Dawn of a New Era-Chapter 439 - 413: Riding a Tiger, Hard to Dismount
Went downstairs to the kitchen, boiled a pot of water, and then drank a large pot of salty water.
After that, Chen Shouyi ate the remaining demigod flesh.
By the time he finished training, it was already evening outside.
This time, his strength only increased by 0.1, reaching 17.6 in the strength attribute.
However, Chen Shouyi was not discontent; if it were normal training, who knows how long it would take to improve strength by 0.1.
Feeling pleased, Chen Shouyi went to the bathroom, took a shower, and then went to the toilet to relieve his stomach of its contents.
By the time he went out, the strains in his muscles had completely healed, and he felt refreshed and invigorated.
The army hasn’t entered the safe zone yet.
However, order here has been largely restored, and the remaining soldiers have begun patrols.
Quite a few brave citizens have taken to the streets.
The people here have long been accustomed to war.
In the setting sun, a couple who had been apart for a long time embraced each other, their eyes red as they spoke their heartfelt words.
Listening to them, Chen Shouyi, who was single, got goosebumps all over and glanced disdainfully before withdrawing his gaze.
"Senior!"
Chen Shouyi heard a familiar voice and turned his head.
He saw Song Tingting, dressed in a bright green down jacket, standing not far away with her hand on the handlebar of a bicycle, her round little face flushed red from the cold.
"Why are you here?" Chen Shouyi quickly walked over.
"I came to see you, Senior!" Song Tingting was very happy, her eyes curved into crescent moons with her smile.
She had sneaked out without telling her parents, intending just to take a look, not expecting to actually meet him since he was usually not at home. But this time, fortune smiled on her, and she met him on the street.
"Is everything okay at home?" Chen Shouyi asked with concern.
"Everything’s fine!" Song Tingting quickly replied.
"That’s good. It’s not safe now," Chen Shouyi said, "You should head back quickly, or your parents will worry."
Upon hearing this, Song Tingting’s eyes dimmed slightly, but she soon showed a sweet smile, "Oh, then I’ll head back. You take care too!"
Saying this, she slowly turned her bicycle around to leave.
"Wait!" Chen Shouyi said.
"Senior, is there something else?" Song Tingting quickly turned around and asked.
"The road is not very safe, let me escort you," Chen Shouyi said.
Song Tingting suppressed the excitement and joy in her heart, and said modestly, "Oh!"
...
Located in the industrial area near the safe zone is the Steam Turbine Group.
It covers five to six square kilometers, with sprawling factory buildings stretching endlessly.
Whether by intention or coincidence.
The God of Hunting didn’t cause much destruction here, and soldiers were everywhere on the streets.
"Now that I think about it, I seem to be a shareholder here," Chen Shouyi thought as he looked at the series of factories.
Sitting on the back seat, Song Tingting held onto the corner of Chen Shouyi’s coat, her cheeks flushed, her heart pounding as she struggled internally.
"Would it seem too deliberate if I hugged him when the bicycle bumps?"
"Would he think I’m trying to seduce him?"
"By the way, should I scream at the same time when it happens?"
"But then, would the senior think I’m too delicate?"
"Ugh, it’s so annoying!"
"I wonder what kind of girl the senior likes?"
"Is it the gentle type, the cute type, the delicate type, or the forthright type, the magnanimous type..."
Suddenly, Chen Shouyi spoke, "Is it over here?"
His words snapped her out of her reverie. Looking around in confusion, she was surprised to find herself already at the east gate of the Steam Turbine Group’s residential area!
How did we get here so fast!
It felt like only a little while.
"Ah, yes!" she stammered.
"There are probably many people here who know you, and it’d be awkward to run into them, so I won’t accompany you any further," Chen Shouyi said with a smile.
"Oh, okay, thank you, Senior, for bringing me back!" Song Tingting said, feeling disappointed, then continued, "Senior, it’s a long way back, why don’t you ride my bicycle?"
"No need!" Chen Shouyi laughed, "Then I’ll get going first."
Watching Chen Shouyi leave, Song Tingting regretfully slapped her forehead, feeling like knocking against the wall.
What was I daydreaming about the whole way!
...
Pingzhou City.
This city, which had experienced a calamity only half a year ago.
Was now occupied by the God of Hunting.
Moreover, it had become one of the bridgeheads for attacking Earth.
The other, naturally, was Dongning City.
But that was before.
In just a few days, everything changed dramatically, the situation shifted!
Since Dongning was turned to ash by nuclear weapons, its offensive had shifted from a full-scale attack to a complete retreat.
This time, it had suffered significant losses, severe enough to affect the stability of its divine status.
Before the nuclear explosion, Dongning had gathered a hundred thousand newly conscripted Barbarian soldiers, and forty thousand human followers who had been assimilated through faith.
However, with the nuclear strike, more than half a million followers were instantly annihilated.
Half a million is a significant number in the sparsely populated otherworld.
The total number of its followers was just over three million, having absorbed followers from the fallen God of Fury, otherwise, even adding the human followers from Dongning, the number would just be over two million.
That meant a loss of more than one-sixth all at once.
That’s not all.
Not counting the hundred thousand Barbarians who died to the nuclear explosion, it had conscripted over sixty thousand Barbarian troops for this war.
But in just three days, only fifty thousand remained.
Every second more followers were dying, being slaughtered.
Earth is not like the otherworld.
Followers who die in the otherworld return to the Divine Country, becoming supplicants, continuing to provide a power of faith, although it is less than a tenth of what they could offer in life, it still serves as some compensation for losses.
But on Earth, when you die, you just die.
Even if you’re lucky to transform into a spirit, most can’t survive more than a few days.
Such a large-scale death of followers has made its divine status shaky, almost unable to maintain even weak divine power, on the verge of falling to weak divine power.
To put it figuratively, if the divine status is a boat, and the power of faith is water.
Not only does water support the boat, but also has the power to overturn it, and the water level determines the size of the boat it can support.
Once the water level falls, if you don’t reduce the boat’s displacement, it will naturally run aground.
In terms of divine status, it means the fall of the divine status.
The God of Hunting now finds itself between a rock and a hard place with only two choices.
Either bear massive losses, risk the fall of its divine status, and leave Earth.
This time it had pulled out all stops, aiming to seize as much land as possible from the outset.
So its power was spread thin, with hundreds of thousands of followers distributed across several cities, and couldn’t be retrieved in a short time even if it wanted to retreat.
If these followers are lost any further, it might not be able to maintain even weak divine power.
Or continue the war, hoping to maintain a situation like Dongning before, not winning yet winning, relying on the large population in Pingzhou to develop faith, maintain divine status, and continue amassing power for the future.
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