Global Catastrophe: I Became the World Tree-Chapter 199 - 158 A Thorough Solution to the Forbidden Zone _2

Chapter 199: Chapter 158 A Thorough Solution to the Forbidden Zone _2

"Next, it’s about seeing how the restricted area responds. I wonder how it will cope," Bai Yinghui said as he looked towards Small Phoenix Mountain, which had already "slimmed down" a bit.

"No matter what, we’ll deal with whatever comes our way. As long as the thermostatic shells are effective, we can delay its expansion rate. Now it’s just a matter of seeing how well the delay works," Ye Feng said with a smile.

Having just seen the effects of the thermostatic shells, he wasn’t very worried.

Bai Yinghui nodded, but there was still concern on his face because his considerations were completely different from Ye Feng’s.

Ye Feng had great confidence in himself. Given time to grow, he believed he could face even the existence within the restricted area without fear, should it truly emerge.

But Bai Yinghui was thinking about how to kill the entity before it could come out.

After all, no matter how you looked at it, this was supposed to be its weakest moment. If not now, when?

In the blink of an eye, half an hour passed.

"There haven’t been any signs of movement, which proves that it must have suffered a lot of damage!" Ye Feng said with a laugh.

Bai Yinghui nodded, agreeing with this opinion.

Then everyone continued to wait.

Of course, during this process, Ye Feng occasionally switched back to his original body from his rejuvenated state.

After all, he couldn’t spend all his time here. Harvesting spiritual energy every hour was a must. Otherwise, he would lose over 7,000 points of spiritual energy per hour, which would be painfully costly.

And as they waited, two full hours passed before corrosive energy started to rise slowly.

"Huh!" Ye Feng let out a light exclamation.

"What is it?" Bai Yinghui quickly asked.

Without answering immediately, Ye Feng controlled the mutated parrot to fly into the sky and take a round trip.

After returning, he immediately said, "Inside the restricted area, only half of the region is showing signs of corrosive energy."

"Only half? Then is there any area where the corrosive energy is particularly concentrated?" Bai Yinghui asked with a frown.

"No, the corrosive energy that appeared is evenly scattered throughout the restricted area. It’s obvious that it has been scared by the bombing and is using this method to reduce the damage."

"However, this means that the expansion rate of the restricted area will also be halved. What do you plan to do? Continue bombing?" Ye Feng asked.

Before, it expanded 240 meters in one day, and now it’s reduced to 120 meters, which means a 3.6-kilometer expansion over one month.

The restricted area would need at least two months to expand to Sunset Valley, which he felt was entirely acceptable.

Of course, if the military was willing to throw more thermostatic shells over, that would be ideal, but he wasn’t sure how many of these trump cards the military had, so he couldn’t make decisions for them.

Bai Yinghui didn’t hesitate and nodded, saying, "Of course, continue the bombing. Now that the restricted area isn’t large, the effect of continuing to bomb will definitely be better than later."

"Currently, four thermostatic shells can cover 70% of the restricted area, but after a month, it might take 40 thermostatic shells to cover such a vast area."

Ye Feng naturally understood this reasoning and nodded, saying, "Fine! Then continue the bombing, but I must remind you to reserve enough thermostatic shells. Otherwise, once the restricted area realizes you’ve stopped the bombing, it will expand with all its might."

Bai Yinghui smiled and said, "Don’t worry about that. The higher-ups are very concerned about this issue, so they will support us fully."

Following that, Bai Yinghui ordered the launch of another four thermostatic shells.

The corrosive energy that filled the restricted area was once again dissipated by a large extent.

But this time, just 10 minutes later, corrosive energy began to emerge from the restricted area again.

However, the amount of corrosive energy had dropped to a third of what it was originally.

"Are we bombing again?" Ye Feng asked, describing the situation and couldn’t help but inquire.

"Of course!" Bai Yinghui said firmly and instructed the artillery units to continue preparing.

It’s worth mentioning that during this time, Bai Yinghui called in an additional 10 missile trucks from Yang City to ensure a sufficient ammunition reserve at the restricted area.

After another round of bombing, the quantity of corrosive energy surfacing again in the restricted area had dropped to just a quarter of its original level.

But Bai Yinghui still had no intention of stopping and continued to order the bombing.

It was only when the density of Corrosive Energy fell to one-fifth of its original level that the bombing finally ceased.

Ye Feng felt a pang of distress witnessing this scene, honestly feeling it was completely unnecessary.

If it were up to him, he would have stopped when the density of Corrosive Energy in the forbidden zone had dropped to one-third of its original level.

Because such bombing wasn’t a one-time thing, don’t be fooled by Bai Yinghui’s several rounds of bombings, reducing the forbidden zone to only daring to emit one-fifth of the Corrosive Energy, but the opponent wouldn’t possibly maintain such a low level of Corrosive Energy indefinitely.

When you cease the bombardment, as time goes by, the other side will definitely start to test out, slowly increasing the concentration of Corrosive Energy.

If you want to maintain such a low concentration of Corrosive Energy, you need to keep bombing continuously.

Under these circumstances, the number of Thermostatic Shells consumed each day would be terrifying.

With his confusion, Ye Feng didn’t hold back and directly asked, "Is what you’re doing really worth it? You keep bombing, but you can’t destroy what’s inside. Rather than this, why not save some Thermostatic Shells?"

"If whatever’s inside comes out, saving up a few hundred Thermostatic Shells and bombarding it in one sweep might have a better effect."

Bai Yinghui smiled and said without concealing anything, "The order I received is to contain the expansion of the forbidden zone as much as possible. As for your point that it’s impossible to destroy the forbidden zone, I don’t think so."

"Huh?" Ye Feng was puzzled.

He really couldn’t imagine what the other side intended to do.

"Based on the intelligence you provided, the core of the forbidden zone is hidden underground, and the deeper it goes, the higher the concentration of Corrosive Energy, possibly reaching dozens or even hundreds of times more, right?" Bai Yinghui said.

"Yes, that’s correct," Ye Feng nodded.

"Then do you know that humans have a kind of weapon called the Earth-penetrating Bomb?" Bai Yinghui said with a smile.

Ye Feng’s pupils shrank slightly, "What do you mean?"

"It’s just as you are thinking; of course, to make the Earth-penetrating Bomb generate a high temperature above 3000 degrees upon exploding, it definitely needs to be modified, and this will take time."

"So what I need to do now is to keep the forbidden zone contained, maintain it in this ’weakened’ state until it’s easier to destroy," Bai Yinghui said frankly, laying out the plan.

On one hand, they and Dragon Hall were allies, with a common enemy, so there was no need to conceal this. On the other hand, it also served to display the strength of humans, to prevent being underestimated by the other side.

In the end, Ye Feng could only utter two words in admiration: "Respect!"

...

When the sun was about to set,

Ye Feng did not continue to stay in the forbidden zone.

He only left the Mutated Wolf King behind to help monitor the density of Corrosive Energy within the forbidden zone and report back to Bai Yinghui at any time.

Next, as long as the forbidden zone is bombed every 2-3 hours, it would keep the density of Corrosive Energy from daring to increase.

As for Ye Feng, he shifted his attention back to his own Contracted Animals.

To be precise, he focused on the Mutated African Elephant, Mutated Hippo, Mutated White Rhino, Mutated Siberian Tiger, Mutated Asiatic Lion, Mutated Brown Bear, Mutated Giant Panda, Mutated American Leopard, and Mutated Honey Badger, the last batch of contract animals he had acquired.

Because as he continually infused them with Spiritual Energy, these Mutated Animals had all reached the Second Order Peak and, judging by the time, they were probably approaching the breakthrough point.

This meant that he was about to have a group of powerful Third Order subordinates soon.

Of course, more than that, Ye Feng was even more concerned about which Mutated Animals could break through on their own.

He was gradually discovering that, as their Realm continued to rise, Mutated Beings like the Mutated King Cobra that could break through on their own would have increasingly significant advantages.

Perhaps in the future, the ones truly capable of assisting him against formidable enemies would only be those Mutated Beings that could break through on their own.

When the time reached eight o’clock in the evening,

In Ye Feng’s anxious and expectant wait, the Mutated Giant Panda summoned back from Yang City was the first to lie prostrate on the ground; a breaking-through aura began to rise from it.