Chapter 1049: Wolf Howls and Revolts

"Copy that." Beard Feng acknowledged the order and immediately began preparing the explosives.

Using explosives to attack the beast tide during a Calamity Rain carries a certain amount of risk.

The explosions would definitely trigger a Calamity Burst, and the Calamity-element particle stream caused by the Calamity Burst would attack the evolved-forest creatures not wearing protective suits, causing bodily damage, weakened vitality, and even death.

The Calamity Burst would also cause the beasts in the tide that weren't killed by the blasts and had already lost control to experience a sudden surge in combat power, causing animals on the verge of losing control to instantly lose control, losing all sense of pain and fear, leaving only the instinct to devour and fight.

Therefore, when a medium or large beast tide occurs, humanity's main defensive method is to guide the beast tide to avoid human territories and safe zones, and return it to the evolved forest.

But this situation is different. A scent with a strong attraction to carnivorous animals has appeared within Northern Zone One's territory, so the frenzied animals must be eliminated before they lock onto Northern Zone One with their sense of smell.

Because once they charge to the outer edge of the territory, even if the iron-mesh walls of Northern Zone One are electrified, they would be smashed through within minutes by the raging beasts.

The disaster-relief methods before Xia Qing are only two:

One is to use pack after pack of explosives to continuously bombard and wipe out the large beasts in the tide; the other is to set up three lines of defense in advance in the direction the beasts are charging from, and eliminate them in stages.

To set up the defenses and eliminate over three hundred frenzied large beasts, Xia Qing needs to deploy the Inspection Team, the two special-ops squads from Territory Seven, the evolver allies from the Territory Alliance, and the combat strength of Center Nine.

Xia Qing absolutely cannot deploy the special-ops squads from Territory Seven.

Because she has strung together and analyzed the events of the past two days twice, and discovered that this is a grand conspiracy specifically targeting Northern Zone One's territory.

The first step of this conspiracy is the disappearance of the magnetoception evolver Ma Xiaoyin from Hui-Three Safe Zone, an incident that focused everyone's attention on magnetoception evolvers. To protect their safety, the relevant departments would certainly narrow and restrict their range of activity.

The second step is to ambush the magnetoception evolver squad carrying out a mission from Center Nine to Northern Zone Three, with the goal of causing Northern Zone One's territory to lose two magnetoception evolvers, and making the remaining two magnetoception evolvers afraid to go outside.

The third step is to secretly scatter purple-black small-flower Calamity Grass seeds, which can attract carnivorous animals, along the passage of Northern Zone One's territory.

If the second step succeeds, then Center Nine will strictly protect the remaining two magnetoception evolvers and not let them go outside. This way, the aggressive Calamity Grass along the passage can grow and bloom smoothly, releasing a scent that attracts carnivores.

The six already-exposed target figures—Center Nine's enemy moles Zhang Kui, Li Cun, and Chen Xia; Northern Zone One Inspection Team's enemy mole Peng Lin; and Territory Fourteen's Yan Meng and Feng Wen—have been under Xia Qing's strict surveillance, so the Calamity Grass seeds along the passage definitely weren't scattered by them.

This proves that there must still be an enemy lurking within Northern Zone One's territory.

The fourth step is for the blue-skinned Wanderer squad hidden in the western evolved forest to use drugs to trigger a beast tide and guide it to the vicinity of Northern Zone One's territory, so that under the guidance of the Calamity Grass scent along the passage, it launches a fierce attack on Northern Zone One's territory.

To ensure the conspiracy proceeds smoothly, the enemy also sent people to attack Hui-Three's unpolluted spring, so that Hui-Three's army and combat squads cannot reinforce Northern Zone One's territory in time.

Of course, it's also possible that destroying Hui-Three's unpolluted spring is their main objective, and destroying Northern Zone One's territory is an incidental plan or secondary objective.

Looking across all of Northern Zone One's territory, Xia Qing believes the only one worth the enemy putting in so much effort is the Territory Seven big shot who just ended his cooperative relationship with Hui-One Base and also cut off two of Blaze Squad's revenue streams—her idol, Zhang San.

If Xia Qing deploys the troops protecting her idol to intercept the beast tide, causing the idol to be attacked by the lurking enemy, and making the higher-ups of Hua Nation believe that Hui-Three's Northern Zone One territory cannot guarantee the big shot's safety, demanding that he withdraw.

Then... Xia Qing would lose her most important ally and companion within this territory.

Therefore, even if she has to blast the evolved forest around the territory to rubble with explosives, Xia Qing will not deploy Territory Seven's combat strength!

Hui-One and Blaze have gone too far. Once this crisis is over, Xia Qing must take the initiative and break one of their legs!

"Squeak squeak—"

Xia Qing, bristling with killing intent, raised her hand, stroked the companion squirming uneasily in the pocket of her protective suit, then slowly raised her head, looking up at the low-hanging dark rain clouds that made it hard to breathe.

The wind has picked up. The red-grade Calamity Rain, with its Calamity-element content off the charts, is about to begin.

After this Calamity Rain, the gas released by the aggressive Calamity Grass that has spread out from the passage and is not covered by rainproof cloth after blooming will quickly diffuse.

No matter how good the potion prepared by the idol is, spraying the medicine still takes a certain amount of time. In the period from when the Calamity Rain stops to when the spraying is finished, some of the floral scent gas will definitely diffuse into the atmosphere, attracting beasts large and small.

The beast tide must be dealt with during the Calamity Rain, so that the combat strength within the territory can concentrate their energy after the rain on dealing with the nocturnal raptors attracted by the scent.

Just as Xia Qing's brain was spinning rapidly, a worried voice came through on the lord channel from Territory Fifteen's lord Tan Qi: "The chickens I'm raising are slamming against their cages hard, suspected to be affected by the Calamity Grass scent from the passage."

Territory Six's lord Zhu Li also came online: "The three chickens in my territory are the same. What should we do now? Tie them up?"

The chicks exchanged with Territory Seven this past spring are the precious darlings of every territory. If these precious darlings survive this Calamity Rain, they should start laying eggs. If they're ruined at this point, everyone will be heartbroken to death.

Territory Five's lord Yuan Yan came online: "Tie them up and put them in the basement. I've already put mine down, it helps a bit. Teacher Wang, how are the rabbits over there?"

Territory Four's lord Zhao Mu answered: "I put the rabbits in the basement before the Calamity Rain started. Currently the situation is normal."

"Third Brother said the Calamity Grass on the passage affects carnivorous animals. Rabbits are herbivores, chickens eat bugs, so the impact is big." Tang Huai cursed, "Damn it, why are the locusts I'm raising in my greenhouse revolting too!"

Shi Du reminded him, "Brother Huai, locusts eat meat too."

"Bang, bang, bang!"

"Moo—"

"Awooo— wooo—"

Xia Qing, who had been hurrying back upon hearing that carnivorous animals in various territories were showing abnormal behavior, was still a step too late. Her earpiece-type walkie-talkie transmitted the heavy crashing and roars, followed by a low wolf howl.

An emergency situation had arisen in Territory Three that Old Four couldn't handle. Old Four, wearing a protective mask, howled softly, urging Xia Qing to hurry back.

"Old Four, I'm on my way, hold on!" Xia Qing contacted her companion through the walkie-talkie.

In the pattering Calamity Rain, Xia Qing endured a splitting headache as she rushed out of Center Nine, stepped on rainproof cloth across the passage's Calamity Grass zone, vaulted directly over her territory's iron-mesh wall, and charged straight up to the ruined building where Old Wolf was.