Chapter 319: City of Shadows!

A place in Kangaroo Country near the Wurenqu.

Thanks to the long-lasting wildfires that have occurred from time to time over the past few decades.

Most of the towns that were once scattered like stars have already been abandoned.

The small towns where people are still active are mainly inhabited by a few elderly people who refuse to move away.

With the Kangaroo Country military swarming in, these people were quickly cleared out and left.

As the cordon was pulled, a large number of Drones and armed helicopters were deployed in the airspace around the destination.

Open spaces near the Wurenqu were cleared one by one.

Then, although they had not received an invitation, the President of Kangaroo Country and his entourage, who had arrived with the large group, arrived at an open space.

They were surprised to see a scene that made them envious and jealous.

Several thin Daoists wearing blue Daoist robes suddenly took out palm-sized gray cloth bags.

Afterwards, they pulled piles of various materials out of those cloth bags.

Then, as the shortest but seemingly highest-ranking young Daoist began to form seals with his hands at his chest.

Swish!

Accompanied by a gust of breeze, the surrounding space seemed to brighten up all at once.

The President of Kangaroo Country widened his eyes and saw a golden, majestic armored general emerging from the little Daoist!

The decorations of this general were quite similar to the ancient style of the Sui and Tang dynasties of the Eastern Ancient Kingdom.

So much so that as soon as they appeared, all parties were convinced that they likely had some special connection to the ancient period of the Eastern Ancient Kingdom.

This golden armored general was, in fact, only transformed from a heavenly soldier statue in the Zhenwu Fumo Dijun Shenmiao.

Of course, even if it was just a heavenly soldier statue, it was equivalent to a master at the Foundation Establishment Yuanyuan level in reality.

After this heavenly soldier statue was awakened, it opened its divine eyes and scanned the piles of materials stacked like mountains all around.

With a wave of its large hand, divine light fell, causing those materials to begin assembling in mid-air.

Because many parts had already been refined accordingly by artifact refiners.

The heavenly soldier statue was actually just providing the Dharma Power to control objects.

But to outsiders who did not know the inside story.

It was as if that tall and mighty divine phantom was gesturing with its hands.

And the mountain of materials spontaneously transformed into a Daoist temple with red walls and green tiles.

At the same time, lifelike patterns of various birds and beasts emerged on the walls and the pillars of the Daoist temple.

And it carried a certain indescribable sense of majesty and mystery.

Causing anyone who approached the Daoist temple to instinctively feel a sense of awe toward it.

The President of Kangaroo Country thought of similar videos he had seen before.

That was filmed from a cooperative project with the Eastern Ancient Kingdom where, with the help of transcendent beings, a multi-story building was cast in an instant.

That scale was much more exaggerated than it is now.

But after all, that was just watching a video, which could not compare to witnessing it with his own eyes today.

The President of Kangaroo Country could not help but feel a bit sour, complaining about why his ancestors had not started building good relations with transcendent forces early on.

Making it so that now, their Kangaroo Country seemed to have been forgotten.

The staff member from the Eastern Ancient Kingdom, after watching the Daoists file into the newly built Daoist temple and begin to preside over the Array inside.

He noticed the President of Kangaroo Country and others, and walked over with a smile:

"I am very sorry, Mr. President, in order to deal with the possible dangers that follow."

"Similar Daoist temples, Buddhist temples everywhere... and those churches built by people from the Holy Church."

"Will not be open to the public."

"However..."

When the staff member said this, he looked at the President of Kangaroo Country and said with a hint of congratulations:

"During this period, they may need a lot of supplies."

"As for these, as long as your country can provide them, we are willing to purchase them at market price."

"Purchase?"

The President of Kangaroo Country was slightly shocked, and regardless of whether he had communicated with the financial bureaucrats in advance or whether they would agree.

He clenched his fists and waved them vigorously, shouting out loud:

"No, no, no!"

"You have come here to protect the safety of all our citizens in Kangaroo Country."

"You are clearly the great benefactors of all our Kangaroo Country citizens!"

"How can we earn money from our great benefactors!"

"Please rest assured and convey this to the distinguished guests!"

"I, President Laikesi of Kangaroo Country, stake everything I have, and will do my utmost to satisfy the requests of the distinguished guests!"

After speaking, the President of Kangaroo Country glanced at his confidant.

Watching his blank expression, a feeling of being disappointed that he could not live up to expectations secretly swirled in his heart.

It seems that for the next period of time, he will have to change his position; at this time, ability is clearly more important than loyalty.

As for saying that he would not use him anymore, that is impossible.

That ruler in the north has such strong personal charm and courage, yet he still has to hold his nose and use his own boat friends, security guards, cooks, and colleagues?

It is only when one is in a high position that one understands that in the real world.

There are too many key positions, but too few usable and trustworthy people.

The President of Kangaroo Country stated his position.

And he made plans in his heart, in case those bureaucrats disagreed after he returned.

Then he would simply pull in his friends and family to raise the resources himself to get this done!

The President of Kangaroo Country believed that he was certainly not the only wealthy person with vision.

This matter would definitely not be a loss in the end!

And in fact, when the President of Kangaroo Country received the first list of supplies from the staff.

A representative from a famous wealthy club in Kangaroo Country had already visited with precious gifts, limited-edition high-grade ingredients produced by an Eastern Ancient Kingdom cooperation project.

And reached a cooperation agreement with the President of Kangaroo Country.

The members of this club could provide both manpower and material resources.

The reward was that if, after the matter was over, any transcendent force provided opportunities for cooperation projects or other transcendent resources.

The President of Kangaroo Country must publicly share the relevant intelligence and give them priority for cooperation opportunities.

The requirements for the first batch of supplies were not difficult for Kangaroo Country.

Or rather, they were quite simple.

In order to buy time for the completion of the Seal Array, they had received transcendent revelations that they could use a large amount of blood-food to delay the outbreak and spread of the abnormal existence.

Blood-food only needed to be living things, with livestock being the best.

And as everyone knew.

Kangaroo Country was a major livestock nation.

In addition to the large-scale cattle and sheep livestock industry.

Wild rabbits and kangaroos had long since become a disaster.

In order to solve the wild rabbit and kangaroo problem, Kangaroo Country had vigorously encouraged relevant economic industries.

It was just that the results had always been poor.

Now, they could take this opportunity to kill two birds with one stone.

Thus, organizations in various parts of Kangaroo Country began to pay to collect live rabbits and kangaroos.

At the same time, most of the cattle and sheep that were about to be or could already be slaughtered were stopped from being processed.

Instead, after being given compensation at market price, they were taken away truck by truck and sent into the Wurenqu.

The next morning.

A convoy consisting of hundreds of large trucks arrived at the destination along the highway in the Wurenqu.

Then, staff members wearing white work uniforms, with the help of Exoskeletons and semi-automatic equipment on the vehicles.

Transported the semi-conscious cattle and sheep out of the trucks and placed them on the desert of the Wurenqu.

When this work had just reached two-thirds completion.

Suddenly, both the truck drivers and the staff heard the somewhat anxious voice of their team leader coming from their communication equipment.

"Hurry up! The boss just relayed the news that this area is about to enter a danger period."

"You have five minutes left; you must evacuate after five minutes!"

"Brothers, put in some effort; I guarantee everyone will be satisfied with the bonus this time!"

The team leader of the convoy held the microphone and shouted to boost morale, then stared at his watch.

Although according to the time given by the boss, there were still five minutes left.

But... as three minutes passed, the team leader widened his eyes and saw between the desert sky and earth in the distance.

A black line seemed to break through the ground and shoot directly into the sky.

Causing the sky in the distance, which had been cloudless, to suddenly become overcast with dark clouds.

A bone-chilling sense of unease instantly crawled over every inch of the team leader's skin.

He swallowed his saliva.

Compared to the bonus for successfully completing the mission.

This team leader ultimately succumbed to the fear in his heart.

He took a deep breath, picked up the microphone, and issued the order to stop transferring targets and evacuate immediately.

Immediately, the staff of each truck got into their vehicles one after another.

And chose to ignore the cattle, sheep, and other living things that were still on the trucks.

Some of these cattle, sheep, and other living things dazedly opened their eyes, unaware that just a moment ago, they had escaped a great catastrophe.

The convoy began to evacuate, and the drivers saw the dark clouds in the distance and more and more abnormal black lines between heaven and earth through their rearview mirrors.

Causing the drivers to involuntarily press down on the accelerators.

In various locations throughout the Wurenqu, similar things were constantly happening.

Those local transcendents stationed in Daoist temples, Buddhist temples, and churches.

All felt the immense Evil born in the depths of the Wurenqu and the heavy pressure that made their souls tremble.

The higher their cultivation, the more they could feel this heavy pressure.

And the more they attached importance to the garrison mission they had received.

They even had a certain sense of mission regarding this matter.

Making them feel that what they were doing now was of immense importance to the whole world and all of humanity!

…………

As the given time arrived.

The President of Kangaroo Country, along with many others, sat in the transcendent docking cooperation monitoring room.

Watching the ultra-clear, ultra-wide-angle real-time satellite images provided by the Eastern Ancient Kingdom as a gesture of friendship.

They saw the strange phenomenon begin to emerge in their own Wurenqu.

Before long, it covered a small half of the Wurenqu.

According to the graphic estimates, it was actually over ten thousand square kilometers!

With a surface area like this, even the largest city on the entire Water Blue Star was only that big.

In fact, many countries and regions were far from having this much area.

After observations were conducted through monitoring equipment at different angles, and a model was constructed via supercomputer.

As the strange phenomenon stopped changing.

The projection model was successfully established and appeared before everyone.

Allowing them to see exactly what the situation was with this strange phenomenon in the Wurenqu.

It looked like a bowl-shaped object inverted over the desert of the Wurenqu.

The black, semi-transparent light membrane was filled with black fog.

This made it so that even the best satellites and monitoring equipment could not see clearly what the situation was inside the black fog.

Fortunately.

When the President of Kangaroo Country arranged to provide living creatures, he did not fail to install monitoring equipment on those living creatures.

Plus, the Eastern Ancient Kingdom and Flower Flag Country also kindly provided a portion of related equipment.

It could not be observed from the outside.

As the equipment inside was activated.

People on the outside breathed a sigh of relief one after another.

What they feared most was that the signal transmission from their respective monitoring equipment would be restricted.

This was something they encountered frequently when they had encountered the extraordinary before.

However, in this matter, they discovered that although most of the monitoring equipment had malfunctioned.

A small portion of equipment from major powers like the Eastern Ancient Kingdom and Flower Flag Country showed that it was still operating normally.

And image signals had already been transmitted over through special means and had begun to be parsed.

Very quickly, the curious people on the outside saw the world inside that black fog.

That was a surveillance perspective installed under a kangaroo's neck.

In this perspective, everything before the eyes was filled with gray tones.

It looked like a world that only existed in black and gray tones.

In this world, there were actually high-rise buildings, twisted and blurry, that reached the sky and could not be seen to the end.

Furthermore, very quickly, one after another, thin, long ghost shadows composed entirely of black Shadow of the Abyss emerged from the ground and from various buildings, carrying viscous darkness.

One ghost shadow appeared before the kangaroo that had not been awake for long and was in a dazed state.

The kangaroo was so frightened that it instinctively jumped up and threw a punch.

This punch, however, passed directly through the ghost shadow, as if the other party were truly just a phantom.

However!

As that ghost shadow lunged over fiercely.

Very quickly, the kangaroo's monitoring equipment broke with a "Crack!" sound, interrupting the image transmission.

The final information was just a burst of hair-raising "crack-crack" sounds...

"What... is this situation?"

"Inside the black fog, there is a city?"

"And it is a dark Yinying Zhicheng with countless high-rise buildings!"

Although one could not see clearly what those high-rise buildings—which only had black and gray tones and were blurry and shadowy—were actually like.

As for the details, one could only see viscous darkness.

This did not prevent the people who had finished watching the video from forming the idea in their hearts that it was a giant city with a very high civilization.

Because the perspective was limited and the content was sparse, plus the details were simply non-existent after being turned into shadows.

These people mainly guessed whether it was some relic of a lost civilization from the ancient era.

They would not, however, guess that this Yinying Zhicheng was actually copied from the Nightless City on Water Blue Star.

Inside the Yinying Zhicheng.

A grand feast was currently underway.

Su Ping had completed the arrangement of the shadow gems.

After opening the Yuanling and creating this pasture that was the Yinying Zhicheng.

Su Ping then flew into mid-air and released his Divine Sense to observe the changes in this Yinying Zhicheng.

At this time, inside the Yinying Zhicheng.

Countless ghost shadows, formed from the soul fragments of human seven emotions and six desires,

were devouring the living creatures provided by the President of Kangaroo Country.

Millions of cattle and sheep, along with an equal number of other living creatures, were also devoured completely in a short period of time.

And the ghost shadows that had obtained blood food began to evolve.

A portion of the ghost shadows began to consciously ambush other ghost shadows.

A new drama of big fish eating small fish began.

In this process, some ghost shadows began to become the lowest-level Shadow Creature.

Although they looked strange and grotesque one by one, far exceeding the aesthetic limits of normal people.

They also began to have value that could be used by Su Ping.