"Are you guys crazy? Why are you making me wear this mask?!"

Jiang Yuan, who was walking through the streets, cursed loudly. He originally thought that the distribution of the masks would be simple: he would wear the clown mask, Ning Yanlan would wear the Harley Quinn mask, and Leng Yue would naturally wear the faceless ghost mask.

As it turned out, Leng Yue was unhappy. She felt that the faceless ghost mask was not worthy of her aloof temperament and insisted on exchanging it with him.

What else could he do? As the captain of the Oath Squad, Jiang Yuan had no choice but to compromise. The perfectly matching couple masks were ruthlessly torn off, and he became a faceless imp.

"That's called a cute contrast! Besides, as the captain, you shouldn't grant your teammates' occasional unreasonable requests!" Leng Yue said gloatingly from behind.

"You still know it's an unreasonable request, which puts me, Jiang, in a very difficult position!" Jiang Yuan said helplessly.

"Captain, we can only use code names now, don't say your real name anymore!" Ning Yanlan teased from behind.

"Phew, one day I'll wipe out Sima Sheng's lair, otherwise it's really frustrating to have a name but not be able to use it!" Jiang Yuan sighed towards the sky.

The three of them moved forward quickly, and the West Gate area gradually came into view.

"call!"

The three stopped almost simultaneously, and the horrifying scene before them silenced even the most seasoned killers.

As a safe zone, the South City is home to a number of humans that are incomparable to other settlements. For example, a refugee camp used to have a maximum of 200,000 civilians, but now the West Gate area alone has 2 million innocent civilians. This disparity is why countless human spirit awakeners are paying attention to it.

The West Gate has been breached by the beast horde, and the devastation is spreading. Everywhere you look, there are flames and explosions, wails and cries. This is the main theme of the apocalypse, but this time it has come to this safe zone that has always been safe.

"Two million civilians..."

Jiang Yuan looked ahead and murmured a number. He didn't know how many of the two million civilians from back then were left, but judging from the tragic scene before him, more than half of them had died.

"This is the real apocalypse!" Leng Yue appeared terrifyingly calm, but her heart was filled with sorrow.

The prosperity of the past vanished like a bubble under disaster, and countless beautiful things shattered in an instant. Only by becoming strong can we maintain lasting beauty.

"This place is no longer defensible!" Jiang Yuan looked ahead and calmed down.

The defenses of the West Gate were completely torn apart, and tens of thousands of monsters poured into the city. The last fig leaf covering the West Gate area and the beast tide was ripped off, exposing humanity's most vulnerable side to the beast tide.

And that wasn't all. More and more monsters kept pouring into the city, and they had no chance to drive the beast tide out. They could only build a new defensive line behind the west gate.

"Save them! Ximen is ruined!" Ning Yanlan was in a bad mood. Watching countless innocent people being swallowed by the beast tide would make anyone feel bad.

“Yes, for now we can only send the survivors to the rear!” Jiang Yuan nodded in agreement. It was a pipe dream to retake Ximen now, unless someone in Nancheng appeared who was strong enough to fight against those ninth-tier spirit beasts, and there would be quite a few of them, because ninth-tier spirit beasts were rampant in the beast tide.

"Yanlan, you don't need to fight. Just use the Stone Breath to find the survivors!" As the captain, Jiang Yuan is responsible for this operation. This is not a one-man battle. If it were just a matter of fighting monsters, he would have taken full responsibility without hesitation, but not now.

"This is a map showing the distribution of the Ximen area. The new round of defense reconstruction in the south of the city is in the inner fourth ring road, which means that the outer two ring roads have been completely lost. The outer two ring roads have a total of seven streets, three residential areas, and two old residential areas."

Leng Yue pointed to a spot on the distribution map and said in a deep voice, "This is the Tianlan Huating residential complex, which is closest to us. After the establishment of the safe zone in Nancheng, it has taken in 20,000 people. If the beast tide spreads here, it will be very difficult for these 20,000 people to escape!"

While living in a high-rise building can protect you from low-level monsters, it's actually the best place to wreak havoc on monsters with hundreds of energy points.

Like monsters the size of a large truck, their aggression is enough to destroy the load-bearing walls of a building. And since destruction is in the nature of monsters, it would be strange not to mess with such tall buildings.

"Tianlan Huating only has 20,000 people?" Jiang Yuan didn't expect the number to be so small.

“That’s quite a lot. The people in the West Gate area are concentrated around the Seventh Street. Because of the unscrupulous real estate developers in the previous projects who preferred to leave the properties unsold rather than lower prices, many houses in the three developments have not been sold. So the current 20,000 people are temporarily assigned to Tianlan Huating. Otherwise, the number would be even smaller!” Leng Yue explained.

"As for why we didn't go somewhere else!"

While tapping the table, Leng Yue continued, "Other places are too dangerous with too many people. There are only three of us. If one can't save them, the other is also worried about their own safety!"

"Alright, let's go then! We'll save as many as we can!" Jiang Yuan's first consideration wasn't how dangerous it was. In chaotic times, self-preservation was important, but daring to take risks was even more important.

Danger is always accompanied by opportunity; without the determination to risk one's life, how can one carve out a path in chaotic times?

The three of them quickly headed towards Tianlan Huating, and along the way they saw many human teams, which seemed to be people from other parts of Nancheng who had been transferred to help Ximen.

"Look at those people, their outfits are so weird!"

As soon as Jiang Yuan and his two companions stepped into the gate of Tianlan Huating, they heard the voice of a young girl.

"Holy crap, is this robe a Tier 7 equipment? I remember seeing a powerful player auction off the same style of robe in the trading area before, selling it for over ten Tier 7 Holy Spirit Stones. There were quite a few people who coveted that robe back then, but no one could afford to pay that price!" The boy accompanying the young girl looked at Jiang Yuan and his companions in surprise. What he was looking at was the invisibility robe they were wearing.

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