Building a skyscraper to survive, all the female colleagues in the company begged me to carry them.

Huang Tang nodded.

"Putting aside the fact that Xiao Zhenwei can't kill you, what if you manage to hide back in your house beforehand? Wouldn't he be left with nothing but tears?"

"wrong……"

Cai Lin suddenly looked up at him: "Such a crucial secret, Xiao Zhenwei certainly wouldn't tell everyone himself. How did you know?"

Huang Tang confessed, "Xu Nianzhen told me."

"It's her again!"

Chae Rim crossed her arms. "She's really devoted to you. She even went so far as to infiltrate the lion's den to gather intelligence for you!"

"I already said she's a good younger sister."

Huang Tang chuckled, "President Cai, don't mention that high-class green tea anymore. She's such a nice girl."

Chae Rim snorted, turned her head away, and didn't bother to reply.

Just then, footsteps came from the stairs of the city wall, and Hu Panxi and Li Shuang quickly walked up.

Hu Panxi approached Huang Tang and said with a solemn expression, "The knights from the other world have only retreated a short distance; they don't seem to have given up their attack."

Huang Tang frowned slightly and raised his binoculars to take another look at the opposing camp.

Just as Hu Panxi had predicted.

After the Knights retreated to the edge of the tanks' firing range, they did not retreat any further.

The cavalrymen quickly readjusted their ranks, and the heavily armored knights in the front ranks also began to form formations.

This is absolutely not a sign of retreat!

They are waiting, waiting for a signal!

Hu Panxi asked, "Should we take some precautions in advance?"

Huang Tang shook his head. "No need. After their recent lesson, they should know very well that charging rashly is simply suicide."

however……

He was immediately proven wrong as soon as he finished speaking!

A low, mournful horn sound came from afar.

Heavy and lingering.

It pierced through the twilight and the smoke of battle.

Immediately afterwards, all the knights who had completed their formation charged forward on horseback.

Thousands upon thousands of iron hooves pounded the earth at the same time, the sound merging into a muffled vibration that even made the walls of Julian City tremble slightly!

The knights in the front row held up their lances.

The archers in the back row nocked their arrows on horseback.

A dense crowd surged toward the city wall, raising clouds of dust!

This scene left Huang Tang and the others completely baffled.

This is to...

Are we just sending them to their deaths?

"Are they crazy?!" Li Shuang couldn't help but exclaim. "Or do they think our tanks can only fire one salvo?"

Huang Tang couldn't understand it either.

The knights from another world have dealt with players before, so they must know the power of tanks.

Moreover, with Xiao Zhenwei, this "traitor," passing on information in the middle, the Knights couldn't possibly be unaware of the tanks' range and firepower!

"Things are probably not simple!"

Huang Tang put away his binoculars. No matter what tricks the enemy had up their sleeves, they couldn't possibly let the cavalry charge to the city walls!

He immediately ordered: "All tanks, fire at full power!"

"I'd like to see what they're up to!"

And so, once again, a barrage of cannon fire ensued!

Thousands upon thousands of cannonballs streaked across the twilight, falling toward the charging knights.

The light from the cannon muzzle once again illuminated the entire horizon, and the contrails left by the shells resembled countless orange-red lines intertwined in the sky.

then……

Something has changed.

Huang Tang saw it clearly. When the first volley of cannonballs reached about 500 meters in front of the Knights' formation, the air suddenly trembled, like the surface of water.

Immediately, a visible ripple spread out from the sky directly above the Knights, and wherever the ripple passed, all the cannonballs changed direction at the same time.

They made a turn in mid-air, neatly turned around, and flew towards Julian City.

It's even faster than when we went there!

"Holy crap!"

Lan Mutang had somehow ended up on the city wall. Looking up at the sky filled with turning cannonballs, her eyes widened. "Why are they back?"

Chae Rim's face also turned pale.

There were so many shells, a dense barrage of warheads swooping down from the sky, covering the entire front wall of Julian City!

Once it lands, the defensive forces on the city walls, as well as the ordinary residents in the city behind, will all be affected!

Lan Mutang snorted disdainfully and stood up, ready to rush forward and block all the cannonballs.

But just as she was about to exert force, a hand reached out from the side and grabbed her.

"Don't rush," Huang Tang said. "You don't need to take action yet."

After he finished speaking, he had a card in his hand.

Time paused

[Effect: Pauses all units except the caster for 30 seconds. During this time, the caster can move and cast spells freely.]

Cooldown time: 1 hour.

Huang Tang did not hesitate at all and immediately chose to use it!

The next second, the world stood still!

The cannonball, whose direction had been twisted in the sky, came to an abrupt halt in mid-air.

Each one retained the posture it had before falling, its fiery red tail frozen in the air.

Apart from Huang Tang, Cai Lin and the others on the city wall also maintained the same actions and expressions as before.

Huang Tang looked around. Time seemed to have stopped flowing, leaving only him moving around inside the picture frame.

He quickly flipped through all the cards he currently had.

【Azure Thunder Judgment (Transcendental Magic)】

[Effect: Summons a thunderstorm field within a designated area, unleashing thousands of lightning bolts that deal devastating damage to all targets within the field. Lightning deals double damage to non-living objects.]

[For single use only; disappears after use.]

[Note: It's thundering, bring in the laundry when it rains!]

"It's you."

Huang Tang did not hesitate at all and chose to use it!

The card vanished from his fingertips in a beam of light. At the same time, the clouds above Julian City began to churn.

Those clouds were originally just ordinary gray-white wisps of clouds in the twilight, but the moment the card was activated, they seemed to be ignited from within by something, their edges glowing with a golden-purple light.

Thunder rumbled deep within the clouds, its sound muffled and low.

Immediately afterwards, the first bolt of lightning struck down from the clouds, hitting a cannonball that was suspended in mid-air with pinpoint accuracy.

The shell exploded in mid-air, turning into a ball of orange-red sparks!

Then came the second, the third, the fourth...

The clouds seemed to have been torn open, and thousands of bolts of lightning poured down from the sky at the same time, each one striking the shells that had been deflected!

Dense bolts of lightning flashed and merged into one, illuminating the entire sky as bright as day!

The shells exploded one after another in the thunderstorm, turning into dazzling fireworks!

Orange, gold, white...

They bloom in layers against the twilight sky!

Huang Tang stood on the city wall, looking up at the thunderous fireworks. Time hadn't stopped yet, so every frame he saw was still.

Light and flames froze in mid-air, forming a gigantic tapestry covered with golden fragments that spanned the entire sky!

At this moment, the [time stop] ends!