Global Catastrophe: I Became the World Tree-Chapter 226 - 171: Fierce Battle! Training Troops!_2

After watching Du Gulan leave, Chen Dalong stopped sharpening his knife. He calculated the time and took out his phone, indeed finding an unread message.

The message was from Li Huosheng, reporting the current situation of the Mad Dragon Security Company.

According to military arrangements, the powerful superhumans would form rescue teams with the evolutionists.

Chen Dalong was no exception, which meant he couldn’t command the security company’s personnel in battle himself.

Fortunately, the company had veteran soldiers like Liu Wenhua and Xie Guanzhong, who were even more adept at command than him.

In this situation, all he needed to do was delegate authority to these two and then arrange for Li Huosheng to send him updates every 10 minutes. In case of any problems, they would make other arrangements at that time.

Chen Dalong opened the message and couldn’t help but frown slightly, "Already five people injured, though they are all minor wounds. But it’s only been a dozen minutes; this battle is too intense!"

It should be noted that the combat personnel of the Mad Dragon Security Company were all experienced fighters. In the course of duty over the past dozen days, they had dealt with the mutated insects almost every day.

In truly confronting them, they were almost no worse than those veteran soldiers.

But even so, there were already five casualties. One could only imagine the severity of the military’s casualties.

However, when his gaze landed on the giant Mutated Parrot atop the city wall, his heart immediately settled somewhat.

Time kept passing, and the gunfire from the city walls never ceased, especially from the North City Wall, where gunshots nearly fused into a continuous sound.

Everyone was involved in intense fighting, and with the passage of time, the situation of the battle was changing.

Midnight struck!

By then, more than four hours had passed since the mutated insects had launched their attack.

Almost every part of the entire North City Wall was stained with blood, and although most of it was from mutated insects, a significant amount was human.

With a Ring-Headed Knife in each hand, Chen Dalong sliced the last mutated insect atop the wall in half, then glanced at the members behind him.

"Big Bull, are you alright?" Chen Dalong asked a wounded member of the rescue team.

The man had just been ambushed by a Mutated Praying Mantis. Its razor-sharp sickles had easily cut through his protective clothing, leaving a long gash on his calf. frёeωebɳovel.com

"It’s nothing, just a scratch," Big Bull said with a smirk, but his lips seemed to twitch involuntarily, perhaps from the pain in the wound.

Chen Dalong walked over to inspect the injury; the skin on the man’s calf was cut open and turned inside out, but fortunately, the veins were not damaged.

With the constitution of an evolutionist, this wound seemed serious, but in reality, after being bandaged and treated, it would scab over in less than an hour.

"Alright, this wave of fierce assault is over. We should get a 15-minute rest. Make sure to bandage well afterwards," said Chen Dalong, patting his shoulder.

After hours of assault, these mutated insects were even optimizing their methods of attack.

In the beginning, they charged straight at them like a swarm.

But after a fierce attack for an hour and realizing they couldn’t overrun the defense, they switched to hit-and-run and main assault tactics.

Simply put, the number of mutated insects they sent out each round was fewer, which significantly reduced the efficiency of their attack.

After all, whether it was the wall of fire they created or the hand grenades they threw, both were area attacks. The more mutated insects in the area, the higher the kill efficiency.

The number of mutated insects had decreased, but each wave of attack still numbered from 100,000 to 50,000, still posing a massive threat, and they still had to keep bombing them.

And after a certain period, the previous reduced number of mutated insects would all attack at once. When that happened, the number of mutated insects would increase dramatically, potentially exceeding 500,000.

In such a scenario, even if only a third of the mutated insects made it to the bottom of the city wall, that would be over 160,000.

And out of those 160,000, even if only a tenth could climb up the wall, that would still be 16,000.

With so many mutated insects climbing the city walls, they are enough to overwhelm the defenders. Thankfully, this refers to the entire length of the defense line.

The rescue squads of Chen Dalong had also begun to join the battle at that time.

However, an hour earlier, the tactics of the mutated insects had changed again.

After breaking through the strong insecticide, the fires, and the grenade bombardments, those mutated insects, once they reached the base of the wall, actually learned to gather and attack together.

For example, the section of the A13 Defense Line that Chen Dalong and his team were responsible for was roughly two hundred meters long. The scattered mutated insects were not numerous at any one spot, and the defensive arrangement of the city wall could totally withstand them.

But if they all concentrated their attack in one place, thousands would gather in an instant.

Under these circumstances, even if only a tenth of them managed to climb the wall, at least several hundred would make it up.

So many mutated insects were simply too much for ordinary soldiers to handle.

Even rescue squads like the one led by Chen Dalong could easily be overturned if they were careless when facing hundreds of mutated insects.

The soldier named Big Bull was a casualty of this.

And this was with Chen Dalong on site, who almost single-handedly bore the brunt of the attack from a large number of mutated insects, greatly relieving the pressure on everyone else.

Otherwise, it’s likely that more than one person would have been injured.

Chen Dalong’s mood was somewhat heavy as he led his rescue team members towards the base of the city wall.

But before they could return to their resting place, the alarm sounded once again.

"What’s going on? Why is the alarm sounding again, could there be a mistake?" someone in the team muttered under their breath.

"How could there be a mistake with this sort of thing? It just means that the attack patterns of the mutated insects are, probably, changing again," said Deputy Commander Zhang Lishan with a grim expression.

Hearing Zhang Lishan say this, the faces of the other members of the rescue squad also became instantly solemn, because every time the attack patterns of the mutated insects changed, it caused them great trouble.

The gaze of the squad members couldn’t help but fall on Chen Dalong.

"Big Bull, you go and get your wounds treated first. The rest of you, follow me back to the wall; our orders will probably come down soon," Chen Dalong said quickly as he turned around and headed back.

Right then, gunfire roared and the booming of grenades could be heard one after another.

By the time Chen Dalong and the others reached the top of the city wall, they saw mutated insects rapidly gathering about 150 meters from them at the base of the wall and climbing up continuously.

"Let’s go, we’ll head over there," Chen Dalong immediately said.

At the same time, orders from the command came through their earpieces, telling them to go and provide support.

For Chen Dalong and his team, all evolutionists, a distance of 150 meters only took them about seven or eight seconds.

However, by the time they arrived, about ten mutated insects had already climbed the wall, and the soldiers responsible for that spot were fighting while retreating.

It’s worth mentioning that after more than four hours of fighting, the new recruits were undergoing incredible transformations.

The first was their marksmanship; no matter how much they trained normally, it could never improve as quickly as it did in actual combat.

Beyond their shooting skills, their close-quarter combat techniques were also improving swiftly.

The last, and most important improvement, was their courage.

At first, some of the new recruits, upon seeing mutated insects climbing the wall and attacking them, had trembling hands as they held their guns.

Now, while still nervous, they at least didn’t panic and managed to execute organized covering fire while retreating.

Of course, a very important reason they could do this was knowing that the support teams would soon arrive.