Lin Shigong listened in a daze, then laughed aloud.
Great Xia had not abandoned them or treated them as expendable supplies to be casually discarded! Instead, it was calculating every detail and refusing to yield an inch!
"Understood."
Lin Shigong nodded firmly, then suddenly pitched forward.
More than twenty hours of struggling between life and death had drained him, especially the Demon God's earlier overwhelming pressure, which had been almost impossible to resist. Now that his nerves had relaxed, his strength gave out.
Zhou Shan reacted instantly and caught his arm.
"City Lord Lin! Take a moment to rest. Don't push yourself." Zhou Shan patted his shoulder.
"Leave the city to me. Take your people to get a hot meal and a good night's sleep."
"By the time you open your eyes, I guarantee we'll have this city firmly secured!"
Lin Shigong shook his head hard, then said:
"All right. I'm leaving Tianxiong City in your hands!"
Zhou Shan nodded solemnly.
"Leave it to me."
As though sensing the challenge of the humans' fighting spirit, the other end of the Underground City immediately answered.
"Report! The tunnel gate has been breached!"
Everyone looked at the main screen.
The blast gate, fully two meters thick and forged from a special alloy, had already been battered full of dents. Now it had finally reached the limits of metal fatigue.
Boom!!
A deafening crash came through the screen.
The most severely bulging section in the center of the gate burst apart like a tin lid made of paper.
A hole nearly two meters across was torn straight through the middle of the gate.
The jagged metal edges were still shuddering violently when an enormous dark gray claw reached through the opening.
Its five finger bones were thicker than an adult's thigh. The black