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<South - Main Gate>

"Shields up!"

"Hold the line!"

Adnan was the captain of the Red Barret special forces. He used to train and lead thousands of special forces soldiers. He has been in dozens of secret missions before and survived many life and death situations.

He was currently the most experienced battalion commander guarding the south gate. The other two commanders followed his order. Adnan and his 1.000 men stood on the first line in front of the gate.

"Hold the line!!"

Wwooossssshhhhhhh!!!!

Pa!... Pa!... Pa!... Pa!... Pa!... Pa!...

Thousands of wolflike mutated rats rushed into of the gate, the battalions created a semi-circle formation about the size of a basketball court. There were 3 rows of spearman and 2 rows of saber fighters. These black furred creatures were annihilated by the dozens every minute. But there was always the careless soldier who got bitten and badly injured or died. Adnan ordered the soldiers to switch rows every 15 minutes to give some breathing room.

"Do not falter!!" "Bring up the reserve soldiers!"

Because of the mutation, many of these 1.000 men were stronger than his previous special forces. But these soldiers were inexperienced, they tend to make mistakes.

"Keep your shields up!" "Trust the brother next to you!! Focus on what in front of you!!"

The mutated rats attacking the south gate were twice as many as at the other gates.Commander Adnan saw black furs creatures cover all over the ground until the horizons... there's definitely more than 30.000 rats in here. These are city rats, they mostly came from the city's sewers. All the big cities were south of the Starbase.

RRRRR...RRRRR...

"Firearm troops, fire!!!"

DRATATATATATATA...

The cats were still the hardest to deal with. They are fast and fight better in the dark.

Each battalion had at least 100 firearm troops. At this gate, a total of 300 chosen men were using an AK-47 with the 7.62 cartridges. There were also a dozen snipers.

Pa!... Pa!... Pa!... Pa!... Pa!... Pa!...

The battle at the south gate was a battle of endurance; Adnan's troops had the advantage, but his battalion's survival will depend on how long they could hold the line.

<Central - Headquarters>

Hearing the battle reports made Alex's blood boils. He was really anxious to jump in and join the fight, but he needed to put his trust in the commanders. They needed to improve fast if they wished to save humanity.

"There are many more mutated beasts seen at the south gate, should we send reinforcements?"

Sandi has known Adnan for quite a while, one in the police special forces, the other in the army special forces. He was worried about his friend's safety.

"No.. we need to hold! As long as it's only rats and cats, they will be fine."

"What of the situation at the other gates?"

"The River Gate in the west and the Mountain Gate in the north are fighting the same mutated beasts, but with half the numbers compared to the south gate. At the east gate, Commander Karra is leading the 10.000 reinforcements. She plans to clean up the whole east battlefieldwithin the hour."

<East-Pillar Gate>

The East Gate had Commander Rangga holding one of the battalions, unlike Adnan, Rangga lead from the top of the wall.He is a death squad lieutenant who specialized in kungfu techniques. Within kung fu, there were also Chinese double saber techniques.

SLASH!! SLASHH!!

Every slash managed to kill or incapacitated the mutated beasts.

Most of the battalion commanders already reached the high stage or peak Mortal Realm. Rangga himself was still in between high and peak state expert.

Seeing the situation within the gate and outside the gate, Rangga felt thrilled. There should be ten thousand rats and hundreds of cats attacking the east gate but with higher firepower, troop discipline, and now the 10.000 men lead by Karra the east gate will be cleared within minutes.

But...

Before the east group separated to help the other gates, suddenly multiple loud sounds could be heard from the sky...

KWAAAKK..!! KWAAAKK..!!

These east groups were shocked seeing thousands of mutated birds flying from the seas and covering the sky. These were the lesser frigate seabirds. The magnificent frigatebird is a large, lightly built seabird with brownish-black plumage, long narrow wings and a deeply forked tail. They were also known as a pirate bird, as they liked to harass other birds. Their normal size was around 80cm, but the mutated seabirds are sized between 1.5m to 2 meters tall.

"It's the whole colony of frigate birds from the east sea, each is a high-level first stage flying beast."

Commander Karra's 10.000 soldiers were their first victims. The mutated seabirds, using their claws to beak and crush on their prey. Luckily, Karra brought six APVs today. Six machine guns lighted up and roared at the night. The east gate suddenly turned chaotic.

DRATATATATTATATAT....!!!

Hearing the news of the seabirds, Alex quickly deployed Sandi and his guard unit. The 2000 guards units were not sent to the gates but to be spread all around the Starbase, protecting the civilian's warehouses. Alex was worried that the seabird would fly inside and hurt the civilians.

The two other gates, the west, and north heard the news about the birds, their battalions became a bit anxious.

<West - River Gate>

Rusell on the West River Gate had just finished fightings the mutated rats and cats. He was about to send his men to back the east gate when suddenly he heard multiple splashes from the river...

Hundreds of mutated lizards were moving towards the west gate...

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"..."

"Everyone get in position!"

<North - Mountain Gate>

The same thing also happened within the North Gate, when the mutated rats' number turned smaller, suddenly these last rat groups of mutated beast dispersed outside of the gate... Commander Bayu and the other 3000 men felt something big was coming...

The ground was shaking, the tremors sounded in the night and from within the shadows suddenly dozens of huge mutated brown bears came charging…

GROOWWLLL!!...

They were like a tank moving at fast speed... The men at the North Gate were shocked, they knew these dozens of mutated bears were on a different level.

"Close the Gate!!" Bayu screamed.

"Firearm troops keep firing, someone contacts the headquarters quickly!"

Alex hated to be right, as expected, these were the mutated animals known for their keen smell... The lizards should be around high to peak stage one, but the mature mutated bears should already reach the second stage.

Alex ordered Farell to bring a battalion of his men to support the West Gate, while Alex himself would go to the North Gate.

Alex moved out of the headquarter and two groups of special platoons were already waiting for him. Each platoon has 50 men, these men were hand-picked only from the special forces or the top martial artists. These special platoons could have their own unique name.

The Tiger Platoon, lead by Donny, the former captain of the death squad, the twins Oscar and Oliver were assigned to this platoon. The Wolf Platoon, lead by Jerry with Darius backing him up. Alex brought the two special platoons and also Theo, Cindy, and Aria with him. They were heading to the North Gate when suddenly a figure stopped him... it's Sergei.

"You guys are not going to have a party without me right?"

The healing serum is really incredible, yesterday Sergei was in critical condition, now he's already fit for fighting.

"Great, you can join the Wolf Platoon."

"Let's go!"