The blue star, most regions of the world remained shrouded in darkness, with fierce winds howling and gray mist drifting. Even in areas where the overcast clouds occasionally thinned, sunlight struggled to penetrate.
The entire world seemed to have completely entered an era of great darkness.
Disasters were frequent, and cities that could barely maintain order completely collapsed during this period, leaving only a few major powers and large cities.
In these places, mysterious departments of various countries were closely monitoring the movements on the ancient land of Donghuang through various means.
Sunset Country, headquarters of the Night Watcher Organization.
"The construction speed of Base City Shui Ze, the number one base city in the Donghuang plan, is beyond imagination. It truly lives up to its reputation as a country of infrastructure."
"The various migration teams are also very orderly. After several days, there haven't been any major issues."
"If it were us, could we achieve this?"
A high-ranking official asked.
No one answered, but they all knew the answer in their hearts: no. Even with the support of Xinghuo, they could not achieve what Donghuang had, so swiftly and without incident.
There was some jealousy and some surprise.
But the overall expressions remained largely unperturbed. The high-ranking officials present understood that neither the construction of base cities nor the mass migration were the key.
The key lay in... how to curb the proliferation of anomalies.
Without achieving this, the establishment of base cities would be meaningless.
"If I'm not mistaken, the core of the plan lies in the pure white tower in the center of Base City Shui Ze!"
"But to curb the proliferation of anomalies and protect the entire base city's safety..."
To be honest, they were not optimistic.
Since the descent of the mysterious and the rapid increase in the frequency of anomalies, their Night Watcher Organization had been continuously researching methods to curb their growth.
Of course, it could be said that their technical level was relatively low, far inferior to Xinghuo, who had been prepared for a long time.
What about the Great Oases?
The information they obtained from the White Tower envoy filled them with despair.
"The proliferation of anomalies is unstoppable."
"The devouring of countless small worlds by the Anomaly Realm cannot be stopped either. This is the expansion instinct of the Anomaly Realm, and also the will of countless unspeakable evil gods."
"Abandon those naive thoughts. In the past, how many oases stronger than my White Tower have tried and all failed? More importantly, many were completely erased from the river of history because of these self-reliant attempts."
The White Tower, a major oasis power in the depths of the Anomaly Realm!
They possessed the ability to survive and develop in such a dangerous environment, and they even had a King of Humans, a Throne-level expert, as their guardian.
To be honest, how strong a Six-Sense Throne-level expert was, Youer and other high-ranking Night Watchers had no concept.
It was too far from them.
They only vaguely understood that a Four-Sense expert was infinitely stronger than a Three-Sense expert, and that mysterious Xinghuo mentor was very likely a Four-Sense expert.
Very strong. Based on the intelligence from the White Tower envoy, as long as the Xinghuo mentor did not fall midway, becoming a Throne-level expert in the future was almost a certainty.
His future was boundless!
But even a Throne-level expert could not curb the proliferation of anomalies, let alone just potential.
Individual power still seemed insignificant in the face of the disaster of the world's decline.
Youer said, "I also hope to see Xinghuo curb the anomalies, but we need to think rationally. If this path doesn't work, where should we go in the future? Can our Sunset Country find an oasis to take shelter in and continue the flame of civilization?"
Their Night Watchers were already searching.
However, the Anomaly Realm was perilous, and they could not move forward an inch.
At this moment, their gaze was still focused on Donghuang, and they had a premonition that the key to the plan might be... today.
They waited, with emotions they could not quite describe.
At a certain moment, they suddenly received intelligence.
"The dark curtain of Donghuang has been torn!"
"Dawn has appeared in Donghuang! A dawn that should not have appeared after the arrival of the gray mist tide!"
"Xinghuo did it?!"
Youer clenched his fist, then relaxed it, and ordered, "Closely monitor the situation of Base City Shui Ze! I want all information about everything happening there!"
A day passed, and it seemed to stretch on for a long time in the eyes of Youer and the other high-ranking officials.
Soon, they received detailed information.
According to information released by the Donghuang Investigation Bureau, throughout the entire day, only eight low-level anomaly disaster incidents occurred in the entire base city, with no casualties or property damage!
"Is this news true? It couldn't just be a superficial effort."
"Our Mist City experiences hundreds of anomaly disaster incidents a day, with many large-scale disasters!"
"The news released by Donghuang might not be entirely true, but... according to the information transmitted back by our Sunset Country's spies in Donghuang, nothing major has happened in Base City Shui Ze all day. If a major anomaly, a three-star anomaly, had spawned, the commotion would have been impossible to conceal."
In the conference hall, looking at the newly received intelligence, the high-ranking officials discussed, their hands gradually trembling.
Anomalies, have they been suppressed?
They have been suppressed!
"The Dawn Plan... is actually feasible?"
A high-ranking official murmured, and after a long while, suddenly came back to his senses and roared, "Quick, quickly contact Xinghuo and tell them that our Sunset Country also supports the Dawn Plan!"
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The White Eagle Federation, located in the underground Area 51 base, was also monitoring Donghuang across the ocean.
Since the arrival of the gray mist tide, reconnaissance satellites could no longer capture images of the Donghuang land, but the intelligence network of Area 51 was spread across various regions, obtaining information faster and more detailed than other countries.
"Dawn has actually appeared!"
"Donghuang has suppressed the proliferation of anomalies? Impossible!"
"Impossible!"
When the blue-robed envoy also learned this from his leader, his expression was one of utter disbelief, and he looked at his leader with an expression that said, 'Are you deceiving me?'
However, the leader produced evidence.
The blue-robed envoy fell silent, his worldview shattered, and he kept muttering, "This is impossible," "This is impossible."
After a long while, his reason gradually returned to the forefront. He flipped through the information in his hands and then exclaimed, "This is indeed very exaggerated, but my opinion remains the same. The world's decline is irreversible and unstoppable. Forcing a halt will sooner or later lead to a greater outbreak!"
He was like someone whose worldview had been shattered, stubbornly clinging to his last stand.
But at this moment, the black leather-clad leader handed him another piece of intelligence.
Updated information.
And this document stated that a tide of anomalies would impact Base City Shui Ze, its scale being hundreds or even thousands of times larger than the minor tide from the Hell Gate!
The gray dark curtain obscured the sun, intending to swallow the sole shining beacon in the world.
To bring darkness back to the human world.
The blue-robed person's eyes widened, and he slammed the table fiercely, "That's right!"
He nodded, then shook his head, and let out a long sigh.
"Tearing open the dark curtain to bring dawn is a very clever and powerful method. Even our City Lord of Langtao City would admire it, but..."
"Such an attempt is still like a mantis trying to stop a chariot! The surging tide of anomalies attacking the base city is the best proof."
The blue-robed person paused. "A common sense is that the more people gather together, the easier it is to attract anomalies, unless it is in an oasis."
The black leather-clad leader naturally understood this.
But was it common sense? The corner of his mouth twitched slightly. Perhaps for the people of the Great Oasis, it was common sense.
He did not interrupt, but continued to listen.
"A place like a base city, gathering two to three hundred million people, is already very prone to attracting anomaly tides. Moreover... dawn, the dawn that tore open the darkness, has obviously stimulated the surrounding environment, causing the already restless anomalies to erupt completely."
"This is the price of dawn!"
The blue-robed envoy shook his head slightly.
"No matter what we do, we humans... ultimately cannot stop the encroaching devourment."
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Sunset Country,
A high-ranking official, who was about to contact the Xinghuo liaison office in Mist City, stopped halfway.
Because they had received the latest intelligence.
"Tide attacking the city?"
"Not an ordinary tide, but a super tide with a number far exceeding previous ones!"
"It is currently surging towards Base City Shui Ze at an extremely fast speed, devouring everything in its path, unstoppable!"
Under normal circumstances, an awakened person could individually kill a slightly stronger one-star anomaly.
A second awakening could kill a two-star anomaly, and so on. Humans equipped with awakened weapons were slightly stronger than anomalies of the same level, but the difference was limited. Dealing with anomalies relied more on intelligence and cooperation.
In terms of numbers, human awakened beings had always been far fewer than anomalies.
Even if all the awakened beings in the world were summoned, they would not be as many as the anomalies in this corner of Shui Ze!
The dawn that appeared before them quickly dissipated and was swallowed by darkness in the blink of an eye.
Youer sighed and announced,
"Dawn Plan, suspended."
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Base City Shui Ze, outer perimeter, location of Xinghuo Training Camp.
This Xinghuo training base, located on a mountainside and shrouded in a faint white mist, was part of the base city according to the plan, but the construction of the base city had not yet reached this area.
At the same time,
This was also the forefront of the current defense perimeter of Base City Shui Ze.
Beyond the training base, in areas where human presence was scarce.
"Swish—"
A thin sword shot out a white light, piercing the eye socket of a three-star anomaly with an elegant trajectory, completely annihilating it.
Medisa withdrew her sword, still dazed.
She looked up, and before her was the dim, overcast sky, covering the horizon as far as she could see. Looking back slightly, the dark clouds disappeared, and warm sunlight shone down from the sky, bringing light to the earth.
Golden dawn and gray darkness split the entire sky into two halves.
Bringing the light of hope.
She had witnessed that light with her own eyes yesterday, tearing open the gray mist clouds that had always shrouded the world.
Medisa was shocked.
Medisa was speechless.
She immediately fell to her knees!
Perhaps many Blue Star people were merely surprised, but as an envoy from a Great Oasis elite, she understood what this represented even more. Her worldview had been shattered.
How could this be possible!
From yesterday to today, her expression had been one of dumbfoundedness, making Shi Yunxi a little worried and forcing her to come out for free labor.
Accompanying her were Polly, Anna, and Cen Jing.
They teamed up to clear the surrounding anomalies, both those that had spawned and those that were surging in.
Polly reached out and waved in front of Medisa, "It's just that dawn has appeared and suppressed the proliferation of anomalies. Is there any need to be so surprised since yesterday?"
"You don't understand..."
Medisa believed that even the Dean would be as surprised as she was if he saw this.
But she didn't know how to report it.
It was too outrageous, too exaggerated.
When she had previously reported that there were three non-human powerhouses on Blue Star, the Dean seemed to have not believed her. Now, if she wrote down the real situation... Medisa pondered for a moment, and the most likely outcome was that the Dean would get angry and scold her.
It was impossible to believe! No decent person would believe it unless they saw it with their own eyes.
As a result, such a major event had occurred, yet she hadn't reported a single word and remained in a daze.
She couldn't understand it!
"Then don't think about it. Come hunt monsters with us... How about this, I'll apply for a special student phone for you, so you can take orders online."
"Take, take orders?"
"It means accepting missions and earning points, which you can exchange for treasures in our organization."
"I see..."
Under the explanation and demonstration of Shi Yunxi and others, Medisa roughly understood.
After a moment of hesitation, she agreed.
By doing some missions and earning those points, she wouldn't have to rely on free room and board forever.
"Here, this is your student phone. Like this... like this, it's certified and ready to operate."
She numbly followed Shi Yunxi's operations.
After a moment of daze, she came to her senses. Wait, this phone that needed to be applied for, how did you just pull it out with a wave of your hand?
"Don't worry about these details. Let's go, let's go. We need to clear anomalies in Area 127. Time is tight and the mission is heavy. We need to set off."
"Oh, oh..."
Medisa, still somewhat dazed, was pulled along.
Half a day later, looking at the points displayed on her phone and the items that could be exchanged within it.
Medisa was stunned.
From the shock of the dawn's light to the dazed gaze at the exchange list.
After a long while, she suddenly exclaimed in surprise,
"You... your organization's benefits are this outrageous!"
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Shi Yunxi's team was just a microcosm of the countless teams outside Base City Shui Ze.
They were racing against time and speed, clearing out every anomaly they could see outside! They had to be fast. When the anomalies were sparse, clearing them one by one was not difficult, but when the anomaly tide surged in, gathering all the anomalies along the way, the difficulty of killing an anomaly would increase several times over.
"At the current speed, we are capable of clearing out most of the anomalies within tens of kilometers from the base city, but..."
In the command center, Director Huang's face was grim.
The news of the tide's arrival had been detected by their special operations team members active in the field some time ago, and later, they received more detailed and precise intelligence from Xinghuo.
It was even more despairing!
A tide of anomalies exceeding one million in number was surging towards the base city!
This was equivalent to a million awakened individuals who were immune to modern firearms, including a considerable number of Calamity-level anomalies!
And the outer defense walls of the base city had only just begun to be constructed.
There was nothing yet.
Director Huang could only seek a sliver of hope from the Xinghuo mentor.
"Currently, our Xinghuo has powerful individuals who have penetrated the dark curtain area to kill as many Calamity-level anomalies as possible, but..."
This powerful individual naturally referred to Sister An, the only Six-Sense expert!
Only she could do it.
And only she was the most cost-effective. Even if Black Blade and Xing Jinglei could penetrate the anomaly tide and kill a few Calamity-level anomalies, the risk was too great, and their endurance would not allow them to fight for too long.
Well, Brother Black Blade was no longer known for his endurance.
The blue-grade anomaly weapon, the Evil Slaying Great Blade, could only extract energy one anomaly at a time. The amount of energy extracted, like a trickle of water, could not support the current five-sense Chief Instructor Black Blade.
He was now focusing on instantaneous burst power.
Yiluo Xi could "graze" on the outer edges of the tide, clearing out a larger number of ordinary anomalies.
Going deep inside, only Sister An could do it.
But even An Jianyou...
Fang You switched to her vision. Under the rolling tide that covered the sky, Sister An, riding the Hundred-Eyed Flying Fish, was like a small boat in a giant wave, liable to capsize at any moment.
In fact, she did capsize a little.
One of An Jianyou's pets, a 'Four-Armed Giant Demon', was climbed upon by countless anomalies. After killing a few two-star and three-star anomalies, this 'distinguished' pet was swallowed by the anomaly tide.
Frightened, Sister An threw out a few Hell-grade anomalies to clear a path, and fled with a bang.
After a while, An Jianyou, who had changed tactics and returned, commanded a colossal creature she somewhat disliked – the Mountain Giant Beast – and heavily smashed into the anomaly tide.
The giant beast, with its massive size and terrifying energy, was not strong enough against smaller, powerful enemies, but it was indeed effective against large numbers of weak anomalies and for defense.
An Jianyou used the Mountain Giant Beast as a fortress, clearing the anomaly tide by relying on it.
Her efficiency was dozens of times that of Xing Jinglei.
However, anomalies also get exhausted. It's just that compared to humans, they naturally contain vast amounts of energy, as if they have endless power to squander. In the anomaly tide, this power would eventually dwindle.
The fiery red carapace on the back of the Mountain Giant Beast, after repeatedly spewing out meteor showers, was finally depleted.
An Jianyou had cleared many anomalies, but compared to the constantly snowballing super tide that was surging in from all directions, it was still a small portion.
There were too many!
After the gray mist tide descended, the number of anomalies on the wild land had already increased dozens of times compared to before. This time, it was like poking a hornet's nest.
"We have ambushed and killed many anomalies, but even more are surging towards the base city. We can only set up an ambush on the outer edge of the base city, relying on the defense line to snipe the tide."
"But there's no need to worry too much..."
Fang You had a faint, confident smile on his face.
This smile infected the investigators and Xinghuo soldiers present, making the super tide seem less desperate, because they had the mentor!
But in fact, Fang You had not foreseen the appearance of the super tide.
It's just that he couldn't panic.
He had to remain calm, composed, and confident.
He was a Xinghuo mentor!
He looked into the distance, at the pure white tower standing in the center of the city.
"With the Dawn Lighthouse, the terrifying mental impact of the tide is reduced to a minimum, ensuring the combat effectiveness of the soldiers. As for other defensive measures, Xinghuo has also made preparations."
"However, we don't have a giant wall yet, so the deployment of the outer defense line will still rely on our comrades in the Investigation Bureau."
"The rest..."
"Let us defeat this seemingly impossible super tide!"
His words seemed to inject strength.
Various clear divisions began. The Investigation Bureau rushed to build defensive fortifications, while Xinghuo elites continuously cleared the anomaly tide.
And as he said, it was unexpected, but... not unprepared.
A super tide of one million anomalies. Annihilation it is!
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After arranging the tasks, Fang You returned to the organization's secret realm and tapped on the virtual panel-girl, asking, "Estimating the current speed of the tide's advance, how much time is left before it reaches the outer edge of the base city?"
"Approximately thirteen hours~!"
Xiao Huan jumped out, opened a map, and said, "Based on the estimated movement route of the tide, the most affected areas will be these directions."
Fang You scanned the map with his eyes and nodded slightly.
The defense line deployment was being handled by people from the Investigation Bureau, with Black Blade as the strategic overall director.
They had prepared unconventional defense measures before the dawn was lit, and now they were just increasing the 'quantity'.
A super double boost!
"Thirteen hours? That's enough."
On the panel, after continuously hunting high-level anomalies these past few days, his Fang mentor's mysterious accumulation had finally broken through to 800,000 points!
He could reach Six Awakening!
He glanced at the details.
"Guidance for Sixth Awakening: Can consume 500 anomaly crystals and 500 destiny points to guide 'Destiny's Savior' for awakening, but the following conditions must be met:"
"1. Accumulated mystery value greater than 800,000." (√)
"2. Sum of dimensions greater than 140." (√)
"3. Triple control of body and energy." (√)
"4. Pollution level <= 10%." (√)
"5. Auxiliary awakening ritual: 5000 anomaly crystals, 5 high-level mysterious polymers x 5, 5 high-level pure light-element materials." (√)
Having experienced the last awakening ritual, Fang You had long guessed the required materials and had prepared them.
He wasn't the first to reach Six Awakening; Sister An was ahead of him, and he had obtained a lot of information from her.
If An Jianyou could awaken in one go, how could he, Mentor Fang, fail?
Cough cough!
As for awakening before a major battle, it did seem rushed. For other awakened beings, this would be courting death. Even if they entered Six Awakening, due to the pollution of their bodies and minds, their combat power would not increase but decrease.
But he was different!
Guided awakening, no worries about the aftermath!
No longer afraid of the mutation and erosion after awakening.
"Why thirteen hours? Two hours will be enough."
Fang You stepped into the inheritance ground.
Four directions sealed.
Mentor Fang's Sixth Awakening began.
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