Published: February 8, 2025
The Thunderstorm Tower was completed, and the human defense line outside the Inner City had been compressed quite a distance. The gates of the Inner City were completely closed, and most of the people who could no longer enter had gathered under the city walls defended by Cloud Summit. Several suspended ladders became their last lifeline, and the scene that unfolded at the city gate was repeated here endlessly.
In this moment, whether humans were good or evil, there was no longer any disguise; beauty and ugliness had clear boundaries.
Some people used their equipment or professional skills to enter the Inner City from this side. Ye Zhongming did his best to facilitate this, thinking that every life saved counted. With his help, quite a number of survivors managed to come up from this city wall.
However, to maintain order, Ye Zhongming did not take in these people; they either had to go down from the city wall or help that faction. The Ying City Coalition still maintained a relative independence.
When the mutated beings came in droves, it was also when they revealed their terrifying faces. Regardless of how many survivors were in Cloud Port, in the absence of the elite backbone forces of the Inner City, the resistance after the ambush ultimately felt somewhat powerless.
Weak strength was just one reason; the lack of organization, disunity, and fighting independently with huge differences in numbers were the main reasons. It was estimated that there were over two hundred thousand survivors on the entire outskirts of Cloud Port, and after holding out for more than two hours, they were completely defeated.
The vast majority of people died in battle, with only a few managing to break through the encirclement of the sea beast tide through some miraculous means and a bit of luck.
"This... I clearly saw so many sea beasts die, yet there still seems to be no end in sight. Isn’t this too much?"
Little Tiger looked at the densely packed sea beasts surrounding the Inner City, feeling a chill run through his body.
Since Ye Zhongming established Cloud Summit Villa, the real crises they faced mostly came from other human survivors. Ye Zhongming’s rebirth allowed him to lead his subordinates well, avoiding the evolutionary disadvantages humans faced at the beginning of the apocalypse compared to mutated life forms.
The location of the Cloud Summit Villa base also determined that this team would not face massive amounts of mutated life forms directly.
The only crisis from zombies occurred during the initial establishment when there was a small-scale zombie tide, which, although it resulted in some losses, was ultimately not too dangerous.
Later, after the precise exchange roulette event, Ye Zhongming drove away Ying City’s strongest Yangos, killed several corpse kings, and replaced the mutated life forms' overlord of Ying City with the Spirit Woman, who was quite afraid of him, while also placing a Red Hair in as an 'insider.' Consequently, Cloud Summit had even fewer concerns in this regard; to them, mutated life forms mostly represented prey and sources of magic crystals.
But this time it was different. Little Tiger finally understood what other forces in the apocalypse were facing. Looking at the countless eyes glowing with murderous intent in different colors in the darkness, he felt a deep chill from his heart.
This was the theme of the apocalypse, the greatest crisis humanity faced.
Ye Zhongming did not respond to Little Tiger's words; his gaze swept over the countless sea beasts and looked into the darkness in the distance.
He sensed an unprecedented terrifying aura slowly approaching.
Was this the king of this sea beast tide?
Ye Zhongming looked for a while, then turned back to glance at the Inner City. Some people who had gathered in the banquet hall where the incident occurred were already starting to evacuate, likely having finished the battle. The large pit caused by the sea snake that had drilled in should have been filled.
However, Ye Zhongming was not certain in his heart; when the sea beast tide truly began to attack the city, how many strange life forms would emerge from inside the Inner City.