SEC Chapter 1331 Night Raid
Chapter 1331 Night Raid
The chewing sounds from within the Black Demon echoed across the wilderness, like a hungry beast grinding bones with its blunt teeth.
Lin Yi squatted down in front of the chubby boy, looking at the bluish-purple wounds on his hands. The backlash from the Black Demon was happening faster than he had expected.
How much longer can you hold on?
The chubby boy looked down at his hands, which were visibly becoming transparent.
"do not know."
"I've never swallowed so many before. This time I swallowed tens of thousands. The Black Demon's will is much stronger than I imagined. It pressed down on my sea of consciousness like a wall, and I didn't even have a chance to breathe."
The chubby boy used the nail of his right index finger to cut open his left wrist. Dark red blood gushed from the wound, congealing in the air without dissipating, like a red ribbon being lifted into the air by an invisible force.
This means the Dark Lord is eroding his spinal cord, bit by bit, like termites gnawing at a wooden beam, hollowing out his body from the inside.
The two walked one after the other across the wilderness soaked in blood and flesh. A searchlight from the city wall swept over them, the beam of light lingered on them for a moment, and then moved away.
When he climbed up the city wall, the chubby boy stopped and turned to look at Lin Yi.
"If I am really swallowed by the Dark Demon, remember to come and save me."
Lin Yi looked at him and nodded.
The chubby boy grinned, but the smile didn't look like the expression of someone who might be devoured by a monster inside them at any moment. It looked more like a child making a promise to his friends to come back to the amusement park again.
"It's settled."
He turned and walked into the shadows inside the city wall.
The dean stood on the city wall and watched the whole scene unfold.
He walked over to Lin Yi, took out a cigarette from his pocket, and handed it to Lin Yi.
Lin Yi took it and put it in his mouth. The dean lit it for him with a lighter, and then lit one for himself as well.
The dean took a deep drag of his cigarette, and smoke billowed from his nostrils.
Do you think he can win?
Lin Yi remained silent for a moment.
"He is someone who is afraid of being bored, and people who are afraid of being bored usually don't give up easily."
The dean nodded and did not ask any further questions.
"Go back, there's still a battle to fight tomorrow."
Lin Yi nodded and turned to walk towards the inner side of the city wall.
In a world at war, sleep is a luxury.
You don't know when the next alarm will sound, when the next charge will begin, or whether you'll ever open your eyes again after you close them.
Therefore, you cannot sleep too soundly, you cannot allow yourself to fall into deep sleep, and you cannot let your consciousness get lost in dreams.
You can only close your eyes, let your body rest, and keep your brain in a semi-awake state, like a cheetah dozing in the grass, ready to leap up at any moment.
In the war-torn world of the Paradise of Reincarnation, this is a survival skill that every contractor must learn.
Lin Yi opened his merit panel, and the numbers on it made him pause for a moment.
Merit points: 4,437.
This number ranks first in the war channel of the Reincarnation Paradise, almost four times higher than Su Xiao, who ranks second.
He attributed all the aliens killed by the Givotos students he summoned to him.
At this rate, breaking 10,000 merit points in two days is not a dream.
Just as Lin Yi was pondering when the enemy would attack, he heard a voice.
Like a needle gliding across glass.
This is the sound that the alien commander makes when issuing an attack order, but I've heard it more than ten times on the battlefield, and it's never been as sharp as this time.
This time the frequency is much higher and the wavelength is much shorter than before.
This was no ordinary attack order; it was a command to all alien species—regardless of their location on the battlefield or what they were doing—to immediately drop everything and charge at full speed toward the fortress.
Because this frequency signifies a single word.
Fight to the death.
It's not an attack, not a probe, not a war of attrition.
It's a fight to the death.
All ground-dwelling species are only allowed to move forward and not backward.
The Dean's message was pinned to the top of the war channel.
"Everyone, get on the city wall and be in position within one minute. Anyone who's late will have to jump down and feed the aliens."
There were no replies to the message.
Nobody had time to reply.
Lin Yi strode across the main road and headed towards the city wall.
On the way, I ran into Hina Sorasaki. She had just come out of the engineering department's command tent and was holding a tablet computer with the defense status of various areas of the fortress displayed on the screen.
"Teacher, the ammunition reserves on the northern section of the city wall have just been replenished by eighty percent." Hina Sorasaki's voice carried a hint of anxiety.
"The southern section is even smaller, only 75%. If the aliens launch a general offensive, at the current rate of ammunition consumption, we can only hold out for two days at most."
Lin Yi stopped and looked at Hina Sorasaki.
"Have the engineering department shut down all production lines and redirect all electricity and manpower to ammunition production. From now on, we only need one thing—bullets."
Hina Sorasaki nodded and turned to run towards the engineering department.
Lin Yi continued walking towards the city wall.
When he climbed the city wall, the other people from the amusement park were already in place.
King Kong stood atop the highest point of the eastern section of the city wall, his hands gripping the railing, gazing at the approaching black tide in the distance. His mouth stretched to his ears, revealing two rows of gleaming white teeth.
In the distance, the sound of a needle scraping against glass suddenly stopped.
The battlefield fell into a deathly silence in an instant.
boom!
The sound of the aliens charging came from the horizon.
Lin Yi stood on the city wall, watching the black tide surging in.
The earth-dwelling plants are densely packed and boundless, stretching from one end of the horizon to the other.
The front row of ground-dwelling creatures had already reached a position three kilometers away from the fortress, while the rear row of ground-dwelling creatures were still surging out from behind the horizon.
The entire wilderness was submerged by a black tide, and even the ground could not be seen.
"Illumination flare."
boom.
A white-incandescent sphere of light rose into the air from behind the fortress.
The sphere of light was so bright that it was impossible to look directly at it, like a small sun being thrown from the ground into the sky.
boom!
The ball of light exploded directly above the fortress, and the blinding white light shattered into a light curtain with a diameter of more than 500 meters in the night sky.
The edge of the light curtain slowly spread across the sky, turning half of the sky into daylight.
Two kilometers away.
The vast army of black, terrestrial creatures galloped wildly across the wilderness.
Their formation was denser than ever before, with less than two meters between the front and back rows and less than one meter between the left and right columns.
The entire formation resembled a black iron plate compressed to its limit, pressing down on the fortress from the horizon.
Lin Yi looked at the surging black tide and took a deep breath.
"Missile attack, everyone else take cover."
When Lin Yi uttered the word "missile" in the war channel, everyone else fell silent for a moment.
Then it exploded.
"missile?"
"What missiles? When did we get missiles?"
"Who cares when it was available? Use it as soon as it's available."
"No, the key point is—the missiles have arrived? Dude, your research speed is too fast. We've only been here for a few days? Three days? Four days? Building a fortress from scratch wasn't enough, you've even developed missiles?"
"Shut up, aren't you happy that the missiles are coming?"
"So happy! I'm so happy I could die."
The conversation on the channel lasted only a few seconds because the missile had already been launched.
The first batch of missiles were launched from the industrial area behind the fortress.
The missile's exhaust trailed thirty-two blinding streaks of light across the night sky, the color of which changed from orange-red to bright white, and then from bright white to a blinding blue-white.
The missile is very fast.
The creatures were so close that they didn't even have time to look up.
The first missile landed.
boom.
A ball of orange-red fire exploded among the terrestrial species. The fireball was over fifty meters in diameter, and the temperature of the flames was so high that the surrounding air was distorted.
The shockwave spread outwards from the point of explosion, blasting all the land-dwelling species within a 100-meter radius into the air.
Those unfortunate earth-dwelling creatures tumbled several times in mid-air before crashing heavily to the ground. Some died instantly, while others struggled for a few moments before falling still.
The second, third, and fourth coins.
Missiles fell one after another, and fireballs exploded one after another across the open field. The explosions were incessant, like a never-ending thunderstorm rolling outside the fortress.
The firelight turned half the sky orange-red, and the clouds looked like burning cotton wool under the firelight, with dark red edges.
The terrestrial army began to fall into chaos under the missile strikes.
The front row of ground-dwelling creatures is still charging forward, while the rear row has begun to slow down.
It's not out of fear, but because the body is subconsciously reacting to death.
When your kind are blown to pieces in an instant, your brain doesn't need to think; your body will automatically make the decision—stop running forward.
However, the later land-dwelling species are unaware of the situation ahead.
They only heard the commander roaring, only saw their brethren running in the front row, and only knew one command—charge.
Rush to the foot of the city wall, climb up, and kill the people on the wall.
Therefore, the ground-type creatures in the front row are slowing down, while the ground-type creatures in the back row are accelerating.
The vehicles that were slowing down and those that were accelerating collided.
The formation of the earth-walking army was thrown into chaos for a moment.
The ground-dwelling species in the front row were pushed down by their counterparts in the back row, and the ground-dwelling species in the back row were trampled by their counterparts in the even further back row.
The fallen ground creatures were submerged by the waves behind them, tumbling in the mud and flesh, their claws flailing helplessly in mid-air, before being trampled into a pulp by more of their kind.
Lin Yi frowned as he looked at the army of earth-walking creatures that was regrouping.
The missile strike was less effective than he had anticipated.
It's not that the missiles aren't powerful enough, but that there are too many alien species.
Thirty-two missiles killed tens of thousands of ground-dwelling creatures, but tens of thousands are just a fraction of a million.
It was a miracle that the engineering students could create a missile in just a few days.
But miracles have their limits, and missile stockpiles are not unlimited.
The alien commander seemed to be aware of this as well.
Its roar came from afar, more urgent than before.
The entire army was mobilized, sparing no expense, to capture the fortress before dawn.
The earth-dwelling army began to accelerate the moment it heard the roar.
Their speed increased from 60 kilometers per hour to 80 kilometers per hour.
The four claws frantically dug at the soil, kicking up clouds of dust behind them.
On the city wall, the students of Kivotos raised their guns.
Gunfire exploded in the night sky, and a barrage of bullets rained down on the ranks of the ground-dwelling army.
The front-row ground-dwelling creatures collapsed the instant they were hit. The bullet pierced their scales, tumbled and shattered inside their bodies, turning their internal organs into a paste.
The firepower from both above and below the city walls reached its peak at this moment.
But the army of earth-dwelling creatures is still charging forward.
The earth-eating creature rushed to a position 100 meters below the city wall.
This distance is already a charging distance for ground-dwelling species.
They no longer needed to maintain formation; they just needed to rush to the bottom of the city wall as fast as possible and then climb up.
Below the city wall, the contractors stood on piles of corpses, blocking all the earth-walking creatures that had broken through the firepower and rushed to the foot of the city wall.
Time passed amidst the flames of war.
half an hour.
One hour.
Three hours.
The charge of the earth-dwelling army continues.
Their numbers dropped from one million to three hundred thousand, but their charging speed did not decrease.
The alien commander's roar came from afar, continuous and unending since the order to fight to the death was given.
Another half hour passed.
The number of the Earth-type army has decreased to 200,000.
Two hundred thousand against one million, eighty percent of the troops were wiped out in less than two hours.
This loss ratio would have been enough to break any army, but the Earthlings did not collapse.
Two hundred thousand ground-walking birds are still charging forward.
On the city wall, the students of Kivotos were exhausted.
Their combat uniforms were soaked with sweat and clung tightly to their bodies.
His face was covered in dust and gunpowder residue, and his hair was a mess.
We're almost out of ammunition.
The ammunition boxes at every firing point on the city wall were empty.
The engineering department's logistics supply line can no longer keep up with the rate of consumption, not because production is not fast enough, but because transportation is too slow.
The robot was running along the main road, dragging ammunition boxes, but there were too many firing points on and around the city walls, and the demand for ammunition was too great. Each ammunition belt would be exhausted within seconds.
Lin Yi stood on the city wall and opened the merit panel.
Merit points: 4,812.
In less than two hours, his merit points increased by nearly 30,000.
But Lin Yi had no interest in appreciating the number.
Because he heard a voice.
The sound came from afar, from behind the earth-walking army, like a giant drum being struck from a great distance.
Immediately, the entire army across the terrain began to riot.
This is the Xenomorph Commander's trump card ability, which puts all Earthlings into a berserk state for a short period of time. However, the aftereffects are also troublesome. After leaving the berserk state, they will fall into weakness, and the resources consumed will double.
In their berserk state, the earth-dwelling species experience no fear, no pain, and no sense of self-preservation. Their brains shut down completely at this moment, leaving only the most primal killing instinct.
The Berserker's charge speed is twice as fast as before.
Their four claws frantically pried at the ground, increasing their speed from 80 kilometers per hour to 160 kilometers per hour.
The speed was so fast that the students on the city wall didn't have time to aim, and so fast that a fatal gap appeared in the firepower network above and below the city wall at that moment.
The students of Kivotos on the city wall went completely blank the moment they saw the raging earth-walking creatures soaring into the air.
They had seen ground creatures climb city walls, but they had never seen a ground creature jump directly from the ground onto a city wall eight meters high.
A ferocious terrestrial creature landed on the city wall.
Its body slammed into the steel plate with a dull thud, and the plate dented under the pressure.
The student held the gun with her finger on the trigger, but she didn't fire.
It wasn't that she didn't want to drive, but that her body was frozen.
The raging earth-walking creature was too close; so close that she could feel its hot breath hitting her face.
Her finger trembled on the trigger, but she couldn't pull it.
A flash of light swept across her head.
The Dragon Slayer pierced through the left eye of the raging earth-walker and exited from the back of its head.
Su Xiao stood behind the student, holding the hilt of the Dragon Slayer Sword in her right hand and pushing the student back a step with her left hand on her shoulder.
"Step back."
The student stumbled from the push and leaned against the city wall, panting heavily.
Su Xiao pulled the Dragon Slayer Blade from the head of the raging earth-walking creature; the blade was covered in black blood and white brain matter.
He flicked his sword to shake off the filth, then turned to face the next raging earthwalker leaping onto the city wall.
The city wall was transformed into a slaughterhouse at that moment.
After the initial panic, the students of Kivotos came to their senses.
They raised their guns and pulled the triggers at the ferocious ground creatures still crawling on the city walls.
The bullet struck the scales of the ferocious earth-walker at close range, causing them to tumble and shatter inside its body.
But more and more ferocious creatures are jumping onto the city walls.
The barrage of fire on and off the city walls had been breached by the high-speed charge of the berserk ground creatures, with new berserk ground creatures leaping onto the walls every second.
Unfortunately, even so, the battle lines were not broken.
As the number of mutants dwindled, the mutant commander stood atop the hill, remained silent for a moment, and then let out a final roar.
The roar meant—retreat.
The earth-dwelling army stopped charging the moment they heard that roar.
During their retreat, they did not maintain formation, provide mutual cover, or leave any troops behind to cover the rear.
They are on the run.
It was not a tactical retreat, not a strategic transfer; it was a rout.
Now they have only one thought in their minds—to get away from this damn place, and as far away from that damn city wall as possible.
To the alien species, this place was already a meat grinder. (End of Chapter)