Chapter 68: Where's the rescue?
With a "click," the screen lit up briefly, but Yu Shuang couldn't even lower her head.
The force of those tentacles seemed to be the power of the tree itself, like the natural power that could drive the roots deep into the earth!
She couldn't break free at all!
Yu Shuang turned her head with extreme difficulty, barely managing to see the enormous figure on Zhao Bohan's side through her split pupils.
But no matter how she turned around, she couldn't find Qi An for a while!
There was no sound in the headphones, and even though the fog was thick and damp, the fire was still burning fiercely and closing in.
It was bright everywhere, but there was no one to be found anywhere.
It seems that everyone is now facing a life-or-death dilemma!
Yu Shuang struggled again, but only caused a surge of electricity from the tablet, making her body even stiffer.
The tablet screen went completely off, but Yu Shuang remembered that she had already called for help while they were setting up this battlefield.
They haven't retreated north yet, and they haven't moved their positions. The rescue team has already set off and should be able to arrive in time!
Where's the rescue?!
Qi An cried out in her heart in the same way. She saw Zhuang Xiao fall from the tree and into a pile of bloody mud from fallen insects, and Zhao Bohan was lifted into the sky by giant snake-like tentacles!
How could Zhao Bohan's bones withstand such a squeeze?
Qi An really went all out. Tentacles grew from her back and abdomen at the same time, and the bone spurs on her fingertips dug fiercely into the tentacles that were binding her, tearing them outwards with all her might!
She was almost about to break through to level 4 of the mutation; her eyes were filled with black water, as if they were being soaked by eternal night...
But a sharp whistle came from afar, stirring up the fog and flames, piercing through the fog and flames, and accurately and fiercely stabbing into the tree trunk above Qi An's head!
A long spear!
A long spear, a cold weapon, flew over and embedded itself in the tree for almost a foot. The spear tip trembled slightly, making the whole tree seem to shake!
Where the spear pierced through, something appeared.
Like a flat, blood-sucking worm, or an alien soft magnetic chuck.
The fallen insect burrowed deep into the tree trunk with countless extremely short, hairy tentacles, as if parasitizing it. Its only two long tentacles were as thick and hard as cast iron, and they wrapped around the tree and bound Qi An to death!
Completely silent and invisible, as if it had merged with the trees, extremely well-hidden, and with an absolute restraint that is almost impossible to break free of without mechanical force, this insect is a high-level mutated insect on par with the wolf insect!
All that's coming out now is this kind of high-end stuff!
However, its body had been completely pierced by the spear, and even though the binding force had not been completely released, it was enough for Qi An to break free.
She broke free, and the tentacles on her chest and back retracted in an instant.
A figure also shot over at that moment. He moved suddenly and stopped a few centimeters away from Qi An. He glanced down at Qi An, then gripped the spear that was about a foot deep in the tree and pulled it back.
Blood dripped from the gun barrel. He turned his gaze away, took two quick steps back, and with a slight twist of his long arm, threw the gun out once more!
This time, the spearhead pierced Yu Shuang's back with the same precision, the same power, and the same penetrating power that both revealed and killed the insects!
“Chen Xi…” Qi An murmured, then realized.
This is one of the other two clones!
She didn't know his name.
That clone... that boy leaped up a tree, drew his gun, and was able to jump between the trees completely.
With a flick of his wrist, his spear, which was at least two meters long, broke in two! The two pieces of the hard stick were connected by a soft chain, which swung and hooked at a tree branch a little further away, carrying him into the sky!
The chain swung again in the sky, and a section of it, two meters long, stretched out as if it had its own will. With the boy's strength, it straightened and coiled back, binding a giant snake-like tentacle!
The boy landed beneath the giant snake's jungle, the other end of the gun barrel swung wildly, about to fall but not quite, before being caught by another person who rushed out from the curtain of fire.
The two were moving in completely opposite directions, each pulling backward with all their might!
This must be the immense mechanical force; tiny serrations appeared on the chain, and under the pull, they embedded themselves deeply, deeply into the tentacles, almost severing one of those thick tentacles!
Zhao Bohan was thrown off.
Yu Shuang ran towards him with all her might, jumped up and caught him. The two of them rolled a long way together until Yu Shuang's back hit a big tree.
Qi An rushed towards where Zhuang Xiao had landed.
Zhuang Xiao landed in a thick layer of flesh, beneath which lay an even thicker layer of humus. He didn't die from the fall, but surrounded by blood and flesh, and attacked by the ape-like falling insects above, he underwent a level 4 mutation!
Qi An rushed there, and a hail of bullets knocked the fallen insect off course from directly above Zhuang Xiao.
As she stopped, she bent down and shot out two tentacles from her fingertips, piercing through the fallen insects that were about to pounce again!
When her pollution level returned to below 50%, she immediately purified Zhuang Xiao's environment.
The insect that wasn't quite dead yet was killed by Su Qingran's frenzied spray as she rushed over.
It took Qi An a full two and a half minutes to purify the severely injured Zhuang Xiao, and then he immediately purified Su Qingran.
Everyone needs purification, everyone needs rescue.
The rescue team included not only the boy with the long spear and the people who fought alongside him against the giant worms underground, but also two other members of the new recruit base.
The team that arrived in time was not Feng Xu's team, who had already responded, but people from the freshman base!
Qi An remembered that their team had 8 people, but only 4 had arrived. In the past few minutes, no new people had come in.
Of the four people, the two who were rescuing people on this side, half of their faces were visible in the firelight, and Qi An recognized them.
They looked at Qi An, who had been purified, and Qi An looked back at them after the purification was complete.
However, no one could stop, and there was no time for communication.
Su Qingran struggled to carry Zhuang Xiao on her back, heading towards a relatively secluded corner not too far from the main battlefield. Wu Han specifically left two of his main team members, who were still capable of fighting, to protect them and the other wounded.
Everyone who could still move rushed toward the enormous worm.
But as soon as Qi An stopped at his position, his heart sank. After sensing clearly, he felt as if he had sunk directly into the ground!
"Captain, there are more than just these insects..." Her voice was hoarse, and although she tried to keep her tone steady, looking back into the fog, back into the pitch-black sky that still showed no sign of dawn, she still felt a metallic taste in her mouth.
"And the Wisps will arrive soon."
"We'll burn the giant worm, then retreat north!" she said.
Yu Shuang's voice came through several seconds later, even hoarseer than Qi An's:
"What level of wisdom insect?"
“...The White Priest.”
Before dawn, many squads requested permission from headquarters to withdraw.
If the casualty figures are confirmed, the command center will generally approve them.
However, the application from the Stars Squad will not be easily approved.
The command center was half-lit and power-off, and the command officers, who had been up for two nights without sleep, were mostly standing in the basement.
"They survived?" The smiling officer's face had lost its smile.
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