Global Catastrophe: I Became the World Tree-Chapter 234 - 175 Locust Attack, Dragon King Acts_2

With the help of the Mutated Black Crows, they took advantage of these two lulls to finally clear out all the Mutated Insects that had climbed up the city wall.

Without further concerns behind them, the ensuing battle became easier.

Every 1 to 2 minutes, a Third Order Mutated Animal would pass by the edge of the city wall, unleashing a wave of pressure, granting the defending soldiers precious tens of seconds.

Moreover, with the assistance of the Second Order Mutated Organisms, the situation swiftly stabilized. fгee𝑤ebɳoveɭ.cøm

Even if Mutated Insects occasionally made it onto the city wall, Chen Dalong and others quickly dealt with them, preventing the previous situation of needing rescue everywhere.

After a dozen minutes, when the last Mutated Insect attacking this section of the wall was shot dead, this fierce assault of the Mutated Bug Swarm was finally repelled.

At this moment, everyone’s faces showed a look of immense relief.

Of course, now was not the time to relax; Chen Dalong immediately ordered a casualty count.

Soon, the count was in, and the results weighed heavily on everyone’s hearts: one third had been injured.

Thankfully, most were only lightly wounded – mainly those who could return to battle after simply being bandaged up.

Yet despite this, a gloom still lingered in many hearts because this was only the first wave of attack, and no one knew how many more would follow.

The sole consolation was that most of the casualties had occurred at the very start, when they were caught off guard. Once the Dragon Hall’s forces entered the fray, especially after the Third Order Mutated Creatures appeared, the number of injuries continuously declined.

As the battle ended, logistics teams quickly rushed onto the city wall.

Several severely injured were carried down, while those with minor injuries also went back for treatment, and naturally, rotation soldiers came to replace those who were missing.

Remaining soldiers on the city wall hurried to eat some dry food or drink water, doing their best to keep their stamina at its peak.

Chen Dalong gazed into the distance, where a new wave of Mutated Bug Swarm had separated from the main force and was moving towards the city wall.

Boom, boom, boom!

A few minutes later, the intense sound of artillery fire signalled the official start of a new round of battle.

What followed was an endless fight, and it was even more brutal than last night’s battle.

One hour, two hours, three hours, four hours...

In such fierce combat, physical exhaustion was terrifying and even Ye Feng had to rest for a round.

However, the Mutated Animals of Dragon Hall persisted on the front line, and to everyone’s surprise, their stamina seemed inexhaustible.

After four hours, they were still just as energetic.

What was even more astonishing was that they hardly bore any wounds.

Anyone could sense that this was not normal.

The Third Order Mutated Creatures aside, but the Second Order Mutated Organisms should not be completely immune to the attacks of the Mutated Insects.

Even though the damage inflicted by the Mutated Insects could at most be equated to a normal person getting bitten by a mosquito.

A bite or two from a mosquito might not feel like much, but if it happens repeatedly, you’ll find yourself covered in red spots.

In the same way, while attacking the Mutated Insects, the Second Order Mutated Beings faced the assault of dozens, if not hundreds of Mutated Insects themselves.

Although they avoided most attacks with their speed advantage, most does not mean all.

So they were injured, and quite frequently at that—almost every minute they could sustain a dozen small wounds.

After a few hours, they should have been covered in a multitude of tiny wounds.

But in reality, if you didn’t look carefully, you couldn’t even see any injuries on them.

This was not only puzzling to others, but even Chen Dalong, who knew Dragon Hall best, was also scratching his head.

Of course, compared to others, he had some vague guesses.

Now, after repelling another wave of Mutated Insects, the Black Crows on their section of the wall flapped their wings and flew off into the distance.

For the soldiers on the city wall, this sight had become an ordinary one.

At Dragon Hall, there were logistics teams made up of Mutated Sparrows, which, essentially every hour, would bring over a batch of food. This included various wild fruits, as well as the corpses of small animals like Mutated Mice and Mutated Wild Rabbits.

And among these foods, Ye Feng had mixed in Spirit Fruits and Life Fruits.

The Life Fruit’s effects were self-explanatory; they were, of course, to help with healing.

As for the Spirit Fruits, they were also needed, for these could not only aid the host of Mutated Animals in their cultivation but also help them quickly recover their stamina.

This was especially true for Third Order Mutated Animals as releasing pressure also required the consumption of Spiritual Energy.

After sending off the Mutated Black Crows, Chen Dalong sat atop the city walls; while nibbling on compressed biscuits, he peered into the distance, striving to recover his stamina as quickly as possible.

A short while later, he glanced at the swarm in the distance then at his watch.

"Huh, why haven’t they launched their attack on time this time?" Chen Dalong’s brows slightly furrowed.

Although they had fought the whole morning, the number of Mutated insects they had eliminated was probably only around seventy or eighty million.

Even taking into account the Mutated insects killed last night, at most, they had only slain a third of them.

Under such circumstances, it normally wouldn’t be time for the Mutated insects to retreat.

But now...

"An abnormality presages the coming of an evil," an uneasy feeling grew inexplicably in Chen Dalong’s heart.

It wasn’t just him; Bai Yinghui, who had stood atop the city walls for a whole day and night, noticed this as well.

"Something seems off with the Mutated Bug Swarm. Go ask the scouting camp if they’ve detected any anomalies," Bai Yinghui instructed Jian Yi who was beside him.

"Yes!" Jian Yi nodded, immediately descended the city walls, and headed towards the command vehicle parked there.

A moment later, he returned, his expression somewhat grave as he said, "For now, nothing has been detected, but the radar monitor is showing some strange readings from the direction of Donglin Mountain Range."

"The radar is actually showing abnormalities?" Bai Yinghui’s brow was also furrowed.

Under normal circumstances, radar detected relatively large flying objects, so general Mutated insects were not within this scope.

But things that had not been responsive were now showing data abnormalities, which in itself meant something out of the ordinary.

"Yes, the scouting camp can’t determine what it is for the moment, but they’ve dispatched scouting drones, and we should have results within three minutes at most," said Jian Yi.

Bai Yinghui nodded.

Shortly after, Jian Yi’s communication earpiece rang. After connecting and listening to just a couple of sentences, his expression instantly changed, and he urgently asked, "Are you sure of this intelligence?"

Once he received a positive response from the other side, he hung up the communication with an ugly expression.

"Massive numbers of Mutated Locusts have been spotted in the direction of Donglin Mountain Range, and they’re mixed with many other flying classes of Mutated insects. Their numbers are feared to be over a hundred million," Jian Yi reported.

Hearing such news, even Bai Yinghui, who had weathered many storms, couldn’t stay calm.

Without a doubt, this was a finishing blow.

Anti-air capabilities were already their weakest link. Relying solely on anti-aircraft machine guns and cannons would be very difficult to hold off the threat.

The firearms in the soldiers’ hands were also of little use, perhaps the shotgun could be somewhat effective, but the issue was that its range was too short. The enemy could simply fly over from high altitudes, bypassing them entirely and heading straight for the city.

As for their trump card, the Thermostatic Shells, although they could be triggered to explode directly in the air through technical means, the effect was expected to be limited.

Because in ground combat, it resembled two-dimensional warfare, with movement limited to forward, backward, left, and right. When several million Mutated insects launched an attack together, it was very crowded.

But flying insects were different; they could be spread out from a few meters to several hundred meters in the sky.

Even if a hundred million Mutated Locusts were to attack, their density might really not be as great as the density of several million Mutated insects attacking on the ground.

Under these circumstances, even if they detonated thousands of Thermostatic Shells, whether they could kill 50 million Mutated Locusts was an issue.

However, it wasn’t just about 50 million Mutated insects—if even 5 million Mutated insects got into the city, that would be a disaster, let alone that these were Mutated Locusts.

When locusts swarm through an area, nothing green remains; this was no joke.