I, from the Celestial Empire, have parachuted into Teyvat.

At this moment, a middle-aged man who looked like a military officer was waiting in the factory director's office.

Upon entering the office, the factory manager immediately introduced, "Comrade, this is Lao Liang, the technical director of our factory's production workshop, also known as Technician Liang."

Upon seeing Lao Liang, the officer took the initiative to come up and shake hands with him.

"Hello Director Liang, I am from the Logistics Department of the city's garrison. My surname is Li, Li Baosheng."

"Hello, Comrade Li."

"Time is of the essence, so I'll get straight to the point: Director Liang, can our factory increase its production speed?"

Old Liang was startled.

You should know that their factory mainly produces certain military consumable materials, which, to put it simply, are war consumables like bullets, and are linked to explosives such as grenades, rockets, and mortar shells. Now, the military logistics suddenly sent someone to ask if production could be accelerated... Anyone with a little common sense knows that explosives are being consumed in large quantities at the front lines, otherwise they wouldn't be asking them to speed up production.

Suppressing his shock for the moment, Lao Liang nodded and said, "It can speed things up."

How much faster will it be?

"At most, it can be increased to 2.5 times the current efficiency, but that would require workers and machines to work in shifts 24 hours a day."

"Director Liang, these are extraordinary times. Could you please coordinate with the factory to increase production capacity to the maximum? We can also increase overtime pay for workers during this period, and the subsidies we provide to the workers can be reimbursed by the government."

Old Liang nodded: "Okay..."

"Then I'll have to trouble you."

Li Baosheng gave a casual salute, then left the factory without lingering.

Seeing the other party's hurried appearance, Lao Liang muttered a guess: "Could it be... that there's a problem with the coastal defense line?"

After a few seconds of silence in the office, the old factory director said in a deep voice, "Liang Ji, go and contact our factory's workers. Call back those who are on break. From now on, their wages will be double the usual rate, and overtime will be triple... Not just the front lines, we need to enter combat mode too..."

......

Chengnan District, Qindao City.

The residents here have long since moved to the city center. For the past two weeks, the coastal area of ​​the southern district has been the main attack point for monsters. The number of monsters landing here accounts for more than 90% of the total number of monsters that have landed and attacked Qindao City. Therefore, this area has always been the main battlefield for the garrison. Centered on the naval port, several kilometers along the coastline are the fire defense lines established by the Qindao City Garrison of China.

At that moment, heavy artillery fire erupted along the coastline, as the monsters had just launched another attack on the defensive line.

A Hilichurl, wielding a stone spear, crawled out of the sea and roared as it hurled it at a remotely controlled automatic machine gun dozens of meters away. The irregularly spinning stone spear accelerated, its trajectory slightly deviating, and instead of hitting the machine gun mount, it stuck into the nearby burrowing soil. At the same time the Hilichurl threw the stone spear, another fixed-position automatic machine gun had already locked onto its head, and amidst the swarming sound of gunfire, it and dozens of its companion Hilichurl companions were riddled with bullets.

After they fell, hundreds more Hilichurls crawled out of the sea behind them and continued their fearless charge. This time, the automatic machine guns couldn't wipe out all the monsters at once, but the layers of stun wire and proximity mines set up by the garrison along the coast acted as a barrier, slowing down the monsters' advance. This delay was enough for the automatic machine guns to finish off the remaining monsters.

However, just like cell division, after several hundred Hilichurls fell, thousands of monsters emerged from the sea the next second.

They stepped over the corpses of their comrades who had not yet completely disappeared into the sea, and lay amidst the barbed wire and minefields their comrades had torn open for them, frantically pushing forward.

As one row of monsters fell to the muzzle of the automatic machine gun, another row would immediately take their place, one after another, oblivious to death and fear.

The monsters were endless, but the automatic machine gun had a moment when the muzzle overheated and the ammunition ran out. Just as the automatic machine gun in front of him stopped firing, a two-meter-long rock dragon lizard with a body covered in golden, armor-like rock fragments suddenly burrowed into the ground from the charging monster horde. In just two breaths, it burst out of the ground under the automatic turret base and instantly shattered the automatic machine gun base.

Inside the command post behind the defensive line, on the automatic machine gun control screen, the icon of an automatic machine gun flashed a disconnection sign.

"Report: The C-8-2 turret has been damaged, and monsters have rushed into the C-8-4 area through the gap in the firepower."

Upon hearing this report, Jin Congrong, the commander of the 8th Regiment of the Qindao Garrison, frowned.

"Bombard area C-8-2, notify the 3rd Battalion to seal the gap in firepower and drive the monsters in area C-8-4 back."

"Yes!"

Before long, the thunderous sound of artillery roared outside the command post.

Jin Congrong paced back and forth twice, a cigarette dangling from his lips, his face somewhat gloomy.

This wasn't the first time in the past two weeks that monsters had breached the first layer of automatic machine gun fire. The garrison had experience dealing with it, and even if the monsters broke through the automatic machine gun line, there was still a large amount of artillery fire waiting for them from the rear. What truly made Jin Congrong frown was the sudden increase in the number of landing monsters that had begun several hours earlier.

After half a month of research, the Qianhai base has already discovered the characteristics of the Abyss Sea.

These landing attack monsters do not live in the Abyss Sea, but are transformed from the Abyss Sea's own abyssal energy. The monsters that are killed will dissipate into some kind of particles and return to the Abyss Sea to be transformed again.

The number of monsters that can be transformed in the Abyss Sea within a certain period of time is limited, and there will be a certain gap period after each transformation. Therefore, the arrival of monsters is in a certain pattern. They do not rush up like a continuous tide, but rather a fixed number of monsters will climb up at regular intervals. The number of monsters in each batch varies, but the difference is not significant. For the past half month, tens of thousands of monsters have been arriving every day.

But just a few hours ago, this pattern was suddenly broken.

Not only are the waves of monsters landing becoming more and more frequent, but each wave of monsters is several times larger than the previous wave.

In just a few hours, the garrison had already eliminated the total number of monsters killed in the past week, and the number was still increasing.

This also increases the defensive pressure on garrison troops, as well as the pressure on ammunition reserves.

The surge in monster numbers has led to a rapid depletion of weapons and ammunition, and the base's logistics department is trying to find a way to deal with this emergency.

The Qianhai base has also begun investigating the reason for the sudden surge in the number of monsters, but there is no concrete information yet.

Jin Congrong stood in front of the defense command post, gazing at the dark purple abyss in the distance, his eyes deep and unfathomable.

But no matter what happens, for the Chinese soldiers...

Qindao City must be defended.

Chapter 409 Destructive Invasion

Inside the main command center of the Qianhai base.

Hong Jianjun was sitting in an office chair in the corner, taking a nap with his head tilted back.

Two consecutive days of working without sleep had left Hong Jianjun exhausted. Although the soldiers and staff had tried to persuade him, Hong Jianjun believed that this was a critical moment that would determine whether everyone could escape from the abyss, and that nothing could be left ambiguous. So he insisted on his decision, and no one could dissuade him.

Perhaps he was really too tired. Hong Jianjun had just asked someone to pour him a cup of tea, and he sat on the office chair next to him for a short while. In that short time, he fell asleep. When the staff member brought the tea back to wake Hong Jianjun, Chief of Staff Xiang Renjie stopped him.

"He's finally fallen asleep, so let's not disturb him. Let him sleep for a while."

Xiang Renjie took the teacup from the staff member and placed it on the table beside him. Looking at his old friend of many years who had been working tirelessly on the job for many days, he sighed softly.

Turning back to the communications station, he asked Renjie, "Has the Dolphin sent back any messages?"

The Dolphin was a small, two-person submarine that the Qianhai Base had sent to the nearby waters to investigate the reason for the sudden increase in the number of landing monsters.

The correspondent shook his head.

"not yet."

"Hmm... Strange, the explosive increase in the number of landing monsters this time is really too sudden... What about Haiqi Island? Is there any specific news?"

"The commander has just spoken with the Haiqi Island side, and the number of monsters landing on Haiqi Island is also increasing."

Just then, a rapid alarm sounded in the base command room.

"Alarm! Alarm! Base defenses under attack! Base defenses under attack..."

Xiang Renjie frowned.

"what happened?"

Meanwhile, the base's security system operator was frantically typing away at his computer.

"No... I don't know, the external wall cameras didn't detect any attackers..."

At this moment, Hong Jianjun, who was taking a nap in the corner, was also awakened by the alarm and quickly walked over.

"What happened? Why didn't you wake me up when I just fell asleep?"

Xiang Renjie said, "You haven't slept for two days. I saw that you finally fell asleep, so I didn't have the heart to wake you."

Hong Jianjun rubbed his temples.

"With so much going on, how can I possibly sleep..."

Xiang Renjie said, "The outer wall of the base has been attacked, but the attackers have not yet been found."

"The base has been attacked?"

Hong Jianjun frowned.

Before Hong Jianjun could ask any further questions, an urgent communication request came in.

"Report, Dolphin requests emergency communication."

"Bring them in."

Communication was established, and the voice of the Dolphin pilot rang out in the command center.

"Reporting to headquarters, an anomaly has occurred on the seabed!"

Hong Jianjun leaned over the communications station and asked, "What happened?"

"The aura of destruction is rising from the seabed! The seawater below 350 meters above sea level has turned completely blackish-red! And it is still rising."

"what?"

Hong Jianjun and Xiang Renjie were both startled.

Xiang Renjie asked, "What about the observation department? Didn't they detect an increase in destructive energy?"

After hanging up the internal phone call with the observation department of the Qianhai base, the communications officer reported: "The observation department said that routine observations a few hours ago did not detect any signs of an increase in the destructive aura on the seabed. At that time, it was still only within ten meters of the seabed. The destructive aura may have suddenly increased in the last few hours."

Hong Jianjun stroked his chin and said, "I see. So, the rise in destructive energy has squeezed out the space for the power of the abyss, which is why the number of landing monsters has suddenly increased..."

At this time, the base's defense system operators also discovered the anomaly in the base's outer layer of protection.

"Report! Destruction Stone crystals have been discovered on the outer layer of the base!"

Hong Jianjun raised an eyebrow and said, "Show the camera footage from the outer protective layer on the main screen!"

"Yes!"

With the operator's swift action, real-time footage from the cameras installed at the outermost protective layer of the base appeared on the central screen in the command center.

On the west side of the base, the entire seabed scene turned a blood-red color.

Xiang Renjie exclaimed in surprise, "So fast! The aura of destruction has already spread here..."

When the Qianhai Base was teleported to the Abyss along with Qindao City, it landed in front of a trench 300 meters deep in the Abyss Sea, not far from Qindao City, with a huge fault line in front of it.

Just moments ago, the Dolphin was reporting that the aura of destruction was 350 meters below the surface, but it has already reached 300 meters. At this rate, it won't be long before the aura of destruction completely encroaches on the entire Abyss Sea and rises to the surface!

On the camera's view, the seabed in front of the Qianhai base was covered with rocks of destruction! The purplish-black seawater receded, gradually being replaced by a red aura of destruction!

Moreover, at the point where the outer protective layer contacts the seabed rocks, red destruction stones the size of basketballs begin to form at a visible speed, slowly climbing onto the outermost protective layer like barnacles.

"Alert! Base defenses have been attacked; current defenses are down by three percent..."

As the alarm sounded again in the command post, Hong Jianjun finally realized what was happening.