This Crystal Engine had been overloaded for years, and its interior was already riddled with cracks invisible to the naked eye.
Under Meng Chao's guidance, countless components resonated, instantly tearing those cracks open wide enough to fit strands of hair—or even fingers—through them.
Spirit Flame surged wildly from the cracks, spreading to the propellers and the Spirit Energy Pipelines carrying energy behind the engine.
The propellers and Spirit Energy Pipelines caught fire, without surprise.
Under Meng Chao's exquisite control, however, the thermal and kinetic energy was compressed into an extremely small space.
Only when the destructive energy had accumulated to its limit did he release it in an instant, creating a small-scale explosion.
Boom!
Countless razor-edged components, including fragments of the main engine's casing, transformed into an Iron Torrent heated to over a thousand degrees and shot toward the airbag's outer skin.
Although the outer skin was made from a special material with an extremely high ignition point, and the airbag was filled with inert gas that would never burn or explode—
The blade-like fragments still tore dozens of huge gashes into it, each seven or eight meters long, some even more than ten meters long.
Hundreds of meters in the air, the airbag began leaking with a "hiss hiss hiss hiss," visibly shriveling at an alarming rate.
This Pegasus-2 Model used a compartmentalized airbag design. The main airbag was divided into six independent sections, with four auxiliary airbags attached.
Even if all the inert gas in half the airbags leaked out and those airbags completely deflated, it would still be capable of slowly descending to the ground.
But under Meng Chao's careful calculations and subtle guidance, the airbags torn open by the countless fragments were all concentrated on the left side.
After the left main engine exploded, the sudden