The troops are heading in one direction, struggling to return the way they came.
The intensity of the battle has decreased slightly compared to before, because the army has suffered heavy losses, and a considerable number of damaged tanks have been left behind.
Some of the artillery ammunition has also been used up.
When they arrived, they never imagined that the entire city would fall so quickly, with over 98 percent of the population turning into zombies.
Even though some of them have been eliminated during this period, there are still nearly ten million zombies in the army!
Even if there were tens of millions of pigs, a few thousand people couldn't possibly kill them all.
Moreover, those various mutated beasts are all extremely troublesome; ordinary bullets are ineffective against them.
This cast a shadow over the entire unit, greatly reducing morale.
Following behind the group, Xu Xing, who volunteered to cover the rear, was secretly overjoyed: "Resources, resources, and damn resources!"
The endless zombie cores behind him were waiting for him to exploit. Unexpectedly, with his strength approaching level five, he was becoming more and more adept at obtaining the cores.
Behind the entire column were mostly mechanized units. Only self-propelled artillery, tanks, and heavy armored vehicles could withstand the relentless onslaught of zombies and mutated beasts.
Apart from Xu Xing, all the other ability users cleared the way in front and to the left and right, where the danger was less.
In this way, no one will notice when Xu Xing uses his special ability to retrieve the crystal core.
Xu Xing retrieved the crystal core in the same way as before: he used his special ability on the dead zombie or mutated beast to forcibly pull the crystal core out from the weakest point of the skull, the temple.
It then flew to his hand very quickly and was put into his space. At this point, the process was complete. With his current abilities, he could easily separate hundreds or thousands of threads.
boom!!!
Suddenly, a huge sound came from the western side of the front line of the battlefield. The shockwave was so powerful that even Xu Xing, who was very far away, could feel a burning sensation that reached his eyebrows.
Xu Xing stood atop the tank, looking in that direction. At the same time, the chief of staff's voice came through the walkie-talkie:
"Go to the west side and try to take down that elephant-like monster. It's on its last legs now, and we've ripped a huge hole in its belly with a high-yield missile. If you succeed, you'll get a first-class merit!"
Upon hearing the news, Xu Xing did not immediately agree. Instead, he carefully observed the mutated elephant and, after confirming that it was on the verge of death, replied emphatically, "Okay."
After weaving over various armored vehicles and tanks, they finally arrived at the designated location, which was now in complete chaos.
The bodies of numerous soldiers were scattered around, along with damaged tanks, their steel plates, several centimeters thick, pierced through by the immense force.
It seems that the mutated elephant was to blame. No wonder the military was willing to use such a method, which would result in heavy casualties, to bring in missiles from outside in an attempt to eliminate the mutated elephant.
Despite its current state of being a mutated creature, lying on the ground barely alive, a single, casual strike from it can still cause immense destruction.
Ordinary firearms cannot even penetrate its surface, let alone cause harm to it when it is injured.
The simplest way is to break through from the inside. Go along its wound and drill in. If you just slightly puncture its heart, even a level six mutated beast will perish on the spot.
Ordinary people are naturally unable to handle this kind of task, so only a superhuman with extremely strong abilities like Xu Xing can be dispatched.
In reality, even a mutated monster at its peak would find it difficult to kill Xu Xing in his current state.
Pfft~
Xu Xing moved quickly, unperturbed by the pungent smell of blood, dodging the wildly waving tusks, and rushed into the wound on the mutated elephant's abdomen without any danger.
Compared to the mutated creature's enormous body, he looked like a slightly larger insect, so he didn't attract much of its attention.
Xu Xing frowned as he rampaged through the interior, but the various tissues and muscles inside were extremely tough, requiring a special chainsaw to clear a path step by step.
Externally, the mutated elephant sensed the abnormality within its body and forcibly propped itself up, thrashing about wildly, which also made Xu Xing within its body feel uncomfortable.
Taking advantage of his weakness, Xu Xing also went all out, digging deeper, and a large amount of tissue and blood gushed out, its power no less than that of a high-pressure water gun.
After a while, Xu Xing finally heard a deep, strong, yet somewhat weak, thumping sound.
"It seems the mutation is just ahead, at the location of the heart," Xu Xingnan muttered to himself.
Just as he pulled out a steel bar as thick as an arm, intending to thrust it in, a voice suddenly echoed in his mind.
"Spare my life, and from now on we'll keep to ourselves. My men will never bother you again."
Xu Xing smiled, seemingly somewhat surprised, and then shouted loudly: "A wise man submits to circumstances. You have made the right choice. However, I can let you go, but I need you to agree to one condition."
From this day forward, they shall obey my commands; I am referring to an individual.
Seeing that the mutated creature did not respond, Xu Xing hardened his heart and thrust to the side, this time piercing through the surrounding tissue.
"Ah! Stop! I...I agree, but I will obey your orders, and everything he does must be in the best interests of me and my people."
Faced with death, the mutant finally succumbed.
Xu Xing put away the stick and slipped out of its body like an eel. He quietly stuffed a handful of crystal cores into its mouth to prevent it from getting hurt and dying prematurely.
"I have successfully completed the mission." This is what he said to the chief of staff after turning on the walkie-talkie.
There was no response from the walkie-talkie, and Xu Xing realized that he had been abandoned.
Because he had just caused the mutated elephant to go berserk, he had inadvertently created this breach, and the army rushed out and all fled.
"Indeed, in the apocalypse, no one can be trusted."
Most zombies are still at level two, and once a breach is created, they have no chance of winning against mechanized forces in terms of speed.
Those intelligent zombies, those at level four and above, seeing that they had achieved their goal, stopped pursuing the matter. They merely glanced at the mutated beast horde before leading the remaining zombies back to their lair.
During this time, they also made sure to extract the crystal cores from the dead zombies. However, they were somewhat surprised to find that the crystal cores of some of the zombies had all disappeared.
Xu Xing, the biggest beneficiary, was lying on the belly of a snow-white tiger, leisurely counting his spoils of war.
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