Atlas of Heaven and Man

April 22nd, 12:17 AM, resonance technicians from multiple companies and their hired resonators began to continuously infiltrate government platforms to probe for information.

On the Central City government side, a large number of resonators were also countering, and the two sides engaged in a fierce field of offense and defense.

However, even without the Fo Mu's field to borrow, the government still maintained the situation by relying on absolute resources and home-field advantage.

It's just that the offensive and defensive battles in the field occupied a large amount of field communication resources, resulting in intermittent voids in many places on the light screen, indicating that the area temporarily lost field signals and lacked complete monitoring during that period.

At this time, the female assistant placed her hand on the Realm Certificate, as if listening to something. After a while, she looked up and said, "Commissioner, the Political Affairs Office requests the Defense Department to deploy more inactive consciousness entities."

Commissioner Liang said, "It's not time yet, reject their application."

This was only the first split of the Fo Mu, far from the most uncontrollable moment. He wanted to use this batch of backup inactive consciousness at the most critical moment.

Because the various companies were only testing the waters and no one had sent personnel to snatch them, the emergency response teams in each area found and recovered the first wave of split sub-bodies after only an hour.

The sentinel tower's voice then sounded, "After confirmation, the first wave of split sub-bodies has been completely captured, none missed."

Hearing this news, the expressions of the people in the command hall relaxed a little. After all, this was a good start.

Commissioner Liang still had that serious expression because he knew that it was far from time to relax. At the beginning, the Fo Mu's split sub-bodies were relatively few, only single digits.

Moreover, the Central City had anticipated the most likely locations for them to appear, and with no major obstacles, they were able to act quickly.

But things would be different next. As the waves increased, the number of sub-bodies split by the Fo Mu would gradually increase, and there would be more and more places that could not be taken care of. It would inevitably become uncontrollable, and it could be said that the later it got, the more chaotic it would be.

Another thing that needed attention was that when the Fo Mu was in the splitting and breeding period, even if the split sub-bodies were recovered one by one, the world rifts that spread out as a result would not disappear.

This meant that they would have to arrange a certain number of personnel or guards near each rift, which would also dilute their strength.

And once certain companies and forces collected the data, they would definitely take the opportunity to snatch the split sub-bodies. That would be the real hard battle.

An hour and a half passed quickly, and the time came to 1:39 AM. The Fo Mu underwent its second split at this time, reaching nine split sub-bodies. The Sentinel Tower immediately gave the accurate location and estimated recovery time.

This time was still relatively smooth. The peripheral field information war was still in progress, but the frequency of offense and defense was significantly reduced compared to before.

This was not because the other side had given up, but because the companies and groups investigating had gradually mastered the information they needed. After all, in addition to information theft, the informants arranged by various forces in various regions could also obtain information through manual observation.

At 2:20 AM, the second wave of recovery ended.

Commissioner Liang then rubbed the corners of his eyes on both sides of his nose bridge, and then he saw the female assistant hand over a cup of tea, and thanked her as he took it.

Looking at the countdown above, the third wave would be at 3:25 AM.

He said in a deep voice, "The Fo Mu will enter a turbulent phase in the third wave. The peripheral field will completely fail, and those ditches and bumps will also emerge." He took a sip of tea and asked, "Have you sensed anything on your side?"

The female assistant shook her head.

Commissioner Liang looked at the steam on the teacup and said slowly, "It seems they are hiding very deeply. We need to be patient too."

Above the sea in the Yinglu District port, a ship that was inshore was docking.

Miyao Nagahide and a group of Fengling Hall disciples held their long swords at their waists, standing on the deck of the ship, with cloud light like the evening glow behind them, and the sea breeze blowing their fighting ancient clothes.

Miyao Nagahide closed his eyes and felt it. At this time, his spirit was gradually becoming active. After he had been to Ghost Gate, he was now trying to step over Heaven Gate.

After a moment, he opened his eyes and said, "Junior Brother Kuan Shang, a duel is waiting for me to go to. We will say goodbye here."

Kuan Shangjing bowed deeply to Miyao Nagahide: "Senior Brother Miyao, I'm counting on you."

Miyao Nagahide turned around and solemnly returned the salute, and then led the accompanying Fengling Hall disciples off the ship and boarded the vehicles that had been prepared on the dock to drive towards the Central City district.

At this time, in the Xihui Opera House, Astrid put on a set of knight's armor and hung the special attack tools she had prepared on her body.

This set of equipment was prepared for her by Bolun Corporation. Whether it was armor or weapons, they were all made of special materials that could perfectly fit her abilities.

While she was checking, a voice came from behind.

"Artis…"

Astrid turned to look.

A woman in black armor leaned against a pillar. She had black hair and black eyes. This was Sigrid, the actress playing the female knight in the play. Although she was also wearing armor, she did not make a sound when she arrived.

She opened her mouth and said, "Artis, the company asked me to cooperate with you. I will be your Boeseman."

"Sigrid, can I trust you?" Astrid looked at her black eyes and said, "After all, we have fought so many times, I can't even count them."

"Of course, who else can you trust besides me?" Sigrid showed a playful smile.

Astrid smiled slightly. She picked up the helmet on the table, put it on her head, and joked, "Knights can't be trusted, but I am a shepherdess."

Saying that, she raised her hand and pressed down the mask.

Then she picked up the spear leaning on the table, gently turned it, and with a snap, it shrank into a short gun and inserted it behind her back.

"Okay, everything is ready."

She took a few steps forward, reached out her hand, and high-fived Sigrid, "Sigrid, we should go." Then she walked out with the sound of footsteps.

Sigrid turned around, silently looked at her a few times, also put on her helmet, and followed.

An hour passed quickly, and the Fo Mu's third split arrived as scheduled.

This time was different from before, and the movement was extremely large. First, slight earthquakes occurred in various areas of Central City, and then the cracks in the sky suddenly expanded, adding branches of cracks extending outward.

Powder-like crimson objects rustled down from the edges, and the entire sky seemed to become a mirror about to shatter.

As this state continued to be maintained, even more lightning-like lights emerged from the inside, and accompanied by rumbling vibrations, they overflowed around, and within the cracks, it seemed that something was coming over.

Chen Chuan, who was in Dingzuo, suddenly opened his eyes at this moment.

Just at this moment, he felt his spirit touch a world.

He immediately understood in his heart.

Heaven's Gate… opened!

He, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately activated the Lingming Reflection Method, and immediately a trace of coolness permeated into his spirit, but at the same time, it seemed that a strange contamination also followed in.

He knew that was the filth from beyond the sky that Teacher Xue said.

This requires him to absorb the essence while dissolving and expelling it.

But doing so undoubtedly distracted his spirit. If he could concentrate on it, the efficiency would be greatly improved.

Immediately, he tried to let the Second Me bear this, and in just an instant, a faint virtualization phenomenon appeared on the Second Me, and he himself was no longer contaminated by this.

But then he felt that there was still a layer of obstruction above, blocking more of the essence from coming.

This is like a little bit leaking down from the hourglass, or like a trickle, even if he can ignore the contamination inside, he still needs to use more energy to search.

To change this situation, he can only do as Teacher Xue told him, push his spirit upward.

He slowly raised the Snow Monarch Saber in his hand.

Only by constantly fighting can he raise his spirit and allow it to penetrate deep enough into the opposite side to leave traces.

But what he wants to do is more than just this. He wants to take this opportunity to let the Second Me also climb to the Third Limit.

In this way, under the overlap of the two, not only will the combat power be improved, but the spiritual power will undoubtedly be more abundant.

Then, the next step is to find a strong enough opponent.

Inside the command center, this time the atmosphere was much more tense than last time, because several emergency teams had encountered obstacles at the same time and had engaged in fire with unknown forces, and no progress was smooth.

Although they could use the advantages of communication to transfer nearby teams to support them, this situation still made the situation uncertain.

At this time, the sentinel tower suddenly issued a warning: "Report, a large area of rifts has been detected in the near sea area of ​​Jiyang District, and it is continuing to expand."

"Near sea area?"

Commissioner Liang's expression condensed, and he immediately instructed: "Send the picture back."

The light curtain flickered, and a beach appeared. The waves in the distance were surging, but now there was a horizontal rift there. The fog in the rift made it impossible to see clearly from the opposite side, but vaguely heard a rumbling sound.

That seems to be… thunder?

As the fog gradually receded, shadowy figures appeared inside, and as these figures advanced, the fog finally completely dissipated, and everyone finally saw clearly, and couldn't help but open their eyes wide.

Those were cavalrymen with spears and armor, and banners like forests were flying in the formation. At a glance, I don't know how many there were.

"This is… the armored cavalry of the old imperial family!"

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