The two found a well-regarded tavern and sat down to drink and eat. Chu Nian ate the meat, while Qi Meili drank...
Midway through the meal, a loud rumbling sound suddenly rang out from beyond the distant sky. Although we were tens of thousands of miles away from the sky, we could still feel the ground shaking.
"The monster tide is here again." Qi Meili's expression changed, she let out a hiccup, and said helplessly.
As the name suggests, a monster tide is an attack by thousands upon thousands of monsters. They are enormous due to mutations caused by nuclear radiation, but they are not clumsy at all; many move with lightning speed.
The sheer scale of their combined attack was deafening, a sound so powerful it could shake the heavens and the earth.
In the event of a monster horde attack, all ability users must mobilize to resist the monsters at the edge of the sky, resolutely preventing them from penetrating the sky and destroying the peaceful haven that humanity has painstakingly built.
Alarms were blaring across the entire sky, along with a presidential call from the president, transmitted via a vast network, urging all those with superpowers to return to their units immediately.
The tavern owner, an ordinary person, was about to close up shop and quickly hid in a pre-dug tunnel protected by various mechanisms, in case the monsters attacked the sky and all these ordinary people without superpowers became the monsters' delicious meal.
Chu Nian and Qi Meili returned to the Exploration Department and regrouped with the other team members. Led by Jing Yue, they rushed to their assigned guard positions.
Because the boundaries of the celestial sphere were long ago defined by humans, they have built several tall walls along these boundaries, enclosing the entire celestial sphere. These walls themselves have been reinforced with various protective measures by individuals with supernatural abilities; any monster attempting to truly invade the celestial sphere must first breach these high walls.
The first task of the superhumans is to defend these high walls and prevent the monsters from breaching them. If all the walls are breached, it means the monsters will enter human territory.
When that happens, the superhumans will have to start fighting in the streets. Although they may not be able to defeat the monsters, human buildings will definitely be damaged on a large scale, resulting in heavy losses.
The mutated monsters, plants, and even giants are generally enormous, and several walls along the edge of the sky were built to block them, each tens of meters high. Even so, the avian monsters in the sky cannot be completely stopped. They mainly rely on drones, rocket launchers, missiles, and the like to deal with them.
Chu Nian's small team was assigned to guard the first line of defense. They would be the first to face the monsters head-on. When the team arrived, the top of the city wall was already filled with warriors like them who had been assigned to the front line, all of whom were extremely powerful ability users.
Although the original owner had graduated from university less than half a year ago, he had already participated in three of these monster waves.
Perhaps because of their enormous size and the heavy nuclear contamination they had absorbed, Chu Nian discovered that the cells inside these monsters were almost entirely composed of nuclear elements, and they had long since lost their original biological appearance. It could be said that each monster was a mobile nuclear weapon.
Their roars, breath attacks, clawing, and biting—if they were to strike a human, the damage would likely be comparable to the aftershocks of a nuclear attack. An ordinary person couldn't even withstand a single breath from them; they would be instantly reduced to ashes.
Their engulfment is estimated to be nothing more than the dissolution and assimilation of nuclear elements.
The avian monsters, due to their speed, were the first to reach the skies.
Whether it's a missile or a rocket, once it hits and shatters them, their bodies simply become new nuclear factors that enter other monsters' bodies.
These monsters absorb nuclear energy and grow rapidly. Once they reach a certain size, they will undergo fission, creating even more monsters. Their birth relies on fission, and their growth relies on aggregation, making them completely different from normal organisms.
Therefore, reducing the nuclear energy content is the most fundamental way to deal with these monsters. Unfortunately, the world has been undergoing changes for two hundred years, and humanity has yet to find a way to significantly reduce the nuclear energy content in the air.
The entire world is essentially invaded by nuclear elements, from underground and on the ground, all the way up to tens of thousands of meters in the sky, penetrating the atmosphere and reaching into space...
It's truly remarkable that the area around Mount Huai can maintain such a low level of nuclear contamination despite such a high concentration of nuclear energy. No wonder humanity has always been filled with curiosity about Mount Huai, wanting to explore its interior.
As Chu Nian pondered, she followed the location Jing Yue had indicated to her: Hmm, this location is not obvious to those with little experience, but Chu Nian immediately recognized it as the best position for a high-altitude dive attack.
This also makes this location the most vulnerable to attack and even breach by avian monsters.
Although Chu Nian suspected that Jing Yue had ulterior motives in making this arrangement, the position, though dangerous, still needed to be filled. It would have to be someone else, and she felt that someone as kind as her should feel obligated to step up in such a situation.
The original owner's dual wind and thunder abilities were among the strongest types of abilities for attacking birds, so it was understandable that she stood there.
This position was the closest to those flying creatures—a bunch of monsters had already swooped down, and Chu Nian was very happy. With a flick of his finger, all the monsters turned to ash.
"What happened?" Jingyue asked in shock upon seeing the scene.
Qi Meili was also shocked and said, "I don't know. Niannian, did you find anything?"
Chu Nian: "If even Captain Jing couldn't figure it out, how could I possibly have found out?"
However, the second wave of birds had already arrived. At the same time, giants, monsters, and even strange plants swarmed in in droves.
Everyone used their best skills to fight the enemy.
Chu Nian picked up the monsters she liked and absorbed their nuclear energy; they grew to the size of small mountains.
Because the birds in the high altitudes had inexplicably turned to ash, the prepared missiles and other advanced firearms had not been launched. The command center was baffled by this situation, and despite using the most advanced detection equipment, they still could not detect anything unusual.
The lizards of the past have now grown to the size of dinosaurs; the falcons are like pterosaurs; the trees that were once deeply rooted in the soil have become running plant monsters, whose branches can easily snatch away a living person with a single stretch...
There are countless such monsters, roaring and galloping, like an erupting tsunami that has already submerged vast swathes of land beyond the sky.
Standing atop the high wall, the group felt as if these towering monsters had coalesced into a vast ocean, with undulating "waves" piled up dozens of feet high, roaring and surging forward.
The first high wall was nearly shattered by the beast's impact. The group received orders to retreat to the second high wall, and they all used their powerful abilities to push themselves to the limit, fleeing frantically.
Those who were slower were either swallowed by monsters, trampled by monsters, or swept away by monster plants...
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