Dragon Transformation in the Apocalypse

Chapter 492 Closing the Spatial Rift

An alarm suddenly sounded aboard the Dawn, which was conducting a reconnaissance mission at high altitude, followed by shaking. Yang Liu grabbed her seat and stood up, asking, "What's going on? What happened? Why is the Dawn shaking so violently?"

A special operations team member in charge of detection and communications immediately replied, "Team Leader Yang, look at this." As she spoke, she quickly operated the panel in front of her, and three seconds later, the footage captured by the Dawn was displayed on the big screen.

Everyone saw a huge ball of light appear about 100 kilometers east of Dawn City. It was spinning rapidly and expanding outwards. As the ball of light grew larger, a large amount of energy waves spread out from the center of the ball of light.

The special forces soldier said, "Team Leader Yang, it was the impact of the terrifying energy emitted by this orb that caused the Dawn to shake. I didn't expect the energy to be so strong; we were already experiencing such a large disturbance at an altitude of 10,000 meters."

Everyone stared intently at the large screen, and saw the expansion speed of the light sphere gradually slow down, and its rotation speed also decreased. After a few more minutes, as if a piece of glass had been shattered, the light sphere suddenly broke and disappeared.

At this moment, Li Chenglong was hovering in mid-air, still in the form of the Holy Dragon Armor. He looked at the land spanning over ten kilometers and saw that it had not suffered much damage from his energy, and couldn't help but nod in satisfaction.

At this moment, the special forces soldiers high in the air also noticed this. Some of them exclaimed, "How is this possible? Such a strong explosion and energy impact, yet there are no traces on the ground. This is unbelievable!"

At this moment, a special forces soldier stood up and said, "According to the calculations of the Dawn, apart from some small hills and mounds being destroyed, the deepest part of other places has only dropped by 1 meter. Although we don't know how it was done, we do know that the person who caused this phenomenon has an extremely strong grasp of energy."

Yang Liu's eyes lit up: "It must be Captain Li! Only Captain Li, after successfully leveling up to level 14, could reach this level. Alright, let's not forget our mission. Let's quickly start scouting the hidden spatial rift!"

At this moment, on the front line of the 1st Army of the Dawn Army, Wu Gang and others were still leading their soldiers in a defensive battle. But just now, after the light sphere appeared and slowly disappeared in the distance, they could clearly feel that the special forces' attack had become less fierce and less disciplined than before.

Wu Gang was firing a Type 27 super-powered rifle, each shot accurately killing a special forces member. At that moment, a staff officer rushed over and reported, "Reporting to Commander Wu, the 2nd and 3rd Armies have just contacted us. They have completed the encirclement of the special forces and are tightening the encirclement as planned. Please proceed according to the battle plan."

Wu Gang was overjoyed and said, "Great! Help me contact the comrades in the Rocket Force and tell them to fire all ten thousand cannons at once. Five minutes later, the 1st Army will begin its counter-offensive!"

Although the Rocket Force is nominally an army, it is actually organized at the division level. The current division commander is Zhou Jihai, the deputy division commander is Li Guorui, the political commissar is Li Nian, and the chief of staff is Lu Ming. The former political commissar, Comrade Liu Zhigang, heroically sacrificed his life in a previous operation against special forces at the young age of 42.

目前火箭军下辖6个团，分别是共拥有160门晶石粒子光束加农炮的1团和2团，共拥有600门超能高射炮的3团和4团，共拥有100台空间导弹发射车的5团和6团。

Upon receiving the 1st Army's message, Zhou Jihai immediately ordered his six regiments to open fire simultaneously, striving to deplete their current reserves of energy or ammunition within five minutes to provide the best fire support for the 1st Army's charge.

Five minutes later, the artillery fire subsided. Wu Gang drew his ion sword and shouted, "Comrades, follow me! Charge towards victory!"

He, along with Lena, Qin Susu, Keltilan, and Sitros, charged at the forefront, followed by other high-ranking officers from the 1st Army, and then division-level cadres. The 1st Army personnel transformed into a sharp arrowhead, piercing the heart of the special forces.

At this moment, Li Chenglong deactivated his Holy Dragon Armor form and charged towards a Level 3 Specialist in the distance. As the light sphere shattered, more Specialists surged into the area that had been cleared by the light sphere, but their numbers and strength were vastly different from before.

He slew a Level 3 Specialist with a single sword strike, then used the long hair from the Specialist's body to stab himself in the arm. Instantly, a scene appeared in his eyes: a void creature arriving on Earth. It turned out that on a remote island in the Pacific Ocean, there was a large spatial rift.

However, due to some unknown method, the crack is not visible from the outside. Most of the special forces that attacked Dawn City crawled out through this crack.

Li Chenglong closed his eyes and carefully sensed, trying to see what was on the other side of the crack and where these special forces came from. But just as his consciousness probed into the spatial crack through the connection between the special forces, a very strange eye suddenly appeared in the crack and instantly blasted his consciousness out.

He plucked the long hair, and without an energy supply, it quickly turned into a puddle of dirty water and slowly disappeared. Meanwhile, the wound on his arm healed at a visible speed, returning to normal in less than three seconds.

Li Chenglong looked up at the Dawn high in the sky and appeared in the captain's seat in an instant. He sat down and said, "Dawn City, proceed to this coordinate point immediately." As soon as he finished speaking, a set of coordinate points appeared on the main display, and the Dawn's artificial intelligence, Angel, began to automatically input the target point and start navigation.

Because Li Chenglong's appearance was so sudden, the special forces members didn't react at first. Seeing him arrive, the women all surrounded him.

Yang Liu immediately reported: "Team Leader Li, due to the short investigation period, we have only investigated five or six provinces so far, but we have also discovered 10 spatial rifts of varying sizes. Two of them are developing rapidly, while four are shrinking."

As Yang Liu spoke, she showed Li Chenglong her laptop-style crystal computer. Li Chenglong looked at it carefully for five seconds, nodded, and said with a smile, "Well done. After we return from the Pacific Ocean, you will need to continue searching for others."

Liu Ruyan, who was standing nearby, asked, "Captain Li, how is the situation with our Dawn Army? We're basically in a state of communication silence right now, and we're not entirely clear on some things." Li Chenglong glanced at the time on the main monitor and slowly said, "We should be able to finish the battle in about two more hours. There aren't many special forces left, but the area is too large, and it will take some time to clear it out."

Wang Shuang asked with a smile, "Captain Li, did you create that huge glowing sphere in the sky? It feels like another sun, making our main battlefield incredibly bright and making it easier for the soldiers to fight."

Li Chenglong nodded: "That's an energy ball I made. Although it doesn't generate heat, it can maintain its brightness, and it can stay lit for eight hours before disappearing."

Li Chenglong patiently answered everyone's questions, explaining that he went to that coordinate point because there was a giant spatial rift there, which was hidden by some special ability.

In just twenty minutes, the Dawn reached the vicinity of the target point. He told the special forces soldiers to wait on the Dawn while he flew down alone.

The group saw that this place was just a reasonably sized deserted island, with little vegetation and no signs of human habitation. But shortly after Li Chenglong left, they were astonished to find a huge circular spatial rift with a diameter of at least one kilometer appearing before them.

Faced with this spatial rift that couldn't be easily closed, Li Chenglong chose to destroy it directly. He drew his Emperor Sword and shouted, "Dimensional Slash!" A massive blue sword aura slashed straight at the spatial rift. Instantly, the earth shook, the sea surged, and the enormous spatial rift vanished into nothingness under Li Chenglong's single sword strike.

Then Li Chenglong pointed his right hand to the sky, and beams of blue light shot out from his five fingers, flying into the distance. The various spatial rifts, large and small, that Yang Liu and the others had previously detected through the Dawn Ship also disappeared as a result of the bombardment of blue energy.