Actually let go
Without any worries, Liu Xia's killing efficiency suddenly increased.
Ding Ruotong and Sun Zhuang fired their guns from a high altitude, and each bullet accurately penetrated the mutant beast's skull, while Liu Xia was like a black hurricane, with sword lights and flesh and blood flying wherever he passed.
Without Hao Feiyang's summons and commands, the few remaining mutant beasts in the clinic quickly turned into twitching corpses on the ground.
Hao Feiyang, who had already suffered a serious injury, was already exhausted. When Liu Xia tried to break free, he kicked him against the wall. He was unconscious at this moment, and his jaw was removed cleanly before he woke up to prevent him from biting his tongue or screaming again and causing more trouble.
Liu Xia tied him up like cargo with the rope from the backpack in the jeep in the yard, and threw him into the back seat of the jeep.
She then instructed Ding Ruotong and Sun Zhuang to protect the clinic. Then the jeep engine roared, the tires rolled over the pool of blood, and she drove towards the east gate.
Regardless of whether the city gate was broken open or not, Song Xuan didn't come to the clinic to find her, which meant that he must still be there.
Along the way, there were flashes of fire and sounds of gunfire. Everywhere one could see spontaneously organized hunting teams fighting against mutant beasts scattered throughout the outer city. The corpses of humans and mutant beasts were everywhere.
After a while, they happened to meet a group of fully armed soldiers rushing to the east gate for support on the road. The leading soldier seemed to recognize the jeep and saluted.
As the jeep roared through the last bend, Liu Xia saw Song Xuan standing on a pile of mutant beast corpses in the flames and smoke of the collapsed city wall, leading his soldiers in an orderly resistance against the mutant beast tide that was rushing around like a leaderless group.
Song Xuan's military uniform had long been torn to shreds, completely exposing the metal prosthesis on his right arm. The rips in the fabric revealed deep scars that could be seen to the bone. Blood flowed down his brow bone and formed dark red blood scabs on his cheeks, but he was too lazy to even wipe them off.
His weapon had changed from a pistol to a Mitsubishi saber with a notch on it. He raised his foot and crushed the mutant hyena's head, which was not yet dead, under his feet. The wind blew up his torn clothes, and he looked like a fearless general.
The speeding jeep caught Song Xuan's attention. He looked up at the source of the sound, and a happy smile appeared on the corner of his bloodstained mouth.
The battle lasted all night. With tens of thousands of Leviathan soldiers and hunting teams led by Qi Yao pouring out, the mutant beasts in the outer city were finally completely wiped out.
When the first ray of pale sunlight pierced through the clouds, the gunfire in the outer city finally stopped.
Qi Yao stood in front of the command vehicle. The red dots representing the beast tide on the electronic map had been completely cleared, but the black marks representing the dead were densely packed, like a silent tombstone.
This surprise attack by the Hyena Gang caused direct casualties of over a thousand residents and soldiers in the City of Black Gold, with at least double the number of injured.
Xue Long, who caused this tragedy, led his team to evacuate in the second half of the battle when he saw that the situation was not right, leaving only the mutant beasts without anyone to control them to delay the war.
"That bastard Xue Long...must die!"
Qi Yao suddenly punched the hood of the car. He turned around and looked at the assembled troops, Leviathan's elite soldiers and direct hunting teams. Every pair of eyes was burning with the same thing, the flame of revenge.
Since a hundred years ago, no one has dared to challenge "Leviathan". Even Shen Wanren, who dominated the garbage area and owned the beehive, at least on the surface, never thought of invading the Black Gold City.
The City of Black Gold has been peaceful for nearly a hundred years, and has also been gathering strength for nearly a hundred years to have this city that has almost recovered to its modern state.
"Everyone, listen!" Qi Yao's voice was as cold as a steel blade. He drew his pistol, loaded it, raised his hand, and fired a shot into the air. "I declare that in one hour, we will gather at the outer city's combat readiness area. Target is the Hive. We must eradicate the Hyena Gang completely!"
"Let all those who dare to stand against Leviathan know..." He stood on top of the armored vehicle, his eyes sweeping over every soldier and hunter, slowly scanning every bloodstained face, his eyes burning with long-suppressed anger: "Their only end is destruction!"
Qi Yao's voice spread throughout the city through the loudspeaker, and the entire team suddenly tensed up as if injected with stimulants.
"This battle will reward medals for the Hyena Gang's heads. After the battle, you will count the medals and receive the corresponding rewards. All civilian hunting teams in the Black Gold City are welcome to participate!"
There were no passionate shouts or exaggerated declarations. The victory in their first encounter made their blood boil and they were eager to fight. The residents of the civilian hunting team were especially excited. This was their chance to climb up the social ladder.
Song Xuan and Liu Xia stood side by side. Song Xuan first touched Liu Xia's fingers with his left hand, then held Liu Xia's palm tightly, his gentle gaze staying on Liu Xia's face.
"Have you seen enough?" Liu Xia didn't shake off his hand, but just glanced at him sideways.
Half of Song Xuan's black military uniform was soaked in blood, and the wound on his forehead was still oozing blood, but his gaze was more focused than ever.
"Not enough." He rubbed the calluses on her palms with his thumb, which were the marks left by holding weapons for a long time. He put his face close to Liu Xia's ear and whispered, "Let's go."
The sudden warmth next to her ear made Liu Xia nervously hold his wrist with her backhand. Goose bumps appeared on the skin of her arm involuntarily. After a long while, she nodded gently: "Okay, let's go."
Song Xuan had a smile in his eyes. He suddenly chuckled and pulled Liu Xia over, resting his chin on her shoulder and holding her in his arms. He didn't care about the surprised looks from the surrounding soldiers. He maintained this hug for quite a while before reluctantly withdrawing.
Then, he firmly took Liu Xia's hand and walked towards the jeep.
Song Xuan felt as if a heavy burden had been lifted from his shoulders. He had already sacrificed enough blood and flesh for this city. War was something he never wanted to see. This entire night of fighting was his final responsibility.
Qi Ya stood at the rear of the armored vehicle, his gaze passing through the flying dust and soldiers, falling on the receding figures of Liu Xia and Song Xuan.
Seeing the two men covered in blood but walking side by side into the distance, she unconsciously tightened her fingers around the gun.
She looked down at the crescent-shaped marks on her palms left by her fingernails, suddenly chuckled, and then sighed softly as if she had let go of something.
This sudden smile stunned Yu Chang, the guard who had always followed her.
Before he could step forward to ask, Qi Ya withdrew her gaze, turned around and whispered a few words to the guard Yu Chang behind her. Her voice was very soft, but every word was very clear.
Yu Chang was slightly startled, and subconsciously looked towards Liu Xia and Song Xuan in the distance. He opened his mouth as if he wanted to ask something, but in the end he just nodded solemnly: "Understood."
After saying that, he walked out of the crowd.
Qi Ya turned her gaze forward again. Standing there was her brother Qi Yao, who was planning the next battle.
At this time, the soldiers directly under the command of "Leviathan" have been taken to the war preparation area, and other hunters who want to gain some opportunities through war have also returned to prepare.
Qi Yao was adjusting his attack route in front of the holographic sand table. When he sensed his sister approaching, he said without even looking up, "Stop making trouble?"
"He's not the only man." Qi Ya pursed her red lips, somewhat dissatisfied with her brother's teasing. She shrugged indifferently, her voice still full of arrogance.
Qi Yao knows his sister best. Qi Ya has been spoiled by him since she was a child. She has a domineering and arrogant personality and never fails to get what she wants.
Apart from this, his personality is actually not bad.
He was very clear about the ill-fated relationship between the two. If Liu Xia had not appeared, according to the regulations of reproductive matching, Song Xuan would most likely have accepted the arrangement and had a child with her to complete the matching and end the task of genetic optimization.
After all, the two are about the same age and have known each other since childhood.
Qi Yao recalled the rainy day when he was a child accompanying his father in the garbage area. Liu Xia stayed by his side and guarded the seriously injured Song Xuan. He also clearly remembered what his father asked Liu Xia.
"Are you sure you don't want to go to the City of Black Gold and give him this spot?"
Liu Xia's small body was trembling from the rain, but she still nodded with a firm look in her eyes.
Qi Yao had known Liu Xia for a long time. From the day she got SSS grade in the physical education hall, he had recognized this stubborn person since childhood.
How could what happened in the City of Black Gold escape his eyes?
Before the tryouts, Liu Xia and Qi Ya had a tense agreement. He was originally looking forward to a wonderful duel, but he didn't expect...
"She actually let me go." He had already undergone extensive prosthetic limb reconstruction and had little emotion, so he couldn't understand why his sister, who had never given up until she achieved her goal, would actually let them go.
Qi Yao shook his head expressionlessly, immediately throwing the thought out of his mind, and once again retracted all his attention, focusing on the full-system sandbox in front of him.
The incident happened suddenly last night. Due to the reasonable siege of soldiers and hunting teams, the losses in the outer city were not too great, but nearly a thousand residents were still killed by the Hyena Gang.
Most of them are civilians without combat capabilities. Although these people cannot obtain the cores of exotic beasts through fighting, a large amount of planting, infrastructure construction, and urban maintenance require these civilians to complete. They are the cornerstone of maintaining the normal operation of the Black Gold City.
As the supreme leader of the Black Gold City, Qi Yao had only one idea in his mind at this time, which was to make the Hyena Gang pay the price. This was also a good opportunity to test the combat capability of the newly formed S-class hunting team.
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The jeep rolled through the blood-stained street and slowly stopped in front of the clinic.
In the yard, the survivors were using shovels and sacks to clean up the remains of the mutant beasts. The corpses were piled up in the corner like a small mountain, and the stench was so strong that it was almost visible to the naked eye, but they were working very hard, and some of them were even humming softly.
"Liu Xia and Song Xuan are back!"
I don't know who shouted first, but everyone looked up at once, and smiles instantly broke out on their blood-stained faces. This battle after surviving the disaster made these people regard Liu Xia as their savior.
At that time, these helpless neighbors saw clearly in the clinic that if Liu Xia had not been guarding here all the time, even the clinic with basic bulletproof facilities would not be able to withstand the invasion of the mutant beast tide for a long time.
Liu Xia was stunned for a moment. This was the first time she saw so many people enthusiastically expressing their gratitude to her. Even though she had recycled so much garbage before, she had never experienced such treatment. She didn't know how to respond for a moment.
Seeing the grateful smiles on the faces of this group of men, women, young and old, she felt a little relieved. She could only smile and nod, making an excuse that she had something else to do, and then she squeezed through the crowd to go to the second floor of the clinic.
"Is Liu Xia here?" A voice without any emotion sounded outside the clinic.
Liu Xia, who was just about to run away, was stopped again before he could even run. He looked back in confusion and found that the source of the voice was the man who had been following Qiya.
Liu Xia narrowed her eyes slightly: "I am."
The originally bustling crowd quieted down, apparently recognizing that this was Qiya's guard.
Song Xuan walked up to him first and looked at him warily: "Yu Chang, what are you doing here?"
Yu Chang had been prepared. He handed the iron box to Song Xuan in a businesslike manner, "This is the bet Commander Qi agreed to. Please check it."
Song Xuan took the iron box in surprise. He didn't expect Qi Ya to deliver the bet at this time. From the weight and the slight vibration in his hand, he could tell that it was a brand new mechanical heart.
After Yu Chang delivered what Qi Ya had asked him to do, he immediately turned around and left. A layer of shivering and wetness had already crept up on his back. The look in Liu Xia's eyes as she squinted at him was simply too terrifying.
He just felt like a rabbit being targeted by a wild beast. If he hadn't pretended to be calm, his legs would probably have been shaking.
Liu Xia didn't expect Qiya to really keep her promise, and her first impression of her as arrogance and domineering changed slightly.
But this heart is no longer necessary for her.
However, she still took the iron box from Song Xuan and walked into the clinic. She thought that this heart could be given as a gift to Dr. Lin who had been helping her all the time.
Song Xuan did not immediately follow him, but first confirmed that Hao Feiyang in the back seat of the jeep was still behaving well, then he picked him up and carried him on his shoulders, then followed him.
When Liu Xia arrived at the ward, he saw at first glance that the pacemaker that was originally fixed on He Tianlin's chest had been removed.
Ding Ruotong was right. He Tianlin's operation was completed and it seemed to be very successful. He no longer needed a ventilator.
Only He Tianlin was lying on the white hospital bed, no longer needing messy tubes and wires to maintain his life.
"Didn't Xiao He's operation succeed? But why hasn't he woken up yet?" Liu Xia walked quickly to the bedside, hugged Ding Ruotong who was guarding the bedside, and asked with some concern.
"Doctor Lin said Xiao He has been lying down for too long. It's also the first time he's had a mechanical heart implanted, so his body needs time to adapt."
Ding Ruotong leaned her head tiredly on Liu Xia's hand. Her complexion had improved a lot at this time. The long operation made her originally rosy face pale again.
Liu Xia turned her palm over and held Ding Ruotong's face to make it easier for her to lean on him. She looked down at He Tianlin who was lying quietly on the hospital bed and asked softly, "Xiao He, in this physical condition, can you move?"
There was a hint of a smile on He Tianlin's handsome face, as if he was asleep. His breathing was steady without the help of any equipment, and his chest rose and fell slightly. A faint purple light could be seen shining through the edge of the thin quilt. It was the light of the mechanical heart operating at a low frequency.
Ding Ruotong didn't know why Liu Xia asked this. She rubbed Liu Xia's palm comfortably and nodded subconsciously.
Liu Xia felt relieved after receiving the response. Only then did she realize that Dr. Lin was not here. She looked around in confusion: "We are leaving here soon. Where is Dr. Lin? I wanted to thank him..."
Before he could finish his words, Dr. Lin's hoarse voice came from next door.
"You are a little girl who still has some conscience. It's just that you always cause trouble for me. It's really annoying." His voice sounded exhausted and heavy.
"I replaced the core of the mechanical heart with the Level 6 exotic beast core you brought. That kid was very strong-willed and actually managed to withstand it. His body should be able to adapt in a day at most."
Although Dr. Lin's words were not very polite, Liu Xia could still hear from his tone that he did not really hate her.
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