Ordinary people can also be extraordinary

Zhang Chen expressed his thoughts, which attracted Pang Guoxing's attention.

The new team leader this time is called Pang Guoxing, who is in the middle stage of foundation building. He already knows very clearly the reason why the Zerg were able to attack the city this time, so he is very sensitive to the Zerg and knows not to underestimate them.

He attached great importance to Zhang Chen's idea, and designated an area for each person to be responsible for, and arranged for them to patrol every day and report immediately if they found anything wrong.

Therefore, Zhang Chen and his companions would often patrol the areas they were responsible for after not practicing. As the battlefield was cleaned up, except for the mottled marks on the city walls, it was no longer possible to tell that a great war had just taken place here, with more than 100,000 casualties on both sides.

When Zhang Chen was patrolling that day, he looked at the scenery outside the city and thought from another perspective. If he were on the Zerg side, how would he break through the city? A head-on breakthrough would definitely result in heavy losses. After the last incident, another sneak attack would definitely be even more difficult.

However, there are continuous mountains on both sides, which are difficult for a large number of insects and beasts to climb. There are soldiers patrolling on the top of the mountain all the time, and small-scale sneak attacks will not be effective. Even if a large number of flying insects and beasts are used to break through the weakly defended mountain tops and pass through, without the cooperation of a large number of insects and beasts on the ground, they will be like a tree without roots, unable to stand, and will be slowly consumed.

But taking a detour is not practical, and Zhang Chen really can't figure out what they will do.

Just then, several soldiers walked past Zhang Chen and a few words reached Zhang Chen's ears.

"I heard you almost fell into the toilet last night."

"That's a huge hole with no bottom. If you fall into it, you will either die or die of the stink."

"Hahaha……"

Zhang Chen's head shuddered when he heard this, "A bottomless hole?"

He quickly turned around and rushed in front of them in two steps, blocking their way.

"Where is the big hole you were talking about?"

When they saw Zhang Chen, who was not wearing armor and had a graceful figure, they immediately recognized him as an immortal cultivator. They showed envy on their faces and then bowed respectfully.

"Big hole? Master, are you referring to that toilet?"

"A toilet? No wonder, who would go there to investigate?"

Zhang Chen seemed to be thinking about something.

"Take me to see it."

Zhang Chen's expression changed and he thought of something.

Several people were stunned and looked strange. They didn't know what was so good about this pit toilet, but seeing Zhang Chen's request, they took Zhang Chen and walked over.

Soon they came to a thatched hut surrounded by wood. Zhang Chen smelled a strange smell from a distance. Zhang Chen frowned and walked in to check.

He found a crack eight meters long and four meters wide, with no bottom in sight. Zhang Chen picked up a stone and threw it in. After waiting for about twenty breaths, he heard a slight sound of the stone falling to the ground. This mountain is two thousand meters high, which means that the cave is almost bottom-out.

And from the sound, it seems that there is a lot of space below, which means that this mountain is not solid and there is a cavity in the middle.

Zhang Chen's face turned pale instantly and he had a terrible thought: Could it be that the Zerg discovered this feature of the mountain and were preparing to break through the entire mountain to attack?

So he walked out to ask them, and it turned out that there were many cracks like this, and there were cracks on both mountains. After getting a definite answer, Zhang Chen immediately ran towards where Pang Guoxing was.

When he arrived, he quickly shared his findings and also stated his guesses.

"What do you think?"

Pang Guoxing had already called everyone together after hearing Zhang Chen's report, and was now asking everyone.

"It's just a few cracks. Don't overthink it."

"That's right. There aren't many cracks on that mountain. Can they break through the whole mountain with just this? It's a joke."

"That's right, it's just groundless worry."

"I guess he was just trying to attract attention and show his presence."

"Maybe he was frightened by the last swarm of insects that attacked the city."

……

Pang Guoxing saw that they were about to laugh at Zhang Chen, so he stopped them immediately. Although he didn't quite believe it, he still turned to Zhang Chen and said:

"Although the possibility you mentioned is a bit unbelievable, we should be on guard even if it is a one in ten thousand chance. Since you proposed it, do you have any targeted measures? What should we do?"

Zhang Chen was already prepared. He ignored their sarcasm and said quickly:

"First, we need to send people into these cracks to explore and see how big they are, where they lead to, and whether they are connected to each other."

"Second, we need to plan ahead. If they can really use these cracks to cross the mountains, we need to think about how to deal with it."

"Third, observe the Zerg's movements. If they really want to break through the mountains, we will definitely be able to find clues."

After Zhang Chen finished speaking, he looked at Pang Guoxing.

Pang Guoxing nodded, thinking that it made sense. These things were not that difficult to handle. It was just a waste of time to wait blindly. So he met with those generals and told them that the Zerg might come through the cracks in the mountains. He hoped that they would arrange soldiers to enter the cracks to investigate.

When these generals heard that the Zerg might come through the mountains, none of them believed it. They had been stationed here for many years, and many of their ancestors had lived nearby, but they had never heard of anyone being able to break through the mountains.

However, due to Pang Guoxing's face, he arranged soldiers to investigate.

Two days later, part of the results of the crack exploration came out. The conclusion was that there were indeed many cavities in the mountains of Wushan and Yunshan, but they were not connected. Most of the cracks were blocked before they could go far, so it was impossible for the Zerg to break through the mountains.

But Zhang Chen and his men didn't know that like the big crack that Zhang Chen had seen before, the soldiers saw that the hole was deep and dark, so they didn't complete the exploration at all. They just pretended to explore and went back. Because the generals didn't believe it themselves, they didn't take it seriously. The subordinates followed suit, and the exploration of the crack was just a formality.

In addition, Pang Guoxing has been conducting targeted investigations over the past few days and has not found anything abnormal. Instead, he has discovered that the number of Zerg is decreasing, and he has also seen with his own eyes that the Zerg are retreating.

Therefore, the idea that Zhang Chen proposed that the Zerg might break through the mountains to attack immediately became a joke for everyone to laugh at Zhang Chen. Everyone would make sarcastic remarks about Zhang Chen whenever they saw him.

Zhang Chen laughed at himself when he heard Pang Guoxing say that the Zerg were retreating.

"It seems that I have been overthinking and worrying for no reason."

Then he suppressed this worry in his heart and didn't care about the ridicule of his fellow students. He just made a guess and hoped it was wrong.

Knowing that the Zerg were retreating, everyone relaxed and stopped patrolling. Only Pang Guoxing would check from time to time to see how the Zerg were retreating.

Zhang Chen also practiced in his own residence every day and did not go out. Zhang Chen guessed that since the Zerg had retreated, they would probably be arranged to go to other towns, because there were also Zerg invading other places besides here.

But for some reason, Zhang Chen felt vaguely uneasy during his daily practice, as if he had missed some important information.