From Abyssal Invasion to Bursting Stars with a Single Sword-Chapter 218 - 179: Space-based Weapons
After the battle between the Black Feather Spirit and the drone swarm, the entire block had turned into ruins.
Lu Heng stood atop the wreckage and faced off against Alex Austin with three hard-fought exchanges.
A look of surprise appeared on Alex Austin's face; he hadn't expected that there would be someone in this world who could confront him head-on.
His face filled with arrogance and anger, he reprimanded, "I made it clear to you, our target is the Xavier Matrix. Do you know what happens to those who obstruct me?"
With his usual calm and mocking tone, Lu Heng said, "If you had the ability, you wouldn't be wasting your breath."
"Seeking death!"
Alex Austin was instantly enraged, lifting up his Star Shield and Thunder Hammer to launch another attack.
Wielding his sword, Lu Heng met the challenge, and after a few rounds of fighting, he found that the opponent's attributes were extremely high, almost as if he was in the state of an adrenaline boost.
The fierce clash between them further shattered the already pockmarked street into even more debris.
Su Muyu, Lin Zeyu, and the Mechanical Tiger Anka were dealing with the other four members of the American team.
This American team of Superpower Users had a very distinctive makeup, including a white woman and a black woman.
The two women of different skin colors looked down on each other, arguing while battling, which allowed Su Muyu alone, with her divine feathered eagle, to restrain them and still gain the upper hand.
The fight lasted for over ten minutes, with no clear victor.
Just then,
Alex Austin suddenly ordered his team to retreat and was the first to distance himself from Lu Heng.
Lu Heng felt that their retreat was sudden, and the next second, he saw the clouds in the sky churning.
Seeing this, Lu Heng immediately realized what was happening and shouted urgently, "Run! The Sikes Civilization is using space-based weapons!"
The churning clouds in the sky were a sign of the Sikes space-based weapon's energy gathering.
Su Muyu immediately unfolded her [Sky Vault Lord] class Energy Wings and flew away into the distance.
The Mechanical Tiger Anka sprinted at full speed, faster than a cheetah.
Only Lin Zeyu was a bit slow, while in the sky, a spiraling cloud formation was already taking shape, signaling serious trouble.
"What do I do? Someone give me a lift," he hastily called out on the comm channel.
Without hesitation, a divine feathered eagle swooped down, its talons grasping his shoulders, carrying him away into the distance.
As he ran, Lu Heng called out, "Activate invisibility, then find cover, at least a ten-story building for cover."
As soon as he finished speaking,
A burst of intense light lit up the sky, followed by a beam of space-based laser shooting down.
Lu Heng immediately used [Shadow Escape], and with the added speed of [Windwalker], he sprinted across the ground at 700 kilometers per hour, swift as the wind and fast as lightning.
Boom!
The space-based laser struck a spot 3 meters behind Lu Heng, instantly vaporizing the ground's soil.
Lu Heng glanced back and felt a bout of shock; the aim of the space-based weapon was too precise.
His speed, given the double acceleration, could burst up to 200 meters per second.
And this Sikes Civilization space-based weapon only had a 3-meter margin of error in its attack.
To be exact, that wasn't even an error.
It was only because Lu Heng was moving so fast that after the fire control radar locked on, the slight delay from the shot being fired to hitting allowed Lu Heng to move those 3 meters—hence the slight miss.
A mere 3-meter margin of error when targeting something moving at 700 kilometers per hour.
Such precision, for anyone else, would leave no chance of evasion.
No wonder the American team had retreated; clearly, they had received a message from the Descent Faction.
Fortunately, the space-based weapon was more than 1000 kilometers above the ground, and at such a distance, it wasn't that easy to lock onto a target.
After Lu Heng and Su Muyu regrouped, they activated the Invisibility Veil and retreated together, blending into the city streets.
Following the firing of the space-based weapons, dense swarms of Sikes mechanical guards and drones converged on the area.
Unable to find Ze Wei'er, they began to encircle Lu Heng and his two comrades.
However, since the mechanical guards primarily used infrared detection, Su Muyu's [Invisibility Veil] skill allowed the team to silently evade the encircling guards.
...
After breaking free from the encirclement, the three finally breathed a sigh of relief and stopped to rest.
"What was that just now? It's outrageous; I saw a beam of light shine down from the sky," Lin Zeyu was still in shock.
"It's the Sikes Civilization's space-based weapon," Lu Heng said, a frown on his face as he pondered.
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It was outlandish that the Sikes Civilization had resorted to using a space-based weapon.
It must have been due to the obliteration of the drone swarm and the serious damage to the anti-gravity fighter that enraged the Sikes Military to deploy the space-based weapon.
"No wonder the Danger Level is 5; it is indeed quite terrifying. That laser almost hit you," Su Muyu was still feeling scared.
She observed from afar that the laser seemed to have grazed by Lu Heng and shot into the ground.
Lu Heng nodded and said, "The margin of error was only 3 meters, and my speed at that time was 700 kilometers per hour; anyone else definitely couldn't have dodged it."
"Holy shit!" Lin Zeyu could only utter this.
Reflecting, Su Muyu asked, "I have a question, why did we suddenly start helping Ze Wei'er?"
She didn't know the reason and was just following Lu Heng's orders.
Now that they were back in a safe place, she remembered to ask.
After some thought, Lu Heng replied, "I'm not completely sure, but we might recognize that Black Feather Spirit."
The Black Feather Spirit's voice had been quite soft when it spoke, so only Lu Heng had heard it.
