ACSP: Chapter 149: An Alternative Sage Mode!
East District of Jinghai City.
At this moment, City Lord Li Hongfei had already retreated to the inner courtyard of the City Lord's Mansion with his remaining subordinates.
This was the only place in Jinghai City that hadn't been captured by the Dongdao Contractors.
"Lord City Lord, the West District has completely fallen; none of those sent to reinforce have returned..."
"It's bad, City Lord, we've lost contact with the South District..."
"The situation in the North District is the same."
"Reporting to the Lord City Lord, the Power Station is now full of Dongdao people; the Surprise Attack Squad led by Captain Ye Ju has been completely wiped out..."
Hearing the reports coming in from his subordinates, City Lord Li Hongfei's heart was torn with pain; he felt as if he had been struck by lightning, completely stunned.
It was too fast.
No one knew where these Contractors from East Island had come from.
They had actually fought their way into the heart of Jinghai City in just a few short hours.
Catching him completely off guard.
By the time he reacted.
More than half of Jinghai City had already completely fallen.
The people in the city were either dead or had surrendered.
What was even more hateful.
Before making their move, those bastards had cut off all the base station circuits and signals in Jinghai City.
Now, Jinghai City was like a helpless, blind old woman, left to be slaughtered at will.
They didn't even have a chance to call for help.
"Damn it, these Dongdao Contractors are simply beasts. The Otsutsuki Clan is about to descend upon Blue Star, and instead of going back to properly set up defenses, they actually came to attack us..."
Gazing at the city outside the window, which was already engulfed in flames, City Lord Li Hongfei's heart felt as if it were bleeding.
This Jinghai City was the result of his years of hard work.
When the brothers from the Thunder God Temple, Lei Li, wanted to use this city as a battlefield to ambush the Evil God Organization, he had argued strongly against it and refused.
He hadn't expected that this time, this long-suffering city still wouldn't escape the fate of being destroyed.
"Lord City Lord, all three districts of Jinghai City have now fallen; only the East District where the City Lord's Mansion is located remains. I'm afraid they will attack here soon. We should prepare early."
Zhang Xiaolin stood behind City Lord Li Hongfei, her expression equally unsightly.
"Prepare? Prepare for what? Do you want me to run away?"
City Lord Li Hongfei stared out the window, but his despairing voice still reached Zhang Xiaolin's ears: "I am the City Lord of Jinghai City. If I run, what will happen to those who retreated to the East District? Are we to just leave them here to fend for themselves?"
Zhang Xiaolin hadn't expected City Lord Li Hongfei to be so stubborn.
She frowned and said, "As long as there's life, there's hope. As long as we're alive, we can fight our way back one day. Besides, Jiang Chen and the others left a map to Kang City before they departed. We can go to Kang City to find Jiang Chen."
Hearing the name 'Jiang Chen', a glimmer of hope finally appeared in City Lord Li Hongfei's despairing eyes.
But soon.
He shook his head bitterly again: "Jiang Chen himself still has to deal with the Evil God Organization. Even if he wanted to help us, he's probably spread too thin right now."
At this point, City Lord Li Hongfei sighed heavily again.
He turned to look at Zhang Xiaolin and said in a pleading tone, "Xiaolin, you possess the power of a Tailed Beast; you should be able to break through the encirclement. I'm entrusting you with something now, and I hope you can agree."
Zhang Xiaolin's eyes flickered as she asked, "What is it?"
City Lord Li Hongfei said solemnly, "Yanran and the others were leveling up in the Forest of Death secret realm. The Dongdao Contractors shouldn't have gone there yet. I want you to find Yanran immediately after breaking through, and then take them to Kang City."
Zhang Xiaolin's brows furrowed: "Don't worry about that, Yanran is my friend too. I would have done it even if you hadn't asked. What I want to talk about now is you..."
"—Boom, boom, boom!!!"
Before Zhang Xiaolin could finish, a series of deafening explosions sounded from outside the City Lord's Mansion.
The entire City Lord's Mansion began to shake violently.
Screams, the sound of clashing weapons, and the roar of explosive tags mixed together, constantly drifting in from outside.
The Contractors from East Island are attacking.
"Damn it, those bastards move fast. Xiaolin, I'm counting on you for what I told you before..."
"I'll detonate the hundreds of thousands of explosive tags in the warehouse later. Leave now, or it'll be too late."
City Lord Li Hongfei gave Zhang Xiaolin a deep look, his voice carrying a hint of determination.
He was prepared to sacrifice himself.
Run away?
That was absolutely impossible.
Even if everyone in Jinghai City died.
He would never run away.
"The city stands, I stand; the city falls, I die."
This was his way as an official.
Zhang Xiaolin wanted to persuade City Lord Li Hongfei further.
But before she could speak.
The gates of the City Lord's Manor were blasted open by a massive force.
The two guards behind the gate didn't even have time to scream before the flying iron gates crushed them into two mangled corpses.
Zhang Xiaolin turned to look.
In the rising dust stood a dark-skinned, yellow-haired monster with barnacle-like exhaust pipes on his back, holding the corpse of another guard.
"Hahaha~"
"Wonderful! There's a whole group of people here. Looks like I've found the right place..."
Matsushita Goshige's interest was piqued when he saw City Lord Li Hongfei and the others.
He tossed the corpse aside and lunged forward with a sudden burst of speed.
Several guards tried to stop him, but he smashed them into the walls one by one with single punches.
One unlucky guard had his head shattered on the spot by [Explosive Smash].
White, red, and yellow splattered everywhere.
"Too weak, too weak! Are there no powerful ones among you Great Xia Contractors?"
"So far, only that yellow-haired woman with the iron fan managed to excite me a bit. Too bad I ended up smashing her head too. That feeling... you wouldn't believe how satisfying it was..."
Matsushita Goshige had now fully entered Sage Transformation Mode.
However, his Sage Transformation Mode was different from Mount Myōboku's Sage Mode.
Upon entering this state, his emotions became uncontrollable, making him irritable and frenzied.
Especially when fighting.
He would turn into a bloodthirsty monster that knew only slaughter.
"So it was you who killed Ye Ju..."
Zhang Xiaolin stared intensely at Matsushita Goshige, her eyes overflowing with murderous intent.
Ye Ju was her best friend since childhood.
When she received the news of Ye Ju's death, she had made a silent vow.
No matter who killed Ye Ju, she would make them pay in blood.
"So that woman was named Ye Ju. Hahaha, what a shame. I hit her too hard and blew her head off, otherwise, I would have definitely had some fun with her..."
"After all, strong women like her are my favorite..."
Matsushita Goshige laughed with a twisted face, his voice playful, completely disregarding City Lord Li Hongfei and Zhang Xiaolin.
"Shut up. I'm going... to kill you!"
Infuriated by Matsushita Goshige's words, Zhang Xiaolin's eyes instantly turned blood-red.
At the same time.
A powerful surge of Tailed Beast Chakra erupted from her. Part of it formed a Tailed Beast Cloak around her, while the rest swirled the surrounding dust and sand, surging directly toward Matsushita Goshige outside.
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