Chapter 561 Explosion Plan
Xiao Jin leaned against a cold broken wall and carefully wiped the mirror-smooth blade of the Shattered Shadow with a clean cloth.
The cold blade reflected the dancing flames and also her calm eyes.
The energy consumption in her body was not too great, but she felt mentally exhausted from the continuous high-intensity fighting and perception.
Her eyes swept across the silent soldiers not far away, across Zhao Chun's tired and heavy back, and finally fell on the thick and impenetrable red fog deep in the ruins.
The mother nest is right there.
This brief rest is but the last calm before the storm; the real decisive battle has yet to begin.
The brutal sniping attack just now was just the most basic defense force outside the mother nest. The road ahead will only be more bloody.
She gently stroked the cold lines on the hilt, and her eyes became sharp as a knife again.
Moreover, Xiao Jin didn't even need to think about it carefully to know that the other players' hearts were probably far from being as calm as they appeared to be.
Because of the recent episode, Zhao Chun chose to rest here and continue his journey the next day.
At night, tents were set up one by one.
This is when the player's caution is shown.
No one trusted anyone else when it came to the night watch arrangements, so no one slept at all.
According to the players' physical fitness, it is no problem to stay up all night. Zhao Chun saw that he could not persuade them, so he turned around and went back to the tent.
As if sensing the aura of a large number of dead fog ghosts around, nothing happened that night.
………………
The cold morning light struggled to pierce through the thick, leaden fog, coating the dead silent ruins with a creepy bloody color.
Inside the temporary defense point, the remaining soldiers silently packed up their luggage, packed the few remaining ammunition into magazines, and applied medicine to the seriously wounded.
The air was filled with blood, gun smoke, and a deep exhaustion. The players were adjusting their states, and the invisible tension in the air was stretched to its limit.
"Let's go." Zhao Chun's voice was hoarse and resolute.
His arm was hung to his chest with a simple splint and bandage. His face was pale from blood loss, but his back was still straight.
The convoy started again, passing through a road covered with ashes and broken bones. After driving for less than an hour, the scene ahead made everyone feel depressed.
The road disappeared completely, replaced by a sea of ruins that had been completely plowed flat by a huge force.
Twisted steel bars pierced the bloody sky like the ribs of a monster, and broken concrete blocks piled up like mountains, forming insurmountable barriers.
"Abandon the car! Walk!" Zhao Chun gave the order decisively.
The heavy armored vehicle door opened, and the soldiers filed out, quickly forming a battle formation. The players also got out of the vehicle.
As for those soldiers who were seriously injured and unable to move, there was no choice but to leave them and their vehicles here.
As for whether they would encounter the fog ghost coming to attack, Zhao Chun remained silent, his hands clenched tightly into fists, and a crescent-shaped blood mark appeared on the palm of his hand.
Long before he came, Zhao Chun knew that he could not go back, and the same went for the others.
Rather than calling it a task force, it is more like a suicide squad. Death... is just a necessary loss for the survivors in the base.
After settling the wounded, Zhao Chun silently shouted to the communication station: "Salute." He raised his hand, and the rest of the soldiers followed closely.
The emotion in his eyes was so moving that all the players fell silent.
After a while, when everyone stepped into the ruins of the core area——
An indescribable, bone-chilling pressure carrying pure destruction and crazy malice came crashing down from the depths of the ruins like a physical tsunami!
This shock seems to only work on players.
“Ugh!” Several weaker players groaned, their faces turned pale instantly, cold sweat seeped out of their foreheads, as if their hearts were being tightly grasped by an invisible cold hand.
Even those battle-hardened soldiers subconsciously clenched their weapons, their breathing became heavy, their eyes filled with deep fear of the unknown horror.
Xiao Jin's eyes focused, and the supernatural powers and spiritual energy in his body flowed instinctively, resisting the terrifying pressure coming from the mother nest.
Fortunately, after evolving into a psychic, the player's mental strength is no longer the same. Xiao Jin was the first to get rid of the shackles and looked forward.
"We're here." Zhao Chun's voice trembled slightly. He walked in front of the players, his only remaining right eye fixed on the most violent vortex of fog rolling in the depths of the ruins.
"The battle ahead... we can't intervene. According to the plan, my people will be responsible for burying the 'zero explosive'." He pointed to the heavy metal boxes carried by the soldiers behind him.
"You have only one mission - buy us time at all costs!"
The plan was agreed upon beforehand, and the 'explosive zero' was specially developed for this mission, which almost exhausted all the stocks in the base.
"No problem." Yu Liu was the first to speak, with a smile on his face but his eyes were as sharp as a knife.
The man in black armor nodded silently, raised his giant axe slightly, and the other players followed suit.
In addition, many people who have pets or summoned creatures will send them to protect the soldiers.
The player in the mage robe chanted in a low voice, tapped the ground with his staff, and a translucent wolf-shaped creature made up of blue arcs roared and condensed into shape.
Next to the fox girl, a blue fox fire flashed, and a red fox made of pure flames appeared gracefully. The bandaged boy pulled out a thin and featureless human figure made of black mist from the shadows.
Another player released a pet that surprised everyone - a mammoth.
Yu Liu and the black-armored man seemed to be lacking in this regard. Yu Liu looked at the mammoth and chuckled: "We really have hidden dragons and crouching tigers here!"
The player who released the mammoth seemed a little nervous.
On the other side, Xiao Jin's mind moved slightly, and A Mo in the pet bag woke up instantly.
The pitch-black python raised its head, and its cold vertical pupils swept around. The next second, its body shrank and stretched rapidly like a phantom!
A small inky black snake as thick as a chopstick slid silently from Xiao Jin's sleeve and blended into the shadows on the ground and the cracks in the rubble, so fast that it was almost impossible to catch.
[Go ahead, be careful.] Xiao Jin warned himself.
[Sisi~'Master, don't worry.']
"Action!" Zhao Chun growled.
He then personally led the blasting team, and with the help of the ruins, sneaked towards the designated core blasting point.
Amo followed them from a distance, ready to eliminate any threats coming from blind spots at any time.