bacchusnovels Chapter 277 Sweeping Through Central Asia
Chapter 277 Sweeping Through Central Asia
The intelligence officer replayed the last frame.
The satellite captured the moment Song Chen disappeared from the corpse of the Sand Scorpion King as if he had vanished into thin air.
In one frame, they're still on the corpse; in the next frame, they're hundreds of kilometers away.
"It should be a space-based ability," a voice rang out from the corner.
The speaker was the oldest technical analyst in the command center, whose hair was completely white; he had been in the industry for forty years.
"It's a spatial jump, directly folding spatial coordinates from point A to point B, without any intermediate process."
"But the ability to jump 100 kilometers and then quickly reuse the ability is something that no known human ability can currently achieve."
Upon hearing this, all the snickers in the command center ceased.
……
The Supreme Command of the Xiong Kingdom.
Sergei Ivanovich, the first person in the Xiong Kingdom, was sitting at the head of the oval conference table, holding a newly translated report from the Great Xia Kingdom.
Twelve generals sat around the table, their shoulder insignia all bearing the stars of marshals and generals.
Sergei threw the report on the table: "One person wipes out the world's beast king, Great Xia is quite the joker."
A low chuckle filled the conference room; the rugged laughter characteristic of the Xiong people echoed throughout the room.
A general with frostbite scars on his face spoke up: "I acknowledge Qi Shanhe's prowess; he is indeed a formidable fighter. However, it's impossible for him to single-handedly wipe out the entire world. Great Xia has overestimated its strength this time."
Sergei waved his hand: "Reply to Great Xia that we appreciate the notification and that we will coordinate with the border troops. In reality, we don't need to do anything. This is a joke. Let's see how they handle it."
Before the laughter had completely subsided, the conference room door was pushed open.
A young intelligence adjutant strode in, carrying an encrypted data tablet.
"General, this is the first image transmitted from the orbital reconnaissance platform in the Caspian Sea region."
"Great Xia councilor Song Chen killed a sixth-tier sand scorpion king alone in the Turkmen Wasteland ten minutes ago, taking less than four minutes in total."
"What? You're kidding?"
Sergei could hardly believe his ears.
The intelligence adjutant placed the data panel on the table and turned on the video.
Upon seeing the above content, the laughter in the meeting room seemed to be abruptly cut off.
A dozen generals stared at the corpse of the sixth-tier sand scorpion king on the screen, at the countless low-tier beast corpses on the desert, and at the figure in dark silver armor who disappeared on the spot and reappeared a hundred kilometers away.
Sergei thought for a long time, then picked up the report on the table and read it again.
"Cancel your previous reply."
"Rewrite the draft. Also, notify the garrisoned warriors in various regions that from now on, Song Chen, a councilor of the Great Xia Dynasty, shall be allowed to enter any Xiong Kingdom territory without any obstruction."
European Union, Joint Defense Headquarters.
Representatives from EU member states filled the round table meeting room.
The announcement from Daxia has been translated into twenty languages, and each representative has a screen displaying the version in their native language.
Claude Reynolds, the rotating chairman of the conference, is speaking.
He was a lean old man in his sixties with his hair neatly combed.
"The wording of the notification from Daxia was very direct. It said that their Councilor Song was going to kill all the sixth-tier alien beasts in the world by himself, and asked us to cooperate."
What do you all think?
"A madman," the Bavarian representative was the first to speak.
"One person killing three hundred beast kings? Even if he were Li Qingcang, it would be impossible."
"Li Qingcang himself wouldn't say such a thing," another representative added.
Another representative shrugged: "Great Xia has recently won several battles domestically, and its confidence has inflated."
"Let them get arrogant. When they can't kill us, they'll naturally come to us for help."
Claude tapped the table, about to give his concluding remarks.
The large screen at the back of the conference room suddenly lit up.
The screen displayed real-time footage of the Central Asian battlefield transmitted by the European Union's orbital reconnaissance network, the same batch of satellite data seen by the United States and China.
The video played for five minutes, and then the conference room fell into complete silence.
Then the scene cuts to the west coast of the Caspian Sea.
Song Chen appeared on the southern slope of the Caucasus Mountains, hunting the second sixth-tier beast king of the day, a branch of the Lihai Sea Dragon Clan.
In satellite footage, he jumped directly into the Inland Sea from the air, and the sea surface exploded before returning to calm.
Three minutes later, the corpse of a sea dragon, 1,100 meters long, surfaced on the sea, with a cut running from head to tail on its back.
Claude's finger stopped above the table and didn't tap again.
"Gentlemen, I suggest we reconsider this report."
His voice was very dry.
……
Central Asia, Caucasus Mountains.
Song Chen emerged from the surface of the Caspian Sea, the seawater behind him stained dark red with the blood of the Sea Dragon Clan.
That sixth-tier sea dragon was the overlord of the Central Asian waters, having entrenched itself in the Caspian Sea for thirty years, and had once sunk all the main warships of the Xiong Kingdom's Caspian Sea fleet.
It is now floating on the sea, its abdominal cavity pierced, and the psionic fluctuations have completely dissipated.
Song Chen shook off the seawater on the blade, and his Eye of Truth locked onto his third target: a sixth-tier rock lizard king deep in the Iranian plateau.
This rock lizard doesn't have high vitality, just over 150,000, but the underground mountain range where it resides contains a large number of rare mineral veins.
The Rock Lizards used the psionic radiation from these mines to accelerate their reproduction, and the number of Tier 5 creatures in the area was even greater than that of the Sand Scorpion King.
This means there will be more kills.
Without resting, Song Chen activated his Void Shuttle, causing space to fold and disappear from the spot.
Iranian Plateau.
The Rock Lizard King's lair is inside a hollowed-out mountain.
The entire mountain was carved out by the Rock Lizard Clan into a giant honeycomb structure, with numerous passages and layered caves.
The Rock Lizard King is located deep within the mountain. It is 800 meters long and covered in gray rock armor. It lies beside an underground river.
Song Chen appeared directly in the main hall of the cave inside the mountain.
The lightning field exploded within the enclosed space, and golden-purple arcs of electricity stretched wildly along the cave passage, catching up with the low-level rock lizards within the passage.
Lightning is far more destructive in enclosed spaces than in open areas; the electric arc bounces repeatedly, and its density is so high that the air itself is glowing.
The Rock Lizard King sprang up from the edge of the underground river, its enormous mouth opening to spew out scorching magma.
This is a unique ability of the Rock Lizard race: melting rocks into magma inside their bodies and then spewing it out.
Song Chen did not dodge; he disappeared from the front of the lava flow and appeared above the mouth of the Rock Lizard King.
The Heavenly Blade slashed into the Rock Lizard King's upper jawbone, its blade energy pouring into the skull cavity.
The Rock Lizard King spewed out half of its magma, which was stuck in its throat. Its skull was shattered by the blade's energy, and magma gushed out from the crack on the side of its mouth.
[Slayed a Tier 6 alien beast, gaining 157750 kill points]
Song Chen drew his sword and looked at the low-level rock lizards. Kill!
Five minutes later.
Song Chen returned to the sky. The mountain behind him began to collapse under the backlash of the magma inside the Rock Lizard King, and a huge crater was formed in the entire mountain, with smoke and dust rising into the sky.
He checked his kill count, which had reached 8160 million.
In the past hour, three sixth-tier beast kings, a hundred fifth-tier beast kings, and more than 200,000 fourth-tier and lower-tier beasts have died at his hands.