Chapter 21: Beast Horde Attacks the City (Part 2)
Yang Tong thought about it and felt that it was indeed the case. The city guards were a relatively formal army, responsible for maintaining law and order in the entire county town during peacetime, eating imperial rations, without needing to work or go out of the city to hunt for a living.
Lu Xiaojun took out another ring, thought for a moment, and handed it to Yang Tong, saying: "Inside this is a wheel-type motorcycle and a flying disc motorcycle. Keep them well, if you get separated on the road, with these, you can hurry along quickly. However, remember that although the wheel-type motorcycle consumes less energy, its noise is not small, and it's easy to attract the attention of wild beasts, so be careful when using it in the wilderness."
Yang Tong nodded after listening, the flying disc motorcycle is indeed safer, but it also consumes more energy. If they really get separated on the road, the beast crystal on their body might be in danger of being depleted. If the beast crystal is depleted, then the thermal weapons and escape transportation spirit tools on their body will all be scrapped. The flying disc motorcycle in the ring is a mid-range spirit tool, its armor is not thick, it should be a speed type.
"Mom, how did we end up with so many storage rings at home?" Yang Tong asked in surprise, as far as he knew, these storage rings were quite valuable.
"Hehe, kid, in the wilderness, anything can happen. It's not just about fighting beasts, but also being mindful of others' greed. These rings, most of them belong to others." Luo Xiaojuan didn't say much more, just slightly explaining.
In Yang Tong's twelve-year-old body was an extremely mature soul, and he naturally understood what his mother meant.
Humans have a good and beautiful side, but also a dark and evil side, all of which are driven by desire. In the county town, there is a garrison to maintain law and order, and there are some unwritten rules that exist, but not many people openly violate them. However, in the wilderness, it's every man for himself, and everyone shows off their skills.
The reason why the family didn't expose these storage rings to the outside world was probably because these storage rings were all so-called "dirty objects" that couldn't be seen in the light, and only at this critical moment of life and death would they be taken out for use.
Yang Tong didn't ask any more questions, and after putting on the rings, he wore a pair of fingerless gloves over them. No one would have thought that he had two precious storage rings on his hands.
"If the county is broken, I don't know how many people will die, ah..." Luo Xiaojuan cleaned up and divided all the weapons in the armory into two parts. One part was given to Yang Tong, and one part she took with her. "Let's go,"
Yang Tong felt a little sad and nodded, looking back at the home he had lived in for twelve years with nostalgia. This was his first home, the first place where he felt warmth.
"Tong'er, soon you students will gather under the leadership of your school teachers and assist in battle with hot weapons. But you must not leave the student troops, when there is danger, you can withdraw at any time." Luo Xiaojuan rode a wheeled motorcycle and took Yang Tong to rush out of the outer city.
At this moment, the rumbling sound of the earthquake continued, and the entire street, or rather the entire sky was filled with all kinds of vehicles rushing in one direction.
The entire outer city's fields were divided into more than a dozen regions, basically each faction in the county town had its own gathering area, these areas were all planned out, first come first served.
As soon as they left the outer city, they saw the towering eastern city wall. This was the side that directly faced the danger of the barbarian beasts, while the other three sides were protected by formations, compressing the barbarians' attacking power to one side of the city wall, allowing humans to concentrate all their strength to respond.
The city wall is over thirty meters high. Even so, from Yang Tong's perspective, a group of flying beasts can be vaguely seen diving down frantically.
These beasts have a shape similar to Pteranodons, but their heads are like those of mountain cats.
The fierce battle has unfolded, with countless laser beams shooting out into the air, and flying beasts constantly falling from the sky. Although the city's defensive array can only protect three sides of the city wall, it is quite strict in defending against attacks from the air, making it difficult for flying beasts to sneak past even if they evade the attack, and it is also hard for them to launch an attack from other places.
Yang Tong was far, far away, as if watching a fantasy blockbuster, staring blankly at the magnificent scene in front of him, with indescribable passion surging in his chest.
Yang Tong saw clearly that these flying beasts were studied in textbooks, called Fei Qiu Shou, which belonged to low-level beasts and relied on numbers to win. When the number was small, there was no threat, but when the number increased, the threat became considerable. However, at this time, under the attack of a large number of spiritual instruments and hot weapons, the number was useless.
Every second, tens of thousands of laser beams shoot out from the city walls, and every second, tens of thousands of flying beasts fall.
"Tonger, these flying beasts are easy to deal with. The real challenge is those giant barbarian beasts or mid-level barbarian beasts. They are the biggest threat to our city walls. As long as we have the city walls, no matter how many other barbarian beasts there are, we can handle them." Luo Xiaojuan explained, "I'm sure you also learned in school that giant barbarian beasts in the wild usually act alone. If you encounter one, just hide and it's fine. The threat in the wild isn't that big, what people fear most is encountering a pack of black wolf beasts or other barbarian beast groups."
"Got it, mom." Yang Tong nodded in response.
"I've arrived, I'll go find your dad, you go to the school gathering place." Luo Xiaojuan put away the motorcycle, and said to Yang Tong with some reluctance, "Take good care of yourself, okay?"
"Mom, you too, and Dad, you both need to take care of yourselves." Yang Tong replied with a tinge of sadness, almost in tears.
In the distance, various loudspeaker sounds came over.
"Students and teachers of the Southwest Campus, please gather in Area 3."
"Mercenary Guild's brave warriors, gather at Area 1..."
"Students and teachers of the Southeast Campus, gather at Area 5, Area 5." This voice was indeed that of Principal Long. There were many voices like this, from the government, the military department, schools, chambers of commerce, and mercenary guilds.
"You go ahead, I'll also head to Area 1 to find your dad." Luo Xiaojuan said.
"Goodbye, Mom." Yang Tong was very unaccustomed to this feeling of parting, and after saying that, he turned around and ran towards Area 5.
More and more people are rushing from the inner city, this is a matter of life and death for the entire county town, and it is related to everyone's personal interests. At this time, almost everyone will rush to help. At the same time, children are also being sent here, into the protective area of the school, if things change, these children can be evacuated first under the protection of the school.
The county government is organizing the mercenaries' guild's top experts, while the military department is assigning these experts to various defense lines. The air defense line can only rely on city walls and formations to resist, but the ground defense line is different. The entire ground defense line is divided into three lines, with the city wall being the last line of defense. There are two more lines of defense located at the mouths of two valleys 50 miles and 100 miles outside the city, occupying advantageous terrain to conduct layered blocking against the barbarian beast hordes.
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Third watch, let's make a deal then.
