51: Chapter 51 What do you mean you dug the ground off?

"They're here!"

Accompanied by the trembling of the earth and dust filling the sky, an almost uncountable number of Ghost Hounds appeared before Chen Mo.

"Chen Mo! You can't just charge in alone!"

"Defense battles are about endurance and teamwork. We're not useless; the effect of our coordination will be stronger than you fighting alone!"

As the person in the team capable of predicting the future, Su Qingyue had already seen the attack routes of those Ghost Hounds.

"Then you take command!"

Chen Mo was happy to be at ease; his muscles were tense, and his heart was thumping wildly.

Su Qingyue had never mentioned it, but what she had been trained in most since childhood was not individual combat power, but the big-picture perspective to observe the battlefield from a god's-eye view!

"Chen Mo will be the main attacker and main defender. Wang Jun, you and Zhuo Jida will act as deputies to cover Chen Mo!"

"Lin Ye, your Spatial Anchoring should be able to control shape and range, right?"

"Thirty meters in front of Chen Mo, compress the width and expand the length and height to form a speed bump that cannot be passed through quickly!"

"Chen Mo! Your task is very simple: take out all the Abyss Beasts that pass through the Spatial Anchoring!"

Su Qingyue's arrangements were quite fast, stabilizing the somewhat chaotic battlefield almost instantly!

"Got it!"

Lin Ye extended his hands forward, and an arc-shaped speed bump shrouded the entire perimeter of the energy hub.

"What about me? What about me?"

Xia Li was a bit anxious; with this arrangement, she was the only one with nothing to do?

"Xia Li! You focus on the aerial attack routes!"

Blue light flickered in Su Qingyue's eyes as she predicted that a large number of flying Abyss Beasts would begin their attack in a few seconds.

"You got it!"

Xia Li took her longbow from behind her back, and Vector Deflection was running at full power!

"Get ready!"

Su Qingyue's eyes didn't blink, constantly watching every position on the battlefield.

"Three!"

"Two!"

"One!"

"They're here!"

Thousands of Ghost Hounds rushed up almost at the same time, but when they touched Lin Ye's Spatial Anchoring, their rapidly sprinting bodies seemed to be imprisoned in mid-air.

Chen Mo stepped forward, reached out, grabbed the head of a Ghost Hound, squeezed hard with his large hand, and directly crushed the Ghost Hound's head with a squelch.

But there were simply too many Ghost Hounds in front of him. At this rate, even if they worked themselves to death, they wouldn't be able to kill all the attacking Abyss Beasts.

Zzzzt! A flash of golden electric light streaked by, and several Ghost Hounds attempting to charge in from the side were decapitated by Zhuo Jida.

Boom! Wang Jun, who was on the side, wasn't idle either. A crescent of flames rose from the ground, burning a dozen Ghost Hounds to ashes on the spot.

"This counts as a disadvantage, I guess..." Chen Mo sighed; he really didn't have any large-area attack methods.

But then again... Chen Mo took a deep breath, and his arms suddenly compressed!

Boom! With a loud noise, everyone's eyes were focused on Chen Mo.

Chen Mo was seen thrusting his hands into the ground, his veins bulging all over his body!

"Give it to me!"

"Rise!"

The ground's trembling became even more violent, and the originally seamless ground cracked under Chen Mo's immense strength.

Bang! Accompanied by countless flying sand and rocks, a huge boulder... or more accurately, a piece of broken ground, was forcibly dug out by Chen Mo with his bare hands.

The next moment, Chen Mo's arm extended like a bow, and that piece of broken ground flew out like a cannonball.

Lin Ye reacted quickly and immediately canceled the Spatial Anchoring on the cannonball's path.

But those Ghost Hounds that had been anchored in mid-air were also liberated, roaring and about to pounce over.

However, what awaited the Ghost Hounds was not delicious flesh and blood, but a piece of ground that tore through the air!

That piece of broken ground tore through the air, rolling dozens of times through the thousands of Ghost Hounds before coming to a stop.

The army of Ghost Hounds, which had been charging wave after wave, instantly fell silent.

Including Su Qingyue, everyone looked at the vacuum strip paved with flesh and blood, completely dumbfounded.

"There's not much pressure, really." Chen Mo loosened his shoulders and grinned back at Su Qingyue.

"You guys get ready in the back; I'm going out to warm up first!"

Having said that, Chen Mo stomped his feet hard, and his whole body turned into a human cannonball and shot out.

"Chen Mo!!!" Su Qingyue was anxious. No matter how strong you are, it's impossible to survive under the siege of thousands of Ghost Hounds!

And the offensive wasn't just this one wave...

But before she could even finish her sentence, she saw a mushroom cloud made of yellow sand and gravel rise from the ground.

Countless Ghost Hounds were blown into the sky by the mushroom cloud, and on the ground, the culprit behind the mushroom cloud was laughing wildly while crushing every Ghost Hound that tried to approach him!

Chen Mo threw a punch, and at least dozens of Ghost Hounds turned into blood mist under the pressure of his punch.

Even if a few lucky Ghost Hounds managed to pounce on Chen Mo, their proud sharp teeth could do nothing against Chen Mo's skin.

After working on Chen Mo for a long time, they couldn't do anything except leave some drool.

But looking at Chen Mo, even a casual slap could turn a dozen Ghost Hounds into blood mist, which made the few people in the rear feel somewhat awkward.

"Does this count as being carried to victory?" Zhuo Jida swung his blade, cutting a fish that had slipped through the net in half, and asked with a grin.

"I guess so. After Chen Mo went out, he attracted all the aggro." Wang Jun nodded. After the initial panic, he had now completely calmed down.

He had also entered a combat state, keeping an eye out for any fish that might slip through the net.

"Come to think of it, our lineup is a bit like Plants vs. Zombies..." Lin Ye, who was maintaining the Spatial Anchoring, seemed to have thought of something and said to himself.

"Look, I'm the Snow Pea, responsible for control."

"Wang Jun, you and Zhuo Jida are Peashooters, belonging to regular output."

"Xia Li is that Cactus, specializing in dealing with Balloon Zombies, and Su Qingyue is the player, responsible for planning how to place the plants..."

"Then what about Chen Mo?" Zhuo Jida asked the question in everyone's mind. If they were plants, then what was Chen Mo?

"He should be considered Dave standing in the front yard, elbowing and smashing zombie heads with a gun butt?" Lin Ye scratched his head; he didn't know how to describe Chen Mo either.

"Or perhaps that reusable, auto-targeting Doom-shroom?"

"..." How to put it, although Lin Ye's metaphor was a bit funny, it was still quite reasonable.

That old Doom-shroom—no, that old Chen Mo—was standing outside alone, blasting 99% of the monsters, and they just needed to ensure the energy hub wasn't affected from the back.

Compared to other teams that were in a rush and even starting to suffer casualties, this group from Team 12 seemed like they were on vacation...

'Attention all candidates! The second wave of the offensive is about to begin!'

"Huh?" Many candidates who were fighting hard were dumbfounded when they heard this. The first wave wasn't even over yet, so why was the second wave starting?

In the command center, Governor Sun Jingan's face was full of mischievous smiles.

"Governor, are you really going to stuff a Rank 3 Abyss Warrior into the third wave?"

"Not to mention anything else, just solving the first two waves of attacks will consume at least 80% of their physical strength. If they encounter an Abyss Warrior in the third wave..."

"Then I estimate that at least half of the thirty teams will be eliminated."

"The rest will be eliminated one after another in a few minutes. It's highly likely that everyone will fall in this third wave."

Zhou Sanlang sighed. This Governor was really unreliable. Why put such great pressure on these children right from the start?

"Will the real battlefield give you time to adapt?" Governor Sun Jingan sneered, his fingers lightly tapping the armrest beside him.

"I just want to let these kids see what a real battlefield is like."

"Moreover, the cruelty of a real battlefield cannot be compared to a simulation."

"Do you still think there's any problem with what I'm doing now?"

Zhou Sanlang actually wanted to say there was a problem, but after thinking about it, he kept his mouth shut.

According to the current point rankings, Chen Mo's Team 12 was far in the lead, so it didn't really matter if an Abyss Warrior came in the third wave or not.

If they are to be eliminated, everyone will be finished anyway; it won't affect the final ranking.

"So, will it end after the third wave?" Director Wang of Longcheng was a bit confused. If someone really survived the third wave, would the Joint Exam be declared over, or...

If it were really declared over, then this Joint Exam would be a bit beyond everyone's expectations.

"I ask you, what is the content of this Joint Exam?" Governor Sun Jingan's expression was indifferent. His gaze kept sweeping over the performance of the thirty teams, and finally, he locked his gaze on Team 12, where Chen Mo was.

"Defense battle."

"The final goal is to defend the energy hub behind them."

"..."

The Martial Education Bureau chiefs from various prefecture-level cities in Henan Province all showed expressions of shock.

During the Great Cataclysm, it took the sacrifice of thousands of Rank 6 Warriors to defend the energy hub. The subject of this Joint Exam was completely unreasonable from start to finish!