
Ling Jiu wasted no time in taking Bai Ya away from Whitehole 2, passing through the wormhole to return to Ganymede.
Eventually, they open the wormhole and through it they travel back to Mars. Things on Mars have undergone tremendous changes in recent days.
Lakes and rivers began to form in low-altitude places such as canyons, cracks, and impact craters, with the injection of seawater through six wormholes.
Ling Jiu could see from the top of Mars six ‘Yellow’ rivers that carried the mud and sand that flowed on the yellow earth like an angry dragon and branched out into small tributaries before flowing into every corner of Mars land.
Six wormholes have very high flow rates. A large amount of seawater flows into Mars every second.
Lakes and rivers, and oceans like those on Earth will appear on the surface of Mars within a few years at this rate of flow.
Mars has undergone tremendous changes in just a few days. But Ling Jiu and Bai Ya did not care. What was happening on Earth had filled their hearts and minds.
Instead of rushing back to Earth immediately, they performed the Blink Arcana to come to the Ares Plain.
When they left Mars early, they each left a duplicate of themselves to practice self-cultivation and guard Wukong. This duplicate is the best way to keep an eye on the situation.
But they did not expect that all the duplicates had left. There was no one in the Plain of Ares.
“Come back to the matriculation camp!”
When they arrived, they found the camp also empty; all the trainees had left.
Ling Jiu knew the situation was far from good to see this.
Matriculation camps usually prohibit trainees from returning to Earth. Now that everyone had left, he could imagine how bad the situation was.
The two hurriedly traveled through the wormhole and returned to the South Pole, and then immediately recalled their duplicates.
Their faces changed as memories were put back into their minds.
“Is the situation really bad now?”
Ling Jiu and Bai Ya looked at each other and saw the horror in each other's eyes.
It all started three days ago.
A terrible dimensional gap appeared in the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean, triggering a massive earthquake of magnitude 8.8 SR, which eventually caused a mega tsunami.
Coastal states and base towns around the Pacific bore the brunt of the attack, with millions of casualties.
Unfortunately, the worst is yet to come. Before the earthquake and tsunami subsided, waves of terrifying beasts lunged out of the dimensional fissure, sweeping across the Pacific Ocean and attacking Pacific coastal cities.
According to the information sent back by their duplicates, the weakest direbeast was comparable to a Class-8 direbeast. Grade-9 was abundant, along with many star classes.
San Francisco Base City in the United States was the first place to be attacked.
San Francisco, a large base city with a population of tens of millions, turned into purgatory on Earth in just one day under the attack of hundreds of thousands of beasts.
Many people have lost their lives.
Countless Arkanists have tragically died.
Countless families have been displaced.
Economic losses are uncountable.
Humanity has experienced many disasters, large and small, during the 30 years since the appearance of wild beasts, but there has never been such a shocking slaughter.
Previously, even if there was a direbeast invasion that led to the collapse of the defense, it had only happened to small and medium-sized base cities.
Large base cities and mega-cities have the most advanced weapons and equipment, and the largest number of arcanis.
In people's minds, these big cities and mega bases have always been synonymous with security and sturdiness. But now…
There is no time to grieve for humanity, because in the three days after the dimensional gap appeared, beasts have attacked basic cities like Manila, Sydney, Vancouver, Los Angeles, and others.
It's an existential threat. High-level humans quickly summoned the arcanists to fight, sending an army of arcanists to the towns of the coastal bases under attack.
It was a pity that the direbeasts were too powerful. Humans had fought back violently, but still failed to stop the advance of the direbeasts.
After the direbeasts wreaked havoc on the major cities and mega bases, they moved on and left destruction and death.
Many people had died tragically, families were destroyed, and a dozen major cities and large bases were destroyed in just three days.
Bad news came one after another. These three days are the darkest days of mankind in the last 30 years.
Some call these three days the Three Black Days, which means the three darkest days in human history.
Of course, the disaster that had occurred could not be undone. The next wave of direbeast invasions was a top priority. The higher levels of humans had summoned all the arcanists, including those from the Highest Matriculation Camp.
The duplicates Ling Jiu and Bai Ya had left Mars and returned to Earth in this state.
They were assigned to defend the Base City of Modu City, one of the four large base cities of Huaxia, and the Base City of Hong Kong, one of the fifteen large base cities.
Now that they remembered their duplicates, they had to return to their respective positions. Desertion is a serious offense they cannot commit.
“I'm going, Darling.” Bai Ya looked at Ling Jiu. “Get yourself.”
“Who is in charge of personnel assignments? I can't believe they separated us!” Ling Jiu felt like cursing someone.
“Good.” Ling Jiu slightly nodded. “This direbeast invasion is completely abnormal. Even star creatures cannot guarantee their own safety. Promise me, Bai Ya. Protect Yourself, do as you can, and do not try to dare.”
“I know. You too.”
Tears welled up in her beautiful eyes. “We haven't parted since we entered the matriculation camp two years ago. I didn't think we should split up this time. I can't bear to leave you, dear.”
“Sama here.” Ling Jiu took a deep breath. “We'll be leaving soon, Bai Ya. I'll give you the Dimensional Arcana. That's to ensure your safety.”
“I don't want it.” Bai Ya shook her head. “You replicated that Arcana Dimension from your ex. I don't want it.”
Ling Jiu had no words. Why would he still make such a fuss about such a thing at a time like this? After all, Ai Yuhe is not even my ex. He and I never started anything, okay?
“How about Time Rewind?” Ling Jiu asked helplessly. “This discana can rewind time up to five seconds. It might save your life in critical moments. ”
“Return time five seconds ago? I'm fine with this. ” Bai Ya's eyes sparkled as she continued to nod.
“Please hold with it. That will hurt.”
“Good.”
Ten minutes later, Bai Ya had successfully installed Time Rewind. Ling Jiu made a duplicate of herself to escort Bai Ya back to Hong Kong, while she flew back to Modu.
During the flight to Modu, he called his family home. He was glad to know that his parents were safe at home. Wukong is with them for now. They're secure.
But after talking to his parents for a while, he frowned after learning of the situation.
Ling-er had also entered the Supreme Matriculation Camp three days ago, just in time for the invasion of the ferocious beasts. It sucks that he was assigned to a coastal base town, just like the other matriculation camp participants.
What's more annoying is, he wasn't assigned to Pangkalan Modu City, or Hong Kong Base City but to Bao’an Base City.
Bao’an, Didu, Mohai, and Nanyue Base Town are the four major base cities in Huaxia.
In addition, Bao’an Base City is closer to the Pacific Ocean than Mohai Base City. The probability of being attacked by a direbeast is higher.
“I can't believe that they have sent Ling-er to Base City Bao’an!”
Ling Jiu gritted her teeth. “Who does the personnel assignment? This isn't good. I have to go to Bao’an to see Ling-er. What if something happens to her?”
Thinking of this, he made another duplicate of himself and told his duplicate to go to Pangkalan Mohai City, while he flew towards Bao’an Base City.
It turned out, Ling Jiu's premonition was right. When he arrived at Bao’an, he saw a shocking sight.
In the endless blue sea, waves rolled and surged, and giant monsters stretched across the sea like huge ships.
They plowed through the sea and swept towards the shore. The water gets shallower and shallower, and they gradually open up as they get closer to shore.
It was a terrifying direbeast, whose overall appearance was completely different from all the direbeasts Ling Jiu had encountered before.
They are not like the water monsters in the seas of Europa and Ganymede, or the wild beasts of Whitehole-2, but rather like insects.
Yep.
Bugs.
There were giant ladybugs over 1,000 meters tall, giant grasshoppers that used blades with hard shells all over their bodies, spiders that were over several hundred meters tall with a few feet long like spears, and spiders that were all over them, and the big ants are red all over the body and come in groups. .
…
It felt like all the insects in this world were coming out all of a sudden.
They waded through the seas with great numbers, like an endless sea of insects. It was so terrifying that it could scare people to death with just a glance.
“Batang perang!”
“Direbeasts come!”
Arkanis and countless soldiers with long weapons and short cannons stood on the city wall of Base Bao’an City at this moment.
Everyone stared at the countless gigantic insects with unrestrained fear in their eyes.
This army of direbeasts is unstoppable. Wherever he went, no base city could stop his advance. Can they stop this beast invasion now?
They don't really know.
The sound of public speech broadcasts echoed throughout the city at this time. “Send the command: load all electromagnetic weapons and prepare nuclear mortar!”
“Nuclear exporter?”
Electromagnetic pistols are conventional weapons, used in the hunt for leader direbeasts. Everybody knows about this. But nuclear mortars are nuclear weapons.
Although the smallest nuclear mortar was only 10 tons, once it exploded, not even the grass could survive within a radius of 400 meters. Its destruction is unparalleled.
The problem is that optical radiation, shock waves, and radioactive pollution from nuclear mortar are deadly. No one can live in and around the city if released.
However, due to the invasion of ferocious beasts and the destruction of many large cities and large bases, one could understand why nuclear mortars were used.
It was better to use nuclear mortars to fight to the death than to wait for the destruction of the base city. Could the consequences of the use of nuclear mortars be more serious than the mass casualties and the total destruction of the base city?
“Everything, war is near. There's not much I can say except this: You've all probably heard and seen the destruction of the other base cities. Once Bao’an Base City falls, other base cities such as San Francisco, Los Angeles, Vancouver, and Sydney will face the same fate. To prevent the same incident from happening in Bao’an Base City, I beg you all to do your best. The lives of twenty thousand residents in Bao’an Base City are now in your hands.”