Whoosh!
The Dark Dragon Hound flew as fast as it was able. They arrived at the west side of the city wall in a dozen minutes.
Many warriors stood on the outer wall.
All kinds of shells and missiles had been set up on top of the outer wall; there were also two ultra-long-range voltage sniper guns which were able to directly kill ordinary ninth-rank beasts once they were powered up!
But charging them took three minutes each time. Those sniper guns were the ultimate weapons of the base city.
Su Ping saw warriors who were in government-issued uniforms, and he also found flags of the Zhou family. The brownish flags were fluttering in the air; the word “Zhou” embroidered on the flags was very visible!
Su Ping sensed that some familiar people were there, including Zhou Tianlin, and some of the other Zhou family elders.
Whoosh!
Su Ping quickly flew to where they were.
The warriors on the outer wall were startled by Su Ping and the pet he was riding. The dragon had a very strange appearance; no one had ever seen the like. It had to be an unknown kind! Zhou Tianlin recognized Su Ping and his pet at once. He didn’t know why Su Ping was there. But he didn’t think much of it, since he was also aware of the upcoming strike. Xie Jinshui had also given him a call.
“Mr. Su.”
“Mr. Zhou, are the other families on the other sides of the perimeter?” Su Ping went directly to the point.
“I don’t know. Xie hasn’t told us yet. The beasts are coming too suddenly. Our family is closer to this side so I just brought my people here,” Zhou Tianlin said.
He wore a grave but determined look as he spoke of the strike.
The place would turn into a field littered with corpses once war broke out.
But he was prepared.
Su Ping said to Zhou Tianlin, “I tried to call you on my way here but the line was busy. Can you get in touch with Qin Duhuang and the others? I have a new batch of pets and I want to sell them to you.”
“Pets?”
Zhou Tianlin’s eyes glowed.
He had failed to get either one of the pets at the peak of the ninth-rank that Su Ping had sold the last time. He should finally be able to get one since Su Ping had sought him out directly!
“I will try. Mr. Su, we have other titled battle pet warriors in the family who have empty spots as well. How many are you planning to sell? We can buy them all, name the price!” Zhou Tianlin said at once.
Su Ping shook his head, “I’m selling these pets so you can protect the base city. The Zhou family only needs one because you only have to stay on this side.”
Zhou Tianlin was a bit disappointed but he understood. This was not a usual day. He believed Su Ping would be practically giving away the pets to them so that they could better guard the city. “Okay. I’ll try to contact them,” Zhou Tianlin said.
Su Ping nodded.
Zhou Tianlin took out his phone. He was about to dial the number when someone called him. “It’s from Xie Jinshui,” he said and pressed the answer button. “Xie?”
“Xiao Zhou, come over to the city hall. I have assigned the evacuation to my people. Come on over; I also called Qin and the others. We need to discuss our defense plan.” Xie Jinshui sounded like he was in a hurry.
Zhou Tianlin answered, “I understand. I’m on my way!”
He asked Su Ping after hanging up, “Mr. Su, Xie is calling us for a meeting to talk about defense. Are you coming with me?”
“Yup.”
Su Ping nodded. “Hop on.”
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Zhou Tianlin looked at the dragon that Su Ping was standing on. The pet had not been recorded in any Illustrated Books; it had impressed him deeply. Su Ping had summoned this pet in the previous battle; it had dashed around madly. Although it wasn’t a beast king, it wasn’t any weaker than one! “Okay.”
Zhou Tianlin jumped onto the back of the pet.
The Dark Dragon Hound groaned.
Regardless of the dog’s unhappiness, Su Ping told it to leave at once.
Half an hour later
They arrived at the city hall.
Qin Duhuang and Mu Beihai had already arrived. Everyone sitting in the conference room was wearing grave expressions, especially Mu Beihai and Liu Tianzong.
They were going to evacuate!
However, the beasts were almost upon them. As such, they could only send away a small fraction of their families, mainly womenfolk and the elite young people. As for the rest of the family, they would have to stay behind!
“You’re here.” Xie Jinshui nodded to Su Ping and Zhou Tianlin.
He had also called Su Ping while they were on their way.
“We’re all here. Xie, what is your plan?” Qin Duhuang cut to the chase.
Xie Jinshui pushed a button on the table. A hologram map appeared on the table. It was a map of the whole base city.
The outer wall was a square surrounding the city!
Close to the outer wall were planting regions and factories where the population was small. The closer it was to the heart of the city, the more crowded the buildings were.
“There are radars around the four sides of the base city, as well as ground motion sensors. We will know if wild beasts are moving underground. There’s also the lava layer and the electricity layer underground. The wild beasts will have to go past those two levels of defense when they come from underground. They would be forced back by this.”
Xie Jinshui continued right away, “Therefore, we just have to guard the ground level and against any air raids!”
All the base cities had layers of lava and electricity below ground level. Some Class A base cities had extra layers of defense. Those defensive layers had all been prepared by special pets, just to guard against any wild beasts that could sneak into the base cities from below.
The usual attacks from wild beasts came from the ground and the air.
“From the data we collected, the majority of the wild beasts are quite formidable, with a few flying pets mixed in. The armies can handle the flying pets with air-to-air missiles and calibrated sniper guns. As for the flying pets that can escape those strikes, I will trust your families to take care of them.”
“No problem.” Qin Duhuang nodded.
“The four sides of our base city…” Xie Jinshui wore a more serious look as he struck the map. “According to the information we received, the east side is going to receive the main brunt of the strike. There are a lot of Class A barren areas in that direction. Qin and I will guard that side. What do you say?”
Qin Duhuang was a bit nervous but he answered nonetheless, “No problem!”
The others looked at him with worry. The east side was the most difficult of all. He would have to face tremendous pressure, even though he was supported by Xie Jinshui and other titled battle pet warriors.
“The north side is going to see many wild beasts as well. We’ve found beast kings there. Who will go there?” Xie Jinshui looked at the family heads, not at Su Ping.
Su Ping realized that Xie Jinshui seemed to have excluded him in this.
He was confused. No one answered for a moment, until the head of the Ye family shouted, “The Ye family can!”
He had also cast a glance at Mu Beihai.
Mu Beihai noticed this; he didn’t say anything, although he was unhappy about it.
“Okay.”
Xie Jinshui nodded. “I will trust the north side to the Ye family. Later, I will gather all the people who have come to help us. I will pick out some of the stronger ones and ask them to support the Ye family.”
“Okay.” He nodded.
“The west side is the closest to the Zhou family. How about you go there?”
“No problem,” Zhou Tianlin answered. He didn’t propose taking the task of guarding the north because he was afraid. It was because the Zhou family warriors were already stationed at the west side and he didn’t want to waste time and energy relocating them. The war was on the verge of breaking out; it would be silly to waste time and run around in the base city.
“We have detected the smallest group of wild beasts on the south side, but we cannot underestimate the enemy. Can we have the Mu family and the Liu family station there?” Xie Jinshui asked Mu Beihai and Liu Tianzong.
Both wanted to evacuate; they ended up staying because they had no other choice. They would probably accept the mission of protecting the easiest side. “Sure.” Mu Beihai nodded.
Liu Tianzong did, too.
“Okay. That is it. You can go ahead and get ready,” Xie Jinshui said. Su Ping could wait no longer. “Sir, what about
me?”
The others turned to Su Ping.
Xie Jinshui gazed at Su Ping. “Mr. Su, you can support whichever side you want, but I hope that you don’t act for now. I hope you can stay in the base city!
“You are the most powerful warrior we have in the Longjiang Base City. We would have to rely on you if the Otherworld Heavenly King arrives! I understand that it’s too much to ask of you. So, you can retreat at any time if you feel that you cannot handle it. You have my permission to leave the battleground at any time and you won’t be regarded as a deserter!”
Su Ping was surprised.
Xie Jinshui didn’t say anything to him because he was going to treat Su Ping as the ace card.
He would go wherever the Otherworld Heavenly King appeared.
He could leave the battleground at any time!
No one said anything. They could not accuse Su Ping of anything even if he were to retreat without fighting.
Su Ping was already courageous and generous enough to be willing to stay, knowing that the Heavenly King was coming! “I understand.” Su Ping nodded.
That was a reasonable arrangement. The base city would fall in an instant if he were on one side of the base city and the Heavenly King showed up on another!
He wouldn’t have enough time to hurry over to another side of the city!
“Sir, I have a plan. I wonder if you could lure the Otherworld Heavenly King to a certain place. I know a place where the Heavenly King will most certainly be killed if it goes there!” Su Ping suddenly asked.
The system could eliminate the Otherworld Heavenly King if it could be lured to the store’s territory!
Su Ping was fully confident in the system’s might!
The system could finish even gods and demons, let alone a puny Otherworld Heavenly King!
“A certain location?”
Xie Jinshui and the other family heads stared at Su Ping in confusion.
It sounded that Su Ping was indulging in flights of fancy.
Even the Otherworld Heavenly King would most certainly die?
What kind of location was that?
“Are you sure?” Xie Jinshui had to ask.
Su Ping nodded. “Trust me. All beast kings, whichever kind they are, can be killed there. Even creatures more powerful than beast kings!”
No one could believe that.
It never occurred to anyone that Su Ping had such powers.
What else did they not know about this young man?
Xie Jinshui’s spirit was lifted, but soon the glow in his eyes died down. “Let’s say you’re being serious. We would still be unable to lure out the Otherworld Heavenly King. No device can detect its whereabouts. Otherwise, the Tower would have hunted the four beast kings down.”
Su Ping frowned.
They would have to wait for the Heavenly King to show up. That would put them at a disadvantage.
That is to say, I’ll have to wait for it to show up and lure it into the base city as I battle it. I wonder if that will work, Su Ping thought.
He had no idea. After all, the four beast kings had to be scheming beings, in addition to their strength.
Otherwise, the Tower would have already finished them.
“Such a pity.” Qin Duhuang heaved a sigh. Such a location did exist but to lure out that beast was too hard. They had no idea where it was or when it would arrive; since it wasn’t an average beast, it wouldn’t fall easily to traps or other deceptions.
If the Otherworld Heavenly King were gullible, the Tower would have already set up a trap.
“That’ll be all for now. Time is pressing and the conditions will change quickly. I will call you then. Let us set up a group chat and I’ll send you all a message when necessary. It’ll be easier for us to talk,” Xie Jinshui added.
They nodded.
They took out their phones and joined the group.
Su Ping stopped them as they were about to leave. “Mr. Qin, Mr. Zhou, and Mr. Ye, please come with me. I have some pets to sell to you. Mr. Mu and Mr. Liu, you can come as well.”
Su Ping was going to sell two pets at the peak of the ninth-rank to the Mu and Liu families in case they ran into trouble while protecting the south side.
After all, there were five beast kings. Should one beast king arrive at the south side, the Mu and Liu families could fail!
“Pets?”
Apart from Zhou Tianlin, the others were all pleasantly surprised.
Xie Jinshui remembered the pets at the peak of the ninth-rank he had seen the last time. “Mr. Su, can I buy one?” he asked, curiously.
“You… next time.” Su Ping felt a bit awkward. He could only sell five pets this time. After all, the beast king at the Void State would be too much for any one of them to master.
The other beast king was an infant that could offer no help for the time being.
The ones that could be sold were the three beast kings and the two ninth-rank pets.
He didn’t plan on selling one to Xie Jinshui because the latter was the mayor. He would be the commanding officer and would not get into the battlefield that much.
Xie Jinshui produced a forced smile.
He was eager to get a pet at the peak of the ninth-rank but he understood that not even such pets would change the current outlook for the base city. The priority was to save the Longjiang Base City at the moment.
Su Ping didn’t say anything more to Xie Jinshui. He told himself that he would sell a good beast king to Xie Jinshui the next time he got one. Su Ping thought very highly of him. He was a responsible mayor!
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“Thank you, Mr. Su.” Mu Beihai was surprised to find that Su Ping would be willing to sell him one. After all, he had been planning on evacuating all of his family.
Su Ping nodded. “Let’s not waste any more time. Come to the store with me.”
“Okay.” Qin Duhuang nodded. Xie Jinshui stood up. “Go ahead. I’ll talk to those who have come to help us. I need to let them know about our plan.” “Okay.”
The few nodded.
The meeting came to an end. Apart from Xie Jinshui, all the others went back to Su Ping’s store.
Once they got there, he told Qin Duhuang, Zhou Tianlin, and the Ye family head to stand at the front and had Mu Beihai and Liu Tianzong stand behind them.
That was a strange request but no one asked anything. They all knew about Su Ping’s rules. But he seemed to suffer from some sort of OCD.
There were merely five of them. Why would they have to stand in that order?
Also, it appeared that Qin Duhuang would be the first one to pick.
He could just sell whichever pet he liked to Qin Duhuang. Why bother with the queuing? Of course, all of them kept those complaints to themselves and decided that the reason for Su Ping’s actions had to do with OCD.
Mu Beihai and Liu Tianzong understood that they had to pick last. Indeed, their decisions had displeased Su Ping.
“Come on out!”
After they stood in position, Su Ping summoned the pets he was going to sell.
Roar!
Roar!!
They roared one after another as those mountain-like figures landed on the ground. The pets filled up the street and even crushed the buildings right across it!
But no one cared about the buildings they had just bought. They could sense the energy of beast kings! Shocking!
They stared at the pets, clearly struck dumb.
Beast Kings?!
Were all of them beast kings!!
They stood with mouths open but no sound came out from their mouths.
Three beast kings!
If it weren’t for the fact that it was Su Ping who had summoned those beast kings, they would have thought they were part of the beast invasion!
“Mr. Mr. Su…” Qin Duhuang came back to his senses. He gulped as he looked at the huge scorpion that was dozens of meters tall. Finally, he found his voice, “Are these the pets you’re going to sell to us?”
The others stared at Su Ping in a daze.
Beast kings… on sale?!
Was Su Ping nuts?!
How wayward!
“Indeed. Pick one you like and build the contract now. Use them well in battle,” Su Ping said, solemnly.