Ice Age Apocalypse: I Hoard Billions of Supplies-Chapter 1089: Collapse at the First Touch

Chapter 1089: Collapse at the First Touch

Due to the heavy snowfall, almost everyone in the entire base had come out to clear the snow.

The sudden cockroach swarm caught everyone completely off guard.

Under Lu Dahai's lead, the guards began taking out their weapons and launching attacks against the cockroach swarm.

Chen Jingguan, who was directing everyone's work from the rear, was stunned by the sight. Recovering quickly, he hurriedly turned on the loudspeaker and loudly issued orders to everyone.

"Children under fourteen years old, get into the shelters immediately! Guards, secure the entrances! Absolutely do not let the bugs get underground!"

"Flamethrowers! Prepare the flamethrowers!"

Seeing that terrifying cockroach swarm, a primal fear welled up in Chen Jingguan's heart.

Of the three major bases in Tianhai City, Dawn Rain Base was the weakest.

Currently, they had fewer than ten superhumans. During the previous wars in Tianhai City, their defensive forces had been destroyed by more than seventy percent.

Later, as Zhang Yi's strength grew increasingly formidable, Tianhai City had gone a fairly long time without experiencing any major crisis events.

Only at this moment did he recall the fear of being enveloped by death.

A powerful wave of regret surged in his heart.

If only he had paid more attention when Zhang Yi warned him earlier, the entire base wouldn't have been caught so completely unprepared by such a sudden attack.

"Everyone, follow me! Hold them back!"

Chen Jingguan drew the sidearm from his waist and rushed to the front line.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

His gaze was resolute as he fired shot after shot at the cockroaches taking flight.

Already, over a dozen laborers had been knocked to the ground by the cockroaches and were being gruesomely devoured. Their agonized screams echoed throughout the entire area.

"Bring out the heavy weapons!"

Chen Jingguan shouted.

The guards began throwing grenades. A grenade exploded amidst the dark, swarming mass of insects, instantly clearing a large area.

But in less than two seconds, that area was quickly filled in again by the cockroach swarm.

That pitch-black hole seemed to be endlessly spewing out cockroaches. The smallest were only finger-sized, while the largest were over two meters long, having already become monsters!

Because Dawn Rain Base was unprepared, the anti-insect equipment was brought out very late.

Flamethrowers were one of the best weapons against this kind of insect swarm.

The others were grenades and rockets.

Lu Dahai moved like a swimming fish, positioning himself in front of the cockroach swarm.

After injecting the potion Zhang Yi had given him, his superhuman ability index had now reached 6000 points, putting him at the level of an ordinary member of an investigation team.

He swung the bone blades on his arms in front of the cockroach swarm, specifically targeting and fighting the giant cockroaches.

He couldn't deal with the small cockroaches, but those things were mostly just disgusting and couldn't cause significant harm to the base's people in a short time.

However, those large ones could truly eat people!

The black cockroach swarm flooded the entire ground. In less than a minute, they had completely compressed the human defensive line, pushing towards the underground shelters.

Some small cockroaches had already fluttered their wings and flown into the shelters.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

The soldiers using flamethrowers roared, turning their weapons to maximum. Tongues of fire over ten meters long could instantly engulf tens of thousands of cockroaches.

Yet these creatures did not fear death. Their existence was solely for feeding and reproduction.

Soon, a soldier had cockroaches crawling up his pant leg.

Ahhhhhhh!!!

The soldier screamed in terror. In the blink of an eye, tens of thousands of cockroaches covered his entire body.

He screamed in horror and agony, yet did not die immediately.

The cockroaches' attack power was limited. Starving, they took bite after bite of the soldier's flesh, inflicting pain on him akin to being sliced to death.

But precisely because of this, he simply couldn't die in a short time.

The soldier rolled frantically on the ground, but it didn't reduce the number of cockroaches on him. Instead, more cockroaches crawled onto his body.

His face etched with grief, Chen Jingguan fired a single shot, ending the soldier's life.

"Boss, let's retreat!"

A personal guard shouted anxiously at Chen Jingguan.

At this rate, it was only a matter of time before they were completely swallowed by the cockroach swarm.

Chen Jingguan looked at the square. Due to the suddenness of the incident, most people lacked the power to fight back and were desperately running back.

If he entered the shelter now and closed the heavy doors, he could survive.

But all these people would die!

Chen Jingguan's eyes turned bloodshot. He gritted his teeth hard, his fists clenched so tightly they cracked.

His heart was filled with immense regret. He practically wanted to slap himself several times.

If only he had listened to Zhang Yi's words and taken the matter of mutated cockroaches more seriously, they definitely wouldn't have ended up in such a wretched state today!

At this point, he had no way out.

If he ran away himself, causing half the people of Dawn Rain Base to die in the cockroach swarm, Zhang Yi would absolutely not tolerate him.

Retreat meant certain death. It was better to fight desperately and carve out a bloody path!

"Do not retreat! If you retreat, your family and friends will die! Concentrate your firepower! Hold the entrance! Let the children get in first!"

Chen Jingguan forcefully threw a grenade, blowing up a group of cockroaches.

Simultaneously, he made an urgent call to Zhang Yi.

"Hey, boss! Help! We need help!"

As soon as Zhang Yi received Chen Jingguan's communication, he saw his nearly broken expression.

Zhang Yi frowned. "What's wrong? Enemy attack?"

"Boss! Cockroaches! So many cockroaches! The base can't hold on much longer! Please, I beg you, come and save us!"

Zhang Yi's eyebrows shot up immediately.

"Cockroaches?"

He himself hadn't expected that his earlier suspicion would actually come true.

So quickly, those mutated cockroaches had become such a huge threat to the bases in Tianhai City.

Zhang Yi, of course, couldn't just stand by and watch. Dawn Rain Base was his important seaport and fishery base.

"Wait for me."

As soon as Zhang Yi finished speaking, whoosh! He vanished from the spot, heading straight for Dawn Rain Base.

At Chaoyu Harbor, laborers fell one by one in agony, becoming food for the cockroaches.

Above the small cockroaches, there were also huge ones, mutated to sizes comparable to cattle or sheep. Their eyes glinted eerily as they fixed on living people, flapping their wings and pouncing to kill.

Lu Dahai and Chen Jingguan led the guard members in a desperate effort to hold them back.

They killed many cockroaches, but these insects exploited every gap, quickly reaching their feet.

The defensive perimeter retreated again and again.

Boom!

A tremendous roar suddenly came from underground. The thick ice and snow covering the ground was directly blasted apart. From below crawled out a giant cockroach over three meters long, standing upright on its hind legs.

Its entire carapace was a disgusting feces-yellow color. Its sharp mandibles twitched slightly before it charged straight at the soldiers in the defensive perimeter!

Chen Jingguan, Lu Dahai, and the others felt their scalps go numb.

Such a massive cockroach swarm, growing like a gu vessel, even devouring each other when food was scarce.

Who the hell knew what kind of monster would be brewed in the end?

Could they still hold them off?

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