jdhmnovel Chapter 272 Moon City - The End
Chapter 272 Moon City - The End
On December 10th, the Dream City army, after five days of marching, finally arrived at Moon City.
A large, elite force of three hundred men entered the base. The cold wind blowing as they walked dispersed the birthday celebrations. The people of Moon City put down what they were doing and looked at them with suspicion.
To accommodate these three hundred people, Hu Hai specially cleared out a piece of land on the edge of Yuecheng to provide them with a place to live.
Therefore, Hu Hai specially came out to greet them and personally escorted the soldiers to Peace Street.
As the soldiers unloaded truckloads of weapons, a complex light flickered in Hu Hai's eyes.
“These weapons were used by Dream City to support Moon City. It’s not safe to leave them in the vehicle. It would be beneficial for all of us to take them out as soon as possible and put them directly into your ammunition depot,” Peng Si said.
"If they're all left in Moon City, what about the armory?"
Peng Si: "This is what I'm going to discuss with you later. This time the situation is different."
Hu Hai took out a cigarette and handed it to him. He lit it with a lighter, and two wisps of white smoke slowly drifted into the air. After smoking half of the cigarette, he said, "...Understood. Leave things here to the men. Let's go to my office first and talk about the defensive layout."
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The arrival of troops at the base was a major event that could not be kept from Miao Yin. Having established a base before, she knew the scale of the defense that Peng Si had brought just by seeing the troops arriving from afar.
This is probably the most troops that Dream City can provide; it seems they really listened to her.
Dream City's strategy has always been to accommodate more refugees and call on nearby small shelters to join the base for survival, thus preventing the dispersion of forces. If Moon City didn't have too many refugees, they probably would have chosen to merge the two cities instead of sending people to help.
This is the idea they champion: to allow more humans to survive.
It is precisely this government's people-benefiting mindset that has allowed Dream City to stand firm in Jingzhou for ten years.
Therefore, when the guards invited her to join the meeting, Miao Yin declined.
As for troop deployment, she could let those few decide. As for defending the base and fighting the mutants, they were all experts among experts, and she was too lazy to help them think about troop strength and food.
After all, no matter how hard they try, these things cannot change the final result.
The one who truly decides the outcome of the game has already made her arrangements.
"Wow, we won again." Miao Yin smiled and pushed down the white pieces, which were now connected in a line.
Tu Hao gritted his teeth, feeling a sense of indignation like someone being robbed by bandits and unable to resist: "You have to use a curse to cheat even when playing chess?"
Miao Yin collected the chess pieces, scattering them into the box with a clatter, and said lazily, propping her chin up with her hand, "No matter what the means, as long as it wins, it's a good move. The winner takes all, and the victor decides."
Tu Hao: "...And what about the loser?"
"Isn't it obvious?" Miao Yin glanced at the white pieces that Qipanshan hadn't yet captured. "Of course they'll be eaten."
"..."
"Stop playing."
After saying that, he got up and left.
Miao Yin didn't stop her, but simply looked down at the chessboard and dropped the white pieces into the box one by one.
But the game is already over.
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After a period of rest, Peng Si led his men and joined forces with the Moon City Guard to begin transforming Moon City's defense system.
They first moved the perimeter line outward by 200 meters. You see, the mutants charge at a very fast speed. The walls of Moon City were built later and are not as sturdy as those of Dream City. They need to set up a new defensive line at a greater distance to stop the monsters and give the rear more time to breathe.
The most troublesome thing about Moon City is that, although it is nestled against the mountains and by the water, the mountain is located to the east of the city.
On the bright side, it could help the base block dangers from the east and provide land for growing vegetables, but on the downside, it also blocked the escape route.
Apart from the east, all other places are easily accessible, and the winding avenue at the city gate is the only road leading to the armory.
In addition, the surrounding area is mostly mountainous with rugged roads, making some repair work even more difficult.
But if there's no other way, we must create one.
Peng Si recruited a member of his team who possessed the ability to manipulate stones and sand to level roads and bury some strange mountain paths, reducing the number of passages into Moon City.
It was simply impossible to build a wall that could cover three sides of the city in such a short time, so they had to settle for second best. They laid a solid foundation and replaced it with iron mesh, and then mounted guns on it.
Beneath the foundation, there was a whole ring of explosives buried.
If this layer of defense fails, the explosives will be detonated, killing all the mutants that step into the area and creating a deep crater around it, forming a three-meter-wide trench. This will be enough to slow down the advance of a large number of monsters, while smaller mutants will have even more difficulty crossing.
Beyond this defensive perimeter, they had also laid countless traps along the roads, including explosives, large nets, and poisons that could paralyze the mutants.
This is also the defensive measure that Dream City is currently using.
Next, they reinforced the existing artificial city wall of Moon City, created several escape tunnels, and then mounted machine guns on it.
But in the face of a possible catastrophe, no amount of caution is too much. The ammunition for firearms will eventually run out, and their gunpowder is also insufficient; this is far from enough.
So Hu Hai consulted ancient city defense methods and decided to come up with some folk remedies.
He had these ideas a long time ago. In the past, Moon City lacked firearms, and everyone only had a few small pistols. They had no choice but to start studying the old cold weapons.
So when he drove out the shovel that those architecture students had modified, Peng Si cursed loudly.
Hu Hai chuckled and pointed behind him with the cigarette between his fingers: "We still have cannons and catapults, but we're lacking sulfur, so we're missing something that can be thrown or blown up."
Without bullets, they could only make gunpowder using the old methods, but they were short of sulfur. They could dig up other materials in the mountains, although the Dream City army had brought a lot of resources this time, but it was not unlimited.
"Use whatever you have; you don't need to be picky at times like this."
Peng Si turned around and shouted to the group of people with superpowers: "Don't just stand there, go to the back and chisel this mountain down, and bring all the stones down!"
Why not use it? He wanted to pile up stones behind the wall.
Such a massive project could not be completed by the soldiers alone; they also had to prepare for the subsequent weapons depot, leaving them with no time to spare.
Hu Hai made the same decision as Peng Si: to make the news of the impending Black Tide public and mobilize the general public to join in the construction of the city's defenses.
Six days passed in the blink of an eye, and with the support of both manpower and resources, Moon City's defense line was basically in place.
Miao Yin stood on this acquired city wall and looked out from the crenellations. The mechanisms outside had been mostly installed, and bright red flags were hung as a reminder to avoid accidental activation.
Peng Si stood beside her and said, "Do you think these measures will allow Yuecheng to survive?"
"Half and half," she said ambiguously.
The man sighed almost inaudibly. He had spent the past week in Moon City, eating, living, and working with everyone. The days were as ordinary as before the apocalypse, and he had almost become one of them.
"The defenses here are already at their best, if..." He paused, unable to finish his sentence.
No one wants to see Moon City destroyed and its inhabitants suffer.
“Why worry about those things? Captain Peng, you must be tired from digging stones with us these past few days. Why don’t you get some rest? Don’t forget, we need to get to the armory before the 20th,” Miao Yin reminded him. Behind her, Yan Shuzhou listened quietly to their conversation.
This was the prophecy that Miao Yin gave to Elder Lu, and also the bell that urged them to take action.
At 11 p.m. on the night of December 20th, an unknown explosion will occur inside the armory, disturbing the sleeping Crimson Calamity.
They will fight and evolve within it, and the strongest one will break through the walls and emerge from the arsenal.
The armory's containment system is indeed unmatched, but no one can say for sure whether it can stop a Crimson Catastrophe. After all, the last one, named Bakugo, was only stopped by nuclear weapons.
The key is to strike first. They must reach the armory before the 20th. Ideally, they should be able to eliminate the monster inside the armory. If that's not possible, they must find a way to stop it inside the armory and prevent it from leaving the surrounding area.
But only this mysterious prophet knows exactly how to do it.
“The road in Moon City leads directly to the armory, so it won’t take long to get there from here.” Peng Si gazed into the distance. “I will leave two hundred men here, and the remaining one hundred will finish resting tonight. We will set off tomorrow.”
Miao Yin: "Looking forward to your news."