Chapter 218 - 144: Dinosaur Civilization
Chapter 218: Chapter 144: Dinosaur Civilization
"Do you remember when the Thirteenth Division was almost surrounded during the defensive battle at Hai City? There was a Zerg Race Mother Empress in the north of Hai City. She just fled to the north of the Great River after this one appeared."
"I don’t think she’ll give up on the opportunity at Taihu Lake."
"Going this time is also a perfect opportunity to bring a batch of Warriors to complete their Tier One Upgrade and Awakening."
Chen Yanyan’s eyes lit up. This was much more exciting than a boring frontal assault.
The fleet had not only won a decisive victory in the last battle at Jia City but had also reaped great rewards.
She immediately asked:
"Can I come along?"
Lin Feng shrugged and took her slender hand.
"Wu City can’t be left undefended. The Hai City Mother Empress has already advanced to the Tier Three Middle Stage. Although we’ve successfully suppressed her ground forces, her Cyan-winged Zergs and Tier Two Wind-winged Zergs are watching us at all times."
"One of us has to be stationed here long-term to ensure the defensive line remains stable."
Chen Yanyan sighed softly, understanding the current situation.
Her man had an agreement with the Jia City Mother Empress: they couldn’t let the Hai City Mother Empress break through Wu City and enter Taihu Lake early.
Besides, from the perspective of humanity’s own interests, they couldn’t allow the Hai City Mother Empress, who had already reached the Tier Three Middle Stage, to be the first to enter Taihu Lake and smoothly advance to the Tier Three Late Stage.
Otherwise, the entire South would be plunged into misery and death in the future.
And after the Thirteenth Division withdrew, this burden had fallen on Lin Feng’s shoulders.
As his woman and the fleet commander, Chen Yanyan knew she needed to ease Lin Feng’s worries, so she nodded obediently.
"I know. I’ll do my best."
After saying this and sharing a tender goodbye with Lin Feng, she returned to the rest area and began to pack.
Lin Feng stood up, walked out of the Battleship, and found Li Ran to inform him of the day’s mission assignments.
Half an hour later, seven Tier Two Awakeners who had just advanced to Lv. 20 yesterday, led by Squad Leader Shen Jie who had already reached the Tier Two Middle Stage, stood before Lin Feng, fully armed.
The first members of the Legion had assembled.
Behind them were the Warriors who had volunteered for this mission, willing to follow Lin Feng to the northern cities.
Among them were Tier One Early Stage Awakeners, as well as many Enhanced People above level six.
As for those below level six, their abilities were simply too weak. They would remain at the Wu City defensive line for now, following the fleet to clean up battlefields and kill Red-Armored Beetles to accumulate experience for their Upgrade, before considering dangerous off-site operations.
In the end, a company of Warriors was selected, a total of one hundred and fifty men, to explore the Northern Lands with Lin Feng.
They carried the weapons and equipment left behind by the Thirteenth Division, to be used for killing the Zerg Race and obtaining Upgrade Energy.
As the combat personnel boarded the Tanks, they departed punctually at 7:40.
To the north of Wu City were three small cities: Chang City, Xi City, and Town City, which was adjacent to Jin City.
The diagonal route to the northeast was precisely the one that passed through these cities on the way to Jin City.
Lin Feng had traveled this way twice since the apocalypse and had never found any signs of Zerg Race activity near the Suburban Areas.
And looking at the map, north of Chang City was the Great River, which was also the shortest route the Northern Mother Empress could take to cross the river and enter Taihu Lake.
Under Lin Feng’s command, the fleet crossed over a hundred kilometers in half an hour and successfully arrived at the northern part of the Chang City District.
By now, it had become a ghost town.
Once the fleet had stopped by the cross-river bridge, Lin Feng told Chen Yanyan that she only needed to come back here to pick them up before nightfall.
He then led the fully-armed mixed company toward the cross-river bridge.
Watching the fleet depart, Liu Yi, a member of the Tier Two Corps beside Lin Feng, clutched his Shotgun and looked at the desolate, silent city before them, remarking with emotion:
"I never thought a place that used to be so lively could become so barren and dilapidated in just over a month."
"I only ever went to the Federation Dinosaur Park here once, back when I was in school."
The others nodded in agreement. Among them were survivors who had fled from Chang City to Wu City, and as natives of this place, their feelings of nostalgia and helplessness were even stronger.
Just then, Liu Yi looked at a dinosaur sign in the distance, then at a tourist pamphlet on the ground. A thought suddenly struck him, and he asked:
"Hey, dinosaurs are so huge, especially the Tyrannosaurus Rex. Do you think they might have undergone an Awakening?"
"And dinosaurs ruled Blue Star for a full 120 million years. You’re telling me they never developed an advanced civilization?"
A team member beside him clapped Liu Yi on the shoulder, quite interested in the topic.
"Isn’t that just a conspiracy theory from those old pseudo-science shows? You know, Lizard People or the Dinosaur Empire?"
Liu Yi nodded. After witnessing the Alien Zerg Race invasion and becoming an Awakener himself, he felt it was more and more likely.
Lin Feng’s lips twitched as he interrupted their speculation.
"Alright, even if they existed in history, it has nothing to do with Chang City. There are no dinosaur fossils here; it’s just a commercial gimmick."
"Let’s go. We haven’t seen any Zerg Race in the city. We need to cross the river and check out the North."
The team members put aside their other thoughts and continued onward.
After crossing the two-kilometer-long Great River, they entered a small county town on the northern side.
Immediately, a familiar, strange stench wafted over from the urban area.
Everyone’s expression changed.
At a hand signal from Lin Feng, they all raised their machine guns, their vigilance heightened.
* * *
Meanwhile, in the dark, starry sky above Blue Star, a deep-space fleet, led by a circular Cosmic Battleship one hundred kilometers long, had arrived just outside the Solar System after an arduous journey.
Through the viewport in the Battleship’s command center, a ten-meter-tall, lizard-like beastman glared menacingly.
The aura emanating from him had shockingly reached the Tier Three Peak!
His five-clawed hands clenched into fists as he stared intently at the empty vacuum of space in the distance, roaring in a low, angry voice:
"Tell the navigator there’s a problem with the coordinate calculation for the Origin Planet..."
"The Solar System is not at the projected location!"
Before long, however, a mechanical reply came from the behemoth ship’s biological hub:
"Energy and gravitational field scans show no anomalies. The Solar System is directly ahead of the fleet. It may be concealed by some kind of high-dimensional Dark Realm."
"After sixty-five million years, Dragon Star may have given birth to a new, highly intelligent civilization..."
"Commander Long Ya, please dispatch a Shooting Star Level Detection Ship to the target’s location to gather intelligence."