Free Web NovelChapter 1313: Chapter 506: Scorched Earth (Part 2)
"Got it."
On a battlefield next to the moving train, Leng Shaoxian, wearing reinforced Iron Hunter Power Armor, stomped on a scarlet bug. The Fire God Gatling in his hand sprayed a burst toward a bizarre flying monster in the sky. Amidst the scarlet mist, a shadow rapidly enlarged before plummeting precisely in front of him. The monster attempted to open its huge mouth, extending parasitic tentacles to attack, but he casually tossed a fragmentation grenade into the gaping maw. In the next instant—boom!—the monster’s head exploded into a mist of blood.
"Everyone, pay attention, don’t underestimate those scarlet bugs that burrow into the electrical core. Crush them immediately. They can cause an energy malfunction in the power armor within seconds; no one should take them lightly!"
"Yes, Captain!"
Clattering sounds followed his words, and hundreds of fully-armed power armor warriors advanced forward with resolute steps.
Leng Shaoxian glanced at the dead flying monster on the ground. Just then, his Dark Energy Detection Radar suddenly emitted a sharp noise. He instantly looked upward, and the Gatling motor in his hand began to spin.
"Watch out, there’s a..."
Before he could finish, an eerie giant silhouette with four wings suddenly tore through the clouds a few hundred meters above, rapidly enlarging in everyone’s eyes, at least ten meters in size. Instantly, the gunfire from countless people erupted toward the dark silhouette, followed by a whirlwind clearing the blood mist. A twisted monster, completely black like asphalt and shimmering with a green biological force field, surged down, flipping over a heavy truck equipped with an Anti-aircraft Gun.
Boom!
The explosion blasted ten or so people away, and the truck was sent flying, crashing into the slowly moving rail train. The armor on the side of the carriage was immediately torn apart, tilting the train car, iron wheels sparking, and the truck was tipped over, producing a metallic screech on the ground!
"A-level scarlet form, use heavy cannon!"
Leng Shaoxian shouted as he rushed towards the train, igniting the propeller on his leg, and with a shoulder charge, knocked the truck away. At this moment, the black asphalt monster braced against the dense gunfire from his troops, the biological force field on it shattered rapidly. Still, it crawled madly toward him, spewing a damaged red laser light, slicing open three sections of the train roof along with the upper gun barrels.
"Damn it!" Leng Shaoxian ducked in time and cursed angrily when he looked back. "Zhang Zijian, Wang Lin, where the hell are you?!"
"Here they come!!"
Crash!
Amid the lines, two Guardian-X Assault Types, towering six meters, swiftly advanced. The anode particle cannon on their left arm emitted a high-temperature screech, and in an instant, two anode cannons exploded, shattering the four-wing monster preparing to fire its second shot into six pieces, even ionizing the ground into a charred, burnt path. frёeωebɳovel.com
"Quick, transfer the carriages, prepare to detach these sections!"
Beside the Joint Train, within a carriage whose armor was cut open, Zhou Hongqu, the captain of the Red Rose Team, decisively ordered her men to begin transferring: "Everyone move to the front, Li Long, disconnect the Dark Energy Synchronization Device supply here!"
Thud, thud, thud!
Continuous artillery fire over tens of kilometers felt like thunder, as people outside hustled amid the scarlet mist, their numbers stretching into the distance. Zhou Hongqu watched the dense Iron Guard Brigade advancing on foot outside, the corpse of the eerie flying monster still emitting a somber blood mist, and continued shouting:
"Watch the kids, only take supplies and ammo, leave everything else, don’t disrupt the team’s progress!"
Beep, beep, beep!
Suddenly, a series of alarms blared from the Iron Guard Brigade outside, and Zhou Hongqu and her teammates saw that all the troops were now directing their firepower at the sky, realizing something was amiss.
"Careful!!"
Woo!!
Like a typhoon gathering, the gloomy sky cleared of blood mist as dozens of those black four-wing scarlet forms obscured the dim light, roaring toward them in a terrifying manner.
Zhou Hongqu felt a chill down her spine seeing this and shouted instinctively at her terrified teammates:
"Run quickly!"
But faced with the overwhelming aerial assault, the personnel on the train could hardly retreat, not to mention that these monsters could cut through armor with their laser beams?
Suddenly, at this moment, a blazing white fiery sword like a laser swept across the battlefield from thousands of meters away; the air exploded with a piercing boom, followed by dazzling light and heat waves that directly swept across the battlefield, rushing through the train’s incision. The high-temperature heat wave instantly dissolved the frost on the battlefield, even dispersing the stench.
The A-level scarlet forms swooping from the sky were now reduced to a pile of charred corpses, crashing into the Iron Guard Brigade’s lines below, kicking up sand and stone.
The gunfire abruptly halted. Leng Shaoxian looked up, seeing a man in nano-power armor floating in the smoke above, with a golden bracelet hovering on his right hand, a massive white flame wheel spinning at high speed behind him, like a god descending.
Sizzle!
The heat wave hadn’t dissipated when another blue lightning tore through the sky, creating a huge void, followed by a girl with a high ponytail wielding a gun blade, using the propulsion system of her power armor and Dark Energy to accelerate into a mere afterimage. After she appeared, the clouds echoed with humming as a group of sliced scarlet monsters fell.
Lu Xingchen looked at the figure, exchanged a glance with Xiao Qing who gripped the gun blade coldly in mid-air, and they each adjusted their directions without pause, bursting into intense sonic booms as they rushed to other battlefields.
In the direction of the Southern Red Stone Grand Rift Valley was the forefront of the rail train area, erupting like a hellish meat-grinder battle.
The 22 Iron Guard Brigade, with a force of 19,000 troops, advanced in four directions here. Simultaneously, there was a resistance line of over 100,000 from the train convoy and additional reinforcements pulling survivors.
Buzzes!
A fleet of armored vehicles, numbering in the thousands, kicked up a red dust storm, wildly interspersing among the Iron Guard Brigade’s lines. At the forefront, on a monster truck, Lei Zhen held a wired communicator, half his body poking out the car roof, cursing loudly:
"It’s been six hours today, is this damn endless? Jiang Yun, my truck’s almost out of oil and power, where the hell are you?!"
Lei Zhen’s Common Alliance originally joined the Dawn Center in a cross-ocean move south. After the rail train in the Colorado battle fell into peril, he brought his nearly 30,000-strong combat team to join the rescue effort. The tens of thousands of civilians followed the main force, carrying supplies and moving on, now including over thirty support teams totaling more than 100,000 persons being trapped in this barren place.
Buzzes!
Amid the intense artillery fire, another car team emerged from the scarlet mist.
"Captain Lei, Captain Jiang is coming from the direction of Stone Valley Mountain, five minutes away from us."
Speaking was He Linqiu from the Burning Phoenix Team, a member of the Infinite Alliance, whose team naturally followed Jiang Yun into the support mission.
"Five minutes?"
Lei Zhen sat back in the co-driver seat, looking at several small computer screens in front, he pressed a button, showing the battlefield’s rear surveillance, where sky thunderclouds gathered, monster tides like tsunamis rushing through the valley, sending chills with their scarlet zombies and endless insect models.
"Captain, it’s bad, there are Hunting Bodies, not just one. Xu Jin’s lost six or seven vehicles."
"Damn it!" Lei Zhen cursed angrily, grabbing the communicator: "Don’t fear rolling the wheels, gather all the convoys, heavy armored vehicles form the outer line. Superpower Team, spot a Hunting Body and make them regret it. Wang Feng, Liu Fjun, Wang Shuang...you guys who evolved Crystal Grids over twenty thousand, watch it, support is on the way!"
"Boss, those Hunting Bodies might be Super A-level. If several come out at once, they’re hard to fend off; sneaky bastards specialize in ambushes!" the driver nervously said.
"I know." ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom
Lei Zhen shot a glance and a giant storm appeared in the rearview mirror, with pressure dropping abruptly, hurricanes howling, stirring the scarlet blood mist, quickly forming several massive tornadoes in the wilderness, resembling an end-of-the-world scenario.
"Holy crap, boss, look!"
"Don’t be afraid!" Lei Zhen inhaled sharply at the sight: "Tornado, Jiang Yun finally came!"
