Chapter 664 - Iron Wall Closing In, and All Are Captured!
Chapter 664: Iron Wall Closing In, and All Are Captured!
Meng Chao’s bravery was addictive to the soldiers in the defense lines.
Some of the veteran soldiers might have seen powerful warriors kill one Tyrant Mammoth with just one slash, but they had never seen anyone treat a Trang Mammoth as a steed.
“Superhumans, attack!”
The call for offense was finally made.
Humans were not people who only knew how to cower behind lines and defend themselves.
In truth, when humans were armed with guns, motorized armor, nano-fighting suits, and alloy weapons, they could usually kill ten times the number of enemies who were the same grade as them in close-quarter combat.
However, there were just too few people in Dragon City, and it was not easy to cultivate strong fighters, so there was no need for them to fight against barbaric monsters in wars of attrition.
Even if one hundred monsters were killed in exchange for one human life, it was not worth it.
If they could use ammunition to solve a problem, then they should use thousands of tons worth of ammunition to solve it. This was the basic strategy humans used.
But now, the charge of the monster horde had been largely impeded by Meng Chao.
Plus, most of the Demonic Abyss Eyes, falcon-type, and griffin-type monsters were shot full of holes because of the pincer attack by the armored airships and anti-aircraft bases.
They either plummeted hundreds of meters from the sky and were smashed to bits, or flapped their wings and fled as feathers fell from them.
This region in the air was completely controlled by the humans and their armored airships.
Dozens of armored airships moved forward together and flew above the monster horde.
Hundreds of machine guns and rocket launchers fired from above, and the lines of fire casually harvested the lives of monsters like scythes.
In fact, they opened the lid under the pods and tossed crystal bombs down to execute carpet bombing.
The armored airships’ crazed bombardment destroyed the last shreds of brutality in the monster horde.
The human commanders seized the chance to launch the order for a counterattack, and the superhumans behind the steel defense line jumped up to pounce on the collapsed monster horde.
Earlier on, the humans tolerated this abuse, and now, they retaliated with brutality.
Just now, the monster horde had been mighty, but now, it was absolutely pathetic.
After they lost Rampaging War Song, which provided them with extra courage, the Demonic Halberd Pigs and Iron Armored Rhinoceroses were like panicking cattle that had smelled the scent of predators. They fled the moment they smelled a threat.
Meanwhile, the real predators trembled while they were climbing the perilous cliffs. They fell from the cliffs that were more than one hundred meters from the ground and had their bones broken.
The Blade Shattering Pythons, Seven-star Wolf Spiders, and other monsters that were like them were so terrified by the rumbling explosions and fierce flames that they fled with their heads tucked. In fact, they could not find a place for them to run, and they moved around like ants in a hot pot.
The Tyrant Mammoths had yet to completely give up.
When the normal monsters and low-grade superhumans protecting them dispersed, though, they were surrounded by superhumans, and they only had two possible ends—surrender, or stretch their necks and wait to be killed.
Animals were, at the end of the day, just animals.
The monster civilization was just an inferior imitation of human civilization due to a certain set of circumstances and the stimulation of advanced technology.
Civilization had been evolving over the course of millions of years, and this gap could not be crossed within just a few decades.
When chaos appeared in human civilization, perhaps monster civilization could attack fiercely for a period of time.
However, when humans were united and their civilization was as solid as a rock, the monster civilization would have its fragile shell shatter, and in just a short few minutes, they regressed to their basic form.
They were just a group of creatures who knew how to shoot fireballs, release electricity, create illusions, or were slightly more powerful.
This was no longer a battle. In fact, it was not a massacre.
It was a hunt.
Meng Chao continued riding on the Tyrang Mammoth and turned the chaotic monster horde even more chaotic.
Hundreds of monsters were stomped to death repeatedly, and two more Tyrant Mammoths lost their balance. Then, Meng Chao sensed that the Tyrant Mammoth under him was exhausted and ran out of fuel.
He did not step on the back of the saber and use Golden Tooth Saber to completely behead the Tyrant Mammoth.
Instead, he drew the saber and let the out-of-control Tyrant Mammoth release a pained cry before it fell on the ground.
The reason was simple.
A dying Hell Beast was still more valuable than a completely dead Hell Beast.
Besides, if he killed one monster, the microorganisms, parasites, and hibernating spores in his body might be awakened, and its carcass could turn into an undead.
If he captured a living one and sent it back to Agricultural University, they might be able to modify it into a biochemical war beast that could carry loads of war machines.
Once he was certain that this Tyrant Mammoth could not possibly get up, Meng Chao returned to the main camp.
Based on the notifications Kindling showed him, his performance just now had contributed greatly to the war effort, and it was enough to affect the direction of this battle.
In other words, when the human soldiers killed the monsters and the ten or so Tyrant Mammoths after he was done, their kills were considered part of his achievement too.
Kindling concluded the total amount of contribution points he would get after some calculations.
As such, the contribution points he spent in the lair rose to five hundred thousand again.
Once the pitched battle at the border of Dragon City completely ended, it might reach one million!
The Skillfulness level for Divine Nine Dragon Seals and Celestial Tyrant’s Star Shattering Slash rose after he decided to spend his contribution points lavishly and threw a few hundred thousand points into them, causing the profound and complicated spirit energy magnetic fields to gradually fuse into his nerve bundles and cells.
“Meng Chao!”
“Guild Leader Meng!”
Meng Chao was warmly received by the people behind the steel defense line.
Many of the low-ranking Red Dragon Army commanders defending the area were Broken Star Club members. They used the method Meng Chao taught them to repair their damaged spirit meridians, and they reached the peak of strength for broken-star superhumans.
There were also some of them who received Meng Chao’s personal guidance when they came to learn from the martial arts refresher courses Broken Star Club opened. They also got themselves plenty of cultivation resources from Broken Star Club members by trading with them for items that they lacked.
They were close to Meng Chao, and they sincerely admired their club leader.
When they saw how valiant Meng Chao was, they felt proud of him as well, and they puffed out their chests even more in front of their comrades.
Also, the soldiers who did not have any relationship with Meng Chao could only be frustrated by the fact that they were not broken-star superhumans.
A large number of naive-looking soldiers had heated idolization when they looked at Meng Chao.
Soon, the students from the alliance of the five universities came to provide aid.
Xie Feng, Duan Lian, and the other two of the Four Great Kings in Agricultural University’s martial arts course saw how thoroughly Meng Chao had messed up the monster horde, and they could not help but suck in sharp breaths.
Wu Wu of the monster controller course, Female Battle God Shao Jianqing of the military school’s heroic spirit course, and the other specially recruited students cocked their eyebrows. They could not believe their eyes, but at the same time, their desire to win against Meng Chao and their urge to challenge burned in them.
His best friend, Chu Feixiong, laughed and went forward to give Meng Chao a fierce hug.
However, the battle had not ended, and it was not time for them to celebrate just yet.
Meng Chao rested for a while and injected a few gene medicines and high-calorie nutritional fluid into him before he joined his coursemates and Broken Star Club members to fight in the fray once more.
Now, the monster horde in front of them was not the only one collapsing. All the monster hordes surrounding Burning Island were showing signs of collapsing.
Over the past seventy-two hours, they had been repeatedly launching useless attacks, and this had already wasted away the monsters’ brutality and morale.
The monster horde’s charge this time had still not managed to break the humans’ defense line. The final bits of morale that supported the monsters also disappeared.
Even if there was some mysterious strength that could turn the physical bodies of these monsters into killing machines that did not know fatigue, pain, and guns, machines also suffered from fatigue. They would also be worn out and would break.
Many monsters noticed that no matter how they charged at the defense lines, they could not rush up to the top of the rock, because it was heavily defended by the steel army of the humans. They could only turn around and run.
However, the ignorant monster horde that charged forward from behind them knocked into them, and the terrified monsters were knocked off their feet.
Quite a number of monsters had their joints and tendons reach their fatigue limit. As they ran, their limbs let out popping sounds, and they fell to the ground, bringing down with them the monsters charging at high speeds behind them, causing even more monsters to have their joints rendered completely useless. They turned into groups of flesh that could not move and could only grunt.
In fact, some monsters regained their nature as predators after they were free from the suppression and control of the Hell Beasts. They did not attack the humans’ defense lines but opened their mouths wide to pounce on the monsters that belonged to a different species compared to them.
In any case, before the monster civilization, their main meals were never humans, but each other.
There was a joke that went like this, when two humans ran into a tiger in the woods, one of them stopped to tie his shoelaces.
The reason was that he did not need to outrun the tiger, he just needed to outrun his companion.
Plus, if humans understood this simple logic, some of the monsters who were enlightened and gained the intelligence of five-year-old children also understood it.
It was chaos. Pure chaos.
If the Vortex were still alive and saw this, it would definitely realize in pain that the super monster horde before Meng Chao had descended into the absolute chaos it had wanted for the lair.
The humans’ goal turned from crushing the monster horde to surrounding this super monster horde from the flanks so that most of them could not flee back into the primitive forest.
Next, they did not even need to be in a hurry to attack. The monsters would drain the monster horde dry of its last drop of blood as they killed each other.
Meng Chao and the other superhumans moved back and forth between the monster horde and the primitive forest. Even though some insignificant pests ran away, most of the Nightmarish Beasts and Hell Beasts were still captured.
Once the humans’ heavy war trucks finished setting up defense lines between the monster horde and the primitive forest, they then set up mine formations that were more than one hundred meters wide in front of the war trucks, and the humans were finally able to surround and capture the super monster horde.
“There might be a few hundred thousand monsters here, right?”
“If you count the pests, there are a few million of them.”
“With so many monsters, how much food, bone powder, blood products, and materials for weapons could they provide for Dragon City? How many people will be able to awaken to supernatural powers?”
“If we manage to capture even 10% of them alive and turn them into biochemical war beasts, we can build a monster army that belongs to humans!”
The students felt excited, and they gasped in amazement.
Meng Chao was also burning with excitement. He remembered the completely different future where they were destroyed by the apocalypse.
At that moment, he received a message from his tutor, Blade Dancer Gu Jianbo.
“Meng Chao, can you still move?” Gu Jianbo shouted into the communication channel, “We’ve located an Apocalyptic Beast! Come here and help us!”