Chapter 166: Base City in Trouble
Time flies.
The battle that took place in Huaming District, Longyao City seemed to have happened several years ago and gradually became a topic that people only talked about with relish.
With the support of alchemy technology, the Huaming District, which once became a battlefield, has now been rebuilt.
However, this place is no longer the residential area it used to be, but has been designated as a military stronghold, with no outsiders allowed to enter or leave at will.
Especially the area around the entrance to the Spirit Demon Prison, which has not only been built into a military stronghold, but also has a number of research facilities surrounding it. It seems that someone is doing some research on the sealed entrance to the Spirit Demon Prison.
But these are not things that ordinary people should care about, so they have become topics that are talked about and have not caused much response.
Longyao City seemed to be gradually returning to its past state.
Only people in the professional circle know that these appearances are just illusions on the surface.
The subsequent impact of the Huaming Campaign will definitely not disappear so easily.
For example, those fish that escaped into the urban area have not been completely eliminated yet, causing casualties every day, secretly bringing considerable trouble to Longyao City.
So, just as Su Ming had expected, after the holiday, the students of the Demon Hunting Academy entered a completely busy state.
In order to eliminate the escaped fish that had escaped from Huaming District, Longyao City assigned a large number of tasks to the college.
The college classifies these tasks one by one and entrusts them to all the students in the college according to their difficulty.
Yes, instead of allowing students to freely choose in the task hall and decide whether to do it or not, the tasks are directly issued to students through SMS, messages, chat software notifications, etc.
This means that these tasks are semi-mandatory assignments.
The reason why it is semi-compulsory rather than compulsory is that if you cannot complete the task or do not complete the task, you will only be deducted credits and there will be no punishment.
But this is enough to show that the situation is urgent and Longyao City and the college cannot afford to use gentle means to assign tasks.
"Although they are just a group of fish that slipped through the net, phantom demons are still phantom demons. If they are not eliminated, the citizens of Longyao City will never have peace and may be in danger at any time."
Su Ming secretly lamented in his heart the cruelty of this world which was not peaceful at all.
All he could say was that luckily he still had a spiritual constitution and was able to become a sorcerer, so his parents and family members were given the privilege of living in the key protection area in the city center. Otherwise, in such turbulent times, Su Ming would have to live in fear every day, not knowing when his family would encounter misfortune.
It is said that regular professionals in the professional circle have also been assigned to fight against the phantom demons in every corner of Longyao City.
This is not an easy thing to do.
Each phantom demon has its own characteristics. If you want to find them out one by one and destroy them one by one, you will have to put in some effort. That will not work.
Unfortunately, Longyao City is unable to take any major action right now.
Although ordinary citizens and even professionals were not very clear about this matter, Su Ming got a piece of news through Xu Qianqian's channel.
"Longyao City is short of staff now?"
Su Ming listened to the message Xu Qianqian said on the other end of the phone and was stunned.
Is this true? "It's true." Xu Qianqian seemed to be able to hear Su Ming's thoughts and said, "Longyao City is indeed short of manpower, whether it is professionals or soldiers."
"Why?" Su Ming asked this question almost without thinking.
"Because of the war." Xu Qianqian also said directly: "Have you forgotten how many people died in the Huaming Battle?"
This sentence made Su Ming silent.
Although Longyao City won the Huaming Battle, the number of casualties is still vivid in people’s minds.
"The number of professional casualties is more than 15,000."
"The number of military casualties was more than 100,000."
"And how many professionals are there in Longyao City? How many soldiers are there?"
Xu Qianqian's question was quite sharp, forcing Su Ming to understand what these cold numbers actually represented.
Let’s not talk about the army for now, but as for the professionals, Su Ming knew that there were only about 70,000 to 80,000 professionals in the entire Longyao City, less than 100,000.
However, the Huaming Battle caused Longyao City to lose about 20% of its professionals.
This was undoubtedly a Pyrrhic victory.
Therefore, although Longyao City seemed to have restored peace and returned to its past state, in fact, after experiencing the painful price of victory, it had fallen into a quagmire in all aspects.
Otherwise, why would the academy let a group of students semi-compulsory accept the mission? It was just a last resort.
"In other words, Longyao City is in a very bad situation right now?"
Su Ming asked this.
"It's worse than you think." Xu Qianqian said in a cold voice, "I'm going to tell you two pieces of news. Just keep them to yourself and don't tell anyone."
Su Ming did not reply, but waited quietly for Xu Qianqian to speak.
As a result, Xu Qianqian revealed two earth-shattering pieces of news.
"The first piece of news is that among the fish that escaped from the Huaming District battlefield, there were not only low-level phantom demons, but also a dangerous species, a true high-level phantom demon."
Xu Qianqian spoke slowly and without stopping until the end, her words were shocking.
"The second piece of news is that the night before, the mayor of Longyao City and his family were attacked and slaughtered. The mayor is suspected to have been arrested, and the mayor's daughter is currently missing. No one knows where she is."
The two earth-shattering pieces of news stunned Su Ming.
"how so?"
Even Su Ming, who had nothing to do with the matter, couldn't help but be shocked.
Both of these pieces of news are terrible news that can plunge the entire Longyao City into severe turmoil.
Apart from anything else, the fact that there was a dangerous species among the fish that escaped from the battlefield in Huaming District, a real superior phantom demon, was enough to plunge the entire Longyao City into panic.
That's a high-level phantom demon.
A terrifying existence that even four-star professionals can barely deal with but are unable to defeat.
Such a phantom demon is actually hiding in a base city with a population of more than 60 million. It is simply like throwing a carnivorous dinosaur into a flock of sheep. I don't know how many people will suffer and be regarded as blood food and hunted.
You know, the upper-level phantom demons are not the same as the lower-level phantom demons. If they want to suck blood, they will endanger hundreds or thousands of people. If they squander their power in the urban area, it will definitely be a disaster of natural disaster level.
Su Ming could already imagine what a mess the high-level officials in Longyao City had become.
Furthermore, the news that the mayor's family was attacked, the entire family was massacred, and even the mayor seemed to have been taken away was also horrifying.
He is the mayor, the highest authority in Longyao City, the nominal master and owner of the base city of Longyao, and he is able to decide the direction and policy of the entire Longyao City.
Such a person of the highest power was actually attacked. How is that different from the shocking event of the president being assassinated?
Anyway, Su Ming was really shocked by these two pieces of news.
Xu Qianqian seemed calm, but her voice was actually extremely solemn.
"These two pieces of information have been blocked for now. If they are leaked out, the entire Longyao City will definitely fall into chaos." Xu Qianqian said, "The senior management of the base city has held important meetings for two consecutive days and nights, mobilizing the maximum manpower that can be mobilized now. They regard the suppression of dangerous species hidden in the urban area and the search for the whereabouts of the mayor and the mayor's daughter as the highest priority tasks, and the difficulty is SS level."
The so-called SS-level tasks are tasks of a higher difficulty level that would not have appeared in the past.
When a base city is operating normally, the highest difficulty task it will offer is only S-level.
This is not an S-level task in the academy, but an S-level task in the professional circle. The difficulty is for all professionals, not for students.
Generally speaking, a C-level task in the professional circle is more difficult than an S-level task issued by the academy.
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After all, the strongest person in the academy is only two or three stars at best. It is different in the professional circle. Even senior professionals have to go out on missions, and the difficulty of the tasks they accept is absolutely unimaginable for people at the student level.
But, this is just the mechanism when it works normally.
Once a crisis occurs that is sufficient to affect the operation of the entire base city or even its survival, the difficulty of the mission will instantly soar.
SS level is a task of this level.
It is said that there are SSS-level missions above SS-level.
Once a task of that level appears, it means that the base city has really reached a moment of life and death. If it is not resolved, the end result will be the destruction of the base city.
Although it is not yet a matter of life and death for the base city, the emergence of dangerous species and the attack and disappearance of the mayor's family will plunge Longyao City into turmoil and chaos.
Therefore, whether it is to defeat dangerous species or search for the whereabouts of the mayor's family, they are all SS-level missions.
"These two tasks have taken up a large number of manpower in Longyao City. The remaining manpower is obviously insufficient to be distributed to various places in the base city."
Xu Qianqian told Su Ming this.
"From now on, I'm afraid our days will become more difficult."
This is beyond doubt.
Su Ming's brows suddenly furrowed tightly.
He really didn't expect that Longyao City, which seemed to have restored peace, was actually in such a crisis.
Su Ming put aside the dangerous matter for the time being and turned his attention to the murder of the mayor's family.
"Why were the mayor's family attacked?" Su Ming asked, "Did terrorists appear?"
"I don't know." Xu Qianqian shook her head and said, "We are still investigating what happened. The only thing that is certain is that the other party is not an ordinary person."
As the mayor of Longyao City, the mayor's family is also a big family.
"The Wang family is the family with the longest history in Longyao City. It has been a very famous hunter family for a long time. Although it is not a super family with nightmare bloodline inheritance, it is also among the top families. Its profound foundation and strong strength are even inferior to the Xu family and the Li family."
Xu Qianqian spoke slowly.
"I heard from my father that the ancestor of the Wang family was the one who founded Longyao City, a base city. Therefore, at least half of the mayors of Longyao City were elected from the Wang family. The Wang family is second in strength among the many families in Longyao City. No one dares to claim to be the first. There are more than a dozen senior professionals in the Wang family alone. In addition to the Warlock Guild and the Yunliu Chamber of Commerce, it is the force with the most senior professionals in Longyao City."
Such a Wang family was breached by someone, how could the attacker be an ordinary person? But here comes the question.
"Who are the attackers to be able to break into a big family like the Wang family?"
Su Ming murmured this question unconsciously.
"This is also what the entire Longyao City's top leaders want to know." Xu Qianqian said in a heavy voice: "After all, if even the Wang family can be breached, it means that the other party's strength is enough to breach any family in Longyao City."
How could the senior officials of Longyao City feel at ease? Chaos at the top was definitely inevitable.
Of course , "In the Huaming battle, the Wang family, as the oldest family power in Longyao City and the mayor's family, has always set an example and rushed to the front, so the sacrifice is also the greatest among many families. Nearly half of the dozen senior professionals have been sacrificed. Now is the weakest time, and it is unavoidable that someone will take advantage of it."
Xu Qianqian told Su Ming this.
"According to my father, the people that Longyao City's top officials suspect are not in the city, but outside it."
In other words, the senior officials of Longyao City also believed that this incident was caused by forces outside the base city.
"Forces outside the base city"
Su Ming suddenly thought of a force.
"Could it be the work of 'evil'?"
Su Ming's words left Xu Qianqian silent for several seconds.
"It's very likely." Xu Qianqian said slowly, "If we are talking about forces outside the base city, we must first suspect 'evil'."
Who could have allowed this underground mercenary organization to appear in Longyao City before, and even to operate under the protection of a certain high-ranking official in Base City? If not suspecting them, who else could he suspect?
And "Sin" also has this kind of power.
They are the largest mercenary organization in the underground world and one of the largest underground professional groups. There are even two seven-star professionals in the organization. They are by no means comparable to a mere remote base city by the sea.
Longyao City is just one of the many base cities on the surface, and it is not among the top ones.
"Sin" is one of the largest organizations in the entire underground world, and it is one of the best underground organizations in the world.
There is no comparison between the two.
Therefore, if it was really "evil" who was responsible, then Longyao City would be in big trouble.
Naturally, if it was really them, Su Ming would also have to be careful.
"Xiao Hai'er is their target." Xu Qianqian said solemnly, "If it really is them, you will most likely be targeted."
Hearing this, Su Ming narrowed his eyes.
It seems that I have to take some measures myself.
It's decided! I'll update you tomorrow! ヾ(｀Д)彡 (End of this chapter)