The next day.
Shen Heng was walking towards the training room.
" The Calamity Beast shouldn't attack in the next couple of days, right?" Han Ling asked, walking beside Shen Heng.
"Yes, barring any unforeseen circumstances, that should be the case."
As Shen Heng spoke, he glanced to the side.
A heavy vehicle carrying building blocks drove past them, heading towards the city wall.
There, more personnel and robots are repairing the damaged city walls.
Turning his gaze away, Shen Heng continued:
"After all, the Calamity Beast we had gathered over the past few days were almost all wiped out yesterday. It won't be possible to gather that many again in just one or two days."
"Of course, we can't let our guard down completely. The other side might launch another attack after gathering a certain number of Calamity Beast."
"You mean to say that the Calamity Beast might gather six or seven thousand low-level Calamity Beast and then attack again?" Han Ling looked at Shen Heng questioningly.
"Not necessarily, maybe three or four thousand, or even two or three thousand will come," Shen Heng said.
Upon hearing this, Han Ling frowned slightly.
"They failed to shoot down nearly ten thousand before. Will they come when the numbers are even smaller? If that's the case, then ordinary soldiers could probably take care of most of them with just guns and missiles, right?"
"What if they're just trying to deplete our ammunition?" Shen Heng stopped and looked at Han Ling.
"This..." Han Ling paused, frowned in thought, and said, "You mean, the Calamity Beast are unaware of our situation, and after witnessing the power of firearms and other weapons during yesterday's attack, they might try to use a large number of low-level Calamity Beast to deplete our ammunition?"
"Yes, that's right," Shen Heng nodded slightly.
"Just like us, we don't know much about the Calamity Beast either."
"So far, the only way we can tell that a Calamity Beast Calamity Beast will attack us is by observing its intentions."
"We don't know anything else about the Calamity Beast Calamity Beast. We don't know their location in the Erosion Zone, what they're doing, whether they're simply gathering other Calamity Beast, or if they have some other purpose."
" Calamity Beast, its purpose..." Han Ling repeated in a low voice.
She then remembered that their entry into the Erosion Zone wasn't just for establishing the current base.
Furthermore, it is to use this base as a center to explore outwards, find out if the Calamity Beast are doing anything in the Erosion Zone, and accelerate the erosion of Blue Star by the Erosion Zone.
If so, then naturally it must be stopped;
If not, then using the base as the core to defend against the invasion of the Calamity Beast is also a good option.
Seeing that Han Ling seemed to understand, Shen Heng turned around and continued walking forward.
"Of course, this is just speculation. It's possible that the Calamity Beast Calamity Beast will continue to gather in large numbers and then launch a single attack, just like before."
Han Ling followed beside Shen Heng and slowly nodded.
As Shen Heng walked forward, he looked over the city wall at the distant mountain shadows.
A hint of seriousness flashed in his eyes. If it were the former method, it would be fine, but if it were the latter...
Intense combat, unavoidable casualties among inspectors...
This is not a sustainable war for humanity!
Now, we either need to find a way to change the form of the war, or we have no choice but to withdraw!
Leaving aside the issue of withdrawal, there's not much to say about that; let's change the form of the war...
Shen Heng lowered his eyes slightly, a thoughtful expression in them.
What form could a war between two worlds take?
Should we change the current head-on confrontation between low- and mid-level members to a high-level confrontation?
But this doesn't seem to make any sense.
After all, the number of Calamity Beast far exceeds theirs, both in terms of low-level and high-level numbers.
Unless the Daoist priest is made to kill ordinary Calamity Beast?
But what if high-level Calamity Beast also attack the base?
In fact, compared to Daoist priests, Calamity Beast are more suitable for this, after all, they have the advantage in numbers.
We could send one or two to hold them off, while the rest deal with the humans inside the base.
Of course, the base is not without countermeasures; if pushed to the limit, it might deploy a high-yield nuclear weapon.
Just because Seventh Tier nuclear weapon can withstand a high-yield nuclear bomb doesn't mean Sixth Tier nuclear weapon can withstand one!
Of course, they could try to evade, but even if they could, given the stability of the space within the Erosion Zone, whether they could withstand a high-yield nuclear bomb is a question!
Of course, for humanity, high-yield nuclear weapons are probably also prohibited.
Without knowing the consequences of a spatial collapse in the Erosion Zone, headquarters is unlikely to allow it to Erosion Zone.
After all, at this stage, no one can bear the consequences of the collapse of the Erosion Zone directly impacting Blue Star!
However, just as he had just told Han Ling, the two sides had an information asymmetry.
From the perspective of the Calamity Beast, what they know now should be...
Humans are not strong individually, but some of their weapons are very dangerous, even capable of killing Seventh Tier Calamity Beast.
Seventh Tier Calamity Beast cannot appear in the Erosion Zone, otherwise it will cause the space of the Erosion Zone to collapse.
This means that, in their view, humans also have the means to threaten them, and even cause the Erosion Zone to collapse.
so...
A glint of light appeared in Shen Heng's eyes.
The high-level Calamity Beast did not appear in yesterday's battle because there was concern that they might push humanity to the brink, causing them to recklessly destroy the Erosion Zone.
From a human perspective, headquarters probably wouldn't allow such a thing to happen, but the Calamity Beast don't know that!
so...
Are the Calamity Beast also trying to prevent the Erosion Zone from collapsing?
Is it because they are also unsure what will happen after the Erosion Zone collapses, or...?
Suddenly, Shen Heng stopped and looked in one direction.
Han Ling glanced in the direction Shen Heng was looking, but only saw buildings blocking the road.
She looked away and asked:
What happened over there?
"Someone's sparring over there, want to go check it out?" Shen Heng asked, turning his gaze away.
"Do you know who it is?" Han Ling asked.
"One of them is Wang Hu, the one you mentioned yesterday. His ability is something like Beast Transformation. I'm not sure about the other one." Shen Heng sensed the scene building up in his mind.
"I'm fine with anything, it's up to you."
"Then come and take a look!"
Han Ling nodded slightly, not refusing.
The two headed in that direction.
A few minutes later.
As they drew closer, the booming sounds of their collisions filled their ears.
After a while, one figure after another appeared before the two of them.
They were standing scattered about, vaguely forming a circle.
In the center of the circle, a conspicuously tall figure suddenly turned around and swung its claws.