Chapter 181

On the Cartier Fortress defense line, the frontline commander who received the order to start the war put down the phone and looked at the sky where the chaotic battle had already begun, a look of determination on his face.

The troops stationed here were a mixed legion of small countries and two units of the Federation. The small country legion accounted for a small part, and the Federation legion accounted for the majority. The frontline commander was also Wang Ren, a major general officer from the Federation.

"The Alliance has issued an order, requiring us to defend the line to the death, and absolutely not allow any enemy to cross it before fighting to the last man!" Wang Ren said in a deep voice. He looked at the division commanders standing in front of him and ordered, "We only have one combat plan!"

"If the missiles are used up, send the fighter jets to cover! If the fighter jets are used up, send the tanks to cover! If the tanks are gone, send the evolver units and the army! In short, use all our weapons, including our bodies, to block the enemy outside the defense line!"

"Yes!" the officers responded loudly.

The sky outside the command room was already shrouded in a sea of flames.

Fighter jets roared, tanks crushed the earth, and the evolver units were ready to go.

...

A thousand-meter-long dragon, entirely dark cyan and black, rampaged across the sky. Wherever it passed, the air flashed with dense, tiny cyan-blue electric arcs, accompanied by cracking sounds. Every time its massive wings flapped, they stirred up violent wind and thunder.

And the "lesser sequence" creatures that crawled out of the deep abyss where the Sky Citadel emerged also began to move towards the Cartier Fortress defense line.

These were a group of terrifying creatures, their images resembling the demons and fierce gods recorded in ancient historical books such as the *Classic of Mountains and Seas* and the *Bible*.

Giant wolves with single horns, humans with three heads, giant pythons with golden scales - just a glance at these creatures was enough to make one's heart palpitate.

For example, the Sea Beast Kings whose bodies had undergone tremendous changes due to mutation - the appearance of these "lesser sequence" creatures looked more intimidating and more in line with aesthetics and practicality.

To put it simply, they were evolving their body shapes more towards perfection compared to the Sea Beast Kings!

And more perfect often meant more powerful.

Boom!

A heavy artillery shell hit the leading one-horned giant wolf, and its body immediately flew backwards. But soon, it jumped up again, only the hair on its head was charred, and its skull was dented, but its eyes were still fierce and savage.

The heavy artillery shell, powerful enough to shatter the strongest Beast King overlord, failed to penetrate the body of the lesser sequence creature, only leaving some scars on it!

"God, what amazing defense is this? With this kind of body strength, are they really still carbon-based lifeforms?"

In the cognition of human civilization, almost no carbon-based lifeform could withstand a 7.62mm bullet, let alone a more powerful heavy artillery shell. Even some former overlord-type sea beasts that focused on defense could not withstand a salvo of missiles and would be blown into pieces.

But at this moment, this group of ancient civilization creatures appearing in front of humans had reached the point of contending with technological hot weapons with pure physical strength without relying on any technology.

How terrifying was this?

"The gene cells in the organism's body can actually obtain such powerful strength through evolution... If it continues to evolve, can organisms really manifest the legendary era of gods and demons?" Wang Ren stood with his hands behind his back, his pupils constricting.

As a staunch materialist fighter, Wang Ren had always scoffed at legends such as the gods and demons of the Xia and Shang dynasties, the Investiture of the Gods, and the Bodhisattvas, demons, and gods of *Journey to the West*. But at this moment, looking at these powerful creatures in front of him, he couldn't help but have strange thoughts.

Perhaps those myths were not fabricated legends.

If the mineral resources of Blue Star never reappeared in the future, and all living beings could not enter the starry sky, and could only rely on the continuous evolution of their body genes to resist the increasingly harsh living environment, then generation after generation of creatures would evolve, could they really reach the level of those gods and Buddhas in the sky?

Are the legendary demon gods and Buddhas fictional characters, or powerful creatures that evolved to the limit of their genes and were born countless years ago?

The more Wang Ren thought about it, the more frightened he became, but soon, he forcibly drove these messy thoughts out of his brain.

"Fortunately, their numbers are not large, only tens of thousands..." Through the monitoring of the combat system, Wang Ren discovered that the number of these terrifying creatures launching an attack on the defense line was not too large, and could not be compared with the large beast tides of the past, which made him relax a little.

In fact, not only are the creatures under the Sky Citadel scarce, but the number of "lesser sequence" creatures under the other four resurrected ancient buildings is also not very large. According to satellite assessment estimates, the largest of their five major groups does not exceed 70,000, and the smallest is only about 10,000.

The total number of all resurrected ancient civilization creatures does not exceed 200,000!

This was the only thing that allowed humans to feel a trace of luck in the face of the terrifying disaster.

If the number of these powerful creatures was the same as that of the Beast Kings in the past, then humans would basically have no chance of victory.

Any one of these ancient creatures, if taken out, could kill seven in and seven out of the Sea Beast group!

"Boom!"

On the battlefield, the terrifying dragon was still launching a frantic offensive. Its giant claws waved, a large number of electronic devices exploded, and tanks weighing hundreds of tons were easily grabbed into the sky by it, and then smashed down like shells.

Large lesser sequence followers also came to the front of the human defense line, braving the artillery fire. They roared at the sky, and then used their steel bodies to forcibly insert themselves into the battle formation.

"They are not truly invulnerable! Armor-piercing bullets pierced a creature, and it was dismembered!"

Just then, someone in the command room shouted in surprise.

...

On the Kunlun giant ship, Li Tianran looked at the real-time broadcast of the battlefield situation, his brows furrowed.

"It will take another seventeen minutes to reach the battlefield!" Lu Chi said softly beside him. The distance between Mad Breath Island and Cartier Fortress was very far, and even at the speed of the Kunlun giant ship, it was difficult to reach it in an instant.

He was not worried that Mad Breath Island would be attacked after he left, because the lv4 shelter's skill "Leap" allowed Li Tianran to move the shelter's location at any time.

He had no worries.

Li Tianran stared at the real-time broadcast of the war situation. The human defense line was being impacted, and many powerful creatures were raging and rampaging, but the more he looked, the tighter his brows became.

He discovered a very strange phenomenon.

That was, these creatures of powerful civilizations had been using their flesh to launch attacks against humans, without using any technological weapons at all.

According to Li Tianran's previous speculation, and the intercontinental weapon interception capabilities previously demonstrated by those five ultra-ancient buildings, it showed that their technological level was not weaker than their physical strength. They had no need to use this mindless charging method to start a war at all.

As long as they create another technological cannon that is much weaker than the previous Hexagram energy ball, the entire Cartier Fortress defense line would collapse in an instant!

But why don't they do that?

Is it simply to show off their force? Despise human civilization?

Or... is there another reason?

Li Tianran opened the system prompt and looked at the top.

Blinding blood-colored characters came into view.

"The Fifth Destruction Era will descend in one month. At that time, those sealed and shackled... will be completely liberated!"

Li Tianran looked at the equally vague Fifth Destruction Era prompt, and thinking about the performance of the ancient civilization creatures at this time, a conjecture surged into his mind.

Although the creatures and kingdoms of ancient civilizations have been resurrected, is it possible that this civilization has not fully recovered?

Because they have not shown the technological attack capabilities that match a high-level civilization! Although they intercepted intercontinental weapons, that belonged to "defense power"! Although they previously created a terrifying sun-like energy ball, that was the product of the simultaneous resurrection of six ancient buildings, and after one was missing, the energy ball immediately collapsed and dissipated...

If they really want to completely eliminate humans, even if the energy ball collapses, they can release fighter jets, fleets, laser orbital cannons, etc. that far exceed the level of human civilization. Although the progress is slower, it is faster than the current melee combat!

But since the energy ball collapsed, these things have never appeared!

Combined with the "sealed, shackled... something" mentioned in the Fifth Destruction Era prompt, Li Tianran guessed that this "something" is whether the ancient civilization has not yet fully recovered...

Technological weapons!