124: Chapter 124 Preliminary Inventory of Supplies

For the next two full days, the fighting in the Cangyun Airspace never once stopped.

Just as Finn had predicted, once the one hundred thousand core resource islands were fully divided up, this "offense and defense war" truly bared its cruel, meat-grinder-like fangs.

In just forty-eight hours, the number of people in the region plummeted like an avalanche from 3.12 million to 2.99 million!

Over 120,000 survivors closed their eyes forever during these two days.

Furthermore, since those who dared to rush to the front lines to seize islands were, without exception, the elites of various factions, ninety percent of the 120,000 people who evaporated were high-level combatants, not logistical civilians.

This casualty ratio was enough to make any large guild feel the pain, or even suffer a severe blow to their vitality.

And the reason driving this group of people to tear at each other even if it meant exhausting their family fortunes was no longer those massive amounts of Level 4 and Level 5 basic supplies.

As time passed, the various factions discovered that the core arrays of the occupied islands would periodically spew out treasures! High-level mutated crops extinct in the outside world, legendary-grade blueprints shimmering with golden light, and even [Moon-Glitter Grade] treasure chests emitting a mesmerizing halo!

These strategic resources, which could directly determine the future potential of a faction, were the true culprits behind why everyone was killing each other with bloodshot eyes.

… Compared to the cruel purgatory outside where people were fighting until their brains spilled out, the center of resource island [Gengzi-7792] was much calmer.

The effect of the previous "killing the chicken to warn the monkey" seemed to have manifested, and the information had likely spread; no one in the nearby airspace dared to approach. Moreover, the Blood Moon Guild was very busy now, all occupied with seizing super-large sky islands in the foremost airspace. Plus, with the unreasonable saturation anti-aircraft firepower net that Luo Ning had deployed ten kilometers away, anyone wanting to come had to weigh whether they could pass through this layer of firepower.

At this moment, in the material inventory area at the bottom of the fortress.

Zhou An sat amidst a pile of high-level materials emitting colorful light, looking at the latest round of island core array ejection settlement lists on the system panel, his mouth curling up uncontrollably.

"What a real cornucopia…"

In these two days, besides spewing out massive amounts of basic ores, the island core had also brought him a batch of rare, uncommon resources.

[Astral Meteor Gold] [Void Mithril] [Time Sand]…

These were all key materials used for upgrading to LV5. Coupled with that five-source power core that dropped earlier, it could allow another teammate to upgrade to LV5.

Zhou An pressed the communicator.

"Muzi, come to the inventory area for a moment."

Less than a minute later, Li Muzi ran over, holding a tablet in her hand: "Boss, looking for me? I'm in the middle of collecting data."

"Put aside the work in your hand for now, this is for you."

Zhou An tossed the [five-source power core] over; this was the one that dropped from fighting the Blood Moon Guild elite fleet earlier.

Muzi caught it in a fluster, and when she saw the core clearly: "A five-source power core?!"

"You've been stuck at LV4 for a while now; it's a good time to upgrade over these next two days."

"Then… what about Xingyue and Old Zhang? They are also stuck at the bottleneck period of LV4," Muzi asked.

"Xingyue and Old Zhang's promotion resources will be pushed back. You upgrading will allow for better cultivation of crops. I will explain the situation to them."

"Thank you, Boss! I definitely won't let you down! I'm going to go upgrade the vehicle right now!"

Muzi nodded heavily, hugged the power core, and ran back to the fortress excitedly.

After sending Muzi away, Zhou An turned his attention to the treasure chests harvested this time. There was still one Moon-Glitter Grade one inside, but he didn't plan to open it now. Added to the treasure chests that dropped from killing the beastmen earlier, he had accumulated quite a few. He would synthesize them in a batch later; he should be able to synthesize a higher-level treasure chest now, and he didn't know what he would be able to open.

… In another airspace hundreds of kilometers away.

This was a medium-sized core resource island, occupied by the Winged Race. The entire island hung quietly in the streaming wind layer at an altitude of ten thousand meters, surrounded by clouds and mist.

But at this moment, this tranquility had been completely torn apart.

In the sky, twelve heavy beastman warships were surrounding the entire island tightly in a semi-circular death formation.

On the thick armor of the warships was imprinted a bright red moon.

And opposite them were more than a dozen warships belonging to the Winged Race.

These warships had elegant designs, and their hulls were mostly made of lightweight steel plate materials. To maintain the speed advantage that the Winged Race was proud of to the maximum extent, they had sacrificed almost all heavy protection.

In this Cangyun Airspace that believed in the Law of the Dark Forest, when a predator set its eyes on prey, it never needed to waste words.

There was no pre-war negotiation, no arrogant ultimatum.

"Boom—!!!"

A thick energy cannon shot erupted without warning from the main gun of the beastman flagship, like a bolt of lightning splitting the sea of clouds, instantly igniting the fuse of this massacre!

Facing this sudden destructive blow, the Winged Race fleet instinctively wanted to scatter. They attempted to slide into the streaming wind layer to evade, relying on their excellent maneuverability.

However, the moment they prepared to accelerate, hundreds of interference buoys emitting purple light were suddenly ejected from the perimeter of the beastman fleet.

"Hum—"

Accompanied by a burst of high-frequency oscillation, a violent electromagnetic pulse and gravity-lagging force field instantly swept across the entire airspace.

The engines that had been lit on the Winged Race warships were like charcoal poured with cold water; after flickering violently a few times, they quickly dimmed.

Having lost their proud maneuverability, those lightweight warships sank sharply in mid-air, as if they had fallen into a viscous mud swamp, instantly becoming live targets.

The next second, the energy cannon smashed heavily into a Winged Race frigate.

That thin armor was as fragile as a piece of water-soaked paper in front of the heavy cannons of the Beastman Guild.

Accompanied by the desperate sound of explosions, the entire warship turned into a fireball in the sky, and the wreckage fell toward the airspace below.

"Hahaha! For the Blood Moon! Bomb them to pieces for me! Keep all the females alive and capture them! Kill all the males for me!"

On the bridge of the beastman flagship, a LV5 werewolf commander with knotted muscles laughed wildly, waving the giant battle axe in his hand, and gave the order to fire at will.

Thanks to the resource tilt policy issued by Finn, the armament of the beastman elite fleet was simply overflowing with wealth.

The weapon modules and defense modules of these beastman warships were almost always in a full-power, fully loaded state.

The dark red shield of Blood Moon Protection made the energy cannon counterattacks launched hastily by the Winged Race warships appear so ridiculous and powerless; hitting it couldn't even stir up a ripple.