"Rumble rumble rumble!!!!"
The moment they entered the cloud layer, endless thunderstorms crashed into them head-on. Looking in every direction, lightning flashed toward the airship like a barrage of bullets. If it had been an ordinary airship, that first wave alone would have blown it apart on the spot.
Fortunately, Fang Zheng had anticipated this problem long ago. The magical barrier flickered to life, and when the oncoming lightning struck the shield around the airship, it vanished without a sound, like raindrops falling into a pond.
"Hmm... let me see... The thunderstorm level is extremely high, and the radiation readings are off the charts... This really is a technological creation."
Fang Zheng activated the terminal in his hand and scanned the outside through its sensors, quickly reaching a conclusion. Clearly, this so-called thunderstorm cloud layer had been created through some kind of technology. He simply did not know why it had been made. Was it intentional, or an accident? After all, if it had been specifically constructed to deal with people from the Hunter world, then it felt like ridiculous overkill.
The Hunter world was still at the technological level of flip phones. A few centuries ago, they probably would not even have known what an airplane looked like. It would have been one thing to set up some kind of dense fog barrier covering both land and sea, but instead, there was this thunderstorm barrier. It was like using anti-aircraft guns against a primitive tribe in the rainforest—those people did not even have an air force. Were they using anti-aircraft guns to swat mosquitoes?
In fact, according to the records Fang Zheng had investigated, the previous expeditions from the Hunter world to explore the Dark Continent had all traveled by ship. They had also all arrived at the Dark