Gu Qing Shan, Jang Young-ho, and Ye Fei Li were crouching in front of the giant snake's corpse.
There were a few researchers collecting specimens, as well as a few soldiers guarding them.
But since Gu Qing Shan's group of three were Professionists, as well as members of the military, they naturally didn't face any trouble due to the unspoken rules.
— — letting these Professionists come into contact with apocalyptic monsters would help them overcome their fear and discover the monster's weakness, allowing them to better deal with danger in future battles.
This was common sense.
Ye Fei Li put her hand forward.
He dipped her hand into the giant snake's blood and lightly licked it.
"The blood is filled with power — — - seems to be Magic-type, but there's something more to it than that" he said.
He was the only one who dared to do such a thing, because his body wasn't afraid of being corroded by other things.
Gu Qing Shan manifested a few sword qi and cut off a piece of snake meat.
"Can it be eaten?" Jang Young-ho gulped.
"Didn't you just eat some military rations?" Gu Qing Shan put the snake meat in her hand and carefully observed it.
"I don't care about the snake meat, I care about your cooking skills" Jang Young-ho flattered her.
It couldn't be helped, Gu Qing Shan's cooking always left a deep taste in his mouth.
"I can't!" Gu Qing Shan shook her head: "This snake's entire body is filled with poison, it's very hard to clean it up — — - if I had to spend a lot of effort to clean it up, the taste of the meat would be meaningless"
"Ah" Jang Young-ho was a bit disappointed.
The two of them exchanged glances.
Although they were joking, both of them could sense a certain seriousness in each other's eyes.
An invisible sense of pressure filled the air.
Normal people wouldn't be able to notice this, but those with keen senses would be able to sense it from a Mystic-type perspective.
"… I feel like I'm standing in front of a tsunami" Gu Qing Shan's expression was calm as she muttered in a low voice.
"I feel the same"
Jang Young-ho stood up and anxiously looked around.
The soldiers were divided into several groups. Some were maintaining order, some were patrolling the city, and some were resting.
The refugees slowly moved toward the temporary encampment of the army in an orderly manner.
Ye Ru Xi and several other high-ranking generals were currently supervising Li Da Jun's group to ensure that there were no monster ambushes.
Everything was normal.
"Strange … My intuition is rarely wrong, but what exactly is the problem?"
Jang Young-ho wiped the cold sweat off his forehead, his face filled with confusion.
The world in front of him became slow and heavy, and a sense of suffocation arose spontaneously.
Gu Qing Shan wasn't feeling any better either, she directly grabbed the twin swords Heaven and Earth from the void and held them in her hands.
He sensed death!
The two of them abruptly stood up and vigilantly observed their surroundings.
The night breeze was warm.
The army began distributing food to the civilians.
With food and water, the civilians gradually calmed down.
Everything was as usual.
"Damn it, what is it?" Jang Young-ho cursed.
Ye Fei Li was squatting at the side. Suddenly, she pricked up her ears, and a confused expression appeared on her face.
Gu Qing Shan immediately noticed and asked: "What is it?"
Ye Fei Li explained: "Something is flying towards us"
"What is it? Is it a monster? "Jang Young-ho asked.
"No, it's a human thing, it seems to be … a plane? That's quite fast "Ye Fei Li commented.
Gu Qing Shan was surprised for a split second.
It definitely isn't a plane.
The monsters have surrounded the city, so there's no way for a plane to get here.
Could it be …
The Great Demon Ape's words resounded in his ears again:
[Humans, deplorable humans]
Just a second ago, this apocalyptic monster was about to engage in battle, but it suddenly gave up on assassinating Ye Ru Xi and calmly retreated.
Deplorable.
This word …
In that split second, Gu Qing Shan's expression abruptly changed.
The air slightly trembled.
A faint whistling sound could be heard from deep within the sky.
10 seconds.
No. It's too fast — — -
7 seconds.
I only have 7 seconds!
Gu Qing Shan couldn't care less about anything else.
"Yinghao, I think it's a nuclear warhead!"
He roared, grabbed the Earth sword from the void of space, and stabbed it into the ground.
Secret Art, [Drawn Shadow]!
Countless black sword images abruptly bloomed, pierced through the reinforced concrete ground, and continued to dig downwards.
At this point, Jang Young-ho also realized.
"Fuck — –"
He cursed, raised his light sniper rifle, switched it to a larger scope, and aimed at the sky.
One second.
Two seconds.
Without hesitation, Jang Young-ho pulled the trigger.
Bang!
The dull sound of gunfire shocked everyone.
Jang Young-ho was forced two steps back by the intense recoil, then fell down — — -
Rumble rumble rumble — -
The ground trembled.
As soon as Gu Qing Shan's sword slashed down, countless panicked screams resounded.
Within a radius of 5 miles, soldiers, generals, researchers, and civilians all fell into the crater he created.
Gu Qing Shan's heart sank.
Not enough!
This isn't deep enough!
He swung the Earth sword again and stabbed it into the ground.
"Stop! Gu Qing Shan! "
Ye Ru Xi's voice resounded.
Due to how sudden it all was, quite a few people were wounded during the fall, some of them even had their heads bleeding, their limbs broken.
Ye Ru Xi placed an unconscious civilian on the ground, her entire being was filled with rage.
Her figure flashed and shot towards Gu Qing Shan like a blurred image.
Jang Young-ho tried to block her, but was blown away by the grey fog she exuded and crashed into the wall of the crater.
Ye Fei Li released several dozen bone spikes to stop her, but she casually waved her hand to scatter them all.
At this point.
A sharp screech abruptly resounded from afar.
Everyone looked up.
At the end of the horizon, a ball of light even more blinding than the sun formed into a ball of fire that illuminated the entire city.
The world became silent.
Every military personnel's expression changed.
A nuclear warhead!
Why did it have to be a nuclear warhead!
Gu Qing Shan's expression turned stern.
Although Jang Young-ho managed to hit the nuclear warhead — — -
But that was a nuclear warhead!
Gu Qing Shan released his spirit energy and activated his sword seal.
Secret Art, [Torrent]!
"Aaaargh, get down there!"
He shouted.
The already deep pit was once again blasted to a depth of several meters.
Everyone who fell into the crater immediately fell back down.
Gu Qing Shan used his sword to prop himself up, soaked in sweat, barely managing to stand still.
Foundation Establishment realm.
That's all the spirit energy he had left.
Thanks to his full-powered attack, he had already used up all of his energy.
Fortunately, at this depth, he was barely able to avoid the first shockwave of the nuclear warhead's intense light.
"Don't look at the intense light!" Ye Ru Xi loudly shouted.
But her voice was drowned out by the resounding explosion, to the point where no one could hear her.
Ye Ru Xi stomped her foot, leapt up, and threw a punch at the opening of the crater.
Layers of grey fog manifested and covered the entire opening of the crater.
The intense light was blocked, turning the crater into a pitch-black darkness.
The earth trembled.
A shockwave began to form.
A mushroom cloud instantly rose over ten thousand meters into the air.
Jang Young-ho crawled out from the soil, spat out a mouthful of dirt, and tossed the Card in his hand out.
Bam!
Several dozen dim glowing earthworms manifested.
"Please help me stabilize this place, thank you" Jang Young-ho said.
The earthworms nodded, quickly scattered, crawled into the walls of the crater, and began to work.
Hoh — – hoh — – hoh — –
The shockwave created by the shockwave howled incessantly, followed by numerous desperate screams, as well as the sound of buildings collapsing and crashing.
At this point, everyone understood what had happened.
Quite a few people began to cry.
— — -their loved ones were still outside, and it seemed like they wouldn't survive.
They were the most fortunate ones, as they fell straight into the crater Gu Qing Shan created, and the nuclear warhead was detonated prematurely by Jang Young-ho, which was how they managed to survive.
Ye Ru Xi walked up to Gu Qing Shan, patted his shoulder, and said: "I've wronged you"
Gu Qing Shan was exhausted, but simply nodded without saying anything.
Ye Ru Xi turned around and walked towards the generals.
All the generals had ashen expressions, their hearts dead.
Nuclear warheads couldn't kill apocalyptic monsters, so the one who detonated the nuclear warhead must've killed everyone here in the future.
Why?
Why did this happen?
Ye Ru Xi barely managed to control her emotions and told the soldiers: "Don't worry, we won't let the culprit get away with this. Please endure it for now, we need to wait for this disaster to pass"
"I swear I will — —"
Her words were abruptly cut off by a loud shout.
"Kill her!"
Li Da Jun shouted.
7-8 Carriers of [Order] acted at once, catching Ye Ru Xi off guard and ambushed her!
Clang! Clang! Clang! Clang!
A rainbow-colored shield protected Ye Ruo Xi.
At the same time, Ye Fei Li wielded the Forgetting River Soul Flaying Hook and whistled.
Ooo — — — —
In the blink of an eye, everyone was frozen in place.
Sound-type Skill, [Forgetting River Soul Return]!
This was a Divine Skill that Ye Fei Li performed through the Forgetting River Soul Flaying Hook!
A blood-red glow flickered a few times in the void of space.
Several desperate screams resounded.
"Keep him alive!" Gu Qing Shan ordered.
"Don't worry" Ye Fei Li's figure appeared from the blood-red glow.
He tossed Li Da Jun to the ground in front of Ye Ru Xi.
The other Carriers of [Order] were all killed by him.
A breath's worth of time had passed.
Everyone returned to normal.
Ye Ru Xi froze, then asked in disbelief: "Major Li, why, why do you want to kill me?"
Li Da Jun was covered in blood, then suddenly laughed: "You Apostle of the Apocalypse, it was you who caused the death of everyone in this city"
While laughing and crying at the same time, he continued: "[Order] has told us that you are the seed of calamity, the one who will bring forth an ending even more terrifying than the Apocalypse, you must die!"
Ye Ru Xi stood still.
Her expression was extremely pale as she said: "I don't understand what you mean, I've always been fighting against the Apocalypse, always standing on the frontlines, why do you want to kill me? Why!? "
Her voice became a bit shaky and unfathomable.
"Stop pretending, General, do you not remember what that grey fog of yours once caused?"
Ye Ru Xi kept her mouth shut and slowly lowered her head.
Li Da Jun stared closely at her and regretfully said: "Ye Ru Xi, you're too strong, if it wasn't to kill you, why would the allied army have to resort to nuclear warheads?"
"How regretful, you still managed to survive"
He turned to Ye Fei Li, Gu Qing Shan, as well as Jang Young-ho who was controlling the earthworms to build a wall.
It was these three people.
If I could turn back time, I definitely wouldn't have tried to recruit them!
Detestable! Detestable!
Gu Qing Shan received the can that Ye Fei Li tossed to him, opened the ring, and gulped it all down.
He had recovered quite a bit of strength, stood up, and told Ye Ru Xi: "We don't have much time, the radioactive substance and dust will soon descend, and the monsters have already surrounded the city. We have nowhere to run, we need to quickly think of a solution"
Ye Ru Xi stood still, completely motionless, as if her soul had been sucked dry.
At another location.
The human world's allied army HQ.
The elites of humanity's upper echelons were gathered here.
"The nuclear warheads detonated prematurely, that source of disaster survived" someone said.
"I've also received information from [Order], unfortunately, that's about it" another person said.
Silence.
No one said a word.
After several breaths of time, someone finally said tentatively, "That's right.
"Then … should we carry out the follow-up plan?"
"Agreed"
"It can't be helped, this is the number one priority of [Order], agreed"
"Agreed"
"Indeed, if one isn't enough … then let's put a few more in!"
"Agreed unanimously, let's carry it out"
Three minutes later.
[Fox Squadron, requesting to carry out a top-secret mission]
[Received, request approved. Passages 3, 4, 5, 6, and 9 are being opened, please check the power system and firepower reserves one last time]
[Report, everything is ready]
[Understood, you may take off in three seconds!]
[Three]
[Two]
[One]
[Depart!]
With a resounding boom, the entire squadron left the base and flew towards the horizon.
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