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"Today’s news, City 10 Lower Three Districts has undergone a transformation. The building, which has been dim for over thirty years, has been lit up. According to our on-site reporter, this is a joint action by nearly a hundred organizations. Currently, the reason for this action is unclear and remains under investigation."

In City 10, Fifth District, in a first-floor apartment, a middle-aged man sat in front of a holographic TV, watching the female anchor projected before him, muttering: "The dilapidated houses in Lower Three Districts getting lights is news now? What’s there to focus on?"

As he spoke, his eyes kept glancing at the female anchor’s chest. He even stood up, looking down at her from a high position, as if this would somehow reveal something on the holographic projection.

At this moment, the middle-aged man suddenly heard a noise from the bathroom.

He walked towards the bathroom suspiciously.

A cracking sound, like the shattering of some ceramic product, echoed.

The middle-aged man opened the bathroom door in stunned surprise, only to see a basketball-sized rat falling from the ceiling’s central air conditioning vent. The heavy body smashed his toilet hard.

"What the heck?!" the middle-aged man exclaimed in surprise. He instinctively reached for the mop to hit the rat.

But the next scene made his scalp tingle, and his hair stood on end.

One after another, rats fell from the damaged central air conditioning duct into the room, densely packed together. The tails of those rats were as thick as a child’s arm.

The middle-aged man screamed and slammed the bathroom door shut.

But before he could close it tightly, a rat had already wedged itself in the crack.

The middle-aged man could only give up and ran wildly towards the door.

As he reached for the doorknob, three rats pounced on him, viciously biting him.

These newly grown rats needed to eat; they had never craved protein like this before.

However, after biting off chunks of flesh, they didn’t swallow them. Instead, they climbed back into the ventilation duct, piling on top of each other, feeding the raw meat to the young rats inside.

Those young rats crawled densely in the duct. After eating, they didn’t grow rapidly like the older rats, but remained at their normal size, while their muscle fibers and bones evolved to perfection.

Larger rats continued to seek their next target. They seemed tireless but ate very little.

Their fate seemed to be to selflessly dedicate themselves to the new generation of rats.

This phenomenon is not uncommon in nature, but it has never happened in a rat population.

Their breeding speed was beyond imagination.

The middle-aged man’s mutilated body twitched on the ground. The female anchor on the holographic projection calmly continued her report: "It has been reported that in the past two days, Qing Family, Chen Family, Shendai, and Koshima Consortium have all submitted training plans to Congress. Currently, various troops have left their bases; their exact locations are still unknown. Informants suggest this training plan is not simple, but where these troops went and what they are doing remains unknown."

At this time, a rat suddenly stopped, staring quietly at the female anchor, as if it could understand what the other person was saying.

The next moment, it suddenly lunged at the female anchor, but its body passed through the holographic image, and it did not hit anything.

The female anchor continued her smiling report: "It has also been reported that the Forbidden Artifact Tribunal San Yue has left City 10, along with nearly a hundred Forbidden Artifact Tribunal members. Some suspect that the Forbidden Artifact Tribunal's unusual activity is related to this military exercise."

"Brother, who sent you to hone my skills? Why the backlash now?"

Qing Chen was running at a steady pace through the mountains and fields, running and complaining.

However, no matter how the terrain changed, he kept Shadow steadily on his back.

"I know you need to show weakness to lure Chen Yu and Li Bingxi out, but you can just act! There’s no need to go to such lengths!"

Qing Chen knew very well that Chen Yu and Li Bingxi were two wolves.

In the desert, if you are targeted by two wolves, they will chase you for half a month, just to have a good meal. Only when they are sure you are at your wit’s end will they come to you and eat your flesh.

What Shadow is doing now is not only to make himself look weak, but also to force Qing Chen to a dead end, so that the other party will believe that Chen Yu and Li Bingxi will appear.

Qing Chen didn't know how to respond to this. His own brother was forcing him to a dead end. It was hard to guard against.

At this time, Yang Yang, with Xiao Mengqian, Sun Chuci, and Tuanzi, was slowly flying in the sky. Although their speed was a little slower, her ability to ignore terrain and fly in a straight line kept her only slightly behind Qing Chen.

As they spoke, an unusual electromagnetic wave came from a distance. The thunder plasma in Qing Chen, who was in the lead, fluctuated. While faking a reflection of the electromagnetic wave, he said, "Land, cover!"

Yang Yang, who had not yet been scanned by the Phase-array Radar, immediately landed. The group quickly gathered together. Zard instantly used his ability to create a protective shell of sand around them to avoid detection by the Phase-array Radar and bio-sign detection, like a small bunker.

And Zard’s work was very meticulous. His little bunker even had weeds and vegetation.

A Class A Airship floated past overhead, but even a Class A Airship couldn't detect any anomalies on the ground.

In the darkness of the bunker, everyone waited quietly.

Zard suddenly asked: "Boss, didn’t you and Yang Yang shoot down a plane together before? Why don’t you two go up to the sky and shoot it down?

"A slap.

Sun Chuci yelled: "Who hit the back of my head?!"

Qing Chen: "Sorry, wrong person."

Zard: "Hehe, I changed positions. Smart, right?

Yang Yang explained: "I was just responsible for throwing Qing Chen around in the sky back then. Qing Chen shot down the plane himself."

Qing Chen: "Are you guys done? Why are you and Zard on the same wavelength again? Haven’t you been doing well these days? Why are you suddenly talking about something inappropriate? There are children here!"

Yang Yang muttered: "Isn’t Shadow brother still sleeping?"

In this small bunker, no one could see anyone else, giving them a moment of respite.

Zard said: "Boss, there won't be too many Class A Airships. If you two go up and take them down, we won't have to hide."

"No," Qing Chen said, "It's different now. Before, the enemy only had Airships, but now the ground might be full of enemies. If we shoot down a Class A Airship, we will still be discovered. Most importantly, we have a record of shooting down Airships before, and this time the enemy's target is very clear. They might have something up their sleeve on the Airship."

"Oh, forget it then. Let’s chat here!" Zard said.

"Wait, can't you control the movement of sand? We're in this small bunker. Can't you just move this small bunker?" Qing Chen said.

"That's true. Who's touching my hand?" Zard asked.

Tuanzi stammered for a long time: "Sorry, wrong touch!"

Zard: "I am a decent person!"

Qing Chen, carrying Shadow, said: "Everyone, control your hands. We're escaping, dating can wait until we're safe. Let's move on."

With that, the small sand bunker on the ground began to slowly move south at a speed of 0 kilometers per hour. It looked like a killer in a movie, quietly sneaking around with a green belt in hand.

And Yang Yang used Force field to sense the surroundings inside the small sand bunker. Once there is any enemy, she can sense it 00 meters in advance.

Qing Chen suddenly felt that they were an excellent battlefield infiltration team, with anti-radar, anti-life detection, and Force field radar.

If everyone wasn't chatting nonsense in the sand bunker, it would be even better.

The first Class A Airship slowly flew north, and soon, the second one flew overhead.

The troops of the Qing Family and Chen Family seemed to have cast a large net across the mountains and fields, determined to find Shadow and Qing Chen.

Both sides felt they held the best cards at the gambling table, stubbornly confronting each other, pretending, and neither willing to back down.

At this time, Yang Yang suddenly said, "Stop!"

The small sand bunker stopped immediately.

After less than a minute, soldiers in teams of seven passed by from the south. They didn't even look at the small sand bunker and continued moving north.

No one actually discovered the sand bunker.

"The speed of the small sand bunker is a bit slow, but the concealment is pretty good. As long as no one is nearby with a life detection device, it's impossible to find us," Yang Yang said.

At this moment, another group of soldiers appeared, carrying life detection devices.

Qing Chen asked, "Can they find us?

Yang Yang: "Probably. Why are they carrying life detection devices? Do they need to be so cautious?

At this time, the soldiers outside looked at the small sand bunker: "Is this a tomb? Who buried themselves here, Wildlanders?

"Scan it with the detector."

The soldiers looked at the image displayed on the instrument and then looked up at the small sand bunker with weeds and saplings in front of them.

Inside the small sand bunker, there were clearly several people whispering!

What the hell! How can there be several living people in this tomb?!

"Open fire! Target spotted in B49 area, request backup!" the soldier roared in the communication channel. "Request Airship return for air strike support!"

The silence in the communication channel was suddenly broken.

In the west, among the 41 B-Class Gene Soldiers who make up the Faceless Soldiers, the soldier who had been holding a handheld terminal device said, "Captain, target found."

He checked the map again: "Nine o'clock direction."

The captain's Face[-] was scarred. He said grimly, "Let’s go."

This elite special forces unit suddenly moved. They were carrying two black boxes, their purpose unknown.

A special forces unit of 41 B-Class Gene Soldiers can even wipe out a battalion-level force in the wilderness with minimal casualties!

On the other hand, Qing Chen heard the gunfire outside: "Is that what you meant? Zard, cover us. Kill these people first!"

They couldn’t wait any longer.

Blocked in front and chased from behind, their original speed wasn't fast. If they were stopped here, even with Zard, him, and Yang Yang, they would eventually be overwhelmed.

If they had to wait for Shadow to wake up to save the day, Shadow would waste his life again in the Face[-] of a human wave tactic.

Qing Chen carefully placed Shadow on Yang Yang's back and whispered, "If there are too many enemies, take him away and fly."

With that, the small sand bunker suddenly broke open to form a sand wall, covering Qing Chen as he approached the group of soldiers while resisting the hail of bullets.

The sand wall was like a train, kicking up huge dust clouds on the ground.

The moment the sand wall collided with the 7 soldiers, it slammed them away like a locomotive. Qing Chen also charged out from behind the sand wall, using the black sniper rifle as a pistol and firing continuously.

It was clearly a rifle, but he used it like a hand cannon!

The soldiers' exoskeletons were shattered and scattered on the ground.

At this moment, the Airship in the sky suddenly turned around, and the soldiers who had been scattered in the wilderness gathered like a swarm of bees, moving towards Qing Chen and the others in an orderly manner.

Qing Chen had just finished off the first team, and the second and third teams appeared.

Zard moved underground, constantly using the moving sand wall to protect Qing Chen's gunfire. He continuously dragged the soldiers underground, while the small saplings on top moved through the wilderness, occasionally having to avoid stones under the soil.

More and more soldiers gathered, as if the whole world was their enemy. At one point, Qing Chen almost thought the trees nearby were also enemies.

He didn't know where the enemy would emerge next, and could only take shelter behind the sand wall and shoot continuously.

This was entirely a test of reaction speed; even the slightest delay was unacceptable.

Even with Qing Chen's killing efficiency, it was highly efficient.

Qing Chen, Yang Yang, and Zard were like meat grinders on the battlefield, killing so many on the mountain that the place was littered with corpses and rivers of blood, but the enemies were simply too many.

Qing Chen's mood gradually sank. Zhang Mengqian suddenly climbed out of the sand wall nearby. Crawling forward quickly, he didn't care if his body was cut by the rubble on the ground.

The little boy crawled to the side of the Chen Family soldier's corpse, pulled three automatic rifles, and crawled back.

Back behind the sand wall, Tuanzi shouted at him, "Are you trying to die?"

Zhang Mengqian checked the magazines and calmly looked up at Tuanzi. He threw the inspected weapons to Sun Chuci: "The Boss needs more weapons. If you want to live, fight with us."

Tuanzi was stunned. Zhang Mengqian's glance just now was like a fierce wolf cub, violent and ruthless, but calm.

She had seen this scene before, when Qing Chen walked out of the barbecue restaurant in City 10.

For some reason, Tuanzi felt that this child was so similar to Qing Chen. Although just an ordinary person, in this crisis, he could suddenly give people an extremely strong sense of oppression.

This person is a natural killer.

Without this potential, Zhang Mengqian, a child, wouldn't be able to survive alone in the Lower Three Districts of City 10.

Sun Chuci quickly checked the weapons. He said to Qing Chen, "Eleven o'clock direction is mine."

As he spoke, he shot and killed a soldier who had just appeared at 11 o'clock.

Seeing this, Qing Chen suddenly said, "Zard, move the sand wall south, we're breaking out! Keep an eye on the south. No matter how many people come, bury them all!"

"Got it," Zard laughed happily, as if he had no pressure at all.

The team moved, everyone shooting and breaking through to the south under the cover of the sand wall.

But at this moment, Qing Chen suddenly saw another unit appearing in the west.

This unit was completely different, wearing black combat uniforms unlike the other soldiers, and without exoskeletons. Each person had hideous scars on their faces.

Those scars were like traces of fierce tigers and other wild beasts fighting each other repeatedly.

Most importantly, these people were incredibly fast.

Even though two of them were carrying half-human-height black boxes, they moved effortlessly in the wilderness.

Qing Chen's heart sank: "Enemy spotted in the west, 41 people, each estimated to be B-Class or above, not Shadow's troops!"

Zard shouted, "What the hell, Faceless Soldiers! What are those boxes? Are they specifically designed to counter my earth element ability?!"

Qing Chen had heard of the Faceless Soldiers, a once infamous mercenary group within the Federation. But his impression was that the overall strength of the Faceless Soldiers should be C-Class. Why had they all become B-Class now?

Was it because they wanted to compete with Shadow's troops in military equipment? But where did they get the Gene Medicine?

Shendai, Chen Family, Koshima, Qing Family, who provided this Gene Medicine?

Qing Chen took a deep breath, glanced at Shadow, who was still unconscious, and shot at the oncoming soldiers while saying to Yang Yang: "Leave first, take Xiao Mengqian with you. You can still maintain high-speed flight. Shadow can't die now, please. They want to kill me even more. Just increase your altitude and fly south. We'll stay here to attract fire. There will be a way."

Yang Yang frowned. She wasn't hesitant, but she knew that Qing Chen and Zard staying behind would be a near-certain death.

She looked down at Shadow. Brother, you're about to screw up!

But at this moment, when Qing Chen aimed his black sniper rifle at the Faceless Soldiers, he saw that the 41 faceless men suddenly launched a ruthless attack on the Chen Family soldiers.

This change surprised everyone.

Qing Chen thought they were enemies, and even the Chen Family soldiers thought they were reinforcements, but the faceless men charged with ruthless efficiency, as if they were in no man's land.

In just moments, the 41 impeccably coordinated faceless men, like a black dagger, viciously struck the heart of the Chen Family troops.

They quickly advanced toward Qing Chen, spraying blood from any soldiers in their way.

These extremely strong faceless men moved freely and effortlessly in the wilderness, like superhumans.

Qing Chen only observed for a few moments and found that at least 11 of the 41 had absolute accuracy within 00 meters.

In the wilderness, heavy mobile forces couldn't get in, making such a highly mobile force invincible.

Soon, the faceless men stopped 00 meters from Qing Chen. The captain said coldly: "Tell Shadow Master that we were sent by Qing Kun. Go south, be careful, there are several more blockades there. We will take the north, as long as we are still alive, Qing Family's reconnaissance battalion and Airships won't get through. Also, Qing Yi asked me to tell you to visit him when you have time."

With that, the Faceless Soldiers began to build a defense line on the spot, finding hidden positions as if Qing Chen and the others didn't exist.

Two faceless men opened two large black boxes, seemingly containing two strange signal-emitting devices.

Laser emitters?

Qing Chen stared blankly at the Faceless Soldiers operating as if nothing was happening.

These infamous Faceless Soldiers were secretly trained by Qing Kun?

Qing Kun, Qing Yi's father.

Qing Chen smiled and said to Zard, "Let’s go. We don't have to worry about being attacked from behind anymore. Let's break out from the south!"