"Gulp... Chief, should we follow them in...?"
Daqiduo swallowed hard and hesitated before asking Garma.
Garma turned to look at his companions, all of whom looked reluctant to go, but he knew that if he gave the order, they would definitely follow him.
But even the 1.7-meter-tall "giant" Cheetos brothers showed fear for the first time, and since I was also scared, I decided to hide outside and observe for now.
"Waaaaah~~~"
The several giant beasts with sharp teeth beneath him shook their bodies restlessly, occasionally letting out pitiful "woof" sounds.
Garma, who knew them well, knew that they were also afraid, but the target was definitely not the monster they would normally dare to tear apart head-on.
Yes, although I am the savior, no one says that a savior cannot be afraid. Moreover, I have a responsibility to my companions. I'll talk to my mother again next time.
"Let's hide on the outskirts and wait for our mother to give us instructions."
...
While the Azure People rode their long-toothed behemoths far away, warriors from Earth were racing against time to advance ahead.
They had to ensure that no monstrous creatures remained in their path, while also maintaining their speed of advance.
Competition is human nature, or rather, the nature of all living things.
The first part of the strategy, "City Cleanup," is carried out in three areas. Although they are already strategic allies, none of the three armies want to be at the bottom.
This kind of cleaning is more difficult at the edges, but becomes easier as you move inwards.
It's not because the monsters outside are strong or numerous, but because the outer encirclement is relatively loose. Each tactical zone's troops must ensure that no monster escapes through their gaps, which requires a lot of effort.
As they continued to advance towards the city center, the distance between the various tactical groups and companies became closer and closer, and their ability to block and control the gaps became stronger and stronger.
The area where the company was located had just been almost completely cleaned up.
"Boom!"
A powerful, silvery-white arm blasted through a wall, and when it emerged again, a struggling, monstrous creature had its head gripped by the large hand and was pulled out through the hole in the wall.
The large tail and claws kept striking and scratching at the silver arm, but they couldn't even spark the armor; the entire arm remained completely still.
"The last one in Zone A."
After muttering this to himself, Xing Zhenrui, the company commander of the first company, exerted force with his fingers.
*Smack!*
Like a watermelon bursting open, the monstrous creature in his hand went limp.
"Company commander, we have finished cleaning up Area A. We are about one minute ahead of the other companies."
Xing Zhenrui nodded and issued the command directly using the internal bio-wave communication.
"Take a one-minute break and wait for the other companies to catch up."
If the unit is positioned slightly forward, any individual advance will create flaws in the encirclement. The elite soldiers all understand this, but the amount of exercise they just did was merely a warm-up and there was no need for any rest.
There was no way around it; these monstrous offspring were far too weak, weaker than anyone had imagined. Or rather, the combination of the Source Suit and the soldier was far too powerful, far stronger than anyone had expected!
During the brief respite, sporadic gunshots rang out from the ranks. It was the sound of monstrous creatures trying to escape the encirclement in the distance being fired in short bursts because they didn't want to run there and back.
"Boss, those lizardmen riding those little monsters were the Azure People, right?"
"Not bad, the characteristics match the information described above. Their mounts are quite interesting, though I wonder if they taste good."
"......"
"Boss, do you Cantonese people think of food first when you see something...?"
Another officer on the side chimed in with a joke.
"You son of a bitch, I'm from Sichuan, and your deputy is from Guangdong! I just wanted to bring some local specialties from Youlan Star back to my dad."
Xing Zhenrui is the adopted son of Chen Rui, the deputy commander of the Eastern Theater Command. He is not only extremely filial, but also never uses his father's connections. He is deeply trusted by his soldiers, who dare to joke with him.
What Garma and his group didn't know was that even from that distance, all their movements were completely transparent to the soldiers wearing the Source Suit. Their so-called concealment was as obvious as a light bulb in the night through tactical radar and brainwave information.
The short time passed quickly, basically just enough for everyone to chat for a while.
"One minute is up. Company, all units, continue the attack."
"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"
After a few short, explosive sounds of impact and recoil, the 100 soldiers who had just been resting vanished from their spot in the blink of an eye.
A monster several times larger than the others, with muscles bulging like a giant reptile, lunged out from what it thought was a hiding place, flicking out its long tongue in a preemptive attack on a warrior.
However, the latter was only a blur before it sped away, seemingly just dodging the attack, but the monster that pounced out had already disintegrated in mid-air before it even landed.
Adhering to the principle of minimizing damage to the city's main structure, the soldiers controlled the pace of the clearing operation, advancing steadily and methodically.
A seemingly tall building would often be transformed into a towering structure by two warriors who would leap out from the other side a dozen seconds after entering, by which time the monstrous creatures inside would have been completely wiped out.
In a secluded basement of a shop, five blue-clad people spent months without daylight, moving about on tiptoe and never daring to sleep soundly at night.
She was afraid that the basement door she had blocked would be broken in her sleep, and she was also afraid that talking in her sleep would attract a monster with keen hearing.
But just now, suddenly the screams of those monsters filled the air.
The screams were extremely dense and unusually short, often disappearing immediately after they started, interspersed with sounds of breaking impacts and unprecedented loud roars.
Less than a minute later, the area fell into absolute silence.
It was absolutely quiet; even the occasional noises from nearby monsters that used to be heard were gone.
The people in the basement felt as if they were being scratched by the tails of a thousand hairy beasts. They were extremely curious about what was happening outside, but they dared not go out to take a look.
Suddenly, a woman thought of something and used her finger to write a few words on the palms of the other four people.
Then everyone got excited and didn't want to wait any longer, preferring to gamble their lives.
The clothes and shelves blocking the basement door were moved together, and the sounds of collision during the process made them nervous, but no monsters were attracted.
They grew bolder and soon cleaned up and walked out of the basement together.
As they stepped out of the basement, rays of sunlight streamed in through the broken shop door, causing the pale-skinned men, who had been deprived of sunlight for a long time, to instinctively shield their eyes.
It took a while for my vision to return.
"Hiss~~~"
Inside the store and on the street outside, there were corpses of those terrifying monsters everywhere, and they couldn't help but think of those short screams they had just heard.
Stepping outside the store, my heart felt like it was being repeatedly pounded by a sledgehammer, and my body felt as if it were frozen in place, unable to move.
Five pale blue figures, each less than 1.4 meters tall, looked around, their eyes brimming with tears from the sunlight, yet they refused to close them.
The walls and streets were stained a mottled dark red, and some walls even had a considerable number of monstrous creatures hanging on them, except that their heads had disappeared or been shattered, leaving only their limbs still clinging tightly to the surface of the buildings after they died.
Unusual footprints were found on the ground.
Some footprints were occasionally seen in the streets that had slightly sunken due to the backlash from the eruption.
The girl in the dark blue dress quickly stepped forward and compared the peculiar footprints to her own hand.
Even when the entire palm is fully extended, it only occupies a quarter of the footprint.
"So big..."
PS: My friend "Chen Rui" is making a cameo appearance later.
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