Chapter 68 The Ocean's Intent

On the long human defense line, only two locations suffered Apostle-level beast tide invasions.

One was the T-119 area guarded by Li Zhi's Northern Border Legion, and the other was the sea area where Kuangxi Island used to be. However, compared to the T-119 area, the Kuangxi Island sea area, with Sky Castle and a large number of mech warriors stationed there, had much stronger defense capabilities.

After obtaining the Sky Apostle's biochip, Li Tianran's strength had taken another leap. Even if Kuangxi Island was not on the human defense line, the area it used to guard was still impenetrable and could not be easily breached.

The current war situation in the T-119 area made Li Zhi, the new commander who was eager to make a name for himself, very excited. He felt that the ancient civilization was not as powerful as rumored. Under his tactical command, the entire defense area was as solid as a rock, and no sea beast could break through this defense line; they were all killed in front of the city walls!

It was just that Li Zhi seemed to have overlooked something.

In the process of Li Tianran's multiple encounters with the Apostles, he had gained a full understanding of the characteristics of "Miracle Buildings."

These technological crystallizations, created by the ancient civilization's millennia of wisdom, had the characteristics of amphibious operation in the sea, land, and air. However, because of their different structures, they had greater advantages in certain terrains.

Just like Sky Castle, it flew very fast in the air, but its speed would drop a lot on land and in the ocean.

The Ocean Apostle's Continental Ark had extremely fast speed and reaction capabilities in the ocean, but this did not mean that this ark would become a pile of immobile scrap iron after leaving the ocean.

It could still rise into the air, relying on its powerful protective shield to withstand attacks, directly cross the high city walls of the defense line, and enter the central city of the human defense line!

If it did this, it would be difficult for Li Zhi to stop it.

But since the start of the war, the Ocean Apostle had been staring at the battlefield indifferently, allowing the sea beasts under its command to be killed, without any intention of driving the giant ark to rudely break through the defense line...

What was it waiting for?

What exactly was its goal?

Wasn't it to cross this defense line as quickly as possible, drive straight into the cities of the human world to carry out destruction, create a large number of killings, and force Li Tianran to withdraw his troops from the Guren Noah Desert?

Sea beasts were dying in large numbers, and some inferior sequence followers were also killed, their blood staining the earth.

The Ocean Apostle's eyes were indifferent, as if watching a play that had nothing to do with it.

...

In the Guren Noah Desert, with nuclear weapons proving ineffective against the Miracle Buildings, Li Tianran activated the Kunlun Battleship's laser orbital cannons. Hundreds of barrels simultaneously aimed at the two Miracle Buildings below. After a brief accumulation of energy, hundreds of extremely thick, destructive beams of light instantly fell.

The power of the laser orbital cannons on the Kunlun Battleship was similar to that of the energy cannons on the Blazing Steel Wall, but its range was longer. This level of energy cannon could not destroy the Boundary Tower barrier on the Miracle Buildings in one go; it still required five strikes to break through the defenses.

The huge, ferocious energy pillars landed outside the two Miracle Buildings. The light in the air twisted, and invisibly, a transparent barrier was vibrating and shaking violently, constantly offsetting the destructive power of the light beam.

This barrier was like a piece of ice constantly disappearing in the sun, melting layer by layer! Eventually, the energy beam dissipated, and the thickness of the barrier was reduced by one-fifth.

"Continue," Li Tianran said expressionlessly, issuing the attack command again.

At the same time, a staff member on the Kunlun Battleship's detection platform suddenly spoke, saying in a deep voice: "Governor, detecting anomalies in the northern direction away from the sea. It seems that a large number of beast tides are landing."

Li Tianran raised his eyebrows.

In fact, many people believe that deserts are formed because they are far away from water sources and rivers, and the land cannot be nourished, resulting in long-term weathering and desertification, but... there are also some special cases.

On Blue Star, a small number of deserts are close to rivers, seas, or even directly border the sea!

The reason for this is that one direction of the land is close to the sea, but the monsoon does not blow towards the land; while the other side usually has large mountains blocking it, and humid air cannot pass through. Without a supply of rainwater on both sides, it can only be arid for a long time, eventually forming a large desert.

The Guren Noah Desert is such a terrain.

Its western part directly borders the Li Sea, while its eastern part is a continuous range of the Aniku Mountains.

At this time, the usually calm surface of the Li Sea was constantly churning, and sea beasts crawled out of the sea and rushed towards the battlefield.

"The Li Sea is their respawn point... If we cannot destroy this sea, then the Apostles' cannon fodder will be endless." Li Tianran narrowed his eyes. He didn't know how many sea beasts lived in the ocean, but it was definitely an astronomical number.

A few months ago, the number of Beast Kings was eight million.

After countless bloody battles, the number of Beast Kings may have decreased to some extent, but it would still remain above five million.

As for mutant beasts... there were countless more.

In a certain sea area alone, the number of mutant beasts was in the billions.

"Their numbers are increasing... They are dispersing and advancing towards the coalition forces' defense line!" The staff member quickly locked onto the position of the foremost beast tide: "Currently, they are less than thirty kilometers away from the coalition forces!"

"Should we open fire to intercept?"

Li Tianran glanced at the position of the beast tide. They were approaching the coalition forces at an extremely high speed, and continuing to use nuclear weapons at this distance was already dangerous to some extent, so there were currently only two choices.

First, Li Tianran could give up attacking the Miracle Buildings and activate the Kunlun Battleship to help the coalition forces block the beast tide.

Second, he could focus on attacking the Miracle Buildings and allow the beast tide to cross the Kunlun Battleship's defense zone, allowing the coalition forces to eliminate them at close range.

Without much consideration, Li Tianran decisively gave up the interception and aimed the firepower at the Miracle Buildings below again.

He had mobilized so many troops today not just to have them cheer for him. It would be ideal if they could annihilate the enemy without casualties, but if they had to fight the enemy head-on, these troops had to step up!

In this war, as the highest combat power, he could keep an eye on the two Apostles and their subordinate inferior sequence followers, preventing them from slaughtering the human coalition forces.

But the human coalition forces had to eliminate these massive numbers of sea beasts, at least to avoid causing trouble for Li Tianran's decisive battle with the Apostles!

If they couldn't even deal with these sea beasts, then the human coalition forces really had no need to exist!

Li Tianran stopped paying attention to the movement of the beast tide below, and instead directly spoke to several coalition commanders.

"I am Li Tianran."

"Next, I will issue combat orders to you!"