Du Jianan sat on the bed with an expressionless face and his eyes seemed a little dull.
He has been in this city for three days, and he has changed from a man full of vigor and vitality to a middle-aged man with disordered breathing.
In fact, the order did not mistreat him. He was even provided with good wine and meat for three days. The convenient life and delicious food were even several times better than those in his own stronghold.
To the extent that many of the people traveling with us already had an expression of being reluctant to leave.
Du Jianan was a little wary at this point. He thought this was a sugar-coated bullet from the Order, designed to make him and his group submit and thus leak the news of the camp.
For this reason, he also specifically instructed his subordinates not to reveal any information under any circumstances. If they found someone leaving the base and betraying the commander-in-chief, he would definitely not show mercy.
Everyone knows Du Jianan's temper and methods. In the huge camp, he is the undisputed second-in-command. Some people even have rumors that the so-called commander-in-chief is Du Jianan's biological son.
Du Jianan is now 49, which is considered middle-aged, while the commander-in-chief is only in his 20s. Judging from their ages, this news is not impossible.
After all, there is no wall in this world that is completely airtight.
No matter if it is a son's honor depends on his father, or a husband's honor depends on his son, both of them have paid countless hardships for the stronghold, and the reason why everyone is alive until now is also relying on the protection of the commander-in-chief.
No one was stupid enough to verify the truth of the news. Whether it was Du Jianan or the commander-in-chief, if they went to verify it, they would naturally end up dead.
No one would not care about Du Jianan's threat. The other party is famous in the stronghold for doing what he says. Precisely because of this, everyone who comes here to visit has been very careful in their words and actions during this period, and even daily communication has been avoided. They are like a group of mutes, fearing that their information will be stolen inadvertently and they will end up with their heads and bodies separated.
However, what annoyed Du Jianan was that three days had passed and the group had done nothing but wait, with no one coming to steal the information they were looking for.
Only then did Du Jianan realize one thing: the information he thought was important was nothing in the eyes of order.
Therefore, their group was ignored. No, it’s not so much that they were ignored, but rather that they didn’t care about the alliance at all.
In Du Jianan's eyes, the strength of the Order, whether in terms of population or prosperity, is unmatched by the Stronghold, and even...
Du Jianan sat alone in the room and couldn't help but let out a breath. Although he didn't want to admit that he was inferior to others, he had to face the fact that there was no comparison between the two.
Look at those magic cannons on the city wall. A few days ago, the magic cannons were inspected, and Du Jianan saw with his own eyes that countless lively, ferocious and terrifying beasts were turned into a pile of minced meat and limbs under the bombardment of the cannons.
One thing you need to know is that among those wild beasts, there are many ferocious beasts that even you are quite cautious about. If you fight against them, the chances of winning or losing are fifty-fifty.
What's even more terrifying is that from beginning to end, the warriors of Order didn't even make any attacking moves. They were like a group of spectators, watching the monsters die one after another with such indifference and expressionless faces.
At that moment, Du Jianan couldn't help but feel a sense of despair rising in his heart. His proud stronghold seemed like an ant in front of others and was not worth mentioning.
Du Jianan has his own pride, but at this moment, his pride is completely lost, leaving only helplessness.
He originally thought that the legendary order was not much stronger than his own stronghold. After all, the end of the world had come and everything was destroyed. It was already a rare thing for them to establish their own territory on the original land.
But after actually coming here and seeing everything here, Du Jianan finally understood what it meant to look at the world from a narrow perspective. The gap between them and order was not even a little bit.
But it is an unimaginable gap.
This gap is like that between the sky and the earth. There is no comparison at all.
The stronghold is still under threat, I can't wait any longer!
Du Jianan suddenly stood up from the bed. At this moment, his eyes were focused and it seemed that he had made some preparations.
Du Jianan is a businessman in peacetime, and not just a simple businessman. Even in the whole country, he can be ranked among the top 500.
At this point, the other party can no longer be described as a businessman. Du Jianan is obviously a real entrepreneur. He is good at business and naturally understands the rules and methods of negotiation.
His original purpose was to let Order speak first, and he himself? He pretended to be a leader of the stronghold who accidentally passed by here. Both sides lived together in the apocalypse, so they naturally needed to support each other. In this case, Du Jianan would slowly reveal his fox tail and take the opportunity of the visit to bring back a large number of reinforcements. At that time, on the one hand, he could solve the troubles of the stronghold and rescue the people who were extremely important to him. On the other hand, he would not be looked down upon by the people of Order. After all, all this happened inadvertently.
Even though Du Jianan treated his subordinates in a threatening tone to prevent them from leaking the information, this matter was originally a secret. Everyone who came here could withstand the test. They were a group of people that the commander-in-chief and Du Jianan trusted very much.
There is a huge pressure on their shoulders. Except for a small number of people who have obvious signs of corruption, most of them are obviously anxious at this time. If it weren't for Du Jianan's prestige, they would have spoken directly to the top leaders of the order.
Du Jianan couldn't wait any longer. If he kept waiting like this, even if he really asked for reinforcements, when he returned to the base, there might only be a wasteland left, and the home he remembered would not exist at all.
During this period, Order always perfunctorily gave him the lie, saying that the real leader had not returned yet and that effective discussions could not be made, but Du Jianan knew clearly that both Xu Zhe and Lu Wei had some privileges when going out.
No more pretending!
Although he knew that this would make the other party look down on him and might even have a more negative impact, Du Jianan reminded himself that for such an important matter, he had to give it a try!
If we continue to wait like this, our stronghold will truly fall into an irretrievable situation.
Thinking of this, Du Jianan no longer cared about his face and said to his confidant outside the door: "Go and explain the situation to the acting city lord and tell him that I want to meet him."
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The sky was still gray, as if covered by a thick curtain. Countless tiny white dots fell with the wind, as if they wanted to fill the whole world.
The weather at doomsday was very abnormal. It was still a long time away from the real winter, but today, for some reason, a heavy snow suddenly fell.
Even though it was not yet nightfall, the entire camp was plunged into silence.
The soldiers who had been on guard for a whole day fell asleep early at this moment, no matter they were ordinary people or professionals.
Devil's Town.
The name sounds a bit scary, but this is still a human stronghold, and Du Jianan and his friends come from here.
This place is only one-fifth the size of the Order, with a population of several hundred thousand. They originally relied on planting and raising monsters to barely make ends meet. Although it is not as prosperous as the Order, the number of people starving to death has been reduced a lot.
But just when everyone thought that good days would finally come, two weeks ago, a dimensional rift suddenly opened up in the surroundings.
The dimensional rift opened, and a group of hideous and terrifying monsters appeared. They looked like orcs, with extremely ugly faces and strong muscles. Even if a bronze-level professional fought against them head-on, he would still not end up well.
Those monsters crawled out from the dimensional crack, and unlike other cracks, they did not close in a short time. The crack was open for three days before it completely disappeared.
In three days, the monsters that were originally scattered have now grown to tens of thousands in number. Looking at them in a dark mass, they look like waves, which makes people feel scared.
The Devil City also tried to launch an attack in an attempt to destroy the dimensional portal, but every attack ended in failure. The strength and unity shown by those monsters undoubtedly made the people in the Devil City feel a little scared.
Although they didn't want to admit it, if a real fight broke out, Devil City would be no match for the opponent. The monsters destroyed most of the fields and ate all the beasts and insects scattered around.
Under this influence, even though the Devil City had some food reserves, people were still in a panic and the atmosphere of fear filled the streets.
Everyone knew one thing: the city walls were simply unable to withstand these monsters. Not only Du Jianan but also the commander-in-chief.
Dadi lay in bed, with some bad premonitions always lingering in his mind. He tried many ways to distract himself, but all ended in failure.
Moreover, even if you really enter a dream, you will dream of unimaginable horrible scenes, and all the people you know will die in the dream.
This feeling of confusion made him mentally exhausted. He went to bed early, but could not fall asleep until three or four in the morning. Even so, the short sleep would be filled with nightmares one after another, and he would wake up at the slightest noise.
Dadi was lying on his side with a furry tail hanging beside him. He was a werewolf, but compared to the violent personalities of ordinary werewolves, Dadi was an outlier. Even after he transformed after seeing the full moon, he could still remember his teammates around him and would never lose his composure and attack anyone.
Dadi has keen hearing, so he serves as a patrolman in the camp. During this period, he has a heavy workload, sometimes even working around the clock with no time to rest.
Today, someone finally took over Dadi's shift, so he was able to rest early and replenish his body. However, he was unable to fall asleep because of the chaotic thoughts in his mind.
He had to go out for a walk. Only in this way could he relieve some of the pressure in his heart.
Dadi likes a girl, who is an ordinary human being and does some tedious things on weekdays. They met on the street. At that time, the girl was besieged by several thugs and their way was blocked.
It was an old-fashioned story of a hero saving a beautiful girl. Dadi relied on his terrifying power to successfully fight off the thugs and rescue the girl.
Just like the plot in many novels, Dadi fell in love with the other person, and he wanted to give her a stable home. Even if it meant giving birth to a wolf cub, he would feel at ease and would not feel uncomfortable at all.
For this purpose, Dadi even quit his patrol job, aiming to find a relatively easy life in this base as a professional.
The Devil City is not as orderly as there are too many forces entrenched here. Those little gangsters wandering at the bottom don't have the courage to show their fangs to professionals, but that doesn't mean they won't bully those weak humans.
This is a very common thing in Devil City.
The girl thanked the earth. If it weren't for the earth, she didn't know what terrible things she would have experienced that dark night.
However, things did not always go as planned. Just when Dadi was ready to start a family and build a career, the sudden arrival of a monster disrupted his plan.
As an excellent warrior, Dadi was specially recruited and there was no possibility of refusal. It was for this reason that Dadi returned to the battlefield.
After coming here, Dadi realized how powerful the monsters he would face were. If he did not possess extraordinary strength, he would have been dragged away by the monsters many times.
Dadi hated those monsters because it was these guys that caused all his plans to fail.
Of course, Dadi’s favorite thing to do is to occasionally look through his wife’s photos.
This would give his tired body some relaxation.
Dadi stood in the snow, his eyes fixed on a certain point, and no one knew what he was thinking.
"call!"
However, when he was about to return to his hometown, he felt that the surroundings suddenly changed and the world was spinning. When he came to his senses, he found that a deep pit had appeared on the land in front of him.
The deep pit looked like it had been bombarded by something. Not only that, the surrounding land was also severely corroded. It could be said that if there had not been a legendary angel blessing it, it would have been impossible to build on this land.
Afterwards, several more similar explosions were heard from the direction of the camp, completely breaking the tranquility of the night.
This is... an attack!
Dadi seemed to have a premonition of something. However, just as he was about to go back and tell his teammates, a series of bombardments sounded and directly hit the camp not far away.
At this moment, Dadi's eyes shrank into a thin line. What he saw was that the camp where he lived turned into a puddle like a piece of melted chocolate under this horrific attack.
Mixed in with it were some quilt covers, bricks and human remains.
Dadi took a deep breath. At this moment, he really didn't know what to say.
Sadness welled up from the bottom of his heart. In that stronghold, there were his mentor, his friends, and his comrades, but he just melted away quietly and without a trace.
Everyone was dead. In the huge camp, he was the only one alive.
Dadi couldn't believe his eyes at all. If he couldn't still hear enough bombing sounds in his ears, he would have doubted whether he was still asleep and everything here was just a dream.
But Dadi is not stupid. He knows that he will not be so awake when he is asleep, so the monsters outside the city finally come!