Chapter 2516 World Unfolds 2
The Americas.
Cloud shadows loom over the city, and wind-blown corridors form arrays.
The Skywing Clan swooped down from the sky, their wingspans like city gates, their bony wings gleaming with a cold light.
Its enormous body has a wingspan of up to fifteen or sixteen meters, and those are huge bone wings covered with dark brown down. It also has long legs and humanoid arms.
The skeletal structure is remarkably similar to that of pterosaurs among fossils discovered by humans.
The Skywing Clan is a branch of the fifth generation of the Yihuan Clan.
They swooped down with abandon, their declaration of slaughter drawing long, shadowy trails across the heart of North America.
The reinforced concrete defensive tower snapped at waist level after a low sweep, the line of fire snaked through the streets, and the sound of gunfire was swallowed up by the wind pressure.
On the ridge, the first batch of winged nests were built on the cliff and wind gaps, like black wind chimes embedded in the ground, from which came the chirping of chicks and battle songs.
This represents the return of a flying species that once ruled the surface of Earth for hundreds of millions of years after a long period of silence!
South America, the Amazon rainforest, the world's largest primeval forest.
Even after the apocalypse, this region still has a large amount of forest cover.
On this day, the earth suddenly rose up strangely, accompanied by a roar like the rumble of the earth!
The undulating forest resembles the spine of a beast.
First came a hundred muffled thuds from underground, then the giant root burst forth from its shell and pierced the sky.
As if completing the growth of trees over thousands or tens of thousands of years, one huge tree after another suddenly grew out of the heart of the rainforest!
In the very heart of the rainforest grows a giant tree that is a kilometer tall. Its tough brown bark is as hard as steel, and its trunk alone is tens of meters in diameter!
The canopy spread out like a sea of clouds, unfolding in the sky like a magnificent canopy, obscuring the sun in the air.
The town's outline is erased in the green tide, and reinforced concrete transforms into new bones of moss and vines.
The World Trees are growing, and their breath is the air pressure of the entire rainforest.
They use growth itself as a weapon to rewrite the grammar of human-cultivated land back to one suitable for plants.
The drone crashed among the broad leaves, and the last frame it transmitted was a faint light dancing on the veins of the leaves, like a circuit diagram of a new civilization.
Southeast Asian islands.
The sea surface temperature was torn apart, and cumulonimbus clouds formed three layers of sky.
The Celestials appeared from beneath the clouds, each one so enormous it resembled the shadow of a floating island cast on the sea, yet so light it could hang on the edge of the troposphere.
Atmospheric creatures, despite being enormous, with the largest individuals capable of spreading out like yarn to thousands or tens of thousands of meters, are incredibly light and can move freely in the air.
They recklessly summoned lightning, and their translucent skin was crackling with white, snake-like electric light.
With each breath they exhaled, the eye of the typhoon split into two rings;
They looked down upon the archipelago like shepherds surveying their flocks.
The lights of the port city went out one by one in the torrential rain, the navigation channels drifted, and the buoys on the sea looked like stars with broken strings.
Europe, Britannia.
Beneath the white cliff, the earth cracked open, and the Ironclad Clan stepped out from the rock gate.
Layers upon layers of armor, knees like rivets, shoulders and spine like towers, each step sending mud and ash flying an inch high.
Undeterred by the dense laser cannons, they moved across the plains like a convoy of moving siege engines.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The armored race, emerging like ants, were covered in thick armor plates. As the army advanced, the earth trembled rhythmically!
The sheer force of their charge and their formidable defensive capabilities turned the faces of the hastily assembled Britannian soldiers pale!
The royal banner fluttered in the wind, King Arthur stood atop the white cliffs, frost passing over the ridge of his sword.
"Is what's coming finally here?"
King Arthur's voice was unusually calm.
Not far from him was the captain of another important supernatural force in Britannia, the Royal Order of the Anglican Knights.
The two forces had different roles: the Knights of the Round Table were on expeditions, while the Royal Order of the Church was responsible for guarding the country's borders.
In terms of strength, the Knights of the Round Table are naturally more powerful, but the Royal Order of the Church has more members and can provide a lot of cannon fodder in large-scale wars.
King Arthur gripped the two-handed greatsword at his waist, and at the same time took another one from Merlin beside him.
He wielded two greatswords, one in each hand, in battle.
"This is a battle to establish our authority! Only by winning this battle and driving these tin monsters back to the underworld can we bring temporary peace to Britannia!"
The Knights of the Round Table and the Royal Order of the Church formed ranks on the vast wasteland, their hymns and horns mingling, and the clash of iron against iron echoing in the rain.
In the distance, the stained-glass windows of the monastery shattered, and the glass flowers made their last soft sound in the muddy water.
The world seemed to turn to an ancient page on the same day.
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On this day, almost every corner of the entire planet Earth was engulfed in battle!
The folded continental lines were flattened again, and the ancient humans, who had sunk in the interlayers, carried their laws, myths, wars, and storms back to the sunlit side.
Pleas for help, angry denunciations, vows, obituaries... scrolled across channels in various countries.
Some cities have begun to move their populations underground; some armies have built new walls on their borders; and some civilizations have laid out ancient declarations of war on today's tables.
At this moment, the three ships of Tianhai hovered quietly above the city, their energy shields shimmering with a faint glow as they silently swept across a layer of sky that was no longer familiar.
The city skyline was quiet, the sea breeze carried the scent of salt, and the port's flags fluttered gently.
This is a form of deterrence. Lu Keran is controlling the overall situation, and Zhang Yi has also distributed the mechanical legion to various locations.
Although not all of them were displayed, the number that could be seen with the naked eye was forty to fifty thousand.
Those monstrous, colossal mechanical lifeforms, some over 600 meters tall, naturally exude an overwhelming sense of oppression.
This is a warning to any alien race that wants to attack this place: get lost and go find someone weak to bully!
Zhang Yi stepped out of his home and onto a newly built energy tower in Tianhai City. He gripped the railing with one hand and looked down over the entire Tianhai Bay.
There was nothing unusual on the sea, and the city was operating smoothly internally.
Most ordinary people are unaware of what is happening in the outside world; to them, today is just another ordinary day.
"At least it's quiet here."
He addressed everyone on the communications channel: "These past few days we've been on duty in shifts, carrying military stimulants with us at all times. Even if we're sleeping like the dead, we must be ready to go into combat mode immediately."
"If you can't do that, then sleep in your armor."
This was followed by a series of "Received".
Yang Xinxin tapped on her wrist screen: "The satellite teams in each region have already sent back the latest maps. The changes in the Earth's surface dimensions have impacted the navigation on the military end, and the algorithms for transportation and shipping are being recalculated."
"The new map of the entire Huaxu Kingdom has been completed. It is not a uniform stretch, because the spatial folds are distributed in different places."
"The largest area is in the Qinling Mountains. Between the Shengjing Region and the Tianhai Region, there is an area that stretches more than 5,000 kilometers."
