"T-Thank you so much!"
Once the photo was taken, the female fan, who seemed to be in high school, said excitedly, "I didn't expect that the legendary Meng Chao would be so approachable!"
"I'm not a Deity Realm superhuman. I'm just at the peak of Earth Realm. Why am I putting on airs?"
Meng Chao smiled. "But with a cute supporter like you, I'll definitely do my best and try to reach Heaven Realm as soon as possible! You're still in high school, right? It's the same for my sister. We have to work hard together and keep cultivating so that we can become stronger! "
After receiving his encouragement, the female fan was so excited that her eyes sparkled. She swung her arms and said seriously, "I'll definitely do my best!"
"Do your best! Also, be careful when you fight zombies. Don't get too close to them!"
Meng Chao grinned and waved goodbye to the female fan.
For some reason, he felt a little guilty and did not dare to look into Lu Siya's eyes.
"Race against time, huh?" Lu Siya said with the ghost of a smile.
"You don't understand. The abnormal beasts have changed their tactics. They're using psychological warfare. They're intentionally exaggerating the difference between superhumans and normal people to intensify the conflict between them so that the races in Dragon City will be torn apart," Meng Chao said seriously.
"In this sort of situation, as superhumans, we can't put on airs in front of normal people. We have to be approachable and get close to the people. We have to do our best to satisfy our fans' requests. That's the only way we can maintain the harmony in Dragon City!"
"Makes sense," Lu Siya said.
"But if this fan is a built man who weighs more than one hundred kilograms, has a face full of scars, and a beard, and you still patiently give him an autograph and take a photo with him, then it makes even more sense."
Meng Chao scratched his head. He wanted to explain, but Lu Siya had already flown up.
Even though Heaven Realm superhumans could freely use maglev to fly in the sky, their cruising speed was not fast.
After all, the physiological structure of the human body determined that humans were not born to fly.
Even though they could activate their spirit energy and perform short-distance sprints in the air, they used up a lot of energy.
Hence, Heaven Realm superhumans usually carried light foldable gliders and levitated in the air to measure the direction and speed of the wind. Then, they spread the wings and glided quickly while looking down. They continuously adjusted their direction until they reached their destination.
When Meng Chao saw that Lu Siya was already one hundred meters in the air and was gliding toward Red Dragon River, he also activated his 3D mobile gear.
Meng Chao also activated his 3D mobile suit and jumped high into the air. Puffing sounds rose as he moved between the skyscrapers. He moved as if he was flying.
One of them jumped and the other glided. The two of them went up and down and soon crossed more than a dozen blocks.
Thick smoke was still billowing below, and gunshots and screams were heard one after another. Many streets were still filled with zombies.
Especially a temporary tent area, it was a mess because of the zombies.
He could see that many residents wanted to escape. They were all squeezed into a few narrow passageways, pushing and shoving each other.
It was very difficult for the tanks and armored vehicles to drive in, and it was also very difficult for the Extraordinaires to evacuate all the residents.
As long as one of the residents was infected with the new zombie virus, the consequences would be unimaginable.
"Setting up defenses everywhere and taking hits everywhere. Faced with the enemy's attacks that are impossible to defend against, the Home Party's stance is still too passive!"
When he saw this, Meng Chao sighed.
Right now, it was just monsters and zombies.
In the future, there would be elves, dwarves, dragons, magicians, and all kinds of strange creatures from other worlds.
Their magic, curses, plagues, bewitchment, mind control … Their infiltration and destructive power were one hundred times greater than that of zombies.
The Colonization Party's path could not work, and there was something wrong with the Home Party's ideals. They wanted to rely on a circular defense line to envelop all of Dragon City. They thought that they could rest easy just because they were impenetrable, but they would only be attacked passively and turn into targets riddled with holes.
'The Colonization Party is mad dogs, and the Home Party is a coward. Just what path should Dragon City take in the future? What a headache! '
Meng Chao thought. 'Let's just focus on the current battle. If we just defend passively, we won't be able to win the Monster War. We'll have to think of a way to find the abnormal beasts' nest — the satellite city that's even more terrifying than Dragon King Town! '
The tragedy in front of him made Meng Chao decide that he had to reach Heaven Realm as soon as possible so that he could join the operation to destroy the satellite city controlled by the abnormal beasts.
However, he had to first get rid of the abnormal beasts' all-pervasive attacks.
Both of them soon crossed the southern part of the city and arrived at Red Dragon River.
During winter, the Red Dragon Army was like an aquatic dragon hibernating. The river water was much calmer than it was during the summer, and it was the best time to build a tunnel across the river.
However, there were still a lot of crystals and minerals in the depths of Monster Mountain Range upstream. In the slightly red river water, there were still black shadows sinking and floating.
They were terrifying aquatic monsters that were washed down by the river.
With deep water bombs, humans could kill these monsters and turn them into delicious food.
But very few superhumans dared to jump into the fast-flowing Red Dragon River alone and fight against aquatic monsters in the depths of the river.
"Is that … a Lion Dragon Fish?"
Meng Chao's vision was much sharper than when he was a one-star superhuman. He looked down from above, and with just one glance, he saw the huge figures floating in the river.
During the quest to search for the Red Radiance Jade mine, Meng Chao and Lu Siya had fought fiercely against two Lion Dragon Fish in the mysterious lake in the depths of Graveyard Forest.
Even now, when their cultivation realms and fighting strength kept increasing, when they thought about that fight, they still felt lingering fear in their hearts, and they did not want to do it again.
But if Gao Ye broke through the construction site of the underwater tunnel and poured the Red Dragon River's water and the aquatic monsters, including the Lion Dragon Fish, into the tunnel …
Meng Chao gulped and slowed down.
The construction of the underwater tunnel was originally won by Spirit Creation Creatures.
Later, Spirit Creation Creatures ran into a series of dangers such as Gao Ye's transformation. They had to split their core assets and veteran technicians, and with the help of the abnormal beast research department, they merged into Superstar.
The construction of the underwater tunnel was also taken over by Superstar, two other infrastructure companies skilled in modifying biochemical beasts, and a powerful company in the runic symbol machine field.
It was the same as splitting a piece of cake among four companies, and they managed to cover up the scandal of Gao Ye's transformation.
Hence, Meng Chao was very familiar with the construction site of the underwater tunnel.
The construction site was at the southern edge of the city, where Red Dragon River was rather wide.
Compared to the rather narrow bend in the river, even though the construction work was greater, the river water was much calmer, and the erosion to the completed tunnel was much lesser.
When they received news that a large number of zombies had appeared in the southern part of the city, the construction came to a halt. The technicians and engineers were armed, and the workers held hammers that were powered by crystals and gushed out spirit energy. They could cut through the sturdiest rocks, so they could naturally cut through the skulls of zombies and monsters.
Once they received the warning from the abnormal beast research department, the Red Dragon Army immediately sent a rapid response squad with three armored vehicles to the construction site.
There were also patrol boats filled with depth charges on the river. They moved back and forth to search for traces of abnormal creatures.
When Meng Chao arrived, Lu Siya had already charged over the construction site. She even circled the surface of Red Dragon River once. Then, she removed her glider backpack in midair and jumped in front of the military squad to show her identification.
As the Monster War entered the latter half, the monsters continued evolving and becoming smarter. The authority and power of the abnormal beast research department also increased, and it became more like the powerful organization Meng Chao remembered from his previous life. It could stand on equal footing with the Supernatural Tower and the adjudicator court.
The commander of the Red Dragon Army gave Meng Chao and Lu Siya a standard military salute and told them that the abnormal beast research department would take over the site. They would provide support from the side and provide firepower.
"Is there a situation?" Meng Chao asked the commander of the Red Dragon Army.
"Not yet," the commander of the Red Dragon Army said.
"We arrived seven minutes ago and set up our defenses. We also monitored the movements underground. Right now, there are a lot of pests moving around underground. The noise is loud, and the interference is strong. It's difficult for us to get any useful information, but there are no cracks on the ground around us. The tunnel under construction isn't trembling or sinking either."
"What about the workers, engineers, and technicians? Have they been evacuated?" Meng Chao asked.
"Some of the workers and engineers have been evacuated in time, but some of them are still in the tunnel," the commander of the Red Dragon Army said.
"They have a lot of large-scale construction equipment, and they've been deployed in the depths of the tunnel. They'll need time to gather them and evacuate."
Meng Chao nodded.
Through Superstar, he had come to understand some of the construction details of the underwater tunnel.
This was the first time Dragon City started building a underwater tunnel after they transmigrated to the Other World.
A lot of the construction equipment was custom-made for this project.
Aside from the construction, they were also in charge of testing, gathering data, and training the related operators.
Even the Giant Sandworms and the other biochemical beasts were created only after they poured a lot of resources into the project and went through countless experiments.
The companies and related departments had poured an astronomical amount of resources into the project.
Naturally, they could not just watch as the precious equipment was swallowed by the river.
But …
Meng Chao cast a glance at the Red Dragon River in the distance. Suddenly, he felt that the color of the river near the construction site was a little off.
Normally, the water in the Red Dragon River would be slightly red.
Now, it was gradually turning a murky, yellowish-brown color.
Countless bubbles popped up from the bottom of the river.
It was as if something was raging in the depths of the Red Dragon River.
"There's something over there!"
The patrolling torpedo speedboats also noticed the abnormality.
They immediately tossed in a large number of depth charges.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Thick pillars of water shot up into the sky.
The severed limbs of the prawn soldiers and crab generals fell like rain, and they dyed the entire river red.
But the effect of using depth charges in a river with relatively rapid water flow was not that good.
Besides, their target was the super Giant Sandworm, which was skilled in digging.
It could crawl into the depths of the riverbed and let the sediment that had been accumulating for years at the bottom of the river negate the impact of the depth charges.
Besides, it was too close to the construction site. If they were the slightest bit careless, the depth charges would destroy the underwater tunnel.
Hence, the torpedo speedboats did not dare to fire at full force fearlessly. They could only keep firing at the perimeter. Aside from killing a large number of aquatic monsters and sending up a lot of sediment, which made the river even more murky and chaotic, they did not manage to find the super Giant Sandworm.
At that moment, a noisy and piercing voice came from the communicator of the Red Dragon Army commander.
"This is bad!"
The expression of the Red Dragon Army commander changed. "Water is seeping out from the depths of the tunnel!"
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