Chapter 541: Chapter 351: Wounded Body
Gordon stopped trying to be strong, swapped shifts with the doctor, and came outside, the fresh outdoor air soaring into his lungs, bringing an unprecedented clarity, almost enough to make him sleep on the spot.
Luckily, a few passing border refugees supported him and helped him to the rest area.
Here, near a shopping mall, a large outdoor screen could be seen.
Suddenly, an emergency news broadcast interrupted.
"Dear viewers, let’s continue to focus on the border beast crisis. Currently, under the efforts of Director Sikinkov and other authorities, refugees have started moving from Rust Wall M6 District to the Inner City, but other border areas are still in intense battles."
"Our agency’s drone has now arrived at the Northern Border District, which is the source of the beast appearance! Allegedly, Wolf Raid and the most elite mercenaries from Edge and Mo Xue are fighting for their lives here, and below is their battlefield!"
The footage was drone-shot from the air, this device is expendable, so safety concerns aren’t considered; it flies very close to the ground and captures many details.
The extraordinary beings of three forces were currently fighting crazily with beasts gushing like tide from the tunneling insect outlet.
Although they are all elite, the number of beasts was simply too overwhelming, flowing endlessly, gradually grinding down these elite forces.
Compared to the initial joint team, the numbers had shrunk by over half, those who vanished were mainly exhausted or severely injured, already evacuated by rescue floating airships.
A total of forty-odd people remained, and as time passed, the number kept dropping, with injured ones unable to withstand being sent onto the arriving floating airships.
Closest to the drone filming spot, a petite figure was battling, her hand gripping a Dragon Steel Baseball Bat, charging through the beast groups, leaving a large bloody mist in her wake, her whole body stained red from blood.
"Boom——" Suddenly, the ground beneath the little girl collapsed, and a massive shadow broke out, the sharp limbs clamped onto her thigh tightly, pulling her down underground in an instant.
Around the square, frantic exclamations arose from the crowd.
That was clearly a subterranean type beast, its common attack patterns involve sneaking from underground, using robust limbs to damage the prey’s mobility, then dragging it underground to slaughter.
Once humans are dragged underground, pressed by dense soil layers, it’s equivalent to losing mobility, only allowing the beasts to butcher.
"Oh my...is she dead..."
"Oh deity...please bless this brave child..."
"Dragged underground by a beast, likely no chance for survival..."
"No, look over there!"
In the footage, the ground nearby where the little girl disappeared suddenly morphed, cracked into a dense web of fissures, massive amounts of earth and rock collapsed down, eventually bursting into a large hole.
With a "boom," the petite figure radiating light marks burst out of the ground, drawing earth and stones into the sky, the emblem of a second-stage overload’s arc glowing fiercely in her eyes.
The subterranean beast was held single-handedly by the little girl, its shell smashed, revealing inside a ragged mess of flesh, its menacing mouthparts kept emitting painful shrieks.
She forcibly dragged the beast out of the ground, slammed it against other surrounding beasts, the enormous power making flesh fly as they collided, the ground scattered with crimson fluids, and broken corpses everywhere.
The little girl wiped the blood off her face, continued fighting with the rushing beasts.
This comeback scene made the crowd erupt in cheers, Gordon alone stood there in a daze, muttering while watching the screen’s familiar figure...
"Dongdong?"
...
Northern Border District, the brutally tragic frontline.
After prolonged battle, only a few remained who could hold on till now.
"Pfttt!"
With Shangguan Li killing the last beast, she also reached her limit, half-kneeling on the ground, violently dry heaving due to severe physical exhaustion, unable to vomit anything out.
Even though her body technique was the most agile among them, in such chaotic battlefield conditions, she still suffered serious injuries, wounds all over her body, some were flesh wounds, some areas had even pierced the subcutaneous steel plates, injuring internally.
"Master!" Dongdong rushed over to protect Shangguan Li, urgently asking, "Are you okay?"
Shangguan Li gasped heavily, forcing out a difficult bitter smile: "I’m sorry... I don’t think I can hold on..."
"Why apologize, if you can’t keep going then withdraw quickly, don’t die here for nothing!" Dongdong opened her communication unit and shouted, "Rescue team, send a few to take Master back!"
A transport floating airship in the aerial fleet opened its hatch, and rescue team mercenaries landed next to Shangguan Li on personal flight devices.
These mercenaries were ordinary people, lacking the capability to join high-intensity warfare, solely tasked with transporting battlefield casualties.
A rescue mercenary lifted the scar-riddled Shangguan Li, speaking to Dongdong: "Be careful, call us anytime if you can’t hold on."
With the words finished, the personal flight devices immediately took off, retreating from the battlefield, returning to the safety of the floating airship.
Watching Shangguan Li return to the safe area, Dongdong continued to join the fight.
By this time, only four remain on the ground fighting: Fenrir, Dongdong, Nuobai, Hibell.
In the melee, Dongdong, Nuobai, Hibell were pushed together by the beasts, the three forming a triangular formation, backs against each other, facing the beasts glaring as they surrounded.
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