Chapter 26 Choosing to Fight
Qi An pulled out the tentacle from his shoulder, and the contamination level rose to a reasonable 60%.
She lunged forward, and as she brushed past an injured guard, she drew a dagger from his waist.
The defensive line had collapsed, but at least one wounded guard was still yelling and spraying bullets with a machine gun.
The White Priest's tentacles and clones along the corridor were mostly destroyed by the firepower, but its main body did not lose momentum and was about to bite the machine gun guard!
Some fired a few shots and ran away, while others complained that they hadn't retreated even though the enemy was right in front of them.
Qi An was a small, green shadow that swept up to the burly guard, barely reaching his chest.
But Qi An grabbed his shirt from behind with one hand and pulled him back, while the dagger in his other hand flashed in the air!
The thick tentacle that had split open at the top, resembling a huge mouth, was still intact, but it was also violently opened by her.
The burly guard also stumbled backward, narrowly avoiding the fatal bite.
Qi An kicked the heavy machine gun out of the burly guard's hand, grabbed him, and ran.
Midway, they encountered two guards who had mutated into fallen insects, which Qi An shot at one of them with a single shot.
After she finished shooting and threw her gun, she grabbed a level 4 mutated guard and rushed to the edge of the green door in a few steps. In a few more steps, she also restored the pollution levels of the two guards to normal!
But the door was tightly pulled shut from the inside.
The White Priest is like a raging flood, and this gate is like the only small boat adrift in the flood.
As some people tried to climb onto the small boat, others instinctively tried to raise their oars to swat those hands away.
But some people screamed, and others shoved open the sliding door.
Qi An shoved the two men he was carrying into the doorway, stood for a few seconds, and then took several staggering guards and shoved them in as well.
The White Priestess's true form has already stepped onto that black line.
But in an instant, the black line split open, and another door rose up from the gap!
Or rather, a semi-transparent guillotine rose up, spanning the corridor.
It was an alloy metal partition with a metal blade on top that could cut hair in two with a single blow.
It only took two seconds for the partition to rise from the ground to the top and completely lock into the gap in the ceiling!
You can imagine how fast the guillotine was!
It cut the White Priest in two!
Most of the white priests were separated behind the partitions, but there were two partitions, not one.
Two partitions rose up at the same time, creating a cage directly in the corridor!
The White Priest's main body was mostly trapped in the cage. Just as it let out a painful scream, before it could even break free, another opening appeared in the ceiling.
The opening was filled with countless tiny, round holes, from which spewed out a large amount of concentrated poison gas!
The white priest's resistance immediately weakened, and then the screams that were overflowing from the cage also weakened!
Only then did Qi An break down the door and enter the safe house.
Before going in, she also killed two clones.
When she entered the dimly lit room, all eyes turned to her, their gazes filled with utter shock and numbness!
"He said he had a military rank... so he really is a soldier..." the engineer murmured.
When Qi An set up her purification stall, many people gathered around to watch and chat. Qi An mentioned that she was a soldier.
As expected of a soldier!
What kind of petite version of Valkyrie is this?!
The petite Valkyrie was covered in red and green blood. She leaned against the door, tightly clutching the huge bloody hole in her abdomen.
But someone rammed right into her.
The man was flustered and extremely strong, almost knocking her off her feet!
"Purify...purify me!" The cybersecurity supervisor grabbed Qi An's arm, his voice trembling as violently as his body!
The wound was aggravated, causing excruciating pain! Qi An turned his head to the side amidst the agony.
The cybersecurity supervisor was a dignified and self-assured old man.
The supervisor remained relatively calm after the attack and did not cause any trouble.
Of all those who received Tan Fu's soup bowl at the banquet, this person had the calmest expression.
He probably didn't drink much of that soup.
Tan Fu doesn't have many memories of him; he didn't often approach the little girl.
He probably didn't care whether Tan Fu was grateful to him or liked him.
He scrutinized Tan Fu with the same eye he would use to examine a product, taking control of its usability and risks.
Because the potential risks are somewhat high, he planned to develop an implantable chip that can monitor brainwaves and has a self-destruct function.
He had mentioned this idea several times at meetings with his superiors, and had also formally submitted an application to the military and the research department.
He doesn't manipulate people's hearts; he only uses rational methods to control the unknown.
Such rationality and self-assurance suggest that this old man would only lose his composure in a life-or-death situation.
But his desperate desire to survive coexisted with logic; he was about to undergo a level 4 mutation, and he desperately wanted to hug Qi An completely, yet he said:
"Something's not right. This bodily reaction...it's not just pollution..."
Qi An did not activate the resonance.
Her body slid down as if exhausted, and the pollution level rose by 5%, making her look very frightening.
Another person squeezed in; it was Tan Fu.
Tan Fu's one hand was tightly held by the deputy left behind by Song Fanyu, while his other hand stretched out with all his might, clutching a packet of small red pills.
In the underground central level of "Star Fortress," there are safe houses in each department office and many public areas.
The safe house contained ample weapons, medicine, and compressed rations.
Qi An immediately grabbed the packet of small red pills and popped half of it into his mouth.
It's normal that she didn't resonate with it; even purifiers sometimes have difficulty controlling their pollution levels.
Qi An didn't even need to struggle to break free; she only wasted a dozen seconds before the cybersecurity supervisor, whose chest had already sprouted tentacles, was hit by a bullet.
When Qi An tried to enter, someone held the door shut and refused to open it. At this moment, Qi An, as a purifier who saves lives, was in a precarious state of contamination.
That could potentially hinder her, preventing her from recovering and saving others—the cybersecurity supervisor would naturally be someone eager to deal with it.
The cybersecurity chief was shot, and the pace of change accelerated dramatically!
Then several more shots were fired at his vitals, and he collapsed just as he completed his transformation.
One of its tentacles, whose eyes had just opened, was looking at Qi An, while the other was turned towards Tan Fu.
Its first glance at the world was directed at them, and its last glance was still fixed on them.
It seemed to retain a trace of human memory and emotion, staring at them with such horror and severity!
Qi An closed his eyes.
11 bowls of soup, 11 people.
These 11 people should all be either dead or mutated by now.
There are six or seven guards in the corridor, some dead and some mutated.
There might be more; Qi An didn't count them all.
She released the wound on her abdomen, letting the blood gush out.
But as soon as she closed her eyes and released her wound, someone hurriedly handed her gauze and medicine.
It was that burly guard carrying a machine gun.
Qi An opened his eyes again and saw that the guard's eyes were full of gratitude, worry and anxiety.
She lowered her eyes and remained silent for a moment, enduring the excruciating pain as she straightened up slightly, gesturing to the burly guard: You can directly help me bandage this.
The guard blushed slightly, scratched his head, and leaned closer.
One of Song Fanyu's deputies, the captain of the first underground guard squad, kept urging him on.
He urged the team's purifier to quickly purify the several team members whose pollution levels were dangerous, and urged everyone to prepare to break out.
This safe house is only a very basic safe house because of its poor location and lack of a back door.
A clone is ramming against the already locked alloy door.
The clone is still there, which means the original body is still there; the trap wall with only poison gas and bullets didn't trap the White Priest to death.
The White Priests could break out at any moment, so they must use this time to rush out of the safe house and retreat.
The alarm of an enemy attack not only resounded in the underground central layer, but also reached the surface.
The ground is the base, and there are plenty of reinforcements! The ground is safe!
But Qi Anzheng thought: the ground is a battlefield.
About 6 or 7 minutes ago, the gluttonous white priest underground spoke.
The energy fluctuations were transmitted diagonally upwards, but did not travel very far.
There was another white priest diagonally above them, exchanging a few words with the one on the ground.
After a few words, there was a minute-long silence. Then the insect on the ground spoke again, seemingly a resentful remark.
After another two minutes of silence, the third insect appeared.
The insect on the ground spoke again, and then rushed underground!
Throughout the entire process, Qi An only had three moving sensor points and a few energy waves in her mind, but she was able to deduce the whole story based on these.
Three white priests were sent to carry out the task of "liberating" Tan Fu. Among them, Insect 1's mimicry was superb. It went deep underground and was the main force of the mission.
The other two, taking advantage of the cult's presence, hid in two corners of the base, preparing to provide support from the outside.
As a result, "This Shore Abode" ran into trouble, the religious community ran into trouble, and both the religious community and the corrupt officials suspected that Tan Fu had defected.
However, the people in the underground Bug 1 clearly saw many people die, and the people of "Star Base" did not seem to have known about the attack beforehand.
It is estimated that Bug 2 is a clever bug and has also deduced part of the truth behind the matter.
"Insect 2" did indeed reveal the whole story.
"Bug 3" has temporarily stalled the pursuers on the ground. It has found the entrance and rushed into the underground central layer of "Star Fortress".
The last word after the initial silence was a sigh:
Humans are fucking interesting!
Layer upon layer of thoughts, impossible to cleanse completely, impossible to see clearly!
After the second period of silence, it faced a choice.
The people of "Starhold" were unaware of the attack, but the higher levels of humanity seemed to know, reacting extremely quickly.
This is the capital base of humanity, and it's a base that has already detected their presence and is mobilizing troops! Extremely dangerous!
But it managed to escape from that small shrine in time; it could contain the polluting aura and remained hidden.
If it were to retreat now, it could easily leave this dangerous place.
However, if it appears in battle, it has a chance to kill Tan Fu, who is capable of wielding the god-slaying weapon, and it can still complete its mission.
The White Priest is the most powerful White Priest, and the leader among the three insects.
This leader chose to reveal himself and engage in battle.
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