On the big screen atop the propaganda vehicle, Shen Cong's figure leapt and struck.

The blade drove hard into the body of the overturned giant Armored Horseshoe Crab, dragging out a long wound, blue-green copper-rich blood spilling across the ground. The fifteen-meter sword-shaped tail was jin core; it stabbed into the mud, trying to use the tail to flip itself over. But the Four-Legged Dragon was very sharp, hauling on it directly, keeping it from flipping over cleanly.

One busy only with subduing, one busy only with cutting — their coordination flowed like moving clouds and running water, without the slightest hitch.

The twelfth super-grade jin beast, hunted down by Shen Cong.

At once Shen Cong began harvesting the giant Armored Horseshoe Crab's sword-shaped tail. He'd taken a liking to this jin-core tail — it was simply the finest material for making a dragon knight's lance, a "dragon lance."

Talent 3.287H — no mean figure either.

This way, in the future, riding the Four-Legged Dragon on a charge, he could attack prey directly.

Just as Shen Cong was harvesting the sword-shaped tail, the big screen immediately switched to the field command post, Feng Weizhan appearing in the frame, beginning his address. "Just now, the Command's Military Committee member, Comrade Hu Ge, slew the twelfth super-grade jin beast. Of the twenty-five super-grade jin beasts, half have now been slain by Hu Ge."

The propaganda vehicle's big loudspeaker carried the sound far and wide.

The already-established communications platform let the whole of Jianhu County and part of the Yan-Huai Expressway stretch hear Feng Weizhan's address.

"Half an hour ago, we thought Jianhu County had come to the brink of life and death, and no one had any certainty of what would become of its hundred and twenty thousand residents. I, Feng Weizhan — Military Committee Standing Committee member, Commander of the 1st Army, commanding officer of this defensive battle — I had no confidence either. Yet at this moment, I think there's no need for many words from me."

"We have already held off the invasion of the ocean's powerful jin beasts.…