Chapter 161 The Crisis of the Fire Phoenix

A black figure flew straight up from the sky above the villa and entered the clouds in the blink of an eye.

With the power fully turned on, there was an explosion in the air, and Lin Qi's speed directly broke through the sound barrier.

At full power, it directly reached supersonic speeds, and the field of vision below quickly narrowed. People in the safe zone had no time to notice Lin Qi's traces, and disappeared from sight.

"Azure, full speed!"

At twice the speed of sound, the power of the super armor is still sufficient, and the energy consumption has only dropped slightly.

"Sir, according to the current capabilities of the super armor, it can only reach a speed of Mach 4."

The speed of Mach 4 has exceeded the speed of most supersonic aircraft, but Lin Qi knew that technology is advancing by leaps and bounds, and this speed cannot reach the top at all.

When Lin Qi came to his senses, he had already flown out of the safe zone, and the ruins below him were clearly distinguishable from the city.

"Mach Four!"

After reaching the extreme speed, I could faintly feel that the balance of my body was a little unstable. I really spread my wings to the extreme, and I could also detect a slight shaking feeling.

Moreover, energy consumption has increased sharply and is slowly declining at a rate visible to the naked eye.

"Sure enough, the third-level energy device cannot support the flight capability for a long time. It seems that we must start researching energy fusion technology."

Lin Qi gradually slowed down, adjusted to the most energy-saving flying method, and began to patrol this unfamiliar land.

In a stretch of ruined city, there is no life at all. Only when Wei Lan detects the existence of living things, he will zoom in on the target.

"Sir, I suggest you lower your altitude. There are a flock of mutant birds flying ahead."

Suddenly, an azure voice gave an urgent reminder, and a small screen quickly separated from the field of vision, constantly enlarging the picture.

It was a dense and dark flock of birds, flying quickly towards Lin Qi's location. Once they met, they would probably cause an unimaginable expansion.

Although Lin Qi was not afraid, the feeling of being densely surrounded by mutant birds was very uncomfortable, so he quickly obeyed the advice and swooped down to the ground and entered a building on the ground.

After they became parallel, the group of strange birds flew overhead. A dense group of clouds covered the sky, and even the sky darkened.

"Fortunately, it's not in the direction passing through our safety zone, otherwise we would be in big trouble."

Lin Qi looked at the direction in which the mutated birds left with lingering fear. Wherever they passed, it seemed as if there was a rain of dung on the ground, and it was also mixed with a lot of blood.

"Azure, can you check where these mutated birds come from?"

Although winter has passed, warm spring has not yet entered. It is said that there will not be such a large number of mutated birds at all, unless there are special changes.

"Sir, I just received news from the Federal Center that a safe area was attacked by a flock of mutant birds, causing heavy casualties. According to their flight path, it should be this group."

The appearance of a large group of mutated beasts will definitely attract human attention, and this is after attacking a safe zone.

"The direction they are going now should be the New City Safety Zone."

Looking at the direction in which the mutated birds were leaving, a satellite map of the nearby area appeared in front of Lin Qi's eyes. They would arrive over the new city safety zone in about ten minutes.

If there are no accidents, those mutated birds will definitely attack the survivors in the safe zone. After all, humans are delicious food to them.

"You have detected a mission assigned by the Source Planning Center. Do you want to go to support it?"

Wei Lan knows the mission mode of the Source Project Center. Once this happens, he will definitely assign a task to summon the Source Project soldiers in the nearby area.

Therefore, the task of searching for mutant bird flocks appeared immediately.

"What is the mission reward?"

Lin Qi was curious and asked what kind of rewards the Yuan Planning Center would give for rescues when such a disaster occurs.

"Four contribution points."

Lin Qi also learned something about contribution points. In addition to being able to redeem some scientific research materials at the Source Project Center, the evolutionary route of the Source Project weapons will also be of great help when entering the four major bases in the future.

This contribution point is a symbol of status.

"Four points, it's better than nothing. After all, the Fire Phoenix has been helpful to me before. I should go take a look and experiment with new weapons."

Only in actual combat can the Source Plan armor quickly feel the shortcomings of the weapon, which will be more helpful for subsequent adjustments.

So Lin Qi opened Fire Phoenix's communication method and relayed the crisis in advance.

"I am a super body. There is a large group of mutant birds flying towards your safe area. Please prepare for defense as soon as possible. I will rush to support as quickly as possible."

After Lin Qi sent the message, he jumped up, activated the thrusters behind his back, turned into a black light and chased after the mutated birds.

"Fire Phoenix received it, thank you for your support!"

Fire Phoenix's serious voice came from the communicator. She also received a mission from the Source Project Center, but she didn't expect that the group of mutant birds would fly towards the new city safety zone.

All of a sudden, the sirens of the New City Safety Zone blared loudly. All the survivors hid in the buildings, closed the doors and windows, and took precautions. Several buildings emitted thick smoke and emitted a special smell.

This kind of smell can effectively drive away mutant beasts, and it can also be regarded as a defensive method.

Moreover, all defenses in the safety zone were activated, especially on the newly built city walls, where thick smoke rose and spread with the wind.

Fire Phoenix stood on the tallest building in the safe zone, her fiery red armor reflecting a stream of light full of fighting spirit. Without waiting for the mutant birds to approach, she flew straight into the sky, turned into a red light and disappeared in the sky.

When she fully activated the power of the armor, the air around her felt hot. After breaking through the sound barrier, a phoenix cry was loud.

A moment later, Fire Phoenix saw a group of dark clouds from afar, and her face suddenly changed.

This level of mutant bird flocks, even with the power of her fourth-level source plan armor, it is difficult to pass through, so she must be cautious.

And although she has received support from Lin Qi, after all, the opponent's super body armor is only the third level, and it has no flying ability, so it can't support in a short time.

All this depends on her alone.

Fire Phoenix hovered in the air, a flame gushed out from her arm, and the small missile loaded on her arm flew out!

"Boom!"

When it flew in front of the mutant bird flock, it exploded, and a flame with air waves shook and dispersed!

This attack did not explode in the mutant birds, but hit the left side, with the purpose of making these mutant birds change their flight direction.

Now she was no longer considering killing these mutant birds, but driving them to other directions as much as possible.

However, after the explosion, the birds were in a brief chaos. A group of unlucky mutant birds were knocked down by the explosion and ignited flames, but the rest quickly filled the gap and still looked unscathed.

"Phoenix Fire Feather!"

The Fire Phoenix whispered to activate the ability of the armor, and quickly flew to the front of the mutant birds. A stream of powder quickly spread out of the armor, drawing an arc in the air.

When she turned around, a stream of flames gushed out from her palm, and the originally sprayed powder instantly burned violently, turning into a huge flame isolation belt in the sky!

The violent burning caused a turbulence in the air, which had a very large interference effect on the mutant birds. In just a moment, they changed the direction of their flight and quickly avoided the burning area in the air.

The flock of birds made noisy cries and quickly dodged the flames. After most of them changed their direction, the ones behind also changed their formation.

But many still plunged into the flames and were swallowed by the flames in an instant.

The Fire Phoenix slowly floated in the air. She originally wanted to use the flames to ignite all the mutant birds and destroy them all in one fell swoop, but after the fire, the remaining mutant birds quickly separated and left a gap, which made her idea fall through. However, as long as the current crisis was resolved, she could find a way to deal with these mutant birds later. As for where they would fly, it was not up to her to decide.

But before she could be happy for too long, the mutant birds that turned around actually corrected their direction in the air and flew towards the New City Safe Zone again.

"Not good!"

The Fire Phoenix secretly thought that it was not good, and quickly prepared the New City Safe Zone, activated the flying ability of the armor again, and chased after it.

The speed of the full burst allowed her to quickly catch up with the flock of birds, but after several attacks, not only did she fail to block the flight direction of the mutant birds, but she separated a part of them and rushed towards her.

A single mutant bird is only a first-order mutant beast, and occasionally there will be a few large second-order mutant birds. Ordinary attacks cannot pose a threat to the Fire Phoenix Armor, but when the number reaches the extreme, the dense flock of birds can suppress her and make her unable to move just by the force of collision.

The Fire Phoenix tried its best to kill a bloody path in the air, but her single attack was still a drop in the bucket for these birds occupying the sky!

As the fierce battle continued, a burning air gradually rose around the armor, and all the mutant birds that approached the attack instantly burst into flames and fell to the ground with screams.

She rushed into the mutant bird flock, spread her wings and spun rapidly, and the hurricane mixed with flames gradually formed an absolute flame field. Even some second-order mutant birds just touched this rotating fireball and turned into ashes in an instant!

At this moment, Lin Qi had already flown nearby, looking at a ball of flames blooming in the dark clouds, and roughly understood the situation of the Fire Phoenix.

But this ball of flame could be extinguished at any time!

"Wei Lan, how can we drive away these mutant birds?"

Lin Qi roughly estimated that even if he used his strongest attack, he could not eliminate such a large number of mutant birds. He could only drive them away in the same way as the Fire Phoenix.

"Sir, I analyzed that the mutant birds rely on the pheromones they emit to lock their positions. They are hunting. If you want to stop their direction of movement, you can only change this pheromone."

Wei Lan's analysis made Lin Qi feel confused, so he quickly contacted Bai Su in the villa and asked the biological scientist to give a detailed explanation and countermeasures.

"Change the biological pheromone? Then you can only kill the head bird in the flock, or make them feel fear, and then the biological pheromones they emit will change."

Bai Su has connected to Lin Qi's vision at this moment. When he saw the black flock of mutant birds in the sky, he was also shocked and opened his mouth.

"This should be the red-billed quelea, this number, I'm afraid there are millions of them!"

Bai Su recognized the origin of this bird at a glance, although its body shape has changed a lot after the mutation.

"The leader? Where can we find a leader on this scale?"

Wei Lan quickly analyzed the differences between the mutant birds, but no matter how he analyzed, he could not find the leader bird among the dense flock.

"Then the only thing left is to make them feel fear!"

At this moment, the flame in the flock of birds suddenly went out, and a large group of black mutant birds instantly submerged the Fire Phoenix, and no trace of it could be seen.