Chapter 253: Chapter 253: Sinner
A six-meter-tall, two-tailed Lord Level Xue Li charged over, leaping across the moat in a single bound.
BANG BANG~
Terrified, numerous soldiers opened fire on it.
A hail of bullets struck its body, but they had no effect at all.
The Lord Level Xue Li opened its mouth and spewed a wide cloud of red mist over the crowd of soldiers!
"AHHH!"
Shrill, tragic screams rang out as numerous soldiers were burned to charcoal.
Just then, Elite and General Level Blood Breath Beasts charged forward, leaping over the moat one after another to pounce on the soldiers and tear them to shreds.
Seeing this, City Lord Kakun was scared out of his wits and immediately turned tail and fled.
All the people watching fell silent.
"Oh my god!"
The reporter, Hu Lang, turned and ran.
But he only made it a few steps before a General Level Blood Breath Dog caught up and pounced on him.
"AHHH!"
The live broadcast cut off amid his screams.
"Sigh... Rest in peace."
...
People commented one after another.
Long Ming rubbed his temples and sat quietly at his computer desk, waiting for the latest news.
About three hours later, a grayed-out post was bumped to the top.
"Mourning: Aks City has fallen. No survivors!"
The post included a photo.
The photo, taken by a drone, showed the entirety of Aks City swarming with Blood Breath Beasts gnawing on corpses. Countless monsters had stopped there to feed.
The scene was exceptionally gory and brutal.
The comments section was filled with furious messages.
"An arrogant, ignorant fool got hundreds of thousands of our people killed!"
"Don’t delude yourselves into thinking you can fight off the monster tide! Everyone, flee to the three major cities!"
...
Long Ming kept refreshing the forum and soon saw a series of official announcements.
Amiduo Sanctuary City announced its abandonment. Anmengka Sanctuary City announced its abandonment....
Long Ming quickly scanned through them.
The smaller sanctuary cities that had planned to resist to the end were all scared witless by the horrific fate of Aks City. Every one of them announced they were abandoning their cities and fleeing for their lives.
Just then, Mountain City Mountain also posted a new announcement on the Civilization Forum.
Long Ming immediately clicked on it.
"Latest announcement from Mountain City Mountain: In light of the deteriorating situation, with human civilization facing a crisis of survival, City Lord Qian Luo has decided to unconditionally accept all refugees. Simultaneously, we will absorb the armies of all smaller sanctuary cities and unify them for coordinated military operations!"
After reading the announcement, Long Ming’s expression grew even more grim. He felt the situation was becoming increasingly dire.
BZZT BZZT~
Just then, Long Ming’s phone began to vibrate.
He picked up his phone, saw it was a call from Xiaoqi, and answered it.
"Hello, Xiaoqi."
"Long Ming, I heard from Jing Chuan that you were sick?"
"It’s nothing, just an old ailment. I’ll be fine after some rest."
"Oh, that’s good."
"Where are you now?"
"We were assigned to the outer defense line, position C11. Everyone is here, do you want to come over?"
Xiaoqi asked.
"Send me your location."
Long Ming said to Xiaoqi.
"Okay!"
Xiaoqi quickly replied.
After hanging up, Long Ming stood up and left.
...
「Outside Area C, Mountain City Mountain’s External Defense Line.」
As Long Ming approached from a distance, he could see soldiers of the Third Legion armed with guns.
The entire Area C defense line was located in the northern sector and was the responsibility of the Third Legion. Heavy construction machinery was hard at work.
As soon as Long Ming got close, he was stopped by soldiers.
"Halt! This is a restricted military area. Unauthorized personnel are forbidden."
"I’m with the Third Legion’s Fifth Battle Group."
Long Ming took out his officer ID and handed it over.
After seeing the name, the guard was startled and looked Long Ming up and down in astonishment.
"You’re Long Ming?"
"You know me?"
Long Ming looked at the unfamiliar soldier in front of him.
"I know you, but you don’t know me. Please, come in!"
the soldier said very politely.
"Thanks. Uh, which way to C11?"
"That way!"
"Alright."
Long Ming immediately headed toward C11.
He soon arrived at the C11 area, where large tents had been pitched.
"Long Ming, you’re here."
Xiaoqi ran over excitedly.
"Yeah, you’re all here?"
"Yep, the defense line we’re building is right up ahead."
"Oh, where are Luoxue and the others?"
"They’re all over there. I’ll take you!"
"Alright."
Long Ming followed Xiaoqi over.
Soon, they arrived inside a huge tent.
In the center of the tent was a large projection screen displaying the Civilization Forum.
Jing Chuan, Luoxue, and the others were standing in front of the screen, looking at the Civilization Forum and chatting.
"Isn’t this projection screen from Star Wish Cafe?"
Long Ming asked Xiaoqi, somewhat surprised.
"Yeah, but Star Wish Cafe isn’t getting any business, so we brought the equipment over."
Xiaoqi said with a chuckle.
"Fair enough."
Long Ming then walked towards Luoxue and the others.
As he got closer, he heard Jing Chuan say.
"That guy Qiansha totally deserves all the hate he’s getting. If he hadn’t been so reckless, things wouldn’t be this bad."
"That’s what I think, too."
Jiang Heng nodded in agreement.
"What are you guys talking about?"
Long Ming asked curiously.
"Long Ming, you’re here. We’re talking about Qiansha!"
"What about Qiansha?"
"Here, look. This hot post just got bumped to the top. Everyone’s flaming him!"
Jing Chuan said, pointing at the large screen.
Long Ming looked over curiously. In a thread with extremely high traffic, tens of millions of people were relentlessly attacking him.
"The only reason we’re in this mess is that Mountain City Mountain chose a reckless brute like Qiansha to be commander."
"Yeah, he just had to go and provoke the Royal City for no reason."
"Well, look what happened. He went and kicked the hornet’s nest!"
"There’s no coming back from this. If we can’t hold back the monster tide, we’re done for."
"Exactly! We could have explored cautiously, built up our strength bit by bit, but no, he had to try and be a hero!"
"Now we’re getting thrashed like stray dogs."
"If humanity is wiped out, he’ll go down as the biggest villain in history!"
"I say the City Lord should punish him severely."
...
As Long Ming read these comments, his brow furrowed deeply.
To be honest, he hadn’t been idle since returning to Mountain City Mountain.
Long Ming had reviewed the footage of the main force’s breakout, as well as all the combat footage from Mountain City Mountain’s campaigns.
He felt there was nothing wrong with Qiansha’s command.
"Long Ming? Why aren’t you saying anything?"
Jing Chuan asked curiously.
"I don’t think there’s anything wrong with Qiansha’s command."
Long Ming said after some deliberation.
Hearing this, Luoxue looked at Long Ming with great interest.
Jing Chuan and the others were stunned for a moment before speaking.
"Long Ming, are you running a fever? If it weren’t for Qiansha’s reckless command, why would we be on the back foot like this?"
"Have you ever considered that the Blood Breath Beasts might have discovered us the moment we set foot in this world? Do you really think that if we hadn’t provoked them, or had done so more slowly, that they wouldn’t have come for us?"
Long Ming directly retorted.
"But Qiansha was too aggressive."
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