Freeze the entire population, activate my Superman system?

"Commander Ying, what is that?"

Herto's round figure emerged from behind the ice rock, half a piece of jerky dangling from his mouth.

He looked up following Ying's gaze, and the dried meat fell out of his mouth. "...That thing looks...like..."

"Prey mark." Ying's voice was as cold as ice. "Other ranchers have spotted them. We're doomed too."

Herto's face turned deathly pale instantly.

He crouched down, his round body curled into a ball, his voice trembling. "Then... what do we do?"

Herto did not answer.

His lips trembled, his eyes darted around in their sockets, and then he suddenly stood up.

"Then we...then we'll help Brother Zhangmu! If that rancher succeeds, our entire ghoul race will have to avenge Turing."

The oriole did not answer.

She remained silent, her gaze fixed on the blue and white light patterns on the barrier of the safe zone.

Help Ling Shuang? Of course she wanted to. But how? She was currently at the early stage of the fourth tier; could she defeat Turing?

Can they beat Renault? They can't beat even one of them.

Her fingers tapped lightly on the handle of the bone whip.

Then she looked up at Herto.

"Go to their lair, I want to see him."

Outside the barrier, Ying stood on the ice rock, her bone whip wrapped around her waist, the wound on her severed arm already crystallized and sealed.

Ling Shuang stood inside the barrier, looking at her through the blue and white light patterns.

This was their first formal negotiation.

"The signal fire will be formed in less than three hours."

Ying got straight to the point, "Once it's formed, this area will be automatically marked as the designated person's temporary pasture by the main city's rules."

"At that time, your lair and my tribe will all belong to that ranch manager."

"Who is the one who made the selection?" Ling Shuang asked.

"The markings indicate that it belongs to the Renault and Red brothers."

The rancher of the Redridge Wasteland, at the peak of a fourth-tier mature form.

Ying's voice was calm. "Turing is a rancher in Frostridge, but he should be tied up with Reno by now."

Why did Renault mark us?

"Because you are the source of fire." Ying looked directly into Ling Shuang's eyes. "The value of a new fire is beyond your imagination."

Ling Shuang was silent for a few seconds. "How do you want to cooperate?"

"Don't you have weapons that can easily kill Night Owl?"

"I took a gamble, killed one of the ranchers, and forced an evolution." Ying's voice was completely flat. "If we lose, we die together."

Ling Shuang stared into her eyes for a long time, then slowly nodded. "Deal."

Ying didn't say anything more.

When Ling Shuang returned to the safe zone, Zhang Mu was already waiting for her by the artificial lake.

"Brother Shuang, are you serious?" Zhang Mu's voice was tense. "Cooperating with that female ghoul?"

"We had no choice," Ling Shuang said. "I don't know why new ranchers have joined the fight."

"But can she be trusted?"

"I can't trust you," Ling Shuang replied decisively. "But now, we have a common enemy."

Guo Yueshan walked over from behind, holding a list of defense forces that had just been compiled.

Upon hearing the message over the walkie-talkie, everyone went on high alert.

Two ranchers,

It is an existence that is simply unimaginable.

Even a pseudo-Tier 4 Night Owl is enough to shake the barrier of the safe zone.

"The number of arrow towers has been pushed to the limit."

Including the achievement points contributed by all lords, a total of thirty-one arrow towers were built, including one frost arrow tower and twelve top-tier crossbow towers.

The Fire Source Energy Cannon is fully charged; two Fire Crystal ammunition rounds remain.

"That's enough," Ling Shuang said. "But we're not fighting a positional war."

He turned around and drew a simple diagram on the frozen ground in front of him with a twig.

"After the barrier disappears, Ying will lead the ghouls and the Oni Shark Clan into the territory from the back mountain to help us defend it."

Zhang Mu's eyes widened. "You still let those monsters in?"

"If we don't let them in, they'll be wiped out by Turing's personal guard from the outside," Ling Shuang said. "Ying wants to win more than we do now."

Guo Yueshan was silent for a moment, then nodded. "I'll listen to you."

But the human side never expected this.

defeat

It came so suddenly!

Just four hours after the smoke signal was raised,

Turing and Reynolds' combined forces have reached the ice crevasse where the safe zone is located.

Then, in less than ten minutes, the barrier shattered!

The blue and white light patterns flickered violently under the bombardment of countless attacks from the Dao Slave Clan. Finally, like a shattered piece of glass, it exploded from the center with countless cracks, turning into countless points of light that dissipated into the blizzard.

The safe zone was exposed to the frigid winds of the ice field for the first time.

Ling Shuang stood on the highest point on the east bank of the artificial lake, her long staff of frost flames propped up beside her, the icy blue flames whistling in the wind and snow.

His gaze passed over the iron wall and landed on the dark, surging army of slaves pouring out from the depths of the icy plains.

Leading the charge were Turing's personal guards—two hundred elite soldiers from various slave races at the early stage of the third tier.

Their bodies were covered with a dark red energy membrane, a temporary enhancement granted by Turing using the slave mark, making them far faster and stronger than their peers.

Then there are Renault's ferocious crocodile warriors.

They were a size larger than Turing's royal guard, covered in rough, rock-like scales, and each step they took left a deep footprint in the frozen ground.

Ling Shuang slowly raised her right hand.

"Arrow tower, free fire."

Thirty-one arrow towers opened fire at the same instant.

The roar of the crossbows was continuous, and hundreds of armor-piercing crossbow bolts turned into a black rain of arrows, which rained down on the vanguard of the slave army.

The armor-piercing bolts from the top-tier crossbow turret can create a bloody hole the size of a bowl on a Tier 1 target, and can also penetrate the scale armor on a Tier 2 target.

The first few dozen slave warriors were pinned to the snow by a hail of arrows, their grayish-green bodily fluids pooling into streams on the frozen ground.

But more slave warriors charged forward, stepping over the corpses of their comrades.

At the foot of the iron wall, the battle immediately intensified.

This was the scene that Ying saw when she led the ghouls and the remnants of the Oni Shark Clan over the wall from the back mountain into the territory.

Without hesitation, the bone whip cracked loudly above her head. "Ghoul, Kisame, follow me!"

Heto followed behind her, his round body charging ahead for the first time. With a bone knife in his left hand and a bone axe in his right, he sliced ​​down a ferocious crocodile warrior who had leaped over the wall, then roared at the ghouls behind him, "What are you standing there for! Kill!"

Ying's bone whip, like a silver snake, weaved through the slave army.

The strength of the early fourth tier was on full display at this moment—wherever the whip touched, slave warriors below the third tier were either killed or injured.

She single-handedly held off nearly twenty elite members of Turing's guard.

But the more she killed, the more rushed up.

There were too many Turing's Guards.

Ling Shuang leaped down from the high point, her icy flame staff drawing an ice-blue arc in the air before crashing into the densest part of the slave army.

The moment the staff touched the ground, icy blue flames exploded from the point of impact, spreading outwards in all directions from him.

Wherever the flames passed, a layer of frost half an inch thick formed on the surface of the frozen soil, with the edges of the frost charred black.

The slave warriors who were directly hit by the flames had their bodies torn apart on the spot by the combined impact of extreme cold and extreme heat.

But there's more.

Ling Shuang glanced at the battlefield out of the corner of her eye, and her heart sank.

The arrow towers' firing rate couldn't keep up with the slave tribe's charge speed, and three breaches had already been made in the iron wall.

that's it,

This was because Turing and the Reynolds brothers were wary of each other and did not take action.

However, what no one expected was that...

The space above the safe zone suddenly tore open!

Nearly a hundred figures, resembling space mechs, hovered in the air.

The leader's sharp gaze swept across the retreating human ranks.

"Which one of you is Comrade Guo Yueshan?"

The First Detachment of the Luan Bird Legion was ordered to support the human safety zone in Longmao Prefecture.