731: Chapter 485 731: Chapter 485 General Maria thought of a booster shot, a freshly developed medicine belonging to another country.
She had bought this medicine while searching for children there, as a precaution against the day when someone might be poisoned.
The doctors were in the city of the magical treasure, and at this moment, no one in the submarine had any medical skills.
General Maria and her guards didn’t understand medicine, so for the sake of survival, they could only take out the syringes and inject themselves.
Everyone held a syringe, not caring whether they hit the right spot for injection, as long as the liquid inside the syringe entered their body, it might detoxify them, right?
The queen of the city watched the demonic beasts on the outskirts and sent people to attack and meet General Maria and her party.
Unfortunately, these wooden puppets were also human; although they couldn’t feel pain or fatigue, and didn’t know physical pain when injured, being poisoned did affect their movement!
They were repelled by the demonic beasts.
The queen, anxious, sent even more puppet soldiers out to fight.
Unfortunately, there were only about a thousand people here, the puppets that the queen had left over from years of fighting.
Wave after wave charged out, only to find that they could not overcome the beasts and were all driven back.
Those black souls floating in the air had not even entered the fray, and moreover, the queen had noticed the dragons, which were their strongest adversaries to guard against.
The queen, enraged, ordered the ministers to help attack, and the guards must strike as well, to welcome General Maria back to the city.
The ministers had no choice but to obey, and the guards had to fight desperately.
Unlike the puppets, they used Curse Spells to contend with the demonic beasts.
Unfortunately, the demonic beast leaders were well-organized and even knew how to use formations.
A wave of beasts would assault the enemy and then retreat from their position when injured, only for another wave to step forward.
This was a war of attrition; the queen looked out from the highest tower in the palace of the city, shocked by such a tide of beasts.
She was even somewhat afraid to be at the mercy of others in this strange place.
The city treasure might be breached by a beast attack, and they could be eaten and their territory taken.
With so many ghosts here, it was also frightening at night.
They noticed that General Maria and her group were having a hard time, seemingly unable to move forward, as if they were wounded, and had retreated back to the submarine.
Seeing this, the queen could only command her subordinates and the puppets, who had all been injured and poisoned, to stop the attack and return to the city.
Unable to leave, they could only hide within the city.
The queen and her subordinates had a new concern.
Previously, they had relied on seafood, but now their ocean city was on land.
If they couldn’t kill demonic beasts for food, they would face starvation once their stored supplies ran out.
Beyond the lack of seafood, the shortage of food worried them even more.
They were hybrids, able to eat seafood and demon meat, while the puppets only needed grain and seafood.
If they ran out of grain and seafood, they would have to kill demonic beasts.
However, the recent intense battle hadn’t resulted in a single beast killed.
Even the puppets and ministers hadn’t yet considered this problem; they weren’t used to a future without stored food and must have demon beast meat.
The queen thought of this issue, but the puppets, lacking thought, had not.
The ministers and guards, many of whom were poisoned and focused on healing, hadn’t considered this problem either.
The queen felt General Maria was better off; after all, General Maria had always been the one to relieve her worries.
Every time she went out, she brought boys and girls back, along with food and external water sources.
The water in the sea was undrinkable, so General Maria carried a heavy responsibility.
In the midst of the concern for the missing boys and girls, they had forgotten about the food and water supply in the submarine.
The queen considered that the people in this magical treasure city would surely need to eat as well.
If the demonic beasts could survive, why couldn’t they?
As the injured puppets, guards, and ministers were being treated with injections and medicine, gradually recovering,
they heard the queen say that there was not much food and water left in the city.
So the ministers and guards began to panic again.
Without food, without water, they would die in the city!
“Let’s think of a way, can we chant the Curse together and move our city treasure closer to where the submarine is?”
The ministers felt that this was the only solution.
If the city treasure couldn’t be moved, the submarine would be useful in the oceans and rivers, but on land, it was utterly useless.
The queen’s idea garnered the support of the ministers, who chanted curses together, trying to move the city treasure.
Although their collective chanting was powerful, it was a pity that the city was not in the ocean but on land, and inside someone else’s magical treasure, so the city treasure only moved inch by inch.
They exerted a great deal of effort, but a turtle crawl would have been faster than their endeavor.
Such toil was exhausting, and the prolonged chanting of curses also drained their physical strength.
The ministers and guards had just healed from their injuries and were still weak.
With such strenuous efforts, they were exhausted to the point of collapse.
The queen was both angry and tired, yet helpless.
Being impatient wouldn’t help; they had to proceed slowly.
The Eastern Sea King and his team didn’t care for the city treasure or the submarine.
They watched their fight with the demonic beasts as if it were a show.
But they also wanted to get out quickly and kept trying to contact Jiang Tang.
Unfortunately, they couldn’t reach him and had no choice but to endure.
The East Sea Dragon King, out of boredom, started to bully the demonic beasts in the space.
The demonic beasts were busy guarding against foreign creatures trying to seize their territory and also wary of the Dragon King.
Even so, all the demonic beasts had united.
At night, they also had to defend against ghosts.
The ghosts that floated in the sky during the day were the most powerful among them, capable of appearing in daylight.
And while the Dragon King bullied the demonic beasts, the ghosts simply watched.
As the demonic beasts attacked foreign creatures, the ghosts were watching as if it were theatre.
Most of the demonic beasts had already developed intelligence and knew that the ghosts were not on the same side as them.
They did not count on the ghosts for help; they only hoped they wouldn’t be attacked by them at night.
Inside the Hell Palace treasure, there was such commotion that Jiang Tang was, of course, aware, and he had already entered using two magic artifacts.
Setting aside the rescue of more people who had lost their reason, even evil-doers could not commit their crimes within the Hell Palace.
He had gained another objective, his purpose this time, besides the Dragon King Palace of the West Sea, was the volcano he saw before.
He felt confident that there must be treasures within the volcano.
It seemed as if the Fire Spirits were leaping within the space, as though something was summoning them.
Jiang Tang had previously only thought about whether he could find the volcano and obtain items for crafting magical treasures and for cultivation.
The two Fire Spirits told him that even better treasures were waiting for them inside the volcano.
The Fire Spirits were weapons Jiang Tang had crafted to send out and attack enemies—effectively his pets.
Originally, he planned to search for treasures at the volcano; now, bolstered by the words of the Fire Spirits, he felt that seeking protection was even more important than rescuing people.
In these two rescue missions, he had done good deeds, saving dozens of children, who became the first group of servants at Saint Sect.
They also became the first group of disciples of his future wives.
Jiang Tang did not tell those women that there were others in the city who needed to be rescued.
If he had known and not acted quickly to save them, he certainly would have been criticized by his kind-hearted girlfriends, but at the moment, they had no time to romantically engage with him.
For the sake of their disciples, they became stern and serious mentors.
Jiang Tang felt a pang of sadness.
No wonder many men felt that once their wives had children, they were relegated to second place.
His girlfriends, out of concern for these disciples, hardly had time for him anymore.
The care they once lavished exclusively on him had now transformed into tender, maternal warmth.
Jiang Tang felt a pang…
as if he had drunk a huge vat of vinegar.
He provided the women with grain, seafood, and vegetables produced from the space, leaving them to take care of the disciples and teach them how to cook.
Jiang Tang had deduced that the volcano must be underground on an island.
As the flying artifact approached closer to the edge of the volcano, the air grew hotter and hotter.