Chapter 138 – Fight to the Bloody End!

“A certain country used nuclear weapons to resist the Xenospecies invasion, but the nuclear weapons were swallowed by the fissure and caused no damage… In addition, after these fissures appeared, they showed no sign of closing. Instead, they were more like true doors.”

This was Lv Zifeng’s explanation.

Su Lifeng looked at the enormous Spatial Gate stretching across midair on the screen, and his mood sank once again. Even nuclear weapons could not resist it…

Of course, the energy of a nuclear weapon was probably not stronger than Earth’s Protective Layer. Since even the Protective Layer could not stop the Spatial Gate from opening, naturally trying to blow up a Spatial Gate with nuclear weapons was impossible.

Between the Protective Layer and the World where the Xenospecies existed, or rather another space, there existed extremely intense energy fluctuations. Su Lifeng had once experienced this at close range.

However, judging from the images, aside from the nuclear weapon being swallowed, the use of some conventional weapons did not seem to make the Xenospecies employ the Spatial Gate in that way. Smoke from explosions was everywhere, and several High-class Xenospecies corpses had fallen to the ground. Their bodies were still burning fiercely, seemingly struck by incendiary bombs. But under this kind of victory, no one knew how terrible a price humanity had paid.

At least from what Su Lifeng could see now, figures of High-class Xenospecies had already appeared outside a military base several kilometers away.

When Xenospecies infiltrated cities, humans believed surrounding cities with armies was the best approach, but now, that had instead become the reason the Xenospecies could rapidly charge into their vicinity.

“But for humans, fighting inside cities means that in the end, the greatest losses will belong to humans no matter what… Besides, if the Spatial Gates don’t close, how many effective collective resistances can be organized in the end?” Su Lifeng thought inwardly.

He had already seen from the images that the main attack direction of the Xenospecies was the human military. As for those terrified crowds, aside from the first batch that had been occupied and turned into skins, these Xenospecies did not immediately have any intention of spreading throughout the entire city to “dine.”

“Are they planning to deal with the threats first, then slowly enjoy themselves?” Su Lifeng thought, and his brow furrowed along with it.

At the same time as Lv Zifeng delivered his speech, Ningnan had already entered a state of military control.

What surprised Su Lifeng somewhat was that Ningnan no longer conducted inspections as it had before. Instead, it adopted a system of establishing Quarantine Cordons.

With Ningnan’s important industrial facilities as the center, Quarantine Cordons were divided out. After receiving the television notice, everyone could voluntarily go to the designated entrances to undergo testing. After passing inspection without problems, they could move into the Quarantine Cordon.

Judging from the large quantity of supplies they had begun stockpiling after the Xenospecies appeared, even if things only went out and nothing came in for a short period, they could still hold out for some time.

Of course, the area of the Quarantine Cordons was not especially large. With Ningnan’s population density, pursuing any decent living conditions was probably impossible. It would be like a wartime refugee camp.

During this period, the army would impose control over Ningnan’s main intersections to ensure that ordinary people would be safe on their way to the Quarantine Cordons.

After this notice finished playing on television, Cheng Xiaomei could not help speaking. “But if they do this, won’t other places still be dangerous? Isn’t this abandoning a lot of people?”

“There is no other way.” Su Lifeng looked at Lv Zifeng on the screen, whose face appeared calm but was actually in very poor color, and said, “Do you think there are more soldiers, or more Xenospecies? These troops don’t only have Ningnan to manage. Even with the troops from Shencheng added in, the area they have to manage is far too large. And the greatest threat doesn’t come from inside the region, but from outside it…”

Only then did Cheng Xiaomei react. That’s right. The places where Spatial Gates had appeared were not only disaster zones that made them feel grief. At the same time, they were bombs surrounding the area near Ningnan…

“It would be best if they could confirm whether there are other ‘isolated islands.’ It shouldn’t be hard to find them through satellites. Of course, once they recover from this, they will naturally go looking for them,” Su Lifeng said. He understood very well that the army had too many things to do, and could not possibly take care of everything this quickly.

“Were there other places that escaped disaster too?” Jiang Yushi asked in great surprise. In her view, the terror of Spatial Gates was simply too great. It was difficult to imagine that anyone else could close a Spatial Gate under those circumstances. In fact, even with Su Lifeng standing alive in front of her right now, she still felt lingering fear in her heart, as if she were still dreaming.

“I don’t know, but holding a little hope is always good.” Su Lifeng did not have the slightest certainty. Too many factors had gone into his success. It could not be replicated.

“The last thing I want to say is this: no matter what disaster we face, humanity has always been able to continue. From the ancient apes of the beginning to today, humanity did not go extinct. Instead, it grew stronger and stronger, finally becoming the master of this planet. Please, every one of you, remember this. We were born human, and we will never be willing to become another race’s food.”

“We will fight to the end!”

Static hissed…

The image immediately turned to snow. It seemed the live broadcast had ended.

Su Lian held the remote and changed through many channels, but all of them were snow. Those regions were probably all disaster zones where something had happened.

When watching television in the past, there had never been this feeling. But now, every channel change carried a heavy, bitter sadness.

“Right, if everyone is going to the Quarantine Zone, what about us?” Su Lian suddenly paused, then turned her head and asked.

In truth, the answer was self-evident.

“There must be many people who can’t enter the Quarantine Zone,” Jiang Yushi squeezed out a barely visible smile and said.

After the live broadcast ended, an officer walked forward, looked at Lv Zifeng, whose expression instantly became grave, and asked, “Why not take this chance to have that Mutant help us?”

“Didn’t the report say it? He has no intention of contacting the military.” Lv Zifeng removed the microphone and said, “Moreover, putting aside what he himself thinks, the other Mutants may not necessarily be anything but a troublesome factor for us.”

“On top of that, we now already know that Mutants need to absorb living beings to maintain themselves. If we establish Quarantine Zones and leave them together with the Xenospecies, what do you think will happen?” Lv Zifeng’s words left this officer dumbfounded, yet unable to respond. For them, with manpower extremely scarce, this was indeed a good method. But…

“I know how Mutants came to be, and I know that most of them back then did it only to resist, only to protect themselves. But,” Lv Zifeng let out a long sigh, “I have no other way…”