Yi Nanping and the others weren't puzzled for long before a gray figure leaped out of the rectangular moon gate, followed by tentacles that split into what looked like a rain of threads.
"It's here! Prepare to intercept!" Yi Nanping commanded in the team channel.
This was the person they were ordered to wait for here today.
The tentacles that subsequently emerged from the rectangular moon gate were dense and terrifying, chasing directly after the gray figure.
Yi Nanping commanded again: "Aim! Fire!"
Under his command, his team members used all their mental strength to break through the viscous resistance, raising the portable miniature laser cannons in their hands to aim.
Each movement was slow, but very uniform.
They aimed at the pursuing tentacles in the sky and pulled the triggers, firing rapidly.
Rays of brilliant light illuminated the thick darkness, like the fireworks that bloomed every New Year's Eve in the Beichen Empire, even more dazzling and intense than the firelight from Xia Chujian's destruction of the shuttle aircraft.
But the next second, the laser standard weapons, like arrows and rainbows, struck the tentacles extending from the rectangular moon gate, but did not cause any damage to them. Instead, they all returned the way they came, as if reflected by a mirror, hitting the people on the ground who had fired the cannons.
Their bodies were riddled with holes by the reflected laser energy, and almost all of them died instantly, falling on the dark streets of the South District.
Xia Chujian watched all this silently, her finger subconsciously tightening on the trigger again.
In less than a second, hundreds of people died on the ground, with only one person still struggling to survive.
This person was Yi Nanping.
Because he was the commander, he didn't fire with his subordinates at the first moment.
Looking at the tragic deaths of his team members, Yi Nanping's eyes turned red, his eyes were about to split, and his teeth were gnashing.
He looked up at the night sky, the gray figure that jumped out of the rectangular moon gate was still falling.
Due to the influence of the black mist, the person seemed to be jumping into a swamp, the speed was unbelievably slow.
And the distance between the pursuing tentacles and the person's back was already very close! Yi Nanping's heart beat faster and faster, his mind racing.
What could he do to intercept the person who jumped down?!
This fog not only hindered their actions, but also reflected their attacks!
What else could he do? The thick, heavy black fog made it difficult for him to even open his mouth to speak, as he had to withstand enormous pressure.
This pressure was like the pressure he felt during deep-sea diving training.
Yi Nanping hesitated for only a moment before making a choice.
His eyes fixed on the tentacles chasing quickly in the dark night sky, he used all his remaining mental strength to condense a Black Gold Dagger between his eyebrows, and with a whoosh, it flew out!
Unlike the laser standard miniature cannon, this dagger condensed from his mental strength seemed to ignore the obstruction of the thick black fog, instantly arriving in front of the longest, thickest, and fastest-chasing tentacle, and stabbed down fiercely!
The tentacle was stabbed, paused for a moment, wriggled, and then, as if propelled by an unknown force, the Black Gold Dagger returned at lightning speed, stabbing towards Yi Nanping's eyebrows! Xia Chujian, who had been silently observing with her sniper rifle, could no longer bear it.
Bang! The sniper rifle fired, and a sniper bullet ignored the viscous properties of the black fog, shooting out like lightning, and knocking away the reflected Black Gold Dagger!
At the moment of impact, the Black Gold Dagger shattered like a shadow, leaving only golden gleams, like fireflies floating in the night sky.
Yi Nanping had already reached the end of his rope, having condensed the Black Gold Dagger, something he had never successfully done before, with his mental strength.
The sniper bullet seemed to hit the air, whistling past him, and a low pressure rushed towards him, as if someone had hit his face hard with a sledgehammer, sweeping away all the air in front of him.
He fell to the ground with a thud, his extremely oxygen-deprived brain completely unconscious.
...
At the same time, in the night sky outside the South District, several supersonic armed helicopters were emitting sonic booms over Mulan City, rushing from the military base outside the city.
But before they reached their destination, the people in the armed helicopters saw the anomaly opposite them.
A black fog descended from the sky, completely enveloping the destination ahead.
It was like a triangular cone-shaped cage formed by black fog.
The narrow tip came from the rectangular moon gate in the night sky, and the triangular cone below enveloped the darkest and dirtiest South 404 District Nothing Lane in the entire Mulan City.
Immediately afterwards, the coordinates of the South 404 District Nothing Lane ahead also disappeared from the armed helicopter's active phased array radar, as if it did not exist at all.
"Report! Report! Target lost ahead! Target lost ahead!"
"Laser detection."
The armed helicopter immediately fired a laser at the black fog.
But when the laser hit, the thick black fog acted like a mirror, reflecting the laser straight back.
With a whooshing sound, the armed helicopter that had launched the laser probe was instantly penetrated through the engine by the reflected laser.
The armed helicopter immediately spun and plummeted, the pilot barely managing to parachute to safety.
"The fog ahead is blocking laser detection, the fog ahead is blocking laser detection."
Over the next three minutes, they tried various attack weapons and detection tools, finally reaching a conclusion.
"The black fog ahead is in a triangular cone shape, three thousand meters high, with a base diameter of five hundred meters. It is physically impenetrable, cannot be observed with current technology, and reflects all attacks."
"No electromagnetic or biological signals can escape from the black fog triangle cone, nor can they enter from the outside. Its nature seems to be... like a cosmic black hole, but it does not actively attract external objects."
If it were truly a black hole, it would actively absorb everything within a certain distance of it.
But this black fog only reflects, not absorbing anything outside its range.
This meant that outside rescue couldn't get in, and at the same time, it seemed that those inside couldn't get out either.
"What do we do?! I heard there's a Special Security Bureau action team inside!"
"Report to superiors, raise the emergency level to the highest!"
...
At this moment in the night sky, the gray figure that had jumped out of the rectangular moon gate was already in mid-air, very close to Xia Chujian's aircraft.
The tentacles chasing him were also getting closer.
Because Xia Chujian's aircraft was currently in stealth mode, the man couldn't see her at first, but he seemed to sense something, glanced sideways, and made eye contact with Xia Chujian, who was fully armed and wearing a helmet inside the aircraft.
The man couldn't actually see the situation inside the aircraft.
But Xia Chujian could see the outside through the special eyepieces of her helmet, and the double protection of the sniper scope.
This was a man who should be very tall, with long black hair draped over his shoulders, pale skin, and black eyes, but with a hint of manic red light in their depths.
He had a high, slightly hooked nose, a classic aquiline nose.
Just looking at his face, the man's appearance was a little familiar at first glance.
Xia Chujian didn't have time to think about why the man looked familiar.
The tentacles that followed surged forward, striking fiercely at the back of the falling figure! Xia Chujian reflexively pulled the trigger of her sniper rifle, the bullet whistling away, causing the tentacle that was about to attack the falling figure to dissipate into smoke.
But there were too many tentacles in the night sky, and she only had one Adjudicator No. 7 sniper rifle, making it impossible to deal with all of them.
Just as she emptied all the sniper rifle bullets, the rolling tentacles finally found an opportunity, catching up to the gray figure, piercing through his chest with a pu chi sound, aiming straight for his heart! Then they hung the man on the tip of a tentacle, shaking him triumphantly in front of Xia Chujian's aircraft, as if to demonstrate.
Xia Chujian desperately gripped the sniper rifle in her hands.
If the tentacles attacked her aircraft again, Xia Chujian would have no way to fight back, because she had no bullets left! But she wasn't so easily defeated.
If she had no bullets, she still had a knife!
The latest model of the Adjudicator No. 7 sniper rifle even had a bayonet that could be automatically ejected from the top!
When Xia Chujian first got this new model of the sniper rifle, she had complained about this insane design.
Who the hell would let a sniper fight with a bayonet!
But now, she suddenly understood the meaning of this design.
Xia Chujian's eyes gradually turned cold, and her finger pressed a button on the sniper rifle, and a bayonet flashing with a blood-red light ejected from below the muzzle of the sniper rifle.
As long as the tentacles outside dared to attack her again through the hole above her head, she would definitely show no mercy! What she didn't know was that although the tentacles outside filled the entire night sky, they tacitly avoided the location of her aircraft, leaving a aircraft-shaped hole in the rain of tentacles.
Just then, in the airspace outside the black fog, a silent Bat-type Air Fighter sped over, silently revealing its shape in the night sky, appearing in front of the local garrison's armed helicopters.
The hatch opened, and a tall man in a black and silver-edged standard military uniform stepped out, followed by two people wearing the same style of uniform.
The three of them took a step forward, as if walking in the air, stepping into the thick black fog that no one could enter.
The local garrison inside the armed helicopters gaped, each one of them looking like they were seeing a god.
"Who is that person in front?!"
"...Don't know, but that's the highest-level Bat-type Air Fighter! Capable of space jumps! Only Marshals are equipped with those..."
"Could it be...?"
"Stop guessing. We just received news that it's a big shot from the Imperial Special Security Bureau and his two adjutants, who just space-jumped over from the Beichen Star Region near the Imperial Capital."
...
In the thick black fog, the despairing Xia Chujian was regretting that she hadn't been able to save that person in the end, regretting that she shouldn't have used up all those hundred thousand bullets at the six-story building.
She gripped the sniper rifle with the bayonet extended, intending to "fight with bayonets" against those tentacles.
At the same time, three men in black, silver-trimmed regulation military uniforms appeared like ghosts in her scope's crosshairs.
The one in front was the tallest, his tightly buttoned regulation uniform outlining his sturdy broad shoulders, lean narrow waist, and heaven-defying long legs.
The brim of his military cap was pulled low, almost obscuring half of his face, revealing only his sculpted straight nose and perfect lip shape, as well as his resolute jawline.
His back was ramrod straight, and the words "innate nobility" were written all over him.
He stood in the black fog, seemingly surrounded by a faint silver light, enveloping him and the people around him, preventing the wildly swaying, thick tentacles from touching them in the slightest.
The two men behind him guarded him, only looking around warily, not raising their heads to look at the moon in the sky that had turned into a rectangle.
The person in front was none other than Huo Yushen, the youngest Marshal of the Beichen Empire.
The two behind him were his adjutants, Kang Shanxing and Meng Guanghui.
Looking at the thick tentacles rolling in the sky, Kang Shanxing and Meng Guanghui were both taken aback.
"Marshal Huo! Is that a Remnant?! How are there so many?!"
But the next moment, they realized, "No! This isn't a physical entity! These are all illusions!"
Huo Yushen, standing at the front, didn't say a word. With a flip of his hand, a silver longbow appeared out of thin air in his palm.
The next second, a golden long arrow materialized silently and was placed on the silver longbow.
Huo Yushen's face was stern as he raised his hand, drew the bow, and shot towards the dark, rectangular moon gate.
Whoosh! Xia Chujian only heard a loud sound echoing between heaven and earth.
She saw with her own eyes that the golden long arrow, unlike the Black Gold Dagger or those laser weapons, was not directly reflected back. Instead, it was like a golden lightning bolt, piercing through the tentacles, drawing an arc, and shooting straight into the rectangular moon gate!
The next moment, the thick tentacles in the sky disintegrated inch by inch, disappearing into the night sky like smoke.
Just like the tentacle that had pierced through the roof of the aircraft cabin, it was shot away by her with one shot, as if it had never existed.
A heart-wrenching roar immediately came from behind the rectangular moon gate, like the roar of an unknown ancient beast, or like a painful scream from a human.
As if coming from a distant wilderness, or as if separated by thousands of stars, crossing the boundaries of time and space, it rushed towards them, filled with the unwillingness and anger accumulated over endless years, as well as an overflowing, indescribable brutality and madness.
At the same time, the entire area covered by the black fog heard this roar.
Just like the residents around the small building in the West District, the residents of the South District were also awakened from their sleep, tossing and turning in their beds, as if someone was holding a knife inside their heads, trying to split them open from the inside out, each one in heart-wrenching pain.
The mental pressure they were under was many times higher than that of the West District.
Many of the weaker elderly and children had already died the moment they heard this roar.
The stronger residents were now struggling on the verge of life and death.
At this moment, a clear and high-pitched voice rang out from afar, like a phoenix's cry, or a dragon's roar, perfectly offsetting the brutal roar that seemed to come from the endless abyss, or from the black hole of the universe.
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