Chapter 199: Answering Doubts
“Why not use a nuclear blast?”
As soon as Yan Hong’s words fell, Fang directly voiced the doubt in his heart.
Afterward, he continued to add,
“With the Alliance’s current technological level, the radiation after a nuclear blast is negligible. In less than a month, it can disperse.”
“Besides, the Panlong Mountain Range is full of rises and falls. The shockwave from a nuclear blast won’t affect Qinghui Base. Even if it did, you’d only need to activate the air-defense shield for a short time.”
“This would not only resolve the threat posed by the Giant Race, it would also destroy the large Dimensional Rift.”
Hearing what Fang said, the others immediately turned their curious gazes toward Yan Hong.
Especially Zhou Ming—he had heard that large Dimensional Rifts couldn’t be destroyed, but he had never heard of the Alliance using nuclear weapons on them.
Although he guessed there had to be a reason, he wanted to know exactly what it was.
“Since you’re asking, I’ll tell you some classified information. Of course, to Professional Beast Tamers without any background, this counts as a secret.”
Faced with Fang’s doubt, Yan Hong also didn’t choose to hide too much. He immediately told everyone why nuclear weapons weren’t used.
“A thousand years ago, Dimensional Rifts first appeared on Blue Star. At the beginning they were small Dimensional Rifts, and with the technological level at the time, they could still be handled.”
“As time passed, when large Dimensional Rifts appeared, they truly began to threaten Blue Star’s human society.”
“Even though there were nuclear bombs and other weapons of destruction, Transcendent-level existences not only had keen danger perception, they could also fly at will. Even Ferocious Beasts began to possess intelligence.”
“Small targets, keen senses, able to hide, possessing extremely high mobility—Transcendent alien races and Ferocious Beasts whose destructive power could wipe out a city—Blue Star had no means at all to deal with them.”
“In the end, they could only place a considerable number of nuclear bombs in advance in every city. When Transcendent-level alien races and Ferocious Beasts attacked the cities, they would detonate them directly, using this method to perish together with the enemy.”
“But with large Dimensional Rifts present, Transcendent-level existences could descend on Blue Star at any time. The method of perishing together also couldn’t be used many times, so as long as a large Dimensional Rift was discovered back then, they would directly use nuclear bombs to destroy it.”
“At first, the effect was pretty good, but later, two nuclear blasts caused the large Dimensional Rifts to undergo mutations, which led to the appearance of gigantic Dimensional Rifts.”
“It was precisely because gigantic Dimensional Rifts that could allow Legends to descend existed that humanity truly entered the Doomsday Era, surviving by relying on the underground bases originally built to deal with nuclear war.”
“These two gigantic Dimensional Rifts are located right in the Endless Forest Sea now, and within the western alien race sphere of influence.”
After listening to Yan Hong’s explanation, everyone finally understood why the Alliance didn’t use nuclear bombs on large Dimensional Rifts.
They didn’t dare gamble.
Although using nuclear bombs had a high probability of destroying large Dimensional Rifts, there was also a chance that a large Dimensional Rift would mutate into a gigantic Dimensional Rift.
At present, Blue Star had only two gigantic Dimensional Rifts, yet that already placed enormous pressure on Blue Star’s humans. If a new gigantic Dimensional Rift appeared, they might truly face a life-or-death situation.
“Other than nuclear blasts, are there no other means that can make a large Dimensional Rift mutate into a gigantic Dimensional Rift?”
After hearing Yan Hong’s explanation, Zhou Ming also voiced his doubt. If Dimensional Rifts could change, he didn’t believe the alien races hadn’t considered this method.
“From what I know, it still hasn’t happened. Those two gigantic Dimensional Rifts were mutations that appeared after the human upper echelons destroyed more than ten large Dimensional Rifts back then. It’s possible other reasons were involved.”
“Whether the main cause of large Dimensional Rift mutation was the nuclear bombs isn’t important. What matters is eliminating every cause that could lead to large Dimensional Rift mutation.”
“Captain, what was the method the werejackals used earlier?”
“Judging by those werejackals’ performance, most of their strength was at the level of ordinary low-tier Ferocious Beasts. They shouldn’t have had the ability to withstand heavy firepower. So why was it that after deploying heavy artillery and missiles, it only caused a small portion of casualties?”
Seeing Fang and Zhou Ming speak up, Fire Fox at the side also raised a question.
“This was an alien race battle formation. It’s a very common method in battles between the Alliance and alien races in the west.”
“You’ve probably stayed in the Alliance’s north for a long time, and you also didn’t deliberately pay attention, so you never heard about it.”
Perhaps considering that even if the others had heard of it, they still wouldn’t know the specific information, Yan Hong immediately introduced it in detail.
“Alien races also have their own civilizations and Transcendent systems, and there are many profession categories among them, like the Giant Priest you saw earlier.”
“Among alien races, there are a few existences with special talents who can integrate groups with weak strength together, gathering everyone’s power to launch attacks, and also distributing the attacks they receive evenly to every person.”
“Part of the knowledge for a Beast Knight’s class advancement to War Knight, and a Shepherd’s class advancement to Legion Commander, came from alien race military formations.”
“When alien races first appeared on Blue Star, there still weren’t any Transcendent-level existences descending. The way alien races faced Blue Star humanity’s attacks head-on was by relying on battle formations.”
“However, battle formations couldn’t be maintained at all times, so they still found chances back then to annihilate part of the alien races, capture them, and obtain some knowledge from them. This also laid the foundation for the later refinement of the Beast Taming system.”
Hearing Yan Hong’s explanation of battle formations, Zhou Ming, who sat to the side, was instantly intrigued.
After all, his secret technique Gathering Sand was also based on the Ironthread Snake swarm merging together, thereby unleashing stronger power.
At this moment, a thought immediately rose in Zhou Ming’s mind.
“Looks like in the future, he had to collect knowledge about battle formations, as well as the Shepherd profession.”
Zhou Ming’s Beast Taming knowledge mostly came from the basic knowledge exchanged at the Hunter Guild, and the Half-Beastman class advancement research materials obtained in the ruins.
Now he had more or less absorbed all of that knowledge. If he wanted to continue improving, he had to obtain more knowledge.
Facing this rare opportunity before him, Zhou Ming naturally seized it tightly, and immediately asked the other questions he had seen in the video as well.
And as Zhou Ming raised more and more questions, the others also reacted at once, immediately treating Yan Hong as an intelligent answer machine.
Under everyone’s rapid-fire questioning, they ultimately drained all the knowledge out of Yan Hong’s head.
Of course, for questions involving secrets, Yan Hong didn’t reveal the slightest bit.
And after the questions were answered, Yan Hong also began introducing the Alliance’s plan.
“Cocoon-eating.”
Because they couldn’t guarantee severely injuring the Giant Race’s upper-echelon power, the Alliance didn’t dare casually use other strategic weapons to massacre ordinary Giants. Instead, they planned to have Qinghui Base and Yunhai Base form a two-sided pincer, gradually eating away at the Giant Race’s living space in the Panlong Mountain Range, thereby forcing the Giant Race completely back into the Dimensional Rift.
Once the Alliance established war fortresses in the Panlong Mountain Range, they would be able to eliminate alien races and Ferocious Beasts descending on Blue Star at the first possible moment in the future, and then there would be no need to worry about other concerns.
This approach was just like what happened back in the Northern Wasteland