"All units, deploy immediately, clear the surrounding areas and build positions according to the predetermined plan!" Nie Chang's order was conveyed to each combat unit via radio.
In an instant, the entire army was operating efficiently like a sophisticated machine.
The tank roared and rushed towards the main intersection, violently knocking away the abandoned vehicles blocking the road. The huge body stretched across the center of the street, forming the strongest mobile fortress. At the same time, it slowly rotated the turret to point the muzzle in the direction of the enemy from the outside.
The self-propelled artillery battalion was deployed on the preset artillery position on the outer perimeter of the settlement's defense. The thick 155mm gun barrel was raised. The firing elements had already been calculated and calibrated in advance, and they were just waiting for firepower to be called from the front.
The infantrymen, in squads and platoons, and under the cover of armored vehicles, swarmed toward the buildings on both sides of the street like a tide.
The sound of breaking doors, brief gunshots, and explosions immediately rang out.
Their mission is to completely eliminate all Abyss Beast hidden in the building.
"Clear the bank building on the left in one shift!"
"The second squad occupies the commanding heights of the hotel on the right!"
"Class 3! Come with me and clean up this alley!"
The officers' orders were intertwined with the soldiers' responses, footsteps, and the clash of firearms, in a tense but orderly manner.
Engineer detachments shuttled among them. They used prefabricated steel plates, sandbags, and barbed wire carried on the vehicle to quickly build fortifications and firepower points at various key nodes.
More experienced engineers began to carefully lay anti-infantry mines and directional mines on several main passages leading to the core position and on hidden routes that might be used by Abyss Beast.
The small square at the entrance of Hongfu Restaurant was quickly used.
The medical team jumped off the truck, quickly set up several military tents, and hung eye-catching red cross signs. Medical equipment and plasma bags were quickly transported in, and the battlefield first aid point began to take shape.
On the other side, a dozen logistics trucks formed a temporary material and ammunition supply point. Ammunition boxes, spare barrels, rockets, mortar shells, etc. were registered and distributed by dedicated personnel.
Time flies by in the highly stressful busyness.
The sound of gunshots and explosions gradually became sporadic and eventually subsided completely.
At ten o'clock in the morning, the frontline commander General Nie Chang received reports from various departments:
"Report, the bank building has been cleaned up!"
"The shopping center and surrounding areas are under control!"
"All scheduled fortifications have been constructed!"
"The minefield is laid out!"
"First aid and supply points have been established!"
The communication channel finally fell silent, leaving only the rustle of electricity.
Everyone's eyes involuntarily turned to the slowly rotating "Nightmare Pupil" Nest.
Abyss Wolf around Nest has been completely cleared, and a defensive position centered on it has been formed.
Tanks, armored vehicles, sandbags and the will of the soldiers jointly built a strong fortress.
Nie Chang took a deep breath and looked at Lin Yi, who had been silent beside him.
Lin Yi felt Nie Chang's gaze. He nodded slightly to Nie Chang, then opened the door and walked out.
Step by step, he passed through the defense line formed by soldiers, walked through the streets full of craters and messes, crossed the last sandbag fortification, and finally stood alone in front of the Purple-Black Vortex that was constantly emitting distorted fluctuations.
It was quiet all around, except for the whimpers of the wind passing through the ruins and the suppressed breathing of countless people.
Under everyone's gaze, Lin Yi's left hand, which had been hanging naturally, suddenly raised, with his fingers slightly spread, he pressed hard against the slowly rotating Purple-Black Vortex, which exuded an ominous aura.
There was no deafening explosion, nor earth-shattering momentum.
There was only an extremely condensed, almost substantial blue light beam, like the first ray of light that penetrated the darkness at Dawn, suddenly burst out from his palm.
That beam of light was pure and dazzling, shooting directly into the deep darkness in the center of Nest Vortex with incomparable precision.
The next second, a sudden change occurred.
Where the blue light beam hit, the center of Vortex, which seemed to be able to swallow all light, suddenly lit up with a dazzling blue-white light spot.
Immediately afterwards, with that light spot as the core, the azure blue light began to smudge and spread in all directions of Vortex like thick ink dripping into the basin.
Purple-Black Vortex, which was originally integrated, was penetrated by the forcibly invaded blue, and its rotation speed became visibly sluggish to the naked eye. The light on the surface flickered violently, as if a living creature was struggling in pain with its throat strangled.
Immediately, the entire Nest suddenly shrank inward, as if it felt great pain, and let out a silent spasm.
then
"Buzz!!!"
An invisible wave that was bone-chilling but violent and chaotic suddenly centered on Nest, like a torrent that broke a bank, erupting in all directions!
This fluctuation was not a sound, but it made everyone's eardrums feel a violent pressure and buzzing. It was not a shock, but it made every soldier feel his heart tightening, as if being tightly grasped by a giant cold hand.
An indescribable sense of depression filled the air, causing many battle-hardened Veterans to turn pale in an instant, and almost instinctively clenched the weapons in their hands.
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At the same moment when Lin Yi's azure blue Source Energy light beam penetrated the core of "Nightmare Pupil" Nest, causing that circle of invisible fluctuations.
With "Nightmare Pupil" Nest as the center, all Abyss Beast within a radius of dozens of kilometers seemed to be affected by the same invisible nerve, producing a clear resonance reaction.
"Ouch!"
"Woo!"
"Hiss!"
Roars containing violence and urging sounded out one after another from the territory of No. 1, No. 2, No. 4 Micro Nest, and Small Nest No. 1 further away.
The scarlet light suddenly bloomed in the eyes of all Abyss Beast. As if they had received an irresistible command, they stopped wandering or dormant and suddenly turned in the direction of Nest No. 3.
The next moment, black Beast Shadow began to surge in every corner of the ruins of the city.
Thousands of Abyss Beast rushed out from their hiding place, forming a heart-stopping stream, and then merged into a raging tide. Regardless of the terrain, they roared and collided, and launched a crazy attack towards the Hongfu Restaurant area.
The reactions of the four Nest bodies that received the induction were even deeper.
The purple-black light on the surface of No. 1, No. 2, and No. 4 Micro Nest became obviously richer, and the rotation speed suddenly accelerated, emitting a low hum.
Immediately afterwards, more threatening and violent roars came from Nest.
Immediately, a Giant Bear, covered with thick rock-like cuticles, stepped out from Nest No. 1. It beat its solid chest and made a dull roar like a drum.
In No. 2 Nest, a giant python with dark scales and a bone crown on its head snaked out. Its cold vertical pupils were locked into the distance, and Nobuko hissed.
Nest No. 4, a black panther with cold air jumped out silently. As soon as it landed, it lowered its body and let out a low roar in the direction of Hongfu Restaurant.