Chapter 490: New Background: Red Alert!

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

“Wait. Look at that tank!”

Just then, An Quan pointed at the image in the air, which was showing more things now.

Opposite the Urssia soldiers, who wore red military coats, were the enemy soldiers, and these soldiers wore green military suits and were using weapons that Li Qing identified as the old version of the M16 machine guns. Some of them were driving a tank across the woods.

Apart from the especially large gun barrel, it didn’t look much different from the light tanks used in WWIII.

However, when a few troop carriers drove out from the side of the red soldiers and into the tank’s sight, the tank stopped moving. Light glided across its surface, and in the next second, it turned into a tree about the same height as the bushes around it.

Boom!

When the soldier carriers entered its attack range without suspecting anything, one of its giant main artillery suddenly appeared. It had transformed into a high-tech style and was filled with blue light.

A couple of seconds later, the barrel suddenly lit up, and an energy beam hit one of the soldier carriers. Not only did it blast the vehicle to pieces, but it also turned the soldiers into balls of fire that kept screaming.

“Why does it look a bit familiar?”

Mister Bug scratched his head and murmured, “This is…”

Next to him, Guo Wei seemed to realize something as well, and his eyes flickered behind his high-tech glasses.

Splash…

And the image was still changing.

The red side also had tanks.

A few silver-gray tanks drove to higher ground.

There, they changed their shapes and became heavy artillery with an extra-large caliber.

Then, they all aimed at a spot below the high ground, and the target seemed to be a mining vehicle that belonged to the green side.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

A few cannonballs half the size of a human head flew out of the barrels and headed for the vehicle.

Boom! Boom!

The loud explosive sound filled the air.

Dirt and debris flew everywhere.

“Huh?”

However, Elder Jiao’s eyes lit up.

Because the debris belonged to the shells only. A turbine-like device on top of the mining vehicle gave off a blue light that covered the entire vehicle.

The second before the shells fell upon it, it vanished from the valley.

“Was that space technology?”

Elder Jiao looked curious and surprised.

The image changed again, showing a blond woman wearing a red vest. She jumped nimbly along the walls of a building that looked like an ordnance factory.

She moved with unbelievable speed, dodging all the bullets and shells while firing with her pair of large-caliber pistols. In a few seconds, she killed all the soldiers who were guarding the factory.

Before the reinforcements arrived, she quickly moved through the buildings and walked out of the factory.

30 seconds later, she appeared on top of a tall building.

She turned the pistols around her index fingers before sticking them back into the holsters on her legs.

She then took a red remote control out of her chest pocket and pressed down the button.

There was a loud explosive sound, and the dark yellow smoke filled the air. The entire factory was on fire, killing nearly a hundred soldiers.

“That’s amazing…”

Female players of the Unicorn Battalion watched it with twinkling eyes.

That woman was obviously a hero-like figure and gave one a feeling of “metal rose”.

She wasn’t the only hero on the battlefield.

At the center of the image was a building complex with tall red walls and green pointy roofs and looked very much like a palace.

Rumble…

A great number of soldiers in camouflage uniforms drove tanks and heavily armed infantry vehicles.

Covered by armed helicopters that kept firing from the sky, they destroyed the thick walls around the palace and charged at the tallest building at the center of the palace.

A middle-aged man with East European features stood at the window of the building that had been surrounded. He was bald and had mysterious patterns tattooed on his forehead. He wore his brown military coat with a stiff red collar, and his eyes were as deep as a thousand-year-old lake. He murmured something.

Two streaks of blue light came out of his eyes.

Boom!

Wherever he looked, the faces of the soldiers who were controlling the machine guns on the infantry vehicle suddenly turned ferocious, and they turned the gun barrels to their fellow soldiers.

The tanks and helicopters that had been covering them also turned to aim at the vehicles, tearing them apart with bullets.

“Is that mind control?”

Seeing this, Wuxin’s eyes lit up. He had just gotten back from Guobei County.

The image showed far more than one Transcendent power.

Pop! Crackle!

During the fierce exchange of fire, the sky above the red army suddenly darkened.

Dark clouds gathered, and countless streaks of lightning smashed down at the red army.

The thunder turned soldiers, vehicles, tanks, fighter planes, and even some people hiding in the bunkers into charcoal.

Seeing this, the red army fought back even more frantically.

The dark clouds were suddenly ripped open, and a giant black-and-red missile fell down.

Hum!

The next second, the image turned completely white.

An enormous red mushroom cloud shot up to the sky. When the image came back, the entire city had become a ruin.

[“Your settlement has gained a new background—Red Alert: Chidragon’s Glory. You can use the Soul of Civilization to summon related heroes or use Stones of Civilization to transform relevant objects.”]

In the end, the image disappeared.

The “Civilization Disc” dimmed, becoming a dragon scale of the Dream Dragon, the new settlement core.

Meanwhile, all Dragon City players received a notification in their minds.

“Red Alert? What’s that?”

Some of the players looked confused and didn’t recognize the name.

“Red Alert?!”

Other players were surprised at first.

They became excited after that, especially the players who were over 25 years old.

“So, it’s Red Alert!”

Ji Ye seemed enlightened and searched his memories.

As someone born in the 90s, he grew up playing this war game as well.

Back then, the internet cafes didn’t have online games, and most of them had console games only. Red Alert had the features for competitions via LAN, making it as popular as Counter-Strike, which came later.

The game was set in a time after WWII, and Einstein, the top scientist of mankind, had invented the time machine.

To avoid the war from happening, he chose to go back to the time when the war started and killed the Führer, but the war still happened.

The chain reaction of the time machine led to the creation of new technology and high-tech weapons, such as everything they saw in the image just then, which were equivalent to Transcendent-level skills.

“There are a lot of professionals in Red Alert, such as engineers, spies, mind commando units, and Tesla Troopers. They’ll be more than enough to build a technological settlement. If we can summon Albert Einstein, the genius scientist, our technological sub-settlement will be so promising!”

Many players were excited by the mention of Einstein.

Needless to say, he was one of the greatest scientists in history. In terms of popularity, he was probably the top scientist to most people on Earth.

Someone like him was beyond Legendary. He was more like a divine being that could single-handedly build a settlement.

Dragon City had no dealings with him so far.

But now that they had the Red Alert background, things had changed. There was a possibility that they could summon him one day.

“More importantly, it’s not the regular Red Alert, but the Red Alert: Chidragon’s Glory!”

Mister Bug emphasized excitedly.