Chapter 140: Discovering a Massive City

Since the doors of convenience have been swung wide open, it would be terribly impolite not to step inside for a look around. Let's go down. We won't demolish the houses this time—just take the resources."

You respect me an inch, and I'll respect you a foot. That was Lin Mu's code of survival.

The owner of the city stood not far outside the settlement, watching them load up the supplies.

A resident asked, filled with indignation, "Boss, are we just going to let them bully us like this?"

The person in charge glanced at him. "You want to resist? If you want to rebel, don't drag us into it. Do you know what the outcome of the last rebellion was? Every single house in the entire city was torn down."

"Ah? I thought I heard they slaughtered the whole city?"

"No way, didn't they eat those people?"

"That's not right, it was their leader who ate people."

"Right, right, right! Their captain is eight zhang tall with double horns on his head."

"And a pair of ten-meter-long black wings."

"..."

Lin Mu looked at the group of people on the screen and listened to their chatter, utterly speechless.

A height of twenty-six meters and ten-meter wings? What kind of abomination was that supposed to be?

Since when had he been envisioned like that?

"Hahaha! They actually think you eat people! Hahaha, I can't take this!"

Anna clutched her stomach, laughing hysterically. She had never heard anything so absurd in her life.

And that imagery—wasn't that the description of a demon?

"Did you or did you not check out the city I asked you to find?"

Anna instantly shut her mouth. How on earth was she supposed to find a city? The distance was simply too vast; it was completely impossible to locate one just like that.

"Is there really nothing nearby? Where am I supposed to look?"

"Didn't you say you'd been here before?"

"That city wasn't in this location, so how am I supposed to find it?"

Anna was speechless. They weren't even heading in the same direction.

Lin Mu shook his head. "Tell me, what use are I to keep you around if you can't even handle a simple task?"

...

One month later, in the dead of night.

"Captain! We seem to have found a large city. Judging by the area, it's got to be at least fifty square kilometers!"

To search for targets more efficiently, Lin Mu had implemented a shift system for his crew.

They were hunting for cities twenty-four hours a day without stopping.

001 halted the war machine immediately and hastened to wake Lin Mu, who had just fallen asleep not long ago.

"Master, it looks like they've found a city."

Lin Mu slowly opened his eyes and stretched lazily.

"They really know how to pick their timing. I hadn't even been asleep for an hour before being dragged up."

Lin Mu returned to the driver's seat.

"Which direction is the exact location?"

"Captain, the city is right beneath us. However, this time, they haven't retreated."

The people in this city were not like the previous ones.

Perhaps it was because it was nighttime; it remained to be seen whether these people would flee come morning.

"Alright, I understand. Everyone, get some rest; we'll make our move tomorrow."

Lin Mu was very sleepy and had no desire to start a war at this hour.

They rested for the night.

Early the next morning, everyone was fully prepared.

Lin Mu summoned Anna.

"How strong is the defensive barrier of a large city?"

"Twenty mysterious elements—practically unbreakable. Furthermore, they have quite a stockpile of their own. Even if you bombarded it with your weapons, it would take at least three months. I suggest you just give up. You have no idea how many good things the other side possesses."

As for Anna's words, he only needed to listen to half of them.

Everything else could be safely ignored.

"Prepare the war machine for landing. Everyone deploy and unpack immediately upon arrival."

"Understood."

Lin Mu surveyed the surroundings. Ten kilometers away from the city walls lay a stretch of flatland, just right in size and distance.

Ten minutes later, a camp had materialized there.

"Get all the weapons ready. Zhao Jin and Shu Yi, organize the team to prepare breakfast."

"Understood."

Lin Mu looked over at 001. "Call out those necromancers. It's time for them to pull their weight."

Anna, standing nearby, froze in surprise. "You aren't planning to use the undead, are you? Their damage output is so low; they're completely useless."

Lin Mu shook his head. "Of course not just them, but everything and anything that can be of use. Besides, how do you know the undead are useless?"

Lucia's ability was very useful to him.

Perhaps one hundred thousand undead were useless. But what about a million? Ten million?

Surely she had heard of a cornered beast fighting back.

He refused to believe the food in that city would last them a year.

In any case, Lin Mu was not in the least bit hurried; it didn't matter how long it took to break in.

Besides, he had scanned the area just now, and the surrounding resources were quite abundant.

Taking advantage of this opportunity to mine some resources was entirely feasible.

Therefore, rushing was out of the question.

Once everyone had been summoned down, Lin Mu directly assigned their tasks.

"Your job is very simple. The nineteen of you are going to continuously summon undead creatures for me and then surround that place. Split them fifty-fifty: half for the encirclement, half for the assault."

The few of them exchanged glances and nodded silently.

The structure in the distance clearly looked much harder to crack than the previous ones; wasn't this just a waste of effort?

Lin Mu turned his attention to Lucia. "As for you, it's the same—keep summoning undead creatures. Summon as many as you can, but you don't need to participate in the combat. Your only job is to control these creatures and keep them stationed around the perimeter of that city. Now, let me ask you: in one month's time, how many undead creatures can you cultivate?"

"Around ten million, but the later ones won't be under my control. I'm afraid those undead might scatter."

Lin Mu waved a hand dismissively. "It doesn't matter, as long as the entire area around here is completely flooded with them."

He looked toward the distant architecture. It was just a war of attrition, and he would grind them down slowly until they died.

He was determined to take this city.

He called Anna over. "Let me ask you, under normal circumstances, how much time does it take for the people here to capture a city?"

Anna thought for a moment. "Six months to a year, I suppose."

Lin Mu nodded. In that case, it looked like they could speed things up even more.

After breakfast, the twenty necromancers went into action first.

Under everyone's watchful eyes, countless skeletons were continuously summoned, marching in neat rows toward the distant town.

Interspersed among them were headless knights.

As for bone dragons and the like, they did not summon any.

For one, the consumption was simply too high, and for another, summoning them might not even prove useful.

And so, Lin Mu simply pitched camp right there.

With the undead blockading the outside, Lin Mu scheduled artillery bombardments three times a day—morning, noon, and night.

In short, either you abandon this city, or you spend every day living in sheer terror with no hope of a decent night's sleep.

For the first week, the enemy sent no one out.

A week later, however, the first reconnaissance squad finally appeared within their field of vision.

"Captain, the opponents appear to be members of the human race, just like us. The weapons in their hands are identical to ours."

Identical?

Lin Mu quickly took control of the drone feed.

It really did look identical; their gear and weapons were practically the same.

The only difference was that their skin was green.

"I suppose this region is mostly populated by humans. Give them a few cannon blasts and send them running back."