Four, five, eight, void cracks
After replenishing the food and water, Ling Li summoned Ult out of the trial space.
He took down a map of the city from the wall and pushed it open on the table.
"Where is the temple and the city lord's mansion? You mark it out on it. He took out a marker pen and handed it to Ult.
Uert glanced at Ling Li respectfully, and then circled a spot near the east of the city, "The City Lord's Mansion is next to the temple, actually in one place. ”
Ling Li nodded, the city lord's mansion and the temple were close to the east gate of the city, and they were a little off, even if they chose a straight line distance first, they would almost span half of the city, which was a little far.
It's a good time to search for survivors in the city.
It's just that what worries Ling Li is that the alien insects encountered in this city seem to be much stronger than the demonic insects they encountered in the wild. This is not a good thing now, if these demonized insects will evolve when they eat the flesh and blood of homeothermic animals, the speed of this mutation enhancement is a little too fast.
At this rate, the pressure on humanity as a whole is too great to bear.
"Not so quickly, absorbing flesh can strengthen the insect's muscular ability, but there is a limit. However, the mother worm uses the brain as its main food, and after absorbing it, it can get some memory fragments, and the reproduced sapiens or brain worms may inherit some human fighting methods, becoming more and more difficult to deal with. Tai Yingge's explanation made Ling Li feel a little more relaxed.
"Oh, no wonder the skulls are rarely visible in the bones left in the town, and I thought they were all bitten by the insects, but they were transported back to the nest and used as food for the mother." Ling Li was a little stunned.
The team starts anew.
Shen Tu Xuan and Jing Wuwu each led a team to clean up the insects about four or five hundred meters in front, while Ling Li's side was cleaning up the battlefield and recovering the loot.
Without the drag of the survivors, the whole team traveled quickly, and the remains of many victims could be seen along the way, and dozens of survivors were rescued sporadically.
An hour later, the team approached the area where the City Lord's Mansion was located.
Turning around a street corner, Ling Li was about to adjust the team, but suddenly felt an extremely strong energy fluctuation coming from a building.
A hotel not far from the City Lord's Mansion seemed to be fighting.
Ling Li didn't dare to delay, and rushed over directly with someone.
There seemed to be some survivors trapped inside, and from a distance he saw a burly, rugged-looking man standing on the roof of the building, holding a large bow, directing some soldiers in armor to fight the insect tide.
This is a transcendent being, and his archery skills are quite exquisite, and the arrows he shoots are always ready to make up for the danger of his own defense. It was precisely because of the existence of this transcendent cultivator that the human defenses had not yet been broken by the surging insect tide.
A huge black-headed centipede finally couldn't hold it anymore, flew to the top of the building, opened its huge mouth, and pounced on the transcendent person on the roof.
When the transcendent saw this eighth-order giant insect pounce on it, he immediately put away his bow and arrows, and with an axe and spear in his hand, he rushed towards the centipede. He is preparing to fight hard, the strength of the eighth-order insect is strong, if he is entangled by this guy, I am afraid that his final result will be more than lucky.
Although he had a chance to escape alone, he had no choice.
As soon as he left, the more than 300 survivors in the building would not have the slightest power to resist, and they would collapse immediately!
So his gaze was resolute, ready to fight this huge centipede whose strength was above him.
Shout!
At this moment, a sharp arrow that pierced the sky suddenly came!
Bang!
The arrow pierced directly through the centipede's tank-sized skull, and exploded.
This huge centipede, which was more than 20 meters long, was stunned in mid-air after being hit hard, and then fell directly to the ground.
As soon as the intelligent insect as the commander died, the centipede insect tide that was attacking the crowd suddenly stagnated, and some insects on the periphery began to flee outward. As the marching ant insect and the demon scorpion insect were also attacked, the offensive of the entire insect tide stopped, and a large number of insects began to retreat, intending to rescue the intelligent insects.
The transcendent on the top of the building looked out, and saw a group of men and horses like warships riding the wind and waves, breaking through the insect tide and rushing towards the building where they were.
In front of the weapons in the hands of these people, the carapace of those beetles, which has strong defense, is like tissue paper, which can be easily penetrated and broken, and they are invincible!
"The transcendent is coming, we are saved!"
The warriors who were defending various passages in the building, and the fierce battles were already in full swing, but at this time, the pressure was relaxed, and when they saw the situation outside, they immediately cheered and lifted their spirits.
It should be high-level transcendents who rushed to the rescue!
It's these rescuers who are in the black fog rolling and the demonic energy surging during the battle, how can it be the demons?!
A shrill cry sounded, and with the rescue signal sent by these intelligent insects, the insect tide that was surging towards the entrances of the buildings stopped.
They quickly retreated like a tide according to their respective populations, rushing to support their own sapiens.
Ling Li jumped directly onto the roof of the nine-story building.
The transcendent walked over with a dozen or so men who were guarding on the roof of the building, "Xu Fei, the defense envoy of Jieya City, has seen Mr., and I am grateful to you for your timely rescue!" ”
He hugged his hands and greeted Ling Li respectfully with Jianghu etiquette.
Ling Li nodded, then shook his hand very politely, "We happened to pass by outside the city, and we rushed over when we saw this situation. What is the situation in the city? ”
"It's not good, the insect plague is very fierce, and only the nearby residents have been evacuated to underground bomb shelters." Xu Fei said, "Most of the rescue troops we sent did not return. As an extraordinary being, a little perception was enough for him to find that Ling Li's appearance seemed to be young, but his cultivation was far above his own, so he didn't dare to slack off at all.
At this moment, there was a heart-pounding roar and energy fluctuations in the northern sky.
Ling Li looked up and saw that in the gray sky, it seemed that a hole was being cracked, and it was gradually spreading, as if the entire sky was about to begin to collapse.
In the blink of an eye, the edges of several black cracks in the sky emitted terrifying scarlet light, stretching across the sky, filling the entire heaven and earth with a cold and oppressive aura.
At this moment, the sun was still shining in the southwest sky, but a chill inexplicably rose in Ling Li's heart.
He then summoned Makino out of the platform.
Everyone's attention was still on the northern sky, and no one noticed that there was an extra person next to Ling Li.
"What's going on here?" Ling Li looked at Tantai Muye.
"The Void Seal Boundary Knot is shattering, and the fusion with the Otherworld is accelerating." "I originally estimated that this process might take more than ten years, but now it seems that it may only take four or five years for the Chiyan Continent to be able to merge with the Middle Heaven Realm. When the time comes, Miss Yingge and I should be able to find a way back. Of course...... This may be a big disaster for the human beings on the Red Flame Continent, but it is also a creation and opportunity. ”
Ling Li's words revealed that a big disaster was about to come, and it was possible that it would break out in three or four years at the shortest, and the process was much faster than originally expected.
The message is chilling.
This means that the last time the disaster that swept the world will befall again.
The real chaos is about to begin, starting with the northern ice sheets, and in the coming years, it will spread to the entire planet, and more and more places will become hell on earth like the last cataclysm.
There is not much time left for humanity to prepare.
The insect plague subsided inexplicably, including the insects in the city, perhaps called by the mother worm, and began to return to the abyss insect tide at the bottom of the polar ice field in large numbers, except for some scattered low-level worms, perhaps because the level was too low to feel the call of the mother worm, and they remained.
When the plague subsided, the city guards and temple guards of Yuya City came out of the underground air defense facilities one after another and began to search for and rescue the survivors.
Although the crisis has been lifted for the time being, for humanity as a whole, the tragedy is only the beginning.
Under the catastrophe of the future, I don't know how many more people will die at the clutches of various invading otherworldly monsters.
The weather cleared, but the whole city was enveloped in a mournful atmosphere.
In the insect plague that has just passed, about four-fifths of the people in this city of nearly 20,000 people have died under the minions of those demonized insects, and there are almost no bones left.
This oppressive atmosphere spread all the way outside the city.
"I need to rush back to the Eastern Regions in time and report the situation here to the higher-ups." Ling Li said goodbye to Xu Fei and Tenzin Living Buddha, "The insect plague has passed for the time being, everyone is ready to leave quickly." ”
"Sir, take care all the way, after settling everyone, I'll go to Xiqin Mansion to find Mr." Xu Fei and the others kept sending Ling Li and his party outside the city, which made Ling Li have no choice but to take everyone to act together.
With a complicated feeling, Ling Li left Jieya City, and immediately began to return south after leaving the city.
This time, he prepared to cross the Tangwu Plateau and return directly to the Western Qin Mansion.
From now on, every second counts, and humanity must prepare for war with all its might in order to deal with the coming catastrophe!
From time to time, a loud noise came from the northern sky, and several cracks appeared in the sky, and some otherworldly creatures entered this world from these void cracks. However, these passages are not stable, and some very powerful otherworldly creatures are not able to come over for the time being.
But there is indeed not much time left for the humans on the Red Flame Continent to prepare......