Chapter 403: Night Descends (120,000, requesting monthly votes)

After Ye Lan announced that Dawn City was about to launch a counterattack against the darkness, the atmosphere in Dawn City before the great war fell into a state of extreme busyness and panic.

All survivors, disaster victims, and convoys were gathered within the old city area inside the No. 1 city wall. The entrances to the 24 underground civil air defense works were packed with crowds preparing to enter the underground for refuge under the management of Phoenix Society officials and the army. The vast majority were the elderly, children, pregnant women, and some disabled and weak. Before the desperate battle, anyone who possessed some self-protection ability, regardless of man or woman, spontaneously gave up refuge and chose to join the city defense sequence.

In the crowd, a man crouched down and stuffed a bag of food supplies wrapped in old newspapers into his son's hands.

"Listen to Mom." He rubbed the child's hair, his voice hoarse.

His wife grabbed his sleeve tightly, her fingernails almost pinching into his flesh: "You... hide a bit... we'll wait for you to come back!"

"Don't worry." The man smiled, looking at the large number of people joining the defense battle behind him: "There's nowhere to hide. We must hold the city."

On the other side, a middle-aged woman carrying a gun crouched on the ground to tie her little daughter's shoelaces, then placed her little daughter's hand into the hand of another boy who was only seven or eight years old.

"Xiao Jie, you are the older brother, you have to take care of your sister, you know?"

The boy had a young face, grabbed his sister's hand tightly, and nodded blankly.

"Mom, what about you?" The little daughter looked up, her face full of unease.

"Be good, Mom is helping outside, I'll come find you soon."

The woman then wiped away her tears, turned and walked over. Beside her, Phoenix Society emergency team personnel were pulling a middle-aged man with a limp.

"Let go of me!"

The man had a fiery temper, struggled away using his long gun as a crutch, and roared: "I can still shoot, no need to go into the shelter, even if I die at the city gate, I can trip a monster!"

Convoys of all sizes collected ammunition and weapons from the Phoenix Society and Garrison Army defense supply points. Under the arrangement of the Phoenix Society Defense Battle Command Center, the city's area was composed of a city defense line by nearly 30,000 troops. Its main purposes were three: first, to assist in the city's air defense; second, to control the occurrence of mutations in the city; and third, if the No. 1 city wall fell, this part of the force could rely on the street defense line to fight street battles, while blocking the monster tide's impact on the No. 2 direction, splitting the battlefield, and covering other survivor convoys to evacuate.

And excluding the old, weak, sick, and disabled who entered the underground shelters, there were nearly 1.4 million survivor combatants in the city. They were composed of various convoys or loose groups, spontaneously joining hundreds of street defense lines. At the same time, more people assisted the Garrison Army and Iron Guard Brigade in digging firearm tunnels outside the city, transporting ammunition supplies, laying landmines, and repairing equipment.

In the sky, dense transport drones were like a sky curtain. After the underground construction network was sealed, they transported weapons and ammunition to the city wall front line through air routes.

On the Phoenix Society side, a defense battle system with double city walls and sky-ground coordination was formulated. Ye Lan and commanders at all levels sat in the Twin Towers City Ring Control Hall, setting this place as a temporary command post, and sent additional important troops to protect the City Ring.

*Woo-woo-woo~*

Survivors who were building defense works and pulling barbed wire in the street camps at this time looked up and could see countless large rotor transport ships constantly roaring past in the sky, hoisting powerful war mechs to the city wall front line, in addition to Iron Guard-3, Guardian-X, and Vulcan series.

*Boom, boom. * The clouds tore apart, and the vortex engines of a large number of C-99 'Hercules' transport planes emitted deafening roars. Steel cables dropped, and 8 Interstellar Slaughterers, resembling skyscrapers, were hoisted past the high-rise buildings of the city district. These sharp weapons were mainly placed in the core encirclement area in the south and west of the city, used to deal with S-class siege!

And in the inner city area, all open spaces, high-rise buildings, and towers were set up as air defense positions and high-energy firepower projection areas. Several energy centers were buried deep under the Star Port to provide energy and automatic weapons for the entire city. Over 100,000 attack-type drones were all charging and replenishing weapons at this time. A large number of drone engineers were urgently performing fault maintenance. In order to guarantee the smoothness of command contact signals under extreme dark invasion, thousands of signal relay towers were set up in the city area.

"Composed of the North American Defense Front, Night Walker Alliance, Seraphim Department, and some civilian organization members, the ability user team has been divided into three categories and multiple special combat groups."

Inside the command center, General Xu stood in front of the holographic map, his expression sharp.

"Category 1: Composed of ability users with high mobility and high self-protection such as flight, speed force, wind, fire, thunder, light, etc., commanded by Minister Luo, responsible for the main force containment, coordination, and intelligence collection against S-class disasters on the front line, while conducting high-altitude and high-speed coordinated assault for the whole city!"

"Category 2: Mainly composed of ability users such as laser, magnetic storm, monster eye, earth stone, resonance, sound wave, or long-range damage, commanded by Team Leader Qi. This type of ability user has powerful long-range lethality and is responsible for killing monster tides and large strange entities behind the defense line of city walls and air defense positions!"

"Category 3: That is all giants, blood energy, magic form, beast type, metal skin, evil bone, stealth, energy gathering, and gene evolutionists with strong physical mobility. These melee ability users mainly assist various street defense lines in the city and underground shelters for defense and protection work."

"I agree with General Xu's tactical deployment. Then our 83rd Iron Guard Brigade will be responsible for the 4 defense sectors in the west of the city. The mech regiment and special armed power battalion will be configured in tiers. The primary purpose is to concentrate on the S-class and city wall defense first..."

Before Iron Guard Brigade Commander Huo Jiang finished speaking, Lu Tianye immediately interrupted him.

"There are 12 sectors in the whole city. The main attack directions of the 5, 7, and 8 Star Abysses are from the 6 defense sectors from the No. 5 sector in the south of the city to the No. 10 sector in the west of the city. Your Iron Guard Brigade has over 40,000 people to guard 4 sectors, and you want my Garrison Army's 130,000 to guard 2 sectors? Or do you want me to guard the east and north of the city?"

"I don't have that intention. The west direction of the city is mainly a No. 5 Star Abyss, and you have the offensives of 7 and 8 major Star Abysses. Isn't this allocation reasonable?"

"It's not reasonable!" Lu Tianye refuted with a solemn expression: "The No. 5 Star Abyss has Corpse-Drivers appearing. Don't think I don't know what you are calculating. Our Garrison Army has dealt with the No. 5 Star Abyss the most. The hard bones must be handed to me!"

"What are you afraid of hard bones for? My mech regiment is not a vegetarian!" Huo Jiang said immediately.

"My 2nd Mech Division and Lei Shenzhichui electromagnetic gun array are also not bad!" Lu Tianye was not to be outdone.

Unexpectedly, at the pre-war command meeting, the commanders of the two iron armies argued over who should be the main force. Looking at the dispute between the two generals, a group of Phoenix Society high-level officials looked at each other in dismay.

"Alright."

At this time, Ye Lan spoke and interrupted the quarrel. Her voice was not loud, but everyone seemed to be able to hear her clearly.

She stood up, picked up the command pen, pointed to the ring city wall sector of Dawn City, and said:

"Our judgment is based on the situation, but we cannot completely solidify our thinking. The dark night covering the whole city is just a blink of an eye. We cannot judge that these strange entities will definitely attack from these directions just based on last night's offensive."

Ye Lan looked at everyone and said: "The generals are all commanders with rich information-based combat experience. Now, although we are dealing with strange entities, we cannot treat them as monsters without intelligence. Human information-based tactics are precisely our advantage, and we can make good use of this point."

Lu Tianye nodded upon hearing this, looked at Huo Jiang, and nodded: "That's right. The defense zone near the three Star Abysses in the west and south of the city is indeed an important defensive area. Our mech troops have powerful firepower and defense, but lack mobility. The Garrison Army and Iron Guard Brigade can deploy mech troops here first, but our infantry strength and special armed power battalion should still be fully deployed in the 12 sectors of the whole city. After engagement, we can determine the high-risk battlefield through radar and the Galaxy Heart's computing power, and then conduct mobile scheduling."

Huo Jiang also agreed with this arrangement: "The troops that can be deployed on the city wall are limited. We must use all transport aircraft and armed armored vehicles as mobile tools for scheduling between defense sectors, so that we can react quickly."

"Yes, the main road streets in the city must be unobstructed to guarantee the delivery of troops and ammunition!"

"And the most important point, we must guarantee the safety of the Twin Towers and the City Ring!"

"I think the deployment location of the Emperor God group can be in this direction..."

For a time, a grand defense battle concerning the survival of millions or even all of humanity was being carried out in full swing.

On the other side, at the Star City Orbital Station, the backbone led by the Infinite Alliance and the Silent City was also holding an emergency meeting.

In order to conduct extra-spatial operations, Mochizuki Zhenji actively and generously provided Lin Xian with a set of interstellar-level power armor. This was currently the highest-level individual combat equipment of the Star Army, possessing a small plasma propulsion system, main rear thrusters x2 (50 tons of thrust per unit) + 4 vector nozzles on the feet, level 7 bulletproof level. The survival guarantee system included liquid oxygen reserves and poison gas filtration systems supporting space/underwater, and also possessed medical modules for nano-hemostatic spray and automatic adrenaline injection.

This set of armor was quite expensive, but for Mochizuki Zhenji, it didn't seem to be anything.

"Thanks." Lin Xian was quickly testing each operation module of the power armor at this time. He didn't have much time and had to act immediately, so he didn't have time to deploy the command action of the Infinite side and could only leave it to Jian Xuwei, Chen Sixuan, Jiang Yun, Shi Diyuan, and others.

"Small matter, I also have a purpose." Mochizuki Zhenji smiled calmly.

"I know, you want me to collect various space data outside the Sky Veil for you. You don't need to say this, the Phoenix Society is also prepared." Lin Xian said.

"Lin Xian." Kiki looked at him, her expression complex: "You... take care."

Lin Xian nodded and said: "You too. Anyway, success or failure depends on this one move. We have experienced so many life and death situations, saying anything else would be hypocritical."

After speaking, he looked deeply at Kiki and Chen Sixuan and the others, saying: "All of you, live!"

"Lin Ge, take care!"

"Lin Dui!"

"Lin Xian."

"Lin Dui!"

"Big Lin Ge..."

"Lin Dui, we'll wait for you to come back!"

Countless people gathered around with concerned expressions: Shi Diyuan, Xiang Xiang Ningjing, Bai Xiaoqing, A Bai, Qian Dele, Mo Nika, Jian Xuwei, Jian Zeyang, Jiang Yun, Shu Qin, Big Building, Shasha, Lv Chang, Miao Lu, Xiao Yuan, Li Yi, Old Mo, Sun Yuzhen, Mo Xiaotian, Ding Junyi, Luo Yang, Liang Lei, Luoluo Amin, Li Guangwen...

"Take care, everyone. When dawn comes, I'll take you all to rush into the Pacific Ocean!"

Countless gazes converged. Lin Xian looked at the time, then took a deep breath, his intent condensing on the Flicker Bullet at his brow.

*In an instant! *

*Swish! *

A space explosion sound, the wind whirled, and Lin Xian disappeared before everyone's eyes.

Chen Sixuan looked at that figure, her gaze solemn for a few seconds, then she quickly firmed her expression: "Let's start acting too!"

Mochizuki Zhenji was surrounded by core backbones such as Qian Qian Qian Suxun, Tianye Lan, Takahashi Long Zhijie, and Shizhi.

Qian Qian Qian Suxun's AC mech operated a ground force of over a thousand heavy mechs and three hundred flying tactical mechs. At the same time, the Silent City's tens of thousands of drones were all operating under Mochizuki Zhenji's core central control.

And this time Mochizuki Zhenji came, besides giving Lin Xian a power armor, he also supported the Infinite with a large amount of armored weapons, ammunition, and drones. There was actually an Interstellar Slaughterer mech, which was standing in the square of the Star City Orbital Station at this time.

Regarding this, Mochizuki Zhenji stated:

"This was requested by Lin after he obtained the Star Army mech system blueprints, and he asked me to build it for him."

"Lin Xian asked you to build it?" Chen Sixuan frowned: "Who is it for?"

Mochizuki Zhenji pointed to the shortest girl in the crowd at this time.

Shasha widened her eyes and pointed at her nose: "Lin Ge wants me to drive an Interstellar Slaughterer!?"

"Aren't you a level 4 co-state coefficient mech pilot?" Qian Qian Qian Suxun asked with a smile at this time.

"Of course I am!!"

Shasha stood out excitedly at this time, rushed to the window, looked at the large mech standing in the center of the square outside, which was 60 meters tall and had a total weight of 4,665 tons, and her eyes lit up.

"Wow! Lin Ge gave me a Gao Da!!"

"Good guy, this big guy looks like it has a lot of firepower." Shi Diyuan said with a surprised expression.

"Simply too cool!" Luo Yang and others also exclaimed repeatedly.

"Don't be excited yet, you have an important task for driving this guy." Kiki hooked her little finger, and Shasha, whose eyes were almost stuck to the mech's nuclear power engine, was hooked over by telekinesis.

"The plan is like this: all the old, weak, sick, and disabled who get on the train will cooperate with the Phoenix Society to transfer to underground facilities, and then..." Jian Xuwei opened the holographic map, lit up a light rail route circling the city, and then said: "The joint train will be led by the Infinite, and will conduct mobile guerrilla warfare along this ring rail, fully utilizing our train's firepower configuration."

"Ability users Kiki, Lu Xingchen, Big Building, Sun Yuzhen, Luo Yang, Liang Lei, Li Guangwen, Qian Dele, and A Bai will all join the Phoenix Society's ability user team to assist."

"But not all of them. Captain Shi and Chen Sixuan will stay on the train to guard the joint train. The joint train firepower command will be conducted by Team Chen and Team Shi. Shu Qin, Lv Chang, Miao Lu, Xiang Xiang Ningjing, Bai Xiaoqing, and Luoluo Amin will all be divided into different tactical teams, deployed in different segments of the joint train. And on the alliance side, Jiang Yun and Ren Huiyan will be responsible for the street position defense together with the Hongyuan Business Alliance, New Era Engineering Group, Iron Shield Convoy, and Burning Phoenix. We have too many people, and these are all large car groups, so they need to rely on large defense works, so they will be separated."

"Then there is this Interstellar Slaughterer at the Star City Orbital Station." Jian Xuwei looked at Shasha: "Shasha, we have prepared a transport trailer. You need to drive this Interstellar Slaughterer to follow the train for guerrilla warfare. The most critical point is, if there is a track problem, you need to protect the joint train together with the transport drones deployed by Lin Xian. On this point, Kiki and Jiang Yun might support, but in a crisis situation, when we lack heavy firepower and mobility, you will need to step out."

Shasha widened her eyes upon hearing this, then nodded: "I understand."

"So this train will keep circling the city?" Mo Nika asked.

"That's right, mobile guerrilla warfare!"

"That's really a good idea." On the other side, Mochizuki Zhenji and others heard this plan and also approved quite a bit: "This can indeed bring out the advantages of your train. However, the only flaw is that it will be troublesome if the track is broken."

"If the track is broken, we will stay in place and rely on the train as a fortress to resist." Chen Sixuan said at this time.

Shi Diyuan crossed his arms and nodded: "Yes, only by moving can we exert the firepower of such a long train and weapons. It's stronger than stopping in the orbital station."

"Then act immediately." Kiki's gaze was sharp. After a full rest after the Mount Olympus battle, her ability scale peak seemed to have achieved a huge breakthrough at this time.

Jiang Yun nodded: "Take care, everyone. In this night of danger, I hope that after dawn, everyone can stand here safely!"

*Clatter! *

For a time, everyone began to act.

Li Yi and Old Mo took all the women, children, and internal staff to rush to the underground shelter. Chen Sixuan originally wanted to let Director Ding go to the shelter, but Ding Junyi refused, saying she needed to guard the Infinite's scientific research carriage and planting carriage, study and protect the Hell Black Chrysanthemum, Silver Dragon Ten Thousand Mistakes, and Blood Vine, etc., disaster plants. At the same time, she also let Xiao Yuan and Miao Lu pick all the mature green plant fruits and distribute them to the Infinite Alliance's pre-war personnel before the station.

*Hum! *

The Infinite's Giant Whale 03E heavy gas turbine engine started at this time. Under Chen Sixuan's control, it carried over three thousand combat personnel of the joint train and drove onto the city light rail ring line with Shi Diyuan. On the roof of the train, G-3 electromagnetic railguns, 1130, YJ anti-aircraft guns, and automatic cannons all rose, and all the train's weapons revealed their fangs.

Subsequently, this fully armed train began to move slowly along the ring city rail. Shasha sat in the cockpit of the Interstellar Slaughterer mech. The neural operation system was connected, and the giant mech weighing thousands of tons roared and stood up. She was full of excitement, quickly familiarized herself with the operation, stood on the transport platform at the tail of the joint train, and adjusted the firepower all the way.

Chen Sixuan stood on the roof of the train, holding the Meteor No. 3, constantly observing the situation of the surrounding buildings. At this moment, she looked up at the sky, her beautiful face carrying worry.

"Lin Xian, you must come back safely!"

Shu Qin and Xiang Xiang Ningjing were deploying firepower in each carriage with the action team at this time. Everyone on the train kept communication smooth. On the whole train, there were team members with powerful mobility and wearing power armor. They would rely on the train's armor and rapid mobility to conduct firepower delivery along the line.

Mochizuki Zhenji led his team back to the Silent City. In this Dawn City defense battle, the Silent City and the warships including the Zhentian Warship, North American United Front fleet, and Iron Guard Brigade fleet formed an air defense force. The main defense target was that atmospheric creature from the sky!

The crowd was tense and busy. Li Yi, with her big belly, carefully checked the armor on her husband Liang Lei, without too many exhortations, only telling him not to worry about her side.

Mo Xiaotian and Mo Xiaole said goodbye to their mother Sun Yuzhen and entered the underground shelter with their grandfather Old Mo.

On the other side, also preparing to enter the underground shelter was Hu Lushou.

This guy had no combat ability, and he wore two layers of bulletproof vests, causing his power armor to look a bit bloated.

"Wife~ How about, I don't go in." At the entrance of the underground shelter passage, Hu Lushou grinned and said to Sun Chang: "I, Old Hu, am also a former transport ship deputy captain, a combat pacesetter. Letting me hide in an air defense cave with women and children, wouldn't that be a bit bad?"

"Are you sure?" Sun Chang glanced at him faintly, reached out and patted his power armor: The huge force made Hu Lushou take two steps back: "Tonight is a fierce battle, 4 S-class entities, any one of them can stomp you to death."

Hu Lushou swallowed hard when he heard this, but seeing Sun Chang's eyes, he didn't know where a sense of confidence came from, and he straightened his chest.

"Not going, not going. If I say I'm not going, I'm not going. A big man's words are like nails. Besides, at the time of humanity's crisis, how can a big man hide behind children?"

After speaking, he directly picked up a pulse cannon and walked straight into the defense team of the Infinite Alliance's convoy.

Sun Chang frowned when she saw this, wanted to say something, but stopped. So she could only follow.

On a transport ship, Kiki, Lu Xingchen, Big Building, Sun Yuzhen, Luo Yang, Liang Lei, Li Guangwen, Qian Dele, A Bai, and other powerful ability users began to rush to the ability combat team. Along the way, Lu Xingchen kept his eyes closed, looking old and senile.

Big Building carried his steel-slashing greatsword, wiping the Gatling gun, looking at Lu Xingchen's appearance with confusion, then poked him with his elbow, but saw no reaction, then looked at Qian Dele and Kiki opposite.

Kiki smiled and said: "This guy must be thinking about what posture and what move name to appear with again."

Qian Dele shrugged: "Is this important?"

"It's quite important to him."

Who would have thought that at this time, Lu Xingchen shook his head with his eyes closed, changing from his usual middle-school style, and said: "In the battle of Xilan City, over 40,000 people were killed or injured. Although we have the power of Vulcan, it was of no avail. This battle is a battle of human survival. How can there be any child's play? Move names are no longer important now. I only hope that tonight, I can let more people live!!! If the dark night is difficult to understand, I will burn through this eternal night with the fire of burning stars!!!"

Hearing this, Kiki, Qian Dele, and others all looked serious. Big Building reached out and patted Lu Xingchen on the shoulder: "Brother, I believe you."

"Fire Brother, come on, the power of our ability users is also constantly getting stronger!" Luo Yang said with a tense but serious expression: "As long as we preserve hope, it will definitely work."

"No matter what monster, just do it." Liang Lei straightened his spine: "Anyway, we have no retreat. Whatever C-class, B-class, A-class monsters, kill one to break even, kill two to make a profit, right?"

"Very reasonable!" Li Guangwen swallowed hard, clenching his fists at this time.

A Bai sat beside him silently, and Li Guangwen also said to him:

"Hey, buddy, your laser beam is awesome, just shoot at that big guy later!"

A Bai nodded: "Okay... okay."

Just at this time, in the north of the city, in an old street area that had become ruins and rubble, the ground suddenly opened a passage, and then dozens of Federation 【Night Iron Shield】 series 8-wheel all-terrain armored base vehicles with high-end configuration and excellent weapons quickly drove out of the passage, and then drove straight to the distance in the north of the city without looking back.

In one of the core vehicles, the carriage was brightly lit and luxurious. Wen Dong and Li Jian were fully armed with frowning brows.

*Thump! *

Li Jian punched the table and gritted his teeth: "It's all that guy named Lin Xian, who messed up our recruitment meeting. Now my mother is controlled by the Phoenix Society, and even the Wanderer No. 1 plan has completely gone down the drain!"

"Alright!"

Wen Dong's expression was uncertain: "What's the use of saying this now? You should be content if you can save your life!"

"But..."

"Then do you have any way to take all these back?"

Li Jian gritted his teeth at this time, but couldn't say a word.

Wen Dong then looked at a young man who was thinking deeply opposite and said:

"Chairman Zhou, the core team that can be mobilized from the Night Patrol and City Defense Battalion are all here. Although there are not many people, the strength and equipment are considered top-notch." The young man had a handsome face, and a brain-machine interface was still reserved on the back of his head. Although he had powerful ability fluctuations on his body, his life aura seemed a bit chaotic. This person was none other than Zhou Mingyuan, who had converted his body using mycelium. After Wen Dong finished speaking, he looked at a cryo-pod at the back of the carriage. Out of caution, Zhou Mingyuan even brought his original body.

Seeing the middle-aged politician in the cryo-pod, Wen Dong only sneered in his heart. Both he and Li Jian knew that although the body Zhou Mingyuan converted into possessed the peak ability of an angel level, it wouldn't live for a month. By then, the personnel and supplies of this entire convoy organization would naturally fall into the hands of the Wen family. With this foothold, they would still have a chance to turn things around.

However, Wen Dong had no intention to imagine these in advance. The top priority was to escape from this right-and-wrong place of Dawn City, which was about to be destroyed!

"Hmm."

Zhou Mingyuan nodded at this time, took a deep breath, and then slowly opened his eyes: "External objects."

"Speed up, we must reach Qingbo before dark. There are many convoys there, and we can merge some while we are at it."

Zhou Mingyuan nodded at this moment, took a deep breath, and then slowly opened his eyes: "They are merely worldly possessions."

Zhou Mingyuan smiled faintly: "Young man, the ancients once said that no matter how the world changes, all laws do not leave their origin. Power is the foundation of power, and power is the road to open everything. When you have absolute power, are you afraid that you cannot cast a throne of power?"

After speaking, he slowly clenched his fist, sensing a powerful ability fluctuation. The gloom on his face faded a bit, and instead, a piece of comfort rose.

Li Jian nodded slightly when he heard this, quite approvingly.

"That's right, but I don't know if what the Phoenix Society global broadcast said is true." At this time, Li Jian was a bit worried: "If this battle is lost, will there really be no dawn?"

"Hmph."

Zhou Mingyuan sneered disdainfully when he heard this: "Politician's words, just listen to them."

After speaking, his gaze flickered with coldness: "If it weren't for the actions Chu Zhaonan took, Dawn City could at least hold millions of people."

"What's the use of having more people?"

Li Jian looked confused: "Isn't it over after being swallowed by the Star Abyss?"

"You don't understand. The larger the volume, the more sufficient the resources. Research on dark invasion and human ability has achieved rapid growth in a short period of time. The boat will naturally go straight when it reaches the bridge..." Wen Dong sneered at this time: "Anyway, a batch of people will always survive in the end, why can't it be us?"

"Your uncle is right." Zhou Mingyuan said wildly at this time: "The Phoenix Society is just a political regime organization that rose up under the doomsday using populism. The slogan is always for human civilization, for the whole world, but it's just a stage set up to subvert the Federal regime. Hmph, they actually called on those who had already run away to come back and die, it's really a joke!"

Wen Dong nodded and told the convoy through the communicator at this time:

"Full speed ahead, must reach Qingbo within 3 hours!"

Dawn City, Star City Orbital Station.

Jian Xuwei and Mo Nika led a group of heavy firepower personnel to begin reinforcing the defense of the Star City Orbital Station.

Mo Nika stood on the deck of the Sky Dome train, looking at the sky, her beautiful face slightly frowning.

The sky was covered with dark clouds and rain. It was only 15:00 in the afternoon, but the sky was already terrifyingly gloomy, as if the dark night had arrived ahead of schedule.

"It's hard to say when it will get dark now. Looking at this, strange entities might appear in the next second."

Jian Xuwei heard the voice in her headset and said solemnly: "We have done everything we can. Next, we can only fight for it."

High above, Jiang Yun overlooked the dense defense lines being built below in the old city area. In the rain, the crowd moved densely. From the perspective of an S-class monster, humans were like ants.

Ren Huiyan hovered beside him, looking at his solemn expression, and said:

"Rare to see you so nervous."

"Over three million people... perhaps only in one night." Jiang Yun looked at the distant skyline at this time. There, dark clouds and rain curtains were hanging upside down, and no fire or convoys could be seen.

No one supported, no one returned to Dawn City.

The entire Dawn City was like a lonely boat under the dark sky curtain at this moment.

In the west and south, the sky was terrifyingly gloomy, as if a black world like an abyss was slowly approaching Dawn City behind the rain curtain.

In the forest under Mount Qilian, on the ground, the rain drizzled on the withered grass and wasteland. In the forest, except for the sound of rain, there was no other sound, and it was unusually quiet.

But as the sky gradually darkened, some strange outlines suddenly appeared and disappeared, and some footprints were stepped on the ground, but they were not continuous and soon disappeared.

Forests, plains, town streets, highways, fields, hillsides, all seemed to have begun to show such anomalies.

Above the No. 1 city wall, the front-line commander saw the outer city area getting darker and darker, and immediately picked up the communicator and shouted.

"Attention, attention, the situation is abnormal, the polar night may arrive, all fire control units open!"

Twin Towers Command Center, Ye Lan and a group of leaders looked at the monitoring of various war zones on the full screen, their expressions incredibly solemn.

"It's not even 16:00 yet, is it too fast compared to yesterday?" Huo Jiang said at this time.

"The Star Abyss is no longer expanding at the original expansion efficiency. The more it is like this, the more it shows that our worries are correct." Ye Lan turned back and said softly: "Issue a warning, the whole city prepare for battle!"

"Yes!"

*Woo! Woo! Woo! *

In an instant, the entire Dawn City sky sounded a huge air defense alarm. Survivors who were still busy building works looked at the sky in surprise.

"The alarm has sounded, fast! Get into position!"

"All weapons unlock safety!"

"It's too dark, prepare flares!"

For a time, the defense line personnel moved, and the queue entering the shelter also increased speed under the condition of maintaining order.

"Fast, everyone go in first!"

"Don't care!"

"Wife, take care!"

"Mom..."

"Fast fast fast!!!"

"Find a protective location!"

*Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang! *

At this moment, in the sky, the Silent City, Zhentian Warship, and all the base weapons on the fleet decks were raised, the blue energy beam lines of the electromagnetic railguns began to charge, the missile array cabin covers opened, and the search radar started at full power.

The drone combat group constantly began to take off, and the first batch of sky patrol detectors dispatched at high speed.

Mochizuki Zhenji stood on the main bridge of the Silent City cloud area, sensing the thousands of weapon systems and sensors of the Silent City with the super-strong computing power of ten thousand qubits, monitoring the entire airspace 360 degrees.

At this time, in the Twin Towers command post, Ye Lan stood up slowly.

Jiang Yun stood in the air, Chen Sixuan looked toward the skyline, and A Bai in the transport ship looked up.

These people spoke at the same time at this moment.

"It's here!"

*Woo!! *

On the wasteland, the 【Night Iron Shield】 base vehicle convoy kicked up mud and dust, the vehicle lights were fully opened and drove fast. Zhou Mingyuan, who was closing his eyes and resting on the vehicle, heard the sharp air defense alarm from Dawn City and couldn't help but frown.

"The offensive has started?"

"So fast?" Wen Dong also frowned at this time. He immediately opened the vehicle's radar system and said: "It should be the Star Abyss surrounding us, but our direction is safe. Thousands of convoys have left from this road. We are now moving in a direction away from the Star Abyss."

"Hmm."

Zhou Mingyuan nodded: "If Ye Lan dies in Dawn City, the Phoenix Society will probably have big problems."

Wen Dong sneered: "These have nothing to do with us."

Zhou Mingyuan looked at Wen Dong and said with an appreciative face: "You arranged it well. Fortunately, we evacuated at the critical moment. Next..."

*Boom! *

Before he finished speaking, the whole vehicle shook violently, as if it had hit something directly. The base vehicle weighing over ten tons actually tilted and rolled over directly. Zhou Mingyuan, Wen Dong, and Li Jian were caught off guard and fell into a mess.

"What happened!!!"

Zhou Mingyuan sensed the crisis at this time, used his strong ability to open the door directly, and flew out, only to find that his entire convoy had disappeared at this time, leaving only this vehicle overturned in place.

"What did we hit?" Wen Dong, who had a head injury, climbed out and saw the rain falling. It was only 16:00 in the afternoon, but it was already so dark that he couldn't see his fingers. He could only use the vehicle's high beams to illuminate a pale wasteland area.

"Be careful, there must be strange entities!"

Zhou Mingyuan's face sank, his mouth began to tremble violently. He nervously mobilized his ability. Although he obtained this body, he was obviously not good at fighting, and he was not too familiar with the ability of this body.

*Click~*

Suddenly, a sound of dead wood breaking came from the darkness. Zhou Mingyuan was like a frightened bird, and under a conditioned reflex, he directly raised his hand and blasted in that direction.

Only to see a blazing white arc of lightning flash, and the huge power blasted out. The light illuminated a strange humanoid creature crawling on the ground in the darkness, several meters tall. But with this lightning strike from Zhou Mingyuan, it actually pierced its head and spine completely.

Zhou Mingyuan breathed rapidly, seeing that the monster was actually killed by his move, the stone in his heart slowly fell, and he let out a long breath. Looking at his hands at this time, he felt a bit proud in his heart.

"Such powerful power, I should have experienced it earlier..."

"Ah!!!"

Just at this time, Wen Dong on the side suddenly screamed, pointed to the sky in front of the vehicle, and shouted in horror: "What, what, what is that!!"

Zhou Mingyuan frowned when he heard this, and without saying a word, he raised his hand and shot a lightning arc: "No matter what, just kill it!"

*Boom! *

Who would have thought that with this lightning arc he shot into the sky, the huge lightning light illuminated a terrifying scene in an instant. Around the vehicle's lights, thousands of various twisted monsters had surrounded them like a tsunami. And right in front, in the airspace where the lightning light lit up, Zhou Mingyuan and Wen Dong didn't even see the full picture of the creature in front in this instant, only seeing a giant eye suspended in the high sky of the tree shadows.

That gaze was like a judgment from hell, staring straight at him.

Zhou Mingyuan's face was pale, his lips trembling as he looked at the black curtain he couldn't see and said: "Fast... fast... fast run!"

However, in the next instant, the vehicle's lights quickly extinguished in the wilderness.

Dawn City.

*Thump, thump, thump, thump!! *

The first to open fire were the Silent City and the air fleet. The azure arc of the giant electromagnetic railgun illuminated the sky, like a meteor sliding across the sky, firing directly in dozens of directions!

Subsequently, the No. 1 city wall and millions of survivors saw a suffocating scene under the light curtain of the electromagnetic railgun. Above the dark clouds in the sky, a terrifying creature with twisted strange limbs flashed through the clouds. And approaching in the mist was a monster tide from the sky like a sky collapse.

The next moment, on the No. 1 city wall, thousands of Thor's Hammers, Great Wall base howitzers, and 1130 self-propelled guns all operated under the fire control system and computing center. The motors sounded, the bases rotated, and thousands of gun barrels, at this moment!

Simultaneously played humanity's full-metal barrage!

October 5, 2069, 129th day of Apocalypse, 16:01 PM.

The Star Abyss expanded with an unprecedented polar night expansion speed, swallowing the entire Dawn City. Almost at the same time, this human capital, which possessed over 200,000 troops and millions of people, with high walls and sharp guns, fell into a epic-scale dark night battle tide at this moment.

The judgment of the command center led by Ye Lan was correct. It was not just the west and north of the city. The attack came from all directions. Billions of zombies and strange entities were like mudslides surging between mountains and rivers, rapidly submerging the suburban towns, highways, railways, forests, and fields around Dawn City.

Even the rain falling in the sky seemed messy and arrogant because of the dense flying creatures.

The battle was fully engaged.

From the directions of the No. 5 Star Abyss, No. 7 Star Abyss, and No. 8 Star Abyss, dozens of A-class or even special-class giant creatures appeared one after another.

They were either giant humanoid bodies, or twisted insects or creatures of strange entities, surging and approaching in the monster tide.

At this moment, the energy cannons, cluster bombs, automatic cannons, electromagnetic rails on the city wall, and the weapons of hundreds of thousands of soldiers all opened fire. The mech regiment stood at the very front, surging firepower harvesting the lives of dark creatures. The flamethrowers of the Vulcan mechs swept the battlefield. Under the searchlights and tracer bullets, the soldiers seemed to see the endless strange entities.

A large amount of dark invasion aura surged toward the city, and mutations began to occur, but they were quickly controlled. The 16 air defense systems in the city composed of Silent Hunters, anti-aircraft guns, storm missile systems, and pulse laser sky arrays all began to fire at the sky. Thousands of pulse lasers shot toward the sky. After locking onto large strange entities, storm missiles ignited and rushed out of the missile silos!

Countless people hiding in underground shelters only felt the entire city burning and shaking, and the roaring sound occupied all their eardrums.

"Quiet, don't panic!"

"Don't fear, stay calm!" Phoenix Society emergency team officials shouted with megaphones: "Everyone assist each other, have confidence in our army!"

*Bang, bang, bang!! *

Chen Sixuan didn't expect that the battle would almost enter a white-hot state as soon as it started.

On the city light rail, a fifteen-kilometer armed train moved violently, and the vehicle-mounted heavy weapons constantly fired toward the sky. The 1130 rotary gun emitted a crimson glow.

"There is an S-class in the sky, Shasha, air defense!"

"Okay!"

At this time, Shasha, who was connected to the neural co-state system, sat in the cockpit of the Interstellar Slaughterer. With both hands raised, in an instant, the orbital star-shaking cannon on the shoulder of the mech weighing thousands of tons rose, began to lock onto a giant multi-winged creature flying toward the air defense position, and opened fire defiantly.

*Woo! *

The violent energy converged, the ionization vibration spread for hundreds of meters. The next moment, a blazing white light column with a diameter of several meters pierced the sky from the muzzle of the star-shaking cannon. Outside the light column were azure electric arcs where layers of air were ionized into a plasma state. In an instant, all the walls of the city's high-rise buildings and streets were illuminated by this strong light, and even the glass curtain walls of distant buildings reflected the brilliance. A violent high-temperature heat wave wrapped in powerful ionization vibrated toward the large multi-winged creature, making the team members firing on the joint train feel blinded by this light.

*Boom! *

Everyone only felt a powerful heat wave shockwave, and at this moment, the giant multi-winged creature that was diving at high altitude several kilometers away was actually cut into several segments like butter cut by a laser, falling down, and the connection point even emitted a black-red interlaced high-temperature cut surface!

"That is at least an A-class strange entity, and it was killed with one shot!"

Xiang Xiang Ningjing stood on the roof of the train and said in surprise.

"The orbital star-shaking cannon is indeed powerful!"

"Be careful!"

*Bang! *

Chen Sixuan's sniper rifle rang out, and a small black strange entity the size of a palm rushed toward Xiang Xiang Ningjing rapidly, and was directly blown up in the air by Chen Sixuan.

Xiang Xiang Ningjing reacted, looked at the sky, and found that there was a black cloud like a swarm of bees sweeping down over the city's high-rise buildings.

"Retreat into the car, use flamethrowers!"

Twin Towers Command Center, Ye Lan looked at the defense zones that had fallen into full engagement in a short time, her gaze sinking slightly.

"Report, a special-class creature appeared in Sector 9 of the west of the city, and the 3rd and 7th regiments of the Iron Guard Brigade's 4th Division suffered heavy casualties!"

"Report, 4 A-class and 1 special-class creature appeared in Sector 5 of the north of the city at the same time. The 11th Armored Division of the Garrison Army and the joint defense troops lost contact outside the city. The city wall encountered energy cluster attacks and has appeared with large gaps!"

"Report, the joint defense position in the Baiyun City area encountered a large number of air attacks. The air defense firepower network could not cover it comprehensively, and many

"Report, four A-rank and one Special-rank creature have appeared simultaneously in District 5 of the North City. The 11th Armored Division of the Garrison Army and the Joint Defense Force have lost contact outside the city. The city wall has been hit by a concentrated energy attack, and a large breach has already appeared!"

"Report, the joint defense positions in the Baiyun urban area have encountered a massive aerial assault. The anti-aircraft fire network cannot provide full coverage, and several blocks have already fallen. Some civilian convoys and the Garrison Army are currently providing support!"

"Report, the 7th Detachment of the First Ability Combat Force has lost contact in the airspace 4,300 meters above the South City. The air patrol ships are conducting a joint rescue!"

In a short amount of time, a large number of combat losses and urgent military intelligence from the front lines were continuously coming in. Ye Lan and a group of Phoenix Society officials were all standing before the command screen at this moment, the air feeling incomparably heavy.

"Have the movements of any S-rank been detected?"

"That Sky-Touch is observing from several thousand meters high in the sky, and seismic waves have been detected in District 7 of the South City, suspected to be a ground surge. Other than that, there are no other observation reports," the reporting official said.

"S-ranks possess considerable intelligence; they may be testing our counterattack strength."

"Should we actively draw them out?"

"No, the engagement time is too early. The imperial 'Celestial Group' has not yet arrived, and Lin Xian may also still need time on his end..." Ye Lan said.

The reporting official said at this moment: "The Heart of the Galaxy statistics show that 164 mutations have occurred internally within 30 minutes. Although they were all handled quickly, this infection rate exceeds the scale of any previous war."

Ye Lan shook her head: "The S-rank has not yet emerged, and the infection peak has not yet arrived. We must drag out the battle!"

(End of this chapter)