When the sun had fully risen.
The golden sunlight completely dispersed the smoke and dust over the defense line.
This monster tide, originally massive enough to strip the Jade Capital Defense Line bare, had ended early in a bizarre, even somewhat anticlimactic manner.
Aside from the Crawlers that had been frightened back into the Assimilation Zone, every monster left on the defense line had been thoroughly dismembered by the ravenous players and soldiers.
—Yes.
Crawlers really could yield materials.
As for the mutant monsters.
Lu Xiu had killed them all.
She had simply circled the defense line. If she encountered one that had not fled, she stopped; once she stopped, she killed it. She ignored the ones that had run away.
Nine in the morning.
Behind the defense line.
Lu Xiu glided between the towering walls and quickly arrived at the location of the huge plaza that had once stood on Jade Capital's central axis, now completely occupied by the magnificent Astera.
She had only just arrived nearby.
When she saw Chu Huai getting chewed out.
Li Shengkai had none of his usual refinement left. His civilized facade was gone as spit flew everywhere; he looked ready to grab Chu Huai by the collar. He kept saying something, so agitated that the veins in his neck bulged one after another.
Beside him, General Zhou Zhenyue's face was equally black, and he glared sternly at Chu Huai. He was clearly furious as well.
The two of them unleashed a torrent of abuse.
And Chu Huai, the ace Patroller of the Jade Capital Defense Line, did not even dare make a peep.
He merely stood there awkwardly.
Curious, Lu Xiu landed directly, accompanied by a familiar low rumble.
Hiss!
Two streams of deep-blue exhaust suddenly burst forth.
Lu Xiu descended from the