063 Entropy Increase

The Eye of Truth

The world instantly turned into a monotonous black and white, but it also crammed all the information within the visible range into Li Aoz's brain.

The brain, modified by the implant, freed up the visual system and the post-modification computing power, and immediately analyzed the target's true trajectory. The two fighter jets made low-angle turns and maneuvers, hovering on either side of him, and had already launched four air-to-air missiles each.

"That was a quick reaction!"

Li Aoz was surprised. The next moment, he lost speed and fell, letting himself fall freely to the ground, like a falling leaf, swinging lightly and irregularly in the air.

A total of eight highly maneuverable air-to-air missiles, after flying for only a short time, ran out of fuel and exploded as they fell toward the ground due to the activation of their time-delay fuses. The fragments fell like rain, drifting down along with Li Aoz's casually swaying figure.

"What the hell is going on—he actually used a falling leaf to dodge a missile!"

Magat was initially shocked, then felt humiliated.

In the Azure Planet speeds of four to five times the speed of sound are the norm, the falling leaf maneuver that slows the aircraft down is not a real combat maneuver, but rather a performance technique used to test the quality of an aircraft.

With this elaborate but ineffective technique, Li Aoz managed to evade their most advanced missiles.

Moreover, because Li Aoz suddenly decelerated to the point of almost disappearing, the radar based on the Doppler principle immediately lost Li Aoz's signal.

Li Aoz swung his body freely, his hands behind his head, and leisurely fell towards the ground. The sky was getting farther and farther away from him, but he was not flustered at all.

No one who manipulates gravity will be killed by the fall.

This felt completely different from the game. The wind passing by him was a gentle and considerate caress. The whole world seemed to be filled with endless pampering for him, as if he was not falling due to gravity, but rather the earth was lovingly wanting to embrace him.

The world is so beautiful.

However, Yelivo didn't think so. For a seasoned pilot, upon seeing the target perform such a maneuver, he already understood one thing. "Magat! Retreat!"

The generational gap in aircraft is too great; it's simply impossible to defeat them! Unlike Air Force army, the air force's aircraft are a generation ahead in quality, making it easy for them to take on twenty opponents at once.

Moreover, that guy's mobility is a complete slap in the face to modern physics! "I'm leaving now—"

Magat had just lifted the handle, disappeared into the clouds, and activated optical stealth, hoping for protection.

However, in the next instant, Li Aoz, who had been enjoying his fall, suddenly spun around in mid-air, facing the sky, and instantly transformed into a bolt of lightning, plunging into the clouds of Malefic Calamity. His red and black armor blended seamlessly with the Malefic Calamity sky. Even as Magat struggled to perform high-G maneuvers, the computer continued to report, "[You have been locked onto by an unidentified target]." "Strange..."

Magat became suspicious.

That guy had an anti-vehicle weapon; he was deliberately aiming it at himself with the Infrared Sight.

But didn't he just ram those transport planes with his bare body before? Why is he deliberately locking onto me with an infrared sight now?

"Could it be... intimidation?"

Magat was deep in thought when he unconsciously slowed down slightly.

He eased off the accelerator slightly, and the next moment, a figure crashed down onto the canopy in front of him.

"Depend on!"

Magat was terrified, but Li Aoz didn't waste any words with him. He raised his hand, opened the canopy, and tentacles shot out from his palms, immediately wrapping around Magat's neck and arms to prevent him from pulling out a gun from under his seat to retaliate.

"Don't resist, activate autopilot, and then parachute obediently. I won't kill you."

As Li Aoz spoke, he opened his mask, revealing a handsome face, and used the effect of the "Aura of Goodwill" to make the other party give up resisting.

Seeing the other person's friendly expression, Magat immediately lowered his guard and gave Li Aoz a grateful look:

"Thank you, you are a true gentleman."

As he spoke, he immediately pulled the lever, the canopy exploded, the seat was ejected, and soon after, a white parachute bloomed in the air.

The vulture, out of control, did not crash. Li Aoz turned around, stepped onto the canopy, and extended tentacles from his palms, which, like reins, were looped around the nose of the aircraft.

"Your plane is nice, but it's mine now!"

Li Aoz ruthlessly trampled the Frostplate Citizen's cherished treasure under his feet, using the automatically cruising fighter jet as a foot pedal. He only needed to use gravity to give it a direction, and the tentacles of his hands could adjust the balance of the aircraft at will.

In this way, he saved a lot of computational energy to control Gravitational Acceleration, freeing up his hands to deal with the remaining fighter jets.

boom--

Li Aoz twisted his tentacles, like a knight riding a dragon in legend, and turned his aircraft around to pounce on Yelivo.

Yelivo had become completely numb to this kind of magical maneuvering. He coldly unleashed a series of Unguided Rocket Launcher, followed by a barrage of hypersonic projectiles fired from Electromagnetic Autocannon, but to no avail. After obtaining the flight pedal, Li Aoz freed up his mental energy to use gravity. Any flying objects that reached within 50 meters of him would immediately deflect.

At this point, there is no other way.

Yelivo made up his mind, immediately increased the altitude, and deliberately gave up his back to lure Li Aoz to fall onto the back of the fighter jet, accelerating to catch up.

Li Aoz realized his intentions and immediately grabbed the communication equipment inside the fighter jet, shouting, "Hey! Are you crazy? There are Malefic Calamity clouds ahead!"

Yelivo's eyeballs were almost squeezed out; he closed his eyes and struggled to speak:

"That voice—is that Li Aoz?"

"It's me! Get down here if you don't want to turn into a monster!" Li Aoz shouted urgently. "Don't step into the red and black clouds! Stop right now!"

"... It's too late."

With the boost from the afterburner, Li Aoz's speed increased even further. With the support of 150G acceleration, he and the fighter jet were able to increase their speed to Mach 8, instantly flying into the Esha Clouds.

"Cough cough cough—"

Yelivo's eyes turned red and black as countless pieces of information flooded his brain. The vulture's fuselage shook violently. Force is relative; a high-speed fighter jet would also be subjected to the high-speed impact of the Malefic Calamity. Soon, the wings were eroded with burn-like marks and wounds.

"That's enough."

Yelivo lay on the chair, reddish-black blood slowly seeping from his breathing mask. His pupils were dilated, his hands resting on the armrests, and a faint, ethereal sound echoed in his ears.

"... Have you come seeking death and glory again? Don't worry, you won't fall here."

The Vulture fighter jet was covered with strange burn marks and rust, as if it had been weathered by decades of wind and rain in an instant.

The fighter jet's engine shut down, leaving it suspended in mid-air.

At an altitude of 150,000 meters above the ground, anything that suddenly encounters the obstruction filled with electric charges and Malefic Calamity will rapidly decay and age in the red and black sea of clouds, as if the rate of entropy increase has been increased hundreds of times in an instant, and a century has been poured into a single second.

The alloys began to degrade, the fiber composites turned into wood, and even the gold-containing glass began to slowly disintegrate.

Li Aoz burst into the red and black clouds, immediately casting a gravitational disturbance around himself, creating a cloudless, dust-free space around him. He controlled his fighter jets through his tentacles, quickly approaching Yelivo's side. He then lashed out one of his tentacles, hooking it onto the nose of another vulture suspended in mid-air, dragging it along. Before the entropy increase could spread to his tentacles, he quickly released the gravity, causing the two fighter jets to freefall, tearing through the sky and crashing directly to the ground.

Poof! As soon as the two vultures broke free from the Esha Clouds, they immediately resumed their work and entered autopilot mode. Meanwhile, Li Aoz's tentacles had completely rotted during the brief exposure to the Malefic Calamity, lasting less than 10 seconds. He had to dismantle the cockpit of the other vulture, place Yelivo in the better-condition vulture, and then finish it off with a [Natural Ignition], causing the wreckage to melt completely and crash into the deserted desert.

"What a pity... a complete vulture could fetch a lot of money."

However, compared to the fallen vulture, Li Aoz valued the two surviving pilots more.

Magat and Yelivo.

Putting aside the requirements of emergency missions and the valuable qualities of pilots, these two people still hold great significance for Li Aoz.

Although Beta-rank experts are relatively elite, they can eventually achieve their status through hard work.

However, Beta-rank pilots are extremely rare. Talented individuals who possess physical prowess, reaction speed, intelligence, and mental fortitude are far more valuable than mere warriors.

These two Frostplate pilots will be among the few heroes in the future who will be able to board the Galaxy Civilization's warships alongside the player and blast the Azure Planet to pieces.

Yes, a hero.

Although blowing up the Azure Planet might seem inhumane at first glance, there were indeed many potential survivors on the Azure Planet. However, the environment at the time was extremely bad. If the Azure Planet were not destroyed, the Entropy Lord residing in the Star Essence would sweep across the entire universe.

Entropy beings possess terrifying power; they are the messengers of the end of the universe, the oldest beings, capable of guiding rapid changes in entropy, and are immortal. Even if they are erased from the universe, they will be resurrected on the day heat silence arrives.

Simply put, entropy is the mechanism of the universe.

Given the circumstances at the time, blowing up a planet would only result in instantaneous destruction, and at least 70% of the inhabitants of Azure Planet could migrate out. However, if the sleeping Entropy Lord were to awaken, let alone migration, the Thirteenth Narrative, "Heroes Empire," would probably take direct action and wipe the Entropy Lord's star system out of the conceptual framework.

The Galaxy Civilization was unwilling to bear the blame for Destroy the Universe, so they proposed that the Azure Planet People destroy their own home, thus respecting the Azure Planet People's own choice.

But in doing so, it was these Azure Planet People ventured into space who bore the brunt of the blame. They had come out to find a way to save their home, carrying the hopes of the people, but the doctors all told them that the best treatment was euthanasia.

Ultimately, only the heartless players and a small number of Azure Planet People with great determination can bear this sin.

In order to save their compatriots, they chose to destroy their own hometown with their own hands, and in the end, they had to endure the insults from their own people.

Li Aoz didn't think much of it at first, since the players could just pack up and leave, while the NPCs had to stay and continue building their new homes.

But now, Li Aoz has a different view. Li Aoz respects and sympathizes with these two pilots who have chosen to take responsibility despite the insults and prejudice.

"Weakness is the Original Sin."

Li Aoz couldn't help but sigh.

If the planet hosting Entropy Lord wasn't Azure Planet, but rather the homeworld of Narrative Civilization —who would dare criticize a Narrative-level Civilization determined to destroy its homeworld? Would anyone dare question the hero who personally destroyed their homeworld? They would only applaud and cheer, proclaiming. "This is the determination and style of an advanced civilization. Unaffected by emotions, always doing the right thing."

People inherently worship power and the victor, and for this they are willing to deny the significance of the weak, even if they themselves are among the weak.

As someone who had also destroyed this planet, Li Aoz was filled with emotion.

"Those trapped on the ground can never understand the vastness and inclusiveness of the universe; they will only focus their attention on their visible companions."

But that won't happen again, Li Aoz confident; under his control, the entire Azure Planet would eventually be integrated into one.

Humanity must venture into space!

Li Aoz left the prisoners and aircraft on the ground, notified Bermudes's soldiers to come and take them over, then removed two heavy bombs, immediately turned around, and rushed into the sky.

Before he left Granite, he decided to teach Frostplate a lesson he would never forget.

Just as Li Aoz took off towards Frostplate Airport, in a hospital in the capital of Grande, a man injured in the explosion slowly opened his eyes. A line of text slowly appeared on his retina: [Descent Completed]

The man tilted his head slightly, then suddenly stood up, his back ramrod straight, exuding the aura of a steely soldier. He turned around, as if addressing a group of unseen leaders, and saluted, reporting, "Report! Lin Wenzhan, Private First Class, Special Experimental Unit, 106th Brigade, Strategic Support Force of the Yanxia Country, has successfully logged into ' Star Abyss.' Requesting instructions from the commander!"

The first batch of beta testers have officially launched.

Tickets~ I want them~