"Motherfucker! They made it!" Nick sprang to his feet and slapped the table in delight as he watched the bomber formation's flight paths on the radar display. At the same time, he shouted into the comm channel, "Self-propelled artillery and rocket launchers, fire immediately! Hit that tower!"
The self-propelled artillery and rocket launcher positions, which had been waiting for this moment, immediately erupted in thunderous roars. Shell after shell streaked through the air with long trails, blasting toward the towering structure in distant New York.
They were providing cover for the air support, drawing the tower's attention.
That transparent, energy-barrier-like thing immediately appeared around the distant tower again, stopping the shells in midair and blowing them into brilliant fireworks.
Meanwhile, the bomber formation suddenly climbed again, becoming tiny black dots invisible to the naked eye as they began dropping bombs from an altitude of ten thousand meters!
The fighter formation swiftly changed direction over New York. Several kilometers from the tower, they suddenly launched missile after missile at it, then quickly turned around, preparing to skim past the tower.
At that moment, the middle of the tower abruptly opened countless eyes—over a million of them—like a black-and-white mosaic mural, staring toward the fighter formation.
The next instant, arcs of electricity flickered around the entire tower. Then, the invisible energy barrier seemed to expand again, instantly reaching dozens of times its original range!
Four of the six turning fighters exploded in midair, seemingly crashing into the invisible barrier. The other two desperately climbed, flying upward along the transparent, invisible energy barrier. Then an electric arc flashed. All their electronic equipment failed, their engines died, and they plummeted freely from the sky like two kites with snapped strings!
Boom! Boom! With two deafening blasts, the fighters slammed directly into skyscrapers in New