Stable Development

"The number of monsters is still increasing!"

"Ah, just how many monsters did they breed underground?!" Tang Shizhe stared at the screen before him in astonishment inside the control room.

On the map, red dots representing the heat emitted by the monsters densely covered the entire display.

"The Heat Confinement Towers have begun operating under overload. This area is expected to reach near absolute zero in ten minutes."

"Our mechs are already starting to stiffen up. Should we withdraw them?" A staff member turned to Tang Shizhe, awaiting his decision.

"No. Have these mechs hold out until the very last moment!" Tang Shizhe shook his head. He could not risk allowing the monsters to spread.

At worst, they would lose the mechs.

As more and more monsters poured onto the surface, some aerial variants with body lengths reaching a full five hundred meters crawled out from underground as well.

These giant whale-like aerial variants, covered in air sacs, could send several mechs flying with a casual flick of their tails before the machines could dodge.

At the current temperature, once a mech was struck and its heating system damaged, its only fate was to become an ice sculpture.

The monsters were different. By consuming the energy stored in their bodies, they continuously heated themselves. As long as they did not suffer fatal wounds, they would not freeze.

Gradually, the mech force began to suffer rapid losses, and the green dots representing friendly units vanished from the map at an alarming rate.

"The temperature drop is complete. The temperature in this area is now close to absolute zero." A staff member suddenly exclaimed in delight.

As it happened, the mech force had already been wiped out by several thousand monsters. Most of the mechs had frozen into ice sculptures, standing amid