Chapter 1371: Ambush in the Ruins

Just when Chen Ling thought the memory fragments ended there, several dim and blurry images appeared in his mind again.

The embers of the fire danced on the ruins, and the entire domain had become a place of dead silence. Those figures who were originally fleeing in all directions had all evaporated into thin air. In the desolate world, only one figure bathed in blinding aurora stood alone.

He stood there blankly, looking at his own hands, as if he couldn't understand what had happened at all. Countless souls who died tragically intertwined behind him into an extremely brilliant sea of aurora, continuously drilling into his body...

The gorgeous aurora expanded behind him, gradually outlining the appearance of an incomparably powerful soul. And the figure of that soul... was extremely similar to Yang Xiao.

Yang Xiao looked at everything around him, and at the residual shadow of the woman behind him who had also been sublimated, wailing in pain like a madman. He grabbed his own head with both hands, as if he wanted to tear himself in half!

The last image was a figure streaking across the sky under the aurora, leaving in a certain direction.

After receiving all the information in the aurora, Chen Ling slowly opened his eyes...

"Could it be..."

Chen Ling seemed to realize something, his gaze a bit complex.

He could roughly guess what Yang Xiao had experienced here... If that was the case, then Yang Xiao’s current state should be very bad.

He must find Yang Xiao as soon as possible.

Chen Ling looked at the direction Yang Xiao finally left in the memory fragments. Just as he was about to chase after him, two lines of characters floated before his eyes...

【Audience Expectation +3】

【Current Expectation: 32%】

Chen Ling’s eyebrows twitched slightly.

Buzz buzz buzz——

A low roar sounded from all directions. Chen Ling turned his head to look, and a dozen dark, heavy residual shadows were moving rapidly in the ruins around him, like a swarm of killer bees staring fixedly at their prey!

"Drones?" Chen Ling was a bit surprised.

At the same time, a calm voice sounded from the encrypted combat channel:

"The WZ-8 high-speed drone swarm has arrived at the target location. SAR synthetic aperture radar is locating... Target heat signal locked. Precision-guided combat initiated."

Those drone swarms only appeared for a moment before nimbly drilling into the surrounding broken walls, using objects to hide their figures. And the radar they carried seemed to have the function of locating heat sources through walls. The terrain of the entire battlefield and Chen Ling’s precise location had already been presented in the operations room thousands of miles away.

Bang——!

A special shell suddenly sounded amidst the roar. An armored vehicle hundreds of meters away shook slightly under the recoil, and the special cannon barrel it carried was already emitting wisps of blue smoke.

The whistling shell pierced through the entire street in an instant, bombarding Chen Ling’s body precisely!

But the moment the shell left the chamber, Chen Ling’s gaze looked toward here. Facing this abruptly fired shell, Chen Ling had no intention of dodging at all. His right arm directly turned into a giant red paper hand, taking the shell head-on!

Thud——!!

The two collided, and dense cracks spread from under Chen Ling’s feet, but his figure didn't retreat at all, easily catching this shell.

Vehicle-mounted shells had too low a threat level to Chen Ling, and there was no need to dodge at all. But just as he was about to throw the shell away casually, he suddenly realized something was wrong... A slight numbness extended from the red paper tentacle, affecting half of his arm.

"This is..." Chen Ling muttered to himself.

"Microwave pulse cannon hit the target. As we expected, he is too careless." The voice in the combat channel sounded again, "The microwave pulse cannon can instantly heat the moisture in biological tissues to 300 degrees, but visually, the target has not suffered trauma. The moisture content in his body should be extremely low... However, the interference with the nervous system should have taken effect. After all, he is still a nervous animal."

Chen Ling casually squeezed the shell into scrap metal. Just as he was about to start a counterattack, a roaring plane swept over his head!

Missiles trailing fire were launched one after another, precisely covering the land around Chen Ling. This time, Chen Ling didn't arrogantly try to resist head-on, because he found that his understanding of the thermal weapons of this era was still too little... He originally thought thermal weapons were simple missiles, explosions, or firepower sweeps, but the shell just now made him realize he was wrong.

The clash of thermal weapons in modern warfare is definitely much more complex than he imagined. He doesn't understand the characteristics of these weapons, so it's best not to be blindly arrogant... at least not until he activates his second personality.

Chen Ling’s figure flickered on the ground like a ghost. None of the missiles sweeping down could touch his body. Successive explosions shook the earth, causing the nearby ruins to collapse directly...

There were no other living creatures, and there was no need to worry about the impact on civilians and buildings. This was simply the best testing ground for thermal weapon warfare.

"Red Arrow-10 anti-tank missiles all missed. His speed is too fast, and we cannot make a defense assessment of the hardness of his body surface carapace... This is a bit troublesome." The voice paused for a moment and quickly issued an order,

"He has become vigilant. Non-contact firepower probing ends here. Start heavy firepower coverage directly... Let the formation carrying CM-102 anti-radiation missiles enter the field, directional fragmentation attack on the target's ganglia.

The target has air combat capability. The second formation, pay attention to launching the TL-20 intelligent loitering munition swarm for autonomous target searching. Try not to let him ascend.

Air-to-ground strikes, we have an absolute advantage."

Chen Ling looked up. Amidst the violent roar, a large number of fighter jets dived down from the clouds, and countless missiles were fired, as if a giant net covering the sky and earth was falling, leaving Chen Ling no room to ascend at all.

The old Chen Ling hadn't faced large-scale thermal weapon attacks, but those were encounter battles... This time he openly declared war on the humans of this era and exposed his whereabouts. They must have been prepared in Tongzhou long ago. This was a thorough ambush battle!

【Audience Expectation +3】

【Current Expectation: 35%】

Facing the heavy firepower coverage that could destroy this block several times over, Chen Ling licked his pitch-black lips and smiled lightly:

"Sure enough, it has to be played like this to be exciting enough..."

"Unfortunately..."

"I don't have time to tangle with you anymore."

Countless missiles fell like raindrops beside Chen Ling, and violent fire accompanied by lethal fragments surged out. In this violent roar, Chen Ling slowly closed his eyes...

The bright red theatrical robe began to dye black visibly to the naked eye. The second personality suppressed deep in Chen Ling’s heart, accompanied by an incomparably powerful disaster body, took over the battlefield!