Chen Jue paid no attention to how shocked the Eagle Country soldiers in Area 15 below were. Nor had he piloted the spherical craft into a hover to draw their fire.
Instead, he was extending his perception to locate the Sun Wheel.
Chen Jue had casually discarded the thing on Eagle Country soil. Never having cared much for such external possessions, he had never imagined it would cause so many subsequent problems.
After enduring roughly two rounds of saturated antiaircraft fire, Chen Jue finally picked up an outgoing electromagnetic signal distinct from those of the other radars and electronic equipment.
It shot straight into the sky, carrying an intermittent signal across its frequency bands. Like the signal beacon provided by the First Emperor's Mausoleum, it stood out conspicuously among the other signal sources.
Once he confirmed the signal, Chen Jue piloted the spherical craft rapidly down to the surface.
At that moment, the incandescent light radiating from the sphere's surface also released an astonishing amount of heat.
The plasma energy flowing over the craft's hull began breaking down the hardened concrete ground of the Area 15 base, bit by bit.
It was like dropping a red-hot iron ball onto a block of ice.
A large hole instantly melted open in the concrete, swallowing the spherical craft as it slowly sank.
The bizarre, stunning sight left not only the commanders in Area 15's combat command center dumbfounded, but even the soldiers directing and delivering fire at the scene stopped pulling their triggers.
"God!"
"What the hell is that damned thing?"
"Bullets, artillery, missiles-none of our modern weapons do anything to it!"
"Don't tell me it's the Twelfth Angel from EVA?"
"I reckon it's Obito Uchiha using his Kamui Sharingan to ignore space." A few soldiers who liked anime could not resist