Chapter 1374: Chapter 1374
"Thank you." Although he didn't know why the other party was helping him, Sheldon didn't think too much at the moment. He hurriedly turned around and let others push the dismantled Jump Engine toward the spacecraft.
Loloria was a bit annoyed when the other party ignored her, but she had more important things to do.
The process of connecting to control these mechanical bodies was not smooth. Loloria tried various keys and commands, but these mechanical bodies did not respond, and some even began to fire at her after recovering from paralysis.
The bullets dinged against her body, producing a clear sound. Although it was not painful or itchy, Loloria felt sorry for the clothes Tilan made for her, thinking it would be bad if they got ruined.
She quickly moved again, circling in the sky, avoiding various bullets, and monitoring the movements of the Slami Association members below.
Unfortunately, after several minutes of attempts, she still couldn't control these ground mechanical bodies, and then the flying ship that the Slami Association members boarded began to take off.
At this moment, Tilan and Celestia arrived at the scene. Looking at the flying ships spewing flames and constantly ascending, the few looked at Tilan. Seeing that she had no intention to act, they had to give up.
The flying ship emitted blue transparent flames in the sky, starting to accelerate continuously, and soon became a small dot in the sky. Just when everyone thought that this adventure and encounter was over, a dark red ion beam descended from the sky, piercing through the speeding flying ship, impaling it.
The damaged flying ship, trailing thick smoke, fell from the sky, crashing into the ground and exploding into shattered sparks.
Tilan and the others turned their gaze to the high sky at night, where a vague silhouette slowly appeared. When Loloria hurriedly approached and illuminated it with projected light, everyone could finally see what it was.
This mechanical body hovering in the sky was like a giant crab, entirely covered with sturdy riveted armor. Its flight was not fast. As it approached, it opened the abdomen cabin of the machine body, and numerous dragonfly-like mechanical bodies flipped out, then approached with a buzzing sound.
In hundreds and thousands, they filled the entire night sky, resembling flashes of dark red meteors.
Then these dragonflies swooped over the ground, their hollow particle cannons sweeping the remaining various mechanical bodies on the ground, smashing them into fragments. In front of these dragonfly attacks, the remaining ground mechanical bodies also rapidly changed formation, gathering at the site of the ruins, connecting together, and orienting their sturdiest armor towards the sky. Afterwards, many mechanical bodies burrowed into the ground, seemingly preparing to return to the spaceship.
In the face of such resistance, the massive crab-like carrier in the night sky shot out two thick dark red ion streams, burning through the ground mechanical bodies directly, while dispatching spiraling mechanical dragonflies to continuously fire, attacking those scattered mechanical bodies.
Just like that, a large number of ground mechanical bodies were eliminated. Finally, the crab-like carrier reached the airspace above the spaceship ruins, dropping heavy bombs like heavy stones into the sea, lifting the entire area.
This was Tilan's first time seeing the Mechanical Cluster using bombs, and the effect was truly terrifying. The land within a few kilometers was lifted, exposing the previously buried spaceship.
"Is it trying to..." Tilan suddenly realized something and prepared to move forward.
Then a brilliant pillar of dark red stream descended from the sky, piercing through the underground spaceship directly, melting and destroying it completely, with the dissipating high-temperature heat wave spreading, giving a suffocating feeling.
The dark red light beam slanted through the atmosphere, illuminating the night sky within tens of miles, also briefly lighting the huge crab-like carrier in the night sky, with the letters and symbols of the Mechanical Council so striking. ʀᴇᴀᴅ ʟᴀᴛᴇsᴛ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀᴛ novel-fire.ɴet
More than ten seconds later, the light beam ceased, with numerous glimmering red mechanical dragonflies swiftly flying past, rapidly clearing the remaining undeveloped mechanical bodies on the ground.
At this moment, Tilan could see the tangled sides on the ground, obviously both mechanical bodies, with one suddenly pouncing and pinning down the diving mechanical dragonfly, then constantly using side knives to cut, destroying the dragonfly's wings and limbs, ultimately perishing together in a self-destruction.
"Why are they fighting against each other..." Tilan didn't understand.
Could it be that hundreds of years ago, a severe internal conflict took place among the members of the Mechanical Council on this planet, turning them into mortal enemies, explaining why Loloria's takeover attempts always failed, as both sides had long changed keys and permissions to prevent the opponent from interfering with their mechanical bodies.
"Let's go, Tilan." Celestia descended beside her with flapping wings.
"Look over there." Following Celestia's hand, Tilan saw two other crab-like carriers gradually approaching in the distant night sky, each carrying thousands of flying mechanical dragonflies, with letters and numbers on the carriers nearly identical to this one.
By this time, the spaceship in the underground ruins had long been burned into useless wreckage, and staying here any longer was pointless.
"Let's go, Tilan, I will tell you why these mechanical bodies are having civil wars, as well as the real situation of this planet nowadays." Celestia pulled Tilan up, and they, like small dots of light, gradually moved away from the battlefield.