How am I still alive?

Chapter 1600 Target Shift
When a new wave of satellite blueprints were delivered to the Third Fleet's headquarters, even the knowledgeable Lu Ping'an gasped.

"Sakurajima is beyond saving. It's buried and sunk."

The background is a rainy night. The obviously supernatural rainstorms are too frequent, which makes humans upset but makes the fishmen happy. In this environment, twice their combat power is a minimum, and ordinary people's eyesight will be affected.

Not to mention the torrential rain, the sea level is still rising, and rivers in various places are even showing obvious backflow phenomena.

What’s even more painful is that among the backflowing river waters there are often malicious foreign invaders.

Building defenses along rivers? It's impossible just to think about it. Those large and medium-sized cities built along rivers have become the first victims of the "mid-rise" strategy.

The malicious invaders were distributed along the rivers and seas, but they also changed the away field into the home field and became the attacking side that took the initiative on the battlefield.

In this latest blueprint, large areas of the island country have sunk into the sea, and the dividing lines are becoming more and more obvious, with more and more areas being divided and submerged. If it were just this, Lu Ping'an would not feel hopeless. What really makes people helpless are the skulls marked on the map.

"At least three hundred rule-level creatures, what kind of cabbage is this?"

On Sakurajima, which does not appear to be very large on the map, there are more skull symbols painted on it, many of which are marked in red, indicating that they are at least level eight or above.

If it weren't for the fact that most of them were aquatic creatures, Lu Ping'an would have considered and suggested blowing up the island directly to catch them all in one swoop. Now if they really did that, not only would the ocean not be able to kill those creatures, but if the naval battle environment changed, their high-end combat power would suffer.

"Mei Yuge, what do you think about the dark clouds in the sky?"

Lu Ping'an directly called his subordinates and asked about the weather conditions.

Since arriving around the island, the rain has been intermittent, and Lu Pingan and his group have not seen the sun for several hours.

This kind of environment not only affected the battlefield, but also had a negative impact on many ships. Lu Ping'an discovered that many steel warships had obvious signs of rust. These were new ships that had just left the factory and undergone anti-rust treatment.

Obviously, this should be a supernatural power that is corroding steel, and human technology is obviously somewhat dependent on steel.

It is worth mentioning that the wooden ark, as a living warship with the power of purification, has generally grown two sizes due to the nutrients that contain "vitality" and "pollution".

"There's nothing I can do. It feels like there are more than a hundred of me influencing the weather, and the sources of the interference are very scattered."

If the same type of force interferes with the same thing, it can easily turn into a struggle between each other. What Lu Ping'an wants to know is the possible coordinates and situation of the other party. Mei Yuge did not disappoint Lu Ping'an. She has actually been looking for the source of interference.

If there were only one or two of them, they could indeed try to forcibly decapitate them to increase their chances of winning, but now.
"They should be linked to each other and form a network. Even if one or two are removed, it will be meaningless."

As he spoke, Mei Yuge pointed on the map.

"These are the most obvious sources, but they should all be at least overlord-level beings, and there should also be quasi-gods."

Lu Ping'an saw that the direction she pointed to basically covered the southeast, northwest, northeast and southwest edges of Sakurajima. Even if he wanted to encircle and suppress the enemy, he didn't know where to start.

The radio was filled with calls for help, so within a few hours the sending point would fall silent.

"The sea tigers and the like around here, those sea beasts that were cast by the big guys before, don't they have any obvious effects?"

"Under the strong pressure led by the rule-level creatures, they can't play much of a role in the face of a large number of invading legions."

The surrounding seas are also occupied by scattered groups of murlocs. This is under the premise that there are a large number of sea beasts as threats to both sides. Otherwise, they will be constantly attacked on the road, and their whereabouts will almost directly open up the entire map to the other side.

Lu Ping'an understood more and more what Xiuyi and the others did. Now was not the time to discuss whether the means were clean or not. Facing the pressure of survival, it was too foolish to consider the long-term consequences.

"Let's win first."

Lu Ping'an actually has never had any clear position. His position and views have always been quite flexible. Now, he feels that perhaps he should be a little more extreme.

At this time, the Third Fleet had completed its rest and had begun to rescue the surrounding cities. Given the current situation, all we can do is do our best and leave the rest to fate.

For these outsiders, the only role of humans is probably to serve as food. Without supplies from the ocean, they are indeed short of food. The malice of their own bosses is effective. Judging from the captured fish-men captives, they now have to risk their lives to hunt fish schools, and large-scale reproduction of the tribe has become unrealistic.

As a price, perhaps humans would not even be qualified to be prisoners.

War inevitably makes invaders increasingly inhumane, and makes most people less confident that the victims are still alive.

And on such a battlefield, Lu Ping'an could not do anything. He dared to go to a city alone for rescue. He went there in the morning, was surrounded at noon, and could be promoted to a higher level and hold a memorial service in the evening.

Lu Ping'an was waiting for orders, and he had actually guessed what kind of orders he would get.

Finally, what was supposed to come came quickly.

".Sure enough, it was an order to rescue the victims and help them evacuate."

This is a reality that everyone in the fleet knows, but no one says it out loud: the war has reached this point and there is actually no hope for recovery.

After all, the Easterners are just reinforcements, they can only help defend the front line. Now the entire country has fallen, and the defense line is nowhere to be seen. If the Eastern country continues to send troops, it will just be filling the line endlessly.

Even Lu Ping'an's command center raised a possibility. Now that their side has surrounded the target and is attacking reinforcements, they must evacuate as soon as possible.

"It will take them some time to digest the local forces of Sakura Country. We'll take as much as they can take away."

A rotten ship still has two nails. Although the national strength of the Sakura Kingdom in modern times can no longer be compared with that of the East Kingdom, it is still ranked among the top in the world.

In the extraordinary world, possessing "history and mythology" is roughly equivalent to possessing heritage. While the East Kingdom has a group of ancient secret keepers and watchers, the Sakura Kingdom also has its own extraordinary system and heritage.

That means there must be hidden, free, high-level extraordinary people among them. But unlike the relatively centralized East Country, the ancient forces in the Sakura Kingdom are probably the masters of this country, and they may not necessarily obey orders and go to the front line of defense.

And now, with the battlefield completely collapsed, their various holy sites, shrines, and ninja villages must be enjoying siege, and their high-level artifacts (forbidden items) and resources are also being plundered.

Although the superiors gave him the mission of rescue and assisting in the evacuation, some things did not need to be made clear. After all, along with the order came a simple map marking the "important places" and "treasure locations" of the Sakura Kingdom. God knows how the East Kingdom got them. Looking at the names that appeared in mythology, Lu Ping'an was a little confused, but also more tempted.

Who doesn’t like the task of rescuing people and moving things?

"Does the Kusanagi sword really exist?"

"The original has been lost long ago, but it is said that there are three replicas, all created by ancient people. They are said to have the properties of 'dragon slayer' and 'sun', and are very powerful."

In an instant, Lu Ping'an became interested.

The sword in the myth seems to be used to kill hydras/dragons, and there are a lot of troublesome hydras among the Octopus Clan.

The solar attribute has an exceptionally good effect on the sea creatures, and my own abilities also have this compatibility, so perhaps the lamp flower can also be enhanced.

".They won't let it go, right? It's a national treasure. Will they watch us take it back to the East?"

"If the country is gone, the so-called national treasure is nothing more than a broken sword. If a person is going to die, who cares about those material possessions?"