The Professional Rankings, in twelve volumes, each bearing the name of my lord.

Upon hearing Yue Sheng's words, the commander surnamed Lu at the East Gate couldn't help but tense up.

"Huh? Let it in? Isn't that...that's quite dangerous?"

Yue Sheng grabbed the man's collar.

"You're scared after only the second wave? You should really switch commanders!"

"Oh, this..."

Wang Miao, standing to the side, looked at the situation outside and also appeared somewhat worried.

"Captain Yue's strategy is correct. We don't have enough energy crystals, the waves are low, and the combat power of the abyssal creatures is not high. We should not rely entirely on defensive facilities. We should open the protective arrays in front of the four city gates to allow the abyssal creatures to enter, and let the war groups of various forces go out to eliminate some of them."

Commander Lu admired Wang Miao's battlefield command and immediately nodded in approval.

"Alright, I'll pass on the order right away!"

Yue Sheng grabbed his collar again and pulled him over.

"Wait! The bandits are protecting the edge of the formation. Before activating the formation, we need to notify them to return to the city!"

"Okay, okay, I got it!"

The main city is teeming with experts; it's full of combat-oriented professionals, all starting at the second job advancement, and their combat strength is quite impressive.

Moreover, the Federation stipulates that once Glory City enters a state of war, all professionals within the city will be automatically incorporated into the garrison regiment, must participate in the war, and be organized and deployed by the garrison administration officers.

So it's not that they're all hiding and not taking action, but rather that there are currently no orders requiring them to leave the city to fight, and they are all in a state of standby.

After all, not every organization or force is as unruly and uncontrollable as the bandits.

Now, all the frontline commanders in the city have accepted Yue Sheng's suggestion to activate the formations, release the abyssal creatures, open the city gates, and allow our various battle groups to leave the city to fight, thus sharing the energy consumption pressure of the defensive towers, formations, etc.

The hope was that these defensive structures could hold out a little longer until reinforcements arrived.

"Bandits! Get back to the city quickly! We need to activate the formation and let some of the abyssal creatures in!"

The bandits initially intended to ignore the shouts from behind.

Just kidding, we're going to keep the reputation all to ourselves!

However, Song Gua ordered them to retreat back into the city and fight alongside the various battle groups.

If they don't retreat, they will not only be caught in the middle, preventing Glory City from exerting its full combat power, but they will also be killed by more and more powerful abyssal creatures.

This is the difference between bandits and the Daoist practice of sitting in oblivion.

The Dao of Sitting in Oblivion is not bound by the Song Hexagram, allowing one to do whatever one pleases without considering the consequences.

The bandits were actually the same, but Song Gua would guide them to make more correct choices.

As an alter ego of the Song hexagram, the bandit doesn't have the issue of obeying orders or not. What the main body tells the alter ego to do is as natural as the brain controlling the hands to type.

Just as the main city adopted new countermeasures, a large number of first- and second-tier abyssal creatures rushed towards the four city gates from the actively opened formation.

"Buzz—"

Ripples appeared at the third gap thirty kilometers away, and a third-tier abyssal creature with blue crystals embedded in its body crawled out from the spatial turbulence!

"So fast? Less than half an hour later, the third wave has already started?"

Wang Miao was unsettled. He and Yue Sheng exchanged a glance and realized that there must be something unusual going on.

The city's garrison bureau chief, deputy chief, regimental commander of the official garrison regiment, military governor, logistics officer, and other high-ranking officials of Glory City.

In addition, the leaders of the three major clans, the five major guild alliances, and many other prominent families and guilds in the Huaxia region, all located in Glory City.

After the third wave of attacks began, they all gathered on the city wall at the east gate.

Hua Chuangjing was the oldest among them, and he had witnessed the most Abyss invasions, so he spoke with great certainty.

"Gentlemen, this Abyss invasion is not only ill-timed, but also haphazardly timed! Logically, while the waves are irregular, the third wave of attack shouldn't have started earlier than an hour ago!"

The head of the garrison in the main city looked anxious, and his speech involuntarily quickened.

"If the subsequent waves continue to accelerate like this, we won't even be able to wait for Commander Zhang's reinforcements, especially given our lack of energy crystals!"

The three major clans and other powerful forces that have remained in Glory City recently are not high-ranking members.

However, at this moment they were all granted decision-making power and could allocate the city's personnel and resources at will.

"All the energy crystals from the backpacks of our Dragon Clan members, as well as from the city's warehouses, have been taken out and handed over to the front lines."

"The Tong family is the same."

"At this point, everyone has been generous with their help, but it still doesn't seem to be enough."

The defense of such a massive city, plus the need to maintain sufficient lines of defense around the main crystal.

The demand for energy crystals is astronomical.

Only federal authorities have the power to allocate resources on such a large scale.

Even though all parties have already generously donated, no one expected the Abyss to invade today, and the amount they carried or stored in their warehouses was actually not much.

Seeing the dust kicked up by the third-tier abyssal creature running across the plains already appearing on the horizon, Yue Sheng made a decisive decision.

"We must sacrifice the pawns to save the king; there's a place with a large amount of energy crystals!"

Everyone looked at Yue Sheng, knowing what he was talking about.

"Defend the city!"

"That's right! The city walls are small, so their consumption of energy crystals is not high, but their reserves are always at the standard level for war preparedness!"

"Because the guard city sometimes faces surprise attacks from alien races, while the main city, with its many skilled warriors, is less likely to be targeted by aliens during such attacks!"

"If we could transport the energy crystals from the Guardian City over, we could definitely hold out for longer."

"The pressure will be greatly reduced once Commander Zhang arrives!"

Wang Miao raised a different opinion.

"However, normally, the city also needs to be protected. Once the secondary crystal is destroyed, the damage reduction effect of the main crystal will be lost, which is actually not conducive to the final defense."

Yue Shengdao.

"The current situation is that we might not even be able to wait for the secondary crystal to be breached before the primary crystal faces close-range attacks. Are we really going to try and protect the secondary crystal while the primary crystal is already under attack?"

Wang Miao thought for a moment and nodded.

"Captain Yue's thinking is correct. Director Shen, immediately contact the four garrison branches and have them send some of the energy crystals over. We can arrange for people to meet them on the perimeter."

"good!"

Director Shen quickly completed the contact.

"We've made contact with Cities One and Four, and they'll immediately send people over with their personal storage devices filled with energy crystals. But we can't get through to Cities Two and Three."

Why?

"They may have activated a high-powered barrier array to block all wireless signals."

"What should we do then? If it's half of what we expected, the situation might not be optimistic."

Yue Sheng immediately summoned his mount, Zi Yuan, and charged forward with his spear.

"I'll make a trip to those two cities and inform them of the decision made here!"