Chapter 351: Crisis on Horizon

Chapter 351: Crisis on Horizon

At midnight, the blood moon appeared on time, followed by the blood fog.

The last night of the Crimson Tide commenced.

In twos or threes, patrols set out to scout the Li City. The others were left on the 52nd floor of the White Late Hotel. Due to the significance of the last night of the Tide, the three organizations forbade all awakeners from leaving the base for personal reasons.

Time crawled slowly, and many felt varying degrees of torment in the process.

Finally, it was three o’clock in the morning.

Gao Yang was naturally among those who couldn’t sleep. He stood before the window wall of the resting area and stayed vigilant during the last three hours before day broke, accompanied by many awakeners.

The sky cast in red from the crimson moon and the city enveloped by the blood fog looked quiet and eerily beautiful.

More than four million wanderers and about two hundred regular humans were deep asleep.

The hundred fifty and more awakeners, on the other hand, were awake and huddling together for comfort.

The elite monsters with their monsterhood awakened, meanwhile, had been doing nothing but pulling little tricks during the first six nights, as well as the first half of the last night. It was as if they had no plans and had been doing whatever took their fancy, which didn’t make sense.

They must be brewing something in secret and waiting for the right time to strike. It was likely that they were going to launch an all-out assault against the awakeners at the last moment of the final night to catch them off guard.

No one wanted a storm to hit.

However, most awakeners believed it would with a healthy dose of pessimism.

“Gao Yang.”

Gao Yang turned around to find Officer Huang standing beside him, looking out of the window like he had been doing.

“My phone hasn’t rung once.”

“It won’t.” Gao Yang was genuinely happy for him.

“I think so too.” Officer Huang nodded with a smile. “Were my wife an elite monster or were there an elite monster around me, they would’ve done something already.”

“Yes, and my phone hasn’t rung either,” Gao Yang said.

“Good.” Officer Huang felt relieved for him too. “Then we’ll only have to worry about ourselves.”

Gao Yang nodded.

Officer Huang asked, “Which team are you allocated to?”

“Fourth team, the leader.” Gao Yang then joked on purpose, “Still, I think I’ll do better in the rear.”

“Brat.” Officer Huang punched him in the shoulder lightly with a laugh. “Thinking about laying low even now.”

The leaders of the three organizations weren’t going to naively believe that things would be uneventful tonight. Thus, they had already divided the awakeners into the combatants and those in the rear.

The combatants totalled 80 with each team consisting of 20 awakeners, all those with Talents for combat or support.

Among the four teams of combatants, Gao Yang was the leader of the fourth team.

Officer Huang, Qing Ling, and Fat Jun were on the second team.

Before the Tide came, Fat Jun’s Healing had reached level 4, and he joined the Twelve Zodiac Signs officially as the new Horse, codenamed Adept Horse.

“Gao Yang.” Officer Huang took out a cigarette but didn’t immediately light it. “If—and I do mean if—something happened to me...”

“I know what I’ll have to do.” Gao Yang gave him a meaningful look. “And you’ll do the same for me.”

“Of course.” Officer Huang nodded. They pumped fists with mutual understanding.

“Madam Li.” Dragon spoke up, his voice sounding bleak against the whooshing wind. “You said before that we would all die in a disaster.”

“The disaster didn’t hit the city, but killed only the awakeners,” Qilin added.

“The blood fog will rise and rise until it swallows everything...” Colorless finished, fear flashing through her eyes.

“They,” Gao Yang sucked in a breath and shared his speculation, “Are holding some kind of disaster summoning ritual.”

No one said otherwise. They had all gotten to the same conclusion.

The four pillars of blood in the four cardinal directions were put up for some kind of disaster or curse ritual. Once it reached completion, the disaster would hit, and the blood fog would rise without limit until it devoured everything, killing all awakeners.

It all fit with Surnamed Li’s prophecy.

“We don’t know for sure what they’re doing.” War Tiger rubbed his nose with a thumb. “But we can’t sit around doing nothing. We have to stop this, whatever this is!”

War Tiger turned to Dragon. “Make the orders, Captain!”

Dragon turned to Qilin instead and said calmly, “You’re the commander-in-chief for tonight, Qilin.”

After three seconds of silence, Qilin issued the orders decisively.

“Team Azure Dragon!”

“Here.” Azure Dragon took a step forward.

“Take your team to the east and destroy the pillar and everything related to it at all cost.”

“Leave it to me.”

“Team War Tiger!”

“Here.” War Tiger stretched his neck as he answered.

“Go to the south. Your mission is the same.”

“Got it.”

“Team Vermilion Bird!”

“Guildmaster.”

“You take the north.”

“Will do.”

“Team Seven Shadow!”

“Yes, sir.”

“Take the west.”

“Roger that.”

“Dragon, X, and White Tiger, we’ll stay to protect the rear in case the enemies are trying to draw us away to pick us off.”

“Got it,” White Tiger answered.

Dragon and X nodded.

“For survival!” Qilin declared.

“For survival!” Everyone else echoed in a thunderous chorus.