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Bai Liuxi repeated the command, her voice trembling, but her eyes were bright.

"Everyone, run to the evacuation point."

The military covered the rear.

The military began to take action.

It's not a retreat, it's a formation.

The tanks' cannons turned to the sky, the armored vehicles' machine guns pointed to the sky, and the soldiers lined up in front of the defensive line, rifles loaded and bayonets drawn.

They were doing something that was destined to kill them, but their hands didn't tremble, their legs didn't buckle, and their eyes didn't close.

Zhao Derong stood up from the ground.

The wound on his chest reopened, and blood seeped from the bandages, staining his clothes dark red.

Blood was still seeping from the cracks in his arm, his face was as pale as a dead man, and his body was trembling.

But he stood up, and stood ramrod straight.

Liu Yang grabbed his arm.

"Captain, you..."

"You guys go first." Zhao Derong pushed his hand away, his voice not loud, but very steady.

"I'll cover the rear."

Tears welled up in Fang Lin's eyes, but she didn't wipe them away. Her lips were trembling, and she wanted to say something, but she couldn't utter a word.

Zhao Derong smiled at her, a smile that appeared exceptionally gentle on his dark, rugged face.

"Walk."

Just as Su Mu was about to move.

He tapped his finger on his spear, calculating... the distance between him and the chimera, the obstacles between them, the possible attack routes of the chimera, and the success rate of his parry.

His mind was racing, like an overclocked computer, but he couldn't figure out the answer.

There were too many variables, so many that his calculation ability couldn't handle them, so many that for the first time he felt his brain wasn't enough.

Then he heard footsteps behind him.

Lin Xiaohe stood behind him, holding a short knife in her hand, head down, saying nothing.

Her face was pale, her breathing was rapid, and her hands were trembling, but she stood there and did not run.

Lin Yuwei stood on his other side, holding the silver-spotted leopard cub in her arms. The cub's body was trembling, its ears were pressed against its head, and its tail was tucked between its legs.

Lin Yuwei's face was also very pale, and her lips were trembling, but her hands were not.

Chen Jun stood behind the three of them, carrying a bulging backpack and holding a bag of things in his hand. His face was expressionless, but his eyes shone in the darkness.

They thought Su Mu was still in a weak state.

He acted so well that even Lin Yuwei didn't notice anything amiss.

Ever since he killed the Zombie King, his face had been pale, his breathing had been rapid, and his body had been trembling.

When Prosci came to snatch the box, they thought Su Mu had used up all his strength to throw that shot, and that he must be in even worse shape now.

They did not abandon him, not because they were not afraid of death, but because they could not abandon him.

Su Mu cursed inwardly, and then he moved.

They weren't rushing towards the Chimera, but running towards the retreat point.

He was as fast as lightning, faster than Lin Xiaohe, faster than Lin Yuwei, and faster than Chen Jun.

He ran to Lin Xiaohe, grabbed her arm, and pulled her forward; he ran to Lin Yuwei, pushed her back to make her keep up; he ran to Chen Jun, patted his shoulder, and signaled him not to fall behind.

Lin Xiaohe was stunned for a moment, and then she realized that Su Mu was running much faster than her.

His legs didn't go weak, his breathing wasn't erratic, and his arms weren't trembling.

He feigned weakness all night, fooling everyone.

Lin Yuwei noticed it too. She frowned, and then a word came to her mind... cunning old fox.

She cursed under her breath and quickened her pace.

Chen Jun noticed it too; the corner of his mouth twitched slightly, not in a smile, but in a more subtle way, as if to say, "Brother Su is still Brother Su after all."

After the chimera appeared, the other monsters fell silent.

At the same moment, all the monsters that had been roaming, spying, and waiting for their chance in the dense forest lay prone on the ground.

Some were trembling, some were sobbing, and some were pretending to be dead.

No monster dared to move, because monsters are more sensitive than humans; they could sense how terrifying that thing was.

The retreat route became exceptionally clear.

Su Mu led the three of them as they raced through the dense forest, moving as fast as four ghosts darting through the darkness.

He could hear the footsteps, breathing, and heartbeats of the people behind him; he knew they had caught up.

His gaze fell on the hazy gray light in the distance... that was the direction of the evacuation point, the teleportation array set up by the military, which could teleport them to the location of the cable car.

The distance was only a little over a hundred meters.

Then the chimera noticed them.

It wasn't a deliberate gaze; it simply turned its lion's head, its amber eyes sweeping across the dense forest and the fleeing humans from another direction.

Its gaze did not linger on any one person, because humans were too small, too insignificant to warrant its individual attention.

But when its gaze swept over, the oppressive aura pressed down like a mountain, making it hard to breathe, making one's legs weak, and making one's heart almost stop beating.

It raised its front paws.

The movement was very slow, as slow as swimming in water, as if time had been slowed down countless times.

But everyone knows that it's not that its movements are slow, but that its movements are too fast, so fast that their reaction speed can't keep up, so fast that their brains automatically slow down the scene when processing it.

The front paws landed.

It wasn't patting, it was sweeping, as casually as someone sweeping dust off a table.

A visible burst of energy shot out from between its claws, sweeping towards the crowd.

The energy was wider than the entire camp, taller than the tallest tree, and moved as fast as lightning.

Wherever the energy passed, a deep trench was plowed into the ground, with flames burning at the edges; trees were uprooted and torn to pieces by the energy; the air was ripped apart, emitting a sharp sound, like something screaming.

The military has made a move.

Zhou Weiren's voice came through the walkie-talkie, still in that unhurried tone, with every word carrying weight.

"Activate the teleportation array."

Bai Liuxi's voice came from the center of the defensive line. Her voice was trembling, but her eyes were bright.

"Everyone, move towards the teleportation array."

The military personnel began to gather, not to flee, but to assemble.

More than two thousand people ran towards the teleportation array from various positions along the defensive line, moving as fast as a herd of wild horses galloping across the grassland.