The corpulent officer was terrified, scrambling away from the heads. A chill rose within him, and he no longer felt the heat.
“Enemy attack!” he shrieked, his voice sharp. “Implement the highest defense protocols! Quick!”
He had prepared for conflict, but not for heads flying up before he even had time to speak?! This was way too swift, even for a real enemy attack!
On the open ground below the city wall, the blood-stained girl stood amidst a pile of corpses, sword in hand. All who had surrounded her now lay dead, their demise remarkably uniform. The Old-Timer had been exceptionally merciful, each killed with a single blow.
One was left alive.
Xu Mo walked up to him and pressed the sword against his chin.
“You know why you’re still alive, right?” he said with a smile. “Who sent you, and what were you doing?”
The man, no longer arrogant, quickly replied:
“The… the officer told us to stall you until further orders. We don’t know anything else.”
“That’s it?” Xu Mo tilted his head.
“That’s it! I truly only know that much!” The man nodded frantically. “You, you just said it yourself, I’m just following orders…”
“I see.” Xu Mo smiled. “No worries, just be careful next time.”
The man’s eyes instantly filled with relief, but the next second, a silver gleam pierced his throat through his jaw. With a flick of the short sword, the head spun twice in the air before flying onto the city wall.
“I meant be careful in the next game. This time, you die first.”
“It’s nothing, brother.”
In her mind, Bai Feifei looked at her blood-stained hands, her heart trembling slightly. She opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but ultimately just sighed, remaining silent.
This time, she raised no objections.
Xu Mo’s lips curled into a smirk. He turned, his gaze falling upon Wan Qianhong.
“Did you hear what that guy said?” he asked. “These bottom-feeders are probably just buying time for someone.”
Wan Qianhong looked at him, her expression somewhat complex.
From that moment on, Bai Feifei’s entire demeanor had changed, her expression suddenly fierce. Her previous calmness vanished instantly, replaced by the unrestrained violence she was somewhat familiar with.
Had her second personality emerged again...?
“Damn it, I’ve never heard of the weak inspecting the strong. What kind of wretched place blocks the road like this?”
“I’ll leave this to you, alright?”
As Xu Mo spoke, he assigned Wan Qianhong her task.
Wan Qianhong didn’t hesitate: “No problem!”
The moment she finished speaking, Xu Mo had already turned, facing the tens-of-meters-high steel wall, and began his charge.
During his sprint, no one dared to stop him, nor did they even have time to react. He bent his knees slightly, explosive power gathering in his calves, then shot forward with a powerful thrust!
Like a cannonball fired from its barrel, he slammed into the steel wall. Mid-charge, black energy surged from his heart, augmenting his strength. He then gripped the dagger he had snatched from Huang Jiahao and thrust it violently into the steel wall.
The silver short sword buried itself completely in the steel wall, carving a long furrow. Using the impact force, Xu Mo propelled himself upward, soaring directly onto the city ramparts.
Like a general storming a fortress. Xu Mo also found it strange. Who exactly was this damn thing supposed to stop? Anyone with a bit of strength could just force their way through!
On the ramparts, Xu Mo looked at the panicked crowd before him and offered a very gentle smile.
...
Below, Wan Qianhong watched “Bai Feifei” charge ahead, a flicker of worry in her eyes.
But recalling the other party’s formidable strength, she shook her head with a smile and turned her gaze back to the surrounding city defense forces, her eyes sharpening.
The man had already admitted they were specifically ordered to block them; any talk of inspections was just a pretense. As for the objective, it certainly couldn’t be anything good.
At this moment, the entire North District was in complete chaos!
“Enemy attack! Enemy attack!!”
“Highest alert: unauthorized entry!”
Piercing alarms echoed over the checkpoint. Everyone was stunned. This was the North District, a top-tier wartime zone, where city defense soldiers had the authority to kill first and report later.
For years, regardless of their Inner City status, people generally showed respect. This sudden, intense conflict left them completely unprepared.
Their authority stemmed from the need to counter aberrations, but over the years, they had forgotten how to deal with a real assault, leaving them only with a self-satisfied sense of swagger.
However, the equipment here was still top-notch. The soldiers who had previously surrounded them in a show of force instantly raised their guns, countless muzzles pointing forward, aimed at the students in the armored vehicles.
Wan Qianhong looked up, a clear flash of displeasure in her eyes, and immediately decided to act.
【The Revolutionary's Blood, a Profusion of Color!】
She softly uttered her Word Soul. In that instant, all the city defense soldiers holding guns froze simultaneously.
After becoming an Edgerunner, Wan Qianhong’s eerie ability had become exceptionally lethal. Controlling blood was virtually no different from directly controlling someone’s life!
“Pointing your guns at civilians, are you?”
“Your authority comes from responsibility, yet you abuse it like this?”
Under Wan Qianhong’s cold voice, everyone’s fingers involuntarily loosened, and firearms clattered to the ground. Then their knees.
Everyone involuntarily knelt. Their blood no longer obeyed them; those with insufficient strength had to do whatever Wan Qianhong willed.
Wan Qianhong scanned her surroundings, a hint of awe at her own growing strength. Upon entering the Edgerunner rank, the range of her Word Soul activation had expanded significantly.
Moreover, it seemed to have been enhanced by that powerful figure, raising the potency of her Word Soul by another level. More city defense soldiers rushed out of the barracks, but collapsed the moment they emerged, their movements becoming extremely difficult.
At this moment, electric arcs suddenly flashed on the tens-of-meters-high steel wall, and the clanking sound of machinery interlocking echoed across the open ground.
Then, one by one, cannon barrels emerged from the wall. The muzzles pointed outwards, gleaming menacingly.
And one hidden door after another opened, revealing defensive installations within, like a fortress.
On Turing City’s convoy, Xie Jin stood beside Xie Xuan, observing the steel wall wreathed in electric arcs and the emerging cannon barrels.
He suddenly spoke.
“This… looks like our technology, doesn’t it?”
Xie Xuan raised an eyebrow, a clear hint of disdain flashing in his eyes, and scoffed.
“What else? Where else would a place like this get technology?”
“It’s probably a project from decades ago, built as aid. And they’re using it against their own people, huh…”
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