HCB Chapter 1277 The Ruins of the Nihilistic Party
Chapter 1277 The Ruins of the Nihilistic Party
Lin Zhen had just finished speaking.
From the thick, ink-like forest to the west of the camp, a soft scraping sound rang out.
rustling... rustling...
The sound was very soft, like withered leaves being blown by the wind, or like countless venomous snakes silently gliding through the grass.
The sound wasn't loud, but it was like a cold steel needle, precisely piercing the eardrums of everyone in the camp.
The lively and bustling atmosphere just moments before instantly fell silent.
A chill, stemming from instinct and the feeling of being targeted by a top predator, shot wildly up everyone's spine!
Their knuckles turned white as they instinctively gripped their weapons, staring intently at the dark forest that seemed to devour all light.
"All personnel! On high alert!"
Yue Fei's roar was like a thunderclap. His burly body instantly tensed up like a fully drawn bow, his hand was already on the hilt of his sword, and his eyes were as sharp as an eagle's.
"Divine Machine Battalion, form a circular formation!"
"The crossbows are cocked!"
Forbidden!
The soldiers of the Great Qian Dynasty, who had long been tempered into an iron army by blood and fire, completed the battle formation switch the instant the order was given.
The outer ring of swords and shields stood like a forest, and spears formed a dense, impenetrable steel defense line.
In the inner circle, hundreds of Shenji Battalion musketeers raised their flintlock muskets, their dark muzzles pointing straight into the darkness, while archers with bows drawn and ready to fire exuded a chilling aura.
In just a few dozen breaths, the camp, filled with laughter and joy, transformed into a ferocious steel beast with bared fangs!
However, the anticipated shock did not materialize.
The forest remained deathly silent, as if the chilling rustling sound from just moments before was merely a collective hallucination.
This feeling of being unknown and being watched is more suffocating than a frontal charge of thousands of troops.
"Your Highness..." Yue Fei walked to Lin Zhen's side, his voice extremely low, his tiger-like eyes filled with vigilance and confusion, "Who is this person?"
He couldn't figure it out.
What kind of enemy would choose such a bizarre tactic? They don't attack, they don't show themselves, they just release invisible pressure from the darkness.
"A group of patient hunters."
Lin Zhen's voice was calm and undisturbed; he didn't even look at the forest, as if he had everything under control.
He turned his head and his gaze fell on the pirate queen Elizabeth.
The queen also had a solemn expression, but in her sapphire-like eyes, there flickered a bloodthirsty, excited flame belonging to pirates.
"Elizabeth."
"Yes, Your Highness!" Elizabeth responded immediately, her fighting spirit high.
"Didn't you always complain that our Great Qian's cannons weren't powerful enough?" Lin Zhen's lips curled into a playful smile.
Elizabeth was slightly taken aback, and then a blush rose on her beautiful cheeks.
She genuinely felt that the Great Qian's red-coated cannons were merely for show, nothing more than children's toys compared to the Western navy's thirty-six-pound cannons capable of tearing apart battleships.
"Very well." Lin Zhen's smile turned somewhat wicked. "Today, I will show you what the 'art of destruction' truly means."
He tilted his head slightly toward the ghostly figure beside him.
"Bring up the 'grand gift' that I have prepared for them."
"Yes."
The ghostly figure accepted the order and left.
Soon, a dozen Night Owl assassins, with heavy, mountain-like steps, carried a cylindrical object shrouded in a huge black cloth and with a hideous outline to the center of the camp.
When the heavy black cloth was ripped off by the ghostly figure!
Everyone present, including the battle-hardened Yue Fei and Elizabeth, who was used to seeing naval cannons, felt their breath taken away at that moment.
Silly.
I was completely dumbfounded.
What it is? !
Was that a cannon? No, it was more like a crouching, hellish steel behemoth!
It was entirely black, with countless intricate and mysterious golden patterns engraved on its surface, shimmering with a luster that seemed to belong to another world under the firelight.
The cannon muzzle was so black it was unfathomable, thicker than the waist of a grown man, like a gaping maw capable of swallowing the sun and moon.
Just looking at it evokes a sense of insignificance and submission that comes from the depths of one's soul.
No one doubted that once this thing roared, it could wipe the distant volcano off the island!
"Oh my... God..."
Elizabeth covered her mouth tightly, her blue eyes contracting violently from extreme shock and fervor, her body trembling slightly with excitement.
She's about to suffocate!
This...this is what you call a cannon!
This is the true, ultimate romance, belonging to a king!
"Your Highness...Your Highness..." Her voice was hoarse and broken from overwhelming excitement, "What...what's its name?"
"It has no name."
Lin Zhen spoke softly, slowly walked to the giant cannon, and reached out to gently stroke the cold yet powerful cannon body, his movements as tender as if he were caressing his lover.
"Because it doesn't belong to this world."
This cannon was his only and final trump card during his trip to Southeast Asia.
It was a forbidden creation that he personally forged, using all the knowledge beyond his time, in the deepest secret workshop of the Ministry of Works, expending unimaginable resources and effort!
"but……"
Lin Zhen abruptly changed the subject, a chilling killing intent flashing in his deep eyes.
"If I absolutely had to give it a name..."
He turned the cannon, and the terrifying muzzle, capable of devouring everything, slowly aimed at the desolate, dark forest in the distance.
"Then let's call it that..."
"—The Last Judgment."
Lin Zhen's voice was devoid of any emotion, and the cold command came out of his mouth.
"The coordinates are three o'clock due west, and the distance is five kilometers."
"Target: 300 meters underground."
"Energy, fifty percent."
"Fire."
The instant the command was given!
Om-!
The silent steel behemoth seemed to come alive, and the countless golden runes on its body suddenly burst forth with dazzling light!
An indescribable, terrifying energy, powerful enough to distort space itself, began to gather at the muzzle of the cannon, emitting a teeth-grinding buzzing sound!
The blinding blue lightning compressed wildly, condensing into a single point of destruction!
The entire island trembled violently under this force!
then.
"boom--!!!"
No sound.
Or rather, it has transcended the realm of sound.
An unimaginably thick blue beam of light pierced through the deathly silent night sky with a terrifying speed that tore through vision and surpassed thought!
It was like a divine punishment from mythology, striking with perfect precision into the depths of that forest that everyone thought was empty!
There was no explosion.
There was no fire.
The beam of death silently merged into the earth the moment it touched the ground, like water droplets absorbed by a sponge, and nothing happened.
Just as everyone was puzzled.
A sudden change occurs!
Centered on the point where the beam of light fell, the ground within a radius of several kilometers began to undulate and surge violently, like boiling water!
Next!
"—Boom!!!"
A terrifying roar, a million times more muffled and chilling than the mournful cry of a deep-sea monster, thundered from the depths of the earth!
The entire island shook violently at that moment, as if it would fall apart at any moment!
at this time!
The forest floor that was struck by the beam of light collapsed inward without warning!
A terrifying sinkhole, hundreds of meters in diameter and bottomless, suddenly formed!
Countless towering ancient trees, giant rocks, and soil were mercilessly swallowed up by a terrifying suction force from the earth!
Smoke and dust billowed.
With the appearance of sinkholes.
The outline of a massive architectural complex, constructed of an unknown silver-white metal and exuding a futuristic and sci-fi feel, slowly emerged from the bottom of the abyss, revealing itself to everyone's stunned and numb gaze!
That was none other than a place hidden deep underground, belonging to the mysterious "Nihilistic Party"...
Secret base!