Chapter 85: Smoke and Flames Everywhere
After defeating the beast tide in City 003, Qin Mu did not leave immediately. Instead, he stayed to guard the city for a period.
A total of ten level-three mother nests were incubated in City 003. The number of monsters killed by the Zerg swarm in this battle was staggering, conservatively estimated to exceed 30 million. Their corpses were sufficient to rapidly expand the Zerg swarm's numbers.
These were just the monsters killed on the spot. There were even more fleeing monsters, numbering in the hundreds of millions. Without the leadership of king-level monsters, they were like scattered sand and would only be devoured by the Zerg swarm. They would provide ample flesh and nutrients to the Zerg swarm, making it even stronger.
However, to clean up the remaining monsters, the Zerg swarm would need a considerable amount of time. Additionally, the ocean monsters were also eyeing the situation.
Therefore, this city would remain important for a long time to come.
In the early stages of the battle, Qin Mu did not plan to expose the ocean Zerg. Compared to the endless ocean monsters, the current ocean Zerg, although numbering in the tens of millions, was still too fragile. However, under the leadership of the Azure Dragon, with abundant resources, the ocean Zerg swarm developed fiercely. It wouldn't be long before the ocean swarm became a trump card for Qin Mu.
"Qin Mu, a message has arrived. The number of monsters gathered outside the city has reached hundreds of millions, and they have started attacking the city. At least three king-level monsters have been detected invading and can be eliminated!"
Qin Mu did not stay in City 003 for long. Two days later, the first request for reinforcements arrived. It was not just this Base City; other major base cities were in similar situations. The first wave of the monster's counterattacks had already begun.
"Understood."
Standing on the ruins of a building near a mother nest in City 003, Qin Mu looked in the direction of Base City. In reality, the situation was not too tense. Under Qin Mu's arrangement, over a million Zerg swarms were assisting in guarding the city. The war bases in various major base cities were defended by laser cannons under the coordination of Jia Yi and others. Even king-level monsters would find it very difficult to conquer a base city.
But Qin Mu still set out. There were six major base cities in China, each with six to ten satellite cities. Each satellite city had more than one war camp nearby, and important geographical locations such as the mouths of the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers were also guarded by military war bases.
With over a hundred war bases in total, even Qin Mu would be very busy, so he needed to act quickly to clean up and enslave a batch of king-level monsters.
This was just the land monsters. When the ocean monsters launched a large-scale attack, similar to the period of the Golden Horned Beast invasion with thousands of ocean king-level monsters invading the land, the situation would become truly critical. Even Qin Mu would be hard-pressed.
Looking at the mother nest, the king-level monsters inside had almost recovered. With these four king-level monsters guarding City 003, even if the ocean monsters launched a large-scale invasion, as long as the two monster emperors did not invade, the defense could hold for some time, at least until Qin Mu arrived.
Qin Mu flew towards the Base City like a streak of light.
At that moment, a war base outside the Base City was surrounded by countless monsters. All the fighters had returned to the base city to assist in the defense. Outside the city, millions of Zerg swarms were fiercely battling the monsters, with brutal battlefields in both the sky and on the ground.
In the war base, thousands of cannons fired fiercely. Powerful missiles soared into the air, turning into flames of death. After violent explosions, large numbers of monsters were cleared. The pressure on the Zerg swarms in this area immediately eased, and they counterattacked the monsters.
"Chief, our monster losses are too fast! If we continue to fight like this, we might be wiped out soon!" A staff officer in the command room, watching the intense battle outside the city, could not help but speak up.
"Don't worry! In such high-intensity warfare, the beast tide cannot last too long. They also need time to rest. According to the orders from above, as long as our monsters drag the corpses of the fallen monsters back, we can quickly breed new monsters!"
A chief-like officer was not in a hurry, watching as their monsters continuously emerged from a nearby cave, calmly saying.
"Look, these emerging monsters are almost all at the Commander level. With so many Commander-level monsters, it won't be easy for them to be breached. We only need long-range artillery support for now. Except for fighters with the Black God suit, no other fighters are allowed to enter the beast tide to fight. Only when reinforcements arrive, the king-level monsters are killed, and the beast tide is routed, will it be our time to strike."
Looking at the map, the chief-like person had a strong killing intent on their face.
"Reinforcements?" The staff officer was puzzled but then showed a surprised expression, as if they had thought of something.
"Reinforcements have arrived!" Watching the radar on the screen, an object traveling at over twenty times the speed of sound was rapidly approaching, the chief-like officer showed delight.
In the sky, a streak of light flew rapidly from afar and hovered over the battlefield.
"There are three king-level monsters in total: a wolf-type, a tiger-type, and a bear-type, all at planetary level two." Qin Mu's eyes were cold as he stood in the air, and crescent blades flew out, with black flames burning fiercely, charging towards the wolf-type king-level monster.
The crescent blades easily cut through the wolf-type monster's fur, severed its tendons, and gravely wounded it. With Qin Mu's current strength, monsters of this level could be easily killed without even needing to use too much effort. Soon, the three king-level monsters fell one by one, all subdued by Qin Mu.
Qin Mu's spirit power spread out widely, attacking at over twenty times the speed of sound, with 256 crescent blades creating a terrifying blood rain in the beast tide. The beast tide, spanning tens of miles, was cut into horrific channels of flesh and blood under this terrifying attack. The beast tide collapsed visibly.
"Is this the strength of Chief Qin Mu? It's terrifying!"
"With Chief Qin Mu here, we will definitely defeat the monsters!"
The officers and soldiers of the entire war base burst into thunderous cheers as they watched the massive beast tide being easily routed by Qin Mu's overwhelming power. After the beast tide was routed, the gates of the war base opened with a bang, and a large number of fighters charged out, hunting the fleeing monsters.
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"Three king-level monsters have been detected invading the Central South Military Region! Our monsters are currently engaged in a frontal battle with the beast tide. Comrade Zhu and our Flame Giant Lizard king-level monster, with the assistance of laser cannons, are entangled with the enemy, and the situation is stable for now!"
"Five king-level monsters have been detected invading the Northwest Military Region! Requesting reinforcements!"
"A large number of monsters have gathered at the mouth of the Yellow River, reaching the scale of a level-one beast tide!"
"City 003 is experiencing a disaster-level beast tide, currently engaged in intense combat with our monsters. Five ocean king-level monsters have already landed!"
Various combat information continued to pour into the military channel, and for a time, Qin Mu was putting out fires everywhere. The land was filled with smoke and flames.
However, as Qin Mu continued to subdue or kill the various king-level monsters, and the Zerg swarm's numbers increased rather than decreased in the high-intensity warfare, the situation gradually stabilized domestically. Although battles continued in various places, with Qin Mu's rapid reinforcements, no war base was breached.
The most critical moment was when six king-level monsters invaded collectively. Even a king-level monster belonging to the Zerg swarm was killed in action, and the laser cannons in the war base were destroyed. High Horde Leader monsters from the Zerg swarm desperately held off several king-level monsters. Fortunately, Qin Mu arrived in time and subdued several king-level monsters.
As a large number of land monsters were killed, the domestic situation gradually stabilized. While China was engulfed in smoke and flames, several major foreign countries and numerous base cities were also unsettled. Monsters around the world began to riot, and more and more ocean monsters seized the opportunity to land, with two monster emperors beginning to show their faces. In such a situation, Hong and Lei Shen were putting out fires everywhere, but no matter how strong they were, they were only two people.
They were not adept at large-scale slaughter and were far slower than Qin Mu, without the assistance of Zerg swarms. For a time, base cities abroad were frantically requesting aid under the raging beast tide.
On the African continent, which had an abundance of wildlife even before the Great Nirvana period and was a paradise for many animals without the pollution of modern industry, the situation had turned into a living hell after the RR virus.
This land was already chaotic, lacking a strong and unified regime. During the Great Nirvana period, almost all countries perished, and the surviving humans built base cities deep within the continent to survive. However, even so, they could not resist the invasion of monsters, so they hired the powerful Flame Mercenary Group to assist in defense. But in successive beast tide attacks, the Flame Mercenary Group had suffered heavy losses, and even Hong and Lei Shen had come to help.
Unfortunately, as soon as they left, king-level monsters swarmed in again.
"This situation cannot continue. We need to request reinforcements!" In a conference room in an African base city, someone spoke gravely.
"No! The conditions they set are too harsh. They want us to completely surrender our leadership and be incorporated into their territory!" Another one said angrily.
"If it were just surrendering leadership, it might be negotiable, but look at their attitude towards the HR Alliance. They dared to target the HR Alliance's top executives at the beginning of the war and even conducted trials. What gives them the right to conduct trials!"
Some were angry, or perhaps fearful. In terms of darkness and savagery, the African continent was truly terrifying. This land was still filled with chaos, just as it was before the Great Nirvana period. No, it was even more chaotic than before the Great Nirvana period.
This was the true apocalypse. If judged by law, most people in this meeting would deserve to die ten times over.
"But with our strength, we cannot withstand the beast tide's attack! If the base city is breached, it will be the end."
"The Flame Mercenary Group is planning to retreat back to Europe."
"We must make a decision quickly."
At the beginning of the war, base cities abroad were already unable to hold out. Not just in Africa, but also in South America and even Europe, base cities were collapsing. But this had nothing to do with Qin Mu, or perhaps this situation was part of his plan.
Unification required bloodshed.
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