As for Gong Xiao, among the sixty-one people in Building B, she was likely the strongest aside from Su Li himself, so naturally there was no reason to send her away to a safe place.
The wind and rain outside grew fiercer, and the roars of various monsters became increasingly intense, rising and falling in waves, striking fear into the hearts of all who heard them.
Throughout Building B, everyone was watching the situation outside. Except for those usually responsible for logistics and trivial chores who hadn't come downstairs, nearly everyone else had gathered in the corridors of the thirty-first, thirty-second, and thirty-third floors, numbering over forty people.
The vast majority of these people were at Level 6, with a small number at Level 7 and Level 5.
And of course, there was Su Li, the only Level 8 spiritual source user in the entire alliance.
Amid the roaring and howling of the various monsters, a massive dark shadow suddenly rose from the water near the floating island.
Everyone had decent eyesight. Though it was a dark, rainy night, they could still clearly see that the enormous dark shadow rising from the depths was a giant turtle.
This giant turtle was as huge as a house, with a shell nearly ten meters long. As it surfaced, its thick limbs extended from the shell, paddling through the water as it swam toward their building.
The crowd stared at the giant turtle from a distance, expressions of astonishment on their faces.
What surprised them wasn't the giant turtle itself, but the group of people sitting or standing on its back, emerging from the water along with it.
"Who are those guys?" Ding Longyun couldn't help but exclaim. Everyone exchanged glances, feeling a sense of bewilderment.
From their current vantage point, these people all appeared to be human.
Suddenly, one of the group on the turtle's back let out a sharp shriek.
This shriek, part human voice, part beastly roar, was indescribably piercing and harsh.
With that shriek, the giant turtle's speed suddenly increased.
The various monsters that had been gathered around the floating island quickly scattered, as if afraid of the giant turtle, actively making way for it. Not a single monster dared to block its path.
Even the spiritual source beasts that had been clustered around the building either sank into the water and vanished or moved away, as if the building had suddenly become an unlucky place they wanted to avoid.
Soon, the giant turtle, carrying the group of figures on its back, approached within a hundred meters of the building.
As the distance grew shorter, everyone finally got a clear look at the true appearance of the people on the turtle's back.
They were indeed human, but with some differences from normal humans.
They were human in that they had human bodies and features, but compared to ordinary humans, they had many peculiarities.
Su Li noticed one standing figure, no more than one and a half meters tall, with the face of a child. But his bare upper body was covered in fist-sized tumors, densely packed, a sight that made one's skin crawl.
This child looked toward the building with a grinning face, scratching at the tumors with his hands, as if they itched terribly. Many of the tumors were torn open by his fingers, oozing pus, a disgustingly nauseating sight.
Beside this tumor-covered child stood a giant over two meters tall.
This was an immensely obese giant, weighing at least over four hundred jin. His entire body was layered with rolls of fat, and his face was so bloated that his eyes were squeezed into slits.
Another person was the complete opposite, skin and bones, like a dried corpse, standing on the turtle's back like a skeleton.
Most of the group of humans sitting or standing on the giant turtle's back were grotesquely deformed, exuding an eerie strangeness.
"Xuehui, can you tell what these people are?" The enemy was still far away, and Su Li's "Peeping Rune" couldn't capture information, so he had to rely on Xu Xuehui for confirmation.
"Not human."
Hearing Xu Xuehui's answer, Su Li nodded slightly. He had already vaguely guessed who these people were, and her response confirmed his suspicions.
"Once they get within thirty meters, attack immediately." Su Li raised his voice to alert everyone.
"Got it." Ding Longyun beside him replied, and voices from the thirty-second and thirty-third floors also responded.
The giant turtle was fast, drawing closer and closer to the building. By now, the spiritual source beasts that had gathered around the building had mostly dispersed, but the rain was falling harder, the wind howling, and the night was deep.
"Attack!" Su Li shouted the command.
At his order, from the thirty-first, thirty-second, and thirty-third floors, various lights and objects shot out, flying toward the giant turtle that had entered within thirty meters.
Ding Longyun opened his mouth and spat out an "Air Missile."
Among the dozens of people in Building B, many had long-range attack abilities, and those with such skills were the first to strike.
Ding Longyun's "Air Missile" flew dozens of meters before splitting into two bombs, targeting the giant turtle's head and the group on its back.
Evolved to its second form, the "Air Missile" had greatly increased power. Moreover, it could split into sub-missiles, making it even harder for enemies to defend against.
The giant turtle reacted swiftly, retracting its exposed head. The missile aimed at its head struck the water with a thunderous boom, while the one aimed at the group was blocked by the obese giant over two meters tall.
This missile hit the obese giant, sinking deep into the layers of fat on his belly, where it was enveloped and exploded. It blew a massive round bulge in his abdomen, but the fat wasn't torn open.
Besides Ding Longyun, several others had similar long-range attack skills. One could fire ice arrows, which flew thirty meters toward the group on the turtle's back.
Another could gather spiritual source between his hands to create spiritual source bombs, hurling them out. Though he could only fire one bomb at a time, and it was slower to charge than Ding Longyun's "Air Missile," the pure explosive power was even greater.
Suddenly, the skeletal, corpse-like figure crouched down, took a deep breath, and his skin-and-bones body began to swell, rapidly inflating into a human-sized ball. He opened his mouth, which split nearly to his ears, and blasted out a stream of air.
His inflated body quickly shrank back to its skeletal form, while the air from his mouth not only shattered the incoming ice arrows and detonated the spiritual source bombs mid-air, but also transformed into a series of terrifying wind blades that shot toward the crowd from twenty or thirty meters away, covering the thirty-first, thirty-second, and thirty-third floors.
The wind blades were so powerful and widespread that everyone was startled, ducking to dodge.
A cacophony of "swish, swish, swish" and "crack" sounds filled the air. The walls outside the corridor were instantly marked with crisscrossing gashes, and the window glass shattered into pieces.
By the time everyone had avoided the wind blades and stood up again, the giant turtle had already carried the twenty or thirty bizarre humans within twenty meters of the building.
On the turtle's back, the child, less than one and a half meters tall, grabbed two fist-sized tumors from his body with both hands, tore them off, and hurled the pus-oozing lumps toward the thirty-first and thirty-second floors.
Ding Longyun cursed in anger, never expecting the child's tumors to be used as weapons. He quickly opened his mouth and shot out an "Air Missile."
This missile split into sub-missiles mid-air again, guided by Ding Longyun's will, hitting the two tumors thrown by the child.
With a thunderous explosion, the tumors and air missiles detonated together in the sky, their power astonishing.
Inside Su Li's chest, the sword hilt emerged. He grabbed it with his right hand and drew the Dragon Rhinoceros Sword.
He understood that relying solely on the group's long-range attacks wouldn't stop the approaching giant turtle and the humanoid monsters on its back.
"Go down!" Su Li let out a long shout, leaped over the corridor, and charged into the raging wind and rain, landing steadily on a raft floating in front of the building.
In the water before the building, various rafts of different sizes were tied with ropes. These rafts were the group's usual water transport, typically moored in front of the building at night.
At Su Li's command, Gong Xiao, Ding Longyun, Xu Haishui, Luo Jun, Bai Wenwei, Jin Sixing, and the others from the thirty-second and thirty-third floors followed suit, vaulting over the corridor and jumping down toward the rafts below.
In an instant, at least thirty people had leaped out of the building, more than half of Building B's current occupants. These were the true elites, all gathered here.
Su Li didn't want to bring the battle inside the building. This Golden Eagle No. 1 Building B was their temporary residence. If these humanoid monsters broke in, fighting inside would cause severe damage, even endangering the building's structure.
So the best plan was to stop the giant turtle and the monsters on its back outside the building.
Just as everyone landed on the various rafts, the giant turtle charged straight at them, carrying its group of humanoid monsters.
With the turtle's speed and power, these rafts couldn't withstand it; they would be smashed to pieces in an instant.
Su Li stepped forward, facing the charging turtle, gripping the Dragon Rhinoceros Sword with both hands. Without hesitation, he unleashed the "Dragon Rhinoceros Slash."
The sword in his hands transformed into an energy form, extending instantly to a length of over three meters, slashing head-on with unmatched power.