MM Racing Chapter 69 Emergency Recruitment
Chapter 69 Emergency Recruitment
Song Chen also tried to "read" those symbols using the Eye of True Sight.
In a golden field of vision, the lines of the symbols become clearer, and the hierarchical structure becomes more distinct.
But he could only see the shape and arrangement of the symbols; he couldn't understand their meaning.
This is not any human language, not even the language of Earth.
Song Chen threaded the crystal back onto the rope, hung it around her neck, and tucked it inside her clothes.
He put the matter aside for the time being, took out his tactical terminal from his backpack, and unfolded the holographic map.
Open the map of Tianhai City.
The holographic map shows that Tianhai City is a coastal base city, built on the original river estuary, backed by land and facing the sea.
This city was rebuilt fifty years ago after a meteorite fell into the Pacific Ocean, where the monsters were more numerous, stronger, and more ferocious than those on land.
The Great Xia then established the Tianhai Base City, undertaking the frontline mission of resisting the invasion of sea monsters.
The endless array of strange sea creatures presents both danger and opportunity.
Tianhai City, relying on its inexhaustible supply of exotic beast crystals and materials, has developed into one of the largest cities in the Great Xia Dynasty.
This is precisely why Song Chen chose Tianhai University.
More exotic beasts mean more killing, more kill points, and faster growth.
Song Chen drew a line on the map with his finger, starting from here, crossing a hilly area, then a coastal plain, and finally arriving at the south gate of Tianhai City.
Then comes the registration for new students.
The line looks straight, but he knows that in reality, it would be at least a hundred kilometers long.
There are at least three large animal nesting areas in the hilly region, and seasonal herds of animals migrate along the coastal plains. He needs to find the right time to pass through.
As he was planning the route, the screen of his tactical terminal suddenly flickered.
A red dot lit up at the edge of the map, accompanied by a piercing buzzing sound.
Song Chen frowned and clicked on the message.
A line of large text popped up on the screen, the red font standing out starkly in the dim wilderness:
[Emergency Recruitment Order]
[Tianhai City and surrounding areas, Beast Tide Level: Level 3 Warning. All martial artists and superhumans within the recruitment area must immediately report to the nearest recruitment point. Those who violate this will be held legally responsible.]
[Recruitment area: 500 kilometers around Tianhai City.]
Song Chen's pupils contracted slightly.
Beast tide?
Level 3 alert?
He quickly scrolled through the message details.
On the holographic map, the direction of Tianhai City was covered by a large area of red. That was not the danger zone he had marked, but the real-time updated dynamics of the beast tide.
The red area is slowly expanding, like a drop of ink on paper spreading outwards.
At the bottom of the message, there was a line of smaller print:
The coordinates of the recruitment point have been sent to your device. Please arrive there as soon as possible.
[Tianhai City Defense Command]
Song Chen stared at the screen for a few seconds, then closed the message.
"A level 3 beast tide came right after we arrived."
"We really made the right choice..."
He fastened the tactical terminal back to his wrist, stood up, put his backpack back on, and hung the Thunderclap Blade on his back in the most convenient position.
Song Chen knew that as a freshman enrolling at Tianhai University, he should be eligible not to be drafted, but he didn't want to use that privilege.
We came here to kill the strange beasts, so why should we hide?
……
It took Song Chen two hours to reach the nearest conscription point.
It wasn't a city, but a military fortress.
He stood on a high slope, looking at the scene before him, and his steps unconsciously stopped.
It was a giant military base built beside a large river. The opposite bank of the river was the southern gateway to Tianhai City, while this side of the river...
The fortress unfolded slowly in the twilight.
Its main structure is made of thick alloy steel plates, and its surface is covered with dents and scorch marks left by battle.
The fortress was built along the river, using the river as a natural moat. The north side was a steep riverbank, while the south side was lined with layers of defensive fortifications.
The entire structure is an irregular trapezoid, stretching five kilometers from east to west and more than three kilometers in depth.
Standing on the high slope, Song Chen experienced for the first time another form of human civilization in the wilderness.
It wasn't the high walls and tranquility of the base city, but a naked, undisguised war machine.
Something is moving in the sky.
It's not a bird, it's an aircraft.
A dozen black helicopters hovered above the fortress, their rotors churning the air and scattering psionic particles in all directions.
Instead of traditional rocket bays, they carried a rectangular device that emitted a blue light under their fuselage.
That's a psionic weapon. It compresses psionic particles and fires them as energy beams, making it far more lethal to high-level alien beasts than traditional ammunition.
Higher in the sky, three enormous spaceships hovered below the clouds, their hulls painted with the insignia of the Tianhai City Defense Command.
A circular radar array is mounted on the bottom of the spacecraft, slowly rotating and scanning every inch of land and sky within a radius of tens of kilometers.
On land, three lines of defense were set up around the fortress.
The first line is the anti-monster trench.
The trapezoidal ditch is 100 meters wide and 30 to 40 meters deep, with sharp alloy spikes stuck in the bottom and coated with a silver-white coating.
That's a psionic conductive coating that allows the alloy spikes to inflict greater damage on the beast's scales.
Every fifty meters along the edge of the trench was an automatic gun emplacement, its dark muzzle pointing toward the wilderness on the opposite bank of the river.
The second one is the psionic grid.
The densely packed metal pillars were arranged in an array, with blue and white arcs of electricity jumping on each pillar.
The power grid is over fifty meters high, and electric arcs bounce between the pillars, forming an impenetrable lightning barrier.
Song Chen could smell a faint ionized odor in the air, a sign that the power grid was operating at full power.
The third line is the main defensive wall.
A massive wall made of alloy and concrete, estimated to be over ten meters thick and about one hundred meters high.
There is a firing point every ten meters on the wall, equipped with various types of psionic heavy cannons and high-speed machine guns.
At the top of the wall were patrolling soldiers and martial artists. Their figures appeared extremely small in the dim light of the psionic particles, but each of them exuded a considerable aura.
Song Chen's gaze shifted from the sky to the land, from the land to the river, and then from the river back to the fortress.
He had seen the base city's defense system: high walls, gun emplacements, and patrols.
But those are all static, routine defenses, like a door that's always closed.
The fortress before us is a living, operating war machine, ready to devour and be devoured at any moment.
Every inch of steel was vibrating, every arc of electricity was roaring, and every person's blood was burning.
He fell in love with the place the moment he saw it.
Song Chen withdrew his gaze and strode towards the fortress.