Chapter 17 The General's Concerns

"I'll take a trip myself..." Bai Jingyan said calmly.

The officer was stunned.

"It's not realistic for me to go myself," Bai Jingyan continued immediately, "You can leave now. Have the ships transporting the supplies hold back for now; I'll find a way to resolve this."

The officer turned and left the presidential palace upon hearing this.

Bai Jingyan pondered for a moment, then used a satellite phone to dial Li Tianran's number.

He was very direct, saying the moment Li Tianran answered, "I've encountered some difficulties. Someone is trying to steal your goods en route..."

...

"I was just about to test out the firepower, and someone offers a target." Li Tianran hung up the phone. He had always been skeptical about the safety of sea transport, but so far, he couldn't think of a better solution.

The situation within Murphyla was not suitable for supporting their army to cross the border and sweep through the Bering Sea to deal with some wandering ghosts. If Bai Jingyan's cargo ships were intercepted and suffered losses, it would ultimately be Wild Breath Island that would bear the brunt, and the person ultimately responsible for defeating the enemy, of course, fell squarely on Li Tianran's shoulders.

"Lu Chi, come to my office immediately." Li Tianran used the walkie-talkie to call Lu Chi, and then told him the whole story.

After listening, Lu Chi nodded. "No problem, I can lead a team to carry out this mission."

"What I'm worried about is that although all members of the Pioneer Corps have become evolvers, they haven't had long-term, large-scale combat training. Can they maintain optimal coordination in a war?" Li Tianran asked.

Lu Chi said calmly, "Boss, the best coordination can only be achieved on the battlefield, in addition to training. Although they may seem like a group of militiamen now, I am confident that I can temper them into the strongest soldier kings through repeated practical combat."

In the past, when the Yanhuang land was invaded by foreign countries, there were also many enthusiastic farmers and laborers who threw themselves into battle without any training, just filled with fervor. They were wounded in battle, watched their comrades fall, and their own inexperienced combat skills and weak hearts became stronger. In just a few wars of blood and fire, they grew from inexperienced novices into qualified soldiers.

No matter the time, practical combat is the fastest way for people to grow.

"Perhaps some will die in this mission, but those who survive will become stronger," Lu Chi said in a deep voice.

Li Tianran pondered for a moment and nodded. "You're right! The first batch of equipment from the armory will be ready in three days. You'll set off in three days!"

...

The 27th.

The day after Bai Jingyan called Li Tianran.

Also, the fourteenth day after the Third Cataclysm descended.

The world situation remained extremely dire.

The sea beasts' activities were exceptionally rampant, and countless mutated beasts attacked major human cities like a tide. Russia, the European Union, and Yanhuang, the three powerful nations, all suffered huge losses within fourteen days.

Outside the high walls of the shelters, the corpses of mutated beasts piled up like mountains.

After each battle, helicopters were needed to dump large amounts of fuel to burn these corpses, because as the surface temperature rose, these corpses would slowly rot, breeding odors and deadly bacteria.

These bacteria were insignificant to the mutated beasts, but they were too deadly to humans.

Most of the human soldiers were ordinary people, and their constitutions could not resist these bacteria, so they would get sick.

In this situation of extreme resource scarcity, medicines were among the most critically needed items. Even the drug reserves of the powerful nations could not meet the needs of a large number of personnel.

Therefore, under these circumstances, the heads of state would rather choose to consume more industrial resources such as fuel in order to avoid the large-scale consumption of life resources such as medicine and food.

Moreover, during the war, people gradually discovered that traditional weapons were becoming less and less effective against the beast kings. After a long period of engagement, the beast kings had adapted to the rhythm of human traditional weapons, and began to learn to evade, seek cover, or have intelligent beast kings interfere before large traditional weapons fired.

At this point in the battlefield, killing the same number of beast kings and mutated beasts required at least three to four times more ammunition and personnel losses than when the sea beast race first began fighting humans!

On the other hand, some national evolver squads that were assigned missions were able to successfully complete their missions with minimal losses each time.

After a rough statistical analysis, the powerful nations obtained an approximate figure.

In this outbreak of the beast tide attack, the average number of beast kings killed by a 12-member national-level evolution squad was enough to match that of an elite infantry battalion and a tank battalion!

Twelve fully armed evolver warriors were enough to equal 1,600 ordinary soldiers and heavy firepower!

This was a very frightening figure.

After obtaining this data, the powerful nations' leaders reaffirmed that their thinking was absolutely correct.

To deal with those increasingly powerful beast kings, it was necessary to use evolvers with the same genes as them!

In the Yanhuang Northern Border War Zone, a general stood on the tall defensive walls, looked at the large area of mutated beast corpses in the distance, lit a cigarette, and asked in a somewhat rough voice, "The Chief is still not agreeing to my application?"

"No, the Chief is a little angry." Behind him, his deputy chuckled helplessly, "The whole world is promoting evolver research, but you insist on going against everyone... spending a lot of resources to rebuild traditional weapon factories in the Northern Border. What are you thinking?"

The general exhaled a puff of smoke, squinted his eyes, and said, "What can I be thinking? I just feel that we are moving too fast, too hastily, and without leaving any room for retreat."

"Facts have proven that this step of ours is correct." The deputy said with a smile, "Now, the performance of evolver warriors is incredibly outstanding. Before traditional weapons are phased out of the battlefield, they will definitely be able to fully shoulder the responsibility of protecting humanity."

"Yes, from the current point of view, the war between evolvers and beast kings is indeed gaining the upper hand and is advancing triumphantly, but I always feel that a group of beast kings with extremely high intelligence and that have existed for as long as three months... should not be suppressed by a group of evolvers who have only been formed for less than half a month." The general said, "I always feel that the evolvers' victory is a little too smooth."

"..." The deputy scratched his head and said, "But the fruits of their victory are indeed facts, and the results achieved by the traditional weapon defenses are indeed not as good as those of the evolver warriors."

The general was silent for a long time, then turned to look at his deputy and said, "Is there a possibility..."

"That the beast kings, when facing traditional army defenses, will send out some powerful beast kings with special abilities!"

"And when facing evolver warriors, they will let some weak, ordinary beast kings go out as cannon fodder?"

The deputy was stunned upon hearing this. "But what is their reason for doing this?"

"To give us an illusion, to make us think that our evolver warriors are already strong enough, and then, when we spend all our resources to create evolver warriors of equal strength based on the current level, the beast kings will expose all their power in one fell swoop and defeat humanity!" The general's eyes were sharp. He thought of a possibility that sent chills down his spine.

The deputy thought for a while, then waved his hand with disbelief. "How is this possible? The beast kings are not attacking one city or one country! They are attacking the entire human world! If they really want to use this method to deceive us, then the number of beast kings that would have to die for this alone would reach a terrifying level."

"Moreover, these beast kings are distributed in the vast sea, and may belong to different races, just like many human countries! Even if the leader of one race wants to use this method, will the leaders of other races agree?"

The general was very excited. He said urgently, "No! There may be a misunderstanding in our thinking. We are substituting human systems and composition into the beast kings. Perhaps in the vast group of beast kings, there are no categories such as different countries and different races, like humans. They all belong to the leadership of one king, so their behavior shows amazing consistency!"

The deputy thought for a while. "If a king is to be born in this group of beast kings, how would it obtain this power? Lion prides and wolf packs choose leaders through war. Even in small beast groups of a dozen, the leadership battle is extremely brutal. What about such a huge group of beast kings?"

"But we haven't found any traces of large-scale beast king infighting at sea so far. Does this mean that your guess is wrong? The beast king race is not unified, and your speculation about evolver warriors and beast kings is just an unsupported conspiracy theory?"

"I said, don't use inertia to analyze these beast kings. The way they choose their leader may be different from what we traditionally recognize!" The general's emotions were a little agitated. "Perhaps the way they choose their leader is simply based on whether an individual is larger or more beautiful?"

The deputy's expression was complicated. "General, are you joking?"

"No! I must report my idea to the Chief immediately!" The general took out his phone, dialed the phone number of his old chief's office, and after excitedly explaining his idea, he quietly waited for the other party's response.

Soon, the smile on the general's face disappeared and turned into dejection.

*Smack!*

He hung up the phone, then looked at his deputy with a wry smile. "I've been suspended from duty."

The deputy was silent for a long time, not knowing how to comfort him. After considering it for a moment, he said, "You have to understand the Chief. After all, the whole world is vigorously promoting the research of evolvers. If we follow your ideas, it may cause our country's evolver research work to be a few steps behind other countries."

"Fast, everyone is pursuing speed!" The general was now as garrulous as a middle-aged woman. "Until now, humans not only have to fight the beast kings, but also have to compete with other countries that are also human!"

"In order not to be left behind by other countries, we simply don't have enough time to distinguish whether the current situation is a deception thrown out by the beast kings!"

"What is this called? Right, wasn't there a word on the internet before the mutation called... involution? Yes, involution!"

"To hell with involution!" The general was silent for a moment, then suddenly smashed his satellite phone into the distant ruins, and walked away without looking back.

"Humans will sooner or later be destroyed by this deformed form of competition!"