Novel Full Chapter 275: City-wide Lockdown, Sui Ming Province to Become a War Zone
Chapter 275: Chapter 275: City-wide Lockdown, Sui Ming Province to Become a War Zone
Outside the Ancient Mansion, in the air.
The four of them—Li Zhantian, Li Daoyi, Lei Xiaotian, and Qi Chongshan—stared at the powerful thunderclouds gathering in the sky, their hearts once again filled with shock.
’A Fourth-Grade Gu Yuexi can actually summon such immense Thunder Power?’
And it was still growing stronger.
This Thunder Power had already reached the Heaven and Earth Power Level.
To summon the Power of Heaven and Earth, one needed to be at least in the Seventh-Grade Realm. That was a gap of three entire realms!
At this moment, even Li Zhantian, who had maintained a grim expression, was astonished. His gaze was fixed on the ground below, as if trying to pierce through the layers of the Ancient Mansion to see what was happening inside.
Below them, the scene spanning hundreds of miles was utterly spine-chilling.
The millions of mutated citizens had stopped surging forward.
As if controlled by invisible strings, they sat down cross-legged around the Chen Family’s Ancient Mansion, packed densely layer upon layer.
Their posture was identical to that of the Sacrificial Offerers in the Chen Family Ancestral Hall.
Millions of people, their eyes vacant and crimson, formed an endless “human swamp.” Further away, even more spiritual Mutants were joining this “swamp.”
At the same time, the Cultivators, City Guard Army officers, and high-ranking members of various families who had managed to avoid contamination thanks to their Fourth-Grade or higher Mental Power finally overcame the chaos and began arriving at the outskirts of the Ancient Mansion.
They hovered in the air some distance away, gazing at the boundless, crazed tide of people below—a tide made up of their own families, friends, and neighbors. Their faces were pale, their eyes filled with panic, grief, and incredulous terror.
“Dad! Mom!”
A young Martial Artist clenched his fists, his face contorted in agony as he spotted two familiar yet twisted faces in the crowd below. He was utterly powerless.
“How could this happen… The whole city… Almost everyone in the city is…”
A family Elder’s voice trembled, a chill running down his spine.
“Lord Governor! And… that’s the Thunder Emperor, and… the Fierce War God?!”
Someone recognized the figures in the sky, causing a small commotion.
“My God! Even the Fierce War God is here! He’s one of the Military Department’s top War Gods, usually stationed at the border!”
“What on earth happened? Why do even these titans look so grim?”
“Alien Race! It must be an Alien Race invasion! What else could bring the Fierce War God here personally?”
“An Alien Race that even the Fierce War God can’t handle? Doesn’t that mean… Du Nan City is doomed?!”
Panic spread like a plague among the survivors.
“No! My daughter is down there! She’s only seven!”
A middle-aged man’s eyes looked ready to split from their sockets as he stared at a small, crimson-eyed figure in the crowd. He couldn’t hold back any longer. His Spiritual Power erupted as he prepared to charge down, but his companion held him back desperately.
“Calm down! It’s useless for you to go down there!”
Despair, like a cold tide, completely submerged the last twenty percent of the city’s population.
…
…
Above the Ancient Mansion, Qi Chongshan and the others watched the scene, their hearts growing heavier.
Qi Chongshan, unable to bear it, spoke up.
“I’ll go evacuate these people. Get them as far away from here as possible!”
However, just as he was about to move, a cold voice cut him off.
“No!”
Li Zhantian said, word by word:
“Not a single one of these people can leave!”
His sharp gaze swept over the hovering figures in the distance, his tone absolute.
“These people could be carrying latent sources of Spiritual Contamination. Letting them leave means spreading the contamination throughout all of Great Xia!”
“Therefore, until this situation is fully resolved, no one is permitted to leave Du Nan City!”
“That is an order!”
Qi Chongshan was stunned for a moment, then erupted in fury.
“What did you say? These are my people! On what authority do you stop them from leaving?”
Qi Chongshan was on the verge of a breakdown. He no longer cared about who was in the Emperor Realm, and he even looked ready to fight.
Lei Xiaotian placed a hand on his shoulder and said gravely,
“Old Qi, calm down! Emperor Li has no other choice. We have to prepare for the worst.”
“If Gu Yuexi and the others inside fail to stop the Alien Race’s full descent, we must contain this disaster within Du Nan City. We cannot let it spread!”
Li Zhantian was decisive and swift.
Without another word, he took out a Communication Jade Talisman and rapidly issued a series of commands.
The content was simple.
Yet it carried the weight of a mountain.
Mobilize all available Military Department forces in the vicinity to enact… a complete lockdown of Du Nan City!
Listening to Li Zhantian’s cold command, a profound sense of helplessness seized Qi Chongshan. He closed his eyes in anguish.
The situation was now crystal clear.
There were only two possible outcomes.
First, Gu Yuexi and her mosquito successfully stop the Alien Race.
Second, Gu Yuexi and her mosquito fail. Eighty percent of the city’s population would be sacrificed, and some Evil God of the Alien Race would fully descend.
Du Nan City, and perhaps even the entire Sui Ming Province, would become the next battlefield against the Alien Race.
…
Li Zhantian’s orders weren’t deliberately concealed, and the survivors in the distance faintly heard words like “lockdown,” “cannot leave,” and “contain contamination.”
“A city-wide lockdown? How could this be!”
“Even the Fierce War God and the others are powerless. Du Nan City… is finished.”
Just then, someone suddenly said,
“I think I just heard… Gu Yuexi? Is that the same Gu Yuexi who was the Champion Scholar of our Sui Ming Province’s exams? Could it be… she’s the one fighting the Alien Race in the Ancient Mansion down there right now?”
“Right! And her famous mosquito Contracted Beast! I heard they just performed a great service for Great Xia on Hong Kong Island not long ago!”
“So you’re saying… our only hope now is the Fourth-Grade Gu Yuexi and her mosquito Contracted Beast inside?”
“Are you kidding me?! Even a powerhouse at the Peak of Emperor Level like the Fierce War God is helpless. What can a Beast Tamer who’s just Third or Fourth-Grade and her mosquito Contracted Beast possibly do?”
A glimmer of hope appeared, but it was as faint as a candle flickering in the wind.
The entire city was locked down. No one could leave.
In truth, most of them had no desire to leave anyway. Their families, friends, brothers, and children were all in the tide of Mutants below.
So, all they could do was wait.
No matter how slim the hope, they could only wait and pray.
What exactly was happening inside the Ancient Mansion?
「Above the Ancient Mansion.」
Li Daoyi hesitated for a moment before speaking slowly.
“I have a Secret Technique that can bypass the Space Array’s isolation and peer into the situation within the Ancient Mansion.”
“Gentlemen, would you like to see?”
Li Daoyi hesitated because seeing wouldn’t change anything; it might only bring deeper despair.
Hmm?
Everyone was taken aback.
Li Zhantian didn’t hesitate for a second. He immediately said,
“Of course!”
“If you had such a Secret Technique, why didn’t you say so sooner?”
“Quickly! The sooner we understand the situation, the sooner we can plan our next move!”
“Strategic timing is critical! We can’t afford a single moment’s delay!”