Chapter 372: Stone City Crisis 1
When the big team heard that Lebao had woken up, they rushed over to ask about his well-being.
Xiao Feifei woke up soon and rubbed his horse face against Lebao, and the man and the horse became more intimate.
The big team felt relieved and could prepare to go home.
He attributed the changes in space to Le Bao's awakening from his coma and the advancement of his supernatural powers, and didn't think much about anything else.
Xiao Lebao and Xiao Feifei now have the highest abilities in the entire team, having jumped to level seven.
Everyone was happy. On the third day after Lebao woke up, the group set out on their journey home.
The way back is directly through the air, and Lu Chaoyang has planned the ground route after careful consideration and detailed modifications.
Duan Jianghe also found a way to defeat the stone worms. These creatures have lived in a pile of stones all their lives, eating and drinking stones, and have never seen any other good things. Duan Jianghe made them surrender with just a piece of meat.
It’s quite speechless to say.
However, these creatures have excellent combat capabilities and survival attributes. Given a gravel pile, they can survive and reproduce for a long time. Although they may rebel for a piece of meat, this flaw is generally unknown. The large team plans to take them back and build a circle of gravel outside the base specifically for breeding and using them as gatekeepers.
The journey back takes three days and three nights.
When they are tired of flying, the big team does not need to get off the ground. They can take out their villas and let the good clouds carry them so that they can continue to float in the sky.
When they could vaguely see the three big mountains behind the stone city, the friends felt worried, not knowing whether their base was still there.
I'm still here, but I'm not doing well.
After the strong earthquake began, Shicheng was not greatly affected. The fortifications on both sides of the mountain were built perfectly. Even if some rocks were shaken off the mountain, no one would be injured or property would be damaged.
As for the infrastructure in the base, construction has stopped. Everyone knows that the Dragon and Phoenix Team is going out this time to find a new habitat, and this place will be abandoned. What they have now is enough for daily needs.
What they urgently need to do is to strengthen their own training and improve their own strength to fight against possible foreign invasions.
Obviously, the bosses' decision was correct. In the second month after the strong earthquake, several groups of people came one after another and wanted to occupy Shicheng.
As time went on, more and more of them came. All the people in Shicheng were divided into three shifts, taking turns to fight against the foreign enemies 24 hours a day. This was because they had sufficient supplies and did not have to travel long distances to consume their physical strength. In addition, due to the special location of Shicheng and the large army of beasts, they were able to cope with the situation with ease.
I just don't know why, but two months ago, the number of people invading Shicheng not only increased exponentially, but also became extremely fanatical, as if they had taken stimulants and were fighting to the death.
In the past two months, Shicheng has had a difficult time coping with the situation. The wounded have been continuously sent to the hospital, and the medical research team has not had enough time to prepare medicine every day.
Kong Fenglin's face was gloomy. There must be something they didn't know. Otherwise, no matter how rich a stone city was, it would not make these people so crazy.
"Have you found out?" Kong Fenglin asked Sa Bing. The outside of Shicheng was blocked. They were like being trapped in a dead end. They could only guard against anyone coming in, but at the same time they couldn't get out.
Because of this, no news could be obtained or sent, and no one knew where Lan Shiruo and the others were or when they would return.
Although he didn't want to be so cowardly as to rely on the Dragon and Phoenix Team for everything, the current situation was that the entire Shicheng had already tried their best and there was really no way they could hold on. If the Dragon and Phoenix Team didn't come back, Shicheng would be in danger.
The constant stream of attacks was really weird, so Kong Fenglin had no choice but to let Hou Yi go out to investigate and see if he could get any useful information.
Sa Bing was dejected. The result was obviously not ideal. "Hou Yi couldn't get out either. Those people were guarding very closely and didn't communicate with each other. I couldn't hear any news at all."
As expected, Kong Fenglin was just holding on to a glimmer of hope.
Now that luck is gone, I can only face reality.
Lu Gan pursed his lips. "We have to do something. The Dragon and Phoenix team warned us when they left and said they wouldn't take action unless absolutely necessary. So, we have to defend Stone City on our own. Only then can we defend more cities in the future."
How could Kong Fenglin not know that this was a test given to them by the Dragon and Phoenix Team? If they couldn't defend Shicheng now, how could they defend the greater empire that the Dragon and Phoenix Team had conquered in the future?
The discouragement only lasted for a moment. Kong Fenglin was not a man who would admit defeat.
"Sa Bing, notify Xia Xun and bring the person in."
Sa Bing was stunned for a moment, and without asking any more questions, he ran out quickly.
Lu Gan immediately knew what he wanted to do. It was like catching a turtle in a jar. Although it would leave Shicheng with one less barrier, it was still a way to survive from the brink of death.
"I'll arrange for people to guard the canyon and take action if necessary."
To take action means to block the retreat and blow up the canyon. At that time, they can only escape to the back mountain. The back mountain is full of dangers, but also provides hope, the only hope.
Kong Fenglin nodded. This was a method that would not be used unless it was absolutely necessary. It would only be used as a last resort to protect the elderly, the weak, women and children in the base.
Everyone in the base, the Miao family, the He family, the Yun family, and everyone else, did their jobs in an orderly manner. No matter how chaotic or dangerous it was outside, they couldn't panic. They had to ensure good logistics so that those who were fighting in the front could feel more at ease.
The vegetables on the roof have been harvested, firstly for moving, and secondly so that they won’t be sold to outsiders if the city is really breached.
Take out all the edible things in the warehouse and reward all the fighting humans and beasts.
Xia Xun licked his lips and smiled. He couldn't just let people out of the city after he had led them in. Not only would he appear to be incompetent and cowardly, but it would also arouse their suspicion. Besides, killing a few more before bringing them in would be a win.
Therefore, Xia Xun directed everyone to fight calmly, as if teasing a dog, in order to buy enough time for the stone city to make arrangements.
This dragged on for three days and three nights, and the stone city was finally "broken." The people who were exhausted from fighting outside, with no medicine to treat their wounds and no food supplies, rushed in madly with red eyes and burning hearts.
The guards of Shicheng fought and retreated all the way to the waist of the gourd, gritting their teeth and holding on.
The enemies outside the city swarmed in, and in just ten minutes, they filled the entire front half of the stone city.
"Boom" the broken stone city gate suddenly closed.
The noisy crowd didn't notice and continued to scream and struggle as they rushed in.
Until another "boom" exploded in the crowd.
"Ah" screams were heard everywhere, and a broken arm and blood mist flew in the air. Everyone was stunned and didn't know what was going on for a moment.
Without giving them a chance to figure out what was going on, loud booms rang out one after another.
In the stone city, on the former artillery platform, and in the houses later built to accommodate outsiders, countless shells were thrown out and exploded among the crowd.
People were crammed together, with no escape or avoidance, and could only watch themselves get blown up.
By the time they realized what was happening and wanted to resist, the hole for throwing explosives was blocked and they couldn't get in at all.
All the buildings here are built with thick stone slabs. They cannot be destroyed by ordinary supernatural powers. Even explosives cannot blow them open for a while.
(End of this chapter)
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