Chapter 352

Chapter 352: Eradicate Evil Thoroughly

At this moment, a piece of information flashed in her mind, a message sent by Lin Qingliu, who was walking further away through their connection:

“Infiltrate Hope City, contact Shi Jin, and tell her…

“Then continue exploring the outer city area with the Holy Fire Meow Meow Cult.”

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Central Spire.

“Infinite Scroll” was adjusting the parameters of the energy cannon on the spaceship to assist “Starfall” with long-range targeting.

Given that each energy cannon’s impact point would vary slightly, a single template couldn’t be relied upon completely.

Moreover, “Starfall” wasn’t an artificial intelligence like “Infinite Scroll,” so it couldn’t process data as quickly and had to open some permissions to “Infinite Scroll” through the internal network of the spire to receive assistance.

The parameters could be computed in less than one-tenth of a second after entering “Infinite Scroll,” but it concealed this capability intentionally.

Having disguised herself for so many years, she understood the limits of human intellect well.

After calculating the data, “Infinite Scroll” would always delay resending the parameters to “Starfall” for a short while, making corrections to prevent harming the soldiers in the outer city due to her few seconds of delay.

Just as she began to correct the next set of data, a surge of new information suddenly flooded her mind.

Only one person, one terminal, could send it through an encrypted line.

In a brief moment, “Infinite Scroll” successfully analyzed the information, which included a coordinate and a note— “Heavy Firepower.”

She recognized that the blonde warrior from the inner city was the last pureblood human she had contacted and her only ally as a remnant of humanity.

After some thought, she raised the priority of those coordinates and reported the updated parameters to the targeting “Starfall.”

“Is this… outside the west gate?”

“Starfall” was unaware of her ally’s brief pause and expressed some doubt about the location mentioned in the coordinates.

“Yes, the stairs outside the west gate are about to be rebuilt; I believe this should be prioritized.”

“Infinite Scroll” pointed at one spot in the projection, which included hundreds of images:

“Increase the firepower, adjust the hit range to be further, and ensure that no new stairs will generate in the next ten minutes.”

“Okay.”

“Starfall” found nothing wrong with her plan and quickly adjusted the energy cannon, releasing a devastating shot after a brief charge.

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Outside the west city wall, hundreds of extraordinary beasts moved against the current.

Their size was no different from other extraordinary beasts, and humans paid no special attention to these creatures, so nobody noticed their small actions.

At that moment, they were hundreds of meters away from the wall, about to successfully escape from the place where the extraordinary beasts were most concentrated.

They didn’t need to eat or drink, nor did they require rest; they just had to keep running, consuming every bit of energy within their bodies, to deliver the samples back to the Mycelium Ecology as quickly as possible, returning in the form of nutrients. This was their mission.

The will of the mycelium controlling hundreds of Low-Level Extraordinary Beasts saw the dawn of victory.

With Wang Xiao’s sample, the mycelium could recover faster from the weak state brought on by this major attack, and with the Shadow Master’s sample, they might even create extraordinary beasts that could kill unseen at night.

However, this is where the “but” comes in—just then, the light in the sky suddenly shifted.

The sun, high in the sky, seemed to lose its brilliance as something else took center stage, claiming the title of the brightest and most intense force.

It appeared as though a star was descending from the heavens, igniting as it tore through the atmosphere, poised to annihilate everything in its vicinity upon impact.

The will of the mycelium roared in the minds of hundreds of extraordinary beasts, and then—

“Boom.”

The shockwave obliterated everything, carving out a white void amidst the gray-black tide.

Those among the superpowered individuals with some insight could vaguely surmise who had orchestrated this.

They might not be privy to the specific members of the first team, but years of whispers suggested that only one individual could unleash such a devastating explosion.

Of course, after today, a second contender might emerge, as many had recently witnessed a figure in the sky, wielding a colossal fireball.

The ferocious explosion resonated for kilometers, and in the air, Lin Qingliu felt a momentary tremor in the surrounding atmosphere.

Once the explosion was confirmed, he finally released the multifunctional portable ring terminal from his grasp.

The Horned Demon’s ploy was on the verge of success, but Lin Qingliu astutely uncovered its flaw.

This was not a perception rooted in the biological field; the blood-encased “cocoons” were too minuscule to be individually detected amidst the chaos of battle.

However, having experienced the self-detonation firsthand, Lin Qingliu could distinctly perceive the unevenness of the explosion’s impact. Coupled with the Horned Demon’s minimal resistance before its self-detonation, the enemy’s true intentions were not hard to deduce.

Thus, his course of action was clear.

Even employing Ground Shatter to thrust those extraordinary beasts into the fissures would only allow the mycelium to gradually locate them and extract samples.

Ultimately, Lin Qingliu opted for the most cautious approach to address this lingering threat.

Though “Starfall” was not an orbital weapon from outer space, it was undeniably high-tech.

As for its potency, Lin Qingliu had recently endured several strikes from it and was all too familiar with its excruciating pain.

With the “Blood Puppet” in tow, Lin Qingliu roamed the city walls.

The walls, centered around the west gate, stretched for dozens of kilometers and were under siege by extraordinary beasts.

They resembled workers fortifying a breakwater in the face of an impending tsunami, tirelessly patching up the crumbling defenses.

Initially, the “Blood Puppet” was still in recovery, merely observing Lin Qingliu’s actions while awaiting the proliferation of its own blood.

However, after witnessing Lin Qingliu resolve critical issues at two faltering defense points, it chose to rejoin the fray.

Without the Fifth Level extraordinary beast, the remaining adversaries were like insignificant creatures before the “Blood Puppet.” Its ability, though single-target oriented, allowed it to decapitate the higher-level threats among the surging Beast Pack.

In the relentless battles, the blond savior seemed increasingly enigmatic, and a profound sense of reverence grew within him.

Meanwhile, in the highest authority conference room of the spire, a group of individuals stared at the projected images on the screen, their faces pale.

“Does anyone know…?”

An elderly voice broke the silence, laden with unmistakable fury:

“Where the hell did this great hero come from?”