CHAPTER 496: CHAPTER 279: TWO FLYING DEVICES (10,000 BLAZING EXPLOSIONS!)

At the same time, Han Jun from the City Northeast Polar Wind Alliance, Qian Deli from the North City, Qin Xueming from the Southern City, Zhang Tianfang, and Chen Xiao were all reporting on the command channel that the monster tide had retreated.

The West City container rail platform was piled with mountains of corpses and seas of blood outside the Joint Train camp. The entire mining area showed no trace of white snow, enveloped instead by the smell of smoke and charred bodies.

Thousands of people were gasping frantically, all in disbelief watching the monster tide recede.

"They ran away?"

"Did we drive them off?!"

"We won!!"

"My God, we survived!!"

"So good."

"Incredible..."

Cheers and shouts of joy echoed within the convoy.

On Lin Xian’s side, KIKI, Brother Huo, Shu Qin, Chen Sixuan, and others rushed over, gathering with Shi Deyuan from Dragon Mountain No.1, Ning Jing, Uncle Wu of the Joint Fleet, Luo Yang, Li Yi, Shen Yao, and others.

"What’s going on?!"

"The west side also retreated." Lin Xian explained the battle situation using the Phoenix Order on the command frequency.

Shi Deyuan said with a serious expression, "Just got the news, not only here, but the monster tides elsewhere have retreated too."

"Did we drive them back?" Ning Jing frowned and asked.

"Not sure." Lin Xian panted heavily, his gaze sweeping over the devastated battlefield, "Something must have happened."

"Quick, clean up the battlefield first!"

Still in the night, regardless of the situation, having a breather, Lin Xian’s first reaction was to prepare ammunition, in case of another attack.

The sudden cease in attacks caught everyone in the city off guard.

minutes later, while Lin Xian was replenishing ammunition supplies, a voice suddenly came through on the communicator.

"Captain Lin, Captain Shi, I’m Xiao He from the Seventh Investigation Corps, we’re heading to Fenglan Mountain. A research group’s flying device has crashed, the location is not yet precise, can you send someone to help search."

"Flying device crashed?" Lin Xian furrowed his brow, and just then, Ding Junyi’s voice suddenly sounded.

"Lin Xian, Wei Kexue and Yu Yuheng were flying a device for close contact with an S-class Abnormal Body. The flight signal has disappeared. I sensed the approximate location through the Hell Black Chrysanthemum. I’ll send you the position, we’ll be there soon!"

Lin Xian’s expression darkened upon hearing this. Engaging with an S-class Abnormal Body?

He had a vague sense of foreboding, and promptly called Shi Deyuan, "Brother Shi, something happened on the mountain, I’ll go first, leave this to you."

"What’s happening?" Shi Deyuan looked puzzled but saw Lin Xian already calling on KIKI, the two flying towards Fenglan Mountain.

Buzz~

At this moment, several flying devices were rapidly flying from the Northern City Airport towards their direction, with Ding Junyi on board looking pale, a deeply cold fear etched in her eyes, far surpassing her previous indifference to death. Her chest heaved as she tried to keep her mind clear and logical.

Beside her, Xiao He looked at her face and spoke in a deep voice, "Professor Ding, is this the confirmed direction? The flying device signal seems to have disappeared to the east."

"It’s this way."

Ding Junyi did not explain much. At this point, members of the Nightwalker group also followed.

Xiao He nodded, without further questioning, and arranged in a low voice on the communicator, "Search according to the topographical analysis provided by Director Ding, it should be in the northwest slope of Fenglan Mountain, and keep an eye out for distress signals."

In the darkness, the transmission range of the flying devices was less than three kilometers. The entire city’s communication was mostly dependent on the relay signal system set up by the Phoenix Society, but the area here in the west was sparsely populated, with little coverage near Fenglan Mountain, relying on scattered, circling searches to capture the positions of Wei Kexue and Yu Yuheng.

Meanwhile, Lin Xian and KIKI had already flown up Fenglan Mountain. The mountain, standing over two thousand meters high, was steep with black peaks towering into the clouds. Vast amounts of snow on the mountain’s waist had collapsed and slid due to the earlier monster tide, leaving it bare and exposed.

Crossing a mountain pass, they reached the northwest face of Fenglan Mountain, where the cold wind howled. Deep gorges were bottomless in the dark night, with only a faint outline visible through the blizzard.

"What on earth happened, how did Wei Kexue and the others crash here?" KIKI raised a telekinesis shield to block the cold wind for the two while flying, asking along the way.

Lin Xian shook his head, "I don’t know, but I suspect it might be related to the monster tide’s retreat."

KIKI looked at Lin Xian in surprise without speaking, and both continued their careful search.

At this moment, the electro-optical sighting system of Lin Xian’s power armor suddenly captured something. The focus screen met Lin Xian’s eyes as he looked in the directed area, surprisingly spotting a small red flame flickering on a distant hillside.

"There it is!"

Without further ado, the duo flew over immediately.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh~

Approaching from the air, the wind speed increased between the peaks and valleys, howling like a giant beast’s roar. As they got closer, they saw a flying device had crashed on a hillside platform. The engine was ablaze with a raging fire, the wings broken among the snow layers, leaving a hundred-meter-long crash slide.

"Found it, send the signal."

"Mm!" KIKI nodded, using his telekinesis to immediately launch a signal pillar Lin Xian had made into the clouds.

Then Lin Xian and KIKI flew over, discovering a figure frantically digging snow from the ground, constantly throwing it at the flying device, seemingly trying to extinguish the fire.

Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be Yu Yuheng.

"Group Leader Yu!!"

The frantically digging Yu Yuheng thought he was mishearing, abruptly turning around to see Lin Xian and KIKI flying closer from afar. His eyes widened, his actions halted, and he opened his mouth but couldn’t speak for a moment.

"KIKI, extinguish the fire!!"

Boom!

KIKI launched a wave of telekinesis, instantly dousing the flames on the flying device, leaving nothing but swirling black smoke.

"Captain Lin!" Yu Yuheng finally spoke, stumbling towards Lin Xian, pointing at the flying device behind.

"Quick, help me remove the Super Pure Germanium Detector, we found it, we found it, we found the Dark Mark!"

Yu Yuheng, with a face full of blood, lips cracked from the cold, looked eager and hysterical. Whether from anxiety or fear, he shouted to them

"It’s the monster that triggered the monster tide, it’s also the monster issuing the Level 5 Mark, we were all wrong, no no no, Professor Wei, Professor Ding, we were all right..."

"It’s waiting, it’s observing, it’s guiding, it won’t show up voluntarily because it is a..."

"Scout!"

Rumble!!

An Extreme Cold Vortex swirled above Fenglan Mountain, thunder roared, the stormy heavens flickered, like a devouring giant beast from the universe.

Lin Xian and KIKI both felt a chill run down their spines upon hearing this.

In the inky depths of the mountain, the howling blizzard sounded like a dirge sung softly from Hell!