It was difficult to imagine that a monster would willingly turn itself into a large biochemical bomb without the control of a higher level of intelligence.
Meng Chao felt that the Mystery of the Supernatural Entities hidden behind the abnormal beasts would surface two years earlier than what he remembered.
If there was really a satellite city that had been corrupted by the Other World beyond recognition in the depths of the fog, then …
In his previous life, the White Spirit had caused the Red Radiance Jade mine to explode and dealt a heavy blow to Dragon City. For at least two to three years, Dragon City could not launch any new attacks against the outside world, and the satellite city with ulterior motives could calmly develop and infiltrate it.
Now, due to the butterfly effect that Meng Chao stirred up, not only did Dragon City not lose any soldiers, it even welcomed the Golden Generation.
The Red Dragon Army obtained the resources from the development area in the north, and their firepower became even fiercer.
Dragon City advanced boldly in all directions. In just a short half a year, the area they controlled expanded by 30%. In fact, they even set up observation posts nearly one hundred kilometers away from the city, and their area of influence was huge.
If they allowed Dragon City to continue gaining victories like this, no matter where the deformed satellite city hid, it would be discovered, right?
Hence, Meng Chao believed that they would have to take action.
In his previous life, many of the major events that should have happened two to three years later might happen within three to five months.
This was a good thing.
Based on the White Spirit and Gao Ye, their secret weapon, the Nine Great Supernatural Entities, had not been created yet.
Their infiltration of Dragon City would definitely not be as pervasive as what he remembered from his previous life, which was two or three years later.
If they forcefully pushed forward with their scheme, they would only expose their organization, and Dragon City would be able to destroy them once and for all.
The day they solved the Mystery of the Supernatural Entities would be the day Dragon City won the Monster War.
As the monsters' intelligence increased at a visible rate, all sorts of brand new abnormal beasts appeared. The authority of the abnormal beast research department increased, and they recruited or transferred more people from other forces of power.
Even so, the core members were still incredibly busy. Each high-ranking investigator was usually in charge of investigating more than ten cases at the same time.
Otherwise, Lu Siya would not have become Meng Chao's instructor.
They lacked manpower, and Meng Chao's performance was usually outstanding. The graduation test was basically just a formality. The day after he passed the test, Meng Chao was pushed to the frontlines.
This was the garbage power plant near Dragon City Steel Corporation in the north of the city.
After Dragon City transmigrated, not a single bit of oil or coal could be found underground. Aside from a few solar power facilities, the thermal power plants in the city had practically been paralyzed for a full twenty years.
When humans gradually mastered the technology to use fire-type crystals, lightning-type crystals, and all sorts of monsters to generate electricity, televisions, computers, lights, and other household appliances that could be seen everywhere on Earth returned to homes.
However, to Dragon Citizens, the most important use of electricity was not to light up their televisions and computers.
Instead, they charged up the defense systems in the residential areas and used high-voltage electricity to create the first line of defense against monsters.
All the residential areas in Dragon City, regardless of whether they were new or old, rich or poor, could be fortified.
In the case of "fortification," the main and secondary roads of the residential area would be completely closed, and a high-voltage barbed wire fence would be erected.
On the exterior of the building, gears powered by electricity would also be covered with layers of armor, covering all the doors and windows tightly.
Besides, the offensive electromagnetic coils that could be seen everywhere in the residential areas and the searchlights that could blind people needed electricity to power them.
If the electricity grid was paralyzed, even if the fortification was completed, the defense would be greatly reduced, and the defense lines would be easily destroyed by the monsters.
It was precisely because electricity was so important that Dragon City, which had tens of millions of people, had more than just one power plant.
Instead, they set up a total of five power plants in the north, south, east, and west of the city without caring about the pollution.
Many of the important units had their own crystal generators to ensure that the electromagnetic towers and searchlights would not stop working when the electricity from the outside was cut off.
Normal, old residential areas naturally did not have such advanced functions.
Over the past three months, there had been at least five instances of fog descending. When monsters invaded, the power plants suffered mysterious explosions, and the electricity grid was paralyzed on a large scale. The residential areas that were being fortified suddenly lost power, and the barbed wire fence that should have been connected with high-voltage electricity was torn to shreds when the monsters tugged it lightly.
Without electricity, the defenses of the residential areas instantly plummeted.
When humans were in the dark, their mental strength indices fluctuated even more violently, and it was easier for them to be consumed by fear.
The monsters successfully broke through the defense lines of four of the five residential areas that suddenly lost power and engaged the residents in close combat.
As the residents risked their lives and fought fearlessly, the monsters were finally forced to retreat.
But the residents also paid a terrible price.
Forget about the number of casualties for the time being, most of the buildings in the residential areas were destroyed by the monsters. They either sprayed flames that melted the rebars in the buildings, which made the buildings sway and turn them into dangerous buildings that could collapse at any moment. They also rushed into the buildings and sprayed acid and poison, which turned the buildings into playgrounds for pests.
Initial calculations showed that more than ten thousand residents' houses were severely damaged and could no longer be repaired.
The problem of the citizens' residences had troubled Dragon City for years.
Even now, there were still countless citizens who were forced to live in the dark, cramped, damp lair, and had a high crime rate.
There were also countless citizens, three generations of grandparents, more than a dozen families, all squeezed into shacks of fifty to sixty square meters.
It was normal for houses that were around two to three meters tall to be separated into three layers of beds.
More than ten thousand citizens lost their homes, which made the problem of living space in Dragon City even worse.
If they could not solve it properly, there was a high possibility that conflicts would intensify.
Perhaps this was the enemy's goal.
The abnormal beast research department carefully examined the data over the years.
They discovered that the five sudden blackouts were different from the power grids in the past, which happened when the defense system was overloaded.
Over the past few years, Dragon City Power Corporation had upgraded the entire city's power grid. Even if more than one hundred residential areas were fortified at the same time, they could still withstand the strongest attacks from the electromagnetic towers.
But during these five blackouts, when the fog descended and the monsters surged out of the space-time rifts, the power plants near them suffered mysterious explosions.
And these power plants were not shrouded by the fog, so they should not have become the targets of the monsters' invasion.
"Monsters have been hiding since a long time ago when the fog descended and quietly headed to the power plants. They patiently lurked under the power plants and waited for the next fog to descend. When the power plants were operating at full power, they launched suicidal ambushes to create favorable conditions for the next batch of monsters to destroy the houses."
This was the conclusion of the experts from the abnormal beast research department.
Based on past battles, monsters of different species rarely fought together.
Sacrificing themselves to create chances for their comrades in different battlefields seemed to be a concept exclusive to humans.
If the monsters really did this, it meant that they possessed intelligence that was close to that of humans.
And if they knew how to ambush the power plants, which were important facilities, it meant that the monsters had realized that the human defense system was connected to electricity. They also knew that the buildings with the huge steam towers could provide endless electricity for humans.
No matter how they thought about it, it was impossible for simple monsters to know about these things.
There was a high possibility that they were abnormal beasts who had devoured human intelligence.
The weather bureau in the city predicted that fog would descend again.
Besides, based on the amplitude of the spatial ripples, this was the largest and longest fog descent over the past half a year.
There was a high possibility that a large group of Nightmarish Beasts and Hell Beasts would invade Dragon City.
Over the past half a year, the speed at which monsters evolved and mutated had increased. Normal monsters like the Demonic Halberd Pigs had already gone through around twenty mutations.
Even though the superhumans and the Red Dragon Army could rely on the Ultimate Style and other brand new fighting models that could target specific targets to kill the mutated beasts in the wild, they could not leave a single one alive.
But fighting in the city was a different matter.
There were a lot of normal citizens living in the city.
Many of the important facilities were also filled with flammable and explosive items.
And no matter how much the citizens' houses were reinforced, it was impossible for them to be fortified to the level of a fighting fortress.
There was nothing wrong with killing monsters.
But if they used a killing move that could destroy the world and reduced the monsters, the residential buildings behind them, and the citizens inside to pulp, it would not be considered a victory.
Urban warfare was ten times more difficult than fighting in the wild.
If they fought in urban warfare in the only city on their side, they would have their hands tied. They might not even be able to bring out half of their fighting strength.
If a monster jumped out at a critical moment and destroyed the power plants, it would cause the power grid to break down on a large scale, and the consequences would be dire.
This time, the area covered by the fog included seven districts in the north, south, east, and west of the city.
The abnormal beast research department could only spread their elites to the five power plants and set up defenses.
Meng Chao and Lu Siya were stationed at the garbage power plant in the north of the city.
They used the most advanced biotechnology there. They did not use Giant Sandworms, but modified microorganisms to process the trash.
The trash processed by microorganisms was then fermented through a special process, and it turned into something similar to fertilizer.
This substance was mixed with monster feces, Lightning Stones, and the powder of fire-type and lightning-type crystals to turn into the best fuel. Its conversion efficiency far surpassed that of any thermal power plant on Earth. It could turn 65% of the heat in the fuel into electricity.
The originally advanced biotechnology had now turned into a huge hidden danger.
There were nearly one thousand tons of semi-finished products in the fuel fermentation warehouse of the power plant.
Meng Chao did not want to know just how big of a fire the semi-finished products would cause once the abnormal beasts used a secret technique to ignite them.
In any case, based on the memories from his previous life, there would be at least five major fires that affected the entire city in the next few years.
During one of the worst cases, one-third of Golden Tooth Lair was burned down!
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