“She is laughing at us for courting our own doom!”
Luo Tuo said with a dark expression.
He was extremely displeased that his surefire shot had only killed a single enemy.
“No, that is definitely not a self-mocking laugh. She is laughing cheerfully, as if looking forward to something interesting happening.”
Lin Zhen completely disagreed with Luo Tuo’s assessment.
His body trembled slightly as his gaze swept across the sky, searching for that blue figure that could appear at any moment.
The enemy was already cornered.
In this situation, the only one who could turn the tide and change the situation was…
Yun Ruoxi!
“Still daring to actively attack us? You really don’t know when you’re beaten!”
Luo Tuo narrowed his eyes and raised his right hand again.
The cold barrel of the cannon aimed directly at the white-haired girl sliding toward them on an ice track that had appeared out of thin air.
The enemy not only refused to retreat but also dared to fight back.
“Oh right, there’s Lao Xi. Plus that armor that looks really strong, Dark Dust, and Lao Xi. How are Lao Zhen and his group supposed to fight?”
“Lao Zhen: Referee, I want a card check.”
“How to fight? Get beaten down by Lao Xi, dragged back to the Holy Hand Society to get married and become a star slave.”
“Lao Xi: Polish my shoes!”
“???”
Luo Tuo’s armor came alive, rattling as it surged rapidly toward his arm cannon.
In an instant, the arm cannon reloaded a round.
But before he could fire, the white-haired girl, who had slid to about fifty meters ahead, laughed and flipped him the middle finger.
***
The next second, ice exploded beneath her feet, and a pillar of ice launched her sideways dozens of meters away,
instantly removing her from everyone’s sight.
Just then, a loud rumbling boom suddenly came from the sky above everyone’s heads, growing closer and louder.
Faintly, as if someone were shining a flashlight straight down, an abnormal bright red appeared at the top of the dark red sky screen.
Except this “flashlight” was countless times larger.
Everyone realized something was wrong and looked up at the sky.
Even Luo Tuo, who had just been looking at Shi Linglin, was drawn by the commotion and instinctively turned his head back.
“What is that?! A missile? Or a meteorite?”
In the Central Control Room, Brody’s roar was deafening, almost drowning out the constant alarms.
Just moments ago, from the farthest Zone Z10 to the nearest Zone Z1, alarms had lit up at terrifying speed, then quickly extinguished.
The operators couldn’t even react before the central control lost all contact with the floating crabs.
At first, everyone thought it was a false alarm.
Each alert zone concealed 1.9 billion floating crabs to ensure basic interception capability.
While floating crabs were not strong in attack or defense, they excelled at hiding and detection.
For all contact to be lost without even receiving specific enemy information, the only possibility was that all floating crabs had died the instant they came into contact.
It wasn’t impossible to wipe out all floating crabs in one zone at once—powerful star energy users or large-scale area-of-effect weapons could do it.
But to cross ten alert zones at high speed and take out every floating crab along the way…
How was that even possible?
However, when the alarm sounded from the buffer zone above the crab wall, the Guard Army had to accept reality.
That unknown flying object that had destroyed all alert zones was real.
It had already arrived above the crab wall, barely a step away from entering.
“…A battle armor!”
One of Brody’s Personal Guard connected to the crab wall’s observation system and, after seeing the steel armor wreathed in flames, stood up in shock.
“Sir, I see it! It’s not a missile or weapon—it’s a battle armor!”
“Raise the crab wall’s power to maximum! No matter what it is, don’t let it break through! Stop it!”
Brody’s ominous premonition grew stronger.
It drove him to make what he thought was the right call.
Whoosh!
The crab wall’s power was maxed out.
The earth shook, and the ground cracked.
All the red crabs that had been hidden underground, along with those that had been charging forward to intercept pollution with their lives, emerged from the depths.
“What’s going on?”
“That feels disgusting!”
In the jungle, Lin Zhen and the others watched helplessly as the red tide gushed out of the cracks like a fountain, rising steadily and gradually submerging their ankles.
They now fully understood what Zachary had said earlier.
If the Guard Army was determined to kill them, even if these red crabs were only a tenth as strong as floating crabs,
with this terrifying number, they could wear them down enough to finish them.
“What is that red light outside the sky screen? It actually made Brody activate the entire crab wall!”
Watching the red tide surge toward the crab wall, Luo Tuo’s expression turned grim as he looked straight up.
Countless red crabs crawled over from other places, piling up in the area about to receive the impact.
A massive fist over a kilometer in size “grew” out of the top of the crab wall at terrifying speed, and struck at the black armor diving downward—seemingly slow, but actually fast.
“What a huge fist.”
“That’s not just a fist the size of a wok anymore.”
“Pantsu.”
Boom—Bang!
The fist swung out.
The air in front was forcibly expelled, creating a chain of deafening sonic booms.
The momentum was terrifying.
But the black armor acted as if it didn’t know fear.
It neither dodged nor avoided.
Shrouded in flames, it crashed straight into the fist.
And just then, the camera suddenly cut to the dashboard of the Holy Hand Society spaceship in low orbit around Shell Star, freezing for one second.
Two lines of text appeared on the dashboard’s blue projection.
[Battle Armor Charged 100%, Ability: Fire]
[Emotional Fuel: Anger, Remaining: 80%]
The next second, the camera cut back to the battlefield.
At the moment the armor collided with the fist, a terrifying fireball twice the size of the fist—two kilometers in diameter—appeared in the sky.
Boom!
The kilometer-sized fist was burned to ashes, falling from the sky like gray-white snowflakes.
Red crabs rushed forward to fill the gap.
A huge hole had opened at the very top of the crab wall.
Even as red crabs scrambled to patch it, they couldn’t fully seal it in time.
Zachary in Small Luoding City, the Guard Army in the Central Control Room,
Luoding City tens of kilometers away, and Lin Zhen and the others in the forest…
Everyone stared blankly at the sky, as if stunned by the power of that attack.
The fireball had not yet dissipated.
A fiery meteor flew out from inside, passed through the hole, and entered the crab wall.
“Is it just my imagination…”
Someone’s teeth chattered.
“That fireball… seems to be heading straight for us?”
“It’s not imagination—it’s heading straight for us!”
Lin Zhen reacted instantly, narrowing his eyes.
He saw a black armor within the blaze.
So this was why the white-haired girl had laughed so heartily.
This was the Holy Hand Society’s confidence in sending so few people to invade the Carapace Race’s Home Planet!