Chapter 170 Trap

Li Zhi kept urging, and ninety percent of the troops within the entire defense line had already been deployed, leaving only some administrative personnel and units operating heavy firepower.

He looked at the tide of beasts and the dying Marine Apostle through his binoculars, feeling a surge of heat in his heart.

Success and fame were within reach today!

At this moment, the adjutant approached, holding a satellite phone with a pale face: "Commander, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces has issued an order, requesting you to immediately withdraw all troops and cease the pursuit of the Marine Apostle!"

Li Zhi was stunned for a moment. His gaze fell on the troops in front, about to engage the beast tide. He gritted his teeth, as if making a major decision, and said, "You reply to the Supreme Commander that even if our troops have already engaged the beast tide, we cannot withdraw! Tell him to rest assured, I guarantee a complete annihilation of the enemy!"

The adjutant was stunned, wanting to offer some advice, but looking at Li Zhi's bloodshot eyes, he ultimately chose silence.

Li Zhi's state was somewhat deranged. His intense desire to kill the Marine Apostle had made him dare to challenge all authority. Driven by this emotion, he dared to disregard even Li Tianran's orders!

"Hurry, hurry, hurry!"

"Launch missiles at the beast tide, ignore the surrounding mutated beasts and beast kings, aim at the Marine Apostle and fire!"

Li Zhi was unusually excited, standing on the city wall and using a miniature satellite communicator to remotely command the troops, "Evolutionary units, mecha warrior units, be sure to form an interception line and intercept the Marine Apostle outside its ark!"

At this moment, the beast tide was only a few kilometers away from the sea, and the mecha warriors had already intercepted the beast tide, beginning their interception maneuvers. Giant spears swung, laser cannons crisscrossed, and countless sea beasts perished in an instant.

Before this war began, Li Tianran had handed over the command of these mecha warriors stationed on the human defense lines to the generals who served as leaders of the various defense lines. Because he was commanding the war in the Golen-Nor Oasis and simultaneously commanding millions of Allied troops, he simply couldn't spare the energy to control the large number of mecha warriors distributed on these defense lines.

But it was precisely this action of Li Tianran's that led to him not learning about the real-time battle situation on the T-119 defense line in a timely manner. It wasn't until Li Zhi led his troops out of the city that Li Tianran received the news.

And at this point, it was already a bit too late to order Li Zhi to withdraw his troops.

Because the massive ground forces had already driven dozens of kilometers away from the giant city, and the battlefield was rugged and uneven due to the previous battle, making a retreat not so simple!

Boom, boom, boom!

Intense artillery fire exploded in the beast tide, obliterating large numbers of beasts. Even those powerful secondary sequence followers had no courage to resist, and desperately dragged the Marine Apostle's massive body towards the Ark.

Seeing this scene, Li Zhi became even more excited.

"Have all the remaining mecha warriors activate their burst modes…" Li Zhi said in a deep voice, "Strive to kill the Marine Apostle as quickly as possible. Time is of the essence, if this beast recovers later, we're finished!"

With Li Zhi's order, the eight mecha warriors intercepting the beast tide instantly activated their burst modes. Among them, the warrior wielding the Dragon Tooth Giant Spear took the lead, cutting a bloody path through the beast tide as if slicing vegetables, heading straight for the Marine Apostle.

The distance between them was now less than a kilometer!

Behind the beast tide, the evolutionary units had caught up, and these warriors began to wield their steel knives again, slaughtering the lagging monsters.

"I feel like something is wrong…" Cha Kaijin shouted to the evolutionary warriors around him after slicing a mutated beast in half, "This beast tide's retreat speed seems a bit too slow!"

Yes, Cha Kaijin and his group of evolutionary warriors had already exhausted their physical strength after experiencing a bloody battle, and most of the beast tide had hardly participated in the battle. Their physical condition was still at its peak, but why were a group of evolutionary warriors, whose physical strength was almost exhausted, able to catch up with a beast tide that was already in peak condition in such a short period of time?

Even if there were mecha warriors blocking the beast tide in front, the evolutionary units shouldn't have been able to catch up so quickly!

"These monsters seem to be deliberately slowing down!" Cha Kaijin frowned, finally saying something that sent chills down people's spines.

The evolutionary warriors who heard this sentence felt a chill run through their bodies.

Deliberately slowing down?

Why?

The Marine Apostle had already suffered such serious injuries, shouldn't the beast tide protect it and retreat as quickly as possible? Why would they deliberately slow down?

One evolutionary warrior thought about it and couldn't help but shudder. He looked at Cha Kaijin and said in a trembling voice, "Could it be… that the Marine Apostle wasn't injured at all?"

Cha Kaijin's pupils constricted, and he also thought of this possibility.

If the Marine Apostle wasn't injured…

At this moment, looking at the vast Northern Territory Legion troops behind him, Cha Kaijin suddenly stopped, cold sweat dripping from his forehead: "No, we can't chase anymore! It's too dangerous!"

"This… this is just a guess, right?" Another evolutionary warrior asked.

"I just feel like something is wrong. When Governor killed the Sky Apostle, there was a suppression effect on Crazy Breath Island, and Governor personally took action. Even so, it was still an incredibly dangerous fight, and he almost lost his life several times…"

"Thinking back to the war just now, although it looked particularly intense, in reality our strength was not comparable to when we besieged the Sky Apostle!"

"Even a Sky Apostle whose attributes were suppressed by more than half was so strong, the Marine Apostle's performance just now… was too inconsistent with its identity!"

Cha Kaijin tightly gripped the steel knife in his hand, his gaze fixed on the beast tide in front, feeling his heart rate rapidly soaring: "I have a feeling that if we continue to chase, something big will happen!"

The evolutionary warriors next to him looked at each other. Someone couldn't help but ask, "If we give up the pursuit, will Commander Li Zhi agree?"

"I'll communicate with him!" Cha Kaijin took the communication headset from the warrior next to him and began to contact Li Zhi.

Soon, the two connected.

"Commander, this is Cha Kaijin, we can't continue the pursuit… this matter is too abnormal, I suggest an immediate retreat!" Cha Kaijin said in a deep voice, "Otherwise, I will lead the evolutionary legion to withdraw on my own!"

On the city wall, Li Zhi's face turned ashen as he listened to Cha Kaijin's straightforward and unforgiving words in the headset. He gritted his teeth and said, "Do you know the consequences of disobeying orders on the battlefield?"

"Don't tell me that… I'm definitely not continuing the chase!" Cha Kaijin was very decisive.

Pa!

Li Zhi was so angry that he directly smashed the communication headset in his hand and spoke to the air force units via satellite communicator:

"Closely monitor the movements of the evolutionary units!"

"If they show any intention of retreating, no need to ask, just kill the leader, Cha Kaijin, directly!"

"For battlefield insubordination, I can kill him directly, and Li Tianran can't say much!"