Chapter 144 - 140: Giant Ants’ Surprise Attack

Hang Yu brought a total of eight or nine people.However, the others were placed at the second-line stronghold.

Feng Gang and Bald Qiang are combat professionals worth nurturing.

This large-scale battle is a good training for them, and naturally, they can also earn some battle merit.

President Dog has been too busy with work recently.

The schedule has been full, so he didn’t come this time.

However, it doesn’t matter if Dog comes or not; the role he can play in this battle is limited.

If Husky is really needed, Hang Yu can directly contact Dog, have Dog enter the Spirit Beast Space, and then summon him through it to appear on the spot immediately, which is one clever use of the Spirit Beast Space.

Introduced by Su Yunbing.

Hang Yu got acquainted with Celestial Net Squadron Leader Luo Yuanzheng.

Actually, he had seen Luo Yuanzheng earlier in the Riverside Road area of Jiang City.

At that time, Celestial Net had sealed off Riverside Road, and when Hang Yu entered as a volunteer, he happened to see Luo Yuanzheng at the scene. Luo Yuanzheng must have an impression of the eccentric wearing a Tielo Atoman mask, riding a shared bicycle passing by.

Is he the commander of the Qing Lake New Trench defense line?

So, does that mean Liang Dong and Liang Qiu are also here!

Hang Yu glanced around and indeed saw the two of them, thinking the world is too small.

It’s the third time I’ve seen them in half a month. I wonder if they’ll recognize me, huh.

Liang Dong and Liang Qiu have decent abilities.

However, they’re not enough to catch Hang Yu’s attention.

But Luo Yuanzheng is someone you can’t underestimate.

Currently, Jiang City’s Celestial Net has only three squadron leaders.

Obviously, these three are pushed forward by Celestial Net as the most representative top experts.

Luo Yuanzheng must have a high personal standard, and with the government and Celestial Net allocating resources for training, even if Luo Yuanzheng hasn’t reached level 5, he’s not far off, quite close to Xu Tianhua.

Everyone can collect weapons on their own.

Mainly providing some light firearms.

Such as pistols, grenades, submachine guns, and shotguns.

Hang Yu took a few grenades and didn’t pick up much other equipment because firearms offer little help to him now.

Hang Yu is already a level 5 combat professional. With the equipment and profession bonuses, his dynamic vision is already three to four times stronger than an ordinary person’s, capable of tracking bullet trajectories and evading, making it difficult for ordinary light firearms to threaten him, and even the bullets from ordinary handguns find it hard to be lethal when hitting his body.

Hang Yu’s casual throwing knife

has destructive power nearing that of a sniper rifle.

If he throws a Fishbone Spear, its power rivals that of an anti-materiel sniper rifle.

Though firearm range is long, Hang Yu has a repeating crossbow and war bow, which can also hit mid-to-long-range targets, and his bow and crossbow have much higher destructive power than these light firearms. He hasn’t undergone firearms training, making it more comfortable for him to fight using bow and crossbow.

Luo Yuanzheng convened a brief meeting.

He used a projector to show pictures of the monster waves.

"These are photos of the monster wave captured by drones."

"The monster wave is expected to arrive in about three hours."

"This wave consists of 8000 to 10000 monsters and is heading towards Qing Lake New Trench."

"What we need to do is create noise, traps, and decoys to lure them to the front of the defense line. With over a thousand warriors on the entire line, we have enough capacity to annihilate them in one go."

"Additionally, note that several drones we dispatched were attacked by unknown means and destroyed."

"This implies the presence of flying units among the monsters, but it is not yet clear what the flying units are, so there are some uncertainties in this battle. All defense points must be cautious and prepare for air defense."

"..."

Su Yunbing asked, "What kind of monsters are we actually facing?"

Monster intelligence is crucial and must be understood in advance, as different monsters have varying abilities. Knowing the type of monsters we face early allows for more targeted preparation.

The aerial photographs were taken from a distance, so they weren’t very clear.

Luo Yuanzheng nodded, pressed a button on the remote control, and said, "From the footage captured at a close distance by drones, the monsters initiating an offensive towards Qing Lake New Trench are mainly of two types. The first is the stone monster."

Everyone looked towards the screen.

A close-up picture appeared in front of them.

This monster is made of stone, covered with moss and wild grass all over, with a large build, fully formed limbs, no neck, with the head directly connected to the body, looking round and imposing, about 2 meters tall, very intimidating.

Hang Yu frowned slightly.

Stone monsters are level 5 ordinary monsters.

Although they’re ordinary, they’re not easy to deal with.

They are elemental lifeforms with no organ weaknesses, ordinary firearms can’t inflict fatal injuries.

They possess a "Rolling Stone Attack" skill, curling into a ball, rolling quickly, and crashing into targets, with significant power, and they move fast.

If stone monsters are just tricky.

When Captain Luo introduced the second type of monster.

Hang Yu’s expression became even more serious, feeling... this time we’re in for some real trouble!

The second type of monster.

Turns out to be a hideous and ferocious ant!

Yes, ants, but enlarged thousands of times!

Luo Yuanzheng explained while showing slides:

"About two hundred miles from here, there is a Giant Ant Hill where many giant ant monsters are active. Among the monsters trying to attack Jiang City through Qing Lake New Trench, eighty percent are these giant ant monsters."

"Please look, we’ve currently identified two types of giant ant monsters."

"The first type is a reddish-brown giant ant, likely worker ants, about the size of an adult goat, but relatively weak, as ordinary level monsters, they’re in the majority."

"The second type is a deep black giant ant, likely soldier ants, nearly twice the size of worker ants, with very high movement speed and combat strength. Though fewer in number, they’re estimated to be elite level monsters."

Giant ant monsters, stone monsters, plus the yet undefined flying monsters.

These are the challenges that the Qing Lake New Trench defense line faces.

"We don’t have enough personnel!" a voice suddenly interrupted, directly cutting in on Captain Luo, "Our defense line might not be able to block this wave of monsters."

Luo Yuanzheng was somewhat puzzled.

The speaker wasn’t Su Yunbing, surprisingly it was the unremarkable Hang Yu.

"The fight is about to begin, don’t speak nonsense and disrupt morale," Squadron Leader Huang Yan immediately stood up, dissatisfied. "Our defense line has over a thousand people and a thousand guns, can we not handle just a few thousand ants?"

Hang Yu was just about to explain.

Suddenly there was chaos outside, quickly followed by the sound of gunfire.

"Not good!"

"Monsters have appeared!"

"Monsters are inside the stronghold!"

A Celestial Net warrior quickly ran in to report.

Everyone’s faces changed drastically, wasn’t the monster wave supposed to arrive in two or three hours?

Why have monsters appeared so soon? And directly inside the factory!

No one could afford to think about it too much, they immediately went out to see.

Sure enough, several giant ants had inexplicably appeared in the abandoned factory, at least twenty or thirty, mostly reddish-brown, goat-sized worker ants, launching an attack on the unsuspecting warriors.

"What the hell!"

"How did they get in?"

Hang Yu realized calling for help might be too late now.

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PS: Thanks to Milane Pavilion for rewarding the book with 100,000 Starting Points, becoming the book’s first alliance leader. The alliance leader deserves an extra three Chapters, today there are more than fifty rewards, but seeing everyone’s enthusiasm, let’s consider it sixty and add two more Chapters.

However, I haven’t rested well for several consecutive days, writing the book until 3:30 AM yesterday and getting up at 7 AM, currently in very poor mental condition, might not be able to write, so first update these five Chapters, the remaining two extra Chapters will be supplemented tomorrow, hope everyone understands.

After all, Little Fish isn’t writing this book full-time currently, extra updates can only rely on overexertion.