LWGP - Chapter 274

Chapter 274: The Heavenly River

No, there are still two minutes left.

Having cooperated countless times, everyone had a tacit understanding. They each controlled different types of combat units. People like Liao Luo didn't participate in such discussions, simply guarding the city wall, ready for battle at any moment.

"Have you contacted my Master?" Stationed on the wall, always waiting for a fight, Wang Shu could never shake his dependence on Wang Jiu. He had tried to private message her a thousand times himself, and now he was anxiously waiting for someone else to make a discovery.

"No. Either she has left her body and is in a soul state, or the place she's in is isolated from the game's rules." As Xie Lu said this, Mei Qingshu, holding her bow, had a sudden inspiration. "Why do I feel like it's not her side that's isolated from the game's rules, but our side that's been cut off?"

As a combat-oriented talent, Mei Qingshu's direct martial prowess had always kept her in the top three of their early clique. She had always been the simple-minded type who did whatever Lin Guiwan and the others told her to do. Now, looking at the incomparably dark cavern world in the distance, she couldn't help but blurt it out.

The moment she finished speaking, Mei Qingshu regretted it. "I was just spouting nonsense. It can't be that bad, right?"

Wang Shu: "!!!"

Zhao Shanxiao: "Don't you know the Gobi is a concentration camp for jinxes?"

Qing He: "..."

I never should have chosen Wang Jiu, nor should I have chosen Gobi.

At that moment, Lin Guiwan's heart skipped a beat. She looked at the teleportation array in front of her, which was about to reach 99% completion. The priests' spirit power transmission was fine, and the Old Lady's skill was beyond doubt, but she was afraid of an accident.

Just then, the Old Lady suddenly said, "Immediate combat alert."

This wasn't directed at Lin Guiwan, but sent directly to the group chat.

Everyone was startled. A simple alert might mean they were waiting for the teleportation, but a combat alert was obvious. The war had started?!

Before they could react, the Old Lady's second message arrived.

"The speed of the spirit power input is wrong. It's being affected!"

Lin Guiwan watched as the progress bar inched past 99%, and then the immense spirit power suddenly dissipated.

The scroll was stuck.

Immediately after, a system-wide notification appeared: "Detecting the presence of Eternal Night Race spirit-devouring creatures in your environment. They subsist on devouring spirit energy and have been infected and enslaved by the Eternal Night Race's genes. They are interfering with your game's social network frequency, preventing your messages from being sent. They have now severed all spirit power transmission within a one-hundred-kilometer diameter and a depth of five thousand meters. Therefore, your teleportation has been blocked. Please be advised, please be advised, your current environment is equivalent to a sky island. Be wary of danger, be wary of danger."

Fuck! Motherfucker! God damn it all to hell!

Everyone let out a string of curses. Even the impeccably mannered Old Lady muttered, "Silly fool." But she also decisively gave up on the teleportation, because the situation was the same on Saling's side. Even with their high level of technology, they hadn't detected the existence of these spirit-devouring creatures. Saling stated directly that they currently had no technology or ability to block the interference, unless they killed the spirit-devouring creatures.

Saling: "There are many kinds of spirit-devouring creatures. To have such a strong spirit-devouring ability, they are likely the strongest type, the Purple-striped Night Fireflies. There are at least a million of them. Their average attributes max out at one hundred thousand, but most are between ten thousand and fifty thousand. They aren't actually that hard to kill, but the underground creature army has already united. They are certainly being protected by other extremely strong creature groups. Getting to them to kill them won't be easy. More importantly—they might not even let our people break through their defenses."

Even though Saling had provided the information and prepared for the worst, all sides still decided to dispatch personnel to kill the Purple-striped Night Firefly swarm. They also had to predict the swarm's location.

They pursued a two-pronged approach, their hearts burning with anxiety.

But they soon discovered that Saling's worries were correct.

They truly gave them no opportunity to break through.

When the city's alert watchtowers broadcast the alarm in all directions, all thirty million people in Gobi City heard it. The legions stationed on the city walls all saw the distant space, shrouded in endless darkness, where strange clusters of light were being born.

Those were the eyes of some kind of creature.

A sea of fiery stars, as brilliant as a galaxy. It looked beautiful, but it was terrifying enough to scare someone to death!

"They're Space Geckos. They're skilled with spatial abilities and teleportation." Qing He's expression changed slightly upon seeing them. Because her personal attacks didn't have enough range, she immediately controlled a small spaceship to lock onto the Space Gecko swarm. The ship fired light cannons, bombarding the swarm over ten li away. On the side of the two empires, Saling also discovered their presence and began a bombardment, hoping to annihilate these creatures and stop their teleportation.

As for what they were teleporting... no one dared to imagine!

But they dared to come!

The Space Geckos were much stronger than the Purple-striped Night Fireflies. Although their numbers weren't massive, there were still a hundred thousand of them—otherwise, where would that sea of fiery stars have come from?

They activated spatial distortions, shifting most of the bombardment's light cannons away. Only the cannons from the two empires' strongest starships were unaffected and struck them.

Boom... An even more brilliant radiance erupted as flames engulfed a third of the Space Geckos. But no one could rejoice, because the other Space Geckos had already succeeded in their teleportation.

A massive teleportation array opened a spatial rift. Inside, as dense as the gaping maw of a hellish abyss, were hundreds of different species of underground creatures, as numerous as the hairs on an ox, all under the control of the Eternal Night Race's gene plague...

Rumbling, thudding, cracking—the ground trembled. The cavern walls produced a sonic attack from the terrifying, collective roar of the creatures.

As they charged and flew over in a massive tide, the Trap Arts and various arrays set up by formation masters like Qiao Xuejing for rear-guard defense were triggered. They did indeed slaughter many—Qiao Xuejing received constant system notifications, having killed at least three hundred thousand—but one look at the number of underground creatures still rushing over... it was still just a drop in the ocean, the tip of the iceberg.

Terror led to fear.

But they could not despair.

"Prepare for battle!"

"Ranged Arcane Regiments 1 through 10, prepare!"

"Ranged Mecha Corps, prepare!"

In every city, in both empires, various attack commands were issued. Boom!!!

The situation in the Fourth Spacetime was still unknown, but the attacks launched by the cities of the Third Spacetime were like a torrential downpour. On the other side, the various attacks from the great army of underground creatures were like a tsunami.

Boom!!!

A rout. Their speed and power were completely outmatched.

But... the humans' second wave of attacks was already launched.

A stalemate. The attacks canceled each other out in a zone two thousand meters in front of the dense cluster of allied territories.

In terms of attack frequency, the humans had an advantage, mainly because they had resources to consume for follow-up attacks.

However, the number of underground creatures was immense, and not only were they immense...

"Their numbers are still increasing. Those Space Geckos are still teleporting."

"The Space Geckos' spatial teleportation ability consumes a massive amount of their internal energy and lifeblood. Once it's depleted, they die immediately. It's not a sustainable ability. But based on their numbers and the intensity of the teleportation, if they are not interfered with, they can probably continue teleporting for another five minutes, bringing in a force nearly thirty times the size of the current creature army."

The discussion group for the higher-ups of the two spacetimes fell silent.

Saling was a top talent in biology and medicine. Across all four spacetimes, not even the First Spacetime could produce someone with her abilities, not to mention she had the entire empire's scientific think tank behind her. Even the defense marshal of the Heiyan Empire acknowledged the Xingyao Empire's capabilities in this area. So, after hearing this, he said directly, "I will lead troops over and see if we can force a kill on the Space Geckos, but I'll need three teams with average attributes over three hundred thousand to provide cover."

Whether it was the people he led or the three legions providing cover, once they went out, they would not be coming back, regardless of success.

The boundless tide of underground creatures would swallow them whole.

There was no pretense, no sentimentality, not even a veto. The decision was made decisively, forced by the gravity of the situation!

On the Xingyao Empire's side, Suo Nu and the others were already preparing to act as a cover team. The Heiyan Empire also dispatched its forces. On the Third Spacetime's side... Xie Lu and fifty others all stepped forward.

Aside from Qing He, who was the highest combat power in Wang Jiu's absence and whose average attributes were already a step away from one million, everyone else went out, including Wang Shu. Qing He remained to guard the city wall.

Luo Sheng and her people were also among them.

Gobi and Huaxia City provided the main combat power, not even bothering to bicker with the other factions. However, individual volunteers were countless. The group of fifty was instantly filled out to three hundred, comprising people of every skin color and nationality.

The Old Lady said nothing, merely throwing a group soul protection shield on them and waving her hand.

She could not go out, and she didn't need to tell anyone why.

Because where the city was, she had to be!

Without a combat power of one million, no one could speak of coming and going lightly. If she were to die, Gobi would collapse instantly.

Just as Qing He could not go out, she absolutely would not go out.

War. Its victory or defeat is never swayed by emotion.

Swoosh. Everyone had already transferred command of their respective legions or teams to their deputies, and then they flew out from the city wall as one.

The G-light trails left by their flying mecha stretched out, released, and lingered slightly, forming the most beautiful and most distant heavenly river in this world.

Because it was moving away, and it would never return.

At that moment, the city fell silent, save for the sound of the remaining tens of millions of people continuously launching their attacks.

Their gazes were fixed on the countless underground creatures of the great army ahead, and also on the heavenly river that was approaching them.

Then... tens of millions of warriors also leaped down from the city wall.

Because the vanguard of the great army of underground creatures had already torn through a gap in the attacks and entered the two-thousand-meter zone in front of Gobi City.

The fastest and longest-ranged attacks were already bombarding the defensive shield. To stop their melee troops from whittling down its HP, Gobi City had no choice but to send people out to intercept them.

And of these people... very few would likely return.

If it dragged on for too long.

In the end, the battlefield was a bath of blood, with the smoke of war stretching for a hundred li.

The Old Lady had only one thing to say to them.

"Hold the line at fifteen hundred meters. Do not go any further."

The maximum range of her soul abilities was only fifteen hundred meters.

And the flying sword attacks of the experts from the Second Spacetime, like Qing He, also had a maximum range of just over a thousand meters.

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Ahead lay an ocean of troops. At a distance of three thousand meters, the marshal of the Heiyan Empire began to issue his orders.

The tactic was simple.

Three teams would provide cover. They had to tear open a gap at the fastest possible speed, and he would lead his people in.

"After I get in, I will activate the imperial energy bombs—one from Heiyan and one from Xingyao. Their destructive power can directly annihilate a ten-li area here. Even creatures with average attributes of seven hundred thousand will almost certainly be killed."

"After the explosion, I won't be able to worry about whether you live or die. You'll have to trust to fate."

"But before that, you must guarantee that you will tear open a gap and get me inside, no matter the cost."

He was iron-willed and ruthless, seemingly unconcerned with the lives and deaths of the others.

The others didn't need his concern, because they were already on their way out.

Attacks, chained together, as fierce as the heavens.

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