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However, this time, the players' strength was clearly stronger than that of the remaining Underground City players, and as they soared in power through constant killing and leveling up in battle, one city after another was reclaimed. The Underground City players were forced to retreat step by step, and in the end, they were all driven back into the Underground City.
With that, Huaxia's counteroffensive had achieved a comprehensive victory. Some even began to launch proactive attacks into the Underground City. However, as time went by, the levels of the Underground City players grew lower, and with their turn to guerrilla warfare, running around erratically, the gains were too meager for the human players to bother much further.
In comparison to other places, the Underground City of Vermilion Bird fared much better. Yi Zheng treated it as his personal vegetable garden, forbidding players from Vermilion Bird City to wreak havoc inside, so life there was relatively peaceful.
