Chapter 266 Support Forces
Yu Sheng didn’t know how many strange and terrifying figures emerged from the fog at that moment - he only knew that they were everywhere, swaying, and the human-shaped outlines outlined by abstract colorful lines seemed to emerge directly from the air. They filled his field of vision in the blink of an eye, and they were rapidly increasing as time went on, and finally gathered into a tide, surging throughout the entire block!
Cluster entity - now Yu Sheng knows what the word "cluster" means when applied to an entity.
Moreover, he was quite suspicious that he had just encountered the largest cluster of the entity "Carnival Crowd"... There were definitely more than ten thousand swaying figures on the street!
The crowd surged over, with unreal and continuous cheers, salutes, balloon bursts, and off-tune celebratory music that seemed to come from heaven and earth. All kinds of sounds echoed throughout the entire block. Those ridiculous and even more terrifying figures stretched out their hands to the group of people, and chaotic cracks bloomed on their confused heads. The cracks were like wild laughter, welcoming the guests to join in the invisible and endless carnival.
“Ouch—”
The howling of wolves tore through the noise in the fog. Countless shadow wolves rushed towards the continuously pouring chaotic line entities and tore them into even more chaotic wreckage. This was followed by a sky full of fox fire barrages. Hu Li maintained the form of a nine-tailed demon fox, with the silver-white tails behind him blooming. The hot and dense barrages lashed at the clustered entities like whips.
But their numbers were too large, and no matter how hard the wolves and foxfire barrage attacked the crowd, there were always entities that broke through the blockade and came in front of the group.
Yu Sheng brandished his "war stick" and smashed into pieces the laughing revelers who rushed in front of him one by one, while trying his best to avoid direct contact with these strange things - even if he just accidentally touched the "colors" that burst out after their death, he should try to avoid it.
A single "reveler" was actually not a threat and could be easily eliminated. Yu Sheng even felt that the feedback from his war club hitting these guys was not as good as the wolves in the Black Forest at that time. However, the endless number and the strange noise that almost tore the eardrums soon turned into a huge pressure.
Every time a reveler was killed, its body would explode into countless colorful pieces of paper, flying into the air like confetti fired from a cannon, and within a few minutes, these colorful pieces of paper covered the entire street.
Revelers were still pouring out, and tens of thousands of cluster entities were still rapidly spawning from the fog.
"This thing is more deadly than that 'Mohen' just now!" Irene screamed, "Doesn't it have any weaknesses?!"
"Theoretically, if this were an 'Unknown Carnival' in a foreign land, we could just find a plaster clown with a balloon cap on his head and drink the sweet wine he served to get the crowd to leave!" Little Red Riding Hood shouted angrily while trying to maintain the circle formed by the wolf pack, "But this place... this place is not an Unknown Carnival! Where can we find a clown!"
"If it really doesn't work, let's retreat..." Irene grabbed Yu Sheng's hair, "We really can't finish fighting them... The restrictions of these entities are all in their original foreign lands. Now that they appear here, they are freed. They have no weaknesses!"
Yu Sheng gritted his teeth. He definitely didn't want to retreat. After all, he came here to save people, but now he couldn't even see the shadow of anyone. However, it seemed meaningless to continue to pester them. The speed at which the revelers were generated was abnormally fast. The most fatal thing was that they were a group of mechanical monsters. Their untouchable characteristics made most of the escape methods full of risks. In this case, it seemed that the only thing left was to open the door and run away...
However, at this moment, he suddenly heard a strange buzzing sound in the air.
It was like some kind of high-frequency interference signal, stirring up the already chaotic noise here.
“Ahhh!” Irene yelled on the spot, “What is this time! Is this the end…”
She had barely finished her shout when a bright light suddenly pierced the air and fell into the midst of the revelers, creating a stunning explosion.
Then there were more lights - some unknown source of fire support covered the block, tearing huge gaps in the revelers.
Yu Sheng subconsciously looked up at the sky.
One after another, huge figures wearing black power armor and two or three meters tall emerged directly from the air more than ten meters high, and then smashed towards the cluster of entities gathered on the street like cannonballs.
Dozens of such heavily-armored warriors suddenly dropped from the sky. Before landing, they used their jet packs and the impact nozzles on their waists to sweep away a group of enemies. Then, in the blink of an eye, they formed seven or eight firepower fulcrums on the chaotic battlefield with dazzlingly skillful coordination. They began to cover each other and madly poured firepower on all moving objects on the entire street that did not look like friendly forces.
The guns in their hands were huge and heavy, and the light balls they fired were obviously not bullets. When that thing touched anything, it would directly explode into a hot sphere with a diameter of more than one meter, which could instantly burn and vaporize everything within the range of the sphere. There were also a dozen soldiers wearing light power armor shuttling around on the battlefield, constantly clearing out the entities that broke through the defense line with the beam sabers in their hands.
Moreover, they were not worried at all about coming into contact with the assimilating colored outlines of the "revelers" - because not only were their entire bodies wrapped in power armor, the armor even had a thick energy shield on the outside.
Irene sat on Yu Sheng's shoulder, staring at the scene on the street. After a long while, she uttered, "Wow—"
"The Secret Service has finally arrived," Little Red Riding Hood breathed a sigh of relief, but at the same time her eyes were filled with shock, "But why are there so many... There must be 70 or 80 deep-sea divers... This is the first time I've seen such a scale."
Yu Sheng didn't say anything. He just looked at the group of two or three meter tall power armor warriors chopping melons and vegetables on the street with surprise and curiosity. The more he looked, the more familiar the equipment seemed to him.
Then he saw one of the "black cans" who was more than two meters tall walked out of the team, followed by two slightly smaller power armor warriors. After coming in front of Hu Li in the form of a fox, the "black can" raised his hand and nodded his helmet.
The heavy facial armor then opened, revealing Xu Jiali's silly smiling face.
Xu Jiali looked up at the majestic nine-tailed fox in front of her, then looked at the thick layer of colored confetti covering the ground around Yu Sheng and his party. After a long while, she said, "...You guys are really good at fighting. When I was halfway down and saw 10,000 cluster entities surrounding you, my blood ran cold. I even thought about where the director would bury me after I returned..."
"Don't flatter me. If you had come two minutes later, we would have run away," said Little Red Riding Hood beside him with a tired look on her face. "Luckily, there are so many of you who came."
"Everyone on standby at headquarters is here. After all, we heard that the situation is strange, and the 'Echoes of the Deep Sea' sent back by the locator is very strange," Xu Jiali said, and without looking back, she raised her hand and shot several "revelers" who were staggering out of the fog. The gun looked heavier than Little Red Riding Hood, and the reckless man picked it up with one hand as if he was holding a feather. "If we were not short of time, we would have planned to drive the 'Hunter' in."
Irene: “What the hell?”
Xu Jiali explained cheerfully: "It is an atmospheric bomber boat. Because it has an organic soul, it can perform 'deep dive' missions like us, but it takes longer to prepare."
At this time, Yu Sheng, who had been silent, suddenly blinked. He finally reacted and the memory in his mind matched -
"Ah! I recognized it!" He raised his hand and pointed at Xu Jiali's power armor. "I opened the door and saw two people fighting on an alien planet before. One of them was wearing this..."
The expression on Xu Jiali's face froze for a moment.
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He had almost forgotten about it...
Yu Sheng immediately noticed the change in the other person's expression. He was originally just surprised that Xu Jiali's armor matched his memory, but now he thought of a closer truth: "... Could that person be you?"
Xu Jiali raised her hand to scratch her head, but ended up scratching her helmet, which made a clanging sound.
"Yes, it's me." He said somewhat awkwardly.
Yu Sheng: “…”
Xu Jiali: “…”
Then they both spoke at almost the same time: "Why don't you say anything?"
"You didn't ask!"
"Mainly..." After two seconds, Xu Jiali spoke with embarrassment, "At first, it was because of the need for confidentiality. After all, it was also a secret mission. Then, I just didn't find the opportunity. After all, there are some things that it doesn't say at the beginning..."
At this point he raised his hand and fired another shot (it was hard for Yu Sheng to call that a "gun"), blasting a few "revelers" who had managed to escape their comrades' fire net into colorful shreds of paper. Then he continued, "You didn't say anything at first, and then you never found a chance to speak."
Yu Sheng thought about it and curled his lips: "Okay, I understand what you mean."
Then he took a closer look at Xu Jiali's outfit.
"So, this is what you look like when you're fully armed? No wonder you said before that you weren't in 'combat mode'."
"If you want to be fully armed, you'll need a mind-controlled fire support shuttle, two walking tactical robots, several light drones, and a psychic attendant," Xu Jiali shrugged. "But that's the configuration for expeditionary missions outside. We have to reduce the configuration here at the border. The last time you saw me, it was a bit unexpected - I had an encounter with a cultist and I didn't have time to prepare. Fortunately, I was the better one in the end..."
(End of this chapter)
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