True Apocalypse Game

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Like mallets striking giant war drums, flashes of golden light flickered over the building's dome. Each whistling cannonball transformed into a huge rosebud, shattering on impact with the dome and scattering down like a rain of petals.

The falling petals blanketed the dome and the area around the building before being swept up by the wind and scattered across the entire island.

This exquisitely beautiful scene left even the sailors firing the cannons in a daze.

"Captain... this... this isn't working at all..." Old Bill said, his voice trembling.

He could feel the power of the cannons; they definitely possessed world-shattering might.

But the greater the cannons' power, the more helpless they seemed before the heavenly island.

The shells, capable of tearing mountains apart, were simply turning into giant rosebuds. It was nothing short of a miracle.

Shen Feng narrowed his eyes, watching the dome that was intercepting the cannonballs with constant flashes of golden light. Inside his Silicon-Based Brain, he and Jingwei rapidly calculated the energy consumption of this Quantum Force Field, searching for a weakness.

Just then, he suddenly saw a tile on the dome shatter. It had been hit and destroyed by a machine gun round!

Shen Feng nodded slightly, realizing the Quantum Force Field's energy output wasn't enough to completely block the Sail Warship's full barrage.

'That made sense. Otherwise, Witch Tower and I would never have been able to escape earlier.'

'The Purifiers must be completely focused right now, desperately using their brain waves to guide the Quantum Force Field and turn the incoming cannonballs into rosebuds.'

'These cultists have a strange sense of aesthetics. What a bizarre and ironic scene.'

RUMBLE... A dull roar echoed as a crack suddenly split open the building's dome, revealing a massive steel cannon as thick as a water bucket.

The steel behemoth took aim at the Sail Warship, which had just set sail. It reflected a sinister blue light under the sun. Clearly, the Purifiers inside were preparing to counterattack.

The cannon's caliber was nearly fifty centimeters, far wider than the main cannons on the Sail Warship.

The moment they saw the giant cannon, the sailors couldn't help but shudder.

They understood the power of such weapons all too well. If this giant cannon could fire the same kind of devastating shells as the ones on their Sail Warship, their own ship had no Magic capable of turning cannonballs into rosebuds!

Unless... the Captain had some other ace up his sleeve.

To their surprise, when the Captain saw the giant cannon appear, he merely gave a disdainful smile. Then, with a look of complete confidence, he took a metal helmet engraved with an eye pattern from his pack.

Shen Feng examined the Metal Helmet in his hands, feeling its texture, before solemnly placing it on his head.

The Metal Helmet was pitch-black, with an eye engraved on the forehead, from which patterns radiated outward like ripples in water. It had an ancient, classical look.

This was the helmet forged from the metallic elements refined from the Sacrificial Stones Shen Feng had obtained earlier!

The "Sacrificial Metal" that enriched it had the property of amplifying brain waves, allowing the user to greatly boost their own while forming a powerful electromagnetic field to interfere with the Thought Fields of others.

The moment Shen Feng put on the helmet, his mind instantly cleared. The island before him abruptly changed, its brilliant colors fading to a dull gray, as if a shadow had fallen over it.

In that same instant, the magnificent buildings began to look dilapidated, losing their previous splendor.

'Just as I thought. This island doesn't just have a Quantum Force Field, but a Hypnotic Electromagnetic Field as well!'

"Tsk, tsk. Your helmet looks a bit like Magnetic King's. Careful you don't get sued for copyright infringement," Jingwei's voice rang out in his mind. "Speaking of which, I think you'd look even better if you shaved your head and wore it."

Shen Feng ignored Jingwei's teasing and said quickly, "Keep searching for the Quantum Force Field's energy source. Maybe we can get you a quantum-state body. Just think how awesome that would be."

"Good point! I'm on it!" Jingwei was instantly alert and immediately resumed her calculations of the energy values.

Meanwhile, with the aid of the Sacrificial Helmet, Shen Feng's Silicon-Based Brain instantly unleashed a storm of electromagnetic waves, forming a powerful Consciousness Field that enveloped everyone on the Sail Warship.

None of the crew had ever experienced anything like it. They all shuddered, and aside from Witch Tower, who was able to maintain full independence of mind, everyone else's eyes glazed over.

At this time, there were several hundred people aboard the Sail Warship, a number roughly equal to that of the Purifiers in the building.

The silicon-based framework in Shen Feng's chest instantly let out a booming voice, like the resonant toll of a great bell:

"What you see is not Paradise Island! It's Hypnosis! An illusion! It's not real! Not real! This is just a deserted island, a pile of ruins! Look closely! Look closely! Look with your hearts!"

Influenced by Shen Feng's voice, all the sailors on deck immediately fixed their gazes on the island before them. They stared intently at the building in particular, trying to find a flaw in the island as Shen Feng's words guided them.

Shen Feng's eyes were wide as well, staring intently at the island.

Unlike the sailors' doubt, he was absolutely certain. 'This heavenly island and its magnificent building are nothing but a fabrication, conjured up by the Purifiers through the Quantum Force Field. It's a transformation of something else that already exists!'

'And now, we are the new observers. Through our observation, we can cause the existence-state of this island, which is in the Quantum Force Field, to collapse—collapse back to its original form!'

"Keep firing, don't stop! A salvo every five seconds!" Shen Feng commanded loudly. "Look at the cannon on the dome! Its true form is about to be revealed!"

The crew continued firing while following Shen Feng's instructions, their eyes fixed on the cannon.

It was as if a layer of mist shrouded the intimidating, massive cannon barrel, making it seem unreal.

But in the next instant, the barrel, which had been gleaming with a metallic luster, flickered like a dropped frame in a video. It transformed into a dark, ugly object covered in mottled rust. It was completely hollow inside, with no foundation whatsoever—merely placed on top of the dome.

Shen Feng's eyes shot wide open, his heart leaping with joy. He knew his guess was right!

The "cannon" on the building's dome was nothing more than a rusty old iron barrel, not a powerful weapon at all!

'These Purifiers, living in a Water World, have probably never even seen a real cannon fire. They can't even imagine how to attack with one, which is why that 'giant cannon' never fired!'

"Concentrate fire! Attack that iron barrel!" Shen Feng roared.

In the next instant, dozens of cannons fired in unison, and shells of all calibers screamed through the air, hurtling toward the iron barrel on the dome.

This time, although golden light still flickered above the dome, only a few cannonballs turned into rosebuds. All the others slammed into the spot where the iron barrel stood.

The dilapidated iron barrel looked so ridiculous atop the magnificent dome. In an instant, it was blown to smithereens!

Immediately after, a ripple seemed to appear in everyone's vision, originating from the barrel and spreading out across the building.

The once splendid and magnificent building rapidly became gray and dilapidated. Patches of rust appeared, and the beautiful glazed tiles and stained glass vanished, replaced by moss, dust, and even cobwebs.

The massive, several-hundred-meter-tall structure before them quickly lost its glow, revealing its true form.

It was a colossal metal object covered in holes, pockmarked with shell impacts and blast craters, stuck into the island like a giant sword!

On one "wall" of the structure, a line of faded English letters was painted:

CVN-79.

It was a Ford-class aircraft carrier, stabbed upside down into the island!