Chapter 138 Emerging from the Abyss!

call–

Wang Jixuan exhaled a breath of stale air.

A calm face was hidden behind the demonic helmet of the X-Armor; his spiritual awareness was at its maximum, and reports kept ringing through his earpiece:

“The King Beast is sixteen kilometers from the designated battlefield!”

“They’re starting to rise! The Blade Beast horde is starting to rise!”

“Deep nuclear mine No. 3 has entered the preset activation phase! The enemy has run into it!”

rumble–

A slight tremor came from the earth, a thin layer of dust rose from the sand dunes, the air surged forward, receded, and surged forward again, and a huge roar seemed to come from the depths of the earth.

A piercing noise came through the headphones.

At the edge of the line of sight, a sand dune collapsed and fell more than ten meters.

“Damn it! The enemy is cunning! A general-level blade beast was blown up! The king-level beast was slightly damaged!”

“The enemy has submerged again! They’ve bypassed mines number one and two!”

“The king beast is circling around! There are swarms of burrowing insects inside! They’re starting to scatter and surge upwards!”

“They’re coming! They’re coming up! Expected in two minutes! ‘Assassin Number Seven’ is hiding down there, trying to wear us down!”

“All units, prepare for combat!”

The command system suddenly went silent.

suck–

Wang Jixuan took a gentle breath of the pre-dawn air, his mind calm and free of other thoughts.

His left hand, encased in silver alloy, opened, and a spear stuck in the sand flew out and landed in his palm. Several alloy pouches filled with talismans flew up and hung on the front and back of his armor belt.

His vertical pupils on the top of his head kept flashing.

I felt it.

Wang Jixuan truly felt it.

A gaze was fixed on him from the shadows, like that of a predator watching its prey. The other party was like a terrifying behemoth constantly roaming in the deep sea, waiting for its prey to show fear and make a mistake before leaping out and devouring everything!

Wang Jixuan raised his spear vertically with his left hand.

Peony, who had already retreated from the vicinity of the Ryutong mecha, was now raising her hands, her ten fingers flashing light continuously, connecting to hundreds of arrayed drones.

Ji Xiao, the ‘good guy’ who was ready to rush in and provide support, didn’t dare to blink, just staring at Wang Jixuan’s back.

Ling Tong was in the mecha’s control room, her whole body covered in pressure sensors, her bright eyes intently watching the screen, while the Destruction Sniper Cannon was aimed at the area around Wang Jixuan.

Wang Jixuan’s raised spear fell heavily to the ground.

Thump!

A dull thud resounded, and a crater immediately appeared on the roof of the supply truck. With the amplification of the magic, the sound traveled in all directions underground.

Wang Jixuan raised his spear and brought it down again.

The clanging sounds continued incessantly, like the urgent beat of a death knell.

“More than thirty bladed beasts have been detected charging upwards simultaneously!”

“The minefield below has been triggered!”

“The burrowing worms are unaffected! They’ve entered a near-death frenzy!”

Under the pale blue sky, this desert began to tremble continuously.

Sand dunes burst upwards, spewing forth fountains of quicksand, while the earth seemed to be brewing dense, muffled thunder!

suddenly!

“Commander! The King-class Blade Beast is charging towards Fortress 82!”

Dongfang Zhenghong’s calm voice echoed throughout the pre-set battlefield: “Maintain the pre-set battlefield, abandon Fortress 82. The minefield near the fortress is enough to give this king beast a hard time.”

“The horde of Blade Beasts broke through the minefield and reached the surface five seconds later.”

“five.”

“Four.”

“three.”

“Two…are here!”

Sand dunes cracked open, and streams of black blood gushed upwards!

Dozens of enormous burrowing worms burst out of the ground almost simultaneously, their terrifying, petal-like mouthparts opening and closing with all their might. Having been battered by the minefield, they were already covered in wounds, and the shimmering blue light around them was constantly weakening!

Scattered beams of light shone on these burrowing insects!

“Control the firepower, they’re dead!”

Dongfang Zhenghong rebuked him sternly.

Almost as soon as he finished speaking, black blood spread from the scars on the earth, and countless black blade beasts surged out of the path opened by the burrowing worms, rushing towards the sand dune where Wang Jixuan was!

The vertical pupils on Wang Jixuan’s head trembled incessantly.

It’s calling!

It’s giving commands!

“fire.”

Dongfang Zhenghong gave the order.

Wang Jixuan’s spear came crashing down again.

Thump!

Behind him, countless points of light appeared, like stars suddenly falling from the night sky and precisely cascading down on the horde of bladed beasts on the ground!

Carpet bombing!

The horde of bladed beasts roared in unison, and blank areas appeared in the black sand dunes. Countless small mushroom clouds rose simultaneously, and in the distance, Wang Jixuan could see the red sun shining from a low-yield tactical nuclear bomb!

Just as dawn has arrived ahead of schedule!

He remained calm and composed, simply raising his gun to strike the roof of the car.

Second wave, third wave…

Countless bladed beasts surged out in a frenzy, and the humans took turns firing.

The circling bombers locked onto the thirty-odd exits and began dropping precision-guided air-to-ground bombs.

Wang Jixuan’s figure seemed to be submerged in the smoke and dust of the explosion, with yellow sand rolling everywhere.

Suddenly, a long, serpentine bladed beast sprang out from the nearby sand dune!

Second-class Sand Eel Variant Blade Beast!

It was incredibly fast, and its elongated mouth was glowing with a pale green light as it was about to unleash a beam of spiritual energy at Wang Jixuan!

Wang Jixuan didn’t even bother to turn his head.

Buzz, whoosh!

The Ryuko mech fires!

The beam of the destructive cannon flashed, reaching its lowest energy level. A hole exploded in the head of the blade beast, and its body, which had been thrown through the air, passed two meters above Wang Jixuan’s head before slamming helplessly onto the other side of the sand dune and rolling downwards.

Wang Jixuan raised his spear and brought it down again.

He was provoking and mocking.

A tremendous tremor came from Fortress No. 82, and the earth seemed to shake.

That was a King-level Blade Beast crashing into the fortress itself.

The fortress itself, which was almost perfectly integrated with the ground and had dozens of layers of protection, withstood the attack.

Wang Jixuan tapped the keys more frequently.

The king beast began to continuously ram against Fortress No. 82.

The tens of thousands of elderly people who voluntarily stayed in the fortress gripped their weapons tightly, waiting for the final glimmer of light on their life’s journey.

Tens of thousands of residents in the lower city who were unable to evacuate embraced their families and friends, awaiting their fate.

The horde of bladed beasts is charging;

Human firepower is being unleashed.

On a larger battlefield, major battles broke out simultaneously in six front-line battlefields. The six king-level blade beasts active on the outskirts of the D5 war zone launched attacks at the same time, and some battle lines have been breached. The two sides began to fight for positions repeatedly.

The outer offensive of the six king-level blade beast hordes was merely putting pressure on the human camp as a whole.

The decisive point lies in these two vertical pupils!

Wang Jixuan could only try to stop thinking about the humans inside Fortress 82 who couldn’t evacuate in time.

We must be patient, we must be patient. If he acts rashly, all the arrangements for the Seventh Battlefield will be affected, which will lead to an even greater disaster.

Both sides are pressuring each other.

Clearly, the Blade Beast has less stamina.

“Commander! Six general-level blade beasts have begun to emerge from the ground!”

“Commander, a new horde of Blade Beasts has been detected suddenly, three kilometers to our left! They number 60,000 and are still growing! To avoid our dense minefield, they have begun to surface!”

“Activate reserve forces, open pre-set defense line six! Launch all drone positions at No. 1!”

The war gradually escalated.

…

Every second now is torture for Zhou Zhengde.

He was just a security team leader and couldn’t offer much help, so Zhou Zhengde’s previous plan was to hide in his “cell” dormitory and quietly wait for the outcome of the war, without causing trouble for others.

But he couldn’t resist in the end. He used his identity to reach the D5 Integrated Theater Command Center and found the room that could monitor the entire’Seventh Battlefield’.

Hundreds of screens formed three walls, displaying the battle situation from various parts of the battlefield.

More than a dozen messengers stood ready, prepared to relay the situation on the seventh battlefield to their superiors at any time.

Zhou Zhengde can see everything.

The desert within a five-kilometer radius was being bombarded by human firepower and the remains of Blade Beasts. A continuous stream of Blade Beasts crawled out of the earth and attacked the human camp. New underground tunnels were constantly being opened up by burrowing worms. In fact, the enemy used this method to cut off the communication between several firing positions and defensive camps.

There was no brutal close-quarters combat; instead, there was a fierce battle between human technological legions and hordes of Blade Beasts.

The outer defenses have already been breached by the Blade Beasts, and the fragile human warriors are being torn apart with overwhelming force.

The drone swarm quickly filled the gaps in the battle line, and a rain of shells from the sky shattered a large number of Blade Beasts.

Humans have been fighting the Blade Beasts for a long time, and all technology has been focused on how to effectively kill them.

Zhou Zhengde’s eye twitched violently.

General-level Blade Beast!

A general-level blade beast, over twenty meters tall and nearly headless humanoid in shape, smashed through the sand dunes, opening up new passages and leading a large number of blade beasts toward Wang Jixuan’s location.

As a barrage of firepower rained down, a thick, emerald-green light membrane stretched around the general-level blade beast, keeping the explosions at least ten meters away from it!

However, the human offensive still hindered the advance of this general-level blade beast.

Another large number of drones swarmed in, creating a huge noise in the air. The humans who had gained air superiority dispatched a heavy multi-rotor transport helicopter, towing four medium-sized firepower mechs that were over ten meters tall, to approach the general-class blade beast.

Deploy the mechs.

The pilots in the four cockpits simultaneously performed a crouching motion, allowing the four mechs to land steadily. Each mech then enveloped a swarm of drones and began charging towards the general-class blade beast.

Commander Dongfang Zhenghong has allocated sufficient firepower to suppress the general-level blade beast and the horde of blade beasts it led.

After a few minutes of intense fighting, a similar situation occurred again.

Another attack by a general-level blade beast, followed by humans airdropping firepower mechs.

The two massive secondary terrifying mechs remained stationary. The human side’s firepower was far from reaching its limit. Everyone was waiting, waiting for the King-level Blade Beast to appear.

Within minutes, three more groups of Blade Beasts surged out from underground. One of them, despite being surrounded by dense minefields and suffering heavy casualties underground, still managed to break through an artillery position, causing minor chaos within their own ranks.

The three-dimensional offensive and defensive battle is becoming increasingly intense.

The space carrier battle group dispatched by the space fortress has joined the battle, continuously dropping swarms of drones to help ground forces gain air superiority.

The number of surface-level Blade Beasts has increased to five, and two have already been severely damaged;

Most of the human mech assault team was deployed;

The sand dune where Wang Jixuan stood stood alone in the center of the battlefield, and the vertical pupil on his head attracted most of the blade beasts.

A fierce battle was taking place all around.

The sand dunes were almost completely flattened by the bombing.

Almost all the regional battlegrounds are arranged around this sand dune!

The Blade Beasts wanted to rush over and destroy the human marked with vertical pupils, and the human used this as an opportunity to destroy any Blade Beasts that appeared within the range of their firepower.

Wang Jixuan stood proudly between heaven and earth, clad only in armor and wielding a long spear.

Zhou Zhengde stared quietly at the figure on the screen. He couldn’t imagine what it was like to be at the very center of the battlefield, or what kind of pressure one had to endure.

The messenger suddenly shouted:

“The fortress’s protective layer has been breached!”

“A King-level Blade Beast has breached Fortress No. 82, causing fluctuations in the central city area, which are expected to affect floors 39 to 34!”

“All gates have been closed!”

“Small group of Blade Beasts enters the fortress! Self-defense system activated! King Beast turns! The King Beast begins to turn!”

“The vertical pupil above the fortress has disappeared!”

“The King Beast is heading towards marker X! The King Beast is beginning to rise!”

Zhou Zhengde’s heart was in his throat.

He almost forgot to breathe, staring intently at the battle depicted on the screens before him. He wanted to use this observation to pinpoint the figure of the King-level Blade Beast, to find its trail, and to warn Wang Zheng to retreat in time.

He almost stopped thinking.

In the scene, the battles are becoming increasingly intense, and some human firepower units are beginning to pause and reload.

Two secondary terrifying mechs, Jiaolong and Black Swan, have slowly taken off with huge magnetic halos.

On the space carrier, batches of fighter jets awaited the order to launch.

The battles between humans and King-level Blade Beasts have occurred many times in the past century, with humans suffering crushing defeats most of the time. However, after the birth of the Terror Mechs, the Blade Beasts’ offensive suddenly decreased.

However, this place was not equipped with real terrifying mechs. Such crucial and decisive weapons had already been deployed to the King-level Blade Beast horde outside the war zone’s defensive line.

The entire monitoring room was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

Zhou Zhengde and the messengers all subconsciously looked past the chaotic battlefield, past the fighting between mechs, drones and general-level blade beasts, past the endless bombing, past the scratches left by the firing of large-caliber anti-materiel guns, and locked their gazes on the sand dunes.

Sand dunes, supply trucks, and figures.

For a fleeting moment, the scene seemed to be completely still.

But this stillness was shattered in the next instant.

The sand dune suddenly exploded!

The earth split open with a gaping maw! Strange ripples appeared on the ground, and powerful psionic energy transformed into shockwaves that swept in all directions!

It’s here!

A King-level Blade Beast, codenamed ‘Assassin No. 7’, bursts forth from the earth!

Its enormous head is ready to devour everything!

A huge, invisible drone appeared above Wang Jixuan, and a magnetic halo below the drone shone brightly. Wang Jixuan shot into the sky like a bullet.

He raised his gun and looked down, his terrifying mouth, which was over fifty meters in diameter, brewing a black beam of light!

Wang Jixuan swung his right hand down, spreading his five fingers and aiming at the supply vehicle that had fallen into the beast’s mouth, then immediately clenched his fist!

burst!

The supply vehicle was enveloped in a layer of azure light, preventing it from being shattered by the ripples from the previous impact. This was a small array that Wang Jixuan had set up in advance.

At that moment, the explosive talismans covering the inside of the supply vehicle were simultaneously ignited. These talismans contained two tons of high explosives and oxidizers, representing the most advanced military technology currently available to mankind!

With a deafening roar, a massive fireball erupted!

The beast was blasted and tilted to the left. Wang Jixuan shot through the air, his black beam shooting diagonally towards the opposite sky.

This strike pierced through the clouds, tearing open the last curtain of night, as if bringing the sunrise forward.

“Fire!”

Dongfang Zhenghong’s roar resounded across all command channels, and countless fire lines connected the launch point with the body of the King Beast!

The Jiaolong submersible descends from the sky in a terrifying mech!