Chapter 702 They Are Back

Under the dual effects of gravitational pull and anti-gravity field, the huge city of Atlantis smoothly left the Great Barrier of Gensokyo, and rose at an alarming speed, rushing towards the high orbit.

The acceleration of dozens of g acted on the huge floating island, and we soon saw the arc-shaped horizon. The bright sunshine was spreading from the other side of the horizon, illuminating the vast surface of the ocean. The world's sunrise is in a few hours, and we are now witnessing this ray of sunshine in advance.

Although the monsters that took off together basically all had the ability to fly, none of them had been able to fly above the stratosphere on their own before. Therefore, to see this strange and majestic thing, you need to be at least outside of low-Earth orbit. Immediately after the view, there were exclamations one after another around us. Yakumo Murasaki even had to take the initiative to stand up and maintain order, so that these monsters who were shouldering the heavy responsibility of Atlantis' energy would not fall off the chain at the critical moment.

"Is this what you call 'outer space'?" Shemei Maruwen's voice sounded beside him. He turned around and saw the curious and inquiring gaze of the Tengu girl meeting his own.

Because her most powerful ability is speed and agility rather than mana, this crow tengu is not involved in the work of energy output (but I doubt her real purpose is to free up her hands to collect materials for her news) , now the girl is spreading her black wings, marveling as she follows Atlantis as she rises, raising the camera in her hand, clicking and trying to record all the magnificent scenes like the space horizon, it can be predicted Unfortunately, this historic event will definitely take up at least two-thirds of the next issue of "Bunwen News" - sadly, the other one-third will probably have to be this guy. A fabricated story about Reimu Hakurei being unfortunately abducted.

"It's a magnificent view." I smiled and looked at the camera in her hand. That thing was obviously different from the technological products developed by humans. Although it was also a mechanical product made according to certain technical principles, its lens structure But it is very different from ordinary photographic equipment. This should be a technological product manufactured by the legendary Gensokyo scientific research department, "Kappa Heavy Industries". Speaking of which, the combatant-class transport plane we took when we came down was almost beaten by a plane. Help the kappa secretly drag it away for research, "To be honest, these things are more suitable as news materials, right? Isn't it better than your pile of gossip?"

Up to now, I am still trying to restore my image that is about to collapse due to the wanton spread of this nonsense reporter, although this effort is probably going to fail: I hope that "Bunwen News" can take the path of seeking truth from facts. For the harmonious route, I might as well look forward to Ding getting the green light to take the make-up exam next time.

"You don't seem to be very satisfied with my news," Shemeimarufumi glanced at me dissatisfied, "But usually the only news materials I can collect are those things. After all, there can't be big events in Gensokyo every day. It happened."

"Then let's record some things outside of Gensokyo, go outside to collect stories, and then tell everyone in Gensokyo."

"Go outside?" The Tengu girl blinked, as if she understood something but was still unsure.

This idea suddenly came to me, but after thinking about it for a while, I thought it was a good idea: "Macro World, you should have heard this term from Reimu or Zi, right?"

"Ah, I heard it. They said it was very magical. Even someone like Yakumo Murasaki would be frightened by such a huge thing, right? It is said that it is composed of thousands of worlds and huge time and space. Yakumo Purple Such a powerful big monster can only serve as a guide in the macro world system... Well, just thinking about it is incredible!"

"Don't you like to collect news? Then go and see other worlds. The macro world is open to the public. Maybe you can also run a cross-world news weekly. It only costs 998... no, not a penny. You can use the teleportation authority of the macro world for free. As long as it does not violate the regulations of the Space-Time Administration, you can go wherever you want!"

The Tengu girl's eyes lit up: "Really? Is there such a good thing?"

"Of course it's true, but there is one condition... Ahem, could you please consider a certain piece of news again..."

This is a hard-fought victory. I actually succeeded in changing the current content of "Bunbun News". This is a unique thing in the entire Gensokyo. It makes those people who have been tormented by this gossip tengu all day long miserable. The unlucky child who has lost his dignity and lost his dignity should go play with eggs! This world belongs to the Imperial Press and Publication Administration!

As time goes by, Atlantis has finally completed two-thirds of its space journey. The earth has turned into a crystal clear blue glass bead in our field of vision, and the remaining scenes around it are only cold and dark. In space, the monsters experienced a sense of novelty at the beginning, and now they are finally tired of such a monotonous and unchanging journey. The good thing is that they can finally carry out their tasks peacefully. But after all, it is a journey of high consumption. At this moment, some monsters who are weak in physical strength have already fallen behind. They continue to output their mana at the maximum intensity. Even the most powerful monsters cannot bear it. Monsters that are not strong in mana are The first group to retreat tried their best, but in the end they could not make it to the end of the journey. After these exhausted monsters leave their positions, they will be picked up by the tribesmen arranged in advance and taken to the back of the entire team to rest. Because the pan-energy conversion device on the floating island has been locked, no one can fill the positions vacated by these monsters after they leave their posts. Therefore, the Atlantis energy shield, which has always been abundant, is now declining as the energy source decreases. There is a noticeable dimness.

I deliberately went around to take a look at the upper part of Atlantis. After the energy shield dimmed, the situation inside was now almost clear. The space city covered by the translucent energy shield was filled with ominous dark clouds, purple and black. Lightning flashes between the dark clouds, and only a third of the sparse streets in the entire city are still shining with lights. On the edges of these bright areas, you can occasionally see bursts of energy of various colors, which are the sentinels of Atlantis. Occasional confrontations between them and the monsters wandering around.

Although I really wanted to go over and help right now, after looking at the sludge-like black aura that filled the city of Atlantis, I suppressed the urge: at least until the Earth was in high orbit and the Earth was well protected.

Suixiang, Yuyuko, Lan and other people who were in relatively good condition began to encourage the monsters around them. Even the guys who usually fight and fight are now rarely in a state of unity. Soon after the situation of someone falling behind was uploaded to the mothership, some bright silver dots emerged from the dark space background and quickly approached here. They caused a little commotion at first, but soon the monsters I saw clearly that those were the same transport planes that Sandora and I had taken before: they were a formation of combatant transport planes from the Faith-class mothership, and they were ordered to come to pick up the exhausted monsters and return to the mothership early.

"Everyone is very tired." Yakumo Murasaki suddenly appeared next to me and Sandora. This powerful blonde girl also had a rare look of exhaustion on her face. "I didn't expect the pressure to be so great. Falling behind." There are more and more people, and it’s getting harder and harder for the remaining people. This city just seems to be sucking our strength away. Haven’t we arrived yet?”

"In ten minutes, the mothership has created a psychic force field in high orbit to suppress the abyssal power on the floating island. We will arrive at the station when Atlantis enters the force field."

"As soon as possible. Although Reimu and I will try our best, the others are not soldiers."

After leaving such a sentence, Zi left as silently as when he came.

The implication of her words is obvious. The monsters in Gensokyo are not imperial soldiers who can risk their lives to complete the task once the order is given. Faced with difficult-to-complete tasks, their potential to explode is limited.

I circled to the upper part of the city and found that the floating island that had a bright and thick shield when I first left the earth was now like an incandescent lamp with insufficient voltage, ready to go out at any time. Atlantis's shield now only has a thin layer left, looking like a transparent soap bubble that may burst at any time. Purple-black lightning is mixed with the dark clouds and rolling continuously, striking the city's dome again and again. , as if the thoughtless abyss energy also discovered that the day of escape was coming, and began to attack those crumbling ancient defense devices more frequently. The only thing that is reassuring now is that the defense system of this floating island is en3 specially designed for colonial ships. It's a shield. Don't worry about what the number means. Anyway, just know that this shield will maintain basic defensive performance until it is completely extinguished.

But since just now, the physical strength of the monsters has declined, the ancient energy pipes have frequently burst, the pan-energy conversion device has almost completely shut down, and various situations have erupted at the same time as if they were agreed upon. I have even seen the beginning of the floating island. Light black patterns emerge. The appearance of these two-dimensional patterns without thickness in this case can only mean one thing: the abyss has begun to pollute the shell of the floating island.

I immediately reminded Yakumo Purple to keep the monsters away from each other and never come into contact with the floating island from now on. Even if it can make their work several times easier, don't take the risk.

But although it was a bit nerve-wracking, the brightly lit Faith-class mothership finally appeared above us at this moment. With a misty blue color appearing in the field of vision, I suddenly felt a strong psionic energy around me. Waves: The upper part of Atlantis begins to enter the cage we have set.

"This is the mothership. Atlantis has begun to slow down and the suppression field is fully powered. There is currently no early outbreak of the abyss infected body."

"Let Vega sharpen her knife, and send more transport planes. There are thousands of tired monsters here."

The short period of time that followed was not long, but it felt very slow. Under the influence of various forces to offset the force field, Atlantis and the large group of monsters following it slowed down with even more amazing g-forces. The surrounding space environment with a radius of hundreds of thousands of kilometers was replaced by a high-intensity psionic radiation field, and the alliance finally fell into the encirclement.

"Follow the original order and retreat to the east!"

Reimu Hakurei immediately gave an order through the temporary mental network we had helped the youkai establish before. Immediately, the network became excited, and thousands of youkai shouted in unison: "Which way is east!?"

My head hit Sandora: "I knew something would happen if the space commander let that guy take full responsibility!"

Reimu also discovered that there is no concept of "East" in space. I don't know if she blushed, but she quickly changed her words: "Toward the direction of the sun, retreat collectively!"

The monsters took a look...the sun was on the other side of Atlantis, and it would be too dangerous to fly there.

Before setting off, a certain Hongbai promised Sandora that he had made an action plan for evacuation. Is this the plan?

I finally couldn't help it anymore and directly cut off the random instructions given by this guy with zero marks in space navigation: "Okay, okay, just evacuate! The further away from this unfortunate floating island, the better! Our transportation opportunities I picked you up one by one!"

This time, the monsters knew what to do after giving the order. Thousands of "people" shouted and dispersed on the spot: just now I saw how exhausted they were one by one, spitting out messages. I thought they were all exhausted. Why are they running around now? So energetic?

Thousands of monsters swarmed away from under the inverted cone-shaped space floating island, looking like a flock of frightened birds scattering. Following the instructions to stay as far away as possible, they were at least several kilometers away in almost the blink of an eye, and were already silent. The transport plane formation that had been waiting for a long time also moved out, patrolling at a safe distance from Atlantis, using a series of light signals to indicate the general direction of the monsters that were bumping around like headless flies in space, and then ran back and forth. Pick them up one by one. Due to the short-range space absorption function, every monster scattered outside can be directly transported to the cabin by the transport aircraft as long as it is within a kilometer of the transport aircraft. This makes the "search and rescue" work go faster than expected. It's still going smoothly, but how can I put it... Thanks to Hakurei Reimu's unorganized evacuation plan before, the scene is now a mess: the rampaging tengu knocked away the kappa, the powerful ghosts knocked away the ghosts, Ciruno was run over by a group of people. The scene was filled with tears of joy and adrenaline. Only the Xiling transport machine produced by the empire, which must be a high-quality product, can withstand such a messy work. To say that the monsters are real, I told them to disperse at will, but no one really organized a group to retreat. How much do you think a transport plane takes off once, you souls!

And as the last batch of monsters interrupted the power output to the energy pipes at the bottom of Atlantis, this ancient immigrant ship finally entered the most critical stage. All energy systems entered the red light state, and the alarm flashed. Flashing on every monitoring terminal that was still running, I could clearly hear the piercing final alarm coming from the distance during the last communication with the agents before the attack. The navigation computer of the ancient ship kept repeating the entire system due to a system error. A short sentence was broadcast on the city radio: "The energy core has collapsed. All personnel must abandon the ship and escape! The energy core has collapsed. All personnel must abandon the ship and escape!"

"Your Majesty, this is the special operations group. The city defense system has been switched to the final energy reserve. The energy reserve is only three minutes. Please hurry up... Ziziz... The interference is serious. The concentration of the abyss near the impact point has reached the warning value. We will Evacuate as planned to...ZiZi...continue fighting...ZiZi..."

Communication is interrupted.

"Quick, quick, time is running out!" I ordered directly through my mental connection, "Transport aircraft formation, lift the ban on space jumps! Atlantis has three minutes left!"

As I finished speaking, the holographic scene at the bottom of Atlantis also changed from red and green to a shocking line of blood-red numbers - 2:59.

...I know, it must have been some unlucky Atlantean who fell to the earth when he traveled through time, and was named Unit-1 after being transformed by the local indigenous people, right?

With half a minute left in the countdown, all the scattered monsters were finally picked up by the transport aircraft formation. Then these adrenaline-laden aircraft disappeared into outer space amidst bursts of distorted light curtains of space jumps, and returned directly to the grid. Naku, then, a large silver-white spindle-shaped light and shadow shot out from the belly of the carrier carrier that had already moved over Atlantis, with a gorgeous bright blue energy trail, like a piranha about to snatch its prey. Generally piercing the gradually crumbling city shield of Atlantis.

A chirping report from another world came through the spiritual connection: "Hey, boss, I'm in the Garden of Death now. Artemis has isolated the earth on your side to a state of static causality, a seal that covers the entire planet. , so have fun - as long as you don't destroy the solar system."

"here you go."

I complimented the other person sincerely, and then turned my attention to the space island that was almost four-fifths occupied by black.

The first batch of landing troops has cut into its dome. Now, after hundreds of thousands of years, the empire's blade finally reflects the cold light on the land of this ancient civilization - although this body is now being pulled by Sandora I'm in a flying state, but I feel like I'm still a very poetic guy.

Originally, such a battlefield did not require Sandora and I to personally engage in the battle. The combined force of the three powerful heroic arms was enough to destroy any city even if it was completely occupied by the abyss. However, in the face of this, we have been wandering for hundreds of thousands of years. The people of Atlantis, even lazy people like me, seem to have developed a passion to fight for them.

The silver-white assault ship cut through the dim barrier over the city, and the energy shield that had been shining for hundreds of thousands of years and could finally rest was completely extinguished. Although the still-operating urban gravity system can protect the atmosphere and other ecological The environment will not collapse due to the loss of the barrier, but the complete shutdown of the psionic energy barrier that has been suppressing the abyss energy in the city still makes the extremely dangerous source of destruction fully active. The infected monsters are obviously irrational, but they seem to Feeling this false moment of victory, they launched a swift and violent general attack on the clean area that had been unable to be conquered for a long time. However, the already exhausted Atlantis warriors held on to the last line of defense and looked at the glory across the sky. The battleship and the swift figure falling from the battleship, an earth-shattering cry suddenly roared after a few seconds of brewing, sweeping every inch of the air in Atlantis:

"They're back!!!!"