"Shut up!" Commander Wu roared, "Can't you fight without Jin Wen Ye? Are you that useless? If anyone can't do it, speak up now, and I'll replace you immediately!"
Everyone was struck dumb.
Shen Qian stood up and played the good cop. "You all have plenty of experience. I believe you can all do a good job defending your respective areas. Everyone return to your posts now. Be ready to react at any moment, protect yourselves, and protect the base. We will definitely defeat those monsters!"
"Yes!"
The others got up nimbly and quickly left the conference room.
Only when the two of them were left did Commander Wu ask, "What exactly happened with Mr. Jin?"
Shen Qian replied, "His child was taken out of the base by someone. He's chasing after them."
Commander Wu was also helpless. If it were him, he might prioritize the base, but he couldn't ask Jin Wen Ye to do the same. Frankly speaking, no matter how high one climbed, it was all for the sake of protecting their loved ones. If one held a high position yet couldn't protect the people they cared about, what was the point of it all?
"It's fine, we just need to do our jobs. If the alien numbers are too overwhelming, his presence won't change anything anyway."
He was powerful, but still flesh and blood. He wasn't at the level of Shen Zhong Yan and Wu Xiang, incapable of turning the tide.
Commander Wu nodded. "We'll do our best and leave the rest to fate."
Despite their words, neither of them felt at ease.
They watched the situation in several areas through the surveillance cameras. Outside the base, a large swarm of aliens was advancing towards their base like a tide.
As the monsters entered their firing range, they were immediately bombarded by artillery fire. Fighter jets dropped various bombs, detonating among the aliens. The screams of the monsters and the sounds of explosions were deafening.
This wave eliminated most of the alien vanguard, but the aliens that followed were not so easy to deal with. The largest among them were as big as small mountains. Ordinary artillery shells couldn't kill them, and small grenade launchers were ineffective. They could only watch as the enemies relentlessly approached.
A fighter jet dropped an incendiary bomb on a large alien. The moment the bomb exploded, the giant monster burst into flames. The thick layer of material on its body, resembling both armor and fur, instantly ignited. The monster fell to the ground, trying to extinguish the flames, but the white phosphorus in the gasoline burned uncontrollably.
Seeing that it was effective, others dropped several more incendiary bombs. Most of them caught fire, but some only burned for a while before slowly extinguishing. The aliens' bodies were covered in a shell harder than steel, which fire couldn't ignite. They continued to charge forward.
Despite several layers of defenses, quite a few aliens managed to reach the base. They clawed at the meter-thick walls or tried to climb over them.
Ability users stood on the city walls, continuously throwing various abilities downwards. The cooperation between water and ice abilities was very effective. Water ability users sprayed water, ice ability users froze it, and then those wielding heavy weapons bombed them at close range.
Wood and lightning abilities could also cooperate. Wood ability users stimulated vines, and lightning ability users struck them like fixed targets, saving abilities compared to direct lightning strikes. They defended the city gates relatively easily and didn't yet feel the terror of the alien numbers.
Just as they felt the base was overreacting, the attack of the flying creatures began.
Around five or six in the afternoon, as it was summer and the sun hadn't set, the sunset was beautiful. Dark shapes began to appear in the distance. These shapes approached them at an extremely high speed, and the base alarm sounded again.
The first wave of defense was still long-range attacks. This time, even long-range missiles were deployed. According to satellite imagery, the spatial anomalies in the ocean were continuously expanding, and the things emerging from them were outrageously large. Some were too large to approach, but most were heading towards human settlements.
Their base was not far from the sea, and with a large population, it was definitely a prime target for alien attacks.
Another truth that shocked and terrified them was that this batch of aliens seemed more intelligent than before. They didn't just attack blindly. After a round of attack, they began to try cooperation.
Previously, they all climbed individually. Now, they were stacking themselves up like a human pyramid, with the largest aliens at the bottom and others climbing on top of them. The first one had reached dozens of meters in height, and with others piling up, they could soon reach the city walls.
The person in charge of this area immediately shouted, "Pour gasoline! Pour fuel! Set it on fire!"
Ability users moved various fuels and poured them down directly. As the first alien climbed up, fire ability users unleashed flames, and the licking tongues of fire engulfed the "staircase" built by the aliens.
The first alien flapped its deformed wings behind it and, before it was engulfed in flames, it left the "staircase" and lunged at an ability user with its claws.
The ability user, in a hurry to dodge, forgot that he was on a city wall hundreds of meters high. The guardrail on the wall hadn't been installed yet, and he fell directly from the height of a hundred meters.
"Ah!"
An ice ability user spread his fingers towards the alien, forming a mass of ice spikes around it. As he clenched his fist, the ice spikes stabbed down fiercely, and the monster was immediately riddled with holes.
More aliens used this method to climb onto the city walls. Some even climbed up through the raging fires, while others were fireproof and completely unfazed by the flames. Gradually, more and more aliens climbed onto the city walls and began to attack the defending personnel.
The situation in the sky was even worse. No matter how many attacking怪鸟 (strange birds) there were, there were always some that slipped through the defenses. They were huge and ferocious, and many ability users were blown away by the wind from their wings, utterly defenseless.
The entire base was plunged into tension and danger.
On the other side, two cars traveling towards each other finally met. Jin Wen Ye forced the other car to stop and then got out.
The people in the other car had a bad feeling the moment they saw him. He wanted to make excuses, but Jin Wen Ye simply violently pried open the car door and retrieved the child.
"It was Sang Ming who made me do it, you're looking for..."
Jin Wen Ye took two steps back, a lightning strike struck down, and then he turned around, carrying the child back to the car and handing them to Lin Wan.
Lin Wan hugged the child and cried.
Jin Wen Ye's nerves were taut, and he didn't say a word all the way. The car was driving at a terrifying speed. As they approached the base, he stopped the car and said to Lin Wan, "You two go into the space. Come out after everything is over."
Lin Wan hugged the child and said softly, "Okay, take care of yourself."
"Mhmm."
Jin Wen Ye leaped into the air, and a lightning strike hit the leg of the stacked aliens. A blackened wound appeared on the pillar-like leg, and it immediately softened. The aliens piled on top of it all fell off.
The aliens discovered Jin Wen Ye's presence and began to attack him.
In the conference room, the person responsible for observing the aliens' movements suddenly cried out, and everyone else looked over.
"A dragon, a dragon is coming!"
Everyone stood up and gathered around.
"Is it true? Are they going to attack us too?"
[Yes.] 007 said helplessly, [Quickly tell everyone to return and hide in the underground shelter. You can't fight them. Wu Xiang will be back soon.]