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Chapter 1262: Chapter 1138: This is…The Heaven Fall Catastrophe!_1 Chapter 1262: Chapter 1138: This is…The Heaven Fall Catastrophe!_1 In an instant, it was as though time had frozen.

The battling warriors, the exploding flames, the spouting blood from wounds, everything around seem to come to a standstill, even the bullets were flying as slow as snails.

In Qi Ye’s perceptual world, only himself and the bullet hovering between his brows existed.

A hand, wholly composed of psychic power, with its thumb and forefinger delicately pinched the bullet and held it firmly in place.

He was very familiar with this state.

When [Assassin’s Bloodline] was promoted to the highest level, this time-stopping-like effect was activated.

As for the hand, he was even more familiar with it.

Just now, within the [Flesh and Blood Rebirth], he used this arm to kill left and right!

But why?

Why did a skill from another chapter appear in this [Heaven Falls] chapter?

Qi Ye was bewildered for a moment.

However, the surroundings that had frozen gradually started to move again.

The speed of the bullet shifted from that of a snail’s crawl to a turtle’s pace— the effect of time stop was diminishing rapidly.

He had no time to ponder as time was limited.

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So, the wrist clutching the bullet rapidly grew an invisible arm and, with a swift swing!

The pitch-black bullet sped past the sonic barrier, retraced along its original path, not only destroying the firearm by burrowing into the gun barrel, but it also irreversibly crushed the alien’s forearm and chest, blasting out a huge hole straight through!

Time returned to its normal pace.

The intensity of the combat quickly reverted to what it had been before.

Apart from the barely conscious Big-bearded Oleg, who had a vague idea of what had just happened, no one else knew the astonishing event that occurred in the blink of an eye.

But Qi Ye knew, everything had changed.

His hearing had become incredibly acute.

All of a sudden, his comrades around him started to pay more attention to protect him.

Once aliens got within a 60-meter radius, they would lose their reasoning and blindly charge at him, just like they had gone mad.

Last but not least: his psychic arm was back.

Not only did it return, it was just as powerful as it had been at the end of the last chapter!

Counting all, four changes had occurred.

This coincidentally corresponded with the four “perfect ending” golden threads activated when [Chapter 0: Heaven Falls] was initiated.

“So, could it be that each of the seven chapters, each ‘perfect ending’ equates to one enhancement?”

Qi Ye’s strength surged exponentially, enabling him to battle his opponents while contemplating these details:

The enhancement of his hearing should correspond to the [Silent Land].

The increased protection from his comrades probably had something to do with the [Death Voting], perhaps related to elements of trust.

The aliens behaving recklessly mirrored the monsters in the [Secret War].

The return of the psychic arm was undoubtedly the ability he acquired within the [Flesh and Blood Rebirth].

So the most optimal strategy was to bring the seven enhancements from the seven perfect endings to this chapter?

Yet… is it possible for individual power to alter the outcome of a space war?

Qi Ye lacked confidence.

However, he soon shook his head, dismissing his unsettled thoughts.

This was a battlefield, where his comrades were fighting for their lives.

No matter the outcome, they needed to kill all the aliens on this spaceship first!

Conveniently, Qi Ye who had just cleared the [Flesh and Blood Rebirth], was exceptionally skilled at killing aliens!

Not to mention, those accompanying him this time were the most elite warriors whose combat power far exceeded that of the devastated world.

Even if they were outnumbered, the warriors, led by Qi Ye, wreaked havoc on the alien spaceship, causing significant damage.

Qi Ye scored more than 300 kills single-handedly, an astonishing feat.

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They also managed to successfully destroy the ship’s engine, thereby crippling the entire spaceship.

Nevertheless, they had eventually reached their limits.

The aliens’ weapons were exceptionally different from human’s.

Coupled with the existence of biometric locks such as fingerprint and DNA recognition systems, humans were unable to use the aliens’ weapons.

Each bullet fired was one bullet less, their ammunition was about to run out.

Even with Qi Ye’s full-effort protection, one by one, his comrades still fell.

Then, Big-bearded Oleg suddenly put down his gun, doors in his nearly scrapped special armor swung open.

He reached inside the front of his armor and pulled out a conspicuous yellow-black labeled suitcase.

[Nuclear Bomb Warning]

Qi Ye saw that sign.

But before he could utter a word, Oleg roared with mad laughter as he pulled the suitcase handle.

A miniature sun ignited inside the warship, evaporating all life forms inside the warship – both humans and aliens – within less than half a second.

The alien warship was truly exceptional, maintaining its basic structure despite the explosion.

In contrast, the Kunlun had completely turned into a pile of unrecognizable debris.

The few space fighters which had been unable to break into the enemy ship also suffered greatly.

Those that were near were instantly turned into debris, while those farther away were destroyed due to the intense light and electromagnetic radiation causing all electronic devices to malfunction, resulting in the loss of the aircraft and the pilots.

——The destructive power of this weapon on human artillery was even more terrifying than on the aliens’!

It was just a mini nuclear bomb.

If a bigger one had been used, whether it could hit the target was uncertain, it was likely that their own side would be paralysed first.

After all, it was impossible to lock the target from far away…

However, when it comes to mutual destruction, it indeed came in handy.

The Kunlun sacrificed all its onboard warriors, taking down the enemy along with it.

*

Qi Ye opened his eyes once more.

He found himself in a different uniform—the style of the military uniform had changed.

As he surveyed his surroundings, he realized he was back at the spaceport, currently among the other reservists waiting for mobilization.

On a large screen not too far away, the live broadcast of the war was playing.

The latest news read:

[The Kunlun has fallen, destroying one enemy ship, with countless enemy casualties.]

The battle is fierce, the soldiers are brave, but human warships still meet destruction one by one.

And the alien warships far outnumber the humans’.

Even before all human warships are annihilated, enemy ships quickly approach the spaceport, and those hastily armed transport ships crumble upon contact.

—In reality, it’s worse than that, they’re blown up before they even make “contact”.

It’s only due to the spaceport’s massive energy core emitting intense firepower and the constant influx of supplies and reserve soldiers that keeps enemy ships from getting too close.

Then, the aliens changed their tactics—they started deploying countless small fighters and transport planes, heading towards the spaceport.

For a moment, the entire sky of the spaceport was filled with supersonic space fighters and dense gunfire.

Occasionally, a pitch-black transport ship would break through the defenses and plunge into the spaceport.

Swarms of aliens dressed in shell-like armor would pour out, firing indiscriminately at the crowd while destroying nearby firepower points and seizing important facilities.

The mobilization ended immediately, and urban warfare began.

Qi Ye reincarnated as a grim reaper again, leading his squad to put out fires everywhere, ruthlessly reaping every alien encounter.

But soon, he discovered an unexpected situation:

The aliens seemed to care more about the state of the spaceport than they did.

As the battle progressed, this sign became more and more obvious—

The human fleet had been wiped out, yet the alien fleet still hovered in the distance, not using destructive weapons to directly destroy the spaceport.

Even the alien assault squads rarely used powerful destructive weapons.

“So… the aliens don’t want to destroy the space elevator, they want to— take it?!”

By the time he thought of this question, more than half of the boarding gates of the space elevator had been seized by the aliens.

Qi Ye immediately sprung into action, wanting to take them back.

But the speed at which he recovered them was slower than the speed of loss.

He was worn out.

But backup soldiers could not be sent, and the boarding gates kept being lost one after another.

The situation inside the spaceport continued to worsen, with more and more areas captured by aliens.

Qi Ye was invincible on the battlefield, but he was helpless against the overall battle situation.

The spaceport was about to change hands.

Finally, Qi Ye accidentally saw: a devastating explosion occurred in the massive energy core of the Spaceport’s central location.

The space elevator was collapsing piece by piece, and countless debris began to fall from the sky at ninety thousand kilometers high.

Obviously, the command center would rather destroy this miraculous construction, this century-long project, than let it fall into the hands of aliens.

It’s another mutual destruction.

*

Qi Ye opens his eyes again.

Unsurprisingly, he inhabits a new identity.

His location this time has changed to the Ark Space Station.

But his task has changed this time—the command center has given him the mission: [destroy the Ark Space Station at all costs.]

The Ark Space Station doesn’t have self-destruction capabilities.

And the aliens are rapidly approaching, trying to salvage the Ark Space Station from the crisis of the falling spaceport.

Qi Ye has no way of guessing whether the aliens admire humans’ engineering capabilities and want to keep it as a memento, or simply want to make it easier to occupy the surface and space, cutting off human resistance forever.

It doesn’t matter anymore.

His task is to destroy this miracle with his own hands.

No matter the sacrifice, no matter the cost.

Twenty minutes later, all of Qi Ye’s teammates have fallen.

The Ark Space Station is disassembled.

*

Qi Ye comes back to life once again.

This time, he appeared in the circular orbital station, 1,000 kilometers high above the ground.

This is the lowest station of the space elevator.

And this time, he has no combat mission.

The only thing to do is retreat.

But Qi Ye did not leave.

He stood there, craning his neck to look at the sky above, watching countless tiny fire meteors grow larger at a visible speed.

And fiery “rings”, one after another, are falling straight down along the cables of the space elevator.

The space elevator is irretrievably collapsing.

Perhaps a century, or even several centuries of effort, is being destroyed before his eyes.

When these “rings” fall to the ground, the base of the space elevator, that huge base, will be turned into ruins amid violent tremors.

And when the debris from the Ark Space Station and the spaceport falls, an earthquake will shake a third of Africa, and a devastating tsunami will sweep across half the continent’s coastline.

He has not only witnessed all this, he has participated in all of it.

“So… this is the Skyfall Cataclysm.”

“After this battle, almost all of humanity’s space defense forces were destroyed.”

“That’s why afterwards, it was chaos.

Various alien races rampaged, pushing humanity to the brink of destruction.”

Qi Ye murmured to himself.

“No wonder it’s…

Chapter 0.”

He understood everything.