The Strongest Defense Position (1)

"Before we discuss the battle plan, I'll share some observations from this virtual world. Everyone, listen carefully. I'll add anything else I find later!" Wei Zitong scanned the other four and spoke slowly.

Seeing them nod, he continued, "Here, our bodies are virtual, but our consciousness is real. When our consciousness lacks the constraints of a true body, it's more prone to fluctuations, which can affect the virtual body's reactions. For example, Zhao Xin spitting blood earlier, or Qiangwei's impulsive solo actions, and Na… Little Nana…"

"What about me?" Lena immediately looked displeased.

"N-nothing…" Wei Zitong shook his head repeatedly, afraid of upsetting Lena again.

"Hahahaha…" The other three snickered, and even Zhao Xin, who had just experienced a mental blow, couldn't help but smile.

"Go on, continue!" Lena ignored the others, appearing genuinely focused on the battle.

"Alright!" Wei Zitong nodded, pulling up a virtual map of Area 2. He identified the direction and said, "The east is the front of the enemy's defense position. We need Na… Little Nana…"

"Tsk…" Zhao Xin couldn't help but laugh again, only to be smacked hard on the back of the head by Lena.

Lena feigned anger, but inwardly, she was delighted.

Wei Zitong continued as if he saw nothing, "We need Little Nana to attract the attention of the majority of the enemy forces at the front. She can throw balls at them from a distance…"

"Tsk… throw balls. Zitong, why don't you just say 'cast spells'…" Zhao Xin couldn't help but laugh again.

This time, Lena didn't intervene. Wei Zitong directly imposed a silence order on Zhao Xin: "You are forbidden from making a sound!"

Zhao Xin immediately felt like his throat and mouth no longer belonged to him. He tried to pry his mouth open with his hands.

"You need me to tie up the enemy at the front, right? No problem!" Lena saw that Wei Zitong was too angry to continue and interjected, "I think I understand Zitong's plan. I'll tie up the front, and you'll go for a sneak attack from the rear? Is that it?"

"Exactly!" Wei Zitong nodded. "I'll go with Brother Xin. Being under alert paralysis doesn't mean the enemy has no combat power. I need Zhao Xin to take out the sentries the moment the alert is paralyzed. Is that okay, Brother Xin!" He turned to look at Zhao Xin.

Zhao Xin nodded repeatedly, then pointed to his mouth.

"Just stay quiet. You're not like Zitong and Xiaolun, who need to make noise to attack. Staying silent will be more covert!" Lena said nonchalantly.

Zhao Xin's face immediately fell.

"Then what about us? What about us?" Rui Mengmeng quickly interjected, most afraid of being useless in the team.

"Mengmeng and Old Yi will be responsible for protecting Nana's flanks, preventing enemies with strong close-combat skills from ambushing her!" Wei Zitong said.

"What's with this 'Xiao, cough, Nana' thing? And why did you switch to just 'her' later?" Lena glared at Wei Zitong, displeased. "Is it really that hard to call me 'Little Nana'?"

"Cough, no, it's not, definitely not! Absolutely not!" Wei Zitong quickly shook his head, wondering why this woman was so easily agitated today. Could it be that time of the month?

"Then say it for me to hear?" Lena stood up, looking aggressive.

"Little… Nana…" Wei Zitong almost cried out the words, it was… too embarrassing…

"You're saying it so weakly! Say it fluidly!" Lena was even more dissatisfied.

"Little Nana!" Wei Zitong almost gritted out the words.

"Put some feeling into it! How did I teach you just now?" Lena was even more displeased.

"Pfft!" Seeing Lena's attempt to train Wei Zitong, Zhao Xin finally couldn't hold back. His suppressed laughter broke Wei Zitong's silence order, "Hahahaha, hurry up and call her! Call her 'Little Nana', hahahaha!"

"Screw you! Shut the hell up!" Wei Zitong's suppressed anger finally erupted. Even a clay figurine has some temper, let alone a seven-foot man. But he didn't dare to get angry at Lena, so he could only take it out on Zhao Xin. "You are forbidden from speaking!"

Zhao Xin's face instantly turned into a bitter gourd.

Wuji Yi was holding back laughter, not daring to make a sound. Rui Mengmeng was momentarily startled by the furious Wei Zitong; she had never seen him so agitated.

Wei Zitong paced back and forth a few times, took a few deep breaths, and managed to calm himself down. "Sorry, I got worked up…"

"Brother Zitong getting angry is so scary…" Rui Mengmeng said timidly.

The plan was formulated amidst this extremely awkward atmosphere. Zhao Xin followed Wei Zitong on a long detour around the rear of the enemy's defense position. To avoid the outer patrol boats, the two of them were very careful.

"The Taotie are roughly at this level," Wei Zitong said as he walked forward, hunched over.

"Taotie? What the heck?" Zhao Xin, who had been freed from the silence order by Wei Zitong, asked in a low voice.

"They're the robot warriors who attacked Juxia City's airport road," Wei Zitong explained, forgetting that Zhao Xin and the others hadn't encountered this information yet, only knowing some general news.

"You mean those aliens who are going to invade?" Zhao Xin continued to ask.

"Yes!" Wei Zitong nodded and said, "However, the enemies here are constructed based on data recorded by the Shenhe System in the past. They have the technology to drive Dark Energy, which is clearly much stronger than the Taotie, who are at an interstellar civilization level."

"You mean, if we can defeat these enemies, we can defeat the Taotie?" Zhao Xin asked.

"Not necessarily!" Wei Zitong shook his head. "The enemies here are static; they only know how to defend passively. If we were facing the Taotie before, they might have charged out while we were still settling in. Besides, the Taotie are far more numerous than these few hundred."

Zhao Xin nodded and didn't ask further questions.

"Let me see!" Wei Zitong opened the virtual map and said, "Actually, this position has a name: the 'Strongest Defense Position'. Its prototype comes from a fierce positional battle during the Deno Galaxy War. The attacking side suffered tens of times more casualties than the defenders here but still couldn't take the position."

"Holy crap, that powerful?" Zhao Xin almost exclaimed. "Were we screwed over by Jace? I honestly think this map is too difficult to conquer, especially since we're wielding these swords, spears, and clubs!" He then summoned his spear and performed a few flourishes.

Wei Zitong silently complained, "You at least have a spear, but I have nothing. I don't even have the Dark Alloy Armor, so I'm going into battle with bare hands!"

By the time Wei Zitong reached the rear of the defense position, Lena was already engaged in a fierce battle at the front. The sounds of explosions were constant, orange-red flames shot into the sky, and the position was in chaos!

Wei Zitong immediately cast an invisibility spell on himself and Zhao Xin. Even though his invisibility was ineffective against high-tech warning systems, it was enough to evade some patrol boats.

Looking at the direction of the moving flames, Wei Zitong was secretly alarmed. What was Lena going crazy about? The plan was to engage in long-range combat, so why was she pushing forward?

With the battle intensifying at the front, many patrol boats from the rear also flew towards the front lines!

Seeing that the enemy numbers had dwindled, Wei Zitong seized the opportunity and drew several agreed-upon signals on the ground with his finger.

Since they were invisible, neither side could see the other. They were too close to the defense position to speak without giving themselves away, so their only means of communication was by drawing gestures on the ground.

Soon, a crooked gesture appeared on the ground not far away, roughly meaning "OK."

Wei Zitong immediately charged forward. After rushing a certain distance, he finally understood why Lena had pushed ahead...

Because the early warning system's detection range was a spherical, all-angle coverage, any attack or sneak attack from any position would trigger an alarm!

Lena had pushed forward into the early warning system's range. While taking a volley of fire, she had also preemptively activated the early warning system, providing cover for Wei Zitong's subsequent sneak attack. Wei Zitong wasn't discovered by the guard soldiers until he rushed near an early warning platform.

As soon as the soldier was about to sound the alarm or attack, his neck was snapped by a whistling, transparent figure. Wei Zitong seized this chance and roared towards the center of the defense position, "The Dark Energy Analyzer cannot be used!"