Chapter 190 Before the Last Moment

Before arriving at the defense line, Zhang Shoucheng was mentally prepared, but when he landed in this giant city, he found that the reality was much worse than he had imagined.

Over a hundred places along the dozens of kilometers of city walls of the giant defense city were severely damaged. The anti-ground artillery on the city wall was severely destroyed, and the ammunition within the giant city was running out. Moreover, the lack of ammunition was not only due to the fierce war accelerating consumption, but also because a large part of it was carried by the ground troops that left the defense line. The shells in those chariots and tanks had not been completely fired before they were submerged by the beast tide, becoming wreckage.

A considerable portion of the ammunition was essentially wasted in the battlefield outside the defense line.

The troops led by Zhang Shoucheng were pursuing speed, so they naturally could not carry too many heavy weapons.

Therefore, the situation they now faced was that the city walls were nearly destroyed and the defending forces lacked firepower.

But now scolding Li Zhi was useless. What was done was done, and even peeling Li Zhi's skin wouldn't change the situation.

"What our troops can do is the same as what you were doing just now... if we don't have ammunition, we'll use planes to crash into the beast tide! If we run out of planes, we'll pick up submachine guns! If we run out of bullets, we'll charge with steel knives!" Zhang Shoucheng said, word by word, "We have no tactics to implement. All we can do is use our bodies as the city walls to block the front line of the beast tide."

"At the last moment, I will activate the three triphasic nuclear bombs within the giant city!"

Before Zhang Shoucheng arrived, the Federation had restored his military region chief authority in the weapon database. He could use those three terrifying nuclear weapons.

Chu Xiong was silent for a long time. He grabbed Zhang Shoucheng's shoulders and said repeatedly, "Good! Good! If that's the case, then we'll die together!"

The two old generals, both over sixty years old, laughed loudly and walked towards the city wall side by side.

The reinforcements led by Zhang Shoucheng quickly climbed the damaged city wall and, in squads, launched the last charge of their lives.

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In the great desert, Li Tianran continuously pressed the launch button of the laser railgun, and beams of light containing terrifying energy continuously bombarded the two miracle buildings below.

The reset boundary tower barrier was broken again, and the beams of light hit the hull of the miracle buildings, leaving scars even on the outer shell made of top-level materials.

During the previous invasion of the Kunlun Giant Ship, at least three thousand minor sequence followers under the Apostle of Gale died, suffering severe losses. At this moment, the Babel Tower, like a pillar supporting the sky, stood motionless in the center of the desert. No more followers appeared, allowing the Kunlun Giant Ship to bombard it as if it had given up resistance.

During several rounds of bombardment, Li Tianran gradually discovered the differences between the Apostle of Gale's and the Apostle of Darkness's miracle buildings. Like the characteristics of the apostles themselves, the Sky Castle of the Apostle of the Sky was extremely fast, while the miracle building of the Apostle of the Ocean was very aggressive, and the miracle building of the Apostle of Darkness had amazing defensive power.

When the same laser railgun was fired, it could blast a deep ballistic mark on the Babel Tower, but it could only leave a shallow trace on the giant city of the Apostle of Darkness.

Given this characteristic, Li Tianran also began to concentrate firepower on the Babel Tower.

Although the situation on the battlefield now seemed to favor Li Tianran, he was also very clear that he could not simultaneously kill two apostles and destroy two races through this war.

Being able to kill one of them would be considered a major victory!

Apostles were not fools, nor were they novices without war experience. If they determined that they were at a complete disadvantage, or even in mortal danger, they would not risk the destruction of their race to protect the ziggurat.

When the moment of victory or defeat really arrived, the two apostles would definitely drive the beast tide to resist the Kunlun Giant Ship, and then drive the two miracle buildings to escape the battlefield separately.

With Li Tianran's firepower, he could only pursue one miracle building at most.

He set his target as the Babel Tower!

"The first layer of the target has been destroyed, and no followers have been found!" The staff reported loudly.

The Babel Tower, a tower in Western mythology that was said to lead to heaven, was rumored to have a top floor that could enter the Gate of God. Li Tianran didn't know if these myths and legends of the human world were related to the apostles' miracle buildings, but the Apostle of Gale's miracle building was very similar in shape to the high tower in human mythology, and they both had eight floors.

During Li Tianran's frantic bombardment just now, the highest level of the Babel Tower, which stood into the clouds, had been completely destroyed.

The Babel Tower was now like a beautiful and elegant woman who had her head shaved with messy hair of varying lengths, making it look very ugly.

"Destroying its first layer is far from completely destroying it..." Li Tianran recalled the Sky Castle that had been half-melted under Death Valley. The damage at that time was much more severe than the Babel Tower at this time, but after lurking under the sea for a short time, when it reappeared, it had been repaired perfectly.

The technological crystallization of ancient civilizations was not so easily destroyed.

If he couldn't severely damage its core, then he only needed to give it a little more time, and it could return to its peak state.

"..." Qin Yiming looked up at Li Tianran and found that the expression on his face was very solemn, and his brows were tightly furrowed.

He was a little puzzled as to why Li Tianran still showed such an expression in a situation where he had all the advantages. It looked like... he was worried?

"The apostles' performance is a bit strange... If I were the Apostles of Darkness and Gale, after getting the news from the T-119 defense line, and confirming that I couldn't force me to withdraw my troops to defend, I would start considering choosing to escape the Kulun Noah Desert battlefield, because continuing to stalemate would only end with the apostles, whose technological weapons had not recovered, suffering a crushing defeat." Li Tianran stared at the motionless miracle buildings below, stroked his chin and muttered to himself, "I don't understand, they still haven't reacted yet, and they're still staying on this battlefield, what are they insisting on?"

This was indeed a question worth considering.

Qin Yiming also fell into deep thought.

After a moment, Qin Yiming suddenly seemed to have thought of something, and said in a somewhat urgent voice, "That's right, if the Apostle of the Stars in the original Kuangxi Island sea area was fake, then could the Apostle of the Stars' miracle building that appeared on that battlefield also be fake?"

Li Tianran raised his eyebrows.

That's right! Since the beginning of the war, the Bronze Palace of the Apostle of the Stars in the original Kuangxi Island sea area had not surfaced and had not actually appeared on the battlefield.

If that Apostle of the Stars was impersonated by a follower, then could that Bronze Castle also be a fake constructed through some kind of optical technology?

But if that Bronze Castle was fake, then where was the real one?

It did not appear on the defense line of the Northern Military Region!

Suddenly, Li Tianran seemed to have thought of something. He knitted his brows and immediately retrieved the recordings near the Old Triangle Sea area from the monitoring satellites.

That was... the current location of Kuangxi Island!