64: Chapter 64 Holding the Line

East Sea War Zone · Seventh Defense Line · Sector C Sea Wall

Battle Status: Defense Line Collapsed (Red - Extreme Danger)

Torrential rain poured down, a dark red hue mixed with a sky full of blood mist.

This was a five-kilometer-long steel sea wall, which had now turned into a flesh-and-blood millstone. Searchlights swayed wildly in the curtain of rain, illuminating the despairing black tide with every sweep.

That was the endless "Sea Race Army."

"Hold the line!! Don't retreat!! I'll shoot anyone who retreats!!"

Sector C's defense company commander, Zhao Tiezhu, was covered in blood. Clutching a heavy machine gun with a glowing red barrel, he roared hoarsely.

In his field of vision, the once-solid concrete defense line had been torn open in countless places.

These were the literal "shrimp soldiers and crab generals," but they were far from the comical characters found in myths and legends.

Iron-Armored Giant Crab (Second Rank): Comparable in size to a heavy truck, its body was covered in a black iron shell that even rocket launchers couldn't penetrate. With a wave of its two massive claws, it could easily snip a soldier wearing Exoskeleton Armor in half.

Deep Sea Mermen (Third Rank): They were hunched but fast as lightning, wielding poisoned bone tridents. Using the giant crabs as cover, they harvested lives on the battlefield like fleas.

"Commander! First Platoon is wiped out!"

"Commander! All heavy fire points are silent! We're out of ammunition!"

"They're charging up!!"

Cries of despair rose and fell.

Of the original full-strength three-hundred-man company, fewer than fifty were still standing.

"Roar—!!!"

Just then, a hundred-meter-high water column exploded from the black sea beneath the sea wall.

A thick tentacle, as large as a subway car and covered in countless suckers and barbs, slammed down onto the last remaining heavy machine gun bunker in Sector C.

Boom!!!

The reinforced concrete bunker was like a toy made of blocks before that tentacle, instantly crumbling into powder. The five machine gunners inside were turned into a pile of meat before they could even scream.

Immediately following, a Deep Sea Demon Octopus (Fourth Grade Peak), ten stories tall and emitting a dark green toxic mist, climbed onto the sea wall, waving its eight tentacles.

Its appearance was the final straw that broke the camel's back.

Countless mermen and giant crabs poured through the breach like a bursting dam.

"It's over..."

Zhao Tiezhu watched the rampaging demon octopus. His machine gun made a "click-click" sound as it ran empty. Despairing, he closed his eyes and pulled out the last Glory Grenade from his waist.

"Brothers, this life was worth it. Let's be comrades again in the next one!"

Just as he was about to pull the pin and take these beasts down with him...

Vroom vroom vroom vroom vroom—!!!

A roar of engines, more violent than thunder, suddenly erupted from the ruins behind.

Zhao Tiezhu snapped his eyes open.

A heavily modified heavy troop transport armored vehicle smashed through the debris along the way, even sending two Iron-Armored Giant Crabs flying. Trailing sparks, it skidded into a wild drift and came to a halt right in front of the massive breach!

"Who is it?! Which unit?!" Zhao Tiezhu roared.

Answering him was an excited roar in a loli voice:

"Out of the way, out of the way!! Your grandauntie here has road rage!!"

Atop the armored vehicle, an exaggeratedly styled six-barreled heavy cannon wrapped in dense blue electric arcs rose instantly.

Thunderfire Heavy Cannon: Full Power Fire!

Boom—!!!

A blue plasma ball over three meters in diameter, carrying devastating high temperatures, blasted directly into the breach where the mermen were most densely packed.

After the blinding blue light faded, the dozen or so Third Rank Deep Sea Mermen who had been charging in aggressively had vanished. They were instantly vaporized by the ultra-high temperature, leaving not even a trace behind!

Right after that.

"Roar!!"

Xiang Lie appeared with his upper body bare, golden light flowing over him like a Vajra descended to earth.

Facing a Second Rank Iron-Armored Giant Crab, he didn't retreat but advanced, smashing a fist hard against the crab's shell.

Bang!

The iron-hard shell shattered instantly, green juices splashing. The multi-ton giant crab was actually knocked back five meters by his punch!

"Xiang Lie of Modu Martial Arts University is here!!"

Xiang Lie turned into the sturdiest human shield, firmly blocking the left side of the breach. "You want to get through? Ask my fists first!"

"Reinforcements?! It's reinforcements!!"

Hope flared in the eyes of the surviving soldiers, but Zhao Tiezhu's face remained pale. "No! There are only two of them! That Fourth Grade Demon Octopus is still there! It's coming over!"

Sure enough, the Deep Sea Demon Octopus seemed enraged, waving its massive tentacles to crush the vehicle blocking its path.

Just then, a slender figure descended directly from the sky...

With his hands behind his back, he stepped through the air, hovering twenty meters above the ground, letting the torrential rain wash over his black combat suit.

Lin Yuan.

"Fourth Grade Peak?"

Lin Yuan looked down at the roaring octopus monster. "So this is a hegemon of the sea? It's really ugly."

"Since you're so ugly, don't come out and scare people."

cicada wing: Death Domain!

Buzz—!!!

Nine dark-silver flying daggers instantly unsheathed. Empowered by Lin Yuan's Third Rank Peak spiritual power, they turned into nine invisible streaks of deathly light. Centered on Lin Yuan, they instantly enveloped a fifty-meter radius.

Seconds later, those massive tentacles trying to attack him were sliced into countless pieces of shredded meat like cucumbers before they could even get within ten meters of him, pattering onto the ground.

"Roar!!!" The Deep Sea Demon Octopus shrieked in pain, spitting out a large cloud of dark green venom.

Then Lin Yuan moved slightly, leaving several afterimages in the air as he easily dodged the venom.

On the ground, the corpses of fallen soldiers were everywhere, and beside them lay countless automatic rifles that had lost their owners, along with crates of ammunition.

"So many guns. It would be a waste to leave them."

He was a Mentalist.

Who said a Mentalist could only use flying daggers?

[Spiritual Telekinesis: Control Over All Things!]

Lin Yuan spread his arms, looking like a conductor about to lead a grand symphony.

In the next second, a scene that no one would ever forget occurred.

Assault rifles and heavy machine guns on the ground began to tremble violently as if summoned by some invisible force.

"Rise!"

Clatter!

One, ten, a hundred, three hundred...

Over three hundred automatic firearms levitated without warning!

They automatically adjusted their positions in the air, their muzzles turning in unison to aim at the tide-like Sea Race army below.

Company Commander Zhao Tiezhu's mouth hung open, and he dropped the grenade in shock.

"What... what kind of move is this?!"

Hovering in mid-air, Lin Yuan's eyes glowed brilliantly. His brain worked at high speed, simultaneously controlling three hundred independent spiritual power nodes to lock onto three hundred different targets with precision.

"I wanted to keep a low profile too."

Lin Yuan looked at the densely packed monsters below, a "nuclear-kind" smile appearing on his face.

"But my strength just won't allow it."

"Fire!!!"

Rat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat-tat—!!!

Three hundred guns fired simultaneously; the scene was ten times denser than the heaviest torrential rain!

The first wave of mermen was instantly torn to shreds by the metal storm. Even the thick-skinned Iron-Armored Giant Crabs had their eyes burst and joints shattered under the continuous precision fire, collapsing paralyzed on the ground.

One man had single-handedly produced the fire suppression of a reinforced machine gun battalion!

"Ding! Killed a Third Rank Merman, slaughter value +100!"

"Ding! Killed a Second Rank Giant Crab, slaughter value +50!"

"Ding! ..."

System notifications flooded Lin Yuan's mind. The thrill of the soaring numbers made the red light in his eyes grow even more intense.

"Reload!"

Click!

All empty magazines dropped automatically, and new ones from the ground flew up and slotted into the chambers.

This was practically a mobile armory!

The Sector C defense line, which had been on the brink of collapse, was actually stabilized by Lin Yuan's solo fire suppression!

Furthermore, the once-aggressive Sea Race army was suppressed so heavily they couldn't even lift their heads. Corpses piled up like small mountains, and they began to show signs of retreat.

"What are you standing there for?!"

Hovering amidst the hail of bullets, Lin Yuan glanced back at the stunned defenders, his voice booming like a great bell.

"Commander Zhao, was it?"

"The orders from above were to hold the position."

Lin Yuan swapped in a new drum magazine, controlling the heaviest six-barreled Gatling gun, his eyes boiling with killing intent.

"But I have a bit of a habit."

"I don't just like to defend; I prefer to... attack!"

"Everyone, hear my command!!"

With a wave of Lin Yuan's hand, the three hundred levitating firearms advanced with him.

"Follow me!"

"Push the battle line... back into the sea for me!!"

"Kill!!!"

Infected by Lin Yuan's domineering aura, Zhao Tiezhu's blood instantly boiled to his very core. He picked up a grenade and let out a hysterical roar.

"Damn it! Let's do this!!"

"Follow Officer Lin! Counterattack!!"

"Kill!!!"

That night, a legend was born on the Sector C sea wall.

A youth with wings (flying daggers) on his back, controlling ten thousand guns, led a group of remnants and single-handedly drove the tens of thousands of Sea Race soldiers all the way from the land back into the deep sea...