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Poisonous gas!
The five of them had just climbed out of the landing pods, and before they could take off their spacesuits, an urgent alarm rang in their ears.
Colorless and odorless poisonous gas!
The ground was littered with corpses. Not only animals, even plants were dying.
The owners of these corpses had all struggled in pain before they died. Their bodies were extremely twisted, and they were clawing at their throats. Some had even torn their throats, but it was not enough to stop the pain and death.
Seeing the horrible state of the corpses, they did not dare to take off their spacesuits, and crawled forward.
A huge city was right behind them, and there were a few alien spaceships patrolling in the thick black smoke of the city.
Other than the "young man", the other four were elite soldiers, at least level four or five. They had a much shorter time to adapt to the gravity when they returned to the ground, especially Miya, who could already stand up.
But to avoid being discovered by the spaceships, they could only crawl along the corpses. Once the spaceships got close, they would all stop and play dead.
There was no other way, there were only five of them. If they were discovered and were within the range of the poisonous gas, only death awaited them.
The spaceships seemed to be very confident in the effect of the poisonous gas, and probably did not scan for signs of life on a large scale. Otherwise, even the technology of the Science Hall would be able to detect living beings, not to mention these more advanced aliens.
Soon, they flew in other directions, and continued to release the poisonous gas.
The sky gradually darkened, and the sun finally set below the horizon.
The burning city immediately became very conspicuous. There were flames everywhere, and it was a desolate scene after being ravaged by the enemy. But there were no sounds of people, perhaps everyone had been slaughtered, and it became a city of the dead.
Taking advantage of the darkness, they pressed on for some distance and came across a medium-sized four-wheeled cart filled with the corpses of children. Many of them were still glued to the window with their eyes wide open, as if they were breathing hard. In the distance, the flickering light of the fire made the scene extremely frightening.
Miya gripped the assault rifle in her hand tightly, and the "young man" was more worried about Mulan and Hu Jinxiu. Were they still alive?
Hu Jinxiu, you must survive!
He looked at the huge light that suddenly flashed on the horizon, and the vague mushroom cloud, and his heart skipped a beat.
…
They moved the corpses of the children out of the four-wheeled vehicle one by one, not daring to arrange them neatly in order to avoid being discovered. Then, they started the vehicle and rolled over the endless corpses in front of them to escape the poisonous gas zone.
Along the way, all they could see were corpses. It was as if there were no living things in this world. Even the plants had withered on both sides of the road.
The five of them were silent. No one said a word.
The further they went, the colder their hearts became. Some of them began to doubt what was the point of risking their lives to come back?
Could it be that they had to watch their own race being exterminated? Or should I die again?
There were no cheers of heroes, no tears of family, only a world of death that was ravaged and slaughtered by the alien fleet.
Mia turned on the radio, but it was completely empty. There was only noise and no signal at all.
It was as if the entire world had died, leaving only the five of them and the occasional alien flying machine in the sky.
The medium-sized four-wheeled vehicle ran out of energy, so they switched to another one.
They passed by a small city that had been razed to the ground, a large city that had been burned to ashes, a river full of corpses, a village that had been scorched. They passed through three poisonous gas zones, were almost affected by a mushroom cloud, and were almost smashed into dust at the edge of a city that was covered with electric fences. Finally, they met the first group of people who had fled since they landed.
There were blue-haired people and black-haired people in the crowd. At this moment, there was no distinction between them. They were all shivering like insects hiding in the ruins, only daring to try to escape to the west at night.
Mia found someone to ask and found out that the Sacred City had fallen and the Great Divine Mountain had been occupied. The remaining main force was retreating to the west, and the alien army was hot on their heels.
"I guess they want to go to Aoyun Snow Mountain."
Mia opened a map that she had picked up, and her finger followed the western route until it stopped on a mountain range. "If the Great Divine Mountain has been occupied, there is no other place that can survive except for Aoyun Snow Mountain!"
Little Tanuki nodded and said, "Legend has it that Master Hull heard the voice of the Supreme God here. This should be the last hope!"
Another blue-haired soldier who survived also said, "For so many years, the Hull family has accumulated countless materials in Aoyun Snow Mountain. They have long regarded the whole mountain range as their own territory and built it extremely strong. Probably only here can resist the attack of the alien army."
Mia glanced at the blue-haired soldier and said after a while, "I don't know if Ai Mai and En Jue have the power to break through that limit."
This was a question that no one could answer, but it was also a question that the five of them were looking forward to. They did not know when, but they all hoped that one of the two would emerge as the rumored savior as soon as possible.
Only when they met their compatriots, even if they were maggots that were fleeing from danger, did their tense and suffocating heartstrings relax a little. Then, they were surprised to find that they were still alive!
Mia was the first to notice that something was wrong with her body. Her chest felt like there was a fire burning. At first, she had always thought that it was the anger caused by the massacre of the corpses on the land. Now that she had calmed down a little or accepted the reality, she found that the fire had not only not been extinguished, but had become more and more fierce, as if it was going to burn her body.
She was very puzzled, and even had a bizarre dream during her short rest, which made her feel very ashamed. At this time, she actually dreamed of such an absurd thing.
The "young man" did not sleep. He had been responsible for the task of vigilance. Among the five of them, he was always the first to discover danger. Moreover, he seemed to be very experienced in the current situation, very sensitive and vigilant.
Little Tanuki felt that it was natural, and even concluded that he would definitely use a sword!
But not only Little Tanuki, even Mia had never seen him pull out a sword even once.
They lurked during the day and moved at night. Although they also knew the technology of the alien aircraft, darkness could not be their coat to hide, but at least it would give people a sense of security psychologically.
Relying on the sharpness of the "young man", they avoided danger again and again. The most recent time was when a small alien robot formation seemed to be exploring underground resources and did not notice them.
Finally, at dawn, they caught up with the retreating army. The mountains and plains were full of blue-haired and black-haired people with tattered clothes, fleeing to the west.
The alien army was probably busy cleaning up the survivors in other places, or had already started fighting in Aoyun Snow Mountain, so these people were not attacked for the time being.
However, they could not hold on for long. Food had long been exhausted. Even if they continued to move forward, they would not be able to reach Aoyun Snow Mountain, and would eventually starve to death on the road.
The "young man" miraculously met Mulan here. She followed the students of the academy and was protected by the army for a period of time, so she was able to come here alive.
As soon as she saw him, Mulan almost didn't recognize him. When she realized it was him, she suddenly broke down. She rushed up and hugged him tightly, crying, "Brother Big Egg, I lost Ma Yingxiu, I lost Ma Yingxiu …"
The "young man" suddenly felt his heart skip a beat. What he was worried about along the way had finally happened. It was already a miracle that Mulan could be alive, and Ma Yingxiu could not enter the Divine Palace Servant Academy, so she was not qualified to be protected.
"Where's Zhuo Ma?" He wiped Mulan's tears and frowned deeply.
"He went to find sister Niyue before the aliens came. I don't know where he is now, and if he is still alive." Mulan was still hugging him tightly, as if he would disappear at any time if she let go.
"Don't be afraid!" He carried the weak Mulan on his back, then looked fiercely at the east and said, "Let's go find Ma Yingxiu, if she is alive, I want to see her, if she is dead, I want —"
"You can't go!" Mia immediately stood in front of him and stopped him.
"Get out of my way!" He looked at Mia and said coldly.
"Sethbiya, calm down. If he is alive, he must be on the way to escape. Otherwise, he would be dead for sure. There's no way he can still be alive in the east!" Mia didn't budge an inch and pointed at Mulan on his back. "You're going to die if you go, and you're going to drag her down with you!"
He looked at the east horizon and said, "I promised Mulan's parents that I would definitely bring them back to the prairie."
As he was speaking, the earth suddenly shook and the mountains shook. Hundreds of flames lit up the mountain plains at the same time, and a huge airwave swept over quickly.
Countless alien fighter jets flew out of the dark clouds and swooped down toward the ground. The light swept over the people who were running away in fear, and the poisonous gas poured down in torrents.
"Let's go!"
Mia pulled the "young man" and ran toward the west without saying anything.
He hesitated for a moment and wanted to enter the curve to leave, but in the next moment, he clearly realized that Mulan couldn't withstand that kind of power and would definitely be torn apart.
And he couldn't leave Mulan here while he went to stop the enemy by himself. The speed of the alien fighter jets was too fast, and under the poisonous gas, the people were already falling like waves, and it was about to reach here.
It turned out that the alien army hadn't attacked this group of people fleeing, not because they didn't have enough troops, but because they were waiting for the survivors to gather together, and then they would be able to efficiently slaughter them!
And this group was probably the last group in the vicinity. They had just arrived, and they immediately started the slaughter.
"Let's go!"
Little Tanuki fired a few shots at the sky, then grabbed his clothes and ran toward the west as well.
Helpless, he could only carry Mulan on his back and follow them to the west.
But the moment they appeared, it was already too late to escape. More and more alien fighter jets surrounded them at high speed from all directions, blocking all directions. They strafed the crowd and gathered them together while releasing the poisonous gas, slaughtering them in the cheapest way possible.
Before these fighter jets took off, even he couldn't accurately sense them, and they were definitely lying in ambush very far away.
Now that they were surrounded, other than entering the curve, there was no way to break through.
The people around him were hit one after another and fell to the ground. The crowd was pushed back, crying and squeezing toward the center where the alien fighter jets were chasing. At this moment, they didn't care that it was also a dead end, they were all instinctively struggling to survive.
The "young man" was also blocked in the crowd. Although he could force his way through, the poisonous gas below the fighter jets in front of him was also a dead end!
The alien fighter jets unscrupulously strafed above them, whistling past their heads, scaring the crowd into collapsing on the ground. Then, they proudly pulled them up, as if they weren't in a hurry to kill them, but to slowly torture and tease them, letting them experience the great fear of death again and again, taking pleasure in it.
They had plenty of time.
They indeed had the technology to look down on them. After the dense crowd in the mountain plain was surrounded on all sides, they could actually limit the spread of the poisonous gas in the air, forming a huge circle, but it could instantly fill the circle at any time.
The "young man" didn't know what they were going to do. All he could see was that they seemed to be scaring the hundreds of thousands of people in the circle. They loosened the restriction of the poisonous gas and poisoned the outermost circle of people to death. Then, they watched as the people who were almost poisoned to death tried their best to squeeze in, then they stopped and loosened the restriction again …
This repeated for dozens of times until they got bored and stopped the boring "game". More than a hundred alien fighter jets circling above their heads dropped down one after another, wearing white uniforms.
They were about the same size as them, and their tails could not be seen. Their entire bodies were covered in uniforms.
Once these "people" landed on the ground, the crowd retreated in fear, squeezing desperately.
They held some equipment in their hands that they couldn't understand. After a round of scanning, they walked into the crowd, one hand holding the shivering people's chin, the other using a knife to cut open the clothes, as if they were doing some kind of inspection. Then, they took some people away and locked them into a fighter jet.
No one dared to resist, they all looked at them in fear.
The girl closest to the "young man" was chosen by them. It was a blue-haired girl. Her clothes had been removed, and the "people" surrounded her. This was no longer the previous inspection, but they were communicating with each other. Some of the "people" even pulled on her curled tail from time to time.
The frightened blue-haired girl covered her lower body with both hands, her body slightly arched, and slowly moved. Her tail that should have been curled up between her legs was held in the hands of one of the "people".
Another "person" used the cold weapon in his hand to push away the blue-haired girl's hands. She trembled, trying to resist, but the "person" next to her suddenly raised his hand and shot the head of the blue-haired person behind her. The person didn't even have time to make a sound before he fell to the ground, his head split open, and blood flowed all over the ground.
Then, several alien "people" pulled out one person after another from the crowd and made them lie on the ground with their hands on their heads. They lined up in a row, and one of the "people" started from the first person and shot them one by one!
Shot after shot, they tore apart the dignity of the crowd and destroyed their mentality.
It didn't seem like the first time they did something like this. It was very natural and familiar.
The blue-haired girl was scared out of her wits. Her body trembled violently. When the cold weapon pushed away her hands again, she finally didn't dare to resist anymore. When the cold weapon was moved away, she stretched out her hands, and with tears streaming down her face, she stood there in a humiliating posture.
However, at this time, no one expected that the "person" who used the cold weapon to pry her hands away turned around and chatted with its companion. Then, it casually raised its weapon, and without looking at the blue-haired girl, it casually fired a shot …
The naked blue-haired girl slowly fell into a pool of blood.
Muran covered her mouth tightly, her body trembling non-stop. The "young man" was also stunned. Looking at those "people" who were still chatting, his heart seemed to be filled with something.
Mia bit her lips, her face was pale, and her hands were clenched into fists. The soldier next to her pulled her back and shook his head in humiliation and helplessness.
However, her expression might have fallen into their eyes. It was more likely that the instruments in their hands had discovered that their energy levels were different from those of the people around them. A few "people" in white uniforms drove away the crowd and walked straight towards her.
Everyone knew very well what would happen if she fell into their hands.
Mia made a decision in an instant, and decisively pulled out her hidden sword!
Then, the other three soldiers next to her also pulled out their hidden swords!
They would rather die than suffer such humiliation!
Among the thousands of comrades on the airship, only a few of them were left. They shouldn't be alive, so why would they care about death?
Looking at the three soldiers who walked up together with her, Mia's eyes were filled with tears. She smiled and jumped out, rushing towards the enemy.
"Kill!"
The three figures followed behind her, rushing out one after another, raising their swords and rushing towards the enemy.
Mia's energy level was very high, and her sword was also very fast, like a broken rainbow.
But, the "people" in white uniforms just looked at her and only waved the strange weapon in their hands. A long green whip swept across like lightning, instantly destroying the hidden swords in their hands. Even their bodies were pulled high up into the air. Then, they were tightly bound by magnetic-like ropes and heavily pulled to the ground. Following the direction of the whip, they were pulled towards their feet.
One hit, just one hit, and they were defeated!
Mia's eyes were filled with death. She struggled and wanted to commit suicide, but she couldn't. What was waiting for her next made her feel despair.
The other three soldiers were also knocked down to the ground and dragged towards them.
Little Tanuki struggled desperately against the ropes and stared at the "young man", "Pull out your sword, kill me!"
Mia suddenly remembered that the "young man" didn't pull out his sword. She turned her head and looked at him deeply, "Pull out your sword, Cesbia, kill me …"
"Pull out your sword, Cesbia, don't let me fall into their hands!"
"Pull out your sword, Cesbia!"
"Pull out your sword!"
"Pull out your sword!"
…
She knew that the "young man" couldn't save her in the hands of so many enemies. Like Little Tanuki and the others, she only hoped that the "young man" could kill her with one strike.
However, he seemed to be in extreme pain and hesitation. His hand was already on the hilt of the sword, but he didn't want to hold it.
The long whip whipped them over and over again while they struggled and shouted. They were beaten until they were bleeding, and she couldn't scream anymore. In despair, she could only move her lips and stare at the "young man".
"Pull out your sword …"
"Pull out your sword …"
"Pull out your sword …"
At this moment, a "person" in a white uniform raised his head and looked at the "young man". At the same time, the long whip also lashed out. But at that moment, the face under the mask suddenly became terrified.
Mia, who was about to be dragged to the feet of the enemies, shouted with all her strength,
"Pull out your sword, Cesbia!!!"
The "young man" raised his head and held the sword hilt with tears in his eyes. His hair was messy, as if he was not holding a sword, but an eternal pain.
In an instant, the weather changed between the mountains and plains!
*****
This chapter was written yesterday, and I edited it today. It feels good, and it's getting to the climax. Please recommend it.
^ (To be continued.)
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