Chapter 1 The Island Assault

Li Tianran could have arrived here sooner, but after shooting down the last EU fighter jet, he worried about being detected by the enemy's satellites. So, he deliberately flew his warplane far over the sea, and in an area where magnetic signals were severely disturbed, Li Tianran switched from the original Hurricane-class bomber to an armed helicopter, in order to make it impossible for the EU to track him.

This was a helpless measure due to insufficient strength.

It was clearly the other side that had first engaged in rude provocation and obstruction, but after retaliating, he couldn't openly reveal his identity...

If Hurricane Island had the strength to contend with a major power, Li Tianran wouldn't have had to go to such lengths. He could have directly contacted the EU Air Force headquarters and told them that he was the one who took down their warplanes, and dared them to do something about it!

How exhilarating would that be?

If he had arrived a few minutes earlier, perhaps Lu Chi wouldn't have been so badly injured.

Although he had taken down the EU's blocking warplanes, he knew that his target shouldn't be those few warplanes, but the entire EU superpower behind them!

In the end, it all came down to strength!

At this moment, Li Tianran looked at Lu Chi's body covered in deep lacerations, and felt extremely angry and frustrated.

Li Tianran closed his eyes, then suddenly opened them, pointed his finger at the monsters and human deserters on this island, and issued an order within the system: "Begin the purge!"

Buzz!

The eyes of the adult-level Berserkers and tank-level Berserkers quickly turned crimson red, and a large number of bombers flew in the sky, beginning to dive and shoot!

Da da da!

The adult-level Berserkers held heavy machine guns, turning their bodies into sturdy gun mounts, and charged into the horde of mutated beasts, spraying them with bullets.

The tank-level Berserkers were even more violent and direct, wielding huge serrated long blades, each strike cutting dozens of mutated beasts in half.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

A series of explosions rang out, and the mutated beasts constantly pouring in from the distance were engulfed in a sea of fire.

"Where are the others?" Li Tianran scanned the battlefield and found only Lu Chi, his heart skipped a beat, and he asked in as calm a voice as possible.

Lu Chi's breathing began to lighten. He had withdrawn from the battlefield, no longer suffering serious injuries. The effect of the Ancient-grade fruits he had frantically swallowed began to take effect, and the wounds on his body began to heal slowly.

"Are they all dead?" Li Tianran asked.

"..." Lu Chi paused for a full three seconds before saying, "No, I told them to break out. They should be hiding somewhere on the island now..."

"More than ninety people, all hiding?" Li Tianran frowned.

"I only brought forty people into the beast nest." Lu Chi coughed and said in a low voice, "Heh, I thought before that if the beast nest was a trap, leaving half the people outside would ensure that even if I and the people who came in were killed, we could still leave half the Pioneers Corps alive, so it wouldn't be completely wiped out just after being formed."

"As a result, I guessed right. Our disguise didn't fool these monsters at all..."

"..." Li Tianran was silent for a moment, then cursed in a low voice: "Damn it, why didn't you let the others cover the retreat after being exposed?"

"Someone had to stay behind. I am their leader. If I escaped... then it would be over." Lu Chi sighed softly.

"If you encounter this kind of thing again in the future, you retreat first." Li Tianran said very simply: "The Pioneer Corps can replenish its forces even if it suffers heavy losses, but there is only one Lu Chi."

Lu Chi was silent for a moment, then suddenly asked: "Does what you're saying mean that, in your eyes, my life is worth more than the lives of others?"

Li Tianran immediately corrected Lu Chi's mistake: "Not worth more, but... more important."

Lu Chi's eyes suddenly became complicated.

He felt as if something had kneaded his cold, hard heart. Since the last of his relatives passed away, no one had ever regarded him as "more important than others," and usually this seemingly complex identity could be replaced by a simpler name.

Relative, or family.

"..." A smile appeared on Lu Chi's face, a gentle smile that had never appeared before, but Li Tianran couldn't see it at this moment.

"I was wrong." Lu Chi took a deep breath, then paused and continued: "I'll dare to do it again next time."

...

Bombers flew in the sky, and the shells turned the island below into a large area of ruins.

At this time, the Pioneer warriors who had already withdrawn seemed to realize that reinforcements had arrived and charged back again.

The mutated beasts and Beast Kings fell in swathes like harvested wheat.

Da da da!

The human deserters in the beast nest began to use weapons to fight back. Li Tianran also showed no mercy to these people. He did not intend to recruit these human deserters, so he waved his hand, and the tank-level Berserkers charged into the battle formation, like fierce tigers breaking into a flock of sheep, and the huge blades cut open tanks and chariots, causing the defense line formed by the human deserters to collapse.

The top combat power in this beast nest had been defeated by Lu Chi. More than a dozen Divine Descent types and Mind Control type overlords were cut to pieces, and most of the remaining Beast Kings immediately fled into the sea when they saw that the situation was not right.

Under Li Tianran's firepower suppression and the evolutionary's decapitation coordination, half of the entire beast nest was occupied in less than half an hour, and the corpses of mutated beasts covered the ground.

"Avoid the warehouses when bombing, don't blow up my resources!" Li Tianran issued an order within the system. In front of him, a sea lizard Beast King was crawling on the ground, unable to move due to the huge gravity pressure. Li Tianran walked past it leisurely, gently pressing its head with his palm. In an instant, its brain, heart, and bones were crushed by the enormous gravity. With a mournful cry, it collapsed to the ground.

It may take a long time to build a city, but it only takes a few tens of minutes to destroy it.

The overlord giant python was also captured by the tank-level Berserkers. It had been shot by Lu Chi before and almost burned to coke. It survived by rushing into the sea, but its throat and abdomen had been burned through. At this time, it was unable to resist at all. Its huge body was nailed to the ground by the wide blades of three tank-level Berserkers, and its eyes stared at the beast nest city that was being constantly destroyed, its eyes full of resentment and anger.

Li Tianran noticed its gaze, slowly walked up to it, and asked softly: "How is it? Does it feel bad to watch the things you worked so hard to build being wantonly destroyed by others? Those tall buildings and steel structures may have taken you a long time to build. After they were built, you may have cheered and been excited about it... But now, with a single missile, it has become ruins and ashes."

"I built a city with my own hands, and I know very well what it feels like to have your own city ruthlessly destroyed in front of you, which is more painful than being killed."

The overlord giant snake seemed to be stimulated and struggled desperately.

"Don't worry, I will let you watch all this being destroyed, boom, disappearing like fireworks!" Li Tianran opened his fingers and laughed, then turned around and said softly: "Compared to what you destroyed, where am I even close..."