I’m A Wasteland Giant

Chapter 15: Worsening Crisis

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

Arctic Circle, Chinese military command center.

“Good news! Good news!”

Li Mingzhi once again held a pile of documents and excitedly ran toward Yao Zhenguo.

“You’re not young anymore. Why are you acting like a child!”

Yao Zhenguo teased and asked: “What’s the news this time?”

“Chief, look at this!” Li Mingzhi didn’t explain right away, but handed over a set of photos.

Yao Zhenguo, in turn, took the photos and gazed at them.

The first photo was of a man in military uniform, spitting flames from his mouth in the face of an insect attack.

The second photo was taken in the city, where a woman flew with wings on her back.

After Yao Zhenguo looked at the photos, he frowned, “These are?”

Li Mingzhi, with a joyful face, said in excitement: “Old Yao, these are humans like us. They have awakened supernatural powers!”

“Supernatural powers?” Yao Zhenguo was flabbergasted.

“That’s right. It’s the kind of psychic ability often fantasized about in novels!”

Without waiting for Yao Zhenguo to continue asking questions, Li Mingzhi added a whole lot of information.

“The Ministry of Scientific Research has found that in this current environment, after a certain trait inside the human body combines with dark matter, supernatural powers will be awakened. As for what the exact cause and method to awakening is, it is still under research…

“However, their initial guess is that only one living amongst the dark matter can be awakened, because here in the Arctic Circle, no one has awakened any supernatural power…

“In addition to this, the planes returning from various military regions also brought crucial intelligence from the front, including a red crystal that was retrieved from the brains of the insects. The Ministry of Scientific Research has stepped up its research…”

Blare! Blare! Blare!

At that moment, the alarm sounded.

Yao Zhenguo immediately interrupted Li Mingzhi and quickly turned around to ask: “What’s going on?”

Soon after, a communications sergeant returned: “Commander-in-Chief, a new species of insects have appeared from spatial channels in a dozen military regions across the country!”

“Are they flying mantises?”

“No, they are enormous bugs that are five meters tall…”

***

Nan Yuan Military Zone.

There were a total of 16 spatial channels here, and all of them were suppressed by strong firepower. Any insect that crawled out of them was basically massacred on the spot.

However, on this day, the situation changed.

A type of insect that was five to six meters wide and tall, and 20 meters in length appeared. Its entire body was covered with a golden shell, looking like it was clad in golden armor.

As soon as the insects appeared, they broke through the strong defensive line established by the military zone.

Even blasted artillery shells only made them tremble slightly upon contact and failed to kill them effectively, not to mention the usefulness of bullets.

“Their defense is too strong!”

“Is there no way to break their defense?”

Wang Dezheng, commander of the Nan Yuan Military Zone, looked at the destroyed defensive line in the distance and became anxious.

In the distance, the golden beetle moved at will and crushed the tanks that were bombarding the road with artillery shells.

Countless types of new artillery shells were fired, but none of them were effective. They simply couldn’t break the layer of golden shell.

“Ordinary ammunition can’t get the job done because their defense is terrifyingly high… Unless we use missiles, or even nuclear warheads!”

Missiles? Nuclear warheads? Only madmen would release nuclear bombs in their own military base!

“N-No, we can’t use nuclear warheads. Order the troops to fire depleted uranium rounds!”

“Depleted uranium rounds? But, Chief, they contain radiation…”

“I know. Can’t you see that conventional rounds are useless against them? Don’t worry, the radiation in those rounds is limited; at the very least, the spread will not be large…”

Indeed, the radiation capacity wasn’t as powerful as nuclear bombs. It was only about five percent.

However, it was still enough to contaminate the human body.

Once one was contaminated by depleted uranium, one might suffer from polyuria, vascular nephritis, and kidney failure in the future.

Those were only part of the consequences. Radiation would also cause one’s cells to become cancerous, greatly increasing the chances of developing cancer.

From one of the spatial channels in the distance, golden beetles led the charge, while the black beetles followed closely behind, disrupting the entire defensive formation and destroying countless tanks and artillery.

Not only that, but on the other side, some soldiers held grenades and explosives and charged toward the army of insects…

Wang Dezheng couldn’t bear to watch any longer. With tears in his eyes, he resolutely commanded: “Do it. Our soldiers can’t be sacrificed in vain!”

Although there were nearly 50,000 soldiers stationed in Nan Yuan Military Zone, at least 10,000 of them were logisticians, and most of the remaining 40,000 soldiers were conventionalized troops.

There weren’t many soldiers who were trained to operate missiles and heavy weapons!

Even though they proposed to use missiles earlier, they would only be able to fire light missiles with their own guided system.

However, most of the missiles relied on satellite guidance and were first manufactured to strike some country 14,000 kilometers away. The satellites were in no way connected to the ground in signal and communication, directly nullifying most of their incredibly powerful weapons.

Finally, the first depleted uranium round was fired, successfully striking the golden beetle, penetrating and shattering its body. All the soldiers cheered in high morale.

But before they could be excited for long, steady streams of fresh golden beetles poured out of the other spatial channels.

At the same time, the flying mantises also showed up and immediately after, they shot down a dozen jets at the speed of sound.

Finally, Wang Dezheng gave an order that he never wanted to ever give.

“Contract the defensive line and guard the base camp!”

There were more than a dozen spatial channels in the entire military zone. He had initially planned to head to the city and rescue the civilians after suppressing them.

But now, even his army couldn’t hold them back.

The rescue of civilians could only be left for later. What he needed to do now was protect the military zone, maintain firepower, and wait for rescue or orders from central headquarters.

All of a sudden, the entire army moved their formation according to their first drill. They gave up guarding most of the spatial channels and gathered near three spatial channels, making it the last line of defense.

***

Countless spatial channels appeared everywhere in the half of the world that was currently experiencing nighttime. From the beginning, only black beetles showed up. But now, more and more insects like flying mantises, golden beetles, springtails, and more burrowed out of them.

The military zones that originally had the situation under control were now in utter chaos.

Most of the military zones made the same decision as Wang Dezheng and chose to narrow their defensive lines.

Some military zones, however, didn’t even have the time to make such a decision. They were swept away by the endless number of insects that scattered their formation and forced them into a bitter fight.

At that moment, the crisis was even worse than expected, and there was no sign of improvement.

Fortunately for the military zones, they at least had heavy weapons.

The location of the spatial channels were random and didn’t only appear in military zones.

In the city, countless civilians lost their lives and became food for the insects.

And worst of all, the people stuck in congested highways didn’t even have a place to hide. All of them turned into delicious meals for the insect carnival.