Chapter 655: Burning Island
A warm current surged through Meng Chao's heart.
He is not an official investigator of the Alien Beast Investigation Bureau and retains the freedom to join other forces at any time.
But Nie Chenglong still trusted himself so much that he was willing to endorse his military exploits just because of a report.
This courage is unparalleled.
No wonder the Alien Beast Investigation Bureau, under his control, was able to recruit so many strange people in just a few years, and was vaguely superior to the Dragon City secret police.
With these heavy military achievements, the range of tasks that Meng Chao and Lu Siya can choose becomes much wider.
The outskirts of Dragon City, from the Broken Star Lake area on the northern line to the Raging Waves Mountains, are the earliest northern new cities to be developed. After several years of painstaking efforts, an airtight iron wall has been built. No matter how ferocious the beast tide is, it will become a complete fortress.
The Raging Waves Mountain is also impossible.
The western front is covered with swamps, jungles and quicksand.
Although it is extremely difficult for humanity's steel torrent to expand westward, it is also extremely difficult for an army of monsters, especially giant monsters that weigh hundreds or even thousands of tons, to break in from the west.
Therefore, the main direction of attack of the monster civilization is the southeastern front.
Meng Chao and Lu Siya carefully studied the map of the enemy and the enemy on the southeastern front for five minutes, and their eyes coincidentally turned to the same coordinates.
A place named "Fire Island" by humans.
Huoshao Island is not a real island.
Rather, it is an extremely huge rock.
It is about 370 meters high, 4200 meters long, and 3000 meters wide. The top is as flat as a tabletop, and its volume is twice larger than the largest rock on earth, "Ayers Rock."
This huge rock stands like an isolated island in the wilderness.
Because it is hundreds of meters above the ground, even when the wilderness is shrouded in fog, the top of the rock is clearly visible, which can provide a reference for human armored airships and heavenly warriors wearing unpowered hang gliders.
The entire giant rock contains extremely rich psychic substances. It can even be said to be a huge piece of pure natural crystal, an out-and-out paradise.
Extraordinary beings practice and fight on it, breathing extremely pure spiritual energy every minute and every second, and through the giant rock, it creates a mysterious and wonderful resonance with the planet's magnetic field, which is of great benefit to breaking through the limits of life.
What's more, the top of the rock is wide and flat enough. If an artillery position is deployed on it, it can command a commanding position and increase the range to the limit, threatening all monsters within a radius of dozens of kilometers.
Therefore, this huge rock has become a strategic location that must be fought over by military strategists.
When the fog gradually dissipated and human tentacles were finally able to reach into the depths of the wilderness, this huge rock was immediately controlled by humans and built into a war fortress.
Because the huge rock is red all over, like a burning fire, it got the name "Fire Island".
The beast tide is ferocious, but the monsters are by no means stupid, and of course they know the importance of the Fire Island.
From the first twenty-four hours, Huoshao Island has become one of the main targets of repeated attacks by the beast tide.
In just three days and three nights, Huoshao Island has changed hands several times.
Each time the attackers assembled heavy troops and managed to reach the top of a rock hundreds of meters high, they would be forcibly driven back down within three to five hours at most.
There were only countless fragmented corpses left on the mountain and down the mountain. It was really horrible to see the corpses everywhere and the blood flowing everywhere.
This time, humans used a swarm of armored airships to circle behind the unsteady beast tide and launch a surprise attack. After driving the monsters off the top of the rock again, they finally gained more than eight hours of breathing time.
Using these eight hours, the armored airship transported a large number of light and heavy artillery and engineering machinery from the rear, repaired three artillery positions and hundreds of light and dark firepower points, making Huoshao Island once again impregnable.
But the monster civilization obviously will not retreat easily.
Analysis of the images sent back from the reconnaissance drone showed that several waves of beasts were gathering not far from the Fire Island.
Including countless flying monsters that can threaten armored airships, an overwhelming tide of beasts is about to sweep across the Fire Island again, shaking the entire eastern front.
In order to strengthen the defense of Huoshao Island, the Red Dragon Army and the private armed forces affiliated with the nine major super corporations have suspended their attacks in the other two directions, removed a large number of elite forces, and rushed to Huoshao Island to set up defenses.
The "Five School Alliance", including the Agricultural University, the Engineering University, the University of Science and Technology and the Military Academy, also sent a "Young Guard" composed of senior students to arrive at Huoshao Island under the leadership of their mentors.
However, drones captured footage of the tide of beasts gathering in the dense forest right in front of the Fire Island, including countless hell beasts and even figures that appeared to be doomsday beasts.
The troops currently deployed on Huoshao Island are still somewhat insufficient.
All available soldiers were put into the battlefield. After intense calculations by the strategic-level supercomputer system, the battle network could only be injured in the fierce battles in the past few days. The extraordinary people who were recuperating in the rear hospital issued a call, hoping that more strong people would rush there.
Let’s burn the island together to resist this unprecedented wave of beasts.
Meng Chao saw many familiar names in the list of Huoshao Island defenders.
They are all students from the Martial Arts Department, the Beast Control Department, and the Five-School Alliance of Agricultural University.
He even has his own mentor, "Blade Dancer" Gu Jianbo, and his mistress, "Gryphon" Li Yingzi.
The defense of Huoshao Island was so critical, so of course he had to help his teachers and classmates.
Lu Siya also found the elite troops belonging to the Qingtian Group in the list of defenders.
Besides, Huoshao Island is a completely natural giant spar. Although it is rich in impurities and its grade is not very high, its huge size has brought about extremely astonishing reserves, which is also the goal that Qingtian Mining is determined to win.
Therefore, it only took the two of them three seconds to make a coherent decision:
Rush to the aid of the Fire Island and fight against the beast tide!
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Outskirts of Dragon City, Eastern Front Battlefield, Fire Island.
Although a fierce battle has not yet broken out, it does not mean that the two sides who are intensively preparing for war will let each other enjoy even a second of peace.
Above the sky covered with war clouds, under the bloody setting sun, countless armored airships that were originally majestic and like steel gods and demons were turned gray by gunpowder smoke, and were riddled with holes by monster acid and fireballs, like
It was a broken ship that had just experienced tsunamis and storms, but it suppressed the groan of falling apart at any time, gritted its teeth, and dived towards the Fire Island.
"Crash, clatter", they carried a large number of construction machinery and cannon parts, as well as guns and ammunition, and forced an emergency landing on the top of the rock. The moment they successfully landed, they turned into a pile of scrap metal.
Immediately, engineers and university student volunteers rushed into the burning scrap metal like a whirlwind, risking being burnt to coke and shattered into pieces to rescue a large number of spare parts and ammunition.
Some of the parts were used to form large-scale construction machinery, which swallowed rocks and monster corpses like steel behemoths. It dug criss-crossing trenches on the edge of the Fire Island, built bunkers and firepower points, and buried a large number of anti-monster mines.
Another part of the parts was assembled into a super-large-caliber heavy artillery, which was added to the heavy artillery position and roared one after another towards the large-scale beast tide that was gathering more than ten kilometers away.
The three heavy artillery emplacements dealt a severe blow to the beast tide.
Although the beast tide is hidden in the primitive jungle composed of towering trees, under the stimulation of the hell beasts and even the doomsday beasts, the monster's genetic potential is also stimulated, and the thick-skinned and fleshy defense power is increased by 200%.
But in the face of humanity's unreasonable carpet bombing, we still have no choice but to scurry away or bury our heads deep in the mud to cover our ears.
Of course, the monsters will not sit still and watch the beast tide disintegrate under the cover of artillery fire.
Ground troops are still gathering, but the air power of the monster civilization has been dispatched.
Hundreds of Sky-Splitting Demonic Eyes, which looked like super-giant eyeballs dragging nerve bundles, appeared directly from directly above the top of the rock on Fire Island with the cover of rolling dark clouds and smoke.
Their tentacles were entangled together, emitting piercing screams in the ultra-high-speed friction, turning into invisible spiritual lightning, disturbing the cerebral cortex of the defenders on the ground, and even turning into false neural electrical signals, causing human beings to hallucinate.
He had visual and auditory hallucinations, as if he was in Shura Hell, and the entire world was occupied by monsters.
Not all the defenders were extraordinary, many of the Red Dragon Army soldiers were just ordinary people. Under the mental attack of the Sky-Splitting Demonic Eye, their spiritual index quickly plummeted to zero. They rolled their eyes, looked like crazy, danced and shouted.
stand up.
There are also some "Void Eye Mutants" that have weakened their mental attack capabilities, but have evolved longer and stronger tentacles, as well as the ability to contract muscles and violently eject compressed air from behind the body, thereby gaining ultra-high mobility.
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These Sky-Splitting Magic Eye mutants are like squids floating above the clouds. They make a "puff, puff, puff" sound, tearing apart the dark clouds and slamming into armored airships transporting heavy artillery, ammunition and engineering machinery. Even if they are not
If they collide head-on, as long as they are within thirty to fifty meters apart, their extremely malleable tentacles may swing over and tightly entangle the armored airship.
In the end, either the armored airship's airbag will be crushed, causing the armored airship to lose control and crash; or the tentacles will be pierced into the armored airship's engine, detonating the crystal fuel loaded in the armored airship, and turning into a dazzling fireball together with the armored airship.
Fireworks and jade are all burning.
Such suicidal tactics seriously interfere with the construction of human heavy artillery positions and the continuity of firepower.
Especially after an armored airship loaded with a large number of artillery shells was entangled by the Sky-Splitting Magic Eye mutant, crushed, and detonated with spar fuel, the wreckage of the armored airship fell near a heavy artillery position, and triggered a terrible explosion.
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Half of the heavy artillery positions were in flames.
The heavy artillery, which had been pulled up from the rear and assembled with great pains, turned into fragmented parts in an instant.
Chapter completed!