Published: February 10, 2025
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“According to orders, we are not allowed to go out, and even intelligence is provided by Team One…”
The deputy wanted to say more but saw the captain's stern gaze.
He immediately shut his mouth; the last person who was looked at like that by the captain likely had their corpse rotting away by now.
“Team Three has lost contact. Do you know what this means?”
The deputy was momentarily stunned but still replied, “It’s certain that something has happened, but we don’t know who did it. Given the current situation, if we say it was Cloud Summit's doing, that’s a bit far-fetched. Xia Lei’s team has been under Team One’s surveillance, and although they can’t get too close, there hasn’t been any movement. So it must be the mutant legion that did it.”
As he spoke, he pinched his chin, “To take down Team Three silently, it must be a powerful lifeform; after all, the members of Team Three aren’t soft targets.”
This analysis was reasonable and the closest to the truth. In reality, the Yama Tree indeed took down Team Three, but he never expected that the Yama Tree possessed extreme intelligence and had already reached a cooperative agreement with Ye Zhongming.
“Since that’s the case, it’s not safe here. Who knows if that thing will come looking for us? The current Ying City has pitifully few humans, and Team Three’s numbers are the least, possibly unable to satisfy that powerful lifeform's needs.”
Hearing the captain say this, the deputy felt it indeed plausible. Nowadays, even a small-sized high-level mutant lifeform has a huge appetite. To put it simply, one meal can consume many people. If they encounter an Eighth Level corpse ape, even hundreds might not be enough.
Moreover, these creatures are very picky eaters, only consuming specific parts of human bodies that meet their taste, which directly leads to a significant increase in their food requirements.
So, despite Team Three having over a thousand warriors, if they encounter a large creature, it may not be enough to feed them.
The deputy nodded repeatedly; the more humans gather together, the larger the target. Even underground, some foraging monsters might not attack a single survivor or even a group of dozens, but they could easily attack a group of hundreds or thousands of survivors because that way, they only need to hunt once to fill their stomachs.
Now Team Two undoubtedly fits this requirement. If that powerful lifeform is still hungry or when mealtime comes, it might really come knocking.
Defying the higher-ups' orders and one’s own instincts, it was clear that the latter was more important.
“Damn it, if the organization didn’t insist on this elite strategy, concentrating all the experts in Team One, why should we be scared like this!”
The captain of Team Two cursed, leading his team up to the surface, rushing towards Team One’s position. As for whether he would lead that powerful lifeform over there, that wasn’t something he needed to consider; after all, if the sky were to fall, someone tall would hold it up.
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“It’s started again!”
The mutant legion's attack on Cloud Summit had never ceased, but compared to before, the focus of the battle had once again returned to the city wall.
Those mutant lifeforms that had entered the Cloud Summit Villa through various means had been cleared out. At this moment, a large number of warriors were on standby, preparing to rotate with the warriors on the city wall every two hours.
Now, two small breaches had appeared in the Cloud Summit City Wall. One was the hole made by Ye Zhongming using the Shattered Soul Bone Staff; those ruins were no longer useful, and both sides were engaged in a fierce tug-of-war here.