I chose the safe house, and the Human Alliance regretted it.

The cheers abruptly stopped.

Everyone was stunned.

One second ago, countless bases were filled with excited cheers and celebrations;

The next second, everyone's voices were silenced.

The reactions from all the bases were remarkably consistent—countless ordinary people were terrified, staring intently at the electronic screens.

Those faces that were just celebrating "victory" instantly froze into the same expression: fear, bewilderment, and disbelief.

Below the mountain ravine destroyed by a nuclear bomb, a strange beast peeks out from the darkness.

Arcs of electricity exploded all around him in the darkness, illuminating the surrounding vitrified rock walls in a ghastly white light.

This thunderous beast has no pupils in its eyes, only a vertical slit.

It roared to the sky, its vertical pupil seeming to be looking at everyone.

Then came the second one, the third one...

In just a few seconds, the screen was filled with figures radiating an aura of thunder and extreme cold.

"Ah—how could this happen..." someone exclaimed, their voice trembling.

Everyone stared wide-eyed, unable to believe what they were seeing.

Tens of thousands of nuclear bombs, with their devastating power, blasted the entire mountain valley into a glass basin.

These ghostly things are still alive!

"Is this a sign that heaven is going to destroy us...?"

At some overseas bases, countless people began to kneel and pray.

"Lord, save your people..."

"God, forgive us..."

"........."

Those who still have faith place all their hopes on a vague and ethereal god.

Southwest Base.

The woman clenched her hands tightly, her nails digging into her palms, and blood seeped out, but she was completely unaware.

Tears streamed down her face uncontrollably, dripping onto the ground.

Beside her, the boy was vigorously swinging his fists, shouting, "Daddy will destroy them!" His voice was loud, but no one echoed him.

In a corner, the old man frantically searched for the boy's figure on the screen.

That boy who kept insisting on having a separate family tree became an SSS-level superhuman at the age of seventeen.

"Gangzi, don't be foolish and rush in!" His voice was hoarse. "You're still a child..."

No one responded.

Everyone around was praying, trying to spot familiar faces in the dense array of satellite images.

........

Tianhai Base.

A young woman holding a baby stood in the square, looking up at the electronic screen.

Her man was on the front lines; the nuclear bombs had all been detonated, but the alien beasts were still alive.

"Come back...you must come back..." she murmured to herself.

In the capital city, at the Alliance headquarters, in a large hall.

The round conference table was full of people.

High-ranking officials from various overseas supernatural organizations, including the Covenant Church, the Spirit Realm Society, the Shiva Church, and the Sun Church, were all present.

At this moment, everyone remained silent.

The air seemed to freeze, pressing down on everyone's chest.

Satellite images are still playing on the electronic screen.

The enormous glass basin, the still-smoking cracks, the surging monsters... everyone's face was grim.

More than 10,000 nuclear bombs, and even weapons with a yield of 10 million tons, were used to flatten the entire mountain range.

And what happened? The monsters weren't all dead.

At the head of the round table, Chen Junjie sat upright, his expression unchanged, as calm as a stagnant pool.

He knew it would turn out this way.

His goal was to eliminate as many of the monstrous beasts as possible from their lair.

Now that half the goal has been achieved, the rest depends on that 500,000-strong army.

.......

On a ridge on the outskirts of the mountains.

Wang Wei stood there alone, and the flying debris, shockwaves, radioactive dust... all automatically swerved around him.

"It works well," he said softly.

Under the light, the entire battlefield situation was clearly visible.

The first four-legged monsters killed by the nuclear bomb—the Crimson Mist Beasts—

He just roughly estimated that nearly 100,000 SSS-level Crimson Mist Beasts were killed in the explosion.

There are countless others below SSS level.

"One hundred thousand heads..." Wang Wei muttered to himself.

If placed elsewhere, it would be impossible to eliminate so many at once.

He glanced at the still-smoking glass basin.

Chen Junjie, that was indeed a good move.

However... that's still far from enough.

Wang Wei's gaze fell on the deepest part of the mountain stream.

If the monstrous beast only possessed these abilities, it wouldn't have been able to lead humanity through five long years of hardship.

........

Kashgar Mountains, on the verge of a nuclear explosion.

Five hundred thousand SSS-level superhumans hovered in mid-air, staring intently at the massive gap.

The smoke and dust had not completely dissipated, and radioactive dust was still floating in the air, but everyone saw it—a burst of lightning appeared deep within the gap.

Blue arcs of electricity surged from the gap, like writhing snakes climbing along the vitrified pit walls.

The electric arcs grew denser and brighter, illuminating the entire ruins as if it were daytime.

Immediately afterwards, the temperature plummeted—not from the residual heat of the nuclear explosion, but from extreme cold!

The electric arc and the extreme cold intertwined, condensing into countless tiny ice crystals in the air, like a strange snowfall.

Two strange beasts burst out of the gap, one after the other.

An electric arc crackled around its body, and lightning pulsed like a living thing, blasting scorched craters into the surrounding ground.

The other one was dark blue all over, with its skin covered in frost scales. With each breath, it exhaled white, cold air, and frost formed wherever it passed.

Then came the third, the fourth... and so on.

In just over ten seconds, the edge of the gap was already crowded with strange beasts.

The first group of military superhumans stared intently at the surging beasts, taking a deep breath.

He knew he couldn't wait any longer.

The number of strange beasts is increasing, so we must act first and take advantage of their small numbers before they can establish a foothold!

"Everyone—" His voice was hoarse, but every word carried immense weight, "Kill!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he was the first to rush forward.

During the charge, the military superhumans' bodies suddenly swelled, their muscles bulged, their bones cracked, and their skin shone with a dark golden luster.

In an instant, he transformed into a giant hundreds of meters tall, crashing into the horde of strange beasts like a small mountain.

His special ability is SSS-level physical enhancement; his body is the best weapon!

After going berserk, the military superhuman punched a thunderous beast in the head.

"boom--"

With its bones shattered, the beast flew through the air, knocking down more than a dozen others behind it.

With his other hand, he grabbed the tail of an extremely cold beast, swung it up, and slammed it into the ground, creating a deep crater several meters in diameter in the mountainside.

Behind them, tens of thousands of superhumans in the first echelon attacked simultaneously.

Countless supernatural abilities surged forth like a flood, crashing down on the emerging beasts.

The direct battle between humans and monstrous beasts has begun.