Chapter 784
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Chapter 784: Magical Fortress
The Great Xia.
Above the Ji Lin Pass.
A helicopter swiftly swept across the sky. Zuo Qing, draped in a dark red cloak, sat by the window, looking down at the magnificent steel fortress below.
“How is the construction progress of the Ji Lin Pass?” Zuo Qing turned and asked.
“It’s basically completed; only the last section of the living quarters is still under construction, expected to be finished within two months,” Chen Moyu replied. “The progress of the other eleven A-class war fortresses is also about the same.”
Zuo Qing nodded.
“Next, our primary task is to address the manpower shortage,” Zuo Qing’s eyes glimmered with a faint light. “Although we have these twelve A-class war fortresses, the number of personnel we can mobilize to guard them is too few. We don’t need to worry about the military side, but the number of Night Watchers is inherently very limited. To mobilize more people to guard the war fortresses, we must draw from the Night Watcher teams across various regions.”
Chen Moyu responded, “Commander Zuo, as per your instructions, I’ve compiled the statistics. After the recruitment expansions for new Night Watchers last year and the year before, the number of Night Watchers in Great Xia has increased from 1,992 to 2,709.
However, nearly one-third of these over two thousand are new recruits from the past two years. If we draw a large number of veterans from the Night Watcher teams nationwide as originally planned, it will lead to a decline in the experience and age of the stationed Night Watchers, weakening the combat effectiveness of the stationed teams.”
“That’s unavoidable,” Zuo Qing said calmly. “The current situation in Great Xia is very special. The importance of the war fortresses goes without saying. Except for a few exceptionally talented new recruits, if other new recruits are sent to the war fortresses, it will only result in unnecessary sacrifices… They are still too young and need to grow and hone their skills in the rear to become the backbone of Great Xia.
The front lines must be guarded by veterans.”
Zuo Qing paused for a moment and continued, “Of course, the decline in combat effectiveness of the Night Watcher teams stationed in various cities after the veterans leave is indeed a serious problem, but there are ways to compensate for it…”
“What methods?”
“To help the new recruits grow rapidly in a short time… Of course, I’m not talking about their realms and strength, but their experience and mindset,” Zuo Qing said seriously. “The simplest and most direct way to achieve this is to improve the training quality of the new recruit training camps!
Adversity and setbacks are the best environments for rapid growth. Our previous training schedules and intensity for the new recruit training camps were still too lenient, and the management methods were not strict enough. In this special period, to help this group of rookies grow as quickly as possible, we must use special measures.
And these special measures cannot be accomplished solely by the instructors…”
Before Zuo Qing could finish, his phone rang. He answered the call, and moments later, his expression changed dramatically!
“I understand. Quickly notify all the top human experts and special teams to rush to the battlefield at the fastest speed!” Zuo Qing’s voice was extremely serious. He paused and added, “Also, inform Wang Mian to prepare for another time jump…”
Zuo Qing hung up the phone, his face grave.
“What happened?” Chen Moyu noticed Zuo Qing’s change and frowned.
“A second disaster-level beast tide has appeared,” Zuo Qing said in a deep voice. “Moreover, the communication tower within the Chen Long Pass was destroyed by an unknown enemy, preventing the information from being sent out in time. This news was relayed by the temporary head of the Chen Long Pass who flew to the Tu Jiao Pass…”
Chen Moyu was taken aback. “Then the time…”
“There’s not much time left,” Zuo Qing closed his eyes and calculated. “The distance between Chen Long Pass and Tu Jiao Pass is not short. Even a ‘Sea’ realm Night Watcher, using full speed, would take five minutes to arrive. During this time, it would be enough for the disaster-level beast tide to destroy an unfinished war fortress.
In other words, in at most two more minutes, the beast tide will attack the coastline.
Time is too tight. Even the top human experts will find it difficult to arrive on-site in time, so…”
“So you notified Wang Mian to prepare for another time jump?” Chen Moyu immediately understood the intent behind Zuo Qing’s command. “What should we do now?”
“You continue to head to the Ji Lin Pass.” Zuo Qing opened the helicopter door, and the howling wind rushed into the cabin, causing Chen Moyu to squint as he looked at the dark red figure standing at the door.
“No matter how severe the situation is, we cannot give up so easily… Wang Mian’s time jump is not without cost,” Zuo Qing’s body erupted with a dazzling blue light, his figure becoming blurred.
“Perhaps we can still make it…
If a miracle occurs.”
He whispered the last sentence, which Chen Moyu did not catch clearly. When he regained his senses, Zuo Qing had already disappeared into the sky outside the door.
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Chen Long Pass.
In the blood-red sea, “mysterious” corpses surged, one after another, powerful “mysterious” creatures charged out from the beast tide, tearing at the breach in the outer wall. As time passed, the breach grew larger, allowing more and more “mysterious” beings to pass through at once.
Within the originally narrow terrain, the pressure on the six members of the Nightfall team fighting side by side was rapidly increasing.
The larger the breach, the more “mysterious” beings flooded into Chen Long Pass, and the more difficult it became for Jialan and the frenzied Cao Yuan at the forefront. Their figures gradually became submerged in the massive beast tide, and the wide-area attacks of the others also began to weaken under the overwhelming assault of the beast tide.
“Where’s Qi Ye?” Bai Li Pang Pang, controlling the artillery shells, was running low on ammunition. He looked at the increasingly overwhelming waves of “mysterious” beings with a grave expression.
“I don’t know. I haven’t seen him since the fighting started,” Shen Qingzhu replied.
“I saw him.” An Qingyu, beside them, adjusted her glasses and pointed to the crumbling outer wall. “He went outside alone.”
“Outside?”
Bai Li Pang Pang was taken aback, looking up at the outer wall that was about to be completely breached by the beast tide, confusion filling his eyes. “What’s he doing outside?”
Boom—!!!
As soon as Bai Li Pang Pang finished speaking, under the pitch-black night, in front of the distant city wall filled with breaches and debris, dense magical lights ignited simultaneously, and hundreds of massive magic circles stacked up, rapidly rotating above the surging sea!
Various brilliant lights tore through the dark night and the bloody sea, resembling a magnificent and grand magical fortress, suppressing the beast tide at the outer wall.
