CHAPTER 467: CHAPTER 230: TERMINAL 2

"The beacon has been fully restored and is expected to reach the skies over Jinling City in six minutes!"

"Understood."

Chen Jian replied in a deep voice.

At this moment, his fingers were trembling slightly due to the excess secretion of adrenaline.

Just one last step to go!

As long as a connection could be re-established with Lin Yu, and the main beacon could reach the skies over Jinling City...

"I understand!"

Lin Yu’s voice suddenly rang out in his earpiece!

"I know how to use it!"

"The beacon in Jinling City has been restored!"

"Tell me what to do!"

As his voice fell, Chen Jian felt a burden lift off his shoulders and he suddenly relaxed.

He took a deep breath and then said:

"Select the monsters outside Jinling City."

"Use your hand to swipe and frame them."

"You probably haven’t played games... but it’s not much different from a game."

"Do whatever you want."

"Let those monsters slaughter each other!"

"Understood!"

Lin Yu’s voice came through once again.

"Permission----it shows here that permission is restricted...."

"But it doesn’t matter!"

"I’ve already done it!"

....

Two hours later.

Inside Jinling City.

Yu Qian walked down from the city wall in a daze.

The wound on his chest had burst open due to the immense recoil from shooting, with blood soaking through the bandages and staining his chest.

The severe pain contorted his expression, yet despite everything, he felt an unprecedented sense of relief.

He never thought that this extremely fierce battle would end in such a way.

Just an hour prior, as the monstrous creature named "Beikun" broke through the final defense line formed by the Volunteer Company and the Church Protection Army, pressing its massive body towards Jinling City, an inexplicably abnormal phenomenon occurred before Yu Qian’s eyes.

Like it was struck by electricity, the massive creature writhed, rolled, and struggled in place.

It crushed many houses within Jinling City but lost its offensive direction.

The warriors who didn’t have time to retreat were right in front of it, and if it had been just a few minutes earlier, they would have surely been crushed, pierced by its sharp limbs, or swallowed into its enormous maw to be digested into rotten meat slurry.

But it seemed to have lost all sensation, completely ignoring the targets in front of it.

The warriors who luckily escaped backed away frantically, but then, at a certain moment, a few of them suddenly rushed forward recklessly.

The most powerful weapon they had was just grenades, yet when those grenades were thrown into the monster’s gaping maw, the resulting damage was still considerable.

Deafening explosions went off one after another, and after throwing the grenades, the warriors immediately retreated.

This desperate charge startled everyone, but soon, they found that even after such "provocation," the monster still did not retaliate.

----No, it cannot be said that there was no retaliation.

It should be said that its counterattack became blustering and weak.

The twisted body rolled everywhere, and the entangled worms scattered as if they had lost their connection, spreading out on the ground as dying chains of worms.

This monster had personally destroyed its strongest deterrent, signifying its forthcoming demise.

Yes, it was still disgusting and terrifying.

Attracted by its bodily fluids, the maggots in the soil all surged out, wanting to converge on its body, a mass of writhing maggots assaulting everyone’s vision, making them feel nauseous.

But, that was all.

It was still not easy to kill it.

But as it couldn’t counterattack, even with cold weapons to grind it down, there was still a way to exhaust it to death.

----And abnormalities went beyond that.

Besides the "Beikun," the horde of monsters surging from the periphery plunged into greater chaos.

At first, they simply lost direction, running erratically like ants disturbed by pheromones.

But then, these giant "ants" began to attack each other.

This was absolutely the first, and possibly only, time that all humanity on the wasteland had seen such a large-scale monster battle among themselves.

The outskirts of Jinling City became a battlefield for monsters, and unlike attacks from hot weapons, the battles between monsters appeared even more bloody and brutal.

The "strong preys on the weak" scenario Yu Qian had expected didn’t occur. He watched, wide-eyed, as a clearly advanced, possibly level two or higher, monster was besieged by more monsters, and after spewing its last breath of acid, it was thoroughly torn to shreds.

Not a single monster survived this battle.

Because the entire battlefield had turned into a complete inferno.

The toxic fog was so dense it stood like a towering wall, and poisonous liquids flowed freely on the ground, merging with the blood of the monsters, sometimes even causing slight explosive sounds.

Spores dispersed with the wind, and where high temperatures and low temperatures intertwined, wild winds seemed to whip up from the void.

And now, the inferno was spreading towards Jinling City....

"Notify everyone to evacuate immediately."

Yu Qian, bearing the intense pain in his chest, spoke to the Archbishop, who had not yet regained his senses, nearby.

The Archbishop kneeled on the ground praying to his "Holy Trinity," and Yu Qian gave him a hard pull, angrily rebuking:

"Get up!"

"It wasn’t the Holy Trinity that saved you, take a closer look, it was the Huaxia Army!"

Yu Qian pointed to the sky; a drone was hovering above the battlefield, and slung underneath its pod was the equipment that Yu Qian had seen captured in the base before.

According to information just synchronized to him from the commanders, it was called a "beacon."

This beacon was what turned those overwhelmingly powerful monsters to dust in no time.

Yu Qian didn’t understand the principles of the beacon.

But he knew that his survival had nothing to do with the faith of the Mechanical God Sect.

The Archbishop, pulled up by Yu Qian, wore a face of intertwining ecstasy and bewilderment, and Yu Qian wished he could slap him awake.

"Hurry up!"

"We have no time left!"

"The wind direction is changing, those toxic gases will be blown over!"

"Everyone must evacuate quickly!"

"Immediately!"

Yu Qian almost roared into the Archbishop’s ear, who was finally awakened, nodding repeatedly before turning to the only dozen or so remaining of the Supreme Army.

Yu Qian also began to gather his own troops.

The 300-member Volunteer Company, by now, had fewer than one hundred left.

Their casualties were no less than those of the Church Protection Army and the Supreme Army.

But Yu Qian had no time to mourn for the dead because he was still responsible for those who survived.

"Forget the bodies."

Yu Qian said with as steady a voice as he could muster:

"We have no means to take so many bodies with us, let them rest here."

"Take all the wounded with us."

"Everyone, move immediately!"

At his command, those who had collapsed to the ground finally got up.

The team staggered towards the outskirts of Jinling City, and just as they bypassed the still struggling body of the Beikun monster and reached outside the city’s walls, dust began to rise from the distant end of the road.

Yu Qian craned his neck to look into the distance.

A scarred convoy appeared before him.

It was the Huaxia Army convoy.

He immediately went up to meet them, and as he saw Chen Jian leap off the Humvee, his body, supported only by sheer will, finally collapsed once again.

Chen Jian grabbed his arm, looking at the blood oozing from Yu Qian’s chest before giving orders:

"Xie Liu, transfuse blood."

"The wound has split, stitch it up again."

"Understood!"

Xie Liu responded, and Yu Qian’s lips trembled as he tried to say something, but Chen Jian shook his head, interrupting him.

"No need to say more."

"The battle is over."

"Get some rest!"

Yu Qian slowly nodded.

The world before his eyes gradually faded to black.

But as he completely lost consciousness, everything he saw suddenly lit up...