55: Chapter 55 A Terrifying Sixth-Order Creature!

His words, however, drew a disdainful chuckle from Wu Di on the side.

"Steel? What can steel possibly stop? These city walls are much sturdier than steel..."

"And there are a full nine more city walls like this in front!"

He revealed something that shocked Ye Hai and the others.

But very soon...

Wu Di's smile vanished.

When he drove the three of them past two city walls toward the third city wall,

Wu Di was also left speechless.

On the surface of the third city wall,

a colossal claw print covered the entire wall, which was over a hundred meters tall.

It had forcefully ripped a horrifying gap into this natural chasm that was countless times harder than steel.

This epic scene made people's legs tremble slightly.

Looking at this city wall, Ye Hai, Lin Zishan, and the others felt a wave of chills rise in their hearts.

Even though the owner of the claw print was no longer here,

the terrifying claw print left on the wall still chilled one to the bone.

It was hard to imagine what kind of terrifying giant beast...

could imprint its claw across a hundred-meter city wall and tear open such a terrifying defensive line.

Even Wu Di became a lot more silent.

After lowering his head to smoke in silence for a long time, he murmured:

"Tier-6..."

According to Wu Di,

there were a total of ten layers of such city walls.

However, this charge by the Underground Creatures...

had forcefully destroyed seven layers.

It had even destroyed more than half of the eighth city wall, leaving a huge gap.

The entire Jinchuan Military Region... had only the last two "weak" lines of defense remaining.

Hearing this, Ye Hai and the others broke out in cold sweat, a chill rising from the soles of their feet straight to the back of their heads.

If this group of Underground Creatures were to break through the last two layers of city walls,

and lead the army of Underground Creatures straight in to enter the Jinding Base,

the consequences would be simply unimaginable.

"There hasn't been a resistance war of this intensity for decades..."

"The offensive of the Underground Creatures is too fierce this year..."

After passing through the first two layers of city walls, wherever one looked in the rear military region... it was all ruins.

Devastation was everywhere.

Giant robots and large equipment were currently carrying out the reconstruction of the city walls.

Various supplies, urban construction facilities, and high-resistance Materials shipped from other bases were being unloaded truckload by truckload.

A large number of military region soldiers were busy rebuilding the city walls.

Powerful Tier-3 and Tier-4 Espers, who were unseen in major bases,

were all manipulating different energies to clear the battlefield and build various fortifications.

Zhangjiang Base was an industrial base.

It was responsible for producing all kinds of ammunition, energy, weapons, military supplies, and various industrial goods.

Other bases had different functions.

Some bases were specifically responsible for the construction work of the theater frontline.

Various hundred-meter cranes, high-resistance building Materials, construction consumables, city wall skeletons, and infrastructure facilities were being transported truckload by truckload.

Looking at this scene,

Lin Zishan was suddenly somewhat moved.

She used to not understand

why her grandfather, simply because of an energy issue,

would sell her off to a major Family of another base.

But seeing at this moment how, due to the energy shortage,

those powerful Esper soldiers were working without sleep and stubbornly using manpower to make up for productivity...

Lin Zishan gradually came to understand her grandfather.

It took Wu Di over two hours to find an acquaintance to find out about the situation.

Only then did everyone learn

that ten days ago, just as Wu Di had arrived at Zhangjiang Base,

the Underground Creatures on the frontline launched a terrifying offensive against the Jinchuan Military Region.

The battle lasted for a week.

The entire Jinchuan Military Region suffered heavy losses.

From the military region's commanding officers down to the fire control soldiers... over ten thousand people died in the entire military region.

The number of casualties exceeded fifty thousand.

One-third of the soldiers suffered varying degrees of injuries.

Even the leader of the entire Jinding Base participated in the battle at a critical moment.

"We didn't lose, it was a mutual destruction scenario..."

"We killed over a hundred thousand Tier-2 and above Underground Creatures..."

"The Tier-6 Emperor-class monster almost died inside our military region's defense line... and finally retreated and escaped."

"At the critical moment, fortunately, the neighboring military regions on the left and right lent a hand, so the city walls weren't breached..."

The person who spoke was a senior officer of the Jinchuan Military Region.

He was also a giant-tier bigshot.

He was also injured, with his right wrist completely severed.

There were also various wounds on his body, and the healing speed was extremely slow.

Lin Zishan tried to use her Light Healing Factor Esper ability to treat the officer in front of her.

However, she tried with all her might, yet was unable to heal the officer's wounds.

Even superficial wounds... could not be cured.

"How... how could this be..."

S-rank Esper Lin Zishan was full of disbelief.

Her self-confidence took a huge blow.

"You've only just evolved for the first time, and the wounds on my body were left by a Tier-4 creature."

"These wounds are attached with the residual power of those Underground Creatures, which is not something you can handle."

The officer smiled and comforted:

"I can recover through slow self-healing."

"Wait until you grow up before treating your uncle's injuries."

The seemingly inconspicuous external wounds on his body could instantly kill an Evolver who had undergone Tier-1 or Tier-2 evolution.

Only his Cell Strength attribute, which was as high as six digits,

could resist the erosion of such terrifying wounds and slowly heal.

"Speaking of the Underground Creatures attacking us this season, I'm not surprised."

"After all, every year this season is the period when their urge to attack is high..."

"But I don't understand why this year's Underground Creatures are so crazy."

"They are simply attacking our military region as if they don't want their lives..."

"It's as if they are aiming for mutual destruction."

"This doesn't conform to their consistent habits."

The growth and strengthening of Underground Creatures came from eating people.

Meanwhile, human secondary evolution also came from killing Underground Creatures to obtain evolution values.

The growth of both sides

was built on the foundation of killing each other.

Therefore, humans and Underground Creatures were natural opposites, harboring an irreconcilable deadly enmity.

But a creature's primary element was not growth, but survival.

Yet this war

made the people of the Jinchuan Military Region generally feel as if the Underground Creatures had abandoned survival itself,

as if a sense of urgency permeated the entire species, swearing to slaughter their way into the city walls.

Therefore, many analysts afterwards, when analyzing and replaying the war,

all uniformly believed that this offensive by the Underground Creatures seemed somewhat contrary to common sense.

"You guys are..."

The senior officer looked at Ye Hai and the others, somewhat curious:

"Is it the recruit season now? It shouldn't be here yet, right..."

"I'm bringing them along for a special mission."

Wu Di was unwilling to elaborate.

"Could it be the pre-... Oh, alright, alright!"

The other party instantly realized something and said no more.

He stared at the three people in front of him, Ye Hai and the others, for quite a while before saying:

"These three people probably aren't very good in terms of strength..."

"Why not leave them in our military region for a few days to grow a bit?"

Wu Di glanced at the eager gazes of the three people behind him and frowned slightly.

After hesitating for a moment, he said:

"Time is tight. They can only stay for a day and a night at most. Just look after them and train these three, as long as nothing goes wrong."

"They are all good seedlings, make sure you don't cause any trouble!"

The growth speed of Evolvers on the military region frontline far exceeded that of the bases.

As long as survival could be guaranteed,

the frontline was definitely the best place to make progress.