Cave Refuge-Chapter 310 - 289 Support_2

However, due to the rushed circumstances, the preparations were rather rough, but as the ordinary survivors were all buried beneath the bodies of the Giant Scorpions, everyone finally understood why Troy had issued such an order.

Without the burden of civilians, whether they were ordinary martial artists or Inner Breath Realm Martial Artists, the pressure to defend was lifted, and at this moment, they were instead able to move more freely in combat.

Now, although it didn’t actually increase their combat power by much, it freed them from having to block the Giant Scorpions’ onslaught on the spot and liberated their ability to move and fight, sparing them from having to withstand the Giant Scorpions’ advance at a fixed position.

With the pressure to defend gone, the special ops team members began to fight in a way that conserved energy and, under Troy’s command, deliberately shifted the battlefield away from the encampment.

At this point, the battleground had fallen into a strange equilibrium; even though many special ops team members had sustained various degrees of injury in the attack of the Giant Scorpions, no deaths occurred for the time being, thanks to the assistance of their comrades.

While every moment saw more Giant Scorpions dying, with their bodies piling up into mountains, the number of Giant Scorpions besieging the encampment did not decrease in the slightest.

But according to this situation, there was only one ultimate outcome for the encampment, which was annihilation under the attack of the Giant Scorpions.

Watching more and more Giant Scorpion bodies accumulate in the encampment, Dong Tianyu couldn’t help but use the Art of Controlling Objects to stealthily wield Flying Daggers to slay the Giant Scorpions.

Even though Dong Tianyu was efficiently slaying Giant Scorpions using the Art of Controlling Objects, Giant Scorpions continued to emerge from the ground around the encampment ceaselessly.

Seeing this situation, Dong Tianyu also felt somewhat helpless, knowing that now the only option to save all the survivors in the encampment might be to open the teleportation passage to the Cave, so that all the survivors could hide inside the Cave.

Just as Dong Tianyu was hesitating about whether to open the teleportation passage to the Cave, a gunshot rang out from outside the encampment.

Hearing this gunshot, the special ops team members fighting the Giant Scorpions in the encampment were energized; after all, Giant Scorpions couldn’t shoot, so anyone firing a gun was definitely not an enemy.

Just as everyone had hoped, a ten-person squad directly broke through the Giant Scorpions’ layers of obstruction and arrived in the encampment.

The newcomers were neither Robinson William leading people out of the encampment nor Ye Liuyun rushing back from Pengcheng.

However, this person seemed to be well-acquainted with Troy; upon spotting Troy fighting the Giant Scorpions in the encampment, the leader of the group made a gesture, and the ten-person team instantly disbanded.

The disbanded members didn’t approach the combat-engaged Inner Breath Realm Martial Artists but instead moved towards the ordinary martial artists gathered together due to injuries.

Of course, while approaching, these people weren’t idle, as every Giant Scorpion in their path was casually slain by them.

Seeing their skilled execution of kills, each one lethal with a single strike, it wasn’t hard to guess that these people were most likely all Inner Breath Realm Martial Artists, and not just newcomers to the Inner Breath Realm.

Since others were helping out, Dong Tianyu put away the Flying Daggers controlled by the Art of Controlling Objects.

After expanding his Divine Sense, he discovered not only the ten people who had penetrated deep into the encampment, but also quite a number of people in the fields outside, slaying Giant Scorpions that had just burrowed out of the ground.

With those people drawing fire, the number of Giant Scorpions still active in the encampment rapidly declined.

Because the Giant Scorpions attacking the encampment from one side were now drawn to others, the special ops team members’ pressure drastically decreased, and although Giant Scorpions continued to assail the encampment from other directions, the special ops team members finally let out a sigh of relief.

The battle carried on for much longer than anticipated, lasting until the evening approached, with the number of Giant Scorpions attacking the encampment gradually diminishing.

When the survivors killed off the last Giant Scorpion, the setting sun had already risen above their heads.

At this time, the special forces team members were not resting. Instead, they were swiftly digging through the mountains of corpses composed of giant scorpion bodies, to rescue the ordinary survivors hidden inside.

Watching one survivor after another emerge from the mountains of corpses, the leader who came to support had a moment of realization and said, "I was wondering why I hadn’t seen any ordinary people, turns out they all hid inside the cars in advance, smart, this arrangement is truly clever."

Hearing the other party praise his arrangement, Troy merely smiled, but his smile turned bitter when he looked at the ground completely covered by the giant scorpion corpses.

However, this was not the time to be idle, as the special forces team members and the people who came to support were all ravenously hungry after battling for an entire day.

Therefore, the elderly group members managing the campsite quickly organized an area for the special forces team to clear out so that the ordinary survivors who had hidden in the cars could prepare dinner for everyone.

Thankfully, because of the frequent earthquakes, to prevent the loss of food in the camp, they had categorized and stored food in several locations.

Some of the food was stored underground, and some was kept in cars. Although the earthquakes were frequent, not only were the food bricks very sturdy, but they were also stored in wooden crates, so they suffered no damage.

And because of the attacks by the giant scorpions, there were corpses of giant scorpions everywhere in the camp, so there was no shortage of bug meat. It was just that the fuel for cooking had become somewhat scarce.

If it were just the camp’s survivors, the lack of fuel would have been manageable, and eating sashimi occasionally wouldn’t have been a problem.

But since outsiders had come to save their lives, it wasn’t proper to serve raw food to the very people who had rescued them. Therefore, they decided to extract some fuel from the vehicles to use as fuel to cook a meal for everyone.

After all, meat would certainly be plentiful for dinner tonight.

Zachary did not sit with Troy and the elderly group to entertain the visiting volunteers. Instead, he returned inside the Black Car and observed the situation over there through Divine Sense.

Because dinner was a camp gathering, Mrs. Thompson, Robinson William’s wife, and his kids went outside to eat, leaving Zachary alone in the Black Car.

Zachary was not only observing the conversation at Troy’s table, but he also kept an eye on the few tables where the outsiders gathered.

The number of people who came to support was actually quite substantial. Aside from the ten-person squad that initially entered the camp, there were over a hundred people sharing the camp’s pressure from the outside.

Most of the people fighting the giant scorpions on the outskirts were martial artists. The remaining few, although not yet martial artists, could be recognized by their robust physiques, indicating the gap between them and martial artists could not be very large.

After all, to become a martial artist, one doesn’t need extremely high talent as long as there’s enough nutrition, especially now that the concentration of Spirit Energy in the air on Blue Star is increasing.

As time passes, even without cultivating, one’s physical fitness will continuously improve. It’s like during the ancient times where common herbs by the roadside would become rare medicinal herbs in the later eras.

Although the threshold to become a martial artist is getting lower, nowadays, as long as one has a Cultivation Technique and ample food to eat every meal, regardless of talent, one’s physical fitness could reach the minimum standard for a martial artist in no more than three years.

However, due to the frequent natural disasters, food supply has been poor. Even with the increasing concentration of Spirit Energy in the air, it’s difficult for ordinary people to become martial artists when they can’t get enough to eat.

It might seem like in Saxon County, where the giant scorpions provide bug meat, the Bugs Clan producing bugs in Pengcheng is another story. Except for being processed into nutritional supplements, they are not available to ordinary survivors.

Therefore, becoming a martial artist in Pengcheng is both easy and difficult.

Those with power and influence can obtain the nutritional supplements made from the Bug Nest. With sufficient amounts of these supplements, regardless of talent, they can become martial artists within one or two months.

However, for survivors living at the bottom of Pengcheng society, the food they get daily is barely enough to fill their stomachs, let alone provide additional nutrition for further cultivation. Without any special opportunities, becoming a martial artist is very difficult.