This time I chose Paladin.

Chapter 126 Explosion
Soon, everyone except Yun Bowen and Xilia followed. They dispersed, creating a crossfire and preventing the enemy from killing them all at once.

Nie Weiyang rushed into the branches. When he passed by Tan Xuan, he suddenly said, "Sorry, I damaged your car."

"It's okay, Captain." Tan Xuan shook his head. "It's too old and should have broken down long ago. When I hid it around here, I never thought I'd be able to operate it again one day... Besides, you drive much better than I do. Everything you did just now was the best choice."

For the first time, this shifty young man revealed a look that made people think deeply.

"...It might be happy to die protecting others," he said.

Nie Weiyang felt something was wrong. He wanted to observe Tan Xuan a little longer, but there was no time. The golden mist was getting thicker, and they had to speed up.

He swiftly stepped over the strewn branches, stepping between golden hands and then withdrawing. Those hands, swaying like blossoms, grasped at every living being with a frantic, yearning attachment. It was as if the line between life and death had blurred, and what should have been a grayish-black landscape became a shimmering golden wave. As he burst into this golden glow, Shenggen sensed his presence and slapped back with all his might!
Nie Weiyang dodged Shenggen's attack with a flying leap. He strode forward with the golden spear in hand and stabbed hard!
With a crisp sound, a crack appeared on the hard crystal spearhead. Shenggen's lower part was solidified, unlike the other golden angels who sacrificed hardness for mobility, but the spearhead still sank smoothly into the gold! Screeching sounded, and Nie Weiyang pressed the spear shaft hard, stepped on it and leaped onto Shenggen's palm.

Shenggen tried to grab him, but he didn't even touch him for two seconds. He just rolled over and threw himself out, relying on the combat suit's resistance to strong acid. He used all his strength and carried his whole body weight -

Smash it! ! !
‘Crack. ’

‘Boom! ! ! ’

Without the golden protection, the fingers, like withered bones, were already unstable to begin with, and now they were severed at the root. A layer of strange energy on the surface of the bones was also peeled away, and strong acid began to corrode the broken edges, quickly fusing some of the bones into a mass, making it impossible to reconnect them.

Nie Weiyang fell with it, splashing acid onto his goggles and gas mask, some even burning his hair. The black and white strands were eroded into pits, some flowing below his hairline, eroding his flesh along the edge of his goggles in searing pain, soon revealing the whiteness of his bones. A 'dead tree' was born beside him, branches rapidly emerging from the earth, clawing at Nie Weiyang!
'boom! ! ! '

A gunshot rang out, and the bullet blasted a large, spinning hole through the golden remains of the dead tree. Tang Hui, who was not far away, leaned forward, raised her gun, and shouted, "Don't be afraid, Captain! We're here!"

Nie Weiyang had always been calm, and it had been a long time since he had been 'scared' about his personal safety. But even so, when he heard these words, he couldn't help but feel a pause in his heart.

The severe pain and damage caused by the strong acid corrosion quickly turned the flesh and blood into charcoal, and the nerves pulled the muscles to twitch, but Nie Weiyang did not bother to deal with it. He just poured a bottle of first aid medicine for acid corrosion on his head, quickly found the corpse in the black and red uniform, and did not unfasten the fixing buckle of the miniature nuclear bomb in the corpse's arms. He quickly entered the uniformly set detonation code, then turned around and ran!

Behind him, Shenggen tried to retract his hand, as if trying to push the finger and the nuclear bomb away. But several acid grenades were thrown from a distance, splashing green liquid and hindering his movement.

The next moment, 'dead trees' and 'branches' emerged from the ground, and golden hands reached out towards the nuclear bomb.

Jiang Meng now had several people's grenades in her hands. She gritted her teeth and threw hard. Several golden hands tightly grasped her calves. The branches were melting and covering her legs. New branches joined and slowly climbed up. The gold was too heavy. It tore at her combat uniform, her flesh, and her bones. But she just screamed loudly, shaking all over, tears streaming down her face, but she didn't stop throwing grenades.

Finally, with a roar, she threw the last grenade and pressed a button on her arm armor.

Most of her body was covered in gold, though it still moved, unhardened. She stumbled forward, her golden-wrapped legs being pulled by those hands, as if that was her destiny. But she didn't stop, turning away from them and brushing past Nie Weiyang.

Life was slipping away from her; the ivy of death was a brilliant gold. "Good luck, Captain..." she whispered, "This is where I am now."

Nie Weiyang didn't stop. He pursed his lips and strode away without looking back. Jiang Meng looked down at the nuclear bomb, while the three "corpses" firmly tethered to the finger, their eyes closed and breathing softly.

The "corpse" in the black and red uniform had lost both arms, which was probably why he couldn't activate the nuclear bomb himself before dying. He slowly and with all his strength rolled over, trying to press the nuclear bomb under him, making it impossible to remove it. The other two "corpses" used their heads, shoulders and backs to push him over, then snuggled up to him, pressing his body.

Jiang Meng slowly knelt down, leaning over them and hugging them tightly with her arms. Even though she was a stranger to them, the blood and green acid flowing from her numb body were fusing them together.

It was like a hill, not impenetrable, but even if the branches grabbed them, dragged them, and dug into the fragile flesh of humans, it would not budge.

……

Ten minutes later, light radiated.

A blinding white light suddenly tore through the sky, as if a tiny sun was rising from the ground. There was strong light, loud noise, and shock waves. The shock waves expanded outward from the center of the explosion. The air within a radius of 300 meters was heated to a degree unimaginable to ordinary people within one thousandth of a second. The broken asphalt road surface vaporized instantly, gold became like soup, and rocks collapsed like sand castles.

A vitrified crater, fifty meters in diameter, formed beneath the explosion's epicenter, its molten gravel seething with dark red foam. Three hundred meters from its edge, the previously destroyed vehicle burned, its twisted metal frame bleached in the radiation wind.

Carbonized tree stumps and rocks maintained their tilted, running postures. A mushroom cloud hovered in the air, dozens of stories high, its core still emitting a faint blue light.

Shenggen and the tens of thousands of golden angels that arrived later were blown all over the sky, and within the range of the impact and heat, a brilliant golden rain was poured under the haze, like a huge circular firework.

Nie Weiyang and others hid in the distance. They knew that they could not avoid the harm of nuclear radiation to them, but there was nothing they could do.

The question now is not how long I can live, but...

"Golden Lord has been hit by several large nuclear bombs, yet it remains unscathed. This shows that it was able to reach here from space. It must have the technology to withstand the external high temperatures. If it has installed communication equipment, it is very likely to stay here...

“But now, when the temperature drops, the radiation is still there.

"Who's going to look for any possible drops?"

　From now on, I will update 7 chapters at 2 o'clock. The rest of the updates will be sent out between 10 pm and 12 pm (if there are no emergencies). If not, then I am either working hard or I can't bear it anymore and fell asleep...

　　
　
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