Sky-cracking Rider
Chapter 905 - 905: Section 898 - Changes in Emerald Star

Boom!~

An area nearly the size of two football fields was swept by a deadly shockwave, with gravel and dust flying up into the sky.

To urge those fleeing protesters on, a full-power 600mm caliber grenade was heavily launched at their rear.

The faint white light visible to the naked eye even instantly spread to a kilometer away, the airwave slammed heavily on their backs, and those running at the back fell en masse.

Chen Fei truly dares to fire; his courage has always been exceptionally bold, and when he gets crazy, he doesn't even spare himself, how could he spare others? Strict to oneself and harsh to others, if we're going to die, let's all die together. The Road to the Netherworld won't be lonely.

"Haha, they sure run fast!"

Seeing those protesters scrambling and running even faster, Chen Fei let out a schadenfreude laugh.

Two mechanical dragons flew low, brandishing their claws and teeth, leaving a trail of panic behind. The infamous Dragon of Slaughter spreading from Cangqiong Star to Blue Star is a completely natural thing.

"Isn't this too extreme?"

Heseman Brown was startled by Chen Fei's brutal actions; super-heavy artillery could easily take the lives of many if mishandled.

This "many" is at least in double-digit figures, and pushing a hundred meters away might even hit triple digits.

With heaven's conscience, he is a good-natured person, never doing such life-threatening things, at most throwing a monk out several miles to exercise a bit.

Not every S-Class supernatural power user is aggressive.

"Why don't you make a declaration in your capacity as an S-Class superpower user?"

Indeed, Chen Xiao'er already had an urge nearly uncontrollable.

An S-Class ability display can cause earth-shattering effects, and mere super-heavy artillery is trivial, enough to terrify those who sneak about.

"Better not!"

Mr. Brown's face turned pale, shaking his head eagerly.

He then looked sympathetically at the monk, the ax does not fall on the person who suggested it, offending many people at once will make one lose peace of mind.

The monk's current plight made this S-Class Space Series Ability User somewhat empathetic.

The entire expulsion operation continued until these protesters were driven 50 kilometers away. Ow… they sure ran a lot—Marathon Plus!

50 kilometers as shown on the map is pretty much doubled in actual running distance.

At this distance, let alone protest, even if there's a rebellion, Chen Fei could neither hear nor see it, leaving him with peace and quiet, which is just what he wanted.

The marathon escape indeed drained them until nearly dropping dead, until the Metallic Dragons and Demolition Bombs ceased to roar behind them, the alarmed protesters collapsed to the ground, gasping heavily, many passed out where they fell.

Truly a wicked delight! The monk looked at the three-dimensional holographic projection with an expression as if life had lost its meaning.

The protesters ran desperately, scrambling all the way, finally escaping beyond the required 50 kilometers, nearly exhausting themselves. Only then did the array of turret guns on the side of the giant battleship collectively retract, along with the ferocious mechanical dragons. Apart from the Demolition Bomb used for prompting, most operations were preset automated procedures.

Chen Fei's attention had long shifted from those protesters, as he encountered some minor troubles.

To be precise, it was Jade Star's No. 1 Base that encountered troubles.

A considerable number of Tsar Plus successfully detonated, causing very severe ecological disasters on Jade Star.

Nuclear radiation clouds, carrying tens of millions of tons of dust, suspended in the upper altitudes, blocking the Constant Star Light, causing surface temperatures to plummet rapidly, and as the first snowflake bearing slight radiation dosage slowly fell, it heralded the official arrival of the planetary ecological apocalypse known as nuclear winter.

The large-scale ecological extinction caused by nuclear winter is not a process of a day or two, but will last at least over a year. The absence of a Constant Star's light source, coupled with the gene chain-destroying radiation, the natural ecological chain starts collapsing, plants are affected first, followed by animals, due to the breakage of the food chain, the largest monsters are the first to die, then followed by sizes in succession, they face extinction one batch after another.

So at present, Jade Star still harbors a large number of "Seed Nests" and Biological Combat Weapon Monsters actively surviving. Like they've received some command, the surviving monsters on Jade Star converged on the Advance Base left by Blue Star Civilization on Jade Star. The remaining "Seed Nests" are still going all out in their "Explosive Soldiers" effort, but this counterattack process isn't going smoothly.

While the Blue Star Civilization lags far behind extragalactic races like "Sagali" in the field of biotechnology, it has not been without gains. The natural mutants have become a powerful weapon against the monster fiends of the "Seed Nests".

Taking full advantage of Jade Star's rich resources, the mutants proliferate and grow with abilities not at all inferior to the cultivation pods of the "Seed Nests". These mutants, catalyzed by nuclear radiation, are quite adapted to the harsh environment of a nuclear winter, even to the point of thriving, creating a natural enmity with the Parasitic Species-bred Biological Combat Weapons, leading to unyielding clashes whenever they encounter each other.

The monsters able to reach Base No. 1 have often been intercepted and exterminated by wandering mutant colonies en route, reducing their number by one-tenth or even two-tenths. As time goes on, this percentage continues to increase.

The length of time this survival war will last remains unknown.

Given their small size and lack of movement, it seems the parasitic species regard the satellites hovering in Jade Star's orbit as mere asteroids or similar, completely ignoring them. This oversight allowed Base No. 1 to connect seamlessly to the integrally preserved comprehensive satellite network, maintaining remote sensing monitoring over the Earth, even through thick radiation clouds.

Some of the monster groups that traveled from afar have already arrived near Base No. 1, beginning their cleanup operations. Thanks to the persistent high-altitude radiation clouds, the Biological Space Battleship, reliant on constant star light as its primary attack means, could not pierce the dense dust clouds with its intense beams, so the base only needed to handle ground battles.

"'Adam,' redefine the alert radius levels and count the number of monsters!"

Chen Fei drew several concentric circles on the map centered around Base No. 1 on Jade Star, manually distinguishing the attack echelons of incoming monsters.

In reality, there were no real echelons; the monsters attacked continuously as they arrived, with no rest. Dividing them into echelons simply facilitated the distribution and preparation of defense firepower.

Even with no humans present, automatic firing platforms and combat mechs didn't require rest; however, replenishments of ammunition and maintenance repairs were still necessary.

Since battles bring attrition, the damage to mechanical components can naturally be supplemented with mineral resources and mechanical processing, and the energy consumption can be converted using the thermal energy of coal and wood, though the efficiency is not high. It's better than having nothing.

Now severed from Blue Star's communication, Base No. 1 barely maintained self-sufficiency through nearby natural resources. But sophisticated semiconductor components remained hard to self-supply. Although there's a retained EBL electron beam lithography machine, the corresponding material reserves are not plentiful. Based on current consumption, they would be exhausted in three to five years at most.

Once deprived of semiconductor technology, Base No. 1 might only resort to a crude steampunk path, which would skew the theme, inevitably lowering efficiency.

Adam: 11,589 within a 10 km radius, 759,855 within 10-50 km, 65,807,425 within 50-100 km!

On the two-dimensional map, three concentric circles marked the monster distribution with red dots densely packed, even forming a large mass of red.

This "game" is not easy to play, starting at hell-level difficulty, it's particularly unfriendly to novice players like Chen Fei.

If it weren't for the 24-hour multithreading and parallel micro-controls of the Artificial Intelligence AI "Adam," based on his personal skills, he would likely crash the game within a week.

For this reason, when idle, Chen Fei bought the official version of "Colonizing Jade Star" to practice his skills. Since it was ready-made, there was no need to have Adam re-automate programming. Though the interfaces differed slightly, only minor modifications were needed, with negligible computational load.

"Mark out the mutant activity using a blue marker."

Chen Fei wasn't in a hurry to have the combat forces at Jade Star's Base No. 1 take the initiative, as although Blue Star Sovereignty temporarily abandoned Jade Star, they laid more than one hidden trap in the dark.

Underestimating the methods of the Sovereign is true folly.

The area within three concentric circles immediately lit up with a dozen light spots; the mutants were also in the regular patrol and satellite network monitoring scope. Compared to the red dots representing the monster groups, their numbers were completely disproportionate.

Base No. 1 was not fighting entirely alone; the mutants, whom the Blue Star dealt with decisively, became natural allies on Jade Star.

Once mutants encounter monsters bred by the "Seed Nests," there's no need for prior genetic editing to set their hunting targets; they can instantly unleash their instinctive struggle for survival space and resources, leading to relentless battles until one side is entirely wiped out.

Even without the "Seed Nests," the mutants' reproductive abilities were unrelenting and quickly adapted to Jade Star, a life-rich planet with abundant natural resources, thriving in such harsh conditions even as radiation snowflakes fell from the sky.

"Huh? Your version even has mutants? Is it a privately tailored MOD?"

Hearing Chen Fei mumbling, the familiar interface of the three-dimensional holographic projection in front of him, showcasing the Jade Star Advance Base and map, S-Class Space Series Ability User Heseman Brown recently also played this type of colonization strategy game.

Due to Jade Star, the game developer closely followed current events, earning a fortune as "Colonizing Jade Star" became increasingly popular.

The official original version didn't have a mutant MOD version. After all, studying mutants remained a taboo topic; even if Sovereigns did it, they wouldn't admit it publicly, leaving the game developer unaware.

Now the anti-human organization "Sacred Advent," along with affiliated factions, surfaced publicly to align with Sovereigns, exposing themselves during this sensitive period; thus, nobody dared to raise touchy issues unprovoked.

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