"You heard right, my initial target is to kill the real Drought Fiend, although it might seem unrealistic to you..." Yang Yuan said.
"...I just think it's too sudden."
Chen Xianzhi said solemnly, "At any other time, I might think you're crazy. After all, back then, the entire Alliance couldn't do anything to it, but now... we're pretty much at a dead end. If all the women in the thirteenth squad die, how is that different from total annihilation? How do we explain to the Alliance then?"
Yang Yuan smiled, "Then dare you join me for one last fight?"
Chen Xianzhi fell into a brief silence. He was just an aide and didn't have the authority to decide the life and death of the entire thirteenth squad.
"Why wouldn't I dare? If you have any requests, young man, just ask, and I will have the entire thirteenth squad cooperate with you."
Suddenly, an old yet robust voice rang out.
Yang Yuan hurriedly turned around and saw an old man, who appeared at least sixty or seventy years old, wearing a Zhongshan suit, who exuded an intimidating presence without being angry, standing behind them at some unknown time.
"Who are you?" Yang Yuan looked at the suddenly appeared old man in confusion.
Chen Xianzhi quickly introduced, "This is the director's superior. Of course, he's also all our superior. You can just call him Director."
The director's superior, also the superior of all of us?
This introduction felt a bit inexplicable.
Yang Yuan was suspicious but didn't show it, he asked the old man, "Can you represent Director Jia?"
"He can."
At this moment Jia Weixin also leapt onto the rooftop, walking towards them, with a solemn look, "I'm a soldier, I don't like beating around the bush. I don't believe you can kill the Drought Fiend, at least not now, it's hard to believe because I've heard you haven't been awakened long."
After a pause, he continued, "But as my aide said, we're practically a dead end. We have no choice. After all, who knows if the Drought Fiend comes closer, it won't directly take action? Then it wouldn't just be females mutating, we might really face total annihilation!"
Having said that, he straightened his expression, "Whether it's repelling or killing, as long as the thirteenth squad can survive, whatever you say, we'll do."
The old man looked at Jia Weixin appreciatively, then vanished into thin air.
"That person..." Yang Yuan was puzzled.
"Don't worry about him."
Jia Weixin said, "Tell me, what do we do?"
Yang Yuan immediately suppressed his doubts about the mysterious old man, saying, "I need you to cooperate, using the enhanced firepower flying discs of mine, to delay as much as possible for two more days. Don't let it continue to approach the safe zone. By the way, how far is that Drought Fiend from us now?"
"About two hundred and fifty kilometers." Chen Xianzhi said.
Two hundred and fifty kilometers...
Hope it's enough. After all, he's not sure how powerful the shells of a level ten firepower flying disc are, and if they would affect here.
Yang Yuan said, "If possible, it's best not to let it know the firepower flying discs came from us."
"Of course, we'll be careful." Chen Xianzhi nodded.
Jia Weixin said, "In these two days, the entire thirteenth squad will fully support you."
"Thank you!"
Yang Yuan didn't say anything more, and directly went to upgrade those firepower flying discs that had enough experience, upgrading them all at once to level seven.
These level seven firepower flying discs can withstand the ultra-high external temperature and won't have to worry about being burned or exploding prematurely.
So next, everyone in the safe zone saw one after another hundred-meter tall firepower flying discs flying out of the safe zone, disappearing into the distance.
Those firepower flying discs certainly wouldn't be sent out all at once, but first hidden far away, to prevent the Drought Fiend from finding this location.
Subsequently, personnel would be specially tasked to dispatch the firepower flying discs to harass the Drought Fiend, slowing its speed, and even at the cost of firing attacks, but the premise is not to let the Drought Fiend move in this direction.
Not only that, the soldiers who originally maintained discipline were also dispatched to the factory.
Although they didn't know what the authorities planned to do, everyone in the safe zone felt a storm brewing and the atmosphere growing increasingly oppressive.
After upgrading all the firepower flying discs, Yang Yuan returned to the assembly room of the research department, where the Door of Arbitrariness was located.
"Finally enough experience, I hope it can give me the function I want."
He immediately began to upgrade the Door of Arbitrariness:
[(Pseudo) Door of Arbitrariness Lv.9: 7981/2560 (Upgradable)]
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[(Pseudo) Door of Arbitrariness Lv.10: 5421/5120 (When the door is open, it causes spatial distortion around; Upgradable)]
Yang Yuan furrowed his brow slightly, feeling uneasy as he continued the final upgrade:
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[Marvel· Door of Arbitrariness Lv.11: 0/20 (Each time the door is opened, it will randomly open an interlayer space within ten meters, provided there is such an interlayer space in this range; Not Upgradable)]
Yang Yuan's eyes glinted sharply, forcibly shutting the door and then pulling it open.
This time the change was significant; as soon as he opened the door, the surrounding space visibly distorted.
The moment a door seam appeared, a cold, chilling breath rushed in.
"Roar——"
It seemed like something was about to burst out from the other side.
"Beep beep beep beep beep beep beep..."
The alarm of the research department started blaring.
Yang Yuan's expression changed, he hurriedly shut the door.
Instantly, the chill disappeared, and the spatial distortion vanished.
"What happened?"
Leader Chen hurriedly came up, nervously and expectantly asking.
Jia Weixin and Chen Xianzhi also rushed over immediately.
"What was with the alarm just now?" Jia Weixin asked in confusion.
Yang Yuan spoke with a complicated look, "The Arbitrary Gate is created, but I'm not sure if it can help us leave this ancient ruin."
He was a bit upset, he closed the door too quickly just now. In hindsight, he should have fired a shot inside first, if the entrance could be breached, they could completely hide inside, since it seemed not to be a high-temperature environment, unaffected by the Drought Fiend.
He didn't even know what place it was.
"Really created it?"
"Door of Arbitrariness?"
Chen Xianzhi was joyful, Jia Weixin was puzzled.
"The Door of Arbitrariness... can such a legendary thing really be artificially created?" After Jia Weixin's initial doubt, his face became one of shock.
Then he looked at Yang Yuan with eyes almost as if he were looking at a deity.
Yang Yuan said, "This door, each time it opens, it will randomly open an interlayer space within ten meters, but this interlayer space could very likely be in the otherworld, or even be the demon's lair we don't know about. Earlier, what I opened should be a place similar to a demon's lair."
Hearing this, Jia Weixin and the others couldn't help but take a cold breath.
"This door... is so eerie." Besides them, Leader Chen's assistant exclaimed, then looked at Yang Yuan with a bit of admiration.
The Door of Arbitrariness, to think it could actually be created.
He's an idol, this ability is likely the skill most favored by countless researchers, right?
The mechanicians over at Alliance Headquarters, do they have this capability?
It's said that person is worshipped by the entire alliance, he's quite high-handed now, anyhow I've never seen that person.
Since there are too many types of abilities, it's said not even the curse of names and portraits, so the authorities won't reveal any information about that person, fearing someone might be harmful to him.
But now the assistant feels that the comparison between that person and him in front feels somewhat less significant.