Chapter 516: Tower Civilization

"Kiki, I found on the Chengying ship that you boarded the ship. What happened during this time?"

In the empty conference hall, Lin Xian asked Kiki the question.

"She doesn't know much more than you."

Raymond was a middle-aged man in his 40s with a rough face. His right cheek had many scars, looking like a patch. He held a lit cigar and looked at Lin Xian: "We saved her from a pile of dead people. That battle lasted for two days and one night. The yellow sand on the Jaco coast was full of dead people. This girl could actually use telekinesis to take the shock wave sprayed by the world-class disaster 'Earthquake Catfish' and severely damaged an S-rank, at least buying a lot of time for Noah's main force to retreat."

"We all thought she was dead. She lay at Outpost 374 for almost a month. Counting it up, she woke up only ten days earlier than you." Shi Weidong said at this time.

"After waking up, she has been acting with our action team to search for your traces." Song Wei on the opposite side also said.

Hearing this, Lin Xian frowned, looked at Kiki, but the latter was sitting on a swivel chair with a lollipop in her mouth. After meeting Lin Xian's gaze, she just smiled, her eyes cunningly preemptive: "You're welcome~"

"Lying for a month, was she seriously injured?" Lin Xian asked.

"No~" Kiki shook her shoulders and said spiritedly: "It's just that mental power was overused, and I slept for a few more days~"

"Your mental power was not overused, when we found you..."

"Oh, stop talking nonsense." Kiki directly interrupted Shi Weidong's words: "Back to the topic! Old Shi!"

"By the way, wasn't Director Ding with us?"

Lin Xian remembered this point. He originally thought Ding Junyi might be here, but he didn't see her figure from beginning to end, so he couldn't help asking.

"After I woke up, about a week ago, Director Ding went to Phoenix City with Noah's transfer troops, because we couldn't find the reason why you couldn't wake up, so we split into two paths. I searched for your traces here, and she rushed to the Nightwalker headquarters first..." Kiki said and exhaled: "We planned that if we found you, we would send you over."

"Polar Kunlun City?"

"Hmm."

"What about the fleet, what about Teacher Chen and the others?" Lin Xian asked hurriedly.

As soon as the words fell, the conference room fell silent. Kiki's expression dimmed, her gaze fell on the table, and she didn't speak.

Seeing this, Lin Xian's heart sank suddenly, and he said coldly:

"The rail fleet has no news at all?!"

Shi Weidong opened his mouth at this time: "From December 09 to now, no train has appeared on the north-south rail line running through the two continents."

"What about the Dawn Center?"

Shi Weidong stood by the holographic sand table in the conference room. The tip of the laser pointer pointed at the floating projection of the North American continent. The cold light reflected his furrowed face. His voice was not high, but it carried a cold and tired feeling like metal scraping. Every word hit the oppressive air.

"Sword-Bearer..." he opened his mouth, his gaze not leaving the striking scarlet area covering most of the simulated Earth on the sand table: "From the moment you entered 'deep sleep', the world has been accelerating its collapse."

"November 12, Noah's far-sea monitoring group confirmed—Star Abyss No. 13 erupted in scarlet expansion in the East Pacific and the Black Sea at the same time, with a scale exceeding all model predictions." The laser pointer poked at the Pacific area, "In less than twelve hours, the core areas of these two oceans were gone, completely swallowed by the scarlet."

His wrist shook, and the pointer pointed to Alaska: "November 24, the Dawn Center Command completed a rendezvous with the remnants of the North American Allied Front that retreated here on the Alaska ice sheet. The original plan was to cross North America and South America in twenty-five days, establish a gathering and preparation at the Storm Strait, and then cross the Storm Sea into the poles before being swallowed by the scarlet."

On the holographic projection, a green light line that turned from virtual to real wound southward from Alaska, passed through the North American continent, and pointed to the southernmost tip of South America.

Shi Weidong's laser pointer stopped abruptly in the Asia-Pacific region: "November 25, without any warning, Star Abyss No. 3, 5, 7, and 8 in the Asia-Pacific region started irregular expansion without any warning! The scarlet ran around on the map like a plague! The commander ordered urgently: the Dawn City garrison troops united with the survivors of Silent City to transfer immediately! The Dawn Center's original twenty-five-day safe march was forced into a day-and-night death march! The goal remains unchanged—Storm Strait!"

His voice suddenly rose, carrying a tremor that was hard to suppress, and then he looked at the central part of the North American continent, where the projection of the Colorado Grand Canyon area turned blood red instantly: "December 9! The expansion speed of Star Abyss No. 12 and No. 9 in North America surged in the black night! The Dawn Center main force... hit the world-class disaster No. 05—'Chaos' in the Grand Canyon area!" Shi Weidong's voice choked, his Adam's apple rolled: "More than 1 million people... gone. That night."

He took a deep breath, as if the thick smell of blood was still blocking his nasal cavity: "Then, 219 train fleets on the land track lost contact across the board on the rail line in the eastern canyon of Colorado!"

He sank his breath, then looked at Lin Xian: "In addition to the survivor fleets, there were also the 13th and 22nd Iron Guard Brigades belonging to the Ninth Intercontinental Unit and six of the most elite special operations groups of the Second Intercontinental Unit! Three air fleets that should have provided airspace support! And one more thing... those trains transported a massive amount of our only remaining combat-ready resources... and survival supplies that could allow more people to live! All gone!"

Lin Xian frowned. In his peripheral vision, Kiki, who was sitting opposite, also crossed her arms and buried her head gloomily.

"Then there is Noah's side. The plan to cross the Storm Sea and land at the poles was completely ruined because of the crazy swallowing of Star Abyss No. 13. They were forced to change their route to Panama, and then Noah was forcibly landed on the Jaco coast on December 11, and a full-person land transfer was carried out! Then the commander intended to let Noah's main body pass through that man-eating scarlet sea area in the form of an empty ship and then enter the Storm Sea for sea crossing."

"However, the Jaco landing site hadn't stood firm on December 11, and the world-class disaster 'Earthquake Catfish' of Star Abyss No. 13 suddenly drilled out from the near sea and directly stranded Noah on the beach, also triggering a scarlet tide. That battle..." Shi Weidong sighed: "It's not enough to describe it as a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. So many ability users with lattice evolution from the 1st and 2nd departments of the Nightwalkers were almost wiped out. In the end, it was the support from the Dawn Center main force from the north, plus the Phoenix City in the south and the Storm Alliance in Europe, that tore open a gap and allowed the Zhengtian ship and most of Noah's survivors to complete the transfer. Otherwise, just here, I'm afraid it would have damaged half of human civilization."

He opened his eyes, carrying a bit of fatigue and a kind of almost numb heaviness: "The Dawn Center main force encountered 'Chaos' in the Colorado Grand Canyon and was already at the end of its rope. In order to search for and rescue the rail fleet, they fought several big battles in the broken canyon..."

"And then?" Lin Xian asked.

"Useless."

Raymond, who was sitting opposite, exhaled a heavy puff of smoke and shook his head, saying: "They almost filled in two Iron Guard Brigades because the Colorado Canyon super bridge broke. Oh, it can't even be said to be broken. I heard that the place was even shattered, and the rail fleet couldn't escape at all. Even some all-terrain trains or people who abandoned the train and ran away couldn't escape in the scarlet, not to mention that the place is now like hell, full of ghosts and monsters. Unless the train can fly, otherwise..."

He stopped halfway, looked at Lin Xian and Kiki, and swallowed it back. He knew that Lin Xian's fleet was a rail fleet, so he didn't continue.

Shi Weidong raised his head and looked directly at Lin Xian. There were bloodshot eyes in his eyes, but also a stubbornness that couldn't be burned out: "Now, the main forces of the Second, Fourth, and Seventh Intercontinental Units of the Interstellar Military are all stationed near Ushuaia and have not crossed the Storm Strait."

"Why?" Lin Xian asked.

"Of course, it's because they don't want to give up." Shi Weidong shrugged and looked at Lin Xian: "Including these scarlet strongholds of ours, they are for supporting the scattered fleets that survived from the scarlet. This is our mission, to do everything possible to find, support those scattered fleets that luckily survived the catastrophe, and take them..."

In the conference room, it was as quiet as before.

Lin Xian frowned at this time. The crisis was even worse than he expected. At this time, he was very puzzled and opened his mouth to break the silence:

"According to the Phoenix Society's investigation, why did the scarlet appear, and why did it suddenly erupt so seriously?"

"Because of the Advent Sect."

As soon as Lin Xian finished speaking, a response sounded quickly. Lin Xian looked in the direction of the voice and found that it was Song Wei who spoke, and immediately asked in confusion: "Because of humanity?"

"Didn't you see it?"

Shi Weidong looked at Lin Xian at this time and said: "The Star Abyss, from the stable and disordered swallowing and expansion before, seems to possess a clear strategic consciousness after the scarlet appeared. The eruption of Star Abyss No. 13 in the Pacific and Star Abyss No. 12 and No. 9 in North America are all associated with our main cluster transfer. Time, location, very accurate."

"And it just so happens that the Noah fleet and the rail fleet are both important tools for our material collection and transportation, one by sea and one by land." Raymond flicked the cigarette ash and said directly: "This is the means used by the Foundation and the Holy City to specifically disintegrate our human camp."

Song Wei also said at the same time: "We believe that the Foundation has already possessed the means of information exchange with the Tower Civilization, and precisely because of this, the scarlet eruption and the appearance of world-class disasters have become increasingly fatal to us humans. Without material supply and being deprived of survival areas, this will be a devastating blow to us."

"Wait..." Lin Xian frowned and looked at her: "Tower Civilization?"

"Someone in the Phoenix Society has solved the puzzle of that civilization game." Kiki looked at Lin Xian at this time, her eyes flickering: "You should know her, Chu Yan."

"That's right." Shi Weidong nodded, his face incomparably gloomy: "Our enemies are now very clear, not only the Tower Civilization, but also this group of Advent Sect members who are incomparably familiar with our own civilization..."

Lin Xian could hear that Shi Weidong's tone carried a hatred of powerlessness. Only one's own people knew how to accurately hurt one's own people. ===== CHAPTER 517 =====