novelraw Chapter 893: Kill
Chapter 893: Kill
Qing Chen’s body and spirit were on the verge of collapse.
It wasn’t that he couldn’t hold on, but that he had held on for far too long.
There wasn’t a single intact place left on the land outside Silver City; it was everywhere pockmarked with shell holes. He carried Boss He on his back, his 18 years of life nearing its end.
But strangely, as his life flashed before his eyes, his master sat where his dreams began, saying… you won’t die. Qing Chen slowly opened his eyes on the battlefield, surrounded by a blue light, and there was someone beside him… Zheng Yuandong.
Boss Zheng held the black True Sight Eye, his whole person as sharp as a drawn sword.
It turned out that before this time travel, Boss He had already given the black True Sight Eye to Boss Zheng, and asked Boss Zheng to pass it on to Qing Chen.
They saw ice walls constantly forming above them. Boss Zheng stood motionless like a mountain, blocking all incoming fire.
At this time, Boss Zheng turned to look at He Jinqiu on Qing Chen’s back.
For some reason, Qing Chen had never seen such a complex and sorrowful look. He only looked for a second, but it felt like ten thousand years had passed.
In those ten thousand years, everything changed, the world was turned upside down, mountains became plains, and birds left no trace. At this time.
“Boss!” someone exclaimed excitedly, “Your limited skin looks a bit tragic!” Qing Chen looked down and saw zard poking his head out of the mud.
zard looked at Qing Chen, his body covered in shrapnel, with blood gushing from his abdomen. Although it was a bit tragic, he still found it a bit cool…
Qing Chen managed a weak smile: “How did you guys get here?”
zard said: “We tried hundreds of Key Gates, and finally opened a gate in Silver City, but you guys had already fought your way out.” Zheng Yuandong said sternly: “Now is not the time for idle chatter, the enemy’s firepower is likely to be aimed at us.”
A moment ago, in the Silver City army, Old Five stood in the command vehicle coldly looking at the Holographic Sand Table, which was covered in smoke and dust, making it impossible to see if Qing Chen was dead or not.
But it didn’t matter; after a certain amount of ammunition, Qing Chen would undoubtedly be dead. However, at this moment, Old Five’s pupils suddenly constricted.
He saw that at the edge of the area covered by the artillery fire, a layer of ice wall suddenly formed rapidly, forming an ice-blue dome in the smoke and dust.
With a loud bang, the grenade that should have hit Qing Chen exploded against the ice wall, blowing a large hole in the newly formed ice wall.
However, there was another ice wall inside that ice wall.
And, on top of these two ice walls, another new ice wall reformed, seemingly endless and unbreakable.
Soon, the outer ice wall reformed, instantly repairing the hole.
No one knew how this ice wall appeared, or why it was hard enough to withstand artillery fire.
When the huge, layer upon layer of ice walls appeared, all the Silver City army was stunned.
In their opinion, there should be no living people left in this position. They mechanically plowed the ground with artillery fire, just to vent Old Five’s anger. However, there really were living people on this battlefield!
But Old Five knew that Joker was definitely there!
He shouted: “All artillery units, listen up, adjust your gun barrels and bombard that ice wall.”
On the battlefield, the artillerymen quickly adjusted the parameters, and saw the gun barrels rapidly rotating on the motor tracks, all aimed at the target.
In an instant, shells roared into the air. In human warfare history, there have been few occasions where hundreds of self-propelled artillery pieces bombard the same location simultaneously. This kind of ruthless attack, without regard for cost, fueled by hatred, is the most brutal.
Hundreds of shells landed on the ice wall, and the layers of ice walls were instantly disintegrated, shattering into dust. In the smoke and dust, the dazzling ice wall stood on the battlefield like a target, attracting all the firepower.
After the twelfth shell fell, a total of three layers of ice walls had completely disappeared.
But it wasn’t over yet. Then, another hundred shells fell like finishing blows.
Old Five didn’t speak anymore. He silently waited for the smoke and dust to clear. He wanted to see if there were any remains of Joker in the huge crater.
Perhaps he wouldn’t see anything. Under such a violent artillery barrage, the other side should have been reduced to powder. The smoke and dust dissipated in a gust of wind, and Old Five looked at the Holographic Sand Table transmitted by the satellite, but suddenly froze.
The charred crater was like it had been hit by a meteorite… but under that charred crater, a tunnel more than two people wide was revealed! Old Five was stunned. What was going on? This crater…
Who dug the tunnel, and when did they dig it?!
“No good, Joker is not dead, someone saved him!” Old Five said angrily, “Quick, send all the drones out to scout, to that forest, he must be there! Search for him! Once you see him, immediately report his coordinates!”
Three divisions of army troops immediately mobilized, heading towards the vast forest.
Drones buzzed into existence, sweeping towards the forest like swarms of hornets.
On the battlefield, when the number of soldiers exceeds ten thousand, they can form an endless sea of people. These three divisions had a total of thirty thousand people. When they split into three groups and launched a raid on the forest, they were as overwhelming as a tsunami.
At this moment, zard cautiously emerged from the ground. He looked at the surrounding forest: “Safe!”
As soon as he finished speaking, Qing Chen and Zheng Yuandong also climbed out of the tunnel, while Dayu, Qing Ji, Li Tongyun, and Black Widow had already been waiting there. Li Tongyun asked: “Qing Chen, how are you?”
Qing Chen didn’t answer, but turned to Zheng Yuandong: “Boss Zheng, I’ll leave Boss He to you.”
Then, he fainted. Qing Ji supported his falling body: “Cover the ground with some leaves.”
After everyone had laid down the leaves, he gently laid Qing Chen on the ground.
Qing Ji silently looked at the shrapnel in Qing Chen’s body. He could hardly imagine what the other side had just gone through.
He opened the Shadow Gate, and saw Chen Zhuoyao, Hu Jingyi, and others carrying three door panels, each of which had a Key Gate leading to the Forbidden Forest! At this time, the giant Prophet and the second-in-command emerged from the Key Gate first.
This was the first time they had met the great friend in the prophecy, but they never expected that the first meeting would be under such tragic circumstances. The second-in-command curiously asked: “What happened to the boss?”
Dayu said with a dark face: “Who taught this? A well-trained army, suddenly turned into bandits because of a title, is this acceptable? zard, was it you?” zard was stunned: “How did you guess, you’re in my stomach…” Dayu interrupted expressionlessly: “I’m the rebellious bone behind your head.”
zard: “……”
At this time, Zheng Yuandong explained to the giant’s second-in-command: “They just experienced a major battle, killing the Silver Duke. Now, in order to bring back He Jinqiu’s body, they suffered an artillery barrage from the Silver City army.”
The giant Prophet nodded: “I see.”
The next second, a member of the Guardians’ Union who was on reconnaissance rushed back: “The Silver City army has entered the forest!”
Zheng Yuandong silently looked at He Jinqiu’s body, then at the bullet wounds on Qing Chen: “They used an Air Fortress, hundreds of Airships, and tens of thousands of soldiers to besiege two people. Until now, He Jinqiu is dead, and Qing Chen doesn’t have a single piece of intact skin left… but they have many people, we also have many.”
At least more than the enemy imagined.
zard squatted down, pointing at Qing Chen, not knowing what he was doing. Dayu frowned and asked: “What are you doing?”
zard suddenly said in a low voice: “I’m counting how many shrapnel pieces are on him. There are too many, I keep losing count… let’s go kill people.” Dayu saw that he was rarely serious, and was even a little surprised, but after a few seconds of silence, he replied: “Okay, kill them all.”
A group of people carried the Key Gate and walked out. From those three moving Key Gates, people kept coming out.
One after another, huge and imposing figures emerged from inside, and then joined the ranks.
Qing Ji had already brought medicine and surgical tools. While he used tweezers to remove the shrapnel from Qing Chen’s body, he continuously cleaned Qing Chen’s wounds with alcohol.
Black Widow asked from the side: “Let me help? I’m also very proficient in this.”
Qing Ji looked up at her: “I don’t trust you yet. At this time, no one is allowed to get within three meters of Qing Chen, back off!”
Qing Ji’s lineage was a martial arts fanatic. When he was a child, he also asked his father why he had to work so hard in Cultivation, and what was the meaning of Cultivation? Was it just to become stronger?
His father’s answer surprised him: We Cultivate, simply to protect the bloodline of the Qing Zhen ancestors. Whoever possesses the bloodline, we protect them, because they will be the true foundation of the Qing Family.
Qing Ji didn’t understand before, but later, following Old Master, he gradually understood. Now, he had to protect the new head of the family.
Qing Ji treated each wound one by one, and saw the shrapnel, large and small, that he had removed from Qing Chen’s body, scattered beside him, totaling over a hundred pieces. If it weren’t for the powerful self-healing ability of A-class Metahumans, Qing Chen would have been dead by now.
Qing Ji applied the Qing Family’s special black ointment to Qing Chen’s wounds. He suddenly asked: “How many shrapnel pieces?” Black Widow answered without hesitation: “161 pieces.”
At this time, Black Widow squatted down to check He Jinqiu’s body, but found that after so many rounds of artillery fire, there were no wounds on his body at all.
Black Widow couldn’t believe it, but she searched He Jinqiu’s body again, and still didn’t find a single shrapnel piece.
Qing Chen had protected Boss He too well.
“Why did Boss protect a corpse?” Black Widow asked: “I’ve heard many things about him, I know he’s a… good person. But, since He Jinqiu is already dead, is it meaningful to protect a corpse with his own life? He is now in a high position, at the peak of his life…”
Qing Ji sewed up Qing Chen’s abdominal wound, and said casually: “It’s meaningless. If it were me, I would definitely use He Jinqiu’s body as a shield, and then rush out of that battlefield. Instead of foolishly protecting a corpse.”
Black Widow was stunned. She didn’t expect Qing Ji to say that.
However, Qing Ji changed his tone: “But that’s the difference between him and me, and why so many people follow him, but no one follows me. It’s a kind of spirit, the only driving force that supports him in the darkness.”
Black Widow watched silently, feeling a little unbelievable.
But if she put herself in his shoes, the Storm Duke she had followed before could humiliate and discard her at will, while Qing Chen even protected the body of his comrade. The difference was vast.
At this time, Qing Ji suddenly said: “By the way, I’ll correct myself, this is not the peak of his life. His glory is just beginning.”
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The Silver City army split into three groups and entered the forest.
They were so numerous that the grass and bushes they stepped on were left bare of soil after they passed.
Moreover, in the mechanized troops behind them, there were even special road cleaners. Huge mechanical engineering vehicles drove in, directly sawing down rows of trees like bulldozers, to allow the armored vehicles and main battle tanks behind to pass.
The original forest was opened up into paths.
There were no roads in the world originally; when many people walked, roads were formed.
At this moment, Old Five sat in the command vehicle with a gloomy face.
He really didn’t expect that He Jinqiu, whom he had captured from outside, had unexpectedly transformed into a celestial sword immortal capable of bringing disaster to them.
He also didn’t expect that the brothers who were still scheming against each other a day ago, were now dead except for himself and Old Ten!
He even more didn’t expect that now that He Jinqiu was dead, he bombarded Qing Chen mercilessly with artillery fire, yet he still didn’t kill him! How is that possible!
Old Five looked at the Holographic Sand Table. A drone advanced with the troops, and transmitted everything at the front line in real time.
In the communication channel, an officer suddenly said: “Sir, fresh footprints have been found on the ground, the moss on the ground has just been crushed. You were right, they ran this way.”
Old Five briefly breathed a sigh of relief: “Keep chasing, the Fighter Jets from our northern air base have already taken off. They won’t escape.”
However, at this moment, Old Five suddenly saw a figure appear in front of the troops. A young man walked out of the darkness alone, shouting: “Kill!”
The soldiers looked at the young man with a small sapling on his head and were stunned. Then, the densely packed soldiers looked at him alone and burst into laughter: “What is this guy doing?”
However, the next moment, a deafening sound of footsteps suddenly came from the forest, heavy and dense.
The footsteps were like mammoth leg bones used as drumsticks, with the skin of an ancient dragon’s belly used as the drumhead, and then beaten heavily by a burly giant. With a bang, those who heard the footsteps felt their hearts tremble!
In an instant, countless burly figures rushed out of the darkness with strides capable of traversing mountains and seas: “Kill!”
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