Chapter 116 Victory Through the Masses
This joke left Lin Jiaran stunned for a long time.
You Zi spotted Sun Yiran's curly blond hair among the sea of wounded and breathed a slight sigh of relief.
"Anyway, if you survive, come have a meal with us. It's just a few of us purifiers who fought side by side!"
She struggled to suppress the negative emotions brought on by the pollution, which were pulling her spirit into the abyss, and made the suggestion.
Qi An immediately suppressed his self-pitying sadness and nodded with a smile.
Xu Le, who was suffering from pollution, really wanted to complain: Is he really that optimistic?
Whether I'll survive is really uncertain!
He didn't say it aloud, but the purifier from the Southeast team did, and Lu Sui, the girl from Martial God Team 5, couldn't help but scold, "Just focus on saving yourselves!"
The entire "purification station" fell silent.
On the battlefield less than 100 meters away, the bulwark formed by the remaining fighters to protect the Purifiers and the large number of wounded is indeed getting shorter and shorter.
Few can sustain close combat while covered in wounds. If someone is seriously injured and still goes to the battlefield, it will only drag down the warriors who are still capable of fighting, and it will also break down the Purifiers.
The stench carried by the wind was so intense that both the ground and the ground were like hell. It was perfectly normal for the purifier and everyone else to feel tense, agitated, and desperate.
There seemed to be a laugh coming from underground.
It had that signature sharp, piercing sound of a fallen insect, yet it also sounded like the laughter of a man in his early thirties.
The White Priest mocks humanity's struggles, yet laughs that it will ultimately prevail!
On the ground, the yellow-robed priest, whose body was covered with tentacles as fine as cow hair and was almost unapproachable, had one cluster of tentacles wrapped around Qin Tianshuo, while another cluster had already unknowingly reached towards the purification station.
The tentacle stabbed down towards Xu Le's temple.
But Qi An shouted a warning!
Xu Le was in the process of purifying himself and had no time to react. He was only able to narrowly avoid being hit by Chen Xi!
Qin Tianshuo couldn't escape it; the outbreak of pollution caused the conduction device to overload!
The surging electric current immediately made You Zi's scalp tingle, and she vomited. Darkness quickly spread through her eyes!
Lu Sui glanced at You Zi, her head tilted, and was even more shocked and frightened!
All the purifiers were sitting in a circle back to back. She was next to You Zi. The pollution levels of You Zi and an injured person undergoing purification in front of her both spiked, and hers would spike as well!
But none of them were as close to danger as Qin Tianshuo. In the midst of the extreme chaos, You Zi's first reaction was to look in Qin Tianshuo's direction!
Chen Yuezhou swept over, his fine tentacles also coiling towards him, but he was holding half of the fallen insect's body in his hand, and at this moment he used it as a spoon to roll up those tentacles like noodles!
He approached the yellow-robed priest!
With astonishing tacit understanding, Chen Xi simultaneously launched the nano-vibration blades.
Chen Yuezhou caught the knife and thrust it forward, taking advantage of the close proximity to stab the yellow-robed priest through the neck. Then, he raised the blade and sliced the yellow-robed priest in two!
The tentacles lost their activity, and Chen Yuezhou grabbed Qin Tianshuo and threw him out of the battlefield!
Chen Xi took over and immediately delivered it to Qi An!
Qi An herself still had an injured person in front of her. She had just grabbed You Zi, but now that she had let go of You Zi, there were still two people who urgently needed to be purified!
Qi An's remote transmission device ran out of power.
At this critical moment, the power went out!
The remote connection between Chen Yuezhou, Chen Xi, and Feng Xu was simultaneously severed. Just as he approached the yellow-robed priest, a large cluster of cow-hair tentacles pierced his abdomen, and Chen Yuezhou's handsome face instantly contorted!
The same applies to Feng Xu; his bioelectric ability places an enormous burden on his body! The more he uses electricity to enhance his potential, the faster he depletes it!
The lurking worms hadn't been completely wiped out yet, and even after the Yellow-Robed Priest died, they didn't panic because the White Priest was still alive.
The White Priest's laughter turned into a whistling sound, blowing out distorted notes—a hymn whose true meaning and power humans could not comprehend.
A bud of flesh broke through an opening that was almost at the center of the "purification station," the battlefield, and the wounded.
This was not the location Qi An had sensed. It was at least 50 meters away from the location of the White Priest that Qi An had sensed, so it was not the direction that Chen Xi was standing in or defending!
Is it a tentacle that penetrates the earth, lies dormant here, and then grows into a fleshy bud?
Yes, it seems the White Priest can "shape" his own body at will!
Just as Qi An was almost surrounded by people about to be contaminated, and she was about to rush frantically towards Chen Yuezhou and Feng Xu, the blades growing from the fleshy buds shot out in all directions like a celestial maiden scattering flowers!
Whether it's killing or contaminating, anyone who comes into contact with it is doomed!
The white priest's head also popped out of the other hole, his eyes narrowed, his black eyes filled with relaxed joy and mocking laughter.
It was looking at Qi An.
Only Qi An could meet its gaze, and it only wanted to convey its mockery, intense hatred, and expectation to Qi An.
"Once everyone around you has fallen, I will kill you, you monster."
It, or rather, "he," speaks clearly and articulately during the intervals between whistles!
Qi An trembled all over, and for a moment he wanted to undergo an even greater transformation!
The mutation will give her power, although it gives her a sense of terror as she looks into the abyss and falls into it, but at least it will give her power temporarily!
However, the thickest and fastest of all the blade tentacles was aimed at Qi An. Her transformation also needed time, so she had no way to dodge it!
This isn't about waiting until everyone is corrupted before killing her; it's about killing her first, letting her live on and watch everyone else get corrupted!
Chen Xi was not in the correct defensive direction. He had no knife in his hand, and the moment the remote resonance broke and he heard the whistle, his thoughts became violently distorted.
He still rushed towards Qi An, but how could he catch up?
No one can catch up. Chen Yuezhou and Feng Xu are too far behind, and their pollution levels are already too high! Higher than Chen Xi's!
His body couldn't keep up with his thoughts, so Qi An could only rely on his survival instinct to veer to the right, trying to avoid the location of his heart.
However, there was also a force that shoved her to the right. The two forces combined and actually knocked her out of the piercing position of the blade!
It was only a matter of milliseconds; the blade pierced through the gap where Qi An and Lin Jia Ran's arms were touching, tearing off a piece of flesh from each of their slender arms.
Qi An's eyes widened, but another blade was also hurtling towards Lin Jia Ran.
It also attacked You Zi, Lu Sui, and Xu Le.
Purifiers prioritize killing or contaminating targets!
However, tentacles also need time to grow! Apart from Qi An's, the remaining tentacles that attacked the purifier also had a two-second interval.
Qi An, whose hand had already undergone a level 3 mutation, grabbed Lin Jia's clothes from behind and pulled her backward!
The blade grazed Lin Jiaran's chest, only tearing her clothes!
Lin Jiaran's eyes, which had been tightly closed due to pain, widened as she looked at Qi An with surprise, delight, and excitement, as if countless words were about to burst forth!
Because of the two-second interval, Qin Tianshuo, who was behind You Zi, pulled her back sharply and stepped forward to block the knife himself.
Chen Xi failed to block a blow for Qi An, but she managed to push Xu Le and Lu Sui aside, both of whom avoided fatal blows!
More tentacles, like celestial maidens scattering flowers, attacked the other two directions a few seconds later than the Purifier's attack, and a loud bang rang out from the opening where the tentacles emerged!
A single bullet, like a small cannonball, blasted the fleshy bud that had grown blade-like tentacles to smithereens!
It was Zhuang Xiao, Yu Shuang, and the other two who ran back at full speed!
They went to the eastern defense forces for help and returned with half a satchel of ammunition and a shotgun that was just there to make up the numbers.
Fortunately, they were completely out of ammunition and had to make up the numbers, and fortunately, Zhuang Xiao's marksmanship was so good that he could shoot a tentacle bud from a distance with a shotgun!
The tentacle buds were smashed, and the scattered "flowers" all lost their momentum, continuing to fly forward only by inertia.
But this has given everyone time to take cover!
Everyone who could still move dodged, and Chen Yuezhou and Feng Xu also managed to dodge using their fighting instincts!
The smile in the White Priest's eyes had already faded slightly when the tentacle sprout was smashed, but the whistle became even louder!
The pollution levels of these humans are still too high. Several purification masters are terrified. If the pollution continues, it will trigger a chain reaction of mutations!
Indeed, this was the case. More than a dozen seriously injured people were either penetrated or touched by tentacles. Once they were touched, the contamination was something they could not suppress on their own!
Right in front of Qi An and the others, Qin Tianshuo was almost completely transformed, and the condition of several wounded people who urgently needed purification was only getting worse!
However, after Lin Jiaran took over Qin Tianshuo's care, Lu Sui bypassed You Zi and angrily grabbed the hand of the level 4 mutated patient!
This is the most difficult one to purify besides Qin Tianshuo.
Lu Sui's face was contorted with effort!
She was indeed frightened just now, but from childhood to adulthood, the more she feared something, the more she forced herself to face it!
Because she was afraid of mutated rats, she forced herself to eat one!
When she was afraid of pollution, she had to force herself to face the worst pollution!
She will never back down, never compromise! She will never bow to fear! And she will never allow her spirit to fall!
There are all kinds of people in the world.
There's Lu Sui, who's rigid, serious, and seemingly unapproachable, yet also incredibly resolute and strong; and Lin Jia Ran, who wavers in confusion and bewilderment, yet gets excited and endlessly reciprocates kindness with every little bit of goodwill she receives.
There were also auxiliary forces that were in a worse situation than their team before this morning. They had little manpower and supplies left and had received orders to intercept the southward-moving insects around Lian City.
Although they had a fight among themselves, many of them still remembered the purification efforts of the action team's purifiers and the team's many assists in battle, so they shared half a backpack full of ammunition and a combat drone with them!
Yu Shuang swept onto the battlefield like a gust of wind, scattering rifle magazines filled with bullets like a celestial maiden scattering flowers.
Guns are ingrained in every soldier's flesh and blood. Any team member who is still able to move and has not yet reached level 4 mutation picks up the magazines, grabs the scattered assault rifles, loads them, and fires!
The remaining fallen insects are just wheat under the sickle, waiting to be harvested completely!
Because of Lin Jiaran, the only person besides Qi An who could purify Qin Tianshuo, he decisively took over Qin Tianshuo's case.
With Lu Sui and You Zi free to purify the wounded, Qi An was able to quickly complete the purification of Chen Xi.
Chen Xi vanished from the spot and appeared behind the White Priest, whose head was half-out of the ground and who was trying to shrink back, grabbed him, and lifted him up!
Qi An rushed towards Chen Yuezhou.
Chen Yuezhou also rushed towards her after Yu Shuang and the others blocked the tide of fallen insects.
The two embraced... Qi An hadn't intended to embrace him, but Chen Yuezhou did.
Within half a minute of their bodies touching, Qi An completed the purification, and then immediately purified Feng Xu. The two of them were then swept towards the White Priest!
Qi Anhe swallowed the last little red pill and quickly caught up with Lin Jiaran. The two of them were like witches who had transformed monster statues into humans, and wherever they went, warriors picked up their guns again.
Of course, they also have their limits. After purifying Tang Long for the second time, Qi An purified Su Qingran, who had been contaminated by the wounded, and could barely keep his eyelids open.
Of course, the White Priest was still very powerful. Without the remote transmission device, several S-rank individuals, including the two Chens whose actual physical enhancement rating was SS, were already seriously injured and could not hold out for long.
However, while the White Priest was forced to fight with several people, Zhao Bohan's combat drone had already flown underground and into the mine!
Just as Zhao Bohan demonstrated during the pre-departure training, he was the one among everyone here who had the most precise and clear memory of the mine tunnel structure diagram.
The mother insects are almost back here; in fact, the ones that ran the fastest have already made their way up from the bottom to the coal mining hatching area. A few more have even run into the mine tunnels, trying to escape to the surface.
The drone passed through the coal mining area gate that the mother insects had opened themselves, and dropped two high-explosive bombs at its key support point!
The explosion had a slight delay, and the underground drones, as well as everyone on the ground who heard Yu Shuang's scream, "Evacuate to the edge of the mother nest, evacuate towards the command tent!" all fled in a frenzy.
The underground mother nest, already structurally unstable due to repeated tremors and on the verge of collapse, finally collapsed completely.
The ground shook, cracked and subsided, as if two major earthquakes had occurred here in one day, and everything was overturned!
All the new life of evil, the complete transformation, the mockery, the triumph, the hatred and the astonishment, the relentless struggle and confrontation, all the flashes of will or the fall of the soul, are buried.
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