I Am Extraordinary Alone
Chapter 418 - 416: Decline

Chapter 418: Chapter 416: Decline

Wang Ye knelt on the ground, his fist hammering down on the earth.

If his mother really had turned into one of those things...

He would end her life with his own hands.

After a struggle within his heart, Wang Ye took off his backpack, and extracted some hemostatic cotton and medical adhesive, approaching the two injured soldiers.

One had a neck wound, the other had been caught by two insects and flown into the sky, before falling and breaking his leg as his teammates provided covering fire.

He first inspected the soldier with the neck wound, finding that the claws of those beasts were indeed formidable, mere scrapes leaving bone-deep lacerations.

The left side of this soldier’s neck was almost completely torn off, held together only with bandages and gauze, the man gradually losing consciousness due to blood loss.

Wang Ye removed the bandages, cleaned the wound with alcohol, then covered it with a layer of pale yellow synthetic muscle film to seal the wound.

He judged that these wounds could not be treated with any stitching technique, and that the only option was to transfer him to a hospital for a synthetic flesh transplant surgery to fill in the missing muscle in his neck.

He also had the soldier swallow a tube to take over his airway, although the trachea wasn’t damaged, the injury to his neck was so severe that breathing on his own was difficult, and they could only use a pump to assist and relieve the pressure on his neck.

Finally, Wang Ye sprayed the muscle film with antibiotics and hemostatic agents, then covered it with gauze and wrapped it securely with bandages.

"Don’t move your neck," Wang Ye warned.

The man grunted in acknowledgement.

He turned to look at the man with the broken leg, donning AR glasses and activating X-ray mode, he scanned the leg; the shin was fractured, the femur was broken, and there were slight signs of comminution in the hip bone.

It wasn’t a fatal wound, but he was incapacitated.

Wang Ye took a splint from his backpack and fixed the man’s shin.

"Why is it so quiet outside? What are the Rocket Forces and Air Forces doing?" At this moment, a teammate noticed something was off.

After unloading his medical backpack, Wang Ye felt lighter. He picked up a light machine gun and walked to the gate, intending to contact the infantry commander-in-chief.

Then, he noticed all the green dots had disappeared from the array.

All dead??

No, that wasn’t it.

Wang Ye shook his head, he looked at the others, who also realized that the individual soldier battlefield visualization system had gone offline.

"The signal is being jammed," Wang Ye said.

The veteran shook his head, "Are you kidding... Those monsters have that ability?"

Wang Ye did not answer. He would not guess about things he didn’t know.

At that moment, a loud clang sounded from above the factory roof, a heavy object slowly slid down the slanted roof, and everyone’s gaze followed the source of the sound, up until it hit the ground.

It was a drone.

The insects had thrown the drone down.

The veteran picked up his rifle and walked to the door as well. Now, they had no choice but to go out.

Without a signal, they couldn’t send one out, and no one knew they were here.

They had to find a way to break out on their own.

Wang Ye said, "The rest look after the injured, you and I will go out, find an open space, fire a signal flare, and call for armored troop assistance."

"Are two people enough?" asked a teammate who had been with him on the helicopter earlier.

"Two are enough," Wang Ye said.

He grabbed the handle of the big iron door with his left hand while the veteran extended his right hand to push; together they pulled a space half a body’s width through the door.

The hot wind and flames instantly surged into the dark factory as they quickly darted out, with their teammates swiftly closing the door behind them.

Wang Ye and the veteran quickly took cover outside the reach of the flames. There were no traces of those things in the sky. At this time, the gigantic creature was still on the apex of the tripod, and it was unclear why it had not left.

Wang Ye saw that the rear half of the factory district was completely buried under the debris from the top of Fengrao City, although a small part of the massive structure was shattered to pieces, it was still awe-inspiring.

The factories surrounding Fengrao City were mostly meat processing plants and pharmaceutical factories. There wasn’t much flammable material, so the fire was starting to die down.

He looked up at the pitch-black cauldron, inside which millions of people were trapped. At this moment, in the silent night, amidst the warm wind, the faint sounds of countless people’s wailing and cursing reached his ears.

The two of them ran toward the clearing where the helicopter had just landed, unimpeded along the way. Reaching the black muddy ground, Wang Ye pulled out a flare gun and loaded an evacuation round.

At this time, their HUD system came back online, and the channel was in utter chaos.

"We’re on the sixth floor, and there are so many civilians who haven’t been evacuated yet! We can’t go ahead with the saturation air strikes!!"

"Rocket Forces! My team is on the 10th floor evacuating the masses. If you motherfuckers dare to fire, I’ll haunt you as a ghost!"

"A military transport helicopter can carry 60 people! Why the hell did they stop letting Yin people on after only loading 12?!!"

"Minister Xiao is such a bastard! At a time like this! The asshole took up three transport helicopters for his ebony furniture!!"

"This is Xingtian Team, we need 10 more minutes! Minister Qiu’s daughter’s cat has run off, we are looking for it!"

...

"Fuck... Damn, everything’s falling apart..." the old soldier cursed.

Wang Ye stared blankly at the sky, while the Emperor squatted there, head bowed, seemingly engrossed in something.

Was it also watching this evacuation operation?

If it were still her, what would she be thinking at this time?

At this moment, the Commander-in-chief sent another absolute order, "By order of Venerable Qin! Cease all rescue operations, starting now, proceed with saturation bombing of Fengrao City! Initiate a nuclear strike if necessary! Zhao Ling must be eliminated!"

No one in the military responded.

"Mission accomplished!!" Seeing that no one was speaking, the Commander-in-chief repeated.

The channel remained eerily quiet.

At that moment, the monster let out a skyward howl as it stood up.

Jets zoomed by, countless missiles hit their targets, and up in the sky, close enough to touch the clouds, waves of fire ignited. Then, the bombers closed in on Fengrao City, dropping dozens of heavy bombs.

The upper layers of the city were immediately reduced to ruins, broken rebar fell like dumped trash down the shafts, and the entire cauldron’s structure was damaged, becoming unstable.

The monster leaped powerfully, its form ascending a thousand meters into the air, then a green light traced the outline of its body, hovering mid-air.

Sixteen fighters turned back, switching to air-to-air missiles, targeting Zhao Ling from 22 kilometers away.

The monster’s human head revealed a sinister smile, while the dragon head tilted backwards, spraying a colorless stream of acid into the sky.

The pillar of acid, comparable to a surging river, ascended three to four hundred meters high before forming a curtain of rain, pouring down with a whoosh.

The missiles launched and, after ten or more seconds, entered Zhao Ling’s acidic domain. The missiles visibly corroded, turning into rust, instantly losing their chemical reaction and becoming rusty iron rods falling to the ground.

The group of fighter jets also mistakenly entered this domain.

The pilots realized large holes had been burned through their cockpit canopies, warning lights flashed relentlessly, and the safety system kept indicating that the integrity of their craft was compromised.

They hit the ejection buttons, only to dissolve in the sky.

The acid fell like a torrential downpour within Fengrao City’s perimeter. A hole burned through Wang Ye’s helmet visor followed by his clothes, which were extensively corroded. Realizing the danger, the old veteran soldier ducked into a nearby cluster of buildings. The veteran ran slower, and by the time he got indoors, the acid rain was already a deluge, melting the back half of his rifle that hadn’t fully made it inside.

However, even indoors wasn’t necessarily safe. The cement roof of the factory made creaking noises, unable to withstand the assault of the acid rain, the roofing material growing thinner by the moment.

"We’re going to die... we’re going to die..." Wang Ye gritted his teeth, feeling utterly frustrated.

In the channel, the Rocket Forces, stationed outside the range of the acid rain, launched a barrage of missiles at Zhao Ling, but not a single one detonated.

Wang Ye took off his helmet and sat down with the old soldier. He heard the grand cauldron of Fengrao City collapsing. Li Suyuan was probably sacrificed by now.

It was all worthless.

Meaningless.

For a moment, he could find no meaning in being a soldier of the Yin Country.

The Emperor turned into a demon, Venerable Qin regarded people as expendable, and the bosses of the Three Institutes, Six Bureaus, and Twelve Departments seemed to have collectively disappeared, no one taking responsibility tonight.

He closed his eyes and took a deep sigh.

At that moment, the acid rain suddenly stopped.