#905 - Chapter 905 Salt Crystal Forest
By the time the space mecha Nata arranged arrived at the North Pole, the entire Arctic ice layer was completely covered by ice crystal trees.
From a distance, it looked like a giant primeval forest carved from ice crystals.
The space mecha wanted to investigate up close, but was attacked as soon as it arrived.
"Boom ~"
An ice spike appeared out of nowhere, directly freezing the spaceship inside the ice crystal.
The five space mecha didn't even have time to react before they turned into ice sculptures.
This was a drawback of the spatial shield.
Regardless of whether the shield was activated or not, once the space was fixed, it could not be moved.
The spatial shields of these five mecha were all activated, so they were not harmed by the ice crystals.
However, they could neither fight back nor break the ice crystals; they could only be trapped inside.
After discovering that the mecha were trapped, Nata immediately sent another 100 mecha over.
This time, they no longer rushed in rashly, but probed slowly.
At the same time, the subspace sentry towers deployed in space also began to analyze this ice crystal forest.
They were shocked when they analyzed it.
The main component of these ice crystals was actually not water, but sodium chloride.
This thing, commonly known as table salt, is an inorganic substance.
Unexpectedly, such a common thing could have such a fierce side.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh ~"
When the newly sent 100 mecha were about to reach the position where the five mecha were frozen, they were also immediately attacked.
Countless crystal needles pierced over from the top, bottom, left, right, and front five directions.
The density of the needles was extremely high, leaving no room to dodge.
Originally, the mecha had spatial shields, so this kind of needle-like physical attack would have no effect.
However, they seemed to have eyes, and stopped moving after piercing the mecha's phantom image.
They began to intertwine and spread out burrs, instantly freezing the entire space.
The 100 mecha that Nata had newly sent were all left behind by the opponent in minutes.
"What the!"
Nata felt humiliated.
Being tripped by the same stone twice was unbearable.
This time, Nata transferred another 30,000 space mecha from the sky fortress, vowing to raze this salt crystal forest to the ground.
These mecha didn't even scout; instead, they flew into the high altitude and used four-dimensional antimatter ion cannons to bombard the forest directly.
However, the unexpected situation reappeared.
The four-dimensional antimatter ion cannon completely failed to achieve any attack effect.
After the ion beam irradiated the salt crystals, no annihilation reaction occurred.
It was like shining a flashlight on a wall, with no effect at all.
"Is it that magical?"
Nata began to be interested in this salt crystal forest.
He used his own intelligent brain to model and try to crack the reason why the salt crystals did not undergo an annihilation reaction with anti-beta particles.
However, the modeling results were not ideal.
From the simulation results, sodium chloride crystals would inevitably undergo annihilation, with absolutely no possibility of immunity.
Nata ordered the mecha spaceship to carry out multiple rounds of bombardment, but the results were all the same.
"Buzz buzz buzz ~"
Before he could figure out the reason, the other party began to counterattack.
A large number of micro crystal grains flew out of the forest, like a white sandstorm.
Without knowing the other party's details, Nata did not dare to resist head-on.
He immediately issued an order to raise the flight altitude of the mecha spaceship.
Fortunately, those crystal grains did not fly out of the troposphere, basically hovering at a height of about 1 kilometer from the ice surface, and no longer continued to climb.
However, this was not the end.
They began to aggregate and assemble, unexpectedly condensing into a dragonfly-shaped translucent creature.
This salt crystal dragonfly flapped its wings and rushed towards the space mecha.
The space mecha spaceship began to automatically counterattack.
A large number of ion beams shot towards it, but still had no attack effect.
"Shua shua shua ~"
The salt crystal dragonfly flapped its wings again, and a large number of needles shot out in all directions.
"Buzz buzz buzz ~"
"Buzz buzz buzz ~"
The mecha hit by the needles all malfunctioned, lost power, and fell directly to the ground.
"Hiss ~"
"How strange!"
Nata couldn't help but be shocked.
"Has this table salt become a spirit?"
He didn't believe that inorganic matter would produce consciousness, and guessed that someone must be controlling it behind the scenes.
It's just that he still couldn't figure out why these salt crystals could be freely split and recombined, and could also grow and shrink rapidly.
He also couldn't figure out why this kind of thing could resist the bombardment of antimatter ion cannons.
The salt crystal dragonfly destroyed dozens of space mecha with one blow, and its destructive power was too strong.
Helpless, Nata had to call back all the remaining mecha.
The dragonfly did not pursue, and immediately dissipated after completing its task.
It turned back into micro crystal grains and fell to the ground.
The development of the salt crystal forest did not stop.
After the Arctic ice layer was completely covered, the ice cap area began to expand to the surrounding area.
The Arctic Ocean seawater began to freeze rapidly, and new salt crystal trees immediately grew on it.
The polar temperature was rapidly decreasing.
