Armor-Piercing Munition: Face Me, Carbon-Based Monster!
Chapter 144 - 48: An Irrefutable Reason

Chapter 144: Chapter 48: An Irrefutable Reason

The City Defense Army of Anqing City was on high alert.

Even though they were over ten kilometers away, they could hear the continuous explosions coming from the Anqing Ruins and heard from merchants flowing downstream about the terrifying disturbances happening in those ruins.

"The terror demons there have all gone mad, there are at least ten thousand of them!"

"They’re fighting against something especially terrifying, and it seems that thing has already been defeated!"

"The terror demons have chased up to the bridge, and a merchant guard is battling them."

"The merchant guard has already fled, and the terror demons are pursuing them!"

"At least several hundred terror demons have come after them, all wielding weapons in their hands..."

...

Rumor after rumor had already pushed the tension in Anqing City to its peak. The council was urgently mobilizing forces to leave the city for vigilance, and just as they were deployed, Chen Jian and his team came running "with faces full of distress."

Zeng Yi’s words confirmed those rumors, causing a sudden commotion within the City Defense Army.

----Of course, they weren’t scared off by those Blood Skulls yet.

After all, the resources needed by the Blood Skulls were nearly identical to those of humans.

If they truly could defeat humans, Anqing City wouldn’t be a city of humans, but one belonging to the Blood Skulls instead.

But even so, with an imminent threat, no one could remain calm.

After all, it was over ten thousand Blood Skulls.

None of them had heard such outrageous rumors since their birth.

Even the largest Blood Skull Camps usually only had a few hundred members, never numbering in the thousands.

And now, it was ten times that amount...

The leading Church Protection Army officer walked nervously up to Zeng Yi and then asked:

"Exactly how many terror demons are there?"

Before Zeng Yi could reply, Chen Jian hurriedly interjected:

"At least over 5000! And many gigantic monsters!"

"They are already headed towards Anqing City!"

"We were nearly caught up; luckily, we hired a Holy Blood as a guard!"

"Let us in quickly, there’s no time!"

As soon as Chen Jian finished speaking, the Church Protection Army immediately made way, but the leading priest followed them, continuing to ask:

"How many monsters are there? How strong are they?"

Chen Jian paused and pointed to Ji Xing on the side:

"Better ask her, she’s a Blood Source!"

"Only she tangled with the monsters; we don’t have that capability!"

"I need to get back in the city to retrieve my goods; this place is no longer safe, let me through quickly!"

Chen Jian intentionally displayed a panicked urgency, and the priest of the Mechanical God Sect did not doubt him.

After all, even before Chen Jian’s team arrived, he had already seen such expressions on the faces of several waves of merchants.

And their responses were nearly identical to those of Chen Jian and his team.

Thus, he decisively turned to Ji Xing and repeated his question.

A trace of helplessness flashed in Ji Xing’s eyes.

You guys don’t have the capability?

If even you don’t have the capability, who does?

She could, of course, see that Chen Jian was intentionally distorting the judgment of the city’s defense forces in Anqing.

So, after pondering for a moment, she gave a somewhat exaggerated answer.

"We were very lucky, only being targeted by a Level 4 monster."

"But there are at least 30 Level 4 or higher monsters outside Anqing City, and these monsters aren’t ordinary; they’re all leaders of the Blood Skulls."

"You’d better prepare in advance. I have a contract; I must first cover my employer’s retreat!"

"...Alright!"

The priest gritted his teeth and turned away.

He probably didn’t want to see the panic in the city escalate further due to the mass exodus of merchants, but facing Ji Xing, a Blood Source, he had little choice.

After all, unaware of the relationship between Ji Xing and the Holy Blood Temple, he had no reason to risk offending the Holy Blood Temple by troubling a Blood Source with a high status.

Chen Jian and his team smoothly entered Anqing City, while behind them, the city defense forces reformed their lines, standing ready in tense, murderous anticipation...

Ji Xing silently observed the city defense forces running through the roads, the shuttered residents, and the merchants hastily packing their goods, eager to leave Anqing. After a moment of hesitation, she asked Chen Jian:

"Why are we coming back? Is there anything we need in Anqing City?"

"People here are evacuating. If the Blood Skulls indeed launch an attack, our best approach isn’t to hold the city with the defense army but to head into the wild, relying on your advantages to slay those problematic monster leaders..."

"Excellent."

Chen Jian nodded approvingly and replied:

"Your tactical thinking has improved, and that’s quite an impressive advancement."

"Indeed, the wild is where we have the upper hand; city defense battles don’t offer us much advantage."

"However, our goal here isn’t to defend Anqing City."

"In fact, those Blood Skulls are unlikely to launch a full-scale attack on Anqing City anyway."

"Because they are controlled by Huadu, and until Huadu’s ultimate goal is realized, they wouldn’t reveal their strength so quickly."

"That would ruin their painstaking plans, rendering all previous efforts worthless."

"What we need to do is find ways to throw the situation further into chaos."

"Ideally, we need to get Anqing’s City Defense Army to launch an offensive on the Anqing Ruins."