Ice Age Apocalypse: I Hoard Billions of Supplies Chapter 1696: Thirty Seconds

Li Changgong cursed inwardly. Chaos, have you completely lost your mind?

But at this point, they had no choice but to fight to the death.

Once the Gatekeeper of the Underworld left Tianshui City, there would probably be no one left who could stop him for even a moment.

After Zhang Yi finished speaking, he looked at Li Changgong and the others. His gaze dipped slightly, as if he meant to see through the train car and look at the girl sitting inside.

“Next, I’ll be leaving for a little while. Thirty seconds. Help me hold him off for thirty seconds!”

Li Changgong nearly jumped out of his skin.

Zhang Yi was the main force defending them head-on. If he left, who could possibly withstand the Gatekeeper of the Underworld’s attacks?

Shang Daowen also asked in confusion, “Chaos, what exactly are you planning?”

“There’s no time to explain. If you want to win, do as I say!” Zhang Yi said urgently.

At the Gatekeeper of the Underworld’s speed, he would leave Tianshui City’s territory in less than a minute. By then, carrying out the plan would be unimaginably difficult!

Alexei said nothing. He had always been a man of action and rarely spoke.

Li Changgong’s expression twisted. He even suspected that Zhang Yi planned to abandon them and flee in the middle of battle.

But on second thought, that didn’t make sense. If Zhang Yi really wanted to escape, he could do so at any time. There was no need to drag them into this now.

The others’ minds raced, but time waited for no one.

Just then, Houtu spoke.

“Do as he says.”

It turned out that earlier, Yang Xinxin had already spoken with Houtu. Only she could persuade Houtu in such a short time.

With Houtu having made her position clear, Shang Daowen naturally had no objections.

At this point, Li Changgong’s attitude clearly no longer mattered.

Dai Sheng activated his ability, and the Ghost Train appeared in an instant right in front of the Gatekeeper of the Underworld as he sped away.

The instant the Ghost Train appeared,

Zhang Yi vanished from the train.

Li Changgong’s face twisted, but now he could only grit his teeth and fight!

The Gatekeeper of the Underworld’s path was blocked, forcing him to open his eyes and face the enemies before him.

This abruptly interrupted the route he had been following and brought him back into the Eight Trigrams Formation.

Looking at the humans who still dared to stand in his way, the Gatekeeper of the Underworld’s eyes were full of lofty disdain.

He couldn’t be bothered to waste words. He unleashed a strike of Void Heaven’s Mandate, which instantly engulfed the Ghost Train!

Houtu’s eyes snapped open. For the first time, a sharp glint burst from her shadowy gaze.

The Six Paths of Reincarnation unfolded around the train. Black Sun, Great Devourer, Youying, and Destruction Hall, four Epsilon-class spirit entities, were summoned. Countless souls of the dead crawled out from the depths of the underworld, their bodies wreathed in netherflames as they roared and crawled toward the Gatekeeper of the Underworld!

And the space-based weapons that had remained high above in the sky unleashed their might for the first time in this battle!

The solar wings of all six military satellites spread open. At this most critical moment, they fired beams of energy that pierced the heavens!

The sky and the earth, immense power converging in one place, with a single target: the Wuluan Empire’s arrogant Grand Marshal!

The Gatekeeper of the Underworld’s heart jolted. From the start of the battle, he had known that humans possessed powerful weapons from beyond the sky.

But first, he had scorned human weapons, and second, those weapons had gone unused throughout the prolonged battle, making him grow somewhat careless.

He had never expected Houtu to go all out as soon as she made her move, with six energy cannons from space-based weapons aimed straight at his head!

BOOM!!!!!

Countless kinds of chaotic energy collided, raising a gigantic mushroom cloud over the northwestern part of Tianshui City!

Houtu’s Six Paths of Reincarnation were almost completely destroyed by that strike, and all her summoned creatures were reduced to nothing.

Li Changgong, Alexei, and Shang Daowen did everything in their power to resist the force hurtling toward the Ghost Train.

But when that immense force struck the train, it was like a boxer landing a full-power punch on a sandbag. The train was blasted into a twisted shape!

No one knew what material it was made of, but it clearly embodied technology far beyond its time. Otherwise, the shockwaves alone would have completely destroyed an ordinary train.

Even so, it was battered out of shape and hurled violently into the distance!

Shang Daowen instantly appeared beside Houtu and threw up a telekinetic barrier at full strength in front of her.

Houtu fell to the floor, leaned against the side of the train car, and lowered her head. A trickle of blood slowly spilled from her mouth.

The strongest person in Shengjing district, the one countless people called Huaxu Nation’s ultimate reserve of strength, had suffered such a severe injury for the first time.

Li Changgong and Alexei were in even worse shape. They were flung violently through the train car, rolling around like balls.

The Gatekeeper of the Underworld’s power nearly crushed all of Li Changgong’s internal organs.

He felt like a rag that someone had thrown into a washing machine and was now violently twisting around.

“Cough, cough… Cough, cough, cough…”

Mouthful after mouthful of blood sprayed from Li Changgong’s mouth. He felt like he was about to die.

“Zhang… (gurgle, gurgle) Zhang Yi, I’ll be damned if I don’t curse you! Get back here already!!!”

Blood and curses sprayed from Li Changgong’s mouth.

At that moment, despite withstanding Houtu’s all-out strike, the Gatekeeper of the Underworld still stood unharmed in the sky.

He looked up at the cloudless sky. The weapons above the firmament intrigued him, and had actually made him feel a trace of danger.

If he hadn’t unleashed his full power, perhaps he would have been injured.

By now, everyone inside the Ghost Train had been hurt. Since Dai Sheng hadn’t been in a train car but was driving from the distant engine, he had only been caught in the shockwaves.

Even so, he was gravely injured and on the brink of death, and had fallen completely unconscious.

His unconsciousness left the Ghost Train unable to travel between spatial nodes. Instead, it crashed miserably into the snow, like a dead flood dragon rolling violently across the ground more than ten times.

The Gatekeeper of the Underworld looked in their direction.

“It seems I can declare this over.”

As he spoke, he raised his right hand.

Just as everyone was about to despair, Zhang Yi finally appeared on the train.

“Don’t resist this force. Let’s go.”

Zhang Yi’s voice echoed in everyone’s ears.

The Gatekeeper of the Underworld’s Star of Annihilation had already locked onto their position, but Zhang Yi opened a Dimensional Gate as if unzipping a zipper.

The instant the attack was about to hit, he took the entire train with him through the Dimensional Gate.

The moment the rift of the Dimensional Gate closed, the Gatekeeper of the Underworld’s attack destroyed the entire area within dozens of kilometers!