Psychics don't die from gunfire

Chapter 141: On the Wasteland
The iron-gray sky seemed to be pressing down, swallowing up all colors.

Even after decades of washing, the radioactive dust in this area has not completely dissipated. Everywhere you look, there is dust, sand and gravel. Rugged wind-eroded rock walls stand abruptly, and only in a few cracks containing soil do vegetation sprout with difficulty. To prevent being eaten by wild animals, these plants are also lead gray due to long-term evolution.

Even in the wasteland, this area can be described as lifeless. Even refugees would not choose this place as their temporary camp.

But today, there is an exception.

The loud roar of the engine came from afar, and within a few breaths, it quickly came closer.

A figure was galloping at high speed in the wind and sand.

If you don't want to get a mouthful of sand or even have your face scratched by the wind-blown gravel, people who drive into this area should take necessary precautions. But at this moment, the figure driving the motorcycle straight ahead didn't even have any precautions.

He didn't wear a helmet or hard glasses, and he didn't even wear a scarf to prevent sand from entering his underwear.

——But the so-called "wind and sand" could hardly get close to this figure even a little bit!
As the locomotive continued to move forward, the wind and sand were still whistling towards it, but once it got close to the locomotive, sparks would burst out with a "bang". Outside the spherical field with a radius of half a meter centered on the locomotive, a large number of sparks continued to appear and go out.

It's like two hard substances rubbing against each other rapidly, splashing out sparks.

However, this is not "friction", but simply "burning".

Every time a grain of sand and gravel hits Song Shi, the surrounding psychic flames will be triggered in response, burning it to ashes.

"——Tsk."

Glancing at a piece of gravel that broke through the "defense field" and passed by his side, Song Shi couldn't help but let out a light sigh.

This "defense field" was built by himself with psychic flames. It was an application method for psychic flames, not a true psychic skill, so it was difficult to completely isolate all the wind and sand. If he had obtained the psychic skill [Scorched Earth], this scene would never have happened.

——Where I stand is scorched earth.

The moment these sandstorms get close, they will be completely burned to ashes.

Unfortunately, [Scorched Earth] cannot be obtained in a short period of time.

Song Shixin thought.

However, another psychic skill, [Rendering], should be obtainable soon, if the map given by Flashstar is not marked incorrectly or has not changed much.

Because of the continuous sandstorm and engine roar, the volume of the music in the headphones gradually faded.

Song Shi sighed, took his right hand off the handle, and pressed the in-ear headphones to turn up the volume.

"Warm reminder, raising the volume above a safe level can damage—"

The earphones clicked twice, and the warning stopped abruptly.

The songs played in the headphones are all owned by the "Qidi Music" platform launched by the giant company [Dust Contract Generation].

Backed by a giant enterprise, it holds a vast amount of music copyrights, and has attracted a large number of high-quality musicians with its extremely generous resources. At the same time, it has signed contracts with mainstream cochlear implant manufacturers on the market. As the latter's built-in application, it has now become the undisputed leader in the field of music applications.

The super membership required for the top-level sound quality Super-Hi-Res (Extreme High Resolution Audio) is something that even Shanxing can't get a pirated account for. So Song Shi settled for the next best thing and played "lossless" sound quality.

I don’t know how much time has passed.

At the end of the deep sky, the eternal iron-gray lightened for the first time. This was a sign that we were about to leave this "radiation zone".

At this moment, on one side of the locomotive, a huge amount of sand and rocks suddenly burst out from the ground!

--boom!

Time seems to stand still.

In the turbid sand and fog that was flying all over the sky and carrying a lot of gravel, an outline over three meters long broke out of the ground and leaped up. The scales that were originally tightly fitted and smooth, allowing for easy underground sneaking, suddenly stood up, and pieces of chitinous armor were raised high.

Some monsters that looked like lizards but were much larger opened their mouths, with two rows of sharp teeth and scarlet forked tongues, drooling with corrosive saliva.

It flipped in the air and bit down on the locomotive below!
The next moment, time starts flowing again.

Then, everything came to a halt.

Without even looking at the adult "Sand Lizard", Song Shi put away the heavy sword in his right hand, shook off the sticky blood, and put it back into the scabbard on the side of the motorcycle.

Behind the locomotive, before it even had time to let out a whine, the sand lizard still in mid-air was split into two - starting from the cut cross-section, red-gold flames gushed out with a bang, engulfing it completely, smashing it back to the ground, rolling a few times, and gradually turning into ashes.

About ten minutes later, Song Shi stopped the motorcycle.

There are natural barriers blocking the way ahead.

It was a rift valley that was several kilometers wide and unknown meters long.

Under the influence of years of wind erosion and carving, everywhere you look, you can see the unchanging dark yellow color, and large areas of bare rock walls standing tall.

It was as if nature had played a joke on them. A huge crack suddenly appeared on the land that was supposed to be a hilly plain. The wound of the earth spread along the surface and towards the distance. Even with Song Shi's eyesight, it was difficult to see the end.

But this has never been a "natural danger".

Song Shi got out of the car and slowly walked to the edge of the rift.

He stared into the depths of the rift for a long time, then raised his eyes and looked towards the sky.

In the cold wind carrying the smell of dust, the young man thought of the records in the material and seemed to see the scene of this place in the past -

One of the predecessors of the [Pan-Eastern Continental Union], the aerospace mothership belonging to the East Continent Republic arrived here with flames that could burn everything and an indifferent attitude.

The companies that have not yet been secretly devoured and forced into bankruptcy and restructuring, and will be reintegrated into the [Corporate Alliance] in the future, the coalition government also mobilized its military forces. Under the protection of batches of air defense aircraft, the latter's aerospace mothership also took off. At the end of the sky, the two sides launched a collision of iron and fire.

Fire blossomed in the sky one after another, like crackling fireworks, and broken fragments scattered all over the sky, burning and slowly falling downwards in the intersecting energy beams and guided weapons. To this day, many rusted debris are still buried deep in the nearby land.

For a moment, the "positron cannon", the main weapon on the ship, was finally charged. An unprecedented dazzling torrent of energy penetrated the entire sky, but it was still a step short of the target and failed to hit the target. Instead, it grazed the ground below.

Therefore, due to the annihilation effect of positrons and electrons, even the concept of "matter" seems insignificant. Under the dazzling light that is enough to blind the eyes, the earth was split open and evaporated in an instant, leaving behind scars that have not yet dissipated.

Song Shi stood at the edge of the rift valley, overlooking the surrounding area.

This is the scene that could be seen everywhere in the Seven Lands War in the past.

(End of this chapter)