Douluo Continent: The Book of Witness and Peerless Tang Sect

Chapter 126 Sandworm Swarm Retreat

Given the current situation, once the city's defensive shield energy protection membrane is broken or becomes completely ineffective, Northfrost City can be declared finished.

Even if Long You and the others have the means to stop the giant sandworms, what about the ordinary sandworms that come one after another, several times more ferocious than before?

Once the sandworms manage to reach the top of the North Frost City walls and engage in a chaotic battle with the city's inhabitants, all the soul-guided devices that Long You and his group installed on the walls will be rendered useless and unable to fire.

Therefore, the giant sandworm must not be allowed to succeed. Huo Yuhao's mental detection and shared soul skill timely covered the giant sandworm, and two launchers capable of firing fixed soul-guided cannons (explosive shells) were aimed directly at the giant sandworm's open mouth.

Just as the giant sandworm outside the north city wall was about to spew out the corrosive liquid from its mouth like an anti-aircraft gun, two explosive shells simultaneously penetrated its mouthparts and detonated in the next instant.

"Boom—boom boom, boom boom!"

Two more explosions rang out, clearly indicating that while Longyou was sending explosive bombs into the mouthparts of the giant sandworm, Beibei and the others on the east and west city walls had made the same choice.

It was unclear whether the giant sandworm lacked vocal organs or had lost its ability to speak after being blasted by the explosive bomb. In any case, there were no cries or hisses; all the people on the city wall saw was the giant sandworm seemingly losing its support and crashing down towards the city below.

It's unclear whether the giant sandworm crushed too many ordinary sandworms when it fell. In any case, a few rare minutes of quiet occurred on the city wall after the giant sandworm collapsed.

Without a soul-guided detector to shield his eyes, and not daring to stick his head outside the city's defensive shield's energy protective membrane, Long You now has to rely on Huo Yuhao's mental detection shared soul skill to observe the situation below the city wall (at the base of the city wall, not in the distance).

However, it's unclear whether Huo Yuhao's mental detection soul skill was ineffective against the sandworm, or whether the sandworm possessed a hidden method to counter Huo Yuhao's mental detection soul skill, or whether the Panlong Realm's AI—the Panlong—could not fully reproduce the power of Tianmeng's soul skill during modeling. In any case, the fallen giant sandworm disappeared.

Long You didn't know if the giant sandworm was killed by the explosion or seriously injured. Or worse, the giant sandworm might only have been slightly injured and would soon reappear, or even more giant sandworms might appear.

Everything about the giant sandworm is unknown. If the sandworm swarm hadn't been so eager to destroy the Starlink-like light source floating in the sky, the giant sandworm might never have shown itself until the day Northfrost City was destroyed.

The residents of Northfrost City had never seen a giant sandworm before, so during this rare break in the battle, everyone was filled with trepidation.

About three minutes later, the ordinary sand worms below the city began to charge towards the top of North Frost City with an even more frenzied pace. After waiting for a while longer without seeing any giant sand worms, Beibei and the others returned to the north city wall to reunite with Longyou and the other two.

"Do you still have explosive rounds?" Upon seeing Long You, Bei Bei rushed up and asked, "I don't know what the situation is like here, but the giant sandworm over there is definitely seriously injured. If three explosive rounds had hit it at the same time, that giant sandworm probably wouldn't have survived."

"That's all. We've been busy for about an hour since the attack and defense started. The explosive rounds we just fired are all we have."

Long You's answer made Bei Bei frown subconsciously. "So, if another giant sandworm attacks, all we can do is fight it hand-to-hand like Lord Beishuang did?"

"That's right, get ready. If we really need to fight hand-to-hand at this stage, then you and Xu Sanshi will be the main force."

The continuous roar of soul-guided devices once again echoed throughout Northfrost City. The unprecedented giant sandworms did cause some panic when they first appeared, but after seeing that the four giant sandworms were easily blasted off the city wall and never reappeared, the morale on the Northfrost City walls was not actually affected.

The residents of Northfrost City have witnessed too many changes in just one night. For the first time, they are fighting sandworms with full light.

For the first time, I didn't have to be trapped in a pile of sandworms. While desperately fighting the enemy, I was constantly on guard against dangers from all directions.

The first time I realized that the sandworms could also be afraid, and that they would become chaotic after being afraid (this chaos refers to the sandworms' attack rhythm becoming much more disordered compared to before, not an overall uncontrolled chaos).

This night was the first glimmer of hope to appear after the sandworm swarms appeared outside Northfrost City, plunging the entire city into a despairing, silent darkness.

Despite the inevitable lingering unease, the defensive operations on the walls of Northfrost City were carried out in an orderly manner.

Another hour passed. Perhaps due to the influence of the light source in the sky on the sandworm swarm, the quantitative change had entered a qualitative change phase. Or perhaps because North Frost City had used an unprecedented attack method, the sandworm swarm suffered far more casualties than before.

Due to a combination of factors, the sandworm swarm actually descended into chaos, and the sandworm king was no longer able to accurately control the ordinary sandworms under its command.

Despite being in a siege, some sand worms turned back, even those already on the city walls. Furthermore, infighting broke out among the sand worm swarms.

One moment, two sandworms climbed up the city wall side by side; the next moment, the sandworm on the left seemed to be provoked and turned to bite the sandworm on the right. The two sandworms then began to fight and wrestle.

"Hush-hush-"

The unpleasant hissing sound rang out again, but this time it was somewhat drawn out and dragged out compared to the previous hissing.

The residents of Beishuang City may have been familiar with this screech, but this was the first time Long You and the others had heard the Sandworm King's screech. Just as they were wondering what adjustments the Sandworm King had made with this drawn-out screech, the sandworm swarm retreated.

Although infighting continued during the retreat, the sandworm swarm truly withdrew.

It wasn't the temporary quiet that followed when the giant sandworm fell from the city wall; it was a genuine retreat from Northfrost City, heading towards a place where the light couldn't reach.

"What's going on? What should we do?"

Only two hours have passed since nightfall, and the fiercest battle was supposed to be raging. Now, the residents of Northfrost City are standing there in a daze.