But that one unintentional approach by the gigantic ancient creature forced Pengcheng to sacrifice nearly a hundred Inner Breath Realm Martial Artists’ lives just to lure that gigantic ancient creature away.

As for killing it?

That was a mere fantasy.

Before the cataclysm, Pengcheng was not a first-tier city, although it was a transportation hub. In ancient times, Pengcheng would definitely be considered a critical battleground for military strategists. Even during the civil war in the recent past, a significant large-scale battle broke out in Pengcheng.

However, in the modern era, with the development of technology, the confrontation between soldier and soldier, person against person, became less common, and warfare turned into something like a game of long-range combat.

Modern warfare is no longer about the fighting will between two armies’ soldiers; it’s about who can detect the opponent’s position first.

In modern warfare, once the enemy’s location is confirmed, drones or missiles are used to clear them out directly.

So Pengcheng, which was originally a major military stronghold, saw a continuous reduction in the number of stationed troops due to its inland location.

Not to mention those powerful weapons—they would certainly not be deployed in an inland city like Pengcheng.

Although gigantic ancient creatures are massive, they are made of flesh and blood, and firearms definitely lack the lethality to harm them; but once humans use missiles without considering the cost, they can easily kill gigantic ancient creatures.

It’s just that even killing a gigantic ancient creature is useless, because just like the monsters in games, they will respawn after death.

Before the cataclysm, there was complete missile production equipment, as China was once called the arsenal of Blue Star.

Unfortunately, several rounds of cataclysms almost completely destroyed the various production lines. Without those professional missile production lines, although it is possible to manually manufacture the individual parts of a missile, the efficiency is greatly reduced.

The missiles currently available to the Imperial Court are so precious that every time one is used, one fewer remains. Don’t forget that modern missiles are basically equipped with precise electronic devices, and when the electromagnetic pulse occurred,

it essentially destroyed all electronic devices on the missiles not stored in special warehouses. The majority of the missiles that can now be used are those previously stored in special areas, while most of the others are being repaired bit by bit by engineers manually.

Due to the need to replace most of the electronic devices in the missiles and the fact that during certain cataclysmic events, engineers couldn’t maintain the missile repair work, this leads to the situation where China might have many missiles, but very few are ready to launch freely.

Cities like Kyoto, which can use missiles to defend during monster sieges without considering ammunition consumption, are few and far between.

When most cities encounter ancient creature sieges, if it’s a small-scale attack, they generally mobilize the Martial Artists within the city to assist in the defense.

For sieges by large ancient creatures, it depends on whether the city has large-scale lethal weapons—if they do, a hard counter-attack can be launched.

If not, they have to adopt the method used by Pengcheng when facing a gigantic ancient creature, sacrificing the lives of Martial Artists to lure the creature away.

And the cities that truly remain unflustered when facing gigantic ancient creatures are probably only the super first-tier cities like Kyoto, Magic City, or Mist City.

The Imperial Court has now classified ancient creatures into different levels according to their size.

Those with a height or length of less than 3 meters are collectively referred to as small ancient creatures.

Those with a height or length around 10 meters are collectively referred to as medium ancient creatures.

Those with a height or length around 50 meters are collectively referred to as large ancient creatures.

Those with a height or length greater than 100 meters are collectively referred to as gigantic ancient creatures.

Of course, this classification is a rough division and is not detailed. Apart from small ancient creatures, no one actually measures those deemed as medium ancient creatures before combat, relying on rough visual estimates, so there’s bound to be some error.

A Martial Artist, without a suitable weapon, can at most cope with medium ancient creatures.

For those large and even gigantic ancient creatures, ordinary weapons not only have a hard time piercing their skin, but even if they can penetrate, they would get caught up in the creatures’ thick hide.

Dong Tianyu and his group had previously only encountered mainly small ancient creatures; encountering even a few medium ones was considered significant.

The one time Saxon County faced a large ancient creature was detected in advance by the military camp before it merged, and after more than thirty soldiers made the ultimate sacrifice, they managed to lure it to another place.

Therefore, everyone in the camp now, let alone gigantic ancient creatures, would be very afraid even when facing large ancient creatures.

It was also for this reason that when everyone heard from Elder Jefferson that the weapons delivered by the airdrop from Kyoto were powerful enough to kill gigantic ancient creatures, they became so excited.

Elder Jefferson knew what everyone was thinking at the moment, so he very decisively opened the box containing the special sniper rifle, spilling out the gun components inside.

Leaving aside the other accessories, just the sight of the gun barrel, which was as thick as the upper arm of an adult male, made it clear that this thing was more appropriately called a cannon than a rifle.