The Griffin is dead.
A complete death.
When the spikes in the ground had turned it into a filter, when the beams had shattered it beyond recognition, when the shadows had crushed the remaining bones, when the heavy rain stopped and the dark clouds dispersed, everyone's hanging hearts were finally relieved.
While celebrating the victory, everyone couldn't help but turn their eyes to the only person who went against the flow a few seconds ago.
When the strange beast used the last bit of its strength to attack frantically, even the well-trained super-powered people were a little panicked.
Even the "Blood Puppet" was unable to stop it because of exhaustion.
However, the one who actually broke up the alien beast's final counterattack was the young man standing in front of everyone. He looked to be in his early twenties and had never had experience fighting a fifth-level alien beast before.
Even its appearance on the battlefield this time was due to excessive tension on the part of the Spire.
In the past, although Wang Xiao could not be said to be unknown, people could only say that they had some impression of him.
When people mention Wang Xiao, they are more likely to think of descriptions like "Ah, the guy who grows up very fast".
However, his performance just now was enough to impress everyone present today.
“Crack, crack.”
The transparent blood-colored crystals on the "Blood Puppet" gradually dissolved, just like ice that quickly melted due to heat and turned back into blood.
Immediately afterwards, the blood seemed to have its own life and began to flow towards the blood puppet's left wrist.
Soon the liquid retracted from the wound into the body, and the pale and shriveled figure wrapped in it began to gain vitality little by little as if it were resurrected.
The mummy-like body stood up again, in the posture of a normal human being.
It was not until this time that the blood puppet revealed its true face.
A middle-aged man.
Judging from his face alone, he was about thirty years old, but his completely white hair revealed a thought-provoking sense of incongruity.
“Pah, pah, pah.”
Applause came from not far away, and everyone turned their heads to look. They saw that the blood puppets, except for a few members of the first team, were walking down the steps made by the Holy Shield, clapping and looking at Wang Xiao.
Seeing this scene, everyone either felt inspired or wanted to follow the trend and applauded. Only a few people from the first team smiled and looked at Wang Xiao but did not applaud.
At this moment, the ragged Wang Xiao was in the middle of the battlefield, surrounded by his companions who were looking at him and applauding.
Although he didn't know what was going on, he always felt that these people should say something.
Without time to think too much, he lowered his head in shame:
"Thank you, everyone. But today's victory was not achieved by me alone. In fact, even if I did nothing just now, the beast would not have survived for more than a few minutes."
Upon hearing this, the Blood Puppet nodded and said in a convincing tone:
"That's the truth, and everyone understands it. They applaud you not because you killed the beast, but because you did something that others didn't do. Even if you have the ability, it's not easy to endure such pain.
"Everyone has seen what you have done. Please at least accept our sincere gratitude."
Wang Xiao didn't say anything more. After the applause continued for a while, a group of people walked out of the spire.
They are professionals when it comes to cleaning up battlefields.
Seeing that the handover task had been completed, "Xingluo", who had been on the high platform not long ago, also took the elevator to the ground.
Under the leadership of the First Team and the Blood Puppet, more than a dozen super-powered people who were not injured or only slightly injured entered the spire one after another, and everyone began to prepare to review the previous battle.
This was a battle that took place in the true center of Hope City. Without a clear explanation, I don't know how many people would be punished.
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In the spire conference room located hundreds of meters above the ground, the parliamentarians rarely gather together in an emergency.
Objectively speaking, the straight-line distance between here and the battlefield just now is only a few hundred meters.
But if this place is not safe, then there is no safe place in Hope City.
"It's over."
A congressman received the news from the battlefield below and quickly synchronized it with other congressmen.
“Why did this happen?”
An old voice came, mixed with undisguised anger and dissatisfaction:
"Isn't it time to change the group of people? Look at these guys, they are old and disabled, they don't look like 'Bearers' at all."
His questioning did not yield any meaningful response, except for a word of advice from someone in the shadows:
"This is the best solution at present. Good blanks are not always available."
"You mean the best solution is to let the fifth-level beast rush at us?"
"That's enough. Three Holy Shields have been replaced in less than half a year. Not all of them are Lucas."
"Are you thinking of saying something nice now? Why didn't I see you wiping away tears when Lucas died?"
“…”
The congressmen had a few symbolic arguments, but they also understood that no one could do anything about the current situation.
So the topic shifted back to the main business. For everyone present, being approached by a strange beast at such a distance was something they had never imagined.
This is different from the dozens of people who died in the outer city areas!
But tonight such an emergency happened so easily.
Until the battle in the city ended, no news of any strange beasts attacking from the outer city walls came.
In other words, this was truly a completely independent attack, and the entire incident was so clear that it made no sense.
As the review of the incident drew to a close, the complete version of what happened was heard from multiple people in the conference room below the spire.
The battle with alien beasts is different from the struggle for power among humans. Faced with this situation, I hope the only solution for the Parliament is to strengthen the defense of super-powered people.
After all, now that technology has stagnated or even reversed, they only hope that the alien beasts will not evolve faster than they can restore the technology tree.
The meeting room fell silent as the councillors began to read the combat experience documents.
At the end, where the alien beast died, a name appeared at the bottom of the file:
[The target began to attack all the super-powered people around it in disorder on the ground. The "Immortal" Wang Xiao suppressed them for fifteen seconds with his own ability, successfully buying enough time for the attacks of "Starfall" and "Fortune"...]
"Wang Xiao..."
In the shadows, a congressman murmured the name carefully, his thoughts drifting back to the beginning of summer in the first half of the year.
After an unknown amount of time, Nia's inquiring voice came:
"If there's nothing else, shall we adjourn the meeting?"
All the congressmen had no objections and left the dark meeting room one after another.
Congressman Bordeaux played with the shiny ring on his thumb and walked into the single elevator behind the seats.
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