Chu Fei and the others fell silent, while the Holy Spirits charged madly ahead. The Holy Spirits scattered into assault squads and surged forward in overwhelming waves;
The front line had completely collapsed. Weapons and equipment shut down one after another, and some soldiers even broke down and fled, only to be swiftly caught by the Holy Spirits.
Chu Fei and the others began retreating as well, though everyone still looked toward the representatives of the three major groups.
At that moment, every pair of eyes carried the same three words: What now?
The representatives of the three major groups were stunned too. They were merely representatives, employees, not decision-makers. The decision-makers all sat in offices. Who would go to the front lines?
At the critical moment, City Lord Li Yaofeng spoke. "Retreat! Keep retreating! We still have a backup plan. Fall back to the ring road first!"
Chu Fei helped the comrades beside him kill several Holy Spirits before beginning his retreat. After everyone had withdrawn more than three hundred meters and reached the rear ring road, flashes of laser fire erupted from buildings, parks, and beneath bridge decks. Quite a few pursuing Holy Spirits were immediately shot down.
But then the Holy Spirits took out shields and actually advanced straight into the laser fire.
Only then did Li Yaofeng speak. "This was a defensive line built decades ago, originally intended to guard against attacks by alien species. We just upgraded its surveillance systems, replacing them with electromagnetic scanning equipment. It can lock onto Holy Spirits now."
As he spoke, Chu Fei saw engineering technicians in work uniforms withdrawing from the surrounding buildings, while laser cannons began firing automatically.
The automatically firing laser cannons were quite effective, but against hundreds of thousands of Holy Spirits, they were still a