At six o 'clock in the evening, Yang Tian dragged his exhausted body back to the five-story building.
The Little Blue Dragon was surprisingly energetic. Its eyes were wide open as it laid on Yang Tian's shoulder. Its eyes were shining as it watched Yang Tian take out two plastic bags filled with fresh meat from the trunk of the car.
Inside the bags was a piece of meat that Yang Tian had cut off from a 'silver-haired pig' that he had encountered while practicing his swordsmanship.
Unfortunately, this silver-haired pig had not even reached the level of a beast, so there was no beast core in its head.
After returning to the five-story building, Yang Tian endured his exhaustion and cut the silver-haired pig's meat into small pieces. He sprinkled some seasoning on them, skewered them on thin metal skewers, roasted them over the fire, and tossed them to the Little Blue Dragon.
Yang Tian did not know why the Little Blue Dragon loved roasted meat so much. After eating it for two days, Yang Tian was tired of it. He felt that it was not as good as canned beef. However, the Little Blue Dragon did not seem to get tired of eating it.
After serving the Little Blue Dragon until it was full, Yang Tian took a shower and told the Little Blue Dragon to be alert at night. Then, he lay on the bed with his sword in his arms. After closing his eyes, he fell asleep in a few minutes.
After an unknown amount of time, Yang Tian heard squeaking and a rumbling sound. He opened his eyes abruptly.
Yang Tian saw the Little Blue Dragon lying on the head of the bed. He was shocked when he heard the rumbling sound that sounded like ten thousand horses galloping from outside. He immediately sat up from the bed and quickly put on his clothes in the dark. He carried his sword to the window and carefully lifted the curtains to look outside.
It was a moonlit night, so the situation outside was clearer. Under the bright moonlight, Yang Tian saw a large number of exotic beasts. They formed groups and passed through the streets outside, running in the direction of Tianxiong City.
A beast tide!
These two words suddenly popped into Yang Tian's mind.
It had been almost a hundred years since the outbreak of the YS virus. In the past few decades, the safe zone built by humans would experience a beast tide every once in a while.
A beast tide was when a large number of exotic beasts grouped together to attack a city built by humans. Normally, there would be a small beast tide every three to four years, and a large beast tide every ten years.
Yang Tian felt his scalp go numb as he looked at the various strange beasts running through the streets outside. With so many strange beasts, even a high-ranked martial artist could be drowned by this horde of beasts very quickly!
The reason for the Beast Tide had long been known by humans.
High-level exotic beasts were as intelligent as humans. They viewed humans as their greatest enemy, and their reproduction rate was too fast. Every few years, there would be a 'surplus of exotic beasts'. In order to maintain order in their territories, these high-level exotic beasts would order large numbers of low-level exotic beasts to launch suicidal attacks on the cities built by humans.
Not only would this reduce the number of low-level exotic beasts, but it would also deplete human resources. It was killing two birds with one stone.
The outbreak of a beast tide was very fast. Normally, humans would only have a few hours of warning time. After the leader of the exotic beasts gave the order, large numbers of exotic beasts would gather in the surrounding area and march towards the human cities within one or two hours!
Yang Tian glanced outside and carefully lowered the curtains. He hugged his saber and sat cross-legged under the window, waiting quietly. Now was not the time to go out. If he was surrounded by a large number of exotic beasts, only death would await him.
Desolate Hill City was only about fifty kilometers away from Tianxiong City. By the time the beast tide arrived, the people in the alert zone would have already retreated into the city. The people in the city would rely on the hundred-meter-tall city walls to fight the exotic beasts.
The reason humans were able to detect a beast tide in advance and make preparations in advance was because there were satellites in the sky that monitored the exotic beasts at all times. When the exotic beasts were scattered, it was difficult to detect them. However, when they gathered together, they would appear as a moving mass of red on the infrared satellite images.
Every beast tide was an opportunity for martial artists to earn huge profits and show off their skills!
Human cities had been built very sturdy. When the beast tide reached the city, the high-energy weapons on the city walls would be able to destroy the beast tide.
Once the beast tide was dispersed, it would be time for the martial artists to feast!
The martial artists in the city would take the opportunity to rush out of the city to hunt the exotic beasts and obtain a large number of beast cores.
The low-level ultra beasts that were running outside had yet to discover Yang Tian's presence. They were probably being urged by the high-level ultra beasts and only had one thought in their minds, and that was to charge towards the city ahead.
Yang Tian hugged his saber and closed his eyes, waiting quietly. Once the beast tide passed, it would be time for him to go out!
Time passed very slowly as he waited quietly. Yang Tian raised his wrist to check the time from time to time.
When Yang Tian was woken up by the Little Blue Dragon, it was three in the morning. Half an hour later, the beast tide passed through Desolate Hill City.
At this time, Yang Tian still did not move.
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Under the moonlight, the tents outside Tianxiong City were long gone. Under the hundred-meter-tall city walls, there was trash everywhere. The people who lived in the high-security area had been moved into the city walls to avoid this beast tide.
A city could only accommodate a limited number of people. For the benefit of the majority, a few people could only be sacrificed.
Almost every city had such a group of people outside. Most of them were people who wandered around after the YS virus outbreak. They eventually found a city and gathered there.
Some of them were people who had broken the rules of the city and were expelled from the city.
Some of them were like Yang Tian. They had the right to live in the city but were not satisfied with the status quo. They left the city to train and become strong.
In the past few decades, the people living outside the city had given birth and the population had increased by a lot. It was not much different from the population inside the city.
With so many people, if this was another era, a rebellion would have been enough to occupy the entire city.
However, in this era where mutated beasts ran rampant and martial artists ruled the world, these people were the weaker group of humans. They did not have the foundation to rebel and could only rely on the city to survive.
The people living outside the city were also a kind of resource to the people inside the city. Most of the food in the city was provided by the people outside the city while the city provided them with medicine and weapons.
After the beast tide broke out, the city manager allowed the people outside the city to hide behind the city walls. However, they were not allowed to stay in the city for long to avoid disrupting the order in the city.
The people outside the city had a completely different view of the system in their minds.
The law and order in the city were good and most people had a sense of abiding by the law.
On the other hand, the people living outside the city respected the strong. They could even draw their swords and kill people over a small argument.
Ten minutes after Yang Tian woke up, the beast tide approached Tianxiong City.
This was a small beast tide that broke out to the east of Tianxiong City. From the satellite images, it could be estimated that there were about a few million mutated beasts.
These mutated beasts had not even gotten close to the city walls when the weapons on the city walls opened fire.
The sound of laser cannons, the sound of regular rapid-fire cannons exploding, the sound of high-powered machine guns firing, and the sizzling sound of lightning exploding. These sounds mixed together and broke the silence of the night.
Laser, lightning, and fire lit up the sky. Even though they were dozens of kilometers away, the light passed through the window and flickered on Yang Tian's face.
Below Tianxiong City, the beast tide formed by low-level mutated beasts braved the rain of bullets and attacked the city walls with all their might.
They were very fast. After losing a few of their companions, they reached the city walls.
The city walls were not at a ninety-degree angle from the ground. Instead, they were slanted outwards. If the mutated beasts wanted to attack the city walls, they had to use their sharp claws to climb up.
Even if they reached the city walls, there were high-caliber machine guns and high-voltage electric nets.
This time, the beast tide's attack started at three in the morning and lasted until seven in the morning. It was still not over, which surprised the people in charge of Tianxiong City.
Based on the experience of the beast tide in the past few decades, the beast tide's attack would usually last for about an hour. After a small number of mutated beasts were killed, the beast tide would disperse.
Now, it had been more than three hours and the low-level mutated beasts were still attacking with all their might. Many mutated beasts had climbed up the city walls.
These mutated beasts were all electrocuted or killed by the high-caliber machine guns.
However, if the mutated beasts kept attacking like this, they might break into the city and cause harm to the residents.