My Wife is Actually a top-tier Soldier King?!-Chapter 1123 - 1053: Escape to Survival? City of Chaos!
Time passed.
The continuous explosions finally ceased.
For everyone hiding in the defense position’s shelter, the tough endurance had come to an end.
It felt like the thunderstorms of a summer day, with the muffled thunder finally subsiding.
The sounds of thunderous roars, pounding one after another. 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞
And the frequent high-frequency vibrations of the ground were utterly irritating.
After a long wait, relief finally came.
One by one, they crawled out of their shelters, already covered with dust and dirt.
Looking around.
Where were the armed militants?
The heavy trucks that previously rampaged so boldly, whether assailed by assault rifles or light machine guns, proved impervious.
Instead, they were scattered in panic by heavy machine guns and cannons, forced to hide and dodge.
But now...
Not to mention heavy trucks and armed militants.
Not a hair could be seen.
One would assume, there should be corpses, fragments of vehicles, weapon parts, and the like!
But whether it was due to the darkness or the continuous, overpowering explosions, nothing could be seen.
Were it not for the waves of heat assaulting them, it would feel like being in a barren desert.
In the distance.
Wu Jie was piloting a light aircraft, slowly approaching.
The airflow stirred up by the turbine propellers raised clouds of dust behind the aircraft.
Beneath the aircraft, high-powered navigation lights shone bright white, with red and green lights blinking on either side of the wings.
At first glance, it looked like a Primordial Beast roaring its way towards them.
"Hurry and prepare to retreat, board the plane and leave!"
"Take only the nuclear warheads, all unnecessary items, abandon and destroy them!"
Over the radio, Wu Jie’s urgent shouts could be heard.
Suddenly.
Who among those who had just escaped death had the heart to celebrate?
They hurried to search around.
Because the defensive positions had been devastated by rocket attacks.
And then the continuous explosions had made dust and sand engulf everything, burying the defensive structures under a thick layer of sand and dust.
Fortunately.
The sand wasn’t too thick, and during the earlier burial of the nuclear warheads, an automotive exhaust pipe was used as a marker.
Before long.
Everyone, pulling and dragging together, finally retrieved the two nuclear warheads buried under the sand.
By now.
Wu Jie’s light aircraft had arrived.
Hu Anbiao and others had already started dismantling the seats, with Edison and Pakolin immediately assisting.
Everyone knew this was the perfect chance to escape from this place of strife.
The mass, long-duration firepower had cleared the surrounding militants.
If they didn’t leave now, by the time reinforcements arrived, escape would become impossible.
The defensive positions had been blown to bits, and there were no heavy weapons.
There were no anti-aircraft missiles for air defense nor anti-tank missiles for armored targets.
Continue to stay here? Waiting for death?
So...
Dismantle! Frantically tear apart!
Not only removing the seats but all other items in the cabin like fire extinguishers and medical kits were discarded.
To further reduce weight, everyone’s ammunition was gathered to prepare for a timed explosion and destruction.
After all, the high-explosive timer devices previously tied to the nuclear warheads were there to be used.
Even so.
The light aircraft, originally designed to accommodate fourteen people, was now severely overloaded.
It wasn’t too heavy; after all, when it was full, the luggage compartment could still hold quite a lot.
But inside the cabin, it immediately became extremely cramped.
Wu Jie and Tang Xiao handling the flight and piloting was manageable, but in the small rear cabin, over twenty people were completely crammed together.
This level of overcrowding was nothing less than what one would experience in rush hour buses and subways in a big city, everyone packed like sardines in a tin.
Accompanied by the roar of the turbine and the furious spinning of the propellers.
On the somewhat loose sandy soil following the explosion.
This heavily overloaded aircraft, much like an old tractor pulling a trailer weighing tens to hundreds of tons.
Amidst everyone’s concern and worry, the aircraft slowly advanced, accelerating very slowly.
Much like a car with little horsepower trying to go uphill, desperately wishing to push its foot through the floor into the gas tank.
Fortunately...
After a lengthy acceleration, the light aircraft finally managed to lift off the ground slowly.
But with so many people and such a tremendous load, there was always the worry it might stall and crash at any moment.
After a while, the plane gradually climbed to a few hundred meters and then could not ascend any further.
Partly because the turbine engine’s power was indeed limited; forcing it to climb would easily cause it to stall.
Also, for safety reasons, flying at low altitude made it more difficult to be detected.
The earth’s curvature and the landscape make it hard for radars installed on the ground to detect ultra-low-altitude flying objects. To track low-altitude targets, one must use early warning aircraft or drones, monitoring from above.
And that’s exactly why, in every major military power, no matter how advanced the fighter jets are, they must undergo ultra-low altitude penetration training, to ensure a high penetration rate during wartime.
In the vast night.
This light aircraft, shaky and unsteady, flew at an altitude of about two hundred meters, at a speed of three hundred kilometers per hour.
The aircraft, originally designed to accommodate fourteen people with a maximum load of two thousand kilograms.
Even after disposing of unnecessary seats and other ancillary equipment, thirty adults, averaging seventy kilograms each, nearly maxed out the capacity.
Thus, those two nuclear warheads, weighing over six hundred kilograms, and the one Aggregated State Combat Robot seen by others, together adding up to seven hundred kilograms, were definitely overloading the aircraft.
