Chapter 1842: with translation of chapter title

Boom!! Boom!!

As the distance rapidly closed, the deafening sound of clashing rules, like a salvo of heavy artillery, made the whole Weihai tremble.

The invisible ring-shaped shockwave surged outward like rolling air waves.

Rock fragments flew up, glass shattered!

In Tel's grim gaze, he could even see the skyscrapers on the ground swaying left and right under the relentless shockwave impacts, even snapping at the waist!

The earth rolled like a wave!

At a glance, the sprawling Weihai City had completely turned into a wasteland at this moment!

The reinforced concrete, usually hard, collapsed like toys at this moment, as fragile as paper!

If such intensity were at the battle's center, it would be understandable—but this is still the outskirts, and they couldn't even see Long An's troops!

Damn it, what monster are Long An's Awakened Ones fighting!

"Stay close to me! Ron, figure out how to protect the Fourth Stage you brought! My Severed Thread Rule can only carry six people at most! You're a speed type, so it shouldn't be a problem!"

"I'm not sure whether we'll be intercepted!"

"But if we are intercepted! Tel! I hope you can withstand the first wave of attack!"

Speaking rapidly, Gao Tian simultaneously exerted his Severed Thread Rule to the fullest while assigning tasks. He didn't have time to worry that it sounded like he was ordering two people; at this moment, the heaviness in his heart surpassed even Tel's and the others'!

The situation is very bad!

However, in just a few minutes, the situation seemed to have undergone an unknown change.

Given such intense battle fluctuations now, it's not something one or two Fourth Stages could produce! Without a doubt, the battlefield's center has likely entered a white-hot phase! At least over a hundred Fourth Stages are engaged in melee!

"Received!"

Ignoring Gao Tian's command, they closely followed behind him, the two instinctively exchanged a glance, a flash of determination crossing their eyes.

They also realized that Gao Tian had originally intended for them to bring a large number of Fourth Stages to launch a counter-encirclement attack! But now, even charging into the encirclement might be dangerous.

With the pressure doubled, they stopped thinking further, instead exerting their rules to the utmost to protect each other.

Soon, under Gao Tian's rule effect, several people shot toward the battle center at nearly twenty times the speed of sound. From afar, the whole team looked like a cyan‑red arrow piercing only darkness!

"Whoosh! Bang!!"

I don't know how many times he had activated his Severed Thread Rule; during a brief charge pause, the squad had already rushed to the vicinity of the coastline.

Very smooth.

Contrary to Gao Tian's expectations, they had encountered no obstruction all along, and not even a single zombie was seen!

Just a brief pause, and his whole body was steaming with hot air.

Just as he made out the distant battlefield scene.

In an instant, both Gao Tian and Tel were startled, their pupils contracting sharply!

"It disappeared!? The land disappeared!?"

He sucked in a breath of cold air, and Ron's scalp went numb!

Only then did he see that the distant coastal area had completely vanished! The land seemed to have been hollowed out, forming a huge pit with no end in sight.

The fractured earth resembled a dark abyss, and above the abyss hovered over three hundred Long An Fourth Stages gathered together, contracted into a sphere.

Various colors of spiritual energy and rules converged like multicolored orbs, tightly guarding together; the whole unit hovered like a firepower bunker above the void, launching attacks in all directions against the spiritual aberrations.

This was not a rule battle between Fourth Stages! It was a battle between Fourth Stages and spiritual aberrations!

Thousands upon thousands of shrieking spiritual aberrations were continuously emerging from the ocean.

Faced with the Fourth Stages' rules, these spiritual aberrations seemed immune to damage, shrieking as they charged.

Often only more than ten Fourth Stages firing together could barely scatter one; but the moment it was dispersed, these white shadows would instantly re‑coalesce, wailing and launching another assault.

The huge void they saw was actually blasted out by the overflowing rule remnants!

How terrifying! For Ron and the others, their last major battle was Houston's! Yet even that battle's destructive power paled in comparison to now.

"Damn! How are we supposed to charge in and rendezvous!?"

The situation had deteriorated to the extreme.

Tel gripped his giant axe tightly, feeling his heart pound wildly!

No wonder no enemies intercepted them! If they dared approach the surroundings, let alone carve a bloody path, just the desperate bombardment rule remnants from Long An's Fourth Stages could shake them to death!

Moreover, he noticed that the attacks of this group of Long An Fourth Stages were relentless—they dared not stop!

In Tel's eyes, he instantly saw a physique‑type Fourth Stage on the outskirts; a slight mistake was enough for a swarm of spiritual aberrations to slip through the gaps, and after a few shuttles it lost vitality and silently fell into the abyss.

Soon after this Fourth Stage died, it was as if infected—its eyes turned dead white, and it quickly crawled up from the edge of the abyss.

The endless spiritual aberrations, even after death, would continue to become the enemy's living force!

"Gao Tian!?"

Before Ron could even voice his question to Gao Tian about what to do, in an instant a tiny figure in Long An's airspace suddenly turned around, as if seeing them, and instantly sent a psychic message:

"Go! Let Gao Tian take you away! This is a trap! There are still many fugitive Fourth Stages behind!"

The voice unmistakably came from Mo Ling.

As Mo Ling's voice sounded, only then did several people notice a dark‑red strange energy tightly shielding Long An's many Fourth Stages, like another kind of miasma; within this energy, any spiritual aberration attempting to appear inside via instant movement would be instantly melted.

However, as the spiritual aberrations' attack pressure grew, Mo Ling's deployed miasma kept shrinking, which caused the outer Fourth Stages to start suffering casualties.

Even farther out on the battlefield's edge, hidden auras coldly locked onto this place.

It was obvious that the fugitives had, as Mo Ling said, already surrounded them; now they refrained from acting, purely wanting to use these spiritual aberrations to wear them to death!

The situation was a hundred times worse than imagined; for a moment, Tel's face turned pale, feeling that this killing game had absolutely no solution.

Yet at the same time, faced with Mo Ling's urgent urging to leave, Gao Tian seemed not to hear, his eyes merely fixed on the source of those spiritual aberrations.

"Leave!?" Not only was he unwilling to just give up, his thoughts were similar to Mo Ling's; in Gao Tian's heart, after Lin An left, he was the mainstay! To watch these Fourth Stages die here before his eyes was something he simply couldn't do! This was the team Lin Dui had painstakingly pulled together; if they were all lost here, Long An would be completely ruined!

"If he wanted to flee, he would have fled long ago!"

There's a way, there must be a way!

"I won't leave! Give me a chance! Mo Ling! Give me a chance!"

"Is the source that female corpse!? After we meet up, I have a way to kill it!"