allonlinenovel Chapter 313 Thunder
Chapter 313 Thunder
The battle for Dream City has reached a fever pitch, and the depletion of ammunition is making the situation on the front lines increasingly dire.
Those creatures derived from animal mutations have brought about an even worse situation.
Rats, creatures that seem to have no end to their existence, are so small that they become almost invisible on the battlefield.
By the time the military discovered it, a huge hole had already been cut into the base of the city wall.
They dug through the existing secret passages beneath the city walls, bit the logistics personnel transporting weapons to death, and then poured into the city through the passage exits.
Following their route, a large number of mutants also entered the cave, crossed the city walls, and attacked the main camp.
With logistics cut off and the city under attack, Jiang Tao immediately dispatched a portion of his troops to stop the mutants who had run inside, while also working with other ability users to block the entrance and protect the civilians.
When Bai Wendong arrived at the city wall above the cave entrance, he was so shocked by the sight before him that his scalp tingled.
Perhaps because they knew this was the breakthrough point, a large number of mutants gathered here, so many that they were piled up, almost as tall as the city wall.
The hole that caused all of this has been blocked and is no longer visible.
If this continues, the secret passage might burst open.
The thought of the city wall collapsing along with the collapsed hole below made Bai Wendong gasp.
"Is there any countermeasure?" he asked the person next to him.
Just as the battle on the other side ended, Ji Yuanzhou, who had come to provide support, looked down upon hearing this and frowned deeply.
Now all the guns on the helicopters and on the city walls are aimed at this side and firing.
But this beast tide is like a self-reproducing machine; as many as go down, just as many come up again, showing absolutely no sign of decreasing.
Looking further afield, Jiang Tao and the others were still entangled with the mutated pink crystal core and couldn't spare any attention to direct this side.
Remembering Miao Yin's joke about how long he could survive if she threw him into the Black Tide, Ji Yuanzhou slumped his shoulders.
"How come it turned out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy?"
"what?"
"No." Ji Yuanzhou raised his hand to indicate the distance below. "Relying solely on the military will never end this way. Let's coordinate. I'll go down and take care of this mess, and you can find a chance to patch up the hole."
A hint of surprise appeared on Bai Wendong's somewhat stern face: "Are you sure?"
"If you can't hold on, then pull me up."
Ji Yuanzhou took off his gold-rimmed glasses, and the world in front of him suddenly became blurry. Fortunately, his prescription was not high, and he could still distinguish between humans and ghosts.
"At least I'm an S-rank."
After saying that, he generated electricity around his body and jumped off the city wall.
The surging current blasted away all the mutants that tried to get close to it, and he waved to the people in the helicopter, signaling them to stop.
Upon seeing this, the soldiers stopped fighting and gave the battlefield to the familiar-looking superhuman.
Ji Yuanzhou took a deep breath and completely unleashed his power, which continued to rise until it reached the level expected of an S-class ability user.
Suddenly, dark clouds swirled between heaven and earth, and a gale-force wind stirred up crackling electricity in the clouds, which transformed into a muffled but deafening thunderclap.
The gentle-looking young man stood beneath the dark clouds, blinding lightning converging on him from all directions, crawling out a giant spider web on the ground, and black and white electricity gathering in his hands.
He raised both hands—
Heaven, earth, and man unite as one, and a terrifying black and white current erupts at this moment. The surging power transforms into a giant electric python, striking the black tide with overwhelming force!
"boom--"
The deafening explosion overwhelmed everything, instantly shattering the black wall dozens of meters high, which exploded into black and white fireworks in the air. Fine arcs of electricity, like silver snakes, slithered and weaved across the mutants, charring them to a crisp, while the weaker ones were even annihilated.
Everyone stared in shock at the scene, unable to recover for a long time.
Wind, snow, thunder, and lightning—the most primal forces of nature, and also the most primitive fears etched into the genes of humankind from generation to generation.
Looking at their uncontrollably trembling bodies, they truly felt what the pinnacle of natural-type superpowers was.
"Brother Bai!"
Bai Wendong raised his palm, and a large amount of sand and gravel from the battlefield flew towards the cave entrance, quickly covering the large hole completely.
The dark clouds dispersed, leaving only lingering sparks of electricity.
Thanks to Ji Yuanzhou, the Black Tide on this side was cleared out, and the battle situation suddenly took a 180-degree turn. The soldiers nodded to him in salute and continued to deal with the next wave of attacks.
Bai Wendong pulled up Ji Yuanzhou, who had exhausted half his strength, and looked at him meaningfully.
If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes, who would have guessed that this usually mild-mannered, non-aggressive young man was actually such a deadly weapon?
Therefore, Bai Wendong had every reason to suspect: "You're the one who broke the oven in the villa by electrocuting it, aren't you?"
Ji Yuanzhou's face immediately fell: "I really didn't use my superpower to bake the cake."
"That was quite a commotion." Chao Boyan looked at the lightning on that side and wondered how Miao Yin could have raised such a person.
It's worth it to arrive just in time to witness such a scene.
However, given their current situation, he couldn't spare much attention for the other side.
Jiang Tao's side was facing off against the mutated vultures. Half of the city wall was almost collapsed by the shock, and the scene was filled with corpses. The battle was fierce.
He glanced furtively at the mysterious summoner, perhaps finally able to ascertain the true nature of this man's abilities.
The sudden appearance of the two attracted the attention of the mutants. The vulture spread its wings and attacked them, its bright red eyes revealing its hunger.
Jiang Tao: "Stay away from it!"
Gong Jingming's fingers twitched slightly: "Hundred-Life Willow".
As the words fell, a giant tree appeared to grow from the ground on the city wall, its slender willow branches stretching out as if they had come to life, grabbing the vulture's entire body.
The willow branches deftly bound its wings and beak, pulling it to the tree trunk.
Vines, appearing out of nowhere, swiftly coiled around its body, their sharp thorns piercing its skin. The vines wriggled eerily, as if sucking at its flesh, their color growing ever more reddish.
The vulture let out a piercing cry, its massive body struggling wildly within, quickly snapping several plants in its wake.
Gong Jingming clenched his fist, and the vines and willow branches grew longer and tighter as well.
Three large, fiery red flowers appeared, growing wildly until their petals were larger than the deformed man's head.
"Man-eating flower, swallow it."
The man-eating flower, upon receiving the command, let out a sharp screech, and its petals snapped into the vulture's body. The three forces combined their efforts, attempting to tear the vulture apart into three pieces and swallow it whole.
But the pink crystal-level monster was not so easy to deal with. It flapped its wings and fought with its summoned creatures, and the battle reached a stalemate.
But Chao Boyan knew that Gong Jingming must have even more summons, and in the end, the only way to win would be through the summoner's sheer numbers.
With their biggest problem pinned down, the military was finally able to catch their breath.
"Take the injured away!"
So a group of people with broken arms and legs were sent to the medical area below to receive treatment from military doctors and people with superpowers.
"Thank you," Jiang Tao said to Gong Jingming, then asked the question that mattered most to him, "Can you kill something of this level?"
"can."
He is an S-rank, which means he can already contend with mutants of this rank, not to mention he is the most unreasonable summoner.
Gong Jingming waved his hand, and several more bottle trees reappeared on the city wall.
"I've come to bring you some things."
The tree trunk opened, and Jiang Tao stared in disbelief as countless guns, explosives, and even tanks poured out.
"You!? Where did all of these come from?"
After fighting for so long, they're almost out of even their most treasured weapons. They never expected that someone would be able to produce so many weapons at once!
Gong Jingming flashed a scene of Miao Yin stuffing these weapons into the armory, saying that they would be useless if taken there, and told him to keep an eye on them. If Mengcheng couldn't hold on, he should take them out and destroy Black Tide even if it meant his death.
"The source isn't important; what's important is that you're short of weapons right now." The blue-haired youth's tone was completely unwavering, as if he didn't care at all how valuable these weapons were in the apocalypse.
Jiang Tao gave him a deep look. There was no time to think about the situation at hand. He patted Gong Jingming on the shoulder and said, "Thank you. Mengcheng and I will definitely repay this favor."
He turned on his walkie-talkie and ordered the logistics troops to come and distribute the weapons so that they could continue to deal with the Kuroshio.
"The young boss is really generous. This time, we should squeeze a good sum out of Mengcheng." Chao Boyan shot and killed several small mutants that flew up.
After emptying the weapons, Gong Jingming's attention returned to the vulture, where more and more plants appeared, devouring its body.
"It's not over yet," Gong Jingming said.
Arm-thick blood-sucking vines appeared on the battlefield ahead, their flexible roots ensnaring any living creature that came before them, their insatiable mouths greedily sucking flesh and blood.
A carnivorous plant, defying human worldview, scurried along the wall, biting off the head of a mutant.
Summoners from another realm began to exert their power, turning the tide of the battle that had breached the city.
And through the cracks in the city wall, the red ghost umbrella still swayed gracefully.
Everything will continue until this black tide ends.