Chapter 191: Chapter 191: The Possibility of Being Dragged Down
In this trial, although there was an undead crisis, very few had actually seen the undead, even fewer had seen them up close.
After all, from the beginning, the undead crisis had been severely suppressed, with a significant portion of the fighting coming to an end in the Undead World.
For most people, this was the first time they had seen the undead since the crisis began!
It was a translucent figure, enshrouded in a layer of mist, indistinct to the eye, but just the cold presence felt by those who had settled in the warm Underground City was indescribable.
Some of the closer individuals had even stiffened and fallen to the ground, struggling!
If it weren’t for the alchemy belts they wore, constantly emanating warmth and forming a barrier, these people would have likely died by now.
“This is not an ordinary undead!”
Wang Yu felt distinctly that his Level 4 strength was utterly useless in front of this undead.
But he still knew what he had to do at this time.
Everything he was taught in military training was etched firmly in his mind.
“Get the weapons first!” he yelled to his teammates, then dashed toward the emergency weapons box placed in the middle of the room!
Inside were all weapons that countered the undead, and since there was a limited quantity, and they held certain risks, they were not distributed to every reserve soldier, but in emergency situations, any reserve soldier was qualified to take up arms.
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At the same time, taking up a weapon also meant that one could not abandon non-combatants and flee.
Otherwise, it would be considered desertion, subject to severe punishment including the death penalty.
Between running away and fighting with weapons, Wang Yu chose the latter.
It was a Peach Wood Sword, and the moment he took hold of it, spiritual energy uncontrollably surged into it. The sword emitted a pale blue glow, trembling slightly, and a warm force instantly chased away the coldness that had crept up on him due to the proximity of the undead.
“Move aside!” Wang Yu bellowed, channeling his spiritual power, leaping high into the air toward the undead that was attacking everyone recklessly.
One strike!
Against a White Level 10 equipment, it was a strike that drained all his spiritual energy, but it was enough to slay the undead that seemed to be around Level 7!
“Goodness!” his teammate had just grabbed another weapon and exclaimed in excitement upon seeing Wang Yu, “You’ve made a significant contribution!”
Wang Yu gasped for air, feeling the emptiness from the depletion of his spiritual energy but also a sense of joy.
In this era, for an ordinary person to stand out, one either had to work twice as hard, possess a special Talent or ability, or earn military merit!
Clearly, in this situation, he had saved dozens of people at the very least.
This military merit was enough to grant him a decent amount of contribution points to exchange for more powerful abilities.
However, this joy was short-lived.
Because stronger, colder auras kept approaching, and both Wang Yu and everyone who had just caught their breath had their expressions turn grave.
Undead figures emerged one after another!
“How can there be so many!” Wang Yu exclaimed in disbelief.
“Don’t just stand there, the captain and his team are on their way!” his teammate shouted!
Indeed, several people were rushing toward them, all armed with standard-issue weapons, and they were the Patrol Team members responsible for this area.
Wang Yu noticed that the disturbances outdoors were growing louder as well.
The undead were not only appearing here.
There were undead throughout the entire Underground City!
But in the next moment, the Patrol Team’s captain raised his long gun, and a surge of golden lightning burst forth, instantly eradicating all the undead that had appeared!
“It’s President Shen Hao’s power!” Wang Yu exclaimed joyfully.
“All reserve soldiers, converge on me!” the captain roared among the crowd, “Non-combatants line up and follow us to the shelter, maintain order, how have you been trained all this time?”
Prior to this, various regions had actively conducted drills and instructions for crisis situations, led by the local patrol personnel.
The golden lightning surging around the captain in the crowd was very conspicuous and apparently held a degree of authority.
Everyone knew it was President Shen Hao’s power.
This provided a certain sense of security.
Wang Yu finally rejoined his team, donning the standard equipment—protective clothing, Special Attack Spiritual Power Rifle, protective talismans, and so on.
The level of this equipment wasn’t high, as it was all produced by the civilization itself and couldn’t compare to the weapons in the emergency box, but still, the gathering of so many teammates provided Wang Yu with a certain peace of mind.
Especially after leaving the factory, with the help of the bright lights installed overhead in the Underground City, he could clearly see that although the undead were appearing everywhere, there were also powerful Patrol Team members continuously leaping between buildings, eliminating one after another.
Wang Yu even saw a powerful Siti person he recognized; that was one of the most powerful Chosen Ones of the Siti people.
All this caused him to quickly calm down.
Although he didn’t know where such a huge number of undead came from, the defense forces of the Underground City had already been fully activated, and order had not collapsed.
“Speed up! The safe zone is just ahead!” the captain’s voice came again.
In the Underground City, there were some safe zones reinforced and strengthened by magic arrays, cultivation arrays, or other means. Even if the undead appeared in the midst of the people, all that was needed was to gather everyone and move them to these areas, which would significantly reduce the number of casualties among the non-combatants.
At the time of construction, many did not understand, thinking that there weren’t many undead left, and these targeted buildings might not be useful by the time of the next trial.
Now it seemed, the top had clearly shown foresight.
No, it should be said that President Shen Hao had foreseen this long ago.
At this moment, Wang Yu felt both nervous and reassured.
He was nervous because this was undoubtedly a battlefield. If a powerful undead suddenly burst out, he would have to lay down his own life here. But he was reassured because the current level of crisis would surely be resolved sooner or later. Human civilization, even this city, would not fall in the face of this sudden crisis.
And that was indeed the case.
At this very moment, at least hundreds of cities around the globe were under attack, with hundreds of millions of undead suddenly appearing. Initially, this indeed led to many casualties, but thanks to Shen Hao’s timely warning and the well-prepared Underground Cities, overall, the situation was still not out of control.
But if it were ten billion, or even tens of billions, that would be another story.
After all, although Shen Hao had anticipated that the remaining crisis would most likely be an undead crisis, he had not expected the undead to come not from outer space, but to appear directly within their Undead World.
“The Undead World is interconnected,” he realized.
This too, was beyond Shen Hao’s expectations.
He had already roughly identified where these undead had come from.
Wing Sky Planet.
Just as the undead of the Sky Spirit People could master a certain degree of magic, so too could the undead of the Wing Sky people grasp a certain degree of alchemy.
And at this stage, the only place with enough undead to surge forth in such numbers was the Wing Sky Planet.
That planet was too large. Two billion undead mixed within it was like a drop in the ocean; Shen Hao had previously wanted to sweep through and nip the crisis in the bud, but it was simply impossible. The difficulty of hunting down undead there was too great.
The final crisis, as expected, came from there.
But at this moment, what Shen Hao worried about the most was not the undead that appeared on the Mother Planet, but the situation of other civilizations!
Even if hundreds of millions of undead appeared on the Mother Planet, at this stage, the strength of Human Civilization was also unprecedentedly powerful.
Even the weakest ordinary person had an average Extraordinary Level of around Level 2, and those slightly stronger had Level 4 or even Level 5. Equipped with an Alchemy Belt now standard for each person, they could withstand one or two attacks even from Level 6 or 7 undead. Moreover, the Patrol Team members scattered in various places averaged Level 6. With the reserve soldiers, the number of combatants that could be mobilized in an emergency totaled to two hundred million!
This was not even counting the Alien Races.
The newly joined Alien Races were all survivors and formidable figures from their respective civilizations, with no low average Extraordinary Levels. The two hundred million Senya people’s average Extraordinary Level could even be compared to Patrol Team members, after all, they started out on the Extraordinary Path.
Adding to that the Chosen Ones also dispersed in various places for defense, a mere few hundred million undead were not enough to stir up trouble.
Even if powerful Ghost Kings appeared, Shen Hao could Descent his power and annihilate them instantly.
“The number of casualties is estimated to be between two and five million,” Shen Hao assessed the situation in various places and had a rough understanding in his heart.
Most of these casualties were caused by the undead suddenly appearing amidst the crowds, but as armed forces began to operate step by step, non-combatants were gradually evacuated to safe areas, and the number of casualties would decrease significantly.
Five million was already a high estimate.
So, for the moment, there was no need to worry.
However—this might not be the case for other civilizations.
Shen Hao currently didn’t have the time to inquire with the observers of the other civilizations; he could get a general idea from the soon-to-be-calculated civilizational rankings.
Every civilization had originally been sprinting for rank, but at this moment, there was a sudden and dramatic fluctuation.
Especially for the civilization ranked fifth.
This was Civilization No. 9, the one that rejected further contact with Human Civilization. Their performance value was plummeting sharply at this moment.
If they were hit by the same hundreds of millions of undead, with the strength of this civilization, they were in definite danger of extinction!
Though Shen Hao did not spare any excess sympathy, that would also lead to a large influx of new undead!
And the Desert Tower Civilization, which had been contending for second place, was also experiencing a significant drop in performance value.
Even faster than No.8 Civilization, which was suspected to be part of a Cultivation System.
That was a civilization with twenty billion people!
“I see, there indeed might be a chance of being dragged down,” Shen Hao had now fully understood where the last crisis of this trial lay.