Chapter 1418
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Chapter 1418 Falling Helicopter
Beep—Beep—Beep!!
The piercing alarm sounded in the transport helicopter’s cockpit, red lights flashing continuously as the two pilots quickly operated the control panel, trying to stabilize the aircraft.
“Number 2, Number 2! Report the situation in the cabin!” one pilot opened the communication channel and asked coldly.
“Damn it! A bug hitched a ride on the bottom of the cabin when we broke through the blockade and flew here with us!” a voice anxiously replied, followed by a series of machine gun fire, “We can’t handle it! It’s gnawing at the tail wing!”
“Whatever method you use, you must get rid of it! This is what Commander Zuo repeatedly instructed us to escort… We went through so much trouble to break out of the Chennan Pass battlefield, we absolutely cannot fail here!”
One pilot, red-eyed, shouted loudly.
Bang—!!
With a thunderous boom from the cabin, billowing smoke rolled back, and the helicopter swayed out of control in the air, rapidly plummeting toward the sea below!
“We… bzz bzz… failed…” a broken voice transmitted through the communicator, almost completely drowned out by the dense alarm sounds!
“Damn it!” one pilot roared in anger.
“The aircraft is out of control, we’re going to crash…” the other pilot’s face showed bitterness, “Didn’t die at the hands of those Temple of Celestial Gods beasts at Chennan Pass, but now we’re going to die crashing into the Great Xia sea… If I had known, I wouldn’t have come.
It’s just a pity that these things won’t be delivered…”
“Look! There’s an island ahead!” Just as one was about to despair, his peripheral vision suddenly caught the faint outline of an island appearing at the edge of the horizon.
“It’s useless, it’s too far from us. At our falling speed, we’ll never make it…”
In the nearly despairing gaze of the two, the transport aircraft plummeted rapidly toward the sea. With this aircraft’s size and falling speed, hitting the sea would be no different from hitting concrete—destruction and death were inevitable.
Just as they were preparing to close their eyes and welcome death, an invisible force suddenly supported the falling fuselage, forcibly maintaining it at a height of more than ten meters above the sea, flying forward rapidly in a manner that defied physics!
“What’s happening? Has power been restored?”
“No… no.” One pilot swallowed and spoke in confusion, “That’s not right, the power hasn’t been restored, and there’s nothing below us… How are we flying?”
“Is it my imagination?” the other rubbed his eyes,
“We seem to be getting closer to that island?”
…
The faint light of dawn rose from the edge of the horizon.
Lin Qiye, who had been contemplating by the coastline all night, slowly opened his eyes, as if sensing something, and suddenly turned his head in a certain direction.
“A helicopter?!”
Lin Qiye quickly stood up from the beach. In his mental perception, a damaged transport helicopter was flying toward this island at an astonishing speed!
“Helicopter? Where would a helicopter come from in this place?” Cao Yuan, who had just walked out of the air-raid shelter, asked in confusion.
He turned to look, and under the pale dawn sky, there was indeed a black shadow rapidly approaching!
“That’s not right… this entire area is a no-fly zone, how could a helicopter pass through here?” An Qingyu pushed up his glasses, a flash of gray passing through his eyes, “And that helicopter seems to be damaged, the propellers aren’t even turning, how is it flying over?”
As they were speaking, the helicopter whistled across the sea surface, flying straight toward their direction!
“It’s a plane from Chennan Pass!”
Recognizing the pattern on the transport aircraft, Lin Qiye quickly raised his hand, and a shade of night appeared out of nowhere to support the massive fuselage as it flew in, rotating it half a circle in the air to dissipate the momentum, then gradually placing it on the beach.
Cao Yuan quickly walked forward, about to search for the injured, when a cry of alarm came from behind:
“Be careful! There’s something inside!”
Jie—!!
A red shadow as thick as a bucket flew out from the broken cabin door, whistling toward Cao Yuan’s face, with the overwhelming pressure of a divine beast sweeping through!
Cao Yuan’s pupils suddenly contracted, his hand instantly reaching for the hilt of the straight knife at his waist. Just as he was about to draw it, a ji halberd descended from the sky, precisely pinning the red shadow in mid-air into the sand dozens of meters away!
Large beads of cold sweat slid down Cao Yuan’s temples. Only then did he see the true form of the red shadow.
It was a sixteen-legged crawler!
The red crawler, pinned to the ground by the ji halberd, emitted a sharp screech, and in the next moment, it actually forcibly split itself in half to escape.
However, before it could make any further moves, a black staff slammed down, directly creating a ferocious crack in the beach that extended to the sea surface not far away!
Nie Jinshan expressionlessly pulled out the black staff. The red crawler had been crushed into a bloody mess, completely losing its life. The ji halberd automatically flew back to Tang Yusheng’s hand on a reef not far away, his face somewhat gloomy.
“Another divine beast raised by the Temple of Celestial Gods?” Li Qiangqiang stepped out from nothingness, crouched down to carefully examine the mangled corpse, and muttered.
“There are still people alive inside.”
Lin Qiye’s mental power swept over the aircraft, quickly opening the cockpit door. From the rolling dust, two figures staggered out, already dizzy from the violent turbulence earlier.
Baili Pangpang walked into the rear cabin, looked around, and then shook his head helplessly at Lin Qiye.
Apart from these two in the cockpit, all other personnel had perished.
Lin Qiye helped the two sit down at the edge of the beach. One of them had already returned from his daze and looked around in confusion, asking:
“Where… is this? Wasn’t the plane about to crash? How did we get here?”
“That’s not important.” Lin Qiye took out his emblem from his pocket and solemnly said, “I am Lin Qiye, captain of the Great Xia Nightwatcher [Nightfall] squad. What happened to you?”
“[Nightfall]?! You are [Nightfall]??”
Hearing this name, joy immediately appeared on the pilot’s face, “We are the Chennan Pass Mobile Transport Team, just broke through the blockade from the front line, executing a mission by Commander Zuo’s order!”
“Front line?” Cao Yuan frowned, “Which front line?”
“Chennan Pass!”
“What happened at Chennan Pass?”
Hearing this question, the pilot looked at Lin Qiye and the others in confusion, “The Temple of Celestial Gods has invaded Great Xia, Chennan Pass is about to fall… don’t you know?”
Hearing these words, Lin Qiye and the others felt their hearts sink!
