Black Book

Chapter 169 I am the only one who is helping
"I said we can't hold it, let's retreat!"

Their eardrums were damaged by the shock wave of the explosion, so they couldn't hear even a slightly smaller sound, even if they were face to face.

"No! Lord Nalan has issued a death order, requiring us to hold this high ground! Reinforcements will be here soon!"

"Damn it! They said reinforcements would arrive ten days ago! But now more than half of our brothers are dead or injured! The reinforcements haven't come yet!!"

The Qing soldiers roared with red eyes, staring at the captain's eyes.

If they were not all new troops formed and trained by Nalan Shu, the ordinary Qing army would have collapsed long ago under such casualty rates!

But even for the well-trained new army, their morale almost collapsed in the face of the enemy's indiscriminate artillery fire.

Bullets whizzed past his head. The captain looked around and saw his brothers with bloodstained faces looking at him expectantly. He couldn't bring himself to order them to hold on.

But running away from the battlefield... that's a capital crime!

Just as the captain was struggling with his inner struggle, a messenger came running along the trench and shouted excitedly.

"Reinforcements are coming! Reinforcements are coming!!!"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone seemed to be energized by a shot of chicken blood. The morale that had been on the verge of collapse suddenly recovered, and they instantly felt that they could fight for another three hundred rounds!

"Where are they? Where are the reinforcements?!"

Grabbing the messenger, the captain asked with red eyes.

"Right behind! He followed me."

The messenger pointed behind him, and following his line of sight, the captain saw a strange figure wearing a hood, covered in a dark cloak, without a speck of dirt on his body, which was out of place with the atmosphere of the battlefield.

"Are you... the vanguard? Where is your main force?"

The hood shrouded in shadows was slightly lifted, revealing a childish face that was so handsome that it did not look like that of an ordinary person.

"There is no large army, and I am the only one who comes to reinforce."

"What?!!"

The unexpected words drilled into his eardrums. Looking at the handsome young man who was powerless, the captain's legs went weak. He sat down on the ground with a thud, muttering in despair.

"It's over..."

However, the young man opposite smiled slightly, and his dark and deep eyes turned to the outside of the trench, looking at the locust army rushing up sparsely.

"Don't worry, it's a small scene. I can handle it alone."

Without waiting for the captain's response, the boy lightly tapped his toes, jumped out of the trench, and walked towards the enemy slowly but quickly.

"Prepare!!!"

Seeing a figure jumping out of the opposite trench, a locust army squad leader gave orders without hesitation and raised his saber.

Several veteran soldiers around him quickly lay on the ground, pulled the bolt and aimed.

"shooting!!"

shuh~
The sabers were swung down, and several veterans pulled the trigger at the same time. The hot bullets were fired at supersonic speeds, accurately hitting the target hundreds of meters away.

bang bang bang~
However, after a round of salvos, the target continued to move forward steadily without being affected at all.

"what happened?"

"The target just happened to pause for a moment, and our lead time missed the target!"

"Che Kexiu! Come again! Get ready!" Raising the saber again, the squad leader commanded the sniper fire again, but this time the target happened to pause for a moment, causing all the bullets calculated in advance to fall into vain.

On the other side of the battlefield, Zhu Haomiao followed the guidance of his spiritual sense, pacing forward at a fast or slow pace, just right to avoid all the bullets shot at him.

While testing the supernatural combat intuition of the perfect realm of [Swift Wind Power], the young man couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth and came to the front of the locust army that was charging the most fiercely.

"Nisunai!!"

Bang!
The flash of light came out of the gun, and the bullet arrived in an instant at a distance of less than five meters, but Zhu Haomiao slightly turned sideways before the enemy pulled the trigger, and the bullet passed by his clothes a few centimeters in front of his chest without any threat.

shuh~
The sharp bayonet that followed missed, and the two men passed each other as if they were performing a routine, leaving the locust soldier kneeling on the ground, holding his throat, his whole body convulsing and shaking.

Blood gushed out from between his fingers like a fountain, quickly forming a pool of blood on the ground.

Without even looking at the corpse behind him, Zhu Haomiao threw away the bloody mess in his hand.

bloody!
Kill!
destroy!

…………

There was a gleam of cruelty and brutality in his eyes, and the original sin that had been suppressed in the depths of his soul for a long time began to stir.

Zhu Haomiao restrained his desire to kill.

With seemingly slow but actually fast steps, he easily broke into the defense circle of a locust soldier. The overly long bayonet of the gun was just a burden at this distance.

Under the enemy's horrified gaze, the young man raised his slender palm, and his five fingers with [Armor-Breaking Power] pierced into his chest like a sharp sword, and easily took out a hot, twitching heart.

The boy cut the involved blood vessels without stopping his pace, as if he had picked an apple from the tree and brought it to his nose to sniff it in ecstasy.

The sweet and delicious aroma of blood was refreshing. Zhu Haomiao inexplicably felt a hungry appetite and wanted to chew and swallow the heart in his hand.

But after a moment's hesitation, he suppressed his abnormally excited desire and gently dropped the organ in his hand.

People can't, or at least shouldn't, eat these things...

[Black Book]: Dao Heart +1
Zhu Haomiao: “???”

With a blink of his eyes that was difficult to describe, Zhu Haomiao walked towards the next lucky audience member without stopping, ignoring his screams and resistance before death, and gently broke his neck.

I left him with an intact body in such a dangerous battlefield. I'm not a bad guy, so why did my [Dao Xin] increase by 1? !
His gaze did not linger on the twitching corpse behind him for even a second. With nonsensical thoughts swirling in his mind, the boy wandered aimlessly on the battlefield, turning the well-trained locust soldiers into cold corpses.

A few hundred meters away, an officer put down his binoculars and drew his saber angrily.

In just a few minutes, his company lost more than a dozen people. If the skirmish line had not been so spread out, the number would have been several times higher!
If this continues, all the soldiers on the front line will be killed before we reach the enemy’s position!

On the other side, Zhu Haomiao COS'd the Nine Yin Bone Claw and crushed the head of a locust soldier. He was shaking off the brains in his hands when he suddenly heard a shrill roar.

"You Chinese bastard! Die!!!"

With a flash of cold light, a sharp saber dropped from the sky, slashing down in mid-air with the momentum to split the boy in half.

In a flash, Zhu Haomiao reached out and accurately grasped the enemy's fist holding the knife and squeezed it gently.

Click~
The inhuman strength of up to 58 points poured out like a hydraulic press, squeezing the opponent's fist into a pile of mud.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah!!!"

Amidst the shrill screams, Zhu Haomiao snatched the samurai sword, channeled his internal energy, and slashed with his backhand.

(End of this chapter)