The flying monsters were the first to notice the aircraft carrier, but before they could attack it, enormous Blood-Red Sparrows charged straight at them.
The Blood-Red Sparrows were roughly two meters long. No matter what kind of wild monster they faced, none could withstand their Lightning Flash.
A Giant Eagle eight or nine meters long also guarded the skies above the aircraft carrier. Clearly, all these flying creatures came from the Floating Island Survival Game-they were Mu Saying's Guardians!
There were even more monsters on land, particularly in the suburbs.
Before those wild monsters could gather into a horde, Velociraptors charged in to hunt them down. Leading them was a Tyrannosaurus Rex that looked remarkably like the Indominus Rex from Jurassic World!
The hunting prowess of these ancient dinosaur overlords was far more ferocious than anything modern animals could muster!
The Velociraptors could even coordinate their attacks. Many large wild monsters, clearly at level eight or nine, could not survive their onslaught.
Mutating from ordinary animals into level-eight or level-nine monsters in an instant-the cheats the game had given them were absurd beyond belief.
Enough ants could kill an elephant. However fierce the dinosaurs were, there were only eleven of them. Faced with creatures that kept mutating, they gradually began to struggle.
Any observant viewer would have noticed something unusual about the Velociraptors' shadows.
That was right—Qing Feng's Ghost Shadow was hiding within the Velociraptor's shadow!
That was also why the Velociraptors could keep slaughtering monsters without suffering a scratch!
The illusions created by Ghost Shadow made the wild monsters approaching the Velociraptors turn on one another!
In the official livestream, viewers marveled at the spectacle, their cheers flooding the screen. Xiao Hao simply hid the scrolling comments and watched the Dragon Kingdom's top players in action.
After watching for a while, Xiao Hao suddenly felt that the battlefield looked familiar.
Studying the footage closely, Xiao Hao spotted a highway sign for the "Blue Dragon City" exit in a corner of the background.
Blue Dragon City?
Wasn't Blue Dragon City the city I lived in?
Heavy weapons could not be used within the city. The mutated creatures there were relatively few and weaker, so fighter jets and special forces working with ordinary players could eliminate them.
Those in the suburbs could only be left to the players.
The more ordinary people interfered, the fiercer the Evolution Tide became. Having learned that lesson once, the Dragon Kingdom would naturally not make the same mistake again.
The Evolution Tide gradually subsided. It seemed the apocalypse had been brought under control.
But Xiao Hao knew the apocalypse would not be that simple.
Outside the city, a tree suddenly shot upward, reaching into the heavens!
A gigantic Flower Eagle roughly ten meters long perched atop the thousand-meter-tall tree. This outrageous transformation immediately drew attention aboard the aircraft carrier, and the three elite soldiers frowned slightly.
They felt an oppressive presence emanating from both the tree and the Flower Eagle.
The Evolution Tide gradually drew to a halt, as though this tree and this Flower Eagle were its final bosses.
"White-Eyed Eagle, keep the Flower Eagle occupied!"
The instant Mu Saying gave the command, the Giant Eagle above the aircraft carrier beat its wings and hurtled toward the Flower Eagle like a divine bird.
The two enormous birds battled in the sky, while the giant tree continued growing.
At Wu Ting's command, the eleven dinosaurs charged forward, tearing into the giant tree's trunk with their gaping jaws.
But no matter how much of its trunk and roots they tore away, the giant tree quickly grew them back.
Within minutes, the White-Eyed Eagle had been battered senseless by the Flower Eagle, while the ten Velociraptors were bound by branches as nimble as venomous snakes and hung upside down in midair.
The Tyrannosaurus Rex fought the giant tree head-on. Every bite of its enormous steel-like teeth tore away a chunk of trunk. Even the branches and vines could not bind it; a swipe of its forelimbs let its sharp claws slice through the wood.
The giant tree seemed to recognize the Tyrannosaurus Rex's strength. Roots suddenly shot out of the ground and plunged straight into the corpses of nearby monsters!
The pierced corpses rapidly shriveled. Like enormous drinking straws, the roots devoured their flesh and blood!
As the giant tree consumed vast amounts of flesh and blood, it shot up another great stretch, and the areas the Tyrannosaurus Rex had torn apart were restored!
Mu Saying said grimly, "These two monsters should both be level ten, but they're much stronger than ordinary level-ten monsters. My White-Eyed Eagle is being overwhelmed!"
Had Xiao Hao been there, he would have told them that this was the difference between ordinary monsters and rare ones.
Even at the same level ten, rare wild monsters were far stronger than ordinary ones!
A level-ten Prehistoric Spiny Shrimp was nothing compared to a level-ten Mantis Shrimp!
Seeing that the players could not hold the monsters back, the aircraft carrier opened fire. The Flower Eagle nimbly dodged every shell, while the giant tree could not be destroyed. Even when severely damaged, it recovered in an extremely short time.
Tank after tank fired shells, but their efforts were as futile as insects trying to shake a tree. The colossal tree's branches pierced one tank after another. Before it, these tanks were merely toys in a child's hands, incapable of causing any real damage.
The giant tree's crown kept expanding, blotting out the sky and the sun! It even spread over the city!
A single leaf covered one or two square meters, and there were countless leaves like it in the giant tree's crown!
Even from Xiao Hao's distant position, he could already see the crown obscuring the sky along the horizon!
It was hard to imagine that a wild monster like this was only level ten!
Panic filled the livestream, and the residents of Blue Dragon City were especially frantic. Countless people begged the Dragon Kingdom for reinforcements, prayed for divine protection, or preached that the end of the world had come.
It was not just the public who were anxious. The players aboard the aircraft carrier were anxious too.
The battlefield lay at the city's edge. The Dragon Kingdom did not dare deploy excessively powerful weapons, yet the players could not stop the monsters. The nation's leaders were nearly frantic!
Their own people were right behind them!
Tens of millions of their compatriots were right behind them!
The pressure on the three elite soldiers was unimaginable!
"Are you ready yet?!"
Wu Ting's voice was urgent. His Tyrannosaurus Rex was on the verge of giving out!
The livestream viewers froze at those words, then quickly realized that the Dragon Kingdom still had a trump card!
With his head lowered as though deep in thought, Qing Feng silently sensed something. Suddenly, his eyes opened, and the corners of his mouth lifted slightly.
"It worked."
The viewers were utterly confused, but Xiao Hao understood at once.
The Ceramic Ghost Infant!
Who would have thought that even this giant tree would fall victim to the Ghost Infant's sneak attack!
Xiao Hao realized that he had severely underestimated the Ghost Infant's ability to parasitize its hosts!
"Roar!"
The giant tree actually roared like a monster. Its trunk twisted in agony, and its enormous trunk and branches came together to form a colossal ghostly face!
The ghostly face howled in pain, constantly devouring the dead monsters, but it was useless.
One leaf in its crown turned white.
Not only did it turn white, but the entire leaf gradually hardened and took on a sheen, as though it had become an exquisitely crafted ceramic leaf.
Then a second, and a third...
More and more leaves transformed into ceramic. The giant tree furiously lashed at them. They truly had become ceramic, and every one shattered.
It was as though ceramic fragments were raining from the sky. Countless pieces fell from above and smashed to bits, the sounds of shattering ringing out without end.
The giant tree's agonized screams grew increasingly piercing. Soon, its branches and roots began to wither, and their thrashing grew weaker and weaker.
The dangling Velociraptors also broke free and watched the giant tree's dying struggles.
Many residents of Blue Dragon City wept with joy, pressing their palms together in gratitude to the Dragon Kingdom. But the next scene in the livestream left them trembling all over, a chill shooting straight up their spines and goosebumps covering their skin.
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