Chapter 245 Jinjiang Exclusive Release
Capital city.
On the towering city walls illuminated by countless light strings and camping lights, countless garrison soldiers attacked the large herd of beasts gathered outside the city. Arrows rained down, causing angry howls.
In addition to ordinary arrows, methods such as spraying hot oil, shooting rockets, and rolling stone cart attacks were used in succession, each time causing considerable casualties to the herd.
But the herd of beasts below continued to increase, as if endlessly.
The soldiers on the city wall, illuminated by their camp lanterns and the blood-red moon, looked down and cursed, "These beasts are insatiable!"
"Last year we hardly encountered any beast attacks, but this year it's been really weird."
"Last year, the surrounding fissures blocked the way for wild animals to come here, so naturally there weren't many. This year, the two sides are connected again, and there are countless wild animals in the wild. It's not surprising that there are so many of them."
Ever since the capital city had suspended buses and skateboards, several wooden bridges and even iron chain bridges were built on both sides of the crack in the ground to facilitate people's travel back and forth to search for supplies.
In the past few months, people took advantage of the time when the natural disasters were not so serious to go out and indeed gained a lot.
However, they did not expect that after the polar night, these bridges that reconnected them with the outside world would become paths for invading beasts.
A soldier said, "We should have told our superiors to cut down the bridges first." At worst, we can just wait until the beasts are gone and then rebuild the bridges.
A general shook his head and said, "There's no need to go to such lengths. We've replaced enough immortal artifacts, and the city walls can withstand most beasts. If necessary, we can just use the immortal artifacts to blow them up. The beasts' mortal bodies won't be able to withstand any of this."
By then, these seemingly ferocious beasts will only be there to deliver meat to them.
He heard from above that the amount of meat and seafood provided by Yunxianhou and Yunlu Village had decreased a lot recently. Although their camp still had a stable supply, the butcher shops in the city were short of supplies.
These beasts arrived just in time.
The general shouted to the other soldiers, "Alright, stop talking nonsense! Keep fighting! Switch to tranquilizer and sleep-inducing rounds! Tell the guards down below to be ready to go out and retrieve the carcasses."
Soon, the arrow attacks stopped, and countless tranquilizer bullets and hypnotic bullets were shot downwards. The howling beasts soon fell down in large numbers.
Not long after, the city gate opened quietly, and a team of soldiers ran out quickly to carry away the unconscious wild boars along with other wolves, jackals, etc. that had been shot dead.
By the time a new group of beasts came to rush in, the city gate had already been closed again, and a new round of attack began.
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In addition to the defense on the city walls, fierce fighting was also going on around the greenhouses outside the city.
Today, the total scale of greenhouses in the capital has exceeded 100,000 acres, covering a huge area.
The greenhouse is far less sturdy than the city wall, but the grain grown inside is the food for the people in Beijing and even the victims of disasters in many other towns and cities across the country, so it cannot be lost.
To this end, the new emperor sent half of his guards to ensure the safety of the greenhouse.
In addition to the guards, those with special abilities who were willing to participate in the battle were also brought here.
Low-level psychics have limited attack range and cannot exert 100% of their abilities on the city walls. The city gates cannot be opened at will for a few psychics, so the greenhouse becomes the best place for them to fight.
After an entire rainy season, the number of people with special abilities in the capital increased by several. Except for those with enhanced five senses, which were not of much help in the battle, even those with enhanced body abilities participated in the battle without hesitation.
As the only person with special abilities in the city, Bai Xuefeng is equally qualified.
And because his rebound ability requires close combat to work, when others use long-range attacks, Bai Xuefeng can only engage in close combat with wild beasts in order to improve his ability.
In order to ensure that the beasts have the ability to attack, most weapons cannot be used for self-defense. One can only wear protective clothing and use supernatural powers to play "head-to-head" with the beasts.
The low-level supernatural power was unable to rebound all attacks, and while it bounced back a portion of the impact force, causing the wild boar/wolf to fly backwards howling, Bai Xuefeng himself was also bruised and swollen by the aftermath, with tears streaming down his face.
Then he wiped his tears, gritted his teeth, stood up again, continued to hit, bounce, knocked the beast away, got up, took the weapon and took the opportunity to chop down the injured beast, and then repeated the previous steps.
As the time went on, the bruises on his face became more severe, and the scene was both tragic and comical.
Not to mention the guards standing nearby who had their mouths twitching, even Bai's father, who had come over to help with logistics out of worry about his son, felt both distressed and amused when he saw it.
When Bai Xuefeng finally exhausted his superpowers and temporarily handed over the defense area to the guards, and hurriedly absorbed the crystal core to recover, Bai's father came over and whispered, "Our family doesn't need you to beat Wu Jin Lu. You don't have to work so hard."
Even though the protective suit on Bai Xuefeng could protect him from the jackal's claws or bites, the pain itself could not be eliminated.
Seeing his son, who had never suffered hardship since childhood, beaten to a pulp, sweating and in a miserable state, with his facial features bruised and swollen beyond recognition, he, as a father, felt bad too.
Bai Xuefeng shook his head and said, "Since I'm lucky enough to have acquired special abilities, I can't just do nothing."
His Majesty has given him the title of Viscount, so he should at least do something worthy of the title so that people will not think it is just a false title.
Moreover, he was indeed afraid and in great pain at the beginning of the battle, but after enduring the initial ordeal, it was nothing more than that.
Perhaps every man has a heroic dream in his heart and a yearning for fighting.
It certainly hurts when you get beaten, but once you win, the sense of accomplishment you feel is unprecedented.
Therefore, as soon as his superpowers were restored, Bai Xuefeng regrouped, asked his father to go back, and returned to the front line with high morale, starting a new round of 'rebound-knock-away-kill'.
Seeing this, although Father Bai still couldn't help but worry that he might get into an accident, he couldn't help but feel proud of Bai Xuefeng in his heart.
In other gathering places, there are more than one people like Bai Xuefeng who fight hard for the title.
Chen Bing, Ye Feiluan and others who had been trained by Lu Xuan were much more ferocious in fighting than the psychics who awakened later.
Also, because the number of people with special abilities has increased in various places over the past few months, including the rarest type of thunder ability users among the conventional types, the opportunities for cooperation have increased a lot.
The wind helps the fire, and the water can freeze to save energy for ice-type ability users. At the same time, water is also conductive. The combination of the two shows the combat effectiveness and battle situation that are no worse than those brought by thermal weapons.
Those who were unable to cooperate, such as Zhou Qing, the beast-like mutant who followed Huo Tiankuo to support the small base, were like human-shaped wild boars, rushing forward recklessly.
Wherever he passed, no animal survived.
In order to reduce casualties, many people even rode on hoverboards to fight at high altitudes.
No matter how fiercely the beasts roared, they could not hit them and could only be forced to endure multiple attacks from the sky, and then fell down unwillingly one after another.
However, the place where skateboards can play their greatest role is when fighting against flocks of birds.
Luochuan City.
Countless violent sparrows and hundreds of different species of eagles and falcons kept circling over the city, swooping down from time to time, trying to attack people on the ground.
"Don't let them rush down! Fire!" Chu Ming stepped on the hoverboard, and kept throwing fireballs in his hands at the dense flock of sparrows, while calling on other soldiers around him to throw hypnotic bombs.
As countless tear gases spread in the air, the soldiers wearing gas masks were not affected, but the falcons with red eyes and violent fighting power fell down like rain in waves.
At this time, the officers and soldiers from the prefectural government who had been waiting below quickly rushed over to finish off the enemy.
Because Magistrate Liu had said in advance that the beasts killed by the people who helped in the herd would become their personal property, in addition to the officers and soldiers, there were also many young and strong men who volunteered to help in the battle, and among them there were even many women who came with kitchen knives or axes from their homes.
Those who lacked combat effectiveness, such as Liu Zimo, Zhang Tongzhi and others, were responsible for treating those who were injured in the battle and were sent here.
With the dual protection of the medical cabin and treatment equipment, everyone can be guaranteed to survive unless they are extremely unlucky and die on the spot.
In sharp contrast to the small number of casualties, there were mountains of meat in the government office that could not be stored in time.
The people in the city saw all of this, and only two days passed from their initial panic and worry to their joy as if it were New Year's Day.
When the beast attacks paused, butcher shops on every street in the city began selling large quantities of wild boar meat, mutton, venison, and even beef.
This is the kind of beef that was rarely available to people before the disaster. It’s not the old beef that died of old age and whose meat is not very tasty, but the bison beef with firm muscles!
The people were crazy with joy.
Some even hoped that the beast raids would last longer so that they would have a chance to get more meat.
Of course, the premise is that the meat is edible.
Things like rat attacks or even insect swarms are not very pleasant.
On the fifth day after the blood moon appeared and the beast attacks began, Yunlu Village once again faced attacks from snakes, insects, rats and ants.
But unlike the terrifying scene last year when the door was opened and a critical hit occurred, the night watchmen used drones every day and surveillance equipment arranged in all directions of the village to monitor the surroundings, and discovered the existence of the insect swarm at the first time.
After receiving the news, Lu Xuan quickly opened the city's protective shield, blocking all insects and ants that tried to invade outside the shield.
After that, it was just mechanical cleaning.
The wind and fire ability users cooperated to burn the large area, and the others used other thermal weapons to sweep along.
Among them, Chen Rong still resents the fact that he was tricked by the venomous snake last year. Although he was not a combat type, he fought extremely hard and threw the venomous snake around like it was free.
He kept laughing and shouting, "Burn you to death, burn you to death, hahahahaha!"
Audience in the live broadcast room: This mental state is a bit crazy.
but……
Listening to the sizzling sounds of the insects under the influence of their special powers and the aroma that kept wafting into their noses due to the shared sense of smell, many viewers couldn't help but swallow their saliva frantically.
[Don't tell me, don't tell me, this smells really good.]
Although insect meat isn't as rich as beef, mutton, pork, or deer, it's concentrated and has a lot of flavor. Slurp it up...it's truly delicious.
[It not only smells good, it tastes even better. Wow wow wow! So good!]
[It's crispy and juicy, and it would be even more delicious if you sprinkle some pepper and salt on it.]
【you--! ! ! 】
The speed of barrage refresh slowed down obviously afterwards, and everyone was busy picking up the unburned insects to eat before the swarm was completely burned.
Some even had the audacity to ask Lu Xuan to help spread salt or slow down the elimination process.
Lu Xuan: You might die.
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When the beast attacks first occurred, Lu Xuan did not join the battle until the number of beasts attacking the village every day increased.
A seventh-level psychic could deal with a group of primitive beasts without the help of weapons. He used conventional abilities in turn and then used gravity abilities to put pressure on them.
Headshots, dismembered bodies, scorched, struck by lightning, frozen to pieces, crushed into meat paste... the herd was wiped out at an extraordinary speed and in endlessly bizarre ways.
The battle was one-sided and the scenes were bloody and violent, which made the audience scream with joy. However, some people could not help but manually turn on the blocking function.
Just like last year, the beast attacks lasted for almost a whole month starting from the appearance of the blood moon.
During this period, heavy snow continued to fall and the temperature gradually dropped to more than 40 degrees below zero.
Fighting in the snow and ice was not pleasant, but they could not stop in order to survive and to provide the victims with more meat.
Just keep fighting, fighting, fighting!
On the way, Lu Xuan and the hunting team went to each town to replenish weapons and crystal cores to ensure that other places would not be left without supplies.
With the united and persistent fighting, more than half of the low-level crystal cores that Lu Xuan had stored were consumed, and the beast attack was safely survived without causing large-scale damage.
Compared to other towns, Yunlu Village has the smallest population, with less than a hundred people able to fight. However, the attacks they face are not diluted at all, and the intensity of each battle is extremely high.
This also prompted the rapid progress of the psychics who constantly squeezed their potential, and more than half of the combat types successfully got the opportunity to be promoted at the end of the beast attack.
Crystal cores are divided into two types: mutant animal and plant crystal cores and zombie crystal cores.
Among them, the former has relatively mild energy, while the latter is more violent, and the body will feel a tingling sensation when absorbed.
Usually, people mainly absorb the latter, because the quantity is large enough and it can also serve as a tempering tool.
But when it came to such a critical moment as upgrading, at Lu Xuan's suggestion, all members switched to using plant crystal cores to upgrade, so as to minimize losses and avoid accidents.
With rich combat experience and sufficient accumulation, and with gentle energy replenishment, Lei Yan, Zhang Chengming, Xiong Mao and others broke through one after another and successfully became the most powerful psychics except Lu Xuan.
The village celebrated this event for several days.
At the same time, good news came from the people with special abilities in other towns. Many of those who initially awakened their special abilities were promoted to level two, and after going through a lot of battles, their bodies and minds were transformed.
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As the beast attack ended, the sun, which had been absent for over a month, reappeared in the sky and never set again.
This should be a polar day phenomenon that everyone is familiar with, and there is nothing surprising about it.
But the abnormal thing is that with the appearance of polar day, the heavy snow has not stopped, and heavy rain has started again, and the amount of rainfall is even greater than that in the rainy season.
The mixed weather of rain and snow made the disaster victims in various towns feel a little uneasy.
Their anxieties were soon confirmed.
The leaders of the gathering place soon announced the disaster they would face next.
After a year and a half, an earthquake second only to the original one is about to come.
According to the information provided by Lu Xuan, if nothing unexpected happens, many underground cracks will appear in various towns.
Even the ground cracked, so it was naturally difficult to save the house.
For this reason, many settlements were forced to begin relocation work before the impact of the beast attack had completely subsided.
But these are not the biggest troubles.
The biggest disaster during this period occurred on the coast.
Several volcanoes on the seabed erupted almost simultaneously, resulting in earthquakes of magnitude 8 or above in many sea areas, rising sea levels, and unprecedented tsunamis in coastal areas.
The scope of its impact is unprecedented.
The continuous heavy rain before the earthquake and the more snow water melted by the heavy rain doubled the danger posed by the tsunami.
The tsunami that was supposed to turn the coastal areas into a vast ocean, unexpectedly swept through countless towns and even destroyed most of the greenhouses that had given the victims hope of survival.
At this point, more than 80% of the land in the entire Central Plains was lost.
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