Gods: Civilization Cultivation, Infinite War

Chapter 216 Natural Disaster vs. Natural Disaster
The entire Great Wall is thousands of meters high and stretches for hundreds of kilometers, with a defense range that can cover an area of ​​tens of thousands of kilometers.

However, although the Zerg are numerous, they are very good at stealthy attacks.

Even if they reach a scale of over one trillion, they can withstand the detection array of the Great Wall.

By sneaking up close to the Great Wall without anyone noticing, they wouldn't give the Great Wall too much time to wear down their troops.

Otherwise, given the power of those tens of thousands of magic cannons above the Great Wall, this swarm of insects would have been detected as soon as it entered the Great Wall's defensive range.

Before they even officially reach the Great Wall, they will be blasted to smithereens by the magic cannons.

After reaching the location of the Great Wall, the insect swarm did not engage in a direct confrontation with it.

Even before the Silver Army led by Kalai arrived at the Great Wall, most of the Zerg had crossed the Great Wall directly and headed towards the location of Tiandu City.

Only a small number of Zerg are constantly attacking the Wall, in order to reduce the pressure on the Zerg swarms around the entire Wall.

After the arrival of the Silver Army led by Kale, the insect swarm found itself unable to destroy this section of the Wall.

They simply abandoned the idea altogether, instead assigning a portion of the Zerg to disrupt the Magma Cannon's attack rhythm.

The Great Wall was not of much value to the insect swarm.

There are too few lives and too few resources.

Although the Zerg can rapidly mass produce troops even by simply consuming soil, cities like Tiandu City, which possess countless lives and resources, are undoubtedly more favored by them.

Moreover, Great Wall has a self-destruct function, so fighting to the death with Great Wall will basically result in not even recovering the costs.

The Zerg rarely engage in unprofitable ventures, and they have never been particularly interested in something as unprofitable as the Great Wall.

In any case, before the Silver Army arrived, the insect swarm had already destroyed most of the magic cannons on the Great Wall.

Repairing the magic cannon will take some time, during which time the entire Great Wall's control over its surroundings will be greatly reduced.

This was enough for most of the insectoid swarm to escape the defensive range of this section of the Great Wall and head towards the next section of the Great Wall and even Tiandu City.

This means that the insect swarm has already achieved its goal.

The sacrifices of hundreds of billions or even trillions are insignificant; they can be replenished along the way, or even further expanded.

The Zerg are able to roam freely in the endless void, causing headaches and even fear to countless forces, mainly due to their almost unstoppable ability to mass produce troops.

But the Zerg, who have dominated the T09-3057 crystal wall system for millions of years, have met their match today.

Tens of thousands of bases were built directly on the Great Wall.

However, most of the bases are actually suspended above the Great Wall, since the entire Great Wall simply cannot accommodate so many bases.

Hundreds of millions of players instantly appeared on the Great Wall, which was no less than the number of Zerg on the Great Wall.

The entire Great Wall was already quite crowded due to the appearance of the Zerg. Only the area around the magic cannons and some important areas were heavily guarded, and no Zerg could cross the line.

After these players appeared, they immediately stuck to the Zerg.

"Holy crap, the Zerg are charging in right from the start? Is this some kind of game?"

Faced with this situation, not a single player showed any sign of panic.

After all, they already knew what they were about to face long before they even entered the game.

They were mentally prepared for everything that happened afterward.

"The first battle has an experience buff, so everyone hurry up and level up to seize the initiative!"

The newly arrived player only has the physical attributes of an ordinary person, wearing only a piece of clothing that barely covers his body, and a weapon that even a blacksmith's apprentice could easily forge.

However, they completely disregarded the lowest-level Zerg on the Great Wall.

While these lowest-level Zerg can easily slaughter a healthy adult male, the player may only have average physical abilities, but their combat skills are definitely not ordinary.

Just like the native defenders on the Great Wall, each shot from the player can accurately hit the Zerg's weak points, achieving a one-hit kill.

Ordinary physical attributes and ordinary weapons, coupled with extraordinary combat skills.

While it's not yet possible to unleash a rampage during a swarm of Zerg, killing the lowest-level Zerg is no different from killing chickens.

As players kill the Zerg, most of them also improve their physical abilities.

In less than a minute, the Zerg on the Great Wall were wiped out.

This is because there are some extraordinary Zerg within it, and because Zerg are still continuously pouring in from outside the Great Wall.

Otherwise, players wouldn't even need a minute to easily deal with the hundreds of millions of Zerg on the Great Wall.

"I didn't manage to grab many; I'm only level three now."

Some players showed expressions of frustration.

There are too many players on the Great Wall; players who are unlucky or not strong enough simply can't get a few Zerg units.

"Hehe, I was lucky enough to pick up a super-level Zerg. I'm already level seven."

Some players even had a look of joy on their faces.

"I'm already at level thirteen."

"666, as expected of a master who has mastered the third-tier combat technique."

Even for an ordinary person with the physical abilities to kill the lowest-level superhuman insectoids is no different from killing chickens once they have mastered the third-tier combat techniques.

While an ordinary person certainly cannot use Tier 3 combat techniques at will, otherwise their body simply cannot withstand it, players certainly do not have this concern.

"Once you reach level 20, you can change your class. You're definitely one of the first players in our guild to do so."

"We've been assigned two missions: either defend the Great Wall or leave the Great Wall to exterminate the Zerg."

"There is a limit to the number of people stationed at the Great Wall, with a total of 50 million slots. However, there is no limit to the number of people who leave the Great Wall to exterminate the Zerg."

"I'll stay at the Great Wall for a while to develop, at least until I reach level 10 or higher."

"Otherwise, you might die accidentally after leaving the Great Wall, and the death penalty will reduce your experience points, so you might not level up much after the battle."

"I'm leaving the Great Wall to exterminate the Zerg. There are too few Zerg here. I might not even reach level 20 and be able to change jobs by the end of this battle."

The bases built directly on the Great Wall will not leave the Great Wall for some time to come.

Therefore, these players initially landed directly on the Great Wall and were not deployed to other places.

However, the Great Wall clearly didn't need so many troops, so after the Zerg on the Great Wall were cleared out, Kalai used his authority to issue quests to the players. To the players, whether it was Kalai or other beings from the Alliance of All Souls like themselves, or the natives of this world, they were all characters similar to NPCs.

Although this world is a real world, to them it is not much different from the world in virtual reality games.

At most, it's slightly better than virtual reality games in terms of realism.

However, in other respects, it is no different from virtual reality games.

Their only identity here is that of a player; their purpose in coming to this world is simply to play the game, nothing more.

Even the high-ranking officers in the Kalai and even the Dawn Empire's army can only issue tasks to them through their own authority, and are not qualified to directly command them.

After Kalai issued the mission, 50 million players quickly chose to garrison the Great Wall, while the rest were deployed to other locations to exterminate the Zerg.

Previously, hundreds of millions of players shared all the experience points on the Great Wall, and apart from a few exceptionally powerful players, the other players didn't gain much.

But now that only 50 million players are sharing the experience, the entire Great Wall has immediately become an excellent leveling spot.

After all, with an endless swarm of insects, as long as you kill them fast enough, you can prevent the insects from crowding the Great Wall. Every second, tens of millions of insects will climb the Great Wall.

This is exactly within the range that 50 million players can handle, and each player can gain a lot of experience. Otherwise, Kalai would not have specifically set a limit of 50 million slots.

"This is what players are like..."

Liu Zheng was dumbfounded and muttered to himself in disbelief.

He wasn't surprised by the player's strength; after all, while the player's individual strength was slightly greater than that of the lowest-level Zerg, it wasn't by much.

Although he was extremely surprised that every player had mastered at least one extraordinary combat technique, it was not so surprising that he found it unbelievable.

What he found most unbelievable was that the number of players was simply too exaggerated.

Only a very small number of players actually descended directly onto the Great Wall.

Using special observation tools, Liu Zheng could see everything within the entire defensive range of the Great Wall.

In his view, after these tens of thousands of bases were built, hundreds of billions of players appeared within the entire defensive range of the Great Wall in a very short period of time.

The sheer number of players left Liu Zheng no time to ponder how they managed to bypass the Zerg's special unit spatial blockade and deploy so many players outside the Great Wall.

These players appeared outside the Great Wall and even formed a pincer movement against the insect swarm outside the Great Wall!

Liu Zheng had participated in so many battles against the Zerg, and he had experienced many battles where the few defeated the many. In other words, this was the norm in wars against the Zerg.

But he had never experienced, or even heard of, a battle where a smaller force surrounded a larger one.

After all, in every battle, their numbers are less than one ten-thousandth or even one hundred-thousandth of the Zerg's.

The disparity in numbers is too great to create any so-called pincer movement.

Outside the Great Wall, hundreds of billions of individual players, whose combat power was slightly stronger than the lowest-level Zerg, surrounded trillions of Zerg swarms.

This was an unprecedented spectacle in the history of the Central World.

These hundreds of billions of players actually managed to surround a Zerg force that outnumbered them by more than ten times.

Liu Zheng could see that the insect swarm within the Great Wall's defensive range had been completely blocked and could not escape the Great Wall's defensive range to reach Tiandu City.

If this trend can continue, it will only be a matter of time before this swarm of insects is completely eradicated.

However, Liu Zheng seemed to remember something soon, and his expression changed.

"Lord Kalai, the Zerg are capable of devouring everything, and they especially love to devour life, which helps them to mass produce troops."

"Even if hundreds of billions of players could actually stop the insect swarm."

"But in this process, the Zerg will also continuously devour the player to mass produce units, while their own casualties can be recovered, and the overall loss is almost negligible."

"A war of attrition with the Zerg is not going to work. We have already paid a heavy price for this, and we have also gained a lot of experience from it."

The reason why Tiandu City and countless other cities in the Central Great World built this Great Wall to defend against the Zerg was because they feared the Zerg's almost unbeatable endurance and ability to mass-produce troops.

The entire Great Wall is powered by drawing energy from the earth's veins, which is a very harmful act to the world itself.

Especially after the Great Wall exploded, the area within a radius of thousands of kilometers was completely razed to the ground.

This is not just a change on the surface; it will completely destroy the ley lines, also to prevent the Zerg from using the ley lines to mass produce troops.

"Take a closer look."

Kalai smiled and gestured for Liu Zheng to observe the players' situation himself.

Upon hearing this, Liu Zheng also began to carefully observe the specific situation on the battlefield.

He could only see the area outside the Great Wall, but he didn't have any specific feelings about it.

However, he could still carefully sense the situation of the players on the Great Wall and around him.

"Wait, why are these players' bodies so weak, almost devoid of any life force?"

Liu Zheng began to doubt whether he had seen things correctly.

Even elderly people nearing the end of their lives cannot be without any life essence within their bodies.

However, Liu Zheng could hardly see any life essence within the player's body.

Given this situation, Liu Zheng suspected that even if they hadn't died on the battlefield, they wouldn't have survived until the next day.

Even if such a body were devoured by the Zerg, the effect would probably be no better than being eaten dirt.

Relying on eating dirt to replenish one's strength on the battlefield is far from enough.

"It also seems that some kind of trait was plundered from these Zerg after they were killed by the players."

“Under normal circumstances, a Zergling can immediately split into two Zerglings after consuming one of its own kind of similar level, but that is far from enough now.”

"It would probably need to devour at least two or more of its own kind of similar level before it can split."

Seeing that Liu Zheng finally realized what was happening, Kalai smiled.

"These are some of the traits that players possess."

"We can't fight a war of attrition with the Zerg, but the players can."

(End of this chapter)