Chapter 724 The First World 24
For ordinary people, there have also been many changes since the establishment of Wanbaolou.
In the past, people who were deeply fond of ancient costumes always liked to wear a knife on their waist or hold a sword in their hands, but those were just ordinary stuff after all.
When facing real spirit beasts, these weapons are often vulnerable.
It takes a lot of effort to break the defense of spiritual beasts of similar cultivation level, and the weapons will be scrapped.
Nowadays, with the improvement of everyone's cultivation, many evil geniuses have emerged among the people. Their cultivation is not inferior to the talents specially trained by the military.
However, in terms of combat awareness, they still have a big gap compared to military soldiers.
Before, civilian practitioners envied the military soldiers for being able to occasionally enter the secret realm to kill monsters. Several people with good cultivation level organized themselves together, applied to the official, and after getting approval, they followed them into the secret realm.
The authorities want to ask ordinary people to try out the abilities of spirit beasts, so that when spirit beasts suddenly rush out, ordinary people will not overestimate their own abilities, which will only lead to bad things.
It was indeed as expected by the authorities. Due to insufficient equipment and lack of combat experience, he was almost killed by the Iron-backed Wolf in his first actual combat.
Fortunately, a three-series mixed team was left behind by the military to secretly protect them.
After discovering that their fighting power could not be fully exerted after seeing the spirit beast, he used the fireball talisman and sword energy, and used mental power to snipe, clearing the field in an instant.
The civilian team was still in shock, but even more enthusiastic:
"See? With good coordination, a first-level spirit beast is a walking material bag! We lack combat experience and our weapons are useless."
"Brothers from the military, we can train you on how to fight and deal with the fear of spirit beasts. Where did you get these weapons and talismans? We'd like to buy some too.
Next time, at least when a spirit beast suddenly appears, I'll be able to protect myself more."
The soldiers did not hide it, knowing that these would be announced to the public soon, so they said, "Don't worry, Wanbaolou will open soon, and you can buy the equipment you need there.
But you still need to practice your reaction when encountering spirit beasts, otherwise even the best equipment will be useless."
The civilian team nodded in agreement and later became acquainted with the military team.
Now that the country has opened the Wanbao Tower, they naturally have to equip themselves with all their equipment immediately before entering the secret realm to fight the spirit beasts.
Those spiritual beasts are full of treasures.
Eating the meat of spiritual beasts can improve one's cultivation, their fur can be used to make talisman pens, their blood can be used for body refining and can also be mixed with cinnabar to draw talismans, their skin can be used to make armor, and their nails and teeth can be used to make weapons.
These things are all sold in Wanbaolou, and there is also a purchasing business. This is obviously a good career that can make money and improve your cultivation.
In this era of spiritual revival, both military soldiers and civilian practitioners are making improving their own strength their primary goal.
Among the people, with the grand opening of Wanbaolou, people are immersed in the convenience and prosperity brought by the spiritual era and enjoying the sense of security brought by the new equipment.
The upper echelons of the country are not so comfortable.
The speed of spiritual energy leakage far exceeds previous estimates. Air experts predict that the concentration of spiritual energy outside the secret realm will soon be on par with that of the outside world. This means that the spiritual beasts outside the secret realm will soon break through the constraints of the secret realm and pour into the outside world.
Although the warriors have entered the secret realm for training many times in the past year, it usually takes several warriors to work together to kill a spirit beast.
Only those with abilities comparable to the third level of Qi Refining or above have the strength to kill peripheral spirit beasts alone.
Now, the spiritual beasts are about to break out of the secret realm on a large scale, and the country's top leaders have held an emergency meeting for this purpose.
A red countdown flashed on the big screen at the end of the long table: Concentration of spiritual energy in the outer area of the secret realm - 91.4%, expected time to remain the same: seven days.
"It's three months ahead of schedule." The voice of the white-haired old expert sounded particularly heavy.
The venue was so quiet that you could hear the hum of the server fans.
A year ago, China relied on its tenacious perseverance and the fact that the spirit beasts only came out to take a look, and blocked the first wave of spirit beast attacks.
Nowadays, the spiritual energy outside the secret realm is getting closer and closer to the outside world. The warriors who have recently entered the secret realm have discovered that the spiritual beasts are slowly approaching the gate of the secret realm.
Although the country has made many preparations to deal with the sudden attack of spiritual beasts in the past year, when it really faces this crisis, it still feels that it is not well prepared.
Someone made a suggestion.
"Now all the soldiers are equipped with flying skateboards, plus they are fully covered by interstellar weapons. I don't believe that we can't stop these spirit beasts by riding on flying skateboards for maneuverable interception."
However, someone immediately refuted it.
"Doing this will result in heavy casualties for the soldiers. There are many flying spirit beasts outside the secret realm. The maneuverability of the Thunder Eagle and Fire Kite is twice as high as that of the skateboard. If the soldiers can't dodge in time, they will become sitting ducks in mid-air!"
"Use a small defensive formation, one for each person, and it should be enough to last for three breaths!"
“What about the output?”
The logistics director smiled bitterly, "We've developed the interstellar shield and can mass-produce it, but the main material is stardust gold, and we've only found a tiny amount so far. The national inventory is only enough to make 800 sets of interstellar shields.
The defensive array is cost-effective, but the gap is still huge, and even now, it is impossible for every frontline soldier to equip it."
There was a lot of discussion.
The big screen switched to a national map, where nearly 700 cities, large and small, and 1,300 counties were marked with densely packed red dots.
It's not that Ning Ning can't be asked to set up a large-scale defensive formation, but China is a vast country with many cities and counties, and there is simply not enough material to set up so many large formations.
The layout of a large-scale defensive formation requires a massive amount of resources, and it cannot be accomplished with just a few spirit stones and a small number of spiritual objects. This is also a major problem facing the country.
After a long discussion, the meeting finally made the following decision:
The border guards stationed at various frontiers of the entire army remained stationed, while the garrison troops in the secret border areas sent a company of troops to each city or county to defend the city together with the civilian volunteers.
The large army tried their best to intercept the spirit beasts at the first line of defense outside the secret realm. What they needed to pay attention to was that some spirit beasts might cross the line of defense and run to the city.
All non-combatants must enter the underground shelter built a year ago within three days to prevent sneak attacks from aerial spirit beasts and to avoid panic among the people when they suddenly see spirit beasts, which would cause trouble for the combatants.
All registered practitioners of the four arts of cultivation throughout the country are working hard to create elixirs, talismans, low-level magical tools, and defensive arrays, ensuring that all participants are fully armed.
A live broadcast was launched in the shelter to let the people see clearly how the soldiers on the ground intercepted the spirit beasts and what they paid for their lives, so as to inspire the bloodiness of the people.
At the same time, Wanbaolou and the military trading network were simultaneously launched to implement the "wartime exchange" system, whereby spiritual beast materials could be exchanged for defensive arrays, healing pills and other combat supplies, encouraging everyone to kill monsters and be self-sufficient.
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