As he rushed toward the unfolding battle, Lin Li wondered, ’What if I were the one targeted by those rockets?’
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Out in the wilderness, a horde of Mutant Beasts advanced toward a distant human city. Their numbers were unknown, but there appeared to be at least two hundred of them. They were massive, their bodies exuding a ferocious aura and their eyes flashing red, their objective clear.
A defensive wall of razor wire separated the safe zone from the wilderness, but it was no obstacle for the Exotic Beast Group relentlessly approaching the city.
Three hundred Investigators, having received their orders, arrived at the designated location. Armed with standard-issue weapons, they formed combat squads before the razor wire wall, creating a defensive line to intercept the approaching Exotic Beast Group.
A short distance away, a hundred men and women in assorted attire—mostly camouflage—hid quietly in the bushes, awaiting the order to attack.
A roar filled the sky as the last squadron of attack helicopters arrived on the scene.
The attack formation was complete. On a single command from the operations control room, the helicopter fleet immediately flew toward the Exotic Beast Group advancing on the safe zone from the wilderness.
As a preemptive strike, the helicopter formation unleashed a rocket barrage.
Hundreds of rockets rained down, turning a large swath of the area into a sea of fire.
Some of the weaker Mutant Beasts were killed instantly by the attack, but they were in the minority. Most of the beasts merely sustained minor injuries.
"ROAR..."
Furious roars echoed from the smoky, churning inferno. Then, an icy chill emerged from within the raging sea of fire.
The chill spread rapidly, extinguishing the rocket-fueled inferno in an instant and coating the ground in a thin layer of ice.
A closer look at the injured Mutant Beasts revealed that their wounds from the rocket explosions were healing at a visible rate.
"There’s a Mutant Beast with a Healing Superpower in the Exotic Beast Group. Find it and concentrate all fire to kill it immediately..."
Standing at the forefront of the Investigators was a short, middle-aged man.
The moment he saw the wounds on the injured Mutant Beasts healing so quickly, he relayed the order to all combat-ready Investigators via his micro-earpiece.
"ROAR..."
Without waiting for their wounds to fully close, the Mutant Beasts, their violent aura flaring, began to charge the distant human defensive line.
Hundreds of giant Mutant Beasts, each at least three meters long, stampeded forward in droves, making the very earth tremble beneath their feet.
The momentum of their charge was like a tidal wave—not something an ordinary person could withstand.
Even the assisting Exotic Beast Hunters couldn’t help but flinch at such a sight, scattering to avoid the brunt of the assault.
Only the Investigators, with their unified training, could stand as firm as mountains, their wills unshaken as they watched the relentless charge of the Exotic Beast Group.
Three hundred meters, two hundred meters, one hundred meters...
The distance between them closed rapidly. As the Exotic Beast Group breached the hundred-meter mark, the same short Investigator from before shot into the air, flying toward the approaching horde.
Third-Order!!! The short Investigator was a Third-Order, Initial Stage Cultivator.
In an instant, he shot forward, arriving just over thirty meters in front of the charging Exotic Beast Group before descending to the ground.
The moment the Investigator landed, a pale golden Spiritual Light blossomed at his feet.
"Earthen Wall."
Following the short Investigator’s shout, the ground sixteen or seventeen meters in front of him began to shift.
"RUMBLE..."
The earth trembled as an earthen wall—roughly fifty meters long, two meters thick, and ten meters high—shot up from the ground.
"ROAR..."
"BAM..."
The charging Exotic Beast Group was moving so fast that the massive wall appeared in their path in an instant. Some of the quicker-reacting Mutant Beasts leaped clean over it, but most slammed headfirst into the new obstacle.
These ferocious Mutant Beasts had survived a barrage of hundreds of rockets; a two-meter-thick earthen wall was certainly not going to kill them on impact.
Of course, the short Investigator who had used his Superpower to create the massive wall never intended for it to kill the Mutant Beasts. His only goal was to break their charge.
The result was excellent. His move had indeed thrown the Exotic Beast Group’s charge into disarray.
Aside from the few Mutant Beasts quick enough to leap over the wall, the others at the vanguard crashed to a halt against it.
The Mutant Beasts right behind them couldn’t stop in time, piling into their companions.
In an instant, most of the Exotic Beast Group had stumbled and fallen, the formation dissolving into chaos.
"Kill."
The short Investigator’s voice came through their earpieces. That single, simple word—"Kill"—was the Investigators’ battle cry.
"Kill!" The Investigators, who had been silent for so long, roared as one. They then charged toward the distant, disordered Exotic Beast Group.