After thinking it over, Gao Jian went back and opened Song Yaozu's video.
Gao Jian had expected the blurry nighttime phone footage circulating on Douyin, but when he opened the video and saw the thirty-seven-minute progress bar, his pupils contracted.
The footage was exceptionally clear.
There were shots taken after the Sea City military took control of the scene, bird's-eye views from drones, close-ups of the wrecked attack helicopters and armored vehicles, and close-ups of corpses and severed limbs.
The camera transitions were exceptionally professional, too.
It even included footage from inside an attack helicopter's cockpit, showing members of the Pu Clan piloting it. Every piece of avionics data on the console was clearly visible, and under the powerful searchlights, even the Ming Dynasty group below could be seen clearly.
Then the scene abruptly changed.
A golden talisman flew toward the Ming Dynasty group and transformed into a screen of light. Neither the helicopter's roaring cannon nor the armored vehicles' barrage could penetrate it. Then Pu Mingyuan's voice came through into the cockpit, and the Pu Clan members immediately launched Hellfire air-to-ground missiles.
But the image suddenly flashed bright.
Golden flames rose vertically into the sky from near the Ming Dynasty group, incinerating every incoming missile almost instantly. The air-to-ground missiles disintegrated in the extreme heat before they could even detonate. Less than half a second later, the golden flames punched straight into
the helicopter's lower compartment.
Golden flames flooded in from below, reducing the two Pu Clan members to charred husks in an instant. A second later, they pierced the cockpit roof and burned through the rapidly spinning rotor. The view then spun violently as the helicopter crashed into the ground.
This was footage from the Black Box.
The viewpoint kept changing. There was dashcam footage, footage recorded by