One Hundred and Fifty-Fourth Chest

After placing Lockhart into the medical pod, Ada Wong activated it. However, the nanosuit Lockhart was wearing blocked the pod's scanning and treatment functions.

Consequently, Ada Wong fetched a vibranium knife and rather roughly stripped the nanosuit off Lockhart's body.

Completely naked, Lockhart was finally able to receive treatment inside the medical pod.

A wisp of clean smoke rose from Lockhart's wounds, and after a jolt of electricity, he came back to life.

Revived, Lockhart looked around in a daze, asking, "Where is this?"

"Earth! The good news is that you're still alive. The bad news is that you're still alive and in our hands."

Hearing Ada Wong's words, Lockhart immediately became vigilant. "Who are you people, and what do you want?"

"We want to know everything inside your head. You'd better spit it out voluntarily, or we'll use machinery to extract the contents of your brain directly. Don't say I didn't warn you—forced memory extraction carries a certain probability of turning someone into an idiot."

Though Lockhart put on a tough facade on the outside, he was actually terrified on the inside. Having died twice, he cherished his life far more than before.

"What do you want to know?"

"All relevant information about the nanosuit, as well as CELL's organizational structure and laboratory locations." Ada Wong casually rattled off a few things. Knowing nothing about Crysis, she could only try this method to see if she could extract any useful information.

Hearing Ada Wong's questions, Lockhart couldn't help but feel puzzled. Information like CELL's organizational structure could easily be found on the internet; why bother asking?

Despite having many doubts, when he looked around and saw people wearing the exact same armor as the one who had just beaten him to death, Lockhart got a reality check. These people genuinely dared to kill him, not to mention memory extraction.

To avoid becoming an idiot, Lockhart had no choice but to say everything he knew. However, he spoke very slowly, hoping to buy more time for his men to track him down using the positioning device on the nanosuit.

What Lockhart failed to realize, however, was that the Earth Ada Wong referred to was no longer his original Earth. No matter how advanced the positioning device on his nanosuit might be, it was impossible for his subordinates to cross dimensions to rescue him.

Thus, his actions were in vain. Still, this played right into the hands of Ada Wong and the others, who intended to stall for time until Wang Jing returned to take charge of the interrogation.

Meanwhile, Wang Jing, currently in the Crysis dimension, had returned to New York. Passing through the breach in the Nanodome, he rendezvoused with the Interdimensional Expeditionary Force, which was actively engaging the massive Ceph mechs.

The battle was extremely fierce. Knowing the Interdimensional Expeditionary Force had come specifically to deal with it, the Ceph mastermind had deployed a large number of Sonic Bombers, also known as tripod heavy mechs.

There were also heavy armored units called Stalkers, alongside numerous ordinary Ceph aliens.

Yet none of these truly mattered. Against the units sent by the Ceph mastermind, the firepower of the Interdimensional Expeditionary Force was fully capable of annihilating and suppressing them.

What caused the greatest headache for the Expeditionary Force was the electromagnetic pulses emitted by the Sonic Bombers. Their impact on the forces was simply too devastating; once caught in the radius, a unit was essentially awaiting death.

Although various weapons could recover quickly after an EMP strike, the enemy's plasma cannons and plasma compression rounds certainly wouldn't wait for human weaponry to come back online before resuming their assault.

Fortunately, the Expeditionary Force's firepower was ferocious enough to eliminate the Sonic Bombers safely out of range.

For those Sonic Bombers, a single electromagnetic tank shell was enough to resolve the problem. If it wasn't, it simply meant the voltage and current were still insufficient.

As long as the charging time was long enough, any part of a Sonic Bomber could be dealt with in a single shot.

However, doing so drastically lowered the firing rate of the electromagnetic tank cannons, so the shortfall had to be compensated by artillery and missiles.

Surveying the pockmarked beach blasted full of craters ahead, Wang Jing asked the commander of the Interdimensional Expeditionary Force, "How much longer until we can break through?"

"We estimate about another half hour. The enemy's numbers are overwhelming, and their armor is extremely thick, so the carpet bombing results aren't ideal."

"Then let's launch a pincer movement from the front and back. I'll lead a team to launch a sneak attack from behind the Sonic Bombers," Wang Jing proposed.

However, his proposal was rejected by the Expeditionary Force commander. "No, that's too dangerous. If you go over there, you'll likely end up caught in a crossfire by those aliens."

"Then what are we supposed to do! If we waste half an hour here, we definitely won't make it in time later."

"Then blast our way through with bombs. Have the United Coalition borrow bombs from other dimensions—thermobaric weapons preferably, and the larger the yield, the better!" the commander said.

"Alright, I'm on it."

As soon as Wang Jing returned to the prime dimension, Song Guohua hurried over to greet him. "The bombs are already being requisitioned. The ordnance stored in the adjacent armory can be used as a stopgap measure for now."

Wang Jing hurried to the armory; this was his first time visiting the facility here.

Compared to the previous temporary armories, this one was vastly larger, and the weapons and ammunition stored inside were exceptionally plentiful.

Guided by the guards, Wang Jing arrived at the warehouse storing the bombs. Two entire warehouses filled with various weapons and ammunition were stacked neatly together.

Among them, Wang Jing's eyes immediately caught sight of a massive bomb, its green body marked with the letters MOAB.

Seeing Wang Jing staring at the largest bomb placed in the center of the warehouse, a guard took the initiative to explain, "This is a GBU-43 thermobaric bomb provided by the US government. It's 9 meters long, 1 meter wide, and weighs 9.84 tons, with a destruction radius of 1.6 kilometers. Its destructive power is no less than that of a small tactical nuclear weapon."

"One of these isn't enough. Are there any other bombs of comparable firepower?" Wang Jing asked.

"Yes, that pile over there consists entirely of heavy aviation bombs—106 of them. Over here, we have 280 napalm bombs, and twenty magnesium-aluminum incendiary bombs."

"These are the highest-yield bombs we have; the rest are conventional aerial bombs and munitions with relatively smaller yields."

"That'll do. I'll take these to use first." With that, Wang Jing vanished from the spot. Reappearing shortly after, he grabbed two heavy aviation bombs, vanished once more, and materialized directly above a group of Ceph aliens.

The two heavy aviation bombs plummeted downward under the pull of gravity, ultimately bursting into two mushrooming clouds of smoke and fire that blasted the Ceph aliens below into smithereens.

Next, Wang Jing teleported above a Sonic Bomber that was raining firepower down upon the Expeditionary Force. With another flash, two more heavy aviation bombs dropped down.

To Wang Jing's surprise, however, the Sonic Bomber below made no attempt to dodge, instead using its broad skull to forcefully take the direct hit from the heavy aviation bombs while remaining completely unscathed.

Faced with this situation, Wang Jing glanced around. Spotting approaching Ceph aliens attempting to converge their fire on him, Wang Jing directly retrieved the largest thermobaric bomb from the armory and brought it straight to the battlefield.