dhibooks Chapter 241 Burning Across the Great Xia
Chapter 241 Burning Across the Great Xia
The communications soldier's voice grew increasingly excited, until it was almost a shout.
The staff officers at the command post all stopped working and gathered around the communications station to listen.
Each shout of "Slain!" was followed by a suppressed cheer.
By the evening of the third day, Lu Zhengbei spread out the twelve battle reports on the table and pondered for a long time.
"Forty-seven level-two nests, twelve in two days."
The adjutant beside him was very excited: "Governor, I have been in Nanjiang for thirty years and have never seen this kind of fighting style."
Lu Zhengbei stood up and walked to the window, looking at the lights that had been lit up on the city wall.
"Go, compile the battle report and send it to the council."
"Furthermore, inform Representative Song that the twelve areas he captured will begin organizing the resumption of production in three days."
"yes!"
The adjutant turned to leave, but Lu Zhengbei called him back: "Wait, send another message: all teams in Nanjiang Province still on missions must give way to Councilor Song's spaceship without question. His time is more valuable than all of your lives combined."
When the news spread online, the entire Great Xia region was in an uproar.
The servers for the Nanjiang local forum crashed twice on the first night.
Someone uploaded a clip of Song Chen killing the three-headed Earth-Splitting Rhinoceros at Luoyan Slope. The three Earth-Splitting Rhinoceroses charged at the same time, causing the earth to shake.
Song Chen dodged to the side with a swift movement, unleashing three horizontal slashes that sent three rhinoceros heads crashing to the ground simultaneously.
Two thousand comments were posted in the fifteen minutes following the video.
"Damn, they sheathed their sword before the third rhinoceros head even hit the ground."
"Has anyone counted how long those three strikes took? I slowed it down ten times and still couldn't see the starting stance clearly."
"No need to count upstairs, the analysis team of Nanjiang Martial Arts Academy has issued an announcement: From the moment the sword is drawn to the moment it is sheathed, it takes 0.08 seconds. Three level 5 Earth-Splitting Rhinoceroses, 0.08 seconds. I can't even kill a chicken that fast."
"Thanks for the invitation. I'm in Nanjiang Base City. I just came down from the city wall. The whole city is closed for work and classes today. Everyone is watching the battle reports. The old man next door who sells fried dough sticks boiled the oil in his pan three times. He said he wouldn't turn off the fire until he finished reading the last report."
"The situation in Beijing has gone crazy too. Our school was supposed to have a practical assessment today, but the principal canceled it at the last minute. The whole school is watching the live broadcast of the Nanjiang battle report on the big screen in the playground."
"After watching it, our instructors thought about it for a long time and said, 'Students, this is what a fifth-level student should look like.'"
"Beiyuan sends his congratulations: Welcome, brothers of Nanjiang, to experience the joy of having Councilor Song take all the credit. We've already been cleared out once. You'll get used to the feeling of being ready to fight to the death only to find that the Beast King has already been killed."
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Meanwhile, outside of Nanjiang Province, powerful figures at the level of councilors have begun to carry out large-scale cleansing of the Beast King.
No one cared about the rule that sixth-tier cultivators couldn't make a move anymore; the Sirius King was dead, so there was no need to follow it.
The entire Great Xia Dynasty was in an uproar, as if the dawn of peace was just ahead.
The fourth day after the general mobilization order was issued.
Song Chen's spaceship appeared in the southeast of Nanjiang Province and destroyed three level-two nests in one go.
One of them is the Dragon Rock Serpent King, a fifth-tier upper-level creature, 400 meters long, which dwells in an abandoned building and has plagued the nearby residents for more than ten years.
Song Chen severed the snake king's head in one minute.
Next is Qing Shi Cliff.
The next one is Broken Head Mountain.
Then there's Wangyue Peak, Luoxing Lake, Wild Boar Forest...
Battle reports continued to pop up, and the large screens in all major base cities of Nanjiang Province switched to real-time battle reports.
Every time a "killed" sign lit up, the whole city cheered.
"At this rate, all level-two nests in Nanjiang Province will be cleared out within ten days."
"What about ten days later? Will he go and attack a level one lair?"
"There is a sixth-tier beast king in the level one nest."
"We don't have any level-one nests in Nanjiang..."
"If those sixth-tier beast kings had any brains, they should be packing their bags and moving out by now."
"Where to move them? The whales in the sea won't accept refugees from land, will they?"
Hahahahaha.
When the spaceship landed at the Nanjiang Base City supply station, Han Duo glanced back at the cabin.
Song Chen leaned back in her seat with her eyes closed, her breathing steady, as if she were resting.
Han Duo hesitated for a moment before speaking, "Councilor Song, you've been fighting for several days straight. There are accommodations arranged here in Nanjiang Base City. Why don't you rest for the night?"
Song Chen did not open her eyes.
"No need, this is nothing, just low-intensity combat."
"Where's the next one?"
Han Duo sighed and pulled up a map: "There are still nine level-two nests left in the southeast of Nanjiang Province. The closest one is Panlong Gorge, which is 160 kilometers away from here. It is occupied by a fifth-tier upper-level Ironwing Bat King."
"Walk."
The spaceship took off again, its exhaust trail leaving an orange-red arc in the night sky.
On the city wall of Nanjiang Base City, the soldiers on night duty looked up as the arc of light swept overhead.
A new recruit asked the veteran next to him, "Sergeant, is that Representative Song's spaceship?"
The veteran nodded.
"Doesn't he need to sleep?"
The veteran thought for a moment, then stubbed out his cigarette on a brick.
Some people sleep to rest, while others don't sleep because they have too much to do and don't have time to rest.
The recruit gave a vague "oh" and continued to look up at the receding flames, his eyes reflecting the starlight.
Battle reports from other provinces were also released one after another.
News came from the Northwest that Qin Zhen personally led a team deep into the Tianshan Mountains, breaking through eight level-two nests and killing the fifth-tier beast king, Nine Heads.
Qin Zhen and Song Chen have different fighting styles. He doesn't engage in solo breakthroughs, but instead leads an entire mechanized division to push forward, using heavy artillery to bombard the ground and armored formations to crush the remaining alien beasts, leaving scorched earth wherever he goes.
Hearing Qin Zhen's words "Bomb it for me!" on the military channel in the Northwest meant that another nest was about to disappear.
Along the southeastern coast, Gu Qianzhi did not go to the front lines, but he did something even more ruthless.
On the northern grasslands, Qi Shanhe continued his old profession.
This top military figure of the Great Xia Dynasty, without a single soldier, hunted alone on the Mongolian Plateau, specializing in killing sixth-tier beast kings who came south from Siberia to provide support.
Within three days, he intercepted two groups of sixth-tier beasts that attempted to take advantage of the chaos to enter the territory of Great Xia outside the border. The leading beast king was killed, and its corpse was left next to the border marker as a kind of warning.
Long queues formed at the recruitment points in all 108 base cities.
From real-time battle reports from the front lines to the mobilization of martial arts academies to suspend classes, from discussions on the streets to battle videos that went viral online.
The entire Great Xia was like an engine that had been ignited, with all the gears starting to turn at the same time.
On the streets of Anning City, a breakfast vendor turned the radio volume up to the maximum.
An excited announcer's voice came from inside: "Councilor Qin Zhen breached Tianshan Nest No. 4 this morning, and Councilor Qi Shanhe of the Northern War Zone has once again slain a sixth-tier Beast King..."
The vendor grinned as he fried dough sticks, while the customers queuing across the street applauded. Some people tossed a few extra coins onto the stall, treating the strangers next door to breakfast.
This excitement ignited in Nanjiang and then spread throughout the entire Great Xia.