Chapter 1 The Rumble

Rumble!

In the city center, a violent explosion suddenly erupted, sending more than a dozen adult-class warriors flying, their mechanical arms blown off by the shockwave.

Awoo! Awoo! Awoo!

The roar of the beast king resounded. A huge alligator-turtle beast king bit the upper body of a tank-class warrior. As the tank-class warrior's long blade severed its front limbs, it also crushed the steel body of the tank-class warrior.

The trailblazer warriors charged into the buildings, while some of the routed human soldiers strapped bombs to their bodies, forming a human wall for suicide attacks.

The war had reached a frenzied stage, with losses on both sides.

But overall, due to the previous slaughter by Lu Chi and the trailblazer legion, the toughest bones in the beast nest had already been gnawed away, and it was only a matter of time to eliminate the remaining enemies.

Li Tianran watched the center of the battlefield.

This kind of war was unlike battles between humans. If one side realized it couldn't win, it might surrender, and the other side, considering its own losses, might choose to accept.

This was a war between two races; unless one side was completely wiped out, the war would never stop.

"The enemy's central control room has been discovered…"

Within the system, monitoring information from the patrol radar came through. The control systems used by most of the anti-aircraft guns and ground-to-ground guns in this beast tide were still human designs, controlled by a certain combat command room. With the war progressing to this point, the beast king and the mutated beasts were putting up less resistance. The biggest threat to Li Tianran's mechanical units was actually these traditional human weapons.

"Roll over them and destroy that control room!" Li Tianran directly ordered.

The location of the control room was heavily defended by a large number of human soldiers, and the periphery was filled with powerful heavy machine guns, heavy artillery, and other heavy firepower. Adult-class and tank-class warriors tried to break through, but were repelled twice.

Li Tianran stroked his chin and said in a deep voice, "Send all the bombers and helicopters over there. Don't skimp on ammunition. Bombard them all! Crushing that control room early is more useful than bombing the beast tide!"

Buzz! Buzz!

After receiving Li Tianran's instructions, ten bombers and a dozen helicopters directly changed direction and headed towards the central control room in the city. Upon reaching the attack area, they unreservedly unleashed their remaining ammunition.

Countless small missiles rained down densely.

The people below looked up at the sky, only to see a swarm of black dots, as dense as locusts, rapidly approaching.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Anti-aircraft guns roared, firing into the sky and intercepting some of the ammunition, but most of the missiles still broke through the defense line and fell.

As the first missile exploded, the entire area where the central control room was located was engulfed in heat and explosions.

If they didn't witness it firsthand, ordinary people would never realize the terror of these technological weapons. A large number of routed human soldiers and some beast kings were instantly vaporized by the high temperature, and the huge explosion was deafening even for people ten kilometers away.

The flames of a thick mushroom cloud and billowing smoke rose to a height of dozens of meters, and the temperature at the center of the explosion reached thousands of degrees Celsius, melting not only stone, but even steel.

"Gulp…"

Even the trailblazer warriors couldn't help but gulp and secretly broke out in cold sweat as they watched the tragic scene.

Under this terrifying power, even the strongest evolvers were useless.

"What a pity, these technological weapons will become history in the near future…" Li Tianran lamented as he watched the flames rising in the distance. This power, which humanity had spent hundreds of years mastering, had now lost the possibility of further research and amplification overnight due to the world's changes.

The disappearance of minerals and the full investment in evolver weapons meant that these weapons would one day be completely annihilated.

"Wait, what am I lamenting… It's other humans who are losing technological weapons, how does it affect me?" Li Tianran suddenly raised his eyebrows. The steel and various raw materials in his points mall were unlimited. In the future era when technological weapons disappeared, only he would be able to continue to wield this power.

After the bombing, the entire area where the central control room was located became scorched earth.

Half of the large machine gun auto-aiming systems in the beast nest city were paralyzed, and the firepower of resistance was instantly weakened.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the attack line formed by adult-class and tank-class warriors began to advance frantically. Without the cover of large artillery, the remaining defenders of the beast nest were collapsing rapidly, and many routed human soldiers chose to give up resistance.

They never had any firm will to begin with. They were deserters and routed soldiers from a fallen country, and they had no will to die rather than surrender. Facing the incredibly fierce offensive of Li Tianran's forces, most of them chose to kneel and disarm.

…

Half an hour later, the enemies in the entire beast nest had been cleared out, the corpses of mutated beasts were scattered everywhere, and there were ruins and smoke everywhere.

Li Tianran stood in front of the warehouse complex in Area 111, looking at the large ships that had been plundered, and took a deep breath.

This was a warehouse complex, with more than thirty large warehouses, and occupying a very large area.

"Open the warehouses."

A trailblazer warrior stepped forward and pressed the button to open the warehouse doors.

The heavy hatch of the first large warehouse was slowly pulled open.

This warehouse alone covered an area of more than 10 hectares. What came into view was a large amount of steel and rare metals, classified according to different types, piled up to the brim, roughly estimated to be more than a million tons!

The hatch of the second warehouse opened, revealing all kinds of equipment inside, from medical equipment to industrial manufacturing and weapon manufacturing equipment.

The third warehouse contained a large number of medicines…

After seeing the thirtieth warehouse, Li Tianran's heart was pounding wildly. The resources in these warehouses were related to various fields, roughly estimated to be nearly 30,000 different types, from industrial raw materials to finished products, from medicines to frozen foods, from antique treasures to modern art…

Almost everything that had ever appeared in human history was listed.

These things were plundered from the secret transfer of national treasury items by the superiors of some countries when they realized the crisis was coming, involving several countries, rich to an astonishing degree.

"With these things, I can increase the strength of Kuangxi Island several times within a month!" Li Tianran clenched his fists, excited. This harvest was too great. No wonder people often said that the fastest way to accumulate wealth was through plundering!

"Quick! Get ready! Get all the goods onto the freighters, I'll get them all into the storage space at once and take them all away!" Li Tianran's voice was trembling.

A large number of routed human soldiers were driven to serve as laborers, forced to start moving goods for Li Tianran.

At this moment, a trailblazer warrior walked over with a burly man and said, "Boss, he said he is the leader of the routed human soldiers in this beast nest, and he said he has something very important to tell you."

The man was wearing a general's uniform from a small country, and his expression was extremely heavy at this time.

Li Tianran narrowed his eyes and looked at the man: "Speak."

"My name is Carlos, Carlos Wellman." The general's uniform on the man was covered in dust and dirt, and he said in a trembling voice: "I think it is necessary to explain to you that the humans on this island, we don't want to be accomplices to the beast kings."

"We were also forced!"

"Our country was destroyed, our relatives died because of hunger and war, our army could not protect the people… At this time, a hand reached out to us, telling us that as long as we held onto it, we could get food and escape the shadow of death, so that I and our families could live together."

"For a group of people like us on the verge of death, this hand represents our hope of rebirth. At this time, do we still have the energy to distinguish whether the one who extended this hand to us is God or the devil?"

"We just want to live."

"A powerful human country destroyed our country, but the ferocious beast king let us live… If it were you, what would you choose?"

Carlos's voice trembled, tears flickered in his eyes, his expression was both helpless and desperate, looking straight at Li Tianran, and issued a question from the soul: "Are we wrong? We just want to live! Just want to live!"

"Please, let us live!"

Li Tianran took a deep breath and laughed: "I didn't say your choice was wrong."

Carlos was stunned for a moment.

"But that doesn't mean I will let you go." Li Tianran continued: "You chose to join the beast nest for survival, to build cities for the beast nest, that's not wrong, everyone wants to live well! You also got the benefits of this choice, and lived a carefree life with your family and friends on this island, feeling very lucky compared to those who died of hunger."

"But you also have to bear the consequences of this choice!"

"Since you chose to become the same group as the beast nest, then when the beast nest is heaven, you enjoy it! When the beast nest is hell, you should also die together."

"When you are enjoying yourself, you may be drinking fine wine and eating delicious food! And in hell, you stand here, tearfully asking me if I have done anything wrong?" Li Tianran looked at Carlos and said word by word: "You only want to enjoy the benefits of your choice, but you don't want to bear the consequences of your choice."

"Is this… possible?"

"If it were me, I would accept all the consequences after joining the beast nest, and when the beast nest is destroyed, I would die with the beast nest! Instead of trying to use tragic experiences and tears to beg for the enemy's pity." Li Tianran patted Carlos on the shoulder and said, "In the current situation, if I don't kill you, I will risk being exposed…"

"Do you think I would take this risk for your tears, and let me and my team bear this risk?"