Chapter 6
There was a fierce fight between the army and three red monsters on the street. According to the neighbor, who lived upstairs, the army named those monsters Red Shelled Insects and classified them as the Insecta in the animal kingdom. They had extremely strong defensive and offensive abilities. Their secretions were also extremely corrosive.
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Luckily, there were tanks and armored vehicles on the street. However, although they killed three red shelled insects, they paid a heavy price for it. There was no celebration after the fight ended, no crying or sad mourning. Everything went back to the quiet status, like what it was before.
On the following day of the incident, the army started to give out even less food than before. The neighbor, who lived upstairs, told him again that it was no longer safe to transport supplies now. Everywhere was under attack from large amounts of red-shelled insects.
He also claimed that he had even gotten a message from a whistleblower inside the army. He was told that the military would probably abandon this area soon. They had already started to prepare for relocation. He said that there was a place, where many red-shelled monsters were constantly crawling out, and the number of insects crawling out of that place started to increase rapidly recently. The army seemed to have lost control of that place.
This guy definitely jinxes it!
Everything he had said, started to happen. Around seven or eight days later, red-shelled insects started to frequently appear around his housing estate.
There was a building just right behind the housing estate he stayed in. Whenever it got to midnight in “Age Of Light”, many horrifying screams mixing with high-pitched animal’s roars would appear there.
“Ready to engage! The 2nd battalion, the 3rd battalion, the 7th battalion, get ready the heavy machine guns, the rocket launchers, all armored vehicles get ready!…”
While the heavy machine guns were fired, the rocket was shot out, the panicked people in the crowd were trampling on each other and running toward the nearest building looking for hideouts.
Under the hail of bullets and rockets, the red-shelled insects were still rushing forward fast. Only a few of them were blown away by the rockets, the rest of them were not affected by the bullets at all. The saturation fire only caused a few cracks and holes on their shell, none of them died.
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When they reached the crowd, they immediately started slaughtering people. The spine-chilling screams right before people died constantly appeared in the crowd.
They were agile. One of them easily dodged the rockets and tanks’ attacks, rushed into the troop’s formation and stood on the top of a tank. It opened its bloody mouth and spat a green liquid on the tank. The armor of the tank was quickly corroded at a speed that was visible to the naked eyes.
And as it made a loud high-pitched roar, its body started to glow in red. Then it just used its front claw to open up the tank’s armor. Through the hole that was penetrated by its secretions, it killed the soldiers inside the tank. Before the soldiers inside the tank were killed, they were still trying to use pistols to kill the monster.
Chu Yunsheng admired the determination of those soldiers. If it were him, he would probably have fainted already.
Chu Yunsheng took a deep breath. He needed to cast a frost talisman onto the crossbow he bought three months ago.
According to the book, after the enchantment, he would be able to use Yuan Qi on his crossbow. It would unleash an arrow with the frost damage. It was a very effective way to kill those monsters because they happened to be the fire elemental monsters.
Before the monsters appeared, he did not know what kind of monster would appear. So he made a lot of fire elemental talismans, which were less effective than the frost talisman in dealing with this kind of monster.
In order to protect himself, he needed to hurry up making more of those frost talismans.
The reason why he was in such a hurry was that he noticed three red-shelled insects were chasing a group of people towards his building. Unless the book glowed again, otherwise, those three monsters would definitely follow them into his building.
But he didn’t know when the book was going to shine again, so he had to rely on himself.
He had to avoid having a close combat with those monsters. Because he did not have any protection nor was his speed fast enough to be comparable to those monsters. That was why the crossbow was the best option for him at the moment.
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