Published: February 10, 2025
When the battle at Cloud Summit reached its peak, everyone defending the city had a question in their hearts: where had their companions, who went out to carry out the Flame Tiger Project, gone? Why were there no signs of them?
Had they failed? It might be understandable if one part had encountered an accident, but three places experiencing incidents?
Or had they arrived but were cut off from entering? Yet, there were no sounds of battle from the periphery. Could it be that they were abandoned?
Such thoughts flickered through many people's minds, especially those from Ying City. Many regretted coming here for the highest rewards of Cloud Summit, thinking it was an absurd journey to death.
More importantly, all the humans in the villa were pondering a single question: where was Ye Zhongming? The leader of Cloud Summit would certainly not abandon his own territory. With Liu Zhenghong and Le Da Yuan present, would he really give up these two trump cards?
This might be the last hope for everyone.
“Bring the charge team over! All cannons, aim at that big guy! We must take it down before it reaches the city wall!” Liu Zhenghong ordered loudly, while also having the remaining micro crystal bullets concentrated. They would take down the level eight corpse ape once it entered the range.
Everyone on the city wall moved into action, redistributing their defensive forces in response to the appearance of the level eight monster.
At this moment, a drone slowly flew in from the back mountain of Cloud Summit. The vigilant sentries, not relaxing their guard, spotted it and intended to shoot it down. However, the drone actively lowered its altitude and speed, gently landing at the edge of a cliff.
One sentry carefully approached, covered by his comrades, and after observing, found it seemed safe. He boldly walked over and retrieved something from underneath the drone.
It was an unsigned letter with no seal.
The sentry immediately ran back with the letter to their captain. Upon opening it, the captain’s expression changed dramatically, ordering his men to guard the place before sprinting towards Liu Zhenghong on the city wall.
Two minutes later, Liu Zhenghong, who was commanding the defense lines, received the letter. After reading its contents, there was no change in his expression.
“Who else has seen the contents of this letter aside from you?”
Liu Zhenghong glared at the small team leader surrounding Cloud Summit.
“No one. Only I have seen it.”
“Hmm.” Liu Zhenghong nodded, “Don’t tell anyone else; it would shake our resolve, understand?”
“Understood!” The team leader replied before leaving. Liu Zhenghong turned to the approaching level eight corpse ape and suddenly whispered to Sister Rong, who had come over to assist, “Tomorrow, send that team to the city wall for support, placing them in the most dangerous spot.”
Sister Rong was taken aback; although she didn't fully understand, she nodded.
Liu Zhenghong narrowed his eyes, filled with fury.
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While the people at Cloud Summit were thinking about their teams, Little Tiger's squad was under heavy attack.
After successfully defeating the Radiant World Army, Little Tiger took his men to seize control of the desolate land they had just acquired and dispatched a team back to Cloud Summit with many materials.
However, this team didn’t get far before encountering a group coming from Ying City. Upon learning that Cloud Summit was under attack by countless mutated creatures, they hurriedly returned to the desolate land to find Little Tiger.
After receiving the news, Little Tiger left behind a small number of men and turned back with the thousands who had come from Ying City, unable to inform the spirit woman who was ‘foraging’ nearby, leaving those who remained to seek her out.
But the team was only halfway through when they came under attack.
This wasn’t an immediate extermination attempt, but rather a tactic of skirmishing, entanglement, and harassment...