Huff — —
Wang Jixuan exhaled a mouthful of stale air.
His calm face was hidden behind the demon helmet of the X-Armor. His spiritual awareness was maximized, and a series of announcements echoed in his headset:
“King Beast is sixteen kilometers away from the designated battlefield!”
“Beginning to surface! Blade Beast swarm is beginning to surface!”
“Deep-level nuclear landmine number three has entered the designated activation phase! It’s been hit!”
Rumble — —
A slight tremor passed through the earth. A layer of shallow dust spread over the sand dunes. The air surged forward, retreated, and surged forward again. A huge, low roar seemed to emanate from deep within the earth.
A burst of ear-piercing noise filled the headset.
At the edge of his vision, the edge of a sand dune collapsed, falling more than ten meters as a whole.
“Damn it! They’re cunning! One General-level Blade Beast was killed! The King Beast sustained minor damage!”
“They’re diving again! They bypassed mines number one and two!”
“The King Beast is circling around! There are a large number of Drill Worms inside! They’re beginning to disperse and surge upwards!”
“They’re coming! They’re about to surface! Estimated two minutes! ‘Assassin Seven’ is hiding below, not showing its face. It wants to exhaust our firepower!”
“All units, prepare for battle!”
The command system suddenly went silent.
Hiss — —
Wang Jixuan lightly inhaled the brightening pre-dawn air, his Dao heart calm and without other thoughts.
His silver-white alloy-clad left hand opened, and the spear stuck in the sand dune flew to him on its own, landing in his palm. Several alloy packs filled with talismans flew up and hung on the front and rear sides of his armor's belt.
The vertical pupil on his forehead flickered constantly.
He felt it.
Wang Jixuan truly felt it.
A gaze was fixed on him from the shadows, as if staring at prey. The opponent was like a terrifying behemoth constantly wandering in the deep sea, waiting for the prey to show fear and a flaw, and then leaping out to devour everything!
Wang Jixuan raised his spear vertically with his left hand.
Peony, who had retreated from the vicinity of the Rhomboid Child mech, was now holding her hands flat, her ten fingers constantly flashing with light, connecting to hundreds of drone array units.
‘Good Man’ Ji Xiao, who was ready to sprint and respond on the side, didn't dare to blink, only staring at Wang Jixuan's back.
Rhomboid Child was in the mech's cockpit, his whole body wrapped in pressure sensors, his bright eyes carefully watching the screen, the Annihilation Sniper Cannon aimed at the area around Wang Jixuan.
Wang Jixuan heavily brought down the spear he was holding.
Dong!
A muffled impact sound rang out, and a pit immediately appeared on the roof of the supply vehicle. With the blessing of magic power, the sound spread in all directions underground.
Wang Jixuan raised his spear and smashed it down again.
The clang echoed continuously, like urging drumbeats.
“Detected more than thirty Blade Beast surges simultaneously!”
“The minefield below has been collectively triggered!”
“The Drill Worms are unaffected! They’ve entered a frenzy of near death!”
Under the pale cyan sky, the desert here began to tremble constantly.
Sand dunes erupted upwards in geyser-like plumes of quicksand, and the earth brewed with dense, muffled thunder!
Suddenly!
“Commander! The King-level Blade Beast is charging towards Fortress 82’s main body!”
Dongfang Zhenghong's steady voice spread to every corner of the designated battlefield: “Maintain the designated battlefield, abandon Fortress 82. The minefield near the fortress is enough for this King Beast to suffer.”
“The Blade Beast swarm has broken through the minefield, arriving at the surface in five seconds.”
“Five.”
“Four.”
“Three.”
“Two… Here they come!”
Sand dunes cracked open, and streams of black blood gushed upwards!
Dozens of gigantic Drill Worms burst out of the surface almost simultaneously. Their petal-like, terrifying mouthparts were opening and closing frantically. Having suffered the baptism of the minefield, they were already scarred and battered, and the cyan light flickering around them was constantly weakening!
Scattered points of light shot towards these Drill Worms!
“Control your fire, they’re dead!”
Dongfang Zhenghong sternly reprimanded.
Almost as soon as his voice fell, the scars of the earth spread out with black blood, and densely packed black Blade Beasts surged out of the passages opened up by the Drill Worms, rushing towards the sand dune where Wang Jixuan was located like a tide!
The vertical pupil on Wang Jixuan's forehead trembled constantly.
It was summoning!
It was commanding!
“Open fire.”
Dongfang Zhenghong ordered firmly.
The spear in Wang Jixuan's hand fell again.
Dong!
Countless dense points of light appeared behind him, like the starry sky of last night suddenly falling, accurately pouring down on the Blade Beast swarm on the ground!
A carpet-bombing saturation attack!
The Blade Beast swarm emitted successive roars, and patches of blank areas appeared in the black sand dune terrain. Countless small mushroom clouds arched up simultaneously, and in the distance of Wang Jixuan's vision, the red sun shining from the low-yield tactical nuclear bombs had already appeared!
It was as if dawn had arrived ahead of schedule!
His expression remained unchanged, his figure remained steady, only raising his spear to knock on the roof.
Second wave, third wave…
Countless Blade Beasts surged out frantically, and human firepower took turns firing.
The circling bomber groups in the air locked onto these thirty-plus exits and began to drop precision-guided aerial bombs.
Wang Jixuan's figure seemed to be submerged in the smoke and dust of the explosion, with yellow sand rolling everywhere.
A long serpent-like Blade Beast suddenly窜 emerged from a nearby sand dune!
A Sub-General-level Sand Eel-type mutant Blade Beast!
It was extremely fast, and its elongated mouthparts brewed a dismal green light, about to spray an spiritual energy beam at Wang Jixuan!
Wang Jixuan didn't even bother to turn his head.
Buzz, whoosh!
The Rhomboid Child mech fired!
The Annihilation Cannon beam flashed past, the minimum energy level. The Blade Beast's head exploded with a hole, and its ejected body swept past two meters above Wang Jixuan's head, weakly falling on the other side of the sand dune, rolling downwards.
Wang Jixuan raised his spear and smashed it down again.
He was provoking, also mocking.
A huge tremor came from Fortress Eighty-Two, and the earth seemed to be trembling.
That was the King-level Blade Beast ramming into the main body of the fortress.
The fortress main body, almost perfectly integrated with the stratum and with dozens of layers of protection added, stubbornly withstood this attack.
Wang Jixuan knocked at an even more rapid frequency.
That King Beast began to continuously ram Fortress Eighty-Two.
The tens of thousands of elderly people who volunteered to stay in the fortress were now each gripping the guns in their hands, waiting for the last light of their life's journey.
Tens of thousands of Lower City residents who did not have time to evacuate were embracing their families and friends, waiting for the arrival of their own destiny.
The Blade Beast swarm was charging;
Human firepower was pouring down.
On the larger battlefield, six front-line battlefields simultaneously erupted in major battles. The six major King-level Blade Beasts active on the periphery of the D5 war zone launched attacks at the same time. Some local battle lines had been broken through, and both sides began to repeatedly fight for positions.
The peripheral offensive of the six major King-level Blade Beast swarms was only putting overall pressure on the human camp.
The decisive point was in the location of these two vertical pupils!
Wang Jixuan could only prevent himself from thinking about the humans who did not have time to evacuate inside Fortress 82.
Endure, he could only endure. If he acted rashly, the various layouts of the Seventh Battlefield would be affected, which would lead to even greater disasters.
Both sides were forcing each other.
And obviously, the Blade Beast had less patience.
“Commander! Six General-level Blade Beasts are starting to surge from the ground!”
“Commander, a new Blade Beast swarm reaction has suddenly been discovered, three kilometers away on our left! The number is 60,000 and still growing! To avoid our dense minefield, they have begun to surface!”
“Activate the reserve forces, open the designated Line of Defense Six! All Drone Array One rises into the air!”
The war was gradually escalating.
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Every second now was torment for Zhou Zhengde.
He was just a security team captain and couldn't help with anything. So, Zhou Zhengde had previously thought of hiding in his own 'prison' dormitory, quietly waiting for the outcome of the war, not to cause trouble for others.
But he finally couldn't help but use his status to arrive at the D5 Combined War Zone Command Center and find the room that could monitor the entire 'Seventh Battlefield'.
Hundreds of screens formed three walls, displaying the battle situation in various parts of the battlefield.
More than a dozen messengers stood in strict formation, ready to convey the situation of the Seventh Battlefield to higher levels at any time.
Zhou Zhengde could see, could see everything.
The desert within a five-kilometer radius was undergoing the baptism of human firepower and the remnants of Blade Beasts. A steady stream of Blade Beasts crawled out of the earth, attacking the human camp. New underground passages were constantly being opened up by Drill Worms. Even, the other side used this method to cut off communication between several fire positions and defense camps.
There was no tragic close-quarters bloody battle, but the厮 killing between the human technology corps and the Blade Beast swarm.
The human race had fought against the Blade Beasts for a long time, and all technology was constantly moving forward, focusing on how to effectively kill Blade Beasts.
The corner of Zhou Zhengde's eye twitched fiercely.
General-level Blade Beast!
A General-level Blade Beast, more than twenty meters high and close to the [Headless Humanoid] structure, smashed through the sand dunes, opened up new upper and lower passages, and charged towards the location where Wang Jixuan was located with a large number of Blade Beasts.
A large amount of firepower poured down, but this General-level Blade Beast propped up a thick, emerald green light membrane around itself, isolating the explosion ten meters away from its body!
However, the human side's offensive still hindered the forward charge of this General-level Blade Beast.
More drones swarmed in, and a huge noise appeared in the air. The humans, who occupied air supremacy, sent heavy multi-rotor helicopters, dragging four medium-sized firepower mechs more than ten meters high, approaching the General-level Blade Beast.
Mech deployment.
The pilots in the four cockpits simultaneously made a squatting motion, allowing the four mechs to land steadily, each wrapping around the drone swarm, and began to charge towards the General-level Blade Beast.
Commander Dongfang Zhenghong had already allocated enough firepower to suppress the General-level Blade Beast and the Blade Beast swarm it led.
After a few minutes of intense fighting, a similar situation occurred again.
Once again, a General-level Blade Beast ambushed a human airdropped firepower mech.
Two massive Sub-Terror Mechs remained steady, while the human side's firepower was far from its limit. Everyone was waiting, waiting for the King-level Blade Beast to appear.
In just a few minutes, three new groups of Blade Beasts surged from underground. One group, braving the dense minefield, suffered heavy casualties underground, but still forcibly broke through an artillery position, causing a small-scale chaos in their own camp.
The three-dimensional battle of offense and defense was becoming increasingly fierce.
The aerospace carrier fleet dispatched by the Space Fortress had joined the battle, constantly deploying drone swarms to help ground forces seize air superiority.
The number of General-level Blade Beasts on the surface had increased to five, and two had already been severely damaged.
Most of the human mech assault teams had been mobilized.
The dune where Wang Ji Xuan was located stood alone in the center of the battlefield, his vertical pupil attracting most of the Blade Beast groups.
The surrounding area was a scene of fierce fighting.
Almost all the surrounding dunes had been flattened by explosions.
Almost all of the regional battlefields were arranged around this dune!
The Blade Beasts wanted to rush over and destroy this human marked by the vertical pupil, and the humans took the opportunity to try their best to destroy all Blade Beasts appearing within the range of firepower.
Wang Ji Xuan, wearing battle armor and holding a long spear, stood proudly between heaven and earth.
Zhou Zhengde quietly watched the figure on the screen. He could hardly imagine what the scenery was like at the very center of the battlefield, and what kind of pressure he had to bear.
A messenger suddenly shouted:
"The fortress's protective layer has been breached!"
"The King-level Blade Beast has breached Fortress 82! Fluctuations have appeared in the mid-city area, expected to affect floors 39 to 34!"
"All gates have been closed!"
"A small group of Blade Beasts has entered the fortress! Self-defense system activated! The King Beast is changing direction! The King Beast is starting to change direction!"
"The vertical pupil above the fortress has disappeared!"
"The King Beast is rushing towards the X marker! The King Beast is starting to surface!"
Zhou Zhengde's heart jumped to his throat.
He almost forgot to breathe, watching the battle situation depicted by the screens in front of him. He wanted to determine the figure of the King-level Blade Beast through this observation, to find its trace, and to remind Wang Zheng to retreat in time.
He almost stopped thinking.
In the picture, the battles in various places became more and more intense, and some human firepower units began to stop and reload.
The two Sub-Terror Mechs, Jiaolong and Black Swan, slowly ascended into the sky with huge magnetic halos.
On the aerospace carrier, batches of fighters were waiting for the order to attack.
The duel between humans and King-level Blade Beasts had happened many times in the past hundred years. Most of the time, humans were defeated miserably. After the birth of the Terror Mechs, the offensive of the Blade Beasts suddenly decreased.
However, this place was not equipped with real Terror Mechs. This key, decisive weapon had already been equipped to the King-level Blade Beast groups on the periphery of the war zone defense line.
The entire monitoring room was silent.
Zhou Zhengde and the messengers, everyone's eyes subconsciously crossed the chaotic battlefield, crossed the fight between mechs, drones and General-level Blade Beasts, crossed the boundless bombing, and crossed the marks left by the firing of those large-caliber anti-materiel guns, locking onto the dune.
Dune, supply vehicle, figure.
In a certain instant, this picture seemed to be in absolute stillness.
And this stillness was torn apart in the next instant.
The entire dune suddenly exploded!
The earth cracked open with a huge mouth! Strange wave marks appeared on the ground, and powerful psionic energy turned into shock waves sweeping in all directions!
It's here!
The King-level Blade Beast codenamed 'Assassin Seven' rushed out of the earth!
Its huge head was about to devour everything!
A huge invisible drone appeared above Wang Ji Xuan. The magnetic halo below the drone bloomed with light, and Wang Ji Xuan shot towards the sky like a bullet.
He looked down with his spear, and the terrifying mouthparts, with a diameter of more than fifty meters after opening, were brewing a black beam!
Wang Ji Xuan waved his right hand down, opened his five fingers and aimed at the supply vehicle falling into the King Beast's mouth, and immediately clenched his fist!
Explode!
The outer shell of the supply vehicle was covered with a layer of cyan light, so that it was not shattered by the shock waves that had come before. This was a small formation set up by Wang Ji Xuan in advance.
At this moment, the explosive flame talismans pasted inside the supply vehicle were ignited at the same time. These explosive flame talismans were wrapped with two tons of the most cutting-edge high explosives and oxidizers of current human military technology!
With a bang, a huge fireball bloomed!
The King Beast was blasted to the left, and Wang Ji Xuan's figure shot across the sky. The black beam slanted obliquely towards the sky in the opposite direction.
This strike pierced through the clouds, tearing apart the last curtain of the night, as if making the sunrise come earlier.
"Fire — —"
Dongfang Zhenghong's roar resounded through all command channels, and countless lines of fire connected the launch point and the King Beast's body!
The Jiaolong Sub-Terror Mech descended from the sky!
