CHAPTER 372: CHAPTER 174: BOMBING FISH

meters above, inside the narrow cabin of the Mosquito Bomber.

Lei Jie shivered inside the unheated cabin, unable to stop complaining out loud:

"This thing can only fly in the summer! It’s too cold!"

"Next time I come up here, I at least need to bring an electric heater, my feet are freezing!"

As soon as he finished, Chen Jian’s voice came through the radio.

"Do you want to return now? There’s still time!"

"Loss of stability can be fatal, and you don’t have a life detection system to assess your condition!"

"No need!"

Lei Jie instinctively shook his head, then said:

"I know my limits! The core temperature is maintainable, just my hands and feet are cold."

"My positioning data is drifting, can you see the exact location?"

"The Doppler positioning data is accurate, 120 kilometers to target, you can lower the altitude."

Chen Jian continued:

"The terrain map has been sent to your PDA, you can perform visual matching."

"Understood, preparing for visual matching."

As Lei Jie spoke, a three-dimensional map instantly appeared on the smart eyepiece.

He slightly lowered the control stick to reduce altitude, and as the plane descended below the clouds, the real-time images collected by the smart eyepiece were transmitted to the PDA and began graphic matching calculations.

Without the support of Fu Xi, this step was slow given the limited computing power.

But eventually, Lei Jie confirmed his position.

At this point, he was straight-line less than 110 kilometers from Han Shui City, and below he could see the distinct feature of the Bailian River Reservoir.

Referring to the direction the Xishui River flowed into the Bailian River Reservoir, he slightly adjusted his flying position, pulling the control stick to the right.

The already lightweight, scary plane nimbly turned right, drawing a smooth arc, then Lei Jie leveled it out again.

He planned to fly straight over the Huangzhou Ruins, taking the shortest path to fly directly over Han Shui City.

"Is the target characteristic clear?"

Lei Jie loudly inquired, and moments later, Chen Jian’s response came through the headphones.

"You don’t need to shout, the helmet has good noise reduction."

"The target consists of three level-four monsters and one level-three monster."

"Features of the level-four monsters are unknown, only the Blade Armor Beast’s characteristics are known."

"The level-three monster is an alien creature approximately 16 meters high, currently active on the Yangtze River surface east of Han Shui City."

"The river is showing a large number of air bubbles, nearby personnel are experiencing suffocation, suspected to be caused by the monster emitting large amounts of carbon dioxide."

"This creature resembles the one we encountered at Xia Ma Town, it could be the same one!"

"Xia Ma Town?"

Lei Jie paused in thought.

For him, Xia Ma Town was a rather distant memory.

He remembered that was where they had their first direct conflict with the Mechanical God Sect.

The conflict resulted in part of Xia Ma Town’s population dying to the monster-created "carbon dioxide lake", and another part controlled and dealt with in a special way by the Holy Blood.

His most vivid memory of the town wasn’t the monster in the lake, but rather the miners with tentacle-like breathing organs coming from their mouths.

But now that monster appeared in Han Shui City?

Lei Jie furrowed his brow.

He silently calculated the distance in his mind.

From Xia Ma Town to Han Shui City was about 180 kilometers in a straight line, and it had been less than two weeks since the Beast Tide reached scale, with the level-three monster appearing in Han Shui about a week ago...

Which means, most of the large monsters have probably completed their migration to Jinling City and nearby areas.

The true Beast Tide is about to start soon.

His heart skipped a beat, and after explaining his deduced conclusion to Chen Jian, Chen Jian immediately replied:

"This aligns with the clues found by the scout balloons."

"We don’t have much time left, at most one to two weeks."

"But don’t worry, Imperial City residents will arrive tomorrow, and once our manpower is here, infrastructure will be completed quickly."

"Focus on the present, let’s deal with this monster first!"

"Understood."

Lei Jie answered gravely, and by now, his Mosquito Bomber had flown over Han Shui City, reaching the airspace above the Yangtze River.

He pressed the control stick down again, further descending the plane.

On the ground, like ants, people were slowly moving away from Han Shui City, clearly evacuating.

Further north, 3 level-four monsters were locked in fierce battle with the defending Church Protection Army and hired mercenaries.

Numerous cannons spewed blue smoke, enveloping the vast battlefield completely.

The sound of gunfire and cannon explosions was drowned out by the noise of the propellers, making Lei Jie feel like he was watching a silent movie.

Even so, he could still feel the intense brutality of the battle.

A level-four monster broke through blockades and lunged towards the heaviest firepower position of the Cannon Formation, several projectiles dragging white smoke hit its massive body, pinning it down again, but its rolling body still crushed a dozen Church Protection Army soldiers positioned at the front for interception.

The swift Holy Blood flew from both flanks, using all means to attract the monster’s attention.

Storms of incendiary bombs were launched, igniting brief flashes of fire, but in front of the monsters, even these sparks seemed insignificant.

The defense line of Han Shui City’s garrison was on the verge of collapsing.

But at that moment, Lei Jie had only two bombs left.

Which one to hit first?!

He couldn’t seek advice from the rear because no one was closer to the battlefield than he was!

Lei Jie circled above the monster, the attracted defenders looked up at him, raising their hands as if they were sincerely praying.

----Aren’t you aware of the time?

Pick up your guns!

Lei Jie cursed silently, but just then, huge bubbles suddenly surged up on the surface of the river.

That level-three monster!

In the instant the bubbles burst, a large amount of carbon dioxide gas spewed out.

Heavier than air, the suffocating gas flowed along the terrain, snuffing out flames and forcing the personnel to retreat.

The formation was disrupted once again, and this time, even the Cannon Formation couldn’t retreat in time!

It must be taken out first!

Lei Jie took a deep breath, pushed the control stick to the left to steer the plane, then swiftly aligned the flight direction using the smart eyepiece, and after calculating the altitude and speed data, projected the bombing crosshair ahead.

This was a simple plan temporarily used to replace the bombing sight, although with less precision, in a low-altitude flight, to bomb a monster over ten meters high, it was sufficient!

The bomber suddenly dived downward, and the moment the monster’s body broke the surface, Lei Jie pulled the trigger, releasing the bomb racks and dropping the bomb!

At the time, the distance between the plane’s nose and the monster was less than 500 meters.

This was on par with specially designed dive bombers!

Enduring the risk of wings tearing, Lei Jie gently pulled up the control stick.

Accompanied by an unsettling "creaking" sound, the plane finally withstood the pressure and began to climb again.

Meanwhile, the bomb dropped onto the monster’s broad back exploded upon impact.

A 250-kilogram bomb, with a lethal radius of up to 300 meters for unarmored units.

If dropped on the ground, the crater created by this bomb would be a staggering 3 meters deep and 10 meters wide.

No carbon-based life form could withstand a bomb exploding nearby.

This bomb was precisely slammed onto the monster’s back.

"Boom!"

A massive explosion resounded.

The monster, its spine barely above water, was instantly torn in half.

And as Lei Jie maneuvered the plane to turn back, floating on the murky river was the corpse of the monster.

Like a giant fish.

"Holy shit."

Lei Jie marveled, lowering the control stick, and then spoke:

"Contact the defenders of Han Shui City, tell them to run as far as they can."

"I have one more to go!"