Jiang Kou

Ding! Dungeon main quest: 1. Cover the mass evacuation; 2. Hold the line for 7 days.

"You! I'm talking to you!" a booming voice called out.

Wang Ji turned around. Not far behind him, a squad of soldiers was marching in a loose formation. Most of them were wounded, their faces covered in dust and grime.

Wang Ji looked surprised, pointing at his own nose. "Me? Are you calling me?"

The young soldier with the rank of second lieutenant on his epaulets said, "Who else? Comrade! The 112th Division Vanguard Battalion needs to conscript you temporarily! Together, we will complete the mission of covering the evacuation. Are you willing?"

Wang Ji answered without hesitation, "Not willing!"

"You... you're wasting your status as a martial artist!" the second lieutenant paused, looking at him with disdain before continuing forward without looking back.

Wang Ji looked at his Grade 5 Combat Suit and the battle blade in his hand, then gave a dry laugh. Completing the dungeon quest was the priority!

Nearby, a minibus suddenly swerved, veering off the road and getting stuck in a ditch. Wang Ji walked over. "Hey!" With a sudden burst of strength, he hauled the four-to-five-ton minibus out of the ditch.

"Hiss... brother, you're strong!" the driver said with admiration. The thirty or forty people packed into the bus also looked at Wang Ji with awe. Wang Ji asked, "Can I catch a ride?"

"No problem! Come on, everyone, squeeze in and make some room for this little brother!"

Wang Ji waved his hand. "No need, I'll sit on the roof!"

"Ah?" The driver was stunned. What kind of habit was this? Sitting on the roof instead of inside.

Wang Ji sat on the roof, watching the long, serpentine line of evacuees. Every major road and small path heading north was filled with such chaotic, war-torn scenes.

"Chirp!" A group of flying monsters, resembling giant geese with wingspans of three or four meters, swept across the sky.

"Ah! Monsters!" A few of them suddenly dove down!

One of them clawed toward Wang Ji. The others charged together toward the bus in front.

"Get lost!" Wang Ji delivered a perfectly timed strike, hacking into the base of the goose monster's wing. Feathers scattered like snowflakes. "Skree! Skree!"

The goose monster shrieked in pain, and accompanied by a spray of blood, it crashed crookedly into the ditch nearby.

Up ahead, the bus under attack managed to withstand the monster's impact, but its windows were shattered, and the driver lost control, slamming into the vehicle in front.

Total chaos!

The flowing convoy of evacuees came to an instant halt. Everyone looked at the monsters outside in terror.

A dozen young men rushed out of their vehicles, quickly working together to rescue those at the crash site.

"Ah!" A goose monster dove again, swatting one of the rescuers five or six meters away, then grabbed another man and took to the sky. A moment later, following a long, drawn-out scream, the man was dropped from high altitude.

"Thud!" He turned into a mangled pile of flesh and blood.

The other rescuers were terrified. Although two fled back into their vehicles, the rest persisted, risking their lives to push the bus to the side of the road so the traffic could move again!

The sky was gloomy, and an atmosphere of panic and tragedy spread, yet it was also filled with hot-blooded courage and hope.

Evacuate! Use everything you have to evacuate quickly! Just 200 kilometers ahead, a defensive wall tens of meters high and hundreds of meters thick was being built. An unprecedented, magnificent base city was being forged! Once they reached there, they would be safe!

Evacuate!

When this nation faced a desperate situation, the power it erupted with could overturn any obstacle.

Wang Ji jumped off the vehicle, quickly killed the goose monster with the injured wing, and then ran along the road, guarding the convoy as it moved forward.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!..." It was the army in the rear opening fire! Heavy machine guns spat out tongues of flame over a meter long. Several geese burst into sprays of blood before flapping and falling to the ground.

"Speed up! The monsters are coming!"

Wang Ji was puzzled. "Weren't the monsters wiped out?" There were seven flying monsters in total, and only one had escaped.

Just ten minutes later, following the sounds of chaos and gunfire from behind, the monsters had indeed arrived! The flying monsters were merely the prelude.

"Woo... woo..." With a series of howls, several Brindle Mastiffs charged out from the trees in the distance.

"Damn it! You're still just a dog even if you howl!" Wang Ji didn't wait for them to charge; he met them head-on!

"Shing!" The current Wang Ji was different from when he was in the Monster Town dungeon; his strength was a full 3,600 kilograms, and his blade techniques and footwork were already incredibly proficient. In just one exchange, he sliced off the head of a Brindle Mastiff.

Wang Ji used his arm shield to block a pounce. "Beast, come again!"

Being surrounded by four Brindle Mastiffs was actually quite stressful. But Wang Ji was slowly becoming familiar with applying his footwork in real combat.

Gradually, even without relying on his arm shield and combat suit, Wang Ji could protect himself without issue. "Refreshing! Come again!"

"Woo... woo..." The remaining three Brindle Mastiffs showed signs of fear. Wang Ji chased them down and killed two more.

"Killed four, scared one away!"

But the Brindle Mastiffs were just the tip of the iceberg. Monsters were visible everywhere, swarming in from behind.

The army was the first line of defense. For Monster Soldiers or even Monster Generals, guns and artillery were enough to kill them.

The clatter of gunfire merged into a single roar. Less than ten or twenty percent of the monsters could break through the army's line. But it was that ten or twenty percent that caused catastrophic destruction.

An off-road vehicle was rammed directly by a boar-like monster. The thin-skinned SUV instantly buckled and deformed. The people inside had just crawled out when the boar bit off a head!

"Go to hell!" The man in the driver's seat shouted in grief and anger, hacking his alloy blade into the boar's head, but it only sank in five centimeters!

Ordinary people who had experienced the RR Virus, even during the Great Cataclysm, only possessed a strength of five or six hundred kilograms. Those who could quickly become martial artists were a tiny minority. And even those evolved ordinary people still couldn't resist the monsters.

The boar's sharp tusks flicked, and before the man could dodge, he was instantly disemboweled. "Run! Run!" He looked at his parents and children in the car with hopeful eyes, but his hand holding the blade finally went limp.

Wang Ji charged forward at a speed of nearly 30 meters per second, his blade flashing as he carved a long gash into the soft flesh of the wild boar's flank. "Splatter..." The boar's entrails spilled all over the ground.

With one more strike, the wild boar convulsed and collapsed onto the earth.

There was no time to comfort the family; Wang Ji quickly dashed toward the next location!

Everywhere was a scene of apocalyptic ruin.

Fight while retreating! Even in these circumstances, the evacuation of the populace could not stop! To stop was to wait for death. Only by retreating into the newly built base cities could they survive!

Passing through the villages and towns, they reached a long, wide highway. This was the former provincial road, Riverside Avenue, a four-lane dual carriageway. The speed of the evacuation convoy finally began to increase.

Wang Ji also slumped wearily by the side of the road.

"Hey! You! I'm talking to you! The 112th Division Vanguard Battalion needs to conscript you temporarily! Are you willing to accept the conscription and join us in the mission to cover the evacuation of the masses?"

"Huh?" Wang Ji turned his head in surprise.

"You... how is it you!"

Wang Ji laughed: "How is it also you!"

"What a waste of your skills! Forget it, forget it!" the second lieutenant said with annoyance.

Wang Ji was unconvinced: "I've killed forty or fifty monsters all morning. How is that a waste?"

"Oh?" The second lieutenant instantly looked at him with new eyes.

Wang Ji took the opportunity to ask: "Where are we?"

The second lieutenant said with deep concern: "On the banks of the Baiyang River. I just hope nothing goes wrong!"

"Go wrong?" Wang Ji asked.

"Whoosh!"

A tentacle as thick as a waist, covered in suckers, dragged a small car directly into the nearby Baiyang River.

"Move fast! Move fast!" The second lieutenant roared into a megaphone like a madman. The vehicles nearby accelerated instantly.

The Baiyang River! The river!

Wang Ji suddenly realized, "During the Great Cataclysm, the most terrifying monsters are all in the rivers, lakes, and seas!"

"Swish!" Another tentacle lashed out toward the bank! The speed of this tentacle was terrifyingly fast, at least a hundred meters per second.

The second lieutenant watched helplessly as the tentacle struck toward him, unable to dodge in time.

"Danger!" Wang Ji lunged, tackling the second lieutenant into a drainage ditch. The tentacle whistled past just above Wang Ji's head.

Having missed the second lieutenant, the tentacle casually snatched up a small car and dragged it into the Baiyang River.

Wang Ji asked urgently: "What do we do?"

The second lieutenant glared, his fists clenched tight: "What do we do? We just deal with it! We don't have heavy weapons! We can only make people move through as fast as possible!"

"Just relying on luck?"

"It'll be fine once we get past this stretch! This riverside road is only 10 kilometers long! We'll be fine once we're past it!"