N-M Chapter 220 The Explosion at the Logistics Base
Chapter 220 The Explosion at the Logistics Base
After exclaiming a couple of times, Song Chen activated his Fuyao technique, enveloping his entire body in a vortex that suppressed all his aura to a minimum.
He glided northward like a cold polar wind.
Two hours later.
Song Chen lay prone behind an ice ridge, peering into the valley ahead.
The Sirius Clan's logistics base was built in this icy valley, and it was much larger than he had expected.
The ice cliffs on both sides are hundreds of meters high, and in the middle is a flat open area that is more than two kilometers wide and stretches all the way to the horizon.
The spirit ore was piled up in the very center of the base, stacked neatly in piles, each pile several meters high. Roughly counting, there were at least a hundred piles, and the blue and white psionic glow illuminated the entire icy valley.
Behind the base was a huge storage area filled with the corpses of high-level alien beasts.
There are no walls; the garrison itself is the wall. At least thirty Tier 5 wolves are scattered throughout the base, along with a dense array of Tier 4 and Tier 3 wolves.
Song Chen used his Eye of Truth to scan the base from the left to the right and back again, nodding in satisfaction.
"Hehe, there's no sixth tier."
"The Sirius King has pulled all the capable Tier 6 warriors to the front lines, leaving only about thirty Tier 5 warriors to guard the house. Old man, you were careless."
Song Chen looked up at the sky; the clouds were very thick.
He thought the Star River should be behind those clouds; Qi Shanhe had said he would be watching him from outside the atmosphere.
From the Bering Strait to the Greenland ice field, from his one-on-one duel with Solock to being chased and bitten by a sixth-tier Sirius, Qi Shanhe didn't make a move.
This time, he managed to sneak up on the rear of the Sirius Clan all by himself. Will Qi Shanhe make a move?
After thinking about it for a while, he stopped thinking about it.
He then drew his knife and silently slid out from behind the ice ridge.
The outermost sentries of the base were two Tier 4 wolves, lying on a flat ice rock at the foot of the ice cliff, their ears twitching from time to time.
Song Chen flipped over the edge of the ice cliff above them, landing less than five meters behind them.
The two wolves were still looking ahead, completely unaware that someone had appeared behind them.
The Heavenly Blade was drawn silently, slashing horizontally. The blade entered the cervical vertebrae of the left Heavenly Wolf and exited through the throat of the right Heavenly Wolf, severing the vital points of both wolves in one strike.
The two fourth-tier wolves didn't even utter a sound before collapsing onto the icy rocks.
Song Chen continued to venture deeper into the base. His goal was clear: not to kill all the guards, but to bomb the spirit mine and find the meat of the alien beasts.
He reached the first pile of spirit ore, where two fifth-tier celestial wolves were lying there, eyes closed, breathing steadily.
He silently passed by them, took out a few directional explosive psionic bullets, which Zhou Wangyue had given him before he set off.
He stuffed the bomb into a crevice at the bottom of the spirit ore pile, set the timer, dusted off the ice shards on his hands, and headed for his next target.
The third pile, the seventh pile... the fifteenth pile...
Song Chen searched the base and stuffed in no less than twenty psionic bullets.
He knew the patrol patterns of the guards perfectly well. They changed sentries every three minutes, and there was a five-second blind spot when the sentries changed shifts.
He crouched behind a pile of spirit ore, counting the footsteps of the patrolling wolves, and silently slid to the next pile the moment they turned around.
After inserting the psionic bullet, he went to the storage area.
The entrance was a huge archway carved out of the bottom of an ice cliff. He groped his way towards the entrance along the edge of the ice cliff, and suddenly stopped when he passed a pile of skinned polar bear carcasses.
Something's not right. This is the battlefield intuition cultivated through long-term combat. Even without the aid of the Eye of Truth, one can detect subtle changes in the air.
Someone—no, a beast—was watching him.
He slowly turned his head from the entrance of the ice cellar.
A giant wolf, nearly half the size of a normal fifth-tier Sirius, emerged from the depths of the ice cellar.
The wolf was blind in its left eye, and there was an old scar running from its forehead to the corner of its mouth, which had also shaved off half of its left fang.
"I can smell the stench of humans, well hidden. But the smell of flesh and blood cannot be hidden."
"Come out, humans."
One-Eyed Sirius spoke.
Song Chen stood up and patted the ice shavings off his knees.
Now that we've been discovered, there's no point in hiding anymore.
He slung the Heavenly Blade over his shoulder and said, "I didn't want to make a move so soon, but since you're courting death, I'll grant your wish."
As he spoke, Song Chen pressed the remote control to detonate the timer and charged forward.
A series of muffled explosions came from the very center of the base. Blue and white psionic flames exploded simultaneously from the bottom of the spirit ore piles, and the shockwaves blew entire piles of spirit ore into the air.
The shattered spirit ore crystals exploded in mid-air, releasing high-purity spirit energy that transformed into dazzling blue-white beams of light that illuminated the clouds above the ice valley.
Sirius, who was dozing off next to the pile of spirit ore, was blown away. His flesh and blood mixed with spirit ore fragments, exploding into a strange, bloody firework in the air.
The wolf in front of him did not turn around to look at the explosion. At the same instant the explosion rang out, it exerted force with its hind legs, and its entire body turned into a gray lightning bolt as it pounced towards Song Chen.
Its fighting style is more ruthless than Solock's. It swings out three claw strikes with its left forepaw to feign an attack on the face, while its right forepaw slashes at the waist and abdomen from the side, and its tail sweeps at the legs from behind at the same time.
A three-pronged attack, employing both feints and real attacks.
"Good timing."
Song Chen's Eye of Truth had clearly marked all the attack trajectories; the claw attack was illusory and lacked power.
The real killing move is the right forepaw, aimed at the seam of the armor plates on the waist and abdomen of the Beiming Armor. The tail is used to finish off the enemy and prevent him from retreating.
Instead of retreating, he moved forward.
Fuyao pushed him through the gap between his right forepaw and waist into the inner circle, reversed her grip on the Tianjun Blade, and stabbed it towards Tianlang's intact right eye.
Sirius suddenly tilted his head, and the tip of the knife grazed the edge of his eye socket, cutting open the corner of his eye.
But instead of screaming, it used the tilting of its head to forcefully strike the blade with the skull on the side of its blind left eye, while simultaneously pulling back its left front claw, its five claw blades stabbing towards Song Chen's back from an extremely tricky angle.
This move was indeed insidious. If Song Chen didn't have the Grandmaster-level Fuyao skill, he would have been sent flying even if he wasn't pierced.
But the vortex that was rising up, sensing the change in air pressure behind him, automatically pushed him into a sharp turn, the claw blades grazing his carapace and sending up a string of golden sparks.
Using the momentum of the rapid spin, Song Chen switched hands with the Heavenly Blade and unleashed a reverse slash, the fourth strike of the Seven Heavenly Thunder Slashes.
The golden-purple blade energy exploded at close range, slashing at Sirius's left shoulder blade.
The fur was cut open, the muscles were torn apart, and the blade's energy struck the bones directly.
Its left foreleg staggered, but it managed to stay upright by supporting itself with its three legs. At the same time, it slammed its right foreleg onto the ground, causing the extremely cold air to condense into a smooth, mirror-like layer of ice on the surface.
The wind-elemental energy beneath Song Chen's feet automatically counteracted the slipperiness of the ice, allowing him to stand steadily in place.
At the same time, he quickly charged forward and cleaved the opponent a hundred meters away with a backhand slash.
Sirius landed, panting heavily, and a hint of fear finally appeared in his one eye.
It has fought more than one fifth-tier human in close combat, but none of them have been able to escape unscathed and even slash it back after being attacked from three directions.
It tilted its head back, and a prelude to a howl began to build deep in its throat, as if preparing to call for help.
Song Chen didn't give it a chance.
Fuyao propelled his body across the ice, leaving a straight afterimage. The golden-purple lightning on the Tianjun Blade turned pure gold, marking the seventh strike of the Seven Heavenly Thunder Slashes.
The blade's energy slashed into the open mouth of the wolf, piercing through the upper palate, penetrating the cranial cavity, and exiting from the back of the head.
Sirius's howl was cut short before it could even be uttered. Its massive body froze in place, the golden markings in its single eye rapidly dimmed, and it collapsed to the ground with a thud.
[A Tier 5 alien beast has been killed, gaining 78556 kill points.]