Having finalized the plan, Su Bai began preparations.
Considering the current number of remaining souls, there isn't enough for a large-scale mutated exploding bug.
To acquire nearly 500,000 Hybrid Mist Beasts at minimal cost, it's essential to gather these creatures together as much as possible.
Compared to the armies of human lords, the combat intelligence of the Hybrid Mist Beasts is clearly not high enough.
Su Bai ordered the Zerg legions fighting outside the territory to begin shrinking their formation and slowly converging towards the territory.
The Hybrid Mist Beasts also began to relentlessly pursue, closely following the Zerg army as they attacked towards their territory.
Su Bai opened the infected refugee camp and chose to incubate.
Before long, the infected civilians were rapidly hatched.
This infected force was placed by Su Bai in the rear of the Zerg army.
Then, the leading roach and zebrafly legions parted to create an opening, allowing a large number of Zerg troops to return to safe areas within their territory.
The Hybrid Mist Beasts, seeing the gap created by the Zerg army, gathered together without hesitation and advanced towards the gap.
Five hundred thousand [hybrid mist beasts] all poured into the breach.
At that moment, Su Bai issued an attack order to the 14,000 infected civilians.
Thousands upon thousands of Hybrid Mist Beasts collided with infected civilians within a few hundred meters of the territory.
The infected civilians began to emit a dark green biochemical toxin from their bodies.
The moment the Hybrid Mist Beast came into contact with the biochemical toxin, its tough skin was corroded, leaving streaks of black blood.
The light of the elven healing spell flickered continuously, but it had absolutely no effect on the toxins released by the infected civilians.
The hybrid mist beasts at the forefront were quickly overwhelmed by the biochemical mist released by 14,000 infected civilians, their muscles and bones rotting under the wash of blood.
The biochemical toxin cloud thinned as it was consumed, allowing the [Hybrid Mist Beasts] behind it to continue their fearless attack.
Infected civilians are less physically resilient than the Zerg army.
The Hybrid Mist Beast's greatsword and giant axe, with each strike, stirred up a cloud of blood mist among the infected civilians.
The severed limbs and flesh of infected civilians fell to the ground, and waves of even more potent biochemical toxins rose up.
This is the horror of infected civilians.
Every infected civilian is a huge source of infection.
Moreover, although the infected civilians have very low physical defense, their attack power is comparable to that of a level 30 Zerg soldier.
This puts the Hybrid Mist Beast in a dilemma: if it doesn't attack the infected civilians, the infected civilians' attacks can easily break through the Hybrid Mist Beast's defenses.
If they attack infected civilians, the splattered blood and flesh will infect hundreds or thousands of [Hybrid Mist Beasts].
After expending 6,000 infected civilians, the [Hybrid Mist Beast] lines clearly retreated several hundred meters.
These 6,000 infected civilians directly caused nearly 100,000 casualties among the Hybrid Mist Beasts.
The hybrid mist beasts have begun to consciously disperse into formation.
They also began to realize that if they huddled together, the high concentration of biochemical toxins could easily kill them.
Although evacuation reduced the concentration of biochemical toxins, they remained highly lethal on a large scale.
Lower-level Hybrid Mist Beasts can only withstand low concentrations of biochemical toxins for a few minutes.
The low concentration of biochemical toxins reduced their corrosive effect, leaving the corpse of the dead [Hybrid Mist Beast] remarkably intact.
Su Bai noticed this and withdrew all the Zerg legions back to his territory.
There are now a large number of corpses, as well as a buffer zone that has been widened to thousands of meters by the impact of infected civilians.
Corpse Explosion is entirely possible.
The next moment.
The skill 【Corpse Explosion】 is activated.
Tens of thousands of intact corpses of the Hybrid Mist Beasts exploded in the desolate wilderness.
The shockwave dispersed the mist outside the territory, and the [Hybrid Mist Beast] formation was completely torn apart by the explosion.
In just a moment, nearly 200,000 Hybrid Mist Beasts were blasted into fragments.
The corpse explosion was also mixed with biochemical toxins from infected civilians, which elevated the already accompanying infection attack to a whole new level.
Rows of Hybrid Mist Beasts fell one after another; for the first time, these emotionless creatures felt fear.
The number of the 500,000 Hybrid Mist Beasts that had come charging in was reduced by 400,000 in less than half an hour.
The remaining 100,000 Hybrid Mist Beasts, upon seeing 6,000 infected civilians after the explosion dissipated, scattered and fled.
Seeing the 100,000 Hybrid Mist Beasts fleeing into the mist, Su Bai ordered a halt to the pursuit.
He was already quite satisfied with the results so far. Now that the fog hadn't cleared, the most important task was still to protect the territory.
Now that he understood the combat capabilities of the hybrid creatures in the mist, Su Bai was much more confident about the defense ahead.
In particular, hybrid creatures drop more souls upon death than ordinary creatures.
The souls dropped by just 400,000 Hybrid Mist Beasts are enough to recruit a million-strong insectoid army.
It's important to understand that in this battle, the Zerg's casualties, at most, amounted to no more than 300,000, plus 8,000 infected civilians.
At this rate of attrition, our troop strength will only increase with each battle!
"We don't need to worry about the desolate desert anymore. With the troops I left there plus the local tribes, these hybrid mist beasts are no match for them."
Since the hybrid creature's combat power wasn't particularly strong, Su Bai decided to adopt a more aggressive strategy.
Through the teleportation array, 50,000 elite Zerg troops were transported into An Ruoyun's territory.
The hybrid creatures should now be deep in the Land of Redemption, so the intensity of the attacks on An Ruoyun's territory by the hybrid creatures will not be particularly high.
If he can protect his territory, Su Bai will naturally not give up anything.
An Ruoyun was also moved, knowing that Su Bai needed troops right now.
But after driving away the hybrid mist beast, she immediately went to reinforce her territory.
Other lords were not as lucky as An Ruoyun.
The Hybrid Mist Beasts possessed combat power comparable to a mid-tier legion, causing many unsuspecting lords in the Land of Redemption to suffer heavy losses.
On the world channel, the gamblers' hopes were instantly shattered.
The atmosphere began to become incredibly heavy.
[I'm so pissed off! Who said hybrid creatures wouldn't exist?!]
[I just withdrew my troops, and tens of thousands of hybrid creatures came knocking on my door.]
These hybrid creatures are really only level 30?! That's insane!
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