Fate's Choice: Livestream at the Start Summoning Billions of Ravens

Jiang Ming stood up and walked to the huge floor-to-ceiling window.

Even through thick bulletproof glass and several kilometers away, he could still clearly see that suffocating scene.

The sky darkened.

The originally dim sky of the mirror world was now completely covered by the inky blackness.

Black raindrops, with a corrosive hissing sound, pounded heavily on the wasteland, ruins, and forward positions of the defensive fortifications surrounding Tokyo.

This is not rain at all.

Every drop of "rain" seems to come alive as it rapidly wriggles and gathers upon contact with the ground.

The asphalt road surface was corroded and riddled with holes, and the reinforced concrete buildings groaned under the weight of the black mud.

The scattered black liquids began to devour and merge with each other frantically.

A few seconds later.

The first monster "grew" out of the mud.

It has no facial features, only a huge mouth that splits open to its ears, its body is covered in tar-like mucus, it walks on all fours, and its back is covered with disgusting bone spurs.

Then came the second one, the third one, and the ten thousandth one.

This was not an air raid at all.

This is a paratrooper raid, except these paratroopers can sprout from the ground as soon as they land, and they don't need supplies; all they want to do is eat people.

"roar--!!!"

Tens of thousands of roars converged, creating a sound wave even more terrifying than the previous missile explosion.

The black tide began to surge toward humanity's steel defenses.

Looking at the overwhelming tide of monsters, Jiang Ming's lips curled into a cold smile.

If the Eye of the Abyss really only throws stones, then that's truly looking down on humanity's technology.

Since it's a ground war, that makes things easier.

"Land-based fire support group, on my orders."

Jiang Ming turned around, and his voice boomed directly into the minds of every artillery commander through the telepathic connection.

"Coordinates have been calibrated."

"Fire!"

Boom! Boom! Boom!

At that moment, the ground in Tokyo trembled.

Hundreds of heavy artillery pieces deployed behind the defensive line roared simultaneously.

China's PLZ-05 52-caliber self-propelled howitzer, the United States' M270 multiple rocket launcher system, and Russia's iconic "Tornado" rocket launcher.

The most advanced conventional firepower in the history of human warfare was unleashed without reservation on this mirror world.

Countless large-caliber high-explosive grenades and cluster rockets pierced the sky, whistling as they precisely struck the black waves.

Flames shot into the sky.

The shockwave from the explosion instantly tore the thousands of monsters at the forefront to shreds. Black limbs and severed bodies were thrown dozens of meters into the air along with the dirt. The originally dense charging formation looked as if a large chunk had been scooped out by an invisible giant spoon.

The heatwave was intense, and the air was thick with the smell of gunpowder.

Under that devastating barrage of fire, even the creations of the abyss seemed to become incredibly fragile.

"It broke already?"

An American colonel, watching the surveillance footage, couldn't help but clench his fist. "They look like a bunch of brainless beasts. In the face of 155mm caliber, all are equal."

However, Jiang Ming's brows did not relax.

Don't get too excited yet.

He stared at the burning black patches on the screen. "Look closely."

Just as the smoke began to clear, a chilling scene unfolded.

The shattered remains of the monster did not die like ordinary creatures.

The minced meat turned into a liquid.

They wriggled rapidly on the ground like countless black leeches, frantically attacking any remaining living members of their kind, or fusing back into other parts of the corpse.

A monster whose lower body had been blown off not only recovered from its injuries after devouring the corpses of two of its companions, but also doubled in size, with a hard, carapace-like keratinous layer growing on its originally smooth back.

It rose from the flames and let out an even deeper and more ferocious roar at the human positions.

"They are evolving."

"Simply kinetic energy and explosions cannot kill them; they will only accelerate their natural selection."

"The armored units should push forward."

"We can't let them get close to the core of the defense line. Since we can't blow them up, we'll crush them with our tracks."

With this order

At the forefront of the defense line, a torrent of steel was unleashed.

China's Type 99A main battle tank and the United States' M1A2 main battle tank, these two kings of land warfare who are hypothetical enemies in the real world, are now charging out of their bunkers side by side.

The roar of the diesel engine drowned out the monster's howl.

A Type 99A tank painted with digital camouflage took the lead, and its 125mm smoothbore gun suddenly jolted, firing a fin-stabilized discarding sabot armor-piercing round at an extremely high initial velocity.

Hundreds of meters away, a giant black mud monster, as big as an elephant, had just emerged from the sea of ​​fire.

puff!

The armor-piercing projectile pierced its chest without any doubt, and the enormous kinetic energy directly blasted away the ruins behind it.

But the monster did not fall.

Its internal organs, which should have been shredded, were instantly filled with countless black tentacles.

With a huge hole in its chest, it charged madly toward the 99A.

"Da da da da da!"

The coaxial machine guns on top of the tank spat fire, and large-caliber bullets hit the monster's body, splashing up black mud, but they could not stop its charge at all.

Nearly.

Fifty meters.

Twenty meters.

Just as the tank commander was preparing to reverse to avoid it, the monster suddenly leaped up.

Its explosive force completely defied biomechanics; its several-ton body slammed into the frontal armor of the 99A like a cannonball.

"Thump!"

A sickening metallic clang.

The main battle tank, weighing over fifty tons, was struck by such a terrifying impact that its front end lurched violently, and its tracks scraped across the ground, sending up blinding sparks.

The monster's two sharp claws gripped the tank's reactive armor tightly, while its giant mouth snapped directly at the cannon barrel.

creak-

Amidst that chilling scraping sound, the high-strength alloy barrel was actually deformed by its biting force.

"Damn it! Car number three is stuck!"

An exclamation came from the communication channel.

Just then, an M1A2 tank on the flank rotated its turret.

"boom!"

A high-explosive shell struck the monster directly in the side at a distance of less than thirty meters.

The violent explosion blew half of the monster's body off its body.

But that's still not enough.

The monster, now only half its body remaining, was still crawling frantically on the ground, trying to pounce on the tank tracks again.

The local crisis was only averted when an infantry fighting vehicle behind fired an anti-tank missile, completely obliterating it into a lifeless pile of mud.

But this is only one.

And on the horizon ahead, there are thousands upon thousands more monsters like these.

What's even more frightening is that they are becoming increasingly intelligent and larger.

"Reporting to the Commander-in-Chief!"

"According to real-time battlefield data analysis, the number of monsters has not decreased due to our attacks."

"The Eye of the Abyss is currently undergoing its second wave of deployment."

Jiang Ming stared at the brutal battlefield on the screen, at the torrent of steel struggling to hold on in the black mud.

"Contract the defenses."

"Have the tank group retreat 500 meters and use the fortifications to launch a blocking attack."

Tell everyone.

"We can't kill them, but we absolutely cannot let them cross this line."

"Because there is no way back for us."