Two days later, the small black iron ore mine was completely mined out by the gold-eating ants. The camp's supplies were cleaned up completely. Everything that could be carried away was taken, and everything that couldn't be carried away went into Xiao Xuan's belly. Not even a nail was left behind.

After the last group of people withdrew, Xiao Xuan slowly got up and chased after the Osaka team.

Xiao Xuan is faster than before. As for the convoy, whether they can keep up or not is none of his business.

Shen Yutong handed Lin Feng a newly drawn map, which showed the upcoming movement route and the dangerous areas along the way.

"If the intelligence is accurate, at this speed, they should arrive at the Osaka convoy's location by the evening of the day after tomorrow. What are your plans?"

Lin Feng took the map and said nonchalantly.

"A clean sweep!"

"I've always underestimated our fighting strength. We now have 100 level 4 knights and an ant swarm. So what if they outnumber us? With Xiao Xuan in charge and Xiao Hei, their nemesis as a demon tamer, I can't imagine how we could lose!"

"Faced with absolute power, numbers are nothing but clay chickens and earthenware dogs..."

When the convoy set off again, Lin Feng clearly sensed that something was wrong.

To be precise, the longer we stay in this world, the more dangerous things we encounter become. In the past two days, while mining black iron ore, there have been a large number of level 4 strange attacks on the camp. Although they were all easily resolved, the level of danger has indeed increased several notches.

When they first crossed over, as long as they didn't do anything reckless, the caravan mainly encountered low-level monsters and mutated beasts. Now, however, they might encounter several troublesome mutated beasts at any time during their migration.

And here comes the trouble.

The first to notice something was wrong was Jin Tong. A large group of mutated beasts surged from behind a hill, bending the bushes and scattering rocks. Then, a dark mass of mutated beasts rushed together, the rumbling sound of their stomping could be heard several kilometers away. At the front were rock-armored lizards, each over 10 meters long, their backs covered with gray scales, clearly indicating their formidable defense.

On both sides were packs of wolves, leaving long trails of dust as they ran.

Lin Feng pressed the walkie-talkie: "A horde of beasts is coming from the flank, there are many of them. Combat units, get on the city walls, knights, be ready to go out of the city to fight at any time..."

Several confirmation replies came through the walkie-talkie.

The guards quickly assembled and climbed the city wall. Bundles of black iron-grade arrows were carried up, and Wang Lie also led his patrol team up the city wall, where crossbows were pushed to their firing positions.

These ballistae were specially modified by Guo Yi at Wang Lie's request. He went to great lengths to improve the patrol team's combat effectiveness and retain its members. Many ballistae on the roof of the chariots were removed and used as weapons.

Because if they didn't do this, everyone would run away. Yangjin was also recruiting combat professionals in the outer city to expand the reserve members of the guard. She wanted to build a powerful army to protect Xuanfeng City.

In addition, the guard team had more female members, while the majority of those who survived the escape were men. The situation in the outer city was dominated by men and less by women. Once people settled down and were no longer under the pressure of survival, they would consider other things.

The survivors in the outer city quickly formed new families, but there were only so many women, so some men who had acquired combat professions set their sights on the women of the guards.

Since Yangjin posted the recruitment notice for reserve guards, people have been asking every day if she is still recruiting, because there is one benefit that no one can refuse: housing.

The concept of a house, like farming, seems to be ingrained in the genes of all Chinese people. For them, a house is a home, a place to settle down and survive in the apocalypse. Every member of the guard team can receive a residence of no less than 50 square meters for free.

This resulted in the guard force expanding to 2000 members. This was only after an emergency halt; otherwise, all the combat professionals in the outer city would have been wiped out. Those were houses, after all. Not to mention that official members could be granted a completely new professional system and receive bonuses to all attributes.

When Lin Feng arrived at the city wall, everyone was ready for battle. Wang Lie stood aside and said, "This number is at least 4000, and all those rock-armored lizards are level 4."

Lin Feng nodded without saying anything more.

He simply ordered the gold-devouring ants to rush out of the city walls.

When the herd of beasts was about a kilometer away from the convoy, the rock-armored lizards in front of them began to slow down. It wasn't that they wanted to stop, but that the dense swarm of gold-eating ants had already rushed towards them and collided with the herd of beasts. The wolves were directly bitten by the ants and dragged to the ground.

The rock-armored lizards were covered in gold-eating ants. Their sharp mandibles cut into the joints of the lizards' shells, causing dozens of lizards to lose their balance while running, roll in pain, and crash into other animals, causing a small-scale chaos.

From the city gate to Xiao Xuan's left, the sounds of electricity and mechanical clicking emanated. A thick, wide metal city gate slowly pressed down, and the black iron chains connecting the two sides of the gate rattled. Then, the internal structure of the metal gate rapidly unfolded.

clack clack...

The doorway extended downwards, step by step, forming a wide bridge leading to the ground.

With a wave of her command flag, Yangjin signaled the hundred knights who were already prepared to charge down the metal bridge on their warhorses. Leaping onto the ground, they formed a horizontal battle line under the leadership of Zhuoma, raised their bows and arrows, and fired rapidly, a dense barrage of arrows falling among the beasts.

As they approached the horde, they instantly switched weapons, raising their spears horizontally and crashing into the horde's side like a moving barrier. The mutated beasts were cut in half, their limbs flying everywhere in their path, none escaping unscathed.

At the same time, the crossbows on the city wall fired simultaneously, and arrows as thick as an arm accurately pierced through the bodies of the rock-armored lizards. Golden Eyes swooped down, and a storm of wind blades fell into the horde of beasts, like a meat grinder. The violent wind blades erupted, and the horde of beasts within a radius of a hundred meters was cut into pieces.

Even so, despite being surrounded and saturated by several times the number of gold-eating ants, the swarm did not collapse and continued to surge toward the convoy.

Lin Feng frowned as he watched this scene.

"No, the herd was driven here. Be careful, there's something even bigger behind them..."

Sure enough, before the words were finished, a muffled roar came from the back of the hill, followed by the appearance of a figure several times larger than an ordinary rock armored lizard. The behemoth was more than thirty meters long and taller than an ordinary house. Its grayish-brown body was covered with a thick layer of scales, and there was a sharp horn on its forehead, which gleamed with a metallic sharpness.

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