#440 - Chapter 440 God's Gift
Half an hour later, another nuclear explosion detonated over Ge'er County.
This time, it was two warheads.
The intense heat and shockwaves vaporized, shattered, or hurled away scorpions within a radius of dozens of kilometers.
Large swathes of land beneath the buildings were cleared.
Everyone was overjoyed to see the attack's effectiveness.
But this joy didn't last long, and their smiles froze on their faces.
Giant scorpions began crawling out from the cracks once more.
The cleared ground was quickly covered by them again.
The giant scorpions had long legs and moved quickly.
Like armored vehicles, they charged across the plateau, heedless of anything in their path. They completely ignored the intense nuclear radiation on the ground.
The small scorpions and rats could be dealt with, but these giant scorpions were beyond their capabilities.
"There's no other way, we can only hold them off!" Yan Zhengping was truly out of options seeing this onslaught.
The number of nuclear bombs was limited, and they couldn't keep detonating them like this.
"Send the order, the people of Sunlight City and Naqu City continue to retreat further back. Divide the defending troops into 3 groups, each group taking 8-hour shifts, we must hold these giant scorpions firmly outside the city gates."
"Yes!"
"Tell the soldiers, we don't know how long this battle will last, but as long as one of us is still alive, we will hold the city gates!" Yan Zhengping said firmly.
"Yes!"
They covered the thousand-kilometer journey in less than a day.
By a little after 4 a.m., the giant scorpions had already reached the city.
"Hiss~"
Only by seeing it in person could one truly appreciate the magnitude of its size.
The city walls of Sunlight City were only a dozen meters high, but each scorpion's body was already 10 meters tall. The barbs on their tails reached a terrifying 30 meters, forcing the defending soldiers to crane their necks to see them.
In front of them, the city wall was just a small mound of earth, easily breached or even destroyed.
"Fire!" someone shouted.
Everyone snapped back to their senses and began firing.
They were using laser guns, as ordinary submachine guns were no longer effective.
The laser guns were more effective than expected, and the scorpion's carapace was pierced by a large hole when hit. The soft tissue inside was incredibly fragile and instantly burned out, leaving a large cavity.
The soldiers were encouraged and their morale soared.
Soon, a large number of corpses accumulated in front of the city wall, greatly hindering the scorpions' advance.
"Commander, now that the scorpions are all crowded outside, can we bring some artillery over and periodically clear them out?" An officer called to request instructions.
"Hmm, that's a good idea. Go do it now, bring all the artillery from Qamdo over. Allocate some to Naqu, and keep some here in Sunlight City," Yan Zhengping directly agreed.
"Yes!" The officer excitedly hung up the phone.
Immediately afterward, Yan Zhengping called the Military and Political Department to request a batch of shells in advance.
"Commander, with so many scorpion corpses, can we also bring over the harvesting aircraft to directly produce feed? If we keep piling them up, they'll stink in a few days," another officer reported.
Yan Zhengping pondered for a moment and replied:
"Yes, but be careful to maintain a balance, we must leave enough corpses to serve as speed bumps."
"Yes!"
Currently, the rats in Naqu and Sunlight City are free-range, and their biggest food source is the small scorpions.
Logically, there shouldn't be a shortage of food, and the rats' reproduction rate should be decent.
But what would happen if the produced feed were also distributed?
Would the rat population experience another massive explosion?
According to Yan Zhengping's deduction, it would.
"This is absolutely a gift from heaven! An endless supply of scorpions is an endless supply of food, how many rats could we raise?" The more Yan Zhengping thought about it, the happier he became.
"Xiao Chen, give me two more harvesting aircraft." He couldn't sit still and called Dongfang Chen directly.
"Sorry, Commander Yan, the aircraft production has stopped, they're not for sale anymore," Dongfang Chen directly refused.
"Stop talking nonsense, is it about the price?" Yan Zhengping didn't believe it at all.
"Commander Yan, it's not about the money, I've dismantled the production line, it's really stopped," Dongfang Chen said, feeling both amused and helpless.
"I don't care, you find a way, I need them urgently!" Yan Zhengping directly started acting like a rogue.
"You want to recover those scorpions in Naqu and Sunlight City, right?"
"That's right."
"Then there's no need to use aircraft, I can just help you build a few production lines in the city!"
"That's great! Let's do that!" Yan Zhengping was overjoyed.
Aircraft are convenient for moving around, but used here, the efficiency is still too low.
Both cities have queen bees and the crystal cores provided by Yan Zhengping, so building production lines is not difficult.
Dongfang Chen's consistent design philosophy was simple, direct, and violent.
He created a large open-air funnel in both cities.
How big?
200 meters long and 120 meters wide.
An entire scorpion could be fed in without being cut up.
Below the funnel was a crusher, which directly crushed the materials into large chunks of meat.
The subsequent processing steps were exactly the same as a traditional feed production line, and the final product was still bags of neatly stacked finished feed.
