187: Chapter 187 Sixth-Order Mechanical Overlord: Model Unknown

Outside the secret chamber, the alarm blared, making everyone's eardrums ache.

Mio's projection squeezed directly through the door, her semi-transparent body swaying in mid-air.

"Chen Chen!"

"The Gray-White Mechanical Holy Court's scout ship has already deployed a beacon device thirty kilometers outside the Black Fog!"

"It's not here to fight; it's opening a door for the main fleet!"

The remnant scroll in Shen Wanbing's hand was still spread out on the table.

The countdown was still ticking.

[59 minutes 12 seconds.]

[59 minutes 11 seconds.]

Chen Chen glanced at it and raised his hand to close the remnant scroll.

"Let's go out."

Shen Wanbing immediately retracted the shielding field and followed behind him.

As soon as the secret chamber door opened, chaos reigned outside.

Jiang Jiuyou stood at the end of the corridor, draped in a dark red cloak that hadn't dried yet, with the sub-command panel hovering beside her.

"Radar has locked onto it."

She tapped her finger.

A holographic screen popped up.

Thirty kilometers outside the outer circle of the Black Fog, a gray-white shuttle-shaped warship hovered in mid-air.

The hull was only about two hundred meters long.

But a massive mechanical pile driver hung beneath it.

A red light beacon was being pressed into the seabed bedrock by a mechanical arm.

Every time it was pressed down a section, the surrounding space twisted.

Mio was so anxious that her voice cracked.

"Once the beacon reaches the bottom, the Gray-White Mechanical Holy Court will save half the cost of opening the door!"

"By then, it won't just be one or two ships coming; it will be the entire Dismantler fleet!"

Jiang Jiuyou raised her hand to take over the main cannon permissions.

"Preheating the Sea Scale main cannon."

Chen Chen stopped walking.

"No need."

Jiang Jiuyou turned her face.

"It's already pinning the coordinates."

"The main cannon makes too much noise."

Chen Chen walked toward the highest dome of the City Lord Tower.

"You don't need to demolish the kitchen to kill a chicken."

Mio froze for half a second.

"That's a Gray-White Mechanical Holy Court space beacon ship!"

"It's not a chicken!"

Su Xiaoqi poked her head out from the stairwell while holding a meat bun.

"Is that a tin chicken?"

Blood Rose leaned against the railing, a black coat draped over her shoulders, and lazily added.

"Xiaoqi, even a tin chicken needs to be plucked."

Mio almost disconnected.

"Can you guys be a little more nervous!"

Chen Chen didn't look back.

"Jiang Jiuyou, lock the coordinates."

Jiang Jiuyou immediately canceled the main cannon preheating and switched to Radar synchronization.

"Thirty kilometers."

"Seven degrees east-northeast."

"Altitude eight hundred sixty meters."

"The beacon pile has entered the bedrock by forty-one percent."

Shen Wanbing followed to his side, her black hair disheveled by the wind, but she didn't care to tidy it.

"The sea-stabilizing needle has just finished binding, and long-range throwing will consume a massive amount of Mental Power."

Chen Chen reached out.

The golden short rod fell into his palm.

"It's enough."

The City Lord Tower dome opened.

A wild wind swept in, blowing everyone's clothes.

Chen Chen stood at the highest point, holding the sea-stabilizing needle in his left hand and drawing the Rift-Sky Gravity Ship-Slayer Blade with his right.

As soon as the golden short rod left the silver-grade storage ring, the blue-gold patterns began to glow.

206 points of Mental Power poured in along his arm.

The meter-long short rod began to expand.

Ten meters.

Thirty meters.

Sixty meters.

Finally, it transformed into a golden giant pillar nearly one hundred meters long.

Everyone in the entire Floating City looked up.

The hundreds of thousands of people in the bottom hold who had just experienced a riot had only just been forcibly escorted to the sub-districts and hadn't caught their breath yet.

At this moment, seeing that blue-gold giant pillar on the City Lord Tower, everyone went silent.

"What... what is that?"

"Is this what forced back the Black Fog earlier?"

"Stop looking, kneel lower! Do you want to be treated as a troublemaker by the patrol?"

At the South Gate, Qin Hongye braced her Gauss sniper rifle and spoke in a low voice.

"Target ship shield deployed."

Jiang Jiuyou reported the numbers simultaneously.

"Gray-White shield intensity rising."

"They have discovered us."

Outside the Black Fog circle.

The gray-white scout ship seemed to sense a threat, and a circle of white light lit up at the bow.

A mechanical voice came over the public channel.

"High-energy projectile detected."

"Judgment: Primitive weapon."

"Interception priority: Low."

Hearing this, Mio immediately cursed.

"Low, your ass!"

"That's a pseudo-artifact fragment!"

Chen Chen pressed the Rift-Sky Gravity Ship-Slayer Blade against the sea-stabilizing needle.

The black dot of Gravity Collapse drilled into the blue-gold patterns.

Golden light flickered in the depths of Shen Wanbing's pupils, and her speech accelerated.

"Gravity Collapse attached."

"Needle body stable."

"Chen Chen, three seconds at most."

Chen Chen pulled his right arm back.

Below the City Lord Tower, all fire teams stopped.

Jiang Jiuyou also moved her hand away from the fire control key.

Chen Chen uttered one word.

"Go."

The hundred-meter golden pillar left his hand.

The air was forcefully compressed, emitting a sonic boom.

A long blue-gold trail streaked across the sky above the Black Fog, instantly bridging the thirty-kilometer distance.

The gray-white scout ship opened its shields fully.

"Interception failed."

"Shield pressure abnormal."

"Re-evaluating—"

Boom!

The sea-stabilizing needle smashed into the gray-white shield.

The shield didn't shatter.

It was flattened.

Immediately after, the Gravity Collapse attached to the needle erupted.

The scout ship's hull, along with the beacon pile below, caved inward.

The red light beacon, having only just been inserted halfway into the bedrock, was forcefully ripped out, twisted into a ball along with the pile driver and the hull.

Only mechanical static remained on the public channel.

"Structural error..."

"Spatial coordinates lost..."

"Retrieval failed..."

Boom!

The gray-white scout ship exploded into scrap metal.

Before that mass of scrap metal could disperse, the Gravity Collapse continued to shrink, finally pressing it into an iron ball less than ten meters in diameter, which smashed into the distant sea surface.

The red light of the beacon was completely extinguished.

[Gray-White Mechanical Holy Court scout beacon: Destroyed.]

[First remnant scroll positioning interference successful.]

[Opponent lock-on countdown reset.]

[Estimated re-positioning time: 72 hours.]

The city was silent for two seconds.

Then the bottom hold exploded first.

"Smashed to nothing?"

"Thirty kilometers away, in one hit?"

"And we actually wanted to cause trouble earlier?"

"Don't include me! I didn't rush the door earlier!"

In the direction of the South Gate, Iron Wall roared in a gruff voice over the broadcast.

"Did you all see that?"

"From now on, whoever says the Lord won't come back, find a hole for yourselves first!"

Su Xiaoqi jumped up and cheered.

"Big Brother is so amazing!"

"The tin chicken was smashed into a meatball!"

Mio froze in mid-air for a long while before squeezing out a sentence.

"That is not a meatball."

Blood Rose laughed so hard she bent at the waist.

"Mio, don't correct her; in Xiaoqi's world, anything can go into the pot."

Su Xiaoqi immediately explained seriously.

"I won't eat the tin, but the energy core inside can be given to Big Brother."

Shen Wanxing stood behind, clutching a blanket, muttering softly.

"Good thing I don't have to go touch that iron ball..."

Chen Chen raised his hand.

Under the distant sea surface, the sea-stabilizing needle shrank again, turning into a blue-gold beam of light that returned to his palm.

Jiang Jiuyou looked at the Radar data, her brow not relaxing.

"The beacon is gone."

"But the remnant scroll fluctuations have already been captured by them."

Shen Wanbing projected the decoded mythic remnant scroll into mid-air.

"The problem is bigger."

Everyone looked at her.

Shen Wanbing didn't waste words.

The holographic layer unfolded.

At the edge of the level two map, a circle of gray-white light dots appeared.

The number was still increasing.

"The Gray-White Mechanical Holy Court's main fleet is gathering at the edge of the plane."

"They don't have the complete coordinates, but they have confirmed we are in this area."

"The destruction of the scout ship just now can only delay them by about three days."

Mio took over, her tone unusually not jumpy.

"The Gray-White Mechanical Holy Court is different from those lunatics before."

"They are a wandering relic faction."

"Wherever there are high-tier blueprints, pseudo-artifact fragments, or ancient cores, that's where they dig."

"They won't snatch territory."

"They only dismantle things."

Blood Rose clicked her tongue lightly.

"Sounds annoying."

Jiang Jiuyou pulled up the combat power estimate.

"Main fleet scale?"

Shen Wanbing quickly entered parameters.

"Conservatively estimated, over thirty mechanical warships."

"At least three half-step Tier 6 The Dismantlers."

"The most troublesome part is this."

She enlarged the gray-white light dot in the center.

[Tier 6 Mechanical Overlord: Model Unknown.]

Below it, a line of red text followed.

[Current level two map maximum conventional capacity: Tier 5 peak.]

[Forced arrival of a Tier 6 unit will cause spatial collapse.]

Mio added.

"They aren't afraid of collapse."

"The Mechanical Holy Court will treat the entire map as a dismantling site."

"As long as they can take away the Interstellar Fortress remnant scroll, they can blow this place apart."

Su Xiaoqi was bewildered.

"So they are here to steal Big Brother's blueprints?"

"Correct."

"Then let's fight them!"