76: Chapter 76 "Investigation Team!!" "Charge!!"

"Survey Corps!!" "Charge!!!"

Giant World, Zhenyuan City.

Ninety years ago, one of the seven major human cities built by the Great Qing Dynasty using the strength of the entire country.

The entire city was cast from black basalt, with walls fifty meters high and an astonishing thickness of fifteen meters.

It was a line of defense for humanity facing the giants, and an immortal monument that had never been breached for decades.

But today, this monument was about to collapse.

Thump!

Thump!

Thump!

The muffled footsteps made the earth tremble, and even the gravel on the city walls was jumping wildly.

Looking out into the distance.

On the wasteland outside the city, the yellow soil was long gone.

Replaced by a writhing ocean of flesh.

Looking as far as the eye could see, it was densely packed with giants.

They were naked, without reproductive organs, and their skin presented a morbid grayish-white color.

Every face wore a stiff, eerie smile.

Like a tide, they advanced toward the city walls.

Tireless, knowing no fear!

Right in the center of the corpse tide, a suffocating figure stood quietly.

Colossal Giant.

Eighty meters tall.

It had no skin, its bright red muscle texture directly exposed to the air.

Every inch of its body spewed rolling white steam outward.

...

Above the city walls.

"Hold steady! Don't panic!!"

Garrison Regiment Commander Lu Cang was covered in blood, roaring and waving his long saber, trying to stabilize the battle line.

"Fire!!"

Boom——!

Hundreds of heavy catapults released their winches simultaneously.

Huge millstone-like rocks roared out, carrying the sound of tearing air, slamming fiercely into the dense crowd of giants.

Splat!

Flesh and blood splattered.

The heads of several ordinary giants were smashed on the spot, black blood erupting like a fountain.

But... it was useless.

A burst of white smoke instantly emerged from the giants' wounds, granulation tissue writhing wildly, bones crackling.

In less than ten seconds.

New heads grew out, and that eerie smile still hung on their faces, even brighter than before.

"Unkillable... completely unkillable..."

A rookie looked at this scene, his mind completely collapsed.

The spear in his hand dropped to the ground with a clatter, his crotch instantly soaked, his entire body collapsing limply to the ground, only repeating this single sentence in his mouth.

Before Lu Cang could go pull that rookie up.

That eighty-meter Colossal Giant, which had not moved all along, moved.

It did not rush to attack, but bent down, its huge palms acting like a bucket loader, directly inserting into the ground and grabbing a large handful of gravel and dirt.

Then, it slowly straightened up, its eyelidless eyes coldly staring at the defenders on the city walls.

Its arm raised.

Aiming at the city crest, it threw fiercely.

Whoosh——!!

A terrifying heatwave mixed with strong wind swept across.

Pat-pat-pat-pat-pat!!

This wasn't gravel.

This was a giant-sized, ultra-large-caliber shotgun!

Under the blessing of the eighty-meter giant's terrifying arm strength, every piece of gravel was like a cannonball leaving the barrel, covering the entire city crest with destructive kinetic energy.

"Ahhhhhhh!!"

Screams instantly shook the skies.

The city crest instantly turned into a purgatory.

Countless regular defenders holding spears and shields didn't even touch the enemy's shadow before being blasted to flying limbs by the gravel.

The sturdy city tower was also riddled with holes in an instant, and the catapults were smashed to pieces.

Taking advantage of the chaos, a few fifteen-meter abnormal giants used hands and feet together, quickly crawling up the city wall like geckos.

They rushed into the panicked crowd, grabbed soldiers, and shoved them into their mouths.

Crunch.

That was the sound of teeth biting and crushing spines.

Zhenyuan City's defense line completely collapsed.

At this moment, the regular troops had lost all combat capability.

Lu Cang crawled out from a pile of corpses; one of his arms was broken, and his face was covered in blood.

"... We can only use our trump card."

He turned around with difficulty and looked at the group of soldiers behind him who had been standing silently on the inner side, not participating in the first wave of defense.

This was Zhenyuan City's final elite—the Survey Corps.

And the only force capable of dealing lethal damage to giants in close combat.

Seeing Lu Cang cast a look for help, Survey Corps Commander Sun Desheng did not say much, only nodding heavily at him.

"Clang——!!"

Sun Desheng drew the battle saber from his back with a backhand.

There was no extra mobilization, nor passionate speeches.

Behind him.

One thousand Survey Corps soldiers similarly drew their battle sabers, silently following Sun Desheng to the edge of the city wall.

Beneath their feet was a height of sixty meters.

Below were tens of thousands of giants with bloody mouths wide open.

Sun Desheng took a deep breath, without turning back, just raising the black saber in his hand and letting out the first roar:

"Survey Corps!!"

"Charge!!!"

Before his words fell, he took the lead and jumped directly into the abyss.

"Charge!!!"

Behind him, one thousand soldiers roared in unison.

A thousand people as one, like an ink-black waterfall, plunging into Hell without hesitation.

"Cloud-Treading Machine, activate!"

Hiss——!!

The sound of high-pressure gas jets instantly merged into one.

Hundreds of steel cables shot out simultaneously, piercing firmly into the giants' shoulders, backs, or even the gaps in the city wall.

They swung afterimages in mid-air, utilizing the tension of the steel cables to instantly catapult from the ground, like a swarm of deadly black bees pouncing on the climbing giants.

"Die!!"

Sun Desheng opened his eyes wide in anger, the black saber in his hand tracing an afterimage in the air.

Puff——!

The blade swept past.

The giant that had just tried to swallow Lu Cang instantly spewed meters-high steam from its neck, its huge head rolling down with a bang.

"Kill!!"

The soldiers behind him followed closely.

Puff!

Puff!

Puff!

Black blade lights danced in the corpse tide.

Giants attempting to crawl up the city walls had the back of their necks sliced off, rolling down from the city crest like dumplings dropping into a pot.

However, this was war, not a game.

Even with a Sharp Weapon, facing these endless monsters, human lives were still as cheap as grass.

A young soldier had just sliced a giant to death and hadn't had time to retract his blade.

A large hand slammed over fiercely from the side.

Slap!

Unable to leverage force in mid-air, he was directly slammed against the wall, turning into a puddle of meat paste without even letting out a scream.

Another veteran soldier had killing eyes, consecutively hacking down three giants, but the gas in his gas cylinder suddenly ran out.

Sizzle—— He lost speed and fell in mid-air.

Below, three big mouths full of fangs had been waiting for a long time.

Snap!

His body was instantly torn apart, and several giants fought over the tattered limbs, a sickening scene.

"Commander! Save me!!"

A soldier was grabbed by his legs by an abnormal.

Sun Desheng heard the cry, but he had no time to look back at all.

Because in front of him, two giants lunged forward simultaneously.

"Fight them to the death!!"

Seeing no salvation, that soldier pulled the glory grenade at his waist.

Boom!

A bloody mist exploded.

This was the Survey Corps' way of fighting.

Trading lives for lives.

After just ten minutes of charging and killing.

The dozens of giants that had originally crawled onto the city walls were cleared out completely.

At the base of the city walls, it was piled high with steaming giant corpses.

The first round of battle ended.

Sun Desheng landed on a protruding city battlement, breathing heavily.

Wiping the blood from his face, he then skillfully replaced the Cloud-Treading Machine with a new gas cylinder, his movements extremely proficient.

Taking a deep breath!

Sun Desheng once again raised the battle saber stained with black blood, yet still as sharp as ever.

"Anyone still breathing! Get the Hell up! Let the battalion commanders report the headcount!!"

Hearing the commander's voice, all members of the Survey Corps silently crawled out of the corpse piles, gathering behind the commanders of each survey battalion.

Those with broken hands, broken feet, and leaking gas cylinders.

No one retreated half a step.

"Zhenyuan Army Survey 1st Battalion!! 230 people remaining!!"

"Zhenyuan Army Survey 2nd Battalion!! 250 people remaining!!"

"Zhenyuan Army Survey 3rd Battalion!! 210 people remaining!!"

"Splendid."

"It won't be crowded on the road to the Yellow Springs."

Having said that, Sun Desheng spat out a mouthful of black blood, pointing at the boundless giant tide, his mouth curling into a ferocious smile:

"Survey Corps!!"

"Charge!!!"

[The name of the Dynasty is Great Qing, mainly to let my benefactors have a clear understanding of the technological level in the Giant World. It's roughly similar to the Qing Dynasty, or belongs to the technological level of the early World War I period.]