The Cyclops switched on all its lights, bathing everything around it in brilliant white.
The dazzling light seemed to enrage the birds. They turned straight around and swarmed toward the Cyclops again. Naturally, the Cyclops would not sit back and wait to be destroyed. Machine guns and antiaircraft cannons soon thundered, their bullets forming a dense net of defensive fire that swept through the flock.
Other soldiers ran back and forth, dragging bird-catching nets out of storage and spreading them over the warship's exterior. They clearly had little experience with the equipment, and their movements were somewhat clumsy. The remaining soldiers raised their rifles and fired futilely into the sky, trying to slow the birds down however they could.
Many birds were hit by bullets and burst into balls of flame in midair with piercing cries, but some broke through the barrage and charged toward the Cyclops.
This was war.
High above, Li Wei watched everything through his observation scope and silently sighed. Although the supernatural had already begun to reawaken in this world, there clearly were no powerhouses capable of taking on an entire army alone, as there were in webnovels. Of all the enemies he had encountered, excluding those in the Dreamlands, only the Dragon and the sea monster could withstand warfare on this scale.
Even the statue could not manage it. The moment that thing crawled out of its cave, mortars would blast it to pieces.
The sea monster mainly had the advantage of terrain. As far as Li Wei knew, this world had yet to invent anything like a submarine. However powerful a surface warship's guns were, they could hardly hurt a sea monster on the ocean floor-not to mention that this era apparently had no concept of depth charges.
The Dragon had no trouble dealing