Chapter 85: Nuclear Attack

Modern special operations possessed fast transportation methods, allowing soldiers to set out within a day, complete their mission, and then return.

Zhou Liming remembered that when he left, he had eaten breakfast at the Training Base; after completing this arduous mission, he was able to return to the Training Base for dinner. It seemed somewhat unbelievable, but it was indeed the case; at the very least, what Zhou Liming held in his hand was a large plate of nutritious meal prepared by a nutritionist.

Take the large piece of beef in front of him, for example; it was only sixty percent cooked. According to the nutritionist, only meat cooked to this degree would retain the best nutritional components.

To hell with nutritional components; at least Zhou Liming was very unaccustomed to this kind of sixty-percent-cooked beef. He thought of the reports about England and France in the past; when eating steak, they only cooked it to thirty percent, and when cut open, it still revealed blood streaks. They not only could eat it but also praised it endlessly, but Zhou Liming certainly could not.

Huang Dazhuang sat right opposite Zhou Liming; he gave a naive smile and said, “Eat up; you’ll get used to it. When I was in school, just having a full meal was enough to make a person feel happy. As soon as I graduated from middle school, I signed up for the army, and I’ve made it this far. Now we have fish and meat to eat; even though the taste isn’t great, compared to the past, what is there to be picky about?”

The man in front of him looked honest and simple, like a farmer; you could never guess that the number of dead at his hands exceeded two hundred.

Zhou Liming smiled bitterly, forked the beef on his plate, took a big bite, and started chewing. The sixty-percent-cooked beef, without any sauce, could hardly be said to have any taste. It should be said that it was very tender, actually overly tender; inside his mouth, it felt soft. If not for Zhou Liming’s amazing jaw strength, whether he could chew it enough to swallow it was an unknown question.

Fortunately, there were no blood streaks inside.

The canteen served meals on time, and everyone in the X Squadron ate at the same time; looking around, there were more than a dozen new faces.

Zhou Liming had just received the news that the higher-ups intended for the special squadrons to no longer be limited to just the X Squadron; they would be expanded, and other squadrons might be established in the future. Thinking about it, he felt relieved; the country would not allow a single force to dominate, and an overly large special unit was not conducive to their management. More importantly, the number of modified humans was constantly increasing, and one squadron could no longer accommodate more personnel.

The country was currently making preparations on two fronts: breakthrough research in technology, and the expansion of modified humans.

Technology could not be researched in a single day, but modified humans were different; as long as the Fierce Beast Gene was implanted, once the implantation was successful, a human-shaped war machine could be created within seven days. As long as there were enough Fierce Beast Genes, the entire army could even be replaced with soldiers in Fierce Beast Form.

So what if the mortality rate was as high as 85 percent? The country lacked for nothing but people; the new recruits mobilized under the war order had already exceeded ten million, so there was absolutely no shortage of people.

The number of personnel in a squadron would be limited to fifty, organized at the division level. This meant that the dozen or so people who joined this afternoon would be the last batch of members for the X Squadron, and without any losses, it would reach full strength. However, the X Squadron still had its advantages; as the first squadron under the Fierce Beast Form, it had administrative authority over an extra subordinate division compared to other squadrons.

One should not underestimate a division; one must remember that the elite mixed division transferred to the X Squadron back then had a combat effectiveness three to four times that of an ordinary division.

When Lian Ruixue returned and heard this news, her expression did not change at all; she remained perfectly calm. Even Ren Zhigang, who came to offer her some guidance, ended up saying nothing and left with Su Yunan and the others.

Dinner was not yet over, but Lian Ruixue had already finished eating. Zhou Liming did not know why her figure remained so good when she ate as much as he did. He saw her walk over to the huge LCD screen on the side of the canteen, turn on the screen, quickly connect to the national television station, and then return to her seat.

“This afternoon, the Fierce Beasts once again compressed humanity’s living space. Except for some who retreated to our country, small nations like Vietnam, Thailand, and Laos have officially become Fierce Beast occupied territories. Additionally, when the Fierce Beasts launched their attack, the Indian government, unable to stop them, resolutely launched a nuclear attack. Please watch the images detected by the satellite.”

The images detected by the satellite were actually clearer than ordinary videos; everywhere one looked, there were swarms of Fierce Beasts, and Zhou Liming did not recognize a single one of their species. They surged toward the Frontline constructed by the Indian government; countless clusters of light flashed up, streaked across the sky, and fiercely smashed into the human positions.

With such a massive display of force, and with the satellites of various countries still intact, it was naturally impossible to miss; a conservative estimate suggested that at least dozens of countries were watching.

The Indian government was not one to back down easily; the Indian government, which focused on military development, did not have weak military power. The Frontline they constructed actually made extensive use of steel and concrete, forcibly building a wall tens of kilometers long. Mounted on it was a full array of light and heavy machine guns. In the rear, there was a massive amount of heavy firepower.

A large number of tanks were on standby at any moment, and in the sky, over a thousand Fighter Jets pounced toward the Fierce Beasts.

As soon as the Fierce Beasts entered firing range, the heavy firepower opened fire one after another; thousands of artillery pieces, hundreds of rocket launchers, and large numbers of missile vehicles all carried out blanket strikes at the same time.

Spy satellites possessed dozens of cameras available for filming, so what was presented to everyone was a scene of thousands of cannons firing at once. In an instant, countless shells and Missiles were launched, forming an orange metal net in the sky, which covered the black mass of the Fierce Beast Tide over ten kilometers away.

The explosions were deafening; the entire ground seemed to be lifted up, with countless dust particles flying up, accompanied by the severed limbs of countless Fierce Beasts.

The first wave of attacks alone cleared a huge gap in the black mass of the Fierce Beast Tide. With the firing speed of modern artillery, as well as the speed of rockets and Missile launchers, one minute was enough to carry out more than ten blanket bombardments.

In the sky, thousands of Flying Fierce Beasts tangled with over a thousand Fighter Jets from the Indian side; low-level Flying Fierce Beasts were shot down from time to time, but these Missiles were simply ineffective when facing high-level Fierce Beasts. The air battle was almost a one-sided situation; in just a few minutes, half of India’s thousand-plus Fighter Jets were destroyed.

In fact, the progress on the ground was reversed after a little over ten minutes. First, high-level Flying Fierce Beasts descended from the sky, wantonly destroying the artillery groups, and then pounced into the tank units, treating these heavily armored kings of war as toys. Dozens of round, fire-breathing Flying Fierce Beasts swept their fire across the tanks; the people inside were simply roasted alive, and inside the tanks, it was like entering an unguarded realm.

With the disappearance of heavy firepower and the appearance of ground Fierce Beasts, the Frontline was defeated without offering much resistance, and countless soldiers fled. But their speed was too slow compared to the Fierce Beasts; they were constantly caught up with and torn to pieces. A large number of Fierce Beasts devoured wantonly; the bloody nature of the scene far exceeded the limits of human vision.

Powerful military forces were overwhelmed by the Fierce Beasts in just half an hour, making countless people feel like they were watching a movie.

Facing a situation that could no longer be salvaged, in the Indian government’s Temporary Capital, twenty-five Missiles soared into the air. At first, no one knew what was happening, but when these twenty-five Missiles plunged into the Frontline, and then the instant twenty-five mushroom clouds appeared, the observers from various countries all understood.

The Indian government, at the moment of defeat, had finally activated their final trump card, a Nuclear Weapon attack.

On the entire LCD screen, there were first twenty-five mushroom clouds; as these mushroom clouds spread, light radiation appeared, like twenty-five rising suns, and the entire screen was filled with a vast whiteness, making nothing visible. A few seconds later, what appeared on the screen were twenty-five fireballs shrouded in endless dust, covering the entire Frontline in endless dust.

The formation of the shockwave continuously expanded the scope of the dust shroud…

Seeing this scene, everyone in the X Squadron was filled with shock and fear; not to mention the massive unknown number of Fierce Beasts, there were seven hundred thousand troops stationed on that Frontline, and under this nuclear attack…