The life energy reaction approaching the defense line seemed unusually strange.

It was stronger than a Second Evolution Follower, but far from an Apostle level. To describe it, its life energy reaction was like a burning house: dazzling, scorching, more intense than a bonfire, but incomparable to a volcano.

The soldiers exchanged glances, a strong sense of unease rising in their hearts.

Could this strange life energy reaction mean the ancient civilization had created a new creature?

Soon, as the life energy rapidly approached, the ultra-high-definition camera on the fighter jet captured the opponent's appearance and quickly transmitted it to the city's command center.

A photo quickly appeared before everyone.

"This... is this a Follower?" The photo showed a Starchain Apostle Follower, but unlike before, it was standing on something like a small aircraft, carrying its body and flying quickly.

It also wore a suit of high-tech armor, looking like the armor from the sci-fi movie Iron Man, full of deterrence.

The intense life energy reaction emanated from it.

As for why its energy reaction had become more intense, perhaps it was influenced by the armor it wore; they had become stronger, at least three times stronger than before!

Seeing the arrival of the ancient civilization's enemy, the officials in the command center were not particularly flustered.

The reason was simple: the information transmitted by the fighter jet showed that there was only one enemy approaching the city!

Yes, you read that right. The Starchain Apostle only sent one Follower to approach the defensive city!

"That bastard, what does he think we are? Trash? To send only a small fry over here, he's underestimating us too much!" The commander clenched his fist. Although he was also wary of the ancient civilization, this action made him feel extremely humiliated.

In the eyes of the fully revived ancient civilization, was the human defense line so vulnerable?

Sending out only one Follower—did it think it could break through the city walls with just that?

"Intercept it! Kill it!" The commander gave an order, pointing in the direction of the city walls. "If we let it break into the city alone today, then the entire command will lose all face. Just take off your uniforms and commit suicide!"

For the human army, the ancient civilization was indeed terrifying.

But if there was only one enemy, and not an Apostle, then how terrifying could it be?

During this period of war, the human army had killed Followers before. Those monsters just had incredibly strong self-healing abilities. But now, this city had a garrison of 100,000 soldiers, a large number of heavy missiles, an army of Evolvers, and even more than a dozen Second Evolution Pioneers.

Faced with this defensive power, how much trouble could a single Follower cause?

It must be eliminated here!

The commander's brow twitched wildly. If this guy really broke through the city walls today, he would completely lose face. If the news spread, even if Li Tianran didn't dismiss him, he would have no face to continue leading the army.

...

One hundred kilometers outside the city walls.

The Starchain Apostle Follower was rapidly approaching the southeastern city, piloting the aircraft. Its expression was extremely cold. The fierce gales swept past like steel knives, but could not shake its body in the slightest.

It held a blue spear tightly in its hand. Arc-like flashes of light danced around the spear shaft, making it look as dazzling as Thor's scepter.

It raised its head, looked at the outline of the distant southeastern city, and heard a mechanical electronic voice in its ear.

"Enemy fighter jets detected approaching, distance 36.25 kilometers, spatial position coordinates are..."

The cold electronic voice sounded. A ferocious smile appeared on its lips as it raised the lightning spear in its hand and hurled it violently in a direction in the sky!

"Crack!"

A thunderclap sounded above the sky.

After the lightning spear was thrown out, its speed suddenly increased, instantly soaring to more than ten times the speed of sound. The terrifying sonic boom and vibration wave spread rapidly, as if a heavy drum had been struck in the sky!

A blue light streaked across the sky, as if splitting it open.

The fighter pilot in the southeastern city was still using the ultra-high-definition camera to observe the Follower's every move. Suddenly, he saw the Follower glance in his direction. Through the screen, their eyes met.

The pilot's heart skipped a beat. He saw a strong sense of ridicule and killing intent in the other's eyes.

Although they were tens of kilometers apart, the pilot felt an extremely strong sense of death descending upon him, like a poisonous snake tightly entwining him, impossible to escape!

In an instant, the pilot was drenched in sweat. He decisively changed direction and prepared to flee in the fighter jet.

But the next moment, he saw a flash of lightning cutting through the sky.

Then, a blinding light filled his entire vision!

Boom!

A blaze suddenly erupted in the sky!

The lightning spear instantly crossed more than thirty kilometers, accurately hitting the fighter jet. Under the impact of terrifying force, it directly blew the fighter jet to smithereens.

Countless fragments of steel fell like rain.

Amidst the fire, the lightning spear seemed to have its own life, turning directly around and quickly returning to the Follower's hand.

"Hahaha, this feeling of full power, really... makes me want to laugh out loud!" The Follower grasped the lightning spear again and laughed wildly.

In the wars that had taken place between the ancient civilization and humans, not only had human civilization suffered heavy losses, but the ancient civilization had also been very aggrieved.

If their technological weapons had been fully restored, it would have been impossible for them to be killed by human armies. In many past wars, the Followers could only use their pure life levels to fight against all of humanity's weapons, which also made the Followers feel very aggrieved and angry.

And now, the Followers, with their firepower fully unleashed, had regained their technological weapons and returned to their peak. The power to turn the world upside down with a single blow had been regained, and that feeling was really hard to describe in words.

Inside the command building, the officers saw the scene before the fighter jet was shot down through video relay. At this moment, everyone was silent.

Tens of kilometers away, the opponent could kill the top fighter jet of human civilization with one blow...

This kind of individual combat capability was much more terrifying than a Second Evolution Pioneer!

Just now, no one thought that a Follower could cause any trouble to the southeastern city, but now... perhaps this idea had to be changed.

"Commander, can our army fight against such a monster?" someone asked in a trembling voice.

The commander swallowed. His brow furrowed. "Launch heavy artillery shells! Don't be stingy with firepower! Give me concentrated fire!"

"It must be intercepted outside the city walls!"

As the commander gave the order, the missile vehicles and missile silos that had been in a ready-to-fire state for a long time were quickly activated. A large number of fire dragons soared into the sky, and dense missiles danced in the sky, as dazzling as fireworks.

Countless fire dragons roared towards the Follower. Such firepower would have leveled a mountain long ago!

But the Follower's face was full of disdain. It faced the incoming missiles, neither dodging nor evading, and even proactively opened its arms, as if it wanted to embrace the firepower.

The next moment, the missiles began to explode crazily before they even approached the Follower, forming a boundless sea of fire in the air.

This scene was very similar to the scene where human civilization used nuclear missiles to bomb miracle buildings, only to have them detonated in advance by the miracle buildings using special methods!

The Follower's figure rushed out of the sea of fire, unscathed. Not even a speck of dirt stained its armor, which still shone with dazzling light, glittering and resplendent.

"You want to touch me with these garbage, outdated weapons?" The Follower laughed, waving the lightning spear in its hand. "Humans, you really underestimate our technological level!"

"Today, I'll show you what technological suppression is!"