Wow! The item-dropping rate is really high!

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"It's about time..." At daybreak, the morning sun had just risen from the horizon.

The first streak of milky white glow was cast equally upon every creature on earth.

Bai E peacefully opened his eyes and murmured softly.

He had called in people from both Black Street and the small town, but he did not expect them to join the battle.

The power of the Smart Machinery relative to ordinary people was too terrifying; even those players who had grown could not make much of a difference in this fight.

Bai E did not place his hopes on them; he only called them to take care of the aftermath and move the goods.

Thus, he couldn't wait for their actual arrival before launching the attack.

Rustling sounds emerged around, as everyone in the vehicle was making their final combat preparations.

It was undoubtedly a tall tale to directly assault a relatively large Smart Machinery Factory with the strength of a five-person squad.

But if their team leader led them, then all possibilities existed.

Bai E clapped his hands to draw everyone's attention, "There's not much to say, nor are there any tactical choices. The plan is simple, I'll go test the limits of those Smart Machines first. If the communication works, we'll use voice; if not, you'll have to play it by ear."

Tactics could only be discussed among individuals or groups with roughly the same abilities. However, other than himself, the rest of the team lagged far behind the guardians of the Smart Machinery, making any kind of tactics mere nonsense.

In this world, after all, only power was the real trump card.

As he spoke, Bai E single-handedly picked up a military Blast Shield and lightly hopped out of the vehicle.

His bold action made his blood boil so much that even the normally placid Spiritual Energy seemed to pulsate with excitement.

Bai E could feel the thrill in his body. Self-restraint also reminded him whether he should suppress these physical changes.

But Bai E didn't want to do that.

A certain degree of excitement was conducive to better performance.

Not to mention, in this world, there was the magical force of Spiritual Energy. Cold reason could indeed utilize the effectiveness of Spiritual Energy, but ardent passion often reflected the "miracles" of Spiritual Energy to a greater extent.

Watching Bai E's solitary figure recede, the four left in the vehicle looked at each other.

"I always feel like our captain is becoming less and less human..."

"Right... becoming more and more freakish."

One person rushing into a large Smart Machinery Factory—does that sound like something a normal person would do?

But that was exactly what their captain did...

And he didn't even use that wonderful "stealth" ability.

A drone released by Ling was trailing far behind Bai E, maintaining a distance where they could just barely ascertain their captain's fate. The technology of Smart Machinery was not something this era could compare with; getting too close would likely result in being detected by Smart Machinery before their captain.

The four inside the vehicle watched the small screen with bated breath. The lens trembled slightly, yet always focused on the tiny advancing speck.

Bai E's pace was neither fast nor slow, moving steadily toward the pitch-black factory like a normal march.

The trembling of the earth became gradually more distinct. The moment he crossed a certain boundary, Bai E's "Heavenly Eye" Spiritual Energy sharply detected a signal firmly locked onto him.

'Radar?'

As this thought flashed through his mind, a distant glimmer of firelight had appeared at the farthest range of his vision, not very bright under the morning sun but enough to catch attention.

The firelight quickly magnified and split into several different trajectories.

Missiles?

They really aren't being polite...

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A thought flashed through Bai E's mind as his feet suddenly erupted. Experience new stories on My Virtual Library Empire

The ground beneath him caved in violently, and his body was already shooting out in an instant.

"Boom!"

A series of small mushroom clouds merged into one after another, as human speed could never match that of high-tech weaponry.

Amidst the dust, the agile figure continued to surge forward.

"That's really tough..."

To withstand missiles with one's body, I must be mad.

Would I have dared to dream of such a day when I first came to this world? Yet the fact is, I have unconsciously reached this inhuman level.

Spiritual Energy lent an almost eternal protection to the Blast Shield in my hand, and the skill of Absolute Defense rendered my body as formidable as the terror of the elemental series alloy.

But Bai E, having avoided the core of the explosion, still felt surges of blood and energy.

This meant that if I truly stood still and withstood the missiles, my current level was far from sufficient.

But how many chances do you have to fire missiles?

The next moment, Bai E lifted his head.

In a glance, fireworks burst profusely before my eyes.

Countless warheads, trailing orange tails like raindrops, came at me so quickly I could only let out a curse of "Damn," before I had to immediately initiate Spiritual Energy and enter a special state—

High-Dimensional Walking.

What was originally a technique for combat in high-dimensional space could also be used to evade some attacks in the real world if applied well.

Spiritual Energy shifted as my form swiftly transitioned.

The real body turned into an elusive Spiritual Body and escaped into the vast and empty high-dimensional world.

Bai E had no time to admire the exquisite scenery of the high-dimensional world; the moment I entered the High-Dimensional Walking state, I sprinted towards a direction I had marked.

The connection between high-dimensional space and the real world is not absolute; the north in the real world and what the conscious spiritual body "perceives" as north in high-dimensional space could be two completely different directions.

Without an absolute sense of space and prior Spiritual Energy marking, a spiritual energy user might emerge from the High-Dimensional Walking state in unpredictable locations.

"Boom boom boom boom boom!"

A succession of explosions nearly leveled several centimeters of the ground, yet at the very forefront of the explosive dust, that agile dark shadow continued to run towards the factory at an undiminished pace.

Ling Zero, who spotted the captain's figure in the surveillance video, could only helplessly open her mouth wide, watching this incomprehensible scene unfold before her eyes.

Is the captain... still human?

["Lucky Hit" charge +12.]

"..."

Are all my team members my fervent little fanboys?

This thought passed through Bai E's mind before he noticed another round of attacks arriving.

The sinister-looking green warheads emitted an ominous aura; the extra-large warheads displayed a much slower trajectory and were not aimed at me.

"Boom!"

As the warhead hit the ground, the world went silent; a greenish glow radiated out in a form beyond vision, and Bai E abruptly felt his perception of the high-dimensional space being blocked by some barrier...