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Chapter 136 Cao Zhenshou's Performance Report
The performance review meeting was conducted in order of the Acropolis ranking.
The garrison commander of Zhongwei City, Yiyi, took the stage to report on her duties.
Zhao Gongming sat upright in the center of the platform, listening expressionlessly, occasionally asking one or two questions.
The performance reports from the seven acropolises were largely the same.
This year has seen frequent activity from mythical creatures.
Each acropolis suffered multiple attacks from beast tides.
Both sides suffered losses and casualties.
River City experienced two A-level beast tides. The city walls were breached once, resulting in the deaths of several thousand people.
The mountain city has good geographical conditions, making it easy to defend and difficult to attack, but it is vulnerable to strange beasts coming out of the mountains, making it impossible to defend against them.
When Cheng Daxiong took the stage to report, he focused on the scale and harm of the insect swarm.
It also recounted the heroic resistance of the soldiers and civilians of Haicheng.
After listening, Zhao Gongming looked at the reports from the various garrison cities.
The more he looked, the more alarmed he became.
Only he, as the city lord, could know this from the perspective of the entire Shanhe Prefecture.
These strange beasts are becoming increasingly ferocious, and the beast tide is growing ever more intense!
"Alas! Must my Shanhe Prefecture only compromise? Must my human race only compromise?"
He received news from Kyoto!
The peace faction in Kyoto intends to unite with the machine race to fight against the alien beasts.
The two groups have reached a preliminary agreement!
According to rumors, the Mechanical Race is interested in moving into Shanhe Mansion.
They claimed it was to help Shanhe Prefecture defend against the invasion of strange beasts!
"Damn it! Don't those people know that back then, it was these alien races who slaughtered our human race the most?"
"Let's hope a miracle happens in Jiangcheng!"
Just as Zhao Gongming was deep in thought!
Cheng Daxiong's performance report is coming to an end.
"Thanks to Ye Feng from Jiangcheng who arrived in time to kill the Zerg Queen and lift the siege of Haicheng."
A low murmur arose from the audience.
Who exactly is this young man?
Finally, it was Jiangcheng's turn.
"Next, please let Cao Keyuan, the garrison commander of Jiangcheng, report on his duties."
When the host read out this name.
A low buzzing sound arose from the audience.
Jiangcheng, Jiangcheng, which ranks last year after year.
What will this year be like? Probably the same as always.
Cao Keyuan stood up and walked onto the stage.
Below the stage, the garrison commander of Hecheng whispered to the person next to him.
"Old Cao looks great this year."
"Are you faking it? Being last year after year, who wants to wear a frown on their face?"
"Too."
Cao Keyuan spoke, his voice not loud, but full of energy.
"Jiangcheng has experienced three A-level beast tides and one SSS-level beast tide in the past year."
The audience fell silent instantly.
Three A-levels and one SSS-level – what does that mean?
A-level beast tide means an attack by tens of thousands of alien beasts.
An SSS-level beast tide means that it is led by at least one beast king of the late stage of the fifth tier.
Tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of strange beasts swarmed out.
Let alone a small place like Jiangcheng.
These are strong fortified cities like Haicheng and Hecheng.
Even encountering an SSS-level beast tide would be disastrous. Jiangcheng has survived four large-scale beast tides without being conquered?
"also!"
"On another occasion, a powerful family colluded with the Heavenly Demon Clan in an attempt to sacrifice the entire Jiangcheng."
The audience erupted in cheers.
"The Heavenly Demon Clan? Not a strange beast?"
"Aristocratic families colluding with the Heavenly Demon Clan? Isn't that treason?"
What exactly happened to Jiangcheng?
Cao Keyuan ignored the discussions below the stage and continued speaking.
"A sixth-tier late-stage Heavenly Demon Envoy led a team to set up a Devouring Array in Jiangcheng, attempting to sacrifice millions of people in the city to open a spatial rift and lure the Heavenly Demon army to invade Great Xia."
Devouring Array!
A late-stage, sixth-tier Heavenly Demon Envoy!
Each of these words is frightening on its own, but now they're all piled up together.
How come Jiangcheng didn't fall?
This is truly a miracle.
"These five crises!"
"A total of 5,342 soldiers died in the Battle of Jiangcheng, and 175,421 civilians were killed or wounded. The direct economic loss amounted to 31.8 billion yuan."
No one in the audience spoke.
The auditorium was so quiet you could hear the hum of the air conditioner.
Those who were just saying "Jiangcheng is always last place"
The gloating on his face was gone, replaced by a deep sorrow.
That's tens of thousands of lives at stake.
"This Jiangcheng hasn't fallen?"
A young official muttered to himself.
"It's simply a miracle," someone nearby remarked.
"Has the city lord's mansion dispatched its guards?"
Someone spoke up.
"Otherwise, how did they manage to repel that sixth-tier Heavenly Demon Envoy? Jiangcheng doesn't even have a sixth-tier martial artist, does it?"
"That's right, a late-stage sixth-tier Heavenly Demon Envoy, what can Jiang Cheng use to stop him?"
The discussion started again.
This time, the question is how Jiangcheng managed to survive a disaster of that magnitude?
No one doubted that Cao Zhenshou was lying.
The Night Watchers' personal terminals upload data in real time, and the data center is located in Shanhe Prefecture.
Every number Cao Keyuan mentioned can be found in the backend system.
No one would be foolish enough to falsify this information.
In the audience, a few people who knew the inside story twitched their lips slightly.
They watched Jiangcheng's live broadcast.
They knew that what Cao Keyuan said was true.
Cao Keyuan is using a strategy of "suppressing first and then praising".
That's a really smooth tactic.
Cao Keyuan looked at the officials below the stage who were discussing amongst themselves.
He didn't rush to continue, waiting for the commotion to subside before speaking.
"but."
"Thanks to the united efforts of everyone in Jiangcheng, we repelled the beast tide and defeated the Heavenly Demon Clan."
"We also formed a new army and recaptured all the fortresses and strongholds that Jiangcheng had lost over the past few decades."
Another commotion erupted from the audience.
Take them all back?
Decades of lost territory, all reclaimed in one fell swoop?
Is this something Jiangcheng can accomplish?
"Our Night Watch Major Ye Feng slew three half-step seventh-tier dragons and seven sixth-tier beast kings. He also killed hundreds of thousands of alien beasts."
The moment those words were spoken, the audience went completely wild.
"What? Half-step to the seventh level?"
"A fifth-tier cultivator killing a half-step seventh-tier cultivator? That's impossible!"
"This is ridiculous! I don't believe it!"
"Exactly! There's a two-realm difference between a half-step seventh-tier and a fifth-tier cultivator. How are we supposed to kill them?"
Questions and criticisms arose one after another.
A fifth-tier warrior kills a half-step seventh-tier warrior.
This is beyond everyone's comprehension.
Those who watched the live stream sat there silently, without saying a word.
They knew Cao Keyuan was telling the truth. They had seen it with their own eyes.
Ye Feng's slash was truly beautiful!
"All three hundred miles of our homeland in Jiangcheng have been recovered."
After saying his last sentence, Cao Keyuan bowed slightly, then turned and walked off the stage.
The auditorium was quiet for a while, then erupted into a deafening clamor.
Everyone was talking about Jiang Cheng and Ye Feng.
"Didn't you guys watch the live stream?" Finally, someone stood up, their voice loud enough to drown out the surrounding noise.
"The entire battle in Jiangcheng that day was broadcast live! Ye Feng slaying the Heavenly Demon Envoy is all online! Don't you guys go watch it yourselves?"
The murmurs gradually subsided.
Someone took out their phone and started searching.
Someone sidled up to look at someone else's screen.
Zhao Gongming sat on the platform without saying a word.
In the front row, Ouyang Nan stroked his beard, a slight smile playing on his lips.
His gaze swept through the crowd and landed on the young figure in the back row.
Ye Feng sat there.
Sitting on the other side, Deputy City Lord Zhou Wuwei lightly tapped his finger on the table, and couldn't help but smile.
"This is truly the greatest asset to my family!"
A young official in the back row was looking at the video on his phone screen of Ye Feng killing the Heavenly Demon Envoy.
He looked up at his colleague next to him, his mouth agape, unable to close it for a long time.
Just then!
boom!
The conference room doors were pushed open!
Two figures appeared at the gate!
A piercing, synthesized sound rang out.
"Who's so arrogant! To think a fifth-tier cultivator could defeat a half-step seventh-tier Venerable! I simply don't believe it!"