Chapter 1 The Darkness Before Dawn

With the roaring explosion of fire and the piercing screams, the entire scene of the Abyssal Trench turned into darkness in Li Tianran's system feedback.

Squeak!

A sharp, empty sound rang in Li Tianran's ears, followed by a series of prompts.

"Mech Gladiator 06 has exhausted its energy. The mech's structural integrity has reached one hundred percent. Connection lost!"

"Mech Gladiator 08..."

Six consecutive, cold prompts sounded in a row. Li Tianran disconnected the Mech Gladiators' status data through the system and suddenly opened his eyes.

In the overload-burn state, the Mech Gladiators' speed and attack power reached their peak. In its final moments, Mech Gladiator 06 successfully invaded the Sea Siren's vicinity, grabbed her, and launched an extremely terrifying attack.

In the high-temperature mechanical hands of several thousand degrees, any evolver without defensive Divine Descent abilities would probably be reduced to coke and vaporized in a matter of seconds!

The Sea Siren's chances of survival were slim.

But Li Tianran couldn't be sure that this sea beast emperor had really died so easily in his hands.

After all, such a monster that had created a terrifying crisis for the human world and for Kuangxi Island should have stubbornly survived to the end, even in science fiction movies or stories, and fallen in a full-scale decisive battle.

This kind of death, being killed by ten Mech Gladiators, seemed a little too easy!

Li Tianran frowned in silence.

"If only it could have lasted a few more seconds..." Li Tianran muttered to himself.

The Mech Gladiators collapsed too quickly in the burn state, causing him to fail to see whether the Sea Siren was reduced to ashes or still alive...

The vitality of evolved creatures was extremely tenacious. Unless its life flaw was hit or its entire being was annihilated, it was difficult to be one hundred percent certain that it was dead.

But at this time, continuing to send the remaining ten Mech Gladiators into the deep sea to the Abyssal Trench was no longer realistic.

The first time Li Tianran deployed the Mech Gladiators was because the large-scale beast tide had not completely collapsed, there were fewer sea beasts in the deep sea, and he was launching a surprise attack. Now, most of the sea beasts had already experienced an invasion by the Mech Gladiators, and even the Abyssal Trench had experienced that intense riot. The sea beasts would definitely gather in large numbers, and the difficulty of the Mech Gladiators completing a second decapitation would increase at least tenfold.

Moreover, if the Sea Siren wasn't dead, the beast kings would definitely transfer her; they would definitely not leave her in the Abyssal Trench.

In addition, the remaining ten Mech Gladiators had suffered severe damage in the previous war that had not been fully repaired. Sending them into the deep sea at this time would be pure suicide!

Considering all the above factors, Li Tianran could only pray that the Sea Siren had been killed in the final attack by the Mech Gladiators' self-destructive attack method.

...

In the following two days, Li Tianran tallied the amount of resources consumed in the war. Thanks to the Yanhuang Federation's air force support, the losses in this battle were much smaller than expected. Buying out this support with ten thousand fruits meant that Li Tianran had made a profit overall.

The strategic point reclamation battle also came to a victorious end after thirty-eight hours of fighting. All seventeen strategic points that had been planned to be reclaimed had been planted with the flags of human nations.

After the war ended, Li Tianran immediately sent a message to the Allied Council, demanding that they immediately fulfill the promises made at the meeting.

After this great battle, less than sixteen days remained until the arrival of the Fourth Era of Destruction.

Li Tianran's time was too tight!

The Allied Council didn't try to shirk or delay Li Tianran's request with other excuses, because building a new human defense line was a major event concerning the entire human race. Moreover, when Li Tianran contacted the Allied Council, his emotions were very deep and terrifying, like a bomb suppressing its anger from erupting. Considering the performance of the major powers during the previous large-scale beast tide invasion, the four countries led by the European Union were very worried that Li Tianran would lose control at any time.

Under these circumstances, a large amount of resources, construction equipment, and personnel from countries around the world were transported to Kuangxi Island.

Raising Kuangxi Island's overall level to that of a national-level force in sixteen days seemed incredible, but the infrastructure power of a strong country was very powerful. Take a large hospital in the former Federation as an example. Its total area exceeded 75,000 square meters. Generally speaking, it would take two years to plan and build such a large hospital under normal circumstances. However, due to the special circumstances at the time, a large number of workers and infrastructure units worked overtime, and the hospital was completed in less than ten days.

Installing large-scale IT equipment in the hospital would normally take ten days, but under the current circumstances, the entire information system was deployed in just twelve hours.

What a huge time difference!

When faced with disasters or dangers, humans often unleash power many times greater than usual, creating one miracle after another that seems impossible to complete!

A two-year project can be completed in ten days when disaster strikes!

Building a strong country from scratch took F country three hundred years, Y country more than one hundred years, the European Union eighty-nine years, Russia seventy years, and the Federation sixty years. Li Tianran didn't have that much time; he didn't even have a year!

With the assistance of powerful countries around the world, he needed to complete the transformation from a city-level force to a strong-country-level force in sixteen days!

At this time, the world shared the same idea.

The stored mineral resources would be exhausted one day. Humanity's future was destined to be on the path of evolution. Instead of hoarding resources in warehouses and waiting for them to go moldy, it was better to use them to build a defense line strong enough to resist any enemy. When human evolver forces grew to a level sufficient to replace modern technology within this defense line, humans would go out again and take control of this planet.

And within this defense line, Kuangxi Island was crucial.

So, powerful countries might not directly give a lot of resources to Li Tianran, but they were definitely willing to help him build Kuangxi Island. After all, in the last war, Li Tianran had already proven his ability to defend the human line.

Powerful countries also didn't want the new human defense line to be easily breached. They and Li Tianran had reached a consensus on building Kuangxi Island!

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On the second day after the reclamation war ended, Li Tianran received a reply from the Allied Council.

Standing at the top of the castle, he saw a large number of large freighters coming from the distant sea, stretching as far as the eye could see.

These freighters, printed with the logos of different powerful countries, carried a large amount of resources, equipment, and workers, heading towards Kuangxi Island in a mighty manner.

Li Tianran knew that from this moment on, the development of Kuangxi Island would enter a new height.