Chapter 1 The Beginning

*Buzz!*

A silver-white bomber streaked across the sky, as if a sharp blade had sliced open the gray curtain of the firmament.

Li Tianran sat in the cockpit, nearly nine hundred kilometers away from the beast nest.

The "Gale-class" bomber had a speed of about 1800 kilometers per hour, meaning it would take him another half hour to reach the beast nest. According to his calculations, Lu Chi and the others had already entered the beast nest.

What made Li Tianran uneasy was that the positioning signals from Lu Chi and the others had disappeared after entering the beast nest. He didn't know if it was because the beast nest was equipped with a large-scale signal blocking device, or if the beast nest had discovered the problem and had already taken measures against Lu Chi and the others...

Even though he felt uneasy, Li Tianran didn't panic or overthink. He calmly adjusted the engine power to maximum and flew in a "dive" state. In this state, fuel consumption would increase several times, but the speed would also be greatly increased.

The fuel on this bomber, which could originally allow for more than three round trips in normal flight, would be completely exhausted after reaching the beast nest in a dive.

Clear Mach rings appeared at the rear of the bomber's jet nozzles, and the speed instantly increased again, disappearing from sight in an instant.

...

*Crack!*

*Crack!*

*Awoo! Awoo! Awoo! Awoo!*

*Rustle, rustle...*

The sounds of countless claws clinging to and scraping against the steel hull, the shrill screams, and the rubbing of scales against each other mixed together, creating an atmosphere of extreme terror.

As far as Lu Chi and the others could see, they were surrounded by densely packed mutated beasts. Just by visual estimation, there were no less than three thousand!

Moreover, there were even more terrifying beast kings mixed in the horde, trying to find an opportunity to kill Lu Chi and the others with a single blow.

Lu Chi and the Pioneer warriors stood back-to-back in a circle, holding their steel blades outward. The intense stench rushed over them. The mutated beasts had already pounced, their狰狞 (zhengning – ferocious) teeth and claws tearing through the air, surging up in a dark mass.

"Kill! Let's create our own legend!" Lu Chi roared, the alloy steel blade in his hand spinning like a whirlwind, instantly cutting through the scales, flesh, and bones of the mutated beasts!

Blood, still warm, splattered out. A chelate mutated beast was decapitated by Lu Chi with a single blow, its corpse falling heavily to the ground. However, in the next second, its remains were trampled into minced meat by the frantically surging mutated beast horde behind it.

There were too many of these mutated beasts.

Looking down from above, almost the entire original color of the cargo ship was no longer visible, completely filled with the blue-black bodies of the mutated beasts.

But the cargo ship, running at full power, was still sailing forward steadily. The cargo ship, with a carrying capacity of more than tens of thousands of tons, had extremely powerful power, and the weight of these mutated beasts was not enough to stop this steel behemoth.

Blood and flesh flew across the deck. In the short clash of just a few seconds, more than fifty mutated beasts had been killed. Their corpses piled up into a small mountain on the deck, and blood flowed down, making the deck incredibly slippery.

"You ugly monsters, you destroyed my home!" A Pioneer warrior's eyes were filled with anger and the joy of revenge. Facing the tidal wave of mutated beasts, he had no fear. "Today, it's my turn to destroy your city!"

"Kill you all, avenge my dead family and homeland!"

Roars and howls were indeed a good way to boost morale at certain times. When facing these countless monsters, not everyone had the courage to persevere. Most Pioneer warriors were roaring as they swung their blades, driving the fear and unease in their hearts out of their bodies with earth-shattering roars.

What remained was only the madness and the thrill of killing after the adrenaline rush!

The steel blade cut through the bodies of the mutated beasts without any resistance, as easily as stabbing a red-hot fork into a cake. Weapons made of high-strength alloy and top-notch forging skills were not something the bodies of mutated beasts could withstand.

The battle group formed by Lu Chi and the others became a meat grinder on the deck. No matter how many mutated beasts pounced, they would be instantly cut to pieces and become the minced meat underfoot.

The gap between mutated beasts and evolvers was huge. Even without special abilities, atavistic evolvers crushed mutated beasts of the same size in terms of various physical stats, like the difference between a wolf and a rabbit, belonging to two different species.

Under this huge gap, even using "beast sea tactics" had little effect.

Lu Chi chopped off the head of a mutated beast with one blow. At this moment, he felt a violent shaking under his feet.

In an instant, he thought that the deck under his feet had collapsed due to the previous battle, but the next moment he realized that it was not the deck under his feet that had broken down, but the entire cargo ship was shaking violently!

At the same time, on the sea to the left of the cargo ship, a humpback whale beast king with a body length of over 100 meters and a weight of over 600 tons was constantly hitting the hull like a small mountain. Although it still couldn't stop the cargo ship from moving forward, it changed the direction of the cargo ship with each impact.

The entire bow of the cargo ship was now starting to deviate from the original direction of the armory, and the direction of the deviation on land was an empty square!

*Thump!*

*Thump!*

*Thump!*

The heavy impact sound resounded, and a large amount of blood floated on the sea. The head scales of the humpback whale beast king that collided with the hull were shattered and torn into huge wounds, and blood kept gushing out, but its movements did not slow down in any way.

"..." Lu Chi made a judgment in an instant. If this humpback whale forcibly changed the direction of the cargo ship, then as long as the cargo ship began to avoid the area of the armory, the opponent's ground artillery would immediately fire. At this time, in order to protect the armory, the beast nest would rather abandon some other buildings!

"Get that big guy down there!" Lu Chi waved his steel blade and shouted into the button intercom, "Quick! Quick!"

And as if to cooperate with the actions of the giant beast king below, the offensive of the mutated beasts became more and more fierce. They were like a swamp, surrounding Lu Chi and the others, preventing them from escaping!

*Buzz! Buzz!*

At this moment, several helicopters rushed straight down towards the sea. At this time, only they were not trapped, and only they could solve the giant beast under the cargo ship.

A dozen helicopters swooped down like fighter jets, looking fearless and undaunted. The Pioneer warriors driving them had already emptied their ammunition, and now the helicopters were their last cannonballs.

In the last second before the helicopter fell into the water, the cabin door was violently broken open from the inside, and the Pioneer warrior jumped out of the cockpit.

*Boom!*

The helicopter crashed straight into the back of the giant beast king. The violent impact instantly twisted and deformed the helicopter's body. Fuel leaked frantically, and under the sparks caused by the broken electronic circuits, a violent explosion suddenly erupted.

A large amount of fire soared into the sky on the back of the giant beast king, and countless steel wrecks of the helicopter's body shot out like bullets.

The flames and roar of the explosion caused the mutated beasts besieging Lu Chi and the others to pause for a moment.

Scorching flames raged on the sea.

The giant beast king's back was tattered and riddled with large, terrifying blood holes, revealing the charred bones inside.

It floated on the water, unable to move.