Edge of the Apocalypse
Chapter 645: Dispute

Grai covered the side of his face and stood up with his big hand on the ground. Although their skin was thick, their defense was astonishing. But places like the face, especially the eyes, are as fragile as humans. Luma's sniper shot near his eye socket, causing one of his eyeballs to explode. The giant howled painfully, scorching waves of air splashing out of its mouth, searching for the unknown enemy with its remaining eyes.

Suddenly, his heels hurt.

Christine slid across the snow between the giant's feet and sliced through the giant's heel tendons with her frost blades. The giant staggered forward, and a shadow that was like a falling mountain enveloped the remaining Catu warriors in front of him. The berserk warriors shouted loudly and fled in all directions, but they were still overwhelmed by the giant. Christine smiled and jumped onto the giant, speeding up.

Before the giant could get up again, Christine had already arrived behind him. Blue lines lit up on the frost, and the blade was wrapped in a mist of frost Qi. Feeling threatened, the giant roared and stretched out its hand to catch it, sweeping towards Christine like a mosquito.

Christine leapt up high and nimbly passed through the giant's fingers. With a sweep of his saber, the frost energy overflowed, and a white line was depicted in the air, reaching straight to the giant's head. Frost Qi enveloped the giant and quickly froze. The giant widened his one-eyed eyes in horror. Frost Qi was penetrating through his eyes, nose, ears, and mouth, wherever it could penetrate. They slow down the giant's blood flow and even freeze it.

The giant turned around desperately, wanting to catch Christine. However, the giant turned half of his body, his head to his chest already covered with white frost, and his movements stiffened to a halt. Christine landed on his head and stabbed the giant's head. Qing Zha exerted her strength and dragged her saber forward. She stepped on the giant's forehead and shot away with lightning bolts. Behind her, the giant's head was like a piece of rock that had been cut into pieces, shattering into pieces with a loud crash. The head above the giant's nose exploded, and each fragment emitted an astonishing frost aura, continuously smashing into the ground like a burst of hail.

The giant that had lost half of its head was finally powerless to fall to the ground, pushing some of the Catu warriors who were about to crawl out into the snow.

Christine sheathed her sabers and quickly returned to the carriage. She jumped on the flying motorcycle and Reese gave her a thumbs up. "Well done, hot girl."

"You'd better hurry up and leave. Another enemy is coming." Luma warned on the communication channel.

"Retreat!" Reese finally looked at Hillay's corpse and didn't have time to retrieve it. He could only start the motorcycle engine and roll up the snow.

Not long after they left, a figure with a sharp aura pierced through the bushes and landed on the snow beside the giant, shaking up a patch of snow. Red Spear Stark spat out two balls of hot smoke from his nostrils. First, he looked at the half-decapitated Grai Giant and kicked the Giant's corpse. Then, he looked at Hillay's corpse. "Cut this intruder into pieces and wait for it to be given to our enemies as a gift!"

Several Catu warriors strode forward. One of them picked up two red spears for Stark, while the others carried Hillay's corpse and followed Stark back to the camp. As for the corpses of the giants and their fellow citizens, the Catus had no intention of recycling them at all, allowing them to be exposed to the snow. As the sky darkened, the frosty natives began to move, and some dangerous wild beasts emerged from the forest.

The corpses of giants and Catus were undoubtedly a feast for them, especially the corpses of giants, which were enough for these wild beasts to eat for several days.

It was already nighttime when he returned to the base. Reese cursed Frost Star's short, damn day, causing his schedule to become chaotic. Curses were curses. Reese was the first to report the enemy's information and casually register his contributions with Ned. After the adjutant had compiled the information Rice had provided into documents, Ned summoned all the leaders of the hunting squad to the base.

Soon after, the battle council chambers gradually flooded in with experts who were free to hunt. As the representative of the pack of wolves, Reina was the last to arrive. At the moment of Alan's disappearance, Ned also acknowledged his authority to represent him. Ned nodded at the man with the aura of a volcano. With a gesture, the adjutant closed the door, signifying the start of the meeting.

'"Everyone, it's very presumptuous to call everyone here at this time. It's really because Captain Reese has brought extremely important information. I have roughly sorted out the information and distributed it to the tactical intelligence of the captains for you to consult at any time. Now, let me briefly explain the situation of the enemy." Ned looked behind him, and the lights in the battle room dimmed. This caused a three-dimensional sand table and the others behind him to appear clearly in everyone's eyes.

Ned walked up to the sand table and pointed to the east end of the Holly Forest, where light quickly outlined buildings. "This is our base, and here …" Ned pointed to the east end of the Holly Forest.

The lieutenant colonel's finger slid westward and pointed in a forest two hundred kilometers away. The trees on the coordinates shrank down and disappeared into the map, quickly forming an open space. Following the rise of the models of the camp and the Catu warriors, a complete camp appeared in the eyes of the crowd after the images of the dozen or so Grai giants appeared on the sand table map.

'"This is the important information that Commander Reese brought back. The enemy is only two hundred kilometers away from us. This journey will probably arrive tomorrow evening. There are about seven hundred Catus and thirteen Grai Giants in this army. Everyone, this is a powerful army. We must not let down our guard." "The base will be attacked soon," Ned said, leaning on the edge of the three-dimensional sand table. "I need your help defending. For this reason, I have divided the base into a number of areas. You can freely choose a defensive theatre."

"Lieutenant Colonel Ned, don't tell me we don't have reinforcements?" At this moment, someone below asked.

Ned, look. That's Cage. "Unfortunately, we don't. The bases are now more or less under attack from the foreign coalition, and the other bases are inseparable. These cunning fellows aren't going to touch the Adahua Planet base at all. They're just picking on our federal base, which makes our situation not optimistic," the lieutenant colonel nodded.

"Then ask Adahua Planet for help, according to the Star Pact they signed with the Federation. At this time, they have an obligation to send troops to support us," Reina said in a low voice.

"That's true, Mr. Reynolds. But we need to send an application through the General Staff Headquarters, and we can't put out the fire from afar. I don't think time will allow it. Of course, I believe that the General Staff Headquarters will make the right judgement based on the situation. Until then, we can only rely on ourselves." Ned said with a bitter smile.

"In that case, let's look at the division of the defensive area." Lei Na changed the topic and said.

Ned happily agreed, and the lights in the battle room lit up again. On the plasma tactical board on the wall, a plan of the base appeared. Next, patches of different colors appeared on the map, marking the defensive areas one by one. Each area is numerically marked to show distinction. After giving a brief introduction, Lieutenant Colonel Ned let these Guild Leaders choose their own defensive area.

Cage stepped forward and nodded hard at one of the areas, "Here we go."

'"You really know how to pick. That's where the turret array is. The pressure of defense is definitely not as great as in other areas. Don't you think Mr. Cage is taking advantage of it?" A voice sounded out, "You really know how to pick. That's where the turret array is, and the pressure of defense is definitely not as great as in other areas."

Cage looked at the man and saw that it was Laurie. He frowned, "Lieutenant Colonel Ned has said that you can choose freely. It's none of your business where I choose, Mr. Laurie."

"Of course, it's none of my business, but everyone's business." Laurie sneered, "If everyone is picking areas where the pressure is light like you, what about the rest of the area?"

His words were echoed by the other Guild Leaders as the true leader of Laurie's team. Vader remained silent, apparently acquiescing to Laurie's words. Indeed, as Laurie had said, the pressure on Ned's defensive zones varied. For example, Cage's defensive area was located near the turret array, so relying on the firepower of the cannon array to suppress it, Cage's and the others' defensive pressure would naturally be much easier. Those areas that did not have any firepower to suppress would obviously become the focus of the enemy's attention, so there was no need to say anything about the pressure.

In this way, the distribution was uneven. Ned did not expect this situation to happen. Seeing Laurie provoke the hunting teams to start fighting over the less stressed areas, while no one else was interested in the other areas, Ned was at a loss for what to do. This was far from what he had imagined. He repeatedly calmed down the Guild Leaders, but now, people simply ignored him.

There were even a few people who were fighting over the same defensive area, so they were almost ready to make a move.

"Shut up!"

A thunderclap rang out in the battle room, and the sound of thunder shook people's ears. This loud roar suppressed all the sounds, causing the battle room to suddenly calm down. Everyone looked at Reina, who sneered, "Look at your ugly faces. It's disgusting. If you were all so afraid of death, why did you participate in this war?"

Laurie chuckled and said, "Young Master Rena is indeed valiant. Then, why don't you pack your wolves and pick an important defensive area to guard?"

'"So it's you, rat. What? Didn't I teach you enough last time? I've really recovered from the scars and forgotten the pain. If it weren't for the fact that everyone was still on the same side, I would have killed this rat in the gutter long ago. A guy like you who only dares to throw dirty tricks behind your back and can't get on the stage should shut up." '"Lieutenant Colonel, I suggest you scratch out those defensive zones that have heavy firepower. That way, the remaining defensive zones will be under roughly the same pressure. I don't think anybody will argue about it, right?" Raynor turned his gaze to Ned.

"Of course, those rats who don't have the guts to stay and fight to the death can leave early. As long as the clans behind you are willing to take the blame for deserting the army, I don't think Lieutenant Colonel will stop you!"

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