This world, shadows quietly enveloped it, and unseen horrors spread among the populace.
The world seemed to be falling into an abyss.
Fang You, who could only stay home to survive, obta...
In April of the second year of the Blue Star Calendar, after more than a year of operation and construction, the Spark Oasis had finally developed from a small Level 2 oasis into the magnificent and vast Level 6 oasis it is today, and it was qualified to become a Level 7 oasis.
All this is thanks to the 'Popularity Collection Ritual' and the tremendous popularity contributed by all the people of Blue Star. Spark Oasis was able to step into the gate of the Super Oasis in just over a year.
At this moment, tens of thousands of elite soldiers of Spark Oasis are on high alert. They are wearing heavy armor that has been polished to a shine, or light slim combat uniforms. They stand on the city wall which is wide enough to accommodate a number of cars running parallel to each other. They look at the thick fog more than a thousand meters away, which is like a gray city wall that is as high as they can see and stretches on both sides without end. Their thoughts are like waves, surging continuously.
Zhou Hai stood on one of the towering city walls and looked back at the magnificent oasis behind him. High-rise buildings were lined up in rows, and giant trees tens or hundreds of meters high were everywhere. In the center stood an even taller pure white tower, emitting a holy light.
More than a year ago, even though he was very confident in the organization and full of expectations for the future, Zhou Hai could not have imagined that in such a short period of time, they had built such a magnificent city deep in the ghost world. This was an incredible miracle.
At the same time, he was also quite proud. After all, he, Zhou Hai, was one of the first residents of Spark Oasis. He had personally witnessed the Oasis's development from nothing to its current prosperity. He also contributed to the development of the Oasis.
"It's as if no one has contributed anything."
On the side, a young man wearing a baseball cap put his hands in his pockets with this expression on his face (¬_¬): Wake up buddy, you are just an employee.
Zhou Hai glanced at him and said, "When the boss is talking, the subordinates should not interrupt."
He continued to sigh.
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Maybe people like to reminisce when they get older. Although his age and awakening level are not related to age, it may be because there are too many young men around him. Zhou Hai always feels that he is at least an uncle and seems to have struggled for a long time. However, when he thinks about it carefully, it has been less than two years since he became Director Bai Jiang. It seems that the gears of the world have begun to change since then.
Old men like Zhou Hai were quite emotional, while the young guys who had just come out of the training camp began to get nervous as time approached, and at the same time their nervousness was accompanied by increasingly strong expectations.
There is no need to mention Chief Instructor Black Knife. All the newcomers present were excellent students when they were on Blue Star. They have all seen and taken classes from the Chief Instructor, but they have never seen the Chief Instructor at his full combat power.
But the rest of the core leaders of the organization are quite mysterious in their eyes.
The mentor is a learned man. It is rumored that the mentor has more profound knowledge and more sophisticated combat skills than the chief instructor... The chief instructor was taught by the mentor, but unfortunately, they are not qualified to be the mentor's apprentices.
Doctor Yinling was also very famous. The newcomers had all heard of her name. Nowadays, many of the nutritional liquids and cultivation potions they used were developed by Doctor Yinling. It was said that Doctor Yinling also possessed extraordinary medical skills and a smile that healed people's hearts... The latter was the key point. Unfortunately, they had no chance to meet Doctor Yinling, who stayed in the laboratory all year round and worked day and night to develop new potions.
Doctor Yinling has worked so hard. I wonder if they can see this gentle angel today?
Maybe?
Some newcomers thought that they were seriously injured, and the angel doctor Yinling came to the world, spreading the healing light and the healing smile that could dispel all the haze. Suddenly, they were more excited.
But when they expressed their thoughts, the senior leader seemed to be hesitant to speak.
Is it because Doctor Yinling is unlikely to be there? The newcomer felt a little disappointed.
The newcomers continued to think divergently, thinking about other big guys.
Boss Liu Shang, mastered the core technology of tree planting; Master Wang Chui, mastered the core technology of giant cannons; Miss Yi Luoxi, was said to be particularly good at the art of explosion; Boss Xing Jinglei... It seems that there is nothing special about him? Skip it.
It is rumored that there is a very mysterious boss at the core of the organization, and his name seems to be 'Miss An'?
But even the senior team leader knew very little about this person. The newcomers only got a few simple pieces of information: he was very strong, terrifyingly strong, terrifying enough to make people shudder.
As he spoke, the old senior seemed to be trembling a little... Could it be that Miss An looked very scary? It was said that Miss An's fighting power was among the best among the big guys, but she rarely showed up and was not as well-known as Big Boss Xing Jinglei... Perhaps, some of their conjectures were reasonable?
No, no, we can't disrespect the boss.
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In Spark City, on the high-altitude observation platform of the Dawn Lighthouse, Fang You, dressed in a white robe and with deep eyes, looked at the slowly rolling gray fog outside the oasis and nodded slightly.
“Almost all the personnel have arrived.”
A few days ago, An Jianyou, Xing Jinglei and others who were still exploring the strange world returned to the oasis one after another. Even Yi Luoxi, who was guarding the oasis next door, left the Ranhuo Mall and arrived at Xinghuo City not long ago.
After all, there was only a short transmission channel between the two oases, which was really close. If there was any unexpected situation in the Burning Mall, it would not take long to rush back. If there was an extremely urgent accident, he could also let Xiao Huan land directly in the Burning Mall, which would be done with just a thought from Xiao Huan.
Another point is that with such a big event as the promotion to Super Oasis, even if he didn't dispatch Iloxi, this kid would probably sneak over to join in the fun.
At this moment, except for Xiao Huan who was still in the panel, and Master Wang Chui who was still working hard at the base, all the other legendary strongmen of the Xinhuo organization were present.
Oh yes, another mythical warrior who didn't come was Xitina. She wanted to come, but she was traveling deep in the Sea of Filth, which was quite far from Oasis No. 3. It took a while for her to get back, and she missed the battle again.
However, these days, Xitina has killed quite a few seven-star evil spirits, so it probably won’t be too regretful for her... right?
Oh and, I almost forgot that Thousand Faces is now also a Seven Awakenings Myth. He/she will naturally not be present. He/she is still undercover under the Bloody Emperor and seems to have made some progress.
Even so, the Spark Oasis at this moment can be said to be a gathering place of the strongest, with more than ten mythical beings...Except for the lack of demigod-level combat power, the strength here is almost as good as that of a dominant team back then.
With such a lineup, Oasis shouldn't have any problem advancing to the next round.
Thinking of this, Fang You did not take out the Heart of the Oasis, but directly relied on the close connection between the base module and the oasis to communicate with the entire oasis and push the oasis to take the last step.
Suddenly, something seemed to have changed.
An invisible, mysterious power bloomed from the Heart of the Oasis, and instantly spread to the entire oasis. This power was only perceived by Master Fang, the wielder of the Heart of the Oasis, but in the eyes of others, the Spark Oasis was also undergoing significant changes.
——More than a thousand meters away, the boundary of the oasis is moving outward at a slow but steady pace.
The thick gray fog covering the earth was dispersing inch by inch, revealing a relatively desolate area, but sparse grass seedlings could still be seen. It was not as dead as the ground in the real ghost world.
The defenders on the city wall watched and gradually held their breath.
The oasis was expanding faster and faster, but at the same time, the gray fog that was being squeezed by the oasis and constantly retreating also gradually changed from its original relatively calm state to a violent and manic state. The gray fog that was like a high wall turned into a surging and turbulent wave in the blink of an eye, and it seemed that a terrible storm was brewing inside.
The old soldiers stationed in Spark Oasis were not unfamiliar with such scenes. It would be better to say that they were used to them. However, they could still tell at a glance that the surging gray fog this time was far more violent than the previous ones. Although it was clearly a similar surging gray fog, they felt a wave of oppressive breath coming towards them one after another.
“It’s coming!”
The old soldiers stopped laughing and became more serious.
The newbies clenched their weapons tightly and stared into the distance without blinking.
At this moment, after the expansion just now, the distance between the city wall and the edge of the oasis has been extended to five or six kilometers. The barren area in the middle is shrouded in sunlight and can be seen. In the eyes of the elite defenders with vision far superior to that of ordinary people, even the grass swaying slightly in the breeze in the distance can be seen clearly.
But they could not see what was in the gray fog, and their line of sight could only penetrate tens or hundreds of meters at most... This was also one of the difficulties in defending the oasis. Everything in the gray fog was completely invisible to the defenders, and could only be observed when the evil spirits emerged from the gray fog.
Alternatively, mythical beings could act as scouts, frequently using their mythical eyesight to peer through the gray fog.
Spark Oasis doesn't need that.
In the Oasis Command Center, Black Blade stood in the middle. In front of him, at the curved operating table, there were more than a dozen unskilled operators operating clumsy equipment. Eventually, these operating instructions converged on the crystal display screens, presenting the scene outside the Oasis.
Gray fog filled the air, strange and evil things gathered, and the earth trembled.
What is quite magical is that although the fog in the picture is obviously very thick, the people present can still see the scene in the fog relatively clearly. They can also adjust the viewing angle of the picture, such as looking down, taking a close-up, changing direction, etc.
This is a picture from the Eye of Detection.
As early as the preparation stage, Black Blade selected dozens of locations outside the oasis to build the "Eye of Detection". Now, with the early warning detection of this epic building, he can obtain intelligence outside the oasis without leaving home, giving him more tactical space.
...In fact, he originally applied to build 618 detection eyes, but unfortunately his instructor rejected his application on the grounds of funding, and in the end only 88 were built.
Thinking of this, Heidao stared at the detection screens more sharply, predicting the direction of the siege wave. He wanted to give these evil spirits a head-on blow.
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Fang You was also looking at these detection images.
He was not borrowing the vision of Black Knife. As the master of the panel, there was an inexplicable connection between Fang You and these buildings built by miracle drawings. Just like incorporating the Oasis into the base module, he could directly see the images of the Eye of Detection without using any external equipment.
However, his focus of observation was different from Black Knife's.
Every profession has its own specialty... Bushi, since Black Blade was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the garrison, he would not intervene. Fang You's focus of observation was on how these evil spirits appeared. However, he stared for a long time and still could not see the inside story. He only knew that the evil spirits attacking the city did not come from the surrounding areas, at least, not all of them.
Some evil spirits sensed the fluctuations, or the **, and swarmed towards the oasis, but more siege evil spirits seemed to appear out of thin air. They passed through layers of gray fog curtains, stepped onto the gray and rotten land outside the oasis, merged into the surging evil tide, and charged together with their kind.
"Ghost, here it comes!"
The eastern defense line was the first to issue an early warning.
Dozens of seconds after the general ordered everyone to be on alert, the gray fog rose to a certain threshold, and one hideous and evil creature after another rushed out of it.
The smallest of these evil spirits was only one meter tall, and they looked ugly but not scary. The one-star evil door knockers that could be seen everywhere were the representative of them. But there were also many huge and ferocious evil spirits that were tens or hundreds of meters tall. They stepped on the shaking ground, crushed one or several door knockers to death, and opened their huge mouths full of sharp teeth and drooled, and ran towards them wildly with their feet and arms stomping on the ground.
Without much warm-up, this Oasis promotion war was even more fierce than the defense of Mizusawa Base City from the start.
There were several terrifying six-star disaster-level evil spirits in sight.
When had the newbie ever seen such a scene? There were no natural disaster-level evil spirits to be found on the entire Blue Planet. They had been killed and turned into rare specimens.
"Keep calm and execute the planned plan. It's just a six-star evil spirit!"
The old birds are very stable.
Amid the roar of the cannons and the sound of the rain of arrows, the newbies gradually calmed down. Why are they panicking? They should feel happy! Watching the evil spirits being annihilated by the gunfire, they felt extremely happy, as if they were playing a lawn mowing game, which was quite stress-relieving.
However, after all, it is the strongest wave in the history of the promotion from 6 to 7. For this reason, Fang You specially recalled myths from all over the place, and Brother Black Knife is also preparing to install hundreds of reconnaissance eyes... If the scale of the siege wave is just so-so, wouldn’t their preparations be in vain?
Their preparation was not in vain.
Before the first wave of sieges on the eastern defense line was extinguished, the southeastern, western, and northern defense lines were successively met with the surging black waves. The number of them was so large that it was not enough to describe it as endless. The roar of artillery fire could not stop the footsteps of these evil waves. They gradually approached and then met the defenders who had long been unable to hold back.
Boom——!
Swish——!
clang——!
There were constant sounds of explosions, tearing, and shouting. The siege had lasted for half an hour. The intense battle had made many defenders look tired, not to mention that the surging black wave had spread to the bottom of the towering city walls and was hitting them one after another. Countless bone spurs and strange fires emerged from the strange evil tide, and the danger level increased several times.
However, the situation is still under control. Even though they are newbies who have just stepped into the ghost world, they are actually experienced warriors. Each section of the wall is equipped with a medical team and water of life. It can be said that as long as they are not killed on the spot, the seriously injured and dying people can be rescued.
On one section of the wall, Yi Yue Luxi, as one of the defenders, was drawing her bow and shooting silver arrows one after another. If a strong person were watching, they would have noticed that Yi Yue Luxi could take away a disaster-level evil spirit, or even a relatively fragile hell-level evil spirit, with one arrow. And on this section of the wall, there were three identical graceful silver-haired figures, continuously shooting deadly arrows, which made people look sideways.
After a while, when Yi Yue Luxi realized that her life energy was about to run out, she stopped her continuous sniping.
After drinking a can of high-level recovery potion, she looked up at the girl in red who was standing right above the evil wave and sprinkling brilliant orange-red sky fire. Then she tilted her head and looked at An Jianyou who was standing next to her. She had no sense of presence from beginning to end and was holding a large glass of milk and drinking slowly through a straw. She couldn't help feeling confused.
"Aren't you going to do anything?"
When Miss Youyou was not yet a myth, she could kill an incarnation of God with her mortal body. Now, Miss Youyou has become a seven-awakening myth. Yi Yue Luxi is very curious about her strength. I am afraid that An Jianyou can already match or even surpass the old myth?
However, An Jianyou didn't seem to have any intention of taking action?
She knew that in order to condense the divine factors of myths, "mysterious factors" were also needed as "raw materials". In other words, even myths had to kill monsters and gain experience.
What's more, Miss Youyou has said before that the war contribution that an individual can obtain depends on his position and the number of evil spirits he kills.
Didn’t you see that Miss Iloshi has killed so many people?
"The situation is still under control now, and since Ilohi has already taken action, there's no need for me to join in the fun."
Under the fierce bombardment of Iloxi's skyfire, the evil wave had thinned out a bit, and the pressure on the soldiers defending the city was not that great. If she took action at this time, it would be equivalent to diluting the experience points and contribution points of others, and she didn't want to do that.
She has no shortage of mystery value, she can get it by simply suppressing some strange and evil trends.
She also has no shortage of contribution points. Therefore, today's opportunity to quickly accumulate Guixie should be left to others.
She sipped the milk and thought happily, "Well, seeing everyone getting stronger and seeing the organization producing strong people makes her very happy."
An Jianyou simply spread out her divine consciousness and let several evil babies be on standby at all times. Once an accident occurred anywhere, she could send the evil babies into the battlefield at the first time.
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The evil tide intensified, with defenders constantly being injured and new soldiers constantly joining the battle.
Among them, the eastern defense line faced the most ferocious evil tide. However, because Ilohi had visited here many times, the evil tide had become much less severe. Now the greatest pressure was on the southern defense line.
Here, more and more soldiers of the defenders were injured. The commander of this section of the wall was asking for help.
At this time, a holy white light fell from the sky, covering dozens of seriously injured and wounded soldiers who were about to leave the battlefield. Suddenly, filthy blood spurted out of these wounded soldiers, and their hideous wounds healed at a speed visible to the naked eye. Their pale faces gradually became ruddy, and their hearts began to beat vigorously.
The wounds no longer hurt, and their hands and feet were much stronger. The wounded soldiers climbed up from the stretchers in a daze, looking at the tall figure that had appeared on their section of the city wall at some point.
"It's Doctor Yinling!"
An old soldier recognized the person who came, and he looked so excited as if he had been given a buff from a distance, and instantly burst out with extremely powerful fighting power.
The newbies were even more surprised. Did the legendary Doctor Yinling appear? That’s right, the big guy who could heal dozens of wounded people in an instant must be Doctor Yinling!
This doctor was just as the rumors said, with a sweet smile that seemed to be a dew that seeped into their hearts. Many soldiers felt that infinite power was surging in their bodies. They shouted and screamed, feeling extremely excited.
With Doctor Yinling present and Boss Yinling standing behind them, what do they have to fear? All these evildoers, come and die!
etc……
The soldiers, with their blood boiling, suddenly noticed a tall, familiar, angelic figure worthy of the protection of all the soldiers. She crossed the entire line of defense and stood at the forefront of the city wall. Then, she jumped straight down.
Defending soldiers: “???”
Oh my god, what happened!
The battlefield was extremely chaotic and intense, and the soldiers had no time to pay attention to too much. By the time they noticed a certain eye-catching figure, Yin Ling had already stepped into the air and moved hundreds of meters away from the city wall.
This distance is about right.
Being too close to the city wall, she was afraid of accidentally hurting her own people.
Too far from the city wall, walking through a place full of evil, she had to be 120% alert, which was very tiring! No, it was very dangerous. She was sure that she couldn't walk too far, so she stopped a few hundred meters away.
Sigh slightly.
How could she, a doctor who saves lives, end up at the forefront of the battlefield?
This is all the instructor's fault.
It's still Guixie's fault.
It’s the world’s fault!
She, Yinling, just wants to do her research quietly!
She shook her sleeves, and the ring of storage poured out. Invisible dust seemed to fly away quickly like bees and butterflies, and a holy light that could heal the body and soul bloomed from her body, spreading rapidly to hundreds of meters around her with her as the center.
At the end, the defending soldiers at the front line of the city wall felt refreshed, the few wounds accumulated on their bodies healed rapidly, and the life energy that was almost dried up in their bodies was replenished again.
At this time,
Before they had time to think, they saw the evil spirits that were also shrouded in the holy white light curtain. Their bodies seemed to be bitten by some invisible and terrible force, and they were rapidly rotting, softening, and liquefying. In the blink of an eye, only a few skeletons of the hideous evil spirits were left, and the grayish-grey sticky fluid slowly dripped from the remains.
A tall woman in white clothes, slim trousers, and black hair tied up, walked among the hell of debris and sticky liquid. She was spotless and still had a smile that could heal people's hearts.
An angelic smile.
“Oh my god!”
Looking at the evil being rotting and liquefying in front of them, the defending soldiers couldn't help but take a few steps back and look at the tall figure in the distance.
Doctor Yin Ling... well, she is definitely an angel!!