When system cheat becomes rampant!-Chapter 1258 - 818: Guerrilla Warfare (Part 2)

Silence lingered for nearly half an hour, Elder Luo did not speak, and Qian Qingbo stood quietly beside him. His task was simple: protect Jiuzhou’s strongest force. At Elder Luo’s command, he could kill anyone who posed a threat to Elder Luo’s safety.

But at this moment, the command center suddenly sounded an alarm. Upon closer inspection, countless cyan light dots reappeared on the map, with their target being Qingzhou!

"These desolate beasts have set their sights on Qingzhou!" Qian Qingbo said.

At the same time, another support request came from Qingzhou. The speaker was Ren Jianghai: "Qingzhou’s twenty-seventh battle section needs support! There are too many powerful desolate beasts here, and we are severely understaffed!"

Ren Jianghai’s voice sounded extremely anxious. Such a sudden attack by so many desolate beasts was extremely rare and impossible to withstand.

"Yuchi Shen, there are no desolate beasts near you for now and you’re close to Qingzhou. Leave specific staff to guard and go support them!" Elder Luo immediately ordered.

"Received!" Yuchi Shen’s voice came through.

"Ye Changfeng, try to move towards Yanzhou." Elder Luo deployed again.

"Understood!" Ye Changfeng also responded.

Ye Changfeng and Yuchi Shen were both SR-level Awakeners, receiving extra care from Xiang Beifei. Over the years, their strength had advanced by leaps and bounds, reaching mid-Heavenly Connection; they had considerable strength.

After deploying personnel, Elder Luo wasted no time and immediately rushed to Qingzhou.

The location of Qingzhou was quite far from here, almost across half of Jiuzhou’s border. So, he relied on the Teleportation Array set up in the interior to rush to Qingzhou. These arrays greatly reduced travel time.

However, the teleportation distances were generally short, as the longer the distance, the more Spiritual Power the array consumed. There was basically no direct array, and transit was required.

The transit process required travel on foot. Elder Luo had already allocated all leisure value to speed, yet it still took him twenty minutes to reach Qingzhou.

By that time, a breach had already been made in Qingzhou. Without hesitation, Elder Luo charged straight in.

But strangely, just as he was about to unleash his fury, a sharp sound emerged from the depths of the outer desolate realm. Upon hearing the sound, the desolate beasts turned and fled again!

Moreover, the retreat speed was even faster this time. Elder Luo only managed to kill one beast in the early Heavenly Connection stage, while the rest fled over dozens of miles away.

Desolate beasts in the Heavenly Connection stage were strong and fast, and remarkably well-organized and disciplined, fleeing at the mere sound!

"Damn it!" Elder Luo exclaimed angrily.

"Commander Luo, quickly help Commander Ren. He just took on eight late Heavenly Connection stage desolate beasts to protect the city wall and got severely wounded!"

Yuchi Shen had come to support Qingzhou. Being closer from Yanzhou, he arrived earlier than Elder Luo.

Elder Luo immediately went to check on Ren Jianghai, whose body was half gone, torn by the desolate beasts, leaving his flesh mangled and spirit greatly damaged, rendering him unconscious.

"Quick! Find a way to save him!" Elder Luo shouted.

"Impossible, the injuries are too severe; the spiritual damage is irreversible." The speaker was an SSR-level Medical Dao practitioner named Zhang Jing, at the early Heavenly Connection stage, awakened the Miraculous Healing system, but the spiritual injuries were too severe, leaving him nearly powerless.

"Even so, find a way! He cannot be harmed!" Elder Luo said gravely.

Ren Jianghai was the dean of the Martial Arts College at Qingzhou University. He often liked to boast to Elder Luo from Liangzhou University about how impressive his students were, though both knew each other well and only used their students to make conversation. In significant matters, Ren Jianghai absolutely stood on Elder Luo’s side.

Elder Luo greatly acknowledged Ren Jianghai’s abilities. Seeing Ren Jianghai so gravely injured made him anxious. However, his system’s flaw was apparent: the Leisure System could enhance specific abilities through points but fell short in healing others!

"Do you have a way?" Elder Luo turned to Qian Qingbo.

Qian Qingbo hesitated slightly. He had already traversed the Dao and was without a system but, having lived in the Edge Corner Airspace for years, retained some heritage.

The Edge Corner Airspace housed various powerful races, with countless Immortal Realm and Inquiry Dao Realm beings, making Heavenly Connection stage lowly. A bit of breath soil sufficed to buy some healing elixirs for such injuries there.

Returning to Jiuzhou, Xiang Beifei bought many precious elixirs for him. However, Qian Qingbo believed they should be reserved for Elder Luo until they caught the traitor, not for others.

"Can you save him?" Elder Luo noticed Qian Qingbo’s expression.

"I reserved it for you..."

"Then hand it over!" Elder Luo commanded.

Qian Qingbo hesitated briefly, then finally took out a white elixir and handed it over.

Elder Luo observed the elixir, analyzing with his ability, surprisingly, without further words, immediately fed it to Ren Jianghai.

A cyan radiance blossomed within Ren Jianghai, gradually healing his injuries, and his breath slowly stabilized.

Elder Luo sighed in relief, glanced at Qian Qingbo, then immediately began organizing the aftermath.

Before long, someone hurriedly arrived, saying: "Commander Luo, Yuzhou’s Yu Chenghe was attacked by desolate beasts! They’ve issued a support request."

"Yuzhou!"

Elder Luo promptly stood up, ran to the command center, and upon careful inspection, dozens of desolate beasts approached the border in Yuzhou on the electronic map!

"Damn it!"

Without delay, Elder Luo turned and rushed toward Yuzhou!

...

When Elder Luo arrived in Yuzhou, the desolate beast herd turned and fled again!

"Bastard!"

Elder Luo watched their retreating direction, his gaze filled with fury.

In Yuzhou, Yu Chenghe was also gravely injured, barely breathing. Elder Luo had to make Qian Qingbo use another life-saving elixir.

But Elder Luo didn’t wait long here before another support request came from Liangzhou. This time, dozens of beasts shifted towards Liangzhou!

Elder Luo had to rush to Liangzhou immediately.

Qian Qingbo struggled to keep up with Elder Luo, saying: "Professor Luo, someone is manipulating these desolate beasts, deliberately playing guerrilla tactics to exhaust your Spiritual Power, trying to tire you out. We can’t fall into their trap."

"What else can I do? Let them invade Jiuzhou?" Elder Luo retorted solemnly.

Only he could withstand the assault of a large group of Heavenly Connection desolate beasts!

Only he could slaughter them like little sheep, while other Heavenly Connection martial artists could handle two or three desolate beasts at most, facing dozens alone meant certain death.

Elder Luo had a significant power gap compared to other Jiuzhou experts. Without him, the destruction these beasts brought would be unstoppable, assuredly breaching Jiuzhou.

"We need to devise a strategy, we can’t be led by the nose like this," Qian Qingbo suggested.

"There’s only one way," Elder Luo clenched his fist.

"What is it?"

"Catch up and annihilate the entire herd!"

"No way!" Qian Qingbo disagreed.

"Don’t you understand? This is exactly the solution that the one manipulating the beasts left for me! They are luring me to chase these beasts deliberately, to end this guerrilla war by slaughtering them all!"

Elder Luo’s strength wasn’t only in combat; it was also in his wisdom and exceptional analytical ability.

However, the guy from the Dao Palace was smart too, concentrating beast attacks on one location, then retreating upon Elder Luo’s arrival, disappearing beyond Jiuzhou’s detectable map range.

It would randomly reappear elsewhere, previously in Qingzhou, then possibly in Liangzhou or Yongzhou next.

By not pursuing these beasts, the next attack location remained unpredictable.

The choice left for Elder Luo was singular.

Venture alone into the outer desolate realm, to chase these beasts!