Chapter 1 The Frail Defense Line

Since the start of the Northern Heavenly Gate Project and the subsequent purge of corrupt officials colluding with ancient civilizations, perhaps realizing that such methods were no longer effective, the onslaught from sea beasts against humanity's defense lines had become increasingly fierce.

In the past, the Beast Kings had used mutated beasts as cannon fodder, piling them up in front of the battle lines to resist human soldiers' swords and guns. But under the might of the ancient civilizations, the once high and mighty Beast Kings had now become cannon fodder themselves, with large numbers of them being killed every day, their corpses left unburied.

But the human losses were also extremely heavy.

Long ago, humanity's ammunition reserves had begun to run low, and with the recent large-scale battles, the remaining traditional firepower ammunition was less than one-tenth of what it had been at its peak!

Under these circumstances, the Evolver troops were once again pushed to the forefront, serving as the first line of defense against the sea beast incursions.

Even Kuangxi Island, in addition to defending its own area, sent out mecha warriors and a large number of Pioneer Regiments to support other human defense lines.

During this period, the number of Pioneer Regiments had increased to twelve thousand, and that number was still growing!

With the upgrade of the LV4 shelter, Li Tianran's previously planned upper limit of 9,000 people could now be broken.

With Li Tianran's current strength, let alone nine thousand Pioneers, even ninety thousand Pioneers could be completely controlled by him!

Of the twelve thousand Pioneers, three thousand were assigned to continue guarding Kuangxi Island, while the remaining nine thousand were assigned elsewhere.

The arrival of the Pioneers made the originally precarious human defense lines become stable again.

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The North Asian Plains were an extremely important stronghold on the human defense line. Stationed here was the F country's legion. The F country's legion had suffered heavy losses in the war with the sea beasts, but after the Pioneers arrived, the F country's Evolver troops retreated to the second line, and the Pioneers completely took over the positions that originally belonged to them.

"The first wave of the beast tide's attack has been repelled, but don't slack off. Based on our experience, the second wave will arrive soon." Lu Xiao stood outside the tall defense wall, using binoculars to look at the distant horizon. Beside him were hundreds of fully armed Pioneer warriors, and in front of them on the plain were large numbers of sea beast corpses.

Having lost the advantage of heavy firepower, the Pioneer warriors could only leave the shelter and engage the sea beasts in direct combat on the plains.

And relying on the Pioneers' powerful evolutionary abilities and sophisticated equipment, they were able to completely crush the sea beasts. Since the start of the battle half an hour ago, they had killed more than five hundred Beast Kings, but not a single warrior had been injured or killed!

Hundreds of Pioneer warriors stood beside Lu Xiao, forming a long defense line. Behind them was the F country's Third Legion, and the tall defense wall.

The F country's evolved troops, who should have been on the battlefield, had engaged in a frontal war with the sea beasts a few hours earlier, and after paying a heavy price of 10:1 casualties, they were now hiding inside the defense line like eggplants beaten by frost, refusing to go to the battlefield again, only coming out for a stroll when cleaning up sea beast corpses and mopping up...

They were almost cowering into a ball!

"These guys..." Lu Xiao turned to look at the F country's Evolver troops standing on the wall, feeling a little helpless in his heart.

The evolutionary level and equipment of these guys were far inferior to those of the Pioneer Regiment, and it was understandable that the casualty rate was high, but after all, they were soldiers, and it was too much to be such cowards!

"Damn it, if we hadn't arrived in time, I think they might have surrendered directly to the sea beasts!" A Pioneer warrior cursed softly.

"Hahaha!"

"It's an old tradition after all!"

"No one can invade F country's cities before they surrender!"

With a burst of soft laughter, the joyful atmosphere diluted some of the bloodiness on the battlefield.

Just then, the ground began to shake!

On the distant horizon, the black, surging beast tide reappeared.

Lu Xiao clenched the steel knife in his hand and said sternly, "Brothers! Here they come!"

Without Lu Xiao's reminder, the Pioneer warriors immediately entered combat mode, staring intently at the beast tide in front of them. When the enemy entered their attack range, they roared and raised their steel knives to launch an attack on the enemy!

A legion of a few hundred people now erupted with the heroic grandeur of tens of thousands of people!

The second wave of the beast tide numbered as many as thirty thousand, with Beast Kings and mutated beasts mixed together, almost covering large areas of the plain. The F country's Evolver troops standing on the defense wall saw the dark mass of enemies and broke out in cold sweat.

And below, the Pioneers who were fearlessly charging towards the beast tide were like a sharp sickle, rushing into the beast tide, and large swaths of sea beasts fell like harvested wheat!

Blood splattered on the earth, and the sea beasts' screams and the Pioneers' roars merged together, resounding across the plains.

"These monsters haven't improved much! I thought they would become stronger than before after they got a new master!"

A Pioneer slashed the neck of a Beast King in front of him and said with a laugh.

The sea beasts could not resist the Pioneers' attack, and their ranks collapsed like a tide.

But in the sea beast group, no one noticed a creature that was completely different from the sea beasts was moving at high speed.

It was a cyan wolf, about five meters in size, completely inconspicuous in the Beast King group, whose size was often twenty or thirty meters. Although its size was small, the pressure on its body far exceeded all the Beast Kings around it, especially its pair of dark pupils, which radiated an arrogance that disregarded all life.

At this time, it was shuttling through the beast herd, quickly approaching the Pioneers!

A Pioneer killed a Beast King and was about to turn around when he suddenly felt a chill all over his body, a kind of fear from the soul, as if he was being targeted by some terrifying monster.

In his ears, he heard a low breathing sound!

Without thinking, he directly swung his knife back!

But the feeling of the blade entering flesh that he had imagined did not appear. Instead, there was a very crisp sound of metal colliding!

He suddenly turned around and found a cyan giant wolf was now looking down at him, and the indestructible steel knife was being held tightly in its mouth!

Seeing the Pioneer turn his head, the cyan wolf's eyes flickered.

The Pioneer's hair stood on end, and he wanted to pull the steel knife out of the other party's mouth, but when he exerted force, the steel knife did not move at all. Even using the arm guard of the Tyrannosaurus mech to assist in exerting force had no effect!

The cyan wolf's eyes showed a trace of mockery. Suddenly, its upper and lower jaws moved slightly, and the steel knife instantly shattered into countless tiny pieces!

Pa!

The blade of the steel knife, which could withstand thousands of tons of pressure, was actually crushed directly by the cyan wolf!

"What... the hell!" The Pioneer's scalp went numb. At this moment, he finally confirmed the identity of this cyan wolf.

Not a Beast King, but a creature of ancient civilization!

He was about to roar out a warning, but the next moment, he saw a giant claw fall, easily tearing apart the Tyrannosaurus armor and his body.

Blood splattered, and his consciousness plunged into darkness!