Chapter 930

The ground trembled; with her back to the towering dark crystal city wall, the girl in red silently took a scroll and nodded silently.

The cannons on the city wall, firing nonstop, erupted in waves of dense spiritual energy; the plasma spraying out sliced through the night and also lit up a corner below the city.

"Once you get close and tear it open, the spiritual energy bomb stored inside the scroll will fall out."

"By then, I will have others cooperate with you."

He gave a reminder.

Chu An, surrounded by a team of hundreds of elite Awakened Ones, calmly waved his hand, signaling the start of the operation.

As a mutant, the girl in red cannot use system equipment, but that does not mean she cannot use props prepared in advance.

As long as an external force tears open the scroll, as a simple spatial prop, the spiritual energy bomb inside will instantly drop out, delivering a surprise strike.

Otherwise, once she gets close to that third-rank mutant, the complex surging spiritual energy inside the bomb will instantly trigger alertness.

Gripping the scroll, she glanced at Chu An; not knowing what she was thinking, the girl silently vanished into the darkness, turning to approach the center of the distant corpse horde.

Detonating the bomb is the most dangerous.

Standing in the team, Jing Tian gave the disappearing back a glance with a somewhat complex expression.

After Chu An appeared, he told them he could resolve this crisis.

Although his words relieved them, the plan he proposed left them speechless.

Artillery and low-altitude bombing opened the way; the Awakened Ones, as a vanguard squad, used high-speed devices to hunt down mutants.

The third-rank mutant at the very center would be blown up by the girl in red carrying the bomb, forcefully.

The plan itself is fine, but obviously the greatest risk lies with the girl in red who will detonate the spiritual energy bomb.

No one knows the blast radius of this weapon, nor whether that third-rank mutant will react in time.

Logically, the task of carrying the bomb close should be done by AnXia, after all she is the fastest existence in Long'an Base.

But no one brought it up, including Chu An; everyone tacitly remained silent.

He sighed, Jing Tian withdrew his gaze, his mood somewhat complex.

Although the girl in red is a mutant, after occasional contact over this period, she is actually no different from AnXia, even more like a mutated human.

Having the girl in red carry out this mission, in a sense, is to make her bear the risk for AnXia.

Even...

Jing Tian also wasn't sure, given Chu An's personality, whether it might be possible for the girl in red... to never return.

"Squad 0489! 0477! 0431! Target 400 meters ahead!"

"Bang!"

The modified rifles fired simultaneously, their rhythmic gunfire echoing in waves.

Lying at the city wall's firing port, the first-rank Awakened One holding a rifle and aiming through the scope looked somewhat nervously at the corpse tide.

As a squad composed entirely of Awakened Ones defending the city, their shooting method differs from the ordinary survivors' firepower coverage.

Thanks to their physical qualities far surpassing ordinary people and the aid of high-magnification scopes, each of their shots is pinpoint accurate.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

The modified bullets pierced a layer of spiritual energy net floating in midair; the black bullet grooves instantly lit up, staining red like erupting flame, suddenly shattering the foremost corpse horde, and after sinking into the zombies' bodies, they triggered another explosion.

A burnt smell; the shattered zombies were quickly trampled underfoot by the corpse horde behind.

The spiritual energy net floating in midair comes from numerous support-system Awakened Ones; as the bullet passes through, it can instantly add an explosive effect.

"Bang!"

The enchanted bullet spun at high speed, instantly piercing and exploding a licker in the narrow scope; the ensuing flame turned the surrounding area into hell.

"Nice!"

After seeing his own bullet blow up a licker, the youth who had been somewhat nervous while looking through the scope couldn't help but excitedly wave his fists.

Below the city, ice-system Awakened Ones in units of a hundred were also rapidly releasing their respective skills.

Many glanced enviously at the squad on the wall responsible for sniping mutants.

Their task differs from that of the sniper squad; as Awakened Ones with shorter skill ranges, their role is to create a large-scale battlefield environment.

Getting to kill mutants, such a boon, really doesn't fall to them.

Azure spiritual energy kept flashing, freezing large low-temperature areas of the muddy ground outside the city; sheets of icy, smooth extreme frost covered the ground.

Occasionally, a zombie that slipped through the continuous fire line would instantly freeze upon stepping onto the ice.

And the frozen zombie would, in the next second, be shattered into pieces by bullets from other squads.

On the high wall, the cannon fire was deafening.

The various units garrisoned on the city felt each tremor with some trepidation.

Most of the Awakened Ones legion members of Long'an had joined later, and many had come over from the surrounding Wangjiang forces.

During usual training, they hadn't yet felt how terrifying Long'an's defenses were.

Although Long'an is considered the strongest safe zone among the three provinces, most people's concept still lingered in simple offensive-defensive warfare.

But as the war began, the spiritual energy towers, dark crystal cannons, and various unprecedented spiritual weapons unleashed their power, and everyone suddenly realized that Long'an Base's defensive means were far beyond what a safety zone with just a few machine guns could match.

As personnel of the second line of defense, they now don't even have a chance to fire.

Wave after wave of zombie mutants were turned to ash under the endless barrage of firepower.

"Boom!"

Plasma spewed from the dark crystal cannon traced an arc; following a piercing wind howl, the plasma that fell into the corpse horde instantly shattered the surrounding tens of meters of corpses, the strong electrical net spreading and conveying, like ground lightning, electrocuting the surrounding zombies into charred corpses.

Standing on the protruding platform of the city wall, the 'Bombardment' squad composed of fire- and wind-system Awakened Ones eyed each other competitively while watching the dark crystal cannon behind them continuously fire.

Apart from the initial panic at seeing the corpse horde, as the battle continued, these defending troops felt as if they had taken a tranquilizer.

The corpse tide looks terrifying, but under high-intensity bombardment, it is disappearing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Not to mention, as a high-cost dark crystal cannon, each artillery strike equals a full-force strike of a Second Level Awakened One, and it is of the covering type.

Under the continuous supply of the spirit energy tower, each cannon can fire on average every three seconds; with the entire array of over forty cannons, the long-term enemy-clearing effect will not be inferior to that of thousands of Second Level Awakened Ones.

"Get ready to strike!"

Seeing a zombie, under the leadership of a Second Level Mutant, briefly charging into the second defensive line, the leading Captain's eyes lit up; he hurriedly activated his skill, raised a ball of fire, and then had the team members continuously pour spirit energy into it.

"Brothers!"

"Don't let the cannon team be outdone!"

"Let them see our strength!"

"Whoa!"

The orange-red flames surged suddenly, and with the effort of the whole squad, a giant fireball seven or eight meters across swelled into existence.

The temperature rose sharply; in an instant, the top of the wall was like a newly risen sun, scorching the people, some of whom felt parched and dry-mouthed.

"Throw!!"

Having swollen to its limit, the Captain, face flushed from straining to hold aloft the fireball, heaved it with effort toward the vast corpse horde.

On the other side, the prepared wind-system Awakened Ones frantically projected blade after blade of wind into the fireball, like a rocket jet, accelerating the floating fireball.

Fire riding the wind, like a falling sun, the hurled giant fireball slammed into the corpse horde with a thunderous impact.

"Boom!!!"

In an instant, a high-temperature explosion composed purely of flames rose up.

Within 0.1 seconds, the tank that had been charging forward while protecting its head instantly melted its body under the high-temperature spirit-energy flames.

Sparks burst forth like peeling fragments, exploding off the iron-white body and scattering to the ground.

After just a few seconds, the explosion dissipated.

All that could be seen was a black pit nearly a hundred meters wide appearing on the ground.