Mystery Paradise: Wishing Power Demon-Chapter 249 - 248 Secret Base
Chapter 249: Chapter 248 Secret Base
Chapter 249 -248 Secret Base
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When the Tomahawk was thirty kilometers from the island, Chaoyang connected to the “Human-in-the-Loop” system and began to “manually” control the missile’s flight path.
He lined up five missiles in vertical formation, then started to climb towards high altitude. When they reached two thousand meters, they dove towards the target point in a vertical nosedive attitude!
Although Tomahawk missiles are capable of ground attacks, they have limitations due to their subsonic performance and warhead size, and are not adept at breaching fortifications. Therefore, to achieve the maximum penetration depth, he needed all five missiles to hit the exact same spot—something difficult for computers to accomplish, but different with human control.
Everyone on the yacht could hear the shrill sound of the missile engines.
In astonishment, they traced the noise and saw five white streaks plummeting from the sky, connected end to end, each maintaining a distance of two hundred meters from one another, resembling a stick falling from the firmament!
One by one, the missiles smashed into the ground. As the sound of explosions followed one after another, a great amount of smoke and dust rose up from the island instantly!
“Sukaburitech! Now that’s an explosive punch!” Anthony clapped his hands in excitement. Even though Chaoyang had not shared the details of the infiltration plan with them, he could still guess that this action must be related to Paradise.
Zhang Zhiyuan was completely flabbergasted.
He knew Paradise had wide-reaching powers, but to summon missiles to attack the enemy? And to do it on Earth? This was clearly beyond his expectations.
This is it!
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Chaoyang could feel the moment the last Tomahawk hit the ground, the explosion was slightly delayed. This meant that it didn’t detonate at the same height as the previous four, but instead penetrated deeper underground.
If the five cruise missiles failed to find an entry point, he of course had a plan B, such as more missiles, or activating short-range ballistic missiles nearby. But that would be more troublesome, so to succeed in one attempt was certainly the best outcome.
“Now is the time, let’s move!”
Then minutes later, the small yacht steadily rushed up to the sandy beach, and the fully armed players took turns jumping off the deck.
Chaoyang stood at the bow, hands behind his back, and said to the others, “I regret to say that I will not accompany you any further on this journey. Paradise wishes you all smooth sailing.”
The location where the missiles hit was only about five hundred meters away from the beach. As the Paradise squad approached the explosion site, the air was still thick with the pungent smell of gunpowder.
“The ground… collapsed?”
Zhang Zhiyuan noticed a marked inclination downwards at the terrain beneath his feet. The fine sand whispered as it flowed around him, converging into a point a hundred meters away, forming a giant funnel. At the lowest point of the funnel, he could vaguely make out several pieces of shattered stone.
The stones were greyish-white and clearly not a natural part of the landscape.
“That’s concrete!” Zhou Zhi exclaimed, “The base is right below us!”
“Not sure how deep it goes, I’ll go tie a safety rope,” Cui Zhen’en said.
“Don’t rush, I will check it out first. You all wait here,” Zhang Zhiyuan said as he shouldered his rifle and slowly made his way down the slope towards the center of the depression. The closer he got to the bottom, the more solid the ground felt under his feet, meaning the concrete slabs were not buried deeply—possibly less than a meter of soil on top.
Reaching the hole, he could clearly see a gap in the concrete slab about two meters wide blasted open, with bent rebar indicating the direction of the blast. The thickness of the slab was not much—about thirty centimeters, typical of an underground room ceiling. It seemed the builders of the base might not have anticipated that one day they would be subject to a missile strike from above.
Zhang Zhiyuan carefully crouched down and peeked into the bottom of the hole, and was immediately met with a blast of hot air that made it impossible to open his eyes. Although the explosion didn’t start a fire, the residual heat was enough to be unbearable. He took a gas mask out of his bag and put it on, allowing him to look directly into the pit.
He found that the hole wasn’t very deep, or rather, it probably had been deep before, but the sand and stones that had poured in formed a natural “staircase” with a height difference of about two meters at most.
“Come over, no need for ropes!” Zhang Zhiyuan called out to his companions, “We can get down from here.”
After saying that, he took the lead and jumped into the pit.
The section below seemed to be a ventilation shaft, where the pouring sand had created an incline of earth. The high-temperature air burned their skin painfully, a sensation unbearable for the average person. However, they had all switched to the alternate bodies shaped by Paradise, capable of increasing their tolerance by lowering their sensitivity to pain.
Each level of the ventilation shaft had an air inlet, and it was clear that the large pipes connected to the walls of the shaft led to different areas of the base. The air inlets were supposed to have steel bars, but the impact of the explosions had smashed them completely, heaven only knows what kind of surprise the cruise missile that had burrowed into the shaft before exploding caused for the enemies inside this secret space.
“To think there’s really a secret base on such a remote island,” Zhou Zhi remarked after landing, “there seem to be quite a few secrets hidden on Earth…”
“Indeed,” Cui Zhen’en agreed, “Maybe one day after humanity is extinct, alien archaeologists will treat this place as a treasure-hunt paradise.”
“But the question is, who built this? To construct such a large-scale base in such a remote place, it probably wouldn’t come cheap—at least several tens of billions, I’d guess.”
“It must have been built decades ago,” Anthony commented, touching the powdery substance on the wall, “We haven’t been playing the Paradise game for that long… It’s unlikely there’s a connection between the two. Unless…”
“Unless what?” Zhang Zhiyuan asked.
“Unless the heretics found a way to this world a long time ago.”
“And now they’re secretly ruling the world?” Zhou Zhi chimed in, “Something feels off about that.”
“Maybe we’ll find out the answer once we locate the source of the coordinates,” Qianyuan Meiko interrupted everyone’s conversation, “It should be directly below the ventilation shaft, but the ground beneath our feet is buried in rubble, so we’ll need to find the staircase of this building first.”
“But with so many air inlets, deciding where to start searching is a problem,” Zhang Zhiyuan frowned, “Should we split up and look?”
“Hold on a moment…” Leisk suddenly pulled the Fog Horn from his chest, and placed it unbelievably on the palm of his hand. The horn trembled continuously and slightly levitated, emitting a soft red light all over.
In the dim vertical ventilation shaft, this light was so peculiar, it immediately captured everyone’s attention.
“What’s this thing?” Anthony asked curiously.
“A kind of oddity, also known as a divine artifact,” Luowei Siya explained, “It can enhance the holder’s perception and track the presence of the Evil God.”
“If you had such a great item, you should’ve mentioned it earlier!” the Russian patted Leisk on the shoulder, “So, can it help us pinpoint the location of the evil source?”
“It can, but this is the first time I’ve seen this kind of situation…” the young man murmured, “Vibrations indicate extreme danger, and the red light is a refraction of the Evil God’s essence. The appearance of either one means we should immediately blow the horn to summon the mist to cover the whole area; the two happening at the same time only mean one possibility…”
“Which is what?”
“The God of Causality is somewhere not far from us!” Leisk said, word by word.
