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Chapter 562 Has Lin Mo's reinforcement arrived?
Everyone's hearts tightened immediately.
The previous eleven issues had already given them a headache, and they had finally managed to resolve a few, but now there were more!
Moreover, given this growth rate, there will only be more and more in the future.
"It wants to wear us down." Lin Shigong closed his eyes and slowly exhaled.
The demon god has found the most correct way to fight.
Without personally getting involved or taking any risks, they simply use the lowest-level burrowing dragons as cannon fodder, sending them up wave after wave.
You fry one, I'll fry two.
You fry two, I'll fry five.
Antimatter bombs are indeed a trump card, but a trump card can't kill an enemy who doesn't come knocking.
While explosives are effective, they are ultimately consumables.
There will come a day when everything is blown up.
When that day comes, the demon will walk in with a smile on his face.
No, he doesn't even need to come in person.
Once the last burrowing dragon manages to breach the outer wall, which is unprotected by explosives, thousands upon thousands of demon cannon fodder will flood in like a torrent.
Lin Shigong opened his eyes and looked at the red dots on the screen that were approaching from all directions.
Silent for a long time.
"There's always a way out; just get through what's in front of you first."
He stood up, his voice returning to its cold, hard tone.
"Fry as many as you can, don't let any of them in."
"Ammunition consumption is reported in real time and summarized every half hour."
"At the same time, immediately send the intelligence about the Demon God turning back and the Earth-Drilling Dragons reinforcing their troops back to headquarters."
He paused for a moment, then added at the end:
"Let the higher-ups know that Tianxiong City still exists, and the people are still alive."
"But we need a new way to kill the demon god."
"otherwise……"
He didn't finish his sentence.
But everyone present knew the consequences.
The emergency lights on the alloy walls of the vault shone a stark, cold white.
In the distance, a new wave of tremors could be faintly heard.
That was the sound of a burrowing dragon gnawing at the rock.
The chilling sounds converged from all directions, as if the entire underground city was being slowly devoured by a group of unseen behemoths.
The countdown hasn't ended; it's just changed the way it's being counted down.
"How long can our current ammunition reserves last?" Lin Shigong asked his adjutant.
"At the current rate of consumption, the stockpile of high-explosive and cubic nitrogen bombs will last at most four days."
The adjutant paused for a moment.
"Four days later, we'll only be able to use conventional artillery shells to fight the earth-burrowing dragons."
Four days.
It sounds like a long time, but the enemy is an infinite army of cannon fodder commanded by an eighth-tier demon god.
Four days is far too short for a major interstellar invasion.
Lin Shigong thought for a moment and said:
"Now, we can only take it one step at a time."
"Pass on my order: the automated production lines for military explosives within the city must immediately resume operation."
"If there are vacancies in important positions, robots can be used to fill them."
The adjutant stood at attention and said:
"Received, will arrange it right away."
Lin Shigong confirmed:
"What about the raw material reserves at the factory...?"
"Enough." The adjutant nodded and continued:
"Tianxiong City's current reserves were allocated based on a five-year consumption plan when the city was built."
"Raw materials are not a problem."
After the order was given, the industrial zone deep within Tianxiong Underground City lit up again.
Some of the robots that patrol or guard the city have come here.
Inside the military factory, the robotic arms on the automated production line began to operate, the sounds of metal clashing and electrical hissing mingling together.
Like a dying heart, it begins to beat again.
……
Tian Shu Underground City, Central Command Hall.
The atmosphere in the hall had been tense for several hours.
On the giant main screen, real-time satellite images clearly show the surface conditions of Tianxiong City in Antarctica.
A few hours ago, everyone watched as the hundred-meter-tall, eighth-tier demon god Kogas rampaged across the earth, crushing everything that could move as if it were stomping on ants.
Then, it burrowed into the underground tunnel leading to Tianxiong City.
Everyone's heart was in their throat.
Everyone knows that antimatter bombs have been deployed in Tianxiong City.
If the demon god were to charge headlong into it, Tianxiong City would cease to exist, resulting in mutual destruction with the demon god.
However, the demon emerged from the tunnel entrance unharmed.
With the explosive power of an antimatter bomb, even through layers of rock several kilometers away, the surface would certainly not remain unaffected.
However, satellite images showed no new activity on the ground except for the craters left by previous orbital strikes and missile bombardments.
Everyone in the command hall looked at each other in bewilderment.
"Did the antimatter bomb explode?" A staff officer broke the silence first.
"It can't have exploded." The technical officer next to him shook his head.
"The space-based monitoring system did not capture any energy signatures of antimatter annihilation. Seismic wave monitoring also did not record corresponding vibrations."
"The bomb did not detonate."
"Then why did it go in and then come out again?"
"Could it be that the people from Tianxiong City didn't have time to press the detonation button?"
"I don't think so?"
The hall buzzed with chatter, but no one could come up with a definitive answer.
Han Niba sat in the command seat, without saying a word.
Just then, the red light on the communications station came on.
"Report! Encrypted battle report received from Tianxiong Dungeon!"
The communicator's voice brought all the discussion to an abrupt halt.
Han Niba immediately said, "Read it."
The communications officer took a deep breath and quickly read out the core content of the battle report:
"Tianxiong City reports: The eighth-tier demon god Kogas has stopped advancing suddenly when he was about three to four kilometers from the city center while digging along the tunnel."
"Judging from their danger perception capabilities, they sensed the deadly threat of the antimatter bomb inside the tunnel, and proactively abandoned their attack, retreating back to the surface via the same route."
"The antimatter bomb failed to detonate."
"But after the demon god retreated, he mobilized a large number of earth-drilling dragons and turned towards Tianxiong City. Currently, fourteen earth-drilling dragons have been detected digging."
"Tianxiong City judges that the Demon God intends to wear down the defenses through a war of attrition."
"Requesting the headquarters to provide response strategies."
"Battle report complete."
The hall was silent for a few seconds.
Then, a heavy sigh came from Han Niba's mouth.
"It's smarter than we thought."
"No, it should be said that it is more sophisticated than we thought."
An old staff officer gave a wry smile:
"To become such a powerful creature, one must be quite intelligent."
"The problem now is..." another officer said, frowning.
"The antimatter bomb card is essentially half useless now."
The Great Xia's antimatter bombs require close-range detonation to ensure lethality.
Kogas moves at a speed of over two thousand meters per second. Even if human missiles or aircraft can keep up in speed, their agility is not as high as his.
Even if it catches up, it will still run away if it senses danger.
That's a dead end.
The atmosphere in the hall grew increasingly somber.
Han Niba looked at his adjutant and said:
"How's the situation going with Commander Lin Molin?"
In one sentence, everyone's attention was drawn in another direction.
Yes! And Lin Mo too!
He's been on his way to Terra for five hours now, there should be some progress by now, right?
Have the reinforcements arrived yet?