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Chapter 1382 cannot be opened
"He doesn't think these pieces of junk can stop me! Dream on!"
He pointed sharply to the towering sides and top of the ruins, where thick layers of ice and snow covered the area.
"Night Owl!" he roared. "Scan the entire structure of the ruins! The top! The flanks! The mountainside! Any possible weak points, any possible entrances! I refuse to believe that this hellhole only has one door! Find it! Find a place that can be blown open, a place that can be crawled into! Now! Immediately!"
Night Owl nodded first, then said, "Master, this whole area is a minefield. We only cleared one passage... so... we still need to clear the mines..."
Upon hearing what Night Owl said, Xiao Dingshan's expression turned extremely ugly...
How long will it take to clear this area?
Night Owl paused for a moment: "It will take at least two days..."
"Two days?!"
Xiao Dingshan suddenly flung his hood up, revealing a pair of bloodshot eyes that seemed to spit fire from the shadows.
He looked around at the vast, white ice field, which was surrounded by an invisible minefield!
An uncontrollable surge of violent energy welled up in his chest.
Time! Time was what he lacked most! Xiao Ce was calculating against him like a leech, every minute of delay could mean that the other party was more prepared, and that his hope of seizing the core of the Hidden Dragon Armory would become even more remote!
Two days? He can't wait that long!
That damned, unmoving stone door had exhausted his last bit of patience!
Just as Xiao Dingshan was about to erupt, preparing to disregard everything and order the robots to forcibly break through the minefield and begin digging immediately at any cost, a voice, filled with extreme obsequiousness yet trembling with fear, rang out as if grasping at a lifeline:
"Master...Master! Your subordinate...your subordinate has an idea!"
Shahar almost knelt on the snow at Xiao Dingshan's feet, his voice urgent and obsequious.
Xiao Dingshan simply said coldly, "Mine clearance...mine clearance is too slow! We...we brought so many bombs! Why not...why not use the bombs to detonate this minefield? Clear it all out at once!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Kornev's expression changed drastically.
Although this scarred general was fierce and brave, he also knew the importance of the ruins.
He blurted out almost instinctively, "Your Majesty! Absolutely not! What if such a violent explosion causes the mountain to shake and the internal structure of the ruins to collapse?! The Hidden Dragon Armory is hidden deep inside. If it is completely buried, won't we get nothing? All our efforts will be in vain!"
He looked worriedly at the massive stone gate and the deep mountain silhouette behind it.
Shahar's momentum immediately diminished after Kornev's words, and a hint of panic flashed across his face.
He had only been thinking about making amends in front of his master, eager to show off, without considering the consequences at all. Now that the risk had been pointed out, cold sweat instantly soaked his back again.
However, Xiao Dingshan's eyes suddenly lit up under his hood!
His body, which had been tense from his rage, slowly relaxed a little.
He didn't immediately rebuke Kornev, nor did he look at Shahar. Instead, he stared at the seemingly calm but deadly snowfield, his mind racing with calculations.
"Detonate the minefield..."
Xiao Dingshan repeated it in a low voice, and a rare, unusual emotion, like... approval, was revealed in his cold voice.
"Shahar".
"Yes, Master!"
When Shahar heard Xiao Dingshan's voice, his heart jumped into his throat.
"This time..."
After a pause, Xiao Dingshan said to Shahar with a peculiar certainty, "Finally, I've come up with a truly useful idea."
Shahar could hardly believe his ears! His master… praised him?!
Overwhelmed with joy, he was so excited that he almost fainted, repeatedly kowtowing: "Thank you, Master! Thank you, Master! It is my duty to share your burdens!"
Kornev opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something!
Shahar, who was kowtowing, immediately glared back at him.
Seeing this, and seeing Xiao Dingshan's unquestionable posture, Kornev swallowed his words.
At this moment, Xiao Dingshan looked at Shahar and said, "Shahar, then the rest of the matter is yours?"
Shahar nodded, then said to Xiao Dingshan with great obsequiousness, "Master, leave these trivial matters to us..."
In fact, Shahar's method was the same one that Xiao Ce had used when they fought together...
First, they ordered the main force to retreat, then they used artillery shells to plow the entire area like a plowshare...
The booming sounds were incessant.
The entire ice field looked as if it had been thrown into a boiling pot of oil!
The chain of minefields was completely activated by this devastating shock!
Countless buried landmines, explosive charges, and booby traps were like a powder keg that had been ignited, causing a crazy chain reaction!
Flames shot into the sky, instantly illuminating the dim Arctic sky and turning the falling snow into an eerie orange-red!
Huge fireballs rose and fell, thick smoke billowing straight into the sky!
The shockwave from the explosion was like an invisible giant hammer, slamming in all directions. Even those in the safe zone felt the ground beneath their feet tremble violently and their eardrums buzzed!
Countless pieces of frozen soil, ice, snow, and broken rocks were thrown into the air and then fell down like raindrops!
This man-made storm of destruction lasted for nearly half an hour!
As the echoes of the final explosion faded into the snowstorm, the landscape of the ice field had been completely transformed.
The thick layer of snow that had covered the ground was completely removed, melted, and evaporated, revealing the ugly, blackened, cracked frozen soil beneath, as if it had been gnawed by a giant beast.
The huge, circular craters were layered upon each other, seemingly bottomless, and still wisps of smoke and the acrid smell of gunpowder were rising from them.
As far as the eye could see, there was only devastation, not a blade of grass growing.
The death minefield meticulously laid by Wei Wuji was completely and cleanly physically erased under the saturation bombardment of absolute violence.
A cold wind swept by, dispersing some of the smoke and revealing the charred, broken, and hellish scene below, as if it had been repeatedly turned over by a giant plow.
Looking at the scorched earth he had "advised" to create, Shahar's fear was replaced by a morbid sense of triumph.
He immediately straightened his back and fawned over Xiao Dingshan, saying, "Master! Look! It's clean! It's all blown up! I'll send someone to check it again right away to make sure everything is perfect!"
He wanted to solidify this achievement and demonstrate his loyalty to the fullest extent.
Xiao Dingshan nodded slightly, which could be considered as tacit approval.
Shahar, as if injected with adrenaline, turned around and roared at the still-shaken Kornev!
"Kornev! Immediately! Send your most elite, fearless soldiers!"
"Split into ten teams! Tread this area again! Every inch of scorched earth must be trampled! Make sure there isn't a single one that slips through! Hurry!"
At this moment, Shahar perfectly embodied both sides of his true nature!
Kornev looked at the terrifying area that was still smoking and radiating high temperatures, and his lips twitched, but he dared not disobey, much less disobey his master's will.
He gritted his teeth, selected his most fearless veterans, divided them into ten squads, and cautiously stepped into the charred hell that had just been burned by raging fire and whose heat had not yet dissipated, as if they were going to their deaths.
Wearing heavy leather boots, they trudged each step on the scorching earth and sharp gravel, their hearts pounding with fear as they used all their strength to tread the ground beneath their feet.
Fortunately, Shahar's saturation demining method was effective; apart from a few minor, insignificant explosions, there were no major casualties.
The soldiers completed this death pilgrimage, using their lives to finally confirm the safety of the area.
"Master! Confirmed! Absolutely safe!" Shahar reported excitedly, as if this scorched earth were a safe corridor he had personally built.
"Begin digging."
Xiao Dingshan's voice was completely calm as he gave the order directly to Night Owl.
The target was several "weak points" marked on the flanks and top of the ruins.
The black robot starts operating again...
This time, they are equipped with higher-powered drilling equipment and thermal cutters.
The drill emitted a piercing shriek as it slammed into the ice-covered mountain rocks; the high-energy laser beam cut through the frozen soil and rock, hissing and sending up plumes of white mist.
The excavation work lasted for several hours.
However, as the excavation progressed, news began to emerge.
"Master, the excavation operation has encountered an obstacle. At the pre-designated flank excavation point, an impenetrable barrier has been encountered. Material analysis... it is completely consistent with the main entrance stone door."
"At the top excavation point, a barrier of the same material was encountered. Energy scanning revealed that this barrier is a continuous, monolithic structure, enveloping the entire main body of the ruins... no..."
Finally, some more specialized robots gave Xiao Dingshan a conclusion.
"Master, the deep scan and shockwave feedback point to a startling conclusion."
“What we are excavating is not a natural mountain, but a giant man-made structure partially buried by geological movements. Its outer shell material is completely consistent with the entrance stone gate and all the barriers encountered at the excavation points! An unknown alloy with extremely high density and extremely strong energy inertness. The spectral characteristics match 99.8%.”
"The scan was blocked, and its internal structure could not be determined, but the external outline was clearly visible: it is a streamlined, closed structure with a length of more than 1.8 kilometers and a maximum diameter of about 400 meters."
"It...is more like a giant, airtight metal egg buried deep within. The material seems to be the same as our creation base...of course, its size seems much larger than ours..."
"A giant metal egg...and made of the same material as their creation base..."
Xiao Dingshan pondered the word, the shadow beneath his hood seemingly solidifying into a tangible form.
He suddenly looked up, his bloodshot eyes fixed on the still silent ancient stone door, then slowly swept over the surrounding frozen earth that had been plowed by the explosion and was now scorched and cracked!
Finally, the robot returned to the one that had given the report and then questioned, "You mean, the entire ruins... no, this entire damned 'Hidden Dragon Arsenal' is just a tightly sealed big iron box made of this kind of monstrosity?"
"Yes, Master." The expert-like robot nodded firmly in response!
"External attacks, whether directional blasting, high-energy lasers, physical drilling, or the saturation bombing we just used to eliminate external threats, cannot shake it in the slightest. Its structural integrity far exceeds the damage threshold of all our current technological means. Conventional physical hacking...the possibility is infinitely close to zero."
"Because the material is the same as the outer shell of our creation base, we can't break it!"
"impossible!"
Xiao Dingshan roared suddenly, his violent aura rising again. He could not accept the reality that he had paid such a huge price but could not even get close to the door.
"Concentrate all firepower! Bombard the main gate! I refuse to believe there's any shell in this world that can't be broken!"
He suddenly waved his hand and pointed at the seemingly ordinary stone door!
The robot, acting like an expert, naturally kept quiet, being very sensible!
No further orders were needed; the owl naturally obeyed.
The robot army behind them, which had been waiting in the wings, instantly entered the attack formation.
boom! boom! boom!
Several heavy robots equipped with large-caliber plasma impact cannons opened fire first!
A blinding, eerie blue orb ripped through the wind and snow, slamming into the center of the stone gate with a piercing shriek that seemed to tear the air apart!
The violent explosion unleashed a scorching shockwave, and the intense light caused Shahar and the others to instinctively close their eyes or raise their hands to shield their eyes.
As the light dimmed slightly, everyone eagerly looked over!
Apart from a few scorch marks caused by high temperatures that have cooled and faded, the surface of the stone gate remains as smooth as ever, without even a crack!
"Useless! Keep going! Maximum power!"
Xiao Dingshan's voice was hoarse with rage; he was truly on the verge of hysteria.
Even though I had thought of it...
However, he still couldn't accept it!
If this method fails to open the door, then there is only one other way.
That means using Xiao Ce's key; that's the worst-case scenario...
This time, their attack used a particle beam cutting array with more concentrated energy and greater destructive power!
It was practically their trump card; he was only using it as a last resort...
Several blinding beams of white light, like swords from the heavens, focused precisely on the crack in the door and the indentation of that hand!
The air was ionized, emitting a terrifying hissing sound, and the blinding light was too intense to look at directly.
Energy output instantly surged to its peak!
However, that door was like a bottomless black hole; the violent energy that struck it was like a mud ox sinking into the sea...
Apart from generating faint, almost invisible ripples of energy, there was no other reaction.
On the contrary, wisps of smoke began to rise from the gaps in the armor of several energy weapons, and their cooling systems emitted sharp, strained hums.
"No! Impossible!!"
Shahar collapsed to the ground, muttering absentmindedly.
Kornev clenched his fist, his nails digging deep into his palm.
"Do you still have enough energy to run? Give me that!"
Xiao Dingshan pointed to the largest siege-class mechs at the rear of the group, each carrying a massive energy core. This was the last trump card he could think of: energy cannons!
That's the Creation Base's trump card: a heavy-duty city-destroying weapon!