Apocalypse Beginning: I’m Pregnant with the Blackened Male Lead’s Child

After one night’s sleep, Su Wan wakes up to find she’s transmigrated into an apocalypse novel—as the vicious side character who starts off by stealing the female lead’s space, cruelly tortu...

Chapter 73: Cutting off the firewood from under the cauldron

The night wind howled, mixed with a strong smell of gunpowder, and bullets occasionally brushed past my ears, setting off a series of sparks.

"Xiao Han is over there, his firepower is very strong!" Su Wan pointed to the front left, where the wind was howling and a green light was faintly flashing.

Lu Shiyan's eyes flashed, his arm muscles tensed, and he suddenly exerted force with the arm that was around Su Wan's waist, carrying her across the uneven roof.

His speed was so fast that the gunmen who were trying to intercept him just raised their guns and felt a gust of wind blowing past. Bullets followed him and hit the empty space sporadically, and the target had already disappeared behind the next cover.

"Damn it! They're on the roof! Hurry! Stop them!" An angry roar came from below.

More figures rushed to the roof of the warehouse from all directions, obviously intending to trap them here completely.

"Boom!" With a loud noise, an iron sentry post not far away was blown away by the violent wind blade, and fragments flew everywhere.

Xiao Han's figure then appeared, but one of his hands hung limply, and his shoulder blade was dark red, obviously injured.

He was being besieged by seven or eight psychics and enemies armed with homemade guns. Although the wind blades were fierce, the other side was outnumbered and Xiao Han could hardly hold on.

"Xiao Han!" Su Wan couldn't help but shout.

When Xiao Han heard the voice, he turned around abruptly and saw Lu Shiyan and Su Wan. He was delighted at first, but then he saw the crowd of people chasing after him. His face turned pale again: "Damn it! Did you two stir up a hornet's nest? The number of people is too exaggerated!"

Lu Shiyan had brought Su Wan to his side, "Can you still move?"

"I won't die!" Xiao Han gritted his teeth, sweat all over his forehead, "Damn it, these bastards are like mad dogs! But compared to what you did just now, my injury is nothing."

Lu Shiyan looked around and saw that the enemy had formed a siege. People kept climbing up from the edge of the roof, and the black muzzles of their guns flashed dangerously. There were at least fifty or sixty people, and the number was still increasing.

"Have you taken everything in the warehouse?" Xiao Han asked Su Wan, panting heavily, with a gleam in his eyes. Even in this dangerous situation, he was still concerned about the harvest.

Su Wan nodded, her face a little pale due to excessive mental exhaustion: "Almost done, 70% collected, enough for us to use for a long time."

"That's good! Then let's hurry up..." Xiao Han didn't finish his words.

Lu Shiyan suddenly said, "We can't just leave like this."

Su Wan and Xiao Han were both stunned.

"No one here can be left alive." Lu Shiyan's eyes were deep and calm, as if he was stating something that was extremely common. "Not only must this place be destroyed, but Scorpion's power is greater than Lei Lao Hu expected, and the things in the arsenal are beyond imagination. Leaving anyone alive will only lead to endless troubles."

Xiao Han took a breath and looked at Lu Shiyan's calm profile. This is no longer a simple breakout, this is... clearing the area! You are the most ruthless, Lu Shiyan.

Su Wan's heart skipped a beat, but she didn't object. In this end times, being kind to the enemy is being cruel to yourself. She tightly grasped the corner of Lu Shiyan's clothes.

"Then... shall we start?"

Su Wan asked in a low voice, his palms sticky and full of sweat.

There were so many enemies, and they were still increasing in number. But when I thought of the munitions I had just harvested, I felt an inexplicable excitement in my heart.

Lu Shiyan cast his gaze towards the warehouse beneath their feet. "To remove the firewood from under the cauldron, we must remove it thoroughly. I have already placed explosives in the weapons depot, but it is not enough to clear the area."

He looked at Su Wan: "The weapons you collected earlier should have contained high explosives or timing devices?"

"Yes! Several boxes of grenades and some explosives!"

"Very good." A stern look flashed in Lu Shiyan's eyes. "Xiao Han, you are injured, responsible for vigilance and long-range support. Su Wan, throw all explosives and flammable materials back to different locations in the warehouse through the vents, especially near the load-bearing structure."

His plan was simple but crazy - blow up the entire weapons depot and completely wipe out these enemies, along with this stronghold, from the map!

"Understood!" Xiao Han and Su Wan responded at the same time.

Although Xiao Han was injured, his fighting spirit remained undiminished: "Damn it, today I'll let these bastards see what a fireworks display is!"

"Those people..." Xiao Han looked at the increasing number of enemies gathering on the roof and hesitated.

"I'll take care of it." Lu Shiyan's tone was indifferent, as if those living beings were no different from ants in his eyes.

He turned to Su Wan and said, "Give me some of the grenades."

Su Wan immediately took out a box of grenades from the space and handed it to him.

Lu Shiyan took it and gestured with his eyes to a commanding point on a roof not far away, where several enemies were setting up a simple machine gun.

"I'll go deal with them and buy you some time." He moved and disappeared into the night.

"Sister Su Wan, hurry!" Xiao Han urged. He endured the severe pain in his shoulder blade and tried his best to condense a few tiny wind blades with his left hand, which he threw at the nearest enemy. The accuracy and power were much worse than usual, but he still successfully blocked the opponent.

Su Wan gritted her teeth, and despite the dizziness caused by the mental exhaustion, she quickly came to the ventilation hole that Lu Shiyan had opened before. She carefully identified the load-bearing columns and key structures of the warehouse below, and then threw the explosives, grenades, and several barrels of gasoline in the space towards those locations with all her strength.

She moves quickly, and each throw is carefully calculated to ensure maximum destructive effect.

On the other side, Lu Shiyan did not choose to fight hard, but instead used the complex structure and shadows of the roof to move quickly.

Wherever they went, they could hear screams and the sound of heavy objects falling.

The green vines silently wrapped around the enemy's neck like a poisonous snake, strangling him in an instant.

The scarlet flaming dagger drew strange arcs in the dark night, taking away lives one after another.

Occasionally, an enemy with quick reactions would fire back, but the bullets would always glide past the corners of his clothes. The few bullets that were close to him were also knocked away by a layer of wooden armor as thin as a cicada's wing and with light green patterns that suddenly appeared on his body surface, making a dull sound.

Su Wan was shocked... Is this an upgrade of the wood ability? Armor?

In just a few minutes, the noisy gunfire and shouting on the roof became much less frequent.

When Lu Shiyan's figure reappeared beside Su Wan and Xiao Han, there was a faint smell of blood on him.

"How's the arrangement going?" he asked Su Wan.

Su Wan wiped the sweat from his forehead. His face was as pale as paper, but his eyes were unusually bright. "Alright! The warehouse is now a huge powder keg! I guarantee that Scorpion will never forget this night!"

"Very good." Lu Shiyan nodded with satisfaction and took out a remote-controlled detonator from his arms, which Su Wan had just given him along with the explosives.

He glanced at the flickering flames and chaotic figures in the factory below and said coldly, "The Scorpion people should all be concentrated around here."

Xiao Han sneered: "This is a really big deal! I guess the noise can be heard for miles around."

Lu Shiyan said no more nonsense, turned his gaze to Su Wan, and his voice softened unconsciously for a moment: "Be prepared, the shock wave of the explosion will be very large, hold on to me."

Su Wan nodded vigorously, took the initiative to move closer, and tightly grasped his arm. She could feel the warmth coming from Lu Shiyan's body, which calmed her nervous mood a little.

Lu Shiyan held Su Wan with one hand and raised the detonator with the other.

He glanced across the chaotic battlefield, then looked at Xiao Han: "Are you ready?"

Although Xiao Han was injured, his eyes were full of excitement at the moment: "Come on! Let these grandsons see what a real big scene is!"

Lu Shiyan's lips curled up in a cold arc and his thumb pressed on the detonation button.