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Chapter 530 The Vanguard Army Assembles
Yax was blown away by the violent shockwave and landed on the scorched frozen ground, squinting as he watched the mushroom cloud slowly rise in the distance.
Its lips curled up slightly.
really.
Everything is going according to plan.
Yax withdrew his gaze and continued to intercept the "safe" conventional missiles at a leisurely pace.
nuclear bomb?
Sorry, that thing is for idiots.
.......
The underground cities of Tianxiong and Tianyong are the southernmost outposts of the Great Xia Dynasty in Antarctica.
The straight-line distance to the ruins of the British Freedom's underground city is only a little over 100 kilometers.
The saturation attacks of orbital weapons and long-range missiles have wiped out the demons on the surface of the Freedom time and time again.
But everyone knows that long-range firepower alone cannot completely solve the problem.
The spatial wormhole that spewed out endless demons was hidden nearly a thousand meters underground.
No matter how hard a missile explodes, it only scratches the surface.
To truly plug this loophole, or at least completely curb the demon race's expansion on the ground, someone needs to go up there.
Build a wall with steel and flesh to prevent any fish from escaping!
The highest order from Elder Zhao of the Tian Shu Underground City was delivered to Tian Xiong and Tian Yong at 4:12 AM.
"Immediately assemble a large army and launch an attack, sparing no effort to curb the demon race's expansion on the ground, and build a firewall!"
When Lin Shigong, the lord of Tianxiong City, received the order, he was standing in the command center staring at the real-time images transmitted back by the satellite.
The surface of the Freedom ship has been blasted into a scorched, black hell.
White smoke billowed from the deep crater created by the tungsten alloy armor-piercing projectile, and the mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion had not yet completely dissipated.
However, in the AI-annotated images, there are still scattered red dots crawling out from the underground cracks.
Like a cockroach that can't be killed by stepping on it in a sewer.
Upon receiving the order, he immediately picked up the communicator and spoke to the army, who were already prepared:
"The entire Tianxiong army, assemble on the surface, ready to attack!"
Half an hour later.
Tianxiong Underground City, Third Surface Passage.
A massive, two-meter-thick alloy explosion-proof door slowly rose.
The biting wind, carrying ice shards, rushed in, causing the soldiers in the front row to squint.
"Rumble rumble rumble—"
The first infantry fighting vehicle rolled out of the tunnel, its heavy body making the frozen soil creak and groan.
Then came the second one, and the third one.
Tanks, armored vehicles, box rocket vehicles, vehicle-mounted lasers, vehicle-mounted plasma cannons, vehicle-mounted electromagnetic cannons, Land Shield 2000, self-propelled mortars, etc.
One after another.
A torrent of steel surged forth from underground, forming a column, and advanced toward the assembly point along the pre-ground channels on the ice field.
Inside each armored vehicle was a half-meter-long tree branch.
Those are branches of the World Tree.
A faint emerald green fluorescent light shimmered on the surface of the branches.
Wherever the halo passed, the radioactive particles in the air that were invisible to the naked eye and had spread due to the nuclear explosion were quietly absorbed and purified.
The Geiger counter reading dropped directly from the danger red zone outside the vehicle to the safety green zone.
This method of dispersing nuclear radiation is not technologically advanced, but it is very effective.
As long as it works, that's enough.
The soldiers followed in single file behind the tanks, quickly advancing along the purified "safe corridor".
They were not wearing traditional lead-lined radiation protection suits, but rather the newly deployed "Qingfeng" series of lightweight radiation protection combat suits.
The entire outfit weighs only three kilograms.
The inner lining contains boron-containing fiber layers to block neutron radiation, while the outer layer is covered with a lead-based nano-coating to block gamma rays. All joints are made of flexible materials.
Wearing this, running, jumping, lying down, and shooting are all unaffected.
Compared to the old-fashioned radiation protection suits that felt like wearing an iron bucket, this is a world of difference.
But what's truly terrifying isn't these conventional armored vehicles and infantry.
Instead, it refers to those "things" that follow behind the main group.
A dense swarm of four-legged mechanical dogs emerged from another tunnel entrance.
The dark gray metal body, reaching waist height, carries either a 12.7 mm heavy machine gun or a light anti-tank missile launcher on its back.
They are all loaded with cubic nitrogen ammunition, which can deliver a fatal blow to demons below the third rank!
Four mechanical legs stepped on the ice, making a synchronized "click-clack" sound.
There are a total of 10,000 units, all powered by energy blocks extracted from the corpses of demons, greatly increasing their battery life.
This is all the survivors that Tianxiong Underground City can offer.
Behind them were even bigger creatures.
The six-legged heavy combat platform "Rock" is 2.5 meters tall and weighs 3 tons.
What's mounted on its back isn't a machine gun, but a 30mm plasma rapid-fire cannon.
Its power source is a miniature nuclear fusion reactor, enough for them to fight a high-intensity war.
After testing, it was found to pose a threat to demons below the fifth rank.
This thing is newly developed, and there are only 180 units in total so far.
Above the mechanical dogs and heavy platforms, a continuous buzzing sound filled the air.
Formations of various types of drones took off.
Reconnaissance, attack, self-destruct, and communication relay types—they're like a swarm of iron bees emerging from their nest.
The sunlight shone on their gray-black fuselages, casting dense shadows on the ice, which sent chills down one's spine.
But what attracts the most attention are the things that emerge from the tunnel at the very end.
One hundred all-terrain bipedal combat robots!
He is 2.8 meters tall and has thick legs.
These are war robots mass-produced based on the Pangu system!
He has plasma cannons in his palms, miniature missile launchers on his shoulders, and a plasma cutting knife on his back.
Whether it's ranged combat, close-quarters combat, or aerial combat, it can excel in any situation and possesses formidable strength comparable to a fifth-tier fighter.
They walk with a very steady gait.
Each step on the frozen ground made a dull "thump" sound.
They looked like a line of iron giants marching in formation across the icy plains.
This is the latest achievement of the Great Xia military-industrial system, and also the terrifying power unleashed by technological breakthroughs!
If it weren't for the limitations of materials and costs, it would even be possible to mass-produce 'Pangu'-type robots with sixth-tier capabilities!
At this moment, they stepped off the production line for the first time and onto the real battlefield.
All unmanned equipment has an independent AI brain that executes combat orders, and is uniformly dispatched by the central AI command system of Tianxiong Underground City.
Of course, the final decision-making power still rests with the people involved.
……
On the ice plains, the enormous canopy of the World Tree stretches across half the sky in the distance.
The trunk is over 100 meters in diameter, and the roots are deep in the frozen soil, with the thick root system rising up on the ground like a mountain range.
A pale green light filtered through the leaves, and a faint fragrance of grass and trees filled the air.
Beneath this divine tree that does not belong to Earth, the army of Tianyong Underground City also arrived from another direction.
The steel armies of the two underground cities are completing their final assembly.
Armored vehicles were lined up in neat square formations.
The robotic dog moved between the tanks, its sensors rotating randomly, like a real hunting dog sniffing out scents.
The drone formation hovered twenty meters in the air, the hum of the propellers blending into a deep chord.
The robots stood in a line, waiting silently.
And among all the steel, stood the soldiers of the Great Xia, gripping their weapons tightly.
They stood in the icy wind at minus forty degrees Celsius, their eyes behind the masks resolute and bright!