In addition to the giant-like gorillas, there are also some "air forces" in the tide of ferocious beasts. They overlook the surface. Some of them try to rush into the inner city of Canglong City, but they fall down with a snap when flying over the Dragon Blood River, following the fate of the ferocious beasts in front.
The other ferocious beasts hesitated after seeing this. Except for a few beasts whose sanity had returned to zero or even turned negative, and they had no idea how to seek benefits and avoid harm, they still flew forward recklessly and then continued to fall. The other flying beasts turned around and attacked the slums.
Although there were many fortresses built in the slums and they were very solid, they were still difficult to stop under the attack of mad beasts.
Step by step the fortress line was pushed back, flattened, destroyed.
Countless warriors had their hearts ripped out by sharp claws, their necks bitten through by sharp fangs, and their bodies torn to pieces by the ferocious beasts.
Wailing, crying, cursing, roaring of beasts, sounds of collapse, sounds of breaking... ...all these sounds intertwined together to form a symphony on the battlefield.
A huge tiger walked over gracefully. It was as tall as a two-story building, and its eyes were bloodshot. However, its desire to attack was not as strong as those of other ordinary beasts. Facing the humans who were fleeing in a panic around it, it didn't even take a second look.
It just twitched its nose and looked around inquiringly.
"This ferocious beast seems to be looking for something. Have I been discovered?" Gu Ran also saw the ferocious tiger and wondered whether he should retreat first and try to avoid being involved in the incident before figuring out the situation.
But then Gu Ran stopped, he felt that there were some people hiding in the dark.
"action!"
At this moment, a group of soldiers in standard military uniforms suddenly rushed out of a building, holding huge crossbows in their hands, and at the same time a huge and ferocious weapon was slowly pushed out from behind.
"Star Stone Cannon?" Gu Ran's heart moved.
The city defense cannons of later generations were not developed in one go, but were slowly developed through the iterations of various star stone cannons over the previous hundreds of years.
But if this really is the era of the legendary tyrant, then shouldn’t he be very opposed to Star Stone Technology
Is the legend wrong, or is there another hidden story
Soldiers holding huge crossbows surrounded the ferocious tiger from several different directions, and then with a bang, several crossbows were fired one after another, and several huge special fishing nets fell from the sky and covered the ferocious tiger.
The ferocious tiger dodged the first few fishing nets, but was caught by the one behind it. It was unable to break free for a while and kept roaring.
The special fishing net was soon torn into several pieces by the ferocious tiger. In a short while, it would be able to break free and bite and eat the human who dared to offend it.
"We've trapped it! But we don't have much time! Quick!"
The soldiers shouted loudly.
The slowly pushed out star stone cannon slowly pointed at the ferocious giant tiger in the distance, the huge black and thick muzzle glowing with a terrifying luster.
"Starstone loading, gunner positioning, ready—"
The team commander held up a small blue flag and waved it vigorously while looking at the team members who were struggling with the ferocious tiger in front of him, and shouted loudly:
"The Star Stone Cannon is ready, retreat now! Retreat!"
The soldiers immediately shot an arrow with a rope attached to it from their hands and nailed it to a tall building not far away. The next moment, their bodies began to rise into the air as the rope contracted, rising rapidly towards the tall building.
"roar!"
The ferocious giant tiger broke free from the special fishing net that it had bitten to pieces. A trace of cruelty flashed in its eyes. It jumped up and slapped one of the soldiers who was about to escape with its claws, knocking his body directly to the ground, turning it into a pool of flesh and blood.
Then it used its claws to hook a huge rock on the ground and slammed it into the air, killing another soldier who had already flown to the roof.
However, because they fled separately, the ferocious tiger only had time to kill two people. Relying on this time, the other people successfully moved to the top of the tall building and quickly disappeared from the roof.
The squadron commander's eyes were red with anger, but he still didn't move an inch. Instead, he waved the flag fiercely downwards and shouted, "Fire!"
As the voice fell, the long-prepared war weapons finally began to show their power.
"boom!"
As the shell was fired, the star stone cannon bounced, and the stone slab under the base of the cannon cracked in a ripple shape. The sound of the star stone cannon was deafening, and the windows of the building next to it were completely shattered.
The ferocious tiger's body froze, its hair stood on end, and it turned to the left at the fastest speed, narrowly avoiding the shell before it hit it.
But before the ferocious giant tiger could breathe a sigh of relief, the cannonball that had originally passed by it turned in the air and flew towards it again.
This time, the ferocious giant tiger had no time to dodge and was hit directly.
The shell exploded violently the moment it hit the ferocious tiger, and countless star stone fragments blew into the body of the ferocious tiger.
A small mushroom cloud rose at the spot, and the smoke and dust completely enveloped the giant tiger. The other ferocious beasts around were swept into the corner by the airflow like garbage.
“Ouch—”
The smoke and dust slowly dissipated, revealing the figure of a ferocious giant tiger.
With just one strike, the ferocious giant tiger suffered heavy damage. It fell to the ground covered in blood, on the verge of death. If human power was used to stop it, even a martial arts expert with Qi Condensation might not be able to defeat it.
But now, it was severely damaged by just a star stone cannon and a tactical team without any strong men.
The cost of training such a tactical team is far less than training a martial arts Qi Condensation expert. That is, it costs a little more to calibrate and operate the "gunner" of the artillery shells. Although the tactical team also sacrificed two people in order to deal with this ferocious beast, in terms of cost, it is much more profitable than sending a martial arts Qi Condensation expert to resist.
Such scenes continued to occur in every corner of the battlefield. Countless tactical teams relied on the star stone cannons that had been hidden in various fortresses earlier to ambush various elite beasts and kill them one by one.
At the same time, the ordinary beasts that advanced to the rear area of the slums encountered a line of defense composed of machine gun fire, which mowed them down into piles of meat paste.
Some flying beasts tried to dive from high altitudes and attack the soldiers in the machine gun positions with their claws, but those soldiers were well prepared. Once the flying beasts lowered their altitude, they were strafed by machine guns specially designed to deal with them and exploded in the air.
However, there were still some flying elite beasts that were not afraid of the machine gun bullets. They swooped down to the machine gun positions, flapped their wings, and formed a small tornado on the spot, blowing the machine guns and personnel away.
But before those elite flying beasts could get into the air again, the star stone cannons hidden in the high-rise fortress had already fired shells at them, directly blasting them into a pile of minced meat, and blood fell to the ground like rain.
The entire battlefield was filled with broken walls, flesh and blood, like hell on earth.
"So this is the 'gunner'? How do they guide the trajectory of the shells?"
Gu Ran, hiding in the dark, watched the gunner operate the star stone cannon and was filled with curiosity.
In later generations, the position of gunner has long disappeared, and the gunner's ability to manipulate the trajectory of star stone shells has also been lost. People in later generations have no idea how the gunner was able to accurately aim at distant enemies and manipulate the shells to change their trajectory.
In the face of the attack of the ferocious beast tide, every main city has been equipped with a city defense cannon. The city defense cannon uses modern technology to accurately locate the elite ferocious beasts. When the city defense cannon opens fire, it no longer fires a shell, but an energy beam as fast as the speed of light. The elite ferocious beasts will have no time to dodge and will be killed.
To deal with the large number of ordinary ferocious beasts in the tide of ferocious beasts, they rely on the city defense corps. Each city defense corps will be equipped with ordinary firearms developed by modern star stone technology. The advantage of this type of firearm is that it is simple and cheap to operate. Even an ordinary person without any special powers or martial arts can use them to kill ordinary ferocious beasts.
In this era, although machine guns that can shoot and kill ferocious beasts have been invented, those machine guns are simple in shape, difficult to operate, and estimated to be expensive, so there are not too many of them, and only the last line of defense is equipped with such weapons.
Hundreds of years of development of Star Stone technology have greatly improved humans' ability to deal with the tide of ferocious beasts. Although there will still be some casualties, it no longer poses a big threat, and the tide of ferocious beasts cannot even reach the edge of the inner city.
Some main cities even regard the tide of ferocious beasts as a panacea for consuming the rampantly growing population in the slums. As long as the population size of the slums is controlled and outstanding talents emerging from the slums are accepted to a certain extent, the social structure of the main city will tend to be "stable" and there will not be too many "social problems".
"But if the legendary tyrant is in power in Canglong City at this time, why are there so many Star Stone weapons? Isn't he madly hostile to all Star Stone technologies? Star Stone weapons can also be considered Star Stone technology."
Gu Ran became more and more interested in the ruler of Canglong City.
However, now is not the time to enter the inner city to find out what is going on. After seeing that the offensive of the ferocious beasts was gradually weakening and humans were certain of victory, Gu Ran rushed towards the direction where Xue Xiling and the others were.
"Victory! We won! That's great!"
"We have wiped out the tide of ferocious beasts!"
The surviving crowd cheered loudly.
Each of them had wounds on their bodies and their faces were covered with dust and stains, but at this moment, everyone's face was filled with happy smiles.
At this moment, the soldiers transferred from the inner city and the ordinary soldiers from the slums were indistinguishable from each other. Some even formed comrades-in-arms and hugged each other.
"No matter if it was hundreds of years ago or later, Canglong City should be regarded as the main city that treats the slums the best..." Gu Ran saw everything along the way.
"It's just that people in the slums are still inferior to people in the inner city. This social system is still a cannibalistic society. People in the inner city live a happy life by relying on the flesh and blood of people in the slums."
Gu Ran started thinking.
It’s just that this system has been running for thousands of years and has very strong stability, which proves that it is in line with the reality of current human society to a certain extent.
"If you make changes randomly, it may not necessarily make things better."
Gu Ran shook his head secretly and continued thinking.
"If we rely on the advancement of Star Stone technology, as long as Star Stone technology becomes more and more advanced and can solve the problem of the beast tide, then the slums will no longer have to serve as a barrier for the main city, and we won't have to rely on the beast tide to consume the excess population in the slums due to food shortages."
This is the best solution Gu Ran could think of, at least it is the best solution he thinks.
Science and technology are the primary productive forces. As long as science and technology become more and more advanced and productivity becomes higher and higher, it will affect the economic base and thus the superstructure.
This system of separation between inner cities and slums, with the slums acting as barriers, is the most visible and deeply felt "superstructure" today.
Putting aside the thoughts in his mind for the time being, Gu Ran returned to the building where Xue Xiling and the others were staying before dark in the evening.
What made Gu Ran feel relieved was that Xue Xiling and the others had not encountered any accidents and had been waiting for his return safely.
"Lengran, you're back!" Xue Xiling trotted over happily, looked at Gu Ran carefully, and then said with a sigh of relief, "You are not injured, that's great!"
"I said it's okay, so it's okay." Gu Ran nodded to Xue Xiling, and then said to Wu Wang and the others behind him, "The beast tide has passed. Let's spend the night here first, and then explore the inner city tomorrow."
No one present had any objection. It was already late at night and it was indeed not suitable to explore the inner city. Besides, they had no way to cross the Dragon Blood River right now, so they would have to find a way tomorrow.
Gu Ran blocked the hole he had dug with a stone so that people outside could not see them inside through the hole. However, he could use his ability to blend into the surrounding environment to feel whether there was anyone around spying on them.
Time passes like running water.
Apparently due to the mental tension during the day, everyone felt a little tired and soon fell asleep.
Gu Ran felt sleepy, yawned, and wanted to fall asleep and have a good rest.
But then Gu Ran’s heart tightened.
wrong!
With my physical condition, I wouldn't mind not sleeping for ten days or half a month. How could I feel so sleepy in less than a day
Gu Ran glanced over and found that everyone except him had fallen asleep.
At the same time, in Gu Ran's perception, the external environment was changing rapidly.