Armor-piercing bullets don't believe in carbon-based monsters

Chapter 138 The reason why you can’t refuse

The city defense forces of Anqing City were facing a formidable enemy.

Although the distance was more than ten kilometers, they did hear continuous explosions coming from the Anqing ruins, and also heard about the horrific movements taking place in the ruins from the merchants floating downstream.

"All the demons there have gone crazy. There are at least tens of thousands of them!"

"They were fighting something particularly terrifying, and that thing seems to have been defeated!"

"The Terrors have chased to the bridge, and a group of merchant guards are fighting them."

"The merchant's guards have escaped, and the Terror is chasing them!"

"There are at least hundreds of demons chasing us, all holding weapons in their hands."

The rumors had already made the atmosphere in Anqing City extremely tense. The conference hall urgently mobilized troops to go out of the city for alert. However, just as these troops were deployed, Chen Jian and his men ran over with "embarrassed" faces.

Zeng Yi's words confirmed the rumors, which instantly caused a commotion among the city defense troops.
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Of course, they were not so afraid of those blood skeletons.

After all, creatures like blood skeletons have resource requirements that are almost exactly the same as humans.

If they could really defeat humans, then the Anqing City now would no longer be the Anqing City of humans, but the Anqing City of blood skeletons.

But even so, facing a powerful enemy, no one can remain calm.

That’s over tens of thousands of bloody skeletons.

No one here has ever heard such exaggerated rumors since birth.

Even in the largest Blood Skeleton Camp, the number of people is usually only a few hundred, and never exceeds a thousand.

Now, it's ten times as much.
The leading crusader nervously walked up to Zeng Yi and asked:
"How many of those terrifying demons are there?"

Before Zeng Yi could answer, Chen Jian, who had caught up, interrupted and said:

"At least more than 5000! And there are many huge monsters!"

"They are already heading towards Anqing City!"

"We were almost caught up, luckily we hired the Holy Blood Guards as our guards!"

"Let us in, it's too late!"

As soon as Chen Jian finished speaking, the crusaders immediately made way for them, but the leading priest followed them all the way and continued to ask:
"How many monsters are there? How strong are they?"

Chen Jian paused, pointed at Ji Xing who was standing beside him and said:
"You can ask her, she is the source of blood!"

"She's the only one who's dealt with monsters before. We don't have that ability!"

"I need to go back to the city to get my goods. I can't stay here any longer. Let me through!"

Chen Jian deliberately showed a panic-stricken anxiety, and the Mechanicus priest did not suspect him.

After all, before Chen Jian's team arrived, he had seen such expressions on the faces of several groups of merchants.

Their answers were almost the same as those of Chen Jian and others.

So he decisively turned to Ji Sung and repeated his question.

A hint of helplessness flashed across Ji Xing's eyes.

You don’t have the ability?

If even you are incompetent, who else is capable?
But of course she could also see that Chen Jian was deliberately distorting the judgment of the defenders in Anqing City.

So, after pondering for a moment, she gave a slightly exaggerated answer.

"We are lucky. We were only targeted by a level 4 monster."

"But there are at least 30 level monsters or above outside Anqing City, and these monsters are not ordinary monsters. They are all leaders of blood skeletons."

"You guys should prepare in advance. I have a contract and I must cover my employer's evacuation first!"

".good!"

The priest gritted his teeth and turned away.

He probably didn't want to see the panic in the city continue to ferment due to the evacuation of a large number of merchants, but in front of Ji Xing, the Source Blood, he didn't have much choice.

After all, he was not clear about the relationship between Ji Xing and the Holy Blood Temple, so there was no reason for him to risk offending the Holy Blood Temple and embarrass a Source Blood user of a high status.

Chen Jian and his men successfully entered Anqing City, and behind them, the city defense troops resumed their formation, ready to fight in a tense and murderous atmosphere.
Ji Xing silently watched the city defense troops running on the roads in the city, the residents who closed their doors and windows, and the merchants who were packing up their goods and couldn't wait to leave Anqing. After hesitating for a moment, he asked Chen Jian:

"Why are we back? Is there anything we need in Anqing City?"

"Everyone here is evacuating. If the Blood Skeletons really launch an attack, our best option is not to stay in the city and defend it with the city defense army, but to go to the wild and rely on your advantages to kill the most troublesome monster leaders."

"very good."

Chen Jian nodded approvingly and replied:
"Your tactical thinking has improved, which is quite good progress."

"Indeed, the wild is our home ground. City defense operations do not give us much advantage."

"But we didn't come here to defend Anqing City."

"In fact, it is impossible for those blood skeletons to launch a large-scale attack on Anqing City."

"Because they are under the control of Huadu, and Huadu's ultimate goal has not yet been achieved, they cannot reveal their strength so quickly."

"That would ruin their carefully crafted plans, and all their previous efforts would be worthless."

"What we need to do is to find a way to further confuse the situation."

"In the best case scenario, we need to let Anqing's city defense forces take the initiative to attack the Anqing ruins."

"why?"

Ji Xing asked in astonishment.

"Nonsense, do you really think that we can kill all the terrifying demons in the Anqing Ruins with just a few of us?"

"Today's reconnaissance is very telling. Although those terrifying demons are brainless, under the command of their leader, they will protect the most critical core center at all costs, which is the central hospital where the people of Huadu are located."

"A stealth-style decapitation attack is impossible to succeed unless someone is prepared to go there and never come back."

"We need a large number of fighters to pin down those terrifying demons and give us a chance to decapitate them."

"Once the beheading is complete, it will only be a matter of time before the remaining demons are wiped out."

".You are more cautious than I thought."

Ji Xing let out a breath, but then asked:
"So, how do you plan to convince the Anqing City Defense Army to take the initiative to fight those bloody skeletons in the Anqing ruins?"

"As far as I know, you are in hostile relations with the Mechanicus and the Holy Blood Temple."

"The so-called peace agreement is temporary. Although we won't fight as soon as we meet, it's impossible for us to turn around and cooperate after you have just caused them heavy losses."

"--Maybe it's OK near Huangshi City, but it's different in Anqing."

"The people here may not be scared by you."

"I know."

Chen Jian smiled slightly and replied:
“I had no intention of cooperating with them.”

"I'm just going to make them an offer they can't refuse."

"What conditions?"

Jixing asked.

Chen Jian shook his head and said:

"Do not worry."

"You will know then"

Just as Chen Jian and his companions entered Anqing City and prepared to carry out the next plan.

Inside the Anqing ruins, on the open space outside the Central Hospital building.

The man from Huadu, wearing a gas mask, directed everyone to put out the still burning flames with water. After making sure that the smoke had dissipated, he took off his mask and took a deep breath of clean air.

The blood skeletons surrounding the hospital had dispersed and returned to their camps. The riot seemed to have subsided, but the consequences of the riot were obviously extremely tragic.

A Blood Skeleton camp was completely destroyed, and two-thirds of the 400 demons in the camp were killed or wounded in just a few minutes. Their leader was torn to pieces by the terrifying heavy firepower before he could even launch any counterattack.

This is already a heavy loss, but in fact, the loss is far more than that.

Three Blood Skeleton leaders were beheaded, and the Terror's casualties reached a staggering 3. This was just the number of those directly killed by artillery fire in the sudden attack launched by the enemy, not including the hundreds of people lost in the subsequent riots and civil war.

In addition, the laborers, stallions and banshees from the Flower City also suffered a devastating disaster.

There were only more than 30 Huadu personnel in the central hospital, but the shells that fell from the sky directly took the lives of nearly people.

Their bodies didn't even have time to be collected before they became tools for the mad demon to vent his desires.

There were body parts and blood everywhere.

Even men who were used to such scenes couldn't help but feel nauseous.

He turned his head away and didn't want to look any further. Instead, he asked the assistant who had been waiting by the side:
"Have the losses been tallied? How much medicine have we lost?"

The assistant stepped forward and replied:
"Mr. Prime Minister, after counting, we have lost a total of 420 kilograms of goods."

"This is equivalent to half of all the inventory we have produced in the past two months. Although we don't want to admit it, we have indeed suffered heavy losses."

"In addition, a considerable part of our equipment was damaged in the attack. If we cannot obtain new equipment from Huadu in the next one or two months, the production of drugs will drop by at least a quarter."

"But the good news is we still have 600 kilograms left in stock."

"These stocks are enough to support the control of these blood skulls. Within a month, we don't need to worry about running out of stock."

"it is good."

The so-called "Prime Minister" nodded, calculated silently in his mind for a moment and then said:
“But this number is already quite dangerous.”

"Each Terror can only get less than 10 grams of drugs per day, which is slightly higher than their current dosage."

"And as you know, the amount of medication they need is gradually increasing."

"If we don't produce enough drugs quickly, we may lose control of them."

“This is definitely not good news.”

At this point, the Prime Minister spat angrily, and then continued:

".Pushing us into such a dangerous situation, and we are totally unprepared."

"We don't know their purpose, let alone whether they have other means!"

"This is truly an unparalleled shame."

"We should take revenge on them, but at least you have to let me know who they are first!"

When the man finished speaking, the assistant beside him was silent at first, then he spoke tentatively:
"Although there is no direct evidence to prove who they are, I think I can guess their identities?"

"So what?"

The man frowned and said:
"Don't keep us in suspense at a time like this, just tell us the answer!"

The assistant nodded a little nervously, and then quickly replied:

"They are most likely the Huaxia Army from Yellowstone City—or, as the Holy Blood Temple calls them, 'mimic heretics.'"

"Mimic heresy??"

The man asked in astonishment:

"Hasn't this kind of thing already been extinct?"

"I even doubt whether it ever happened. Are you sure that the so-called disaster was not a lie woven by the Mechanicus and the Holy Blood Temple?"

“I used to think so.”

The assistant sighed and paused for a moment before briefly introducing the background of the "Mimetic Heresy" that he knew, and then said:
".So from this information, it's clear that we were all wrong."

"The strength of the Mimic Heretics has been proven. According to rumors circulating in recent times, the Mimic Heretics defeated a coalition of more than a thousand Mechanicus Crusaders and the Holy Blood Temple in Yellowstone City."

"They even wiped out an entire Templar Guards Brigade with ease."

"Their fighting ability is quite exaggerated, and they are particularly powerful against monsters."

"They are a new force rising in this world. I don't know how they targeted us."

“But being targeted by them is definitely not good news.”

"There is a problem."

The man interrupted the assistant and asked:

"How can you be sure that those heretics who attacked us are the Mimics? Could it not be the Adeptus Mechanicus?"

"Their Templar Guards are equally powerful. They can also carry out such an attack, right?"

"No, I can't."

The assistant shook his head solemnly, and then explained:

"The Templar Guards are indeed very strong, but their fighting style is completely different from that of the Mimic Heretics."

"It should be said that no other team's fighting style is similar to those of the Mimic Heretics. They are unique."

"So unique that even if I haven't seen their battles in person, I can still guess their identities from the final results."

"So I think our enemy is clear."

"The only question is, do we retaliate against them?"

After saying this, the man who had just been clamoring for revenge fell silent.

After thinking for a long time, he finally said:
“Revenge must be taken, but we cannot mobilize the forces within the Anqing ruins.”

"This huge Blood Skeleton Camp was not built for combat. We still have to rely on them for our research."

"Once we act rashly, all the costs we have paid will become meaningless."

"We have to calm down. This is the price of evolution!"

"clear."

The assistant nodded with a hint of disappointment.

In fact, he was not without a desire for revenge.

But in front of this powerful man, he actually had no right to speak.

If he decided to quietly cover up this shame, then I would have to do it.

only.
Before the assistant's thoughts had time to finish turning around in his head, the man opposite him suddenly spoke again.

His tone was somewhat cold.

"We need to be calm, but we can't let the flowers be humiliated."

"Report to the Queen."

"We need to declare war on Yellowstone."

"No, we cannot declare war, or our motives will be exposed to the world."

"Launch a surprise attack on them."

"According to what you said, if those so-called mimic heretics can cause such a great blow to us, then their main force must be active near Anqing City."

"We won't be able to find them in a short time, and it's unlikely that they will enter Anqing to attack."

“But their home is in Yellowstone.”

"We are going to completely destroy their homes!"

(End of this chapter)