Cyber ​​God: Abyss Walker

Wang Yu scanned the crash site before him, trying to confirm whether the crashed aircraft still remained in the area.

The fact that a giant creature capable of piercing through a spacecraft of this size could launch a sudden attack while they were retrieving items from inside the spacecraft was far too deadly.

"With my current observational skills, I can't confirm whether there's anything unusual in the area."

Wang Yu was ultimately just a mortal, and he couldn't obtain much information by observing with his own eyes. The reconnaissance dice were useless to him at this moment when there were no clues. In the time of the prosperous ruins, time was slowed down, and Wang Yu was able to locate the target by using the dice because he was sure that someone was sniping at him from a high place.

Ultimately, the purpose of dice is to steer things in a better direction, not to distort reality out of thin air; using dice now will not have any effect.

"Could we use a drone to conduct a scanning reconnaissance?"

Wang Yu told Dorothy that the drones controlled by the other party could play a significant role at this moment.

"OK."

Without hesitation, the drones formed an array and, under Dorothy's remote control, entered the area where the aircraft crashed. Using their built-in thermal imaging scanners, they reconnoited the surrounding environment, attempting to confirm whether the dangerous creature was still in the area.

Using a combination of thermal imaging and optical cameras, the drone array flew around the area completely before returning to the four people. The final conclusion was that there was indeed no giant creature in the area capable of shooting down the aircraft.

"Then this creature capable of shooting down the transport aircraft must indeed be no longer within the area. It's possible that the giant tree that was knocked down destroyed its habitat. After all, to be able to unleash such destructive power, which is similar to artillery fire, its size and weight must be enormous."

The Silent Monk maintained the silent domain that enveloped the four of them while making his judgment.

"Approved!"

The Happy Clown shares the same view as the Silent Monk.

"Shall we continue on?"

Wang Yu pointed to the crashed aircraft and asked the other three for their opinions. The cargo he needed was inside the cargo hold, and the mission requirement was to retrieve the contents and then use them to establish a temporary camp at this location.

"I won't go in with you, after all, my ability to fight head-on is very weak."

The Happy Clown and the Silent Monk agreed, while Dorothy...

She waved her hand, indicating that she would not follow the three inside. Then she took out an optical camouflage cloak from her backpack and covered herself with it. With the changing light and shadow, she blended into the surrounding environment.

"Walk."

With the Silent Monk maintaining the Silence Zone in the middle, Wang Yuxing led the way, followed by the Happy Clown. The three of them made their way towards the crashed aircraft. Even though they had basically confirmed that the dangerous monster had left, the three of them remained quite vigilant, since inexplicable dangers could appear at any time in the anomaly zone.

As they continued their journey, enveloped by a silent domain, they were not attacked. Wang Yu quickly arrived at the crashed aircraft and placed his hand on the hatch.

"Snapped!"

Just as Wang Yu was about to exert force, a small pebble suddenly hit his head, making him turn his head alertly, only to see the Happy Clown gesturing to him.

The other person pointed one hand upwards and the other towards the hole that caused the aircraft to crash. This strange behavior made Wang Yu frown. What was the Happy Clown trying to say? Couldn't he speak directly just because the Silent Monk's domain was present?

"The sky above, and the breach..."

Looking in the direction the other person pointed, Wang Yu tried to understand what they were trying to say. There was nothing in the sky. The fallen giant trees had created a clear, open area that was not shaded by branches and leaves, and the sunlight was quite good.

And the breach in the aircraft…

"Wait, no, this is the direction the hole is opening."

When he turned his attention to the breach in the aircraft, he finally realized the problem. The metal around the huge breach that caused the aircraft to crash showed signs of bending and breaking, clearly indicating that it had been hit by something powerful, and the bending direction was all downwards.

"The attack didn't actually come from the forest below as we thought, but from above the aircraft!?"

Wang Yu suddenly realized the problem and looked up again at the sky, which was still empty in his field of vision.

The attack that shot down the aircraft did not come from the forest below, but from an altitude even higher than the aircraft itself. The attacker seemed to still be there, which was very counterintuitive, and it's no wonder that the drones didn't detect any targets.

The next moment, the escapee activated without warning. The time slowdown was so rapid that Wang Yu was almost stunned. However, based on the Happy Clown's actions and the clues he gave, he still guessed what the impending danger was.

Investigation Verification • Passed

As the dice tumbled and fell, the instant the check passed, Wang Yu noticed something he hadn't seen before: dense, fine, transparent threads distributed in the air around their location, impossible to detect without deliberate observation.

In fact, the three of them were covered with many of these thin threads, but the parts that came into contact with the threads were all clothing or equipment, and none of them were flesh.

The closer one gets to the crashed carrier aircraft, the denser these threads become. The source of these extremely difficult-to-detect threads is the sky above this area, with the dense threads intertwining and spreading upwards.

Just now, a thin thread, blown by the wind, draped over the bare neck of the Silent Monk. In the slowed-down time, Wang Yu observed that the thread contracted and bounced rapidly as if it were alive, seemingly transmitting something towards the source in the sky.

The Happy Clown had already lunged forward, shoving the Silent Monk aside, shouting, "Retreat...!"

"Clang!"

Wang Yu didn't care about anything else. He followed the action he had just made, pushed open the hatch in the slowed-down time, and then, at the moment his ability ended, he lunged forward and flipped into the aircraft, slamming the hatch shut.

"Bang!"

The next moment, Wang Yu heard a sound of something exploding coming from outside. The strong shock penetrated the metal hatch in front of him and reached Wang Yu's body, making him feel uncomfortable.

The glass above the hatch was shattered, and Wang Yu saw what was happening outside through the opening: a huge crater appeared on the ground, almost indistinguishable from a shell crater.

Hot liquid spread around them, constantly emitting white steam. The Happy Clown and the Silent Monk had been blasted away by the powerful impact of the "bombardment" from the sky and were now struggling to get up.

"Damn it..."

Wang Yu cursed under his breath, only then realizing that the entire interior of the aircraft was filled with those fine threads. This place had become a trap set by the creature above that had launched the "bombardment." Any living being that touched these threads would be instantly killed by the creature in the air.

It will launch an attack below that is powerful enough to shoot down large transport aircraft.

"As expected of a primeval forest, the creatures here are truly beyond the comprehension of ordinary people."

He sighed, "Once we figure out what's going on, it'll be much easier to handle. These tentacles only react to living organisms, which is why the drones weren't attacked like Wang Yu and his team did."

"Don't move outside, let me handle this!"

Wang Yu shouted loudly to the two people outside who had only been injured thanks to the Happy Clown's timely reaction and avoidance of the area with the greatest "bombardment" power. At the same time, he sprinted forward with all his might and inserted the bottle containing the abnormal pollutants into the steady-state mutation catalyst located at his waist.

"Mutation start!"

"Boom!"

During the forward charge, the exposed skin on his body inevitably touched the fine wires that covered the entire cabin. The shelling immediately followed and pierced through the top of the aircraft, crashing down behind Wang Yu who was charging forward. Without the cabin canopy to help block it, the shockwave from the attack directly sent him flying.

"Cough cough, not bad luck."

Wang Yu, who had crashed into the cabin wall, coughed up blood. The shockwave, which rebounded and intensified inside the cabin, had injured his internal organs. However, he no longer needed to worry about the unknown creatures above attacking him.

The mutation occurred on his body; his entire skin transformed into a metallic-like substance in a very short time. As a result, even if the fine threads touched any part of Wang Yu's body, they would not sense the presence of any living being, allowing him to move freely within this area.

"let me see."

Wiping the blood from the corner of his mouth, Wang Yu walked towards the front cockpit of the aircraft. The overall structure of the aircraft was still intact, and some parts should still be usable.

Pushing aside the pilot, whose body had been turned into a corpse due to the high-speed crash, Wang Yu looked at the aircraft's control panel, lifted it open, and removed the cover, revealing the dense components and wiring underneath. He didn't know how to operate the aircraft, but as a mechanic, Wang Yu had no problem directly touching the internal components.

"Dorothy, has your drone roughly pinpointed the area from which the shelling came from? I'll raise the onboard weapons of the transport aircraft. Can you pinpoint the location of the machine gun for me, and I'll shoot that thing down?"

Wang Yu used the Star Ring Mercenary Device to send a message to Dorothy, who was nearby. The other party's drones were distributed in the surrounding area, and the drones with ballistic analysis capabilities should be able to analyze where those shells came from.

As Wang Yu directly cut and spliced ​​several cables together with plasma cutting gloves, he gained control of the left-side cannon of the transport drone, and Dorothy's directional guidance information was delivered after the cannon started rotating.

"Turn 47 degrees to the left, then push forward 29 degrees."

Following the other party's instructions, Wang Yu stared at the instrument panel indicating the machine gun, switched the cable he had cut, and roughly controlled the rotation of the machine gun, aiming the muzzle at the invisible thing in the sky.

"die."

After the cannon was turned around, Wang Yu decisively connected the two cables together, transmitted the firing signal, and the machine gun rapidly unleashed its firepower towards the target location.

"Da da da da da!"

The firing lasted for about ten seconds, blasting out a whole volley of shells. Wang Yu looked up through the observation window of the cockpit at the seemingly empty sky above.

The empty "sky" was pierced by the soaring shell, and numerous breaches suddenly exploded open. The flesh and blood of some unseen thing were torn apart by the incredibly powerful shell, and brownish-yellow fluid and fragments of flesh and blood fell from the sky as if they were free.

"Bang!"

Then came a clearly audible explosion, almost identical to the sound of artillery fire from the sky, except that it was produced by the superposition of several artillery explosions.

The attack from the machine gun hit the "ammunition magazine" of the entity above, detonating all the "shells" inside the organ used to launch the "artillery barrage".

The immense trauma finally made it unable to maintain its mimicry and cloaking. In a ripple of light and shadow, it revealed its broken and enormous body, as large as an island. Unable to remain suspended in the air any longer, the behemoth plummeted downwards.

"Bang!"

The creature, now only half-body, crashed onto the top of the large transport aircraft after its "ammunition bay" was detonated. Its astonishing weight, combined with the speed of its fall, dented the entire roof of the aircraft, and the shock almost caused Wang Yu to lose his footing.

Pushing open the aircraft's hatch, Wang Yu stepped outside the cabin, where the group finally saw what this creature, which was launching artillery fire from high above and concealing its form, was.

Even with half its body blown off, this creature was still larger than the entire aircraft. The murky, foul-smelling bodily fluids spurting from its ruptured corpse almost completely covered the surrounding area, while its body, no longer capable of life, completely obscured the transport aircraft.

"I have to say, this transport aircraft is really unlucky. Who would have thought that such a stealthy thing would be floating above it while it's flying at low altitude..."

Dorothy, carrying the medical supplies, walked over to the Happy Clown and the Silent Monk. Looking at the enormous corpse of the creature, she sighed. Having used drones extensively, she could probably better understand how unlucky it was to be transporting drones.

Looking at the ruptured air sac-like organ beneath the corpse, Wang Yu had a rough idea of ​​the creature's attack pattern.

Using large, air-sac-like organs, they hover in the air like floating islands, concealing their form with an outer skin that has an optical camouflage effect. Because they are at an altitude of nearly hundreds or even thousands of meters, any flaws are difficult to detect.

Normally, it uses its dense, hanging filaments to sense organisms below, then bombards them with biomass projectiles before sinking down to feed. The attack on the transport aircraft was probably because the aircraft was too close, triggering the creature's close-range self-defense response.

"Quickly get the cargo out of the cabin. If this thing's carcass attracts even more dangerous creatures from the forest, it will be troublesome."

Speaking seriously, Wang Yu cut away the flesh and blood of the creature blocking his way, preparing to complete the final part of the mission. The existence of this creature made him realize how dangerous the wasteland was. Coming alone would probably mean certain death here. This place is not suitable for staying for long, and he must finish this quickly.