Chapter 7 City Number Seven

“City Number Seven has not provided any feedback today, and the satellite signal is also missing. We sent people to investigate, but it's like a stone sinking into the sea, with no response!”

On Rampage Island, a staff member responsible for liaising with various human countries reported the news he received to Qin Yiming urgently, “This is the seventh city to lose contact so far, and the second main city with a total population of over eight million!”

“I suggest immediately activating emergency response measures to find out the truth!”

Listening to the other party’s report, Qin Yiming’s expression gradually became serious. Seven cities losing contact at the same time, and two of them were human main cities, heavily guarded areas of former powerful countries, this was definitely a major event.

“How many people are involved in total?” Qin Yiming asked.

The staff member made a simple statistic, and then replied with difficulty, “The total population exceeds thirty million!”

Qin Yiming swallowed. The total number of humans in the current human civilization is only about one hundred million, and in just one night, cities with a population of over thirty million had problems…

If those seven cities really suffered a devastating blow, it would mean that nearly one-third of the human civilization's population would be wiped out overnight.

Just as Qin Yiming was thinking about the problem, the staff member responsible for the report received a satellite phone call.

After listening to the call, his face turned pale. He looked up at Qin Yiming and said, “Now it’s eight cities, more than thirty-five million people have lost contact!”

Hearing this number, Qin Yiming immediately realized that this matter was beyond his authority to handle. If this continued, perhaps by nightfall, the entire human world would only have Rampage Island left.

“Go back to your post and continue sending signals to the lost cities. I will report to the Governor immediately!”

…

“Eight cities lost contact?” Li Tianran, who was undergoing special training on the training ground, stopped his movements slowly when he heard Qin Yiming’s report. Han Han, who was sparring with him, also waved her hand expressionlessly, dissipating the intelligent brain lightning that filled the training ground.

“That’s right, and the number is still increasing! Even the Pathfinder reconnaissance teams we sent out have not reported back any news. They lost contact after entering those cities!” Qin Yiming’s face was pale. “Did the ancient civilization do it?”

“It must be the Apostles’ doing.” Li Tianran waved his hand. Currently, human civilization and ancient civilization are in a state of confrontation on Blue Star. As for the sea beast groups that once caused huge trouble for the human world, they are now unable to pose any threat to human cities.

Although the human garrison and civilians in the main city cannot temporarily play a role in the war against the ancient civilization, as long as they are alive, they are a continuous source of soldiers for Rampage Island.

For the time being, numbers are still an important advantage of human civilization over ancient civilization.

Since the last war, Li Tianran thought that after the complete recovery of the ancient civilization, the Apostles would not dare to run into the defense line to cause damage, but now it seems that his estimation was wrong.

The Apostles not only dared to do it, but also made a big move.

“Send out the elite squad!” Li Tianran said after a moment of silence, “I will take thirty people to City Number Seven, let Lu Chi take people to another main city, and the rest will be scattered to other lost cities.”

“If the Apostles take action, ordinary first-time Evolvers will not be able to resist! Notify all countries, seal off the cities, and do not send any more troops or reconnaissance teams to try to approach those lost cities.”

Li Tianran gave the order. He was going to take a trip himself. The situation was a bit serious, and he didn't want to continue sitting on Rampage Island waiting for someone else's investigation report.

Moreover, he had just completed his second evolution. Although he didn't gain any advantage from Han Han, he wanted to see how much difference there was between himself and other Apostles!

“Do you want to go out and play?” Li Tianran turned to look at Han Han in the distance and invited her in a gentle voice.

Now Han Han is the most standard “planet-destroying weapon” on Rampage Island. As long as he goes out with her, Li Tianran couldn't be more at ease…

“Okay.” Han Han nodded.

Since her consciousness awakened, Li Tianran has been taking care of her in every detail. Although she has not shown Li Tianran how obvious her affection is, at least she has never rejected some of the invitations Li Tianran has made.

The last time she went to negotiate with the Gale Apostle, she also appeared as Li Tianran’s trump card…

However, this time, when Nilasong heard that Li Tianran was going to take Han Han out again, it refused to agree to anything and insisted on accompanying them.

Li Tianran had no objections to this, and Han Han tacitly agreed.

Soon, high-speed helicopters carrying the Pathfinder elite squads departed from Rampage Island and headed to various human cities that had lost contact.

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City Number Seven is located in the former EU territory and is not too far from Rampage Island. After about an hour, the helicopter arrived over City Number Seven.

Because of the situation where reconnaissance teams had previously entered the city rashly and lost contact, Li Tianran did not order a direct landing this time. Instead, he had the plane circle over the city a few times, and at the same time sent a few adult-level Berserkers to rappel and scout the city first.

But soon, Li Tianran discovered that those adult Berserkers quickly severed their mental link with him, like a stone sinking into the sea, with no response.

“It seems the situation is indeed a bit dangerous…” Li Tianran looked down at the city, stroked his chin, and was about to send two more mecha Berserkers down, but suddenly, he saw Han Han’s expression change.

She looked at the city below her feet with a look of disgust and contempt, like a person seeing a pig covered in excrement!

“Did you notice something?” Li Tianran raised his eyebrows and asked.

Han Han was silent for a moment, then stretched out her small hand and pointed to the city, saying, “This city is very dirty!”

Dirty?

Li Tianran stroked his chin. He didn’t understand Han Han’s words for a moment. Although the human high-level leaders did not pay much attention to the environmental sanitation of shelters after the world disaster, this was, after all, a main city, which was considered to have relatively good conditions among all human cities. At least, it would not reach the point of disgusting "dirty".

Nilasong, who was standing on the side, seemed to see Li Tianran’s doubts, and it chuckled and explained, “What the King is saying is dirty does not refer to visual dirt and chaos! But refers to the fact that there are too many chaotic and dirty mental forces in this city, like a mental corpse pit piled up with countless corpses and breeding countless bacteria!”