Chapter 105: Chapter 100: A Night of Bitter Battle, The Location of the Cloud Burst Bomb

The Life Radar of the Lv19 Flying Wing Tank was much stronger than Lin Feng’s personal Mind Sensing.

With a detection range of five kilometers, it could scan a five-hundred-meter-radius semicircle beneath the surface, allowing for early detection of the Zerg Race’s underground movements.

At this moment, numerous Red-Armored Beetle Swarms had already dug Wormholes nearly a hundred meters deep, burrowing from beneath the service area deep into the Wu City District.

If things were already like this where they were, the main defensive line had likely been tunneled through and infiltrated by the Zerg Race long ago.

After all, that was where the main confrontation was taking place.

At least ninety percent of the firefights were happening outside the twenty-kilometer-long fortified line.

Shen Jie had complete faith in Lin Feng’s words.

The last time, it was his early warning that had allowed him and the other team members, who had gone out to harvest, to retreat from the heartland in time, luckily escaping a sneak attack from the Tier Two Zerg Race, the Tiger Spine Zergs.

The memory of being chased by three giant, golden insects at nearly a hundred kilometers per hour was still fresh in Shen Jie’s mind, forcing him to slam on the accelerator.

Now, an even greater danger was about to arrive.

For the short-staffed outpost, this was undoubtedly a heavy challenge.

Once the Black Spine Zergs breached the walls, the 201st Company, with no defensible position left, would surely suffer heavy casualties.

The experienced Li Ran also realized the danger of being surrounded by the Swarm.

Don’t be fooled by how easily they were handling the Black Spine Zerg Swarm attacking from the east; that was only because most of their manpower was positioned to face the Zerg Race’s territory.

If they were pincered from all sides, their forces would be spread thin, and it would be difficult to maintain the same dense firepower output as they had now.

Lin Feng saw the heavy worry on the two’s faces. As the backbone of the team, he spoke to comfort them:

"Don’t worry. We have enough fuel to run the generators for several days. Once the searchlights are on at night, everything within a few hundred meters will be completely visible..."

"Have the team members coordinate with each other. With my support, we can take on even ten thousand Black Spine Zergs."

"As long as we survive this battle, the Mother Empress will either focus her main forces on the primary defensive line or send more powerful Tier Two Tiger Spine Zergs. But either way, we’ll achieve our goal!"

"Tell the team members to get ready."

"Any team members who are about to Awaken during this battle—have them rest in shifts. Let them complete their Awakening first."

As he spoke, Lin Feng flicked the gleaming black gun in his hand.

Seeing the powerful weapon in his hand, Shen Jie and Li Ran recalled the large-scale carpet bombing they had once witnessed in the suburbs, and they gradually calmed down.

They finally remembered that the Superpower Lin Feng had first revealed was the renowned Superpower Bullet!

And this powerful Superpower had the ability to sway the outcome of a small-scale war!

Across the entire Thirteenth Division, among nearly a thousand Awakeners, there were only three Superpower Bullet Awakeners, and each one was treated as an invaluable treasure.

Their treatment was a level above that of ordinary Physical Enhancement Awakeners, and their weapons were specially equipped by the Research Institute, designed to release the Superpower injected into the shells to its maximum potential.

It could increase the power of a normal grenade by more than tenfold.

Therefore, with Lin Feng guarding the outpost fortress, aside from the lack of reinforcements, it was actually far stronger in other aspects than the main fortresses on the primary defensive line.

At this moment, in the one hundred main fortresses, the front-line Commanders had also received a message from the technical department. They had detected a large amount of seismic noise underground; the Zerg Race had already tunneled past the defensive line.

It was highly likely they would launch a pincer attack from the front and rear tonight under the cover of darkness.

If the reinforced company of one hundred and fifty soldiers had to be split in two, their firepower would be cut in half.

Moreover, these new recruits, who had just become Enhanced People, had no experience with night combat. Not only were they inexperienced, but many of them found it difficult to even aim and fire while under pressure.

Although the speed of the Black Spine Zergs couldn’t match a car, it far surpassed that of a human, comparable to ferocious beasts like lions and tigers. When they charged at full speed, hitting them in the dead of night with limited visibility was actually very difficult.

This was also why the veteran soldiers were worried.

There were no entrance gates on the front of the defensive line, but on the side facing Wu City, two narrow doors, only 1.5 meters wide, had been built in the passages between the main fortresses.

The original design had called for them to be even narrower. After all, as long as they could prevent the Zerg Race from invading, the personnel hiding in the defensive fortresses would be completely safe.

But considering the need to move equipment, supplies, and instruments into the main fortresses, as well as the speed of personnel evacuation during a later retreat...

...the planned one-meter-wide entrances were expanded to 1.5 meters.

At this width, the Black Spine Zergs certainly couldn’t squeeze through.

Even though they resembled long-legged spiders, they were still over two meters wide with their limbs retracted.

But what the officers feared wasn’t the Black Spine Zergs. It was that when the Zergs attacked, the defenders’ attention would be divided, allowing large numbers of Red-Armored Beetles to swarm in through the doors.

The bodies of these low-level Zergs were the perfect size to get through the doors, and they could cause chaos inside the defensive line.

Although the new recruits, as Enhanced People, could quickly clear out the Red-Armored Beetles with their rifles, it was easy for mass panic to break out under such high-stress conditions.

This would create an opportunity for the Black Spine Zerg army to exploit.

The Giant Mandibles of the Black Spine Zergs were useless against the sturdy concrete walls, but they could break through the iron gates at the entrances, chewing on the doorframes to widen the opening.

If that happened, it wouldn’t be long before a large number of Black Spine Zergs could also storm the fortress, thereby breaching the defensive line.

Only by eliminating the Black Spine Zergs outside the walls could the security of the defensive line be guaranteed.

As orders were issued one after another, the new recruits, who had just experienced a few small-scale battles, were pulled from their victorious elation to face a night defense that would be several times more difficult.

The daytime battles were merely the Zerg Race’s initial probes.

They were gauging the defensive line’s firepower to prepare their layout for the all-out night assault.

As sporadic gunshots echoed from the defensive line, the sun gradually set, and night fell upon the land.

The hum of generators kicked in, and countless searchlights shot out straight beams of light from the firing ports ten meters up the fortress walls.

The firing ports were only half a meter high, so there was no need to worry about attacks from Cyan-winged Zergs, and it was still enough space for soldiers to pivot their guns.

Because they had to defend two directions, inside and out, the personnel were split in two, drastically reducing the density of their firepower.

At times like this, heavy weapons like mortars and rocket launchers inside the main fortresses became the last resort against the enemy.

Their numbers were limited, so they could only be used at the most critical moments to blunt the Zerg Race’s offensive.

Meanwhile, the three Superpower Bullet Awakeners were secretly placed within the main fortresses of the defensive line to counter the night raid.

When midnight arrived, a tense atmosphere hung over the defensive line, refusing to dissipate.

It lasted until the moon was obscured by a dark cloud.

Just as the entire district’s brightness dimmed a few shades more...

Suddenly, from the greenbelts along the nearby highway and the ubiquitous patches of grass and trees, a massive Red-Armored Beetle Swarm erupted, followed closely by a dark, heaving army of Black Spine Zergs with their twitching limbs.

The Zerg Race’s midnight assault had finally begun!

At the same time, on the eastern front, countless Black Spine Zerg Swarms surged forward, charging fearlessly toward the solid concrete defensive line.

The scope of the battlefield was so vast that more than half of the hundred main fortresses were engaged in combat.

The fiery streams and explosions from over a thousand Heavy Machine Guns and hundreds of Machine Cannons had already drowned out the sound of nearly ten thousand rifles.

Bullets and shells slammed into the Black Spine Zerg Swarm.

The flames from the explosions lit up the night, dotted with scattering sparks...

But these attacks couldn’t halt their advance.

Due to the reduced firepower and the lower probability of hitting targets at night, the defensive line’s offensive power was far weaker than during the day.

Nearly thirty percent of the Black Spine Zerg Swarm had already charged to within a hundred meters of the defensive line.

They sprinted directly to the base of the line and, like stacking blocks, began to climb toward the firing ports above, trying to attack the enemies inside.

Meanwhile, behind the line and inside the city, the Red-Armored Beetle Swarm had dug Wormholes right up to the base of the defense. The Black Spine Zergs, coordinating with them, repeatedly hammered the seven- or eight-centimeter-thick iron gates with their mandibles, gradually ramming them until they were twisted and deformed.

Many soldiers followed orders, sticking their gun barrels out from hidden compartments on the lower levels and firing wildly.

Others fired grenades from the upper firing ports, striking the Zerg Race army that had charged right up to them.

At the same time, the three Superpower Bullet Awakeners of the Thirteenth Division were coordinating with the artillery, conducting Firepower Coverage strikes on several locations where the Swarm was massing.

They did their best to weaken the Zerg Race’s reinforcements.

Just as the battle was raging fiercely, a senior staff officer from the division command, who had come to provide guidance, was being held captive in the basement of a main fortress on the second defensive line by the Commander of the Awakened Camp.

Right now, most of the members of the Awakened Camp had been dispatched to the first defensive line to fight alongside the companies.

And on the second defensive line, five kilometers back, were not only the garrisoned soldiers but also the mid-level Commanders from the front lines.

Among them was the highest-ranking officer of the Awakened Camp.

The newly advanced Tier Two Awakener, Cheng Zhan—Major General Cheng.

Under the dim lights of the dungeon, he was interrogating the senior staff officer, demanding to know the location of the Cloud Burst Bombs that the high command had placed on the first defensive line.