful or not, as if they could be sacrificed at will when facing survivors weaker than them.
This is obviously a drone.
In other words, the first wave of attack by the alien invaders only involved drones, and during this period they were actually just bombing the drones.
No wonder the other party feels so powerless.
But what happens next may not be so easy.
"If there is no other solution, then... we can only hope that Xu Xin and his team can solve most of the problems within a day."
"One day? This day is also very difficult for us..." Qi Xuefei leaned on Ji Chaoyang's shoulder and sighed softly.
For them, it was not just one day, but a long battle of one hundred days...
"But it's much easier than normal, isn't it?" Ji Chaoyang said with a smile.
Suddenly, his Tong Kong suddenly shrank and he stood up directly.
"What..." Qi Xuefei was about to say something, but the words got stuck in her throat.
About a hundred kilometers away from them, a purple-black beam of light shot up from the ground and rushed straight into the boundless universe!
The thickness of this suddenly appearing beam of light was even much greater than the beam of light from the teleportation array beside their Crystal City!
even…
It is hundreds or thousands of times thicker than that beam of light!
The beam of light from their teleportation formation was actually thick enough, at least several meters thick, but compared to the beam of light that suddenly shot up into the sky, it was simply not on the same level!
The diameter of this beam of light... is at least several hundred meters, or even thousands of meters!
Even though the distance was so far, this beam of light seemed to be very close, giving everyone who saw it inside the World Tree a heart-felt shock!
The location where this inverted light column appeared was where the aircraft were hovering a hundred kilometers away.
As soon as the beam of light appeared, it directly swallowed up most of the aircraft, making most of the densely packed aircraft like mosquitoes disappear!
The tense atmosphere within the World Tree completely erupted at this moment.
"Here they come! The enemy is coming!"
"This... What is this?!"
"Fuck, what the hell?! The earth suddenly shot out lasers?!"
"What laser? This is not..."
"Teleportation array, it must be a teleportation array! Is it a bit similar to our teleportation array? Alien invaders actually use this technology?" A resident of the underground world exclaimed.
"What are you talking about? What 'our' teleportation array? That was originally the teleportation array of the alien invaders! They are just using their own technology!" a survivor corrected him.
"Fuck, what's going on? Isn't this beam of light a bit too exaggerated? This, this, this... this is too thick!!"
“The Teleportation Array… Oh my god, it’s over! Such a thick purple-black beam of light, what is it trying to teleport?!”
The survivors in the World Tree are all very familiar with the teleportation methods of the teleportation array.
Walk into the teleportation array and control the location, and the teleportation array will teleport you to the purple-black light column of another teleportation array, and then you can walk out of the other light column.
In other words, the teleportation array can only teleport things that are smaller than the thickness of the purple-black light column.
But now, a teleportation array light column with a diameter of nearly a thousand meters suddenly appeared!
What kind of thing needs to be teleported to trigger such a thick and thin teleportation array light column!
The moment Ji Chaoyang saw the teleportation formation, he thought of this matter, so he stood up in shock.
Something is coming!
In his prophecies, he did not see any giant creation worthy of his attention.
What exactly is this beam of light conveying
Did the other party really value them so much
"Everyone cheer up. I know many of you must have not slept for a long time, but the next war will probably be much more difficult than the previous one!"
Ji Chaoyang immediately notified all personnel in the underground space.
Everyone was on full alert, and began to stare nervously at this extremely thick beam of light.
And under the gaze of everyone, the beam of light slowly began to tilt and bend.
“…it’s going to connect to another beam of light!”
Ma Hongwei's voice came from behind Ji Chaoyang and Qi Xuefei.
Ma Hongwei was originally in charge of weapons manufacturing and improvement, but he found that he was no longer able to improve the weapons effectively in a short period of time. It didn't matter whether he was involved in the weapons manufacturing or not, so he came down to check the situation.
Then I immediately ran into this scene.
"Yes." Ji Chaoyang stared at the slowly bending beam of light, "It needs to be connected to another beam of light to achieve teleportation. It is the same principle as the teleportation array we used before."
Where is the other side of this beam of light
…
On the other side of the earth, Xu Xin and his companions were standing in the sandstorm again, listening to the roar coming from all directions.
The traps inside these factories are almost the same, and the main feature is that even if you know the trap, you can't escape.
Xu Ying even tried to draw a teleportation array on the ground, only to find that teleportation was prohibited in this area.
They are now closer to the purple-black light column than before, probably less than twenty kilometers away. At this distance, the World Tree naturally has the ability to prohibit people around it from teleporting.
Therefore, without Xu Ying's ability, even if they knew about the trap, they would not be able to escape from it.
But now it’s different. If they want to steal those scarlet crystals, it couldn’t be easier.
“Boom boom boom boom…”
The roar continued to come from all directions.
The reason why they are in all directions is that once they steal one piece, they will leave immediately and quickly enter the next factory to steal.
I don’t know if it’s because of the other party’s confidence, but none of these factories are closed.
"I say, the alien invaders in the factory just now should be dead, right?" Zhao Xiaochuan looked at the last factory they left.
They stole so many factories, and only saw an alien invader in the last one.
What about appearance...
Something that cannot be described.
It looked like a puddle of mud, with some protruding lumps of flesh all over its body. Those lumps of flesh were constantly wriggling, as if a terrifying tentacle would grow out of it in the next second.
And in the concave areas between those meat buns, there are countless eyes.
Each eye is not big, just a small dot, pitch black, distributed all over the body.
When they saw this monster for the first time, those who had never seen it couldn't help but gasp.
Is this what alien invaders look like
From a human perspective, they really cannot imagine that a creature that looks like this can have super intelligence and travel through the universe.
However, they were not surprised for long.
Although the appearance of this alien invader is terrifying, it does not make people feel too uncomfortable. In comparison, the monster that is half human and half alien invader is more uncomfortable.
So they made a gesture to each other and continued with their plan.
This time the plan was even simpler, because the factory with the monster was running and the crystal was exposed, so Li Wenxi dug in with a pickaxe, Xu Xin trapped the crystal, and Xu Ying led everyone away at a very fast speed.
This set of actions took less than three seconds. Without anyone even looking at the alien invader, he had already appeared outside the factory.
"They must be dead, right?" Li Wenxi looked at the factory that had turned a dark red due to the heat from the explosion inside. "Or are the alien invaders so physically strong that they can't die even in such a violent explosion?"
"Not really. No matter how strong the alien invaders are, they are still made of flesh and blood." Xu Ying said, "In that situation, they can't survive."
"Ah, I always feel that it is a bit innocent." Zhao Xiaochuan felt a little guilty, "That guy just now seemed like a laborer for the alien invaders."
"Workers who make weapons?" Li Wenxi rolled his eyes slightly, "Don't be so kind."
"Uh... That's true."
"Hmm..." At this time, Keke in Xu Xin's arms cried out in confusion and looked at the purple-black light column, "Hmm!"
Xu Xin immediately followed its gaze.
I saw that the purple-black beam of light no longer rushed straight into space, but began to bend slowly.
"Their teleportation array has been activated!" Xu Xin exclaimed, and then Tong Kong shrank suddenly, "That is..."
In the center of the three world trees, next to the purple-black light column, an extremely huge ship slowly rose!
The giant ship was blood red all over, and looked extremely ferocious against the backdrop of the purple-black light column!
No... not one!
"What is that...ah!" Li Wenxi exclaimed, "The second ship..."
Two...three...four!
Four huge ships surrounded the bending purple-black light column!