Chapter Fifty-Three: The time to show our strength has come!
“Swimming across is feasible, but it’s still more than 20 kilometers from the other side of the tunnel to where they are lying in ambush. Should we run across?” Yang Yuning frowned.
“Running 20 kilometers takes less than 10 minutes, and carrying the car over will take about the same amount of time.” Chen Yuezhou took a black tactical backpack from Xu Le and put it on his back, then took something that looked like a rocket launcher and strapped it to his arm, and said casually.
Qi An couldn't help but glance at Chen Yuezhou.
He had taken off his outer windbreaker, revealing a tight-fitting combat uniform with large areas of black, small areas of gray and dark blue.
She had such broad shoulders and a narrow waist—an amazing figure! But Qi An's attention was mainly on Chen Yuezhou's words.
This person can run two kilometers in one minute?
Moreover, he said "lift the car," so how could he lift the car over the deep pit?
Yang Yuning was also somewhat surprised, but he could also run 20 kilometers in 15 minutes, but he had used his superpower before and was not in good condition now.
He nodded and said, "Then let's swim."
He had finished getting ready and knelt down in front of Qi An.
Chen Yuezhou raised an eyebrow and noticed that Qi An was not putting weight on one of his legs.
"Don't go if you're injured," he said, his tone indifferent, as if he were used to giving orders.
Qi An climbed onto Yang Yuning's back: "I'm a purifier, I can help."
Chen Yuezhou pursed his lips, and his gaze turned indifferent.
Qi An did adopt a humble attitude when asking for help, but he didn't intend to consult with anyone on this matter.
She hugged Yang Yuning tightly.
At this moment, Yang Yuning still managed a slight smile, turned his head, and whispered:
"When we go over the ditch, I have to carry you on my back. You have to lift your legs up high and make sure your wound doesn't get wet."
Qi An nodded, and the two of them went into the water first.
Zhuang Xiao and Su Qingran followed closely behind into the water, while Chen Yuezhou paused for half a second before also stepping into the flooded area of the tunnel.
Yang Yuning was the first to enter the water, but was overtaken by Chen Yuezhou as soon as he entered the pit.
Chen Yuezhou waded through the deep pit and emerged from the water. Not intending to wait for the people behind him, he was about to speed up when he heard Qi An suddenly say, "There are Fallen Insects, two kilometers away, rapidly approaching this place!"
Chen Yuezhou looked back at Qi An in astonishment.
Where are these fallen insects? Have you seen them? Have you heard them?
The tunnel was pitch black, and the sound of rushing water was deafening. It was raining heavily outside, and even with his hearing...
He seemed to have indeed vaguely heard gunshots, and his gaze shifted.
Yang Yuning sped toward the tunnel entrance. They had only been running in the rain for a minute when they turned a corner and saw bright headlights on a car rushing toward them through the rain!
The car was speeding along, but it saw Qi An and his group coming from the opposite direction and braked suddenly.
However, the people in the car recognized them in the next moment and started the vehicle again. "The Fallen Insects are chasing us! There are three more cars behind us! Captain Yu, cover our retreat!"
Sun Yiran was driving, and she was shouting in the rain.
Sure enough, a minute after Sun Yiran's car passed, the two cars that were closely following each other rushed over again.
In the third car, Jia Wenxuan leaned halfway out of the window, desperately trying to snipe backward amidst the frantic jolting.
Then came the fourth machine gun vehicle.
There were many people in the vehicle. Qi An immediately spotted Yu Shuang, Zhao Bohan, and Qin Tianshuo operating the machine gun on the roof.
The headlights and the flames spewing from the machine gun muzzles illuminated the area further behind.
On the mountain and along the road, swarms of insects rushed in, accompanied by a hail of bullets!
Yu Shuang, who was also sniping from the window, saw Qi An and the others, especially Qi An who was safe and sound. Her eyes lit up!
But he was immediately forced back into the car by a burst of bullets.
She unleashed a string of profanities!
The spy drone had detected the Fallen Insects several kilometers away. She, Lao Zhao, and Qin Tianshuo were in the machine gun vehicle, while the rest of the people were lying in ambush on the hillside.
Team Morningstar 1 has a car with advanced autonomous driving capabilities, which they turned into a remote-controlled car bomb, just waiting for the Fallen Insects to attack so they could blow it up.
But these Fallen Insects did indeed occupy that abandoned military base, which contained weapons. Half of the hundreds of Fallen Insects in this wave were armed.
This is an armed army of Fallen Insects!
After Zhao Bohan's drone clearly saw that the Fallen Insect had a gun, Yu Shuang immediately ordered: Run!
The oil tankers are no longer needed; just leave them behind and let everyone escape in off-road vehicles and machine gun trucks!
However, the enemy's firepower was too strong, and they could not run towards the fork in the road. They could only retreat to the dead end of the tunnel!
Everyone was desperate. Some people didn't run back to their cars but ran up the mountain, and they have since lost contact.
The machine gun fire suddenly stopped, and Qin Tianshuo shouted from the roof of the vehicle, "Out of ammo!"
The machine gun did kill a large number of insects, buying them valuable time to escape, but two boxes of ammunition were still too short to use!
Yu Shuang thought back to when she was ripping off Bei 3, she should have been even more ruthless and asked for 10 boxes, no matter if he turned against her or not!
Once the firepower was stopped, the Fallen Insects increased their speed and quickly closed the distance to within 1 kilometer!
Sun Yiran's car had already half-entered the tunnel and braked suddenly. All the cars behind her could only stop as well. Yu Shuang gritted her teeth and was about to shout angrily, "Fight on the spot! If it doesn't work, run down the cliff!"
But she saw a dark figure climb onto the roof of the car the moment they stopped.
Qin Tianshuo, who was on the roof of the car, was startled and raised his gun to fire, but before he could pull the trigger, the muzzle of the gun was grabbed and lifted up.
"It's friendly forces," the newcomer said, releasing his gun and, under the cover of the machine gun turret, quickly loading ammunition into the individual rocket launcher.
Qin Tianshuo, Yu Shuang who leaned out of the car window again, and Qi An who was huddled behind a rock with Yang Yuning all saw Chen Yuezhou fire a rocket launcher.
The shell landed precisely in the swarm of fallen insects on the highway, but instead of an explosion or a burst of fire, it broke through a curtain of rain and sent up a wisp of green... smoke?
A strong, strange smell wafted out, and centered on the point where the shell had landed, the fallen insects suddenly collapsed and lay scattered everywhere!
“…Poison gas bomb?” Yang Yuning murmured, “But the Fallen Insects are resistant to poison.”
Faced with the facts, Yang Yuning had no choice but to believe that the new base had developed a biological weapon targeting the Fallen Insects!
Chen Yuezhou fired another poison gas grenade towards the cliff, then pressed his earpiece and said, "Xu Le, use the drone!"
Although he had previously ordered Xu Le to wait with the convoy at the other end of the tunnel, the battlefield had already approached this point, so waiting was no longer of much significance, and Xu Le had already passed through the tunnel.
A very small combat drone quickly flew into the high altitude where the Fallen Bug was located and dropped an air-dropped bomb.
The bullet, about the size of an adult man's fist, crashed heavily into the pile of fallen insects.
The small red dot on the black shell of the projectile flashed rapidly. Xu Le chuckled and said, "1, 2, 3, explode!"
Violent explosion!
The blazing white light completely illuminated the dark sky, and the shockwave almost engulfed everything!
Qi An was held tightly in Yang Yuning's arms, and felt a ringing in his ears, as if he had been shaken so badly that he was bleeding.
As the light faded, the rain, trembling with fear, reconnected heaven and earth.
Qi An poked his head out from behind the large rock and saw a pitch-black, deathly silence hundreds of meters away, which shocked him once again.
Is this the power of the reinforcements she summoned?
A wave of killings?
But the silence was soon broken by movement again; this wave of killings was clearly not over.
The combat drone turned on its bottom lights, illuminating a colossal creature at the junction of the mountain and the road, its half-body mangled and bloodied, yet it was stretching out its body!
It was a wisdom insect.
But it wasn't the apprentice priest that Qi An had seen.
Based on the correspondence between military and religious leaders, this should be a "sergeant major".
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