Chapter 486 - 236: High Walls, Predicament, Believers and Buddha Master

Chapter 486: Chapter 236: High Walls, Predicament, Believers and Buddha Master

After "knocking out" Jiang Yun’er, Lin Feng’s figure vanished from the top of the defensive wall.

The Golden Giant transformed into a streak of light, rushing toward the few exits at the foot of the Northwest wall.

A large number of civilian survivors were gathered there, including many Enhanced People and even ordinary Tier One Awakeners.

After more than two months of being tempered by the great war, there were very few truly ordinary people left in the Capital City. At worst, they were Enhanced People of level two or three and above.

They could get decent rewards just by cleaning up battlefields on the front lines or standing guard at tunnel entrances for rotating soldiers.

Therefore, the Life Energy contained within these millions of people was actually quite substantial.

Even though Lin Feng had, through a bizarre twist of fate, accidentally saved the entire 150,000-strong elite army in the South, allowing the crucial Awakener component of the sacrificial ritual to escape the dangerous inner city first...

...these two to three million-plus civilians still possessed enough potential to allow the ritual to begin, and even succeed.

If a Tier Three Late-stage Zerg Race Mother Empress were to be born in the North at that time...

...even Lin Feng’s entire Salvation Army, stationed in the Northern Region, would have to retreat and give it a wide berth.

Ling Yi once said that a Tier Three Late-stage Mother Empress possessed the ability to directly hatch other Tier Three Life Forms. Although these Tier Three Life Forms would have to acquire their Realm Inheritance on their own, they were still far stronger than Tier Two Late-stage Awakeners.

Through large-scale incubation and synthesis, mass-produced Tier Three Giant Zergs would sweep across the entire North, and even push directly south to conquer the fertile Great River Basin.

And now, less than three months after the apocalypse of the Zerg Race invasion began, a Tier Three Late-stage Mother Empress was about to be born.

This was a situation Lin Feng was most unwilling to see, and one that all of humanity could not accept.

He had to disrupt the sacrificial ritual as quickly as possible and disperse this wandering, crowded mass of people.

As he ran, Lin Feng felt a sense of relief, grateful that he had followed his instincts to check on Jiang Yun’er.

Otherwise, he would have missed such a critical matter and allowed the sacrificial ritual to proceed.

But now, including the time spent traveling here, capturing Jiang Yun’er, and the subsequent "interrogation," twenty minutes had already passed. Only half an hour remained before the Multi Emperor battle at Yunxia Ridge would erupt.

Factoring in the ten-minute return trip from here, Lin Feng had at most twenty minutes to resolve the situation.

Unfortunately, both of his weapons had been left on the front lines at Yunxia Ridge. Without their aid, it would be difficult for Lin Feng to destroy the more than ten-meter-thick defensive wall and disperse the crowd on his own, bare-handed.

"Damn it!"

Lin Feng arrived at the Southwest position and looked down at the surging sea of people below. The soldiers guarding the city gates had obviously been instructed to deliberately use the excuse of searching for Zerg Race spies to conduct body and luggage security checks.

This was to stall for time and slow the rate of people leaving.

In this direction, there were only three exits, each about four meters wide, which could accommodate two security lines at a time.

About two people passed through an exit per second, for a total of six people.

By that calculation, even under ideal conditions, only a little over twenty thousand people could pass through in an hour.

This would be a normal evacuation speed for the end of a large-scale event, but the crowd squeezed outside the exits numbered well over a million.

At this rate, they wouldn’t all be able to get out even in two days.

Not to mention, in less than an hour or two, once the defenders on the eastern front evacuated, the Zerg Race entrenched east of the Capital City would charge straight in under the command of a Tier Three Mid-stage Mother Empress.

Countless Swarms would fill the empty spaces between each defensive line, then surround the entire inner Capital City, trapping millions of unarmed survivors to die inside.

At that point, even if Lin Feng piloted his Reproductive Armor Mecha and led his Salvation Army here, he would only be able to look up at the one- to two-hundred-meter-high giant walls and sigh in despair.

The high walls meant to protect humanity from danger would end up becoming a prison, trapping everyone to their deaths.

There was a certain sense of inexplicable irony to it all.

Standing above the exit, Lin Feng looked back.

He saw the three-kilometer-wide urban area between the second and third defensive lines, as well as the gaps of more than ten kilometers between the third and fourth, and the fourth and fifth lines.

A wave of helplessness washed over him.

’Never mind whether I can widen the exits to give more people a slim chance of survival. Just the fifteen kilometers and four defensive walls of the three rear rings alone...’

The fate of this crowd was already sealed.

The Zerg Race only needed to cut off their escape routes from the outside, and the survivors would die in the Capital City sooner or later. It was only a matter of how long the countdown to their deaths would be.

From the moment the Federation’s high command formulated the breakout plan, these high-ranking officials within the Capital—who had already betrayed their own race and defected to the enemy—began scheming how to maximize the value of the abandoned survivors.

And this so-called sacrificial ritual was the pledge of allegiance they were making to the Zerg Race Mother Empress.

A Tier Three Late-stage Mother Empress would be enough to shelter them, allowing them to continue their wretched existence in this apocalypse. Not to mention, after escaping, they could still blend into the safe zones in the rear, where they would still have their uses.

To achieve their goal, they had not given any advance notice for the civilian evacuation.

’If only they had started moving the survivors to the outer defensive lines in batches a few days ago, when I decided to head North to provide reinforcements, I wouldn’t be in such a passive position right now.’

That being said, he had to at least try. He couldn’t just stand around and do nothing.

An extreme thought also crossed Lin Feng’s mind: kill all of these survivors himself. He would rather they die by his hand than let the Zerg Race’s sacrificial ritual succeed.

But he rejected the idea the very next moment.

’Because I don’t have the buff from my bound equipment, no matter how many people I kill, as long as usable corpses and Biomass are left behind, it will still be useful to the Mother Empress.’