Chapter 824 Defense Mechanism

“Crack!! Boom!”

The sky seemed to be torn apart, and a huge chain lightning streaked across the gloomy clouds, instantly illuminating the entire world. Immediately afterwards, deafening thunder resounded through the sky, roaring in from the air, drowning out the sound of heavy machine gun fire.

Li Wenqiang and his teammates continued to shoot without stopping. The ground beneath their feet was covered with a thick layer of bullet casings and replaced gun barrels, so many that they even covered their feet.

There were several sounds of empty warehouses, and Li Wenqiang shouted at the top of his voice without even turning back:

"Reload! Cover!"

At the gun position next to Li Wenqiang, Wang Yuhan immediately turned the gun around and took care of his position, preventing the mutant octopus from taking the opportunity to come up.

"Ammunition is coming!"

A group of young men and women, both men and women, with tired faces, stood not far behind the man operating the heavy machine gun.

Next to these young men were piles of ammunition boxes.

As long as they hear someone in front shouting to change ammunition, the person closest to them will quickly pick up a large ammunition box and rush to the person who needs ammunition like the wind.

When the ammunition box is delivered to the person in need, the young man will quickly squat down, put the shells on the ground into another empty ammunition box, then pick up the ammunition box full of shells and quickly return to the original position.

In addition to these young people, there are many older people who drive electric forklifts, shuttling back and forth on the city wall, continuously transporting ammunition boxes and other logistical supplies. Everyone is very busy.

However, even though there was a heavy machine gun firing continuously every three meters, using extremely powerful corrosive warheads, almost every octopus that was hit in the head about three times would die or fall down directly because it could not bear the pain.

Even so, such a dense and sharp fire attack was still unable to stop the numerous mutant octopuses that were as numerous as cow hairs. They kept crawling out of the sea, as if they were endless.

"Oh my god, how can there be so many octopuses? I should have eaten more grilled squid when I was in school!"

Li Wenqiang fired wildly while muttering complaints.

It’s because there are so many octopuses, so many that it’s really annoying.

Standing on the city wall and looking around, you can see that the visible Great Wall defense line is densely covered with octopuses. As long as there is a gap in firepower, they will rush up quickly.

"Humph! Why are there so many octopuses? It's because when we were in school, we ate grilled squids. Squids! When have we ever eaten octopuses? You idiot!"

Wang Yuhan bit her red lips tightly with her snow-white teeth, and never released the trigger of the heavy machine gun in her hand for a moment. The flames from the muzzle made her snow-white face flicker.

Hearing Li Wenqiang's complaints, she rolled her beautiful eyes under her goggles.

"Huh? What? Aren't squids octopuses? Don't they have all those legs?"

Li Wenqiang was stunned when he heard this. He was an inland athlete and seldom ate seafood. He only occasionally ate grilled squid or the prawns cooked for him by his sister. He really knew nothing about these seafoods.

"You idiot! Don't stop firing! And shut up and stop disturbing my concentration!"

Wang Yuhan's gun fired towards Li Wenqiang, shooting down several octopuses that were trying to take advantage of the opportunity.

Dense mutated marine life continued to fall downwards.

"hehe…"

“I’m convinced…”

The conversation between the two made nearby friends laugh and cry, but they were all too busy to chat.

A full half hour had passed since the marine creatures launched their attack.

During this short period of time, they kept shooting and killed countless octopuses, but the number of octopuses in front of them did not seem to decrease at all.

Fortunately, the Great Wall defense line serves as a solid barrier, keeping those densely packed mutated shrimps and crabs outside the coastline.

Otherwise, these ferocious marine creatures would have already flooded onto land like a tide.

Unlike those slow-moving zombies that are relatively easy to deal with, these mutated shrimps, crabs and octopuses are not to be trifled with.

A zombie will die instantly if shot in the head, and even a shot to the body will cause paralysis.

These giant mutant creatures are completely different.

Even if they are hit and seriously injured, they can still charge forward for a distance regardless of everything, blocking ammunition and creating opportunities for their companions behind them.

Its tenacity is just like the Zerg in the science fiction movies I saw back then.

The continuous shooting made the soldiers on the city wall gradually feel exhausted.

Their arms, in particular, were sore from the recoil of the guns.

After all, the physical fitness of most ordinary people is far inferior to that of Li Wenqiang and other people who have undergone special modifications, so it is inevitable that they will feel tired.

As time went on, the soldiers' reaction speed began to gradually decrease, which gave the mutant octopuses an opportunity to take advantage. They took the opportunity to speed up their climbing pace and continue to increase their height.

Li Wenqiang and others also noticed this situation, but they did not show any worry.

Because Chen Bufan once told them that this defense wall was equipped with mechanisms that would automatically activate the defense mechanism when encountering danger.

Sure enough, something happened not long after.

In the distance, a soldier from the Fengtian base exchanged positions with the reserve team member behind him due to fatigue from long-term shooting.

At the moment of their handover, a mutant octopus that was a size larger than the other octopuses seized the opportunity and quickly climbed up the city wall.

Although the octopus was shot several times, it seemed to completely ignore the injuries.

Still he continued to climb bravely, and in a blink of an eye he had reached a height of over 60 meters.

The soldiers who came to replace it reacted quickly and shot at it mercilessly, killing it.

Although the mutant octopus was quickly and successfully eliminated, it inadvertently triggered the first layer of automatic defense mechanism of the Imperial Sea Defense Line.

Looking from the outside, one can clearly see that at 88 meters of the Yuhai Great Wall, the originally mirror-like wall suddenly caved in, revealing a wide gap. Then, the gap was quickly filled back in the blink of an eye, as if nothing had happened.

However, if you look closely, you will find that the wall is no longer as flat and smooth as before!

Instead, there is a row of huge gun muzzles with strange shapes and a sense of science fiction!