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Chapter 17 The best defense is offense

The roar of the explosion was deafening, shaking Yu Xia's dizzy head.

After the first explosion, artillery fire continued to fall, illuminating the figures of many of the sentries hidden in the gray fog.

And those weird and twisted shapes.

“There are pollutants.”

Huo Lin and Nix made a hand gesture, and the team immediately dispersed, pulling out their steel knives to quickly kill the pollutants.

They had no ammunition left and supplies were slow to arrive, so they could only use cold weapons to deal with the pollutants.

Pollutants and alien species are not the same. Alien species are foreign genetic species that form contaminated areas, while pollutants are native organisms that are assimilated by alien species.

Strangely enough, pollutants rarely appear in the outer areas of the contaminated area.

Pollutants assimilated by alien species will only "take root" deeper into the polluted area in order to evolve more alien genes, while the alien species will expand their territory outward.

Generally, there are sentinels guarding the periphery of the contaminated area, using firepower to suppress the spread of alien species in the territory, so that even alien species are unlikely to come here.

Huo Lin and Nix immediately came up with some not-so-good guesses.

"The contaminated area has spread." Knicks cut a contaminant in half and saw the blood-red core in the abdomen. He smashed the core before the contaminant could recover, and the contaminant immediately turned into a pool of unknown meat.

The pollutants were killed one by one, and the shattered blood-red cores formed a circle of red mist around them.

In addition to their team, there are many other sentinels around cleaning up pollutants.

There were more Sentinels wanting to leave the contaminated area than they imagined.

Not only mercenaries, but also a large number of regular troops.

Everyone realized that something was wrong with this mission, and the captains of each team were ready to lead their teams out of the contaminated area.

The expressions of these regular sentinels were much uglier than those of the mercenaries.

Not only does the mission in this contaminated area take longer than most missions, but there is also a shortage of supplies and no way to communicate with the outside world. The exit is guarded in the rear and they are not allowed to leave.

They just felt betrayed.

The overdraft of physical and mental strength made the sentinels extremely irritable, and any slight conflict could lead to a fight between them.

Along the way, Yu Xia saw many sentinels fighting each other, and killing pollutants and alien species became a piece of cake for them.

Fortunately, she was temporarily marked by Huo Lin, and with the smell of pollutants as cover, no one would notice her.

Huo Lin carried Yu Xia on his back and moved swiftly through the red fog, staying away from the point of impact of the artillery fire.

The artillery fire was not mainly aimed at the sentries. After they crossed the intersection of the security line, the only weapons targeting them were those mounted on the towering city walls.

The fog here has dissipated. It was because the rear was using fog-removing tools to prevent sneak attacks by alien species and for the sentinels to escape from the contaminated area.

There are three exits to the contaminated area, two of which are now closed, leaving only the middle one.

At this time, in front of Yu Xia and others was a huge gray-black city wall.

The wall is towering into the clouds. In the perennially gloomy environment of the polluted area, gray fog shrouds the top of the wall, making the wall look like it has no top and seems to extend infinitely upwards.

They seemed to have reached the end of the world, and the wall separated the two worlds.

This wall is a benign pollutant cleared from the contaminated area. Its main body is a mass of gray fluid substance that can be infinitely extracted. After being purified and transformed by the research institute, it becomes a usable containment object, code-named [Gray Wall]. When it comes into contact with the contaminated area, it will form a tall and thick wall, isolating the contaminated area from their world.

After the [Gray Wall] is formed, it will heal quickly regardless of bombing or dissolving holes, and only exits opened with special substances can allow them to pass normally. At this moment, this wall isolates the sentinels in the contaminated area, and they can only pass through the only exit.

Many sentinels gathered in the ruined town outside the exit. This was the only place for the sentinels to negotiate with the rear.

Between the town and the exit is a road where sentinels line up for inspection.

Huo Lin carried Yu Xia on his back and found an empty house in the town that was far away from other sentries and relatively intact to stay temporarily. Knicks went to the exit first to negotiate with the people in the rear to see what was going on.

When he put Yu Xia down, Yu Xia began to become alienated again.

There were too many sentinels nearby, so many that even if Yu Xia consciously adjusted his mental power, he could not control the alienation.

It's really terrible.

As soon as Huo Lin put her down, she hugged Huo Lin's arms tightly.

Now he is the only one who can make her feel at ease.

What she couldn't smell the sentinel's pheromones, she made up for in her mental acuity.

The sentinels' violent mental power penetrated everywhere, forming a force that frightened her.

This fear caused her mental strength to begin to dissipate, like a frightened little beast that wanted to fight back.

Huo Lin immediately held her in his arms, subconsciously wanting to use pheromones to comfort her. However, just as he released the pheromones, he remembered that she could not smell the pheromones.

There is an instrument here to shield the mental barrier. He can't open the mental barrier for her. It would be much better if she could smell the pheromones.

But she couldn't smell it, so he could only hold her tightly and keep stroking her back and head, trying to eliminate her fear and anxiety.

Yu Xia curled up in Huo Lin's arms, closed her eyes tightly, and her consciousness kept shuttling back and forth between reality and spiritual images.

Her mental power spread out uncontrollably like mycelium, actively looking for the sentinels that made her feel fearful.

The best defense is offense. This was the thought that came to her mind after she was "attacked" by the Sentinel's mental power.

Seeing that Yu Xia's condition was even worse than after the mental counseling, the sentries of Team 19 all summoned their spiritual bodies, crawled at her feet and guarded her, hoping to give her a sense of security.

"Yu Xia, are you okay?" Seeing that Yu Xia had not moved for a long time, Huo Lin rubbed her cheek gently and called her in a low voice.

Yu Xia was outside looking for his target.

She first found the two teams of sentinels closest to them. The two teams of sentinels had just settled here and had a conflict and were about to fight.

Yu Xia "looked" at them for a while, and his mental power split into several strands. When they took action, the mental filaments penetrated into their bodies!

No fighting! You scared her!
This group of sentinels were not penetrated by Yu Xia's mental power, but it was as if some instructions were implanted in their brains, forcing them to be quiet.

This mental power that came from nowhere calmed their violent emotions and made them subconsciously want to find the owner of this command.

Yu Xia "saw" that her method was effective. After the sentinels calmed down, her fear was reduced. Her mental power continued to spread out to "attack" those violent sentinels.

Huo Lin and others who were trying to find a way to appease Yu Xia at this time did not know that her mental power had already overflowed and gradually surrounded the entire town.

It didn't take long for Huo Lin and the others to sense something was wrong.

Their keen five senses enabled them to detect that many sentinels were approaching them.

There were not just one or two teams, but the presence of sentinels was everywhere.

(End of this chapter)