Chapter 993 - 436: Dirty Bombs

As Zhao Jie’s words fell, the Titan Giant Mechanism roared again, but this time it launched strange shells.

These shells had purely steel casings, still conical in shape, but they were extraordinarily enlarged, looking like a bloated fathead fish. It was clear that both in volume and mass, they were immense, though what was inside each shell remained unknown.

However, due to their mass far exceeding that of ordinary shells, even when fired from the Titan Giant Mechanism at an altitude of over twenty thousand meters, they couldn’t solely rely on initial energy to achieve a range of hundreds of kilometers, which necessitated additional rocket boosters mounted on the tail to enhance speed and range.

Coincidentally, all the Blood Wing Demons had ascended to an altitude of twenty to thirty thousand meters to evade anti-air weapons, leaving them no time to intercept, causing these shells to smash heavily near the outermost tree wall with speeds exceeding five times the speed of sound, propelled by the rocket boosters!

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Deafening explosions erupted at the boundary, and the mushroom clouds from the explosions soared upward.

However, although the power of these explosions was already tremendously shocking, they still fell within the realm of conventional weapons, with over a hundred "Fat Fish" bombs creating mere small points on the boundary line, incapable of causing large-scale destruction.

Yet soon, Chu Xiu’s eyebrows twitched as he noticed something amiss. The bloody tendrils in the explosion area began to wither and die at a visibly rapid pace, and the unsettling crimson hue in the soil started to fade!

"Is this... a dirty bomb?" Chu Xiu suddenly recalled a term.

A dirty bomb is a type of bomb containing highly radioactive materials inside. When these radioactive substances are activated by high temperature and pressure, they create lasting radioactive pollution, rendering the irradiated area uninhabitable, and these radioactive materials take a long time to naturally decay, making them extremely difficult to handle!

Especially some dirty bombs with long half-lives, they would leave the contaminated land barren for over a decade! In Chu Xiu’s previous life, they were explicitly banned and were notorious weapons akin to biochemical weapons!

Zhao Jie nodded with a faint smile, "Exactly, dirty bombs!"

"Moreover, this batch of dirty bombs is specially treated, with a Spiritual Array inside that accelerates the release rate to ten million times that of ordinary dirty bombs! Within just a few seconds, they can release the total radiation amount of an ordinary dirty bomb over three to four months!"

"These streams of radioactive particles have extreme penetrative ability, affecting even deep underground."

"With our current technology, creating an ecosystem is quite challenging, and protecting it requires considerable effort, but destroying an ecosystem is effortless."

Under Chu Xiu’s watchful eyes, these ecological tendrils perished in large numbers, and with their death, the blessings on the Blood Demon Army disappeared as well.

Moreover, the Blood Demon Servants near the dirty bombs appeared to be affected by some special influence. Initially, they showed no change, but within less than half a minute, they began to stagger, as if hit by a curse of aging, with all their stats plummeting!

Even the Blood Wing Demons at altitudes of twenty to thirty thousand meters were impacted to varying degrees!

Over a hundred specially processed dirty bombs turned the entire battlefield into a radiation purgatory!

"This is simply a disaster for the ecosystem," Chu Xiu marveled.

Zhao Jie remarked, "It’s a regrettable measure, but we’ve tried to minimize the losses."

"In the thirteen layers of inner tree walls, there are special coatings to block radiation."

"Furthermore, as I mentioned, the release rate of these pollutants’ radiation is drastically accelerated. While their power is increased a thousandfold, it also allows the pollutants to begin to degrade in less than half a day."

"Afterwards, we have specialized plants to restore the damaged land..."

Zhao Jie’s words prompted Chu Xiu to once again marvel at the role of the government. This is the strength of collective and professional efforts, thoroughly prepared with contingencies for every aspect. If Chu Xiu had been alone, he would have been at his wit’s end against this relentless ecological wave, watching helplessly as his Civilization Domain was compressed.

But now, the enemy’s painstaking efforts, even resorting to Blood Demon Servants charging through firefields to create an ecosystem, were effortlessly destroyed, forming an indestructible invisible city wall! If the Blood Demon Army wished to reinforce, they would first have to pass through a raging torrent of radiation particles elevated a thousandfold!

"Next, it’s time to..."

"Shut the door and catch the dog!"

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

Cannon emplacements, ready for action from various locations, roared in unison. The self-aiming machine cannons shattered a multitude of Blood Demons instantly, while on top of the massive mechanisms, hundreds of laser cannons equipped with large lenses deployed!

The immense speed of laser weapons makes them unrivaled anti-air assets, though typically limited by power output, they are often used to defend against small targets like drones.

However, the massive mountain-like interior of the Titan Mechanism had ample space and location to house high-power laser generators! Energy tubes over a hundred meters long continuously refined these particle streams, so by the time they emerged from the lens emitters, they had already converged into terrifying laser beams!

Hundreds of laser beams as thick as a baby’s fist shot out, their speed making it impossible for the Blood Wing Demons to evade! The immense output power needed only two or three seconds to ignite the Fierce Tier Blood Wing Demons!