In the apocalypse, I hoarded goods and handed over my storage space to the government.

The new recruit swallowed hard and remained silent for a long time.

"Being afraid is the right thing to do."

The veteran grinned, revealing teeth stained yellow by gunpowder, and draped an arm over the recruit's shoulder.

"Those who aren't afraid are just mentally ill idiots."

But remember, behind you is the entire base, and those brothers carrying ammunition.

If you chicken out on this shot, you won't be the only one dying.

Although the new recruits still looked solemn, they gritted their teeth and nodded emphatically.

Old Joe released his grip, grinned,

"Alright, stop looking so gloomy. It seems like the higher-ups have come to give us new equipment."

Sure enough, several logistics soldiers carrying large wooden crates quickly moved along the trenches, stuffing brand-new, dark blue crystal core rifles and boxes of bullets into the veterans' arms.

"Check all weapons! Fill the coolant tank! Hurry up!" The platoon leader's roar echoed through the trenches.

Just then.

A sound came from beyond the horizon.

At first, it was just a very faint muffled sound, like a rumble of thunder rolling across the horizon.

But the sound continued unabated, one sound after another, growing denser and louder.

The protective ladder wall beneath their feet began to tremble, the water in the trenches rippled, and loose soil from the sandbags fell down with a "rustling" sound.

The new recruit suddenly stood up halfway and looked out through the firing port.

The next moment, the last trace of color drained from his face, and his eyes bulged out in extreme fear.

At the boundary between heaven and earth, darkness fell.

"They're here..."

The observer in the watchtower, his voice hoarse, said, "They...they're here!"

All eyes turned to the horizon.

There, the once gray-yellow sky was being filled with black at an eerie speed.

The black tide surged, blotting out the sky and the sun.

The group of mutated hounds running at the forefront have even completely changed their form.

In their pursuit of extreme speed, they run until their limbs twist and break, with stark white bone spurs piercing through their flesh and protruding outwards, yet they advance at a speed far exceeding the limits of physics!

"They...they're acting like they've gone mad!"

The recruits' voices were hoarse, even trembling with sobs.

"Class monitor... I feel something's wrong!"

Old Joe gripped the machine gun tightly, his knuckles turning white.

The veteran was stunned.

He had been struggling in the apocalypse for so long, and had seen at least eighty or a hundred beast tides, but he had never seen anything like this.

These monsters didn't seem to be charging forward; rather, they seemed to be being chased from behind by something, running desperately forward.

"Never mind if they go crazy or not."

Old Joe grabbed the recruit's helmet, shoved him back into cover, and roared.

"Remember the platoon leader's words, just keep fighting!"

……

High in the sky.

Su Ran and Mo Yun have boarded the plane again.

Having climbed to 3,000 meters, Su Ran glanced down through the observation window, her pupils contracting slightly.

Looking down from this height, the horde of beasts is even more striking.

It was like a black river that had burst its banks, overflowing the scorched earth and ruins, leaving nothing but desolation in its wake.

The end of the beast tide stretches to the horizon, with no end in sight.

"Brother Su."

Mo Yun's voice came through the channel, carrying a somewhat indescribable tone.

"I've seen plenty of mutated beasts, but this is the first time I've seen one charging in so fiercely and recklessly."

"Me too."

Su Ran stared down and fell silent.

These mutated beasts have all gone mad.

It was as if dozens of tons of the highest concentration of inducers had been spilled across the entire war zone's defense line, frantically attracting them to go berserk.

"Old Mo, have you noticed that they're running in the wrong way?" Su Ran said.

"Um?"

"In a normal beast tide, due to the sheer number of beasts, the front ranks are usually fast while the back ranks are slow, and there will be biting and fighting for food in the middle."

Su Ran narrowed her eyes, her tone growing increasingly heavy.

"But look at this black tide below. They're all going crazy, rushing in the same direction without stopping. It's like..."

He paused, then added the second half of the sentence.

"It's like there's a whip behind them, lashing them mercilessly!"

This is definitely not a good sign.

Su Ran frowned, unable to suppress the doubts in her heart, but now was not the time to ponder them.

"Don't think about it."

He abruptly shook off his distracting thoughts, his eyes regaining their cold, steely edge.

"When soldiers come, we'll block them; when water comes, we'll dam it! Let's deal with the immediate problem first!"

"Old Mo, this wave is too big. I have to use my inducers sparingly and prioritize cutting off their relentless momentum."

"Let your poisonous fog accumulate first. I'll gather it into a dense mass of flesh before releasing it all at once!"

"Understood! We've been waiting for this moment!" Mo Yun replied.

"General Zhao."

Su Ran immediately switched back to the army's command channel, his voice booming like a bell.

"Open fire across the entire front! We absolutely cannot let them disrupt our first line of defense!"

"Everything was ready long ago!"

Zhao Shanhe's roar echoed through the channel.

next second.

"Boom! Boom boom boom boom boom!"

A hundred cannons fired simultaneously.

But this time, the effect was far less than before.

Because the density of the beast tide was just too great!

The massive firepower network had just torn a gap several hundred meters wide in the black mudslide when, in the blink of an eye, it was filled with flesh by monsters surging up from behind like a tidal wave.

Beneath the five-meter-high reinforced concrete wall protecting the beasts at the front line, the mutated beasts didn't even have time to jump; they climbed up by stepping on the layers upon layers of their own corpses.

In the blink of an eye, they used their blood and flesh to build a ramp that led straight to the top of the city wall!

"The left wing! The left wing is in dire straits!"

"Gun position number three is being suppressed! Requesting backup! Send in suppressive fire!"

"Flying mutant beast! Machine gunners, watch out overhead!"

One urgent message after another came through the communication channel.

Su Ran's brows furrowed.

Compared to the previous 300,000, the impact of this wave of beasts is on a completely different level.

The newly formed battle line began to retreat inch by inch under the onslaught of this relentless torrent.

"Old Mo! Do it!"

Su Ran couldn't wait any longer and quickly spoke up, "Use the poison mist to stabilize the middle section of the battlefield first!"

"I can't wait any longer!"

Below another fighter jet, an extremely concentrated dark green poisonous cloud began to boil and churn.

Su Ran released several highly concentrated inducers in mid-air, instantly creating a mutated beast "meat mountain" that was over ten meters tall below.

Immediately afterwards, the deadly poison cloud controlled by Mo Yun crashed down on the heartland where the beasts were most densely packed.

Wherever it passed, hordes of mutated beasts turned into green water.

"Sizzle!"

Wherever it passed, tens of thousands of mutated beasts didn't even have time to scream before they were turned into puddles of murky green water, skin and bones alike.

Su Ran wasn't idle either, activating her spatial abilities at full power.

While harvesting, they dumped construction waste into the herd, creating temporary barriers in front of the defense line.

But these are just a drop in the ocean compared to the massive influx of millions.

The beast tide is still surging wildly.

Humanity's defenses are still retreating with great difficulty.

Looking through the observation window at the endless blackness, Su Ran felt a heavy sense of oppression for the first time.

This battle was far more difficult than he had anticipated.

……

The defensive line is retreating.

It wasn't a rout, it was being gnawed away inch by inch.

In the front-line zone three, beneath the five-meter-high anti-beast wall, the corpses of mutated beasts had piled up to the waist of the wall.

The subsequent monsters climbed up the wall by stepping on the backs of their own kind, less than ten meters away.

"Segment three of the wall is in critical condition! They're coming up!"

"Machine guns, hold the top of the hill! Don't let them get a foothold!"

In the trench, Old Joe rested the barrel of his gun on a sandbag, aimed at the dark mass of heads on the hilltop, and pulled the trigger.

"Da da da da da!"

The blue bullet chain sprayed out like water, and the heads of the monsters in the front row exploded, but the ones behind paid no heed and climbed up by stepping on the heads of their own kind.

"Squad leader! They're coming up! We can't hold them off!" The recruit's voice was trembling.

"I saw it!"

Old Joe cursed angrily, his hands moving so fast they were practically spinning as he reloaded.

"Stop fucking counting how far away they are! Focus on the crosshair and fire!"

High in the air, Su Ran lowered the fighter jet even further.

He flew almost touching the heads of the herd, flicking his wrist to drop a bucket of attractant.

The scent spread across the battlefield. The mutated beasts charging at the front tilted their heads, disoriented by the smell, and turned to rush towards the center of the scent.

But this offset is too small.

The torrent of millions of beasts only diverted the surface layer. The beast horde below continued to push forward, forcing the defenses to retreat an inch.

"Old Mo, have you accumulated enough poison fog over there?" Su Ran switched into the channel.

"Almost there! Just two more minutes!"

The wind was blowing loudly on Mo Yun's end.

"Brother Su, this can't go on."

"These things are so densely packed! One wave of them melted a huge area, and then they were filled up again in the blink of an eye!"

Su Ran didn't reply, her eyes fixed on the ground below.

He knew that Mo Yun was telling the truth.

In the current situation, their two fighter jets are like two needles; if they were plunged into the Black Tide, they wouldn't even make a ripple.

Just then, a gruff voice squeezed into the channel.

"Brother Su! Can you hear me?!"

Su Ran was taken aback, then overjoyed and exclaimed, "Old Ye?"

"It's me! And Jingye too!"

The background noise on Ye Xiao's end was chaotic, with howling winds mixed with the roar of an engine.

"We were originally clearing out Tier 3 beasts on the western line, but when we heard you guys were having a tough battle here, we came around!"

Upon receiving your urgent letter, we dropped our mission and flew straight over!

Su Ran suddenly looked up and glanced at the western horizon.

Two black dots were tearing through the clouds and rushing towards us, leaving long trails of flame behind them.

"You old Ye! You've come at just the right time!"

Mo Yun also heard Ye Xiao's voice, and the weight that had been pressing on his chest finally eased a little.

Zhu Jingye's voice also followed.

"Damn it, Su-ge, you've stirred up a hornet's nest! So many beasts!"

"Don't rush to rush."

Su Ran's eyes darted around; she had made up her mind.

"Old Ye, move closer to me, I'll give you the equipment!"

"Cheng Ying?"

"That's right!"

"it is good."

Ye Xiao's fighter jet cut in from the side and caught up with Su Ran's flank in the blink of an eye.

The two aircraft were less than 100 meters apart, and the figures in each other's cockpits could be clearly seen.

Su Ran's mind stirred.

Spatial ripples spread out, and the steel giant appeared out of thin air in the airflow between the two machines.

Su Ran himself was not a born warrior. Asking him to pilot a mecha and engage in close combat with a third-tier mutated beast was like forcing a duck onto a shelf.

Only when a melee mech like Cheng Ying is in the hands of a warrior like Ye Xiao can it unleash its terrifying combat power of 200%!

Ye Xiao was equally unambiguous on the other end.

The fighter jet's cockpit door slid open silently, and a figure leaped in, directly entering Cheng Ying's cockpit.

"Cool."

He uttered only one word.

The next second, Cheng Ying used the thrust of the crystal core array to draw an arc in the air and crash down towards the most dangerous section of the beast-proof wall below.

Bang!

The earth trembled violently, and a huge crater was smashed into the corpse slope in front of section three of the wall, with shockwaves mixed with severed limbs rolling wildly in all directions.

Before the dust had even settled, a Tier 3 mutated berserker lion, its size comparable to an armored vehicle, roared and pounced.

"roll."

Inside the mecha, Ye Xiao's eyes were icy as he raised his right arm.

"Buzz!"

He drew his sword and launched a sweeping attack.

The third-tier lion, along with the two hunting dogs behind it, was cleanly severed in two.

In the trench, Old Joe's reloading action also froze halfway through.

"It's...it's a mecha! Those are Great Xia's mechas!"

"Our reinforcements have arrived! We're saved!!"

Ye Xiao had no time to listen to the cheers below.

He swung his knife with his left hand, while the six-barreled electromagnetic cannon on his right shoulder simultaneously began to spin, unleashing a barrage of 6,000 pure energy bullets per minute that pulverized the monsters climbing up the hilltop into a bloody pulp.

Blades flashed and bullets clashed.

This section of the wall, which was on the verge of falling, was held down by a mech.

Su Ran enjoyed the view from the air and quickly switched back to Mo Yun's channel.

"Old Mo! Old Ye has stabilized segment three for us! We need to step up our game too!"

Mo Yun gave a low shout, "Watch this!"

The dark green poisonous cloud reached its peak before being smashed down with a deafening roar.

Su Ran also took the opportunity to dump construction waste, piling it up as a temporary barrier at the edge of the gap.

All three parties are working together.

The entire precarious battlefront finally caught its breath.

But the black tide below had no end in sight.

Ye Xiao's mecha, Mo Yun's wave of poison mist, and his wave of inducers—combined, they still couldn't cut off the numbers against a million-strong force.

The beast tide is still surging.

The defensive line is still retreating.

The brief back-and-forth struggle lasted for about ten minutes.

Then, somewhere on the east side, something happened.

"The eastern section! It's breached!"

The observation post's shouts were tinged with tears: "They've entered the trenches!"

Su Ran suddenly turned her head to look east.

The corpses piled up on that section of the protective wall finally reached the same height as the top of the wall, so the mutated beasts no longer needed to climb and could directly step onto the backs of their own kind to enter the trench.

The blue bullet belt was still ringing, but the monster was already pressed against the soldier's face.

The screams carried by the wind into the sky.

"Firepower! Immediately deploy firepower to cover the eastern section!"

Zhao Shanhe's roar had been echoing on the channel since the war began.

"Engineers! Blow up the embankment of corpses at the base of the wall! Don't let them climb up!"

But this one gap triggered a chain reaction of collapse.

The mutated beasts spread outwards along the gap, cutting off the eastern section of the defense line in the middle.

In the section of the trench that was cut open, a hundred soldiers were instantly surrounded.

"I can't get there in time, and Old Ye can't take care of everything!"

Mo Yun's voice, no longer calm, changed tone, "Brother Su! Those brothers in the eastern section are going to be finished!"

Once the defense line is divided from within and broken down piecemeal, it's the beginning of an avalanche.

Su Ran's mind raced.

The inducing agent was running out, Ye Xiao was stuck at number three and couldn't break free, and Mo Yun's poisonous fog had a limited coverage area...

"General Zhao, what about the reserves? Send the last reserves up to plug the gap!"

"The last reserve team moved up half an hour ago!"

How long will it take for reinforcements from nearby areas to arrive?

Su Ran's speaking speed had unknowingly reached an extreme.

"At least another twenty minutes!"

A sense of desolation crept into Zhao Shanhe's voice, "There's no one left! Consultant Su, we really... have no one left!"

Su Ran closed her eyes in pain for a moment.

His mind raced through every possibility, each one a dead end.

Just then!

"Boom!"

Above the sky, above the clouds.

A massive shadow tore through the clouds, roaring across the battlefield.

A massive heavy transport plane, trailing a fiery exhaust, is speeding toward this meat grinder battlefield.