The catastrophe that brought about the transition from the old era to the new era was an all-round blockade for humanity. Whether it was the land, the ocean or the sky, humanity's way was completely blocked.

Although Hope City has been struggling for decades and seems to be expanding, in reality the input and output are not proportional.

Anti-aircraft guns can only ensure that the city will not be attacked by strange beasts flying in the sky, and the city walls can only prevent the front of the city from being breached, but the resources of Hope City are actually extremely limited.

In order to ensure the supply of energy, Hope City was located in a location with geothermal advantages, but one of the negative effects of this arrangement is the lack of mineral resources.

In other words, every bullet fired by the soldiers on the city wall and every gram of explosives used are scarce resources. If they cannot be effectively recovered or new veins cannot be found, the reserves will be almost wasted.

This is why the three major institutions in Hope City all pay great attention to the cultivation of super-powered people, especially those with rare and powerful abilities.

Those fireballs, those strange things, seemed to appear out of thin air without any consumption except food. In other words, it was free!

Even if there is some consumption, it is only the energy in the human body. From this perspective, those super-powered people can be regarded as black boxes that will produce specific conversion relationships when a certain amount of energy is input. Cultivating and fully studying them is of great significance to the survival of mankind.

Wang Xiao, who had not thought so much, also discovered something wrong with his rational thinking at this moment -

He could hear the sounds of the strange beasts again, which meant that the firepower on the city wall ahead was not as fierce as at the beginning.

But the beast tide is getting closer and closer to the city wall. It doesn't make sense to hit them hard when they are far away and hit them gently when they are close, unless...

The ammunition reserves were not as abundant as expected.

The city defense team's ammunition is usually distributed on demand, and observers will conduct multiple assessments of the beast tide before allocating it.

There must have been an accident!

"Woo! Woo!"

Another very strange alarm sounded on the city wall. Wang Xiao recalled the training he had received and discerned the meaning of the alarm.

The monster started climbing the wall!

The soldiers at the front have begun to change their formation and retreat slightly to give themselves enough time to react.

Wang Xiao's heart was shaken. He used his enhanced senses to try to distinguish the noisy sounds. Suddenly, he pointed to the position of a soldier in front of him and shouted loudly without paying any attention to discipline:

"There, be careful!"

As soon as Wang Xiao finished speaking, a slender, hard claw appeared at the edge of the city wall and pierced firmly into the concrete in front of the soldier.

He quickly turned the machine gun in his hand around and tried to break the limb with a dense rain of bullets.

But the hard exoskeleton and round surface of the limbs made his attempt fail. The second and third sharp claws continued to appear on the city wall, and a spider-like monster about two people tall began to use several hard claws to bring its body to the city wall.

Wang Xiao's pupils suddenly dilated, because he saw that on each of the two hind legs of the spider-like monster, there was another strange beast with a body similar to that of a cat!

"Ah! Die!"

The soldier roared and pulled the trigger, finally breaking one of the claws, but his chest was pierced by another claw.

Wang Xiao took a big step forward, wanting to rescue the soldier who might have died according to the training content, but he saw the spider-like monster raised its claws and threw the soldier directly to the city behind it.

He suddenly stopped and began to observe the situation in other places. He saw that many soldiers around him pointed their guns at the monster that first climbed up the city wall, which left the defense area in front of them empty.

In fact, many soldiers did not know whether there were monsters climbing up the city wall in front of them, because at this time, if they stuck their heads out of the city wall to observe, it would be extremely easy to be attacked by those beasts. This was something that every soldier on the city wall kept in mind.

At the same time, in the small command room behind Wang Xiao’s area, the middle-aged officer who recruited him personally was grabbing the collar of a young soldier sitting in front of the display screen and shouted angrily:

"Why didn't you see any? Didn't you say there were no spider-like monsters during the first three rounds of observation?"

"Sir, I don't know!"

The young man was obviously an inexperienced observer. He was so anxious that tears were about to come out, and he could only reply to his boss in this way.

He knew that if this section of the city wall was lost today, even if he survived, he would not be able to escape the subsequent judgment.

In Hope City, where the military, public security, and judicial systems are almost entirely controlled by the army, trials of this kind are conducted very quickly, and it seems as if someone will come forward and execute the person by firing squad immediately after the verdict is announced in court.

The young man didn't want to die, but he didn't want to die in obscurity even more. He dared to ensure that every operation he made was completed strictly in accordance with the contents of the training manual.

He had no choice but to say:

"I will send today's video to headquarters..."

Unexpectedly, the commander had already lost interest in him and was standing at the door, shouting:

"Call the headquarters' superpower team for support, and then come with me!"

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The defenses on the city walls collapsed.

Wang Xiao didn't expect to encounter such bad luck on his first battlefield. Normally, such a collapse of the city wall would only happen once every one or two years. Even though his father died on the city wall some time ago, that battle did not lead to such chaos as today.

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