Chapter 315: Exterminate the Beast Tide, Advance on the Holy Pu Empire

A monster larger than a truck leapt out of the light beam, opening its blood-filled mouth full of fangs, and in an instant bit off the reporter's head.

The crowd instantly erupted in panic, screaming and scattering in all directions.

Monsters appeared one after another, charging into the crowd to tear, bite, and slaughter.

The police on scene could no longer control the situation; they could only suppress their inner fear and hastily deal with the terrifying monsters they had never seen before.

But what they didn't expect was that pistol bullets striking these monsters felt almost like a tickle.

Some monsters healed their wounds in just a few seconds after being shot, while others had a thick layer of armor on their surface that bullets could not penetrate at all.

Without a doubt, the police on scene also became victims under the monsters' claws.

The same scene occurred one after another in dozens of places around the globe.

The Huaxia Guo war command center quickly detected the anomaly; on the large screen monitoring the monsters' biological signals, alarms suddenly lit up everywhere.

First, monsters appeared in important cities of many countries, and then some international sea, land, and air transportation hubs, military fortresses, and large energy production sites also successively had monsters.

On the electronic world map screen, only the territories of Huaxia Guo and the Holy Pu Empire had no warning signals lit up.

The command center personnel realized that this must be the extremists of the R region using the Holy Pu Empire's spacetime transmission technology.

Huaxia Guo, relying on its strong national strength, prevented their people from sneaking in to set up transmission gates, but other countries and regions lacked this ability and had actually been infiltrated and had gates set up over the years.

Fortunately, as early as over two months ago, Huaxia Guo urgently convened a secret meeting of many countries worldwide, letting most nations with military capability prepare in advance.

Thus, after the beast tide fully erupted, the effect of the advance preparations became evident.

Although the monsters' brief appearance caused great panic and casualties, countries and regions immediately launched countermeasures and counterattacks.

Taking Huaxia Guo's eastern sea and the R region as the main battlefields, with dozens of other locations worldwide as secondary battlefields, a great war of humanity united against the beast tide was thoroughly kicked off.

R region, inside the island.

The volcano that the former R country once regarded as a holy site has been flattened.

The extremists' base hidden beneath the volcano no longer exists; even the magma deep underground has surged forth, like a red ocean continually covering the surface.

The sky was shrouded in gunpowder smoke, the earth a cracked, scarlet expanse, as if doomsday had descended.

Other parts of the island were no better; the surviving monsters continued to rampage, slaughtering residents who had failed transformation and had survived the missile bombardment.

Yet for these residents, death would have been preferable.

So some residents, in extreme fear and despair, simply chose to end their own lives.

Others did not commit suicide, but instead suffered mental breakdowns and went mad, inadvertently activating the mutation within them; however, the mutation was incomplete, turning them into half‑human, half‑monster lunatics.

Near the volcano, hundreds of black‑clothed individuals escorted their senior members everywhere in search of a place to hide.

These were precisely the core members of the R region's extremists.

Originally they had several thousand subordinates, but all perished in the missile attack, leaving only the leader, a few senior officials, and several hundred bodyguards.

The leader still held the hereditary long sword symbolizing the R country's royal family; even though he was now in a sorry state of flight, his face was full of excitement.

Because in his view, he had succeeded.

As long as he could stay alive, once the beast tide had devastated Huaxia Guo, with the help of the Holy Pu Empire he could not only rebuild a new R country on the ruins of the R region, but also fulfill his ancestors' long‑held desire to occupy Huaxia.

"Hahaha… hahahaha!" the leader burst out laughing.

His personal bodyguards hurriedly warned that they were now fleeing for their lives, as Huaxia Guo's drones and robot dogs had already been deployed; if discovered, it would be over.

The leader wore a ferocious smile, wiping his long sword, and said, "I am the legitimate heir of the R country's royal family, the true chosen one; even a hydrogen bomb bombardment could not take my life—I cannot die!"

Hearing this, the bodyguards felt somewhat helpless.

But the other several senior officials were all filled with obsession and fervor, and they all knelt down, performing the ancient great rite of the R country's royal family before him.

The leader's manic laughter attracted the attention of a monster in the distance.

In the thick fog, a monster came toward the sound.

The bodyguards noticed, hastily formed a protective circle, and urged the leader and senior officials to quickly continue fleeing.

"Roar!" the monster bellowed, leaping out of the fog and swatting the two nearest bodyguards into piles of minced flesh.

The remaining bodyguards were terrified out of their wits; some fainted on the spot, others scrambled away trying to escape, and could no longer bother protecting the leader and senior officials.

"Hah! So cowardly, what use are you?" the leader coldly snapped.

Several senior officials were also frightened badly and instinctively wanted to run.

The leader, brandishing his long sword, shouted at the monster, "I am your sovereign! You must submit to me!"

His words were full of vigor; the monster paused for a moment, standing still.

Seeing this, the several senior officials nearby instantly gained confidence and, holding their heads high, commanded the monster:

"Why haven't you paid homage to the sovereign!"

"Kneel at once!"

The monster came to its senses, swiped with two or three claws and killed several senior officials, then seized the leader and bit off half of his body in one gulp.

Thus, the last few extremist remnants of the R country lost their lives in such a ridiculous manner.

The monster lay upon several corpses and feasted heartily.

In mid‑air, a dense buzzing sound came.

The monster lifted its head and howled toward the direction of the sound.

A few seconds later, a swarm of drones swooped down like lightning, all slamming into the monster and blowing it up together with those corpses into ashes……

Time passed day by day.

The battles of all countries against the beast tide entered a white‑hot state.

Some small countries with lagging military strength have even lost the ability to resist, the whole nation has fallen, and the populace has fled en masse to survive.

As a middle‑ranking power, Huaxia Guo is in the best shape, but it faces the greatest pressure, which continues to increase.

The eastern sea region has become a chaotic mess; although multiple assaults of the beast tide have been contained beyond the 300‑kilometer coastline, other border areas of Huaxia Guo are also beginning to face the beast tide crisis.

Some neighboring countries are unable to resist and still need Huaxia Guo to divert troops to assist them.

It means that Huaxia Guo, bearing more than eighty percent of the Beast Tide attacks, still has to hold the land border and aid other nations.

If this global keystone weren't bearing the load, the Beast Tide would have already ravaged the entire world.

Moreover, by contrast, within Huaxia Guo, aside from every type of factory working overtime to boost output for the war, society continues to function normally.

Huaxia Guo uses its greatest strength to preserve the peace of this land.

Shangguan Ying also did not tell Ning Jinli that a world‑class war against the Beast Tide had already broken out abroad, and even members of Ning Jinli's laboratory team were completely unaware of it.

All this was to avoid affecting Ning Jinli's exploratory mission.

Two months later.

Two‑thirds of the monster hordes in the East Sea have been eliminated; the Beast Tide is showing a clear decline, and some monsters, no longer raging, are fleeing back the way they came.

Huaxia Guo's naval combat brigade adjusted its strategy, shifting from initial defensive strikes to encirclement and pursuit.

Among the other nations, those with relatively strong militaries, after withstanding the attacks, launched counter‑offensives; with Huaxia Guo's troops assisting, they gradually reclaimed areas seized by the Beast Tide, and some small countries that had evacuated their populations also began to return to their lands.

At the same time, Huaxia Guo's operations center discovered good news.

The tactical reconnaissance satellite can actually detect conditions inside the Holy Pu Empire.

After M Guo disintegrated more than a decade ago, the Holy Pu Empire, which inherited most of M Guo's resources, instituted self‑isolation, gradually cutting all external contacts, and used an unbreakable technology to shield all outside electronic surveillance.

Even Huaxia Guo's most advanced satellite could not scan any condition of the Holy Pu Empire from outer space.

"General Shangguan, look!" the reconnaissance staff exclaimed, showing Shangguan Ying the detection results, "This is the Holy Pu Empire's latest ground satellite map!"

Shangguan Ying replied in surprise, "Did you break through their shield?"

The reconnaissance staff said, "No, no, no—either we didn't break it, or… just now the electronic shield vanished, and we could see it."

"Could it be that the Holy Pu Empire realized the Beast Tide attack was about to fail and intends to reach out to the outside?" Shangguan Ying mused.

Soon, the truth surfaced.

It turned out that some monsters, frightened and disoriented in the melee, wandered into the Holy Pu Empire's territory on the American continent.

This batch was not small; gradually they numbered over a thousand.

After they entered the Holy Pu Empire, they killed and ravaged anything they saw; although the empire eliminated them, the process damaged some electronic shield bases.

Consequently the shield failed, and Huaxia Guo's reconnaissance satellite could then detect inside its territory.

Unexpectedly, the Beast Tide crisis inadvertently lent a hand.

Shangguan Ying decisively ordered the reconnaissance unit to cooperate with several other satellite‑powerful nations, concentrating forces to, in the shortest possible time, clarify the Holy Pu Empire's current domestic environment, gather as much data as possible, and draw the latest map, striving to fully survey every street and building.

Additionally, uniting all remaining combat corps worldwide, they immediately deployed to encircle the Holy Pu Empire.

Both operations must proceed simultaneously, racing against time, without waiting until the monsters are completely cleared.

Because once the Holy Pu Empire restores the electronic shield, Huaxia Guo's rare window of advantage will vanish.

Huaxia Guo's more than ten carrier strike groups first crossed the ocean, heading to the American continent where the Holy Pu Empire lies, followed by other militarily strong nations dispatching their respective combat forces.

As the multinational joint army reached the Holy Pu Empire's borders and coastlines.

As Huaxia Guo's military command representative, Shangguan Ying faced the camera and relayed in real time to the senior officials and supreme commanders of all deploying nations:

"Everyone, we have now formed the Earth United Defense Force; we must confront not only the Holy Pu Empire but also the powerful forces behind it. Our analysis indicates that the former M Guo island base that crossed into a parallel world inevitably plundered resources and advanced military technology, enabling it to heavily support the Holy Pu Empire. The military technology there may be on par with Huaxia Guo's, and in some specialized fields even superior, and they are more ruthless, willing to spare no cost, with abundant resources."

"We have reason to believe that that powerful force intends to return to our world and re‑establish dominion over it."

"You should not have forgotten how, when M Guo once dominated the globe, it brought countless wars and turmoil; if that force returns, it will be even more egregious than M Guo's original actions."

"Therefore, we must work together to infiltrate the Holy Pu Empire, locate and destroy the Spacetime Portal linking it to that side, and stop that terrifying force from entering our world. This threat is more dreadful than the Beast Tide, concerning humanity's shared future; I urge everyone to give their utmost effort!"

"Everyone, commence the attack!"

Numerously military satellites in space continuously transmit the gathered data back to the combat command center.

Countless pairs of "Sky Eyes" watch, providing the Earth United Defense Force with full‑map visibility, gradually exposing the Holy Pu Empire's decade‑long hidden domestic and military situation.

The United Defense Force's missiles and rockets directly locked onto key military bases and began bombing.

Hundreds of streaks of light flashed across the sky.

Naturally, the Holy Pu Empire would not sit idle; swarm‑like tactical drones teamed with anti‑air missiles to form a tight defensive line.

Accompanied by intermittent explosions and bursts of intense light, nearly three‑quarters of the attack missiles and rockets detonated mid‑air, while the remainder hit their targets, consecutively destroying military bases within the Holy Pu Empire.

The unwilling Holy Pu Empire likewise launched powerful attack missiles, the number of which was not fewer than the United Defense Force's first‑round assault.

Such a level of counter‑offensive capability already far exceeds that of pre‑disintegration M Guo.

As Huaxia's leadership predicted, the forces behind the Holy Pu Empire possess military strength that is not inferior to Huaxia Guo's.

Both sides rely on long‑range bombardments, relentlessly shelling each other while employing every defensive method.

It is like two powerful boxers using Earth as a ring, each punch landing with flesh and blood flying, a battle too close to call.

After several hours, the Earth United Defense Force, with its more sustained fire coverage, gradually suppressed the Holy Pu Empire's counterattack.

The United Defense Force immediately launched a ground offensive, and using the massive satellite network to analyze the Holy Pu Empire's military movements, quickly identified the positions they valued most.

In the sky, drones and artillery shells continue to interweave in deadly combat, and both air forces have joined the fight.

On the ground, the United Defense Force's land troops keep advancing, repeatedly breaching and clearing the Holy Pu Empire's hidden units, layer by layer tearing apart its defensive ring.

After more than a week of continuous day‑and‑night fighting, even though the Holy Pu Empire has mobilized the entire populace, it is nearly exhausted.

The Earth United Defense Force likewise suffers severe losses.

In some nations, soldier casualties reached ninety percent, and all weapons and equipment were completely depleted.

Huaxia Guo, as the overall military commander, and Shangguan Ying, as the core leader of the command team, grew increasingly grim as she watched the steady stream of victory reports and casualty figures.

Even with her unparalleled command ability, achieving continual victories in such a short time, the cost remains horrific.