Shen Le: Get in the car and sleep, get out of the car and take pictures, so I became a car?

"Whoosh—"

"Whoosh!"

"Ah, it blew up!"

Shen Le rapidly pressed both hands down. A surging heat flowed from his palms into Cloud Kun's gunwale, then spread from there into every corner of the ship...

A turquoise water shield abruptly rose, covering the vessel and blocking the fragments shooting in every direction, as well as the fluttering sparks.

The ship shook violently, creaking and groaning as the pile of spiritwood before Shen Le quickly sank by a thin layer.

"Cloud Kun, this won't do! When the missiles launch, you have to open the shield quickly and let them out!"

[I... I thought I did...] Cloud Kun shifted awkwardly.

To test whether it could properly fire missiles while shrunk to an extremely small size, it had been sent to a base at Lop Nur, where it practiced over and over again.

Since the military had agreed to cover all missile-related costs, Cloud Kun did not mind going to such a desolate Gobi wilderness. Of course, on one condition...

"You have to dig me a pit! Fill it with water! It doesn't need to be big enough for me to fully unfold my true form, but it must at least be five or six meters long!"

That was not a problem. Even in a place like the Lop Nur Gobi, there were natural lakes—well, ponds.

And if that truly did not work, the authorities could even dispatch water tankers to haul water over from a thousand miles away just to meet Cloud Kun's demands!

After all, the place where they were conducting their experiments was not too far from that famous site where the mushroom bomb had first burst into the sky, was it?

The one having a hard time was Shen Le. Even with the warhead removed, a missile still had an