But she was worried that using such a violent and barbaric method might cause some very serious consequences... It would be bad if it affected the safety of both worlds.
So in the past half month, she did not try to reconnect with the reconnaissance puppet of the Order World, and she was not aware of what had happened in human civilization during this period of time.
This is fine, after all, the unknown and surprise are the source of fun~~
Since the reconnaissance puppets will automatically enter an "invisible" state after losing contact with Qi Ji's main body, most of them also have a considerable degree of intelligence and will automatically avoid risks and detection.
Therefore, the reconnaissance puppets scattered throughout the northern continent have basically remained intact and faithfully performed their primary mission of collecting intelligence.
Therefore, after Qi Ji's body returned to the ordered world and re-established contact, most of the puppets also passed on to her all the perception information they had collected in the past half month.
This is an extremely huge flow of information, but to Qi Ji's thinking and computing power, it is just a drop in the bucket. In just a moment, she has completely digested this information.
"Tsk, the problem is bigger than I thought..."
But after that, Qi Ji frowned with a slightly serious expression:
"I didn't expect that this would happen after just a dozen days..."
Chapter 508: Fallen City
I couldn't make it to midnight... This chapter is considered the update on the 19th.
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The sun is setting in the west.
The red sun sank into the distant mountains little by little, like a piece of butter melting on a hot iron plate, gradually losing its original shape.
The lazy and ambiguous dusk spread from the western sky, and the rolling orange and yellow sunset glow all over the sky was warm and magnificent, like a burning fire.
Under this cloud that seemed to be billowing with flames, the city... was engulfed in a real sea of fire.
The blazing flames between the buildings, contrasting with the fiery clouds in the sky, dyed the sky and the earth a magnificent blood-red.
"Right... they're coming from the right!"
Under the dilapidated wreckage of the building, several eyes filled with fear were looking at the streets outside in extreme nervousness and panic.
The person who spoke was a man with a stubble on his face and messy clothes.
He squatted behind a broken wall, hiding his body in the messy ruins and shadows, sticking out half of his head, and looking through the gap, scanning the outside world quickly and carefully.
Behind him, the collapsed building ruins supported each other, forming a not-too-small hidden triangular space.
Several figures were hiding in this slightly narrow space, some big and some small, huddled together and shivering.
"They are coming? Plenty... how many are there?"
One of the women, who was about the same age as the man, said with a pale face. She was holding several children tightly in her arms. Her voice was trembling, but she was still trying her best to control the increasingly intense fear in her heart and not to lose her composure.
"I can't see clearly, there should be only one, and it's still some distance away from here... Damn, it's coming this way!"
The man lowered his voice and said, his shoulders suddenly trembled, he retracted his head, and leaned against the wall with pale lips:
"They... they seem to have seen me..."
"Ah?!" The woman burst into tears instantly. If she hadn't clenched her teeth tightly, she might have cried on the spot.
After a long period of dull silence, she tremblingly asked:
"Then...then, what should we do?"
"I don't know... Don't talk, don't move, squeeze in a little bit, they should just be passing by... Probably."
The man said this very unconfidently, and then carefully moved his body and squeezed together with the woman and the child, trying his best to hide everyone's figures.
Several people huddled in the corner, enveloped by the shadows cast from above.
“Slurp… slurp…”
After about half a minute, they clearly heard... some very disgusting mucus sliding sound coming from outside the broken wall, and it was getting louder and closer!
Along with it came an unbearable strong stench of the sea...
The light suddenly dimmed.
Several people immediately held their breath, not daring to make any sound, and even wished they could calm down the wildly beating hearts in their chests.
Because they knew... "they" were right outside, just a few meters away from them through a wall!
The man on the outside stared with his eyes wide open at the broken wall that was the only barrier between them. He opened his arms and tried his best to keep his wife and children behind him.
Even though he knew very well that if "they" discovered him... neither the crumbling ruins nor his own flesh and blood could stop them for a moment.
"Gulu...Gulu..."
The sound of blood rushing through the veins filled my ears.
Heart and pulse beat in temples.
"Oh!"
There was no luck, the half-remaining wall suddenly shattered, and then a huge outline appeared in the man's sight.
"...run quickly!"
At that moment he rushed out without hesitation, howling like a wild beast and pounced on the unspeakable monster.
"Swipe Lala!"
The tentacles that shattered the wall lashed out mercilessly, and the air suddenly made a tearing sound. One can imagine how powerful it was.
There is no doubt that this blow is enough to smash the man and everyone behind him into pieces, without even a second of resistance!
"Whoosh!"
Just before the few people were completely crushed by this brutal and violent force, a small but swift black object attacked from somewhere diagonally above!
The thing was extremely fast and instantly followed a straight trajectory and crashed directly into the core body of the huge monster.
Neither the men nor the women and children behind them had time to react. They only heard the crisp sound of something breaking in front of them, short and powerful.
The next second, the small black thing disappeared instantly, along with a large piece of tissue from the monster's body.
Like an ice cream scooped out by a spoon, a very regular hemispherical gap suddenly appeared on the monster's irregular body, occupying almost one-third of its entire body.
In an instant, this hideous monster lost control. Its tentacles and claws began to twitch and struggle wildly. The thick and deformed tentacles swung and hit wildly, causing cracks to spread on the nearby floor.
Before they were affected by the indiscriminately attacking tentacles, the man and his companions were thrown out by a whirlwind that came from not far away, and fell heavily on an open space more than ten meters away, causing them to see stars.
But compared to being crushed to pieces by the monster's tentacles, this little bit of physical pain was nothing.
"Ahem...who is it?"
The man was also very aware of this, so as soon as the pain subsided, he struggled to stand up and looked in the direction where he was previously.
The small shelter supported by the ruins had been completely shattered by the mad monster, but its struggling movements were visibly weakening, and it was obviously at the end of its strength.
In less than a minute, it was almost completely motionless, lying limply on the ground, stinking like a large lump of rotting meat, with only the ends of its tentacles twitching slightly from time to time. It was so disgusting.
Then, several figures walked around the still twitching monster corpse and came towards him.
The leader was a tall, plump, long-haired woman wearing jeans, a striped shirt, a short leather jacket, high-top leather boots, and a one-handed sword at her waist. She was dressed neatly and smartly, like a typical adventurer or navigator.
Behind her were more than a dozen men and women, most of whom were dressed similarly to her and were armed with a variety of weapons. There were also a few people dressed differently, including employees in suits and leather shoes and young women in skirts.
Obviously, this is a team of survivors. The long-haired woman and the men with weapons are the backbone of the team, and the others should be ordinary citizens who joined later.
"...Thank you for the rescue."
Seeing this group of people, the man and the woman breathed a sigh of relief. The man immediately said with great relief:
"I never thought there were still people alive in this city! I thought they were all dead or had escaped..."
The plump woman with long hair didn't say anything polite. She glanced at the people and paused slightly when she saw the children. Then she said:
"I'm Meili, the captain of a merchant ship. We are trying to find a way to leave this city and seek refuge inland. You can join us... Of course, the premise is that you must obey my orders."
"No problem, no problem, I can do the job!" the man agreed quickly.
He was not sure whether this group of people were reliable or not, but no matter what, it was better than having to face those ferocious sea monsters with his family as before. There were extraordinary people among this group, and there were many people. In any case, the chances of survival would be higher if he joined them than fighting alone.
"Then come quickly. We are going to head north next to find some food supplies. We need to hurry up. If we stay on the street, we may..."
"Gululu!"
Before she could finish her words, a large number of slimy and disgusting squirming sounds came from far away on the street!
The woman named Meili's eyes froze, and she immediately turned her head to look, only to see a huge mass of tentacles and tumors pouring out from a dam on the street corner a hundred meters away, rushing towards them madly!
It was a large group of sirens, at least more than ten of them!
"Damn it! It's the main group of sirens. They're turning this way!"
Meili cursed viciously and immediately ordered everyone to flee in the direction vertically from which the sirens were attacking.
These people obeyed the orders and faced with a wave of more than a dozen sea monsters, they did not panic on the spot. Instead, they ran away in a very orderly manner.
The pace was fast, but there was no chaotic rout, which would result in members getting lost, scattered, or being pushed and trampled.
The newly joined man immediately caught up with the main group with his children and wife, and barely managed to not get lost.
"Gululu!"
Unexpectedly, the group had only run a few dozen meters when the slippery sound of tentacles wriggling was heard again from the street opposite. The next second, seven or eight strange-looking sea monsters emerged.
At this moment, the group of sirens caught up and blocked the rear.
Attacked from the front and back, there is no way to retreat.
"Damn it! I'm being made into a dumpling!"
Some people in the team started cursing, some collapsed to the ground with weak legs, and the scene was depressing.
Meili, as the leader, did not say a word. She looked around with a grim face and frowned, as if she was trying hard to think of a countermeasure.
Thinking... There is no point in panicking, only thinking can solve the problem...
She scanned the surroundings. There were three to five-story residential buildings nearby, mostly made of stone and wood, with many narrow alleys between them. If the team was dispersed, some people should be able to escape.
But this would completely disrupt the team. Even if everyone survived, it would be difficult to find them again under the current circumstances...
As a righteous mage, and on land, as long as Mary is not surrounded, she is fully capable of protecting herself against ordinary sirens, but what about others?
If you don't form a team, being alone in this city that has become a paradise for sirens is equivalent to death...
"There's nothing we can do. This is better than dying here!"
There is no time for her to be indecisive, Meili must make a decision immediately!
"Spread out and escape into the alley! Stay alive first and then reunite..."
"Boom!"
She yelled at the top of her lungs, but before she could finish her order, the blood-stained sky suddenly lit up with bright lightning, followed by a deafening explosion!
“…Is there thunder?”
Meili was stunned. The sky was clear now, why did it suddenly thunder?
However, before she could think further, a thick bolt of lightning suddenly burst out from the clouds that had just flashed with thunder and lightning.
It broke away from the clouds amid thunder and fell straight down, leaving a sharp and tortuous track in the air.
The point where this heavenly thunder landed... happened to be the group of sea monsters that had approached to within fifty or sixty meters!
“BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!!!—”
The moment the thunder hit the ground, purple-blue lightning exploded, almost taking away the eyesight of everyone present, leaving them with only a vast expanse of white, and everything was swallowed up by the raging lightning.
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A new week, please like it!
Chapter 509 Disaster
The final exam is coming up next week, and I am gradually feeling numb :(
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As soon as Qi Ji arrived at the Iron City, he saw two groups of sirens chasing Meili and the others.
"Wow, this scene is too scary... After all, it's the capital of a country, how could it become like this?"
