I, from the Celestial Empire, have parachuted into Teyvat.

"You were the one who pushed me..."

"Shh..." Xiao Liang reminded the others to be quiet, "The car is coming."

As the roar grew clearer, a line of vehicles came into view. From a distance, they were all armored vehicles heading south of the city.

In just a few seconds, the convoy was gone.

Xiao Liang and his three companions emerged from the alley again, all of them somewhat bewildered.

“Armored vehicles…” Amo clicked his tongue. “What on earth happened in the south of the city that even armored vehicles have been deployed?”

Zhichao hesitated, then said, "Maybe we should go back..."

Little Li scratched his head: "Are we really going back like this?"

Xiao Liang was also extremely conflicted.

"To be honest, we've come all this way, I can't just go back without taking a look... even just a glimpse from afar would be nice. Besides, we might be the only ones in our school who know the truth."

The boys' vanity and curiosity ultimately prevailed over reason, and the four of them quickly chased after the armored convoy that had just left the continent.

Of course, human legs cannot outrun armored vehicles. After only three or four streets, on a commercial street, the four men could no longer see or hear the convoy.

"Wait... don't chase anymore, I can't run anymore..."

Amo plopped down on the steps by the street.

Zhichao joked, "Amo, really, you're such a big guy, yet your stamina isn't as good as mine."

Amo rolled his eyes: "I'm big, so running puts a lot of strain on my body, okay?"

Xiao Li sat down to rest for a while, then asked, "Speaking of which, we've lost the convoy. Where do we go next, Xiao Liang?"

"what?"

Hearing Xiao Li call his name, Xiao Liang paused for a moment, then shook his head and said, "To be honest, I don't know where to go either. The South City District is so big, if we just wander around aimlessly like this, I really don't know how long we'll go..."

The group sighed helplessly.

They had only come to the south of the city on a whim, and as a group of junior high school students, they naturally didn't have any action plan. Their newly ignited adventurous spirit was quickly extinguished without a target.

Zhichao touched his nose and said again, "Why don't we go back?"

The suggestion to return did not receive any objection from the crowd.

Amo took a breath and said, "Let me rest a bit before we go back. I ran three or four blocks in one go, and my stomach is rumbling..."

"Busobudo..."

Amo turned to look at Xiao Liang: "What did you just say?"

Xiao Liang was completely confused.

"What did I say? I didn't say anything just now!"

Amo then looked at Xiao Li and Zhichao, and the two of them shook their heads.

Little Li said, "Nobody's saying anything, Amo, are you sure you didn't hear wrong?"

"I think I misheard..."

Amo scratched his head, and just then there was another sound.

"Ouch..."

Amo frowned: "There's another sound. Am I hallucinating?"

After saying this, Amo realized that Xiao Liang's expression had also become very strange.

Xiao Liang said, "Amo, you're not hallucinating... I think I heard it too..."

The other two had the same expression.

"I heard that too..."

"Me too......"

The four exchanged a glance.

At this moment, the commercial street was deserted except for the four of them. Where did that sound come from?

Just then, another voice came.

"Ya yi ka chi dao..."

This shout was clearer than the previous two, and you could tell what was making it, like someone with a sharp, hoarse voice saying something.

"Yelu hiss, yelu hiss, ya ka, ya ka, baluna..."

As the eerie sounds continued, the four finally realized that the sound seemed to be coming from beneath their feet.

Holding his breath, Xiao Liang, the bravest of them all, bent over and slowly lay down on the ground.

Before him was a sewer inlet, a common rectangular inlet in urban drainage systems located on both sides of the street, with a width that could only accommodate one person's arm.

Xiao Liang lay down in front of the drain, and a stench of rotten sewer wafted over him, making him cough twice.

Amo, standing nearby, asked, "How is it? Is there anything?"

Xiao Liang shook his head and said, "I didn't see anything."

As he was about to get up, a thin, withered, gray-black arm suddenly emerged from the sewer inlet like a venomous snake, grabbed his collar, and pulled him violently toward the inlet.

"what!!!"

Xiao Liang screamed in agony, startling the other three. In their shock, they instinctively grabbed Xiao Liang's body and arms.

However, the withered arm seemed to possess boundless strength, managing to hold its own against the combined efforts of the four people. At that moment, Amo spotted a half-brick on the side and immediately picked it up, smashing it against the withered arm.

"Ya ...

A strange roar came from the sewer. The withered arm released Xiao Liang's collar in pain, and the three of them struggled to drag Xiao Liang out of the inlet.

The next second, more withered, grayish-white arms emerged from the inlet, waving wildly, and behind those arms were eerily pale faces...

Chapter 369 A Shocking Twelve Hours

An empty street, outstretched arms, and a deathly pale face.

The atmosphere was like that of a horror movie, which terrified the four young junior high school students.

"Ghost!!!"

The four of them screamed and scrambled away, running aimlessly and without direction, just wanting to get away from that sewer!

However, at this moment, the same monster howls also came from other sewer inlets. More and more withered arms stretched out from the sewer inlets on both sides of the street, and the eerie monster howls echoed all over the street, making people's backs break out in goosebumps.

The four of them ran forward as fast as they could.

"This...this way..."

Amo, who was leading the way, spotted a small alley leading to other streets at the corner ahead and decisively turned into it. However, less than two seconds later, the three people behind him saw Amo running back like the wind while shouting.

"Help! Run!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the three people behind him saw a huge black axe suddenly emerge from the path behind Amo. Then, a giant nearly three meters tall with thick black and red hair on its upper body rushed out from around the corner, letting out a roar like a mad bull.

Most importantly, this giant, like the monsters in the sewers, had a deathly pale face.

The hairs on all three of them stood on end instantly. Zhichao's brain went blank, and his body froze.

"Run! Zhichao, what are you doing!"

"Run!"

The group tried to lift Zhichao up, but at that moment the giant had already rushed up behind them with a giant axe in hand, making a sound like an old bull, and raised the giant axe to chop down on the heads of the four of them.

At this critical moment, a loud gunshot rang out, and the next second, a burst of red blood erupted from the giant's forehead. His massive body instantly tumbled to the ground, making a dull thud as if a boulder had crashed to earth.

"Stone, Little Yellow, go confirm whether the target has been killed."

"Yes!"

The four junior high school students lying on their backs were frozen in place. They only saw two figures in starry camouflage uniforms running past them quickly, and then another similar figure squatting down in front of them.

"Are you guys alright?"

Xiao Liang shook his head blankly; he recognized the people in front of him.

Chinese soldiers.

Seeing that the four people were unharmed, the team leader breathed a sigh of relief. Just then, a team member shouted from afar, "Captain, there are still some in the sewer!"

"what?"

The captain was startled, and then he saw the withered arms that were baring their fangs and claws at the sewer inlets around him.

"They've actually gotten so close to the blockade line. Immediately contact other patrol teams nearby, and also notify headquarters of this."

......

Qianhai Base, Command Center.

Hong Jianjun, who was pacing back and forth in the command room, stopped and turned to look at the people busy at the communications station. He asked, "How is the situation?"

"It still doesn't work, the signal can't be sent out."

Hong Jianjun frowned.

"What on earth is going on...?"

Yesterday, the Gate of the World unleashed four energy shocks. The powerful energy fluctuations caused severe damage to the external defenses of the Qianhai Base, with a damage rate of nearly 70%. If the shocks hadn't stopped at the fourth wave, it's hard to say whether the Qianhai Base's defenses could have withstood the impact. Currently, everything inside the Qianhai Base is operating normally, and staff are conducting post-shock inspections, repairs, and reinforcement work.

However, the anomaly of the Gate of the World brought not only an energy shock, but also more serious problems.

Communication with the outside world has been cut off.

The communication disruption at the Qianhai base was not simply a matter of the base losing contact with the outside world.

Staff members also went to check and found that the base's communication lines were not damaged by the impact. In fact, the Qianhai base can also make remote contact with Qindao City. However, the problem is that the Qianhai base can only contact Qindao City, and all other communications are interrupted.

Moreover, the information received from the Qindao City garrison also indicated the same situation: all communication between Qindao City and the outside world, including civilian and military communications and networks, had been completely cut off.

Not only that, just twelve hours ago, the tsunami caused by the energy shock had just receded from the coastline of Qindao City when suddenly a large number of ferocious Teyvat monsters emerged from the sea.

Led by Hilichurls, this horde of monsters was enormous. According to reports from the troops defending Qindao City, over a thousand monsters emerged from the sea in just twelve hours. If the residents of southern Qindao City hadn't been evacuated yesterday to avoid the tsunami, there would likely have been massive casualties by now.