Apocalypse Gachapon

“Hey, Brother Tian, long time no see, why did you start growing a beard?”

Little Tiger giggled and hooked his arm around Tang Tian’s shoulder, acting very familiar and disrespectful; this was his own brother-in-law after all.

Tang Tian glared at him and said, “Northeastern accent today? Wasn’t it the Sichuan accent last time?”

“Learn and change whenever, haha.”

“Being out there for so long, you didn’t do anything wrong to my family’s Candy, did you?” Tang Tian squinted his eyes and stared at his brother-in-law, and asked. Clearly, if Little Tiger showed the slightest hesitation in his answer, he was going to take action.

Little Tiger’s face showed a pained expression, and he complained, “Brother, you have to talk to Candy. As soon as I came back, I went to find her, but I didn’t even get to see her. A little assistant came out and told me she’s busy now; talk later when she’s free. Tell me, I’ve been out fighting for months, and such a request can’t be fulfilled?”

“Brother Tian, I can testify. When Little Tiger had someone call for Candy, his exact words were, ‘Beauty, let’s go, let’s go home and have fun. It would be strange if Candy came out.”

“Ah Yang, do you want to die or what!” Little Tiger let out a weird cry and tried to run, but was grabbed by Tang Tian.

“I knew you kid must have had some bad intentions. Otherwise, why wouldn’t my family’s Candy come out to see you? Come on, come on, there’s still some time before the meeting starts. Let’s you and me go out and talk.”

“Not going, not going! Sister Mo, save me!”

The others watched and laughed out loud, most of them egging Tang Tian on to teach this kid a lesson.

Of course, in terms of strength, Tang Tian was no match for Little Tiger, but Little Tiger certainly wouldn’t dare fight back; otherwise, he’d have to kneel on magic crystals when he got home.

“How are things on your side?” Chief Commander Mu sat with Guang Yao, talking while drinking tea.

“I was just about to ask you.” Guang Yao straightened his body. “Originally, I had Tong Hu, Gan Lan, and Mei Na with me, and we were about to surround three of the Glory Army’s legions. However, yesterday I received an order to abandon the attack. Before I came back today, those guys had already withdrawn from one direction. We couldn’t stop them, could only watch them leave. Who knows when we’ll catch them again? Was this the command center’s opinion?”

Chief Commander Mu shook his head. “I also just found out this morning. It was an order directly from Xia Lei. I don’t know the specific reason either. I was planning to ask later.”

After speaking, Chief Commander Mu glanced at the temporarily empty main seat and lowered his voice a bit.

“These past few days, Xia Lei has been a bit strange. Originally the most intense, she seems to have calmed down, even to the point of being too calm. Besides ordering to let go of a good opportunity with the Glory Army here, she also slowed down the attacks on the southeastern and northwestern regions. There are two major Resistance Zones there, you know.”

Similarly from a command background, Guang Yao naturally understood what Chief Commander Mu meant.

Whether it was against the Glory Army or the Resistance Zone, the recent two actions were carefully planned. Utilizing Cloud Peak’s powerful teleportation ability and the team’s mobility, they seized the weaknesses exposed by the enemy after Cloud Peak’s sudden declaration of war—namely, that their main forces weren’t fully consolidated—and aimed to defeat them one by one.

If Cloud Peak could crush almost half of the main forces of the Glory Army and the Resistance Zone, then their remaining forces would only be able to adopt a defensive stance. In the entire country’s region, apart from the Cannibal Chain, which still posed some threat, no other forces would be able to resist Cloud Peak anymore.

It could be said that these two orders to temporarily refrain from attacking not only rendered the operational plans studied by the command center recently useless, but also gave the Glory Army and the Resistance Zone time to reorganize their troops. Their main forces were very likely to converge soon, and then it wouldn’t be easy to fight them.

“Is it because she’s afraid of heavy losses?” Guang Yao guessed.

“If we let their main forces converge and then fight, wouldn’t the losses be even greater?” Chief Commander Mu shook his head.

The two fell silent for a moment. Mu Xinfei, sitting to the side, suddenly asked, “Does anyone know why Sister Lei summoned everyone back for a meeting?”

Others sitting nearby, like Lu Yi, Rong Jie, and Sheng Yuan, shook their heads upon hearing this. Li Daqian, sitting a bit further away, said, “Don’t ask, niece. No one knows the answer to that question. But everyone guesses that something big must have happened.”

The phrase ‘something big’ initially gave people a bad feeling, but upon giving it some thought, everyone understood: if it were really bad news, the people here couldn’t possibly have heard no wind at all. No team had been defeated, and no force made everyone feel undefeatable.

Across from these people, most people surrounded Le Dayuan and Liu Zhenghong—Park Xiuying, Xiao Li, Ah Yang’s sister, Gan Lan, Mei Na, and others.

Actually, everyone wanted to sit next to these two, but people like Chief Commander Mu, Li Daqian, and others weren’t very familiar with them, while the rest, like Guang Yao, Rong Jie, Tang Tian, etc., were slightly older and embarrassed to fight for spots with these people in their early twenties.

But they still paid attention.

This declaration of war against the entire globe, without Ye Zhongming, initially caused widespread concern.

There was no other way; their self-confidence and pride didn’t mean the people of Cloud Peak thought they would definitely succeed or encounter no difficulties at all.

As commanders of their respective teams, the core members also worried about the heavy casualties that would severely wound Cloud Peak.

However, this couple, Le Dayuan and Liu Zhenghong, made such worries unnecessary.

Magic crystal weapons and gene lifeforms emerged in large numbers during the war preparation period, thanks to Xia Lei’s almost unlimited material supply. Every team received tremendous help. In fact, beyond meeting the teams’ needs, they even established a magic crystal weapon unit led by Li Qiang and a gene warrior army under the command of the twin sisters.

These two units were almost invincible on the battlefield. Their styles were completely different. The magic crystal weapon team attacked before you even saw them, and by the time they stopped firing, the battle was basically over.

As for the gene warrior army, you saw them, encountered them, and then there was no ‘and then’.

These modified guys feared no death and came in endless varieties: some self-destructed, some were unkillable, some released poison, some flew, some burrowed, some threw bombs, some charged, some shot arrows, some were invisible, some spat fire… etc.

In short, there was nothing you could think of that they couldn’t do.

Such an army was not only a headache to deal with due to its coordination, but it was also numerous. Everyone knew about Liu Zhenghong’s craziness, and this time she went all out, acting recklessly. She transformed all the materials she could find within Cloud Peak and the surrounding area into gene warriors. Apart from providing two thousand of various types to each team according to their needs, the twin sisters also commanded a full three hundred thousand!

Afterwards, Liu Zhenghong simply shut down the gene lab factory’s production line. Apart from some ongoing research projects, they assisted the Magic Crystal Weapon lab.

These two people, conservatively estimated, supported one-tenth of Cloud Peak’s combat power. If Level Nine lifeforms weren’t counted, it would probably be over one-fifth. Whether old acquaintances or new, everyone sincerely respected them.

“Don’t ask me, I don’t know either.”

Le Dayuan was more approachable. Faced with everyone’s inquiries, he answered with a smile. Finally, unable to withstand everyone’s anticipation, he hesitated before saying, “We might distribute some equipment, very high-level.”