Published: February 12, 2025
Perhaps no one living here ever thought that one day, the Holy City, which was firmly entrenched in their consciousness, would be breached.
But the brutal reality dealt them the heaviest blow.
The news that all four city gates had fallen spread through the city like a wild wind, stunning everyone who heard it.
Many people initially didn't believe it, but when they saw zombies and gene life forms—creatures that didn't belong here—they believed. At the very least, this proved that the enemy had indeed breached the city.
Being able to rule over the West Asia Zone had given the people of the Holy City a blind sense of invincibility, and this was one of their downfalls. However, the people here, in certain aspects, were somewhat similar to those in Cloud Summit; they were unwilling to yield.
Especially towards Easterners, they held some contempt in their hearts for various reasons. Of course, during certain years of peace, they looked down upon the entire world because they held resources.
Cloud Summit had never considered making these people kneel at their feet. After breaching the four city gates, there was little movement from other directions, and they merely occupied the city walls. Only in the Western City did the gene warrior corps and long-range attack units charge through the city gates.
Guangyao and Liang Chuyin stood atop the wall littered with corpses, watching the continuous influx of gene warriors below, their earlier tension and excitement now gone.
"Is this really going to be fine?" Guangyao asked the internet celebrity girl, turning his head as a thought crossed his mind.
In this attack on the Holy City, Ye Zhongming had ordered all gene warriors to be deployed. Even though Guangyao and the others avoided coming too close to the two laboratories, they knew that this number was all that Cloud Summit had.
Even adding the zombies summoned by the spirit woman and brain child, the number wouldn't reach two hundred thousand.
Yet, within the Holy City, the population was over seven digits.
This was not a time of peace. With the army collapsing, the civilians lacked any power to resist. Now, it was an era where everyone was a soldier; the number of people basically equated to the number of warriors.
Breaking through the city gates was just the first step; the next steps were crucial.
Using these two hundred thousand to clash with the enemy's million? Even if a miracle occurred and they won in the end, at what cost? Wasn't it a bit of a lose-lose situation? Who knows when they could gather such a number of gene warriors again.
Don’t think that Cloud Summit can act recklessly just because they have the gene life production line. Everything requires cost. The two laboratories provided Ye Zhongming and Cloud Summit with results that made others green with envy, but at every moment, they required a large amount of "blood supply." What is blood supply? Various materials, various instruments, various reagents… In short, money, or rather, magic crystals. The two laboratories were like two money-devouring beasts, the kind that surpasses the ninth level.
Once Ye Zhongming ascended to the skies, Cloud Summit's income would undoubtedly decrease significantly, entering a period of financial tightening. In such a situation, producing these gene warriors seemed a bit overwhelming.
The internet celebrity girl smiled, "I don't know either, but since Zhongming said so, he must have his reasons."
"Actually, I think this is a process of refining the essential from the trivial."
After more than six years of the apocalypse, Liang Chuyin had transformed from a little girl into a capable woman, her appearance unchanged but her thoughts matured significantly.
"You see, the gene warrior army now has unified command, which is something we couldn't have aspired to. However, they hadn’t coordinated before, and the specific effects would only be known after actual combat. This is clearly a suitable opportunity. Although there will be losses, the fighting capability will increase exponentially afterward, and the reduction in numbers will also lighten the commander’s burden."