Even if he wanted to burn the entire city, Borislav Morozov needed to collect enough gasoline. With his connections, it might take 3 to 4 days. Added to the time needed to transport the gasoline and plan the mission, they would need at least 2 more days.
Understanding Erast Tolstoy’s unsaid words, Kayla Stroganova hesitated for a moment before she nodded. "Understood."
After she left the meeting hall, she returned to her office and used a satellite phone to make a call. After several rings, the call was connected.
"Kayla," Lustin Volkov’s hoarse voice was heard from the phone.
"Lustin, I’m sorry. We failed to persuade the parliament to send the reinforcements."
After she said this, there was a long silence before she heard a soft sigh. "I already guessed it. You don’t have to blame yourself," Lustin said.
"Lustin, the parliament decided to send an elite team to Lunar City and burn the city down. You only have 6 days at most to prepare."
When he heard this, Lustin Volkov asked, "Is it Borislav’s plan?"
"Mhmm." After a moment of pause, Kayla Stroganova added, "Lustin, I won’t stand on the side and let his scheme succeed."
"Kayla, don’t do anything reckless. You don’t have to worry about the situation here. I have contacted the Lin’an City Base from Huaxia. As long as I can hold on for 3 more days, their reinforcements will arrive."
The moment she heard this, Kayla Stroganova’s eyes lit up. Her grip on the phone tightened as she asked, "Lustin, is what you said true?"
"Yes. They promised to send over an S-rank team, the best team they have. I believe that with their help, Lunar City will be able to survive this ordeal."
After hesitating for a while, Lustin Volkov added, "Kayla, I might never go back to the Capital. About our engagement, you can annul it anytime you want. You are a great person. You deserve someone who can stay beside you."
"Since you still have time to think about this nonsense, I can rest assured. I will take care of the matters here, so you should just focus on staying alive there. I still have matters to attend to. I’ll call you another time," Kayla said and hung up the call without giving him any chance to reply.
At Lunar City, Lustin let out a sigh and looked outside the window.
The attacks from the zombie cockroaches were getting fiercer while their ammunition was running low. The ability-users and ordinary people were exhausted. Their morale was low.
He didn’t know if they would be able to hold on until the reinforcements arrived.
As the situation got worse in Lunar City, the Phantom Team’s military chopper finally landed not far from the border between the two countries.
Instead of coming out of the chopper, the members continued resting inside. When the door was opened, only Jiao Lizhi came out to refuel the chopper. Half an hour later, Zhang Yuan went to rest, and Du Beiye took over the pilot seat.
It had been several months since she arrived on the Blue Planet. With Krayan’s help, she had learned most of the knowledge regarding the military and common knowledge on this planet. Flying a military chopper was easy for her now.
Since the situation in Lunar City was urgent, they only stopped twice to refuel and flew nonstop. When the sky darkened, and the red moonlight shone on the ground, the Phantom Team finally saw the black river.
The moment they flew past the black river, Qin Luzi suddenly opened his eyes in alarm. He was stunned by the dense red dots on his map. Even the biggest zombie horde they had faced before was incomparable to the number of red dots he saw this time.
Noticing his strange behavior, the members turned to him.
"Brother Qin, what’s wrong?" Di Hansheng asked.
"Captain, the entire Lunar City is covered with red dots. Judging from their size, the average level of the zombie cockroaches is level one, with more than ten thousand level two. As for level three, their number is no less than 5,000."
Hearing this, the members’ expressions turned solemn. They thought that this was the worst situation. But when they heard Qin Luzi’s next words, they realized that the worst always came last.
"Captain, there are hundreds of level four, 2 level five, and 1 level six."
Although most of the members had reached level four and some had reached level five, their chance of winning was very low with so many high-level zombie cockroaches.
At the same time, Du Beiye and Jiao Lizhi were listening to Krayan and Gaia’s warning.
"Matkuna soldiers were detected! Location: 15 kilometers to the north. The total number of the Matkuna soldiers is 5,000."
The moment they heard this, both Jiao Lizhi and Du Beiye were taken aback. They knew how dangerous the Matkuna soldiers were. Even if there were only 5,000 soldiers, it was more than enough to destroy the entire country.
The reason was nothing more than the advanced technology possessed by the Matkuna Race and their top-rate physical strength. Compared to them, the technology owned by the Human Race was not even enough to leave a scratch on the Matkuna soldiers.
After a while, Jin Xuyan finally broke the silence and said, "Old Zhang, you and Old Qin will lead the members and defend the Lunar Base. Wen Kai, Wen Mo, both of you will be responsible for building a metal wall after we clear the surrounding zombie cockroaches."
"Bohai, Yunsheng, you will be responsible for taking care of the wounded. Qixuan, Fu Guai, Ruiyue, I will leave the level three and four zombie cockroaches to you."
Turning to his fiancée, he added, "Ah Zhi and Beiye will follow me to handle the level five and level six zombie cockroaches."
When he finished his words, he glanced at the members and asked, "Are there any questions?"
The members shook their heads.