Underneath its wings, there seemed to be air intake holes.
Suddenly, the tyrant tiger armor, like an immensely powerful machine, astonishingly began to inhale naturally!
This inhalation process instantly reduced the air pressure inside the entire steel boat, sucking away all the oxygen in an instant. Everyone's movements slowed down, and breathing became extremely difficult!
With the reduced air pressure, the external pressure became terrifyingly immense. The whole steel boat deformed from the torn parts, as if it had been crushed by a colossal force!
The steel boat was directly deformed, the interior space was compressed, and all the Hao Clan soldiers were flung about by an unknown force, their bones breaking and vomiting fresh blood.
In the vacuum, Wu Hen didn't feel particularly uncomfortable. After all, thanks to mastering the Natural Breathing Technique, he could inhale oxygen from farther regions into his lungs and also use Spiritual Energy to fill his body, forming an internal circulation of Spiritual Energy.
However, beside him, Wang Rui's face turned red, frantically inhaling but unable to feel the penetration of oxygen. Soon, he flailed his limbs like a drowning person.
Seeing this, Wu Hen also hastily found an oxygen helmet in the cabin and quickly put it on Wang Rui.
With a gasp of pure oxygen, Wang Rui finally felt a trace of strength return to his body. Your awaits on My Virtual Library Empire
The tyrant tiger armor hardly needed to strike; the Hao Clan troops were already disassembled. Its deputy eyes, flickering with a spectral light, moved slowly like surveillance. The sight of Insects wasn't exactly strong, but their dynamic capture was incredibly outrageous, meaning that if everyone just stood still, they would temporarily disappear from its sight.
Wu Hen knew sign language, so he quickly signaled to Chang Huan.
He told Chang Huan that this creature was extremely terrifying and instead of senselessly rushing to their deaths, it was better to hold back and see what the opponent ultimately intended to do.
The Hao Clan soldiers found it difficult to move under the vacuum and were absolutely unable to exert any force. Their bodies floated irregularly, like dust being raised.
Chang Huan also realized ordering the soldiers forward was sending them to their deaths. He simply issued a command to retreat, gesturing for the soldiers to get as close as possible to the escape pods...
The tyrant tiger armor, utilizing some kind of Perception, didn't rely on mammalian gills. Beneath its titanium-like Zhe Armor were something akin to air valves that were pulsating, a cold gas akin to dry ice wafted out...
This Zhe Qi was invisible to others, but in the vacuum, it spread rapidly, filling the entire steel boat in an instant.
Although Wu Hen couldn't see it with his naked eye, he captured this gaseous perception through his sense of taste.
It was indeed searching for something.
And it seemed not very interested in these "human-machines."
As the tyrant tiger armor moved, it inspected these captives like a proud commander.
Finally, it closed up the air valves, its body entering a frigid state.
It raised its sharp foreclaws and fierily sliced towards the middle of the steel boat.
The steel boat split in half like a watermelon broken open through the middle.
With its wings moving in the manner of propellers, the tyrant tiger armor flew back to Insect Island with its perfect metallic body.
It completely ignored the individuals inside, treating the captives like a swarm of noisy insects; to it, killing them one by one would be a waste of its precious time.
Meanwhile, the steel boat plummeted through the air, crashing into the Red Plane.
Below the Red Plane, numerous fierce sea creatures gathered. They attacked the wreckage of the steel boat, dragging out the Hao Clan soldiers one by one to bite them to death.
The Hao Clan soldiers were in utter disarray as they frantically climbed aboard the lifeboats.
Ultimately, the entire steel boat was submerged by the red water, sinking into the bottomless depths of the Red Plane, with the Hao Clan soldiers crowded in the limited space of the lifeboats. Though they escaped the immediate danger, each of them was stunned into silence...
For a moment, Chang Huan didn't know what to say.
Had they bravely died in battle, Chang Huan would know how to inspire the Hao Clan soldiers by letting them know that the people of the Hao Clan's Ark do not fear any creature of the Desert Dust.
But most of them had survived, and their manner of survival felt almost like humiliation, being ignored, being spared...
Morale plummeted to freezing point. Everyone was very aware that they had survived not because they were united or strong, but purely because the opponent had no interest in them.
Being able to split the entire steel boat in half also meant that the tyrant tiger armor could tear through the flesh and bodies of a thousand men just as easily; there was not a single Hao Clan soldier who believed that stacking a thousand of them together would be tougher than the outer shell of the steel boat!
Operating the small lifeboat was excruciatingly slow, and with a vast distance yet to cover to the safety of Red Port, they had no choice but to slowly paddle for days and nights. This extended time exposed to the cold and hunger, coupled with attacks from the sea creatures lurking beneath the Plane, was torture of its own...
"Did you encounter this in your mining operations?" Wu Hen asked Chang Huan.
Chang Huan shook his head.
He had never seen this kind of powerful Red Zhe before.
"There are only two types of Red Zhe, juvenile and adult. The juveniles are exceedingly numerous, with an absurd reproductive capacity. If they swarm, they could outnumber the fish in the sea and are simply unkillable. On the other hand, the adults emerge from these tens of thousands of juveniles. Their evolution rate is ridiculously fast. Last week, it might have been shedding its juvenile shell; by next week, it could have turned into an invincible adult. They have their own brutal laws of evolution," Wang Rui elaborated.