Chapter 21
The dry and scorching sunlight shone through the broken rock wall into the deep pit. Liu Xia raised the gun in her hand to her eyes. It was the one thrown to her by the purple-clothed boy when they were fighting the queen ant. On the butt of the gun was engraved with a clear and strong Chinese character "璇" (xuan).
It looked like this was his usual weapon, and I wondered if the other gun had his last name engraved on it.
The underground city guards in the distance were also alarmed by the collapse. The collapse was so wide that it almost swept the armored vehicles in.
The captain of the guard who was tricked by Ding Ruotong was shocked by the crazy collapse of the ground as soon as he got up from the ground in anger. Tens of thousands of mutant ants crawled out of the ground from various cracks, and the sound of their mouthparts opening and closing was like the whetstone of the god of death, rushing towards them like a tide.
"Damn it, what the hell is this Liu Xia woman doing!" The captain of the guards could no longer care about trying to catch Ding Ruotong. He roared anxiously, "Defend! Defend!!"
Ten guards quickly raised their flamethrowers and aimed them at the swarming mutant ants.
But the guard captain's worries were obviously unnecessary. Just when the guards were spraying flames at these ferocious mutant ants as if they were facing a great enemy, they even deliberately avoided the guards' attack formation because of the flamethrowers.
They are just passing by.
He Tianlin dragged Liu Xia to the ground with his bloody hands. He held his knees and breathlessly took a break. He looked at the gun in Liu Xia's hand curiously: "Sister Xia, where did you get this gun? Why does it look like a 'Leviathan'?"
"Leviathan?" Liu Xia glanced at He Tianlin sideways, not expecting that he actually knew the origin of the gun.
He Tianlin examined it carefully again and scratched his head uncertainly. "This gun does look a bit like a modified version of the Leviathan. I've only heard that the caliber of the Leviathan's guns is much larger than those in the Underground City, and the bullets are also very powerful. The most famous is the flame burst bullet, which can blow through a mutant wolf with one bullet. However, bullets of that power are only qualified to be used by high-ranking members of the Leviathan."
"Be careful of the guards!" Ding Ruotong's anxious voice came from the headset.
Ding Ruotong, who was unable to get close because of the ant swarm, was now squatting behind a slope.
The sound of footsteps was coming from far away, and ten black gun muzzles had surrounded Liu Xia and He Tianlin.
The captain of the guards crushed the ant corpses on the ground with his boots and pointed his gun at Liu Xia: "Give me the core of the queen ant."
Liu Xia dragged his aching body to his feet, and swept a fierce look across the guard captain's face: "Is this what Shen Wanren meant?"
The fight just now did not allow her to gain any new abilities, and the system prompt unexpectedly did not sound.
It is precisely because of this that her consciousness remains very clear here.
The captain of the guards was frightened by her sharp gaze. This was very different from the feeling he had when he first saw Liu Xia this morning. However, seeing her tattered equipment, even her protective suit was almost rotten like a beggar's, he was afraid that her fighting power was not much left. So he continued with a stiff upper lip: "Why are you asking so many nonsense? Just hand it over if I tell you to. Who knows, I might even spare your life!"
Liu Xia's face turned cold. From the guard captain's evasive eyes, it could be seen that this was his own idea.
"What do you mean! I..." He Tianlin stood up angrily, his voice filled with anger, his finger on the trigger of the assault rifle.
Before he could finish his words, the captain of the guards knocked He Tianlin to the ground with the butt of his rifle, kicked the assault rifle out of his hand, stepped on his wrist and cursed, "What do you have to do with it? You bastard from the garbage dump are not worthy of touching military equipment!"
"Spar my life?" Liu Xia asked.
"That's right, hand over the core now." Seeing that Liu Xia did not resist, the captain of the guard could not help but put on a smug expression on his face, "Or wait until I chop this brat into pieces, then it will be your turn."
He Tianlin's face was fierce, blood trickling down the boy's forehead. He didn't lose his fighting spirit because of the blow. "Fuck you! This is a deal between Sister Xia and the City Lord. How dare you, a bastard, intercept it!"
"How dare you scold me? You rat are really tired of living!" The captain of the guards crushed the back of the boy's hand with his foot, the muzzle of his gun pressed tightly against He Tianlin's head. He looked at Liu Xia with a vicious smile on his face: "I still say the same thing. Hand over the queen ant core and I can spare your lives. And don't show up near the hive again."
The reason why he didn't dare to rob it directly was that he was afraid of Liu Xia's abnormal tearing strength. It would be better to trick the thing into his hands first.
He originally planned to control Ding Ruotong first to threaten her, but he didn't expect that the girl ran away so fast. He had to improvise and control He Tianlin to prevent Liu Xia from being forced into a desperate situation.
Liu Xia took out the half-red, half-blue crystal and held it in her palm. Slowly spreading her hand, the crystal shone with an eerie hue in the sunlight. She looked at the captain of the guards and asked, "Really?"
The captain's eyes widened when he saw the crystal. He reached out for the core of the queen ant and said to Liu Xia, "Liu Xia, the hive isn't a place where you old people from the garbage dump can just stay. Our ancestors have contributed so much blood and flesh to the hive, and only then have we earned the right to settle down here. You should give me the core of the queen ant."
"Really?" Liu Xia blinked, then nodded as if listening carefully to his words. When the guard captain's hand was about to touch the core, he turned his palm over and squeezed it hard, and the core shattered into countless powders at his fingertips. "Thank you for your kindness."
The powder was quickly absorbed by the palm of his hand and disappeared without a trace. Power filled Liu Xia's whole body like a tide. His body, which had been sore from continuous battles, recovered to its peak state. Even the palm that could not heal itself after swallowing was instantly repaired at this time.
"How dare you!!!" The guard captain's eyes widened, "You, you actually crushed the core of the alien beast!"
The expressions of everyone around changed instantly, and they all fell to the ground. For a moment, the air seemed to freeze.
Even He Tianlin subconsciously covered his face and looked at Liu Xia with lingering fear, thinking that Liu Xia was planning to die together with him.
As a driving energy source, the core of the alien beast can not only provide energy but also poses an explosion risk. However, due to its hard texture, it is generally difficult to explode.
Liu Xia rubbed his hands in surprise and said nonchalantly, "Since the deal with Shen Wanren cannot be completed, then there is no need for this broken stone to exist."
"Liu Xia!!!!" The captain of the guards was completely enraged by this action. He angrily climbed up from the ground, the veins on his forehead throbbing, and his eyes reddened with anger. "You're dead today!"
"Do it!" Liu Xia had already noticed Ding Ruotong in the distance, and his voice was drowned out by the sound of the sniper rifle.
The sniper bullet accurately shattered the protective helmet of one of the guards, and the resulting chaos gave He Tianlin an opportunity to counterattack.
"Boom!!" White smoke rose from the incendiary bomb in the field. It was the only remaining incendiary bomb that He Tianlin had hidden in his combat uniform early in the morning.
The guards scattered and lay down. The young man's wild laughter mixed with the sound of cracking ribs as he was blown away by the blast: "You didn't expect that, grandson!"
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