Two months passed quietly inside the World Tree.
Outside the World Tree, it was already noon the next day.
"You guys were out for a really long time this time!" Li Wenxi lay on the legs of Xu Xin, who had just returned home. "Did you sit down?"
"Of course." Xu Xin smiled slightly and pinched her cheek. "Everything that needs to be prepared has been prepared."
Xu Xin, Xu Ying, Ji Chaoyang and Shi Wanyun went to the World Tree on the sea.
There they had a formal meeting with the head of Zone 1-5.
"Hmm... Really?"
Li Wenxi did not ask Xu Xin and the others what they had experienced over there, she just kept quiet.
Two minutes later, she said, "Danger is coming soon."
"I know. Qin Fu told us when he came back."
"Um… "
Although only one day has passed in the outside world, the Behemoth Catalyst Project has come to an end.
Those mutant creatures, which were originally not very large in size, have now turned into giant beasts that are over 20 meters tall!
Hundreds of giant beasts, hundreds of petrified beasts, countless petrified giant insects and mutated creatures filled the entire outer area of Crystal City, forming a terrifying defense line.
This line of defense is not as simple as imagined.
The petrified behemoths have a super strong recovery ability that allows them to recover on the spot even if they are broken into several pieces, and those catalyzed behemoths can have almost infinite physical strength and super strong healing abilities as long as they are still in the Crystal City and are affected by the Crystal City.
In other words, they are a powerful and almost perpetual defense line in Crystal City.
Moreover, although the petrified behemoths have basically lost their own consciousness, those catalytic behemoths are highly intelligent creatures with behemoth blood.
During this period, they did not stay in the Crystal City completely, but wandered around the Crystal City, and only returned to the Crystal City when they rested.
The area around the World Tree and Crystal City has become the habitat of countless giant beasts.
The world tree in the other hemisphere controlled by alien invaders is surrounded by only some small-sized advanced mutant creatures. Compared with their world tree, their world tree is much more powerful.
This is normal, after all, the alien invaders have never succeeded in controlling the behemoth.
But what they didn't expect was that such a thing could be accomplished by the tiny and ugly humans on Earth!
Of course, Xu Xin and his team did not control the behemoth, but made the behemoth their ally, and let the behemoth voluntarily protect the Crystal City and everything in the city, including the World Tree.
It relies on the power of the Crystal City and the crystal core.
But to the alien invaders, this is control.
"During this period, many anomalies have appeared outside the World Tree." Li Wenxi sighed and continued to rest his head on Xu Xin's thighs. "Qin Fu said that 'Order Maintainers' have begun to appear outside."
The maintainers of order are currently the most powerful force in human history, but unfortunately they belong to the side of the alien invaders.
No one knew where these order maintainers came from. Teleportation was restricted around the World Tree, so they naturally could not teleport here. Therefore, they could only have come from the jungle.
If it was a behemoth, anyone at the control console inside the World Tree or someone using a telescope outside the World Tree would be able to see it easily.
But the maintainers of order are humans, and they are very small in size. As long as they shuttle through the dense jungle, no one will be able to discover them in advance.
Therefore, it was not until they approached the Crystal City that someone saw those "order maintainers" through the hundred times slow-motion images inside the World Tree.
The appearance of the order maintainers also means that the situation has escalated completely.
"Yingying told me that the Order Maintainers are directly under the alien invaders and are used to clean up their own rebellious people." Xu Xin said, "In other words, the alien invaders have indeed begun to take action and want to eliminate us."
Qin Fu discovered a total of more than a dozen different order maintainers.
In other words, the situation has reached a very serious level.
However, none of these maintainers of order have ever taken action and killed any mutant creatures in the Crystal City.
None of them had even set foot into the Crystal City, and they had been wandering outside the Crystal City the whole time.
Even now, this situation still exists.
Li Wenxi sat up, pursed her lips and said, "I heard from Yingying that you are considering taking action outside?"
There are all kinds of monsters around Crystal City now.
There are more and more defenders of order, furry monsters, and even mutant creatures.
These guys had no intention of invading Crystal City, so they had no intention of attacking them in the past few months in the World Tree. Even though the weapons they had now could easily kill them at such a close distance of several kilometers.
But now, they are ready for everything.
"We... can't continue to be so passive." Xu Xin explained, "Crystal City is now being surrounded."
In the map in his mind, the density of red dots in the area within dozens of kilometers outside the World Tree is completely incomparable to before.
Even the brightness of these red spots is such that the weakest ones are only intermediate-level mutant creatures.
At least 30% of the red dots can reach the brightness of advanced mutant creatures.
Moreover, both the density and the number of high-brightness red light spots are increasing over time.
The behemoth matured this morning in the outside world time.
It's only noon now, and such big changes have already taken place around us.
Moreover, this change is very subtle.
When Xu Xin came back and discovered this situation, he told others about it, and they were all a little confused.
Qin Fu's ability allows him to observe everything nearby with the help of plants, but even though his ability has improved during this period, he can only observe within a range of about five kilometers. He cannot observe further.
So Xu Xin was the first person to discover this situation.
Those people outside who had been observing the surroundings with telescopes didn't even notice anything unusual.
This is enough to show that these red dots displayed on Xu Xin’s mind map are deliberately hiding themselves.
The war is coming.
But it seems... there is no alien invader army.
"Yeah, I think so too." Li Wenxi nodded gently, "Even though I live in the World Tree, I am still worried every day. Now that I am ready, then..."
…
All the explorers finally reached a consensus.
It’s better to strike first!
It was one o'clock in the afternoon, when the sun was at its brightest.
The people who lived outside the World Tree were once again brought back into the World Tree.
At this time, outside the World Tree, all the giant beasts have returned to the Crystal City.
Countless weapons poked their heads out from the extremely lush canopy of the World Tree.
"Is it really going to be launched?"
As the maker of the weapon, Ma Hongwei was responsible for the first launch outside the World Tree. Although he had conducted experimental launches before, they were all inside the World Tree.
At this moment, he was standing on the underground control console and asked into the communication device.
After receiving affirmative responses from everyone, Ma Hongwei took a deep breath and immediately pressed the command key!
“Peng!
!”
From various parts of the dense canopy of the World Tree, there were simultaneous sounds of breaking air and sonic booms!
…
In the jungle, a man wearing special armor was hiding in the crown of a lush poplar tree, observing the situation of the World Tree through the gaps in the crown.
Looking at this world tree that is several times larger than a normal world tree, and this crystal city that makes him feel uncomfortable, his face has always been very ugly.
The giant beasts in the Crystal City, especially those that were made of stone but could move flexibly, made him, a man who had survived for a thousand years, dare not approach them easily.
He raised the sniper rifle in his hand more than once, wanting to shoot one of the monsters to test the strength of these strange-looking monsters, but he never dared to make a move.
Because he didn't act alone.
Order maintainers generally do not act in groups, because each of them is arrogant when facing all creatures except alien invaders. Cooperation will only be very unpleasant, so it is better for them to act individually.
But the situation this time is very special.
Their gods actually gave them direct instructions, asking most of the order maintainers to gather around the human world tree.
The order was merely to gather and observe the situation, and did not allow them to take any action.
Therefore, at this time, there are still hundreds of order maintainers like him around Crystal City.
"How dare a mere human possess the World Tree..."
This is what all order maintainers are thinking at the moment.
They held a very contemptuous and arrogant attitude towards this group of humans who were brought here from thousands of years ago.
Although this group of people are from the same era as them, after thousands of years of genetic modification, they no longer consider themselves human, and even feel ashamed of their human appearance and language!
A group of combat-specialized survivors from thousands of years ago, known as the Keepers of Order.
They are not only the direct subordinates of the alien invaders, but also the messengers between the alien invaders and all the survivors and humans.
Because alien invaders hate the appearance of humans, they wrap themselves in special full-body armor so that alien invaders will not feel physically uncomfortable when seeing their appearance.
During their contact with the alien invaders, they learned part of their language, felt ashamed to speak the human language, and even had to communicate with each other in the alien language.
Even though their human voices are simply incapable of pronouncing the correct pronunciation of the alien invaders' language, they still enjoy doing it, and even go so far as to transform their voices into monster voices through physical and genetic modification.
However, due to long-term contact with alien invaders and brainwashing, their aesthetic sense has been greatly distorted.
They were disgusted by the human appearance beneath their armor.
Therefore, some of the maintainers of order turned into ugly monsters in genetic experiments, while the rest underwent plastic surgery to turn themselves into monsters.
So, to be precise, they are no longer human.
Under their special armor is an extremely ugly appearance that is unacceptable to normal people, and they are even proud of it.
It is also because of this that they are feared by other survivors.
In the eyes of other survivors and previous groups of survivors, the maintainers of order are synonymous with terror.
They have terrifying appearances, extremely hoarse and unpleasant voices, extremely high combat power, and convey the orders of the alien invaders.
To ordinary survivors, they are extremely "supreme" beings.
But now, this group of people had to hide in the treetops and couldn't even launch an attack!
This made each of them feel angry.
They were even thinking about how to massacre the tiny humans after conquering the World Tree!
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Suddenly, the maintainer of order hiding in the bushes saw a spot of light appearing on the crown of the World Tree.
Before he could react, he was surrounded by a ball of fire.
…
The crown of the World Tree has already completely covered the entire Crystal City within a radius of three kilometers.
The tree canopy is only a few hundred meters away from the jungle outside Crystal City.
A fifty-fold-power artillery shell is basically equivalent to an instant kill at this close distance.
"BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM BOOM BOOM!
”
The order maintainers hiding in the jungle didn't even have time to react before they were stunned by the extremely powerful conventional missiles!
Because all this happened so suddenly!
The speed of these missiles was so fast that they didn't even realize they were attacked!
It was as if the missile itself was on them and was detonated directly!
“Sizzle—sizzle—”
At the same time, countless lasers shot out, instantly shooting down some unknown birds that suddenly appeared in the sky in the past two days!
This is the latest laser weapon developed by Ma Hongwei.
The speed of laser is the speed of light, which is even fifty times faster than the speed of sound!
As long as there are no obstacles, laser weapons are very powerful in single combat!
All of a sudden, the area around the World Tree was filled with not only explosions and mushroom clouds, but also lasers!
Countless birds fell from the sky, and countless screams and explosions occurred in the jungle at the same time!
At the same time, countless people wearing special armor rushed out from the flames and fled into the distance!
Xu Xin and his team did not use nuclear missiles because nuclear weapons would cause serious pollution to the surrounding area. In a jungle so close to Crystal City, using such weapons would be like hurting the enemy by a thousand and hurting your own people by eight hundred.
However, the power of conventional weapons does not seem to be able to directly kill these order maintainers wearing special armor. Although they look seriously injured, they are still able to escape quickly.
The number of people who came out at once shocked Xu Xin and the others.
"Go on! Aim at them!"
Looking outside from the World Tree, the speed is a hundred times slower!
No matter how fast those who maintain order are, they will be exposed!
“BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM!
!
”
The missiles flew out at a very fast speed and started bombing these people crazily!
“Sizzle, sizzle—sizzle—”
Laser weapons are firing indiscriminately!
At the same time, countless missiles flew out in all directions at a speed of fifty times the speed of sound, targeting enemy unit gatherings more than ten kilometers or even dozens of kilometers away!
These have nuclei!
Since the distance is far, Xu Xin and the others don’t care!
Whatever is more powerful, we can do it! We can talk about pollution later!
They want to kill all the creatures lurking around!