CHAPTER 75: CHAPTER 74: THIS IS ARMAGEDDON WAR!

Yes, whether we win or lose isn’t clear yet, but the current situation is enough for many people to see what’s really going on.

For example, without the equipment of the Interstellar Civilization, their soldiers are utterly powerless against monsters like these.

These creatures are completely beyond anything they had ever known or prepared for.

All the previous weapons, all the prior equipment, every tactic—they were not made for monsters like this.

The soldiers relied on nothing but courage and instinct; as for effective experience, they had almost none at all.

But even so, the gear from the Interstellar Civilization only gave them a chance to fight.

Across the battlefield, garish and massive blood-red flowers have already bloomed.

Many people once saw flowers like these inside their shells.

Every time the roots of the vines pierced through a person, they’d instantly drain all their blood, and a flower would bloom; each one signified a life lost!

Yes, Battle Armor could withstand the monster’s attack—but it can’t hold out forever.

Whenever a soldier gets trapped, layer after layer, in a mass of wraithlike vines and gets completely enveloped, another blossom bursts open!

Even with Power armor, lives were lost.

"We need more gear!" Gu Hucheng was already filing reports. "As much as possible. No power armor, no soldier goes to the front. Otherwise, we’re just feeding the enemy!"

Of course, these Drive Armors were all obsolete stock in the Interstellar Civilization, but moving that inventory still took time.

And the Interstellar Civilization would only accept monster resources in trade.

Eye Worm organs, Worm Meat.

There wasn’t much available to trade.

Even so, the global meteorite crisis authorities rapidly reached a consensus.

If it’s useful, increase the exchange!

These monsters, which had grown quietly for three months, were far more powerful than anticipated. No matter what, they had to be stopped—at least, slow their growth. Survive first, then talk about anything else!

Of course, Shen Yu’s words also played no small part in this.

Resist at all costs?

Strengthen your Power with everything you’ve got. Fight till the end!

Everything was happening fast. Intersellar world Shen Yu made trip after trip, constantly delivering all kinds of gear.

Besides the Drive Armor and incendiary rounds, drilling weapons were also traded en masse and deployed directly onto the battlefield.

Soldiers in the rear who hadn’t gotten any of these weapons before now received their gear.

Though it meant they’d have to fight on the front line, most of these soldiers weren’t afraid. What filled them instead was blazing fighting spirit.

The situation at the front had already made things clear to them.

There’d been heavy losses, but in these short hours, plenty of medals were awarded too!

We can fight! And we can win!

Just those few words were enough to send warriors charging in with everything they had.

On the front, it seemed the monsters had finally been kept past the defensive line!

But inside the command center, the officers, while relieved, didn’t dare relax too much.

"How much longer until the full evacuation?" Gu Hucheng asked again.

"Right now, we’ll need at least five hours for the next round of city evacuations," came the reply, far from reassuring.

Five hours—assuming there were more than eighty transport ships at work.

Will the monsters really let us hold out there for five full hours?

No one could guarantee it.

If these monsters really had intelligence equal to—no, greater than—humans...

Forget five hours, it might not even...

And as these fears deepened, the crisis erupted at the front!

Countless vines disappeared underground again!

All across the landscape, the vines moved as one, bypassing this unbreakable chunk of defense, surging instead to the rear!

Back there, cities still not fully evacuated waited—millions, perhaps ten million people!

They’d wondered if this might happen, but when it actually did, Gu Hucheng felt as if he couldn’t breathe.

BANG!

He pressed his hands down hard on the table and stared at the screen, wanting to shout something, but no words came out.

Helplessness, a crushing sense of helplessness!

It wasn’t just him—the front-line warriors gazed in confusion as their enemies faded away, but when their recon screens showed those endless, monstrous vines sweeping past them toward the cities behind, every one of them felt more terror than when they’d faced the monsters directly in combat.

"No—no!"

A young soldier broke into a run. That city behind them was his home; everything familiar to him was there, his friends and classmates still waiting to evacuate.

The other soldiers followed one after another.

No matter how they shouted, no matter how wildly they fired at the ground, the vines seemed absolutely determined, surging toward those cities that made it ravenous.

It was going where it could replenish energy more easily—so much was spent; it needed to refuel, fast.

At the same time, shrill alarms blared across the city.

At first people didn’t know what had happened, but slowly, they began to realize.