After Nan Yu finished explaining the mission, Lu Ning and the others silently finished their canned food. Nan Yu then arranged for them to rest in shifts.

"Lu Ning, you and I will be on night duty for the first two hours..."

Before Nan Yu could finish speaking, Dennis quickly interjected, "Captain! I'm full of energy, I'll keep watch for Captain Lu!"

He chuckled at Lu Ning and said, "Captain Lu, you get some rest. I'll keep watch tonight!"

Xu Hui, standing to the side, looked completely taken aback. How could he not have thought of this?

Nan Yu was speechless. He secretly glanced at the others, coughed, and asked, "Is there anyone who wants to keep watch for me?"

The air was quiet. People were either leaning against the wheels of their cars, or had taken out their sleeping bags, and some had already crawled into their vehicles to rest.

Nan Yu: "???"

Lu Ning glanced at Dennis, then looked at Nan Yu: "Then I'll go and rest."

"Go on, go on." Nan Yu waved his hand listlessly.

Lu Ning climbed into the back seat of Colin's SUV and lay down to sleep when Eileen knocked on the window and said with a smile, "Lu Ning, do you mind if I lean against the front seat?"

Shirley also came over and said with a smile, "I also want to rest in the front row."

Lu Ning nodded: "Okay."

The two thanked him and sat down in the front seats of the SUV to rest.

…………

In the dead of night, a voice rang out: "Everyone, get up quickly, something's up!"

Lu Ning suddenly opened his eyes, as did Shirley and Eileen in the front row.

The three jumped out of the SUV and found that everyone else had also gotten up.

Xu Hui was currently lying on the earthen wall, while Dennis had a somewhat serious expression.

The sound we just heard was from him.

Nan Yu frowned and asked, "Dennis, what's wrong?"

Dennis said, "Captain, I sensed a number of energy entities approaching. These energy entities have a high level of mental pollution and should be infected individuals."

Cheng Yue's expression changed slightly, and he leaped onto the earthen wall.

Then he opened his mouth and emitted sound waves that were inaudible to ordinary people.

The sound waves spread, and the detection began.

After a short while, Cheng Yue frowned and said, "Captain, dozens of objects are rapidly approaching, but they don't seem to be living beings. Their body structure is different from that of normal organisms and diseased individuals; they look more like diseased machines."

"A diseased machine?" Nan Yu frowned. "Which direction did it come from?"

“This direction…” Cheng Yue pointed ahead, then seemed to realize something, his expression changing slightly: “Captain, this is the direction of that town!”

Nan Yu remembered that Cheng Yue had told him before that there was a small town five kilometers away in this direction.

"The mutated machines use radar to explore their surroundings, and their perception capabilities are much higher than those of normal mutated humans and calamity beasts. It's not surprising that they can detect us from this far away..."

“We haven’t seen any diseased machinery in a long time. If this town has any, we’ll have to report it,” Lin Menglan said.

After all, once a diseased machine develops mechanical intelligence, it can easily take advantage of the machine's unique characteristics to begin mass production of similar machines.

If this continues, it could easily lead to disaster.

Therefore, any diseased machinery is removed immediately upon discovery.

Nan Yu opened the map and glanced at it, then said, "This area was cleared before; it must have been infected machines that migrated from elsewhere."

Before Nan Yu could say anything more, Cheng Yue reminded him, "Captain, we're almost there, less than 500 meters away."

The next moment, beams of blue light shot across the sky, illuminating the dark night.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The earthen wall kept shaking, and chunks of earth fell down.

However, even after being hit by a volley of fire, the earthen wall remained sturdy.

One can imagine how sturdy the earthen walls Lin Menglan built were.

Dennis, who was standing nearby, said, "The energy response is not high. The highest-ranking leader is only at the fifth level, and there are three of them. The rest are all at the fourth level."

Just then, a ball of fire shot rapidly from a distance.

This caused Dennis and the others' expressions to change.

"Holy crap?! A missile?"

Even the physical body of a fifth-tier awakened being cannot withstand a missile.

Just as everyone was about to take cover, Nan Yu reached out and grasped the missile.

The missile seemed to be pulled straight down by some force, landing some distance from the earthen wall and exploding with a loud bang.

"Counterattack!"

Nan Yu's expression was cold and stern. Ignoring gravity, he took to the air and flew rapidly towards the direction from which the attack came.

Eileen appeared on the earthen wall, her body crackling with lightning.

She reached out and grabbed, and a purple lightning spear appeared in her hand.

She reached out and hurled the spear. A flash of purple lightning streaked across it, and it struck the ground some distance away with a deafening roar.

At the same time, Xu Hui also conjured a huge fireball in his hand.

The fireball, carrying intense heat, resembled a miniature sun.

He threw the fireball, which also produced a roar.

Lu Ning and the others jumped onto the wall.

As soon as he jumped onto the wall, Lu Ning saw lightning flashing and flames raging in the distant forest.

The twisted mechanical figures looked particularly ferocious and sinister under the firelight.

These diseased machines suffered considerable casualties under the attacks of Xu Hui and Eileen, both sixth-tier awakened beings.

However, this did not stop their attacks.

They charged through the lightning and fire, unleashing beams of energy and storms of metal.

Just then, a figure appeared in the sky above them.

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