Chapter 871

Su Yang walked straight into the storage room.

Inside the storage room, two broken leather sofas sat amid piles of discarded household items and junk; many spots on the sofas were torn, revealing white cotton padding.

On the broken sofas sat An Hang and two other Southeast Military Department Sovereign-level Beast Tamer.

Liu Yan stood by the door; after Su Yang entered, he sharply closed it.

As soon as Su Yang entered the storage room, he smelled a strong intensity of smoke.

The smell made him sneeze!

Su Yang frowned helplessly and said: "My nose is sensitive—let's air this out!"

"Alright!"

One of the Sovereign-level Beast Tamers quickly stubbed out his cigarette, waved his hand, and a light breeze swept through, carrying most of the smoke out through the damaged windows.

After Su Yang entered, An Hang sat bare-chested in the corner of the sofa, hugging a large iron pot.

His hands were red, and the water inside the pot boiled, steaming vigorously.

Zhu Bin was adding red chili peppers to the pot!

Su Yang sniffed...

Honestly, the smell was delicious!

Is Zhu Bin's cooking really this good?

These Sovereign-level Beast Tamers aren't afraid of Zhu Bin's servants finding out.

Anyone approaching would be detected in advance, and each of them had a Sovereign-level mental-type dragon beast.

Making someone forget something was simple.

An Hang, seeing Su Yang return, immediately asked: "Commander Su, did you find anything?"

"Yes!"

Su Yang walked to the sofa; the two Beast Tamers beside him made room for him.

Su Yang plopped down on the sofa, making it creak loudly.

"What did you find?"

Su Yang took a deep breath, pulled a strip of meat from the pocket of his case, bit into it—it was still spicy, and the flavor was even better than the Meat King he'd brought!

"The problem is serious!"

Zhu Bin, no longer adding chilies, urged: "Commander Su, speak quickly! If you like my Meat King, I'll give you a whole crate!"

All five Sovereign-level Beast Tamers leaned in; An Hang set the pot down.

Su Yang recounted how, at dusk, the Storm Eagle had revealed everything to An Hang and the others.

A series of "hiss—hiss—" sounds echoed through the old storage room.

It felt as if the warehouse had turned into a snake den.

Their reaction to this news was even more extreme than Su Yang's!

"This definitely isn't a domestic organization!"

"No domestic group is this powerful—the Treasure Pavilion isn't!"

"What country could this be? They're just too strong!"

Zhu Bin's face darkened: "If they attack, we won't be able to hold Nangang City!"

"We'll need to request reinforcements—from the General Military Headquarters!"

"Mm."

Su Yang nodded solemnly: "At their speed, they'll reach Nangang City in about two days!"

An Hang scratched his head hard: "In two days, reinforcements won't arrive—and the Southeast Military Department doesn't have enough strength!"

Zhu Bin asked quietly: "If we can't hold it, should I order the entire city to evacuate?"

It was clear Zhu Bin wanted to evacuate, but everyone knew the enemy was too strong.

These few Sovereign-level Beast Tamers were no match for them!

Evacuation was indeed the best option now.

But Su Yang thought of more.

Seeing Su Yang sit quietly, frowning, An Hang whispered: "Commander Su, do you have something to say?"

Everyone fell silent, all eyes on Su Yang: "If we evacuate now, these people will spread word of their plan—they might vanish for good... next time they appear, it won't be predictable. Unless we abandon every coastal city in the Huaxia Federation, they could still destroy us. We can't station dozens of Sovereign-level Beast Tamers to guard these cities." Zhu Bin shoved a red chili into his mouth; "But we can't defeat them either—even if we pooled all the Southeast Military Department's forces, we'd still lose!"

Su Yang bit his lower lip: "But if you give me some time, I can reach the Huaxia Federation's General Military Headquarters in one day—and within twenty days, gather a large force of Sovereign-level Beast Tamers to wipe them out!"

The distance from Nangang City to Shengjing spans nearly half the Huaxia Federation—exhausting for Void-Wandering Spirits!

Sovereign-level experts need nearly two weeks to travel from Shengjing to the southeast coast!

Zhu Bin added: "But we only have three days—these people won't wait for us to prepare!"

Su Yang lowered his head and scratched his scalp hard.

He quickly reached out, snatched three chilies from Zhu Bin's hand, and shoved them into his mouth; he bit down—spicy heat flooded his senses. Everyone could see Su Yang's state was strange!

"Commander Zhu, my idea might be cruel to you—would you like to hear it?"

"Go on!"

Zhu Bin's expression turned solemn.

Su Yang took a deep breath, set aside the bag of spicy dried meat, and pointed to Mount Dajiao on the military map of the southeast spread across the table.

His finger traced from Mount Dajiao, following the clean coastline of the southeast, passing Bo Hai City, Shuicheng City, then Nangang City, finally stopping at Lin Taicheng—the last coastal city in the southeast, south of Nangang City, besides Mount Dajiao and Nangang City.

"I want to choose Lin Taicheng as the battlefield!"

Zhu Bin asked, voice trembling: "What about Nangang City?"

Combined with Su Yang's earlier words, he seemed to have guessed something...

"Give up!"

"Does that include me too?"

"If we follow this plan, to be safe, we should act like this!"

Given the enemy's cautious attitude of not sparing a single living person, if Nangang City Lord Zhu Bin were to escape, they might abandon their next attack target...

The best outcome would be for Nangang City, like Jellyfish City and Haicheng, to have no survivors!

The enemy is playing a game of timing, banking on the vast territory of the Huaxia Federation and the inconvenience of communications!

They probably hadn't expected that Su Yang would see through their identities so quickly, anticipate their movements and routes, and lead people to arrive at Nangang City one step ahead!

As for Zero, on careful thought, they wouldn't appear near Nangang City either!