CHAPTER 1065: CHAPTER 74: DELAYING TACTICS AND SWITCHING BASES

After Protector Shi arrived at a supply point, he immediately replaced his damaged hands and feet. These supply points were scattered throughout the city, hidden within inconspicuous waste materials, all in the form of coded boxes.

"Setting up supply points" is itself an art and something a hero must do upon arriving in a city. They bury the supplies that might be needed as much as possible, and then retrieve supplies anytime during mobile combat, ready to fight while retreating.

Even a Martial God, who can obtain supplies directly from enemies during combat, can find essential support from such supply points.

Moreover, any unused supplies in a battle can naturally be shared with other familiar heroes.

Within every Protector-controlled city, there are plenty of these supply boxes. This practice has continued since the era of the Martial Ancestor, as heroes help each other through this form of mutual assistance.

Ah, of course, leaving supply points like this means your supplies risk being "taken along with the box by someone else."

How to hide your supply points is also a skill.

The Six Dragons Sect has been cultivating in Chaldea for several years and is well-prepared for this.

Even if a large number of personnel and important storage devices have been evacuated, these supply points that require specific verification to open will not be directly removed. The next batch of Six Dragons Sect members arriving in Chaldea can continue using these reserve supplies.

After hastily replacing the Prosthetic Limb, replenishing propellant fuel, and reloading ammunition, Protector Shi wrapped himself in a layer of dark dust-proof cloth again and welded special decorative parts onto his face—akin to a mask made up of several modules.

This counts as a sort of small skill. Although the face of the Cybernetically Enhanced People is not naturally born, most people observe others starting from the face. It’s an instinct ingrained in DNA, not easily overcome. The simplest way to transform oneself is by adding decorative parts to the face, allowing one to evade at least 70% of human inspections.

But soon, Protector Shi halted.

From a distance, he saw a tall figure with flames flickering behind, quickly approaching.

Judging by the Prosthetic Body specifications, it should be Li Like among Chaldea’s Seven Guardians.

A genuine One Layer Heaven Martial Artist. After switching back his Prosthetic Body, Protector Shi was highly confident in defeating that guy, but without the First Layer Heaven Cyborg, fighting with this broken setup, Protector Shi was very likely to be killed on the spot.

Space City is also a closed environment.

——Damn, why is this guy patrolling the streets...

——Based on the patterns of covert testing over the years, my previous actions haven’t reached the point of alarming the Guardians yet...

...............

"Absolute, truly absolute." Asgard looked at the map, giving Jeanne a thumbs-up: "Acquire some shop fronts, blow them up yourself, and then frame the Six Dragons Sect, making Chaldea officials think the Six Dragons Sect is quite excessive, so they simply seal the roads? Absolutely brilliant."

She stood opposite Jeanne, clapping her hands: "But sister, have you considered that the funds for acquiring those shop fronts were our last remaining amount?"

Jeanne pressed her forehead, thinking how the mindset of the world’s wealthiest person could be like this, truly deserving to be the richest...

The Six Dragons Sect showed considerable restraint, conducting only two round of counterattacks, and did not resort to indiscriminate killing. This indicates their thoughts are relatively straightforward. They simply desire a brief respite, hoping to escape immediately before Chaldeans gather enough strength.

So they simply made the situation more chaotic.

Half an hour after the news of Jeanne’s battle with the Six Dragons Sect expert flooded the screens, more "Six Dragons Sect explosion events" were revealed. Since more than one person saw the shattered limbs nearby, preliminary estimates suggest significant casualties.

Went to the garbage dump for some unrecycled garbage Prosthetic Bodies.

Tumor Xiang Shan also straightforwardly left a series of signals indicating identity. Including "No return to the brighter days, Six Dragons Chariot," "I wish to harness the Six Dragons, return chariot hung on Fusang," "Six Dragons emerge again for the people, smooth tiger teeth without care."

Given the high probability that the Six Dragons Sect designed such a cultural activity is also Xiang Shan, one can only say Tumor Xiang Shan’s imitation is quite authentic.

Even having Asgard play the role of "an innocent passerby killed by Six Dragons Sect on the street."

This set of combination punches directly triggered a wave of panic, even forcing Chaldea’s One Layer Heaven Martial Artists to step out and maintain order.

"The best result would be for Chaldea’s management to fully bring down the gate between different areas, physically isolating them. However, everyone knows this isn’t very realistic. After all, this city is piled up with debris, and it’s full of gaps and secret passages unknown to many."

This is still just a delaying tactic.

Just as the Six Dragons Sect needs to momentarily deter investigators, Jeanne also needs to temporarily trip up the Six Dragons Sect.

He needs to buy time to wait for a response. Waiting for Little Sandelier’s reply.

Last time when Jeanne met with Little Sandelier, the Guardian of the City of Ur, Jeanne rejected the other’s recruitment. Mainly because the secret Jeanne carries is too large, not something the City of Ur, or even combined with the entire Neutral City-State could support. Plus, she is terminally ill with limited time left, so she refused recruitment by the City of Ur.

However, since the group successfully left the City of Ur, there’s no possibility to forcibly retain anyone from there. Jeanne can now contact them freely and boldly.

Naturally, also through the channel of the Hermo Association. The Hermo Association holds a stable communication channel with Ur for talks with the residents. Jeanne asked the Hermo Association to allow her to use this communication channel to relay messages layer by layer to Little Sandelier.

For the Hermo Association, "connecting with Little Sandelier" is the best reward.

With a certain trust gained from Little Sandelier on the other end, Jeanne laid out the situation of the Six Dragons Sect in Chaldea.

The last time the Six Dragons Sect caused a major incident in the City of Ur, the City of Ur became very hostile towards the Six Dragons Sect.

Upon hearing there’s a chance to inconvenience the Six Dragons Sect, Little Sandelier immediately decided to help Jeanne establish connections.

Only, due to the tremendous delay between the two Space Cities...

Little Sandelier is likely still in a conference call with the Guardians of Chaldea.

Jeanne is anxiously waiting.

Soon, she received word from the City of Ur.

Chaldea has agreed to assist Jeanne and her group.

Here, Little Sandelier’s influence was particularly effective.

The Xiang Shan in Jeanne’s mind chuckled, saying: "This task is overachieved now. They’re even willing to deploy forces to set up checkpoints at various passages. So now, we need to do one last thing."

Try to find the most important First Layer Heaven Cyborg before the opponent does.