Chapter 174: Level Six Ice Fiend Beast

The enforcement process of the Enforcers let Zhou Liming understand what cruelty meant.

Walking somewhat unnaturally on the city streets, it was exactly nine o’clock, the time for breakfast distribution. Melodious bell sounds rang out; at this moment, the people who had just been silent and in low spirits all quickened their pace, surging toward the city’s Government Square. From the residential buildings on the side of the streets and the various neighborhoods, people continuously poured out and merged into the streets.

The originally cold and empty streets were soon filled with people, like a commercial street in an international metropolis.

The Enforcers, who possessed the ability to fly, appeared in the sky above the streets, coldly watching the people on the streets below. Under the gaze of these Enforcers, the people, who knew well how ruthless the Enforcers were, did not dare to act recklessly; they all walked consciously, and soon formed long, dragon-like queues on the streets.

Zhou Liming experienced the taste of queuing once again; this feeling had been absent for half a year.

With good order, the queue moved very fast. The line, which seemed endless, was finished in just half an hour.

On the huge Government Square, there were also a large number of Super Warriors maintaining order. With the implementation of harsh laws, no one dared to challenge the authority of the Enforcers. The meal collection for hundreds of thousands of people was surprisingly smooth, with no congestion, no pushing, and even less noise; everything proceeded in silence. In just an hour and a half, the breakfast distribution for hundreds of thousands of people was completed.

The streets that had just been crowded with people returned to being desolate once more. Those who received their breakfast would generally hide back in their own dens.

What Zhou Liming received was an iron lunchbox. The porridge inside was scarce. Very unluckily, let alone vegetables, Zhou Liming did not even scoop up a single strip of pickled vegetable. For the minimum guaranteed meal, breakfast generally did not come with any vegetables; it was simply plain porridge. Salt was added on two days each week to ensure that people would not fall ill due to a lack of salt.

Under the harsh laws, the food received was not allowed to be wasted, otherwise the consequences would be very serious.

The lunchbox used for each meal had to be kept safe and returned for unified collection during dinner, to be washed and used again for breakfast the next day.

Regarding the rule against wasting food, Zhou Liming could understand it. After all, the current food supply was very tight, relying only on the output from the fields to feed these hundreds of thousands of people. Counting on the country in the Grand Rear was somewhat unrealistic, as food there was also very tight; 800 million people lived in impoverished provinces, and the food production simply could not feed so many people.

Therefore, hoping for national rescue was not as good as relying more on self-reliance.

Zhou Liming drank the porridge in the lunchbox in a few gulps. It was tasteless, but for Zhou Liming, who had eaten roasted meat for several days, it gave a refreshing feeling. He rubbed the lunchbox in his hand, shaping it into a metal ball, and then threw it into a trash can. Zhou Liming began to wander around the city again.

For a city established in a Fierce Beast Occupied Area with a large number of humans living here, it would naturally attract various kinds of Fierce Beasts to appear.

Just in the morning alone, Zhou Liming witnessed an incident where a Fierce Beast attacked the city. These Fierce Beasts that possessed flight abilities could easily cross the city’s outer perimeter and enter the sky above the city. Once the patrolling Super Warriors reacted too slowly, they would dive down into the city, chase humans, and kill or devour them.

This kind of thing was simply unavoidable; in fact, even cities in the rear were like this, let alone here.

Fierce Beast attacks occurred from time to time, and usually, the Super Warriors would only arrive after a certain number of casualties were caused. If they were lucky, they would blast these Fierce Beasts to death; if unlucky, they would even need to lose some Super Warriors before they could kill or drive out the intruding Fierce Beasts. No wonder many people jokingly called Super Warriors “firefighter warriors” or “after-the-fact warriors,” just cleaning up the mess.

Xiyang City was not small, but there was no radar and no Frontline here. Moreover, there were fewer than a hundred Super Warriors responsible for patrolling and guarding the outer perimeter, so naturally, they could not completely block the Fierce Beasts. Zhou Liming even saw a ferocious Fourth Stage Flying Fierce Beast forcibly fly past more than a dozen Super Warriors and rush into the city.

The tragedy of the city was that once a high-level Fierce Beast appeared, one could only watch helplessly as they rampaged until they were satisfied and left.

In this process, all efforts were in vain. No one could stop them; they could only wait for them to have enough fun or eat their fill before leaving. Even cities in the Grand Rear were the same. Only with the gradual deployment of Electromagnetic Cannons in these cities did such awkward situations slowly decrease.

But for a place like Xiyang City, did it have Electromagnetic Cannons?

The answer was, of course, no; even high-level Super Warriors only numbered three.

Approaching noon, the sound of battle seemed to come from the east of Xiyang City. The explosions of energy unique to Form Skills spread throughout the entire city.

People who had long been accustomed to this kind of thing naturally knew it was caused by a Fierce Beast invasion. At first, no one paid much attention to it, but as the explosions became more intense, and the Super Warriors in the city began to fly in large numbers toward the east, even the Enforcers left their posts and ran madly toward the east on the streets.

Sensitive people seemed to catch the scent of danger in the air; the timid ones already hid back in their homes, while the bold ones naturally ran toward the east.

Through the sound of explosions, screams came faintly from the east, followed by a dazzling light that outshone even the sun. The dazzling light flashed and vanished in the east, but the rumbling sound that followed was astonishing; the entire city could hear it.

Then the city’s alarm sounded. The Super Warriors who had been sticking to their posts all gathered toward the east.

Judging just from the explosions, Zhou Liming knew that a high-level Fierce Beast must be preparing to break into the city, but was stopped by the Super Warriors outside, and naturally, a fight broke out between the two sides. However, Zhou Liming did not expect that the city’s more than two hundred warriors would all need to be deployed; the level of the incoming Fierce Beast was certainly not low.

To require more than two hundred Super Warriors to intercept it—what did this mean? In Zhou Liming’s imagination, it was impossible for it to be a Level Five Fierce Beast; it was at least a Level Six Fierce Beast.

“Could it be the Flame Bird or the Bullhorn Fish?”

Zhou Liming was not sure either. After all, these two guys were not peaceful characters. The Bullhorn Fish was a bit better, but the Flame Bird had a personality prone to causing trouble. Zhou Liming dared not say that these two fellows wouldn’t cause a scene. With their abilities, if they really started to wreak havoc, a single flame attack would be a disaster for this city. The dead would not be just a few, but hundreds or thousands, or even tens of thousands.

Without any hesitation, Zhou Liming immediately ran toward the East District of the city.

As he got closer to the East District, the Form Skills in the sky became more brilliant and colorful. In the past, one might have thought it was fireworks. But the exploding and rampaging energy was powerful; even the air seemed to be twisted and overlapped.

Taking advantage of the chaos, Zhou Liming quickly rushed to the bottom of a tall building, then jumped and climbed, reaching the roof in a moment.

Looking out from afar, he saw dozens of Super Warriors with flight abilities outside the East District constantly throwing the Form Skills formed in their hands. On the ground, nearly a hundred Super Warriors, under command, were surrounding a tall blue Human-shaped Fierce Beast from a distance. Form Skills constantly landed on its body, burying it entirely under the light.

Although he could only see a not-so-clear outline, Zhou Liming still confirmed the name of this Fierce Beast.

“Damn it, why would this monster appear here?” Zhou Liming cursed. He himself was a monster, and for a Fierce Beast to be called a monster by him, from this alone, one could know how powerful the intruding Fierce Beast was; it was absolutely not comparable to ordinary Fierce Beasts.

The information on Level Six Fierce Beasts was not very complete, but during his time in the X Squadron, among the discovered Level Six Fierce Beasts, the one Zhou Liming was most impressed by was the Level Six Ice Fiend Beast.

The Level Six Ice Fiend Beast had blue skin covered with a layer of faint, tiny scales. A pair of transparent butterfly wings, compared to its body, were very large in proportion. But this was not its biggest feature; its biggest feature was that the Ice Fiend Beast looked like a enchantress, possessing an appearance similar to a human female. Its two hands were slender and could transform into two Bone Swords.

If it were given human wisdom, perhaps it would be an existence like a seductress, just like a butterfly fairy.

But it possessed a beautiful appearance, yet its methods could not be called beautiful, but cruel. It was an out-and-out carnivorous Fierce Beast with ruthless methods; it always liked to use its Bone Swords to chop its food into pieces before swallowing. Form Skills—as can be guessed from its name—it could use skills with ultra-low temperatures to freeze its target.

Although the Level Six Ice Fiend Beast did not have a Body Skill, its own body temperature was extremely low. Although not as exaggerated as the Bullhorn Fish, it was still not something ordinary Super Warriors could handle.

In fact, if caught off guard, it was easy for people to imagine it as a Super Warrior. After all, the characteristic of a Super Warrior entering Fierce Beast Form was a combination of human and beast. And the Level Six Ice Fiend Beast, its appearance was just like a Super Warrior in Fierce Beast Form. It had a delicate woman’s face, a firm and magnificent chest, a slender and curvy body, and a vaguely visible private area. Aside from its identity as a Fierce Beast, it was definitely an existence like a fairy.

Sometimes Zhou Liming thought that it should not be a Fierce Beast, but a gift given by nature.

At least when Zhou Liming first saw the picture of the Level Six Ice Fiend Beast, that naked body, the figure comparable to a model, and the magnificent chest that would make most women ashamed, almost made Zhou Liming’s brain crash. At that time, Zhou Liming could not understand no matter what, how there could be a Fierce Beast of this form; wasn’t this challenging human visual impact?

In fact, the Level Six Ice Fiend Beast truly existed.