Chapter 3 Bloodthirsty "You're dying"

The air was instantly filled with panic.

Amidst the lingering aftershocks, Feng Lan immediately turned over and landed in the crowd. His eyes flashed with fluorescence, and the air around him flipped in a strange pattern. High-frequency waves vibrated out, and a protective barrier rose from the ground.

"Aliens can absorb fear and transform it into superpowers, everyone, control your emotions!"

"Those who can mobilize their special abilities to resist the energy wave, do so quickly. Mechanics, go open the door, and the rest of you, provide cover fire!"

Suddenly, the team that was in chaos just now became orderly. A girl with two buns jumped out of the crowd, picked up a machine gun, and fired at the aliens that were madly hitting the protective barrier!

Xu An was startled by her sudden action and couldn't help but look at her a few more times, then he saw another green thorn flying towards him.

Xu An's heart moved, but she did not stop it. She saw the green thorn pass by her face and pierce the mechanic who was carrying equipment to the door behind her.

A thorn pierced his throat, and blood gushed out, spraying on Xu An's face. Xu An looked at him silently, silently wiped the blood off his face with his hand, and then gently licked his fingers.

The mechanic was speechless, his eyes wide open, and he slowly knelt on the ground. Just as the medical staff approached, the green thorns that pierced his flesh suddenly grew into thin strips, and were about to wave at the medical staff who came forward, but were blocked by several bullets.

Xu An looked up and saw Yang Gui with a frown behind the frightened medical staff.

He punched in a number from a distance, and Xu An connected to the corresponding frequency. His angry roar soon reached his earphones: "Xu An, what are you doing! Why did you deliberately avoid Green Thorn? Don't you know how much resources it takes to train a mechanic at the base?"

Xu An's ears hurt from the shock. She rubbed them gently through the uncomfortable protective suit and said slowly, "I was frightened and fainted. I couldn't stop it."

"Scared to death?" Yang Gui sneered through the headset. "That speed isn't even as fast as a Wuhang person's second-level assessment. Xu An, you'd better not return alive, or I will definitely report you to the commander for deliberately killing the mechanic and licking his blood."

Xu An's eyes flashed, "Thank you for your help."

After saying that, she cut off the communication, twisted the wrench with her fingertips, and shot into the side of the alien's neck, exploding with brilliant colors. After the alien fell to the ground, a round core with a dark glow slowly appeared on the side of its neck.

The bloody smell filled the airtight room. The power of the protective shield gradually weakened, and piles of alien corpses were piled up outside.

"Why isn't the door open yet?"

There were constant screams in the crowd, and box after box of energy doses were emptied. Several medical staff were distressed but kept injecting the doses without stopping.

"The last bit can't be broken open. That damn alien is using its superpowers to suppress it!" A female voice came from behind, "We have to use superpowers to suppress it!"

Feng Lan immediately withdrew his hand: "Yang Gui, you hold it, I'll go."

After hearing this, Xu An just stretched out his hand and saw Feng Lan flying away from him like the wind, and an alluring smell of supernatural power slowly spread in the air.

Xu An silently withdrew his hand that was hanging in the air and began to count down in his heart.

Soon, the heavy sound of a door opening was heard, and everyone ran out with joy, carrying supplies. Standing in the backlight at the doorway were several heavy combat mechas.

Xu An's eyes lit up.

The eyes of the girl with the buns beside her also lit up. She pounced on the mecha almost the moment she saw it, and jumped into it in a few steps. "Start identification, activate immediately."

The other gravity bodies detected the nearby drivers and quickly floated over automatically.

"Everyone else retreat immediately, use the gravity body to provide cover!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of heavy mecha's strafing nearly shattered his eardrums. Amid the countless volleys of bullets, Yang Gui rolled and leaped, half-kneeling on the shoulders of the double-ball girl's gravity body. After the last team member escaped, he accurately threw the grenade in his hand into the building.

Dust and smoke filled the sky along with a loud noise. The crowd cheered continuously, carried the supplies onto the loading trucks, and returned to their original positions.

Xu An looked at the porter who had already started humming a war song, his mouth twitching slightly. While standing on the loader, he still looked at the building filled with ash with a serious expression.

But soon, her deep eyes lit up again. A mech, twice the height of an adult man, gleaming silver-gray in the light, was hovering over them. It was a shame there was a half-meter-long scratch on the mech's arm; otherwise, it would have been a truly beautiful treasure.

A girl with two buns came down from above and jumped in front of Xu An. She raised her hand and waved at her already dazed face, "Hey, what are you looking at?"

Looking at a pair of tender but calloused hands waving in front of him, Xu An shifted his gaze from the mecha with difficulty, and saw Yang Gui walking towards him with an unclear expression.

"Jie Shuqin, play for a while. I have something to say to her."

Hearing this, Xu An silently reached for his leg bag with his fingertips. Before he could move, he heard Shuangwanzi stomping his feet. "Why? Yang Gui, although I'm only 18 years old, I have five years of frontline combat experience. I'm considered your senior. Why do you treat me like a child?"

"Besides, if I hadn't caught you just now, you would have fallen flat on your face, and my baby would have even had a cut on his face!"

The treasure she was talking about should be the extremely beautiful mecha just now.

Listening to their quarrels, Xu An couldn't muster much interest except for the beautiful mecha. He silently put a candy in his mouth and leaned aside.

Yang Gui glanced at her silently, then looked at Jie Shuqin helplessly, "Please be kind, ancestor, I will just say a few words."

Xie Shuqin was so happy that she skipped to the mechanic and described the "miserable appearance" of the mecha in vivid detail. After being rolled eyes by the mechanic several times, she sat down in her seat angrily and wiped her machine gun.

After seeing off the ancestors, Yang Gui's face darkened and he stood beside Xu An.

"Are you interested in blood?" Yang Gui said straight to the point, "Only alien species would be obsessed with blood. Were you bitten by an alien species?"

This precedent existed at the very beginning of the New Era. When humans were infected with genes from alien species, they would undergo a certain degree of alienation. If the invasion was too extensive, their bodies would gradually become alienated until they became alien species.

Yang Gui once witnessed this scene with his own eyes, and because of this reason, he received psychological treatment for six consecutive years before returning to the front line.

Xu An didn't say anything, so Yang Gui continued to ask, "Was it the thirst for blood that made you deliberately kill the mechanic?"

"When were you bitten by the alien? To what extent have you been transformed? Does Dr. Yin know about this?"

His questions came one after another, making Xu An feel dizzy. Just as she was about to speak, a strange wave of emotion hit her head.

Xu An loosened his leg wrap, snorted softly, and looked casually into the distance, "I'm not alienated. Besides, you're dying."

Yang Gui was stunned by what he said. He looked in the direction his gaze was pointing. Not far away, dust was blown up into a storm by the wind. Dark clouds pressed down on the horizon and exploded muffledly. The sky, which had been bright just now, suddenly became gloomy. In the darkness, a ray of light grew brighter and brighter, and flew towards Yang Gui.

“…”

It was the bomb he threw before leaving.

Seeing that the thunder bombs were approaching the loader at an alarming speed, Yang Gui quickly mobilized his special powers, and piles of low walls rose from the ground, but they were penetrated by the thunder bombs, and the speed increased instead of decreasing.

“… Holy shit?”

Xu An looked at his dumbfounded expression, feeling somewhat gloating. "I was just about to say this when I opened the door. Using your superpowers will make the alien species mistake you for intruders, stimulating their will to attack. The stronger the superpower fluctuations, the stronger the alien species' will to attack."

"Why didn't you say so earlier?!" Yang Gui fiddled with the headset helplessly. As soon as he finished speaking, he was slapped on the head.

The short-haired woman sitting not far away sat cross-legged on the ground, carrying a heavy mechanical box in one hand.

Her fingertips wandered in the messy toolbox, and through the black gloves, one could see the blue veins bulging from excessive force.

Seeing the bomb getting closer, she calmly withdrew her hand and pressed the switch with a thunder.

Almost instantly, a flash of fire appeared behind the loader, and the next second the jet engine responded immediately. The Gobi rocks around it flew backwards suddenly, and the team members wearing seat belts in the car almost hit their heads.

The bomb that was following closely behind had disappeared, and so had Yang Gui, who had just been standing beside him.

Xu An released his grip on the railing and looked around. Suddenly, in the cab right in front of him, Feng Lan came over with a gloomy face, carrying Yang Gui, who was lying on the ground, and threw him onto the seat with disgust.

"Don't think you can avoid paying for those sodas by pretending to be dead!"

Yang Gui resigned himself to his fate and climbed up. He took off his soda-soaked jacket and fished out a few red bills from his inner pocket, muttering secretly, "Little brats are always troublesome."

Seeing that the problem was solved, the short-haired woman packed up her toolbox, carried the box and returned to her seat, ignoring Xu An's glowing eyes.

Before Xu An's eyes faded, she saw a tender yet calloused hand. The girl with the swaying buns shouted at her, "Xu An, you're wasting resources again!"

“…”

However, Xu An was too lazy to argue with her about whether it was a waste of resources. She withdrew her gaze from the dazzling black mechanical toolbox and looked silently at Feng Lan.

Afterwards, Xu An smiled faintly, and a strange wind blew in the car, lifting her long hair. Immediately afterwards, everyone's heart trembled for some reason, and they looked at each other in confusion. Before they could say anything, a feeling of dizziness inexplicably came over them.

The piercing whistle of a mechanical malfunction echoed in his ears. His head was groggy, and everything in front of him was white, as if his hands weren't hands, his feet weren't feet. Before Feng Lan could even get back to the driver's seat, he tumbled to his knees. With difficulty, he lifted his eyelids, and in the alternating black and white, he saw a cloud of dust rising slowly in the distance.

He took a quick step and suddenly woke up.

"Alien species?"

Behind the loading truck, a dense mass of wriggling bodies splattered with blood rushed towards them with the storm, and so did the dense forest from before.

Feng Lan paused.

He had been on the front lines for seven years and had never witnessed anything like this. Even with his vision still blurry, he could vaguely see the layers of fat piled up on the towering creature's body, constantly leaking blood-red flesh and black, unidentified dust. With every step it moved, the fat on its body trembled.

Besides the flying trees beside the monster, there was also something Feng Lan was very familiar with - a gnat.

But what shocked Feng Lan even more wasn't the gnats scattered all over the ground, but the way the monster rapidly squirmed its body, trailing a long trail of foaming, steaming green slurry. And after being infinitely crushed, the slurry slowly rose up, then transformed into tentacles and a head emitting green light...

A gnat, this thing actually "born" from the tail??!

Feng Lan widened his eyes. The discomfort in his body was not worth mentioning at this moment. This was simply unbelievable and unheard of!

No wonder there are no other alien species around except the nitidous dogs. It turns out that they were scared away by this thing. But the most important thing now is to take the chips and supplies and leave first.

Thinking of this, Feng Lan struggled to get up. As soon as he stood up, he suddenly felt dizzy again. His legs bent and he fell directly to the ground.

Suddenly, a hand supported him, preventing Feng Lan from hitting his head on the ground. He said thank you with difficulty, but just as he finished thanking, he suddenly realized something was wrong.

The dizziness rushed straight to the team members' heads, and they were all dizzy and vomiting. At this time, who else could not be affected?

Feng Lan raised his head in horror, but the person who supported him was Xu An, who was smiling innocently.

Xu An tilted his head, a strand of hair falling from his shoulder to his chest, "You're welcome."

Feng Lan immediately shook off her hand.

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