Chapter 25: One-sided Battle

The chaos in the rainforest was getting closer and closer to the oak tree.

Both Adam and the nearby humans were ready.

In the rainforest, the trees were constantly swaying as unknown creatures pushed by them. During this period, the tremors from the ground were also getting stronger.

Everyone was on high alert.

The moment the commotion in the rainforest was less than 500 meters away from the oak tree, the battle began.

“Fire the flare!”

“Roger!”

The armed helicopter in the air reacted first.

As the flare shot into the sky, the Purple Moon night sky suddenly lit up.

Under the oak tree, through the gaps between the trees, everyone could see.

The creatures that caused the commotion were all huge but fast-moving crocodiles.

These crocodiles no longer looked like normal crocodiles. There was a faint black fog surrounding them, and they had many bumps on their bodies.

Their eyes were black and red, looking like monsters that had crawled out of the abyss.

Many people were shocked when they saw the crocodiles.

However, Simon did not give them any time to panic. He immediately gave the order to attack.

“First row, fire!”

The moment he finished speaking, gunshots rang out in the relatively quiet rainforest.

Bang bang bang!

The light rifle was fast and powerful.

The sparks from firing the bullets lit up the dark night sky.

Dense bullets shot into the rainforest. Some of them were blocked by the trees, but most of them accurately hit the huge crocodiles.

The crocodiles hissed like snakes in pain. Although the sound was loud and dragged on, it was drowned out by the missiles and gunshots.

In the sky, the large-caliber cannons on both sides of the military helicopters were firing at the rainforest below. The noise was much louder than the sound from rifles below.

Every 30mm bullet would pierce through these crocodiles’ bodies.

However, even though these crocodiles were shot, they still rushed crazily towards the oak tree.

The tenacity of these crocodiles was beyond anyone’s imagination.

After all, from the sky above, the view to the ground of the rainforest was blocked by leaves. The chances of these military helicopters accurately hitting the crocodiles were very low, so after a few rounds of shooting, they only managed to kill ten plus crocodiles than the rifles below.

At this moment, the crocodiles were less than 200 meters away from them.

These crocodiles had entered a berserk state and completely disregarded everything else, throwing Simon’s tribesmen into extreme terror.

After all, these tribespeople from the sacred land stayed in this place for a long time to serve the sacred tree. There was a huge gap between their mental fortitude and combat skills compared to the armed tribesmen outside.

Not only were their marksmanship terrible, some of their hands started to turn numb after shooting for a short while due to the recoil from the gun.

At this moment, the firepower was visibly reduced.

Still, it wasn’t as if Simon hadn’t taken this into consideration, so he roared when the firepower weakened.

“First row to retreat, second row move up!”

The tribesmen in the front row heaved a sigh of relief and quickly retreated.

Then, the firepower increased after the second row went forward.

In the sky, the helicopters which were for non-military purposes ran out of ammunition after three to seven rounds of shooting.

However, because the crocodiles were already close to the oak tree where the rainforest opened up into an area with only a few trees, the soldiers on the helicopter could get a better aim.

The next moment.

The Armarica helicopter that Vanni brought was the first to launch the saturated attack.

The 16 hellfire missiles which were launched were those hanging on the sides of the armed helicopter.

One after another, the guided missiles zoomed towards the ground, leaving long exhaust fumes in their paths.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

The continuous explosions and blinding light from the flames caused huge tremors near the oak tree.

The giant crocodiles were instantly engulfed by the flames and thick smoke.

Broken limb and countless pieces of flesh flew everywhere.

The black blood which spurted from the crocodiles’ bodies corroded the surroundings like concentrated sulfuric acid.

Beneath the oak tree, everyone gradually stopped firing.

The smoke fanned out into the surroundings, blocking everyone’s vision. This was something that no one had expected.

Amidst the choking smoke, the crocodiles’ howls and the tremors caused by its crawling stopped completely. However, everyone knew that there were still crocodiles that had not been killed.

Therefore, the crowd under the oak tree became nervous. They kept looking around, not daring to make a single sound.

But what would come would still come.

Amidst the smoke filled with the smell of gunpowder, there were suddenly sounds of rapid crawling.

But this time, before the tribesmen could shoot in the direction of the sound, Adam finally made his move.

Although the smoke could block the vision of humans, Adam’s vision, which was like infrared detection, could see the situation within the smoke and the rainforest behind him.

There were only nine crocodiles which were still alive and mobile.

However, among the nine, a terrifying crocodile that was over ten meter long appeared.

The crocodile was cloaked in thick black smoke. It was impossible to see its full appearance through a human’s vision.

But Adam could.

The crocodile had black eyes and purple pupils. Its skin looked as sturdy as a thick layer of rock.

The bullets from the rifles had only left white scratch marks on its skin.

Under the attack of the missiles, it was only slightly scratched at most.

Furthermore, it was rapidly regenerating and recovering from the scratch under the black fog.

There was no doubting the crocodile’s strength.

And in such a close distance, the humans of the tribe under the tree would definitely not be able to defend.

Still, it was okay.

Because the crocodile had finally entered Adam’s attack range.

Adam could only control 3 of the 76 tree roots that were nearly 150 meters long.

But that was enough.

The ten meter long crocodile cloaked in the terrifying black smoke roared and charged towards the crowd under the oak tree.

Every step it took would cause tremors through the ground – a terrifying poise.

However, just as it led the other eight crocodiles to charge till twenty meters away from the humans, a huge spike suddenly shot out from the ground.

A loud boom was heard as a massive spike shot out through the ground.

The loud noise dispersed the smoke from the missile explosion.

At the same time, when the spike came into contact with the crocodile’s abdomen, it easily impaled the crocodile’s body.

The enormous tree root that soared into the sky, as well as the impaled crocodile was suddenly hovering in midair.

At this moment, both the people under the tree and in the sky were struck stunned by what happened before their eyes.

However, everyone came back to their senses when two roots emerged from the ground to whip the other eight mutated crocodiles. They stared at the scene in front of them in shock.