Epoch of Twilight

A mysterious place located in the underground of Xinjing.

It covers an area of ​​more than 50,000 square meters, which is equivalent to the area of ​​six or seven football fields. The entire hall gathers tens of thousands of staff and a battalion of elite soldiers.

However, there are hardly any sounds here, and no one speaks. Everyone is staring at the screen tightly, watching the various images and data changes on it without blinking. There are only the sound of the computer fan and keyboard typing. The sound kept ringing, and the atmosphere seemed extremely tense and depressing!

This is the Land Observation and Strategic Security Bureau directly under the High Commission, the most mysterious department in the reconstruction area.

It holds the most powerful force of mankind so far, and it is also the strongest and last defense of the reconstruction zone.

Through satellites, early-warning airships modified with high-level animal skins, drone images, and ground radars, extensive investigations have built an airtight monitoring network for the entire reconstruction area, and are closely watching all possible threats to the reconstruction area. The threat of a deadly crisis.

Among them, one of the most important tasks of this department is to monitor the eighth-level life and carry out strategic strikes against him at any time.

Here, the distance from the reconstruction area is used as the safety criterion. All eighth-level lives wandering around the reconstruction area are divided into three danger levels.

The area from the control boundary of the reconstruction area to 400 kilometers is a high-risk level, and it is a target that must be attacked immediately. The 400 kilometers to 800 kilometers is a medium-risk level, which is focused on surveillance and needs to be vigilant at all times.

And 800 kilometers to 1,000 kilometers is a low-risk level, and the attention has plummeted, mainly to pay attention to its basic movements.

As for the farther distance, with the current strength of the reconstruction area, it is basically a blind spot. Only the satellite images can capture some traces. Of course, the relatively long geographical distance also basically isolates the threat of these lives to the reconstruction area.

But now within the scope of observation, there are a total of twelve confirmed eighth-level beings, four of which are located in the medium-risk area, and the rest are in the low-risk area.

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Suddenly, a staff member stared at the screen and his face changed, and he pressed the alarm on the table without hesitation, and a harsh and loud alarm sounded in the empty hall.

The atmosphere in the entire hall couldn't help but freeze, and everyone's work subconsciously stopped.

Soon a group of people trotted into the hall from the passage, and an old man with a general rank said solemnly: "Everyone continues to work, the console adjusts the drone image numbered A7990 to the central large screen, and at the same time no one Aircraft team, send all the drones performing missions in the A7 area to this coordinate (X:***Y:***), and focus on monitoring its movements.”

The image quickly appeared on the big screen.

In the picture, this is an eighth-level mutant beast code-named "Blue Dragon", and it does look like a dragon. It is not a dragon in Western mythology, but a Chinese dragon.

Slender and sinuous body like a snake, four twisted and thick claws, ferocious horns on the forehead, and a mane like a horse's mane, except for some details, its image is similar to that in Chinese myths and legends. The dragon is very similar, and it looks more majestic and more ferocious!

If Wang Shishi were here, he would probably recognize that this is exactly the terrifying creature that he and Luo Yuan encountered when they went to the wild to find the heart of wisdom.

Maybe it's the interference of the signal, the image on the big screen is constantly shaking, the pictures are extremely blurred, and sometimes the signal is completely lost.

However, even though the picture is somewhat distorted, everyone can still see that this eighth-level creature is quite irritable now. It stands on the top of the mountain, jumping up and down from time to time, and roaring at the sky. celestial changes.

The white clouds in the sky change rapidly, surging endlessly, appearing from time to time and disappearing suddenly.

Even through the screen, everyone felt chills in their hearts. The power of eighth-level beings simply surpassed human understanding of creatures. Such creatures should not appear in reality at all, but should appear in mythology. In novels and movies middle.

"It seems to be a little disturbed." A major general staff officer looked at it for a while and calmly analyzed: "It seems to be afraid of something. The console pointed the extra camera at the sky."

After a while, the big screen was divided into four sections.

"What is this?" He took a closer look, and soon on the screen on the upper left, he found a small dot in the sky moving slowly, and he quickly said: "Zoom in the lens!"

The original clear image immediately became blurred as it continued to zoom in, and the same small dot gradually revealed its true body. Judging from its shape, it should be a bird. Judging from the irritability of this creature and this blue dragon, It is obviously also the first eighth level life form.

The admiral's face was heavy, and he didn't notice it in the vicinity of the eighth-level life reconstruction area. This was completely negligence, but this is not the time for accountability, he said in a deep voice: "The radar is locked, and immediately calculate its height !"

"Radar can't see the target, it's radar cloaking, and it's mobilizing nearby satellites now."

"By laser ranging, its altitude is about 56,400 meters above the sky."

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"The satellite has locked on the target!" The satellite team reported after a while.

"Notify the Nuclear Attack Review Team of the High Commissioner Office!" the general said with a serious expression.

An inconspicuous middle-aged man next to him, wearing a major's military uniform, immediately took out his confidential phone, went to the side and said a few words, after a while he hung up the phone, walked back quickly, and said to the general: "We have notified you, Temporary permissions have been issued!"

Even today, nuclear bombs are launched as frequently as conventional weapons, and the nuclear key is still a symbol of power. There is no temporary authority issued by the nuclear attack review team run by the High Commission, even if it is an admiral who is counted in the reconstruction area. ability to employ nuclear weapons.

"Then connect to the Strategic Force, level one alert, and notify the Southeast Military Region to do a good job of nuclear defense."

...

"The Southeast Military Region has been notified, and the other party has confirmed it!"

"The connection is complete, please give instructions!"

...

The admiral did not immediately order a nuclear strike, but just waited quietly.

Not many people know that there are not many nuclear bombs in the reconstruction area. Unlike Russia and the United States, which have a large number of nuclear reserves before the end of the world, they can squander them at will. China's nuclear bomb inventory is not even one-tenth of these two countries. arrive.

In addition to the continuous consumption in the past two years, and the lack of uranium resources in the area near the reconstruction area (the detonation of a hydrogen bomb also requires the ignition of an atomic bomb), the number of nuclear bombs in a huge reconstruction area is now less than ten, and each detonation is less than ten nuclear bombs. one piece.

If this confidential news is spread, it may be enough to cause panic among human beings.

If not, how could the reconstruction area tolerate such extremely dangerous lives wandering around the periphery.

Time passed by, and the blue dragon's slender and huge body coiled around a mountain, crawling restlessly, it became more and more irritable, and the energy like red mist pervaded it.

The shaking of the video image has also become more severe!

One bird and one beast, after more than ten minutes of confrontation, the situation finally changed.

The small dot that was originally in the sky suddenly enlarged at a speed visible to the naked eye. Behind it was a cloud of smoke that was like a glow, and the colors were enchanting and changing, which set off its extraordinary appearance.

It is like a meteorite falling from the sky, swooping down from a high altitude in an instant.

In just a dozen seconds, it had already approached the ground, and it was still thousands of meters in the air. A pair of sharp giant claws reached out like lightning and grabbed the blue dragon.

The blue dragon roared at the flying giant bird, but it was completely bluffing, and it didn't dare to fight to the death. Between lightning and flint, its body jumped awkwardly, and its slender body jumped several kilometers lightly, landing on another mountain peak.

The next moment, the mountain where the blue dragon was originally staying was smashed to pieces by the sharp claws of the giant bird.

The giant bird's wings flapped violently, the wind blew, the big tree fell, and there was a burst of flying sand and rocks. It quickly controlled its body shape, flew back into the air, circled a few times, and looked at the prey below it patiently. The fleeing blue dragon swooped down.

Next, the two giant beasts chased and fled, but I don't know whether it was intentional or not, the blue dragon was quickly approaching the reconstruction area.

"They are already approaching the highest warning line?" The major general's staff reminded in a low voice.

"Wait a little longer!" the general said in a deep voice, staring at the screen tightly, frowning slightly, hoping that there will be a turning point in the end. Compared with killing two eighth-level creatures, nuclear bombs are undoubtedly more important to the reconstruction area. valuable.

"There are still two minutes..." After a while, the staff officer reminded again.

"One minute..." Sweat had already started to seep from the staff officer's forehead, but he didn't dare to wipe it off.

"Launch!" the general sighed.

...

An underground silo, the cover on it was slowly opened, and the next moment, a medium-range missile carrying a hydrogen warhead shot up from the silo and quickly flew into the air.

At this time, the blue dragon was getting more and more embarrassed. During the evasion again and again, his body was inevitably caught several times by the claws of the giant bird. Although he tried his best to break free in the end, his body was already scratched and bloody.

This giant bird is its natural enemy. This is completely a kind of intuition in the soul, which makes it unable to muster up the courage to fight. Since it was accidentally discovered by it during hunting in the morning, this big bird seems to be possessed. Necrosis of the bone was closely watched by it.

As an eighth-level life form, its IQ is not much lower than that of ordinary people, and it is even higher. The powerful energy fluctuations released by the nuclear bomb explosions in this area can be clearly felt even in the distance. arrive.

This made it very clear that the further forward it was, the more dangerous it was, and that area had already been judged as a restricted area by it.

In the past, it would never have dared to take a step west.

However, today its life was at stake, and it couldn't escape or fight, so it had no choice but to run towards the dangerous restricted area, trying to scare off the giant bird.

It's a pity that the other party didn't seem to notice it, and was still chasing after him, as if he didn't know how dangerous it was.

At this moment, an extremely strong sense of crisis came from my heart.

It trembled all over, its mane stood up one after another, its eyes widened suddenly, it didn't dare to go any further, its limbs moved quickly, and it turned to run back. At this time, the giant bird in the sky had already been captured by it Forget it aside, compared with this kind of strong danger, the natural enemies above the head at this time can be completely ignored.

But I didn't want to, before the giant bird was about to flee, it didn't intend to let it go at all. A strong wind pressure approached from the top of its head in an instant. Before it could react, its body felt a sharp pain. The huge and ferocious claws had already grasped its body.

The next moment, its body lightened, the ground quickly moved away, and the one caught flew up.

The blue dragon roared in horror, its body twisted violently, the pair of sharp claws were like iron claws, deeply embedded in its body, except that the wound expanded a little bit, it was useless at all, it flew higher and higher, and was Fly in the direction of the restricted area.

This discovery made the blue dragon even more frightened, and his body became stiff.

Suddenly, the wind howled, and the mountain retreated rapidly.

However, at the next moment, a glaring light suddenly lit up a few kilometers away, and suddenly expanded.

Endless energy and high-energy radiation vented in all directions.

As if coming to the surface of the sun, under the dazzling high-energy rays, the two giant beasts began to emit blue smoke, and their scales and feathers melted. At the critical moment, the giant birds flapped their wings violently, and their bodies fled like lightning. Shockwave simply couldn't catch up.

It's a pity that the giant bird was barely able to support it at this time, and after only flying for half a minute, it could no longer support it under such a terrible injury. It was covered in smoke, and fell from mid-air.

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"Not good, below is Hope City!"

The National Land Observation and Strategic Security Bureau, a group of people looked at the screen, their faces changed drastically, and they were covered in cold sweat. They did not expect such a situation at all. At this time, although the two giant beasts were seriously injured, they were clearly still alive.

This is the second largest city after Xinjing, and one of the most important industrial bases in the reconstruction area.

Once destroyed by them, the entire reconstruction area will be greatly affected.

"Notify the guards of Hope City, the Sword Department of Hope City and the Sword Squad in nearby cities, and immediately kill these two eighth-level creatures with all their strength." The general said with a serious face.

As for the headquarters of Lijian, it is located in Xinjing, which is too far away from Hope City. The distant water cannot save the nearby fire. If it arrives, it will be too late. With the huge size of these two behemoths, even just walking around is enough. cause widespread damage.

At this time, he suddenly remembered a confidential file, and quickly said: "I remember that the new deputy director of the sword department lives in Hope City, let him know immediately, maybe there will be a turnaround."

"I guess I can't notify!" At this time, a staff member in charge of screening the satellite images not far away suddenly stood up boldly and said with a strange expression.

"Why?" The general said with a serious face, and a group of people also looked at him with puzzled expressions.

Being watched by such a powerful person, the young staff member looked nervous and his voice trembled: "Reporting chief, I... I just saw his face on the unprocessed satellite picture, and Minister Luo's Completely suitable."

As soon as the words fell, everyone couldn't help but gasped and looked at each other.