Chapter 171: Chapter 171

Chapter 171: City Special Operations

“Li-ge, why do you look a little distracted?”

Inside the cockpit of the Tomorrow, Tang Fang asked curiously.

Li Ye, who had been deep in thought, came back to his senses and gently shook his head.

With that, he walked straight out of the cockpit and took the elevator back to his room on the Upper A2 Floor.

Then, he opened the system and looked at the freshly refreshed Epic Intelligence, once again falling into deep thought.

【6. With the fall of the Zombie Civilization and the remaining Zombie forces in the southern regions of the Western Wasteland Continent eradicated, the Human World-class Organizations and Monster World-class Organizations have begun negotiations over the future ownership of these regions. (Intelligence Value: Epic)】

【The negotiations have broken down, and both sides are about to launch a continent-level war.】

【According to the agreement, only native forces can be deployed, and the number of Mobile Cities and military strength involved must be limited to below Level 2.】

【World-class Organizations participating in this war: Apocalypse Sect, Titan Throne, Iron Oath Brotherhood, United Sect, War Alliance, Natural Selection】

【According to the agreement, war will break out in seven days.】

“Continent-level war?” Li Ye was astonished.

The competition over key regions of the Western Wasteland Continent would immediately reach a fever pitch.

As he pondered, he couldn’t help but feel a surge of excitement.

This was a continent-level war!

The number of participating Mobile Cities would reach a thousand!

At the same time, he couldn’t help but feel a bit wistful.

If the Tomorrow Alliance had not gone out to sea, it could have joined this earth-shaking battle.

With its configuration, it might have even made a name for itself.

According to Li Ye’s speculation, this time Bishop Heath would likely be the Supreme Commander of the Human side.

But he didn’t have time to dwell on it—there was still a battle in front of him.

Over the past two days, through the City Simulation Training Pod, the Tomorrow Alliance and the Seventh Division of Embers had completed personnel training.

This would be a city special operation targeting the Giants. Through his conversation with Xie Jie, Li Ye learned about the personnel configuration of the Seventh Division.

A total of 1,530 people, excluding the elderly, sick, and infirm, left about seven to eight hundred combat-ready personnel.

Under Xie Jie’s arrangement, the 4,100 units of Level 3 Iron Ore possessed by the Seventh Division had been transported onto the Tomorrow and forged into various Level 3 Firearms and Jetpacks.

The transportation method involved reaching the outskirts via the underground sewer system beneath the city, and then being delivered to the Tomorrow by Black Hawk Helicopter.

For human organizations surviving in city ruins, the city sewer system was of utmost importance.

It functioned like a citywide underground safety passage.

Xie Jie also informed Li Ye that the Seventh Division was located deep underground.

On ordinary days, organization members traveled through the sewer system to various parts of the city—to attack Giants, collect resources within the city, or search for ore veins in the outskirts.

Although the Giants lacked intelligence, they occasionally detected the sewers.

Some Giants would reach into the sewers, trying to grab organization members.

This would also cause some damage to the sewers.

For this reason, the Seventh Division even had a dedicated department for sewer repairs.

Although 4,100 units of Level 3 Iron Ore was a lot, it was far from enough to arm these 700-plus people.

A single Level 3 Firearm typically required a minimum of 50 units of Level 3 Iron Ore, and when factoring in a Jetpack...

The standard loadout for a combat personnel was one Level 3 Firearm and one Jetpack. That equated to arming one person with 100 units of Level 3 Iron Ore.

At most, it could only arm 41 people.

To address this, Xie Jie came up with a solution.

He applied to deploy Li Ye’s Black Hawk Helicopter to requisition Level 3 Iron Ore from other state divisions of Embers.

At this point, the long endurance and speed advantages of the Black Hawk Helicopter became apparent.

The Embers Headquarters strongly supported the Seventh Division’s plan to recover the Tourism State and ordered cooperation from neighboring divisions in the region.

In just two days, the Seventh Division had managed to gather about 8,200 units of Level 3 Iron Ore.

With this, they could arm over a hundred people.

At the same time, the headquarters continued to coordinate Level 3 Iron Ore from other state divisions to support the Seventh Division.

“By the way, just how many states are there in this Old Civilization District?” Li Ye couldn’t help but ask.

“Thirty-five states in total,” Xie Jie answered.

It seemed, then, that in the Old Era, the Old Civilization District was indeed part of a great nation.

Xie Jie told Li Ye that each state was in roughly the same condition, with the number of Giants in the tens of thousands.

In total, across 35 states, that meant a million-level population of Giants.

Li Ye’s expression immediately grew solemn.

Compared to ordinary monsters, Giants were very unique.

Though they lacked Mobile Cities, they possessed immense size and powerful regenerative capabilities.

They posed an even greater threat to Human Mobile Cities than Monster Mobile Cities.

He immediately asked the two questions he cared about most.

“Have the Giants formed a civilization?”

“You can rest assured—they haven’t,” Xie Jie replied.

“Then why do some Giants possess intelligence?”

To this, Xie Jie showed a troubled expression.

He told Li Ye that no one could provide an answer.

Some Giants would suddenly gain intelligence, and at that point, they would become an enormous problem.

Giants with intelligence were essentially oversized humans.

They knew how to seek cover to avoid human firepower, knew how to protect their heads and hearts with their hands.

They also knew how to accelerate and charge to dodge enemy cannon fire, and could even pick up stones or other objects to hurl at the enemy.

As hundred-meter-class monsters, the strength of the Giants was quite astonishing, and thus the force of their throws was immense.

Objects thrown by them were practically like massive cannon shells.

“What a hassle,” Li Ye couldn’t help but shake his head.

And that wasn’t all. Xie Jie also told him something even more troublesome.

There were many, many types of Giants.

Residential Giants were the most common and considered ordinary Giants, with relatively low threat.

There were Athlete Giants who were extremely fast with high reaction speed.

There were Marathon Giants who ran in groups and had exceptionally high endurance.

There were Knight Giants clad in classical knight armor, wielding massive swords and shields.

There were Celebrity Giants followed by a group of Giants, dancing and flailing in sync with their movements.

There were also Chainsaw Giants wielding giant chainsaws.

The variety of Giants was dizzying, with easily hundreds of different types.

After hearing Xie Jie’s description, Li Ye couldn’t help but rub his forehead in distress.

Headache or not, the city special operations still needed to proceed.

The Tomorrow Alliance was counting on the Level 3 Blueprints and Upgrade Blueprints dropped by the Giants.

Two hours later, the first city special operation began.

The location was set in the northeastern outskirts of the city ruins.

A 25-person special unit from the Tomorrow, along with carefully selected members from the Seventh Division of Embers, were now deployed for combat.

Every five people formed a squad, each taking on the Giants wandering the city ruins separately. Each squad was equipped with walkie-talkies for intra-squad communication and to call in support from the gunship and Electromagnetic Railgun.

They were not fighting alone.

The Vanguard Gunship and the Electromagnetic Railgun of the Peacemaker would provide firepower support.

The Iron Whale would engage in battle.

Convoy One and Two of the Tomorrow, along with the Black Hawk Helicopter, would also participate. Though they were Level 2 Vehicles, they were manned by Combat Personnel equipped with Level 3 Firearms.

To better grasp the battlefield situation, Li Ye would be patrolling the city outskirts aboard the Vanguard Gunship.

With the establishment of the War Committee, all external combat units of the Tomorrow would now fall under its jurisdiction.

The committee members were currently being selected.

Once the Firearms, Jetpacks, and Anchor Claws were equipped, combat personnel from both sides took turns boarding the jet-powered cannons of the Bullfrog Vehicle.

With the Bullfrog Vehicle opening fire, they launched at astonishing speed toward the outskirts of the city.

While airborne, the Combat Personnel activated their Jetpacks one after another to soften the launch impact and reduce their descent speed.

Upon landing in the city outskirts, they fired the Anchor Claws mounted on their left arms at nearby buildings, using the Jetpacks for steady landings. Within just a few minutes, over a hundred personnel had completed their deployment atop various buildings in the city outskirts.

“Truly swift and efficient.” Li Ye, aboard the gunship, nodded in approval. ᴛʜɪs ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ ɪs ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ ʙʏ novel_fіre.net

This was mainly thanks to the Level 3 City Simulation Training Pod. Over the past two days, the Tomorrow’s special unit and the Seventh Division’s members had undergone thousands of Bullfrog Vehicle ejection drills.

And thousands of battle simulations against Giants in the city ruins. To increase difficulty and achieve better training results, Li Ye had even set all opposing Giants to have intelligence.

Moreover, the minimum number of intelligent Giants per simulation was three.

With this change, the combat training became absolute hell.

Li Ye even personally experienced it once.

Even giving it his all, he couldn’t survive for more than one minute.

Still, dying in the simulation pod was much better than dying on the battlefield.

When training first began, the casualty rate among Combat Personnel was as high as 93%.

As time passed and training rounds increased, the casualty rate gradually dropped to 80%, then 70%...

By the final round of training, the casualty rate had fallen to just 15%.

Soon, the Combat Personnel engaged in a firefight with the wandering Giants at the city’s edge.

Through the Observation Scope of the gunship, he carefully monitored the performance of his own special forces unit.

Between dilapidated buildings, a Residential Giant was slowly wandering.

Nearby, a five-person squad from the special forces was darting between buildings at high speed.

Anchor Claws shot out from their left arms, Jetpacks roared from their backs.

The Residential Giant clearly noticed the humans. He wore a delighted smile as if discovering a new toy, then swung his arm at the building where the squad was located.

His strength was formidable—one strike demolished the crumbling structure.

However, the special forces reacted even faster.

With blue flames blazing from their Jetpacks, the special forces members soared into the air like a swarm of bees, rapidly weaving through the buildings and evading the Giant’s attacks.

After landing on a nearby rooftop, they immediately raised their Level 3 Firearms and aimed for the Giant’s eyes.

No suppressive fire—just precise shots.

Standard bullets for Level 3 Firearms required Level 2 Iron Ore to manufacture. After the sea battle with the Naga, the Tomorrow Alliance’s Level 2 Iron Ore reserves had reached five-digit figures.

Though they had ample resources, waste was unacceptable.

The Old Civilization District was a Level 3 region and would not yield Level 2 Iron Ore.

After a flurry of precise shots, the Residential Giant’s eyes burst like watermelons.

Blinded, his movements instantly became erratic.

Two members of the special forces unit stood ready from a distance. One of them raised a Level 3 Sniper Rifle and fired at the back of the Giant’s head.

The other member lifted a Level 3 Grenade Launcher and launched a high-explosive grenade at the Giant’s head.

Every move was carried out with perfect coordination.

Under the concentrated firepower, the Residential Giant collapsed with a thunderous crash.

The special forces members quickly regrouped, darting between buildings using their Jetpacks and Anchor Claws, searching for their next target.

At that moment, similar scenes were unfolding across many parts of the city outskirts.

As for the fallen Giants’ drops, they would be collected uniformly only after the area had been cleared.

This should have been a one-sided war, but humans used technology, tactics, and coordination to make up for the vast difference in size.

The massive Giants had instead become clumsy monsters.

As time passed, Giants fell one after another.

A minute later, a squad member’s voice came through the Walkie-talkie.

“Reporting, we have discovered an Intelligent Giant, type: Athlete.”

Using the coordinates reported by the squad member, Li Ye spotted the Athlete Giant.

He was wearing sportswear, his entire body muscular and agile.

At the moment, he was sprinting down the street at high speed, dodging human fire.

During this, he casually tore off a balcony from a nearby building and crushed it between both hands.

In the gaps of his massive fingers were embedded cracked rubble and snapped rebar.

In the next second, his muscles tensed, and he swung his arm with force!

The air tore apart as the rubble shot out like cannon shells.

It instantly became a death storm, blotting out the sky.

Under the strength of the Giant’s throw, this was comparable to a saturation bombardment from modern artillery.

Each flying stone carried terrifying kinetic energy, enough to pierce through armored steel panels and destroy concrete within buildings.

If any Combat Personnel were hit without cover, they would instantly be blown into a mist of blood.

At that moment, the sky was filled with dense shadows, as if a meteor shower was raining upward, descending with a shrieking force of destruction.

The squad quickly reacted and began searching for cover.

But the rain of rubble soon fell upon their area.

Stones crashed down, the ground trembled, and exploding fragments and dust scattered in all directions.

Already dilapidated buildings became riddled with holes and even collapsed with a thunderous crash.

“What terrifying power!” Li Ye exclaimed in awe.

He immediately picked up the Walkie-talkie.

“Can the Electromagnetic Railgun take him out, Yang Zheng?”

“No, Alliance Leader,” Yang Zheng replied. “There are too many buildings in the city ruins. The view is heavily obstructed. We can’t get a lock on him.”

“Understood.” Li Ye nodded. “Then I’ll have my gunship handle it.”

At his command, the gunship, which had been patrolling at high altitude, roared downward.

Upon seeing the incoming human Flying Vehicle overhead, the Athlete Giant immediately showed a wary expression.