44 Distress
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As he turned around, the high beam on his chest shone towards the ground, and Yan Xunzhi was dazed for a moment.
It wore no helmet, but instead a full-coverage thick fur hood. The leather was flexible, with a ridge protruding slightly to cover its eyebrows. A protective mask peeked through its face, revealing only a pair of narrow eyes that reflected the clear blue of the shallow sea under the light.
He was even wearing a rare southern tactical suit, a somewhat worn-out look from constant wear and tear, with the inevitable signs of rips and patches. The suit was bulging, with warm fur protruding from the collar and cuffs. He wore a pair of gray-white gloves, gripping the long sickle handle, which was slightly taller than the scythe.
In the moment of distraction, Kong Wei quickly poured in her mental power, quickly condensing Yan Xunzhi's mental power to the same level as hers.
Without communication, she could only give the little leopard a flying kick in the picture and gesture to her: What are you doing!
Yan Xunzhi felt a pain in his spiritual body and immediately came back to his senses. He put away his astonished jaw and was about to retreat to increase distance and fire a flare.
However, just as she touched her waist, fireworks exploded in the sky one after another.
They came in groups, as if they had prepared a plan in advance. The surprise attack was a great success, and many sentries were knocked away.
It was hard for anyone to come to its aid immediately, as it was too busy taking care of itself. However, Kong Wei was already exposed to its scythe. Yan Xunzhi didn't have time to think, but he thrust his hand forward and drew his gun. Sharing Kong Wei's mental energy, he had plenty of mental bullets, and he fired at her exposed eyes.
Her shooting skills were terrible when she first got on the ground, and they weren't very accurate either now. Hitting four or five out of ten was pretty good.
But perhaps because there was no yellow sand blocking the southern area, the view was open and easy to aim, or perhaps it was the huge potential stimulation in the crisis, these shots were incredibly accurate and shot straight through the eyes!
Di Zi's blue eyes flashed, but he didn't dodge, and the sickle didn't move forward again.
Kong Wei took this opportunity to roll over and get up from the ground, escaping from the range of the sickle, but Yan Xunzhi's mental power supply was suddenly cut off.
Of course, her own mental power could not condense many bullets, and she had already fired all the bullets. Not knowing why Kong Wei suddenly did this, she retreated in a daze.
Then the condensed spiritual bullet in the air was instantly dissipated.
It quickly gathered together and became like a spear. Although it had only formed a loose outline, it was not difficult to see that the direction of the spear tip... was pointing at her!
Yan Xunzhi was horrified and quickly ran to the side.
Has the Earth developed to this point? It can even directly use other people's mental energy for its own benefit!
Through the helmet mirror, he saw the spear behind him, sometimes solid and sometimes scattered, as if trying to gather, only to be forcibly interrupted and dispersed. Kong Wei and Di Zi clashed with each other with their swords, and for a moment, they were entangled, and the spear was half suspended in the air, ready to pierce.
She braked, picked up the knife to charge, watched the opportunity, and thrust it straight in!
Because of the ground's great strength, she entered at a slightly crooked angle, and the front end of the long sword was broken by it.
But she finally managed to hold on, and Kong Wei broke free from the entanglement. The spiritual spear shook and penetrated into her body loosely and invisibly.
Her mind was in a state of confusion, and her exoskeleton was affected, causing her to stumble backwards and fall to the ground.
The high beams shattered, and the pain in her chest naturally went out. Kong Wei climbed up from the ground. In the chaos and darkness around her, no one noticed her eyes, which were as red as blood, hidden in the darkness.
Suddenly, Di Zi's hands and feet went limp and the giant sickle fell from his hands.
Yan Xunzhi had been beaten to a kneeling position, enduring the ordeal, when he suddenly saw it faint. Confused, he seized the opportunity, leaped forward, and easily slashed its neck.
Blood splattered everywhere. It was not as difficult as imagined, nor did it make the usual death struggles of a foreign object. It just fell backward with the force and hit the ground with a muffled sound.
More blood flowed from its neck. Its eyes looked up at the sky, expressionless, with dilated pupils. It died like a human.
"What were you staring at just now?"
Without the communicator, Kong Wei's voice was low and muffled through the helmet, as if coming from far away.
A natural person on the ground. Yan Xunzhi looked at it, a little lost, and murmured, "This is completely human."
Kong Wei paused for a few seconds and corrected, "It's a foreign object, but it looks like a human."
How do you tell if it's an alien or a person? Yan Xunzhi didn't dare ask. The Federation had never had any particularly strict numerical regulations. After so many years of clearing out alien objects, they all looked strange and different. You could tell it was an alien at a glance.
But if it had a human appearance...
Their ancestors all had the same ancestor, and they shared the same genes. Some of them were even lost and alienated, almost converging with them... natural people on the ground. She was surprised at first why they were not just called aliens.
Yan Xunzhi stopped thinking about it and was surprised again, "Why were you attacked just now?"
How come Officer Kong’s combat ability is not as good as hers?
"Fuck." Kong Wei shook her head a little irritably when she mentioned this. Only then did she see that she had taken off the communicator. "It exploded."
Oh, that's really concise.
No wonder there were so many dumplings. Communication interference wasn't as severe in the north, so ground operations required constant compliance with military command. The higher the level of sentry, the better their hearing, and the less likely they were to remove their communicators. Even shutting down the device unless it was damaged required reporting, a cumbersome process that they found troublesome.
I don't know whether the ground is using the influence of radiation or it has this ability, but it made all of their communicators explode at the same time.
Such a strange object had never appeared before. Shaoxiang was completely unprepared and lost his hearing in an instant. He was caught off guard.
Support quickly rushed to the center, and the sentry went offline. It was hard to tell whether the people lying on the ground were human or foreign objects. Kong Wei was very fast and stepped directly over. The heavy exoskeleton pressed down and made a crackling sound of bones.
Yan Xunzhi tried to go around him at first, but gradually he couldn't keep up with Kong Wei's pace. He made up his mind and followed suit, making a crunching sound and leaving a mess of flesh on the ground.
The further she got into the circle, the more mental pain she felt. The helmet was like a closed cage, constantly increasing in pressure, like the inescapable air infusion into the lungs when inhaling, and her head was squeezed to the point of almost exploding.
Before support arrived, she almost became the one to be supported.
Kong Wei saw that something was wrong with her, his expression changed, and he quickly connected his mental power, "Are you okay?"
His mental strength solidified, and the pressure immediately dissipated. Yan Xunzhi, still feeling a bit dizzy, shook his head and said, "Not bad."
Kong Wei drove her spirit body back into her vision, "I'll just disturb you for a while, take care of yourself, there are too many people here, I may not be able to take care of you."
Yan Xunzhi nodded, assembled the crossbow and held it in his hand, retreating while looking for cover, shooting arrows here and there in the gaps to disrupt the others, buying them a moment to adjust, which was better than nothing.
The ground forces also had divisions of labor. She was only B-rank, and there were only two of them, so the one who had just attacked them was obviously not very strong.
Even so, if that person hadn't been so weak for some reason and let her get an advantage, she would have definitely suffered a great loss.
There was a sound of breaking air behind me.
Yan Xunzhi leaped back, and the iron crossbow clanged against the spear's tip, denting its hollow structure. The man wore a helmet, a web of cracks crawling across it. The spear thrust upward again, sending her flying.
With the help of the exoskeleton to cushion the fall, Yan Xunzhi rolled over to avoid the incoming spear, and summoned Kong Wei's mental power to control the cheetah to pounce on the ground, attempting to temporarily slow its movement through mental attacks.
To no avail.
The little leopard felt a sharp pain in his mind and was unable to even penetrate the opponent's image and was thrown out directly.
Then came the earth's counterattack. It was as if a steel needle had been driven into her brain, stirring it. She felt her whole body involuntarily contract, her nerves twitching uncontrollably like electric shocks, and her stomach churned with nausea.
The rabbit was covered in blood, its red eyes already thick and turbid, standing in front of the cheetah, its fur exploding and almost torn to the edge.
The mental impact was too strong, and it was difficult to struggle to resist, but if he stopped, he would surely be stabbed through.
Fortunately, it was a steep downhill slope. Yan Xunzhi gritted his teeth, closed his eyes, and rolled over and over again, relying on inertia. The holes in his exoskeleton churned with blood, and in the blink of an eye, the extreme cold froze and filled them.
Suddenly, something touched my hand.
The desperate desire to survive, facing a life-or-death situation, instantly overwhelmed her loss of control. She was just thankful that the exoskeleton had activated automatic charging and that none of its components had been damaged by the thing. She picked it up, rolled over, and folded it over her body.
Tick.
Something dripped onto her face.
Yan Xunzhi opened her eyes. A fine layer of ice had formed on her helmet, blurring her vision. However, the sharp tip of the spear had already pierced through the helmet and was clearly visible, hanging just a fraction of an inch in front of her.
The gun tip is threaded, and the viscous liquid gathers along the grooves and drips intermittently.
Something blocked the attack, dissipating much of the force, and the spear only managed to pierce the hardened helmet. In those few seconds, support arrived. They were armed with advanced laser firearms, firing with a brilliance as bright as day. Even someone as strong as Di Zi was forced to dodge the physical burns.
Yan Xunzhi held the thing and let it press heavily on his body. He stretched out his breath for a few seconds, then pulled himself out from underneath with shaking arms.
Her eyelashes were sticky and her face was covered with the liquid, so she had to briefly unbuckle her helmet to clean it.
The moment it was untied, a chill hit me in the face.
Yan Xunzhi wiped his face, and his hands were covered with blood that had turned into broken ice.
Did she just hold a corpse to block it? She didn't care, just felt a little cold, and just wanted to clear her sight and see the road clearly...
Suddenly stopped.
Yan Xunzhi whipped her head around. The corpse she'd just used as a shield lay haphazardly beside her, its brass nametag identifying her as an underground sentry. Due to death, the connection had been severed, and all the lights on the exoskeleton's operating system had gone out, leaving only the battery-powered distress light permanently lit.
She quickly removed her gloves and went to unlock her helmet. Her hands shook, and the device, so expertly trained, slipped from her fingers. It took two tugs to unlock it.
There seemed to be a trace of internal warmth remaining in the helmet, but the body showed signs of freezing and stiffness, and Yan Xunzhi almost didn't dare to touch her neck.
"Yan Xunzhi——!"
She was also a little frozen, and it took her longer than usual to realize that someone was calling her. She turned her head to look at the direction where the voice came from, and there was a bright light.
A ground turtle lunged toward her against the light. Its body was ablaze, the flames rising high. Finally, its face, no longer so human-like, became ferocious and ugly, like a common alien creature.
Kong Wei's figure flashed before her eyes. In such a critical moment, with such a dull mind, she was still able to distinguish that she had knocked Sang Wanyin down and pulled her out of the attack range.
At her usual speed, she would have had enough time to hide after hearing this shout.
But she forgot when the chain broke.
At that moment, a completely unfamiliar idea popped into Yan Xunzhi's mind.
The fireball was like a sun that would never rise in the southern polar night. She curled her lips, staring at the sun as it swallowed her. Tongues of fire licked her skin, the scorching heat bringing a chill colder than the ground. Blood melted and dripped from her eyelashes.
She lowered her eyes and did not struggle.
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