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Chapter 317: Child, You Surprised Me (Please add to favorites, subscribe, and vote for the monthly ticket)

Chapter 317: Chapter 317: Child, You Surprised Me (Please add to favorites, subscribe, and vote for the monthly ticket)

The torrential rain fell on the thick plastic raincoat.

A robust woman was running forward, staggering as she carried a child who appeared to be three or four years old.

The child had hazy eyes as he stared blankly at his mother.

The cold wind outside made him feel somewhat chilly, so he snuggled a little closer into his mother’s embrace.

"Run! Run with the child!"

A man with a big beard, wearing a round top hat, stood behind them, firing an old rifle into the darkness of the night.

The woman glanced back at the man, bit her lip slightly, and the torrential rain fell on her cheeks, mingling with water and tears.

"Mommy, why isn’t Daddy coming with us?"

The child, nestled in his mother’s arms, asked cautiously with wide-open eyes.

"Daddy, he..." Clutching the child tightly, the woman ran forward frantically, "he has his own things to do. Go to sleep now, and everything will be fine when you wake up."

"Hiss hiss—"

A rustling sound came from deep within the rain curtain.

"Damn it, you piece of trash, come at me if you dare."

The bearded man held his rifle and fired repeatedly into the rain-shrouded darkness.

The bullets seemed to hit something, making a crisp sound.

While firing, the man ran in the opposite direction to where the woman was escaping.

However, he only managed a couple of steps before stopping.

A huge object, pieced together like shields in a row, blocked his path.

Then, slender jointed legs extended from under the elongated object, dragging the massive thing to life and beginning to move.

The man took half a step back in fright, then paused as if realizing something, and lunged forward to fire fiercely at the thing covered in legs.

"Ah~"

Just then, a painful roar came from the side.

A decaying head suddenly protruded from the rain curtain, and underneath it was a pitch-black body covered in jointed legs.

It was a huge centipede with a human head.

The man seemed to have seen this centipede before, for he only flinched momentarily before he regained his composure and raised his rifle to fire at the human head.

The bullets passed through the rotting head, but the head cracked a distorted smile in response.

In the pitch-black rain, the giant centipede’s slender tail writhed slowly, rising to approach the man from behind.

The jointed legs started opening, like the teeth of a giant maw.

Bang—

Just as the man was about to be pierced by these limbs—

A blast of gunfire struck the open abdomen of the centipede.

Then, five figures burst out from the rain curtain.

Some held submachine guns, others wielded sharp broadswords; they worked together, rushing into the rain.

The fierce gunfire targeted the seams where the centipede’s many limbs connected.

"Ah~"

The decaying head let out a howl as if in great pain, and the entire body of the centipede began to thrash violently.

During the thrashing, a brawny man with a long-knife dashed from behind the raised ’tail’ of the centipede and severed the seam of the third section from the end.

The entire centipede stiffened for a moment then slowly collapsed, its myriad of jointed legs loosening bit by bit until it lay still.

The man with the rifle, Big Beard, had yet to react. He looked on in astonishment at the experienced and elite squad before him.

"This is a Human Head Centipede. What you see as its head is actually its tail; its real head is at the other end.

The human head is just meant to attract attention. For each person it eats, it places that person’s head on top, replacing the original one.

In the future, whenever you see such a centipede, just aim for the third seam from the part without the human head and that will do."

The lead man with the long knife explained briskly.

"Are you Wilderness Hunters... are you Wilderness Wanderers?"

The man, noting the dark skin of each team member, stuttered his question.

They were residents living by the city gate and had a basic understanding of the wilderness.

"Yes," the man nodded, slinging his long knife behind him, "go back, move behind the defensive line. There are no exotic beasts there at the moment."

"My wife is still over there,"

The man suddenly realized and then turned to run back the way he had come.

The team from the Wilderness Wanderer watched him for a moment and then followed.

"Ah!!!!!"

They hadn’t gone far when they heard a loud scream ahead.

The man with the knife immediately rushed forward, his teammates close on his heels.

A group of enormous black wolves pounced on a woman, their jaws wide to tear apart the child in her arms.

But a long knife thwarted the gaping maw.

The man wielding the knife forcefully flung the black wolf away, and it crashed to the ground.

His teammates quickly followed, and their barrage of bullets pierced the black wolf.

Big Beard immediately rushed over, embracing his wife and child, both shaken and thrown to the ground.

But before they had a moment to reunite, the man with the knife suddenly shouted, "Fall back, let’s move back."

"What’s happening?"

One of the younger Wilderness Wanderers asked.

"These are Shadow Wolves."

The man with the knife shouted softly, guarding his teammates as they retreated.

Shadow Wolves are pack animals that often move in groups.

Just as everyone was retreating, a pair of ferocious eyes emerged from the veil of rain.

A dense pack of pitch-black wolves appeared in the torrential rain ahead, their backs arched high, heads lowered, with sharp fangs bared dripping with viscous fluid.

All were trembling as they continued to back away, even the man with the knife had fine sweat oozing from his forehead, mixing with the rain.

It was then that a radiance streaked across the sky, followed by a dazzling burst of laser fire that turned each of the ferocious Shadow Wolves it touched into charred remains.

There was even a hint of the smell of cooked meat in the rain.

The remaining Shadow Wolves, not bothering to see where the laser came from, whimpered and turned tail to run.

The knife-wielding man looked up in the direction from which the laser had come.

A golden-haired woman in a combat suit, with a graceful figure, descended from the sky. She clapped her palms together, glanced at the knife-wielding man, "Are you Wilderness Wanderers?"

The big-bearded man holding his wife saw the FBI’s Olive Shield Emblem on the woman’s uniform and quickly called out, "Ma’am, they’re good people."

"I know," the woman nodded and turned to the knife-wielding man, "Who arranged for you to do this?"

"Our Leader arranged for us to establish a defensive line here."

The knife-wielding man lowered his head, feeling a pressure from the woman that was no less immense than that of the just-encountered pack of Shadow Wolves.

"Leader? Which camp’s Leader? What’s the name?"

The woman continued to interrogate.

Wilderness Wanderer Leaders are called Leader in camps, and Patriarch in families.

"Rona..."

The man whispered.

"Oh~"

Just then, a violent roar came from the direction of the city gate, interrupting the man’s words. The terrifying pressure made everyone here, hundreds of meters away, shudder.

"That’s the roar of a Saber Turtle."

The knife-wielding man exclaimed.

"C-level,"

The golden-haired woman seemed to understand what the roar meant. She glanced in the direction of the roar, casually tossed a Gauss Gun to the knife-wielding man, "You all move back."

Then she leaped into the sky, flames spewing from the soles of her feet, disappearing into the rain curtain.

After the golden-haired woman left, the knife-wielding man also led everyone to retreat further back.

Staying here meant certain death. Their makeshift defensive line would never hold against a C-level. If the golden-haired woman didn’t stop the Saber Turtle, they would all die.

"Big brother, for you."

As they retreated, the three or four-year-old child suddenly pulled a lollipop from his embrace and offered it to the youngest member of the Wanderer squad beside him.

The young Wanderer looked at the lollipop in the child’s hand, opened his mouth, stretched out his hand, paused midair, then slightly withdrew it. But in the end, he accepted the lollipop from the child.

"Hehe,"

The child saw him take his lollipop, smiled, and then, after a long thought, finally managed to ask a difficult question, "Big brother, how old are you?"

"Fourteen,"

The young Wanderer replied softly, biting the candy.

...

The southern gate.

A stunning young girl in a red leather skirt, carrying a Mithril case, emerged from a small side gate next to the city gate, followed by dozens of sturdy Wilderness Wanderers.

"Don’t wander off once you’re inside the city; be careful."

The soldier who let them in said casually before quickly rushing back to his post.

Due to the loss of their command center, all the soldiers in South City were somewhat panicked, but they had not lost the will to fight, and they still stood their ground to repel the exotic beasts.

Penny, having saved a few stray soldiers from South City from the jaws of exotic beasts, had earned the chance to bring people into the city. She raised her wristband, trying to make contact with the Wilderness Wanderers in the city, while searching around.

"Golden-haired sister... where are you..."

—

The FBI headquarters was in the east, and the southern gate was the farthest from it. It was also a considerable distance from Dawn City’s police department.

The FBI, while maintaining neutrality in the internal conflicts of the Fortress City, would still fight against exotic beasts.

Bald Smith was probably C-level. He moved slowly and was most likely heading straight for the southeast gate, closer to headquarters.

As for Selena, being a Full Body Prosthesis, she could move even faster than a Blazing Angel Mech in the city, so she was likely to be dispatched to support the more distant southeast gate.

He Ao did not know if there were more C-level operatives from the FBI. Even if there were, by the time they reached the southern gate, it would probably be too late.

Besides the FBI, corporations were sure to have their own C-level players, but they would never deploy their aces unless their interests were directly threatened.

Although Blazing Angel Mechs were mass-produced, they were not abundant.

Based on Noan’s character, these Blazing Angel Mechs had to be kept under his control to maintain his hold over Dawn City, and the large vessels were unusable within the city.

Those soldiers who had lost their command center had enough trouble resisting the beasts outside the city; taking care of those inside was virtually impossible.

Taking all the above into account, should a C-level exotic beast break into the southern gate, it’s likely that no one will be able to contain it in a short time, resulting in many casualties.

Selena’s strength was probably D-level, close to C-level.

That’s why He Ao had Penny take the Bitter Monkey’s heart in through the southern gate, hand it to Selena, so with the enhancement of a Transcendent item, Selena should be able to hold off the C-level beast.

He Ao did not know whether Penny had entered the city at this time, but by his estimation, it should be about time.

However, he did not have time to contact Penny now.

He struggled to stand up from the ground, looking ahead.

His condition was not good. In any case, he had taken a close-range blast, his clothes were completely charred on the back, blending indistinctly with his flesh and blood.

Cuts from shrapnel lacerated his body.

Not far opposite him, an Elderly with a cane, his hair white, also slowly stood up.

The Elderly leaned on a fiery red cane, wearing a handsome dress uniform, his white hair conveying both dignity and kindness. Although his uniform was as tattered as He Ao’s, covered in blood, he still appeared serene.

"Child, you’ve surprised me," the Elderly said with a smile as he looked at He Ao.

A huge fireball slowly emerged above his head, the heat evaporating the raindrops.