Calamity

Alituo noticed it instantly.

The power emanating from Miao Xin began to exert similar influence on the rules surrounding him.

He instinctively looked up, vaguely sensing that some kind of "calamity" was approaching from above.

Before he could think it through, the manhole cover beneath his feet suddenly flipped up the next time he landed.

Alituo lost his footing and half of his leg sank in, splashing dirty water everywhere!

Meanwhile, Miao Xin had just rushed out of a collapsed glass curtain wall, shaking off the shards all over her body.

She looked at Alituo and grinned.

"Come on."

"Mutual harm!"

****

Outside the battlefield.

A large number of fixed-wing drones rushed towards this area, but as soon as they got close, they all malfunctioned and crashed.

In the distance, Ling Wen wiped the blood from her forehead.

The gun exploding left her with injuries on her face and hands.

But she looked unusually excited.

"Command center, the test results are confirmed!"

Ling Wen grabbed the walkie-talkie and spoke rapidly.

"The more primitive and rudimentary the weapon, the more difficult it is for Alituo to intervene!"

Unmanned intelligent units were paralyzed before they could even penetrate their effective field of vision.

She had just fired a full magazine of her Type 56 rifle, and the bullets exploded.

This AK47 replica has simple mechanical components and no malfunctions.

"Good!" The commander slammed his fist on the table.

Since the start of the battle, although much of the surveillance footage has been lost, it can be determined that the peak movement speed of the two enemies was only between forty and fifty meters per second.

This speed gives us a chance!

On the streets, the forces of misfortune churned and twisted.

More equipment and buildings were destroyed, and the entire city was suffering from the shockwaves.

Shop windows collapsed along the street, and the ground was littered with broken glass and signs.

The dim emergency lights flickered on and off, and the diesel generator emitted a chilling noise.

One car engine after another failed, the alarm beeping mingling with the sounds of engines.

The driver tried to check the situation, but his phone was bricked and he couldn't even turn on the flashlight.

Utter darkness descended like ripples.

The apocalyptic terror finally began to terrify everyone, and cries and screams filled the air.

However, on the battlefield, Alituo and Aisaikena were also tied up by Miao Xin.

They faced the same thorny path as Miao Xin.

Fire hydrants suddenly burst open, cables and steel wires flew out, and gas cylinders exploded—one after another.

"Damn it!" Alituo was forced to raise his hand, and his staff glowed.

"Impact Technique!"

As Alituo released his Magic Power, Miao Xin was struck head-on by an invisible hammer, her entire skeleton flying backward and crashing into a building in the distance.

In this place where Magic Power is incredibly precious, casting spells directly is far less efficient than interfering with energy through domain manipulation.

But the situation forced them to act!

Alituo then replenished the Chaos Domain, causing more walls of the building to collapse and fall on Miao Xin.

But there was no sign of relief on Alituo's face.

Because he could sense even more clearly that the danger above was drawing ever closer!

Alituo and Aisaikena looked up and, sure enough, saw five planes swooping down from the darkness.

The fuselage is made of silver-white aluminum, with a round air intake, long, slightly aft wings, and the entire body is covered with thick, sticky rivets.

The wings still retain the bulges and edges left from the early installation of machine guns.

They are old.

It's something that flew in from another era.

Alituo's "Chaotic Law" immediately covered the area, easily causing all the engines to violently vibrate and then shut down.

The problem is that these planes didn't disperse.

They continued to approach.

Despite the malfunction, they pressed down towards them.

"How could this be!" Alituo's expression changed for the first time.

After he came to Earth, he saw too many pieces of equipment shatter like glass in front of him.

The more precise it is, the more fragile it is.

But these things in front of me, rough, heavy, and outdated, are like Wanshi.

A loud crash came from the ruins behind them.

Miao Xin lifted the rubble and stood up again.

The Nether Sea unfolds once more.

This time, the color was almost grayish-white.

In terms of being steeped in the rules of misfortune, she was certainly not as adept as Alituo.

But within her eye sockets lies the "Myriad Phenomena Prism," which allows power to travel long distances.

The moment the crystal was activated, the doomed power from Miao Xin was projected and covered Alituo and Aisaikena.

"I bestow upon you the misfortune of being killed by a plane!"

Alituo gritted his teeth and did not try to dodge.

Firstly, even if the environment is full of Magic Power, they still can't outrun anything swooping down from the sky.

Secondly, what Miao Xin is initiating now is a clash at the level of the rules of misfortune.

Rules against rules!

He could only barely maintain the domain, his Magic Power being consumed rapidly like flowing water.

In the air, both planes were finally forced to become completely incapacitated.

The pilot ejected hastily.

But the remaining three planes were still fixed on this spot.

Someone inside is still controlling it; they haven't let go.

Aisaikena's eyes flashed, and she forcibly expanded the range of her abilities.

The next moment, all three pilots were simultaneously affected by her ability.

One of them immediately went out of control, and one pilot was forced to eject.

The other two, however, did not change their routes.

The fuselage only wobbled slightly, then continued to press down!

All around.

A large number of combat vehicles are rushing towards this place at full speed, centered on Lancheng.

They crashed through the traffic jam.

Many units simply abandoned their vehicles and instead sent infantry forward.

A field commander raised his binoculars, saw the scene in the night sky, and couldn't help but mutter a curse at himself.

"What era are we living in? You old folks still have to do it."

J-5.

A name that is as old as it gets.

A model from the 1950s.

The entire control system, consisting of steel cables, pulleys, and connecting rods, is almost crudely simple.

It has no complex telemetry, no precision chips; it's like a hard, solid piece of iron.

But precisely because of this, it possesses the most stubborn resistance to Alituo's abilities.

Inside the command post, the commander's voice had become hoarse.

"Parachute!"

You can no longer see it!

But the pilot did not respond.

Inside the cockpit, alarms blared, instruments vibrated, and the aircraft shuddered.

All that was left was darkness.

But that hand didn't let go.

He gripped the control stick tightly, the muscles in his entire arm tensing. The control surfaces, now without power, felt heavy and stiff. With his last bit of feel, he pushed the nose down.

The other one was the same.

The camera emitted a low, eerie creak in the night, as if it might fall apart at any moment. It flew over the extinguished streetlights, over the smoking intersections, over the rows of stopped cars, and shot straight down at the two figures.

Miao Xin and Alituo are still locked in a fierce struggle.

Beyond that churning misfortune, a will that belonged neither to rules nor to the supernatural, but solely to humanity, finally subsided.

Boom!!!!!

Two J-5 fighter jets were slammed down from the sky!

Flames exploded in the street, and shockwaves swept across the surrounding area.

Alituo and Aisaikena were instantly swallowed up!

Miao Xin collapsed to the ground, with building debris falling around her.

A steel beam collapsed and crashed down, but she caught it with her bony claws.

Amidst the swirling dust, Miao Xin raised her head.

I watched the ball of flame swirling ahead.

Smoke and dust rose.

Like the curtain falling.

****

The lingering forces of misfortune over the city gradually dissipated.

The first drone successfully approached the explosion area.

"Mutilated enemy corpse discovered!"

No vital signs!

"The robotic dog has successfully approached!"

"The obstacle-clearing robot has successfully approached!"

Good news kept coming back to the command center.

But actually, Miao Xin and Su Ming confirmed the results even earlier than them.

In Miss Ghost's Psionic Power Vision, the deaths of enemies are crystal clear.

Even Alituo's soul was swallowed whole by the suddenly surging Nether Sea immediately after his death.

The scene seemed vaguely familiar to Su Ming.

They had assumed the Nether Sea would then devour Aisaikena's soul, but found it showed no interest whatsoever.

The other party was allowed to quickly dissipate under the influence of the "Serpent of the Mortal World" mark.

Miao Xin stared at the burning area, the soul fire flickering silently.

Everything happened so fast that she barely felt it was real.

The enemy has been killed.

She imagined rushing forward and hacking the sudden thing to pieces, one slice at a time; she also imagined perhaps being able to confront it directly and find out the reason.

The process, however, was quite different, far more tragic and chaotic.

There's simply no time to think about anything else.

Even after everything settled down, she was still somewhat bewildered.

****

The fire was quickly extinguished.

Suddenly, a cacophony of human voices seemed to fill the air around us.

Someone is calling for help.

Someone is announcing their location.

People are carrying the wounded.

Not far away, the muffled thuds of falling building debris could still be heard.

Further down the street, a large number of armored vehicles finally squeezed through the congested road, blocking off the area.

Emergency rescue team has arrived.

In the air, high-powered lighting drones began to spread out, scattering light downwards.

The entire city began to gradually recover from the heavy blow it had just received.

We won this battle.

Although the cost was enormous.

Su Ming, who had been watching intently with a tense nerve, slowly exhaled from the other end.

Miao Xin sheathed her bone blade and deactivated her combat mode.

She casually grabbed a trench coat and put it on before stepping out of the building ruins.

A team of soldiers quickly arrived and handed Miao Xin a headset.

The rest of the men spread out with their guns, firmly guarding the surrounding area.

Miao Xin put on her headphones.

"Return immediately," Jin Rongjia's voice came through, his tone firm. "This is the highest priority."

"Yes," Miao Xin replied.

The voice lacked its usual energy.

Jin Rongjia was silent for a moment before speaking, "You need to leave now so we can dedicate more resources to the rescue efforts."

"I know," Miao Xin said.

Ling Wen also walked over at this moment, supported by someone.

She removed the blindfold and found that she had regained her sense of light and could vaguely see some outlines.

"It's alright." She breathed a sigh of relief. "It seems the blindness is temporary."

After speaking, Ling Wen looked at Miao Xin.

"Thank goodness you came."

That was a great play.

Miao Xin was silent for two seconds before asking in a low voice, "A lot of people died, right?"

Ling Wen also fell silent.

She glanced at the teams rescuing, moving, and sealing off the area, and finally said only one sentence, "This is war."

"How many members of the action team died?" Miao Xin asked again.

She recalled the people she had met at the courier station not long ago. They had only exchanged a few words, joking with each other while holding takeout containers and eating quickly.

Ten minutes ago, these people were riding electric scooters, speeding through the streets just like real food delivery workers.

Or they stood guard around the convoy, scrutinizing their surroundings.

But now -

Ling Wen did not answer Miao Xin's question.

"In war, risking one's life is commonplace," she said softly.

"Leave the cleanup here to us," Ling Wen continued. "We all have our own responsibilities."

Miao Xin didn't ask any more questions.

Escorted by soldiers, they quickly left the scene.