Chapter 54 The Sergeant Major and the Soldier's Inner Demons
The sergeant major who commands an armed legion of hundreds, or even more, insects looks a lot like an eight-legged spider.
It seems to have no legs, or rather, its two legs have been transformed into tentacles.
Its tentacles spread out in all directions, like spider legs or a huge, open skirt.
Above the skirt was a swollen, extremely twisted body and a small head, half-buried in the hardened body.
This form is both defensive and possesses sufficient offensive power.
Because it is so low, its tentacles spread out and crawl along the ground, which is a natural crawling posture. Its head is also too small, and the cysts on its head are surrounded by fleshy masses, so they are not visible at all!
However, it has too many tentacles, and each of the tentacles that doesn't help it move forward is wrapped with a gun.
It truly lives up to its name, "Master Sergeant," as the firepower of a single insect is equivalent to that of an entire squad!
It stretched out for only a moment under the drone's lights before disappearing into the darkness.
Chen Yuezhou fired another rocket, this time a normal explosive, but the insect was too fast and dodged the main blast radius, only getting one of its tentacles injured!
Chen Yuezhou frowned, and Qin Tianshuo struggled to emerge from behind the machine gun turret, firing wildly towards the road.
It's no use. If you can't hit the vital point, it's the same as not hitting at all. The sergeant is already 50 meters away from the machine gun vehicle!
Yu Shuang and Zhao Bohan were at the back window, but if they poked their heads out, they would get shot, as each of the insect's tentacles could fire independently in a certain direction!
Liu Weiyun screamed from inside the car!
I'm going to die!
However, when the sergeant major approached to within about 7 meters, Chen Yuezhou threw down the rocket launcher and jumped off the roof of the vehicle.
His leap was as light as a bird in flight, and his agile figure was like an eagle pouncing on a rabbit, as he pounced on the sergeant major!
The sergeant saw the humans leaping towards him, and the gun barrels on at least three of his tentacles spun, firing a burst of shots at Chen Yuezhou.
However, it couldn't catch up with Chen Yuezhou.
Qi An's eyes widened as he watched Chen Yuezhou flip through the air and land precisely on the sergeant's head!
He was only holding a large-caliber pistol. As his body crashed into the middle of the sergeant's skirt, the barrel of the gun pressed against the sergeant's small head.
A shot to the head, and his facial features, including bulges and cysts, exploded!
The sergeant's scream abruptly stopped, all the waving tentacles on his body paused, and then all the guns fell to the ground.
Chen Yuezhou seemed completely unaffected by the bone-shattering pain from the fall, and using that rotten head as a stepping stone, he shot two surviving ordinary worker insects that were charging towards him!
This series of actions stunned everyone. No one knew how Chen Yuezhou could be so agile, as if he knew kung fu!
The sergeant major was beyond dead, and after that round of intensified gas explosion, there weren't many ordinary worker insects left to survive. It seemed that everyone's nerves could finally relax.
However, Qi An noticed that Chen Yuezhou's left arm was drooping, his fist was loosening and then clenching tightly, and the skin on his hand was turning pale.
“He needs purification,” Qi An said.
Chen Yuezhou felt that he did not need purification. Even though his mental enhancement value dropped again at the beginning of the year, he was not at the point where he needed purification after fighting a sergeant major!
Xu Le's voice came through the earpiece: "Boss, stop fighting! Your contamination level is 52%! I'm coming right away!"
"No need!" Perhaps due to the pollution, Chen Yuezhou was filled with irritability and anger, and fired several more shots, blowing up a few more fallen insects that had rushed within a hundred meters.
Qi An had already reached Chen Yuezhou. "You need purification!" she said, reaching out her hand.
Chen Yuezhou turned his head and saw that she had been carried over by Yang Yuning. His brows furrowed tightly.
He has already said that if you are injured, you should not go to the front line!
He said in a deep voice, "No need! Go back to your bunker."
Qi An paused for a second, then said, "Oh." She tugged at Yang Yuning's sleeve, "Let's go."
This surprised Chen Yuezhou. Qi An said, "There are actually two Fallen Insects that are close to the edge. There is another one clinging to its back, probably trying to ambush you."
Chen Yuezhou immediately looked in the direction Qi An was pointing, and sure enough, there was an insect sneaking around.
Qi An had already turned around. Chen Yuezhou shot the fallen worm dead with a single shot, then slightly turned the spearhead and with incredible speed blasted apart the infant worm that leaped out from behind the fallen worm and charged towards them with a scream!
Yang Yuning was amazed by the marksmanship, but Qi An showed no hesitation.
Her bracelet was alarming; too many dead worms were rotting here, the stench was too strong, and the rest of the team couldn't withstand the pollution levels. She still had to go and save them.
Chen Yuezhou turned to look at her, his gaze somewhat complicated.
Qi An felt a chill run down his spine.
There's another bug at the back of the convoy!
The perception is unclear; this insect may have cloaking characteristics.
You Zi once said that every advanced wisdom insect has its own characteristics, and concealment is probably one of these characteristics!
Qi An quickly focused his mind and, after a few seconds, confirmed that the insect was... next to Sun Yiran's car!
She immediately shouted at the top of her lungs, "Sun Yiran! There are bugs outside your car window!"
Her voice was never loud, but this sharp cry pierced through the rain and reached Sun Yiran's ears, who had particularly good hearing.
At that moment, Sun Yiran also heard an unusual sound. She stuck her gun out of the car window, located the target by ear, and fired a shot.
The pale, slender insect shrieked, its tentacles retracting instantly beneath the car.
Sun Yiran almost lost her grip on the gun. She shrank back into her seat, covered her ears, and her contamination level skyrocketed!
But the apprentice priest did not attack her again. Instead, he moved along the water under the car and on the road, disappearing like a shadow as he darted past the second and third cars.
Its goal was clear: head straight for Qi'an, the place where it could be located!
However, it hesitated for a moment as it lunged towards the underside of the machine gun vehicle.
It could sense the degree of abnormal reactions of nearby humans, and Qi An's was the lowest, practically nonexistent!
The apprentice priest changed direction at the last minute, climbing up the front window following the fancy design of the machine gun vehicle.
Qi An's reminder followed immediately: "The bug is on the front window of the machine gun vehicle!"
The machine gun vehicle is bulletproof, but its windshield was shattered by Qi An and Sun Yiran in the last battle and remains broken to this day.
The person in the driver's seat was Li Yi. Qi An wasn't too worried; she was thinking about purifying Sun Yiran.
The apprentice priest's face popped out of the front window, and Li Yi was alerted. As soon as it emerged, the gun barrel was already pointed at it!
All eyes of the apprentice priest were on Li Yi, but for some reason, with the gun barrel in front of him, he actually laughed.
Its mouthparts split open, forming an expression resembling a smile, and Li Yi's face was clearly reflected in all its dark eyes.
Li Yi's finger was on the trigger, Yang Yuning was rushing over, and the sniper rifle was raised. Yu Shuang and Zhao Bohan, who were originally at the rear window of the car helping Chen Yuezhou clean up the remaining fallen insects, also turned around and raised their guns.
This moment seemed to be stretched out, infinitely stretched out, as if the rain curtain was being slowly pulled into the air.
Li Yi, this A-level special forces soldier, couldn't even pull the trigger.
His fingers were somehow bound and he couldn't move them at all!
When he was young, as he fled to the base with the survivors, the jade Buddha statue he was clutching in his hand seemed to reappear before his eyes.
He tried to grasp it, but grasped only air.
The magnificent palace reappeared before his eyes.
The statues were gone, and the hall was empty, with only that mural that inspired endless fear and awe remaining!
Li Yi released his gun.
The spark of his spirit and will fell into the abyss.
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