Chapter 690 - 528: The Final Battle: Atomic Bomb! I Won’t Defend, Only Counterattack

Twelve of them!

With numbers like that, what kind of plan was even necessary? They didn’t need one. All they had to do was charge straight in. Who could possibly stop them?

"That’s right. Gao Neng likes to play hardcore, so let’s make him understand... that ’hardcore’ ain’t shit in the face of absolute power!" The Strongest all nodded.

And with that, twelve figures shot into the sky.

Led by the Six-winged Great Angel and the Beast Race Sword Saint, the Alien Race Alliance Army didn’t bother with any ’strategy’ this time either. They played their trump cards right from the start.

It was a contest of who had the stronger absolute power!

Naturally, this scene was also displayed on the screens of the Eastern District Fortress’s military command center.

"..."

"The Beast Race Sword Saint has made his move!"

"The Six-winged Great Angel has also made his move!"

"All... twelve of the Strongest are charging over at once!"

"..."

Everyone fell silent.

There was one question on everyone’s mind: ’How are we supposed to fight this?’ But no one dared to say it out loud.

That’s right!

Gao Neng had successfully held off the Alien Race Alliance Army’s fifty-thousand-strong Zhanfeng Army.

But this time, the aliens of the Eastern District had deployed more than just the Alien Race Alliance Army; they had also sent out a total of twelve Strongest, including the Beast Race Sword Saint and the Six-winged Great Angel.

This was absolute power.

The masters of any war were the Strongest.

The alien Strongest, both in numbers and in power, completely outmatched the Human Alliance.

Qin Jianfei and the others didn’t want to admit it.

But it was the truth.

If the Alien Race Alliance Army’s twelve Strongest charged at them all at once, the Eastern District Fortress... stood absolutely no chance of holding them off.

"I never thought... the final battle would come so soon!"

"It seems our only option is to initiate Protocol Zero, sacrifice the Eastern District Fortress, and fight a truly hardcore war against them!"

"Besides that, there really seems to be no other way..."

"Wait!" Just then, two figures appeared out of thin air behind Shen Ning’Er, and one of them spoke.

Shen Ning’Er turned around.

She saw Gao Neng handing the exhausted Fang Tangtang over to her.

"Sister Ning’Er, I... was amazing, right!" Fang Tangtang’s face was a little pale, but the smile on her lips hadn’t faded in the slightest.

"Yes, Tangtang is the most amazing!" Shen Ning’Er nodded, then looked at Gao Neng. "Because you used the atomic bomb early, the Beast Race Sword Saint and the others are all attacking now. The final battle has started ahead of schedule."

Shen Ning’Er didn’t ask Gao Neng if he had any preparations or plans; she was simply stating the facts as she saw them.

"I saw." The corner of Gao Neng’s mouth lifted. "It’s all part of the plan."

"Part of what plan?" Qin Jianfei was a blunt man. In his heart, although Gao Neng had just performed a great service, he had also caused a huge disaster.

If the battle had started normally,

with the fifty-thousand-strong Alien Race Alliance Army attacking the fortress, the Human Alliance’s thirty-thousand-strong Guard Army could have held out for a while.

In terms of losses...

Of course, there would have been more casualties.

But they would have bought more time.

That way, they could have held out until the reinforcements from the North District arrived.

But now?

Because of Gao Neng’s ’reckless’ actions, the war had skipped all the foreplay and gone straight to the ’final showdown,’ with both sides deploying their strongest forces from the get-go.

How was that saving time?

If anything, it had just sped things up!

"My plan is... to start the ’Battle of the Strongest’ right away." Gao Neng smiled, his gaze turning to the figures of the Strongest charging toward them on the screen.

"What?!"

"But right now we..."

"I understand!" a voice rang out.

Qin Lei stepped forward.

He stopped Qin Jianfei and the others from speaking further, then nodded to Li Tiannan and the other three Strongest.

Li Tiannan and the three Strongest immediately stood up.

"I understand what Gao Neng means now," Qin Lei said. "The Alien Race Alliance Army has deployed twelve Strongest. That isn’t Gao Neng’s problem; it’s ours. The alien Strongest should be met by humanity’s Strongest. It was bound to happen sooner or later. Gao Neng did nothing wrong."

"Hmph, you little brat... at the very least, you saved the lives of thirty thousand Guard Army soldiers. On top of that, you heavily damaged the aliens’ fifty-thousand-strong Vanguard Army. One atomic bomb wiped out at least twenty thousand of them... Impressive! You little brat, leave the rest to us!" Li Tiannan also chimed in.

The other three Strongest said nothing.

But their eyes were filled with resolve.

The Battle of the Strongest.

It would decide everything.

Unavoidable.

The only difference was whether it happened sooner or later.

"I do need to hand it over to you, but not completely," Gao Neng said again, looking at Qin Lei, Li Tiannan, and the others as they prepared to leave.

"Huh? What do you mean, you little brat?" Li Tiannan paused, taken aback.

"What I mean is, my plan has always been to fight a ’defensive counterattack.’ I told everyone that from the very beginning of this war!" Gao Neng explained.

"A defensive counterattack... But for that, you at least need to..."

"You need to defend, right?" Gao Neng cut off one of the military commanders. "Can thirty thousand Guard Army soldiers hold off an attack from three hundred thousand aliens?"

"..." Silence.

"Obviously not. So, if we can’t defend, how are we supposed to launch a defensive counterattack? There’s no way. Not only is there no way, but we’d also sacrifice the lives of tens of thousands of Guard Army soldiers."

"..."

"That being the case, why should I even bother defending? I never intended to defend from the start. I’m just executing the final step of the ’defensive counterattack’!"

"The final showdown?" Qin Lei and the others finally understood.

"Exactly. From the beginning, my plan was only ever the ’counterattack.’ And now, with all twelve of the alien Strongest charging over at once, isn’t this the perfect opportunity?" Gao Neng glanced around the room.

"Opportunity?"

"Yeah. As long as we defeat them, we can begin our counterattack!"

"..." Qin Lei’s face fell.

’You make it sound so easy!’

’But the problem is, we’re up against twelve Strongest all at once.’

’Why don’t you try fighting just one of them and see how that goes?’

Just as he was thinking this, Qin Lei noticed that fifteen black-masked figures had appeared in an instant behind Gao Neng.

These figures were dressed almost identically to the ’Gene Weapon Gao Neng’.

Qin Lei was a little confused.

’These fifteen gene weapons...’

’Is there something special about them?’

’Are they newly made?’

’But the Alliance’s technology has only reached the point of creating Rank-8 gene weapons. There’s no way Gao Neng could have made anything more advanced, could he?’

’Besides, even if he could, Gao Neng hasn’t had any time recently!’

"Bro, how much longer do we have to wait? I’m getting impatient!" a crisp, clear voice called out from one of the masked figures.

This instantly drew the gazes of Qin Lei and the others to that masked figure.

Because that voice...

It was a woman’s voice!

"Xiaomeng?!" Others might not have recognized it, but Fang Tangtang instantly knew who the voice belonged to and grew excited.

CLICK!

The mask came off.

Revealing an exceptionally beautiful face underneath.

Furthermore, two locks of long, silver-white hair cascaded down the sides of her face.

"The Cat King?!" Qin Lei’s eyes shot wide open. If he still couldn’t recognize her, he might as well have gouged his own eyes out.

"Alright, Elder Qin, let’s go meet the Beast Race Sword Saint. I guess they’re here to return the ’gift.’ In that case, let’s show them what it means when we... refuse!"

"Refuse!"

"Refuse!"

Gao Neng’s voice echoed through the command center.

But he had already vanished from the spot.

Gao Xiaomeng and the other fourteen figures vanished along with him.

"Hahaha, that little brat is getting more and more arrogant! Old Man Qin, we can’t fall too far behind the punk, can we?" Li Tiannan laughed.

"Indeed. Then... let’s meet them in battle!" With that, Qin Lei also vanished from the spot.