Chapter 1171: Battlefield Convergence

Lin Dui, what are you thinking?

The two met up.

Zhang Tie, who was waiting for Lin An to help him disguise, curiously looked at Lin An, who suddenly furrowed his brows. The two were soaked in a strong smell of blood, as if they had just been fished out of blood.

Compared to Lin An's relatively clean body, his body was still covered in bloody minced flesh.

There was no way; his reputation wasn't as loud as Lin An's, so he could only grit his teeth and kill any 'disobedient' Awakened Ones he saw.

"Nothing, just thinking about the difficult matter."

He replied offhandedly.

Lin An's brows remained furrowed; he simply continued to look at the message sent from the Soviet theater.

"It turns out they're also the same kind of apocalyptic battlefield?" He had thought the survival trial in the Europe theater would be different, but he didn't expect that, from the distress signal sent by Tai'er, it was clearly the same as his.

In the message, Tai'er had repeatedly asked him to step forward.

In the detailed description, Lin An also realized that the progress in the Europe theater was much faster than here.

With massive absorption of spiritual energy, the insect swarms drew more exaggerated each time, and many third-rank individuals had already begun to die!

Just from this description, it drew Lin An's high attention.

The insect swarm's level is still third rank or below; being able to cause casualties among third-rank Awakened Ones can only be because they were literally exhausted to death! The scale of the insect swarm must have reached an unimaginable magnitude.

Without anyone noticing the strange fragrance, the Awakened Ones of the European theater even generally believed this was the difficulty of the apocalyptic battlefield!

Moreover, it was slightly different from the situation in Lin An's simulation.

When choosing to farm points in each theater, they naturally would try to occupy gathering places as much as possible and disperse personnel to farm points. After all, anyone could think that dispersing to farm points is the fastest. After the initial outbreak of small-scale conflicts, although not many third-rank individuals had died yet, the stronger the theater, the more dispersed the personnel became.

At first, farming points was still enjoyable.

But once the insect swarms began to attack, they actually gradually formed a situation where each was surrounded by their own.

Wave after wave, the interval shortened from one or two hours to one hour, then half an hour, then twenty minutes!

In the situation where each was surrounded by massive insect swarms, each gathering place felt like an isolated island, trapped in a dilemma of advance or retreat.

Going out to meet up with other companions would mean constantly encountering other insect swarm attacks on the road.

Without replenishing spiritual energy on the spot via spiritual energy towers, casualties would be severe on the road.

Not going out, they were basically waiting to die! Once the Tianmu people exhausted their spiritual energy, they wouldn't even have any left to flee.

In fact, this situation has already occurred.

After many gathering places were overrun, the lucky surviving third-rank individuals began to flee frenziedly. Those who were lucky enough not to die on the road fled to other gathering places, but often, upon meeting up, the convergence of two insect swarms would instead bring death, causing the gathering places that could have held on to collapse.

After a moment's thought, Lin An looked at Tai'er, who was earnestly asking him to appear and lead the team, gave a bitter laugh, and could only send a short message:

"Gather and meet up, carrying the corpses of the Tianmu people toward the central area!"

"Stop absorbing spiritual energy! Find a way to 'capture' third-rank individuals from other theaters to make them work for you!"

"Clear out the Awakened Ones in the team who have absorbed the most spiritual energy; at critical moments, directly disperse and act."

He could only give advice.

To be honest, even if he wanted to go over now, he couldn't. Unless he spent ten times the cost to exchange system props and enter the apocalyptic battlefield of the European theater from here.

But for Lin An, the cost was too great.

The Long An and Huaxia theaters also needed him here, and he hadn't yet found a concrete breakthrough idea; going over wouldn't mean much.

He should remind...

Lin An wearily rubbed his forehead; in a sense, he now bore the pressure of two theaters.

The Soviet theater was still quite important to him, at least equivalent to a super-large Long An.

All that can be said is that he still subconsciously overlooked the Soviet theater, not factoring them into his plans. Of course, mainly because he also didn't expect the apocalyptic battlefields on both sides to be the same; otherwise he would have certainly reminded Tai'er and company earlier to warn them not to absorb spiritual energy.

However, there wasn't really any difference.

Tai'er's side couldn't intimidate the entire theater's Awakened Ones like his side could. Even if others were wildly absorbing spiritual energy, the outcome would still be the same. Perhaps stubbornly refusing to replenish spiritual energy would make the situation even worse.

It's like a bamboo raft drifting at sea: drinking seawater will kill you, but not drinking will kill you even faster!

In his hesitation, Lin An deleted the message he was about to send to Tai'er and let out a light sigh.

If he were Tai'er, the only way he could save himself now would be to gather all the Awakened Ones in the team who have absorbed the most spiritual energy, have them blaze a trail! Hold the rear!

Others would preserve their strength to the greatest extent, using the death of this batch of third-rank individuals as the cost, to retain their final strength.

But the Soviet theater would be unable to do that.

One could tell with their toes that the batch that absorbed the most spiritual energy, about eighty percent, were the Soviet high-level officials.

Regarding this, he could only hint at it indirectly; it was up to Tai'er to realize this.

Not everyone could accept his approach.

In fact, Lin An also clearly knew that the so-called optimal solution was often just a theoretical matter.

Sacrifice, decisiveness, cutting off one's wrist like a brave warrior, sparing no cost.

These things often transcend human nature.

Few Awakened Ones could accept this cruel practice, taking his area as an example. Even though many Awakened Ones also realized he was right, on the forced retreat and gathering route, almost every person looked at him with resentment.

Kind persuasion finds no believers; directly resorting to killing would only cause everyone to hate you.

Even if Lin An was right, in everyone's eyes he must have ulterior motives and certainly wasn't doing it for their good.

"Lin Dui, is this about Tai'er's side?"

"Isn't something wrong over at the hairy bear's side?"

Thanks to constantly being by Lin An's side, absorbing his influence through hearing and sight, Xiong Hanzi could now think of many things. Especially after noticing Lin An repeatedly communicating with the Soviet side, sharp-witted Zhang Tie also realized that Tai'er must be calling for help, and Lin Dui was likely teaching them something.

"Hmm, the situation is somewhat troublesome."

"Their insect swarm progress there is several times faster than ours."

Lin An replied softly, somewhat surprised to glance at Zhang Tie, who was chuckling.

This clod, his observational skills have gotten much better than before.

「Tsk! I fucking guessed it would be like this! 」

「However, Tai'er and them are really useless—so many people, yet no one thought not to randomly eat Tianmu people? 」

「Not even a slightly clever person... 」

Listening to Xiong Hanzi's muttering, Lin An burst out laughing.

Just a moment later he suddenly froze, as if he had thought of something.

Not realizing...

Clever?!