After leaping through the crowd a few times, Wang Zheng arrived at the entrance of the air-raid shelter, where countless poisonous insects had already broken out.
Looking at the soldiers in front of him, whose faces were completely covered by mosquitoes, Wang Zheng gathered holy light in his hand and threw it at each of them before tossing them into the crowd.
The sudden appearance of several "insect people" did not cause the crowd to disperse; instead, even some ordinary people took off their coats to help drive away the mosquitoes.
Fortunately, these insects were of low grade and most of them could not be considered exotic beasts. With Wang Zheng's Holy Light spell protecting them, everyone's efforts were rewarded, and the lives of these officers were saved.
Hearing cheers from behind, Wang Zheng didn't hesitate and immediately condensed 1,000 points of candle flame in his hand.
It wasn't because he was reluctant to use it, but because using too much would be wasteful. Besides, although he himself wasn't afraid of the black fire, Chu Tianxing on his back wasn't.
Therefore, simply rushing in and setting it ablaze is clearly not an option.
As for letting Chu Tianxing go...
Don't joke around. In Wang Zheng's heart, even if everyone here died, no one would be as important as the old man.
If a demon king were to appear now, he could immediately conceal himself and turn away.
Therefore, for the sake of Chu Tianxing and Wang Zheng's own safety, it would be better to use the candle flames in small amounts and multiple times to block the entrance of the air-raid shelter.
If all the poisonous insects from underground were to emerge, and there weren't enough elemental awakeners to defend them, most of the survivors behind him would likely not survive.
If he could prevent the mosquitoes inside from flying out, that would be a great achievement. This was the greatest help Wang Zheng could give to the survivors at this moment...
The moment the candle flames condensed, the surrounding temperature rose rapidly. Many mosquitoes that were originally in mid-air had their wings curled up by the high temperature and fell down like rain.
At this moment, there was not a single person in sight near Wang Zheng, and even the beast horde that had been charging at the crowd had kept their distance.
Wang Zheng felt Chu Tianxing's body temperature rising rapidly on his back, and quickly hurled the candle flame in his hand at the already crumbling iron gate.
"Sizzle... sizzle..."
The moment the flames touched the iron gate, the old gate was burned away as if it were made of paper, and the beast carcass at the entrance was instantly reduced to ashes.
Molten steel dripped from it, then turned into a wisp of smoke and dissipated into the air.
All the mosquitoes and other insects underground were blocked by the extreme heat of the flames; not a single insect could cross this barrier...
They couldn't even get close, let alone cross it; they could only linger in the air-raid shelter's passageway, emitting a buzzing roar, patiently waiting for the flames to go out.
The mosquitoes had little spiritual energy and no crystallization, so the fire quickly subsided.
Seeing that the flames at the entrance were about to go out, Wang Zheng didn't hesitate and slashed down at the bottomless cave entrance with another Candle Flame Blade containing 1000 points of spiritual energy.
With the roar of the air currents, the chirping and fluttering of insects suddenly became much quieter.
However, this time the upper limit of spiritual energy replenished for him was even lower.
Looking at the almost imperceptible improvement on the data panel, Wang Zheng grimaced helplessly. He couldn't keep this up for long.
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While unleashing his own Candle Flame attack into the passage, Wang Zheng also cast Holy Light spells on Chu Tianxing, who couldn't withstand the high temperature.
However, this holy light only replenishes life force and does not have a specific cooling function.
Just as Wang Zheng felt the old man's body burning hot and was about to stop and find someone to take over, the crowd at the farthest point suddenly erupted in a thunderous cheer.
As the cheers of the survivors grew louder and louder, they gradually drowned out the roar of the battlefield.
When Wang Zheng turned his head, he saw swathes of fire rain, thunder, ice spikes, and wind blades falling from the sky, accurately striking the area where the horde of strange beasts was most concentrated.
These fearless beasts became frightened, retreated, and began to flee.
As more and more strange beasts began to turn and flee towards the wilderness outside the city, a well-organized team, looking exhausted yet full of energy, gradually emerged at the end of the street corner.
Behind them was a large group of disheveled, filthy survivors.
After all the strange beasts were either dead or had fled, the surviving refugees in the square started laughing and then crying.
By this time, less than half of the original number of refugees remained alive.
As the warriors advanced, they cleaned up the battlefield, pushing the surrounding beast corpses into corners and gathering the human warrior corpses together as much as possible.
Then, the earth-elemental awakened ones dug a large pit in the ground, pushed the corpses in, burned them, and buried them on the spot, thus creating a simple mass grave for these dead warriors on the battlefield.
While their vanguard bypassed the crowd to continue dealing with the battlefield and carrying out cleanup, the rescue forces behind them quickly approached, gathered all the refugees together, surrounded them, and then continued to advance without stopping.
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