# 1495
Chapter 1496: Attack of the Tentacle Monsters
Whrrr, whrrr—
The roar of the transport aircraft engines swept across the sky. Li Zhenzhen gazed at the overcast clouds beyond the porthole and let out a long sigh.
"How much longer do we have to sit on this plane... It's already been four hours. Why isn't there any sign of departure?"
"But we've been on the road the whole time." Fang Mo, sitting beside her, shrugged.
"We're clearly just flying in circles!"
"Well, we don't know where the enemy will attack from, do we?" Ding Chongfeng, seated behind the two, spoke slowly. "Shao Captain said that right now, we still aren't certain whether the enemy will invade Great Xia or from which direction... so we can only divide all the Night Watch into three groups, each boarding a transport aircraft, circling different border regions of Great Xia.
Only this way, if an enemy attack occurs at any border, there will be one transport aircraft carrying a large number of Night Watch to arrive as quickly as possible, avoiding casualties from arriving in sequence."
"Don't say it, this method really is quite clever." Su Zhe scratched his head. "I couldn't have come up with it anyway."
His sister Su Yuan silently rolled her eyes.
"This Shao Captain has some skills to temporarily serve as commander-in-chief."
"By the way, how long has it been since we were all gathered like this?" Fang Mo's gaze swept across those familiar faces, and he smiled. "Who would have thought our next meeting would be on a circling transport aircraft..."
"It's been over a year since we left the training camp, hasn't it? Fang Mo, you've grown taller."
"...While I really appreciate the compliment, please don't take the opportunity to pat my head."
"Tsk, you're so stingy."
Fang Mo slapped away Su Zhe's hand from his head and turned his gaze to the seats on the other side of the transport aircraft. A young man wearing a black eyepatch sat quietly by the porthole, looking down at the scenery below.
Fang Mo hesitated for a moment, then unbuckled his seatbelt, stood up, and walked over to him.
There weren't many Night Watch left stationed within Great Xia's borders. After dividing into three transport aircraft, there were still many empty seats, and for people like Fang Mo, walking around in the turbulent cabin wasn't difficult at all.
"Long time no see." Fang Mo sat down naturally beside him and buckled his seatbelt.
Lu Baoyou's remaining eye glanced at him coolly, said nothing, and turned back to watch the scenery outside the window.
"..." Fang Mo wasn't surprised by Lu Baoyou's attitude. If anything, he was already used to it, so he naturally continued, "You were transferred to Huaihai City? How's it going there?"
"...It's alright."
"Are there many 'Mysteries' in your area?"
"Average."
"What realm are you at now?"
"A bit higher than you."
"..."
Fang Mo's mouth twitched slightly. He suppressed the urge to pick a fight with Lu Baoyou right there on the transport aircraft and stood up to return to his seat.
"I heard you guys went to the front lines recently?" At that moment, Lu Baoyou suddenly spoke.
Fang Mo froze, then shook his head. "We never even reached the front lines. We were intercepted in Jiangcheng City by the [Nightfall] squad..."
Hearing this, a barely perceptible glimmer of disappointment flickered across Lu Baoyou's eyes.
Fang Mo noticed it keenly. "You want to go to the front lines?"
"Mm."
"Why?"
"Killing 'Mysteries' at the garrison is boring. It's more exciting to kill them on the battlefield." Lu Baoyou's eyes narrowed slightly.
Fang Mo: ...
"We want to go to the front lines because we want to share the burden for our seniors... You want to go to the front lines just to kill enemies?"
"If you kill all the enemies, wouldn't that eliminate the pressure?"
At Lu Baoyou's counter-question, Fang Mo found himself momentarily speechless.
"The last time you were too far away to make it in time... This time, it seems like you won't be able to hide even if you wanted to." Fang Mo said seriously. "I heard the casualties on the front lines are extremely heavy. Otherwise, they wouldn't have urgently called us over."
Lu Baoyou gazed out the window, a fierce battle intent climbing into his eyes:
"That would be best."
Just as everyone was talking, the transport aircraft suddenly changed direction and rushed at high speed toward the west. The extreme tilt of the fuselage nearly sent everyone suspended vertically in the air.
Feeling the rapid acceleration, Fang Mo's expression hardened, as if sensing something.
Immediately after, a voice rang out in the cabin: "Enemy activity detected on the western border! Everyone hold on tight, we're heading there now!"
"The western border..."
Ding Chongfeng glanced at the land below and furrowed his brow. "That's right in my area... We should be the closest."
Upon hearing these words, everyone's expressions turned grave. The earlier relaxed banter had completely disappeared. They gripped the handles of their Straight Blades at their waists tightly. These rookies who had only recently graduated from the training camp felt a rising sense of unease.
Of course, not everyone among them was the same.
Lu Baoyou's eyes sparkled with excitement. His gaze fixed on the western direction, as if anticipating something.
The transport aircraft swept across the sky, and soon a massive silver-colored pass appeared in their field of vision. Not far ahead, that mist-covered fortress wall drew closer and closer.
At this moment, the border mist churned violently. Shadows after shadows surged out from the fog like waves. As the passengers on the transport aircraft finally saw what these monsters looked like, their faces turned grim!
"What kind of monsters are these... Why do they look so disgusting?"
"Is it a tree? A goat? An octopus?"
"Their eyes... their eyes are watching us!"
"..."
These young Night Watch, upon witnessing the [Black Goat] offspring, immediately fell into panic. Fortunately, over these past few years they had seen many bizarre and grotesque "Mysteries," so their composure held somewhat. If it had been before, they probably would have been incoherent with fear right now.
"Is this our enemy?" Ding Chongfeng's face was dark as ink. "So strong... Each one of them is above the 'Klein' realm! How can we possibly hold them off?"
"Whether we can hold them or not, we have to try. Even buying a little time is better." Fang Mo was the calmest among everyone.
Lu Baoyou's hand rested on the blade handle at his waist. His tongue lightly licked his lips, and his eyes blazed with vigorous battle intent!
As the distance between the transport aircraft and the pass shrank, those Black Goat offspring had already charged to the outer wall of the pass. At this point, there was almost no one left inside the pass. Conventional weapons couldn't deal with so many monsters simultaneously and were torn apart easily, ripping open a gap in the defenses.
"A normal landing is impossible now." The voice in the cabin was stern. "Prepare to jump!"
Boom—!!
Before his words even finished, the transport aircraft's fuselage shuddered violently. Then everyone felt as if the world was spinning, as though something was grabbing the plane and flinging it about wildly.
Immediately after, a thick, suction-cup-covered tentacle slammed heavily against the edge of the cabin, shattering every porthole to pieces!