Infinite Ebullience
Chapter 921 - 63: The Blossoming of Life_2

Chapter 921: Chapter 63: The Blossoming of Life_2

Platoon Leader Gao heaved a sigh of relief, for this was probably the only heartwarming scene amidst the bloody battle.

Another timid stewardess, her face smeared with dirt, hid in a corner, eating the food she received, terrified that the soldiers would come looking for trouble with her.

"Sister Meiqin, if you’re tired, take a break. I can hold the fort for both of us and put in effort for your share as well." Yao Feng mustered his courage to show his devotion, fearing he might never get another chance to confess.

"I’m fine." Pang Meiqin swallowed a mouthful of sweet spring water when suddenly, the warning sounds on the Mother Fort indicated that the Teleportation Gate had opened again.

"Do they even want to let us live?" Li Guaizi lamented. Nevertheless, he crawled towards the firing port to snipe the bugs.

As many as twenty-six Teleportation Gates appeared surrounding the various forts, crisscrossing and spewing forth bugs of all kinds. There were even many Insect-Humans firing their guns. The Overlord Beetles emerged one by one, shooting light beams towards the forts, bombarding the ground and churning up the soil, plowing deep trenches.

Lin Weiguo, with a rifle in one hand, took shots at the flying bugs with his semi-automatic Gauss sniper rifle. Each beam streaked across the battlefield, piercing through hundreds of meters to create deadly passages, causing bugs to drop like flies.

Ai Yixin, having somewhat recovered, also joined the battle. Dantai stopped shooting the Shadowless Bow—otherwise, he would have been exhausted to death—and began to mainly use firearms too.

The battle had only been going on for a little over two minutes, but the battleground was already filled with bugs swarming from all directions. Moreover, bugs twice the size of Yak Beetles made their appearance, charging with a furious momentum. With horn-like protrusions similar to that of a rhinoceros, they could destroy a Sub-castle with a single strike.

Tang Zheng handed his Heavy Magnetostorm Rifle to a soldier and switched to a Gauss sniper rifle. He quickly aimed at the rhino beetles and shot, then moved the muzzle to lock onto the next target through his scope while pulling back the bolt to eject the spent cartridge. From a high angle, the Mother Fort continuously fired high-explosive armor-piercing bullets that exploded upon entering the bodies of the rhino beetles. After blasting the beetles apart, the bullets continued to pierce the bodies of several others, creating a corridor of flesh and blood.

"Too slow." Tang Zheng switched to a Cannon Beam Magazine, where a single shot could clear hundreds of meters, vaporizing any bug that got hit.

In the number one Sub-castle, a university student got injured. When an assault acid-spitting meat worm slammed against the firing port, he was a split second too slow to dodge and was drenched in acid spit out by the bug. He immediately fell to the ground, screaming as he clutched his face.

Everyone was fighting desperately, and there was no one spare to tend to him.

"Fanfan, you go." Qin Yan couldn’t leave her post, leaving only Little Lolita to spare and possibly conserve some of her energy.

"Are you okay?" Lu Fan asked loudly while comforting him. He took out a Nanobot Injection, opened the protective needle cover, and was about to pull away the arm covering his face to inject the liquid when he saw the face, he was momentarily stunned.

The university student’s entire face had been corroded beyond recognition, with flesh and blood so blurred nothing could be discerned—not even his nose, which had caved in.

"My eyes, my face!" The university student wailed. His throat had also been affected, making his voice hoarse to an extreme.

"Relax, you’re not going to die." Lu Fan saw that the university student was struggling too much, so he simply knocked him out with a chop to the neck, then administered the injection.

This university student was beyond saving. Losing his sight was even more cruel than those who’d lost limbs. Shen Qingshuang turned even more cautious, not daring to get distracted. However, Lu Fan’s actions won his approval; Little Lolita had not refrained from treating the university student just because he had become useless.

"Ruan Feifei, release your ability, clear the field!" An order came from Dantai at the Mother Fort. There were too many bugs, and the situation was getting out of hand.

The female broadcaster complained, but she stretched out her hands and tendrils of blue electric arc began to gather and surge, then suddenly expanded, transforming into countless bolts of lightning that struck within a five-hundred-yard range of the fort. The bugs were electrocuted, left as blackened corpses, and a smell of char began to spread.

Ruan Feifei, breathing heavily, was quite pleased with the effect she had created, though she had also expended a lot of her life energy. Though the wave was arduous, they managed to pull through with the help of her range skills.

At the same time, Huangfu Xiong and Xu Changtai were running ragged. Their expenditure was even greater, and without their formidable strength, they would have already collapsed. However, at this rate, it was only a matter of time before they would be finished.

The Death Marathon Trial initiated by Blue Trojan was incredibly terrifying. The intensity of the bug attacks increased with each wave. Relying solely on firearms was already insupportable. It was only by taking turns using their abilities that Li Xinlan, Lu Fan, and Ruan Feifei barely clawed back some advantage.

Lu Fan’s ability to slaughter groups wreaked havoc, turning the five-hundred-meter radius around the fort into a desert landscape, burying tens of thousands of bug corpses.

Li Xinlan’s Ice Age was equally mighty. Upon launching it, the newbies even felt the biting cold. Their entire vision turned into a crystalline panorama as the bugs either died from the Frost Rose Thorn sting or were frozen and then crushed into chunks. Amidst the contrast of white and green fluids, the sight was exceptionally shocking.

After the battle ended once again, the survivors suddenly realized that, without knowing when, the light of dawn had already fallen on the suburbs, and the entire sky had brightened.

By then, the number three Sub-castle had been completely destroyed, and Yu Manli led everyone back into the Mother Fort.

"Five more hours, and we have to endure at least eight more waves of bugs." Dantai didn’t need to look to know how exhausted the three with range abilities must be. "Tang Zheng, how many times can you still launch Iron Firmament?"