Jiang Yan Hai slowed his pace, but Waters and the others did not. They continued advancing at high speed.
Just as they were about to rush into the building, a sudden boom! rang out, and fierce flames instantly burst outward from inside.
The terrifying shockwave from the explosion sent Waters and the others, who had been trying to charge into the building, flying. They all slammed to the ground.
Amid a massive ball of fire and the sound of the explosion, the entire building was blasted into the sky.
Waters and the others had all been hurled three or four meters by the shockwave. Lying on the ground now, they let out low groans, clearly having taken a hard fall.
"Warning. The Alpha 3 Type Invasive Star Gate has opened," Er Dan warned.
Jiang Yan Hai rubbed his forehead. He had known it would be like this.
What Jiang Yan Hai had not expected was that another prompt followed immediately after the warning. "Commander, special mineral energy detected. Absorb it?"
Jiang Yan Hai froze. There was more?
"Absorb it." Without a second thought, he gave the order.
"Energy absorption in progress. Current progress: 5%, 11%..." Er Dan's voice rang out rapidly.
What surprised Jiang Yan Hai was how quickly the energy was being absorbed. By the time Waters and the others climbed back to their feet, the absorption on Jiang Yan Hai's side had already been completed.
"Number of special Star Gate energy targets: 415." Er Dan gave the latest figure.
Excellent! Jiang Yan Hai nodded. That meant the Star Gate energy he had stored was enough to interfere with and close two Star Gates.
The irritating part was that another Star Gate had already opened right in front of them.
"Carlos, get here as fast as you can," Jiang