Cave Refuge

For Dong Tianyu, who had always stayed in the acid rain, he was unaware of the actions of the Bat Monsters.

And it was not just Dong Tianyu; even the survivors who originally lived within the Magic Capital Base had not noticed this.

Due to the continuous, never-ending acid rain, all the survivors living within the area covered by acid rain, who no longer had clocks, were completely unaware of the distinction between day and night.

Even for survivors like Dong Tianyu who could check the time using communicators, the obscured light from the constant acid rain outside also made them less sensitive to the passage of days.

Although the acid rain had continued for many days without stopping, the survivors residing inside the Magic Capital Base, after an initial panic during the first two days, gradually settled down.

After all, faced with such severe weather that made it impossible to go outside, everyone had experienced it several times before, and at this point, even if they couldn't go out for a month or two, it would be unlikely for anyone to starve to death.

After all, they had survived through much tougher times before, and now, things were much better than before.

Days passed like this, and even Dong Tianyu honestly stayed within his Companion Spiritual Treasure; if bored, at most he would play cards with his parents for entertainment, with no thought of going out to explore.

After all, for Dong Tianyu, the ongoing acid rain outside felt like another continuous natural disaster, much like extreme cold or scorching heat in the past.

In the face of such a disaster, human effort was almost futile; going out would only cause suffering and not bring any benefit.

Normally, Dong Tianyu, like most people, would never leave the safety of indoors until all supplies were exhausted, or until the acid rain completely stopped.

However, the survivors settled around the Magic Capital Base did not realize that this acid rain was not a natural disaster but man-made; thus, they could only wait for ten days, until the Bat Monsters, with the resources plundered from Blue Star, left—otherwise, the acid rain would likely not stop.

Originally, if nothing unexpected had happened, the plan of the Bat Monsters would have been flawless, but unexpectedly, the China Court had successfully launched a communication satellite into the sky.

Thus, if the Magic City Government had only lost touch for a day or two, the Imperial Court might have considered it a technical disruption possibly fixable, but after failing to establish contact within the next three to five days, the Imperial Court confirmed that something unusual had happened at the Magic City hub.

The best way to investigate this situation was naturally to arrange for high-speed fighter jets to scout the area first.

When these fighter jets approached the area, even just with the naked eye, they could notice the weather covered by acid rain.

These fighter jets, coming to scout the situation, would certainly not recklessly enter the area covered by acid rain; so, after confirming the reality of the issue, they immediately arranged for ground reconnaissance troops to come by transport planes for detailed exploration.

From discovering the issue to arranging specific personnel for exploration, it only took five days in total; combined with the initial three days without contact with the Imperial Court, eight days had already passed.

And when the transport planes air-dropped ground troops to the area, as the ground troops gradually approached the acid rain zone, they noticed a Bat Monster maintaining the Acid Rain Formation at the edge of the acid rain.

Seeing the Bat Monster not far away, conducting the ritual on the Magic Array, even someone who doesn't often read novels would realize that these Bat Monsters standing in the center of the formation must be the actual manipulators of the Acid Rain Technique.

Of course, to ensure that the acid rain not only engulfed the Magic Capital Base but also covered a vast area around it, maintaining the acid rain would require more than one formation.

So when the scouting team noticed the Bat Monster standing in the formation, they arranged for a sniper to eliminate it.

A fictional sniper would change location after firing one shot, always aiming for either the enemy's head or heart, always striving for a one-shot kill.

But a real sniper, when facing an enemy, wouldn't choose to battle with a sniper rifle; instead, they would call in aerial support, requesting to bomb the target area from the planes.

If there was no plane support, they could also call in tanks to battle.

Of course, if it's really impossible to call for other types of military support, there are various types of sniper cannons to choose from.

Be it a sniper gun similar to a grenade launcher or one resembling a PRG, during a sniper battle, no one would foolishly compete with the enemy in sniper precision; instead, they would immediately bombard the area once it's known where the enemy is.

And for this reconnaissance team, upon discovering the still-active Magic Array at the edge of the acid rain, the first choice was naturally to call in aerial support to bomb the target.

After all, the Scout Soldiers in the reconnaissance team, through a telescope, had seen the Magic Array emitting a dim glow, continuously operating, with so many guard troops stationed around it.