The city is very calm on the surface, but there is already an undercurrent turbulent, Ye Yunyang knows this, it is obvious that the matter of the beast tide is no longer a secret among the high-level, but the ordinary people don't know it.

Whether it is a human or a god race, all of them have bad roots, and as an elder, they are not exempt from vulgarity, once they know about the beast tide, even if they can achieve peace and keep secrets, they will still make some preparations in private to ensure the safety of their families and property.

For example, the walls of the mansion were strengthened, the money was dug and buried in pits, and valuables such as elixirs and silk were removed from the wooden storehouses so that they would not be burned to ashes when they were found.

Sure enough, everyone swept the snow in front of the door, and didn't care about the frost on the tiles of others.

Three days later, the news came that the elite reconnaissance team sent out was completely wiped out, and sixteen members were killed in the mouth of the beast.

According to the person who sent the news, Zheng Anyan and the others behaved extremely bravely in the face of the siege of fierce beasts, and everyone fought until the last moment, and countless fierce beasts were killed by them.

Lei Shaoyuan scoffed at this, what bravery, God knows under what circumstances they were besieged by fierce beasts, the probability of being dug and designed by traps is very high, and they are not stupid, will they take the initiative to drill into the beast's nest?

The Alliance Elders will posthumously award the Medal of Warrior to Zheng Anyan and others, and bereavement to their families.

People are dead, what is the meaning of the medal, the bereavement is just to cover up the truth and invite people's hearts, Lei Shaoyuan can even be sure that long before the reconnaissance team departed, the medal and pension were prepared, including sonorous words used to deceive the family.

As an old friend, he felt that Zheng Anyan was unjustly killed, and he had worked hard for many years to resolutely implement the decisions of the upper-level elders, including the so-called action of catching rumor-mongers, and did things for them, but in the end he was used as a scapegoat by them, which was not worth it!

Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, on the ninth day, the aerial reconnaissance determined that the number of beasts had exceeded one million, and the Council of Elders immediately announced the matter of the beast tide, and at the bottom of the list, there was a line of small words: The Council of Elders of the Peace has not followed the normal judicial procedures, resulting in many people being treated unfairly, and now it is proved that they are not lying, and the Council of Elders will send someone to conduct a detailed investigation, and then restore the freedom of these people.

Few people pay attention to this line of small characters, and even if they do, they will not go to their hearts, because everyone is in the panic of the beast tide, and the list text clearly states that the beast herd will attack the city in two days.

The news came too suddenly, everyone had a lot of things to deal with, and the city was in chaos.

Two quarters of an hour after the announcement of the first list, the first order of the Council of Elders against the beast tide was issued: All Protoss over the age of 300, regardless of gender, regardless of status, except for those who are also in public office, must climb the city wall within two hours, according to the living area, corresponding to the location on the city wall, and obey the dispatch of the city defense elders.

Men between the ages of 100 and 300 were in charge of the city's defenses, and women were in charge of making military rations and repairing armor and cutting weapons.

Because today is Wednesday, there is silence in the Union Academy, and the students go to class and study step by step, until the end of school at noon, when each class teacher receives a notice and leads the students to the square.

Without waiting for the students to line up, Lei Shaoyuan took a group of high-level college officials to the main podium and said loudly: "Students, faculty and staff, two hours ago, the Elders of the Alliance released the list of leaders, the beast tide will come in two days, and the city has entered the first level of combat preparation. ”

It is a level of combat readiness, not readiness for war.

Ye Yunyang and Li Hao glanced at each other, blocking the news for more than 40 days, and finally couldn't hold back.

The students let out a burst of exclamations, and the beast tide appeared nineteen years ahead of schedule, exceeding everyone's expectations.

Lei Shaoyuan waved his hand, signaled everyone to be quiet, and continued: "Although the Elder Council has not given the academy a task, we, as members of the Divine Realm, cannot stand idly by, are you right?"

The students shouted at the top of their voices, "Yes!"

Lei Shaoyuan smiled and said, "As soon as I received the news, this dean went to the City Defense Elders' Church and asked the Alliance Academy to form a student team to help them defend the city wall. However, he was rejected by the chief elder of the city defense, and he thanked the dean for his kindness, and the troops serving as the front-line defense task were unusually sufficient, and he really couldn't find a place to arrange for us. ”

The students looked disappointed, and everyone thought what a hero it would be to climb the city wall to face the enemy.

Although he failed, the dean was not discouraged and immediately went to the Presbyterian Church. Lei Shaoyuan clenched his fists and said, "After some efforts by me, the Chief Elder agreed that we should form a student team, draw an area of Dongcheng, and give us the task of security there. Students, don't underestimate this area, every time there is a beast tide, there will be flying beasts landing in the city, and some beasts falling from the sky, they will all become our opponents. ”

He paused, and then said: "This dean has decided that after the beast tide is over, all students who participate in the action will be rewarded with six credits, and those who perform well will be rewarded, and those who have made great contributions will have their credits doubled, and those who have made great contributions will lower their graduation standards!"

There must be brave men under the heavy reward, this is not bad at all, the students became extremely excited, shouting to go to the East City, hoping that all the flying beasts would land in that area, and there would be a chance to make meritorious contributions.

More than 2,000 students were divided into 16 squadrons, and students below the 10th grade were divided into classes, with the class teacher as the squadron leader and the instructor as the deputy leader, and drove to the Dongcheng area.

On the way, Ye Yunyang felt that the scene in front of him was becoming more and more familiar, and asked, "Xiaoyu, is it almost to your house?"

Mei Yu nodded: "Yes, go forward five hundred meters and turn south, go three hundred meters and then east, and the sixth alley is my home." ”

"No wonder it looks so familiar. Ye Yunyang said with a smile: "It seems that our patrol area just includes the Mei family, and we can go to help Uncle Mei look after the store when we are not busy." ”

Eighty-six years old, Mei Ruogu did not need to guard the city walls or join the security patrol, and could continue to run the business of Dan Pharmacy and Herb Shop.

"Okay. Mei Yu said happily, but immediately changed the conversation: "I guess there is not much hope, the dean will definitely not agree to someone leaving his post without permission, let's better be with everyone." ”

Li Hao said: "Not necessarily, I estimate that the area for us will not be too large, and more than 2,000 people will be used." Besides, we must have been divided into two or three shifts, responsible for patrol tasks at different times, and everyone stayed in the patrol area 24 hours a day, who could stand it!"

Soon, the team arrived at the designated area.

Sure enough, the area of this area is not large, about two miles horizontally, less than one mile longitudinally, there are four main streets together, and there are more side streets and alleys, there are dozens.

Lei Shaoyuan divided the team into three teams, one team was responsible for security tasks during the day, one team was responsible for night, the other team was used as a reserve team, and the three teams rotated tasks every two days.

Ye Yunyang glanced up at the sky and said, "No wonder I've always felt that something is missing, why didn't there be a shuttle in the sky, wasn't there a lot before?"

Li Hao glanced at him and said, "The big war is imminent, of course the shuttles are hiding, or they are landing on the spot, there are so many flying beasts, stay in the sky as a live target?"

Ye Yunyang shrugged: "No, why don't you send a shuttle to deal with flying beasts?"

Li Hao shook his head and said: "The shuttle has no combat capability, and there is only one way to die at this moment. ”

Well, the Protoss is really strange, even humans know about installing a strong crossbow on the flying wing, and later researched and invented an air combat weapon that can breathe fire, in order to increase the combat effectiveness of the flying wing. Facts have proved that strikes from the air are far more effective than from the ground, and on the earth of the 21st century, air supremacy is the most important link in warfare, and only those who control the air can control the battlefield.

The Protoss has powerful technology, they can build a special shuttle with a speed of 100,000 miles per hour, but they only use it for interstellar flight, but they don't consider adding weapons, and the function is so single, it's a pity.

Li Hao knew what he was thinking, and said: "It's useless, the biggest advantage of the shuttle is that it is fast, and the biggest disadvantage is also the speed, so fast speed, what kind of weapons can be installed? If you really want to put it into the battlefield, it is better to directly use the speed to hit it more directly, for example, get dozens of large shuttles, line up in a row from the same direction, the same height quickly pass over the city, you will definitely be able to hit down a lot of fierce beasts in the air." ”

"Then why didn't anyone do that?" Ye Yunyang asked rhetorically.

"Please, how expensive is the shuttle, the price of a large shuttle is millions of taels of purple gold, how distressing it is to be damaged!" Li Hao glared and said: "And most of the shuttles are private property, who would want to use it to hit the beast." ”

Ye Yunyang said in a mocking tone: "That is, he would rather die in the beast tide than use the shuttle to deal with the beast." ”

Li Hao frowned, then nodded, and said: "Basically, that's what it means, even the Protoss will be afraid of death, and they will feel sorry for money, this is an innate character flaw, and it can't be changed." ”

......

The atmosphere in the city was tense, and no one would go out on the streets unless there was something to do.

Outside the city, the roar of the beast was getting closer.

But three days passed, and there was no large force of beasts outside the city.

This made the Council of Elders feel very shameless, they estimated that the beast would attack the city in two days, and now it was the fourth day, and there was still no movement.

"What's going on, have you found out?" Elder Zhao yelled at the person in front of him.

"Basically, it's clear. The man resignedly, "The beasts show no signs of attacking the city, and more beasts are still gathering in that direction." ”

Elder Zhao frowned: "It's still gathering, what is the current number?"

"More than 1.6 million, a large number of beasts are surging from all directions, and the preliminary estimate is more than two million. ”

"What, two million?" Elder Zhao frowned and said, "This is bad! The intensity of this beast tide is twice as strong as before, if we knew that this was the case, we should have prepared everyone in advance! It's too late to say anything now, you go and inform the other three Great Elders, let them hurry up for a meeting, we need to be ready to increase the city wall at any time." ”

Two million fierce beasts, no matter which side they choose as the main direction of attack, will cause huge casualties to the Protoss, there is no doubt about it.