"The most powerful weapon...?"
Shen Heng silently watched the streaks of flame hurtling towards them from afar.
Indeed, just as the captain said, humanity's strongest weapons against the Calamity Beast are still missiles and the like.
It's just that these weapons were previously restricted and unusable because we lived in the city.
But if placed in the wild...
"Whoosh--"
A streak of light, trailing a white flame, hurtled in.
Like a thunderbolt hurled by Mount Olympus Zeus.
At a speed exceeding the limits of visual perception, it crashed headlong into the distant mountainous and hilly areas!
The next second...
"Boom! Boom boom boom boom--!!!"
A muffled, rolling thunderous explosion came clearly from afar.
Even though they were dozens of kilometers apart, and even though they were sitting in a car, everyone could hear it clearly.
They could even feel a slight tremor coming from the ground beneath their feet!
Immediately afterwards, even more violent secondary explosions rang out in succession, and thick smoke and dust rose up like mushrooms.
The flash from the explosion illuminated a small patch of the dark night sky!
"Oh My God..."
A gasp of surprise came through the headset.
Shen Heng sat in his seat, silently gazing at the distant sky.
"Squeak, squeak--"
(Hurry up, hurry up with the following actions--!!!)
Several Sharp-Horned Rat either stood upright by the roadside or climbed up trees, screeching and urging each other on.
And the animals they were urging were Sharp-Horned Rat that were much smaller than themselves.
If you look closely, you can also see that these Sharp-Horned Rat are carrying pieces of white Stone in their mouths, the purpose of which is unknown.
In the distance, on the earthen slope.
The matriarch of the Sharp-Horned Rat, a giant rat far larger than any of the other Sharp-Horned Rat present, with dark golden fur and a single horn that shimmered with an eerie light, sat quietly.
As it groomed its glossy, dark golden fur, it silently surveyed its rapidly moving subjects below.
His thoughts drifted to the scene he had just witnessed through the remains of his dead subordinate.
" Supervision Bureau... humanity..."
"Just wait a little longer... just wait a little longer..."
A fierce yet restrained red light flashed in the eyes of the Sharp-Horned Rat Matriarch.
Suddenly, its grooming motion abruptly froze.
Almost instinctively, it raised its head and looked up at the dark night sky.
Several streaks of light, trailing blazing flames, were clearly visible in the night sky, and they were growing larger and larger at a speed beyond its comprehension!
Without hesitation or pause, at that moment, a heart-wrenching, Distortion scream suddenly erupted from the throat of the Sharp-Horned Rat Matriarch.
"Hiss--!!!!!!"
It is no longer any language, but the most primal and direct alarm!
However, the alarm came too late!
Almost at the same instant it let out its shriek, several streaks of light crashed down!
"Boom--"
The first streak of light crashed into the mountainside not far away.
With a muffled bang, the mountain shook and cracked violently as if an earthquake had struck!
Huge rocks mixed with mud shot into the sky!
The swarm of rats below instantly descended into extreme panic and chaos!
A cacophony of squeaks erupted as countless Sharp-Horned Rat scurried about like headless flies, trampling each other in the process!
But this is just the beginning!
Then, the second, the third...
More warheads, like Thor's hammers of precision, slammed down one after another near the underground caves where the rats were swarming!
"Boom! Boom boom boom--!!!"
The deafening explosions continued incessantly.
The earth trembled violently, as if it were the end of the world.
A mushroom cloud of blazing flames, mixed with mud, gravel, and the mangled limbs of Sharp-Horned Rat, rose into the air!
The shockwave, like an invisible scythe, reaped lives in droves!
The once orderly swarm of rats instantly transformed into a hellscape of panic, flames, and death!
"Hiss!!!"
The Sharp-Horned Rat Matriarch suddenly let out a roar filled with extreme anger and terror!
It shot out beams of dark golden light from its horn, attempting to block the still-falling stream of light.
However, the extreme speed difference rendered its attacks completely ineffective, except for repeatedly missing its target.
Finally, a streak of light landed not far from it.
"Boom--"
The violent shockwave and flames threw the Sharp-Horned Rat Matriarch to the ground.
It got up and scanned the scene with its eyes.
Flames, explosions, screams, escape...
"Humans... damn it... damn it..."
Those scarlet pupils were filled with intense hatred and resentment.
It suddenly opened its mouth.
"Squeak--!"
(Scatter! Take those Stone and run into the sea!)
The distant explosions gradually subsided.
Almost as soon as the sound stopped, the communicator on Wang Hai's dashboard rang again.
He immediately picked up the phone and answered.
"The ' Scavenger ' agreement has been fully implemented!"
"According to satellite monitoring, the heat source response in the main strike area has decreased dramatically, and life signals have disappeared over a large area..."
"Preliminary assessment indicates the damage exceeds 90%..."
"However, there are still sporadic small signals moving, scattered in direction, but generally pointing towards the coastal area."
"Do you know the quantity?" Wang Hai asked.
"According to Tianshu's assessment, there are approximately 70-90 Sharp-Horned Rat remaining," came the reply from the communicator.
Shen Heng's expression turned slightly serious.
If over 90% of them are damaged, and there are still 70-90 left, that means there could be close to a thousand in intact condition?
Thinking of this, Shen Heng breathed a slight sigh of relief.
Fortunately, they were discovered early; otherwise, if this number of Sharp-Horned Rat had attacked Linhai, the death toll could have reached tens of thousands.
However, this seems to differ from what the interrogated Sharp-Horned Rat finally said.
Explosion... Destruction... Smoke... Death...
What's dead? Deathly silence?
If that's the case, the only useful thing seems to be an explosion.
To create a massive explosion and then obliterate the Linhai through the shockwave?
Leaving aside whether the Fourth Tier Sharp-Horned Rat has the ability to explode, even if it does, Fourth Tier shouldn't be able to directly destroy the Linhai area... Hmm, if we don't resist and let it explode slowly, that would be fine... Shen Heng lowered his eyes and pondered.
Suddenly, as if he had heard something, Shen Heng turned his head and looked in one direction.
The brain began to analyze the sound waves returning from that direction.
A black-and-white image rapidly formed in his mind.
The mountainside, the cave, and the twenty or thirty horned rodents staring in the direction of the explosion, looking somewhat frightened.
Why are there Sharp-Horned Rat here too?... Shen Heng frowned slightly.
"Did you find anything?" Wang Hai noticed Shen Heng's unusual behavior.
"About two kilometers ahead, on the mountain about 300 meters to the right of the road, there are twenty or thirty Sharp-Horned Rat. Judging from their size, one of them is a Third Tier."
Shen Heng recounted what he had learned.