Samsara Paradise: Dream Weaver of Connections.

The captain's mouth twitched slightly, and the veins on his forehead could be vaguely seen throbbing: "But our artillery reserves are enough to cope with the current situation."

"Not enough! Not enough at all!" A contractor suddenly pulled out a blueprint, "This is the 'rapid-fire cannon' I just designed. With a slight modification to the existing equipment, the firing rate can be increased by 300%!"

Another person was even more outrageous, directly bringing out a box of golden shells: "This is the 'Holy Light Explosive Bomb' I looted three worlds ago, it has a special attack on dark creatures!"

The team leader opened his mouth and suddenly found that Lin Yi was standing behind the crowd at some point.

He sighed resignedly and wiped his face vigorously: ".Okay, but everyone must pass the basic artillery operation assessment!" The regiment commander wiped his face, "A misfire and explosion is no joke!"

The contractors cheered and rushed towards the artillery, like a group of hungry wolves discovering a buffet.

Ten minutes later, the artillery position was transformed.

The Iron Fist Adventure Group's mechanic "Wrench" was squatting next to a heavy artillery, quickly removing the fixing bolts of the barrel with his hands.

Light blue energy lines flickered on his fingertips - this was his unique talent [Mechanical Resonance], which could improve the accuracy of mechanical structures in a short period of time.

"Hand me that energy converter!" Wrench shouted without turning back.

The auxiliary girl Linglan at the side quickly ran over holding a metal device flashing with arcs: "Here! This is the core brought from the war world. Can it really be used?"

"If the theory works, then the practice works!" Wrench grabbed the core and roughly stuffed it into the modification interface of the rear cover of the barrel. With a burst of dazzling electric sparks, he grinned with his signature wild smile: "Anyway, if it explodes, I'll ask the doctor to reimburse me!"

At the same time, the other side of the position turned into a magic workshop.

Five magic contractors were performing a complicated enchantment ritual around a cannon.

"Flame amplification. Penetration enhancement. Stability rune." Every time he recited a spell, the barrel of the gun would emit a corresponding magical light.

When the last rune was completed, the entire cannon suddenly made a clear humming sound, and complex magical patterns appeared on the cannon.

"Done!" Lan Yan wiped the sweat from his forehead and patted the hot barrel proudly. "Now the firepower of this cannon is enough to counter three cannons with one shot!"

The commander of the artillery regiment watched helplessly as this group of contractors transformed his precious artillery into a heap of "magic-tech hybrids". The flashing runes and crackling energy circuits on the gun barrels made it look like they were about to self-destruct in the next second.

"Are you sure this thing won't send our entire position into the air along with it?!" The regiment commander finally couldn't help but yelled out, his voice trembling with an obvious tremor.

Although I have heard that these guys have done a lot of great things in Graystone City, as the saying goes, every profession has its own expertise - the artillery and these lunatics are obviously not in the same dimension!
"Don't worry!" A contractor wearing goggles patted the leader on the shoulder, "We have used a similar configuration to blow up a fortress before! I guarantee it will be fine."

The team leader opened his mouth and finally decided to give up treatment.

He took a deep breath, and his hands were shaking slightly as he raised the signal flag: "Second echelon, prepare artillery fire!"

As soon as the order was given, the atmosphere of the entire position changed.

Those artillery pieces that had been modified beyond recognition began to emit dangerous buzzing sounds, and the ammunition loaded in the barrels was even more varied.

"fire--!"

boom! boom! boom!
The noise of this round of salvos was completely different from any previous artillery bombardment.

The holy light explosive bomb exploded into a dazzling golden light curtain after hitting the target, and the soldiers exposed to it were directly vaporized without even having time to regenerate.

The space-tearing bomb was even more outrageous. The space where the shell landed was like a piece of paper crumpled by an invisible hand, and suddenly collapsed into a miniature black hole with a diameter of three meters.

The terrifying gravitational force tore the monsters within a dozen meters around like rag dolls, and the crisp sound of bones breaking was continuous.

The black hole lasted for five seconds before suddenly disappearing, leaving behind only a perfectly spherical pit.

As for the "self-developed experiment" that a certain contractor secretly stuffed in... this unremarkable shell rolled twice comically on the ground, and suddenly fell into a strange stillness.

boom! ! !
A blazing white mushroom cloud rose from the ground, and the dazzling light illuminated the entire ruins in every detail.

The shock wave spread out in a circular shape, reducing even the strongest concrete structures to dust wherever it passed.

The contractors who were watching the battle from a distance had to activate their protective shields, but were still pushed back by the heat wave.

"Fuck! Who put a miniature nuclear bomb into the barrel?!" Iron Fist's roar exploded in the team channel.

"Uh, that's it." A contractor who was as thin as a bamboo pole and wearing heavy glasses like the bottom of a beer bottle raised his hand tremblingly, and the strange light of the mushroom cloud in the distance was reflected on his glasses. "I just want to do a small verification experiment to see if conventional artillery can be used as a nuclear bomb delivery vehicle."

"You call this 'trying'?!" Tie Quan grabbed his collar and pointed at the mushroom cloud that was still spreading in the distance and roared, "If this thing explodes on our position, we'll all go to heaven!!"

"Don't worry, I've already calculated it before. Even if there's an explosion, the most you'll get is serious injuries, not death." The skinny as a bamboo pole's mouth spoke a bunch of principles that Iron Fist couldn't understand. There was nothing that could be done, because when a contractor from the technology department goes crazy, no one can stop him.

The veins on Tiequan's forehead were throbbing, and his finger joints were cracking. He wished he could beat this madman into the ground on the spot.

He pointed at the mushroom cloud that was still expanding in the distance, and his voice was split, "The shock wave rolled the one-meter-thick alloy wall into a dough twist! You tell me this is fucking 'controllable'?!"

The man with glasses calmly straightened his glasses, which had been distorted by the shock, with a serious and academic look on his face: "According to the kinetic energy attenuation formula and the shock wave diffusion model, as long as you maintain the optimal protection angle of 37.5 degrees while lying prone and activate the energy shield, the survival rate can reach 92.3%, with an error of no more than 1.7%."

"I'm going to let you experience the 100% critical hit probability right now!" Tie Quan raised his fist and was about to smash down, but was held tightly by Lan Yan and Yin Ye on the left and right.

"Captain, calm down! The technology department is full of lunatics. If you kill him, who will build the teleportation array next time?!"

"That's right! The portable nuclear reactor he made last time was quite useful..."

Tiequan rolled his eyes in anger, while the man with glasses was already squatting on the ground, taking out his tablet and starting to record the explosion data, muttering some creepy words.

"The equivalent exceeds the standard by 12%. Next time, try using a tritium condensation structure."

Although there were some minor accidents during the bombardment, this did not affect the contractors' frenzied fire coverage of Graystone City.

On a mountain about ten kilometers away from Gray Rock City, a group of strange beasts are lurking.

A gigantic leader of a strange beast was lying in a crevice, its eight compound eyes staring dully at the mushroom cloud rising in the distance.

Its tentacles twitched unconsciously, and fishy mucus oozed from the cracks in its shell - this was the physiological reaction of the strange beast when it felt fear.

"Chief...are we still launching a sneak attack?" a young monster asked cautiously.

The leader's compound eyes reflected the fire of another exploding shell and were silent for a full ten seconds.

"...You call this a siege?" It pointed to the scorched earth in the distance where the outline of the city could no longer be seen, and said in a trembling voice, "If we charge out like this, not even ashes will be left!"

The young beast nodded, not quite understanding, and asked, "What about the food that Dark Eclipse promised to give us..."

The leader slapped it on the forehead with his paw: "You want food over life?! Get out now, or we'll be someone else's food!"

At the same time, a rapid alarm suddenly sounded at the artillery regiment's position.

The communicator on the regiment commander's waist brought an urgent report from the staff: "The traces of the strange beast army have been confirmed. There are 15 of them in the valley kilometers northwest! Immediately implement fire suppression!"

The commander of the artillery regiment stared at the communicator in silence for two seconds, then suddenly grinned, revealing his white teeth.

"Finally, the job has come!" He turned around abruptly and yelled towards the artillery position: "Adjust the coordinates! Fifteen kilometers northwest, there is a group of strange beasts! Twenty thousand of them! - Bomb them for me!"

The entire artillery position was instantly boiling with excitement. The gunners quickly turned the gun barrels, the loaders stuffed high-explosive shells into the barrels, and the contractors gathered around excitedly.

"Captain! Use incendiary bombs! It will burn spectacularly!"

"No, no, no, use cluster bombs! Blast everywhere!"

"If it were you, I'd just use the 'Frost Blast' to freeze him into an ice sculpture and then shatter him into slag!"

The captain's mouth twitched, and he was about to curse when he suddenly remembered the heroic deeds of these lunatics. He took a deep breath and said calmly, "Okay, you can play however you want, but remember - if there is another mushroom cloud, I will put you into the barrel of the gun and shoot you out!"

At this moment, the leader of the strange beasts was lying behind a huge rock, thinking about how to retreat.

"Chief, it seems that the humans haven't discovered us... How about we retreat now?" A strange beast reported in a low voice.

"Okay, let's notify everyone to get ready."

--boom! ! !

The first shell hit the center of the beast herd with incredible accuracy. A blazing wave of fire instantly surged up, and dozens of strange beasts were swallowed up before they could even let out a howl.

Immediately afterwards, the second shot, the third shot... countless shells poured down like a rainstorm, the earth shook in the roar, the smoke and flames intertwined into a web of death, completely covering the entire area!
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!" The monsters screamed in fear and fled in all directions. However, the artillery fire covered a wide area. No matter which direction they rushed, they were greeted by only destructive shock waves and flying shrapnel. This time, in order to ensure that the monsters would not cause trouble for him, the commander of the artillery regiment specially transferred a quarter of the artillery to the positions of the monsters.

The whistling sound of the shells cutting through the sky was like the grin of death, playing a symphony of destruction above the heads of the monsters.

The first shells to fall into the army of strange beasts were high-explosive shells. The center of the impact point directly vaporized a vacuum zone with a diameter of 30 meters. The shock wave tore the shells of the outer strange beasts into pieces like pieces of paper.

The few strange beasts that managed to survive had just gotten up when they were set on fire by the chemical reagents from the second round of bombardment.

The second round of shelling was with incendiary bombs. The sticky incendiary agent poured down like a rainstorm, instantly forming a sea of ​​fire that spread over a kilometer.

The entire mountain turned into a flaming inferno in an instant, with flames licking every inch of the land.

The strange beasts rolled wildly in the flames, the sound of their shells cracking was as frequent as frying beans, and the air was filled with the stench of burnt protein.

When the smoke from the last round of artillery shells dissipated, the entire monster position had been reduced to scorched earth.

The burning wreckage was emitting billowing black smoke, and the air was filled with a pungent mixture of the smell of sulfur and burnt flesh and blood.

The commander of the artillery regiment put down his telescope and nodded with satisfaction.

"Report ammunition consumption."

The logistics officer flipped through the account book quickly, his mouth twitching slightly: "This bombardment consumed a total of 12000 high-explosive bombs, 8000 incendiary bombs, and 6000 submunitions... a total of about one twentieth of the total ammunition carried."

The leader raised an eyebrow: "Only one-twentieth? I thought at least one-tenth would be eliminated."

The logistics officer lowered his voice and said, "To be honest... some shells have been stored for too long, and the fuses have rusted. The misfire rate is higher than expected."

The team leader laughed and patted him on the shoulder: "That's perfect! The ones that don't fire can be regarded as 'surprise gifts' left for the monsters. In case they are not completely dead, you can step on them and explode again!"

The artillery shells that Lin Yi brought this time almost used up nearly one-third of the inventory in the Zul Empire's arsenal.

In the past, Hadro was reluctant to use so much artillery fire. He would only order the mobilization of so many supplies to the front line if there was a collapse of the defense line in a certain war zone.

But this time, Lin Yi searched out several years of tax revenue of the Zur Empire from several major noble families for Harold. Not to mention that Lin Yi only wanted one-third of the inventory, even if Lin Yi wanted to take it all away, Harold would not care.

Anyway, the empire is rich, and as long as the military factories run at full capacity, it won’t take long to produce these shells.

More importantly, many of these shells are antiques that have been in stock for more than ten years.

Even Harold himself was not sure whether some of the shells that had been stored for too long could still be used normally.

In order to make room for the newly produced artillery shells, Lin Yi was asked to bring them all here. It was just right to use this rebellion to deter the restless Monster Tribe.

Several strange beasts with charred bodies stumbled across the wilderness, with sparks still clinging to their shells.

Their compound eyes still reflected the hellish scene of artillery fire, and their eight legs were running so fast that smoke was almost coming out.

“Faster! Faster!” The leading beast’s voice was hoarse. Its two tentacles had been burned to only half. “We must cross the border before humans catch up!”

A lame young beast gasped and asked tremblingly: "Will the elders believe us? They said that humans used 'sky fire' to cleanse the earth..."

"You have to believe it even if you don't want to!" Another strange beast raised its forelimb that was shattered by the shock wave, "Could it be that we gnawed it ourselves?!"

"They escaped into the rift." The scout put down the telescope in his hand, took out the communicator and asked the command center for instructions.

"Do we need to continue the pursuit?"

"No need. It's better to let them spread the word."

When Lin Yi raised his head, Bernard was peeling an apple with a knife: "How do you think they would describe this bombardment?"

"I bet five gold coins that it will be ten times more exciting than the war report written by the General Staff."

Bernard chuckled when he heard this, but did not join the gambling.

He knew these strange beasts too well - with their simple thinking, they would definitely portray this saturation bombardment as a world-destroying punishment sent down by the gods.

And this kind of fear is exactly the result they want most.

Although a portion of the artillery shells had just been allocated to bombard the army of strange beasts, most of the artillery was still attacking Graystone City.

Above the surface, the city of Limestone no longer exists.

Towering city walls, sturdy towers, densely packed buildings - everything that once existed is now just a charred ruin.

Artillery fire plowed across the land again and again, completely razing the entire city to the ground.

Countless craters of varying depths dot the ground, like scars left by some horrible disease.

The air was filled with a strong smell of gunpowder and burning, and occasionally a few unextinguished flames could be seen jumping among the ruins.

Under such firepower, no normal life could survive in Graystone City.

Those half-demonized soldiers were either shattered to pieces in the explosion or burned to charcoal by the high temperature of incendiary bombs, and even their complete corpses were difficult to find.

The entire city seemed to be repeatedly ravaged by an invisible giant hand. Even the deepest foundations were turned over and exposed to the artillery fire.

At this moment, the Dark Eclipse underground was covered in dust by Lin Yi's artillery bombardment. Although the underground altar was as solid as a rock built by the Dark Eclipse, it was impossible for it to be unaffected by this level of bombardment.

The violent impact of a shell caused the entire underground space to tremble violently, and the rubble on the top of the altar fell like raindrops.

Dark Eclipse raised his hand to block a few flying rocks, wiped the dust off his face, and his eyes were burning with anger: "How many armories did these lunatics empty?!"

Dark Eclipse took a deep breath. He originally thought that the rebels in Graystone City could bring some pressure to Lin Yi, but he didn't expect that Lin Yi would not give them any chance for a head-on confrontation and directly wiped the entire city off the map with overwhelming artillery fire.

The traps buried in the streets and the assassins lying in ambush in the dark were turned into scorched earth before they could be used.

There was another earth-shattering tremor, and the protective magic circle on top of the altar made a shattering sound under the heavy weight, and spider-web-like cracks quickly spread on the stone wall.

Rubble continued to fall from the cracks, forming a thick layer of ash on the ground.

Dark Eclipse looked up at the gradually crumbling protective magic circle and realized that he could not hold back any longer.

In the central area where Limestone City was previously located, the ground began to activate. Structures resembling flesh and blood carpets appeared in the ruins of Limestone City. The ruins of the entire city suddenly began to wriggle.

The bricks and stones shattered by the artillery fire, the melted metals, the charred corpses - at this moment all seemed to be pulled by some invisible force, twisting, sticking together, and expanding, eventually turning into an ever-expanding carpet of flesh and blood.

The scarlet flesh fibers spread wildly like vines. Wherever they passed, the ruins were swallowed up, the ground was covered, and even the air began to be filled with a strong smell of blood.

High-explosive bombs whizzed into the wriggling sea of ​​flesh and blood, blasting huge deep pits.

The splattered flesh and blood turned into smelly raindrops in the air, and the surrounding flesh tissue squirmed wildly, quickly filling the crater.

However, in just a dozen seconds, the wounds that were blown open recovered as if they had never been hurt.

"Can you finally hold it in? Give the order to change the shells from high-explosive to incendiary."

The loaders at the artillery position moved quickly, heavy incendiary bombs were pushed into the barrels, and the mechanical sound of adjusting the angle made a clattering sound.

"Incendiary bombs loaded!"

"Target locked—fire!"

The shells cut through the sky and smashed into the squirming carpet of flesh and blood with a piercing scream.

Bang!Bang!Bang!
At the moment of the explosion, sticky incendiary agents splashed like heavy rain, and red waves of fire instantly swept across the entire area.

The scarlet flesh fibers shrank and carbonized violently under the high temperature, and the air was suddenly filled with a disgusting burnt smell.

These special incendiaries have extremely strong adhesion. Once they are contaminated, they will continue to burn like a cancer.

Soon, the entire area where the Graystone City was located turned into a sea of ​​fire, with crackling sounds everywhere. (End of this chapter)