"There is an island base about 1,200 kilometers away."
Colonel Zhang looked nonchalant, but he gave directions very quickly, without even having to check or anything like that.
The two are now in a lounge, which is one of the few places on the aircraft carrier with a balcony.
"One thousand two hundred kilometers is not too far. I'll go there now."
Du Ruo was extremely straightforward now. While talking, he picked up a piece of dried fish with chopsticks and put it in his mouth. Then he drank the remaining half bottle of beer in one gulp. Then he stood up and was actually ready to set off on his own.
"Eh? Wait, are you serious? Let me apply first. If you take down the base, what will we do if the United States gets angry and attacks our aircraft carrier?"
Colonel Zhang was stunned. He admitted that he was told to say these words by his superiors, but it was just their way of expressing their attitude so as to prevent Du Ruo from getting suspicious.
Then I also want to establish some connection with Du Ruo. For example, if Du Ruo really ascends, I will leave something behind. If Du Ruo does not ascend, it can be regarded as a way to build a good relationship and serve as a deterrent.
But I didn't expect that Du Ruo seemed to have changed a lot. He didn't want to care about this or that before, but now he wants to destroy other people's military bases by himself? ? ? ?
He himself didn't notice that from beginning to end, he never doubted whether Du Ruo could do it, but was worried about a series of subsequent impacts.
"It's your business to apply to the higher-ups. My current actions are my personal business. I just went to the United States to auction something. Who allowed them to bombard me with cannons and missiles? Why shouldn't I fight back?"
Du Ruo had no intention of looking back. While he was speaking, the Tang Jian in his hand had already moved through the space of the aircraft carrier at an extremely fast speed, until Du Ruo stepped out from the small balcony, and the Tang Jian automatically lay under Du Ruo's feet.
"By the way, prepare some white wine next time. Beer isn't very exciting, but the dried fish is good. Prepare some for me to take away."
After Du Ruo's flying sword arrived at his feet, he immediately climbed up at an extremely high speed and flew towards the clouds, but the sound remained in the same place.
"Mr. Du, come back safely! From now on, we, the Navy, will take care of all your fish!!!"
Colonel Zhang ran outside with an excited look on his face, looking up at the sky and shouting loudly. His excited look was just like a prison soldier who saw someone escape from prison, with a desire to achieve great things.
"Ha ha ha ha!!!"
Du Ruo's laughter came from afar, drifting farther and farther away.
Colonel Zhang immediately went to report to his superiors.
What he just said was true. There were indeed many things that needed to be arranged in advance. Otherwise, if such a big thing happened without any preparation, no one knew what the consequences would be.
Immediately afterwards, the aircraft carrier continued to move forward, but the country immediately announced that it would conduct military exercises, and it actually began preparations near a certain island.
Du Ruo didn't know all these things. He had already climbed into the stratosphere and was flying above the clouds at an extremely fast speed.
The feeling of having the whole world at your feet is truly incomparable. As for the low temperature, lack of oxygen, and the downwind resistance of flying at extremely high speeds, with Du Ruo's current cultivation level and physical strength, they have no effect at all.
He used the wood energy to protect his clothes and provide a protective shield at the same time. Soon... Du Ruo's body seemed to have touched the sound barrier, and there was even a sonic boom around him.
But at this moment, Du Ruo found that Tang Jian under his feet was becoming difficult to control, trembling a little and requiring too much mental energy to be consumed. At this speed, the high temperature and resistance caused by the friction with the air that his entire body and Tang Jian had to endure were unparalleled.
Moreover, it is not worth the effort. There are many ice crystals and water droplets in the clouds. At such a high speed, Du Ruo needs to spend a lot of effort to guard against them.
Du Ruo simply changed his mind, changed direction, and dived directly into a large cloud nearby.
Du Ruo's body entered the clouds and soon disappeared.
Soon, from the other side of the clouds, a dragon made of clouds, ice crystals and water vapor flew out at an extremely fast speed.
And because the speed was so fast, the cloud part of the dragon's body dissipated faster, and the ice crystals began to melt, eventually forming a water dragon that streaked across the sky.
The water dragon seemed to like traveling through the clouds and mist very much. Every time it encountered something, it would pass through the middle. Then, its body would absorb the ice crystals and water vapor inside to make up for the water that was dissipated due to its too fast speed.
After Du Ruo transformed into a water dragon, although his speed was not as fast as flying a sword, his energy consumption was very little. His body was wrapped in water, so he did not need to protect himself extra, nor did he need to waste his mind to control the flying sword.
You just need to use the power of water to control the water and exercise a little control. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone, and it is easy and enjoyable. And for some reason, when flying in the sky in the form of a water dragon, the resistance is not that great. I think it is because there is enough water in the air.
Using the water energy in the body to control water and transform into a dragon is different from using "energy" plus the true meaning of martial arts to transform into a dragon. It cannot use such a large range of sonic attacks, but the consumption is small and the possibility is very high.
More than 1,200 kilometers, Du Ruo estimated that at the current speed close to the speed of sound, it would take about an hour to reach the destination.
The water dragon that Du Ruo transformed into created such a big scene in the sky that it was impossible to hide it from those powerful countries.
After all, no one is blind. When a dragon-shaped creature flies through the air, even though it is over the sea, some people standing on the boat can see the traces left by the flight with their naked eyes just by looking up, let alone a satellite.
The only thing is that the distance is too far, and ordinary people cannot tell whether it is a dragon or a plane flying by.
After all, it is difficult to distinguish with the naked eye at an altitude of 10,000 meters. But it is different at the national level. Satellites, radars, and many other monitoring equipment can see the dragon shape very clearly.
"Commander, the radar monitoring detected an unidentified flying object flying towards the base at a speed close to the speed of sound. It is about 500 kilometers away from the base."
On a small island in the Pacific Ocean, this is a military base of the United States. However, ten minutes ago, an air defense alarm was sounded and an emergency assembly was called. The base commander and ministers of various departments also gathered here.
"Launch anti-aircraft missiles directly."
The commander issued the order without any hesitation.
He had just received information that the satellite had captured a dragon-shaped creature flying in the sky. Combined with what had happened in the local area a few days ago, he could almost determine what this so-called Eastern dragon-shaped creature was.
As for the misjudgment or whether the other party's possible target is a military base, these are not important. No country has the jurisdiction over the ocean. This is an unidentified flying object, and no country has come out to make a statement. Their base launched an anti-aircraft missile, and it just happened to avenge them a few days ago.
"Yes!"
The commander is the supreme leader, and no one else will object to such an order. In the command room, everyone just stood there quietly with their arms folded, watching everything.
The air defense system can scan and identify targets at a distance of up to 5,000 to 6,000 kilometers, and there are various missiles in the base, so it doesn't take long to launch an interceptor missile.
Soon, a missile rose from the base, entered the preset orbit, and flew towards the target.
After the missile was launched, Du Ruo sensed a great crisis, but the crisis was so vague that Du Ruo could not determine the source of the crisis.
"It seems that they still lack knowledge of modern technology. This place should be several hundred kilometers away from the base, and there are no specific ships or islands on the sea. Where does the sense of crisis come from? It's sometimes there and sometimes not.
No matter what, I have to see it for myself. When I go back, I must get some intelligence on these high technologies. I have to at least understand them, if not know them by heart."
Du Ruo thought for a while but had no clue. He could only continue to fly towards the set target. He could take this opportunity to find out more.
The missile launch at the base cannot be concealed from some major powers. Almost all major powers are paying close attention to it, some are watching, some are analyzing, and some are worried.
Even at a distance of 500 kilometers, the two were still approaching each other and almost met in the air soon.
"Missiles??? How do we dodge this thing? What's the explosion range?"
The missile was coming towards him. The moment Du Ruo noticed it, a lot of question marks emerged in his mind almost subconsciously, and then his body took protective measures. The water dragon was soon dyed red.
This thing is not the kind of missile carried on fighter jets. It is so big and its power must be extraordinary.
Then Du Ruo flexibly changed his original course of action.
Almost in the blink of an eye, Du Ruo passed by an anti-aircraft missile. Du Ruo even looked back to prevent the missile from turning.
As a result... we just passed each other.
"boom!!!"
A long time passed before the missile exploded in the air.
The shock wave created by the explosion did have some impact on Du Ruo, but it was not a big one. Even Du Ruo, who was surrounded by the water dragon and the reddish-brown dragon, did not notice it.
"That's it???" Du Ruo was a little surprised. Wasn't it said that the missile could track and lock automatically? Why was this missile so stupid?
……
"What happened??? The anti-aircraft missile failed?"
In the command room, the commander pointed at the target displayed on the radar, slammed the table, and asked loudly.
"No... Anti-aircraft missiles are the ultimate goal of radar, missile systems, and command systems..."
"That's not what I want to hear. What I want to know is why the interception was not successful."
The commander became even angrier and slammed the table in anger.
"After the missile is launched, in addition to the fixed route, thermal imaging is also needed to lock on. Whether it is a fighter jet engine or other missiles, they will be a heat source when flying in the air.
This target has no heat source, so it was just detonated by the command room system, which is why..."
Behind a computer, a person was explaining hurriedly, wiping the cold sweat from his face while explaining.
"I don't care about that now. What I want is to intercept and destroy the target. How far is the target now? Immediately launch another missile to intercept. No, three missiles, no... launch all of them."
The commander shouted loudly, he couldn't understand what was being said, he just needed the result, and according to the distance, they only had one chance to launch such a missile.
"Yes!!!"
Immediately afterwards, missiles in the base were launched into the air, and dozens of short-range missiles were instantly cleared and flew towards the target.
But the result was not satisfactory. Du Ruo's water dragon was not a modern weapon. Modern weapons were all targeted. Perhaps they had never thought that something that could fly at such a high speed would not have thermal imaging to trigger missile tracking.
Ultimately, it can only be detonated with the help of a command system. What's the difference between this and manual detonation?
Du Ruo was not stupid. He knew that he could not be tracked and that he would explode. After noticing the dense missiles, Du Ruo simply kept changing his route.
When the missile is far away, it is locked by radar and can turn to a certain extent, but when the distance is close, it cannot be adjusted. Du Ruo's drastic change of direction makes it impossible for these missiles to track in time.
Finally...Du Ruo saw dozens of big fireworks in the sky.
After these two encounters with missiles, Du Ruo could already see the islands dozens of kilometers away.
"Found it!! It's my turn now."
Du Ruo began to descend rapidly from the stratosphere and dived towards the island. His idea was a good one. After all, he had dodged the missiles, so it was his turn to take action next.
But imagination is useless, the reality is cruel. What greeted Du Ruo was an extremely dense barrage of anti-aircraft missiles. The density was so high that it covered the water dragon made of ice crystals and water droplets in the clouds and mist like rain from a distance of several kilometers.
"Fuck!!!"
Du Ruo looked at the sky full of missile tail fins and even cursed. It was no wonder that he cursed, because it was really like rain, and it was overwhelming. There were probably thousands of them.
Not only that, behind these missiles are even more dense anti-aircraft guns, which are as dense as a rain curtain.
Du Ruo didn't even have the thought of resisting. He absorbed the red dragons around him into his body and quickly jumped out of the water dragon.
He didn't even have time to fly the sword as gracefully as before. Instead, he grabbed the hilt and plunged towards the sea in an instant.
"Boom boom boom boom!!!"
Thousands of anti-aircraft missiles exploded in the air, and the water dragon was vaporized without even a splash.
These anti-aircraft missiles and anti-aircraft guns were originally designed to defend against missile attacks. They could directly cover a large area and detonate approaching missiles in the air, not to mention the water dragons whose flying speed was slower than the speed of sound.
Even hypersonic missiles can be intercepted.
Du Ruo suffered from his lack of education and did not understand these things.
However, although anti-aircraft missiles and anti-aircraft guns are powerful, they are also very targeted, that is, they are only aimed at the sky and have no way to deal with targets on the ground or even in the ocean.
After all, in the ocean, there is resistance from water when moving, and it is impossible to get close so quickly.
But Du Ruo didn't know that after being frightened by such dense anti-aircraft missiles and anti-aircraft guns, he had been sneaking in the water very carefully.
Of course he would not be abandoned just like that, but instead he was concentrating on running the "five energies" in his chest. He did not intend to show up so soon, but wanted to approach carefully while using the water energy to the best of his ability to mobilize the surrounding sea water.
Just when everyone in the command room was on alert, a huge wave was seen rising in the originally calm ocean.
Then, a dragon head tens of meters high rose from the sea, like a hidden dragon emerging from the abyss, raising its head and dragging its long body as it flew towards the island.
"Boom boom boom!!!"
The distance was so short and the attack was so sudden that the missiles had no time to fire. Only the anti-aircraft guns changed direction in time and launched a rain of artillery fire.
But water is very soft, and the anti-aircraft artillery fire hit the water dragon and penetrated it completely.
A water dragon tens of meters high, with a body hundreds of meters long, crashed directly into the anti-aircraft gun.
The water dragon hit the air defense equipment. Although the water dragon was large and the impact of the water flow was not small, it did not cause too much damage. After all, the air defense equipment did not require people to stand outside to operate it.
After all, this was controlled by Du Ruo remotely, and in order for the water energy to drive such a huge water flow, all the lethality of the water energy was sacrificed, but it attracted everyone's attention and also blocked a large part of the vision.
Du Ruo was like a poisonous snake, looking for an opening and then flew up on his sword.
Du Ruo's sword-riding speed is close to the speed of sound. Not only that, he starts from 0 frame and arrives on the island almost instantly.
Immediately afterwards, a giant red dragon appeared on the island.
Compared with the water dragon, the giant dragon looks very slender, but it has many functions that the water dragon does not have.
For example, now, after the red dragon appeared on the island, it immediately opened its mouth and let out a dragon roar that echoed throughout the island as it headed towards the ground.
"???"
The dragon's body scattered with air waves and low-frequency vibrations.
Almost at the moment the dragon's roar sounded, all weapons fell silent.
The giant dragon did not stay in the air, but roared as it flew towards where the crowd was concentrated.
The giant dragon flew around the island at an extremely fast speed, performing a 360-degree surround sound show for the creatures on the island.
After completing a circle, Du Ruo dispersed the red dragon and flew back in the direction he came from on his sword.
The island behind me is silent!!!
On the way back, Du Ruo touched his uncomfortable throat and never dared to fly in the stratosphere so flashy again. The air defense system was too powerful. It was safer to fly at low altitude.
The island is not small. Although Du Ruo mainly wandered around the military base, he still needed to use his own voice to shout the dragon roar. The dragon-shaped voice was just like a loudspeaker. After going around like this, his voice was almost hoarse.
After Du Ruo's round just now, even if there are people alive on the island, there definitely won't be many.
It's a pity that Du Ruo didn't dare to stay for too long. Who knows if there would be any powerful weapons in the base. If they could be remotely controlled and exploded on the spot, Du Ruo would die unjustly.
So, the safest thing to do is to just yell and leave.
It took more than an hour to fly there and more than an hour to fly back, but the actual working time was only a few minutes.
(End of this chapter)
