Why is my territory in a 2D anime art style?

Chapter 128 Nighttime Attack

"A dark and windy night—how fitting!"

Sui An looked up at the night sky. It was past midnight, and the moon was completely obscured by dark clouds. A wisp of north wind swept across the wasteland.

At this moment, only Sui An, Erhu, and Fang Si were driving a small transport truck through the wilderness late at night.

Tiger and Fang Nian were placed in the territory, and a three-in-one barrier was erected for them. After all, since they were not in the territory, they had to make the best preparations for it. In addition, the fourteen elemental stone statues should not be afraid of ordinary enemies.

Just after crossing the stone bridge, Fang Si pointed in the general direction, which was the fastest route to He Chong's territory.

But Sui An only glanced at it briefly before shaking his head slightly: "Isn't his territory surrounded by plains where transport vehicles can travel?"

Fang Si was slightly taken aback, but still said, "It's similar to the terrain here. It's mostly wasteland with hardly any trees or large potholes."

"Then let's go around to the side to prevent that bastard from ambushing us, and also to mislead the people who come to investigate later, so as to reduce our suspicion as much as possible."

Sui An drove north along Line 7 and suddenly gave an order to the person behind him.

"Keep an eye on Erhu and see if there are any source beasts. I don't want to waste a talisman here."

"I'm watching!" Erhu kept looking around, but the visibility was too low, so he mainly relied on the 100-meter range detection of the source-finding compass.

"Isn't your compass still here?"

"This compass will still be useless against methods that conceal source energy. You can't rely on this alone. Don't wait until someone gets close to you before you remind me."

"I know!"

The transport vehicle moved slowly. Who would have thought that just three people in one vehicle would attempt to raid a fully armed level-three territory in the dead of night?

After driving for about five or six more minutes, Fang Si spoke again: "That's about enough, if we keep going we'll go around the end."

"Okay!" Sui An drove west, starting from Line 7 and heading towards the wilderness. As soon as they entered the wilderness, the road surface became visibly bumpy.

After driving for three or four minutes, they saw the outline of a territory. If He Chong hadn't built that tall city wall, they might not have been able to see it at all.

After driving for a while, Sui An stopped the car, and Erhu took out his binoculars and looked around the territory.

"There are people patrolling the city wall for about 500 meters, but there are not many, about four or five people."

"Does He Chong possess any defensive mechanisms, such as barriers?"

Sui An suddenly asked Fang Si, who shook his head: "I didn't have it before I left. As far as I know, barrier-type buildings are extremely rare. I've almost never seen them in low-level territories."

"Okay!" Sui An jumped off the car, took out a black tarpaulin, and then took out two long guns from the car and stuck them on the ground, creating a cover for himself.

Then they began to summon the spirit. It was the first time for both of them to see a spirit, and even though they were mentally prepared, they were still startled.

"How can this power be so overwhelming!" Erhu's eyes widened, and he subconsciously took a step back.

Fang Si was also somewhat shocked: "This energy fluctuation doesn't seem as strong as the ice demon from that night, but why is its power so great?"

"You can think of her as a third-level avatar of a powerful being; although her power is slightly weaker, her essence is extremely strong."

Sui An casually explained, "Shen He, I need your help to take over that territory. They have powerful cannons and crossbows, but these methods, like mine, depend on the lord. Once you kill him, they will all become useless."

"Fang Si, does He Chong have any distinctive features?"

Fang Si was brought back to her senses by Sui An's call and quickly said, "He usually wears a set of light golden armor for defense, lives in a round house in the very center of the territory, and has a mole under his right eye."

Where are your parents?

"My parents don't have any particularly distinctive features, but they do look a bit old. There aren't any elderly people in He Chong's territory, so they should be easy to tell apart."

Fang Si frowned and looked at the spirit: "But can this being distinguish these things?"

"Probably yes," Sui An nodded, turning his gaze to Shen He: "Can you understand these?"

Lu Ling did not answer, but simply looked at Sui An calmly.

Sui An was stunned for a moment, feeling like she had been slapped in the face. It seemed that these things were indeed a bit complicated for her.

He was worried that Lu Ling would act too quickly and kill everyone before he could give the order, so he wanted to give her a heads-up.

In retrospect, it would have been better to connect with the opponent using my mind and guide them while they fought.

So he reorganized his words.

"When you encounter anyone who attacks you or has murderous intent, it's up to you whether you cripple or kill them, but don't touch ordinary people who haven't attacked you first!"

"good!"

This time, the spirit answered. As expected, the instructions given before were too complicated. After all, she only had a trace of will, and the vast majority of her actions were based on combat instincts.

She transformed into a blur and rushed toward the distant territory. Although she was very fast, the blur, which was composed entirely of spiritual light, was still too conspicuous in the night and quickly attracted the attention of the territory's night watchmen.

Warning sounds rang out within the territory, and countless lights lit up, with spotlights shining towards the spirit.

Fang Si looked nervously into the distance. Judging from the conversation just now, the spirit's wisdom seemed limited. She wondered if her parents would be affected.

But since things have come to this point, there is no better way.

He turned to look at Sui An and asked in a low voice, "Aren't we going up?"

But they found that Sui An's gaze was unfocused and his pupils had turned ice blue.

Erhu also noticed: "Is this a connection with the spirit's will?"

"Yes!" Sui An slapped away the large face that Erhu had brought close to his. "Don't bother me. I need to keep an eye on the battlefield. Just protect me!"

At that moment, alarms sounded in He Chong's territory, and nearly ten energy orbs shining with purplish-red light were already hurtling towards them, arriving in an instant.

From the perspective of the spirit, these orbs of light were overwhelming, but the spirit remained calm and composed, making Sui Anxin's heart leap into her throat.

Just as the cannonball was about to hit her, Lu Ling suddenly accelerated to the limit again, dodging the cannonball silently. The purplish-red cannonball slammed into the ground behind her, creating huge craters. The deafening roar could be felt even by the three people five hundred meters away.

Erhu peeked out from behind the tarpaulin, looking into the distance, and sighed, "This thing is more powerful in a single shot than Sui An's elemental statue, but its accuracy seems a bit off."

The ground was filled with the roar of artillery fire, but from Sui An's perspective, Lu Ling always dodged with minimal movement, making it difficult for either arrows or cannonballs to hit her.

He even felt that the arrows fired from this level three arrow tower were much slower than those fired from the spirit, so slow that she could reach out and catch them.

Moreover, she seemed to be able to detect all incoming attacks without even having to observe them, as if she had the ability to predict them.

"Is that the effect of spiritual consciousness? It's truly a dimensional attack!"

"My understanding of this spirit's power is still too shallow."

"The walls are thick, don't attack directly, jump over the walls and break through the energy shield!"

Seeing that Lu Ling was about to reach the bottom of the city wall, Sui An hurriedly gave the order in advance. He had no choice but to give it in advance, as his reaction speed was far too slow compared to Lu Ling's.

With a light leap, Lu Ling soared into the air, as if ascending to the clouds, and arrived directly at the height of the city wall. He could even clearly see the horrified eyes of the defenders on the city wall.

Lu Ling raised his spear and swept it horizontally. A huge spear beam extended from the spear shaft, instantly sweeping the low-level professional defenders on the city wall in two, along with their weapons. They fell to the ground below the city wall as ice sculptures, completely powerless to resist.

The cannonballs and crossbow bolts that followed seemed to have no regard for the lives of these people and were already shooting towards Lu Ling.

"Frost God Transformation!"

The spirit chanted softly, took a step forward, and countless ice pillars rose from the city wall to form a barrier, forcibly freezing the cannonballs and crossbow bolts in mid-air, preventing them from even exploding.

From the side, a figure wielding a sword and shield charged straight through the gaps in the ice pillars. The sword's golden blade shone brilliantly, its angle tricky, but what met him was a spear lashing out, radiating an icy blue divine light.

"when!"

The light on the shield was shattered instantly, and the heavy force of the spear broke through the source energy and struck the shield, producing a cracking sound from within it.

Before Sui An could even make out the appearance of the person who came, he was swept away by this attack.

Gao Qi coughed up blood. The bones in his left hand were almost completely shattered. The entire shield was on the verge of breaking. The reason it still maintained its shape was entirely because the terrifying frost power spread along the gun and froze the shield.

Moreover, the terrible frost was spreading rapidly and had already frozen his source energy.

During his fall, most of his torso was frozen solid until he crashed into the inside of the city wall, his fate unknown.

The spirit spear twisted and pierced the energy shield in front of him, instantly turning the fragile energy shield into a sky full of starlight.

Lu Ling leaped up, ignoring the powerful cannons and arrow towers, her target was the very center of the territory.

It seems that the spirit can sense that the core of this territory is in the central area.

She leaped and bounded between buildings like an elf, moving with incredible speed, covering a distance of forty meters in the blink of an eye.

She leaped into the air, swinging her spear downwards with explosive force. The air exploded as the powerful blow slammed into the peculiar building, sending countless fragments flying and revealing the luxurious interior decorations and a trembling figure.

He Chong's face was filled with terror, and he roared tremblingly, "What exactly are you—"

Without the slightest hesitation, Lu Ling raised her hand and delivered a heavy blow to him.

"Bang~ Bang~ Bang~"

One shield after another lit up on his body, but under the strike of Lu Ling's frost spear, they were all fragile and dissipated one by one.

Only the fourth golden shield lasted a little longer, but it still shattered in the battle.

The spear pierced his neck through the gaps in the golden armor.

"Pfft~"

His horrified face froze on the spot, turning into an ice sculpture.

There was no kneeling and begging for mercy, no desperate counterattack, no painful tears and regret.

This is a battle for survival. The time it takes for the lord to say just one more word could be the start of his comeback.

The villain who had troubled Sui An for so long suddenly died so easily. Even Sui An, who had connected to the spirit's vision, felt somewhat bored at this moment.

"The difference in strength is too great; there's absolutely no sense of conquest anymore."

Just as the spirit continued forward, preparing to shatter the core of the territory, it discovered that the core of the territory in front of it lost its light in a very short time and turned into a dim crystal ball that fell to the ground.

The cannons that were roaring just moments before suddenly stopped working as if they had crashed, and no matter how the people tried to control them, there was no response.

"Let's pick up that crystal ball and go find Fang Si's parents."

While marveling at the terrifying attack methods of the spirit, Sui An also remembered his own goal.

"Fang Si, the territory has been breached. Go find your parents. Erhu, you still need to protect me."

Fang Si was stunned, and the next moment he started running wildly on the ground like a rabbit.

Erhu exclaimed in amazement, "That was so fast! Was it really only five minutes?"

He didn't even see any earth-shattering moves, only an ice-blue figure climbing up the city wall, and then, not long after, the cannon fire stopped.

"We are human, not Blood Moon Beasts, and we're a level six fighting a level three territory, so let's go too!"

"That's right!" Erhu put away the cover, drove over with Sui An in tow, and once the territory stopped operating, Fang Si could handle it with the remaining forces in the territory.

In a level three territory, there can be at most two level four professionals. Now that the territory has been breached, the level four professionals have naturally been defeated as well.

Before Fang Si arrived in the territory, Sui An had already begun searching for people using the spirit's vision. All the professionals he encountered on the way were killed by the spirit with a single blow.

At this moment, there is no right or wrong, only stance. No matter what happens tonight, we cannot leave any hidden dangers. If anyone escapes, they will face endless revenge in the future.

"Erhu, drive around the territory and check the compass. If anyone escapes from the city, kill them!"

Sui An's voice rang out in the car, and Erhu nodded in agreement. In this apocalyptic world, one cannot have any compassion.

After wandering around for a while, they actually encountered someone trying to escape from the city, but Erhu didn't give them much of a look. As long as they weren't ordinary people who looked older, he would just chop them down with a knife.

Erhu was patrolling outside, while Lu Ling and Fang Si were frantically searching for people inside. Finally, they found Fang's parents tied up in a wooden house.

Lu Ling immediately picked up the two of them and quickly took them outside the city.

As soon as Lu Ling led his people away from the territory, the huge walls, towering arrow towers and cannons, and countless wooden and stone houses behind them began to disappear in an instant.

Sui watched this scene quietly. If one day he were also beaten to death, and the core of the territory left the territory's boundaries, he would be in the same situation.

Without the obstruction of tall buildings, all the living people were instantly exposed to Sui An. Fang Si saw her parents sitting in the car in the distance and immediately breathed a sigh of relief.