333: Chapter 333 Where the Meteor Falls, the Strong Remain Silent!

BOOM!!!

The rear dozen carriages of the Silver Giant Snake were ripped open from the inside by the expanding cyan-gold light, exploding in an instant.

Flesh, tissue, and metal components were pulverized into tiny specks in the shockwave.

Those still-writhing tentacles were torn out by the roots, annihilated by the light as they splattered.

The long-accumulated cyan-gold shockwave did not stop after tearing through the Silver Giant Snake's restraints; instead, it continued to crush everything in all directions.

The Insect Swarm in the air couldn't even scatter in time before being wiped out layer by layer by the shockwave.

The already tottering pavilions and towers were completely leveled by the aftermath, their broken walls and ruins turning into brick and tile dust, flying through the sky.

The passengers of the AE1001 poked their heads out from the ruins.

The cyan-gold shields on their bodies slowly dissipated, like the last wave washing over ankles at low tide.

The Silver Giant Snake, now only half its body left, struggled on the ground.

Train Captain Baili Wuchen let out a shrill roar, his voice devoid of the mockery and contempt from before, leaving only pure fear.

"Impossible! This is absolutely impossible!"

He channeled all his energy, activating his self-repair system to the limit.

The flesh and debris on the ground began to tremble, and large amounts of liquid metal surged out, pulling together broken iron shells and bone fragments in an attempt to piece together the silhouette of the rear carriages.

This still can't kill it?

Such powerful self-repair capabilities left everyone present stunned.

But, above the star-studded sky, a ball of fire was rapidly expanding.

It was a meteor burning fiercely.

Flames and air currents enveloped it, dragging out a crimson-white Tail of light as it fell from the starry sky into the clouds, plummeting into these broken palaces.

Jiang Wanwan looked up at the growing fire, her eyes filled with worry.

Releasing such a massive, high-level skill repeatedly was something Lin Xiao's current mental power couldn't handle.

But before she could calculate the limit of this cost, a new message notification popped up in the chat channel, lighting up on everyone's interface simultaneously.

[07-01 Lin Xiao: Passengers with support skills, cast buffs on me, just like... that moment ago!]

Seeing this message, not only Jiang Wanwan but everyone else began anxiously searching for Lin Xiao's location.

"Over there!"

Yimu, sensing Lin Xiao's presence, raised her translucent blue arm, her fingertip pointing toward a blood cocoon in the center of the field.

The clothing and armor shredded by tentacles, mixed with blood that had not yet dried, were wrapped into a half-person-tall oval hard shell.

A beam of rainbow light flew from Yimu's fingertip, precisely covering the blood cocoon.

Everyone, including Jiang Wanwan and Tian Xiwei, immediately aimed in that direction.

Countless halos and skill buffs flew up from every corner of the ruins, like meteors flowing backward, all landing on the same blood cocoon.

And above the firmament, the meteor began to grow larger.

Its descent grew faster and faster; the air in front of it was compressed into a scorching white cone, and the flames burned from orange-red to a blinding, incandescent white.

The Silver Giant Snake looked up, glanced at the meteor, and then at the bunch of fearless passengers in the safe zone.

Surprisingly, it chose not to attack.

Even though it could harvest dozens of lives right now with a casual sweep of its Tail.

But, Train Captain Baili Wuchen did not.

He drove the battered Astral Express, dragging the unrepaired rear carriages, attempting to activate a displacement skill to escape.

But just at this moment, a familiar feeling enveloped his body.

Fine electric arcs appeared in the air.

It was [Static Field].

The current spread across the Silver Giant Snake's metal skeleton; although it didn't cause much substantial damage, it interrupted Train Captain Baili Wuchen's final skill, leaving him in place.

Jiang Wanwan's Ice Arrow followed closely behind.

A thick ice cone smashed into the Silver Giant Snake's chest and abdomen, frost spreading outwards, gradually sealing the silver-white remains.

For such a massive target, the power of the Ice Arrow was not great, and the freezing effect was minimal.

But if one wasn't enough, then ten, one hundred, one thousand...

Her mental power was enough to support this consumption.

The frost continued to spread, and the Silver Giant Snake's movements began to become sluggish.

"Hold on, don't let him run!"

Someone shouted at the top of their lungs.

Everyone's mental power and physical strength had reached their limits, so they didn't even have the energy to echo the call.

Everyone just silently and focusedly released their control skills.

Train Captain Baili Wuchen wanted to displace again, but unfortunately, his energy was completely exhausted.

At the same time, the meteor finally fell.

First, there was a crimson-white light that temporarily blinded everyone, then a silent, intense heat, and then, one after another, scorching annular shockwaves.

Everyone instinctively lay on the ground, shrinking their bodies as much as possible into the crevices of the ruins.

The shockwave, carrying bricks and rubble, whistled overhead; the ground shook violently, and the air was filled with the smell of scorched rust and ozone.

[The moment the meteor falls, you will understand what is meant by force majeure.]

This was the description of the Level 5 skill [Starfall].

And just as the description said, about two minutes later, someone brave enough lifted their head and looked toward the center of the field a hundred meters away.

That expanse of gray-black bedrock, which even ship cannons couldn't destroy, had been melted into a crater over a dozen meters deep.

The rocks at the edge of the crater were still in a liquid state, the dark red light gradually dimming as it slowly flowed.

Inside the collapsed rock wall, one could see the remains of the Silver Giant Snake.

The flesh and tissue on its surface had been burned to charcoal by the high heat, peeling off in sheets with the wind.

The silver-white metal carriage body had also been burned to a dull, dark red under the high heat.

Some parts had already begun to melt, molten iron dripping down along the severely deformed metal skeleton, splashing tiny sparks into the magma.

The Silver Giant Snake was not yet fully dead.

Its head, which was the location of the Astral Express cockpit, still maintained an upright posture.

But the outer shell had been completely stripped away, revealing the scene inside.

Train Captain Baili Wuchen, having separated from the consciousness fusion, was being held up in the center of the cockpit by dozens of scorched tentacles.

His lower body was in a state of Rend, while his upper body was extensively carbonized, his military uniform having long since fused with his flesh and skin, making them indistinguishable.

He couldn't move, with only a mangled head remaining, still staring forward in unwillingness.

Not far ahead, the blood cocoon split open in the flames.

Lin Xiao, holding [Poseidon's Trident], walked slowly out of the broken hard shell.

His upper body armor was completely destroyed, his bare shoulders and chest covered in blood holes left by tentacle piercings, still dripping blood drop by drop.

But those eyes, from which the blood-red color had not yet faded, were frighteningly bright.

Lin Xiao carried the trident, walking step by step toward the enemy who was now reduced to nothing but a head.

Train Captain Baili Wuchen's mouth moved.

Without begging for mercy or cursing, he simply asked in a tone of near bewilderment, using his last remaining consciousness: "You... do you not want your life?"

Lin Xiao stopped walking, standing at the edge of the crater, looking inside.

"The strong survive, the weak are eliminated." Lin Xiao responded indifferently, his voice devoid of any extra emotion. "You said that."

Train Captain Baili Wuchen did not retort.

Those eyes, which once churned with ruthlessness and madness, dimmed for a moment.

He twitched the corners of his mouth, squeezing out the last two hoarse syllables from the depths of his throat, as light as a sigh.

"Haha..."

The next second.

The searchlight at the head of the Astral Express went out completely.