After more than an hour of fighting, many mutants had been killed, the base was running out of ammunition, and reinforcements had not yet arrived. The battle was about to enter the melee phase.
Every security officer and soldier who was still able to move was injected with isolation agents, and weapons were distributed to civilians. If all the soldiers were killed in battle, then the men would protect the women and children; if all the men were killed in battle, then the women and children would fight to the last man.
This was the oath humanity made at the beginning of the apocalypse, and they did just that and have kept it for eighty years. Now they continue to move forward with the same determination and courage.
Luo Ning was preparing to hand Yuan You and Yuan Yan over to Wen Xi and then go to help, but to her surprise, more than twenty multi-legged arthropods and countless winged mutants appeared on Boss Jin's side. Their bodies were huge, with one being more than ten meters tall. On each arthropod, two mutants carried living people to lure the arthropods toward the base.
There are no magma zones or abysses here, so nothing can stop such a massive entity. The sound waves that could easily drive away alien species are completely ineffective in front of them.
Du Lu was stunned when he saw these arthropods. He didn't know that Boss Jin had this trick up his sleeve. Had he been exposed?
He also observed that the other followers around Boss Jin looked shocked. Obviously, they didn't know about this. It must have been Boss Jin's personal act. He hadn't really trusted any of them.
Faced with these multi-legged arthropods capable of destroying the entire base, Lu Xinghe ordered snipers to shoot off the mutants on their heads while simultaneously launching a heavy attack from the armed helicopters. However, due to interference from the winged aliens, the armed helicopters were also destroyed and crashed.
"Are there any more bombs? I'm fast, I can go and blow them up," Luo Ning said without hesitation.
Lu Xinghe looked at her and thought of the day she escaped from the base. She had done the same thing. It turned out that whether she remembered or not, she would have made the same choice.
“Yes, I’ll go with you,” he replied. This time, he wouldn’t let her face it alone.
Luo Ning stopped him: "I can go alone. I'm a mutant, so it's hard for me to be discovered."
"Then smear some of your blood on me, so it will be harder for me to be discovered." Lu Xinghe looked at her firmly, and before she could react, he cut open her palm and smeared the blood on his own body.
"Put some on for me too, I'll go too," Song Pei said as he walked over.
“Me too.” Meng Tingyao Cheng also raised his hand.
"And me too."
"And me too."
The young security officers responded enthusiastically. They needed blood not because they were afraid of dying, but because they were afraid of dying before they even got close to the centipedes.
Looking at these young faces, Luo Ning was also excited. In the end, Song Pei was left behind by Lu Xinghe to continue directing the defense, while the others smeared themselves with blood and picked up bombs to kill the centipedes.
After doing all this, Lu Xinghe hugged Luo Ning and said, "No matter what, you must live. If humanity is ultimately lost, you must live well with the children."
There is hope as long as you are alive.
Seeing his resolute expression, Luo Ning couldn't help but tiptoe and kiss him on the lips: "You have to live too, I have no intention of becoming a widow."
She said the last sentence with a hint of shyness, but she wanted him to live.
Lu Xinghe was stunned for a moment, then smiled with relief. Her personality was still the same as always. He opened his mouth but didn't know how to answer her. Finally, he said, "I... I'll try."
This operation wasn't about killing a lot of arthropods and mutants, but about buying time for the bombers from the northern base to arrive. So many aliens could only be burned to death with white phosphorus bombs.
Luo Ning was the fastest, and when she rushed towards the centipede, she attracted the attention of Boss Jin and his men. Immediately, mutants surrounded her, but she nimbly weaved among them, leaving them only afterimages.
"Hu San, go and take care of her," Jin Laoda ordered.
"Yes," Hu San replied. He was the fastest man around Boss Jin.
As soon as Hu San left, the seat next to Boss Jin became empty, and Du Lu approached quietly.
Luo Ning quickly approached the first centipede. One of the two mutants on the insect's head had already been killed by a sniper, while the other was hiding behind the insect's head. The human hanging from the insect's head had also bled to death.
Seeing this, Luo Ning felt a pang of pain in her heart. She then used her throwing knife to cut the rope, causing the human to fall. The arthropod sensed this and stopped, opening its mouth to eat the human. Taking advantage of this moment, she threw a bomb into its mouth. With a muffled thud, the arthropod's head was blown apart and it died.
Just as she was about to kill the second one, an extremely fast figure pounced on her. It was a mutant with fox ears, and the two quickly became entangled in a fight.
At this time, Lu Xinghe and the other security officers had also arrived at the centipedes they were going to kill. Some of them, like Luo Ning, used dead people as bait to lure the centipedes to their deaths, while others used their own bodies. However, not everyone was like Luo Ning. Some people used their bodies as projectiles and were eaten by the centipedes, perishing together with them. Those who survived were quickly surrounded and attacked by the mutants.
After killing one arthropod, Lu Xinghe immediately went to deal with the others. He quickly dodged and weaved among these alien insects, moving at an extremely fast speed. After taking down three of them, he suddenly saw Du Lu.
Du Lu was standing behind Boss Jin, his knife aimed fiercely at Boss Jin's head, while Boss Jin seemed completely unprepared for Du Lu's attack.
Lu Xinghe sensed something was wrong; someone who could lead so many mutants would never be so careless.
Du Lu knew this, but he couldn't wait any longer. Just as his knife was about to pierce Boss Jin, countless sharp thorns suddenly burst out from Boss Jin's body and pierced through Du Lu's body.
Jin Laoda is not a completely humanoid mutant, but a rare genetically modified human and porcupine. He can usually hide his quills, which is why others cannot detect his animalistic nature.
Du Lu felt a sharp pain in his body, as if a thousand arrows were piercing him, but he quickly became numb. Jin Laoda's thorns were poisonous, so he immediately retreated to try to get rid of Jin Laoda, but Jin Laoda turned around and grabbed his neck tightly.
"You really did betray us," Boss Jin said with a sneer.
Blood was gushing from Du Lu's body as he coughed and said, "I have never joined you, so how can you say I have betrayed you?"
Boss Jin nodded: "Then you really have a pity. If you sincerely follow me, you will definitely have a good life in the future. I am very curious why you are still on the side of humans. Even if you didn't know who would win or lose before, can't you see it now?"
Du Luyi sneered: "Of course I can see that humanity will win."
"You're mistaken. Listen, there's no more gunfire from the humans. They've run out of bullets."
Du Lu listened and indeed the gunfire had stopped, but the shouts of humans could be heard. Hundreds of soldiers rushed out of the defense line and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the mutants. Blood stained the land by the sea, and the alien species in the sea were attracted and thrashed and leaped. The air was filled with the aura of death, but not a single person retreated.
The men in the defense camp were already gathering. An Yuan and Han Ling also picked up their knives. They looked at each other and then smiled calmly. For the past year, they had been cooperating with each other, refusing to admit defeat, but in the final moments of their lives, they chose to let go.
Du Lu looked at the humans fighting the aliens with their flesh and blood, and laughed disdainfully at Boss Jin: "They've run out of bullets, but you can forget about them living to be enslaved by you."
After saying that, he ignored the poisonous thorns on Boss Jin's body and slammed his fists down on Boss Jin's body again.
Seeing that he was still able to move despite being poisoned, Jin immediately let go and retreated, but was still hit by Du Lu and spat out a mouthful of blood.
Du Lu exhausted his last bit of strength and collapsed to the ground, numb. The others around Boss Jin rushed over, wanting to be the first to kill him and claim credit. However, a figure rushed in and dragged Du Lu out of their encirclement.
Du Lu thought he was going to die, but unexpectedly someone saved him. When he looked up, he saw Lu Xinghe.
The mutants quickly caught up, and Lu Xinghe fired a shot without saying a word. The mutant hit by the shot died instantly, and the others dared not pursue them, knowing the power of genetic weapons.
But they didn't know that the bullet they had just fired was the last one in Lu Xinghe's gun.
Taking advantage of the mutant's momentary daze, Lu Xinghe hoisted Du Lu onto his shoulder and hid behind a dead arthropod, using the arthropod's massive body as cover.
"You should leave, I've been poisoned." Du Lu didn't want to implicate Lu Xinghe.
Lu Xinghe drew his knife: "Open your mouth, I'll give you my blood. You're a mutant, you've forgotten."
Even the weakest alien species is still an alien species, possessing the ability to heal itself. As long as human flesh and blood are added, the recovery speed can be accelerated.
Du Lu was stunned for a moment. It wasn't that he had forgotten; rather, his subconscious kept reminding him that he had once been human and a security officer, which was why he subconsciously rejected Lu Xinghe's blood.
After Lu Xinghe cut open his arm, he let the blood drip into Du Lu's mouth. Du Lu's eyes became terrifying upon tasting human blood, as appetite is something that is difficult for aliens to control.
"Get back on your feet, think about Wenxi and the child," Lu Xinghe reminded him.
Upon hearing this, Du Lu clenched his fists tightly, and his appetite gradually subsided. The arthropods around him turned and gathered in his direction after smelling the human blood.
Upon seeing the movement of the arthropods, Luo Ning instinctively sensed that something had happened. She deliberately injured herself to create an opening for Hu San, then killed him and ran towards the area where the arthropods were gathered.
As she ran over, she saw that Lu Xinghe's arm was bleeding. Exhausted, she couldn't help but swallow hard. His blood tasted so sweet. At this moment, he was giving his blood to a strange mutant. But Lu Xinghe had said that he would only give her his blood.
The mutant looked somewhat uncomfortable when he saw her, and even pushed Lu Xinghe as if they had done something to wrong her.
Looking at his handsome and wicked appearance, and then at Lu Xinghe's concerned gaze towards this mutant, Luo Ning couldn't help but start imagining all sorts of things. But she immediately shook her head; this was a romance novel, after all.
After being pushed by Du Lu, Lu Xinghe noticed Luo Ning and immediately said to her, "Prepare to retreat, the bombers are almost here." He then helped Du Lu up.
"Who is he?" Luo Ning asked.
“He is Du Lu,” Lu Xinghe replied.
So this man is Wenxi's husband, Xiaoxiao's father. But why did he seem so guilty when he saw her? He made her overthink things.
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