Chapter 37 Return: Xu Lingzhao Returns
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Xu Lingzhao heard the rapid countdown of the explosives beneath her feet. Precision detonation? She didn't panic. Before the burning sensation came, she raised a golden barrier for herself. She raised her wrist, opened her personal terminal, and saw several unread emails marked in red. She opened them one by one, her eyes gradually turning cold.
She slightly raised her eyes. Her surroundings were already piled high with building materials that had been blown to pieces. So much had happened in just three days.
He Zaining was caught in the blast wave and was trapped under a steel plate. She struggled to open her eyes, and it hurt terribly. She felt as if her left eye was repeatedly glued shut and she couldn't open it. Her nasal cavity was full of dust, and the only thing she could feel was the warm blood flowing from her mouth.
The intense tinnitus made her unable to hear anything. She could feel her life rapidly slipping away. She tried to move her legs, but she could no longer feel them. She slightly tugged at the corners of her mouth, and tears streamed down her face. If... if she could do it all over again, she would never trust Ji Siyu again.
He brought three times the number of planetary troops as hers. He fired at her without any mercy, and his fighter jets carried out a devastating bombardment. Pasifica's planetary forces quickly collapsed. A slideshow seemed to play before her eyes, and the bombing seemed to have stopped? It was so quiet all around. He Zaining thought in a daze, it shouldn't have stopped, right? She just couldn't hear any sound anymore.
She felt her life slipping away rapidly. He Zaining felt the heavy steel plates on her body being moved away. She felt her eyes being covered by a pair of hands, and a faint light entered her right eye through the gaps in the fingers.
Xu Lingzhao stared at He Zaining, whose body was covered in blood and gore, her eyes chillingly cold. The planetary soldiers of Sitias around her pointed their guns at her, their faces filled with more fear than confusion. Xu Lingzhao was still alive! But they had no way out. Pulse rifle fire swept across Xu Lingzhao's golden barrier, creating ripples.
But the golden barrier showed no signs of breaking.
"Don't open your eyes," Xu Lingzhao said softly. She wrapped her forearm around He Zaining's legs and lifted her up, then turned to look at Ji Siyu, who was trembling slightly.
Xu Lingzhao's face was gloomy. She held He Zaining's fingers and twitched slightly. Her physical spiritual power condensed into a sharp arrow at her fingertips and instantly appeared between Ji Siyu's eyebrows.
Ji Siyu gasped for breath and took a few steps back. Her golden spiritual energy darted around and pierced the brow of the adjutant standing beside her. He watched helplessly as she fell, without screaming or crying for help, only blood flowing from her face.
The physical mental force used the same method to kill all the Hiteas Planetary Army soldiers present, leaving only Xu Lingzhao and the surviving Planetary Army soldiers of Pasifika standing.
"Cuff him." Xu Lingzhao said coldly. Chen Qing, whose arm had been blown off, took out handcuffs that could bind mental power from his pocket, squatted down, and nimbly bound Ji Siyu's hands, who had fallen to the ground in fright.
Xu Lingzhao teleported to the nearest hospital and killed all the planetary soldiers who blocked her way. A doctor with wrinkles around his eyes appeared in front of Xu Lingzhao and said respectfully, "Commander-in-Chief, please hand over Minister He to me. I will immediately send people to... the bombed office building to treat our troops."
After placing He Zaining into the treatment pod, she glanced at her and left.
Bai Feng and Song Shuci were forced to kneel on the ground by the planetary army brought by Ji Cunxi. The entire villa was surrounded by the Zerg army. Ji Cunxi's lips curled into a sinister smile. If the Zerg army hadn't been so numerous, they really wouldn't have been able to do anything to them.
However, the most important thing now is not to deal with them. She slowly walked upstairs to the second floor and stopped at the door of the master bedroom. She pressed the doorknob, oh? It wouldn't open; it was locked from the inside.
She took a high-speed rifle from one of her men and fired wildly at the door, laughing maniacally as she fired. The sound of the bullets made the others frown.
Ji Cunxi looked at the door full of holes, raised her leg and kicked the fragile door. The faint pheromones of Omega and Alpha mixed into her nostrils. She gestured for the burly men to follow.
There was no one in the bed, and no one in the closet either.
Ji Cunxi looked under the bed. Several burly men easily lifted the bed, while Chu Jing was curled up on the ground, his face full of terror. As the men reached for his arm, he took out the money he had hidden in his pocket and pulled the trigger with trembling fingers.
The man was struck between the eyebrows and fell to the ground.
Seeing the scene before him, Ji Cunxi swiftly knocked the pistol away, and the other burly men immediately grabbed Chu Jingze's wrists.
Chu Jing stared at Omgea in front of him. He recognized her; she was the one who had come to see Xu Lingzhao last time. She gripped his chin tightly, and after a few seconds, he heard her speak in a gloomy voice.
“No wonder Xu Lingzhao likes you. You’re so beautiful, even I, an Omega, am smitten.” Ji Cunxi’s gaze fell on the pistol she had knocked away. “So you can shoot a gun? I thought you were just a useless piece of trash, only good at pretending to be weak and pitiful, just like those Omegas around Ji Yao.”
She spoke viciously, constantly humiliating Chu Jingze, but she didn't feel relieved. Ji Cunxi shook off Chu Jingze's chin, sat on the sofa, crossed her legs, and gestured to the burly men with her eyes: "Alright, let's begin. No need to hold back anymore. This is the commander-in-chief's Omgea."
Chu Jingze's eyes were red, he bit his lip hard, and gripped his clothes tightly. He struggled to keep those disgusting people from touching him. His shirt was torn open, revealing his snow-white shoulders. Chu Jingze struggled even more, desperately hugging his arms, tears streaming down his cheeks.
When one of them saw that Chu Jingze was refusing to cooperate, he was about to raise his hand to slap him when an extremely strong mental force came through, rendering everyone unable to move.
Xu Lingzhao appeared in front of Chu Jingze. She picked up the blanket that had fallen to the ground and wrapped it around the frightened Chu Jingze. She bent down and picked him up. The person in her arms was trembling violently. She released pheromones to soothe Chu Jingze.
She didn't linger there, but went directly to the headquarters building of Pasifica.
Just as Ji Yao was about to pull the trigger, she stopped all movement, pressed the pistol against Lu Qianxue's forehead, lowered the pistol, and blankly picked up the personal terminal to send a command to cease all operations.
Lu Qianxue clutched her chest and exhaled. She pushed Ji Yao away, snatched the pistol from her, and held it to Ji Yao's head. Footsteps echoed down the corridor, and she nervously stared at the doorway.
Who is it?
Could it be Xu Lingzhao?
She swallowed nervously, and only when the familiar blond Alpha appeared at the door did she drop the pistol on the ground, slump into a chair without any regard for her image, and tears welled up in her eyes. She choked out, "I knew you wouldn't die."
Xu Lingzhao smiled at her: "Thank you for your hard work, Qianxue."
At the same time, everyone's personal computers received a message from the official Pasifica organization: "The Commander-in-Chief has returned. Initiate the purge operation."
The computer screen was forcibly ejected.
Xu Lingzhao appeared on everyone's screen in the Federation. With a serious expression, she explained the reason for her three-day disappearance and the fact that she had announced the green crystal core at this opportune moment.
All the people were terrified, but soon Xu Lingzhao said that if they were accidentally bitten by the mutant, Pasifica had developed a special serum, and as long as the serum was injected within three hours, they would not be infected.
This major crisis caused a huge uproar, and everyone fell silent to listen to the live broadcast.
"Of course, compared to the threat of the Zerg, civil war is the root cause of humanity's demise. I believe everyone is aware of what Hiteas and his accomplices did during the three days I was missing. They openly violated the agreement, indiscriminately killing civilians, assassinating ministers, bombing residential areas and ports, and committing all sorts of atrocities."
“I once thought that the Zerg army developed by Hiteas might be our weapon against the Zerg, but I was wrong. The Zerg are constantly evolving, and the artificially modified Zerg army still retains its killing nature. They lie dormant under human control, and when we think they have been tamed, that is when their counterattack begins.”
"I have decided to destroy all of the biological and chemical bases that Sitias used for research on the Zerg. Sitias has committed unforgivable crimes, so I hereby declare to everyone that the Pasifica Federation will launch a purge operation—to prevent any possibility of civil war."
After the live stream ended, Xu Lingzhao stood up and walked towards Ji Yao, who had her head down. She slowly leaned close to her ear and said, "I want you to see with your own eyes what happens if your Hiteas is destroyed."
As soon as Xu Lingzhao stepped out of the recording studio, she was hugged by someone. She looked down and saw Ling Qianzhu. Her face was covered in dirt, her clothes were tattered, and she smelled of gunpowder. She hugged Ling Qianzhu back and said, "Thank you for your hard work." She breathed a sigh of relief. Ling Qianzhu was not a single soldier, but she led the charge to the front lines to defend Victoria Harbour in order to boost morale.
Ling Qianzhu's soft sobs reached her ears: "I almost died. The gun barrel was already pressed against my forehead. Waaah, I thought I would never see you again."
Xu Lingzhao said softly, "This kind of situation will not happen again in the future."
The Pasifica headquarters building was brightly lit at night, and everyone was busy preparing for what would happen tomorrow.
However, the rest room of the top-level commander was very quiet.
Xu Lingzhao gently pushed open the door. Hearing the noise, Chu Jing sat up in bed like a startled rabbit. His eyes were red and he gripped the blanket tightly. When he saw that it was Xu Lingzhao, he could no longer suppress his emotions, and tears fell onto the blanket like broken beads.
Xu Lingzhao sat down on the edge of the bed and pulled him, blanket and all, into her arms. She rested her chin on the top of his head and said in a hoarse voice, "I'm sorry for scaring you." She took out a warm handkerchief and wiped away his tears. "I will never leave you again."
The crying intensified as if he wanted to pour out all his grievances, while Chu Jing buried his face in Xu Lingzhao's arms, his shoulders trembling, unable to utter a single word.
Xu Lingzhao gently patted his back, her soothing pheromones filling the room. She loved him, but she always made him wait, and almost hurt him.
She doesn't consider herself a good lover.
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Author's Note: I've decided to continue updating according to the rankings. Yesterday was too busy; I managed to write over two thousand words, but I personally feel the quality isn't good. I'll revise it later. My studies are quite demanding, and I don't have any drafts saved up, so daily updates can't guarantee quality. If I have time, I will update daily. [Sprinkling flowers][Sprinkling flowers] Thank you to all my readers for your continued support! [Patting heads][Patting heads]
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