Chapter 19: Chapter 19: An Astonishing Discovery (Part 1)
After Xiaozhao finished reporting the data, Lin Li let out a heavy sigh.
The radiant flames spewed by the armored giant snake are approximately only a quarter as powerful as the ’Red Arrow 8’.
Even if the flames are endowed with armor-piercing and corrosive properties, they still pose no threat to the rabbits’ main battle tanks.
Simultaneously, according to Yao Rong’s description.
After spewing the radiant flames, the armored giant snake became lethargic, seemingly entering a sage mode, merely watching as the helicopter escaped from above.
From this, it can be judged that even if the radiant flames aren’t the snake’s ultimate trump card, it’s definitely a rare attack technique among them.
It’s not hard to understand.
After all, this is a ground-to-air attack method. If it could be used freely without any cost, these giant snakes wouldn’t need to lead a beast tide to besiege the city; they’d just stay outside the city and keep shooting light beams.
Just like creatures on Earth.
Whether you’re a bug or a human, if you want to spew something out, you always have to pay a price.
So far, the camp side has a relatively clear understanding of the attacking and defensive powers of the armored giant snake.
And the other leaders of the beast tide, such as the two-headed bull and the giant monster, although their attack methods are temporarily unknown.
But even if they have stronger attack moves than the giant snake, the power is absolutely impossible to reach, let alone surpass, four times that of the radiant flames so ridiculously.
After all, if they had such overwhelmingly powerful forces, they wouldn’t be on equal terms, but in a subordination hierarchy.
To put it plainly.
No matter whether we will encounter more powerful mutant beasts in the future.
At least in this beast tide, the rabbits stand unshakably in an invincible position—maybe when it comes to actual combat, they might not be able to achieve victory without any damage, but the cost paid will definitely be limited, and ultimately, the rabbits will certainly win.
In the face of this solid test data, even Zeng Gu Cheng, who had always advocated avoiding conflict, changed his mind.
Finally, the camp reached a consensus through a vote:
The armored infantry regiment enters standby mode, ready to participate in combat at any time depending on the beast tide’s siege battle situation.
Subsequently, Lin Li drafted everyone’s opinions into a document, which was delivered to Shencheng by Lin Ziming, handed over personally to the headquarters.
After seeing Lin Ziming off, Yan Shaohua seemed very excited.
After all, soldiers aren’t afraid of fighting.
He followed Lin Li closely, enthusiastically pounding his chest, "Captain Lin, just find me a cover, and I guarantee this batch of mutant beasts will be completely annihilated!"
Lin Li glanced at him:
"Captain Yan, don’t get too excited; we just submitted the unified opinion to the headquarters.
Whether to fight, how to fight, and when to fight, all depends on the directives brought back by Colonel Lin from the headquarters."
Yan Shaohua scratched his head, giving a hearty laugh:
"After all, it might be the first battle of another world, so I’m feeling a bit itchy... By the way, how long until Colonel Lin returns?
By this point, the beast tide is probably close to the city, right?"
Lin Li glanced at his watch, "When Colonel Lin returns depends on the decision speed of the headquarters, as for the beast tide... it should still be about an hour before it reaches outside the city."
While Lin Li and Yan Shaohua were conversing, the communications squad leader Wang Yaohua suddenly approached quickly:
"Captain Lin, Professor Ma and the others request your presence, Squad Leader Yu has a new discovery over there."
Hearing about new developments from Yu Lian, Lin Li naturally didn’t dare to neglect, parting ways with Yan Shaohua on the spot— Yan Shaohua went to the regiment headquarters to handle troop assembly issues, while Lin Li followed Wang Yaohua back to the command center.
At this time, only Ma Ning and Dai Chaohong remained in the command center, with other experts and scholars from the staff group absent— they were all arranged in the communications team’s tent, responsible for monitoring and analyzing the real-time transmitted images.
After all, as more materials and personnel were received, the command center’s central status became increasingly prominent, and it was inconvenient for everyone to crowd in this tent, so separating the office areas was a necessary move.
Only when important information is collected or when conveying key instructions from the higher-ups do all staff members gather in the command center to participate in discussions.
Upon entering the command center tent, Lin Li took the initiative to speak: "Experts, what happened? Is there any movement from the extraordinary powers in the city?"
"Captain Lin, you’re here."
Ma Ning greeted him politely and said:
"The extraordinary powers in the city are temporarily silent, but the troops in the city are already in position on the city walls.
For some reason, whether it’s due to a shortage of manpower or other causes, a group of voluntary residents has been summoned to aid in defense.
The number of these civilians is considerable, and Squad Leader Yu is among them."
Lin Li frowned slightly, "The civilians are on the walls for... hand-to-hand combat?"
Ma Ning pondered for a few seconds:
"Currently, the opponents’ intentions are unclear, and this possibility cannot be ruled out. We’ll only know for sure once the battle begins.
What truly caught our staff group’s attention isn’t the summoning of civilians, but the two clips recorded by Squad Leader Yu."
Lin Li noticed that Ma Ning’s tone was somewhat peculiar when delivering the last part.
How should I put it...
It was as if he was suppressing some sort of emotion.
Ma Ning then led Lin Li to the command platform, pressing a button: "This is the first clip."
Seeing this, Lin Li had no choice but to set aside the series of questions in his mind for later, attentively watching the video.
The video lasted about twenty seconds, with the center featuring a large rusted pot, its interior quite deep with an estimated diameter of over a meter.
This large pot was positioned on a fire, with people continually pouring filthy-looking liquid into it, while others were stirring it with a stick.
Perhaps due to the disgusting color of the liquid, Lin Li suddenly felt an inexplicable chill: "What is this?"
Dai Hong, standing next to Ma Ning, calmly observed:
"It’s boiling ’Golden Juice,’ or fecal soup.
We had Squad Leader Yu get close to confirm that all the added materials in the pot by those interdimensional people are excretions."
Lin Li: "...."
He then took a few deep breaths, forcing himself to suppress the discomfort in his heart, and inquired to Dai Chaohong: "Teacher Dai, is there anything problematic with this video?"
Though the video content was somewhat heavy-tasting, he didn’t believe the entire staff group would deliberately use such a video to disgust him at this juncture.
Indeed, Dai Chaohong explained:
"Captain Lin, you might not be aware, but ’Golden Juice’ is a very common siege defense method in ancient Huaxia.
Ancient Huaxians often heated ’Golden Juice’ during siege battles and poured it onto enemies; under high temperatures, enemies were either killed or injured.
Because feces contain various filthy bacteria, the mortality rate after severe wound infections was very high; it’s a defensive method combining physical and chemical tactics."
After listening to this, Lin Li became even more perplexed:
"I understand the principle of ’Golden Juice,’ but isn’t this just a siege defense strategy?
According to Professor Ma’s earlier analysis, the civilization level of the city could be compared to the Qin Han period, so why isn’t it normal for the opponents to use ’Golden Juice’ in defense?"
Dai Chaohong smiled and said to Lin Li word by word: "Captain Lin, do you know... Huaxia is the only recorded civilization in the world that used ’Golden Juice’?"
"???"
Lin Li was stunned, his eyes widening to about the size of seven Li Ronghao’s:
"No way, none of the ancient Westerners or the indigenous people from Africa and America used ’Golden Juice’ for defense?"
Ma Ning, who was listening in, shook his head and interjected:
"Indeed, there isn’t. Ancient Westerners burned tar and boiling oil in battles, which also had high-temperature killing effects, but tar targeted armors and skin, fundamentally different from the lethal point of ’Golden Juice.’
In the history of siege defense on Earth, Huaxia and other civilizations represent a union and subset relationship.
The core reason for this relationship is that ancient Huaxia had vast territories and frequent dynastic changes, giving it a considerable advantage over the West in warfare scale and artifact refinement levels; some ancient prairie civilizations during the Northern and Southern Dynasties even lacked a city-state prototype.
In the list of the top ten largest ancient cities in human civilization history, Huaxia accounts for eight of them.
So, while Huaxia has records of siege defense tactics used by other civilizations, the siege methods unique to Huaxia are not all found in other civilizations.
’Golden Juice’ is one of them."
Lin Li’s breathing suddenly became more rapid, vaguely sensing some implication in Ma Ning’s words.
But such an implication was simply too astonishing. After pondering for a while, he retorted:
"Might this be a coincidence?
After all, boiling ’Gold Juice’ isn’t exactly a tough technology to replicate.
Given ancient settings, some similar tactics appearing isn’t out of the question?
Just based on one video of boiling ’Gold Juice,’ wouldn’t that be too weak a proof... wait!"
Suddenly, realizing something, Lin Li stared intently at Ma Ning and Dai Chaohong: "The second... video?!"
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There will be another update tonight