bacchusnovels Chapter 548 The Demon Race Found the Great Xia Underground City
Chapter 548 The Demon Race Found the Great Xia Underground City
A huge psychological shadow was projected through the cracked ceiling, enveloping everyone in the shelter.
"Aaaaaaah!!!"
Someone let out a hysterical scream first.
Immediately afterwards, everyone started shouting.
Fear was replaced by anger, by despair, by a kind of insane desire to die.
More than a hundred guns were all pointed overhead, unleashing a barrage of fire.
The bullets struck the dark purple shield and bounced off with a clattering sound.
It's like trying to shoot an iron wall with a slingshot; it's completely useless.
A soldier threw away his empty rifle, grabbed a fire axe, rushed toward the crack, and jumped up to hack at it desperately.
The axe hit the shield and bounced off.
He fell to the ground, got up, jumped up again, and chopped again.
Another soldier, clutching an anti-tank mine, charged towards the horde of demons pouring into the passageway, howling as he did so.
With a loud bang, it was blown to pieces along with several lesser demons.
Jesse Bronze saw all of this.
He looked down at the detonator in his hand.
He had already opened the flip cover that covered the red button.
I don't know when it was opened.
Maybe it was a minute ago, maybe it was just now.
His thumb hovered above the button, and he smiled, his dusty face beaming.
My mind strangely quieted down, and I began to reflect on my life.
The books I read back then, my wife and daughters, the high spirits I had when I ran for city lord, my dreams...
He looked up and took one last look at the shelter that had been bombed beyond recognition.
He glanced at the last hundred or so people screaming, shooting, and fighting the demons with their fists and teeth.
Then, his thumb went down.
The detonator made a soft "click".
In an instant, a nuclear warhead with a yield of one megaton was detonated in the deepest part of the Washington underground city.
This time, there was no description of flashes of light or shockwaves.
Because in the face of a megaton-class nuclear bomb exploding at point-blank range, all words lose their meaning.
The nuclear fire flower that bloomed beneath the thousand-meter-thick ice sheet and rock layers even caused noticeable tremors on the Earth's surface.
The Washington's underground city, and the millions of American citizens within it...
no longer exists.
......
Above Antarctica.
The seventh-tier Demon Lord Kosla flew at a speed of 1,200 meters per second through the polar ice winds at minus 50 degrees Celsius.
Its size is not considered large by human eyes, only a little over five meters, far less than the sky-covering size of Kogas.
But its speed and intelligence make it far more dangerous than those low-level cannon fodder.
At this moment, it is tracking the source of the missile.
From the moment we landed on this planet, countless missiles have been hurtling towards us from all directions.
In particular, its threatening nature was extremely bothersome to him.
Where there are missiles, there are launch sites.
Where there is a launch site, there are human settlements.
Therefore, unlike other low-level demons, it did not rampage across the ground and try to find human settlements by chance.
It chose this smarter approach.
It followed the trajectory of the incoming missile in the opposite direction, flying against the direction of its exhaust plumes.
High in the sky, another missile, trailing an orange-red tail flame, shot towards it.
Kosla dodged the missile with a very slight sidestep, his dark red vertical pupils fixed on the direction in which it disappeared. He then adjusted his body slightly and continued flying in that direction.
This is not the first time it has done this.
For the past hour or so, it has been repeating this action: tracking, judging, flying, and correcting its course.
But what annoyed it was that these humans seemed to have sensed its intentions.
The missiles were not fired from the same direction.
They spread out in a wide fan shape, shooting out from different angles and heights.
Kosla chased after him several times, each time only to find a desolate ice field with nothing there.
"A cunning insect..."
It let out a low, dissatisfied roar, its horned head turning as it surveyed the vast, icy world around it.
Humans are deliberately misleading it.
Use fan-shaped missile attacks to confuse the true source of the attack.
It quickly realized this and stopped blindly tracking the trajectory of every missile. Instead, it began to hover at high altitudes, expanding its observation range and searching for something different.
Ice fields, ice fields, and more ice fields.
The polar regions of this planet are a vast expanse of white, so monotonous it's suffocating.
Just as Kosla was about to change direction in its search, it saw it.
Fifteen or sixteen kilometers away, at the edge of the white ice field, there was a... green light.
No, it's not green light.
It is a tree.
A huge, glowing tree that could never exist in the polar ice and snow...
The tree was ridiculously tall, its canopy covering a large area, emitting a faint green glow against the dark backdrop of the polar night.
It stands out starkly in the desolate, icy plains.
Kosla's vertical pupils suddenly contracted.
Its eyesight far surpasses that of humans; even from more than ten kilometers away, it can clearly see the situation around that tree.
There were dense, intermittent bursts of firelight.
That's the light from the missile's exhaust plume when it's launched!
It rose from certain locations around the giant tree, trailing a long, fiery tail as it shot into the sky.
Kosla could even vaguely see tiny, ant-like things moving on the ice around the roots of the tree.
Humans, humans, those two-legged beasts!
"Found it."
Kosla let out a joyful roar, his body suddenly accelerating, shooting straight towards the large tree like a dark red arrow.
That big tree is the World Tree above the underground cities of Tianxiong and Tianyong in the Great Xia Dynasty.
When Kosla discovered the Great Xia Underground City, the missile attack frequency also changed.
Previously, they fired in waves of a dozen or so, with intervals of a dozen seconds.
But now, a dozen or so suddenly surged up, like a tightening net, rushing towards it!
Kosla made a sharp turn, narrowly avoiding two hypersonic missiles that were flanking him from the side.
The explosion erupted behind it, the shockwave causing it to stumble.
Before they could even regain their footing, three more missiles were launched in a triangular formation to block their path.
"Bang bang bang—!"
Kosla rolled to dodge, his body grazed by shrapnel from one of the missiles, leaving a scratch.
Clearly, humanity has sensed its threat.
Immediately afterwards, a blinding white light exploded in the air three kilometers away!
Nuclear bomb!
A terrifying shockwave, carrying intense heat and flames, swept towards Kosla.
It strained to rise rapidly, barely avoiding the direct impact of the nuclear explosion, but the aftershocks still sent shivers down its spine.
Before it could even catch its breath, another white light appeared!
This time it's in the direction it's rising!
Humans are anticipating its evasive maneuver!