Today's third update: Chapter 2739! 3/4!
Yue Chan'er and the others had followed Xu Kun through a racial war among the monkey race, yet even they had never witnessed a war this brutal. As for A Li and the other primitive Huang race members who had emerged from the Plague Realm Ruins—
Before following Xu Kun, they had never even seen so many people.
At the start of the tug-of-war battle, when the Huang race occupied favorable terrain and finished counting the encircling rat army, A Li and the others had still been excited.
But as the stalemate dragged on, their excitement turned to terror, then numbness.
They had seen what the cruelty of war truly meant.
Once the cannons roared, corpses would blanket the land for thousands of miles!
Only Xu Kun remained expressionless as he watched the results of the two sides' more than two months of fighting.
Though this stalemate still could not be considered a direct confrontation, the Huang Army wanted to leave while the rat army wanted to surround them. Face-to-face clashes between the two sides had been unavoidable.
With all sorts of favorable conditions on their side, combined with the tempering of the previous three months of war, the Huang Army had once again achieved remarkable results.
At the cost of nearly twenty million casualties, they had killed more than ten times that number of enemies. It seemed to validate the rat army higher-ups' prewar joke: even if every Huang race member could fight ten enemies alone, the rat race could still win this war through its numerical advantage.
The Huang Army had intended to flee. Apart from the troops stationed at key locations, who had launched counterattacks on the spot to cover their comrades' retreat, nearly all the other fighters had exposed