Chapter 78: Chapter 78: Desperate for Help
Yes, a comprehensive victory, if only in this phase!
As of now, such an announcement can indeed be made.
Although nearly a hundred thousand Blood Demons have escaped the city, spreading across the wilderness, and there might still be a Matrix that has yet to give up, that hasn’t fled, the Blood Demons face nothing but relentless pursuit. At least in this country, they have already utterly lost the possibility of victory and can no longer instill fear and pain in the people.
And at this moment, merely thirteen days have passed since the formal declaration of war!
The entire world was instantly abuzz, with all sorts of headlines and reports flooding every corner of the global cyberspace.
“Eastern Country declares comprehensive victory within its borders!”
“Thirteen days to defeat the Blood Demons!”
“Savior in the East!”
“Thirteen Days! That’s the speed of Eastern Country!”
“Eastern Country took thirteen days to win, how long can we keep from losing?”
“….”
It’s not that other countries wanted to promote this, but at this moment, the victory of Eastern Country had become the most empowering and shocking source of confidence in this global conflict!
At the very least, it was necessary to let some of those who were close to despair know that Humans have not lost, and will not lose!
Under this overwhelming media coverage, countless people marveled and envied, and more and more wealthy and powerful individuals across the world tried to make their way to Eastern Country, with the number of people smuggling themselves across the border surging overnight.
But more than these were the pleas for aid.
Realizing that Eastern Country might finally be able to lend them support, requests for aid poured in from around the world like snowflakes, dense and incessant, ready to utilize the utmost extent of public opinion and propaganda!
Even on the curtain of the tallest skyscraper in West State, a place of symbolic significance, there now hung an image of Shen Hao brandishing Thunder on the battlefield, accompanied by a line of enormously large font.
—We need a Savior!
Yes, it’s simplicity and directness taken to the extreme!
Online, there were even more cries for help.
Especially from people in dangerous areas, who seemed to latch onto their last lifeline, desperately sending out messages.
“Save us, our entire city has fallen!”
“I’m hiding in the basement; Blood Demons are everywhere outside!”
“We need help, we need the invincible Mr. Shen Hao!”
“The damn politicians are useless; we need a powerful Chosen One! We need Shen Hao!”
“You can send the army, even rule over here—we don’t care!”
“…”
This deluge of pleas also left the domestic populace astonished.
They indeed had paid the lives of nearly a million people, but such a price, in comparison to the whole world, could actually be considered a tremendous victory.
This is war, this is disaster.
However, the war had not ended.
Recruitment notifications were still being continuously sent out, more and more people mustered the courage, stirred their passion to enlist in the military, and the armies stationed in the cities had not completely withdrawn. The battlefield hadn’t disappeared, it was merely shifting, from inside the cities to the outside, from domestic to international.
At this moment, Shen Hao finally had time to sit down and summarize the gains from this period.
Through three days of relentless sweeping, he had captured a total of five Blood Demon Mothers. Sadly, the other two had already killed all their offspring, and the remaining three provided only twenty thousand Blood Demons in total. Including those he had killed, he had gained a total of eleven million points these days.
He was still nearly twenty million points short of opening the White Level 9 Mall.
That was fifty million cumulative points.
At this rate, White Level 10 might very well require a hundred million!
The number of Blood Demons remaining within the country had dwindled and were highly dispersed. Rather than wasting time chasing them down, it would be better to set his sights abroad, where there were more Blood Demons.
“Has all the intelligence been compiled?” Shen Hao looked at Dong Gong.
“Just came out.” Dong Gong, looking at various data on his computer, spoke with a grave expression, “Looking over the global battlefield, the situation is very bad, even worse than our initial expectations.”
“Explain?” Shen Hao also became serious.
“First of all, the distribution of Blood Demon Mothers doesn’t seem to be based on population.” Dong Gong stated, “The total number of Blood Demon Mothers in our country should be around fifty, the Northern Alliance’s number is downward of forty, but West State definitely has more than sixty!”
“You mean to say that there are about two hundred and thirty Mothers globally, and just in our three regions, there are over one hundred and fifty?” Shen Hao nodded slightly, “Thinking positively, at least we don’t have to worry about densely populated but poorly managed and equipped countries turning into oceans of Blood Demons.”
“That’s true,” Dong Gong’s face showed a hint of helplessness, “However, the combat power of Blood Demons is not merely about numbers. They can quickly master all the knowledge and even skills of their hosts, which means they will get the opportunity to rapidly plunder our technology and industry.”
“…” Shen Hao fell silent for a moment.
Indeed, the strength of a nation in the industrial age wasn’t measured by population.
It was measured by technology, by the level of industry.
In that case, it would be better if they had been distributed by population. Without sufficient weapons and strong industrial power, Blood Demons, no matter how numerous, were just points banks in his view.
“How exactly is West State faring now?” Shen Hao inquired.
“They have already deployed tactical nuclear weapons.” Dong Gong’s expression was heavy, “After we sent over the measurement spheres, they first ensured the safe use of some weapons of mass destruction and took the lead in using them in areas that were completely overrun. That managed to reverse the situation a bit, but then, the Blood Demons dispersed into the urban areas. In the past couple of days, the number of battles and destruction in various cities have been countless. Human forces have no advantage in street fighting and often have to pay an even greater price to achieve victory. Some major cities are showing signs of falling.”
He showed Shen Hao some of the data.
It was indeed a horrific sight to behold.
Chaos was everywhere, everyone was forced to take up arms to fight back, but with the same level of weaponry, how could civilians possibly match Blood Demons? Some areas had become like the dawn of the apocalypse.
Even when the military arrived, it only intensified the destruction of the battles; cities were rapidly turning into ruins.
“Aside from the cities, military factories and various important armories are the main targets of Blood Demons’ attacks. Most of these places are far from urban areas and can barely be defended, but some small military factories have already fallen. More importantly, Blood Demons continue to replenish their forces unceasingly from within the cities. The trend of diminishing returns is very evident.” Dong Gong paused, then added somewhat helplessly, “We even airlifted a batch of Ice Bombs in an emergency, and the technology has been transferred to them, but due to the situation, their production efficiency has actually decreased.”