My Apocalypse Territory

Under Scorpion's guidance, Xu Yancheng soon arrived at the location where the high tower had been found.

He didn't approach, but simply used a telescope to observe from a distance.

In this place, there was no other construction around; it was all mounds and vegetation, with the high tower standing out abruptly, and Xu Yancheng instinctively felt suspicious.

"Could it be a watchtower built by the Green Shadow Sanctuary?"

Thinking this, he questioned the blind woman, but again received a positive response; there was no sign of life in the high tower.

Since there were no humans, the hypothesis of a watchtower was clearly untenable.

Wang Hu, not knowing when he had also followed, said with disdain on his face, "Hesitating like a woman, if it were me, I'd go straight over; what does it matter what this high tower is for? Just tear it down and that's that!"

Xu Yancheng thought it over and decided that there indeed was no need to be overly cautious in the face of a Green Shadow Sanctuary. It was better to quickly finish the boss's task—the excavation of the Source Crystal Mine was the priority.

The group approached the black high tower with caution.

Upon closer inspection, they saw the high tower was indeed made entirely of black rock; however, after circling around it, Xu Yancheng looked even more perplexed.

"How does this high tower have no entrance?"

"Yeah, if it's built as a warning watchtower, even if no one is stationed there now, there should be an entrance, right? Or did they forget to leave one when building it?"

Scorpion commented, but even she didn't believe her own words.

Wang Hu stepped forward, "Who cares what tower it is; watch me smash it to pieces with one punch."

As he spoke, he drew a deep breath, his arm muscles bulging like dragons, ready to throw his punch!

But in the next moment, just as Wang Hu's fist was about to strike the outer wall of the high tower, his hair stood on end, and an intense threat of death engulfed him.

Wang Hu no longer cared about the punch he had thrown halfway; he pushed off with his legs and quickly pounced to the side.

Whoosh!

A sharp sound of piercing the air came, and where he had been standing, there was now a hole that seemed bottomless.

Wang Hu's face turned pale, and without further thought, he leaned forward, thick hair growing on his skin; he landed on all fours and, like a tiger, sped away quickly into the distance.

Another sharp sound of slicing through the air followed.

Wang Hu twisted his body, narrowly escaping; however, another Awakener who was in line with Wang Hu exploded with a bang, his body bursting like a balloon.

Bits of flesh rained down like a downpour.

Without hesitation, Xu Yancheng punched the high tower, shattering a large chunk of rock, but the whistling of the arrows cutting through the air did not stop.

He finally changed expression and shouted for a strategic retreat; he himself moved at super speed, quickly covering a great distance.

...

A few hundred meters away from the high tower, Xu Yancheng finally breathed a sigh of relief.

This Arrow Tower was truly terrifying; the arrows flew at extreme speed, with powerful penetration. Even with his strength, he dared not linger within the range of the Arrow Tower's attack.

"What on earth is this tower? The speed of those arrows is much faster than bullets!"

He had originally thought it was just a watchtower but had not expected it to be a massive weapon of death.

Looking again, he saw that six of his subordinates had died below the high tower; Xu Yancheng's face turned ashen.

Beside him,

Wang Hu had already reverted from his Transformation state.

Usually, facing the death of so many elite subordinates of Xu Yancheng, Wang Hu would have mocked him without end, but now, gasping for breath, his pupils filled with fear.

The sense of a death threat was still lingering in his heart.

He couldn't imagine that such an unassuming tower could be so dangerous. If his reaction had been slightly slower, he might now be no different from those Awakeners whose bodies didn't even remain.

Thinking of this, Wang Hu looked toward the nearby Arrow Tower with even greater fear.

...

Lord's castle.

Tang Yu was sitting with one leg over the other, half-leaning against the soft sofa backrest.

A basketball-sized Crystal Ball was floating in front of him.

While monitoring through the Crystal Ball, he was controlling the defense buildings and simultaneously issuing orders telepathically to his followers... Tang Yu felt like he was playing a real-time strategy game, the kind with 100% realistic graphics.

It was just that at this moment, he felt a tinge of regret, "Just missed by a little bit. I didn't expect that man to transform into a black tiger, significantly boosting his speed."

From the images in the Crystal Ball, Tang Yu had spotted two Awakeners of relatively high status within the Arrow Tower's range.

The refined gentleman always looked very vigilant, making him a difficult target to strike, so Tang Yu switched his focus to the man with a back like a tiger and waist like a bear. Unfortunately, he still came up a little short.

To completely eliminate these people, it wasn't difficult; he believed that if he quickly constructed several more Arrow Towers around, none of them would escape.

But he wanted to keep some cards close to his chest.

The enemies he was facing now might not be the full extent of Lin Wei's forces, nor was it certain that he could annihilate them all. Once he revealed his cards, he could very likely be targeted by the enemy next time, considering that humans weren't wisdom-lacking Demonized Beasts.

More importantly, he compared the enemy positions on both the detection lens and the territory map and found that some enemies were outside the boundaries of the territory…

Shaking his head, Tang Yu shifted the view to several other Arrow Towers.

Taking advantage of the delay in the enemy's message transmission, he controlled several Arrow Towers at the same time, beginning to attack the enemies within range.

These Awakeners, generally possessing the strength of the Second and Third Layer of Awakening, would be considered experts to ordinary people. However, they never imagined that one day they'd be shot dead so easily, completely powerless to resist.

The scattered remains on the ground hardly seemed bloody to Tang Yu when viewed through the screen.

"What a pity, if only Awakeners would drop Source Crystals. Then, a battle like this would bring in a substantial income."

...

After calming down for a while, Wang Hu's emotions gradually stabilized, but he still looked at the tall tower with lingering fear.

He turned to Xu Yancheng beside him, hesitated, but eventually asked, "How do we deal with this Arrow Tower? It's dangerous when we get close, and it's hard to take down. Do we have to go around it?"

He had also noticed that when Xu Yancheng hit the Arrow Tower with a punch, although the rocks burst and flew, it seemed that to completely destroy the Arrow Tower, at least several more punches would be required.

The strength of the tower's walls far exceeded that of ordinary buildings.

Although Wang Hu didn't like Xu Yancheng's behavior, he recognized the other's strength. Since Xu Yancheng couldn't destroy the Arrow Tower with one punch, he definitely couldn't do it either, not to mention facing the sharp arrows to do such a thing would be even harder.

At least, regardless of Xu Yancheng's orders, he had no intention of entering the Arrow Tower's range of attack again.

Upon hearing this, Xu Yancheng shook his head, "I was careless. I didn't expect to fall for the Sanctuary's scheme."

He looked at the Arrow Tower, analyzing, "This should be some kind of hardening Special Ability. With the Sanctuary's help, they've built several Arrow Towers around the holiday villa. These Arrow Towers, capable of threatening you and me, are indeed not to be underestimated. This is probably the enemy's trump card."

After estimating the attack distance of the Arrow Tower, Xu Yancheng walked a little further to observe the Arrow Tower from a different angle and quickly came to a conclusion.

"Unfortunately, this type of Arrow Tower has two fatal weaknesses."

"Two?" Wang Hu was somewhat incredulous.

He raised a finger, "First, the attack range of these Arrow Towers is limited. Second, the Arrow Towers cannot move. Perhaps there's another point, that constructing these Arrow Towers is not easy, which is why there are only a few Arrow Towers outside the Sanctuary."

"Likewise, these Arrow Towers are fine for dealing with Demonized Beasts but against us? Heh, it's only because we didn't know at first that we got caught. Now, it's simply a target, and a stationary one at that."

They posed no threat to him any longer!