My Ability Pool is Superior

Thanks to the sufficiently dark sky, that dark red beam descending from the heavens was extremely conspicuous in the night sky.

Therefore, noticing this dark red beam was not just Lu Bai alone.

In the forward base, countless people looked up at the origin of that dark red beam.

The senior officers in the combat command center were so anxious that they rushed straight out of the command room, trying to observe the appearance of this attack with their own eyes.

They had not received reports sent back from the frontline.

To be precise, after that dark red beam fell, they lost contact with the frontline troops.

At first, some people were relatively optimistic, thinking that this might just be some kind of signal jamming means.

However, after the footage captured by the drone was transmitted back, this optimistic speculation was immediately dispelled.

In the huge pit with a diameter exceeding three kilometers, there was no sign of any life remaining.

If talking about power, it actually wasn’t that great.

But this method of attack was a huge blow to morale.

As soon as these military people saw it, they knew that the exaggerated attack speed like the speed of light could hardly be intercepted by any conventional means.

This strike’s objective was the frontline position; if the next strike’s objective became the forward base?

An unstoppable method of attack meant that there was a knife hanging over everyone’s neck at any time.

Their combat command center still existing now was thanks to the Mona people not choosing to strike them first.

In the combat command room, everyone’s gaze was filled with uncertainty.

Even everyone in the combat command room felt like they were sitting on a powder keg, liable to explode and take their lives at any moment.

If not for their reason still intact, there would probably already be senior officers planning to run away by now.

Even though such a situation hadn’t appeared yet, a considerable portion of people had the idea of strategic retreat in their hearts.

At least they couldn’t gather together, to avoid being wiped out by the Mona people in one go.

Seeing that even these senior officers and staff in the command room were shaken, there was no need to say what the lower-level troops were thinking.

Bang!

The man in military uniform with graying hair slammed a tactical board heavily onto the floor.

“Look at what you all look like now?”

The man in military uniform drew the gazes of everyone present to himself, snorted coldly, and continued: “Didn’t we already know long ago that there was a gap in technological level between us and the Mona people?

I admit, this gap might be even larger than the gap between us and the rebels, but so what? Are we not even going to fight and just throw down our weapons and surrender? Then what are we soldiers for?!”

The combat command room became quiet.

Those who could have a seat in this combat command room were naturally not hot-headed youngsters who got fired up after saying a couple of words.

But precisely because of this, they knew very well that what the man in military uniform said was correct.

“What’s wrong with the old guy suddenly? Who said anything about surrendering?”

The chief of staff wearing glasses shrugged, turned his head to the technician who was burying his head and not daring to speak nearby, and asked: “Has the analysis result of the Mona people’s strike this time come out?”

“Uh, technically judged temporarily as high-thermal-energy constrained ray; based on the duration of the strike, the energy distribution is uniform, with an average temperature of about 50 million to 70 million degrees Celsius.”

“So that area was directly evaporated, right?”

This temperature figure didn’t make the chief of staff furrow his brow at all.

In fact, the hydrogen bombs currently possessed by humanity could break through 100 million degrees Celsius at the instant of explosion.

On the contrary, it was the Mona people’s such attack speed and precise control over energy that made people feel despair.

This was still without considering the utilization rate of energy.

But the chief of staff intentionally or unintentionally ignored this point: “Still within understandable scope; in my view, it’s still fightable.”

“Have we locked the position of the Mona people’s warship in low Earth orbit? Can we find a way to give them a taste of their own medicine?”

……

The military, busy dealing with the suddenly appeared Mona people, naturally had no spare energy to manage the civilians.

On the civil defense project side, civilians were still continuously lining up to come out.

Regardless of whether they had personally witnessed the dark red beam descending from the sky not long ago, they were all anxiously discussing matters related to the Mona people.

Various rumors emerged, making people panic-stricken.

When people think the end is nigh, it’s not strange what they do, and don’t expect them to continue obeying management.

Scolding, angry cursing, shoving……

All sorts of human behaviors, too many to list.

At this moment, the unified management committee’s energy was all drawn to the appeared Mona people, temporarily unable to maintain order.

The situation was already hard to control, with rebel sentiments surging within; wanting to stabilize the situation again was almost impossible.

The riot soon erupted from small conflicts.

In the chaos, people scattered and fled.

Even more people chose to charge toward the forward base.

After all, only inside there was sufficient food and drinking water.

The number of civilians who had returned to the surface was too many; with the current manpower maintaining order, it was really stretched thin.

Unless weapons of mass destruction were really deployed in densely crowded areas, such a riot would only intensify.

Calmly thinking back, one would find that the Mona people actually hadn’t done much.

A Mona person’s starship just appeared in low Earth orbit, then fired once at the ground, with the casualties at most not reaching a thousand.

The triggered chain reaction was extremely severe; if not handled properly, it could even lead to the complete failure of the return to surface plan.

No, not just possible.

From the current development of the situation, it was highly probable.

……

Feng Yixuan reached out and gripped the eaves of the canteen forcefully, her two legs still dangling at the edge, flailing.

“Deputy Captain Lu, what are you looking at? Hurry and pull me up.”

Lu Bai didn’t pay attention; he knew Feng Yixuan could climb up by herself.

He just stood quietly on top of the canteen, gazing into the night sky from afar.

“That just now was done by the Mona people, right? Did you see them?”

“Uncertain.”

Lu Bai imperceptibly shook his head, then softly added: “So I plan to go confirm it.”

Feng Yixuan blinked: “How to confirm?”

The next second, Lu Bai gave her the answer with action.

Without seeing any sign of exertion from Lu Bai, his whole body shot straight into the sky like an arrow off the string.

In an instant, he blended into the night sky and disappeared from Feng Yixuan’s field of vision.

“Holy crap!”

Moments later, the violent airflow swept in, directly blowing Feng Yixuan who was hanging on the edge of the canteen roof flying, nearly giving her a concussion.