My Monster Fuses Everything-Chapter 398 - 310: Confused Lu Changshan_2
Chapter 398: Chapter 310: Confused Lu Changshan_2
Zhu Xiong and Gan Xinglei exchanged glances before calling out to someone outside the door.
“Come in.”
A member of the Sky Cavalry hurried to Zhu Xiong’s side and whispered, “Captain Zhu, Miss Bai relayed that the lord is currently suppressing an extradimensional space rift and can’t make it today. She asked you to start the discussion with Commander Lu first.”
Zhu Xiong looked surprised but nodded his head and then dismissed the Sky Cavalry.
Lu Changshan and his companions were all Third Order in strength. Although the Sky Cavalry spoke quietly, they still caught bits of it.
“Commander Lu, since our lord can’t make it for now, why don’t we get straight to the point and start our discussion?”
“Of course, we can.”
Although unexpected, Lu Changshan didn’t think the cooperation could be settled in one day, so he readily agreed.
With the go-ahead from Lu Changshan, Zhu Xiong got straight to the point, “Honestly, your sudden visit caught us off guard, and we weren’t prepared. Perhaps, Commander Lu, you could start by sharing your thoughts.”
After all, cooperation always requires one side to make their stance known first before the other can respond accordingly.
The Tree Domain was well resourced, but they still needed to see what the other party had to offer before making any big commitments.
Clearly prepared, Lu Changshan said, “As I mentioned earlier outside the city, our primary objective in coming here is to clear up any misunderstandings, and then to discuss partnership, which is also the sentiment from the headquarters of the Southwest Military Preparedness Force.”
“Uniting all the forces we can unite.”
Zhu Xiong echoed his words, and Lu Changshan nodded, saying, “Right.”
His expression growing serious, he continued, “Regarding cooperation, one aspect is forming a battle alliance; non-aggression is the basic requirement. If either side faces a threat from a beast tide, both should provide as much support as possible, watching out for each other.”
“That won’t be a problem.”
“Another aspect is the exchange of intelligence, particularly about new discoveries in the wilderness. We should regularly share information, focusing on clearing any potential extradimensional space rifts and beast herds.”
Zhu Xiong squinted his eyes, “Commander Lu, have you discovered something?”
“Yes.”
Lu Changshan showed no intentions of concealing this information.
“In the first month of the apocalypse, we managed to reclaim Linshui City, spending the following months consolidating our hold. The two tidal waves posed a risk, primarily due to the extradimensional space rifts. The rifts within the city were manageable as they could be detected timely, but those in the wilderness were almost impossible to find, a fact that you must understand, Captain Zhu.”
Zhu Xiong nodded. Surrounded by vast fog and wilderness, it was hard enough to orient oneself, let alone search for rifts without even basic roads in many areas.
Such conditions made it impossible to locate extradimensional space rifts.
Lu Changshan sighed and said, “It was my oversight; I didn’t notice anything special about the wandering monsters outside the city until the extradimensional rift had gathered over three hundred thousand monsters and launched an attack on Linshui City.”
Zhu Xiong frowned upon hearing this; three hundred thousand monsters were comparable to the population of an entire city district, attacking en masse like a tidal wave.
Linshui City didn’t have towering walls like South City or Huiyuan City.
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“We used nearly all our artillery, even damaging forty to fifty tanks, before we managed to halt the monsters outside Linshui City. The cost was extremely heavy. If we could’ve discovered it earlier, closing off the rift and clearing it, the casualties wouldn’t have been so great.”
Sadness flashed in Lu Changshan’s eyes; equipment losses were secondary, as the scale of the battle meant countless lives were lost.
Zhu Xiong grew serious; South City hadn’t yet encountered such an event, but that didn’t mean they weren’t vigilant.
The vines of the Nine-Snake Mother Tree stretched for hundreds of kilometers, and the presence of Parasitic Corpse Willows nearby served as a warning, but their range was still limited. Not to mention, Huiyuan didn’t have such extensive surveillance capabilities.
Gan Xinglei thoughtfully then suddenly asked, “Commander Lu, how did you handle that extradimensional space rift in the end?”
Lu Changshan was momentarily startled, not expecting someone to ask about this, and then he replied, “We encountered two extradimensional space rifts in the wilderness. The closest one was in a barren mountain thirty kilometers away, appearing during the second tidal wave. The farther one was in a remote valley fifty kilometers away, only accessible by mountain paths, almost undetected until the three hundred thousand monster horde it produced launched an attack.”
He looked at Gan Xinglei and said, “For the one thirty kilometers away, we set up an outpost, rotating a thousand people to guard it, clearing monsters and collecting Spiritual Energy ore and extradimensional monster corpses. As for the fifty kilometers one, we could only organize periodic clearings.”
Zhu Xiong furrowed his brow, “Aren’t you worried about accidents?”
Although he wasn’t as informed as Bai Qilan and Su Han, he was aware that things like the Blood Sea Demon existed in the Blood Sea. Without real-time monitoring, an accident was bound to happen sooner or later.
But Lu Changshan’s response was rather helpless, “The valley fifty kilometers away is all mountain paths, with mountains and wilderness around, constantly unleashing monsters. Periodic clearing allows a Third Order to lead the team, but stationing there would not only challenge the logistics, making it impossible to build a solid outpost, but also require facing the constant threat of beasts, incurring too great a cost.”
Everyone knew that extradimensional space rifts were treasures; monster flesh could be used to create injections, Blood Seas could spawn Spiritual Energy ore, and even the area around them benefited from the overflow of Spiritual Energy, allowing for quicker advancements.
However, such a long-distance posting was simply impractical.
Also looking at the bigger picture, if one extradimensional space rift needed an outpost, how many people could you afford to spread out?
