Chapter 386 - The Military Attacks. Allied Conference [2 in 1] (1/2)
Although the black fog filled the air, making it impossible to see what was happening inside, Huang Juyun and the officers present could vaguely guess that the demonic creatures were probably transporting the exotic beasts’ corpses through the demonic gateways to the world they were originally from.
As for why they were transporting the exotic beasts’ corpses, no one knew. In any case, it wasn’t something good!
The video ended. The conference room was silent.
Huang Juyun took a deep breath, then gave the order, “After I return to Bei Du, you have to train hard to prepare for bad times. Although the demonic creatures that have entered Mercury are still rather weak, no one can say for sure what will happen in the future.
“Perhaps, this will be an even bigger threat than the beast swarm.
“As soldiers, we are burdened with the responsibility to protect the people. We mustn’t take it easy!”
Everyone stood up at the same time, replying resolutely, “Rest assured, General. We’ll train hard and be prepared for battle!”
Huang Juyun gave them a slight nod. He swept his gaze across everyone’s faces, then walked out of the conference room with long strides and headed straight to the airport in a vehicle.
Along with the sending of the video, there was also an urgent order from the army.
The Alliance government was very mindful of the situation of the exotic beasts’ corpses being taken away by demonic creatures. They had given orders to the various regions, requesting the military to quickly make a move and first launch probing attacks on locations where the demonic gateways were, and if possible, try to thoroughly destroy the demonic gateways.
None of the regions dared to be careless about this. Their respective militaries quickly convened meetings, and summoned the commanders of the various cities to investigate the plausibility of this operation collectively.
Huang Juyun’s return trip to Bei Du was exactly to attend the general military conference.
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Beneath the black fog that was hidden from the military’s satellite, the corpses of the exotic beasts were being transported to the black door.
Within the demon world, inside the tunnels scattered closely together across the skies, countless demonic creatures were transporting the exotic beasts’ corpses. They were lined up in neat rows, walking towards the gigantic mountain in the middle, placing those corpses at the foot of the mountain.
On the platform, the dozens of the strongest creatures were working together and laying down a strange and mysterious array.
Following the array’s completion, a demonic energy shrouded the mountain. Afterwards, the exotic beast corpses at the foot of the mountain melted one after another, turning into energy in its purest form. They were like countless tiny streams, pouring into the gigantic flower bud in the center of the platform.
Although the amount of energy produced from the melting of a single corpse was extremely low, when all of them were pooled together, they turned into a thick pillar of energy that directly enveloped the gigantic flower bud.
Seeing this, the dozens of terrifying creatures didn’t show any signs of happiness on their sinister, or demonic faces.
Those exotic beasts were too weak!
Even though the number of exotic beast corpses were extremely impressive, the level of energy was very low. Compared to the massive amount of energy the flower bud needed, it was truly insignificant.
The huge tree trunk-like beam of energy poured down, but the flower bud showed almost no reaction at all. It still seemed like it was barely hanging onto life.
The terrifyingly powerful creatures couldn’t help but shoot their gazes towards the closely dotted black tunnels suspended in the air. They very much wanted to combine their strengths together to smash through the spatial restriction in the tunnels, but they knew that it was almost impossible by just relying on their strengths alone.
However, not being able to send stronger fighters over meant that they wouldn’t be able to obtain the corpses of stronger exotic beasts. In turn, it would take an extremely long time for the flower bud to recover.
The powerful creatures looked up the purplish-red sky, their faces sunken like dead water.
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For the common citizens, the demonic world’s invasion was simply a nightmarish piece of news.
The once-a-decade beast swarm was frightening enough. Heavens knew how many people would die during every beast swarm, yet now, before the first wave had tided over, an even more ferocious beast had found its way to them.
Luckily, from the observations on the demonic gateways over the past two days, the government had spread information on their discovery to the common citizen.
The invading demonic creatures weren’t as terrifying as they had imagined. As of now, they couldn’t even break through the encirclement of the exotic beasts.
In their notice to the citizens, the army had also declared their intention to make a move against those demonic gateways. They hoped to thoroughly eradicate the invading demonic army, and try to destroy the black doors, preventing future troubles.
Of course, the people didn’t place too much hope on the latter part. Were things related to space and time so easily destroyed?
Let alone others, just consider the spatial gateways leading to the beast worlds scattered across the globe. Since when had a single one of them been destroyed?
In the early days, humanity on Mercury had tried all kinds of methods, including constructing a steel wall around the spatial gateways, or even detonating a nuclear warhead at them, etc. However, in the end, the spatial gateways remained undamaged. When the time came for the beast swarm, the exotic beasts from within still poured out from the gates ceaselessly.
The steel walls were like cardboard to the stronger exotic beasts, torn down without much effort. They weren’t of any use whatsoever.
As for the spatial gateway which had a nuclear warhead detonated atop it, countless exotic beasts swarmed out of it, too, and they weren’t affected by the leftover radiation, either.
Well, perhaps there was a certain effect on them, but if so, it was so miniscule that there weren’t any notable changes.
Since nuclear detonations weren’t able to destroy the spatial gateways, humanity had thoroughly forsaken the idea of using them to wash the lands. It would simply be drinking poison in an attempt to quench one’s thirst.
Even if it managed to repel one beast swarm, what about the next? After using nuclear warheads, the environment on Mercury would be greatly affected. If they were used too frequently, heavens knew what environmental changes there would be…
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In order to store the many ingredients they were about to buy, Zhang Che and Miss Tienan didn’t go directly to the ingredients trading hub. Instead, they first went to rent a large freezer warehouse.
Without fulfilling the required storage conditions, many ingredients would quickly deteriorate.
Although it cost over ten million dollars, the current Zhang Che didn’t mind at all.
When that amount was converted into purple crystal points, it was only at four digits. Compared to his astronomical wealth, it really was nothing.
After renting the space, the two drove to northern Bei Du.
This time, they didn’t buy common ingredients. The ones they looked for were all those ingredients that were extremely limited, yet had many uses.
Supply for those ingredients couldn’t meet the demand for them. If you only started looking for the ingredients when you needed them, they would probably be impossible to find on the market. As such, they were Zhang Che’s first objectives.
As for those common ingredients, there was no need to buy them. Who would go stockpiling something that could be bought at anytime?
The various high-grade ingredients were rare, and their prices were so high that they gave him a scare.
In only half a day’s time, Zhang Che spent close to ten million purple crystal points! That sum of money could buy them a few mid-tier legend-quality beast cards!
Even so, Zhang Che didn’t feel any pain at all, because the ingredients he bought were listed on the recipes for his legend-quality babies to rank up.
If they were needed for legend-quality beast cards to rank up, it was totally normal for those ingredients to be pricier. He already considered it good luck to be able to buy them.
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As the two were engaged in a buying frenzy, militaries in the regions across the globe that were still in daylight had arranged for large amounts of fighter jets to start advancing to the nearest demonic gateways.
Although they said in their notice to the civilians to not worry, everyone knew exactly what kind of danger awaited them.
What kind of secrets were behind the demonic creatures’ transportation of the exotic beast corpses? No one knew. However, after discussion among the government higher-ups, they had a preliminary estimate.
First, the invading demonic creatures might need to consume the corpses of the exotic beasts to grow stronger.
If that was the case, there wasn’t much pressure to humanity on Mercury.
An increase in strength wasn’t something they could achieve overnight. Even the demonic creatures weren’t an exception to this law.
Second, perhaps the spatial tunnels opened by the demonic creatures were under some form of restriction, leaving the truly powerful ones unable to cross the spatial tunnel into Mercury.
After all, how could the demonic world, which had managed to open a spatial tunnel, not have any truly powerful creatures among them?
Facing such a situation, the demonic creatures transporting the exotic beasts’ corpses might be for the purpose of lifting the restrictions of the spatial tunnel, and in turn allowing their stronger creatures to enter Mercury.
If that was really the case, then it would be dangerous.
Once those unstoppable demonic creatures invaded Mercury, the result would be unimaginable.
It was precisely because of such guesses that the military had chosen to attack the locations where the demonic world was invading. Of course, it would be for the best if they successfully destroyed the spatial tunnels. If not, they had to slaughter the demonic creatures that were already in Mercury, stopping them from transporting ever more exotic beast corpses back.
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At the endless ice plains several thousand kilometers north of Hua Xia…
A demonic gateway was located here. Due to the number of exotic beasts in this area being lower, the invading demonic army here had started to gain the upper hand in their battle against the exotic beasts. As a result, more exotic beast corpses were produced here.
If it wasn’t for some extremely powerful commander-class exotic beasts occupying the area, perhaps the demonic creatures would have broken through the encirclementand quickly invaded south, dealing a huge blow to the cities in northern Hua Xia.
It was currently close to dusk. Fortunately, the weather was pretty good. The skies were clear, and visibility was great.
High up in the sky, a spread of black dots suddenly emitted a wave of buzzing sound, flying from south to north at high speed.
As those black dots grew nearer, the buzzing sounds also grew louder.
This time, Hua Xia’s military had mobilized over a thousand fighter planes and formed an incredibly huge fleet, covering the sky.
Among them, a third of the fleet was comprised of the most advanced fighter jets, while the rest were bombers carrying large amounts of explosives, and were similarly the latest models.