My Weekly Refreshing Mentor Spirit-Chapter 367 - 308: The Founding of the Free Iron Curtain (Part 3)

"I won’t leave, the Iron Curtain is our home, I won’t leave..." someone said while holding a magnetic rail gun.

Many others also remained silent, actually sharing the same thought—the Iron Curtain was the place where they grew up all their lives, and they were unwilling to leave their homeland.

"Then stay with me. Everyone else evacuates, and we will cover your retreat," General Ikaka said, making the final announcement to everyone, "Let’s begin, time is short, we are all in this together."

"And remember, if you lose the land, you lose the people, and if the people are lost, everything is lost!"

...

The last group of pilots, who had received the broadcast earlier, also prepared to evacuate.

Dusk was approaching, and the entire New Castle was eerily silent, but at this moment, at the horizon in the distance, countless swarms of insects began to fly, so dense they seemed endless. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

And at the very center of all the swarms was a terrifying giant insect several hundred meters tall, hovering above the sea surface, each move seemingly capable of stirring a dreadful tsunami.

It blocked out the sky and the sun.

Even insects tens of meters high seemed like ants beside this terrifying giant insect.

This was the "Warrior Level" of the Shabu Insect Race.

The Tier Five Shabu race, even according to the subsequent classification of the Mist Council, was at most positioned at the Baron Level within Tier Five, but in the Super Iron Curtain that had no Tier Five combat power, this was the most terrifying weapon.

Initially, two Warrior-class insects that landed here were cleared by the World Consciousness and the Interstellar Corps, but this time, there were nearly ten such warrior-level giant insects.

The dense swarms of insects flew towards New Castle, this was the main force of the first wave of the swarm.

Differing from the previous batch of mostly Tier Four or below vanguard swarms, this batch led by the Warrior Insect King included many Quasi-5th Tier members, ready to take down the last human fortress and completely occupy the entire Iron Curtain.

The Hell Vanguard Army in New Castle also began to resist, but the intensity of this resistance was clearly much weaker than before, as the swarms recklessly charged into New Castle, dismantling firing points and attacking buildings.

Yet the people here, after failing to hold the defense lines, simply abandoned them, opting instead to bury themselves completely in underground bunkers, seemingly relying on the bunkers to hide like turtles and withstand the swarm’s attack.

This made those insects bearing the heads of Super Iron Curtain humans laugh cruelly.

They were the ones who, originally hiding underground in the fallen zones, had their bunkers torn open like tin cans by swarms and turned into the current "pseudo-Insect Race," with their entire thought process warped into the swarm’s form.

So now, for these people hiding in bunkers, they laughed out loud cruelly, just like a can opener, the swarm could easily tear open this solid bunker, dragging out all the canned meat within.

The dense swarms began tearing at the entrances of various parts of the bunkers, or simply tried to bite through the reinforced concrete ground to reach deeper areas.

The entire New Castle was densely packed with insects.

...

In the deepest part of the bunker, through solid-state transmission, everyone who heard the rustling sound of the swarm on the surface was laughing.

They had fulfilled their duty to the Super Iron Curtain, resisting until the very last moment.

At this moment, General Ikaka delivered his final speech in this bunker.

"To all comrades still fighting under the Free Iron Curtain, this is the Iron Curtain’s last voice."

"The fall of the Iron Curtain is inevitable, the worst mistake the Iron Curtain once made was being controlled by extreme ideologies, executing inhumane invasion plans, and even as a result, creating numerous earth-destroying weapons to sanitize after invasion."

"And rather ironically, New Castle was once the vanguard fortress in an invasion war, where a large number of super nukes are buried, I don’t know if this is a hell of a joke."

"The super weapons our ancestors created for invading other planets now become our last trump card and the final tombstone to bury us."

"But it doesn’t matter anymore, the Super Iron Curtain has been completely annihilated, and everything that once was will end with the death and reckoning of our older generation, right next to this underground radio tower are enough nuclear warheads to cleanse the surface, meant originally to cleanse other planets’ surfaces..."

"Apologies, I misspoke, these weapons made for invasion weren’t expected to be used finally not for invasion, but to bury the last war criminals of the Super Iron Curtain."

"Comrades, forget everything about the former Super Iron Curtain, those were all brainwashing and betrayal by those in high positions, you should have your own thoughts, whether it’s for freedom, or for democracy, peace, all are fine, but you must not fight for capital."

"If the Super Iron Curtain still existed, I’m afraid these words of mine would have been turned over to the Ministry of Truth long ago, waiting to be executed, or perhaps they wouldn’t even wait, executing me on the spot."

"In fact, I too think the ideology of the former Super Iron Curtain was meaningless, because even though many people saw the problem, there was no way to stop it, that is militarism, everyone had no choice but to become a part of this meat grinder."

"But now, this damn militarism has finally ended, the future belongs to you, not us. We relics born in the era of militarism have no place in the new era anymore."