"Those things are flying up..." Zhao Jiayan couldn't help but scream.
The eight-year-old Jiang Yiyi was even more scared, her little face turning pale, not daring to make a sound.
Yang Yuan looked down and indeed saw shadows rising densely from below, laughing eerily while swiftly approaching them.
"Damn!"
He willed his mind, directly opened all three cannons of the Firepower Flying Disc facing downward.
Three black gaping cannons with a diameter of one meter appeared, aimed directly below, then fired three shells.
Instantly, the bizarre things below reacted like mice seeing a cat, their faces changed dramatically, quickly descending, while a huge protective shield akin to an Energy Shield appeared above them.
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
"Boom!"
The three falling shells directly exploded.
Amidst the deafening roar, the Energy Shield at a five-hundred-meter altitude remained unmoved, but the terrifying explosion shock wave swept outward over a kilometer, imposing a grand spectacle.
Upon seeing those things actually retreat, Yang Yuan was slightly stunned. Are these things afraid of shells?
Could physical attacks actually harm these things?
Thinking of this, he suddenly felt less afraid.
As long as they can be hurt, there's no issue.
The interior of his Firepower Flying Disc contained tens of thousands of extra-large shells.
However, that Energy Shield was somewhat eerie; he wasn't sure whether his shells could explode it.
Moreover—
The sheer number of those things was overwhelming, with the entire field of vision populated within the architectural clusters, likely in the tens of thousands or even millions, and he wasn't confident he could kill them all. Bombarding recklessly might instead stir up trouble.
In the blink of an eye, those humanoid eerie existences were back on the ground, within dense architectural clusters, raising their heads and gazing at them with bizarre, cold eyes.
Zhao Jiayan also noticed those things were afraid of the Firepower Flying Disc's shells and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, realizing Yang Yuan was indeed reliable.
However, Yang Yuan did not continue firing.
The sheer number of those things was overwhelming. Not only was there the eerie protective shield, even if they could be harmed, killing them all was impossible, and it would only invite trouble.
Yang Yuan used the radar map of the Firepower Flying Disc to search for those Superpower Users, intending to ask them about the situation.
Unexpectedly, however, it seemed as if those Superpower Users had vanished; the radar couldn't locate them.
'Where did those guys go? Why is this region so strange?'
He slightly frowned and said, "We'll go to the edge location to see their reaction."
Saying that, he maneuvered the Firepower Flying Disc ahead a bit, landing about nine hundred meters from the architectural clusters.
Then, he saw the group of humanoid eerie existences gathering at the edge of the buildings, continuing to gaze coldly yet bizarrely at them without chasing after.
"They shouldn't be able to come out, which eases my mind."
Yang Yuan breathed a sigh of relief, controlling the Firepower Flying Disc as it slowly descended.
Finally, the airdrop box landed on the ground.
The three jumped down from the box, cautiously observing the surroundings.
"The wind isn't too strong; isn't the temperature outside not too high?" Zhao Jiayan asked.
Indeed, the cooler, although inside the sealed airdrop box, could affect the outside, yet the wind generated here wasn't that strong.
"I'll go take a look."
Yang Yuan stepped out past the cooler's radiation range, checked the temperature display on the Power Armor, his eyes flashing with surprise.
He quickly returned to the original spot and said to the two women, "The temperature here is only a little over 50 degrees."
"That low?"
Zhao Jiayan looked around at the surrounding trees in surprise: "That's strange, the vegetation here is all dead, yet temperatures over fifty degrees shouldn't cause complete plant death. Could it be that those things emerging at night are what caused the temperature to drop?"
"It's possible, but also it's likely we're sufficiently far from the Drought Fiend, having advanced about three hundred kilometers, and the death of this area's vegetation might be related to those things."
Yang Yuan pointed toward the distant architectural clusters.
"Previously, I remotely controlled the Firepower Flying Disc in this region, yet I effortlessly left that time without encountering today's issues. I'll see if the Firepower Flying Disc can leave without people."
Saying that, he removed the airdrop box, then controlled the Firepower Flying Disc to ascend again.
The sixty-plus-meter diameter Firepower Flying Disc swiftly moved, soon departing beyond a kilometer and growing more distant without circling back as before.
"Did it get out?" Zhao Jiayan asked expectantly.
"Seems it did."
Yang Yuan was delighted, keeping control of the Firepower Flying Disc to fly twenty kilometers out, confirming no issues, then bringing it back again.
"Could it be those things got scared and don't intend to stop us anymore?" Zhao Jia excitedly suggested.
"Not sure, let's try going out again."
Yang Yuan flew the Firepower Flying Disc back, re-attaching the box.
The three of them climbed back up, grabbed the steel cable tightly, and then had the Firepower Flying Disc ascend again, moving away from this area.
However, as they reached the edge, a mist vaguely appeared ahead.
When they continued forward for a distance, they saw the cluster of alien-style architecture again.
"We're back again." Zhao Jiayan's face was grim.
Yang Yuan's expression also darkened.
Was it not those things being scared, but the fact that they couldn't leave because they were bringing others along?
Unwilling to accept this, he tried again, controlling the Firepower Flying Disc to swiftly move away from the architectural cluster, hoping to break through the invisible field with speed.
But still, it was useless; this place seemed like space was distorted.
He tried backing up directly when they saw the mist.
As a result, after retreating a certain distance, there were no architectural clusters in front, but the architectural cluster appeared behind them.
"We're back again, we can't get out." Zhao Jiayan said bitterly.
Yang Yuan stopped, looking grimly at the alien-style architectural cluster, at the edge of the cluster where those 'people' with eerie gazes were watching them, and with a thought, opened all the cannon ports of the Firepower Flying Disc.
He even planned to upgrade the Firepower Flying Disc again; the accumulated experience was almost enough for the Firepower Flying Disc to level up twice, after which its firepower would increase geometrically.
And just at the moment he had this thought—
The faces of the 'people' within the architectural cluster thousands of meters away all changed, and then the architectural cluster within the field of vision was enveloped in rolling mist.
Immediately, an oppressive aura emanated from that area, as if a terrifying monster was about to charge out and devour people.
"Huh? Are these things a whole entity?"
Yang Yuan frowned, vaguely guessing the reason for the previous appearance of an Energy Shield.
At the same time.
In the new Safe Zone over a hundred kilometers away.
The soldiers monitoring the cluster of architecture saw the suddenly appearing and rolling mist and couldn't help but change their expressions drastically.
"Not good, the things inside have gone berserk!"
The entire Safe Zone erupted instantly, thinking those things were coming out to kill actively, and everyone immediately stood ready.
Either aiming heavy artillery in that direction, or placing strong Superpower Users at the forefront.
However, the eerie existences within the architectural cluster didn't react to their heavy artillery; they only reacted somewhat to those Superpower Users who had broken the limits once.
But that was all.
...
"Damn it, those things have gone berserk!"
"Quick, get away from here..."
"Damn, it seems like we're lost again, isn't the Safe Zone supposed to be here? Did we enter another space again?!"
The Earthquake trio and the other dozen Superpower Users gathering together saw the boiling mist and their expressions changed drastically, hurriedly running away.
...
"Yang Yuan..." Zhao Jiayan said a bit anxiously, "Are you confident?"
She didn't stop Yang Yuan but asked if he was confident, not planning to interfere with Yang Yuan's actions.
Yang Yuan coldly looked at the eerie existences shrouded in mist thousands of meters away, and after a moment of silence, suddenly chuckled: "Just scaring them, it seems those things aren't completely unafraid of death, just a bunch of beings using eerie methods."
But was it really those things keeping them here?
Could it be that the space here itself has a problem?
After all, this place looks like an Ancient Ruins, and there's no such thing as a simple Ancient Ruins in this world.
He was not uncertain about this, the reason to suspect that the space itself has a problem is that those things seemed unable to leave that ruin, trapping them here seemed to have no meaning.
Originally he intended to upgrade the Firepower Flying Disc directly and then bulldoze here.
But the unexpected discovery just now suggested those things seemed like a whole entity—
a super eerie thing covering over a hundred kilometers?
Just thinking about it made one's scalp tingle.
Since he wasn't confident, he dared not fire, lest he stirred up a hornet's nest.
Anyway, since those things couldn't come out, it's better to maintain the status quo for now.
He snorted coldly, ominously closing the cannon ports, controlling the Firepower Flying Disc to land.
When the airdrop box landed on the ground, they jumped down again, standing firmly, and took the airdrop box.
Perhaps sensing the crisis had passed, the mist disappeared from the architectural cluster thousands of meters away, and those 'people' showed themselves again, continuing to gaze at them with eerie eyes.
Yang Yuan ignored them, preparing to find a suitable place nearby to set up the Safe House, rest for the night, and continue finding a way out tomorrow.