When his consciousness returned to his brain, Xia Pingan opened his eyes and discovered that he was lying on the floor. His body was pressed down by the debris and building materials from the collapsed roof. He was completely buried in this pile of debris.
In his hand, he was still holding a rocket launcher that had already been fired.
The roaring in his ears had already stopped. In Xia Pingan's consciousness, the scene of the tank raising its cannon and firing at the place where he was last night still lingered.
He had just killed a Demon Fire Spider with a rocket launcher, and then a tank turned around from the corner of the street, aimed at the small building he was in, and fired a shot.
The tank's main cannon with a diameter of 125mm shattered the wall and blew up the entire roof. Xia Pingan was sent flying by the shockwave of the explosion. Shortly after, he was buried by the debris of the collapsed building.
For the entire 87th Legion.
Yesterday was like a nightmare.
It was a bloody battle!
Xia Pingan didn't even know how many people from the 87th Legion had successfully retreated from Xinchuan City after the bloody battle.
The combination of the Demon Rats, the Demon Fire Spiders and the Demon Liquid Spiders tore apart all the troops of the 87th Legion stationed in Xinchuan City overnight.
Yes, the 87th Legion was completely defeated. The last order they received from the legion headquarters was an order to cover the evacuation of the citizens. After that, they even lost contact with the legion headquarters.
The 87th Legion could deal with the Demon Rats and the Demon Fire Spiders, but they couldn't deal with the Demon Spirits of the Demon Rats.
Because no one expected the Demon Spirits to come out from the spatial rift, the 87th Legion wasn't prepared at all. The latter, to the 87th Legion, was an unkillable monster. Not only that, once the Demon Spirits of the Demon Rats got close to them, they would fall into a terrifying illusion. They would no longer be able to distinguish between reality and illusion. Under the control of the Demon Spirits of the Demon Rats, they would attack the people around them.
Under the control of the Demon Spirits of the Demon Rats, the soldiers possessed by the Demon Spirits of the Demon Rats would slaughter the people around them.
Even if they could kill the possessed person, it would be useless because the Demon Spirits of the Demon Rats would look for the next target to possess and continue to drag them into the illusion to attack their companions.
Under such circumstances, the 87th Legion collapsed. The legion headquarters gave the order to cover the evacuation of the citizens of Xinchuan City. They had no choice but to give up on Xinchuan City.
From the morning of the 28th to the night of the 29th, Xinchuan City fell............................................ 87th Legion............ 87th Legion...........
Only a Summoner could kill a Demonic Spirit. In front of a Summoner's spells, the Demonic Spirit of a Phantom Monster, which was almost invincible in the face of firearms and hot weapons, was actually very fragile. A simple Fireball spell could kill a Demonic Spirit, and summoned creatures were also lethal to Demonic Spirits.
The other Summoners of the Demon Guards stationed in Xinchuan City, a total of 93 Summoners, were ordered to snipe the Demon Spirits of the Demon Rats with the retreating troops. They covered the evacuation of the legion and the citizens of Xinchuan City.
Xia Pingan took the initiative to stay behind and fight with the other Summoners. They covered the evacuation of the other soldiers and citizens of the 87th Legion.
This was Xia Pingan's first battle after joining the 87th Legion and becoming its High Priest. He didn't expect it to be such a fierce battle.
Including Xia Pingan, the 94 Summoners of Xinchuan City, including Xia Pingan, severely wounded the Demon Spirits of the Demon Rats at the cost of one-third of their strength. They covered the evacuation of the 87th Legion and the citizens of Xinchuan City.
When the divine power of the secret mandala was almost depleted and the Shenli Dan was completely exhausted, Xia Pingan picked up a gun and a rocket launcher. Like a normal soldier, he fought the invading Demon Rats to the bitter end.
However, the two dimensional passages in Xinchuan City had already been completely lost. In the face of such a collapse and the invading Demon Rats, the power of less than 100 Summoners couldn't change the situation of Xinchuan City.
Xia Pingan stayed behind and fought until the very last moment. He summoned the last remaining Elite Soldier and Farmer in the secret mandala. He used the two summoned creatures to lure the Demon Fire Spiders and Demon Spirits that were chasing after the retreating troops to the street near this building. In the end, after killing a Demon Fire Spider with a rocket launcher, the building he was in was hit by tank fire and buried under the rubble.
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"Crash …" Xia Pingan's hand stretched out from the bricks and tiles in the ruins, moving away a piece of broken reinforced concrete that weighed several hundred kilograms on his body. Then, he drilled out of the pile of ruins little by little.
Xia Pingan drilled out from under the rubble. His head and face were covered in dust, even his eyelashes were covered in dust. His clothes were tattered in many places, and his mouth and nose were stained with dried blood. His original appearance could no longer be recognized.
There was a big hole in one of the walls of the three-storey building. The roof had collapsed, and almost everything in the building was destroyed in the explosion. The remaining walls were covered in smoke and shocking shrapnel marks.
The huge holes in the roof and the wall were like two huge skylights. The weather outside was a little gloomy, but the sky still shone through the holes. Along with the light came gusts of cold wind.
The entire city was eerily quiet. Only sporadic gunshots could be heard from afar, but the gunshots disappeared in the blink of an eye.
After climbing out of the rubble, Xia Pingan checked his body and let out a sigh of relief. Apart from some bruises, he didn't have any obvious external injuries. Last night, he vomited blood and fainted from the shockwave of the explosion. Then, he was buried in the rubble for an entire night, so he felt a little suffocated.
Fortunately, his First Yuan Realm body was strong enough. If it was a normal person, they would have died last night.
Xia Pingan carefully moved his limbs, then went behind the broken wall. Through the gap of a broken cabinet, he carefully observed the scene on the street outside.
The corpse of the last Magic Fire Spider he killed last night was still on the street over a hundred meters downstairs. The rocket launcher had blasted a huge hole in the spider's body. There were also burning tank wreckages on the street.
The entire Xinchuan City was beyond recognition as far as the eye could see. Thick smoke billowed everywhere, and the buildings in the city were covered in the traces left behind by the rain of bullets and the explosions.
The figures of the 87th Legion could no longer be seen in the city.
During the day yesterday, a large number of Xinchuan City's citizens had fled the city under the desperate cover of the 87th Legion's soldiers. However, not everyone was able to escape. Some people should have stayed behind and were currently hiding in various corners of the city.
Just as Xia Pingan was observing the situation on the street outside, a huge Magic Fire Spider slowly turned around from the side of the street.
Seeing the Magic Fire Spider appear on the street, Xia Pingan immediately held his breath.
The Magic Fire Spider turned its head and scanned the buildings on both sides of the street. Then, it quickly walked to the corpse of the Magic Fire Spider killed by Xia Pingan and began to gnaw on the corpse with relish.
Xia Pingan used his [Remote Vision] ability to take a look. At this moment, both inside and outside Xinchuan City, there were Demonic Fire Spiders, Demonic Liquid Spiders, Demonic Rats, and many Phantom Monsters' Devil Spirits wandering around the streets like ghosts. At this moment, he didn't have any divine power to use. If he suddenly went out and encountered a Demonic Fire Spider or a Phantom Monster's Devil Spirit, he would definitely die.
Therefore, the best thing to do now was to at least recover some of his divine power and have the ability to protect himself before coming up with a plan.
Xia Pingan waited patiently for about two hours. The Magic Fire Spider on the street had been gnawed until only its shell was left. Only then did the Magic Fire Spider slowly walk away.
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At this moment, Xia Ping An Secret Mandala's divine power was almost completely depleted. There was only a little bit left.
The Secret Mandala was empty. Apart from the summoned Pharmacist who had entered the black mist and hadn't returned, the Secret Mandala was almost empty.
It would take at least ten more days for his divine power to recover. He would have to wait until the night of the 11th of November, which was the 15th of October of the lunar calendar. Only then would the Secret Mandala's divine power recover by half.
Xia Pingan didn't want to wait here for nothing.
Waiting for more than ten days in such a dangerous place was the most dangerous.
Currently, there was only one place in Xinchuan City where he might be able to quickly recover some of his divine power — the 87th Legion's Logistics and Equipment Department's Special Equipment Management Office.
Xia Pingan had received his Shenli Dan for the past two months from there. The 87th Legion's Shenli Dan was delivered by the military of the Fire Country every few days by plane. Shenli Dan was very precious. There was no way to supply too much at once.
There might even be some Shenli Dan left behind.
The Logistics and Equipment Department was located on the outskirts of the city. There were fewer demons there than in the city. Even if there wasn't any Shenli Dan there, it would be safer to move there first.
After making up his mind, Xia Pingan waited quietly in the ruins, conserving his energy. He waited until the sky was completely dark before Xia Pingan began to move.
The clouds tonight were very thick and visibility was very low. It was just right for him to move at night. Demon Fire Spiders and Demon Rats weren't known for their eyesight. In the dark, these two invading creatures' perception would be lower.
He dragged the last bit of divine power from the Secret Mandala to the Ancestral Aperture acupoint in the middle of his eyes. Following a burst of coldness in his eyes, the dark night outside became clearer under the faint red light.
The entrance to the building had been blocked by the debris of the explosion. Xia Pingan grabbed onto the cracks between the bricks and the balcony railings through the wall's entrance. He silently slid down from the fourth floor to the street below.
Xia Pingan activated his remote vision ability and used an aerial view to observe the movements on the surrounding streets. He then used the darkness and the surrounding buildings as cover to quickly run towards the outskirts of the city.
Along the way, Xia Pingan safely avoided more than ten Demon Rats and several large spiders wandering around the city. An hour later, he finally arrived at the small airport on the outskirts of the city where the Logistics and Equipment Department was located.
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