Chapter 431: Countermeasures

"Buzz, buzz, buzz~"

Outside the formation, as time passed, those twisted monsters began to appear in the surroundings one after another; the sound of flapping wings and sharp shrieks mingled together, gradually drowning out the whistling of the ghostly wind.

Whether in the sky, on the ground, or even underground, the appearance of a single twisted monster meant that the massive swarm of monsters behind had arrived.

Once a large number of twisted monsters gathered together, they were left with only one goal: to find everything edible to devour, multiply, and expand.

"Buzz, buzz, buzz!"

"Rip~ Bang! Bang!"

However, as they flew rapidly in swarms toward the military camp, thin, imperceptible threads in the sky sliced their bodies directly into fragments.

Although the physiques of these twisted monsters could not be said to be powerful to the extreme, they were not something that ordinary ghostly soldiers could damage.

Yet, facing the dense threads strengthened dozens of times over by the power of the Zhiren Army, these monsters were sliced through as easily as tofu.

Suddenly, corpses and foul blood fell from the sky like rain, and an intensely pungent, fishy stench immediately permeated the air.

However, to the other twisted monsters, this scent acted like a potent stimulant; upon smelling it, countless twisted monsters were not afraid, but instead became even more frantic.

"Squeak~ Squeak~ Squeak!"

Sharp cries rose one after another, and countless monsters frantically lunged at the foul-smelling corpse fragments; even knowing that they themselves would be turned into the same thing by the slicing threads the next moment could not stop them.

Soon, piles of corpse fragments accumulated on the ground; some monsters approached these fragments directly from the ground to devour them frantically, and subsequently, blisters began to emerge on their bodies.

Before long, a large number of young twisted monsters crawled out from the blisters, then continued to gnaw on the corpses of their own kind and, relying on their small bodies, kept pushing deeper toward the front.

"This is the most terrifying thing about them. Killing them is actually not particularly difficult; what is difficult is to completely annihilate them all at once in a short period!"

"Otherwise, as long as there is something edible around, their numbers can explode crazily in a short time; even if only one is left, it will turn into thousands within a day!"

On the camp walls, the Year-Guarding Maiden and Lin Feng observed the situation outside together; in just a short moment, they had already seen thousands of monsters killed, but then even more monsters were hatched.

"Corpses, grain, vegetation, anomalies, and their own kind—as long as it is something edible, they will not let it go. Furthermore, the dead of their own kind will stimulate them to undergo changes; the more monsters that die, the more the newly born monsters seem to know how to deal with the current enemy..."

The Year-Guarding Maiden was not particularly clear about things like evolution, but Lin Feng had already understood the meaning from her explanation.

"Terrifying reproductive ability, digestive ability, expansion speed, and evolutionary ability—these four abilities superimposed together create this kind of thing before us."

"If this were placed anywhere, it would be an extremely terrifying biological weapon. I really wonder what the main body of the Blasphemy Calamity is?"

After Lin Feng summarized the essence of these twisted monsters, he gradually understood in his heart how to deal with these things.

"Those larvae should pass through the first line of defense very soon. At that time, I hope you can cooperate with the Zhiren Army to burn all the larvae to ashes!"

"If there are still corpses left, I will have the Zhiren Army collect them together or let the Gluttonous Anomaly eat them. Since their expansion requires nutrients, as long as we snatch these nutrients away and gradually consume them, we should be able to gradually gain the upper hand."

After thinking for a moment, Lin Feng said this directly to the Year-Guarding Maiden; he did not intend to solve all the troubles at once.

"I thought you wanted to burn them all up. It seems you also understand how to deal with these things. That's right, 'strengthening the walls and clearing the fields' is the best choice for dealing with them; without a sufficient food source, they will start to devour each other from within."

"It's just that the thing produced in the end will not be easy to deal with. If these monsters, whose numbers are unknown, eventually fuse into a single individual, its strength will definitely not be below that of a True Monarch."

The Year-Guarding Maiden looked at Lin Feng and said this quite approvingly, then changed the subject and warned him.

"Hmm, I know. In that case, we will consume their foundation while taking the initiative to attack; if we discover any bad signs, we will destroy them immediately!"

"The manpower I have on hand is still quite sufficient, so accomplishing these two things is not difficult."

Lin Feng nodded to indicate he understood; although he still had to reserve a portion of his strength to guard against other enemies, adopting these two methods against these monsters should be enough.

"That's more like it. Leave this side to me; if there is any abnormality, I will tell you directly."

After the Year-Guarding Maiden finished saying this, she waved her hand, and pure white special flames immediately emerged from her hand, then began to spread toward the outskirts of the camp.

At this time, quite a few monster larvae had already passed through the gaps in the net and reached the outskirts of various camps.

These monster larvae were only the size of a fist; flying in the air at this time, they looked more like insects.

However, their speed, strength, and level of anomaly were not inferior in the slightest; when they discovered the camp, they flew rapidly toward it.

"Defend!"

The next moment, the Zhiren Army in the camp immediately began to defend, and suddenly, barriers like mountain peaks isolated these monsters outside.

Facing these barriers, the monsters did not choose to charge hard, but instead burrowed into the ground, flew into the sky, or kept gnawing at the barriers.

As more and more twisted monster larvae came from the rear, large holes gradually began to appear on the barriers, while the size of those monsters was constantly expanding.

"Attack!"

Suddenly, the Zhiren Army prepared in the camp began to shift, gaps appeared in the barriers, and then violent attacks erupted instantly.

A large number of monsters turned into minced meat and foul blood under the attacks of the Zhiren Army, only to be immediately devoured by their own kind.

Even if they were burned into charred corpse fragments or shattered by sword light, these monsters, like anomalies, possessed extremely special properties and would not be easily obliterated.

"Boom!"

However, soon, walls of pure white flame rose between the camp and the monsters; after a large number of monsters were touched by these pure white flames, their bodies immediately burned violently as if they had been doused with fuel.

"Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle, bang!"

These pure white flames seemed to be the natural enemy of these twisted monsters; large batches of larvae instantly turned into charred corpse fragments or powdery ash in the pure white flames.