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same time.

In the office of the director of the East China General Bureau.

Yue Beishan stood in front of the map with a worried expression, holding a red pen in his hand.

This is a map of the entire country of China, containing all cities, regardless of size, totaling seven hundred.

At this moment, some city names on the map have been marked with a red cross.

The communicator kept ringing in the office.

Every time he hung up, Yue Beishan would draw a red cross on the name of a city on the map.

As the number of red crosses increased, his face grew more somber than ever before.

"What exactly is the Pantheon trying to do? They've been hiding underwater for so long, and now they've suddenly come out in full force... Have they gone mad?!"

For years, the Pantheon has been treated like a rat by the Suppressing Spirits Bureau and has been in a weak position.

If it weren't for the fact that they couldn't find the location of the enemy's headquarters, the Zhenling Bureau would have already dispatched experts to wipe them out in one fell swoop. But now... these rats have actually jumped out on their own initiative, and everything seems so wrong.

Even though the situation in China is currently chaotic,

But it will only take a day or two to completely suppress this large-scale attack.

However, the Pantheon would have to pay the price of at least 90% casualties.

Why did they pay such a high price?

Furthermore, Li Xiaotian's defection from headquarters made Yue Beishan's mind even more confused.

The news that a vice-leader had appeared in Tianyun City made him suspect that the Pantheon was making such a big fuss to kill Jiang Qin, but he quickly dismissed that possibility.

If the goal was simply to kill Jiang Qin, there would be no need to launch attacks across the country.

What exactly are these rats plotting...?

Let's go back an hour.

Tianyun City.

The city where Jiang Qin lived for eighteen years is now dying.

Ten interdimensional rifts appeared simultaneously on the outskirts of the city, like ten vertical pupils, slowly opening.

No one knows how they appeared—the patrolling investigators from the Spirit Suppression Bureau only had time to see a beam of blood-red light shoot into the sky before the ground cracked inch by inch and the air trembled.

A fierce roar came from the crack.

When the first ferocious beast charged out, the city defense army's psionic cannons hadn't even had time to recharge.

The soldiers guarding the city retreated in terror.

"How is this possible... how could so many interdimensional rifts appear!"

It was a fourth-tier Ironscale Rhinoceros. Its massive, thirty-meter-tall body crashed into the city wall, causing the entire section to collapse as if it were made of paper. The soldiers on the wall didn't even have time to scream before they were buried under the rubble and steel.

Then the horde of ferocious beasts surged out.

Third-order and fourth-order, they're everywhere.

They poured out from the ten cracks like a flood bursting its banks, surging towards the unsuspecting city.

The city's defense forces collapsed immediately.

A full-strength city defense brigade of two hundred men couldn't even last three minutes against ten fourth-tier ferocious beasts. The captain was finally bitten in the waist by a blood-striped leopard, his upper body flying three meters away, his eyes still open when he landed on the ground.

The Blood-Striped Leopard lowered its head and bit its head off.

The Tianyun Town Spirit Bureau was dispatched the moment the alarm sounded.

"Hold on! Buy time for the people to evacuate!"

Xu Anguo's voice boomed over the communication channel.

"Chief! The West District has fallen!"

"East District too—"

One by one, the sounds in the communication channel disappeared.

Each abrupt end signifies the death of an investigator.

Xu Anguo did not turn back; he could not turn back.

Millions of people were still fleeing for their lives in the city behind him. Every second he held on meant more lives could be saved, even though... his power was insignificant in the face of the overwhelming beast tide.

A peak fourth-tier Shadow Mantis swept past him.

A headless corpse lay in a pool of blood.

West District, Tianyun City.

This is where Jiang Qin grew up.

The old residential buildings, the narrow alleyways, and the noodle shop on the street corner where he had been eating for more than ten years.

At that moment, the noodle shop's signboard fell to the ground and was trampled in two by an iron-scaled rhinoceros.

The noodle shop owner, Lao Zhou, hid behind the counter, holding his five-year-old granddaughter.

The footsteps of the ferocious beast grew closer, and the ground and walls trembled.

The little girl trembled with fear. Old Zhou covered her mouth, but bit his own lip until it bled, his eyes fixed on the doorway.

Finally, the footsteps stopped.

Just as Lao Zhou breathed a sigh of relief, thinking he had escaped a calamity,

The next second, the ceiling of the noodle shop was slammed away by a beast's claw!

The towering, bear-like beast lowered its head and, upon spotting the grandfather and grandson, grinned, dripping blood as if to say, "Found you!"

Screams echoed through the neighborhood.

On the city's main thoroughfare.

The evacuating crowd surged toward the other city gate like a tidal wave.

An elderly person, a child, a mother holding a baby, and a man still wearing pajamas.

No one is maintaining order, because those who would maintain order are dead.

The crowd was pushing, trampling, and screaming.

An elderly man who had fallen was trampled by more than a dozen pairs of feet and never got up again.

A flamingo swooped down from the sky.

Its wingspan exceeds twenty meters, and each flap of its wings stirs up a scorching wave of air.

It swept over the crowd, grabbed three people with its claws, and released them mid-air.

Three people screamed as they fell, crashing into the crowd and spraying blood everywhere.

The Flamebird circled once and then flew back.

Some people in the crowd knelt down and kowtowed. Some threw their jewelry and money into the air. Some carried their children and squeezed into the shops along the roadside.

But none of this worked.

The ferocious beasts don't recognize money, kneeling, or begging for mercy; they only recognize one thing—endless slaughter!

Three hours later.

Tianyun City is quiet.

It wasn't the tranquility of the night, but a desolate, tomb-like silence.

The streets were littered with corpses, some intact, some incomplete.

Blood seeped from beneath the pile of corpses, forming thin streams that flowed into the sewers, the drainage ditches, and into every inch of the city.

The ferocious beast was still roaming the streets.

In an alley, three wolves were devouring a corpse.

They tore open their abdominal cavities, and their internal organs spilled out onto the ground.

A wind wolf raised its head, a piece of intestine dangling from its mouth. It chewed it twice and swallowed it.

A baby's cry came from afar.

It was very short, and then it ended abruptly.

Several carrion crows flew up from the streetlights and landed in the direction from which the crying was coming.

The setting sun shone through the cracks, illuminating the empty streets.

The ground was littered with corpses, blood, and severed limbs.

There were no cries, no screams, and no one spoke.

There were only the sounds of ferocious beasts chewing and carrion crows flapping their wings.

Tianyun City died in the twilight.

On the edge of the city, the ten interdimensional rifts still remain.

They hung silently in mid-air, like ten vertical pupils, gazing at this dead land.

Deep within the crevice, even more ferocious beasts surged forth, constantly bursting forth.

On the tallest clock tower in Tianyun City, a group of men in black robes watched this apocalyptic scene.

They were unmoved, their faces filled with excitement and fervor. They didn't care about human lives; they only cared whether doing this would bring them more rewards from the gods!

Screams could still be heard sporadically in the city; the ferocious beasts were hunting down the hiding residents.

Suddenly, a layer of dark clouds covered the sky.

Two figures suddenly appeared in the sky above the city, standing in mid-air. Although they rushed over as soon as they received the news, they were ultimately a step too late.

Looking at the current state of Tianyun City, Jiang Qin unconsciously clenched his fists.

Memories flashed through his mind, memories of a past he could never return to.

The city that holds countless memories for him is now riddled with holes!

His gaze fell upon the black-robed figures gathered on the clock tower, his pupils bloodshot.

The sound exploded like thunder.

"you……"

"Even death cannot atone for it!!!"