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Chapter 579 Within the City, Nuclear Peace Level 7
command center.
Despite the oppressive aura of the seventh-tier demon lord's domain, everyone silently continued their work.
As a soldier, his will to resist was far beyond that of ordinary people. Moreover, the opponent's pressure was not as terrifying as that of an eighth-order demon god.
Zhou Shan acted as if nothing had happened, continuing to stare at the rapidly changing battle damage numbers on the screen.
18 units... 22 units... 27 units...
Each number represents a costly Tier 5 combat robot being reduced to scrap metal.
His military spending was burning through cash, but he didn't even blink.
"Where is the machine carrying the nuclear bomb?"
"Entered the outer passage of D7! Expected arrival at the target area in thirty seconds!"
"Faster!" Zhou Shan urged, looking at the blue dots on the screen that were trading time for suicidal charges.
They are trading "death" for time.
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Section D7.
The corridor has been reduced to ruins.
The ground was pitted and uneven, the walls were riddled with holes, and steam from a broken pipe filled the air.
Everywhere were the wreckage of robots: broken mechanical arms, blown-out armor plates, and power cores still sparking.
After counting, there were already more than thirty wrecked fifth-order robots lying on the ground.
However, there were still more than thirty robots active inside the encirclement.
Support from the rear never stopped arriving.
The seventh-tier demon stood amidst a pile of broken metal, panting heavily.
The intense, continuous operation and the self-destruction of several robots finally breached its defenses, leaving several deep, bone-revealing wounds on its skin.
Suddenly, all the muscles in its body tensed up.
A warning, stemming from biological instinct, is subtly emerging.
Something is approaching.
It's a very dangerous thing.
It suddenly turned its head to look into the depths of the corridor.
Looking past the dozen or so robots on the perimeter, I saw a robot rapidly approaching me in the distance.
There was a metal box on the back of that mech.
The box isn't big; it's about the size of a suitcase.
But the seventh-tier demon's intuition told him that the sense of danger was coming from that box.
That was the power that terrified it.
It didn't know what it was.
But it knew how to escape!
We must escape!
It let out a shriek, its muscles bulging out menacingly, and it transformed into a dark red afterimage, charging fiercely towards the weakest side of the encirclement.
"Bang! Bang!" The two mechs blocking the way were instantly smashed away.
But the unmanned formations of the Great Xia are completely unreasonable.
As soon as the breach was created, the three partially damaged mechs immediately activated their core self-destruct program.
"BOOM BOOM BOOM—!!"
Three dazzling mushroom-shaped fireballs exploded in the passage, and the huge shockwave slammed the seventh-tier demon who had just leaped up back to the center of the corridor.
It staggered to the ground, trying to regain its balance.
The robot carrying the nuclear bomb had already come within fifty meters.
This mech, carrying the command to destroy, was operating at its maximum engine overload, attempting to approach the seventh-tier Demon Lord.
The Demon Lord, his eyes blazing with fury, unleashed his survival instincts and decided to abandon the entanglement, retreating at lightning speed.
Even if it means facing attacks from robots from another direction, they are willing to do it.
Seeing this, the robot was afraid of missing its chance. If the other party escaped, there would be no chance to get close again.
And so it detonated!
"boom!!!"
The nuclear bomb exploded just over a hundred meters away from the fleeing Demon Lord.
At the moment the nuclear bomb was detonated, all physical laws seemed to be forcibly paused.
The sound disappeared.
Then came pure light.
The intense white light was beyond description.
A miniature sun with a capacity of 100,000 tons unrestrainedly released temperatures of tens of thousands of degrees Celsius in the corridors of the underground city.
All the mechanical debris that was still standing or lying around the epicenter was directly vaporized by physical means, without even needing to melt!
The fireball engulfed the seventh-tier demon lord, and the sound of the explosion drowned out his horrified roar.
The destructive shockwave hurtled forward along the underground passage.
The alloy walls were torn apart like soaked toilet paper, the load-bearing columns collapsed inch by inch, and the high-strength explosion-proof floor was torn up and curled up.
All buildings, bunkers, and commercial streets along the D7 section evaporated instantly, like dominoes.
The violent energy turbulence flowed back into the adjacent D6 and D8 sections.
The ceiling collapsed, pipes burst, and high-temperature steam mixed with radioactive dust completely leveled the area.
The entire D7 section was forcibly cut off from the map.
Inside the command center, intense seismic waves traveled through the earth's strata.
Everyone gripped the fixed tabletop tightly, while the overhead light shook wildly, sending up clouds of dust.
It took a full two minutes for the tremors to subside.
On the main screen, the D7 section has turned into a glaring black area.
The staff officer swallowed hard and quickly reported:
"Segment D7... Signal lost across the entire segment."
"More than 60% of the load-bearing structure in sections D6 and D8 has been damaged."
"The seventh-tier Demon Lord has disappeared; further confirmation is needed to determine whether he has been killed."
Zhou Shan slowly exhaled a breath of stale air, and his tense shoulders relaxed a little.
"it is good."
"Have someone carry a purification scroll and, together with the robots, go to the core area to confirm whether the Demon Lord has been eliminated."
"Notify the engineering battalion to send in the cleaning robots to support the load-bearing beams at the edge of the collapse. We must not allow a secondary collapse to occur."
"Continue cleaning the remaining sections according to the original plan!"
He looked at the black area on the screen again.
In exchange for a 100-ton tactical nuclear bomb, nearly a hundred Tier 5 robots, and the destruction of three underground city districts, a Tier 7 Demon Lord was created.
This loss is considerable.
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The outer perimeter of section D7.
The tunnel after the nuclear explosion looked as if it had been torn apart from the inside by something; the walls melted and then solidified, forming hideous and twisted metallic scars.
The air was filled with the pungent smell of burning and deadly radiation invisible to the naked eye.
The radiation detector readings skyrocketed, jumping wildly.
A soldier wearing a fully sealed radiation protection suit walked quickly to the edge of the passage, holding a sheepskin scroll that emitted a faint white glow.
Those are magic purification scrolls purchased from the continent of Terra.
He stopped at the boundary between the safe zone and the radiation zone and handed the reel to a Tier 5 combat robot waiting beside him.
"Place it above the center and tear it open."
The robot took the reel, ignited its back thrusters, and soared into the air, flying straight into that high-radiation hell that even the machine didn't recommend lingering in.
It passed through the collapsed ceiling wreckage, through the still-warm jungle of molten metal, and finally hovered directly above the explosion epicenter in section D7.
The robotic arm precisely grips both ends of the roll and gently tears it apart.
In an instant, a soft yet extremely pure white light burst forth from the scroll, like a small sun rising from the depths of the ruins.
The radiance spread silently in all directions.
Wherever it passed, the invisible, deadly radioactive particles in the air were disintegrated and purified one by one, as if gently brushed away by an invisible hand.
The wildly fluctuating values on the radiation detector began to visibly decline.
Those demon soldiers who were lucky enough not to be vaporized directly by the nuclear explosion but were only injured by the shockwave did not receive such good treatment.