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Chapter 643: Chapter 640: "Twenty minutes.

Under the blood sun, a figure held the front line, keeping tens of thousands of exotic beasts at bay, outside the city walls.

Countless dazzling lights sparked to life from atop the wheelchair, drenching the earth like rain. White-hot specks of light shimmered eternally under the blood sun.

Cannons swept the ground, barrage after barrage, with gunpowder smoke lingering in the air, and the intense light pollution twisted heaven and earth alike.

"Boom—Boom—Boom—!"

Su Ming’an, perched high in the sky, unleashed relentless gunfires from behind him; with shells falling, the air screamed continuously in agony.

He needed to hold out for at least twelve minutes to allow core members and technicians to evacuate.

The sandy horizons in his view turned into a magnificent orange-red, with beasts shattering in the radiance, none breaking through his defensive line.

People scrambling to evacuate glanced back quietly, awestruck by the sight. They had never witnessed such ferocious firepower suppression, having only read fragmented accounts of nuclear weapons in tattered scrolls from before the Century Catastrophe.

To them, the figure soaring high in the sky was now nearly indistinguishable from a nuclear weapon.

...And that was merely one person.

Just one person, staunchly holding back a crisis capable of laying waste to cities and massacring populations.

The blazing white and orange-red lights alternatively flickered in the sky, even the blood sun seeming to retreat.

In that moment, many of those fleeing for their lives thought,

—Perhaps he truly was a deity.

The incarnation of the world’s will, the omnipotent Acto, a deity leading humanity’s destiny toward a radiant future.

"Everyone, move quickly! Quick!"

Panic tinted Luna’s voice.

She knew that Su Ming’an’s ammunition was limited, as were his mana points and emotion value. If they couldn’t evacuate the people before he exhausted his energy, the resulting casualties would be horrendous.

The external areas of Zone Eleven—how many people?

Well over eighty thousand.

Some were still sound asleep, some were dragging their families and possessions, some were too old and weak to even walk—how could this group be evacuated in such a short time?

Zone Eleven was open on all sides, making it impossible to relocate everyone into the core area in advance. Surrendering an entire outer city to the Mechanical Army, evacuation could only be carried out last-minute—no one had anticipated that the deity faction could command exotic beasts, nor that it would be so ruthless to use these beasts in their attack on the city.

Lin Guang’s tactic of besieging the city was harmful to both enemy and ally. Should the city fall, everyone would perish at the jaws of the beasts, with property and buildings destroyed completely, the deity faction gaining nothing. The beasts could even advance further, threatening the very interior of the deity faction’s Zone Ten.

"Lin Guang is too cruel..." Xia Sheng murmured to himself: "Rather destroy an entire city, slay a hundred thousand believers, all to annihilate Zone Eleven, even at the risk of the beast tide affecting his own people, aiming for a fatal blow..."

"It seems the threat that Acto poses to him is too great," Sen said. "I’ve never heard of this method to drive these beasts; I wonder what kind of price Lin Guang is paying."

Sen looked back, hearing screams rising and falling in succession. Far off was the scene of intertwined red and golden sparks, even the sky dyed golden red.

"Leader! Get on the truck!"

The truck raced forward, Anjie, clad in leather combat gear, extended her hand, pulling important members of Beacon onto the vehicle.

They were half a city away from the core area. If they were to evacuate on foot, it would take at least an hour—but the outer city would definitely not hold out that long.

Zone Eleven’s streets were destined to run red with blood today. The people seen in this district, even if they ran at full speed now, were unlikely to survive in the end.

Xia Sheng and Lu Sa, among others, boarded the truck. Sen, however, shook his head. Taking a team with him, he immediately turned back towards the outskirts.

"Leader!" Anjie called out loud.

"Many of Beacon’s people have been settled in the outer city, we once agreed that we can’t just abandon anyone, I’m going to save them," Sen said. "You go ahead."

He gazed at the golden red sky.

That figure, standing amidst the golden red, blazed with glory.

"Besides, if we leave everything to Acto... to Lewis, wouldn’t that make humanity too useless?" Sen chuckled. "Other than Xia Sheng and Anjie, all Beacon members, get down!"

One after another, Beacon members obeyed the command, jumping off the truck to give way to the residents.

Their blood-red cloaks billowed in the wind, making a rustling sound in the cold air. Bit by bit, white lights shined around them, like flowing stars.

"In coordination with Lewis, block the tide of exotic beasts outside the city!" A glow from the Source emanated around Sen.

"Beacon, at attention!"

The young combat personnel shouted out loud, their cheeks flushed, blood surging through their veins—they seemed to have suddenly found the meaning of battle.

Following that figure, following the leader, following Lord—they fought for the survival of the vast majority, and this revolutionary mindset of striving for freedom emboldened them to momentarily overlook fear and cowardice, turning them into sharp swords pointed outward, unbreakable and resilient.

The blood-red cloaks left vibrant trails, waving and dancing in the wind.

They rushed toward the most dangerous direction, like pinpoints of starfire, eager to spread wildly fueled by themselves.

...

"Boom—!!"

The bodies of exotic beasts disintegrated under the light, the bright red glow trembling like the thin light of dusk.

With the cannon fire depleted, Su Ming’an had held out for ten minutes.

His wheelchair slightly descended as he glanced at his experience bar which had jumped to Fourth Rank Five.

He had just reached Fourth Rank Four not long ago, and now Lin Guang had given him another massive wave of experience.

The frontline of the exotic beasts had receded a kilometer, their numbers reduced by a third. Despite the ferocious bombardment, it didn’t instill fear in these bloodthirsty creatures; instead, it aroused their ferocity, as they continued their death-defying advance.

Su Ming’an extended his hand, with a radiant Cross Light swirling in his palm.

"Boom—!!!"

Incredibly vivid numbers soared, with the 30000 experience points needed for leveling up surging like pouring water.

[Killed exotic beast, Faction Contribution Points: 9180 points]

[Killed exotic beast, Faction Contribution Points: 9190 points]

...

He had held out for fifteen minutes.

Amidst the proximity of bombarding explosions, his wheelchair wobbled slightly, like a small boat on the ocean surface.

With mana points depleted and wheelchair firepower spent.

Su Ming’an floated in the sky above the tsunami-like army of exotic beasts. Their numbers severely reduced, they still numbered over a thousand, and if they burst into the city, they would surely wash the outer city in blood.

...Is there anything else we can do?

...Is there any other method that can stop them?

His thoughts raced, recognizing how powerless humanity was before a large-scale war, even though he could plunge into a horde of exotic beasts and not die, he couldn’t stop them from slaughtering the residents.

Noah’s Chain... useless. Two Purple Grade firearms... at a time like this, they also couldn’t kill many. A group Judgment could only control for a few seconds, attacking with SAN value injection might work, but one group Judgment required 500 Emotion Points, and he could now only stack it twice, unable to cause the exotic beasts to turn on each other...

He repeatedly pondered what methods he could use, only to realize there weren’t many left.

At this stage, even the Number One Player could only protect himself in the face of natural disasters.

Since the siege of the Seventh World by the sea monsters, he had grown a lot. Previously, he couldn’t even ensure his survival in such catastrophes without the help of over a thousand Soul Hunters. Now, however, he could forcibly contain the battlefront alone, without the need for anyone’s help.

But it still wasn’t enough...

It still wasn’t enough...

Players were ultimately still part of humanity and hadn’t reached the level of shaping the world single-handedly.

If he could experience a few more instances, if he could touch more powers beyond human scale, could he change the outcome next time he faced a situation like this?

The remaining exotic beasts had already crossed the area where he was and were heading towards the inner city.

—There, were women still holding children, old men tottering on canes, young men and women running while crying, and combat personnel who had chosen to stay back, desperately moving resources and grasping the last minute to evacuate the residents.

Su Ming’an stood high in the sky, the blue bar emptied, energy depleted, he looked down at the black lines densely flying towards the side filled with the breath of the mortal world.

Once they met, it would lead to extremely gruesome consequences.

He still had 1200 Emotion Points left... if he established the Lamb Barrier, it should last about ten minutes.

His fingers rose, but soon lowered.

...It wouldn’t work.

If he spent all his energy on protecting the city, once Lin Guang arrived with high-combat-power individuals, that would be the end.

He understood Sherrod’s dilemma back then—having the capability to protect the city, yet unable to make a move.

He stood silently in the high air, using the Mana Points he had recovered to create several Spatial Vibrations.

As he had bought a full twenty minutes for the evacuation, many residents had successfully moved to safety, and most of the core people and high-end weapons had been preserved. The main combat power of Zone Eleven wasn’t in ordinary people, and even if more than half perished, it wouldn’t affect the foundation.

In terms of the overall battle, the population was just an insignificant number and actually didn’t affect the big picture.

But in the current situation, it seemed extremely bloody.

Beneath his gaze, the black line represented by the exotic beasts intersected with the fleeing crowd. At the touch, a beautifully vivid bloodstain appeared—a massacre.

"Bang!"

A severed limb struck a car window, startling Sita Xi. Her pink fur trembled with fear, and the glass was smeared with vivid blood.

The truck rocked and kicked up dust, rubber tires crushing bones. All Sita Xi could hear beside her ears were the roars of exotic beasts and the screams of humans. She dared not look, dared not witness the hellish sight outside the window—the city had fallen. She knew what that meant.

The windshield wipers cleared the crimson blood. Not far away, a sharp claw of an exotic beast was firmly nailing a half-dead resident, blood pooling beneath him, his intestines spilled on the ground. The resident’s bloodshot eyes stared blankly beyond the sky, as if the golden-red sky promised a paradise free of pain.

Bricks shattered, buildings collapsed, and the once orderly and bustling Zone Eleven was devastated into a mess by the surging invasion of exotic beasts.

"We’re twenty minutes behind," Xia Sheng sat in the co-driver’s seat, silently staring at the car’s clock, "Lewis did the best he could."

The twenty-minute delay thwarted Lin Guang’s plan to massacre everyone in Zone Eleven, as the barrier for the Core Area was already prepared, and vital supplies had been transported in immediately. Zone Eleven would not fall in this beast tide.

What’s more drastic is that the exotic beasts from the outer city will not leave anytime soon. They will serve as a natural protective wall, preventing the Mechanical Army from attacking immediately. Zone Eleven will have enough buffer time. Coupled with the defensive forces that Noah has accumulated over the past thirty years, they could hold out for a very long time.

To put it more bluntly, more cruelly... by reducing the population of the expendable, they even had an abundance of supplies, they could continue to build up their strength internally, digesting the Three Domains technology that Acto had taught them, and eventually exert technological pressure on the other ten zones, and even pose a real threat to the Deity’s faction.

— The twenty minutes Su Ming’an held on reignited the sparks of humanity on the brink of extinction.

As long as Zone Eleven isn’t destroyed immediately, the human faction will only get stronger.

"He’s already done the best he could," Xia Sheng turned his head, gazing at the bloody scene.

"But the Beacon..." he said softly, "is also gone."

He didn’t dare to think about where Sen was right now.

What was going through Sen’s mind when he got out of the car to save the people of Beacon?

Did he feel that with his protection, Beacon would endure indefinitely, or did he feel guilty and couldn’t bear to watch any of his brethren die?

— If Sen hadn’t reached out to Lewis that night, hadn’t invited him to be a Guest Elder for Beacon, would all this have happened?

— If Acto failed to lead them to ultimate victory, would the sacrificed truly become just dry bones in the achievement of "a great general," without even their names being remembered?

Xia Sheng dared not ponder too deeply. He felt that humanity’s destiny was teetering on a precarious log, surrounded by malicious intent. They walked tremblingly, knowing that one wrong step could mean total loss, death, and annihilation of the soul.

— Will humanity win?

He looked back and saw a barrier formed by red capes. The blood-red line served like a wall of flesh, slowing down the advancement of exotic beasts and buying time for the residents to escape.

The people in red were protecting — protecting a figure high in the sky.

On the Corridor Bridge, a person stood, his white Yuan Guang transforming into a flood, like swords rushing towards the beasts below, slaughtering the unrestrained predators.

"Yuan" burst forth from him recklessly, his face as pale as a dead man’s, yet the cloak behind him grew more glaringly crimson.

— That was Sen Kylstia.

He, with the Beacon’s people, blocked the entrance to the district, desperately releasing the "Yuan" inside him to barely maintain the evacuation operation of the neighborhood.

Such fiercely resolute teams existed in all thirty-six districts. They used their flesh as walls and Yuan as artillery, doing everything in their power to stop the bloodthirsty exotic beasts from harming the evacuating residents.

[Humanity needs a Beacon.]

Xia Sheng remembered Sen saying these words while patting his shoulder upon joining.

Perhaps the sound of freedom had long since started blowing.

It was previously dispersed around the world, unable to converge.

The emergence of Acto allowed these breezes of freedom to blow, to coalesce... and to form a movement that propelled the sparks, which now have grown into a wildfire, a grand trend that engulfs the world.

Xia Sheng looked out through the blood-red glass, at the Cross Light twinkling anew in the sky, ceaselessly flickering and resounding amidst the swarms of exotic beasts.

He thought.

— Perhaps, humanity should have stood up long ago.

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