Sanctuary Paradise

Chapter 701: Enemy at the Gate [5.9k words]

"03:03:29"

"Don't make any noise!! Everyone, get off the ship as instructed! Follow the navigation robot to the designated living area. Those who carry large luggage, remember to go through the security check!!"

"Warm reminder, residents living in the following fortresses, please follow the blue sign on the right..."

The stern shouts of the managers and the pleasant prompts of the navigation machinery rang out from the crowded fortress gate. Tens of thousands of fortress residents were looking around in fear or curiosity, and it was obvious that they had never experienced such a large-scale personnel transfer.

[Ding~! Statistics completed. The current evacuation progress of the fortress residents is 78.47%. The estimated remaining evacuation time is 1 hour and 24 minutes. The number of people who have not yet completed the evacuation of the fortress is...]

"Huh... In this way, there shouldn't be any problem with evacuating the personnel, right?"

In the conference room, Tafina, whose hair had become a mess, looked at the statistical information that popped up in front of her and collapsed on her seat as if she had fainted.

"Haha, Lord Black Sword is right. Lady Tafina is indeed very suitable for the management of the fortress."

An old and hoarse voice came from Senon's mouth. The black-robed old man who was sent to assist the other party in sorting out various affairs of the fortress looked around the scene in the conference room. There was a huge pile of documents on the table and the screen was so full of information that it couldn't fit in. There was something strange in his eyes.

As the former right-hand man of the Black Crown, Senon knew very well how troublesome it was to manage such a huge force, but the gray-haired girl had arranged the relocation of hundreds of millions of residents in the entire tower in just two days. Although she had the help of the magical mechanical technology given by Lord Black Sword and a large number of selected management experts, it was enough to prove how good she was in management.

There are also changes that have taken place in the tower during this period of time. Initially, Senon thought that the two adults specifically asked him to put on a show to deceive the people of the tower in order to better control the tower. This in itself would not change the fact that the tower was in dire straits due to the deaths of the six crown warlocks. However, after witnessing the various things that happened in the tower during this period of time, Senon's thoughts had been seriously shaken, which was why he appeared here to actively assist the gray-haired girl.

"If the White Crowned Lord and the others had chosen to cooperate, what would have happened now..."

The old man in black robe looked at the fortress outside the window, which had undergone tremendous changes. There was a hint of reminiscence in his eyes, but in the end he just sighed and did not say the answer in his mind.

Om-! !

Suddenly, a sharp buzzing sound was heard, and the large three-dimensional screen floating above the conference table suddenly changed, from a large number of reports and fortress information that could not be accommodated to Ryan and others sitting in the war command room.

"Lord Tafina, how is the evacuation of the fortress' residents going?"

A low voice sounded, causing Tafina, who was lying on her back, to look startled. She quickly sat up straight and said:

"It has been completed 78.47%. It will take about one round of time to complete the evacuation."

"Very good, this way, Star's plan should be able to be carried out smoothly!"

On the screen, Ryan nodded and affirmed after hearing that the evacuation was going smoothly. When Tafina heard what the other party said, her eyes moved and she said:

"Ryan, you just mentioned Star's plan? Could it be that..."

If she remembered correctly, Star was a new war genius discovered by Ryan. Unlike Ryan, who was better at tactical analysis, Star was not good at playing a safe game, but was an extremely talented person who was good at using all kinds of surprise troops in war to attack the enemy in unexpected ways. Most of the strategies he thought of were formulated in real time according to the enemy's actions. In other words, when the opponent's plan began to come in handy, it meant...

"Well, according to the information passed on by Lord Black Sword, just now, the Gusa Federation and the Huiyuan Sect have all started to take action!"

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"2:16:24"

"Little wooden sword, shining brightly, brave man, come and conquer Candy Mountain~! The devil's castle will spin in circles, counting the stars one, two, three~!"

"The hourglass is ticking, the crown is breaking by itself! The black steps are slippery, the devil said, pierce my cloak quickly!"

"Hey! I stabbed you! You are the devil!" "No! I don't want to be the devil!"

The sound of childish nursery rhymes echoed in the carriage. Antoine sat in the carriage, looking at the children in front of him who were holding dead branches instead of wooden swords and playing role-playing games with each other. A gratified smile appeared on his old face.

"Hmm? What were you singing just now?"

Suddenly, a somewhat frivolous question came from the side. A creative young man who was sleeping with his legs crossed in the corner with a book covering his face picked up the book covering his face with one hand and asked the old teacher and children in front of him with some curiosity.

"It's a courageous song to defeat the bad guy! Brother Dong, do you want to sing it too? Teacher Antoine said that after singing this, you will become braver!"

"Yeah! If Adong-nii-san joins, I can let Adong-nii-san be the hero!"

A childish voice sounded, and several children who looked about five years old blinked their eyes and looked expectantly at the young man with a brain hole in front of them. The young man touched the brain hole on his forehead helplessly and shrugged:
"Well~ I don't mind it, but I'm more curious than that. Does anyone know what the second half of this devil's song is?"

"It's a song of courage to defeat the devil! It's not a devil's song!"

"Hmm... So Brother Dong doesn't know the Courage Song?" "Yeah, so can anyone of you sing it for me?"

"I'll come, I'll come!" "I want to come too!" "Brother Adong, I can sing too!"

Inside the carriage, as the imaginative young man asked his questions, childish voices rang out in excitement. The youngest children rushed to sign up, like fledglings who had found an opportunity to show off their feathers.

"Ahem, alright, alright~! Stop fighting over it, just sing together, and I'll play with you guys after you finish singing."

"Really?" "Brother Dong, you can't lie to me!"

"Don't worry, honesty is my creed~! Okay, when I say one, two, three, you guys start, one... two... three~!"

The imaginative young man said with a playful smile, holding up three fingers and counting down with the children he had become very familiar with. At the moment when he finished counting down...

Boom——! !

"ATTACK!!!" "Earthworm! There's an Earthworm beast!!"

"Beast Tide! It's a Beast Tide!!" "Damn it, quickly switch to suspension mode! We must not be dragged down by the Earthworm Beast!"

Suddenly, a huge roar was heard, followed by a strong feeling of weightlessness and shouts and growls of fear and anxiety. The transport vehicle where everyone was in seemed to have suffered a huge impact and rolled over uncontrollably with a violent shaking.

"Children! Everyone, squat down! Do as the teacher says! Don't leave your seats!!"

Inside the carriage, Antoine, who was awakened from the warm atmosphere, also shouted hurriedly, and suddenly knocked down several children who were nearby, and rolled them under the seats specially designed for refuge. Several other children also tiptoed to grab the specially designed handrails or handles, and quickly got under the seats like birds returning to their nests.

"Brother Adong! Come here quickly! The teacher said! It's dangerous to stand there when encountering a situation like this!"

After some of the calmer children found their seats, they immediately shouted to the imaginative young man who was still sitting there looking around, and they were obviously very worried about his safety.

But the imaginative young man seemed not to hear it. He just looked at the scene outside the car window curiously, as if he was observing something.

"Fuck! Big sister! The beasts are chasing us too closely, we can't get rid of them!!!"

"Even if you can't get rid of me, you have to find a way to get rid of me! Didn't you all say you didn't want to die here? Then try your best!"

"Damn it! Boss Lionfang!! There's a ground worm biting under the chassis and I can't get rid of it!"

"Get out of the way! I'll drive, you operate the pyroxene cannon!!!"

All of a sudden, all kinds of noises rang out from each carriage. Four transport vehicles were seen running wildly across the wilderness. Black-brown pyroxene energy bombs were fired from the gun barrels with the sound of mournful roars, hitting the pyroxene beasts that were chasing them relentlessly, presenting a thrilling chase in the wilderness.

"No! Boss! We are being chased by the beasts!!!" "Hold on, all of you. Even if it costs you shit, don't give those beasts a chance to get close to us! We can rush out from the side soon!"

Inside the cab, the bandaged lion-haired man gritted his teeth and growled, clutching the steering wheel tightly and trying madly to turn it to the side, trying his best to ensure that the transport vehicle would not overturn or deviate to other directions due to the interference of the pyroxene beasts that were biting on it. At the same time, he repeatedly manipulated the transport vehicle like a go-kart, repeatedly rubbing and colliding with the ground with his bottom card, and knocked away one pyroxene beast after another in the violent ups and downs. Finally...

“It’s done!!” “Haha! Boss Lion Fang is awesome! We’ve escaped the beast tide!!”

When the four transport vehicles sped over a rift that was hundreds of meters wide amid the roar of the power furnace like horses leaping over a cliff, and landed heavily on the wilderness opposite, loud excited roars rang out from the carriages, celebrating the successful escape.

"Stop wasting time! Hurry up and grab your weapons! Don't let those beasts outside continue to destroy the armored wall!"

"Yes! Boss Lionfang... uh, wait, Boss Lionfang, look, they seem to have run away by themselves!"

The lion-haired man who stabilized the transport truck shouted at his men, picked up a rusty hatchet that was more than two meters long, and was about to lead his men to fight out of the transport truck when an infected person who was responsible for observing the condition of the transport truck suddenly spoke and pointed to the window beside him.

Did the pyroxene beast run away by itself?
When Shiya heard this, his expression changed slightly, and he immediately thought of several worse possibilities, and at this moment -

“Moo——!”

ancient, long.

Suddenly, a long mooing sound that seemed to echo from ancient times came from the wilderness at the other end of the Great Rift Valley, echoing in the ears of everyone in the carriage.

For a moment, everyone in the car was stunned.

It wasn't because of the long mooing sound in my ears, but because...

"what is that?"

Stunned, frightened, bewildered, stunned...all kinds of reactions appeared in the carriage, and with the murmured question from someone unknown, a picture quickly emerged from the distant land before everyone's eyes.

Buzz, rumble—! !

A belated huge roar sounded from deep within the earth. From afar, one could see that in the wilderness at the other end of the rift, an extremely large black shadow suddenly appeared in a corner of the sky, like a huge curtain, covering the distant sky in endless darkness.

As the curtain continued to move, mountains began to rise rapidly from the wilderness in the distance. Below the mountains, a large number of black shadows like tides could be seen moving forward along with the curtain in the sky. If one looked more closely, one would find that they were not mountains or clouds at all, but...

——Hundreds of thousand-meter-tall mountain beasts and millions of undead armies.

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「01:39:35」

"According to the information given by Lord Black Sword, although the two evil demons who control the Gusa Federation and the Huiyuan Sect have not reached a substantive cooperation, they will most likely tacitly attack us at the same time after the war, trying to destroy us as quickly as possible."

A steady and powerful voice sounded from the conference room. On the screen, Ryan, who was in the war command room, looked at the large map beside him and spoke to everyone present, analyzing the movements after the war.

"From the perspective of their movements, the undead army from the Huiyuan Sect will most likely choose to attack the eastern front, and there is a great possibility that they will use the space teleportation array to launch a surprise attack and attack us from multiple directions at the same time. However, with the space interference technology brought by Lord Black Sword, they can only launch an attack from ten kilometers away from the defense line at most, and cannot directly break into the defense line."

"Assuming that the Huiyuan Sect chooses a radical approach and directly uses the space teleportation array to break into the maximum distance of ten kilometers, relying on the ambush troops deployed in advance twenty kilometers outside the defense line, we can directly form a double-team attack on them and annihilate them at the fastest speed..."

Ryan was analyzing the situation in an orderly manner to everyone present, like a calm veteran, from the possible attack routes chosen by the enemy, to the various preparations and arrangements before the war, to the different response strategies that could be taken in the middle... He used his very calm tone to describe in words all the possible events that might happen in this war.

And Xin Lailai was like a quiet listener, listening quietly to Ryan explaining one tactic after another to the staff officers promoted by him, while thinking about how to make the most of his own use in this war.

Just as Ryan and others analyzed, judging from the movements, although White Mage and Randy did not reach a substantive cooperation, they had probably reached a tacit understanding in attack. Otherwise, it would not have been possible for them to act together so coincidentally, and just happened to be moving towards the two spatial coordinates that were about to be refreshed on their side from two different directions.

According to the intelligence that Ling Yuzi had detected and overheard using technology, the number of the White Demon army has now exceeded five million, and there are more than twenty third-order overlord-level Moon Demon Flying Dragons. Among them, the number of various ordinary Moon Demon Zergs that have reached the third-order threshold, that is, the second-tier, has exceeded five million, and there are no less than 300,000 elite-level combat forces above the third-order second-tier, and a four-star war title that seems to have undergone some kind of mutation.

As for Randy's side, although the scale of ordinary third-order undead is a little weak, only about four million, and the elite undead are only about 150,000, but its top-level combat power is stronger than that of the Moon Devil Zerg. Not only did it produce more than thirty third-order overlord-level stitched undead commanders, it also got three super undead creatures equivalent to fourth-order secondary overlord units, and even shook over the world's strongest overlord creature Dome that was killed by the Overwatch Legion. It can be said to be a true undead group.

Of course, he was not unprepared. To show respect, he had produced no less than fifty kinds of war technology specifically for restraining the Zerg and the Undead, such as Undead interference devices, Zerg corruption toxins, corpse purifiers, fungal mat corrosive liquids... basically, he had selected all the ones that could be named.

Not only that, Xiaobai has also developed a super surprise on the technological side for the opponent's top combat power, but due to material limitations, the surprise is only suitable to be used as the ultimate trump card. Unless the opponent uses a flying dragon to ride on the face or a dome-shaped pounce right from the start, otherwise this move will always be the kind that can be hidden if possible.

Otherwise, Xin Lailai could guarantee that once he dared to throw out this trump card right at the beginning, White Mage and Randy would definitely choose to join forces without reservation and attack him frantically.

"Lai Lai! They're starting to prepare the teleportation array!"

Suddenly, Ling Yuzi's voice sounded in Xin Lailai's mind, bringing him back to his senses. Upon hearing this, Xin Lailai glanced at the edge of his vision, which showed that there was still a full hour left, and his eyes moved slightly.

As expected, the other party has no intention of waiting until the coordinates are officially generated before taking action?
From an offensive perspective, if you can occupy the location where the coordinates are refreshed before they are generated, according to the rule that the ownership of the coordinates can only be changed again after 24 hours of continuous notarization in the battle, it will definitely be a huge advantage for the subsequent battle.

"Everyone, get ready. The other side will be coming soon."

Then, Xin Lailai looked up at the people in the conference room and Ryan on the screen, and spoke to them.

Ryan and the others who were discussing some details in a scattered manner heard this, and their faces froze. They nodded carefully and looked seriously at the big screen beside them, looking at the picture displayed on it:
It can be seen that at this moment the screen on the long table has been divided into two parts, projecting the situations on the western and eastern fronts respectively. More than a dozen medium-sized fortresses plus nearly thirty small fortresses are guarding the screen like guards, standing in the wilderness like unyielding warriors, quietly waiting for something with them.

Although the Void Tree has not yet announced the location of the last batch of spatial coordinates, the Dark Glory Continent is only this small. Combined with the generation rules of the first two batches of spatial coordinates, as long as one is willing, even if it is impossible to accurately predict, it is not difficult to roughly estimate the area where the last round of coordinates are located. This is why Xin Lailai dared to let Ryan and others set up defenses in advance.

One minute...two minutes...three minutes...

On the screen, the countdown continued to tick away, from 1 hour, 05 minutes and 16 seconds, 13 small clocks and 32 teeth, to 1 hour and 04 minutes, and then became smaller and smaller, and finally...

[Reminder (Tree of the Void): There is only one hour left before the third batch of space coordinates are generated. The third batch of space coordinates will be announced now! ]

A cold and majestic announcement sounded, and on the branding interface, the countdown timer suddenly changed from 01 to 00. Everyone in the conference room looked at the coordinate position projected by Xin Lailai on the screen, and the atmosphere suddenly reached its peak at this moment.

You've got it!
On the map, the spatial coordinates announced by Xin Lailai were all located exactly within the range of the fortress phalanx. The one on the western front was only about two kilometers away from the center of the phalanx, while the coordinates on the eastern front were less than a hundred meters away from the center of the phalanx.

In this way, the first step of this war was officially seized by them. As for the rest...

"coming!"

A calm but not majestic voice suddenly fell, and the black-haired young man sitting on the main seat suddenly spoke as if he had foreseen something, causing everyone present to be startled and look at the screen at the same time. The next second -

Boom——! !

Suddenly, two huge silver-white formations appeared in midair, emitting extremely strong spatial fluctuations, and quickly formed two huge spatial portals thousands of meters wide at the end of the earth. Then...

Boom——! !

Torrent.

Only the word "torrent" can describe the scene before our eyes.

On the screen, millions of Zerg and Undead poured down from the end of the earth, like the flood that came down when the sky collapsed in mythology. Amid roars and howls, they smashed into the ground with a suffocating sense of oppression, quickly dyeing the distant land into another color.

Legion, come!
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(End of this chapter)