Absolute silence.
A dead silence, purer than the void, enveloped everything.
Yun Qingyu's shattered torso was wedged in the narrow shadow of a huge, scorching fragment of alloy armor. Under the violent energy assault of the near-burst annihilation particle beam, the outer layer of this structure—originally several meters thick—peeled away and vaporized frantically like ice facing a blazing sun, its thickness instantly plummeting by more than half! The surviving internal structure still radiated terrifying high heat like a branding iron freshly salvaged from the deep abyss, pressing right against her back and remaining arm, making a sizzling ablation sound. The air was filled with a pungent, dead, scorched smell of metal plasma and thoroughly annihilated organic matter residues.
Chapter 46