CHAPTER 71: CHAPTER 71: THE MOMENT OF LIFE AND DEATH HAS COME

If these monsters really manage to break through, or evade the military defensive lines and rampage through the major cities, devouring unchecked, thus rapidly evolving beyond control—

The entire Eastern Country, and even the whole world, will swiftly fall.

The ability to burrow underground is enough to render most of Human Civilization’s weapons and fortifications useless.

Let them run rampant!

More and more gazes couldn’t help but gather on Shen Yu.

Shen Yu knew exactly what those glances meant, and the realization made his heart sink.

"What are you all looking at me for!" Shen Yu turned around, meeting each person’s eyes without the slightest avoidance. "Did dealing with the eye-worms and the crawlers so smoothly before give you the wrong impression, make you think that doomsday is nothing to fear?"

Feeling the displeasure in Shen Yu’s tone, everyone was startled, and many instinctively looked away.

"Let me be perfectly clear: in the Multi-Dimensional Apocalypse Civilization Mutual Aid Association, plenty of civilizations have been obliterated by the apocalypse!" Shen Yu knew he had to make them recognize the terror of the doomsday, "Even the ones that survived paid an immense price—no exceptions. If the Association could resolve everything, it would be called a Salvation Association, not a mutual aid association!"

Still, no one spoke.

But cold sweat was already trickling down some foreheads.

In their hearts, especially since the rise of the Interstellar Civilization and Martial Arts Civilization, many had indeed secretly let out a sigh of relief in the Multi-Dimensional Apocalypse Civilization Mutual Aid Association.

Interstellar Civilization—so powerful!

Martial Arts Civilization—a single person equals an army!

Especially seeing the anti-eye-worm drones reaping wildly on the front lines, watching publicized advanced technology and batches of powerful weapons sent to the front, that confidence in resisting the apocalypse kept growing unchecked.

So when faced with this wave of monsters that seem capable of directly threatening countless civilians, threatening the entire country, they still cling to hope that, like before, Otherworld allies will easily handle them.

This is human nature, but it doesn’t help in resisting the apocalypse—and at the very least, shouldn’t exist in these peoples’ minds.

"Advisor Shen is absolutely right!" Gu Hucheng also looked around at this moment and spoke, "This is doomsday, it’s a battle for the survival of our civilization! Not just us—frontlines of our Interstellar Allies are suffering constant setbacks, Martial Arts Allies are facing unstoppable calamities, every moment countless lives hang by a thread! Our powerful allies are struggling; we’ve only scraped through twice thanks to their support. What right do we have to relax? We don’t even know who is really behind these monsters, or where they come from!"

In the past few days, interstellar world Shen Yu and Martial Artist Shen Yu had also shown up several times, sharing more information in meetings.

So, the Human Civilization leadership actually understood.

The allies weren’t faring much better; the doomsday is far more terrifying than anyone initially imagined.

Now, after jolting everyone awake, Gu Hucheng made a decisive order.

"13th Army, 17th Army, split up and enter rearward cities—assist civilians to evacuate as fast as possible! Get out as many as you can! Try to clear the whole province. At the same time, have the publicity department immediately start work. Tell our warriors, tell our fellow citizens—the moment of life and death has arrived! Give up any sense of luck, and get ready for total survival warfare, mentally and physically."

"Yes, sir!" The adjutant replied instantly, rushing off to carry out the orders.

But inside, they all trembled.

Everyone understood: this meant Gu Hucheng was considering the absolute worst scenario.

That certainly meant countless people would die!

Among them would be soldiers, civilians, even children.

Monsters take no prisoners; they show no mercy to anyone.

"I just got in touch with Han Yu, he’s agreed to loan us transport ships for evacuating civilians—but it’s only a loan, and only eighty-four vessels. That’s already the maximum support he can muster in such short notice." Shen Yu spoke up at this point.

Eighty-four ships—that’s the most interstellar world Shen Yu’s current clearance can borrow in a short time.

Most of them are civilian craft; he had to use both his administrative and military authority.

After all, interstellar world Shen Yu is currently positioned at the rear of Human Civilization, and strategic resources like transport ships are scarce during wartime.

"Maybe I should move closer to the frontlines." interstellar world Shen Yu had even said this to Shen Yu in the end.

Clearly, the situation on Shen Yu’s side was making interstellar world Shen Yu feel a sense of crisis now.

He was struggling to keep accepting the safety of the rear as justified.

This was different from when he enlisted before.

Now, with the Gray Mist Space, Gray Mist, and Martial Arts Power, safety was mostly guaranteed, and the frontlines had ironically become the place where saving the world would be easier.

Shen Yu did not say much about this.

Every Shen Yu from every world has his own mission.

After expressing thanks for the loan of the transport ships, Shen Yu turned his attention to the Gray Mist Space.

He discovered that the last round of bombardment had brought a sizable amount of Gray Mist into the space.

Estimated at a full eleven million units!

Barely any input from Shen Yu in that bombing except advance warning and heightened surveillance, which drastically shortened the time to launch the strike.

Even so, this amount of Gray Mist was acquired—an indication of how terrifying these monsters are.

Moreover, together with the twenty-one million units gained from eye-worms and Martial Arts World over these few days, the total Gray Mist now stood at a staggering thirty-two million units!

Without question, that’s an unprecedented figure.

At last, it gave Shen Yu’s heart some measure of relief.

But the number, though massive, may not be enough to solve the current crisis; there was still uncertainty.

Shen Yu decided to use the Gray Mist to gather more intel first.

"First question: To directly wipe out these plant-type monsters, how much Gray Mist is needed?"

[Four hundred twenty-four million units]

Hiss—!

Shen Yu had already made every effort to overestimate the monster, yet had not imagined the amount of Gray Mist required for direct annihilation would be so staggering.

Clearly, eliminating these plant monsters was far, far harder than dealing with a crawler that has developed for nearly three months.

Still, it revealed useful information.

Gray Mist consumption depends on the difficulty of the objective.

To kill a crawler, you only need to take out its Divine Soul, or even just the head.

Just a nuke, or one antimatter main cannon round.

If these plant monsters also had a "core brain," it shouldn’t need nearly this much.