Ordinary observers in fast time travel

Chapter 1158 Advancement Failure
Why did you come back so late?

Just as Lu Tianxue was about to answer, a figure rushed over, "Captain Huang?"

"Yes." Huang Zhilan nodded and quickly looked at Shi Jia, "Mr. Shi, are you alright?"

Shi Jia shook her head, "I'm fine, thank you for your concern."

"It's good that everything is alright." Huang Zhilan breathed a sigh of relief. "Take Lord Shi and the others to rest." She instructed the young soldier beside her.

“No need. The beast tide is coming soon, we can fight it together,” Lu Tianxue refused.

However, Huang Zhilan only glanced at her before looking at Shi Jia questioningly.

"Yes, we'll listen to our captain. Besides, I'm a Spirit Cleanser, so I can help heal the warriors if they get attacked by the Turbid Beasts."

Upon hearing this, all the surrounding soldiers turned their attention to Shi Jia. He smiled at them, and instantly, they felt a profound sense of security.

Huang Zhilan was even more surprised upon hearing this, "You're willing to fight alongside us? Willing to purify the warriors?" Don't laugh at her surprise; because Cleansers hold a high status, most are arrogant. Very few Cleansers are willing to fight on the front lines.

Shi Jia nodded, "Of course, Captain Huang, you should go and arrange the battle plan. The beast tide is coming soon."

"Alright, then I'll trouble you!" Huang Zhilan took a deep breath and began to methodically arrange the tactics. The members of the Qinglan team were also included in the arrangement.

"Boom!" That was the sound of the beast horde crashing into the city wall. A tremendous tremor followed. But the next second, the city wall's protective shield activated, incinerating all the horde of beasts that crashed in.

Huang Zhilan ordered the attack, and with a series of booming energy projectiles, one after another, they blasted into the beast horde. Waves of blood mist erupted instantly. The roars of the turbid beasts grew even sharper, and they attacked the city walls with increasing ferocity.

This time, however, they had no chance to get close to the city wall, as a dense barrage of rockets shot out from the wall, forcefully blocking the beasts' advance.

Within twenty minutes, fifty meters away from the city wall, a "city wall" made of the flesh and blood of the monstrous beasts appeared, blocking the surging tide of beasts behind.

As these monstrous beasts charged forward wave after wave, the thickness of the city wall gradually increased: three meters, five meters, ten meters, twenty meters...

"The beasts behind us are already beyond the range of the rockets!" the soldier in charge of battlefield observation and communications immediately reported.

Upon hearing this, Huang Zhilan said, "Use the energy cannon to blast open the wall of turbid beasts."

The beasts in today's turbid beast tide are not very strong. She sensed just now that the beasts commanding this tide are only at the Azure Rank. It's a small-scale beast tide.

This kind of small-scale beast tide is perfect for warriors to train. Also, the more Chaotic Beasts you kill, the fewer Chaotic Beasts there will be in the future, so she will absolutely not let any Chaotic Beast in this beast tide go!
"Boom!" Soon, a gap appeared in the wall of turbid beasts, and the beasts behind quickly pushed the gap open, making it bigger and bigger as they charged forward in a frenzy. Before long, they crashed into the city wall.

This time, a burst of fire and lightning erupted from the city wall.

"Increase power output! Everyone else, continue the rocket attack," Huang Zhilan said calmly.

However, this time, only half of the turbid beast died!
"It's actually a green-rank turbid beast?" Huang Zhilan was somewhat surprised. Generally speaking, red, orange, and yellow-rank turbid beasts are the most numerous and are usually cannon fodder leading the charge in a beast tide.

I never expected to see so many green-tier items this time.

Shi Jia, who had been following behind Huang Zhilan, immediately informed Lu Tianxue and the others of their discovery upon hearing this. "The expansion of the central area of ​​the turbid energy has caused a large number of turbid beasts to advance in rank."

“We were hunting in the Green Rank area when we encountered a Blue Rank beast, and all the Green Rank beasts are starting to advance to the Blue Rank.”

Huang Zhilan was startled upon hearing this, "Why didn't you say so before?"

"I'm sorry, I didn't think of that before." Shi Jia said apologetically, as he wasn't particularly knowledgeable about military matters. He genuinely hadn't considered that. "However, our captain reported it immediately upon discovering the anomaly."

Huang Zhilan nodded upon hearing this. Either the superiors didn't take it seriously, or the notification hadn't been issued. But none of that mattered; she needed to change her battle strategy immediately. If, as Shi Jia said, the Turbid Beast was advancing, then the Azure-Rank beast hiding in the center of the Turbid Beast was likely also in the process of advancing.

Once the opponent advances to the Blue Rank, they might not be able to defend Gate 1.

Huang Zhilan immediately reported the situation and quickly changed her strategy.

"Purple Cloud Peak, this is Qing Zhan. A beast tide has appeared at Gate 3. Requesting assistance!"

"Qingzhan, a beast tide has also appeared at Gate 1!" Ziyunfeng's expression was solemn.

"How could this be? There are beast tides at Gate 2, Gate 4, and Gate 5."

“I’m afraid it’s not just that; other security gates have probably also experienced beast tides,” Zi Yunfeng said. “I’ve already reported the situation of the beast tides.”

"Report this to the higher-ups!" Chang Qingzhan, the guard at Gate 3, took a deep breath.

Zi Yunfeng hung up the phone, his expression growing increasingly grave. As the saying goes, distant water cannot quench a nearby fire; it would take at least five or six hours for the strongmen from the inner city to arrive. They had to hold on.

Zi Yunfeng's plan was correct. One alarm after another appeared in the hands of the heads of each district, and dozens of powerful individuals set off from their respective districts overnight to the location of the security gate.

However, at this time, the situation at each security gate was extremely critical, and the protective shields of some security gates were even on the verge of breaking.

"Replace the crystals quickly!" Huang Zhilan commanded the soldiers to replace the crystals on the protective shield. The battle had lasted for an hour and a half, and they had already replaced the crystals three times. Each crystal could only maintain the shield for half an hour.

"Ah—" Suddenly, a scream came from not far away. Huang Zhilan looked over anxiously, and the next moment, her eyes widened in horror! She saw a monstrous beast with its mouth wide open, chewing up a warrior.

It turned out that the protective shield had cracked the moment the crystal was replaced, and the lurking beast took the opportunity to jump onto the city wall and swallow the warrior whole.

"Damn it!" Huang Zhilan's eyes turned bloodshot, and the next second her energy gun was already aimed at the Turbid Beast. "Bang~" The Turbid Beast didn't dodge, but the attack didn't seem to have caused her much damage.

"Bang, bang, bang!" A dense barrage of energy blasts nearly turned the beast into a sieve. The beast howled in pain, and the next second, it charged into the crowd through the hail of bullets.

With so many martial arts masters watching, how could it possibly have the chance to succeed in its attack?

With a miserable cry, the beast died.

"Hoo~" Shi Jia saw Huang Zhilan exhale a breath of stale air and immediately return to her command position, continuing to direct the battle without stopping. It was as if nothing had happened.

Shi Jia took a deep breath, walked over, and helped the logistics soldiers deal with the turbid beasts. He also helped the soldiers evolve, as they had been contaminated by the turbid air during their battle with the beasts.

"Huh? Is this a green-tier crystal? Or a blue-tier crystal?" A warrior held up a crystal he had just dug out of a turbid beast. It was quite amazing; half of it was blue-green, and the other half was green, with clear boundaries and no interference between them.

"Let me see?" Shi Jia asked curiously. This was different from the crystals they had obtained. She sensed that the energy inside this crystal was extremely concentrated, almost as strong as that of the Azure Crystal.

Huang Zhilan immediately reported it, and Ziyunfeng came over as soon as he received the information. "Let me take a look. In terms of energy concentration, it's almost the same as the Azure Rank, but it's not quite Azure Rank."

He then inquired about the specific details of the turbid beast.

"One possibility is that this turbid beast failed to advance and its energy conversion was incomplete, which is why this situation occurred."

"Is it possible that it's undergoing an evolution?"

“No, just like us humans, they need a safe and stable environment to advance.” Zi Yunfeng shook his head. “Everyone needs to be more careful, because these turbid beasts that fail to advance have unstable energy within them, and they may go berserk or even explode.”