CHAPTER 330: CHAPTER 90: STORMS CONVERGE ON LINGQUAN CITY

After ordering the other Abyssal Believers to enter a state of silence, Huyan Guang silently observed and found that the frequency of Abyssal Believers being captured had indeed decreased.

The Lingquan City Government’s external claim was that ’the Abyssal Believers had mostly been caught,’ and in reality, they weren’t wrong.

——It was indeed an issue with the communication channels!

Huyan Guang was extremely annoyed by this, feeling like he had been played.

Those responsible for investigating the Abyssal Believers were certainly feeling proud, as he felt like a puppet performing under their watchful eyes, never realizing where the problem lay, nor detecting that their communication channels were being monitored.

Damn it, didn’t those guys from the network technology department say that their communication channels were based on a deep network, with both concealment and security being foolproof? Why were their communication channels still being monitored?

As Huyan Guang lacked professional knowledge in network technology, he couldn’t know if the internal communication network of the Abyssal Believers was sufficiently secure and concealed, so he dared not use the communication channels anymore. Otherwise, he would definitely give the head of the network technology department a thorough scolding.

Huyan Guang suddenly found himself with nothing to do, not knowing what he could do now.

Even now, he was unsure of who was dealing with him.

Was it Yan Luo? Chen Shan? Wu Zechuan? Or was there someone else he didn’t know about?

If the She Family were still in Lingquan City, there wouldn’t be so many troubles. He could have leveraged the She Family’s power to quietly carry out his plan rather than hitting walls everywhere he turned as he was now.

Just as Huyan Guang was lamenting his fate, Wu Zechuan was also sighing.

The Abyssal Believers entering a state of silence indicated that they might very well orchestrate something big when the Abyss offensive campaign began.

He had ultimately pressed the Abyssal Believers to the point of desperation, forcing Huyan Guang to abandon his plan of discreetly sabotaging the Abyss offensive campaign.

Fortunately, this was also within Wu Zechuan’s expectations; as long as the Abyssal Believers intended to disrupt the offensive campaign, they would ultimately choose to risk everything.

With this in mind, Wu Zechuan made a call to Li Xinyue.

"Hello? Xinyue, I heard you’re planning to recruit retired Hunters to Crimson No.2, right? Let’s talk it over. How about you stay a few more days in Lingquan City then?"

Wu Zechuan needed an unexpected force.

A force that was beyond Huyan Guang’s expectations!

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After hanging up the call, Li Xinyue fell into contemplation.

During the call, Wu Zechuan clearly stated his purpose, which was to deal with the Abyssal Believers.

Lingquan City was about to begin the Abyss offensive campaign, and the Abyssal Believers were intent on sabotaging it. Now that the Abyssal Believers in Lingquan City had entered a state of information silence, Wu Zechuan and the others would have a hard time capturing them again.

The Abyssal Believers intended to orchestrate a major event when the Abyss offensive campaign started, forcing Lingquan City to end the campaign.

But once the campaign failed, and the Hunters from other exploration towns returned to their original stations, it would be difficult for Lingquan City to launch the campaign again.

Because of this, the Abyssal Believers chose to risk everything, gathering their final strength to use in this Abyss offensive campaign.

Li Xinyue originally planned to recruit outstanding graduates from Lingquan University in Lingquan City before recruiting retired Hunters. On her way back through Lingquan City, she would bring the new recruits back to Celestial Sea City together.

If she followed Wu Zechuan’s plan, she would need to first go to Crimson No.2 to recruit retired Hunters, bring them back to Lingquan City, and then proceed to recruit the college graduates.

In this way, she could create a diversion and prepare an unexpected force for Wu Zechuan.

"Dealing with the Abyssal Believers?" Li Xinyue murmured to herself.

On this matter, she had no objections.

Because Bao Han Company had long become an asset to Yan Luo, and she herself held a grudge against the Abyssal Believers.

If it weren’t for the instigation of the Abyssal Believers, Li Siyuan wouldn’t have had the courage to murder her grandfather.

Even if Li Siyuan had such thoughts, he wouldn’t have made a decision.

The Li Family was now in shambles, and her beloved grandfather had died an untimely death, all due to the Abyssal Believers!

Li Xinyue had always wanted to avenge her grandfather, so she didn’t feel that dealing with the Abyssal Believers was wrong. She was just considering how many retired Hunters she should recruit after going to Crimson No.2.

This was a war against the Abyssal Believers, and it would be deadly!

After pondering for a moment, Li Xinyue made up her mind and sent a message to her secretary, instructing them to prepare a vehicle and bodyguards. She needed to head to Lingquan City immediately.

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"Is that so? The Abyssal Believers have entered a state of silence..."

Upon hearing the news, Yan Luo frowned slightly.

Although they hadn’t been able to eradicate the Abyssal Believers completely, they couldn’t afford to delay any longer.

With more time, many Hunters would leave the Forbidden Demon Abyss, and launching the Abyss offensive campaign later would be much more difficult.

Therefore, they must initiate the Abyss offensive campaign before the Hunters begin returning to their original stations, kill the Master of the Abyss, and eliminate the Forbidden Demon Abyss.

The remaining Abyssal Believers couldn’t be underestimated because, according to Wu Zechuan’s speculation, they might attack Lingquan City when the Abyss offensive campaign began, forcing them to end the campaign.

Under these circumstances, they were indeed caught in a dilemma.

The Abyssal Believers wanted to force Yan Luo and the others to abandon the plan to eliminate the Forbidden Demon Abyss, and if they didn’t proceed with the campaign, the Abyssal Believers would also abandon the attack on Lingquan City.

But the Abyss offensive campaign must proceed; they couldn’t abandon it due to threats.

Moreover, Wu Zechuan also said that he would solve the threat posed by the Abyssal Believers.

Yan Luo believed in Wu Zechuan’s capability; since he said he could resolve it, he surely could.

Although still somewhat worried about the situation in Lingquan City, Yan Luo would focus on preparing for the Abyss offensive campaign next.

During these days, Yan Luo hadn’t left the Abyss front line, even while hunting demons, he operated near the fortress, not venturing too far.

Outside, soldiers and Hunters stationed at the supply depots were gradually retreating, and a tense atmosphere began to pervade the Abyss front line.

Meanwhile, within Lingquan City, munitions factories were operating at full speed, producing ammunition and equipment for the impending great war.

The forthcoming battle would be unparalleled, one not seen since the Lost Decade, requiring military intervention to deal with the Abyss.

The Forbidden Demon Abyss was the first Abyss necessitating military response on Blue Star since entering the Abyss Calendar.

Even now, the city government had yet to understand why the Forbidden Demon Abyss appeared within the city.

The city, protected by a shield, filtered out a lot of Magic Power while housing millions of people; the high population density was sufficient to absorb large amounts of Magic Power, rendering the environment within the city nearly akin to Blue Star before the Lost Decade, virtually free of Magic Power.

By all accounts, Lingquan City shouldn’t have been an environment where an Abyss Entrance would appear.

The Lingquan City Government officially announced that any Abyss Entrances within the city were entirely the work of Abyssal Believers, summoning the Abyss to descend. However, in reality, the city government knew it wasn’t the fault of the Abyssal Believers.

An investigation into the surveillance footage from the day the Forbidden Demon Abyss arrived revealed no trace of Abyssal Believer activities, meaning it had actually descended on its own within Lingquan City, not summoned by anyone.

In contrast, the United Government preferred if the Forbidden Demon Abyss had been summoned by the Abyssal Believers, because then, by eliminating them, the Abyss wouldn’t appear within the city.

Regrettably, not all wishes come true.

The United Government could only assert with conviction that the descent of the Forbidden Demon Abyss was indeed the doing of the Abyssal Believers—regardless of the truth, in their publicity, this matter had to be the work of the Abyssal Believers.

Their statements were so confident that even within the Abyssal Believers, there was suspicion that this might indeed have been their own doing, yet no one knew how to actually summon the Abyss to descend!

Neither the Watcher Sect nor the high ranks of the Believers knew the specific method for summoning the Abyss.

Even after communicating with each other, both denied possessing the technology to summon the Abyss to descend, yet neither side believed the other’s response.

They both remained convinced that the Forbidden Demon Abyss’s descent into Lingquan City had been orchestrated by the other party.

In such chaotic circumstances, time quietly ushered in the beginning of the Abyss offensive campaign.