The abnormal beasts did not attack the power plant in the north of the city.
But Meng Chao and the others did not let their guard down.
The space-time rifts that looked like huge vortexes still existed in the night sky, and they continuously devoured all sorts of flying-type monsters that came from the depths of Monster Mountain Range.
They were the Demonic Air Ripping Eyes that were covered in tentacles and had powerful mind attacks, such as large eyeballs and glowing jellyfish.
The edges of their wings were so sharp that they could cut through the air sacs of armored airships. They were the Lightning Golden Eagles.
There were also swarms of large mosquitoes. When they gathered together, they looked like squirming windstorms or demonic palms that descended from the sky. They could bind humans tightly and drag them into the air. In a few minutes, all their flesh and blood would be devoured, and what they flung down would only be white skeletons.
All sorts of monstrous monsters shone with a rainbow light. They wreaked havoc in the sky above Dragon City, and it was literally a demonic dance.
The fierce fighting lasted for an entire night.
When dawn arrived, there were still small groups of monsters moving about in the city. They relied on the ruins, drains, pipes, and the complicated ventilation systems in the skyscrapers to fight against the humans.
The sporadic gunshots and the booming sounds of buildings collapsing repeatedly tormented the humans' nerves, which were on the verge of breaking down.
Meng Chao completed his task of guarding the power plant, so he returned to his old job as a harvester.
This time, the fog brought nearly one million tons of monster carcasses to Dragon City. He had to harvest them as fast as he could, or else there was a high possibility that the carcasses would turn into zombies and cause a plague.
Meng Chao worked for an entire day at the garbage power plant and the steel plant in the north of the city.
When dusk arrived, he dragged his heavy footsteps and swung his nearly numb hands back to the abnormal beast research department to analyze the newest progress of the monster evolution.
On his way there, he saw dozens of residential areas with varying degrees of damage to their defense systems.
More than ten residential areas had been destroyed by monsters.
Even though the residents had fled to the underground shelters in time, their houses were badly damaged.
However, the houses were severely damaged, and the warm homes of countless residents had been turned into burning ruins.
The monster carcasses that piled up like mountains had rotted away due to them not being able to deal with them in time, causing a layer of yellowish-green smoke to linger in the residential areas. The pungent smell was enough to make people cry.
Crackling sounds of explosions could be heard from the seemingly undamaged building.
It was the sound of a monster's corpse rotting and turning into a biochemical bomb that released balls of acid and poison after it died.
Many acids would corrode the reinforced concrete inside the walls, greatly reducing the strength of the building.
The venom, on the other hand, would seep into the walls and slowly be released over the next few years, causing irreversible lifelong damage to the human body, especially to the respiratory and blood systems of children.
In other words, these buildings that seemed to still be standing on top of their homes were also seriously polluted and no longer suitable for humans to live in.
Meng Chao saw many of the residents looking lost. They stood or squatted down at the entrance of the shattered residential area. They did not know what to do.
A little girl with a dirty face was holding a teddy bear that was missing an arm and a leg. The corners of her eyes were filled with tears, but she was comforting the teddy bear softly, as if telling it not to be afraid.
Her father rolled up his sleeves in anger. He wanted to beat up the mangled monster carcass until it was even more mangled.
His mother wanted to go home to save some things, but the rubble of the collapsed buildings was piled up together and burned by the flames the monsters released. There was no way she could tell where their home was.
The scene in front of him fused with the devastating situation during the middle and later stages of the Monster War in Meng Chao's previous life. It reminded him that the future was not so easily changed.
It also reminded Dragon Citizens that even if they won the northern frontlines, the final victory was still far away.
Meng Chao learned the full picture of the fog's battlefield from Ye Xiaoxing while he was in the abnormal beast research department.
Just as he expected, a lot of evidence and data showed that the Monster War had entered the second half, and the fighting style had changed drastically.
First of all, the monsters had become smarter.
Even the normal monsters' ability to work together on the battlefield had increased by leaps and bounds. In the past, when the fog descended, different monsters would not surge out of the space-time rifts at the same time. Usually, when they appeared, they would eagerly attack the human residential areas, and the humans would seize the time difference to destroy them one by one.
Many of the Heaven Realm superhumans had the time to get rid of the monsters in one residential area before they flew to another. From there, they could ensure the safety of four or five residential areas.
At the same time, since they did not have the concept of formations and firepower, many of the monsters were used to lining up in a long line even though they had the advantage in numbers. They would just charge at the human machine guns and anti-aircraft artillery. Aside from turning themselves into live targets and wasting the humans' ammunition, there was no other meaning to it.
But this time, during the fog's descent, many of the monsters, especially the mammals with relatively developed brains and insect-type monsters with collective intelligence, learned their lesson. They first gathered their forces and coordinated their timing before they attacked the human residential areas at the same time. The powerful fighters were busy running for their lives because they could not attend to one area.
In fact, a large group of monsters even charged past the human residential areas that were prepared for battle. They gathered five different types of monsters and attacked the old residential areas with relatively weak defenses at the same time. They used the method of gathering their forces to catch the humans off guard.
Second, the monsters also learned to attack the important targets in Dragon City.
The power plants, water plants, crystal warehouses, and gene farms were all ambushed by monsters.
Among them, the fresh water plant and gene farm were the most important targets of the monsters' attack.
Aside from the monsters that descended last night, a group of abnormal beasts like Flame Rats, Lightning Pythons, and Brain Infesting Insects had been hiding near the water plant and gene farm for a long time.
Even if their suicidal attacks did not manage to break through the basic facilities that supported Dragon City's operations, they would not be able to do so.
But the acid and poison that came out of their self-destruction after they died severely polluted the water source and farms, which made Dragon City's shortage of resources even worse.
Thirdly, the monsters had also learned how to assassinate important human targets.
Many of the experts in the cutting-edge fields in Dragon City were assassinated or attacked by groups of monsters during the fog invasion.
Although most of the experts had survived, the casualty rate was still much higher than any of the previous times when the fog descended.
It was hard to believe that the death of so many experts was just an unfortunate coincidence.
But if they said that the monsters had already obtained the name list of all the specialists in Dragon City and were using the chaos to carry out targeted killings, that would not only sound unbelievable, it would also make people's skin crawl.
When they thought about how the abnormal beasts specifically created Brain Infesting Insects to target the human brain and central nervous system, the abnormal beast research department's worries might be true.
The abnormal beasts and even the abnormal humans had long since infiltrated Dragon City to observe, think, and learn from the shadows. Then, they gradually developed an abnormal beast civilization that was similar to theirs.
The fog might have ended.
But the repercussions of the battle were far from over.
First, there were plagues.
After a great battle, there would definitely be major plagues. This was common knowledge in the art of war.
Besides, the Other World was a place where viruses, bacteria, and cells were overly active. Besides, the abnormal beasts might have purposely increased the ability of the monsters' corpses to spread their germs after they died to target the human immune system.
Over the next month or so, Dragon City experienced three large epidemics in a row. The source of the epidemics was a completely mutated strain of bacteria, and they were highly targeted against humans. They did not seem to be the result of a natural mutation, but a product of genetic modification.
One of the plagues even caused the zombie virus, which had been extinct for a long time, to come back to life.
The new zombie virus mutant could turn a human into a highly mobile zombie in just half a minute. They could jump up three or four stories in one go. Even if they were shot in the head by a human, there was a possibility that their internal organs would explode and they would spit out deadly venom.
It was not easy to get rid of the plagues.
Since a large number of the citizens' houses were polluted and destroyed by the monsters, they had to live in tents and makeshift houses.
The space was small, and they lacked resources. They could not even guarantee basic clean water and clean food. Naturally, it created favorable conditions for the spread of germs.
What spread along with the germs was the hostility between people.
Even the most modest gentlemen would be stimulated by their survival instincts in an environment that lacked resources, and they would gradually regain their primitive, wild nature.
Every time a large scale fog descended, the crime rate in Dragon City would increase by several fold within three to five months.
Aside from the lack of resources, the monsters' descent also caused the humans' mental strength indices to plummet, which resulted in all sorts of mental distortions.
Even if a person's mental strength index returned to normal after it plummeted, it did not mean that there was no damage left in the depths of their brains.
It was just like how there would always be ugly scars left behind after a wound healed.
It was even more so for superhumans.
On one hand, superhumans were the vanguards fighting against the monsters. They charged at the frontlines and had to face more mental attacks from monsters, so it was much easier for their mental strength indices to plummet.
Even sturdy metal plates would experience metal fatigue after they were repeatedly bent, and they would break.
Besides, humans had fragile and mysterious minds.
On the other hand, their brain cells and central nervous systems were stimulated by spirit energy for a long period of time, so it was much easier for them to enter spirit energy deviation compared to normal people.
Monster controllers, machine masters, and other occupations needed to open up the fractures in their brains and use their brainwaves to control biochemical beasts and runic symbol machines. It was much easier for abnormal beasts to invade them and plant evil seeds in them.
Hence, every time a large scale fog descended, a lot of heroes with outstanding achievements would enter spirit energy deviation and fall into darkness to turn into evil superhumans who committed all sorts of crimes.
This was something that they could do nothing about and found a great pity.
It was not that the Survival Committee and the Supernatural Tower did not want to solve this problem.
No one wanted to watch countless citizens lose their homes.
No one wanted to see their companions, who had been smiling like flowers yesterday, turn into zombies with poison dripping from their mouths.
No one wanted to see citizens fighting over a bottle of drinking water, and the heroes who swore to protect Dragon City forever were corrupted by darkness and turned into demons and lunatics.
But if they wanted to completely solve this problem, they needed an astronomical amount of resources.
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