Chapter 248 Light Snowflakes
Modilan's face was ashen. Recalling the invasion of gold-devouring ants around District 50 and the unusual movements of the mutated pangolins in District 47, he finally understood.
It turns out that the higher-ups of these land and sea mutant beasts had long been colluding with each other. Their previous frequent small-scale invasions by low-level mutant beasts were simply to draw fire.
This diverted the attention of humanity's leadership to remote areas, causing them to overlook the place they truly wanted to conquer—Area 41.
Geographically, District 41 is a transportation hub connecting the Outer District 10 and the Inner District 40. The marine monster tide started from Azure Bay and quickly spread to District 41, first cutting off the sea route.
At the same time, it launched a land mutation and dampness attack, cutting off the reinforcements sent by the 40th District. With the two sides encircling it, the 41st District completely fell.
Occupying District 41 is just their first step. Next, they will launch more frequent and larger beast tides, gradually radiating into District 40 and slowly occupying more human safe zones.
This was an attempt they had long ago, because the human safe zone has a radiation-proof energy shield that can greatly reduce the intensity of star radiation, which is also crucial for the mutated beasts.
High radiation levels make it difficult for their offspring to survive, and even those that do survive are unlikely to grow into high-level mutant beasts, thus reducing their high-end combat power.
They fear that one day, humanity will return to its pre-cataclysmic position at the top of the food chain, and at that time, mutated beasts will become tools for humans to extract their cores.
Both the human leadership and the mutated beast leadership are well aware of this. From the human perspective, the mutated beasts are physically stronger than humans. If their advanced combat power is allowed to increase, then one day, humanity will be wiped out by them.
Therefore, maintaining the status quo is relatively advantageous for humanity, but with humanity's current capabilities, it is simply impossible to completely eliminate the high-ranking members of the mutated beasts.
However, for the mutated beast leaders, completely annihilating the human safe zones is also very difficult, so they plan to first annihilate a portion of the safe zones and gradually expand their territory.
Therefore, the crisis in Area 41 is not just about the life and death of this area. If it fails, it could very well lead to the decline of humanity and even the extinction of the race.
Having figured this out, Mortilan immediately sent a distress signal to the central area, only to find that the network was completely down.
"Damn it! There must be a high-level mutated beast in this beast tide. It has anti-air abilities. If we want to get outside help, we must kill this one first."
The problem is, it's unknown whether it's a land beast or a sea beast, let alone how to find its hiding place.
He was anxious and regretted not being able to send Zuo Shan and Bao Bao away immediately. Now that the enemy had used anti-aircraft skills, the aircraft probably couldn't operate anymore.
Mortilan Shield was also a veteran of many battles. Now that he had seen the situation clearly, he knew that rushing would be useless. He could only take advantage of the fact that the sea monster tide had not yet fully expanded and kill a batch of them first.
"Everyone, heed my command, form a defensive formation, and begin the battle!" He directly created an ice wall more than two meters high and three meters thick around the Azure Bay, and then stood on the high platform in the very center of the ice wall.
Most sea creatures are not good at jumping and climbing, so this ice wall can at least temporarily stop their progress.
At this moment, there are more than forty fourth-level ability users remaining in the bay. They have been invited to excavate the ice cave.
There are also more than twenty special guests, who are members of prominent families from various districts who were invited to participate in this maritime winter hunting carnival.
However, because this event was not valued by the major families, only a few families sent representatives, and those who came were mostly their children who were not valued by their families, and their ability levels were generally between the third and fifth tiers.
However, this is something to be thankful for for District 41, since these people are essentially foreign aid.
Since the no-fly zone was imposed, the real foreign aid has not received any news, so it is impossible for them to arrive as scheduled.
Everyone was in a panic, but when they saw the ice wall of the Mortilan Shield, their confidence increased.
There was also a ninth-level expert guarding their place. Some people looked up at the high platform in the center of the ice wall and recognized his identity.
"It's Morti Landun! The heir of the Landun family in the central district, a peak ninth-tier fighter. He's one of the most powerful ability users on the entire Green Algae Star. We're saved now!"
"Your Excellency is mighty! You will surely prevail!"
The superhumans cheered and obeyed his command without hesitation, leaping onto the ice wall and standing in the positions he had specially left for them.
Mortilan had personally trained his guards and was familiar with offensive and defensive formations, so when he created this ice wall, he deliberately left two footprints for each person's position.
In this way, everyone only needs to find the footprints and stand still, without him having to teach them the correct positions one by one.
Furthermore, each person's position has gaps in front of them that can be used to launch attacks, as well as space to dodge. Although it cannot completely block the sea monsters' attacks, it can at least reduce the damage.
Seeing that everyone had stopped and the sea monster vanguard that had surged ashore had begun to climb the ice wall, Mortilan immediately gave the order: "Start counting to both sides with me as zero. Even numbers will attack first, and odd numbers will attack after three minutes."
As soon as the order was given, everyone immediately began to count off and memorized their numbers.
With a command from Motilan Shield: "Fire!"
After seeing him launch his first attack, all the even-numbered people followed suit and launched their own attack.
Most of the ability users invited to chisel the ice cave this time were fire and metal type, and they were relatively strong in combat. They also consciously spread out when they took their positions.
The invited guests, on the other hand, were mostly weak in combat. Even those who were at the fifth rank were mostly wood, earth, or water type, and their overall combat strength was relatively weak.
However, under the leadership of Modilan Shield, they worked together wholeheartedly, and when it was their turn to fire, they all gave it their all, and no one dared to slack off.
First, they were afraid that the ninth-level expert would see through their scheme. Second, they were also very clear that they could only win this battle and could not afford to lose, because if they lost, they would be doomed.
Mortilan knew that today's battle would be long, so he didn't use his most powerful move right away. Instead, he used a skill he created when he was a child to amuse his mother—snowflakes falling from the sky.
The sea creatures climbing the ice wall felt a chill and looked up to see snowflakes falling all around them. Most of them couldn't help but sneer.
Humans are so stupid to use such weak skills to deal with them!
Don't they know that sea monsters are naturally thick-skinned? These soft, fluffy snowflakes do look pretty, but unfortunately, they have zero lethality!
As the snowflakes fell from the sky, they began to spin, their speed increasing rapidly. By the time they landed on the sea creatures, their speed had surpassed that of a tile cutter, reaching 15,000 revolutions per minute.
Such a terrifying rotation speed, even if it were just a light, drifting snowflake, would be enough to cut through the hardest skull.
Moreover, these snowflakes may look light and fluffy, but they have been enhanced by their owner from the moment they were created, making them as hard as metal.
As a result, the unsuspecting sea creatures were instantly cut up and wounded by these "soft and light" snowflakes, and some of the smaller ones were even cut into pieces.
In an instant, the beach was filled with the strong smell of blood, and there were mangled limbs of sea monsters everywhere. The entire beach was filled with cries of agony, and the shrill roars were deafening!
Those who are easily frightened felt like vomiting just watching it.
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