The Ultimate War Of The Apocalypse-Chapter 711 - 704: Salute

It wasn’t that Shi Lei didn’t want to move, he just couldn’t right now. He didn’t doubt the words of the female staff officer, but he truly couldn’t believe that in the moment he was waiting for eternal relief, he would hear such a wonderfully absurd message.

Anticipation, hope that it was real, but also a fear to believe, so it wasn’t just Shi Lei whose bodily functions had completely halted in a moment that should not have happened, it was everyone’s.

"Xiao Mo, you can’t joke about this..."

A general struggled to maintain his calm, but his trembling voice betrayed his true feelings.

"It’s true! We really won, wow..."

The female staff officer was originally in a hurry, very urgent, but now, at last, she burst into tears, and her crying made people’s hearts sink.

"Communications have been restored, command center, the command center received a call from Poseidon, and then just now, just a moment ago, a signal came from the Serpent People’s mother ship; Gao Yuan has taken control of the mother ship..."

The female staff officer was too anxious. She grabbed the general’s clothes, crying, "We must quickly take people, especially scientists, to take over the Serpent People’s mother ship, and we have to get the hydrogen bomb that we prepared for self-destruction out."

Shi Lei took a deep breath. Excessive joy could make it hard to believe, but Shi Lei felt that if he had to die today, he was willing to die in a beautiful dream.

"Follow me..."

Shi Lei yelled, starting to dash outwards, and at that moment, he heard more footsteps, more chaotic footsteps.

They were the frenzied cheers of overjoyed people.

So Shi Lei no longer doubted, he shouted with all his might, "Charge!"

He stumbled forward into the passageway, running at breakneck speed.

This alley was made by the monsters, who drilled from the weakest part of the mountain right through to the underground base’s cave, making the tunnel not too long, at most four or five hundred meters.

The tunnel was filled with the corpses of monsters, this time the basin-sized beetles, which could self-destruct, but now all these beetles had stopped moving, showing no signs of life.

With their smooth and hard shells, Shi Lei stumbled and didn’t know how many times he fell, but after turning a corner, he saw light.

Someone had passed Shi Lei, but a pair of hands pulled him up, and then the person who had pulled him up continued to run forward, tumbling and getting up again.

Shi Lei kept running toward the light at the mouth of the tunnel until his eyes were stung by the long-missed sunlight.

Everyone, every single person had the same reaction, to look up at the sky, to stare directly at the sun, not willing to close their eyes despite the pain from the sunlight.

The long-missed sunlight, the long-missed sky, the long-missed earth, the long-missed air.

Walking down along the rocky ruins of the entrance, Shi Lei’s steps were unsteady. He saw the mother ship that was taller than the mountain and also saw that white spacecraft.

And the dense swarm of aircraft, those that had carried monsters down and others, triangular-shaped ones, never seen before.

He hadn’t seen it, but Shi Lei knew that was the Ark because he saw Xiang Weiguo, who should have left long ago.

Looking at the crowd pouring out of the cave, Nate, with a serious expression, hands clasped behind his back, legs slightly apart, in a posture that looked very proud, let his hands down and then brought his legs together.

What kind of people were these,

Ragged and tattered clothing hanging from their bodies, each one so emaciated their original skin color was unrecognizable; they were like walking corpses emerging from the cave, tumbling down the rocky slope as if unable to feel any pain.

Those in uniforms, almost none were left unharmed; they could hardly walk, but each one clung tightly to their guns.

A worker knelt on the ground and started sobbing; another walked onto the ground, grabbed a handful of grass, and stuffed it into his mouth like a madman, tearing at the weeds while emitting crazed howls.

Each person looked bizarre, each one as if mad.

But after Nate quietly stood up straight, the haughtiness on his face disappeared, he became solemn, and then sincerely felt that these people, who looked like beggars and madmen, were truly the ones deserving of respect.

These people, resembling madmen and beggars, had withstood the Serpent People’s assault carried out by two mother ships taking turns. These strangely shaped individuals had lived underground for a year, and when the entire world had given up resistance, they withstood the Serpent People’s attacks, created controlled nuclear fusion, built Mechas, electromagnetic guns, and electromagnetic cannons, and built the Type 59 modified.

The name "Type 59 modified" sounds ludicrous, but the mobile controlled nuclear fusion energy tower is no joke; it’s still the biggest scientific breakthrough humanity has achieved to date.

It was these people who attracted all the attention of the Serpent People, drew all their firepower, which is why there are no more Serpent People’s mother ships in America because there was no resistance there, why Israel managed to survive until now, why Europa still had many survivors, why the Ram’s base in Africa never faced a real attack from the Serpent People.

Nate came with the aura of a savior, and when he stepped down from the Ark, he had to maintain the demeanor of a soldier, yes, he wasn’t the main one, but he was still one of the saviors of this world.

But seeing the people here, the monsters’ bodies on the ground, Taihang Mountain, and the dense dead bodies of the monsters, then seeing the people making their way through the monsters’ corpses, Nate’s pride vanished without a trace because he couldn’t imagine what the outcome would be if even one-tenth, no, one percent of those monsters were unleashed upon Africa.

It’s a pity that he was the only one who came; this was Nate’s biggest regret at the moment.

So Nate brought his feet together, stood up straight, and then he shouted, "Lieutenant Colonel Nate von Schumacher, German Defence Force, salutes you! You have worked hard, salute!"

No one paid attention to Nate, the foreigner, except for one person who stumbled in front of Nate. He looked at Xiang Weiguo, then at Nate, and then said in a hoarse voice, "Is it really true..."

Xiang Weiguo, with tears in his eyes, nodded and said, "It’s true."

Shi Lei gave Nate a very standard military salute, then lowered his right hand, looked up at the Serpent People’s mother ship, and asked, "How do we get up there..."

Xiang Weiguo took a step forward to support Shi Lei, his voice grave, "You don’t need to go, let others do it, we need to take control of the mother ship... Is there anyone else?"

Shi Lei shook his head and said softly, "No more, depleted. After you all left, we..."

Shi Lei struggled to raise his hand, pointed at the mother ship in the sky, and whispered, "We depleted a ship’s worth of monsters, thought we held them off, that things would be easier, but after driving one away, another came, and now it’s all gone, all gone, water’s gone, food’s gone, nukes gone, troops are gone, only... only a few of us left, but the factory’s still there, the command center’s still there, so we won, right? Mr. Xiang, we won, right?"

Xiang Weiguo nodded, his voice heavy, "Yes, we’ve won! It’s our victory!"