Chapter 138: Simon City

"New dungeon?"

Zhou Huai raised an eyebrow.

Lu Zhiyi nodded firmly.

"Right, a dungeon you will definitely like."

"It's also a city defense simulation type."

"However, the story in this dungeon happened in reality."

Speaking of this, the excitement on Lu Zhiyi's face quickly faded, replaced by a thick trace of sorrow.

Her gaze lowered and fell on the ground.

"That is the Simon City destruction event from ten years ago."

Simon City?

Zhou Huai lowered his head and fell into memories.

He quickly found reports about that disaster from the original owner's vague memory fragments.

Those were scenes seen from TV news.

Overwhelming exotic beasts, like a black tide, submerged that distant border small town.

Great Xia Country's southwest border, Simon City.

Encountered a once-in-a-century ultra-large-scale beast tide.

The sky was torn apart, and the earth wailed.

The support troops from other provinces and cities were blocked outside by endless exotic beasts and could not get close at all.

At that time, Great Xia Country's only two SS-Rank pillars, Marshal Zhao Qingcang and Principal Lin Zhu, were deeply mired in the national war quagmire with Sakura Country, unable to free themselves.

That isolated city became an isolated island forgotten by the world.

Simon City's Old City Lord, Chen Guanyi.

An old man with white hair and beard, leading the only three thousand City Guard in the city, as well as all spontaneously organized guild members, defended the city wall to the death.

They held out for three days and three nights.

The Magical Cannons on the city wall fired until their barrels turned red, the Professionals' mana values were completely drained, and the warriors' swords were rolled at the edges.

In the end, the city fell.

Old City Lord Chen Guanyi burned his last life above the city tower, perishing together with a Hell-level BOSS.

That day, the soaring flames dyed the entire sky of Simon red.

Among the hundreds of thousands of civilians in the city, fewer than five thousand ultimately survived.

Lu Zhiyi raised her head, her eye sockets somewhat red.

"This dungeon is named 'The Early Sun Shines on Simon'."

"Its designer is one of the children who survived in Simon City back then."

"He can never forget the last sentence Old City Lord Chen Guanyi said to them children before the city fell."

" 'Children, run, run towards the rising sun, do not look back' ."

"Therefore, he designed this dungeon to commemorate that great City Lord and to warn future generations."

She paused, a bitter smile appearing on her face.

"Of course, the difficulty of this dungeon cannot be compared with that real disaster in reality at all."

"The designer said he reduced the difficulty by at least ten times."

"Yet even so, we still cannot defend Simon City."

Lu Zhiyi looked at Zhou Huai again, a trace of earnest anticipation in her eyes.

"How about it? Gandalf, do you want to come and try with us?"

Zhou Huai fell silent.

He remembered the Donghai City beast tide he had personally experienced not long ago.

The scene at that time was already tragic enough.

Countless Professionals fought bloody battles on the city wall, bravely going to their deaths.

He could not imagine what kind of desperate purgatory Simon City ten years ago would be.

He nodded slowly.

"I'll join."

"Great!"

A joyful smile instantly bloomed on Lu Zhiyi's face, as if dispelling the haze just now.

"Wait for me here! I will immediately go tell our team leader this good news!"

She turned and ran away like a cheerful little deer.

Not long after, Lu Zhiyi led a tall and burly man over.

That person had dark skin, stern facial features, a pair of glowing eyes, and emitted an aura as steady as a mountain all over his body.

He looked up and down at Gandalf, a trace of curiosity flashing in his eyes.

Immediately, he grinned, revealing a row of white teeth, and his hearty laughter echoed in the exchange hall.

"Haha! Great! Gandalf, with your joining, the winning odds of our dungeon challenge this time can be a few points higher!"

He reached out a palm-leaf-like big hand.

"Let me introduce myself, my name is Wang Xicheng, S-Rank profession Titan Hero."

"Welcome to join!"

Zhou Huai controlled Gandalf, also reaching out his hand to shake heavily with the other party.

"Gandalf, Archmage."

After finishing all this, Zhou Huai controlled Gandalf, following Lu Zhiyi and Wang Xicheng towards the eleventh floor of the building.

At this moment, the eleventh floor was bustling with voices and extremely lively.

Looking around, it was densely packed with heads.

It gathered nearly five hundred students.

They were in groups of three or five, distinct and clearly belonging to different hundred-man teams.

As soon as Wang Xicheng led the team to appear, not far away, a sarcastic voice sounded.

"Yo, Wang Xicheng, you came pretty early."

Zhou Huai looked towards the sound and saw in another team, a youth with dyed yellow hair holding his arms, looking at them with a teasing expression.

"However, your pieced-together ragtag team is useless even if you come."

"Let me guess, how many minutes can you hold on this time? Thirty minutes? Or forty minutes?"

Several people behind the yellow-haired youth suddenly burst into laughter.

Wang Xicheng's expression did not change, and instead he smiled and counterattacked.

"I was wondering who it was, turns out it is Young Master Liu."

"What? I don't know who it was yesterday, rolling out of the dungeon six times in a row."

"Every time you failed, you cried to your parents on the forum, saying the dungeon designer was not human and adjusted the difficulty too high."

The yellow-haired youth's face stiffened for a moment, then he snorted dismissively, lifting his chin high.

"This time is different!"

He extended his finger, pointing triumphantly at the few people behind him.

"See that? Today, I spent a lot of money to invite five S-Rank seniors to help!"

"Plus me, in our team, there are a full six S-Rank Experts!"

"I don't believe that we still cannot clear this!"

Hearing this, Wang Xicheng clicked his tongue twice:

"A rich second-generation is a rich second-generation, truly having too much money to burn."

What if there are six S-Ranks?

On our side, there are also three.

What's more…

Wang Xicheng's gaze glanced without a trace at the Gandalf beside him wearing the star moon robe.

What's more, we still have a Devil King here.

The yellow-haired youth snorted coldly.

"I just have too much money to burn, if you are unconvinced, bite me?"

At this moment, the broadcast System of the entire eleventh floor sounded a mechanical prompt tone.

[Dungeon 'The Early Sun Shines on Simon' is about to open, please all teams get ready.]

[Teleportation countdown, ten, nine, eight…]

As the countdown ended, dozens of huge portals inside the eleventh floor lit up simultaneously.

Wang Xicheng's team, along with several other teams, was swallowed by a soft white light.

After a brief dizziness.

Zhou Huai opened his eyes again.

Deafening sounds of slaughter instantly poured into his eardrums.

He found himself standing on a section of a towering city wall.

Below the city wall was a black ocean.

The densely packed army of exotic beasts, like an endless tide, frantically collided with the huge golden Formation barrier outside the city.

Every collision made the entire city wall tremble.

On the barrier, ripples continued, the light flickered on and off, as if it would shatter at any time.

On the city wall, countless huge Magical Cannons emitted earth-shaking roars, their muzzles spitting destructive light flames, blasting patches of exotic beasts into charcoal.

Countless Professionals stood behind the battlements with resolute expressions.

Fireballs, ice shards, wind blades, arrows…

Skills of various elements intertwined into a gorgeous rain of death, frantically pouring down towards the bottom of the city.

The entire scene was more than ten times more spectacular than the Donghai City beast tide he experienced before.

Even Zhou Huai felt a wave of shock in his heart looking at the epic war-like scene in front of him.

At this moment, a soft little hand tugged at the corner of his clothes.

"Gandalf! Don't daydream here!"

Lu Zhiyi's anxious voice sounded in his ear.

"Quick! Come with us!"

Zhou Huai came back to his senses and subconsciously asked.

"Where to?"

"South City!"

There was a hint of urgency in Lu Zhiyi's voice.

"That is the place where the entire city wall defense is weakest, and also where the exotic beast offensive is most fierce."

"Our task is to defend that place!"

"If South City falls, then our dungeon challenge this time will be declared a failure!"

Zhou Huai understood.

He nodded, said no more, and followed Wang Xicheng's main force, starting to quickly travel across the wide city tower.