His smile was like warm sunshine, giving off a healing sensation!
Mu Ningxue smiled slightly, got up, and said while dressing, "You should restrain yourself a bit; Jiang Shaoxu isn't used to it yet!"
"I'll try!" Lin Chen said with a smile.
The two chatted idly, like an old married couple, enjoying the simple and peaceful feeling.
Just like that, Lin Chen accompanied Mu Ningxue as she finished washing up, and then the two left the room to wander around.
After an unknown amount of time wandering, Lin Chen and Mu Ningxue were about to head back when they happened to see a woman inexplicably fall into the sea, and then inexplicably die…
A living life just suddenly lost all signs of life!
The woman's entire body lay on the seawater, her skin completely bloodless, pale to the point of being purple.
Her body stiffened remarkably quickly; generally speaking, a person's body only begins to stiffen one or two hours after death.
Later, they learned from the Little Japan military that this was a strange illness called the "Drowning Curse." Mu Ningxue knew Lin Chen disliked trouble, so she immediately left that troublesome place with Lin Chen!
After Lin Chen and Mu Ningxue returned to the team, the other teammates also received news of the "Drowning Curse." After a brief discussion, everyone decided not to meddle, as this matter had nothing to do with them. If the Little Japan government itself wasn't concerned, why should they worry needlessly?
…
Upon arriving at East Coast City, Lin Chen saw two incredibly magnificent city walls, one high and one low, distributed along the coastline, forming a crescent shape. As the white waves approached little by little, the entire East Coast City seemed to be enveloped in a rich magical aura. It felt as if different magical elements had transformed into visible force fields, colliding vibrantly throughout East Coast City…
The tide continuously surged, initially hundreds of meters from the low dike, exposing a stretch of muddy sand. Gradually, the seawater slapped against the base of the low dike, each impact becoming more intense, the sound of the waves like roars, and the spray like a downpour!
Little Japan did not completely block the tide outside the city, nor did it prevent the sea monsters lurking in the turbulent waves from entering the city. There were no guards whatsoever on the continuous, ridge-like low dike; all had retreated to the high dike, forming long formations.
The high dike was Little Japan Tokyo's true ocean defense line, towering like a mountain screen and as solid as steel.
And the original East Coast City was divided into thirty-two districts. On the rooftops of the buildings in each district stood several mages. Looking down from above, the number of these mages was equally astonishing…
The tide was definitely not the original natural ocean tide. The most turbulent and surging tide ordinary people had ever seen only reached a height of a dozen meters. Standing beneath waves a dozen meters high, one could feel the insignificance of humanity.
However, the tide assaulting the city at this moment was a demonic tide chanted by countless sea monsters. Its surging height could easily sweep over the foremost low dike, and it resembled a colossal blue-white tongue, threatening to engulf the city into the belly of the sea!
A thunderous roar came, and Lin Chen, Jiang Shaoxu, and Mu Ningxue could hear it from a great distance, even the ground trembled incessantly.
The clouds covered the sky, without a single gap visible, and the tide line pressed directly against the clouds. The visual shock and spiritual fear it brought far exceeded Lin Chen's imagination…
And within the blue-white roar of the tide, black speckles could already be seen, densely distributed on the rolling tidal screen. From a distance, it was impossible to know what these were, but only upon standing in East Coast City would one understand that these were the sea monsters emerging from the tide!
If the tidal screen that engulfed the low dike was a night sky, then the sea monsters were like countless stars. Even standing from a great distance, one could still feel the fear rushing forward, enough to shatter even the strongest hearts!!!
The members of the National Government Team were already stunned by the scene before them. In a moment, the colossal tide had already crashed down on East Coast City. One could see that the entire rows of neat buildings closest to the low dike in East Coast City were directly snapped in half. Buildings twenty meters high simply could not withstand the ferocity of this sea tide.
Seawater poured into the city, carrying with it the debris of the previously broken buildings. The first row of districts, numbered after sixteen, closest to the low dike, had barely begun to fight back when all their buildings suffered severe damage: some completely collapsed, some snapped in half, some tilted and fell, and some were crushed by other tilting and falling structures…
The seawater was filled with the debris of houses. Being hit by waves alone would probably be more bearable, but if these objects were mixed in the seawater and flew at you, their power would be multiplied!
The entire East Coast City was crescent-shaped, so it was actually very thin!
The latter sixteen districts were basically distributed along the low dike, forming a coastal shield composed of buildings and mages. In the past, small and medium tides would not affect the districts beyond these sixteen. However, this time, the seawater easily submerged this first line of district defense, leaving most of East Coast City a vast, chaotic expanse!
The tide had mist, and now the tidal mist was like a downpour, already soaking everyone!
Watching the charging sea monsters, all members of the National Government Team were already poised for battle!
"These buildings were specifically reinforced for flood defense, yet so many were still washed away. Our range of activity has been drastically reduced!" Jiang Yu, standing at the edge of a building, watched torrents of water rampage beneath the houses, his heart pounding in his chest!
"Waaah Waaah~ Waaah~~"
Just then, a baby's cry came from below, mixed with the unease of the approaching tidal disaster.
"Whose child was washed into the waves!" Zhao Manyan exclaimed upon hearing the cry.
"Quick, save them!" Nan Rongni didn't overthink it and immediately leaped to the adjacent building!
However, a powerful spatial force confined her body.
"That's not a baby, that's a White Weeping Demon!!!" Before Nan Rongni could speak, Lin Chen said.
No sooner had Lin Chen's words fallen than the room containing the White Weeping Demon instantly burst into raging flames.
Feeling the terror of the flames, the disguised White Weeping Demon abandoned its disguise and let out a heart-wrenching wail of pain.
The scorching inferno did not spare it. In just a few moments, the White Weeping Demon was burned to ashes.
Seeing this, Nan Rongni was stunned. If not for Lin Chen's rescue, she might have already died at the hands of the White Weeping Demon.
Nan Rongni, who had been dragged back by the spatial force, was freed from her restraint. She looked deeply at Lin Chen and shyly said, "Thank you!"
Lin Chen waved his hand, even though Lin Chen disliked Nan Rongni as a person.
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