Chapter 67 A Feast for Insects
There were so many enemies on the ground that Qi An had the illusion that she was falling into a sea of pollution.
Yu Shuang crouched behind her, trying to grab her, but his arm missed the grab because it was pecked hard by a bird.
In a fit of rage, Yu Shuang grabbed the bird and insect, held it close to his chest, and fired!
She had never dared to touch the Fallen Insects before. During her training, her instructors always emphasized that the principle of fighting Fallen Insects was to stay away.
Only truly elite warriors, whose physical and mental enhancements are far beyond the reach of ordinary people, can even contemplate hand-to-hand combat with the Fallen Insects.
Before she knew it, she seemed to have become the "elite warrior" in the instructors' eyes, only participating in the most elite battles.
This is because of Qi An.
When Yu Shuang scattered the birds and insects, people also rushed down to the tree.
However, several birds swooped down, dragging, bumping, or snatching away at Qi An, slowing his descent slightly.
In that short time, Qi An underwent a 65% mutation. A tentacle extended from between his two fingers, only a short section of which protruded and pierced directly into the tree trunk!
Even with the urgent whistle, the flock of birds scattered immediately when she made her sudden change. Wu Han, on another tree, was stunned for a moment, and then horrified!
But then he saw Qi An's body stop moving.
It was too dark around him, and the small flashlight hanging on his gun was just a regular model, so the beam couldn't reach very far.
He only vaguely saw Qi An's falling momentum stop, and it wasn't until Yu Shuang shone her flashlight down that he confirmed Qi An was hanging on the tree trunk.
Wu Han's heart felt like it had jumped out of his chest, but then it fell back down with a "thud".
He was somewhat dazed, isolating himself from everything else, treating it all with indifference, as if it had been a very long time since he had felt such intense concern and fear for outsiders.
Qi An was also terrified, so much so that the change from 20% to 65% pollution was so rapid!
But she still had reason. After her tentacle pierced the tree trunk, she immediately drew her sword with her other hand and inserted it into the tree trunk as well.
The blade was so sharp that her body slid down a bit.
After sliding down to a height of only 4 or 5 meters above the ground, she quickly swerved the blade and clamped her legs tightly around the tree trunk!
The enemy on the ground pounced at that moment.
Zhao Bohan stood a few dozen meters north of Qi An's tree, holding a flashlight, its bright beam pointing the way for the enemy.
The polluted waves crashed against him without hesitation, and the first swarm of wolves howled and pounced on him!
However, as soon as he reached the tree where Wu Han and the others were, his momentum slowed down.
The first two wolf-like insects successfully leaped across the wide gap between the two trees, but a few seconds after they leaped, their bodies were split into several pieces.
The slices of meat, propelled by inertia, traced a staggered, stepped pattern in the air, while green blood arced gracefully before splashing onto the ground.
As the meat fell to the ground, the wolves behind and to the sides, unable to stop in time, all rushed forward along the same path and were sliced into pieces of the same thickness.
The insect jumped extremely high, leaping over the danger zone, and successfully reached the base of Qi'an's tree.
The result was another round of cutting.
At Qi An's feet, right before his eyes, irregular pieces of meat flew about.
Although this layer of nano-defense lines is higher and denser than the previous layer, it is uneven, with some layers flat and others slanted, and the height difference between different layers is outrageous, which is a serious failure!
But this layer still blocked just as many of the fallen insects!
The wolves charged from different directions, forming a large fan-shaped arc. However, every few meters between two trees on this arc, there were fine, invisible nano-blade lines stretched taut.
The overwhelming momentum of this charge was shattered and scattered.
But the wolf worms are just the vanguard; the mutated fallen worm army behind them still has a mighty momentum!
They've changed direction. Qi An clearly sensed that the main force had split into two streams, intending to bypass this arc and attack from both sides at a more oblique angle!
There weren't many birds and insects left, but they weren't nearly all killed. Some swooped down towards Zhao Bohan and his group, while others searched for the other team members' hiding places.
Besides them, among the vanguard insects that act as the tip of the blade, there are also smaller insects or those with high intelligence and quick reflexes that have already squeezed through the gaps in the blade or used the tree trunk as a springboard to jump over the barrier of death.
Another dark figure slipped underground!
The thick fog seemed to be just a thin layer of safety film, but the insects in all shapes and sizes, their figures and the bony spikes on their tentacles, were about to completely tear this film apart!
Qi An had already jumped down from the tree.
As she landed, four guided air-dropped bombs flew out from the left swarm of insects in the distance, splitting the insects into four segments and turning the fallen insects into four bright orange flowers!
Less than 100 meters away from where Zhao Bohan and the others were, a grenade was thrown out with its fuse pulled, and a line of fire was ignited in an arc of more than 20 meters!
The Southeast Squad has powerful weapons like portable flamethrowers, so wouldn't they carry spare fuel?
The same method was used on the other side. Even though the ordinary combat drones of the Southeast Squad were instantly destroyed by something when they made their appearance, the remaining four automatically guided air-dropped bombs still exploded.
From the moment Qi An landed until he ran out and shot a small, hedgehog-like fallen insect, the number of this massive insect swarm decreased from over 300 to less than 100!
Both very weak and very strong teams will be targeted, but when it comes to killing strong teams, the Fallen Insects always have to pay a price!
Qi An shot and killed a small fallen insect. Seeing a thick tentacle shooting towards him, he dodged behind a large tree trunk.
She maintained 60% of her mutation level, and although her dodge wasn't as graceful as those of top-tier enhancers, it was still swift and fluid.
Qi An pressed himself against the tree trunk, his left ear throbbing with pain, but he held down the earphone in his right ear.
She wanted to hear if there were any orders to retreat north.
Even if there are fewer insects, the fires from both sides will still come, and the remaining insects will continue to create pollution. They must retreat to the northern exit.
Retreat a bit further, then use poison gas to block their advance, and then retreat again. Only in this way can we have a chance to escape completely!
But there was no sound in the earphones, so Qi An immediately glanced in Zhao Bohan's direction.
He didn't see anyone else, but what blocked Qi An's view was not the lush plants, but a huge cluster of tentacles growing from the ground!
The thickest of those tentacles was probably as thick as Qi An's waist, and when it stretched out in the firelight, it looked like a giant demonic flower.
If Peng Qiao were here, he would definitely exclaim, "Holy crap! Yamata no Orochi!"
Qi An's multiple pupils were still reeling from the earthquake when he suddenly felt a chill on his neck.
Two tentacles seemed to extend from the tree trunk. Without any sound or sensory signal, they appeared and immediately strangled Qi An's neck and body to the tree!
Yu Shuang, who was shooting birds high in the tree and sniping insects falling on the ground, was also bound in the same way.
Her tablet made a dangerous "crackling" sound as it was constricted by the tentacles in the inner pocket of her combat suit.
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