Everything was just as Lu Tianhe had predicted.
After the World Tree’s attack in Nanhai City was blocked, it immediately reversed its direction and rushed towards those humans scattered outside the fortress city.
As the saying goes, persimmons pick the soft ones to pinch, and twine picks the thin places to break.
There might be unknown risks in the southern city, but the World Tree needed to feed and could only attack towards the other unprotected humans.
As for the so-called scattering and hiding, on the World Tree’s side, it was obviously not valid.
When he came to a place, the trillions, even trillions, of branches and vines on the tree extended out in all directions.
Looking from afar, it swept like a tidal wave.
Wherever it passed, the vitality of the grass and trees could be swallowed clean.
Those humans hiding within, naturally could not avoid it!
Therefore, in just half a day’s time, half of the villages and towns in the Land of Yan Xia, became ruins and dead land!
According to estimates, the number of people who died on this day reached hundreds of millions!
Lu Tianhe and the others watched the World Tree kill indiscriminately through the satellite signal.
Although their hearts were filled with a thousand sorrows, there was nothing they could do.
Not to mention, laser weapons had a limited attack distance.
Even if they were within the protective range of the laser weapons, they were now out of energy.
During this period of time, all of the laser weapons, went into a state of recharging.
Therefore, in fact, the South City now was also in a state of no defence.
As long as the World Tree came to attack, it would be unhindered, causing it to fall.
After wreaking havoc in the land of Asia.
Perhaps the World Tree was tired of eating the delicacies over here, and then instantly moved towards the western world.
In the vast land of Western Europe, where a large amount of life was also gathered.
It could definitely have a full meal!
Just like that, a few moments later, the land of Western Europe was also immediately devastated.
Although, the western European countries, also established one or two medium-sized fortress city, also symbolically placed some laser weapons.
However, most of the people, after all, are still outside the fortress city.
The World Tree, like hunting, first swept through these outer scattered populations.
Such and such killing lasted for about three days.
Just these three days.
Visually, the global population was reduced by nearly half.
The original seven billion people, and now, only less than four billion left.
The human world, at this moment, is already a scene of purgatory.
After the world tree rested for a day, on the fifth day, it continued to frantically sweep and feed.
Another billion or so people were devoured by it.
Of course, human life alone would not be enough for the World Tree to eat.
The nearby grass, trees, and animals would all be devoured by the World Tree for their vitality as well.
Despair!
Bloody!
Terror!
It enveloped the entire Crowned Earth.
In this situation, a large number of people, began to frantically flock towards the major fortress cities.
The Southern Sea City, which was originally planned to hold 100 million people, had surprisingly flooded in 300 million people within these few days.
Moreover, those who survived were surprisingly still pouring into the Southern City!
Lu Tianhe even sent out his army to stop those refugees who were trying to rush into the Southern City in a vain attempt.
However, it was of no help at all!
Even with guns in front of them, people were still pouring into the city regardless of life and death.
Besides, Lu Tianhe and the others didn’t dare to use their machine guns to scan these refugees.
In this way, Nanhai City became more and more congested.
The number of people gathered was increasing.
Even refugees from the surrounding countries were pouring in!
Even the situation in the Southern City was like this, not to mention the rest of the places.
There were a total of nine large fortress cities around the globe.
The fortress cities that originally had a capacity of a few million people, and now in these few days, they had also flooded in nearly 100 million people.
The population was already severely overloaded!
However, everyone had no choice.
This was the human instinct to survive.
One couldn’t, really, shoot them to death.
But if this continued, outside the fortress city, the food available for the World Tree to devour became drastically less.
The only ending that would result from this would be that the time for the World Tree to attack Bastion City again, would be greatly advanced.
That’s right.
Although the World Tree was made to retreat for the first time.
However, Lu Tianhe never thought that this would be a permanent solution.
He knew that it was only temporary.
Sooner or later, the World Tree would try again.
The previous Lu Tianhe had been praying that this day, would come a little later, a little later.
But now, it seemed that his wish, after all, could only be an extravagant hope.
Without fail, after the time entered the seventh day.
World Tree’s gaze, then aimed at, on the African continent, a fortress city.
At first, the World Tree still approached cautiously.
In the city, the commanders were nervously watching the World Tree.
Once it was in range, the commanders immediately attacked.
Dozens of laser weapons, spraying out columns of crimson light.
Having suffered losses in this area, the World Tree was undoubtedly extremely cautious.
It tried to dodge as much as it could.
But its body was ultimately too huge.
It was impossible to dodge it completely.
Therefore, there were soon lasers shooting on his branches and leaves.
One would have thought that it would be the same as last time, with the branches and leaves being shot through.
But apparently, it wasn’t.
Those lasers hit his branches and leaves without leaving a trace at all, and were easily blocked.
This time, the result caused the World Tree to be obviously a little surprised.
So, he once again tried to get closer.
Sure enough, even fiercer lasers shot over.
But the result, remained the same.
It still didn’t make the World Tree feel anything.
In the end, the World Tree attacked the fortress city, and the humans inside still didn’t organise any threatening attacks.
Seeing this situation, the World Tree was naturally reckless.
It completely devoured this fortress city that housed 200 million people!
The first fortress city, fell just like that.
When Lu Tianhe learnt of this news, his heart turned cold.
The worst thing, indeed, had happened.
Next, the World Tree wouldn’t be so fearful of Bastion City.
After all, he should have been able to guess that many of these cities were just bluffing.
The truth was just as Lu Tianhe expected.
The World Tree after that, then began to attack those fortress cities.
Those so-called laser weapons had undoubtedly become a joke now.
Some of the fortress cities didn’t even have a single laser weapon.
There was no way, this thing was a highly sophisticated weapon, it was already rare, and only the big countries had them.
Like those poor countries, it was naturally difficult to possess.
Moreover, even if there were laser weapons, they wouldn’t necessarily be able to harm the World Tree.
Only by reaching extremely high power and attacking in unison towards a single point could it be possible to pierce through a single leaf of the World Tree.
Therefore, in the next few days, to the entire human race, Earth had undoubtedly become a hell on earth.
Fortress city after fortress city continued to fall under the attacks of the World Tree.
The population, which was on the scale of hundreds of millions, couldn’t stop decreasing.
The Land of the Indies.
Aaron, along with the God of War and the others, were undoubtedly paying attention to the world situation.
At first, when they saw Yan Xia’s Nanhai City resisting the World Tree’s attack, they were extremely excited, and it even gave them hope for a while.
However, the subsequent developments had shocked them greatly.
Especially when a fortress city fell and a large number of people lost their lives, the hearts of Aaron, the God of War, and the others were undoubtedly dripping blood.
“How could this be?”
“Why is it like this?”
“Yan Xia’s laser weapon, didn’t it already have an effect?”
King Carlo was filled with grief.
Because at this very moment, their largest fortress city in Western Europe, London Fortress City, was under attack from the World Tree.
Their laser weapons, too, hadn’t caused damage to the World Tree after all.
Watching his people and compatriots buried in the hands of the World Tree, the mourning in his heart could be imagined.
“There’s nothing to be surprised about.”
“So many of Yan Xia’s laser weapons only pierced through a leaf of the World Tree.”
“This kind of leaf is countless on the World Tree.”
“But this level of attack, within a short period of time, Yan Xia could only inspire it once.”
“Even on the part of Yan Xia, not to mention the other countries that hastily prepared.”
“It’s already a miracle that the humans have lasted until now.”
Duanmu Wan’er walked out from the secret realm.
Seriously, in her expectations, humanity should have gone extinct half a month ago.
But now, relying on Fortress City’s plan, humanity had managed to hold on for another half a month.
The subjective initiative of humans really impressed Duanmu Wan’er.
However, no matter how much more they were dying, they couldn’t change the final outcome after all.
Seeing Miss Duanmu appear, Aaron and the others immediately walked up and said to Duanmu Wan’er in an almost pleading tone, “Miss Duanmu, you must have thought of a way to come out now.”
“You must have thought of a way, please think of a way to save my compatriots and save my country.”
King Carlo spoke miserably.
Aaron’s old eyes were also red.
For people like them, watching their country and nation go extinct was harder than killing them.
Duanmu Wan’er, however, shook her head, “I’m sorry, I came out this time to receive you all into the secret realm.”
“The World Tree, at any moment, may enter the Indian Kingdom.”
“It’s no longer safe here.”
“I’ve already notified down, all of you, immediately enter the Secret Realm to live.”
“You all, take one last look, at this heaven and earth.”
“Perhaps, this will be your last look, at the planet and homeworld you live on.”
Duanmu Wan’er spoke calmly.
But these few words brought Aaron and the others unrivalled sadness and despair.