Chapter 230: The Beast Tide Can Be Controlled
“No way! This place is amazing! So many small restaurants, the food tastes so good, and despite how chaotic it is outside, the prices are surprisingly cheap.”
“Director Shen is arranging jobs. Those willing to work in factories can apply. Those with the Strength of a Three-star Beast Tamer can also become temporary City Defenders. Those with the Strength of a Five-star Beast Tamer can form teams and become Squad Leaders.
Killing enemies on the City Wall can accumulate Glory Points, which can be exchanged for Five-Star Beast Food that can’t be bought elsewhere. I heard those are even better than Cold Fragrance Number Three.”
“Why is Cold Fragrance Number Three harder to buy than Cold Fragrance Number Four and Cold Fragrance Number Five? You need an Identity Token to enter a lottery every day, and only if you win the purchase qualification can you buy it at the Pet Beast Center. It’s ridiculous.”
“It’s great that we can buy these Things at all. That top-tier Beast Food can only be exchanged with Points. If you don’t go to the City Wall to be a City Defender, you basically can’t earn Points, and there’s no way to buy that top-tier Beast Food.”
“If you don’t defend the city and protect the people, having such great Strength is useless.”
“By the way, if you don’t want to defend the city or go to work, you can also open your own Shop. You can rent for ten years, five years, or three years, and the Rent is quite cheap. However, you have to open the Shop every day. If you don’t open it for a single day, you’ll be fined, and if you can’t pay the fine, the Shop will be repossessed.”
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The newcomers from Linhai City quickly integrated into Qingshan City.
Originally, Song Tiantian thought not many people would come to work.
However, these people, arriving in an unfamiliar place, felt unsettled. If they hadn’t traveled for a day and a night without closing their eyes or resting, they wouldn’t have been able to sleep.
They needed Jobs, they needed a future livelihood.
They had witnessed Song Tiantian’s abilities on the road, and they had great confidence in Qingshan City.
After experiencing displacement, everyone yearned for a stable Environment.
Qingshan City was like that. The location they were allocated was even near the inner city.
Because people in the city thought it was easier to Make Money near the outer city.
If there weren’t too few locals in Qingshan City, they wouldn’t even be able to get a spot in the outer city.
Now, housing near the outer City Wall is a fight for, occupied by those powerful Beast Tamers.
Unlike in Linhai City, where weaker individuals lived on the outskirts, the weaker you were, the further out you lived.
But Qingshan City was the opposite.
The inner city was completely harmonious, essentially completely isolated.
If one didn’t know about the Beast Tide raging outside, the inner city would still appear to be a scene of song and dance, with people going to school, walking their children, and others entertaining themselves daily in the beast arenas, completely unafraid of Qingshan City being breached. Everyone had full confidence in Qingshan City’s City Defenders.
Many people also wanted to be City Defenders but couldn’t; you needed the Strength of a Three-star Beast Tamer to be on the City Wall.
Now, not all Eight-star Beast Tamers are from Noble Families, because since the first Beast Tide, the world’s structure has already changed.
Cold Fragrance Number Three is hard to buy, and Cold Fragrance Number One is not very useful.
Now they finally understood why everyone wanted to be a City Defender.
Because only by being a City Defender could one earn a large amount of Glory Points.
Moreover, being a City Defender offered a lot of Freedom. Once the Beast Tide ended, one could freely choose their profession.
Squad Leaders also had a lot of Freedom. The higher-ranking City Defense Commanders didn’t really manage the Squad Leaders, unless they were injured and couldn’t fend off Fierce Beasts.
There was no need to worry about anything else.
And after the first day of fighting ended, they discovered that the top-tier Beast Food here was indeed delicious.
Not only was it delicious, but many of them felt its effects were even better than Cold Fragrance Number Three. If taken long-term, even Mental Rampage could be cured, and they wouldn’t need to take Medicine to suppress Mental Rampage anymore.
Basically, on the second day of fighting, everyone’s enthusiasm increased significantly. However, having more people wasn’t good either; they started competing for kills, leading to quite a few frictions.
The population of Qingshan City was far fewer than that of Linhai City.
Rather than saying the people of Linhai City integrated into the people of Qingshan City, it was more like the people of Qingshan City integrated into the people of Linhai City.
Moreover, the people of Linhai City didn’t like spicy food; they preferred sweet food.
Many Restaurants and Stalls have now changed their flavors, adding many sweet dishes.
Song Tiantian could only gather most of the City Defenders for another meeting. The remaining small portion of people would have to be informed by others.
The City Defenders remaining on the City Wall were mostly older individuals, such as Song Ranran, Father Song, Song Jing, and Song Jun.
Jiang Su, Huang Xiaohua, Leng Qing, and Song Tiantian still had them attend the meeting together.
Because of family, a small family Gathering could be held.
“I know there have been some frictions among you, and you feel the Beast Tide isn’t fierce enough. I hope you can be tolerant of our new partners, but to our new partners, I hope you can recognize your own Strength. I know you feel there are too few Fierce Beasts.
I’m telling you, starting tomorrow, there will be many Fierce Beasts, and it will last for three days. If you want Points, you have to hold your ground. Before, our city had only a hundred thousand City Defenders, with only thirty thousand regular soldiers and the rest being temporary workers who were only provided food, and their Salary was very low.
I hope you can withstand these three days. The current City Defenders have reached nearly three hundred thousand, and many more will join later.
After three days, if you need to heal injuries, go heal. If you want to take leave to Rest, go Rest. If you want to go into Closed-door cultivation to Breakthrough, then go Breakthrough.
Rest well today. Starting tomorrow morning at eight o’clock, the Fierce Beasts will become more numerous. I will not restrict when you go up to the City Wall; you decide when to go up.
If the City Wall cannot be held, I will be very angry, and I will personally intervene. But everyone remember, once I intervene, then I’m sorry, your Points earnings will be halved.
This minor friction, you have shown your Strength, and I will forgive you.
But if you lack Strength, have a bad temper, and want to cause trouble, then I’m very sorry.”
Song Tiantian’s voice was not loud, but it was very intimidating.
Although not explicitly stated, Song Tiantian subtly implied that she had a way to make Fierce Beasts attack Qingshan City, and also a way to make them not attack Qingshan City.
She possessed a Supreme Treasure that could protect Qingshan City and could control it freely.
Before, everyone had been guessing, but now Song Tiantian understood.
But these people also understood why Qingshan City could withstand so many Fierce Beast Rampages. The surrounding cities had fallen, but Qingshan City not only didn’t fall but grew larger.
Song Tiantian looked at the people below. She knew this might arouse the greed of some individuals.
But she valued the stability of Qingshan City even more.
Sometimes, imposing presence is also very important.
In reality, there was no Supreme Treasure. In the beginning, Song Tiantian was bragging to make people believe her.
But later, it was the System’s merit.
After the people from Linhai City entered, Song Tiantian had the System slightly suppress the popularity of Qingshan City, intending for everyone to adapt to Qingshan City.
To adapt to defending the city and to cultivate good understanding.
But she didn’t expect that the people from Linhai City, who were softies in Linhai City, were acting so imposing in Qingshan City.
Also, the display screen at the City Gate, this team ranking also needs to be competed for.
Those people were all Eight-star Beast Tamers. Song Tiantian didn’t let them take charge right away.
They were all made Squad Leaders.
And the result!
These people actually had the nerve to compete with the original Five-star Beast Tamer Squad Leaders of Qingshan City for rankings, it was simply outrageous.
Originally, some of the Qingshan City City Defenders had Breakthrough to Six-star Beast Tamer. Song Tiantian had previously thought about removing them from the ranking, but now she decided not to.
Also, Old Master Huang. Before, Song Tiantian didn’t let him become a Squad Leader, but now, Song Tiantian sent a message to Huang Xiaohua, meaning her grandfather could form a team and participate in the ranking.
Huang Xiaohua directly transferred her teammates to her grandfather.
Her grandfather had always fought alone before.
She, on the other hand, reassembled a team. Those people were loyal to her and were strong members.
Huang Xiaohua didn’t want to push anyone out of their original team; her team was already full.
She might as well remove herself. Anyway, since the people from Linhai City arrived, she hadn’t been on the List. Before, she had achieved her best result, third place.
Although not first place, this was third place she earned through her own Strength.
From childhood to adulthood, for the first time, no one gave her grandfather face; she succeeded purely on her own.
That was third place!
The List updated over there. She took pictures of every place where a sign was displayed. If there weren’t nine display screen signs, she took pictures from different angles, compiling nine photos into a nine-grid post on her social media.
It turns out that achieving success through oneself is so Happy and joyful.
Those people from Linhai City are truly shameless. An Eight-star Beast Tamer is actually competing with a mere Five-star Beast Tamer like me.
Truly shameless!
She used to be part of the privileged class and enjoyed many privileges. Some she didn’t want to enjoy; she didn’t even realize they were privileges.
But she had never disliked the privileged class so much before.
Because after coming to the Pet Beast Center, she had never felt the sense of privilege again.
Sometimes, she thought, having a little privilege is quite nice. She had truly degenerated.
After truly entering the lower strata, she actually didn’t miss her past days. She surprisingly hoped to have some special Treatment in the future.
If it were before, she would have thought letting her grandfather compete with everyone was unfair to the people below.
But now, she felt it was fair.
And she could also lead her team to fight alongside her grandfather.
The next day at eight o’clock.
There weren’t many Fierce Beasts below the City Wall, yet everyone was exceptionally tense.
The Fierce Beasts seemed to have increased slightly, but not as much as everyone expected.
Everyone’s tense mood relaxed again, but as time passed, they all realized that the Fierce Beasts were truly increasing, more than they had imagined.
Before, they needed to move around and actively seek out Fierce Beasts, but now they could just stand still and have an endless stream of Fierce Beasts.
Moreover, the Strength of these Fierce Beasts was also increasing. There were even Seven-star Fierce Beasts and Eight-star Fierce Beasts. Apart from Nine-star Fierce Beasts, all these Fierce Beasts had appeared.
Below the City Wall, there was an endless stream of Insect Fierce Beasts emerging from the ground.
So, a group of people still needed to stand below the City Wall to defend the city.
If it were the Qingshan City City Defenders, they definitely wouldn’t be able to defend against so many Fierce Beasts.
Chu Haiji also stood below the City Wall. His Pet Beast was a giant elephant, and one stomp could crush a large area of insect corpses.
When Chu Haiji first arrived in Qingshan City, he wanted to secure a position here to contend for power.
But now, he just wanted to kill Fierce Beasts.
The internal affairs officials here have too low a Salary.
These people would also work part-time to defend the city.
Those who didn’t come were the weak ones who couldn’t go up to the City Wall.
Chu Haiji had the Strength of a Five-star Beast Tamer and could be a Squad Leader. Now he had a group of confidants. For those with strong Strength, there was no need to keep them; let them pursue better development, and there would be a favor owed.
Those willing to team up with his son and daughter could also do so.
After all, his son’s Strength was quite good.
Unfortunately, before, only his son’s team had made it onto the tenth-ranked List, and they were pushed off the next day. That new tenth-ranked team had only one more Point than his son’s team.
To be honest, he really hadn’t realized in Linhai City that their Beast Tamers were so capable of fighting and striving.
Initially, there wasn’t much actual combat. However, one couldn’t be too far from their Pet Beast, not exceeding thirty meters, otherwise, the Identity Token wouldn’t calculate Points.
Being that close, danger was inevitable.
It was better to just grab a knife; it could offer some defense.
They did have Weapons before, but some discovered that their cold weapons from Linhai City were inferior to those of Qingshan City. However, the Weaponry here was too limited and sold out quickly, not enough to sell. They could only continue recruiting people.
In reality, combat skills could be gradually accumulated and strengthened through repeated actual combat.
After becoming a Beast Tamer, physical fitness hadn’t improved.
Before, they had never imagined that Beast Tamers could also fight.
But on the road, they personally witnessed Song Tiantian’s prowess. Here, the Beast Tamers could all engage in actual combat.
In the beginning, the team Points of Seven-star Beast Tamers and Eight-star Beast Tamers weren’t much more than those of Five-star Beast Tamers. Everyone cared about face.
After actually fighting, they realized that Fierce Beasts weren’t as formidable as they had imagined.
Their Strength was actually quite strong.
However, this illusion only lasted for two days.
Because the Fierce Beasts before were simply not this numerous, nor this powerful.
The current Fierce Beasts were excessively numerous, and their Strength was outrageously high.
To be honest, if this were Linhai City, everyone would have already fled.
But because this was Qingshan City, Song Tiantian said that if she intervened, Points would be halved.
Everyone knew that Song Tiantian could fend off these Fierce Beasts.
With confidence in their hearts, instead of being afraid, everyone stayed on and below the City Wall to defend.
