36 hours after the black hole appeared.
In the picture of the black hole above City V, the world opposite finally turned from long day to night.
Jiuyou and Tianzi's previous judgment on the impact of day and night on the number of monsters was accurate.
It's fine when it's dark on both sides. As long as the lights in the city are turned out as much as possible, the impact on the other world will be minimal.
The most fearful thing is that the opposite night is dark and the earth is daytime. During this period, from the perspective of the giant world opposite, the black hole on the ground is as conspicuous as a searchlight in the dark night, and can be seen from a long distance away.
This is the case in V City at this time.
Even if manpower has been arranged to continuously create dark clouds below the black hole, it cannot completely block the natural strong light during the day.
So starting from this morning, when the opposite world entered night, the frequency of monsters falling from the black hole in V City began to increase at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Silkworms, moths, fish, insects, flies and animals, all kinds of light-loving creatures are constantly falling from the black hole.
After these monsters land, a very small number of them will fight on the spot out of territorial awareness, saving humans the effort, but more creatures will still instinctively start to flee to the surroundings because they suddenly fall into a strange environment.
Directly below the black hole, two expert teams with more than a thousand members have been arranged. The lowest level personnel are all above level 18. It can be said that all the experts that can be recruited from nearby provinces and cities have been gathered here.
The goal of these two teams is very simple. They are responsible for sniping those monsters that occasionally appear with three stars or above. As for the creatures below two stars, they will simply let them go. There is no other way, there is really a shortage of masters.
The two-star creatures that moved out to the surroundings were handed over to the second line of defense at the rear.
The second line of defense, that is, a joint encirclement network formed by the three surrounding cities bordering V City, is garrisoned by lower-level but larger numbers of players and troops.
K City is one of the three surrounding cities of V City.
At this moment, the southern suburbs of K city were enveloped by the roar of magic and the roar of monsters.
A large number of humans gathered behind the defense fortifications. Arrows and acid kept passing by, splattering bright red sparks from time to time. All kinds of magic flew across the sky, erupting into dazzling flames.
Huge magical energy gathered nearby and formed a colorful tornado, covering the giant beast in front, blocking the monster's sight.
At the same moment, a large number of arcane magic missiles hit the sky together, flying along the spiral trajectory and blooming beautiful magic flames around the monster.
The battles all over the world the day before had fully proved that in the face of these giant creatures, the effects of physical firearms cannot match magic. Because there is no magic in the giant world, the magic resistance of these monsters is zero, but they are almost 100% abnormal. Status Resistance'.
In other words, those restrictive control magics are almost ineffective against giant beasts, but the damage of magic can be fully exerted on them.
Especially after many people climbed the tower and obtained the power of God, to deal with those low-level creatures with weak divine defenses, at least magic can trigger the power of God and break through their hard skin. Each hit is guaranteed to cause some damage, but firearms These things are foreign objects and cannot trigger the power of God. For this factor alone, magic is much more practical than physical firepower (see Chapter 330 for details on the triggering rules of the power of God).
The only thing in human technology that can be effective against these alien beasts is probably several heavy fire weapons including mushroom bombs. However, there is still a problem of level suppression. These physical weapons are all at level 25 when faced with them. The above monsters all have at least four levels of suppression, which directly reduces their damage to an unbearable level.
It is said that when the monsters in America were the most ferocious and dense yesterday, the military could not withstand the pressure and gathered the monsters into an open area. They used nuclear weapons once, hoping to clear out these monsters at once, but the result was not satisfactory. .
The one- and two-star monsters suffered heavy casualties in the explosion, but most of the three-star and above monsters did not even lose half of their lives in the explosion and were still alive and well. On the contrary, their own country was seriously damaged and they will have to bear the consequences for a long time in the future. The risk of nuclear radiation is no less harmful than that of monsters. It can be said that it can damage the enemy by 10,000 and damage itself by 10,000.
"Where are the dispatched men? Why haven't they arrived yet?" Zhang Yang looked at the approaching battle line and couldn't help but look to Liu Chen beside him and asked.
As the director of the K City Irregularity Branch, he was appointed as the commander-in-chief in charge of the surrounding defense lines of K City.
Looking at the battlefield ahead that was almost covered in magic smoke, Zhang Yang looked solemn.
You must know that to deal with such giant creatures, melee personnel are almost useless. Not to mention the issue of whether melee means can cause damage. If you do not keep a distance, these giant creatures can crush a large area just by turning over.
Currently, 12,000 mage shooters with long-range strike capabilities have been deployed intermittently on this defense line in the southern suburbs.
However, compared to the number of monsters, this manpower is really not enough, especially when the opposite world becomes night and the number of monsters increases sharply, the defensive pressure doubles instantly, causing the entire front to become precarious.
"Still under dispatch..." Liu Chen smiled bitterly.
In fact, one day ago, the country issued a semi-mandatory recruitment order to the people, summoning all players with long-range attack capabilities, and trumpeted the benefits of participating in the war, such as gaining real experience by killing monsters, and having the opportunity to obtain exotic beast materials, Divine crystals and so on.
But even so, there are still very few responders. First, because this is not the star spirit world, there is no chance of resurrection, and not many people are willing to risk their lives to fight against the alien beasts for the drizzle of rewards;
The second reason is that because of the widespread existence of space backpacks, most people do not have enough awareness of the crisis. They think that even if a monster comes, they can just hide in the backpack to keep their home safe. If there is a way out, Next, how many people are willing to take the initiative to come to the front line to fight?
It is this trend of thought that has led to a shortage of manpower everywhere.
"Where's Mu You? Is there no news yet?" Zhang Yang asked again.
"No, it's been a day and a half and I haven't been able to contact anyone..." Liu Chen sighed.
"What happened?" Zhang Yang couldn't help but frown.
He knew that there were indeed many people in the city who were clearly capable of fighting, but because of fear of hardship and death, they took the initiative to hide and wait for the disaster to pass.
He couldn't criticize such a person harshly, it was just human nature, but he believed that Mu You would never be in this situation, which only meant that Mu You was probably entangled in something and couldn't get out of it. Even more seriously, it may have been...
"I hope I'm overthinking it..." Zhang Yang sighed, shook his head, and shook off these thoughts.
"Old Zhang!"
While thinking, Liu Chen beside him suddenly exclaimed.
Zhang Yang hurriedly turned his head to look.
At this moment, in the smoke and dust ahead, three huge figures broke through the smoke and dust, aiming directly at their defense line.
"Exotic beast No. A150, Iris Bird, two stars!"
"Exotic beast No. A151, six-eyed lizard, two stars!"
"Beast No. A152, silt accumulator, two stars!"
Liu Chen quickly read the information displayed on the screen of the instrument in his hand.
After a day and a half of preparation, a complete real-time monitoring system has been established at the nine black hole entrances. The moment any monster falls, the image will be captured by the system immediately, a number will be established, and the corresponding image will be found in the database. The biological text information, including the creature's attributes, weaknesses, recommended response methods, etc., can be fed back to frontline combatants as quickly as possible.
It is precisely thanks to this complete detection system that the pressure on everyone's defense is greatly reduced.
At this moment, the information of the three new creatures that appeared in the black hole of V City was transmitted to the receiver in Liu Chen's hand in less than ten seconds.
However, the information contained therein still caught everyone by surprise.
"Fuck, two-star ones, three at once? Why are they all coming at us?" Zhang Yang's eyes were twitching wildly.
Even if there were two stars coming over before, they would come one by one, so they could still hold on even if there were fewer people.
As a result, three of them came running at once, and they seemed to form a team and went straight towards them. How should they deal with this?
"Maybe it's because there are so many people..." Liu Chen was also sweating on his forehead.
Because K City is adjacent to the black hole, it is also one of the high-risk areas. After the global mutation, the residents of K City began to flee in large numbers. However, due to the rush of time, only about half of them have been evacuated. There are still a large number of ordinary people in the city, and For these man-eating monsters, the denser the flow of people, the more abundant the food.
"Quick, retreat the defensive line!" Seeing the alien beast approaching quickly, Zhang Yang shouted hurriedly.
"Really want to withdraw?" Liu Chen hesitated. If he retreated, the defense line would expand, and more and more manpower would be needed.
"We can't help it. We absolutely can't handle this situation. If we don't retreat now, we will lose our manpower in vain. Let's retreat first and wait for support..." Zhang Yang made a quick decision and took out his walkie-talkie to give an order.
But at this moment, no one noticed that on the roof of an abandoned building ahead, two figures, one large and one small, landed one after another.
The older one is a female forest elf, and the smaller one is a little girl wearing a cat-face mask.
After the two landed, the little girl immediately took out a square box, held it in her arms, and opened the lid: "Mengmeng, beat it!"
"Roar!"
A huge black shadow instantly emerged from the box and landed on the ground surrounded by black energy. Then it roared and rushed towards the three monsters. It swung out a claw and scratched the soft mud closest to it. Blame it on yourself.
With one claw, the ooze monster's body suddenly swayed from side to side like jelly, shaking non-stop.
The ooze monster was dizzy from the slap. When he came back to his senses, he was immediately furious. He opened his whole body like a bat's wings and rushed towards the shadow ghost, as if he wanted to wrap it up, but unfortunately he was blocked by the shadow ghost. The ghost jumped back smartly and swung its claws again. The body surface of the ooze monster was quickly torn and damaged. Although the ooze monster was able to reorganize quickly, the smelly mud and poisonous gas in its body continued to surge. out.
"Shadow, shadow ghost!"
Zhang Yang's pupils shrank when he saw the newly appeared monster, and his heart almost stopped.
Because K City had been attacked by a shadow ghost once, he, the person in charge of K City, was particularly sensitive to shadow ghosts.
In particular, the shadow ghost didn't come out early or late, but it happened to appear at this extremely critical moment, which immediately made Zhang Yang feel like his eyes were dark.
"But it seems that you are here to help us?" Liu Chen, who was standing next to him, had no psychological shadow on Shadow Ghost and immediately clarified the situation.
Being reminded by Liu Chen, Zhang Yang also reacted and hurriedly glanced in the direction where the shadow ghost appeared. He quickly discovered two figures on the top of the tall building at this time, especially the little girl among them, who was jumping and waving her fists. Jumping, as if cheering up the shadow ghost.
"Could it be that the shadow ghost was summoned by that child?" Zhang Yang was a little unbelievable.
But it's not over yet.
When Zhang Yang looked up, he suddenly found a huge flying creature like a dragonfly swooping down at high speed, approaching the ground in the blink of an eye.
Fortunately, the dragonfly did not attack the two people in the sky after it rushed over. Instead, it passed by the two people and rushed straight to the six-eyed lizard below. The mantis knife flashed in its hand and fought with the lizard.
"Beast No. A026, two stars, a mantis?" Liu Chen immediately called up the information about this new beast, but the information displayed surprised him.
"026, shouldn't this be the strange beast from yesterday? Why haven't you dealt with it yet?"
"Moreover, he took the initiative to fight with other monsters..." Zhang Yang looked at this scene and then looked at the forest elf in the sky. He had vaguely realized something and couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief.
It looks like help has arrived...
"Quick, everyone open fire to help attack, be careful not to accidentally injure Shadow Ghost and Pidgeot!" Zhang Yang hurriedly changed his order.
Everyone on the defense line who was ready to retreat, saw that the situation had stabilized, and hurriedly returned to their respective positions and started casting spells again.
"Chirp!"
Suddenly the scene was filled with artillery fire again. Both the sludge monster and the six-eyed lizard were suppressed by intensive firepower. However, the Iris bird with the ability to fly took off immediately and avoided the fire bombing. At the same time, it circled in mid-air and headed straight towards Two figures on the top of the tall building swooped away.
"Be careful!" Zhang Yang and others warned instinctively.
As a result, the two people above were seen refusing to evade. Facing the swooping giant sparrow, the forest elf suddenly took out a scepter and raised it high.
"Return, lost bird, and submit yourself to the divine light!"
Following the elf's chant, the tip of the scepter suddenly released a soft glow.
The Iris Bird, which was originally charging with murderous intent, suddenly hovered in the sky after being illuminated by the light, and then landed on the roof of the building. Instead of attacking, it quietly crawled beside the elf.
"Wow——"
Suddenly there was an exclamation below, and then everyone watched with their own eyes as the female elf stretched out her hand and stroked the down of the bird next to her that was twice the size of her body. Not only did the iris bird not resist, it even felt comfortable. He closed his eyes, as if enjoying himself.
This scene immediately made countless people watch and almost dropped their jaws: This is a two-star mythical beast, and it was tamed by the girl in an instant just by raising her hand? Is this a miracle?
After the light lasted for about ten minutes, the elf above put away the scepter.
At this time, the Iris bird next to her opened her eyes and looked at the direction where the scepter disappeared with some nostalgia. However, she did not attack the elf to snatch the scepter. Instead, she lowered her head towards her and rubbed her body to express her gratitude. An act of surrender and flattery.
Now everyone was completely convinced that the iris bird was really tamed!
Afterwards, everyone saw that the elf and the iris communicated for a few seconds, and then pointed downwards. The iris immediately chirped, spread its wings and flew towards the battle below, helping the shadow ghost and the mantis to attack the other two creatures.
With the help of the three giant beasts and the suppressed firepower of everyone, the two two-star creatures fell faster than ever before. Just over ten minutes later, the sludge monster and the lizard died one after another.
Soon, a special loot collection force entered the battlefield and collected the corpses and dropped items of the two giant beasts.
This is also one of the decisions jointly declared by various countries: In this disaster, all loot must be registered and collected together, and then rewards will be based on each person's contribution to the disaster to ensure fairness.
"Chirp!"
After the battle ended, both the Iris and the Mantis flew back to the female elf immediately, hovering behind her like two bodyguards.
"Mengmeng!" At this time, the little girl also shouted and opened the box in her hand again.
The shadow ghost below suddenly jumped up, plunged into the box, and disappeared.
"Excuse me, who are you?" Seeing the two of them packing their things and leaving, Zhang Yang said hurriedly.
"The Lord of Yongye City, Qingya Shuxiang, is responsible for replacing the ghost captain and guarding the safety around the black hole in V City."
The elf announced his name, and there was another exclamation from below.
He is actually the Lord of Yongye City!
Most of the eleven city lords are famous figures in the world, but there are also a few who are relatively less famous. For example, the city lord Yongye can be said to be the one with the weakest sense of existence among the city lords. People can't even remember her ID.
It was only now, after seeing the miracles performed by the Lord of Yongye City, that everyone was shocked to realize that even the weakest City Lord was a figure far beyond their imagination!
Besides, the Lord of Yongye City is so powerful, not to mention the other City Lords!
When I thought that there were so many strong top players in the human race, the frustration and despair of everyone below suddenly disappeared and they became confident!
After the female elf above finished speaking, she left the scene with the little girl and quickly disappeared.
"Lao Zhang?"
However, Liu Chen noticed that Zhang Yang was still staring blankly above at the already empty rooftop.
"Weird..." Zhang Yang came back to his senses, glanced at Liu Chen, but frowned subconsciously.
"What's wrong?" Liu Chen asked.
"I don't know why, but I always feel like I've seen those two people before somewhere..." Zhang Yang rubbed his chin and thought, but it was difficult to remember more details for a while.
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the other side.
After the elf and the girl left the scene, they quickly stopped in a deserted location.
Xiaoya's face turned red and she spoke into the intercom: "Sister Xue, do you really have to shout that line? I feel so ashamed..."
"What's the shame? It's obviously cool!" The little girl next to her took off her mask and looked at Xiaoya in confusion.
"Humanity today is in urgent need of hope and heroes, and your abilities and effects are extremely suitable for this." Lin Xue's voice came from the intercom.
"But..." Xiaoya was still blushing. The thought of shouting that line in public next time made her want to find a crack in the ground and crawl in.
"The black hole in V City is nominally under the jurisdiction of Captain Ghost. Originally, this inspiring role should have been played by Mu You, but now that he is gone, we can only rely on us to do it for him." Lin Xue's voice.
"Okay, I...will try my best..." When it came to Muyou, Xiaoya finally gave in and brainwashed herself in her mind: This is also one of her jobs as an employee.
"What are the results of the test? Can we still only tame 2-star creatures at most?" Lin Xue's voice continued to come from the communicator.
"Yes, I can't fully tame creatures above three stars. At most, I can only prevent them from attacking me, but once the light stops, they will leave immediately." Xiaoya nodded.
"Furthermore, I can feel that there can only be at most two domesticated beasts of the two stars at present, otherwise they will fight each other to the death for favors until there are only two left." Xiaoya said.
"It seems that the upper limit of domestication is not high enough..."
In the study room of the pet shop, Lin Xue typed a piece of information on the computer in front of her, and then muttered: "According to the persuasive effect of your evolutionary scepter on creatures in the star spirit world, when your star level increases in the future, you may be able to You can use the upper limit of the evolution scepter to increase the number and star rating of domestication."
"Compared with these, where is the next reinforcement location?" The little girl's voice came from the communicator.
"The next location is in City S. I will send you the location..."
Lin Xue quickly intercepted the distress message she received and sent it to the two of them.
After she made the information about the God-Eating Beast public yesterday, the major countries in the world were finally forcibly brought together under strong external pressure.
At noon that day, Lin Xue was pulled into a forum group called the Global Self-Help Alliance, which included the presidents of 54 first-class organizations around the world, as well as representatives from various countries, etc., and had a short but efficient discussion. Meeting.
The meeting finally decided that nine representatives from around the world with sufficient local prestige would be selected as the general persons in charge of the defense of nine black holes.
Among them, Captain Ghost was identified as Black Hole No. A, that is, the person in charge of the Black Hole in V City. Of course, because Mu You is not here now, the actual execution power is in the hands of Ice Emperor's Bluebeard and Lin Xue.
The remaining black holes in the southern sea area of the country are managed by Wuying and Shenfeng.
The black holes in other regions are also guarded by the corresponding Sky City Lords in their respective regions. When it comes to things like fame and appeal, no one is more suitable than the Sky City Lord.
As for the only two black holes located in the ocean, after a heated discussion, one of them finally decided that Jiuyou would be the person in charge.
It's no wonder. After all, the overall strength of the Celestial Dynasty is truly outstanding in the world. There are many masters in the country, and even Sky City directly accounts for half of them. At this time, it should also bear more responsibilities.
Jiuyou didn't have much objection to this. After all, this kind of thing was both a challenge and an opportunity. After some discussion, he took over the task on behalf of the Dragon Group.
What really caused the controversy was the last black hole. Because it was located deep in the ocean, the environment was the most dangerous and the location was the worst. After some debate, no one dared to pick it up randomly. Everyone deliberately shied away, which led to a stalemate in the meeting.
In the end, it was the emperor who took the initiative to take over the task on behalf of the divine right of kings.
Of course, as compensation, all countries must arrange enough manpower to go to the black holes in the two oceans and accept the dispatching orders of Jiuyou and the Emperor while the disaster lasts.
"In this way, the situation is almost stable..."
Lin Xue looked at the 'Global Real-time Monster Number Map' displayed on the computer in front of him. The red areas near the nine black holes had gradually become sparse from the originally dense red areas. This meant that the global number of monsters was gradually declining from its peak.
"However, it's not enough..."
Lin Xue shook his head. The so-called stability was only relative to the current situation.
The premise of all this is that it cannot be discovered by any giant, otherwise, the delicate balance that is finally maintained now will definitely be broken in an instant!
Fortunately, so far, there are no signs of giants appearing near the nine black holes.
However, it is extremely difficult to maintain this situation for more than five days.
Special modeling data engineers have previously analyzed and established a model based on the density and activity trajectories of currently detected giants in the world of giants. The probability that no giant will pass through the nine black hole areas within a week is only 9.22%. !
In other words, it is almost inevitable that they will be discovered by the giant in the next few days!
Therefore, instead of praying for the 10% small probability event, it is better to prepare for a rainy day and quickly think about how they would respond if a giant actually lands.
"Flocculent organisms...parasitism...divine...humanoid intelligent creatures...infection time...transmission mode..."
Lin Xue looked at the messy information recorded haphazardly on the paper in front of her and rubbed her temples with a headache.
Ordinarily, this kind of parasitic organism is like an infectious disease. Unless it is an almost unsolvable transmission route like airborne infection, there should always be a channel that can be cut off during the infection process.
It's a pity that she knows too little about this kind of creature now. The few words left by Fuya's ancestors are not enough to draw more precise conclusions...
"Flocculent creatures..." At this time, Lin Xue suddenly heard Vivian's muttering voice next to her.
Turning around, Vivian was curled up and resting at the table. The crow's eyes were staring at what she had written on the paper, looking thoughtful.
Lin Xue's heart moved: "Teacher, have you ever heard of the God-Eating Beast?"
Vivian shook her head when she heard this: "In the era when I was born, the Minor Disaster had long ended, and it was a strictly forbidden topic to be mentioned in the Wizards Association. I knew very little about it, and I had never heard of the name God-Eating Beast. I said it. But..."
"but?"
Vivian glanced at her: "You should know that when I was a child, I was also a member of the Wizards Association. The three elders of the Wizards Association, black, white and gray, were nominally my mentors at that time."
"Yeah." Lin Xue nodded. She heard about this from Mu. When Vivian mentioned this at this time, it was obvious that the next thing was related to the Wizards Association.
"In my memory, the man in black is a gloomy and irritable guy. He always lives alone, and for a long time, he always studies something behind closed doors. For this reason, he often talks to A quarrel broke out between the other two elders.”
"I had no interest in their affairs, but one day, when I was young, I mistakenly entered the study of the man in black and saw a vague picture on his desk. The picture showed, It’s just a hand-drawn cotton-wool-like creature…”
"However, before I could see clearly at that time, the man in black came back. He drove me out in a panic, cursed me, and warned me not to approach his place casually again..."
After hearing this, Lin Xue's eyes widened subconsciously: "What do you mean? The man in black might have studied the God-Eating Beast for a long time?"
"Because I had never seen that kind of creature, and I didn't pay much attention to it at that time. Moreover, the man in black seemed to have changed his temper afterwards and never conducted research in private again, so I gradually forgot about it... until now. , your description reminds me of that picture..."
Vivian nodded: "If the man in black was studying the God-Eating Beast at that time, then many conflicts between the elders seem to be explainable!"
(End of chapter)
