Chapter 441 - 221: Integrating with the Orange Membrane Wings, Glimpsing Tier Four Life

Chapter 441: Chapter 221: Integrating with the Orange Membrane Wings, Glimpsing Tier Four Life

As Lin Feng and Shen Jie jumped one after the other, 10,000 meters into the moonlit sky, a battle unknown to the world was about to begin.

This was the stable stratosphere, the region where most planes flew on long-haul flights. The air was exceptionally clean and transparent, like a tranquil paradise.

Below them lay a thick layer of grayish-white clouds.

At that moment, over ten kilometers away, three Wind-winged Zergs were flying at Mach 1, heading toward the descending transport plane formation.

They were incredibly fast. Their normal cruising speed reached Mach 1, exceeding the maximum dive speed of a Tier One Cyan-winged Zerg.

At maximum power, they could break Mach 2, perhaps even faster.

These specs were nearly identical to those of advanced human jet fighters.

But the maneuverability of the Zerg Race’s flying units far surpassed that of human machinery.

Facing the aggressive patrol of Wind-winged Zergs, Lin Feng relied on his Mind Sensing Skill, enhanced by his Tier Jumping Upgrade. He continuously scanned a twenty-kilometer radius, detecting their exact positions.

This allowed him to calculate more of the Wind-winged Zergs’ flight data, providing intelligence to formulate an interception and hunting plan.

The Wind-winged Zergs, with their supersonic flight, could rapidly close in on the transport fleet within a minute.

Because of the interference from the plane’s wake turbulence, it took Lin Feng and Shen Jie about ten seconds to stabilize themselves, spread their wings, and fly back up to the stratosphere above the troposphere.

Now, they only had forty seconds left.

’We must come up with a countermeasure as soon as possible!’

Lin Feng made a snap decision and called out to Shen Jie:

"Use the Electromagnetic Cannon to lock down the entire airspace and cover the transport formation’s landing!"

The latter nodded, flapped the pair of Membrane Wings that had grown from his back, and dove into the troposphere below. He planned to use the thick cumulus clouds to hide his presence and reuse his previous tactic: a low-altitude ambush on the Tier Two Wind-winged Zergs.

The transport formation was still a hundred-odd kilometers from the frontline military base and would be able to land safely in ten minutes.

Lin Feng didn’t know if the base’s air defense forces could lock onto the Wind-winged Zergs from over a hundred kilometers away, but he had to prepare a contingency plan in case of an accident.

This was also his first direct confrontation with Tier Two Wind-winged Zergs.

Even though Lin Feng had already entered Tier Three and could deliver a crushing blow with his superior power, he didn’t let his guard down.

If the goal was simply to intercept the Wind-winged Zerg squad, Shen Jie’s Level 29 Electromagnetic Cannon alone was enough to pose a serious threat to them.

This was because the splash Damage from the Magnetic Storm Bomb could cover an area one kilometer in diameter.

It formed a huge, spherical electric shock field.

This greatly increased the hit rate.

As the saying goes, what you lack in accuracy, you make up for with firepower.

Although the Magnetic Storm Bomb was only lethal within a few square meters of the explosion’s center, and its splash Damage would sharply decrease with distance—attenuating from a thousand to a few dozen—even a Tier One Black Spine Zerg could barely withstand it without dying.

But the electric shock had an extremely strong disruptive and paralyzing effect on the high-speed Tier Two Wind-winged Zergs.

When the current paralyzed the zerg’s body, it would interfere with the normal electrical signals of the nervous system, causing total weakness and making the high-frequency flapping of their Membrane Wings crash and cease in an instant.

At that point, due to their body structure, the Wind-winged Zergs wouldn’t even be able to glide down; they could only plummet straight down, pulled by the planet’s gravity.

Therefore, the Electromagnetic Cannon was also quite an excellent close-range anti-aircraft weapon.

However, the flight maneuverability of the Tier Two Wind-winged Zergs was not to be underestimated.

Especially in a dogfight, the performance gap created by the Tier Two Orange Membrane Wings meant that both Lin Feng and Shen Jie had to be cautious.

Now, at Lin Feng’s suggestion, Shen Jie had already set up an ambush inside the clouds, preparing to use the Electromagnetic Cannon to attack the Wind-winged Zergs and catch them off guard...

Lin Feng, on the other hand, took on the role of the bait.

He concealed his own aura, then raised the Ion Laser Cannon in his hands, aimed it in the direction of the approaching Wind-winged Zergs, and fired a volley of unaimed, pot-luck shots.

The short-burst, rapid-fire Laser Cannon had an effective kill range of ten kilometers, which the Wind-winged Zerg squad had just entered.

High-energy ion beams streaked past the bodies of the Tier Two Wind-winged Zergs. Under the moonlight, the glowing Golden Laser Cannon in Lin Feng’s hands acted like a beacon in the night, instantly attracting the Wind-winged Zergs that had been on their way to harass the transport planes.

Unlike the ground-based Zerg Race, which could only move left and right, the aerial Wind-winged Zergs could use highly-maneuverable, erratic Instant Teleportation in all four directions—up, down, left, and right—to evade human targeting locks.

Hitting them from a long distance was not easy.

Especially since the farther the firing distance, the smaller the target appeared. A ten-meter body might still be discernible to the naked eye at a distance of one kilometer, but from several kilometers away, it would just become a tiny black dot.

As a Tier Three Life Form, Lin Feng possessed superb sensory organs, and the limit of his naked-eye tracking and locking reached an astonishing five kilometers or more. But even so, hitting a high-speed target from several kilometers away was still extremely difficult.

Furthermore, his Mind Sensing wasn’t a tracking radar; it could only detect the target’s general location.

At this moment, he fired the short-burst Laser Cannon more than ten times in a row, trying to eliminate the Tier Two Wind-winged Zergs, which were now just black dots constantly using Instant Teleportation under the night sky.

But the final result was not ideal.

A few lucky shots hit the Wind-winged Zergs’ limbs, causing only localized, small-area high-temperature burns that didn’t affect their attack rhythm at all.

When the distance between them closed to just three or four kilometers, the Wind-winged Zergs abruptly accelerated, their speed instantly soaring from around the speed of sound to over Mach 2.