The Ultimate War Of The Apocalypse-Chapter 681 - 674: The Fourth Test

To Gao Yuan, Lizhizi was different from the others.

When Lizhizi died, Gao Yuan’s dream of being a knight-errant shattered along with Lizhizi.

When Lizhizi died, Shenzhou’s last pure Taoist just vanished like that.

When Lizhizi died, all the romance, all the fantasies, all the longing dissipated with his death.

Lizhizi was not the spiritual pillar of Spark Squad, but he was the most beautiful hue in the hearts of Spark Squad members because each of them could find a reflection of themselves in him.

The knight-errant, a dream rooted in one’s heart since childhood, dissipated with Lizhizi’s death, as the Serpent People showed everyone with a single test that wandering the world with a sword was, after all, just a dream.

So with the death of Lizhizi, the last color of romanticism was taken away.

When Lizhizi died, Spark Squad also permanently shed its idealistic shell.

The Serpent People killed Lizhizi, and from then on, Spark Squad had to face the most brutal reality.

Ten years to sharpen a sword, its frosty blade never tested. This was a portrayal of the first half of Lizhizi’s life, where he practiced martial arts all his life but never had the chance to use them.

"If one day I become a sword immortal, one sword shall shine and chill the nine provinces cold!" This was Lizhizi’s vision for the future, and when he recited this line, which was not quite poetry, with his broken sword across his knees, he truly wanted to become a sword immortal and save the world.

The emergence of Mecha gave Lizhizi the possibility of becoming a sword immortal, but the Serpent People shattered that possibility.

Thus, Gao Yuan had to cry out Lizhizi’s heart’s cry for him, as a tribute to the only outlier of Spark Squad, to bid farewell to the romantic Lizhizi.

From then on, there was no more romance in this war.

And this war was simply a test by the Serpent People.

The zombies were wiped clean, the zombies acted as a gift from the Serpent People to test human weapons’ strength, quickly cleared out by the rapid firepower of the 59 modified metal hydrogen cannon shells, in Gao Yuan’s desperate fight, in the sweep of tanks and armored vehicles, the zombies were cleaned up extremely quickly.

But in the end, it was just a test. When the modified 59 attempted to use metal hydrogen cannon shells on the Colossal Worm, the Serpent People’s spacecraft would fire beams of light, intercepting all the cannon shells mid-air.

So what will the Serpent People test next?

Four spacecraft still hung in the sky; the Colossal Worm lurked two kilometers away. If this were to be humanity’s last battle, no, Shenzhou is still holding on; then if this were humanity’s last battle in Africa, how would it end?

Gao Yuan did not know, no one knew, only the Serpent People knew.

Gao Yuan raised his head; he looked up at the spacecraft in the sky.

Like Gao Yuan, everyone raised their heads; although the oppressively large Colossal Worm posed a more intense threat, everyone knew that those spacecraft in the sky were key.

The spacecraft finally made new movements.

The third test killed Lizhizi, so would the Serpent People’s fourth test be on the modified version of 59?

First, they tested the mecha’s firepower, then its defensive capabilities, and next would likely be the modified 59, or perhaps Xinghe.

Soon, an answer came, as a beam of light was emitted from the nose of a spacecraft, directly shining upon Xinghe’s mecha.

Gao Yuan’s heart sank, but to his astonishment, he discovered that Xinghe’s mecha was unscathed.

Under the Serpent People’s beam, Xinghe’s mecha shone with a brilliance that was unbearable to look at directly, yet Xinghe was still in motion, her mecha seemingly unaffected.

Xinghe finally began to retaliate. The halo behind her also emitted a powerful light, which seemed to intensify the Serpent People’s beam, but it was their spacecraft that couldn’t withstand it first.

There was no sound, but one of the Serpent People’s triangle spacecraft went through the whole process of smoking, catching fire, then disintegrating and falling in an instant.

There was a generational gap between human and Serpent People’s weaponry, an irreconcilable gap, but the Serpent People’s weapons also had a generational gap compared to the Celestials’, an equally unbridgeable chasm.

In an instant, Xinghe destroyed one of the Serpent People’s spacecraft, and then, the other three spacecraft began to shoot their beams once again, with three powerful lights from different directions focusing on Xinghe.

Stacking the number to enhance the power was obvious, and the brilliance on Xinghe grew more intense, so much so that Gao Yuan could even feel the heat emanating from her. fɾeeweɓnѳveɭ.com

If the Serpent People concentrated their attack on the modified 59 vehicle, it certainly wouldn’t have held up, but their test was focused on Xinghe.

Gao Yuan, who was no longer a rookie, finally understood the Serpent People’s intention, as did Ram, Yang Yi, Nate, and Xiang Weiguo; by now, each of them knew the Serpent People’s intent.

The Serpent People’s attack was a test, but this test was aimed only at Xinghe.

The halo behind Xinghe’s head emitted another powerful light. She turned and destroyed the three spacecraft in succession, and when she destroyed the second one, that spacecraft seemed to try to escape, but under Xinghe’s sustained illumination, it disintegrated in the air after moving less than a hundred meters.

The Serpent People wanted to test whether a spacecraft could escape under Xinghe’s attack, and the answer was no.

And the third spacecraft simply didn’t move, easily destroyed by Xinghe in the air.

Xinghe once left her mecha with Shenzhou for research, which lasted a long time, but the technology contained in this mecha was too advanced; it ultimately wasn’t something humanity could replicate shortly. Humanity could successfully copy the structure of the mecha, but materials and deeper aspects were impossible to replicate in a short time.

The fourth test of the Serpent People ended, and Xinghe was victorious, having destroyed all four of the Serpent People’s spacecraft.

But in terms of the test itself, the Serpent People’s test was successful because they only wanted to collect data, and they certainly did that.

The strong light on Xinghe’s body slowly waned until it returned to a visible intensity, and at that moment, Xinghe finally said, "The Serpent People’s attack weapons are lasers, but not lasers. Human lasers actually rely on high temperatures to achieve destructive effects, whereas the Serpent People’s lasers take the properties of waves to the extreme, and light is just the manifestation or, rather, a side effect of wave-particle duality weaponization. I must particularly remind you that wave-particle duality is correct, but it’s only partly correct, a small correct part within a concept. Light is complicated, much more complex than what you currently understand. Saying this, can you understand me?"

Gao Yuan didn’t understand, and no one could understand Xinghe’s words because humanity had not yet reached this field of study. They lacked even the relative correct terminology and concepts, so how could Xinghe possibly describe it accurately in Earth’s languages?

Xinghe sighed, then continued, "The energy output of the modified 59 gave me mobility, but it was the Serpent People’s light attack that afforded me the capacity to attack in the same manner, because... I can’t explain any further. If you don’t understand The Sixth Force, then I will never be able to explain it. But you still need to remember my words because if someone can comprehend The Sixth Force, then my words will allow humanity to see the light more quickly."