Witch Special

Perhaps sensing the need for more, the spacecraft, after a show of force and a wide-area bombardment, ceased bombarding the ruins below. However, this didn't mean the spacecraft was silent, for dozens of dark, round openings opened beneath it, and from these openings, a large number of bizarre-looking creatures and spherical landing capsules gushed out, plummeting towards the ground.

Okay, first carpet bombing, then airborne troops will clean up the battlefield and eliminate the remaining survivors. This is a pretty standard way of fighting a battle with absolute air superiority.

However, compared with the way humans fight, the number of paratroopers used by the aliens to clean up the mess is a bit too much.

Moreover, they are not paratroopers who can only land on the ground. Among the airborne troops, many have the ability to fly. After flying out from the troop delivery port, they gather directly in the air to form a dark cloud. It looks like a swarm of flying insects surrounding street lights at night, except that each one is countless times larger than a mosquito.

In addition to the flying troops, the number of airborne troops who landed directly on the ground in spherical landing capsules was also astonishing. After those black spheres smashed into the ruins on the ground, the shells automatically split, and several hideous aliens crawled out from inside, howling.

There is also a centipede-like alien creature that is larger than the previous two. They are about twenty meters long and covered with solid chitin armor plates. Even their heads are tightly wrapped in thick biological armor.

After crawling out from the troop delivery port of the spacecraft, these giant alien centipedes jumped directly from the bottom of the spacecraft, and then slammed heavily into the ruins below, crushing countless broken walls and ruins, but they themselves remained unharmed.

No one knew who built the Hero Association's headquarters, but it was unexpectedly sturdy. All the surrounding buildings were razed to the ground in the recent wide-area bombing, but it was the only one that still stood firmly in its place.

Although this protected the safety of the heroes hiding inside the Hero Association headquarters and prevented them from being wiped out at the speed of light like the civilians outside in the wide-area bombing just now, it also provided a clear direction of attack for the subsequent alien paratroopers. So after completing a simple assembly on the spot, those alien paratroopers mobilized their army and rushed towards the Hero Association headquarters in a mighty manner.

The heroes who were originally on standby in the Hero Association headquarters all ran out at this moment, but when they saw the alien army everywhere in the sky and on the ground, the heroes were all terrified.

They were indeed experienced at fighting monsters, but monsters often fought alone, while heroes could frantically mobilize their own forces if they couldn't defeat them. Even a sheer volume of kills could ultimately slay the monsters. But now, the alien airborne troops before them outnumbered them by a hundred to one. It was the enemy, not the heroes, who had the numerical advantage. They had never fought a battle like this before.

Just as the morale of the heroes' defense began to falter, a number of special units with their own auras began to appear on the battlefield. These were none other than the S-Class heroes who had been meeting in the conference room earlier. Seeing so many S-Class heroes arrive so quickly, the A- and B-Class heroes seemed to have found a backbone, and the battle line was once again stable.

Because he was watching the battle through the Liuli Altar, Lin Zhenxi didn't know what these S-class heroes were saying. Anyway, Tornado, who used her superpowers to float in the air, took the lead in the fight. With a telekinetic cannon, she pierced through the swarm of alien flying insects in the sky, destroying about one-tenth of the enemy's troops.

A large number of severed limbs and arms mixed with disgusting bodily fluids fell like rain, burning small craters on the ground that emitted white smoke. These alien body secretions were surprisingly corrosive.

The next to start to exert his strength was the Drive Knight, whose fighting method was to change his body structure like a Transformer, transforming into various functional forms, such as tanks, mechas, airplanes, chariots, cannons, etc. Now he turned into a fighter plane and began to shuttle back and forth on the battlefield at a high speed.

In addition to launching a large number of explosives to carry out ground bombing on the enemies on the ground, he also relied on the huge kinetic energy brought by his speed to shuttle back and forth among the swarms of flying insects in the sky, smashing and crippling a large number of flying insects, and at the same time setting off a huge air shock wave, forcing those flying insects to disperse and unable to form a battle group.

On the ground, the heroes also began to come into contact with the alien airborne troops.

From the very beginning, the heroes discovered that the strange-looking aliens were no pushovers. While Tornado and Drive Knight seemed to be swatting them with the ease of a mosquito swatter, in actual combat, their strength, agility, and even combat skills rivaled those of the human heroes.

Moreover, he has the advantage of his strange body, which makes the heroes who don't understand the peculiarities of his body structure feel restrained and at a great disadvantage when fighting him.

These aliens were not only well-equipped and well-trained, but were also proficient in combined combat. They were completely different from the weirdos that the heroes usually fought. This caused several of the heroes to be knocked down on the spot as soon as they came into contact with the alien troops, and the battle situation was once critical.

However, humans were not without advantages. After all, the dozen or so S-class heroes were no pushovers. At least in terms of top-tier combat power, humans did hold the advantage. Any losses incurred by the ordinary heroes were recovered by the S-class heroes.

Although there is an obvious generation gap in technological level and a hopeless gap in the total number of combatants, at least in terms of the combat effectiveness of top combat forces, humans still have the upper hand, which has to be said to be a blessing.

Judging from Lin Zhenxi's limited understanding of civilizations with space capabilities, the humans in this alien world are actually qualified in terms of high-end combat power. If the high-end combat power is really compared separately, the human side may not lose.

However, the reality is not a fight in a ring. Although the advantage of high-end combat power can indeed make the battlefield environment look better, unfortunately, this is an alien invasion war against the surface civilization. What really determines the outcome of the battlefield is not how many aliens the S-class heroes kill, but when the aliens kill all the living forces of the human side.

If all heroes of other levels were killed, only the dozen or so S-class heroes would be left. No matter how good they were at fighting, or whether they would be beaten to death by the aliens, they would have already lost the war.

After all, this world's development strategy had become completely distorted after the outbreak of the Monster Crisis. With the establishment of the numbered city system, the possibility of military conflict had become infinitely close to zero, and the army naturally disappeared, replaced by registered heroes, local security forces, and the private armed forces of large corporations.

We can't rely on the security forces to fight the aliens, right? So humanity's only hope now is the heroes, who number less than a thousand and are scattered across the continent. If all the heroes are defeated here, even if humanity repels the alien invasion this time, without the support of City A, the numbered cities will gradually perish due to the monsters' slaughter in the future.

Just like during the initial outbreak of the Monster Crisis, when humanity was forced to abandon their original settlements, drastically shrink their range of activities, and migrate to the areas surrounding the numbered cities, that dark age, where humanity could only flee in tears from the monster invasion, is about to descend again. And this time, can humanity in this world rise again?

Seeing that heroes other than S-class began to suffer heavy casualties, Lin Zhenxi also felt that something was wrong.

The opponent's numerical advantage is too obvious, and in fact, the strength of those alien soldiers is also quite good. Each of them is basically at the level of those ordinary fighters wearing power armor under Lin Zhenxi.

Perhaps after figuring out the opponent's routines, the heroes can rely on their well-honed fighting skills to gain the upper hand in the battle with the mobs, but it is simply impossible to easily defeat the opponent.

One versus one is viable but not easy, one versus two is barely sustainable, and one versus three or more is bound to fail. And right now, the alien mobs outnumber the human heroes dozens of times.

Fortunately, the giant alien centipedes and swarms of alien flying insects were all taken over by S-class heroes and could no longer harass the main front battlefield. Otherwise, if the alien troops had the assistance of heavy units and flying units, the human heroes' defense line would probably be collapsed with just a single charge.

Also, don't forget that they are actually fighting right below the muzzle of the alien spaceship. Even though they are now fighting hard with the alien airborne troops, if the spaceship in the sky does not care about the lives of its own people below and directly starts bombarding the ground, how many heroes can survive such an intense wide-area bombardment?

Are we supposed to hope that the aliens will spare the lives of those crudely crafted soldiers and not bombard them with spacecraft? That's just nonsense.

The reason why the spacecraft did not continue to launch artillery attacks was probably because it felt it was unnecessary, because this part of the airborne troops alone was enough to almost wipe out the human resistance.

The most urgent task now was to replenish the human side's combat personnel, or at least prevent all the heroes from dying here. However, distant water could not quench immediate thirst. City A, the headquarters of the Hero Association, was the only city among all the numbered cities without a single large corporation capable of dominating the entire city. Even the most backward and underdeveloped City Z now had Baizhi stationed there, but City A alone lacked a single corporate private armed force.

This is also the reason why the Hero Association Headquarters, after discovering Saitama, was determined to bring Saitama to City A at all costs, because if he was in other cities, even City Z, there was a possibility that he would be snatched away by large companies in advance.

As a result, the Hero Association was the only remaining combat capability in City A, and even that force had been deployed to the battlefield. In other words, City A had no backup plan left, and even support was a luxury. After all, even the nearest numbered city was hundreds of kilometers away, so who could immediately cross such a vast uninhabited area to provide support to City A?

Except, Lin Zhenxi!