Chapter 148: The Era Of Evolvers
The hoarse cawing of crows echoed above.
Electric arcs like silver snakes wildly leaped across the water surface, the water surging once more, as if a giant beast was stirring underwater.
“Has the vitality of a Tier 1 Evolver already become this tenacious?!”
The man walked to Wang Yi’s side, his lips trembling slightly, his originally somewhat weary eyes full of shock.
That electric light formed a massive spherical shape, enveloping the deep pit above, the crackling electric light even matching the crow caws overhead.
Downstairs, the Steel Council’s soldiers were in complete chaos, as if countless orders had been issued in an instant.
The secretary and assistant had already begun urging the two to evacuate, but Wang Yi stared fixedly at that pool.
Clearly just two Tier 1 Evolvers, yet like having some kind of magic, attracting their line of sight, they desperately wanted to know a result, one beyond expectations, yet faintly guessed in their hearts!
Li Tao’s eyes were threaded with blood, originally thinking the matter was about to end.
But unexpectedly, a bigger problem arrived.
First, the outer defense line was breached by a large number of mutated beasts and zombies, all troops and sentries in the southwest directions completely lost contact, followed by rare avian mutated beasts.
According to biochemical experts’ predictions, the armed train’s inducer used this time was more than ten times stronger than a single zombie inducer!
And Li Tao immediately saw the effect.
Dozens of blood hounds with ferocious muscles became the main force tearing through the defense line, faster than zombies, more ferocious, and with stronger herd behavior!
When the outermost constructed defense line was torn open by the zombie tide, Li Tao knew it was over.
The next second, the crow flock suddenly dove.
They did not attack in disorder, but like a well-trained army, splitting into several streams of black tides, sweeping toward the Steel Council’s positions.
Their eyes scarlet as blood, beaks gleaming with metallic sheen, clearly having evolved sharpness sufficient to tear bulletproof vests.
“Open fire! Open fire!”
The roar of machine guns instantly tore through the battlefield, bullets pouring down like a rainstorm, but the black crows’ feathers were as hard as steel, bullets sparking dazzlingly off them, only a few shot down. More black crows dove fearlessly, sharp claws tearing soldiers’ throats, sharp beaks pecking through helmets, blood instantly staining the ground.
And amid this chaos, an even more terrifying shadow was approaching.
From the distant building ruins, a massive mutated beast slowly emerged.
It was a giant beast resembling a mutated wolf-dog, over three meters tall, covered in pitch-black scale armor, sharp bone spikes growing along its spine, each step causing the ground to tremble.
Its eyes glowed eerie green, a low roar rumbling in its throat.
“Boom!”
A rocket exploded on its body, smoke dissipating to reveal shattered scale armor and a massive wound, shocking to behold.
But the giant wolf shook its head and stood up, not only not killed, the pain instead making it even more frenzied!
A rocket capable of crippling a Tier 1 Butcher in one hit had almost no impact on its combat power!
It suddenly raised its head, locked on its target, then charged at terrifying speed, soldiers along the way unable even to dodge before being smashed into blood mist.
The ferocity of a Tier 2 Mutated Beast was displayed to the fullest on this battlefield.
Ordinary bullets had completely lost their effect.
For the first time since humans mastered weapons, they were at a disadvantage in war against wild beasts.
Black crows still circled in the sky, the giant beast rampaged on the ground, the entire Steel Council defense line collapsed completely at this moment.
The consequences that followed were too numerous.
New City Plan shattered, company suffered massive losses, Li Wangchuan and Li Family who forcefully pushed the plan would inevitably become the culprits…
Even without thinking carefully, Li Tao could list dozens of dire influences.
Li Family’s decades of accumulation destroyed in an instant.
All advantages and halos would vanish.
They would be like other confused survivors after the apocalypse, no, perhaps not even as good as ordinary survivors, they still had to face endless retaliation from other directors and enemies.
The situation deteriorated to the extreme in an instant.
And that instigator seemed still alive, from that shining electric mass, seemed to be living quite well.
Besides the black crows attacking the Steel Council, a large flock of crows circled above the deep pit now turned into a lightning pool, as if attracted by something, spiraling into a massive whirlpool.
‘Is there any worse situation than now?’
‘No.’
‘What should be done now?’
‘First kill that scourge that brought all the disaster, or save the crumbling Li Family?’
‘……’
Li Tao questioned and answered himself inwardly.
After clarifying what he needed to do next, the anxiety in his heart vanished instantly, the whole person falling into a deathly calm, beast herds, zombie tide, deep pit, electric arcs… various complex information surged into his mind at this moment, genes trembling, countless messy pieces of information instinctively categorized and processed.
Ineffective ones shelved and reduced, effective ones extracted and summarized, converging into a clear thread.
Intersecting each other, forming a large net covering the entire Changli battlefield.
Li Tao paused, unexpectedly the Tier 1 profession that required long accumulation to promote suddenly succeeded.
‘Is this like unintentionally planting a willow that becomes shade.’
Glancing at his uncle’s position, no need to think, now that group of directors should have started a new round of questioning, Li Tao did not walk that way, after leaving the defense line containing the zombies, instead walked toward the railway track side.
That electric light was growing more blazing.
Really didn’t know why he had so much energy to squander.
In just this short while, the current released exceeded all the energy from his own promotion combined.
Passing through the chaotic crowd, several gunners panickedly hiding in a corner.
Clearly still unaware of what had happened.
Subconsciously adjusting his glasses, finding the bridge of his nose empty, Li Tao was stunned for a moment, then calmly ordered, how much ammunition left for the 85mm cannon?
The main gunner recognized him and immediately replied, “Except for those that detonated, all transferred over, now only one left, preparing to send to the defense line side.”
“No need, load the gun, aim at that position.”
Li Tao pointed toward the lightning pool direction, gaze calm.
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Because of the black crows’ mutation, everyone on the train gained a brief breathing space.
Jiang Rong hugged her assault rifle leaning against the carriage inner wall, her short sleeve soaked with sweat, drops of sweat sliding from her elbow.
Falling into the sticky blood pool at her feet.
Wang He beside her panted heavily, “Sister Jiang, seems like, seems like no one came in, did the train conductor win?”
“Win?”
Jiang Rong licked the bloody taste on her teeth, cautiously looked toward the rear carriage, carriages from 18 onward were quiet, deafening roars outside the window.
“Go check ahead.”
Jiang Rong quickly decided, leading the remaining collector team members forward.
Passing through Lu Xiao’s carriage 17, the provocatively dressed Miao Qi walked over, “How’s the back?”
“Temporarily no one, I want to check ahead.”
Miao Qi shook her head, “Now it’s wartime status, they won’t let you in ahead.”
Jiang Rong looked out the window, firmly spitting out two words, “Train roof!”
As soon as they emerged, they were shocked by the black crow mutated beast flock in the sky, standing frozen in place.
Yu Jing and others saw them open the second-layer car door, letting them into the carriage.
Leading the group to the front of the train head.
Lin Jin, Xiao Ba, Liang Kuan, He Jie…… everyone gathered here.
Wang He asked the most urgent question, “Did we win? Why isn’t the train moving? Where’s the train conductor?”
Yu Yue’s wet apricot eyes looked at the lightning pool ahead, eyes carrying deep worry, “The inducer took effect, attracted mutated beasts, but Su Huan hasn’t returned.”
Just as the words fell, a head emerged from the water surface ahead.
Seeing that face clearly, everyone’s pupils contracted slightly.
Though his face was slashed with several cuts, everyone could still clearly recognize it was Steel Council’s Zhong Cheng!
Yu Yue was struck as if by lightning.
A chill shot from her tailbone straight to her scalp, surging emotions instantly drowning reason.
Before her brain could react on what to do, her body had already leaped from the train.
Even Liang Kuan guarding the front door couldn’t grab her.
Three hundred meters distance flashed by rapidly, lightning spreading across the ground climbing her body, hair tie snapping, soft long hair trailing into a black rainbow.
Yu Yue’s eardrums buzzed amid her violent heartbeat, three hundred meters compressed into blurred color blocks.
Acid rain suddenly thickened—all sound waves within three meters around her body formed visible ripples, like transparent silk gripped by an invisible hand.
The crows in the sky charged, led by a Tier 1 mutated crow leader, like the Lance of Longinus, rushing toward the lightning pool!
In an instant, heaven and earth inverted.
The black crow flock like a pouring heavenly river, about to connect heaven and earth.
“Su Huan…”
All energy converged in this call, the name exploding into countless crystal clusters in the sound wave domain.
The turbid water surface at the pit bottom suddenly boiled, over a dozen leading diving black crows bursting into blood mist in the sound wave, feathers and bone fragments suspended mid-air, forming eerie blood-colored star rings.
Glass within a kilometer radius shattered instantly in this call.
Evolvers in the range struck like by a heavy hammer, ears in agony, ordinary people had little reaction, just bleeding from both ears.
In the deepest meeting room, Director Zhang in the corner suddenly burst into mad laughter, as if understanding something in an instant.
Pointing at the ashen-faced Li Wangchuan, laughing until tears mixed with nosebleed streamed down, “No matter how many schemes you exhaust, what’s the use? This era’s theme is evolution! This is the evolver era!”
As if verifying his realization, a second figure stood up from the lightning pool.
The black shirt torn away mostly, revealing solid muscles beneath, numerous soaked-white wounds opening and closing like infant mouths, dazzling lightning flowing slowly over his body like magma.
The human figure not tall, yet standing at the center where heaven and earth met.
A playful voice overpowered the crow caws and lightning, carrying a trace of laziness.
“Since you called me out, you must fulfill my hundred wishes.”
