EBE Chapter 311 The Good Man
Chapter 311 The Good Man
The black tide turned and attacked Dream City, sounding the horn for battle.
The military forces, several times stronger than those of Moon City, launched the attack first. Shells rained down, creating countless deep craters, while machine guns from the wall-mounted emplacements fired in unison.
In areas untouched by firearms, the sand trembled, and a high wall rose from the flat ground, slamming into the black tide, instantly crushing the mutated humans beneath into a bloody pulp.
"It's been so long since I've used such a large sand wall since I entered the base!" The ability user stood on the city wall and unleashed his power with great satisfaction.
"Watch this." The woman beside him formed hand seals, and a water dragon appeared out of thin air, sweeping across the battlefield. The surging water swept up all the mutants and shattered them, turning the clear water crimson.
"Pay attention to the top; the military is protecting the bottom. Our main concern is air defense."
"clear."
They were all members of the Dream City Base's Special Ability User Squad, and had been part of the city's defenses for some time.
Militarized defenses allowed Dream City to withstand the pressure at the start of the Black Tide; for a full twenty minutes, not a single mutant crossed the 100-meter defense line.
This is a good thing and a bad thing.
Jiang Tao's expression grew increasingly serious as he looked at the satellite images on the screen.
The area outside Dream City was a sea of crimson, completely filling the screen when shrunk.
Dream City huddled in the Red Sea, like a frail infant.
The number of Black Tides was far greater than they had imagined. Bullets and superpowers were being used up continuously, but the enemy showed no signs of decreasing.
Moreover, many ranged attacks cannot extract the crystal core. Although the defeated mutants have temporarily lost their ability to move, they will recover sooner or later given enough time.
If this continues, they will be the first to give up.
"Pass the word down: pay attention to ammunition levels, and streamline combat operations!"
"Yes!"
Inside the city, Xia Tang was standing on a motorhome, trying to get a clear view of the scene outside the city.
She is merely a psychic ability user and is not capable of going to the front lines.
So when the great battle began, she was the only one left here.
but……
"Where has Gong Jingming gone?"
The person who was tormented into mental illness by Miao Yin has been living like a ghost during this time.
Xia Tang originally wanted to use her special ability to help him adjust his mental state, so that if Mengcheng failed to stop him, they could still rely on their special ability to return to the ancient capital.
As a result, this guy seemed to be in a daze, and his psychological defenses were so strong that they were almost on par with Tu Hao's. This made Xia Tang seriously suspect that Miao Yin was deliberately keeping her at bay, which was why she made him look so strange.
They were on the same team after all, and had spent so much time together. Gong Jingming was unwilling, and Xia Tang was not willing to force him. Of course, no one expected someone in his current state to go to the front lines.
A once-powerful summoner is now useless.
Before leaving, Bai Wendong instructed her to keep an eye on Gong Jingming. Xia Tang was packing her things and didn't pay much attention. Who knew that he would disappear at this time.
She rubbed her forehead in distress, unsure whether she should go out to look for him.
However, he is a summoner of a certain level, so even if he goes crazy, nothing bad will happen, right?
……
On the watchtower, the person Xia Tang was thinking of was now quietly gazing into the distance.
Looking out from his vantage point, half the battlefield was now within his field of vision. The blue moonflowers he had planted long ago were blooming silently, giving him another half of the view.
The commands of the Divine Punishment and the summons of Spider-Man caused a great tug on the minds of the mutants. He had to stay here and observe in real time to prevent the Black Tide from being pulled away by the Divine Punishment again.
He was not as obedient as Yan Shuzhou, and naturally, he was not as lucky. As for Miao Yin's plan, he was only qualified to carry it out, not to know the whole story.
From beginning to end, his actions were all pre-arranged by Miao Yin, and every step was terrifyingly precise.
It's been an hour.
In the end, Dream City encountered the same situation as Moon City: the addition of Pink Crystal-level personnel brought enormous pressure to the front lines.
The mutant species, which mutated from vultures, flew onto the city wall as soon as it appeared and started fighting with the superpowered individuals.
Its smooth fur was like a steel wall; bullets hitting it were like hitting a barrier, all of them were bounced off. Soldiers were swept off the city wall and fell directly into the monster's mouth below.
The ferocious black tide eventually broke through the hundred-meter defense line and began fighting with the troops below.
In an instant, blood and flesh flew everywhere, the sound of bones being bitten by teeth mingled with the roars of monsters, and screams rose and fell, composing a symphony of death that resounded throughout the battlefield.
Blue Moonflower dutifully played the horrific scenes from the battlefield for him, and Gong Jingming's back trembled. His calm face suddenly crumbled, and he bent over as if he could no longer bear it, retching.
He did it... He did it all...
Gong Jingming felt as if his head was being torn apart. The pressure of the lives of an entire city weighed heavily on him, and he was being torn apart by Miao Yin's orders.
"Uhhhhhh-"
The darkness after the sun set obscured all the light, and he knelt on the ground, looking dazed.
Gong Jingming.
The man with blue-gray hair looked up, and in the blink of an eye, the woman squatted down, her dark eyes staring at him, her inorganic pupils colder than the basement light.
She rested her chin on her hands, her lips a deep, blood-red color.
Why did you collapse? You haven't finished what I asked you to do.
Gong Jingming heard the sound of his teeth chattering.
Next step... what's next...?
[Haha.] The woman chuckled softly.
Alright, I won't make things difficult for you. I know you're a kind person, and how could I bear to let you do something like destroying a city?
Cold fingers moved from the forehead to the chin, then pinched it.
"Didn't I already give you everything?"
We agreed that this time, you would be the savior again.
She stroked his hair as a reward. The cold white tiles of the basement dissipated as she stood up, turning into the black bricks of the watchtower. She leaned against the edge, gazing into the distance.
Two bases, two top-tier summoners, both S-rank. I'm really curious, who do you think is superior?
"So you are here."
The familiar voice shattered the illusion, and Chao Boyan sat on the platform of the watchtower, his legs dangling in the air.
"I just saw Xia Tang. She said you were missing and she'd been looking for you for ages. Turns out you came up here all by yourself. Is there anything here?"
Gong Jingming, head down, asked, "What are you doing here?"
"Oh, I have something I want to ask you."
The assassin with the peach blossom eyes smiled and took out a piece of cloth. When he opened it, he revealed a mushroom wrapped inside that was only the size of a fingernail.
"I was just attacked by a mutant! Wow, that was terrifying! But it didn't bite me; instead, it bit the wall. After I killed it, I looked around and wondered, 'Hey? How did all these things grow on this perfectly good city wall?'"
"I think this isn't an ordinary plant, nor could it be a mutant."
"Looking around this base, you're the only one around me who knows anything about plants, so I wanted to ask you, do you know what this is—"
Chao Boyan's words caught in his throat.
At that moment, the flesh-colored carnivorous plant was only one centimeter away from his eyes.
He looked down at the person kneeling on the ground, and saw him slowly stand up and look at him.
Those clear black and white eyes were lifeless, yet they inexplicably shone with an eerie light, like a walking corpse possessed by a soul.
Even the most seasoned assassins, with blood on their hands, felt a chill run down their spines when they saw that look in those eyes.
He dropped his feigned mischievousness and tapped his forehead with his finger.
"Calm down, Gong Jingming. Don't forget, we are the same kind of people."
With a flick of its petals, the carnivorous flower swallowed the red umbrella along with the white cloth.
Chao Boyan kept a close eye on the summoned creature's movements, his supernatural power quietly activating, ready to leave at any moment.
Gong Jingming took two steps closer to him, as if he had seen through everything, and said, "Use your superpower to send me to the city wall."
"...City walls?"
Chao Boyan pondered the word for a moment and gained some understanding of the current situation.
"Impressive." No wonder he's my boss.
He held out his hand: "Come on, hold on tight."
Gong Jingming grasped his hand, and with a flash of white light, the two instantly arrived on the city wall at the speed of light.
This place has become a complete hell, with more corpses lying there than those carried away.
Gong Jingming looked around and found his target.
—Jiang Tao.