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Chapter 823 - 486: The City Falls

Chapter 823: Chapter 486: The City Falls

As if a pair of eyes that could see through the blizzard looked down from high above.

One would see a large swath of shaking shadows rapidly approaching the city wall, swarming like vultures that had sniffed out carrion.

On the city walls, fatal flashes of light twinkled.

This was, after all, a defensive line, and the city walls were piled high with various defensive equipment prepared by the officials, from rocket launchers to Molotov cocktails—everything was available.

At the southeast side of the city wall, at the very start of the battle, a group of Terror Devils within a hundred meters distance of the wall were instantly killed.

First, they were entangled by a strong current of air, slowing their charging speed, then one by one, they were accurately shot in the head.

Even those Terror Devils that didn’t die were trampled into mush by the ones behind them.

This was a special kind of arrow prepared by the officials for Li Changhe, the Lockdown Arrows.

Upon hitting a hard object, the arrowhead of this type of arrow would generate a strong suction air flow.

Temporarily restricting the mobility of nearby units.

Taking this opportunity, the soldiers of the Great Tang on the city wall sent bullets and arrows with precision into the brains of the Terror Devils. This method was more effective in killing the Terror Devils than indiscriminate shooting.

In this blizzard that obscured vision, the soldiers of the Great Tang had greatly reduced visibility, but with the cooperation of Li Changhe, they still managed to demonstrate impressive defensive power.

Li Changhe’s bowstring continuously flexed, sending arrow after arrow into the densest clusters of Terror Devils. In less than thirty seconds, nearly a hundred Terror Devils died under this coordinated attack.

However, the number of Terror Devils showed no signs of decreasing. They roared out of the blizzard like a relentless tide.

Despite constant gunfire and arrows flying on the city wall, nothing could halt their charge.

A Terror Devil, resembling a crocodile and measuring over six meters in length, sprinted furiously on the ground. Even when its body was torn in half, it still dragged its lower half towards the wall.

A humanoid Terror Devil clad in iron armor, despite having several bullet holes and arrows in its body, lifted the corpse of a comrade and charged towards the city wall.

A Terror Devil that was covered in hard spikes like a porcupine continued to roar and fling its quills in an attempt to kill the soldiers of the Great Tang on the wall, despite its forelimbs being shattered by machine gun fire.

The hurled quills fell powerlessly before reaching the wall.

But the Terror Devils seemed to know nothing of fear, they still charged with unflagging eagerness, fell, died, and were used as cover by those behind them, or trampled into a bloody pulp.

Li Changhe didn’t even see a trace of fear in them; they were determined to get one step closer to the wall, even in death.

Thus, before long, a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood piled up outside the city wall.

Until their death, what lay in their eyes was the longing for victory.

It was as if they were possessed by madness!

This insane persistence also allowed them to shrug off the warriors’ fire and reach the edge of the wall. Then, they attacked the wall frantically with their claws and teeth, regardless of whether they were ignited by Molotov cocktails or torn apart by grenades. The Terror Devils behind them still fearlessly trampled over their corpses.

This did surprise Li Changhe. When they had attacked the elephant-headed people before, the Terror Devils at least showed fear of death.

It seems that something had driven them back to that initial state of irrationality.

Li Changhe thought to himself, taking out a Magic Bullet Shooter rifle and firing downwards. In his other hand, he held a large ginseng, gnawing into it like a carrot, taking a big bite.

This was his first time eating ginseng, a hint of sweetness mixed with bitterness slowly emerged on his taste buds. Just a few chews and he felt a warm current surge within his body. His physical strength value and energy value also began to recover.

He needed to replenish his energy value quickly, as the Undying Riders wouldn’t last long, and it wouldn’t be long before he needed to summon them again.

Current physical strength value: 94%, energy value: 61%, rationality value: 97%

These Terror Devils truly hadn’t given him enough rest.

The energy value was somewhat precarious.

"Damn it, if only Brother Dong were here," Li Changhe’s gaze shifted, and he abruptly raised his hand towards the sky.

It was a siren with the body of an eagle that approached the Great Wall quietly through the air, while Li Changhe and the warriors were focused on the battle on the ground. Flapping her wings, which spanned more than three meters, she swooped down in an instant.

The moment Li Changhe raised his gun, she was already diving at him, her feet’s sharp claws glimmering with a metallic sheen, as if intending to tear Li Changhe in half.

However, she crashed heavily against the Black Great Wall’s transparent barrier reaching into the sky, and the sound of shattering glass filled the air.

This was the aerial barrier of the Black Great Wall, a semi-circular transparent defense bubble.

At the moment, the barrier cracked under the impact of the siren.

Li Changhe had quite a history with this old acquaintance, for it was the killing of a siren just like her that had him become an archer player.

Now, he had no intention of reminiscing, directly opening fire and hitting the siren’s head, blowing off her skull.

Her corpse, falling to the base of the wall, was trampled to bits by the Terror Devils below.

The Terror Devils had already reached the foot of the wall, and the dead bodies had piled up into a small hill about two to three meters high.

The warriors of Great Tang were too busy to aim for vital spots, instead frantically unleashing a downpour of bullets, arrows, grenades, and incendiary bottles.

The strange, meaty stench of burning cadavers mingled with the nauseating smell of boiling blood spread in an instant.

But the flames were quickly stomped out. The irrational Terror Devils climbed up the fiery mounds, using their own flesh and blood to extinguish the flames, only for the fire from the thrown incendiary bottles to reignite, and the Terror Devils to climb up again.

It was like a meat grinder, voraciously consuming the Terror Devils.

Unfortunately, the number of Terror Devils showed no signs of diminishing.

About five minutes into the battle, Li Changhe had fired more than two hundred arrows, including more than a dozen of quality arrows.

And the warriors of the Immortal Cavalry had used up most of the ammunition prepared by the officials on the wall.

As time passed, they dissipated into points of light, and at the base of the wall, a nightmarish scene unfolded with flesh and charred bones piling up against the wall, already more than ten meters high.

All this was the result of the Terror Devils’ relentless onslaught, piling up their flesh to exhaust the ammunition reserve on the wall.

Watching the roaring Terror Devils approach from afar, Li Changhe once again summoned sixty Undying Rider Warriors, sighing in his heart, trouble indeed...

Energy was only at 50%...

If the opponents were the previously rational Terror Devils, seeing how tough the Safe Zone was to overcome, they would surely have retreated and fled.

Unfortunately, now their minds were filled with nothing but hatred for humans, utterly fearless of life and death.

It’s likely some Terror Devil’s ability had returned them to this state.

Too bad there weren’t enough hands now; no one could leave the wall to find that creature.

At that moment, several hundred meters away, streams of fire fell from the sky.

They caused huge explosions, killing countless Terror Devils. The blizzard was too intense for Li Changhe to see clearly; he could only faintly discern that the glow from the explosions was quickly extinguished by the relentless march of Terror Devils.

That was the artillery support from the external military.

The officials, fearing the Safe Zone might be affected, kept the bombardment distance longer.

It was fortunate they could find the location in the blizzard, easing some pressure.

But... this was the only support this Safe Zone could get for now.

"Hurry up, girl, Chen Yu. We alone can’t hold out much longer," Li Changhe fired another arrow at a Terror Devil. After shooting the bow so many times, his arms were getting numb. He just hoped she could quickly kill or drive back the Dreamer and free up additional warriors.

The next second, he heard an earth-shattering explosion, causing even the wall under his feet to tremble. Several Undying Rider Warriors were knocked over.

At the same time, deafening shouts erupted.

"The wall has fallen!"