Chapter 1642: Chapter 1641: The Soul of Lake City
"What do we do now?"
In the Command Room, all the Commanders stared at the bombardment on the big screen, each one filled with worry.
It wouldn’t be long before the whole of Lake City turned into a ruin.
And by then, their advantage in guerrilla warfare and hiding their corps would be gone, and all those Defensive Arrays they’d set up would be largely destroyed.
"There’s only one option left now!"
Yin Chuan’s brows were tightly furrowed as he said, "Get ready to deploy the ’Water Monster’!"
When they heard this, everyone was stunned. "Deploy the ’Water Monster’ now? That’s our final trump card. Once we send out the ’Water Monster’, the location of our Command Room will be exposed as well."
"Yeah, we haven’t even forced out the Twelve Popes behind them yet. If we send out the ’Water Monster’ now, isn’t it too early?"
Someone else voiced their concern.
"But if we don’t send out the ’Water Monster’, we’re going to die here!"
Yin Chuan said.
"..."
Everyone fell silent.
Revealing their trump card now meant handing over their lives ahead of time. Without that last card, the final line of defense in their hearts would disappear as well.
Just then.
Xiao Lian suddenly pointed at the big screen and said, "Look, Qin Feng is back!!"
When people saw the situation, they couldn’t help but widen their eyes and look up at the screen.
Seeing the familiar Fire Cloud Bird appear above Lake City, everyone was wildly excited!
"That’s great!"
"This is really great! Qin Feng is back, Lake City is saved!!"
"..."
Yin Chuan also secretly let out a heavy breath of relief.
He didn’t know why. Even though he knew that Qin Feng alone couldn’t stop the World Alliance’s crazy bombardment, as long as that figure appeared, he inexplicably felt a sense of safety.
A moment later.
Yin Chuan immediately arranged for people to go out and escort Qin Feng back to the Command Room.
Everyone crowded around Qin Feng, all of them excited. When they saw that Qin Feng had brought back another girl, they clicked their tongues even more in amazement. Every time he went out he could bring back a new woman, and each one was an absolute beauty. Truly something, truly something...
The atmosphere in the entire Command Room instantly shifted from earlier despair to a relaxed mood.
"Sorry, I’m late."
Qin Feng saw that Yin Chuan and the others all had red, swollen eyes and dark circles around them. He knew they’d hardly rested these past few days and had been under enormous pressure.
"It’s fine, it’s fine..."
Everyone smiled, shaking their heads and waving their hands.
Yin Chuan said at this point, "Qin Feng, I’m sure you already have a rough grasp of the current situation. They’re frantically bombing Lake City. How should we respond?"
The other Commanders all looked at him full of expectation, hoping he could show them a way out.
Qin Feng thought for a moment, then said, "Let them keep bombing."
"Oh?? If we just let them keep bombing like this, we’ll lose our advantage of knowing Lake City’s terrain, and all the Arrays we laid down before will be destroyed too. Then we’ll have no advantage at all in the battles to come!" Yin Chuan said.
"It’s fine. Let them keep bombing," Qin Feng said. "We start the battle when they can’t keep it up anymore. Don’t we still have the ’Water Monster’? It can help hold the line a bit."
"Alright, I’ll go arrange it right away!"
Yin Chuan said immediately.
After arranging for the "Water Monster" to be ready for action at any time, Yin Chuan returned to Qin Feng’s side. Seeing everyone gathered around Qin Feng with smiles on their faces, he couldn’t help but feel emotional.
He finally understood why he felt Qin Feng was the pillar of Lake City, of this war—in fact, of the whole world.
With him here, everyone else no longer fell into despair.
Even though Qin Feng’s instructions were basically the same as giving none at all.
Let Lake City continue to be bombed, then send out the "Water Monster" afterward—wasn’t that basically the same as saying nothing?
But the expressions on their faces were still completely relaxed and full of hope.
Yin Chuan walked over and said, "The arrangements have been made. What next?"
Qin Feng said, "Next, I have to make a trip to Xumi Land."
"Alright, I’ll immediately arrange people to escort you."
Yin Chuan said.
Very soon.
Qin Feng and Unrivaled were escorted by a protection squad toward the Sky Mirror.
Once he left, Yin Chuan also felt a wave of relief. Those Deputy Commanders who’d been nearly crushed by the enormous pressure all now wore smiles, as if Qin Feng’s return represented victory itself, and they started analyzing Qin Feng’s intentions.
"What do you think, why did Qin Feng give up on Lake City and let them keep bombing it?"
"I don’t get it! But there must be a deeper meaning!"
"Exactly! This is Qin Feng we’re talking about. Any order he gives us is definitely the result of careful consideration and is sure to turn the tide!"
"It’s so good to have him here!"
"..."
Everyone sighed with emotion. One of them raised his head and asked Yin Chuan, "You’re the one who knows Qin Feng best. What deeper meaning do you think lies behind his order?"
Yin Chuan waved his hand and said, "If I could figure that out, I wouldn’t be who I am now. Use your toes and you can understand—how could we, with our level of intelligence, possibly guess what Qin Feng is thinking? Seriously! Take the chance to rest now, there’s still a big battle coming!"
With that, he went back to sit in front of the big screen again, observing every move on the battlefield while muttering and pondering in his heart, "Qin Feng, oh Qin Feng, if only I could figure out how your orders are supposed to turn the situation around, that’d be great. For now, all we can do is wait..."
Sky Mirror, Xumi Land.
Unrivaled was also puzzled by Qin Feng’s decision and couldn’t help asking, "We’re really not going to stop the World Alliance from bombing Lake City? If we do this, we’ll lose all our advantages. Or do you have a better way to turn things around?"
Qin Feng gave a wry smile, spread his hands, and said, "What way could I possibly have? It’s just a move made out of helplessness."
"A move made out of helplessness??"
Unrivaled was stunned.
Qin Feng sighed and asked in return, "With what we have now, what can we use to stop their bombardment?"
"..."
Unrivaled was choked speechless.
True enough!
With Lake City’s current strength, there was simply no way to stop it.
The World Alliance’s offensive was completely concentrated in the sky.
And the ones who could keep attacking from above were all people with high cultivation.
Lake City only had seven hundred thousand people from the Four Great Armies left, plus two hundred thousand from the Heavenly King Palace.
There were indeed quite a few experts in the Heavenly King Palace.
For example, some of the people from Tang Sect, Shu Mountain, Kunlun Sect, and so on.
But there were just too few of them.
They simply couldn’t stop it.
In other words, Qin Feng’s order really was a move born of helplessness, not some method to turn the situation around.
Qin Feng sighed again and said, "If only my strength could recover. Right now, at this critical moment, I can’t circulate my Inner Strength. I can only give up on Lake City and drag things out. As long as we can take down Master Gu Cha and destroy Xumi Land, the World Alliance will have no reason to keep fighting us. So the key point lies in Xumi Land."
"So that’s how it is!"
Unrivaled nodded, understanding Qin Feng’s intention.
