Chapter 348
“Commander, we can’t withstand the push! Please order us to retreat!” A soldier’s body was covered with mucus. He crawled out from a pile of dead people and shouted desperately.
“How many men do we have left?” The commander of the twenty-first regiment asked weakly. He was woken up from coma by the soldiers near him.
“It’s gone, they’re all gone! It is just us left!” One of the soldiers cried.
The commander of the 21st regiment opened his mouth, but couldn’t bring himself to say anything.
“Commander let’s retreat! The city is already empty, people have already run away. Why are we still defending? And what are we defending!” looking at many insects pushing towards them again, the soldier begged.
“Where is the political commissar?” Looking at the bodies around him, the regiment commander asked.
“Died,” The soldier lowered his head.
“What about the energy practitioner department and Chu Clan’s disciples?” The commander was struggling to use his hands that were covered with blood to find the binoculars on his chest.
Five heavy fighter jets were desperately trying to fly higher and higher.
They could only use their eyesight to pilot the jets and gauge the distance from each other.
However, they still need to compete with insects in speed, altitude, and agility in the air.
Their mission was to attract flying insects, the more the better.
Because a bomber was on the way to the creep area…
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On the sea.
Many destroyers that only dared to stay near the coast. They were also constantly firing at the tombs in creep areas.
“We are running out of the incendiary bombs!”
“Use spore gas bombs!”
“We only have ten!”
“Fire all of them!”
“We discovered a sea monster!”
“Use flag semaphore to ask 121 and 141 to intercept it!”
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Below the ground.
“Captain, we need metal energy practitioners! There is a huge rock in the tunnel, we can’t dig it through.”
“What is our progress?”
“We still need to dig at least 500 meters.”
“Fuck! It’s water! Water! Where is the ice energy practitioner?! Quick, freeze it!”
“Dig again! Motherfuckers, dig into their tombs and blow them up!”
“Captain! There are noises!”
“Fuck! It’s the golden-shelled insect, ready to engage! ”
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In a hospital behind the frontline, many wounded soldiers were carried and sent into the hospital non-stop…
“Doctor, doctor! Help!”
“Leave him here, right! Just here! We don’t have any beds!”
“Press his hands on the wound, his leg needed to be cut off! Quick, we need to use anesthetic!”
“What? We don’t have any?”
“Please don’t cut off my leg, ple…”
“Doctor do it, I agree on his behalf.”
“….he is gone…”
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In the Academy of sciences on Jing Ji island.
“Check the equipment and the power supply.”
“What about the energy core?”
“… calibrate scales…”
“Unrelated personnel please evacuate immediately. Repeat, unrelated personnel please evacuate…”
“Professor Wu, the people from the military are here, they want to transport weapons to the front line now!”
“No, the system is not stable!”
“Not stable? Then stabilize it on the battlefield! We don’t have much time!” a high-ranking military officer walked into the experiment area and urged.
“General Xiao, the ice energy heavy cannon is still at the initial debugging stage…”
“Professor, I need it now! My soldiers are dying, no one can wait! ”
“But!…”
“Disassemble it now, this is an order, I need to transport the parts now!”
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Jing Ji Island, a temporary arsenal.
“Xiao Sun passed out! we need someone here now!!”
“Machine can’t be stopped, move him away! Wake him up in four hours. Everyone takes turns. Only four hours break!”
“Out of raw materials”
“Where is our supply?”
“All distorted…”
“Then ask the military to send more people, we need more shells as raw materials”
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Churches, temples…
Countless family members were on their knees praying for their families.
A woman passed out after hearing the death of her husband.
But many people were sobbing quietly…
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A temporary elementary school.
“Everyone, please have a look here, it is 3 – 4 meters long, and 2 meters wide… spits corrosive liquid, anyone knows what this insect is called?”
“Miss, I know it, it is called red-shelled insect, it ate my mom… And dad…” a skinny boy raised his head and answered seriously.
The eyes of the young female teacher were filled with tears, she bit her lips and took a deep breath and then carried on, “correct, next questions, a flying insect…”
Many little hands were raised in the classroom…
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A temporary secondary school.
“Everyone, please bring your student Id and assemble outside the classroom! ”
“Uncles from the energy practitioner department and Chu Clan are going to teach you some surviving skills.”
“Anyone that is 12 years old and over, please go to the second building, scientists from the academy of sciences will examine your body. If you are selected, we will inform your parents…”
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A temporary high school.
“We just mentioned Newton’s first law. Now on this basis, we will briefly describe the latest theoretical research in the Academy Of Sciences.”
“Please remember it carefully!”
“Students, we are all temporarily unable to become energy practitioners, but we have brains. We can contribute our wisdom and develop more advanced weapons in the future to fight insects!”
All the students were sitting with their back straight and listening to the lesson carefully.
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Hong Kong University
“Dark energy always exists in the universe. At present, we have captured a large number of them in labs. Those are some models of dark energy.” a teacher with gray hair opened many pieces of paper carefully and said.
“Professor, I think the theory you just said is not perfect. I think dark energy is distributed asymmetrically and when it passes through an organism, there is a weak change if ‘Wu Liansheng Reaction’ occurs. This is the model that two other classmates and I are trying to…”
“Very good, your thinking is not limited to the existing research results. It is correct that you need to abandon the old way of thinking and put forward your own views boldly. Now the real study of dark energy has only just begun. Many knowledge…”
“Professor, can we apply for an observation opportunity in the biochemical laboratory? I think at present, the research on these aggressive organisms is what we need most.”
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Yan Min’s creep area.
Crowded long snake-like cannon worms were slowly moving towards the front line.
And a larger and scary swarm was gathering in the dark in secret.
There were only high-level combat units in this swarm. Even if there was a low-level combat unit, it was at least in its second form.
Yan Min did not expect that human beings’ resistance would be so strong, especially that bow woman. She caused so much damage to its creep.
It was not worried about the result, with the insect’s strong breeding ability, sooner or later, it would eliminate human beings in the south.
But it was worried about the time. The arrival of Shang was getting closer. It needed to resolve the last human city that was near it as soon as possible, so it could fully cooperate with Shang’s overall strategy of the war on this planet.
That was why it gathered a powerful swarm attempting to end this war once for all.
It had already stopped hoping that Dumb Insect and Feng Min to help it. Although it felt very strange that Feng Min, who used to provoke human beings a lot, did not join the war with it.
It had also tried to collect Feng Min’s mucus to analyze it. Because it was worried that even Feng Min was also contaminated by deviants. However, Feng Min seemed to beware of it, so it always failed.
Slowly, it began to worry that they would contaminate its own swarm and creep, so it ordered its swarm to keep a distance from Feng Min’s combat units.