Seeing the situation on Dawn Island, Ye Fan knew that something went wrong on Hua Wushuang's side.

It's unclear what specifically went wrong, but now, Ye Fan faces the crisis of Dawn Island.

Dawn Island must not be breached by zombies; at this point, Ye Fan couldn't care too much.

Since the Nuclear Bomb Launching Well was built, it hasn't been used, and the large-yield nuclear weapons have always been in a forbidden state, but now is the time to use them.

"Calculate the blast radius of the nuclear weapons. Avoid affecting Dawn Island, but try to inflict maximum damage on the zombie hordes in Zhonghai. Can you do it?"

"Yes, Commander, we can calculate it quickly."

Soon, the engineers gave Ye Fan an answer, and he immediately issued the order to activate the Nuclear Bomb Launching Well.

From the bottom of his heart, he really didn't want to destroy Zhonghai. Although there are many zombies here, there is also a lot of wealth potential.

If it could be cleared out, it would significantly enhance the strength of the Dawn Army.

But now it's too late to care about that. The zombie invasion is overwhelming, and there's no time to evacuate everyone from Dawn Island.

The Nuclear Bomb Launching Well opened, revealing a massive ballistic missile.

The missile soared and reached the center of Zhonghai, around three to four hundred kilometers, before directly descending.

Many mutated birds tried to intercept midway, but it was useless. The missile's terminal penetration speed was too fast, breaking through the flock of mutated birds and landed in the center of Zhonghai.

An unimaginably huge mushroom cloud rose into the sky!

The fireball covered an area of tens of kilometers, and the shockwave extended over hundreds of kilometers.

Everything within this range was almost entirely destroyed.

The high-rise buildings of the past, the jungle of steel and concrete, were flattened by the massive shockwave.

The zombies within this range were almost immediately vaporized.

From the spy satellite view, the red dots representing the massive horde of zombies have almost all been cleared away.

Only a few particularly resilient or underground zombies survived, but they're no longer a significant threat.

The engineers' calculations were incredibly precise; the shockwave stopped along the banks of the Celestial River.

It also halted at the eastern seashore, without reaching the ocean to prevent tsunamis.

In the area of the Celestial River, the middle of the river, and Dawn Island, some zombies remained, but with the explosion of the nuclear weapon, those Corpse Kings and commanders were all annihilated, and these zombies reverted to their wild state, immediately starting to devour on the spot, without posing any major threat.

The Dawn Army waited for several hours for the temperature to drop before resuming combat, using targeted shooting to clear out the zombies in the area.

As for advancing towards Zhonghai, it's not feasible for now, as it has become a barren land filled with nuclear radiation.

This area is too vast, with tens of thousands of square kilometers irradiated, and even if Ye Fan used Radiation Engineers to absorb the radiation, it wouldn't be a short-term task.

For at least half a year, the Dawn Army won't be able to move south from Zhonghai.

And such powerful nuclear weapons are even less likely to be used in the north or west, or else Dawn Island would become a dead zone.

This heavy blow brought negative side effects but also positive ones.

The plans brewing in various countries were aborted midway!

According to the White Eagle Country's plan, the main target of this zombie siege was to attack Dawn Island.

With the zombie reservoir in Zhonghai, they were confident about taking Dawn Island and heavily damaging the Dawn Army.

Unfortunately, Ye Fan's use of nuclear weapons disrupted their plan; Dawn Island held, and Ye Fan can even spare forces for a counterattack.

The people from White Eagle Country were very angry but had no better solution.

For now, they can only let events unfold naturally, hoping the zombies can stall the Dawn Army, and hoping that the forces from Curry Country can cause some trouble for Ye Fan to buy them time.

Now they also needed time; Level 4 Corpse Kings and Level 3 Mutants were captured. Given some time, they might mass-produce Level 4 Corpse Kings.

If successful, all zombies and mutated creatures worldwide will become their weapons.

By then, no matter how strong the Dawn Army becomes, it might not recover.

So, they are using all their might, and even White Eagle Country's main forces are launching fierce attacks on Lingnan Base.

With some of the world's strongest forces gathered, the attack was effective, and after a day and a night, Lingnan Base fell, and part of the Dawn Army withdrew.

Peilan, Dr. Ouyang, Liu Jingyan, and these people retreated to South Island, relying on the defense of Lingnan and countless hostages on the South Island to settle down.

They raced against time, striving for results in the next two days.

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The fall of Lingnan didn't worry Ye Fan much.

Now, the success of the Aerospace Weapon Research Institute is only about fifty hours away.

As long as Ye Fan patiently waits fifty hours, his forces will be unprecedentedly powerful, capable of sweeping through.

But he can't wait that long.

On his way to the Curry Country, Ye Fan changed his route.

He is heading to South Island.

He couldn't let Hua Wushuang face danger; he had to go rescue her.

The main force couldn't pass through at this moment. To attack South Island, they first needed to retake Lingnan, but he didn't have that much time.

The situation with the navy was similar; the five super aircraft carrier fleets of White Eagle Country gathered near South Island couldn't be taken down in an instant.

Moreover, Ye Fan knew that this time, White Eagle Country also brought a large amount of nuclear weapons.

If forced into a corner, the opponent might resort to nuclear attack, causing grave losses to his side.

No matter how strong the warriors of the Dawn Army were, they couldn't withstand nuclear weapons with their bodies.

So he could only go alone.

Fortunately, the speed of the aircraft was now super fast, fast enough that radar couldn't catch it. Ye Fan quickly arrived near South Island, swiftly disembarked, and the aircraft left without being noticed by anyone.

On the surface, Ye Fan was going alone, but the commander's bag contained plenty of troops to deploy when needed for battle.

However, before finding Hua Wushuang, Ye Fan didn't plan to do that to avoid alerting the enemy.

After reaching South Island, Ye Fan's landing site was a city.

South Island, though called an island, was vast, dozens of times bigger than Dawn Island, covering over a hundred thousand square kilometers, comparable to a small country.

To be safe, Ye Fan directly entered a city, where zombies were everywhere and no people at all; it looked like a post-apocalyptic city abandoned long ago.

However, zombies weren't necessarily everywhere in the city; certain places might have many zombies, others few, due to certain reasons.

The aircraft chose a location with fewer zombies, a square.

Ye Fan arrived there, holding a gun, easily killing a few scattered zombies, then took out the pre-prepared base car.

Unfolded the base car and set up the pre-built power plant, barracks, and other structures.

Once the spy satellite was set up, half of South Island was displayed on the satellite map.

Ye Fan glanced at it and quickly locked onto a place.

Located at the southernmost tip of South Island, Tianya City.

There were almost no zombies here; they had been cleared out, and now it was crowded with humans.

Even the fleet of White Eagle Country was defending around here.

Ye Fan immediately zoomed in on this map section, after some effort, he quickly locked onto a target.

Approximately five kilometers from the seacoast of Tianya City, a group of advanced humans gathered.

Advanced humans, meaning mutants, gathered here and were almost all level 2.

On the spy satellite's map, one can determine the light spot's color according to a person's energy level.

Among the crowd, Ye Fan discovered two particularly distinct individuals.

Humans were represented by green light spots, level 2 mutants were medium green.

Ye Fan spotted a deep green one and a dark green one.

Ye Fan immediately deduced that the dark green light spot was undoubtedly Hua Wushuang.

The reason it wasn't red was due to Hua Wushuang's unique ability; after all, even military dogs couldn't see through her disguise, and satellite maps couldn't reveal her.

As for the deep green one, Ye Fan guessed it was the woman with Hua Wushuang, the one who previously attempted to assassinate him.

They were super experts, yet captured; these foreigners seemed to have some special tricks up their sleeves. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

With the target confirmed, Ye Fan hurriedly proceeded.

This place was about a few hundred kilometers from him; Ye Fan took out a helicopter, quietly flying at low altitude.

The hero-level helicopter had strong stealth capabilities, quickly reaching near Tianya City.

He couldn't fly here anymore; though the helicopter's stealth could evade radar, it couldn't escape human sight.

Ye Fan did a quick disguise on the plane and directly snuck into Tianya City.

Tianya City had many survivors, but they were strictly controlled. Ordinary people couldn't approach the military restricted zones of White Eagle Country or Liu Jingyan and others.

But Ye Fan had his own ways; he saw a military truck transporting supplies, seized a chance and jumped on lightly, quickly entering the commander's bag unseen.

Thus, he rode the military truck and infiltrated the base.

In the truck compartment, two guards sat, one sleeping, the other vigilant.

Ye Fan suddenly appeared, chopped the vigilant soldier unconscious, swiftly changed into his uniform, and stuffed him into the bag.

The entire process was quick; the sleeping soldier didn't notice.

When getting off the truck, Ye Fan was the first to jump down, gave the just-awakened soldier a back view, and said he was going to the toilet, casually sneaking into the barracks.

Glancing at the satellite map, he saw Hua Wushuang was a few hundred meters away, in a heavily guarded courtyard.

That should be a research institute; people in white lab coats kept coming and going.

Once inside, he could find Hua Wushuang.