Chapter 262 Clash

The war officially began the moment the Star Apostle followers appeared above the Steel-Forged Wall.

Dozens of mech warriors soared into the air, brandishing their giant spears as they slashed at the followers. At such close range, the Steel-Forged Wall's laser cannons were obviously unusable, as they risked severely injuring their own forces.

The Pioneers watched the mech warriors charge forward, not rushing to support them.

This was one of Chen Yu's strategies.

The followers' first and strongest charge would be met by the strongest forces of Howling Wind Island: the mech warriors. The mech warriors would form a steel wall, neutralizing the most terrifying initial assault.

The Pioneers' task was to assist the mech warriors in eliminating any enemies that slipped through their grasp.

Although this was Howling Wind Island's home turf, the Pioneers and the sub-sequence followers had a vast difference in life-form level. Furthermore, the alloy steel knives forged from the Sky Apostle's teeth had been distributed to the Pioneers who accompanied Li Tianran to the Gullen Noah battlefield.

The combat power of Howling Wind Island's native Pioneer legion was not as strong as that of their comrades on the Kunlun battleship!

Boom!

The roar of the engines reverberated, but the massive bodies of the mech warriors moved with incredible speed. The giant spears in their hands whirled like meat grinders, and the powerful sub-sequence followers were instantly sliced apart upon impact.

On Howling Wind Island, the moment these followers entered its territory and airspace, their abilities were suppressed, with their speed and strength reduced by nearly ten percent.

And this was just the suppression effect on the outermost perimeter of Howling Wind Island. If they continued to charge inward, toward the farm castle, the suppression effect would reach a terrifying fifty percent.

In that state, even an ordinary seven-member Pioneer squad could easily take down a follower.

"The number of these followers is approximately three thousand..." Chen Yu quickly determined the number of invaders using satellite data.

Three thousand.

Compared to the hundreds of thousands, even millions of beast tides that Howling Wind Island had faced in the past, this number seemed insignificant.

But Chen Yu knew very well that these three thousand sub-sequence followers were far more threatening than millions of beasts. It was no exaggeration to say that a thousand sub-sequence followers could tear through a beast tide of around five million.

These monsters were too freakish; they could withstand almost all human thermal weapons except for nuclear missiles and optical weapons.

And most importantly...

These three thousand followers might not be all of them.

There might be more monsters as powerful as them lurking within that bronze palace!

If the apostles had planned everything and ultimately sent the bronze palace to retrieve the Earth Apostle, then the bronze palace, tasked with such an important mission, would never rely on only three thousand followers as their trump card for successfully invading Howling Wind Island.

Chen Yu guessed that the true number of enemies was likely at least double that amount.

At least six thousand!

"Six thousand second-stage evolved creatures..." Chen Yu looked at the forty-plus mech warriors and three thousand-plus Pioneers on the city wall, and a slight tremor began to stir in his heart.

Could they really hold this line completely, and prevent any enemy from breaking through to the interior of Howling Wind Island to reach Hanhan?

...

While the war raged on the edge of Howling Wind Island, Xiao Hei had already brought Hanhan back to the farm.

After the sanctuary was upgraded, Li Tianran had moved everyone into the castle, and their previous small building was left vacant as an old residence.

At this moment, Xiao Hei carried Hanhan to the front of the small building, used its furry paw to push open the door, and lowered its head.

Hanhan jumped off its head and walked into the small building.

A familiar sensation ran through the soles of her feet.

Without looking down, Hanhan's body was already transmitting a familiar signal to her brain: a hardwood floor covered by a wool rug.

She reached out and touched the walls and scattered tables and chairs.

She walked straight to a bar in the center of the first-floor hall, reached out, and pulled open a small cabinet beneath the bar, then reached inside.

A candy jar covered in dust appeared in Hanhan's hand.

She stared at the candy jar in her hand, her eyes still filled with confusion.

She didn't know this cabinet contained this item.

But as she entered this small building, and touched the objects inside, her body constantly reacted, silently releasing signals to her brain.

Her body told her that she should move forward.

Her body told her that she should walk to the bar and open that cabinet.

Her body told her that she should reach out and touch the corner on the innermost left side of the cabinet.

Hanhan looked at the candy jar in her hand.

Now, her body was telling her that she should take out a piece of candy and eat it.

She skillfully unscrewed the candy jar, picked out a candy wrapped in green paper, unwrapped it, and gently tossed it into the air.

"Ah wu..."

Her little mouth accurately caught the candy.

In an instant, the sweetness of apple flavor burst forth in her mouth.

The orange-wrapped candies are better than the blue-wrapped candies...

The pink-wrapped candies are better than the orange-wrapped candies...

Of course, the best ones are the green-wrapped candies...

Wait...

Why do I know these things? Why do these things naturally appear in my brain?