Gao Wu: My freshman internship was a battle on the front lines.

Chapter 76 Jiangcheng in Despair

The Devouring Array is spreading.

It was faster than anyone expected.

Starting from the array's core beneath the Li family mansion, crimson light spread in all directions like a tidal wave.

Unlike ordinary formations that advance slowly, it was like a hungry beast, frantically devouring everything in its path.

A street.

One block.

In less than half an hour, the Devouring Array had covered half of Jiangcheng.

A crimson light enveloped the sky, completely blocking out the sunlight.

Jiangcheng turned into a dark red world, as if it were soaked in blood.

The air was thick with the stench of blood, the smell emanating from the massive formation as it extracted blood and vital energy from countless bodies.

The smell was so strong it was nauseating, so strong it was suffocating.

Ordinary people are falling in droves.

Their bodies quickly shriveled, and their skin turned from rosy to pale.

The entire process takes no more than ten seconds.

In ten seconds, a living person is turned into a dried-up corpse.

"Mommy! Mommy!" A little girl squatted on the street corner, hugging her mother who had turned into a dried-up corpse, crying her heart out.

"Help! Someone save me!" A middle-aged man desperately ran out of the formation's perimeter.

But his speed slowed down and his body grew weaker and weaker. Finally, he collapsed just a dozen meters from the edge of the great formation and never got up again.

"Close the door! Close the door now!" In a residential building, several burly men were desperately pushing the unit door, trying to close it and block the erosion of the formation.

However, the devouring power of the great formation is all-pervasive and cannot be blocked by a single door.

The ordinary people of Jiangcheng were powerless to fight back in the face of this catastrophe.

They are just ordinary people.

They just wanted to live.

But now, even living has become a luxury.

At the foot of the city wall of Jiangcheng.

This is the last safe zone in Jiangcheng.

The protective coating on the city wall offers some resistance to the Devouring Array, and since this area is furthest from the array's core, the array's power hasn't fully penetrated here yet.

But this is only temporary.

At the speed at which the formation spreads, the entire Jiangcheng will be covered in at most another hour.

At that time, the millions of people under the city walls will also be doomed.

Cao Keyuan stood on the city wall, looking at the blood-red sky in the distance, his fists clenched so tightly they cracked.

Behind him were the Night's Watch and the remnants of the military.

Despair was written all over everyone's faces.

It's not that they weren't brave enough.

Rather, it's because the enemy was too strong.

The Heavenly Demon Envoy at the late stage of the sixth rank, Li Wanshan at the half-step sixth rank, and Zhao Wuji at the peak of the fifth rank.

In addition, there were the experts from those aristocratic families who had long since pledged allegiance to them.

With such a lineup, they simply couldn't defeat it, let alone destroy the formation.

The Devouring Array is still operating, the spatial rift is still expanding, and the Heavenly Demon Clan army is about to cross the boundary.

"Commander Cao," Director Zhou's voice was calm, but tinged with bitterness, "Let the people evacuate."

"Withdraw?" Cao Keyuan smiled wryly. "Withdraw to where?"

"Outside the city. Evacuate as many as you can."

"We can't evacuate," Old Zhang shook his head.

"I tried. There's an invisible barrier at the edge of the formation, allowing only entry but no exit. I used all my strength, but I still couldn't break through it."

Director Zhou's expression changed.

"Only in, never out? Then wouldn't we be..."

"Like a turtle in a jar." Cao Keyuan uttered the phrase that everyone had thought of but no one wanted to say aloud.

silence.

Dead silence.

"Then let's fight." Meng Hu's voice came from below the city wall, rough and firm.

"Even if we can't win, we have to fight. If we're going to die, we have to die with dignity."

"That's right." Han Lie also spoke, his voice as cold as a knife, "Night Watchmen don't have the habit of running away."

Cao Keyuan looked down at the two battered army captains, remained silent for a few seconds, and then smiled.

"it is good."

He turned around to face the people and soldiers gathered below the city wall.

"My brothers and sisters in Jiangcheng!"

His voice was loud and resonant, echoing under the blood-red sky.

"I know you're afraid."

"But is being afraid helpful?"

"If we're afraid, will the Heavenly Demons stop killing us?"

"Will fear make those traitors let us go?"

"Won't!"

His voice grew louder and louder.

"Therefore, we must not be afraid!"

"We must fight!"

"Even if we can't win, we have to fight!"

"Even in death, one should die with dignity!"

"Let those demons see that the people of Jiangcheng are not to be trifled with!"

As the people and soldiers below the city wall listened to Cao Keyuan's words, the fear in their eyes gradually gave way to determination.

"In addition, our hero Ye Feng is on his way at full speed."

As he spoke, Cao Zhenshou raised the live-streaming equipment in his hand.

The image on the screen instantly switched to the large screens on the city wall.

On that screen.

A young man dressed in black combat uniform was flying rapidly through the air, stepping on a disc made of telekinetic throwing knives.

Instantly!

The countless people living below the city wall were immediately excited.

flight?

This is an ability that only a sixth-tier expert possesses.

Ye Feng, at the fifth level, could actually fly.

That's really amazing.

Of course, some sharp-eyed people knew that Ye Feng was able to fly using telekinetic weapons.

But who would sabotage things at this point?

"It's our hero, Ye Feng!"

"Ye Feng is currently flying towards Jiangcheng at top speed! Data shows that his current flight speed has reached 5680 meters per second!"

"If I'm not mistaken, that's 16.6 times the speed of sound!"

Someone exclaimed.

Not to mention him, even the fifth-tier experts present were so shocked they couldn't speak.

This flight speed is probably only achievable by a peak sixth-tier expert.

Cao Zhenshou raised his arms and shouted.

"According to my calculations, Ye Feng will arrive in Jiangcheng in five minutes and thirty-eight seconds!"

"We're saved!"

"Brothers, we're saved!"

When the outline of Jiangcheng's tall city walls appeared on the live broadcast screen.

Let all the survivors in Jiangcheng rekindle their hope for life.

"beat!"

"beat!"

"beat!"

The shouts were deafening, echoing through the blood-red sky.

"Someone is doing everything they can to save us! Why don't we try our best ourselves!"

"Let's fight that damned bastard of the Demon Clan!"

"My parents died at the hands of the Heavenly Demon Clan's great formation! I must avenge them!"

"Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!"

……

In the sky, a crack slowly opened.

The crack was initially only the size of a palm, but as the Devouring Array continuously gathered blood and spiritual energy, the crack grew larger and wider.

From the other side of the crack came terrifying roars.

That was the voice of the Heavenly Demon Clan.

Sharp, piercing, and full of violence and murderous intent.

The first batch of Heavenly Demons poured out of the crack.

They are about the same size as humans, but their bodies are covered with black scales.

It's exactly the same as the one on Wang Dehou before.

Their strength is not great; most of them are only quasi-first-tier or first-tier.

Cao Keyuan led his men to greet them.

The battle erupted in an instant.