Global Mining.

Chapter 888: Detonating the Whole City
Control... or just try to kill it!

As "traffic data" continued to pour in, Da Chun's administrator experience was constantly being displayed, but his privilege points were also being consumed at a rate of four digits!
Da Chun is addicted to using the Genesis Law and really doesn't want to give up these privilege points. But right now, he just hopes the privilege points will last until he runs out of technology!
Just then, Di Lian exclaimed in surprise, "Father, something has happened in the Elemental Realm!"

Although most of Da Chun had emerged, a section of the vine tail remained in the elemental ionization zone to repair the machine.

Immediately switching to the elemental realm perspective, I was suddenly struck by the sight of dozens of mirror lights and electric grids blurring together, creating an incredibly powerful spectacle!
What the hell!

I knew it! If even the CEO's personal guards can enter the Elemental Realm, then this is a demon city, after all. Surely they can't be completely helpless against an infiltrator from the Elemental Realm, right? So, their mobilization just now was a decision to enter the Elemental Realm and wipe me out, wasn't it?
This is quite an overestimation of my abilities. Excuse me!

“Earth Lotus, remove the tail end as well.”

"Okay father."

Once the tail end is withdrawn, they can safely release these dozens of magic towers, right...?

At this moment, Da Chun truly realized how utterly superficial the so-called forest of magic towers in Gem City was. Any powerful individual could easily bypass them by going around the elemental realm; it would have been far more practical to simply build more ordinary arrow towers within the city.

……

Shadow Abyss Space.

Alpha was both excited and nervous, but Alpha knew the Ten Elders well; they probably still had trump cards up their sleeves and all sorts of shameless tactics.

Alpha was also closely monitoring the prayer livestreams in each city. Although it seemed the mermaid had gained a large number of believers, prayer activities had time limits. If prayers went on for too long, believers would become impatient and start cursing, which would actually reduce the effectiveness of the prayers. The prayers in all five cities had been going on from midnight last night until this morning…

As expected, Alpha noticed the growing impatience of the believers in the various cities; the decisive battle was imminent.

However, the sudden appearance of the four imperial noblewomen NPCs in Black Iron City Square, the nun who had been missing for two days, and a powerful nun she had never seen before caught Alpha's attention. She was also praying, wondering what level of faith boost she would provide to the mermaid.

Just then, Overlord received a report from the city: "There are unpredictable tremors coming from underground in the city."

Alpha exclaimed in shock, "My lord, the prayers on the surface world have reached their limit. The final battle is about to begin. The commotion in the city must mean that the fire dragon is preparing to attack in conjunction with the mermaids!"

Overlord said in a deep voice, "It destroyed 20 of our magic towers, so of course we can't ignore it. We have urgently invited reinforcements from Storm Elemental City. It's time to wipe it out of the elemental realm."

Alpha was astonished: "Reinforcements? When did they arrive?"

Overlord laughed: "Strategic teleportation array! What you usually see is just the plaza teleportation array. The plaza teleportation array is too public and would expose our movements, which is not in line with our race's consistent style of operating in secrecy."

Alpha was truly astonished. Although he had participated in the development of Shadow City, he had no idea that this strategic teleportation array existed. So, this was the result of the automatic evolution of the intelligent system!

Alpha then tested its intelligence: "Why wait until now to start the encirclement and suppression? Wouldn't it have been better to launch an attack sooner and eliminate them sooner?"

Overlord laughed and said, "It's to give the mermaid hope of winning and turning the tide. Only in this way will she fight back with all her might instead of running away with all her might. Although we don't think she can escape, we have to consider all kinds of unforeseen events."

This answer pleased Alpha greatly: "I see!"

Just then, light burst forth from the bottom of the Shadow Abyss, and the mermaid's song suddenly became loud and clear, even managing to punch a hole through the screen protecting the demon god!

Alpha was thrilled with its accurate prediction: "The mermaids have launched a counterattack..."

The next moment, the Guardian Demon God's offensive was fully launched, directly pulling the Shadow Abyss Space further into the defensive range of Shadow Stream City, and at the same time letting Alpha witness the Shadow Demon God's ultimate move, Mirror Fortress!
Although the mermaid's instantaneous water injection was unexpected by Alpha, it was indeed in line with her strength of praying for five cities. However, compared with the Shadow Demon Guardian's strength of a thousand years, it was not enough to sustain her!
Alpha's attention remained focused on the fire dragon: "Has the encirclement and suppression yielded results?"

Overlord was also a little confused: "We haven't received any news of his discovery. Perhaps he's hiding, or perhaps... In any case, as long as we make sure he's expelled from the elemental nexus of the magic tower, that's enough..."

Alpha was also a little anxious. He suddenly remembered the player in the God team named Little Mountain God. What was his role?
"Sir, I request to monitor the interior of Magic Tower No. 9."

Overlord said, "That was a meritorious combat team that successfully repaired 20 magic towers!"

Alpha hates this merit group. It's clearly a newcomer, but if he gets promoted right away because of his merits and then rides on Alpha's head, it's simply unbearable!

"Yes, I demand surveillance!"

"Your request can be fulfilled!"

The next moment, Alpha saw the scene inside Magic Tower No. 9.

The other NPCs took their positions, and the little mountain god was also on high alert at the repair station, but he would occasionally look out, though he was barely visible from that position.

Alpha grew increasingly disgusted: "I demand a 3x playback of the surveillance footage!"

"allow!"

Then, Alpha witnessed him opening the box and studying the blueprints.

Alpha exclaimed in disbelief, "This, this, how is this possible?"

Overlord said, "Although the battle is not over and he has not been officially promoted yet, this is in line with his current status and merits."

Will his achievements be higher than mine? If someone really does have higher achievements than me, even I, a veteran of a hundred years, might have to bow to him. At that time, the team will let him give me orders, and I wouldn't dare disobey!
Then Overlord received another report: "No target found in the elemental realm. It has been confirmed that the target has been driven away from the elemental nexus of each magic tower!"

Overlord issued the order: "Activate all magic towers in the city to support Lord God!"

"Roger that!"

Alpha was quite annoyed and couldn't help but ask, "My lord, besides this fire dragon, the reinforcements from the Storm Elemental Realm can also easily destroy our magic towers in the Elemental Realm, right?"

Overlord said, "Therefore only the Divine Throne can prevent this situation, which is why the Divine Throne cannot easily leave the city. Alternatively, one could spend a large sum of money to upgrade the magic tower technology."

Alpha was getting impatient: "Then why not invest heavily in an upgrade?"

Overlord said, "Because this also means that accelerating product and technology iterations will trigger an arms race among the demons, which the Demon Lord Council does not support in principle..."

Alpha was shocked: "So that means the Demon Race has such technology?" Overlord replied, "Of course they do. But they need to squeeze every last drop of profit out of the old technology..."

Alpha was utterly helpless. Wasn't this just like Nokia? They had developed touchscreen phones, but couldn't bear to abandon their heavily invested, brick-like phone production lines, and as a result, Apple overturned their plans…

As they spoke, all the magic towers in the city activated, and dozens, even hundreds, of thick magic beams concentrated and blasted towards the Prism Gate above the city. After passing through it, they were reflected back down from the Mirror Fortress in the Shadow Abyss Space!
This attack nearly blasted away and dried up all the water in the Mermaid Pool!
At the crucial moment, the mermaid released water light once again, and the pool filled up again!
Alpha couldn't help but laugh; the guardian demon hadn't even put in any effort yet!

Just then, an emergency report came in: "The Magic Tower is experiencing an out-of-control version upgrade in all groups—"

Boom—Boom!
In that instant, all the magic towers in the city suddenly "bowed down," and nearly a hundred beams of light, which were focused on the prism gate in the sky, sliced ​​into the ground like light blades, cutting into that row of city buildings!
With a deafening roar, the entire city seemed to have been sliced ​​open like a cake!

Then, the beams of light from the magic tower all swayed again!
The light blades began to sweep across the city, utterly destroying rows of solar-powered facilities!
All Overlords cried out in alarm: "Emergency shutdown!!"

"Received, emergency shutdown—"

"Report: The Magic Tower is overloaded...out of control, about to self-destruct..."

The light blade finally subsided, but the next moment, nearly a hundred magic towers throughout the city exploded! Huge bursts of fire and smoke instantly enveloped the entire city…

Alpha's mind went completely blank for a moment, utterly dumbfounded!
……

At this moment, inside the Shadow Abyss Space Magic Tower.

Sariel Raphael, who had just been terrified by the Mirror Cannon, suddenly discovered a shocking reversal: the Mirror Cannon's attack had changed direction, crashing into the city and exploding, turning the entire Mirror Fortress into a cloud of fire and smoke!
The Fifth Elder cried out again in a frenzy, "The Divine Throne is invincible!"

In that instant, a radiance that only the most devout archbishop could emanate suddenly rose from the Fifth Elder!
Sariel was completely stunned. She looked at the Fifth Elder and then at Remia, the city's flower who was also a bishop. She didn't have that kind of radiance. How could she bear it?

The mermaid's voice burst into wild laughter: "The real counterattack has only just begun!"

—Team alert: Helen the Mermaid is about to unleash the wrath of the sea god!
Sariel was even more bewildered. Could such a small amount of water possibly release anything? But now was not the time for doubt; now was the time for unconditional worship!
The gale has already begun to howl in the abyss, and the waves of the abyss have turned into tornadoes that roar upwards!

The mermaid laughed, "Ladies of the city, bombard my waters! Heat them up, blast them into steam..."

Although Eve didn't understand, she quickly regained her senses: "Fireball, activate..."

……

At this moment, Da Chun was transmitting data at full speed while watching the battle situation through the mirror.

And then finally the magic tower was activated!

Where is my virus?

Perhaps not so fast, but the power of that shot, which nearly dried up the Mermaid Pool, truly astonished Da Chun! He was also thankful he hadn't floated away but had instead disappeared into the sewers; otherwise, this concentrated fire...

The next moment, what was bound to happen finally arrived!
Holy crap, holy crap, holy crap!! This is incredible...

The explosion caused the entire basement to tremble violently! At the same time, Da Chun seemed to hear a faint creaking sound coming from inside the crystal tower!
What is this? A crack has appeared?
Da Chun didn't have time to check the battle situation; he just wanted to know that he had finally done a great service. His first priority was to find the rift, but he couldn't find it right away! The laws of space weren't a magnifying glass either…

Da Chun immediately switched back to his main account: "Ellen, I suspect there's a crack in that crystal tower. I can't find it. Do you feel anything?"

Eileen answered decisively: "I will look for it!"

Eileen's prism view turned into a magnifying glass: "Here, the light energy that was just transmitted is distorted..."

Ah, as expected, it takes a colleague to hit the nail on the head.

Da Chun's vines immediately climbed to the spot Ai Lian had specified, and it was still smooth with no visible cracks, so it was probably cracked from the inside.

The vines were exploring this area when suddenly, a massive surge of traffic, far exceeding anything seen before, caused Da Chun's screen to jolt violently!
—Administrator's Note: Congratulations! You have successfully cracked a high-difficulty objective, and your speed in obtaining unknown data has greatly increased!
found it!
Looking at the consumption of privilege points, it's still in the four-digit range. It hasn't decreased due to the increase in traffic; on the contrary, well, it's now in the three-digit range, haha!

At this moment, Da Chun's confidence soared. He was fully capable of stealing everything before his privileges ran out!
At this moment, the thick smoke on the mirror disappeared, and Da Chun saw the scene of the battlefield again. No, he also saw that outside the battlefield, the lava plain was surging and gathering like a volcanic eruption, forming a giant wave of lava that not only submerged the battlefield but also began to surge towards the city!
Da Chun was astonished, completely unable to tell whose move this was! If it was from a demon god, it shouldn't be attacking his own city; if it was from a mermaid, it was simply unimaginable—she could control water waves, and even magma!

Within the battlefield, howling winds and billowing flames created a scene of immense pressure and expansion! The howling winds were clearly accompanied by the deafening roar of a steam train!

Therefore, the battlefield space has become a pressure cooker! This is the result of the combined heating effect of the outer sea of ​​lava and the internal steam and flames!
Just as they were marveling at it,

—Administrator's Note: Congratulations! You have cracked a large amount of data and successfully been promoted to Junior Administrator! Achievement Rewards: +10 Dark Privilege Points, +1 Mana. Administrator Collaboration.

Administrator Collaboration: You can maintain contact with other administrators and obtain remote assistance.

System notification: Congratulations! You have obtained the "Administrator Collaboration" skill from this beginner-level administrator. Do you wish to obtain collaboration?
Ah!
Another promotion! All this time, I was only a beginner! But, administrator collaboration? My alt account was promoted, and my main account's soul sharing was also promoted, so it became my main account collaborating with my alt account, me collaborating with myself, my left foot collaborating with my right foot, and then spiraling upwards by stepping on my own feet, right?

Then let's collaborate!

The next moment, the traffic... was as surging as the waves created by The Mermaid!
Da Chun could hear the excited laughter coming from the large Ai Lian's side!
But just then, the Crystal Tower suddenly emitted an alert voice: "Who?!"

Eileen exclaimed, "Be careful! Close your eyes first!"

Oh no, I've been arrested!

System notification: Warning! You have been detected by the Shadow Guardian Demon God and are about to be attacked. You must do your best to defend yourself.

Da Chun made a snap decision: since he'd already been caught, he might as well rob instead of stealing! He refused to believe that with me and the mermaid holding him back, he could still be that strong.

"Earth Lotus, transform into a fire dragon! Your delicate tendrils continue to gather data."

"Okay, Father!"

(End of this chapter)