The last leader of the world starts with an elite infantry squad!

"Boom!!!"

A piece of cement, loosened by the artillery fire, finally gave way under another violent impact from the swarming fungal beast, collapsing and falling from the wall not far above Gu Chengyun's head, accompanied by a shower of dust and gravel!

The debris hit the sandbags next to it with a dull thud, and dust filled the air.

Gu Chengyun could even feel a more pronounced tremor coming from the city wall beneath his feet, as if this giant beast made of reinforced concrete was groaning under its unbearable weight.

A constant buzzing filled my ears, mixed with gunshots, explosions, screams, and a deeper, more muffled "rustling" sound, as if coming from the depths of the earth, like countless limbs scraping and converging.

Inside the nasal cavity, the filter seemed unable to completely block out the pungent, nauseatingly sweet, rotten smell, mixed with the stench of blood, gunpowder, and burnt human flesh, creating a uniquely hellish odor.

The fluorescent light flickered before my eyes.

Not only at the base of the wall, but also on top of the wall!

A multi-armed fungal beast, its body half blown off but still frantically scratching with its forelimbs, was dragging a trail of sticky, glowing intestines and bodily fluids as it crawled toward the gap in the bunker where he was. Its compound eyes reflected the ghastly white light of the emergency lamp, carrying a pure, all-consuming malice.

Gu Chengyun subconsciously reached for his waist, only to find his grenade pouch empty.

The head of the skull-crushing hammer was covered with a sticky, dark reddish-green grime, and the handle was slick with sweat.

My strength was completely exhausted, my arms were so sore that I could barely lift them, and every breath was accompanied by a burning pain.

He leaned against the scalding sandbags, covered in some unknown slime, watching the crippled fungal beast draw ever closer, watching his comrades around him still firing sporadically, their eyes now filled with numbness and despair, watching the chaotic flames and thick smoke rising from various points along the city wall defenses in the distance…

A cold, bone-chilling despair, like a poisonous vine, coiled around his heart, slowly tightening.

Four hours?

How long has it been? Less than three hours?

I can't hold it any longer!

We really can't hold on anymore.

So this is what it feels like to be approaching death.

It's not the "death in action" judgment during military academy exercises, nor the "possibility of sacrifice" that my brother casually mentioned, but a real, sticky, foul-smelling end that crawls step by step toward you.

How will I die? Will my throat be torn open by those sharp limbs? Will my face be melted by corrosive slime? Or will I be completely overwhelmed and trampled into mud by the endless horde of beasts behind me?

Brother... Mom and Dad... Wanying...

sorry.

I really...tried my best.

Just as Gu Chengyun was about to give up struggling, preparing to use his last strength to swing the filthy skull-crushing hammer in his hand in a futile but final counterattack—

A strange, high-pitched, and piercing roar, seemingly capable of tearing the soul apart, suddenly pierced through all the noisy and low sounds on the battlefield, descending abruptly from the extremely high sky, shrouded in smoke and deep purple spore clouds!

"Waaaaaahhhhhh!!!"

That wasn't the sharp whistle of a cannonball leaving the barrel, nor the muffled thud of an explosion.

That's... the engine!

It is an aircraft engine with unimaginable power, tearing through the air at extreme speeds with a roar full of metallic texture and violent power!

The sound was initially extremely distant and faint, like a hallucination.

But in an instant, it magnifies and approaches the size exponentially!

Like hundreds of invisible, gigantic chainsaws, simultaneously starting up wildly above everyone's heads, cutting through the thick clouds and night sky!

"what sound?!"

"Look up at the sky! Look up at the sky—!!!"

On and around the city walls, countless soldiers and fungal beasts who were fighting, struggling, and on the verge of collapse were stunned by this sudden, overwhelming, and terrifying sound wave, causing their movements to pause briefly.

Gu Chengyun suddenly raised his head, the lenses of his gas mask reflecting the chaotic firelight on the city wall, but he tried his best to look at the sky, a deep purple and dark expanse that filled him with despair.

Above the thick, churning spore cloud radiating an ominous purple light, the night sky, which had been shrouded in darkness and death, was forcibly torn open with dozens of fiery trails!

Sixteen J-16 heavy multi-role fighter jets, like sixteen evil dragons breaking free from their steel nests, swept past at high speed in formations of two or four aircraft!

Their slender fuselages, painted with low-visibility air superiority camouflage, gleamed with a cold metallic sheen in the firelight of the battlefield below.

Under the wings, the hardpoints were fully loaded with various types of ground attack munitions, which trembled slightly during high-speed flight, like fangs ready to devour their prey.

Even more chilling is the enormous shadow that follows—

Thirty-six H-20 strategic bombers!

Their massive, wing-shaped fuselage resembles thirty-six black owls with dark blue tail flames that seem to have flown out of ancient mythology!

The massive machine almost blocked out a small patch of sky, its smooth lines and cloaking coating absorbing the stray light, making it appear and disappear in the dim night sky.

Only the eerie blue afterburner flames bursting forth from their tails, like will-o'-the-wisps rising from hell, proclaimed their existence and their will to destroy.

The entire formation, like a precise yet deadly metallic constellation, slowly turned and unfolded above Gucheng Lake.

"Eagle's Nest! Eagle's Nest! The 'Dawn' formation has arrived over Gucheng Lake! Confirm ground guidance signals and visually identify the enemy-friendly boundary!"

In the cockpit of the lead aircraft, a J-16, Colonel Xu Yonghui's voice was calm and undisturbed, coming through the mask of his anti-G suit.

On his helmet sight, the swarm of fungal beasts illuminated by fluorescent light below, and the city wall defense line that still stubbornly flickers in thermal and low-light enhanced images, are as clear as a tactical sand table.

As soon as the words left his mouth, a hoarse but extremely excited confirmation came through the earpiece:

"Dawn! This is Eagle's Nest! Target area marked! Repeat! Target area covered!"

Xu Yonghui's lips curled into a cold smile.

"Attention all units, 'Dawn' formation, execute the 'Purify' command."

"The fighter jets should prioritize eliminating all high-threat point targets and suspected command nodes within 300 meters of the city wall."

"Bomber formations, carpet-bombing them according to designated areas. Give them a bath with 'steel rain'!"

The moment the order was given—

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The J-16 fighter jets took the lead in launching the attack!

Blazing white flames suddenly erupted from under the wings and belly of the aircraft!

Like a swarm of disturbed bees, air-to-ground missiles, accompanied by the shriek of death, detached from their racks and rained down on the writhing, fluorescent sea below!

Once these air-to-ground missiles detached from their weapon racks, they seemed to have eyes, heading straight for the areas in the horde of fungal beasts that were exceptionally large, exceptionally fluorescent, or exceptionally densely packed!

"BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM—!!!!"

The explosions were no longer the relatively "dull" roar of artillery shells, but rather sharper, more frequent, and continuous explosions with highly efficient destructive characteristics!

Clusters of death flowers, a mixture of metal jets, pre-formed fragments, and high-temperature flames, bloomed precisely among the horde of fungal beasts!

A bulky "Hyne Spit" that was bulging its huge jet bladder 400 meters away from the city wall, preparing to launch itself over an extremely long distance, was hit by two air-to-ground missiles almost simultaneously!

"Bang——!!!"

With an extremely muffled explosion, the enormous creature burst open like a balloon that had been inflated to its limit. Its entire upper body instantly turned into a bloody storm of fluorescent slime, shattered internal organs, and fragments of hard carapace!

The shockwave from the explosion even sent dozens of ordinary fungal beasts flying!

However, this was just an appetizer.

The true chapter of destruction was written by those thirty-six H-20 bombers, like black death gods!