Alien Dust

Chapter 378: The Evil City
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The Iron Eagle City took off again, its feather tower stretched out, and instantly reached above the clouds.

At first Wu Hen was a little curious. Since the Iron Eagle City could restart the blue sky, why not fly to farther areas to plunder other towns? That way, at least he could avoid the ambush of the Grand Canyon City.

But after seeing the Iron Eagle City's hunting processes several times, Wu Hen understood that even for a city like the Iron Eagle City, it was not as easy as he imagined to annex some smaller towns.

Reconnaissance and intelligence are of great key.

There is a department in Iron Eagle City. They dress up as traveling merchants like spies. When they trade in market towns, they find out what resources the town has and what special engines it has.

It can be said that without sufficient preparation, even a powerful living city like Iron Eagle City could easily fail in hunting, and the energy consumed by a failure would need to be replenished in more ways.

The Iron Eagle City always has precise targets when hunting, but if they arrive at an unfamiliar place without sending city spies to find out the situation, and after a brutal fight they end up getting some resources they don't need, then the operation of the entire Iron Eagle City will be in trouble.

Therefore, the capture of Prison Town by Iron Eagle City must have been premeditated.

There are three target towns on the edge of the swamp, namely Crocodile Town which focuses on breeding, Black Spring Town which mines the dark energy of the swamp, and a criminal town which relies on plundering other villages.

Chi Luo had no interest in the breeding town. Even if it could provide fresh livestock meat for the entire town after annexation and make the residents of the entire city more cohesive, that was not the material they urgently needed right now.

They need energy, enough dark energy.

Considering that the armed strength of the Black Spring Town should not be underestimated, Chi Luo set his sights on the Evil City, which makes a living by committing crimes. The Evil City has been robbing in this swamp area for a long time, especially targeting those small towns and family-based mining villages. According to reliable information collected by Chi Luo's men, the Evil City is now the richest...

Destroying the evil stronghold and confiscating all their property would be equivalent to looting all the villages, big and small, in the swamp area. It could be said that this saved a lot of time for their Iron Eagle City.

After obtaining enough energy and supplies from the Evil City, they will immediately declare war on the Black Spring Town.

They will not annex the small town of Black Spring. They just need to take away all the dark energy they have mined in the past few years. After completing these two hunts, they will no longer be afraid of the Grand Canyon City.

"Our goal is too clear, which makes it easy for Grand Canyon City to guess it. How can you be sure that there are no intelligence personnel from Grand Canyon City in these small towns? Maybe they are deliberately throwing bait to us." Levi expressed a different opinion again.

"You should shut up!" Chi Luo was almost unable to bear it anymore.

"You exercised the right to vote once during your term as mayor. I recognize your authority. I am now discussing with you seriously how to choose the target even if we have to take the risk of hunting!" After Levi became the deputy mayor, he was also aggressive and did not tolerate this brainless mayor at all.

"Follow my plan!" Chi Luo no longer listened to any of Levi's suggestions.

"Deputy Mayor Levi, our plan has already been drawn up. Any temporary changes will only disrupt the rhythm. At this point we should unite and deal with the difficulties we are facing now." said the chief resource commander.

“As deputy mayor, I have an obligation to report the possible risks to you and the mayor, but if you don’t adopt or listen to my advice, that’s another matter,” Levi said calmly.

Wu Hen nodded secretly at Le Wei's behavior.

Although Chi Luo's current decision is very rash and there is a high probability that he will fall into the trap of the Grand Canyon City, it is better for Levi to speak out now than to be a wise man after the event. This way, other commanders of the entire Iron Eagle City can believe that he, the deputy mayor, is wise and has judged all the situations before anything happened.

After making his suggestion, Levi also chose to shut up.

After the huge body of Steel Eagle City entered the clouds, it entered a state of invisibility in the sky. The special optical steel structure of the entire city also made them look like blue glass when they flapped their wings and soared. Even if someone stared at the sky for a long time, they would not be able to detect the existence of this living city.

The swamp terrain is not complicated, at least there are fewer uplifted mountains and sudden sinking cracks in the ground. The vast wetlands are covered with various strange vegetation, which are either dry and rotting, or show a strange vitality. Especially the places with overly bright flowers and vine buds often hide dangers.

The Evil City now moved to a patch of rotten Metasequoia trees, with each Metasequoia root sticking out of the lake in a charred state. They were tall and sturdy, like ancient giant soldiers under some kind of curse, standing solemnly and strangely in this gray area...

The fortress is located next to a lake, and many captured women can be seen washing clothes by the lake. Most of the clothes are stained with blood and are difficult to wash clean.

The fortress is mainly made of wood, but it is not made of ordinary trees. The wooden walls and wooden houses are connected to wooden engines. When encountering danger, the entire fortress will suddenly disintegrate into countless wooden beetles, fleeing in different directions and disappearing in the swamp in an instant.

Iron Eagle City already knows how they escape.

So they would not use the Eagle Claw immediately after discovering the target. They planned to first use the confinement laser buried instrument. Before the entire evil fortress was aware of the danger, they would first set up confinement walls around it to ensure that the evil fortress could not disintegrate and escape. "What do you think?" Levi asked Wu Hen.

"The evil stronghold technology is quite interesting and fits their survival style. Once they are wanted and hunted by your legal city, they will quickly scatter and flee." Wu Hen said.

"Every town and even some special villages have their own technology, but the resources to maintain their technology are often in limited areas, so it is difficult for them to go to other places, unless it is a technological living city that can operate efficiently in the entire Daxuan or even the entire Cangchu... In fact, it seems to be plundering resources, and many cities are constantly annexing in order to integrate various technologies. When every link of a city has mature technology, it will be a behemoth city." Levi said.

"Most of the people in this city are wanted criminals in your prison, right?" Wu Hen asked.

"Yes, originally this evil stronghold was the ultimate goal of our prison town. I needed to use all my strength to subdue them. With the strength of the prison town at that time, it was bound to be a fierce battle... But now I'm the deputy mayor here, and it's easy for me to control them." Levi said.

"Maybe things are not as simple as you think. Perhaps this is the nemesis you cannot escape at this stage." Wu Hen looked down from a high place, observing the entire evil city through the detection equipment of the Iron Eagle City, and collecting all the information through his fourth-level spiritual vision.

"Why, do you feel something is wrong with this evil city?" Le Wei raised his eyebrows.

"If you were the Grand Canyon City, where would you choose to ambush us?" Wu Hen asked.

"Common sense says that the small town of Black Spring should be the most ideal, because it has the necessary strategic resources for us, and it is also the only opportunity to win a comeback against them." Levi said.

“But even for the Grand Canyon City, it is not easy to swallow up a small-scale living city silently. Look at Chi Luo, he had to plunder the evil stronghold first before he dared to take action against Black Spring City. This means that the Grand Canyon City also has to weigh whether they can quickly take over Black Spring City, and whether they will encounter resistance from Black Spring City and cause losses to themselves…” Wu Hen said.

"That's right." Levi nodded.

Wu Hen and Le Wei now have the same idea.

Grand Canyon City must be lurking somewhere in the swamp.

They must be like a swamp mud crocodile, quietly waiting for the eagle to fall from the sky and bite the Steel Eagle City in one bite.

Then among the several predation targets chosen by Chiluo, there is a high probability that there will be an ambush in the Grand Canyon City.

But in which living town is the ambush located?

This is what Wu Hen and Le Wei were discussing at this time. Anyway, they could not get involved in this battle plan, but the Grand Canyon City was a huge threat that could not be avoided. Only by defeating the Grand Canyon City would everyone be truly safe.

The two of them must analyze the route to Grand Canyon City and also analyze where they are ambushed.

Chiluo can be reckless and brainless.

Mayor Le Wei and Chief of Staff Wu Hen, who are about to take over this Steel Eagle City, cannot just give up like this.

"Do you think the Grand Canyon City is under this evil city?" Le Wei suddenly understood what Wu Hen meant, and said in surprise.

"Most of the people in the Evil City are criminals, and their temperaments are similar to those of the managers of the Grand Canyon City. If I were the ruler of the Grand Canyon City, I would send people to this Evil City and tell them that as long as they submit to me, they can have a new legal identity in their own city. You are the leader of the Evil City, would you agree?" Wu Hen asked back.

Levi thought about it for just a moment and then nodded.

Wu Hen’s analysis makes a lot of sense.

So many days have passed, and there has been no movement in the Grand Canyon City.

There is no way they couldn't find Iron Eagle City, and they never took advantage of Eagle City's weakness to launch an attack. There is only one explanation - they are nearby!
They were well aware of Iron Eagle City's current situation, and they also knew that Iron Eagle City would definitely come out hunting.

Then they just have to place the trap under a big piece of fat meat and wait quietly for Steel Eagle City to take the bait!
The best place to make big fat meat... is really this evil city!
"I remembered a person. That guy mentioned the Evil City to Chi Luo more than once in the internal meeting, and described the Evil City as being within reach. If your speculation is true, then this guy is very likely to be the gap in the Grand Canyon City!" Levi suddenly said.

"Is there a gap in the command structure?" Wu Hen said in shock.

(End of this chapter)