Chapter 4: Imprisonment "It's time for you to fulfill your promise"
In the distance, the worms were still approaching the loader at an alarming speed. Feng Lan didn't care about the moment. He stood up with the help of the wall and stumbled to press the acceleration button.
Xu An was one step ahead of him and stood next to the button. "Should I press this?"
As she spoke, she gently pressed it down. A sudden force came, and Feng Lan slammed against the car window. The sound was so loud that Xu An, who was standing by, felt a pain in his forehead.
She pinched her fingertips and watched Feng Lan climb up with the help of the wall, then he moved towards the cab while holding the wall and pressing his forehead with his face flushed.
"What are you going to do?" Xu An asked softly.
Perhaps fearing Xu An would press some strange button without a word, Feng Lan, despite holding back a belly full of curse words, quickly focused all his energy on the important matter and said as simply as possible: "The aliens are about to catch up. Drive and get rid of them."
"But the superpowers have already locked onto you. They will run as fast as you run."
Feng Lan, who had just grasped the steering wheel, paused and looked at Xu An in horror: "Is this what I understood?"
He was a little upset: "Why didn't you say so earlier?"
Xu An shrugged: "I thought you enjoyed it."
"Are you crazy?" Who would like to be chased by an alien?
But when he turned around and saw Xu An's innocent expression, Feng Lan had a lot of curse words in his stomach but had no place to vent them. He had to swallow them back. While adjusting the signal to contact the base, he asked Xu An: "Then how can we get rid of them?"
"Simple." Xu An smiled, "Just kill him."
Feng Lan's eyes widened.
"No, why do you think I ran?"
Xu An was a little confused and repeated: "I thought you enjoyed it."
After all, she often plays with alien species like kites.
Feng Lan fell silent, turned around, and stepped on the accelerator, driving away. He didn't want to talk to this person who was even worse than an AI chat system. At least his AI girlfriend was much more interesting than her.
The loader was running wildly across the wilderness, and the worms and grub dogs behind it were also running wildly. It would have been very funny to see it, if the people being chased were not themselves.
Everyone in the car fell into a coma. As one of the only two awake people, Xu An felt extremely bored. After counting the 8,000th puppies, she finally couldn't bear it anymore and came to the driver's seat.
Feng Lan's hair stood on end when he saw this idiot. He stared at her warily, "What else do you want? I've already given you all the soda."
Xu An wasn't interested in his soda. He just sat leisurely in the passenger seat, one hand supporting his face, the other tapping the metal block in front of him: "If we keep going, the car will run out of gas."
She looked at the gravity bodies on the other loaders, her eyes gleaming with gold: "Let's go kill those things, use that."
"Just the two of us?" Feng Lan glanced at the pale-faced Xu An and decided to ignore this illogical psychopath. He frantically pressed the audio on the screen and said, "This damn place, there's no signal at all."
Just as Feng Lan was frantically poking at the screen, the loader suddenly braked. Xu An quickly reached out his hand to support himself and avoided hitting the iron lump in front of him.
She raised her head impatiently, and behind a thick green paste was a huge worm.
Feng Lan's surprised voice rang in his ears: "Why is there another one?!"
"This isn't real, it's an illusion." Xu An rubbed his red palm and said with a soft "tsk," "It still hurts. Feng Lan, you have to fight them now. The insects' abilities have evolved to absorb emotions and create illusions. If they keep running, and he disperses a few more, we'll be caught in a trap."
Feng Lan's face was heavy. "Can this illusion be broken directly?"
Xu An looked at him in surprise: "Of course not, otherwise why would it go to the trouble of using its supernatural power to transform itself? Don't you know how to use supernatural powers? Don't you know how physically demanding it is?"
"..." Feng Lan never thought that one day Xu An would look at him like a fool. He rubbed his head and said, "Let's fight."
As he spoke, his eyes flashed, and then the aura of supernatural power spread from his fingertips and slowly filled the loading truck.
"Baili Yunle, are you recovering?" Feng Lan's slightly hurried voice sounded in the headset, but there was no response.
His expression darkened, and suddenly a female voice came from the headset: "Captain, I can still hold the gun."
Xu An knew it was the voice of Jie Shuqin, the Twin Balls, and immediately turned on the microphone: "Jie Shuqin, can you still operate the mecha? The worm core is in your mouth, fly up and attack its core."
"Okay, I'll try to get there."
As soon as Xu An let go, he saw Feng Lan looking at him with an unclear expression, but he quickly turned his head away.
"Captain, I can still set up the sniper." This was Baili Yunle's voice.
Feng Lan responded immediately: "Okay, you take charge of the one at the back, Jie Shuqin takes charge of the one at the front, and everyone else who can stand up will provide cover fire and keep the gnat away."
"Everyone, I can only hold off the mental attack for ten minutes. Life or death depends on this one."
After Feng Lan blocked the mental wave attack, the tinnitus slowly dissipated. The team members crawled to pick up their guns. Those who stood up quickly loaded their guns and started firing. Those who couldn't stand up lay by the window and moved their fingertips with difficulty to shoot.
The sound of gunfire and artillery exploded in his ears. Xu An frowned and covered his ears: "Captain, their tinnitus may have eased, but I'm going deaf!"
Buzzing sounds rose and fell from the barrier, and Xu An's words were also lost in the sound of the wind as the Falcon was activated.
"Captain, due to the influence of superpowers, the gravity body has been damaged. It will take at least thirteen minutes to start up!"
Feng Lan was overwhelmed by the wave after wave of mental attacks and said, "Then fix it quickly!"
"It's being fixed, it's being fixed." An impatient female voice came.
There were gunshots outside and the earphones were buzzing with activity. Some people were helping each other, some were cursing each other, and some were Feng Lan cursing others unilaterally. Xu An's ears were about to explode from listening to it.
Seeing the worm slowing down and the green slurry scattered on the ground behind it gradually fading, Xu An was about to try to remind his cheering teammates, but his voice was drowned out by the sound of gunfire and cannon fire.
Outside, the mechanic was quickly changing various tools from the black box. Several gravity bodies sat obediently on the ground, allowing their heads to be disassembled and reassembled.
The dog slapped the screen, and blood splattered on the ground and the screen, causing the mechanic to vomit while assembling.
There was a new sound in Xu An's ears.
However, before Xu An could sigh for long, a mental wave suddenly passed through her fingertips, and then the worm that was clearly far away in the sky suddenly flashed in front of her.
Eight claws dripping with green juice emerged out of thin air from the layers of fat, and the next moment, one of them swung towards the mechanic who was assembling the head of the mecha.
"careful!"
A scream briefly silenced the headset, and even the sound of gunfire nearby seemed silent. As the claw lunged forward, a gunshot rang out from another truck, and the bullet pierced the claw and struck the worm's mouth!
The alien's wails resounded, as if shaking the ground.
Amidst the shrill sound, the signal suddenly came through. Feng Lan immediately got up from the ground and turned on the screen.
"Alien..." Just as he opened his mouth, a larger wave of mental fluctuations came down from his forehead, and the gravity body nearby was crushed into pieces in an instant.
Feng Lan spat out the blood foam in his mouth and replied with difficulty: "Mutation... escape..."
The signal was abruptly interrupted.
Besides, blood was gushing out of the mechanic's head, and his black leather suit had long been stained with blood. Another claw swung towards her like crazy!
"Yao Yin, get out of the way!"
"The last gravity body, this is the last gravity body!"
Screams from all directions and the wind created by the giant creature shook everyone's hair. At the critical moment, a falcon suddenly fell from the sky and hit the giant claw.
Mars exploded in the air with the roar of an alien species, and several people flew over and dragged the mechanic and the last gravity body over.
After returning to the safe area, they found that in addition to sparks, there were also pieces of flesh and blood on their bodies and hair.
"It's Falcon XII."
Xie Shuqin looked up in disbelief, her lips trembling: "Yang Gui?"
“Ahhhhhh—”
Blood and tears mixed together as Feng Lan struggled to stand up, his supernatural powers pouring out, "Gravity body, activate!"
The gravity body's firepower was launched almost as he spoke. Jie Shuqin sat in the mecha, cut through all the attack equipment with his fingertips, and bombarded the alien's mouth with all his might.
Gunshots, blood, screams...
These were things Xu An was used to seeing, but this time, she saw something different—tears.
It was on Xie Shuqin's face, on Feng Lan's face, on the face of the yellow-haired man with a sniper rifle not far away, and on the face of the mechanic who had just been rescued, who was also covering his face, cursing and crying.
She looked hesitantly at Feng Lan, who was closest to her, and watched him struggle to get up, only to be crushed by the mental wave attack that was all focused on her.
"Feng Lan, aren't you afraid of death?" Xu An looked at him doubtfully. "Aren't you all afraid of death?"
"But why didn't you cry when you were dying, but you cried when others died?"
Feng Lan stared at her, spitting blood foam. He could no longer speak, but his supernatural powers were still being released from his bleeding fingertips.
Xu An jumped down from the passenger seat and squatted in front of Feng Lan. "I can help you, but you have to tell me why, okay?"
The headset was broken and the surrounding sounds were noisy and chaotic. Feng Lan didn't hear what Xu An said, and neither did anyone else. Just when everyone was ready to fight hard, there was a sudden buzzing sound in their heads that lasted for five seconds. Then, when they could see clearly again, everyone vomited.
Because the vast, yellow Gobi Desert was filled with blood, flesh, green pulp, and corpses...
An indescribable stench of blood and corpses rushed into my nose and then rushed into my lungs unhindered, causing my stomach to ache and I to vomit constantly.
Xu An slowly stood up in front of Feng Lan's incredulous eyes, then slowly retracted the terrifying red light in his eyes and extended his hand to him: "Feng Lan, it's time for you to fulfill your promise."
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An hour had passed since A061 returned to the base. The sound of drips continued in the hospital, and lights were on in almost all the operating rooms. Even interns were forced to go on the operating table.
Xu An, the only pedestrian who was not injured, became the target of everyone's questioning.
Xu An was imprisoned in the base prison. The prison was so quiet that even the sound of water dripping on the tiles in the nearby pool could be clearly heard.
Xu An knew that this was where the base imprisoned mutant humans, and now, she was the only one in this prison.
After an unknown amount of time, a voice came from the surveillance camera overhead: "Xu An, have you decided whether you want to say anything?"
Xu An poked her head out of her hood, and the iron chain banged against the wall with her movements, making a crisp sound. "It smells very musty in here, and the floor is very hard. The chain is too small and it hurts my wrists... Why hasn't it been improved in all these years..."
"Also, is Feng Lan cured? I want to see him."
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