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Chapter 581 A Call for Help!
Arctic.
Tian Shu Underground City, Central Command Hall.
City Lord Han Niba has just received good news from Tianxiong City.
The seventh-tier Demon Lord has been confirmed dead, and the defenses of Tianxiong City have been stabilized once again.
The atmosphere in the hall relaxed a little, but Han Niba's face didn't show much joy.
Ultimately, the key to ending this war lies elsewhere.
Sure enough, before everyone could even breathe a sigh of relief, a new situation arose.
"Report!"
An information soldier stood up from his computer and shouted,
"An anomaly detected by the satellite monitoring system!"
"Large-scale demonic activity has been observed in the surface areas of several fallen dungeons!"
Han Niba's pupils contracted.
"Upgrade the video!"
The information soldier's fingers flew across the screen, instantly switching the central display to four different views.
Top left corner: Surface of the Liberty City dungeon.
Top right corner: Surface of Washington Underground City.
Bottom left corner: Surface of Ershou City.
Bottom right corner: Comprehensive surface situation map of the area surrounding Tianxiong Underground City.
The first three scenes are exactly the same.
Countless demons surged out of the ground, a dark mass that, from a high-altitude satellite perspective, looked like ants whose nest had been disturbed.
Instead of scattering and fleeing, they moved in the same direction with a clear goal—the Tianxiong Underground City!
In the hall, everyone stared at the screen, their expressions changing.
"What's going on?" a staff officer couldn't help but ask.
"Aren't the demons afraid of our missile blockade?"
Another staff officer, his face ashen, stared at the screen and said in a deep voice:
There are two possibilities.
"First, the demons' burrowing dragons burrowed all the way from the direction of the Liberty to these cities. After attacking them, they did not return by the same route, but withdrew from the surface."
"That's unlikely, unless the enemy's army is so large that they have nowhere to expend their resources and are bombed by our missiles."
"Secondly, the demons have opened more spatial wormholes to directly send troops into the dungeons they have already captured."
He paused for a moment.
"Judging from the demons' response to the war and the scale of their appearance in these places, the second possibility is more likely. After all, the throughput of a spatial wormhole cannot be infinite."
Han Niba listened silently.
He had also thought of this.
The Great Xia has been using long-range missiles to blockade the surface and strike any exposed demon hordes.
The demons aren't stupid, so they've been staying underground and haven't dared to show themselves again.
The sudden decision to move to ground-based transportation on a large scale can only have one explanation.
The underground passage was blocked by Tianxiong City's defenses, so they couldn't break through.
At the same time, the number of demons surged to a point where the underground passages could no longer accommodate them.
So many that they had to split into two groups, advancing simultaneously both above and below ground.
"It's that eighth-tier demon god," Han Niba said, his tone heavy.
"After losing four seventh-tier cities in a row, it became desperate and tried to overwhelm Tianxiong City with sheer numbers."
Everyone's faces turned grim.
Everyone understands what this means.
The number of demons that Tianxiong City will face will be several times, or even ten times, greater than before.
Just then.
A communication came through Tianxiong City; Zhou Shan had sent a message:
[Headquarters, signs of a large-scale gathering of demons have appeared on the surface around Tianxiong City.]
There are no troops stationed on the surface of Tianxiong City, and the reserves of long-range missiles have been exhausted in the previous defensive battles.
Requesting long-range fire support to cover the surface demon clusters surrounding Tianxiong City.
Han Niba did not hesitate.
He immediately picked up the communicator and connected to the channel:
"Commander Zhou, your unit is aware of your situation."
"Long-range fire support is being coordinated. Hold on."
Zhou Shan's voice came from the other end of the communication.
"clear."
Han Niba paused for a second before delivering the bad news.
"There's one more thing, you need to be mentally prepared."
"According to our analysis, the Demon race is using the fallen dungeons as bases to open more spatial wormholes and send troops to Earth."
"The number of demons your Tianxiong City will face in the future will be no less than what you are facing now."
"There will only be more and more."
There was a two-second silence on the communication channel.
Then Zhou Shan's voice rang out again, steady and calm.
"As long as the eighth-tier demon god does not personally set foot in Tianxiong City, my Second Division of the Northern War Zone will hold out to the death."
Han Niba stared at the communicator for a while, then nodded.
"it is good."
"I will send you another batch of supplies."
After hanging up the call, Han Niba turned to the communications console and gave the order:
"Order all dungeons to increase their ranged firepower support."
"Immediately establish a joint fire chain for all missiles, rockets, and long-range strike platforms whose range can cover the area surrounding Tianxiong City."
"Prioritize attacking burrowing dragons, giant siege beasts, and all high-level, high-risk demons."
The officer in the communications seat immediately stood up.
"yes!"
Encrypted commands were sent from the Tian Shu underground city to various underground cities in the Arctic.
Then, Han Niba looked at his advisors and said with a solemn expression:
"Kogaz is smart; it didn't step into the trap we prepared for it."
"The antimatter bomb scared it off, but it didn't kill it."
"Now it has changed its playing style."
"It no longer takes risks itself, but instead expands the scale of its space wormhole deployment, intending to overwhelm us with sheer numbers."
The staff officers all looked grim.
That's the most troublesome part.
If an eighth-tier demon god were to force his way into Tianxiong City, Great Xia would still have a chance to fight desperately with antimatter bombs and nuclear weapons.
But instead of coming in, it hid outside, intending to use countless demons as expendable resources.
Humanity's explosives, missiles, robots, fighter jets, and fuel are all finite. If Great Xia does not take countermeasures, Tianxiong's defeat is highly probable.
Han Niba raised his hand and pointed to the situation map around Tianxiong City, which was turning red.
"Relying solely on long-range missile support won't last long."
"Our missile stockpile is not much after several wars."
"Furthermore, the demons have now opened more spatial wormholes in Antarctica."
"If we only defend Tianxiong City and ignore other areas, the demons will eventually spread to Antarctica."
"By then, all the underground cities in Antarctica will become their nests."
He paused for a moment, his gaze sweeping over all the staff members in the hall.
"And then, the Arctic."
These words made everyone's hearts sink.
The Arctic is the core area of the Great Xia civilization, and 34 of the 36 underground cities of the Heavenly Gang are located in the Arctic.
Once the demons cross the Antarctic battlefield and push the demon tide to their Arctic homeland, it will no longer be an expeditionary support mission, but a decisive battle on their home turf.
Han Niba's voice grew even heavier.
"It can't be placed in Antarctica."
"Antarctica is the buffer zone for war in Great Xia."
"We must keep the demons there."
Even if we can't crush them, we must make them pay a heavy price for every step they take forward.
"Now, I need you to give me a sustainable war plan."
"A strategy that allows for long-term, sustained, and increasingly stable performance."