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Chapter 195 - 167: Urgent Reinforcements_1

Chapter 195: Chapter 167: Urgent Reinforcements_1

"How could this be? The emergence of thousands of monsters at once, what a massive abnormal node is that?" one of the colleagues voiced out loud in surprise, which prompted others to also shoot him a puzzled look.

"It’s not a node."

Zhang Yang shook his head, hesitated for a moment, then decided to share the information with them. After all, this thing was probably not going to be a secret after today.

"You, have you ever heard of ’doors’?"

"Doors?"

At this moment, the reactions of several people on the plane varied. Some were confused and surprised, but some people were very calm, such as Mu You and another 10th level player, Liu Chen.

Liu Chen was the highest level 9 player in the office before Mu You joined. He was a supportive player, quite experienced, and usually, people referred to him as Old Liu.

Seeing Old Liu’s calm expression, Mu You knew that he must also know about the ’doors’.

"It seems that Mu You and Old Liu do know... "

Zhang Yang smiled, showing no surprise, "It’s very secretive, and it has been banned from public discussion since a year ago. So, new players can’t find any information about the ’doors’ on the forums. Only players with enough experience might have heard of it. I only learned about it after I became the branch chief."

"Captain Zhang, what exactly is this door?" a female teammate asked. Zhang Yang’s cryptic statement had lured everyone into the curious spectrum.

Zhang Yang didn’t leave them hanging, he explained directly: "A door is an entrance connecting the Star Spirit World and Earth, located on the wall between the two worlds. Through this door, you can freely travel between the two worlds, but you must return within 24 hours, otherwise your lifespan will be deducted exponentially according to the number of days spent... "

"People can actually go to the Star Spirit World? There’s really such a passage?"

A few people were dumbfounded after hearing this, filled with longing but also some doubt.

"Yes, nowadays the top first-tier factions, and even some second-tier factions essentially all have the ’doors’. Or else how do you think those high-level players and godlike players are made? The further you level up, the more astronomical the amount of experience needed. From level 10 to 20, a total of 2 to 3 million experience points is required! With such a large amount of experience, and without the ability to grind endlessly in the other world, relying just on the 10 to 20 stamina points provided in-game per day, how would one achieve it?" Zhang Yang explained.

The others looked at each other after hearing this. Thinking carefully, it indeed made sense. With such a massive amount of experience, it’s virtually impossible to accumulate solely by playing the game routinely.

"Does our paranormal exchange bureau also have a ’door’?" Mu You suddenly asked.

"Our bureau doesn’t, but the Dragon Group does, and they have two... However, to avoid exposing the location of the door in the other world, it’s not advisable for many people to enter at once. Basically, only the big shots of the Dragon Group have the privilege to enter." As Zhang Yang spoke, he meaningful glanced at Mu You, adding, "This is one of the invisible benefits of joining the Dragon Group..."

"Wait a minute! Captain Zhang, if we control such ’doors’, wouldn’t this tower destruction task be a piece of cake?"

A team member’s eyes lit up, he eagerly said, "Just let the big shots bring in firearms, sneak into the other world and blow up that tower, wouldn’t that be it?"

The others agreed once they heard his idea. Although Earth’s magic is in its infancy, Earth’s thermal weaponry technology is superior to the other world. If ordinary weapons are not powerful enough, there are even ultimate weapons like nuclear bombs, which should suffice to blow up a tower.

Zhang Yang looked at them, shaking his head and gave a wry smile, "If it were that easy, then you’re oversimplifying it..."

"Is it not possible?" The team member was confused.

Zhang Yang didn’t directly deny it, but instead brought up another secret, "According to the information I received, just the day before yesterday, several large player forces in America organized a secret operation to attempt to destroy their Arcane Tower. They used nuclear weapons, but the result..."

Zhang Yang shook his head, the meaning was clear: the operation failed.

"How could that be? Does nuclear weaponry not work in the Star Spirit World?" The others were surprised.

"It’s still unclear, they are investigating it over there. It could be due to differences in physical rules between the two worlds, or perhaps the wizards preemptively uncovered their plan and interfered... In any case, all the thermal weapons prepared failed to detonate. Moreover, a group of players involved in the action were caught by the Wizard Association, and reportedly suffered heavy losses..."

Zhang Yang sighed, and added, "Furthermore, the situation we face is actually more severe than others. Because the ’Lan Ai’er Empire’, which corresponds to our country in the Star Spirit World, is the birthplace of the Wizard Association, which means the stronghold of the wizards. The defensive forces we face will be several times of other regions..."

This...

After hearing this, everyone stared in disbelief. For most ordinary players, they don’t pay much attention to the tower destruction task, as it seems so distant.

In the minds of many, wouldn’t the top godlike players easily break through a tower when they band together?

It wasn’t until they heard Zhang Yang’s explanation that they realized how difficult this server-wide task is. The player forces in America are not much weaker than ours domestically, but they still failed. Let alone domestic difficulties being several times higher... They could feel a sense of despair just by listening to the current situation, wondering how the country will act in the end.

Mu You didn’t interrupt, but he was thinking about the child he had saved from the Blood Emperor in the early morning sunrise.

He initially thought that the child, like him, was tied to a door.

But now, Zhang Yang had informed him that the presence of a ’door’ was known to all major powers, and the Dragon Team even had two doors! Given this, surely a normal door would not warrant so much national attention.

Furthermore, Mu You remembered Zhang Yang saying that ’that child may be the key to breaking the tower in the future’.

In view of this, what the child held was likely not an ordinary ’door’...

There were too many people on the plane, so Mu You didn’t rush to pester Zhang Yang with questions about this.

"Alright, stop thinking about it. No matter how much we ponder, it won’t change anything. Let’s just leave the headache to the three major powers. When the time comes, the godlike players will naturally have their strategies."

"Now, our present task is the upcoming rescue mission."

Zhang Yang clapped his hands to gather people’s attention and said seriously, "Based on current conditions, it is speculated that a door has appeared somewhere along the Yangtze River. The person who opened the door might have been killed, causing the door to become uncontrolled and unable to close, allowing creatures from a different world to continuously pour in."

"The current estimated position of the door is underwater. However, because of the large number of merfolk lurking on the riverbed, we can’t go underwater to further investigate, and temporarily, the location of the door is still unknown."

"The current situation is that the small town has been encircled by the military, and its residents have been completely evacuated. Under the relentless attack of the military force, no magical beasts have broken through the limits of the small town... but this only applies to the land. There are countless magical beasts underwater along with the Yangtze River, spreading in both directions. The potential range of invasion is rapidly increasing!"

"Now, the military has set up more than seventy defensive zones along both banks of the Yangtze River, blocking this water area to prevent the impact from spreading further, but there is an acute shortage of manpower..."

When Zhang Yang said this, everyone understood: their task was to reinforce these defensive lines and to stop the spread of the merfolk.

Two hours later, the helicopter arrived above the small town in Y city.

Looking out the window below, Mu You saw a circular line of trenches placed around the town center, with various light and heavy weapons forming a dense net of fire.

Innumerable merfolk creatures were continuing to climb ashore from the riverbank, ignoring the rain of bullets, and charging towards the surrounding trenches.

After a brief glance, Mu You found the situation considerably worser than expected.

Lower-level merfolk were easier to handle, with the standard weapon fire sufficient to kill most of them, but the slightly more advanced merfolk moved faster and were able to dodge most bullets. Not to mention, high-level magical beasts often had various strange abilities, such as shields, hard outside shells, ethereal forms, and the ability to reflect physical attacks, etc.

Against these types of merfolk, pure physical firepower was not very effective, and they had to rely on the players to exterminate them using magical power.

Hence at that moment, amongst the forces on the ground, there were numerous players specialized in dealing with higher-level merfolk.

But the problem was that there were too few of them, and when distributed along the elongated battlefront, they were scarce. Each location only had a few and besides, the players were limited by their magical power. Once it was consumed, they had to retreat to rest and recover before they could return to the battlefield, giving the overall battlefront a stretched-thin feeling.

"Calling headquarters, the reinforcements from K City’s Special Adjustment Division have arrived, where is our defensive line?" Zhang Yang pulled out his walkie-talkie and communicated.

After a bustling noise on the other side, a hurried and joyous voice quickly replied, "Finally, some people have arrived! Quick, go and reinforce the Nineteenth Division, the Nineteenth Division has just collapsed, try to hold on as long as you can, we are arranging manpower to help..."

The voice on the other side seemed to be very rushed, there was no time to say more, after saying a sentence, they switched to another line.

"Understood." Zhang Yang didn’t fix on these details; after all, it was a race against time right now.

After he closed the walkie-talkie, he looked at his team members and said, "Everyone, get ready to move."

"Alright."

By this time, everyone had their weapons and magic wands ready.

Mu You had already taken out the things he needed from the game on the road, gloves, boots, bow and arrows, magic wands, bone-breaking knives, dispersal powder, potions... They were all properly sorted and placed on his body, ready to be used at any time.

Soon, the helicopter arrived above the so-called Nineteenth Division.

Mu You looked down below and realized that it was not just a collapse, there was no one defending it at all.

There wasn’t a single human shadow on the ground, only an enormous number of merfolk had already rushed to the trenches and were climbing over the three-meter-high defense line. Any moment now, they would break through.