# 823
Chapter 824: The New Recruits' Counterattack
Seeing the full signal bars on the phone, the new recruits couldn't help but cheer.
"I know a Night Watch member and have his number." Among the new recruits, someone stepped forward and began reciting a phone number.
Su Yuan quickly dialed the number.
She turned on the speakerphone, and everyone crowded around.
After a brief ringing tone, a lazy voice came through from the other end.
"Hello? Who's this?"
"Hello! I'm a new recruit from this cohort of the Night Watch! My name is Su Yuan, my ID number is XXXXXX. I'm sending out a distress signal through this phone!" Su Yuan said calmly. "Please notify Night Watch headquarters immediately. The training camp has been taken over by members of the Church of the Ancient Gods. They killed all the instructors, and now they're about to unseal the Town-Suppressing Monument to kill us!
Please send reinforcements immediately!"
"Hmm?" The voice on the other end slightly raised its tone. "How many of them are there?"
Su Yuan froze. "Currently known... about four..."
"Too few."
"What do you mean too few?"
"You're missing some people." The voice laughed. "We... have seven people in total~"
All the new recruits stood frozen.
"You... can't escape our grasp..."
The lazy male voice on the other end of the phone shifted into a crisp girl's voice, emanating a murderous intent.
At the same time, the screen of every phone in the sack that the new recruits had taken out lit up simultaneously!
Dense black and white static danced across all the phone screens.
That female voice, in a mechanical and eerie tone, echoed from all the phones in succession, like countless demons whispering in everyone's ears.
"You... can't escape our grasp..."
"You... can't escape our grasp..."
"..."
Su Yuan's face turned ashen, and the phone in her hand slipped and fell to the ground.
CRACK—!
A blood-red lightning bolt tore across the sky. At the entrance of the large drill ground, in the shadows beneath the streetlights, five figures slowly emerged from the darkness.
A man wearing a Sun Wukong mask, holding a pristine white long sword; a fat man wearing a Zhu Bajie mask; a woman wearing a Red Boy mask; a sword-wielding man wearing a Sandy Monk mask; and a man carrying a black coffin on his back...
When they appeared, the night sky above seemed to grow darker.
"Hmm?"
Lu Baoyou, who had been standing on a nearby rooftop, holding binoculars and watching the drill ground, slightly furrowed his brow.
"Why are there five mysterious figures appearing... Is this part of the assessment? Or are they enemies?
By the way, why haven't I seen the instructors until now?"
Lu Baoyou's gaze fell on the terrified faces of the new recruits, and he fell into deep thought.
...
The new recruits watched the five figures approaching slowly, nervously swallowing.
Although they knew they had the numerical advantage, when facing a group of demons from the Church of the Ancient Gods, it was inevitable that fear would arise...
"They're here!" Ding Chongfeng stood at the very front, took a deep breath, and shouted, "Brothers! This is our last chance! Let's fight them!!"
"Fight them!!" Shen Qingzhu immediately followed Ding Chongfeng's lead. "Let's knock them down! We'll be the greatest cohort of new recruits in Great Xia!!"
"Damn it! Let's go!"
"Fight them!"
"..."
With the rhythm set by the two, the blazing flame of fighting spirit that had been burning in the hearts of the new recruits in their desperate situation reignited. They stared intently at the five figures, like righteous allies about to mete out justice to evil, and fearlessly charged forward!
Nearly three hundred new recruits surged toward Lin Qiye and the others like a mighty tide.
"Everyone, be careful." Lin Qiye lowered his voice.
"Mm."
What Lin Qiye meant by "be careful" wasn't about not messing up, but rather to watch out for members of the Church of the Ancient Gods who might be hiding among the crowd.
After the initial strategy of dispersing the new recruit groups and defeating them one by one, the number of new recruits remaining in the entire training camp had plummeted from six hundred and eleven to less than three hundred. For Lin Qiye and the others who could unleash "Pool" realm power, this number basically posed no threat.
As long as they handled the few exceptionally outstanding individuals, dominating the other new recruits would be an absolute exercise in strength.
"So we're finally going to crush some noobs, huh..." Baili Pangpang grinned wickedly. He extended his hand toward the crowd charging forward with menacing momentum and made a light beckoning gesture. "Universal Disarmament."
A massive Yin-Yang Taiji diagram unfurled beneath his feet, covering a distance of about a hundred meters, enveloping a portion of the new recruits.
SWISH—!!
The weapons in these new recruits' hands suddenly began to vibrate, then violently flew out of their grasp, soaring into the sky. Within a blink of an eye, they floated around Baili Pangpang.
The new recruits who had been leading the charge, their momentum at its peak, stared at their empty hands in shock.
"Even at this realm, I can only cover this much range... Tsk." Seeing that he had only disarmed a few dozen new recruits, Baili Pangpang sighed helplessly.
"Well then, I won't hold back!"
Baili Pangpang reached into his pocket and pulled out, and in the next instant, five or six glowing Forbidden Artifacts appeared around him, tightly protecting him. The jeweled radiance was dazzling in the dark environment. Several new recruits who had already charged to his side were immediately caught by these artifacts and sent flying backward.
FWIP! FWIP!
Two figures swept past Baili Pangpang and charged directly into the main body of new recruits, facing the wave head-on.
Cao Yuan's hand resting on the hilt of his Straight Blade slowly tightened. Surging killing intent and flames ignited in his pupils, rapidly spreading across his body. An extremely terrifying and chilling aura emanated outward. His crimson gaze locked onto the new recruits at the very front, as chilling laughter echoed beneath the night sky.
"Hehehehehe..."
This scene directly terrified the new recruits who had never witnessed the Maniac Cao Yuan.
But under the immense pressure of life and death, they gritted their teeth tightly, overcame their fear, and fought with all their strength against the Maniac Cao Yuan!
After countless rounds of training and breakthroughs, Cao Yuan's control over the [Black King's Annihilation Slash] within his body had already reached an entirely new level. While controlling the "Unmeasured" level "Black King" might still be somewhat勉强, after his realm was suppressed to the "Pool" realm, controlling these powers was already as easy as pie for Cao Yuan.
Even in his maniac state, he could still perfectly control his body and thoughts. Every strike looked fierce and ruthless, but he actually avoided the new recruits' vitals, only knocking them unconscious before kicking them to the edge of the large drill ground.
The moment the new recruits were sent flying, spider silk immediately shot out, wrapping them into dumplings and hanging them from tree branches, swaying in the wind.