World-saving Plan: The Only Savior
Chapter 428 - 310: The Strength of the Shield

Chapter 428: Chapter 310: The Strength of the Shield

A group of people held an emergency meeting that lasted only a few short minutes in a tent, and Zhang Xiaoman, after arriving here, immediately located them through the spaceship’s system.

Utilizing the scanning function of the anti-gravity car, he stood far over the lake surface and observed the other party.

Because the shield had already formed, he did not rashly go out to explore.

According to Zhang Xiaoman’s discovery, he speculated that the American reconnaissance team might have stumbled upon the shield while searching for the monster from the previous encounter, leading the system to misinterpret the impact as an attack.

Regarding this, he wasn’t too surprised.

After all, from the very beginning, he had been prepared for the possibility that the shield would be discovered, and the level of force that countries could use here at present did not pose any valid threat to the shield.

Of course, these considerations pertained only to conventional circumstances. In specific practical operations, he still needed to be extra cautious and respond carefully.

Though satellites were no longer available, if the other side really threw caution to the wind, they could still come up with high-powered weapons, which required the host to perform constant self-monitoring 24 hours a day to prevent suspicious targets from approaching.

Zhang Xiaoman waited in the sky for just a short while before the reconnaissance team members emerged from the tent once again, and he was curious about what actions they would take now.

At this moment, intelligence had already been relayed back to the Seventh Fleet base located to the east, and although Commander Melvin Valencia was shocked, he still dispatched three helicopters for support without delay.

At Seven-star Lake, the remaining two speedboats from the Sea Lion Reconnaissance Team were also dispatched directly to the first target location to inspect.

Kando and the others had left a beacon on their previous departure, so they would not run into the invisible barrier again this time.

The group first dispersed to explore some distance along the edge of the shield, and then, based on the specific length and angles they obtained, they calculated the approximate size of the entire shield, thus estimating the size of the lake.

Of course, these figures were not necessarily accurate, as no one had stipulated that the shield must be the regular shape they deduced.

Or to put it another way, it was uncertain whether such barriers existed elsewhere besides here.

Eventually, after the group completed their reconnaissance for a distance nearby, they regrouped near the camp and, under the commander’s order, initiated a probing attack.

"Da da da da da..."

Zhang Xiaoman did not stop them because he knew that since they had already discovered this place, it was a bit late to stop them now, and it would only serve to reveal some things instead.

The reason he was completely unruffled by this situation was that he already had a way to deal with them.

Zhang Xiaoman opened the Gang Store panel once again and looked at the item called "Shield Magnetic Field Interference Module" among the "Star Network Host Upgrade Modules", which was priced at 10 points of Star Dust.

In its description, it clearly stated that once this module was installed, it could generate a chaotic magnetic field similar to the one around the Gate of Hell outside Rebirth Island, extending 100 kilometers outward from the shield.

By then, almost any form of long-range firepower would become meaningless, and even some delicate machinery would be rendered unusable.

It could be said that with this device, he wouldn’t have to worry about things like Big Ivan anymore since the enemy wouldn’t even be able to trigger an explosion, let alone deal any damage.

However, because this item required 10 points of Star Dust, Zhang Xiaoman didn’t have enough resources at the moment. Unless he converted all his remaining points, he temporarily couldn’t afford it.

Ultimately, he decided to hold off on the purchase and wait for a few days to see what kind of probing America would attempt next.

If they really intended to bring out the big guns, then it wouldn’t be too late for him to make an exchange then.

As he pondered the situation, a string of gunfire suddenly rang out over the lake. Zhang Xiaoman could see through the holographic screen in front of him that it was the people on the speedboat below trying to use firearms to attack his Shield.

With the flaming muzzle flash of automatic rifles, a dense cluster of blue dots began to appear before everyone’s eyes, like raindrops on the lake surface, creating ripples.

However, such attacks were completely ineffective against the Shield.

After the people from the Sea Lion Team had fired their guns for a while, Zhang Xiaoman’s monitoring data showed that not even a single point of Durability had decreased on the Shield.

Actually, this was also one of his purposes – to use these people to test just how strong the defense capability of this Shield was.

After all, free-of-charge firepower testers like these were hard to come by.

In the end, after the Sea Lion Team members ran out of ammunition, they became quite frustrated to find that it seemed to have no effect on the invisible wall in front of them.

"Bang!"

A huge gunshot sounded; someone on the boat had fired a bullet from a sniper rifle.

Zhang Xiaoman raised an eyebrow, checked the data, and found that the Durability of the Shield had still not decreased. He couldn’t help but reveal a smile.

"It seems that the Shield generated by the System is indeed powerful. It cannot be breached even by such attacks."

Looking at the somewhat frustrated expressions of the people below, he silently gave the System a thumbs-up in his mind.

Over there, after seeing that the sniper rifle was useless, the Sea Lion Team tried a different tactic. They took out a rocket launcher from the speedboat, aimed at the Shield from a distance, and pressed the trigger.

"Swoosh~~"

The sound of the rocket flying rang out, followed by an explosion. A spark bloomed on the surface of the Shield, turning the nearby water surface red.

"Boom!"

As the sound hit his ears, Zhang Xiaoman shifted his field of view to look at the data in front of him and found that the Shield had only lost 1 point of Durability. He breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

The 1 point of Durability had dropped only momentarily before it immediately recharged to full. Compared to the total base of 50,000 points of Durability, this 1 point of damage was utterly negligible.

Zhang Xiaoman had once asked Star Rank about the structure of the Shield: the more intact it was, the more damage each point of Durability could withstand.

In other words, if the total Durability of the Shield dropped below 10,000, then the damage caused by a single rocket might be more than just 1 point.

However, considering the current situation, it seemed unlikely that they could deplete the Shield’s Durability with the firepower available to them here.

After all, besides the 50,000 points of Durability, the Shield also had a recovery recharge rate of 500 points.

Under these circumstances, to break it, one would either need an attack violent enough to blast through the entire Shield at once or a continuous, high-intensity barrage that the Shield’s recharging couldn’t keep up with.