Chapter 256: Chapter 224: The Aliens’ Greatest Weakness
Gao Neng naturally knew what Shen Ning’Er was thinking.
If Shen Ning’Er had to face dozens of Tier Sixes simultaneously, she would certainly kill them slowly. But in a one-on-one fight, coupled with her impossibly stealthy surprise attacks, she could achieve a near-instant kill.
"Give me fifty-nine seconds!" After saying this, Shen Ning’Er dove straight into the cube.
Gao Neng quickly separated the three Tier Six aliens inside the cube, then immediately teleported Shen Ning’Er next to one of them.
But regarding what Shen Ning’Er had said, he felt a bit exasperated.
’Is there any difference between fifty-nine seconds and one minute?’
’Would it be so shameful to just say one minute?’
Of course, now wasn’t the time to be thinking about that. He wasn’t idle either. His gaze fell on Mu Feifei, who was floating in mid-air, and he beckoned with his finger.
"Mu Feifei, come on over!"
"..." Mu Feifei gritted her teeth. As a Tier Six Powerhouse, she shouldn’t have hesitated, but her instincts told her that if she went over, she would very likely fall into a trap.
"Don’t you dare? Fang Tangtang, fire the Electromagnetic Cannon over there!" Seeing Mu Feifei hesitate, Gao Neng casually pointed at the distant Princes.
"Huh? Aren’t we supposed to shoot this Battle Angel?" Upon hearing Gao Neng, Fang Tangtang instinctively aimed the Electromagnetic Cannon at Mu Feifei.
But instead, Gao Neng was telling her to shoot the Princes?
’What the hell?’
"Shoot her? Can you even hit her? It’s much better to shoot these idiot Princes. They’re easy targets, and they’re loaded with treasures!" Gao Neng was truly frustrated with her lack of foresight.
Mu Feifei wasn’t just powerful; she was also extremely fast and could fly. Trying to hit her with a direct, overt blast from the Electromagnetic Cannon was next to impossible.
But shooting the Princes was a different story.
Most importantly, Gao Neng could clearly sense that Gui Zian really couldn’t hold on much longer—two or three more minutes at most.
’What’s the right move in this situation?’
’Go after the high-tier fighters?’
’That would be truly stupid!’
The reason high-tier powerhouses were called ’high-tier’ wasn’t because they were tall... It was because they were genuinely strong. Confronting them head-on was the most foolish course of action.
The classic strategy of "besieging Wei to rescue Zhao" was the correct approach.
As long as they started picking off these Princes, the high-tier powerhouses would be forced to abandon Gui Zian and come to their rescue.
"BOOM!" Scolded by Gao Neng, Fang Tangtang immediately understood. She only lacked experience, she wasn’t actually stupid. The moment she grasped the plan, she fired.
A beam of light shot out from the Electromagnetic Cannon.
It lanced straight toward the distant Princes.
"Look out!"
"It’s the Electromagnetic Cannon..."
"Get out of the way!"
The twenty Princes instantly scattered, fleeing in all directions.
One Prince who reacted a fraction too slow was struck. Half his body vanished. He collapsed to the ground, letting out horrifying screams.
"Agh, my leg... my arm! The Electromagnetic Cannon blew off half my body! Ah... save me!"
"Prince?!" One of the high-tier powerhouses besieging Gui Zian saw this, and his heart sank. If he failed in his duty as a guard, he would be executed.
Not even his high-tier status would spare him.
Without a moment’s hesitation, he broke away from the fight and sped toward the injured Prince.
The other high-tier powerhouses were also horrified.
If the Princes weren’t in danger, they would naturally be focused on crushing Gui Zian. But the moment the Princes were threatened, they could no longer remain calm.
"Protect the Princes first!"
"Prince, I’m coming!"
"Idiots, get back here! If you stop now, all our progress will be for nothing!"
A few high-tier powerhouses began to retreat, while others cursed at them. This was clearly Gao Neng’s plan, designed to make them abandon their assault on Gui Zian.
"You can still crush this human even with two of us gone! You guys keep at it, I’ll go help protect the Princes for you!" one of the retreating high-tiers shouted without looking back.
"Damn it, like I’d trust you!" another high-tier cursed. Then, after a moment’s thought, he also yelled, "I’m going to help protect the Princes too!"
"Me too!"
"Ten of you is enough to kill this human! The ten of you, stay here!"
"Wait for me!"
Soon, even more high-tier powerhouses broke away from the fight.
It wasn’t that they couldn’t see the trick; it was that, faced with their personal predicament, they had no other choice. After all, their primary duty was to ensure the Princes’ safety.
"Don’t panic! Calm down and follow a unified command!" The Beast Race’s Third Prince grew anxious as he watched. He wanted to stop the high-tier powerhouses from pulling back to defend.
But just then, another Prince spoke up.
"Hurry and save me!"
There were cowards among the Princes, too.
After one cried out, a second followed, then a third...
Soon, three or four Princes were screaming for help.
In an instant, the high-tier powerhouses surrounding Gui Zian fell into disarray. They retreated one after another, drastically reducing the pressure on him.
"Fang Tangtang, quick! Aim for that Prince from the Hill Giant Race! That’s him, shoot him in the face!" Gao Neng immediately ordered.
"Hahaha, in the end, it’s up to me, Death God Fang Tangtang, to save the day!" Fang Tangtang laughed, thrilled that she had made a crucial contribution.
"BOOM!"
Another shot rang out.
It flew straight for the Hill Giant Race Prince’s face.
The Prince of the Hill Giant Race stood a full five meters tall, making him an enormous target. He yelped in fright as the blast hurtled toward him and scrambled to dodge.
"KABOOM!"
The shot missed.
But it nearly scared the piss out of him.
"Prince!!! I’m coming to save you!" Seeing this, the eyes of the high-tier Hill Giant leading the charge turned red. ’The Prince can’t die here!’
The Hill Giant Race already had a small population.
This Prince was exceptionally talented.
If he were to die here, it wouldn’t matter even if they killed Gui Zian.
The high-tier Hill Giant bolted.
The pressure on Gui Zian instantly plummeted. Without the high-tier Hill Giant tanking the damage at the front, he immediately found an opening.
"SWISH!"
With a nimble twist of his body, Gui Zian appeared before one of the high-tier aliens.
His hands became like fangs that could tear steel. He lunged forward and bit into the alien’s throat, causing blood to gush from the wound like a fountain.
"Fuck this, everyone’s running. I’m not fighting anymore either!" Seeing how the tables had turned, another high-tier alien turned and fled, shouting, "Prince, I’m coming to protect you!"
"..."
"Damn it all!" The Beast Race’s Third Prince seethed with frustration.
’This is obviously a ploy!’
Yet he was powerless to stop it. This, after all, was the greatest weakness of the Alien Race Alliance Army: its members all fought for their own interests and could never be truly united.
If not for this...
...the Human Alliance would have likely ceased to exist long ago.
"Hahaha... Come on! Bring it on!" Gui Zian roared, his fighting spirit surging. Though he was at the end of his rope, he stubbornly refused to fall.
The Princes were shaken.
The high-tier powerhouses fell back one by one to guard them.
The other Tier Five and Tier Four aliens were naturally affected as well. They exchanged glances and began to quietly retreat.
Over four hundred were already dead or injured!
That was nearly one-sixth of the entire Alien Race Alliance Army!
And all of them were elites.
Nearly three hundred Tier Fours and almost a hundred Tier Fives had died.
Even two high-tier powerhouses were dead!
This was a devastating number of casualties. Especially considering the "peace" of the last eighteen years, losses on this scale were almost unheard of.
"Prince, we only came to propose a marriage!"
"That’s right, Prince, there’s no need to fight to the death here..."
"If all our guards die here, it will be hard to answer for when we return!"
"Yes, Prince, please be cautious! This is the Eastern District Battlefield, not our West District... Wasting our strength here brings us no benefit!"
The high-tier powerhouses and guards began to voice their dissent one after another.
The alien races were assigned to different battlefields. A large portion of them didn’t belong to the Eastern District Battlefield. The Beast Race’s Third Prince wanted to press the attack because the Beast Race was native to the Eastern District.
But they weren’t!
They still had their own enemies to face. What was the point of dying in the Eastern District?
"This is so frustrating!" one Prince said through gritted teeth. He truly couldn’t accept it. An Allied Army thousands strong had been thrown into chaos by just a handful of humans.
’Is there any justice in this world?!’
"THUD!"
"THUD!"
"THUD!"
Just then, three bodies were ejected from the cube.
They were the three Tier Six powerhouses who had been swept into the cube by the dragon’s tail earlier.
Then, Shen Ning’Er reappeared on top of the cube, landing beside Gao Neng and Fang Tangtang. Blood dripped from the spear in her hand.
"Three at the Tier Six Early Stage. Forty-nine seconds in total. Faster than I expected," Shen Ning’Er said nonchalantly, as if it were nothing.
"Sister Ning’Er, you’re amazing!" Fang Tangtang immediately revealed her merchant-like nature, knowing the perfect time to lay on the flattery.
Gao Neng actually wanted to praise her a bit too.
However, he lacked the talent for it and wasn’t nearly as practiced as Fang Tangtang. He’d missed his chance. Left with no other option, he could only feign a cool and profound demeanor.
Then, he casually added a thought to himself.
’Simps never get a happy ending. Sucking up isn’t fitting for a handsome and dashing man of mystery like myself. All I need to do is keep being handsome!’
"ROAR!"
The giant dragon roared again.
It resumed its charge into the ranks of the Tier Six aliens.
This caused the expressions of the Tier Six aliens to change drastically. Three of their rank had died in less than a minute? If this continued for another ten minutes, would any of them survive?
"Protecting the Prince is what’s important!"
"Right! Protect the Prince!"
"We’ll protect the Prince to the death! We won’t retreat!"
The Tier Six powerhouses shouted their slogans, then, without a backward glance, they all flocked to the sides of the Princes.
At that moment, Mu Feifei’s expression turned utterly livid.
She wasn’t unaware of the problems within the Alien Race Alliance Army, but she had never imagined that a mere handful of humans would be enough to expose them so thoroughly.
And the one who had exposed all these problems...
...was Gao Neng, someone who had just broken through to Tier Four!
"If he does not die today, he will surely become a major threat in the future!"
