Chapter 186 : Chapter 186
Chapter 186: The Heaven Society Attacks. Seize the Tablet at Once!
When Li Mu arrived at the Commander-in-Chief’s Office, the various officers quickly gathered.
Hong Liangpeng opened a screen at the front and began playing a video.
“This is an extremely small Vacuum Zone discovered by our soldiers at the edge of an Eighth Grade combat area.”
“There is a strange spatial energy inside the Vacuum Zone, so the soldiers excavated the area a little.”
At this moment, the video showed the perspective of soldiers carrying out a Blind-Zone Exploration mission.
In the forest, there was a large, bare stretch of empty ground. Even the air was faintly distorted, as though an invisible flame were burning it.
It seemed that some kind of energy was being suppressed beneath the ground.
Several soldiers began digging downward and soon struck a massive stone.
The five members of the squad worked together. All of them were Eighth Grade soldiers, so they quickly excavated a giant stone tablet more than ten meters tall and several meters in diameter.
The stone tablet seemed to have been carved from a natural boulder.
Extremely complex runes were engraved on it.
These runes contained powerful spatial force, making it impossible to place the tablet into a storage space.
This had happened just over ten minutes ago.
One team member had returned to the city to report the matter, while the captain had remained at the original location with the other four members to guard it.
The video in the Commander-in-Chief’s Office had almost just finished playing when an earth-shaking uproar suddenly erupted outside!
Li Mu was not far from the window. He looked outside, and his gaze immediately sharpened.
Every visible part of the entire military district had fallen into chaos!
Many people were fighting and brawling. Lights from cultivation arts were darting wildly everywhere, and weapons were already clashing.
“What’s going on!?”
Someone exclaimed in alarm.
“Don’t just stand there! Go out and look!”
An Xing shouted, and everyone rushed outside.
Li Mu did not bother using the door. He transformed into a flying bird and shot out of the window with a whoosh, quickly flying toward the Spirit Tree Plaza, where the crowd was thickest.
The Spirit Tree Mystic Realm was still open right now.
There were at least twenty or thirty thousand people around the Spirit Tree Plaza.
Li Mu looked down from above, and his heart tightened.
Chaos!
The entire military district had actually fallen into complete chaos!
In the crowd, one soldier suddenly kicked away the close friend beside him and cursed, “Damn it! You bastard, have you gone mad!?”
Yet his friend seemed to have lost his mind. His eyes blinked again and again in confusion.
As he blinked, a faint golden light flickered within them, barely visible.
The friend shook his head hard. True Qi erupted across his entire body, and he threw a punch at the friend who had cursed him.
“Don’t hit me! It’s me!”
The cursing soldier’s hands glowed with green light as he forcefully knocked aside the punch, then slapped his friend across the face.
His friend clearly had not used any defensive cultivation art, yet his face was as hard as steel!
After being slapped and staggering, he unexpectedly whipped his head back and attacked again.
A soldier beside them had already drawn his blade and slashed at the friend.
“There’s golden light in his eyes. It’s the Heaven Society!”
However, the cursing soldier suddenly knocked the blade-wielding soldier aside too.
“Don’t kill him! There’s no way he’s from the Heaven Society. He’s only lost his mind!”
He understood his sworn brother too well.
Perhaps because this involved his friend’s life, he still retained a trace of reason.
If his sworn brother were truly part of the Heaven Society, he would not be attacking with fists and feet. He would have drawn his spear to attack instead.
However, just as he finished shouting, his mindless sworn brother immediately drew his spear. Spear radiance hummed and flickered around it.
The cursing friend’s eyes turned red.
“You damned bastard, you actually joined the Heaven Society! I’ll kill you, damn it!”
Although his mouth said he would kill him, he still charged forward bare-handed.
He punched the spear out of his sworn brother’s hands, then straddled him and began beating him viciously.
He beat his sworn brother until his eyes flashed with pale golden light like broken light bulbs.
And there were countless soldiers like this one!
There were several thousand of them!
These soldiers whose eyes flickered with faint golden light were precisely the source of the chaos.
Almost at the same time, they had gone mad and attacked the soldiers around them.
They did not care whether the people beside them were strangers, comrades, or sworn brothers. They attacked them all with full force.
In a short time, many people were injured.
The people around them did not kill all of them immediately.
Such a huge number of people had suddenly mutinied, and all of them were in this kind of mindless state.
At a glance, it was clear that someone had deliberately created this chaos.
Therefore, many people mainly focused on subduing them, aiming to knock them unconscious or bind them.
But the most difficult point was this:
These people were basically not weak. Many of them were actually Fifth, Sixth, Seventh Grade, or even higher-grade soldiers.
If they happened to have comrades beside them of the same grade or higher, things were still manageable.
But if the soldiers beside them happened to be lower in grade, a whole group would almost instantly be injured!
For a time, Wanren Military District was in complete disorder.
Li Mu quickly flew above Spirit Dragon Military District and Red Horse Military District.
These two military districts were actually the same!
Thousands of people had rioted at the same time, and the entire military camp had descended into chaos.
Li Mu had no choice but to land on the ground. He continuously drew the Safe-Haven Method, knocked out berserk soldiers along the way, and rushed everywhere to put out fires.
The wireless communication system of the military districts’ leadership activated in time.
Chu Ying’s voice, the Commander-in-Chief of Red Horse Military District, rang out from the Technological Watch.
“Commanders of all military districts!”
“Please issue orders to your soldiers as soon as possible. Do not kill these berserk soldiers.”
“Just control them! Their minds are being manipulated.”
“Without exception, these soldiers are all graduates of Thousand Victories Military Academy!”
“Now the students of Thousand Victories Military Academy aboveground have also rioted. The surrounding area is already in chaos. Anyone with available forces, please send people up to help maintain public order!”
After Chu Ying’s announcement ended, everyone was shocked.
All the berserk soldiers were graduates of Thousand Victories Military Academy?
And Thousand Victories Military Academy on the surface had also rioted?
This was an enormous problem!
The underground military districts were filled with soldiers. Even if they fought and clashed, not many people would die.
But if martial artists began slaughtering civilians, that would be serious trouble!
Li Mu immediately moved closer to the Instructor Department.
He first had to check on Tang Meiying. If a Profound Rank martial artist also lost consciousness and rioted, there would not be many people capable of restraining her.
Very soon, he saw Tang Meiying below, also stopping the chaotic fighting.
Li Mu landed beside Tang Meiying.
“Are you all right?”
Tang Meiying shook her head. “I’m fine! I don’t know what’s going on either! It does seem that all the rioters are from Thousand Victories Military Academy!”
“Knock them all unconscious!”
After Li Mu finished speaking, he flew back into the air and searched for berserk soldiers causing heavy damage.
Very soon, a giant python appeared in the crowd.
The giant python was a mixture of gold and red. It was more than thirty meters long, and the scales across its body shone with a metallic luster, as though sharp horns could spring out from them.
Wherever it slithered across the ground, it left behind furrows of overturned soil, like a moving chainsaw.
The massive python’s body was a full two meters in diameter!
Its upper body rose upright like a person. Its body was enormous, and as it moved through the crowd, everyone who still had awareness quickly dodged away.
The aura of this giant python was actually at the Ninth Grade Peak!
On top of the giant python’s head, two raised fleshy fins looked like a pair of small horns.
Wang Yinhuan, dressed in casual clothes, was grabbing one of the horns and directing Greedy Snake to attack the berserk soldiers.
No matter what cultivation they had, once Greedy Snake’s tail swept over, they were guaranteed to be sent flying on the spot!
Anyone who dared resist was directly pinned to the ground with two heavy thuds!
It was better to injure them than let them injure others.
Just then!
At the Abyss entrance, a stream of sky-blue water mist suddenly flew into the Abyss, rushing straight toward the air above the military district!
Li Mu himself was flying in midair, and he immediately felt an extremely powerful pressure.
Earth Rank!?
Li Mu looked over in shock. This aura was precisely the source of the fatal pressure he had felt when he had flown above Linyuan City on the Somersault Cloud!
As expected, the blue water mist suddenly transformed into human form.
It was a weathered old man who looked around eighty years old. His body was thin, his beard and hair were both white, but his eyes shone with pale blue light.
The old man condensed a water ball in his hand, and it exploded with a boom!
In an instant, the shockwave from the water ball’s explosion swept across the three great military districts and even farther beyond.
Wherever it passed, everyone...
Including Li Mu!
Was wrapped in a water bubble without the slightest ability to resist. The bubble was as thin as a soap bubble blown from breath.
The three great military districts, tens of thousands of people...
Without exception, all of them were wrapped in these bubbles and floated away from the ground!
Mysterious, powerful, awe-inspiring.
A feeling that they could not resist rose in everyone’s heart.
Fortunately, the encasement lasted only an instant.
With a soft pop, the water bubbles around everyone who had not gone berserk shattered.
Meanwhile, all the soldiers who had suddenly rioted were still wrapped in bubbles and floated slowly.
It was like a sieve filtering out diseased beans. In an instant, all the rioting soldiers were controlled.
Immediately afterward, the old man’s voice rang across the heavens and earth, reaching everyone’s ears.
“Uninjured soldiers, go aboveground and stop the students of Thousand Victories Military Academy from causing chaos!”
Then the old man’s range seemed to shrink, as though his voice only sounded beside the ears of Li Mu and the other officers.
“The beasts of the Heaven Society are about to arrive!”
“With me here, Linyuan City will be safe!”
“The riot is a smokescreen. The Heaven Society’s real goal is that strange stone tablet!”
“Go seize the tablet at once and shatter it!”
Before the old man even finished speaking, he had already transformed back into a mass of blue water mist and swiftly flown up to Linyuan City...