Looting the life force of demons to forge a golden body Martial God-Chapter 394 - 382: A Tough Bone to Chew, 400,000 Demon Beasts! Terrifying Planning and Design! The Snake Demon and the Burrow
Chapter 394: Chapter 382: A Tough Bone to Chew, 400,000 Demon Beasts! Terrifying Planning and Design! The Snake Demon and the Burrow
The military camp covered a vast expanse of land; from a distance, it appeared rudimentary, but upon closer inspection, it was fully equipped with facilities.
Earth and stone walls over twenty meters in height and around five to six meters wide, deep moats outside the walls, and barricade-like devices near the gates...
All of these elements served as a reminder to Chu Feng that this military camp was certainly a tough nut to crack!
Chu Feng even saw smooth running tracks atop the city walls!
Once a battle broke out, smaller Demon Beasts could utilize these tracks to quickly reinforce any part of the walls.
"..."
Chu Feng’s expression was not very positive, with his night vision goggles on and under the cover of night, he had spent a good portion of the night circling around, relying on calculations from his information terminal before he could roughly make out the total area of the military camp—
It occupied an area of eight square kilometers, which was more than ten thousand acres, totaling over eight million square meters!
There were twelve wooden gatehouses, each so massive that even the burliest Demon Beasts could easily pass through.
The number of Demon Beasts within the gates was like carps crossing a river, beyond count; among them were various magical Demon Beasts that had never been seen at the Far East Defense Line.
After roughly estimating the number of Demon Clans in there, Chu Feng fell silent.
"According to the intelligence given by the Staff Department of the Second Army, if we calculate on the basis of each Demon Beast taking up twenty square meters... four hundred thousand from the Demon Race?!"
Chu Feng was shocked; the number of Demon Clan members inside this one camp was almost half the number of Demon Beasts he had killed throughout the entire Far East Defense Line!
No wonder this was the Eastern War Zone, where the Demon Race played on a much grander scale compared to the backwoods.
This didn’t even take into account the High-rank Demon Clan within the camp, who possessed decisive combat power.
Although it was too dark to see the layout inside the camp, from this distance, Chu Feng could still feel the towering presence within the camp center, pricking his skin and making his hair stand on end.
There must be a considerable number of Demon Clan members above the Cave Heaven Realm within the camp, and the Yin Yang Realm was not in short supply either!
"Let’s hope there aren’t too many False God incarnations in the Hunyuan Realm among the Demon Clan, otherwise, I can only poison a batch of Low-Level Demon Beasts and immediately run for it, to seek my revenge later!"
Chu Feng definitely would not gamble with his life.
If there truly were multiple members of the Demon Clan in the Hunyuan Realm within the camp, even he might not be able to retreat with his life intact.
If that time came, he would have no choice but to play the game of "never underestimate the young and poor," with Yin and Yang meeting again.
Having made up his mind, he took a deep breath, used both "Wind Concealment" and "Concealment," turned into a gentle breeze, quietly scaled the city wall, and slipped inside the camp.
...
After scouting the outer perimeter of the camp, a trace of worry emerged in Chu Feng’s heart.
The worry stemmed from the fact that this military camp was completely different from those on the Far East Defense Line—it had the concept of layout and was more "professionalized."
For instance, ditches had been dug to channel drinkable water from various sources directly to every part of the camp, so the Low-Level Demon Beasts no longer needed to swarm to the water sources and fight over water.
For instance, by dividing up areas according to species and habits, similarly natured Demon Beasts were gathered together, reducing friction and conflicts between them.
For instance, crushed stone was used to lay out clearly defined roads, with Demon Clan members patrolling constantly, maintaining order, mediating conflicts, and even forbidding Low-Level Demon Beasts from defecating on the roads.
Another example was the creation of broad firebreaks between different areas to prevent mindless Low-Level Demon Beasts from causing chaos in case of a fire.
And so on.
A series of carefully designed and planned layouts all told Chu Feng that this military camp was not like the makeshift operations he had easily swept away before, but a highly professional, militarily managed machine of violence!
Remembering the High-rank Demon Clan who, after establishing the Inner City at the Far East Defense Line, indulged themselves within and left all the Low-Level Demon Beasts outside to fend for themselves...
The gap between them and the ruler of this camp could not be measured merely by miles.
"I always feel that the ruler of this military camp is guided by a master... or perhaps it’s a damn graduate with a degree in planning and design!"
"Besides... this place is so vast and there are so many demon beasts, I’m not sure if I have enough poison with me. If it’s not enough, I will have to go back and restock."
Although Chu Feng carried a massive amount of poison, he couldn’t help but worry.
If the quantity of poison wasn’t sufficient to take down the hundreds of thousands of demon beasts in the outer area, he couldn’t make his move today. Otherwise, alarming the enemy might mean the Attribute Points would slip away for nothing.
He pinched his nose, enduring the stench of feces that filled the camp, as he entered the scouting results into the information terminal.
Then he set off once more, sneaking towards the interior part of the camp.
...
"D58-31 military camp, occupying an area of 8.4 square kilometers, with approximately 430,000 low-level demon clan members, characteristics, professionally laid out design, orderly structured... note this down."
D58-31 is the identification code assigned to this region by Demon Suppression City, and it’s the designation Chu Feng used for the military camp he was currently in.
At the base of the Inner City wall, he found a corner to record the scouting results into the information terminal. Then, he looked up at the stone wall behind him and let out a soft sigh.
After investigating, he found that the amount of poison he brought was barely enough to cover the outer area.
Unless he reallocated some to the Inner City side, it seemed unlikely that he would be able to cover most parts of the Inner City area.
’I wonder what the situation is like inside, let’s go take a look.’
Chu Feng bent his legs slightly and sprung up abruptly, scaling the protrusions on the wall and quickly vaulted over it.
Right after that, he found himself face-to-face with a pair of compound eyes.
"!!!"
Chu Feng shuddered with fright, nearly unable to restrain himself from striking out!
But he held back and did not act immediately.
Because the other did not show any hostile reaction right away.
He held his breath, and after a while, he saw the compound eyes turn towards the side, moving away from him.
’Holy... I thought I had been discovered! Scared the life out of me!’
Chu Feng looked at the high-rank demon clan member in front of him, the "Spirit-Eye Serpent Demon" with its serpent body, thin wings, and compound eyes, wishing he could gouge out those huge and disgusting eyes.
The name Spirit-Eye Serpent Demon is translated from the Demon Race Language, but the Human Race prefers to call it the Fly-Eye Serpent Demon, as in the fly of housefly.
The Record of Demon Beasts mentions that the Spirit-Eye Serpent Demon has some blood relation to the Spirit Horned Serpent Demon that Chu Feng had previously exterminated; they belong to the same species.
The difference is that the Spirit-Eye Serpent Demon has far greater insight than the Spirit Horned Serpent Demon, while the latter has superior combat strength compared to the former.
Also, their living habits are vastly different, making it hard to tell that the two are distantly related based on their habits alone.
’...Damn, I remember that Spirit-Eye Serpent Demons like to dig holes!’
Chu Feng suddenly recalled something, his expression changing slightly as he pushed off with his feet and drifted up, transforming into a breeze as he darted to the other side of the wall.
Then, he confirmed his worries had come true.
Inside the Inner City were collapsed Human Race buildings everywhere, and heaps of building debris scattered around, a sight of desolation.
Beside the buildings, there were towering mounds of earth piled up!
Chu Feng knew that beneath those mounds were the burrows dug by the Spirit-Eye Serpent Demons as their dwellings.