Chapter 5: The Ice Fortress

Seeing the huge ice ball transformed by Erin's Ice Goddess charging towards the nearest straight-30, Li Xue rushed to the pilot's communication channel and yelled at the top of his voice, "Jump plane! Jump out of the plane! Don't worry about the helicopter! Jump!"

　　But the pilots upheld the usual tradition of never giving up until the last minute and the courage and thrift engraved in their bones. Even though they are now broader, the habits they developed during the hard times are forever imprinted in their military souls.

　　The pilot forcibly increased the output power of the engine, the four turboplasma engines of the straight-30 heavy transport aircraft emitted a thunderous roar, generating a huge wind pressure sweeping around, as if there was a huge monster raging in the desert, lifting up the yellow sand.

　　At that moment, the co-pilot sitting on the right side of the airplane suddenly unbuckled his seat belt and ran toward the back of the cabin.

　　He had just left his seat, but because of the huge shaking produced when the airplane took off, his feet were unsteady and he fell hard on the hard ground. But he quickly gritted his teeth and climbed up, raised two rocket launchers from the weapons box at the rear of the chassis, and ran to the cabin door that could not be closed in time.

　　As well as its skillful movement to pull open the shoulder rest and open the safety. That extremely fast maneuvering speed would only be slightly surprising at best if seen in a field unit. But to see it on a land pilot's body, it was like a horse with horns growing on its head - really rare.

　　Most of the soldiers at the bottom of the situation, are in the heart of the vomit, big brother you are robbing the rice bowl ah!

　　At this moment, only to see a flash of fire in the hatch, an 80mm rocket equipped with a tandem-type poly-energy armor-breaking combat unit whistled out, hitting the center of the huge ice ball.

　　The rocket's armor-breaking part produced a nearly ten-thousand-degree hot metal jet due to the Monroe effect, which drilled a huge hole in the ice ball, and then the high-fusion explosive produced a huge explosion.

　　Only to see a burst of blinding bright light flashed and a shocking explosion came, the original diameter of six meters of the ice ball was directly blown away by one-third, the speed greatly reduced, the eye is about to stop.

　　Just when the crowd breathed a sigh of relief, the surface of the broken ice ball floated a layer of ice blue light, the broken ice ball actually in less than five seconds to restore the original state, still speed unabated towards the straight-30 rushed over.

　　The pilot's eyes twitched at the sight of this, but with the good mental quality of flying, he quickly calmed down, dropped the bazooka on his shoulder, and quickly picked up the other bazooka by his feet.

　　Luckily, all the RPGs used by the PLA were pre-loaded, disposable weapons that were discarded after firing, and there was also a fine tradition of RPGs not counting as part of the establishment due to an incurable late stage phobia of insufficient firepower; after all, the order had just come down at a time when it made a joke that even the chickens in the cooking class had two RPGs.

　　"So now I'm short of everything!" A hint of a razor-sharp smile surfaced at the corner of his mouth "The only thing is that there is no shortage of barrels!"

　　As soon as the words fell, a 93mm cloudburst rocket roared out from the DF-97 type man-portable cloudburst bazooka, and when it was a few meters away from the ice sphere, a black cloud splashed out from the warhead, which was the high-energy cloudburst agent that had spread out. In the next instant, a reddish-white light flashed, and a huge ball of fire enveloped the ice ball.

The thousands of degrees of heat caused the surrounding soldiers' tactical armor helmets to constantly flash with high temperature alarms, while the high-strength Plexiglas on the helmets instantly changed from light blue to black to protect the soldiers' eyes from the glare.

　　As the bright light dissipated, Li Xue looked towards the center of the explosion, and on the charred black and dark red semi-molten land, the huge ice ball that was originally six meters in diameter had now shrunk to less than one-eighth of its original size (three meters in diameter).

　　At the same time, the layer of light blue light above the surface of the original ice ball like water waves had dimmed a lot, although still trying to restore the ice layer, but the speed has slowed down a lot compared to just now.

　　Seeing this, Li Xue shouted in the communication channel: ''All of you, fire freely! Everyone's barrels out!"

　　Just now, that ice ball was rapidly rushing towards the straight-30 helicopter, and because of the fear of accidentally injuring the helicopter, there were only a few people who opened fire, and they didn't dare to use high-powered weapons.

　　And now, looking at the ice ball stopped, with Li Xue's shout, the single firepower caused by the phobia of insufficient firepower of the Seed Flower Family was manifested to the fullest.

　　The sound of gunfire all around was like the deafening sound of firecrackers on New Year's Eve, and Li Xue even saw a 40mm single howitzer in one hand, aided by the single tactical armor, being fired while singing a loud and unpleasant song in the public channel.

　　Looking at the exuberant crowd, Li Xue slightly propped up his forehead, after all, in normal training, there were few opportunities to pour out firepower so recklessly.

　　However, Li Xue did not participate near this feast of iron and fire, and only gestured to the two squads around him, signaling them to pay attention to guarding the surrounding area.

　　Then he mentally conceptualized how to explain the situation here with the top. After all, if he were to report directly that one of his team members had been captured by a pretty girl who could summon a Gundam, and that a helicopter had almost been brought down by an ice ball, then what awaited him when he returned would probably be a panel of specialists and physical therapy at the Army Hospital.

　　Opening the communication with the command headquarters, as if he had summoned up great courage, he gritted his teeth and said, "Report! This is search operation chief commander Li Xue, the special situation that happened here is beyond the scope of my handling, the footage recorded by the body camera and the two drones has been sent back, the current squad is standing by, over!"

On the other hand, Chu Zhongtian, who had been watching the real-time battlefield images through the drone, was now in a daze, this battle had completely exceeded the scope of understanding.

　　He realized that tonight's matter was a big deal, then he got up violently and ordered loudly to the people in the command room, "All communication records and radar records tonight will be kept in a single copy, the rest of the backups will all be deleted, all people will sign a confidentiality agreement, what we saw tonight will all be rotted in our stomachs, and no one will be allowed to divulge half of it!"

　　He picked up the red landline again, and with a slightly trembling hand, he picked up the microphone and put it to his ear, reporting the situation to the top.

　　"Report...report!" A voice with obvious panic in its voice came from the battlefield command channel, interrupting Li Xue's report, and the voice in the channel stopped, signaling Li Xue that battlefield command was a priority.

　　Li Xue turned around and looked in the direction of the battlefield while asking, "What's the situation..." but before he could finish his words, he saw an incredible scene.

　　In that scorched black sand pit, when the fire and smoke cleared, the huge ice ball had disappeared, and in its place was a huge castle-an ice-blue castle carved entirely out of cold ice stood there.

　　Around the ice fortress, the ground that was originally burned into half-molten by the cloudburst bomb has now become scorched black, with cracks all over it, just like a spider web.

　　Li Xue saw at a glance that it was due to the rapid alternation of high temperature and extreme cold left traces on the land, he glanced at the information window in front of him, the temperature of that ice castle and the surrounding meters had dropped to minus 10 degrees, and it was still dropping rapidly.

　　Looking at this bizarre scene in front of him, Li Xue gave the order to temporarily cease fire, with the intensity of the firepower just now, not to mention a ball of ice, even a main battle tank should have been blown into scrap metal, without figuring out what is going on right now, opening fire again would just be a waste of ammunition.

　　"What's going on?" He asked towards one of the soldiers who was changing ammo while replaying the footage taken by the drone just now.

　　"Report! While we were firing, the size of that ice ball was obviously shrinking, just as it was about to shatter, a very intense ice blue bright light appeared, and it was accompanied by a very grand chanting sound, immediately after that the temperature around us started to drop by leaps and bounds, and if it wasn't for the protection of the man-portable tactical armor, it is possible that comrades closer to the ice ball would have to suffer from frostbite! "

　　Suddenly, Li Xue raised the Type 35 Assault Rifle in his hand, unloaded the originally golden copper-head bullets, slapped a magazine with a black slug on it, pointed it at the ice fortress, and pulled the trigger.

　　After a thunderous gunshot, sixty rounds of 9mm tungsten core armor-piercing rounds specially designed for use in single tactical armor accurately hit the door of the Ice Bastion, splashing a burst of ice and snow dust.

"Jesus! Are we fighting aliens tonight?" An alarmed voice came from Li Xue's headset, that was tonight's rotating leader, who saw the incredible scene in front of him through the battlefield recorder on Li Xue's helmet, and it was obvious that the scene in front of him had also completely exceeded his cognition.

　　"Report!" Hearing the voice coming from his headset, Li Xue loudly inquired, "So what now! Our equipment can't do anything against that thing!"

　　Hearing Li Xue's inquiry, the headset was silent for a moment, and before that leader could reply, an old and powerful voice directly inserted itself. To be able to directly insert into a highly classified satellite direct communication, it could only be a communication of a higher level, and it was obvious that the matter here had already attracted a higher level of attention.

　　"You've done well, now, I need you to establish a blocking circle around it and wait for support! Just now, a fully loaded J-25 has taken off, along with a three-plane formation of J-10Ms, which will be arriving on the battlefield in 15 minutes, and for which you guys are laser-guiding. I don't care what the hell this thing is! Nor do I want to know if it's an alien! But I can't let an unknown and highly threatening contraption on our territory!" Saying this, a piercing coldness filled the old man's voice.

　　Hearing this, Li Xue straightened his back! Loudly, he said, "Yes! Guarantee to complete the mission!"