From Under One Person: Sincere Journey Through the Heavens

At this moment, the young falcon Chagai cried out twice and landed on Maido's shoulder. It couldn't speak, but Maido could hear its language and understand its intentions. She smiled and said, "Chagai also wants to fight."

"Alright, let's go together."

Bai Yuekui agreed, and also invited the four leaders of Longgu Village: Xia Tianlai, Qiu Shi, Ao Deng, and Nanji Xing.

There must be a reason for the large-scale gathering of beasts. If we don't find out the reason, Dragonbone Village may have to go through a fierce battle.

Although the Awakened Ones and Returning Origin Warriors of Dragon Bone Village have all achieved the complete circulation of Qi, their physical strength is not inexhaustible, and it is impossible for them to kill all the Devouring Beasts on this continent.

Furthermore.

Unless the Mana ecosystem is completely eradicated, even if the Devouring Beasts are wiped out, their flesh and blood will transform into Breath Soil and enter the cycle of rebirth whenever they touch the ground...

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lighthouse.

Inside the dining area.

Given the critical situation that the lighthouse is hovering and the Devouring Beasts are only 45 meters away from it, the lighthouse has entered its highest level of defense!

All positions at the Lighthouse Defense Platform are suspended. All residents and civilians are prohibited from leaving their homes and safe zones. Violators will be severely punished!

During the lighthouse's descent, a large amount of supplies were lost, leading to a shortage of supplies at the lighthouse. Therefore, an emergency supplies distribution plan has been activated...

Accompanied by broadcast announcements, residents in different positions received different types of food.

The city's two hundred core members enjoyed the finest food: the lighthouse had only a few remaining pieces of good steak and red wine.

The city's defense forces, reserves, and logistics personnel ate the same food as usual.

The rest of the residents of the lighthouse ate mashed potatoes with rice and a piece of chicken breast, even the research director Jessica ate the same thing.

It was also thanks to Lu Jin's reforms to the aerial farm and ranch over the past six months that, otherwise, during this critical period, all non-combat personnel would only have a compressed biscuit as food.

Without him.

Since the Devouring Beasts were about to reach the bottom of the lighthouse, the core members of the city defense army led by Seng were the main force ordered by the city lord to fight against the Devouring Beasts. Naturally, they had to enjoy the best food—even if the steaks stored in the lighthouse would be exhausted after this.

Even while enjoying the best food, the two hundred core members were all lifeless, their eyes dull, and many of them had their arms trembling involuntarily, making it difficult for them to even hold their knives and forks.

in contrast.

The city defense reserve... although they were quieter than usual, there were still voices, and they could even chat with other residents.

Ta-da!

Heavy footsteps echoed outside the dining area.

Lucas, one of the core members of the Lighthouse City Defense Force, appeared. He listened at the door for a while, took a breath, found his target, walked to Seng's dining table, stood at attention, clenched his right fist across his chest, and reported: "Commander-in-Chief Seng."

For an instant.

The noise in the dining area was completely silenced.

All four hundred people turned their attention to Lucas—originally, the lighthouse's dining areas were divided into separate sections, but in order to enhance the lighthouse's sense of collective honor, and to maximize the use of space resources, the walls of the special dining areas of each department of the lighthouse were demolished and merged into one.

With so many eyes watching him, Lucas kept swallowing, trying not to turn around, and just kept looking at Seng.

But the latter continued to cut the steak with his knife and fork, putting it in his mouth and chewing slowly, as if he hadn't heard Lucas's voice.

"Lucas, what's wrong?"

Hilda, the city guard sitting next to Seng, asked.

"Commander-in-Chief Sengge, I would like to be transferred to another post."

These words instantly broke the silence in the dining area.

"Reassignment?"

"How come I didn't think of this route?"

"Just watch, Commander-in-Chief Seng will definitely not transfer him, otherwise the morale of the city defense troops will collapse!"

"Tch! That's all? And you call yourself a core member!"

"..."

"quiet!"

Senger frowned and shouted, protesting against this so-called "collective dining area" many times, but to no avail. "Eat your food, what's all the noise about?"

Once the dining area had quieted down, he slowly asked, "Where would you like to move to?"

In an instant.

Many core members of the city defense force began to have their minds racing—

If Lucas can succeed, can they too?

"A nursery or an education center, anywhere is fine."

Lucas gritted his teeth and, under the watchful eyes of his teammates—some sympathetic, some disdainful, some silent, and some helpless—shouted out his thoughts.

After saying this, he suddenly knelt down on the ground with a thud. "We've never fought a Devouring Beast before, there's no way we can win..."

I saw a horde of Devouring Beasts at the edge of the lighthouse; they were piled up as high as the lighthouse itself...

At this distance, I shouldn't be able to hear their sounds, but the sound of their bodies scratching and rubbing against each other keeps echoing in my mind...

I just can't take it anymore.

Upon hearing this, Seng remained expressionless and continued cutting the steak.

Meanwhile, the rest of the core members of the city defense army, those whose minds had become active, fell silent once again at this moment.

Seeing that Seng wouldn't agree, Lucas forced his weak legs to get up and went to the open kitchen, but not to get rice. Instead, he scanned his surroundings and finally locked his gaze on a kitchen knife. He grabbed it, raised it high, and his breathing became rapid and his heart beat faster.

Finally, gritting his teeth, he swung it down at his left wrist.

At the critical moment, Hong Guniang appeared in front of him almost instantly and slapped him across the face.

"Snapped!"

The crisp sound echoed throughout the dining area.

The cleaver slipped from her hand, but was caught by the girl in red. She said, "This cleaver is for cutting vegetables, not for chopping hands. If you want to use it to chop your hand, then you can cook the chopped-off hand into a dish and eat it yourself."

The cold words, like a lion's roar, were deafening, bringing Lucas back to his senses and filling him with lingering fear.

immediately--

Three or five members of the city garrison reservists who knew Lucas ran over, grabbed him, and "advised" him:

"If you're really going to die, go die outside, don't disgust everyone who wants to eat here!"

"You haven't even eaten, how do you have the energy to chop off your hands? Eat your fill first!"

"..."

Chapter 1227 Want to hurt yourself? Just slap yourself a few times!

"No, don't stop me..."

"Snapped!"

Before Lucas could finish shouting, he was slapped again.

"I···"

"Snapped!"

This time, he had only uttered one word when he was slapped again.

"you···"

"Snapped!"

Another slap.

Seeing that the girl in red had raised her right hand again, the pain on his face made him dare not disobey. He stretched out both hands, his palms trembling, indicating that he would not cut off her hand.

Hong Guniang then put down her hand, returned to her original seat to eat, and turned back to ask, "Can you serve rice?"

"Yes! Yes!"

Having already been beaten and terrified, Lucas dared not refute. He hurriedly picked up a bowl, filled it with rice, and, pulled by the few familiar reservists, sat down and began to eat heartily.

Shame?

He dared to ask Sengge to change his position in front of so many people, and he lost face long ago. Now he was only slapped a few times by Miss Hong, but he managed to save his left hand. What's so shameful about that?

"Commander-in-Chief Seng, regarding the fight against the Devouring Beasts, we..."

"Red Girl".

Before Red Girl could finish speaking, Seng interrupted her, saying, "Please don't forget that this is a critical moment. Your duty as reserves is to maintain order at the lighthouse, prevent the dust people from running out of the residential area, and ensure that the upper-class citizens do not leave the safe zone."

To avoid affecting our operations!

of course.

The city lord also said that you can only take full command if we fail.

But I cannot fail!

Seng had his own ideas on how to deal with the Devouring Beasts beneath the lighthouse.

Find the weakness of the Devouring Beast - the Spirit Seed?

That was special operations!

When facing a dense horde of Devouring Beasts, suppressing them with firepower is the only way to win!

Moreover, the Lighthouse doesn't have to fight the Devouring Beasts to the death; it just needs to hold out until the Lighthouse's anti-gravity system restarts!

Besides that.

As Charles's loyal dog, Sengge understands the changes at the Lighthouse and knows that Hong Guniang, Zhang Zhiwei, Lu Jin, and others are gradually undermining Charles's power.

But he never contacted Sengge.

Since he looked down on him, he had no choice but to stand firmly on Charles's side!

"Ah!"