60: Missile barrage! The final roar of human civilization!

“—Launch the missiles!!!”

Chen Yan's cold and decisive order was instantly transmitted via encrypted channel to the command centers of several destroyers waiting in formation behind them!

“Boom—!!!!”

Almost simultaneously with the order being given!

The vanguard, along with the four destroyers of the same class escorting it, had the lids of their 64-unit Universal Vertical Launching Systems, which gleamed with cold metallic light, pop open with a 'kaka' sound!

White smoke billowed up!

“Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!”

Hundreds of dazzling orange-red tail flames instantly illuminated the pitch-black night sky!

Hundreds of Cruise Missiles, loaded with the wrath of human civilization, screamed as they tore through the air, soaring into the sky with immense power, drawing hundreds of deadly arcs. Like a meteor shower of divine punishment from the heavens, they slammed down violently toward the deepest, darkest core area of the Corpse Tide five kilometers away!

At this moment, time seemed to slow down.

On the Deck, whether it was Zhou Hai, who was sprawled on the ground, or Zhao Ze and Su Li, who were forcing themselves to stand, or the soldiers who had just recovered from the Mental Shock—everyone subconsciously raised their heads, staring blankly at the magnificent sight slicing through the apocalyptic night sky.

Their pupils reflected the hundreds of death meteors trailing fiery tails.

That was the crystallization of human industry, the pinnacle of technology, the roar of order!

It was the final roar of human civilization across this ocean ruled by monsters and despair!

The next second.

Light engulfed everything.

“Boom! Boom! Boom! RUMBLE—!!!”

An indescribable chain of explosions detonated violently in the core area of the Corpse Tide!

Massive fireballs, each over a hundred meters in diameter, rose like artificial suns over the sea, frantically expanding, consuming, and destroying everything!

Terrifying shockwaves, carrying ultra-high temperatures capable of melting steel, instantly evaporated tens of thousands of tons of seawater, creating brief but horrifying vacuum zones!

In that area, the nearly one hundred Elite-level Floating Corpses, which had previously filled everyone with despair, found their tough skin and bone armor—capable of withstanding heavy machine gun fire—as fragile as paper before the peak destructive weapons of human civilization!

They didn't even have time to let out a wail before being instantly decomposed, vaporized, and torn into their most primitive particles by the extreme heat and shockwaves!

Their indestructible skeletons and incomparably powerful bodies became the most ridiculous joke at this moment.

In the densest darkness at the core of the Corpse Tide, a pair of scarlet eyes revealed, for the first time, terror and shock stemming from biological instinct!

It let out a sharp, modulated shriek, seemingly calling its guards or perhaps trying to flee into the deeper ocean.

But it was too late!

The speed of the missile coverage far exceeded its reaction limit!

Saturation destruction had arrived.

The ten-minute saturation bombardment felt as if it lasted for an entire century.

When the firelight of the last missile faded, there was a deathly silence on the Deck of the vanguard.

Everyone was petrified, staring blankly at the distant, hellish scene.

The previously boundless, dense, suffocating black Corpse Tide had now been forcibly wiped away over a vast area!

A massive, unimaginable fan-shaped blank area appeared on the sea surface.

Above the boiling seawater floated countless burning remnants of limbs and blasted black grease, and the air was filled with a sickeningly dense smell of char.

“Did we... did we win?”

A young soldier watched the world-destroying scene before him, his lips trembling as he muttered.

After a brief, deathly silence.

“Oh oh oh oh oh—!!!”

“We won! We won!!”

“Long live! Long live humanity!!!”

Deafening cheers erupted from the Deck like a volcanic explosion!

All the soldiers who survived the ordeal embraced excitedly, laughing, crying, and tossing their weapons into the air, fully venting the massive emotional shift from despair to ecstasy.

This was the long-lost feeling of human greatness and power they had experienced again in this apocalypse!

“Holy crap...” Zhou Hai's mouth was wide enough to fit an egg, and he stared blankly at the cleared sea area, muttering, “Is this... is this the power of the nation?”

Zhao Ze and Su Li were also utterly shocked, rendered speechless by this pure, unreasonable destructive force.

“Hahaha! Satisfying! That was damn satisfying!”

After Zhou Hai snapped out of it, he excitedly slapped his thigh. Pointing at the stragglers still wriggling on the distant sea surface, he yelled at General Chen, “General Chen! Awesome! Look over there, there are still quite a few remnants! Let's do another round and wipe them all out!”

However, Chen Yan's expression remained solemn as water.

He shook his head, his voice low and hoarse: “Every missile fired is one less we have. In this apocalypse, with the industrial system collapsed, resource sites lost, and engineers killed or wounded, these are non-renewable Strategic Resources—humanity's last trump card.”

He paused, his voice growing colder and harder: “That volley just now depleted one-third of the Jinling Defense Line's inventory.”

He looked at the vast, remaining Corpse Tide in the distance, which was heavily damaged but still numerous, and his tone became cold and realistic.

“The next phase of the battle must be fought by ourselves.”

The cheers of the crowd gradually subsided.

Yes, in this apocalypse where civilization had broken down, production lines were halted, and resources were depleted. Every missile fired meant one less, and once they were gone, they were truly gone.

On the Deck, only Lu Sheng was watching the sea area that had been thoroughly bombed, his mouth twitching slightly.

What pained him wasn't the future of humanity, but those Elite-level Floating Corpses that were bombed to smithereens, leaving nothing valuable enough for Looting Value!

Damn it... how many intermediate spirit source crystal cores were lost!

Wasteful! Too wasteful!

Just as Lu Sheng was secretly grumbling and lamenting his unearned Experience Packs.

An anomaly, reborn!

“ROAR——————!!!!!”

A roar, more venomous and violent than any before, filled with endless pain and hatred, suddenly erupted from the depths of the boiling smoke in the distance!

That Leader-level Floating Corpse, it wasn't dead!

Not only was it alive, but the missile bombardment had completely enraged this Oceanic Overlord!

The remaining hundreds of thousands of Low-Level Floating Corpses seemed to have received a final death order. They abandoned all formations and tactics, charging madly from all directions toward the Steel Defense Line in a final, frantic, suicidal assault!

They had only one goal: to use their lowly flesh and blood to exhaust the last of the ammunition on the human warships!

Just as everyone's attention was drawn to the frenzied Corpse Tide on the water's surface!

Inside the command room of the vanguard, Captain Li Zhen's voice, distorted by panic, suddenly exploded over the broadcast!

“Alert! Alert! Sonar detects ultra-high energy signatures! Targets are submerging at high speed! Heading toward the bottom of our ship!”

“Quantity... at least sixty!”

“They are rapidly approaching the undersides of all warships in Position 1-5!!!”

PS: Third update for today. The protagonist is about to become a Level 5 Spirit Source User and unlock the Spirit Source Secret Art. Please look forward to it...