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The modified Jeep ran over the twisted steel bars of the bridge beam, causing the vehicle to shake violently.

The damaged viaduct across the river is covered with charred bomb craters, and the river wind carries cold rain into the gaps.

The old car radio on the center console emitted crackling static and intermittent dial tone.

Lin Chuxue sank into the back seat, her small hands rummaging through her tactical backpack until it was a mess.

She pulled out a bag of cotton candy that had been soaked by the rain, with mud even sticking to the seal.

Lin Chuxue tore open the packaging and stuffed it into her mouth, her little face instantly scrunching up like a steamed bun.

"Ugh, it's so salty and soggy, it's awful," she muttered under her breath, her eyes feeling dry.

She crumpled the marshmallow into a ball, not wanting to throw it away, and stuffed it back into her pocket.

Suddenly, the muffled sound of heavy machine gun fire erupted from the misty river ahead.

The rapid, chaotic gunfire was interspersed with the piercing screams of steel plates being torn apart by external forces.

Shen Xinglin turned the steering wheel all the way with one hand, and the SUV swerved to a stop, hugging the guardrail.

In the middle of the overpass ramp, three riot control buses full of wounded people were lying diagonally across the intersection.

Dozens of heavily armored hydralisks, each several meters long, surrounded and killed the bus.

Those beasts, covered in heavy, dark blue bone plates, were frantically writhing against the steel bars of the car window with their thick, snake-like bodies.

Inside the car window were faces wrapped in blood-stained bandages, their cries and screams shattered by the wind.

Two veteran soldiers of the defense force leaned against the car door, the firing pins of their rifles clicking as they fired.

"We're out of bullets!" The younger soldier wiped the blood and mud off his face; his voice was completely hoarse.

The older squad leader pulled out the safety pins of the two grenades from his chest and gripped the fuses tightly with his knuckles.

"Pull the string, and blow these rotten bones to smithereens!" The old sergeant glared, ready to pounce.

Lu Yan rolled down half of the car window, his gaze calmly sweeping over the group of ferocious snakes.

"Shen Xinglin, clear the obstruction." Lu Yan's voice was not loud, but it carried a chilling weight.

"clear."

Shen Xinglin raised his hand and lifted the mask of the mobile armor, and the thrusters on his back suddenly burst out with a dark blue tail flame.

Sizzle!!

The violent blast of air ripped the canvas off the Jeep's roof.

Shen Xinglin moved like an arrow shot from a gun, tearing through the wind and rain, instantly traversing dozens of meters of empty space.

The ever-changing lance in his hand suddenly disassembled and reassembled, its gears meshing wildly.

The lance suddenly emitted blindingly bright white plasma beams from both sides, transforming into high-frequency light blades that vibrated at high speed.

Shen Xinglin sped along the oil-stained asphalt road, sparks flying as the mecha scraped against the ground.

puff!puff!

The blazing white blade swept across, cutting into the bone armor with a swift, clean sound, like a hot knife cutting cloth.

The two heavily armored hydralisks charging at the veteran didn't even have time to turn around before their massive bodies snapped off at the waist.

Thick, foul-smelling bodily fluid gushed out, turning the bus's windshield into a filthy mess.

"Establish a defensive formation and cut off the rear!"

Wen Yue's slender figure had already climbed onto the roof of the jeep, her long boots firmly planted on the rusted spare tire rack.

With the World-Destroying Thunder Crossbow resting diagonally on his shoulder, three high-explosive armor-piercing shells, glowing with eerie blue arcs of electricity, were instantly chambered.

Without the slightest hesitation, her slender fingers repeatedly pressed the trigger.

call out!call out!call out!

Three sharp, piercing whistles swept past Shen Xinglin's head.

Boom!! Boom!! Boom!!

A series of violent fireballs erupted behind the bus, scattering debris and broken bones like a sudden downpour.

The seven or eight hydras that attempted to encircle the enemy from behind were instantly overturned, their bony plates shattered into pieces.

The old squad leader stood frozen in the mud, his palm pressed tightly against the grenade handle that was about to detonate.

The survivors inside the bus, separated by glass stained with black blood, could barely breathe.

"This...this is high-frequency light blade cutting?!"

"It's a pinpoint explosion from the World-Destroying Thunderbolt!"

"First squad! It's the first squad's ace guard and marksman!"

The desperate cries abruptly ceased, replaced by a trembling, ecstatic gasp.

Before anyone could react, the hard road surface under the bus suddenly bulged violently.

Click!

One of the sturdy concrete piers supporting the viaduct exploded and shattered, its steel bars twisted like a pretzel.

A giant burrowing beast covered in gray-white suckers burst out of the ground, its mouthparts lined with layers of barbs.

It reeked of a foul, rotten stench, and opened its blood-red maw to bite down hard on the fuel tank of the bus in the middle!

Inside the vehicle, several seriously injured people let out desperate screams, too weak even to back away.

hum!

A dark golden phantom left several blurry afterimages on the broken bridge surface.

Flash Strike!

Xiao Qianyu had crossed the line of fire at some point, her entire being resembling a black lightning bolt descending from the heavens.

The veins on her arms bulged, and the Dragon King Halberd, imbued with immense force, stabbed down fiercely with a backhand!

*Pfft!*

The heavy, sharp halberd, like hot iron plunged into oil, pierced through the hard skull of the earth-burrowing beast.

The halberd tip, accompanied by a burst of air, pierced straight into the ground, pinning the enormous creature firmly to the asphalt road!

Boom!!

The burrowing beast's massive body convulsed violently twice, black blood gushing from its wounds, and it breathed its last in an instant.

Xiao Qianyu placed one hand on the hilt of the halberd, coldly withdrew the weapon, and didn't even glance at the rotten flesh at her feet.

The entire ramp was deathly silent, thick gunpowder smoke mixed with the stench of burning flesh, pungent and acrid.

The team leader, his face covered in blood, scrambled off the bus, nearly collapsing to his knees.

"Don't kneel, stand up straight and speak."

Lu Yan pushed open the car door and stepped out of the jeep, the hem of his combat uniform fluttering in the damp, cold river wind.

The convoy leader wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and gave a shaky, distorted salute.

"Officers of the First Squad... thanks to your intervention, otherwise all the wounded in this vehicle would have perished!"

"You withdrew from the heart of Sichuan?" Lu Yan interrupted him directly, his eyes icy cold.

The team leader's face turned deathly pale instantly, and he pulled a roll of sweat-soaked brown paper bag from his inner pocket.

"This is the last urgent report from the command posts of each defense line, two hours ago... before communication was cut off!"

Lu Yan took it and tore off the seal; the two thin sheets of paper rustled in the night wind.

Wen Yue jumped off the roof of the car, carrying the heavy crossbow, and walked to Lu Yan's side, her gaze falling on the line of bright red annotations.

"Nine air defense missile positions in the inland areas of Xichuan did not fire a single shot when the beast tide arrived."

Lu Yan read the words aloud in a low voice, his calmness sending chills down one's spine.

"All heavy psionic artillery and high-explosive weaponry were detained at the base by the logistics department under the pretext of special maintenance."

Su Yunqing strode forward carrying the medical kit, but upon hearing this, her wrist suddenly stopped, and her face turned ashen.

"They're deliberately driving the frontline defenders to their deaths!" Su Yunqing cursed through gritted teeth.

She turned around, opened the side door of the convoy bus, and strode into the carriage filled with groans and the smell of blood.

"If you have a minor injury, hold the gauze in place. If you have a serious injury, don't move around!" Su Yunqing's voice was clear and steady.

With a flick of her wrist, she quickly injected the specially made, highly effective, sustained-release analgesic into the veins of several veterans who had lost limbs.

A pure and gentle healing aura emanated from her fingertips, barely stabilizing the warriors' scattered energy.

"First Snow, bring all the remaining medical gel from our car over here," Su Yunqing shouted without turning her head.

Lin Chuxue jumped out of the car nimbly, carrying a heavy silver military medical kit in each hand as she jogged over.

"I've left you the medicine. Hold on, all of you, don't die on the way!" the little girl shouted fiercely.

Zhao Leiguang swung his arms and stepped forward, roughly tearing off the empty ammunition belt hanging from his waist.

He kicked the side door of an abandoned SUV that was lying across the road.

boom! !

The two-ton steel car was kicked so hard that it flew several meters into the air, crashed through the guardrail, and plunged into the raging river.

"I've cleared the road for you guys!" Zhao Leiguang shouted at the stunned bus driver.

"Follow this road back. Pei Zhendong of the Seventh Fortress is still alive; we can defend that area!"

"Thank you, sir! Thank you, officers!!" Tears welled up in the driver's eyes as he slammed on the gas pedal.

Three dilapidated buses, trailing thick black smoke, sped backward along the cleared bridge surface.

Shen Xinglin flipped and leaped back into the passenger seat, and the ever-changing lance clicked as it retracted into place.

Xiao Qianyu shook off the black blood on the halberd, expressionlessly opened the back door and got in.

Lu Yan crumpled the blood-stained military intelligence report into a ball, and with a flash of dark light at his fingertips, he crushed it into powder.

The modified Jeep's engine roared once again with a deep, fierce roar.

The black car sped through the wreckage, drove straight off the overpass, and plunged into the torrential rain of Xichuan city.

Deep within the leaden gray clouds in front of the windshield, a black control tower hundreds of meters high stands majestically.

The entire military hub building, which overlooks the entire city, was completely dark, with not a single indicator light on.

The colossal structure resembled a deathly coffin in the night, exuding a suffocating aura of impending doom.

Zhao Lei stared at the dark tower, his face twitching uncontrollably.

"That old man, Wei, always wants to show off by turning on the building's spotlights all the way up to the sky."

Shen Xinglin gripped the steering wheel tightly, and the gears inside the robotic arm made a slight meshing sound.

"The entire building's main power grid has been cut off; this is not a normal power outage," Wen Yue added coldly.

Lu Yan sat in the back seat, his slender fingers gently tapping the edge of the sword sheath at his waist.

"Disarm the weapon."

His voice echoed in the cramped carriage, carrying a chilling, menacing tone.

"There are probably very few survivors left in this building tonight."