Beginning with the Ubume Bird-Chapter 344 - 70 Dreams are False
Chapter 344: Chapter 70 Dreams are False
Chapter 344: Chapter 70 Dreams are False
Two armor-piercing grenades traced a beautiful arc in the air before landing on the rooftop where Li Yan was located.
Aside from Swollen Face beneath the cliff, all the warriors in the Black Star chariot swarmed towards the desolated building with a vengeance! The substantial losses and the blow to the top fighters’ prestigious reputation could only be washed away with fresh blood.
Li Yan gripped his fist tightly and leapt down from the high building, ignoring the roaring flames behind him as he plunged into the dark forest below.
The forces involved in “cleaning up” Li Yan, a secondary target, included over sixty tactical drones, more than ten special armored combat vehicles, over a thousand soldiers below the second order, and besides them, seventeen armed-to-the-teeth operatives, who could wipe out an entire wilderness survival base on their own. After spending ten hours, suffering countless casualties and achieving no military success, the Black Star chariot had lost three out of five of its fourth-order elite soldiers of the Age of Winter.
With its influence extending over two states and fifteen survival zones, the Black Star chariot had just over ninety single fighters on the fourth level. Including those who perished alongside Ramu Jue, more than ten fourth-order warriors had died here!
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Li Yan tread on the soft, black soil, scanning every corner before him. The forest here was fairly lush, but it was generally not good enough to hide a person.
He had lost his left hand, but both the Main Frame of Combat Sword and the Constantly Awaiting Eight Spears were weapons meant for two hands.
Of course, Li Yan was not without options. In fact, the silently assassinated Mei Hu was also an expert in close-range surprise attacks. This woman once eliminated an entire fully-armed Wandering Deity squad by herself in tight terrain, wielding only a dagger. Yet, under Li Yan’s abrupt attack, her neck was broken within two exchanges.
One could only say that since coming to this world, Li Yan had never seriously shown his capabilities. After all, in an apocalypse that depended on firearm technology and genetic abilities, the status of hand-to-hand combat skills was not really high.
However, the upcoming battle didn’t look optimistic. Li Yan had lost an arm but was still capable of causing such dreadful outcomes, relying on three things.
The intangible killing power of Blood Dip, the high-speed aquatic armor from Wu Zhiqi, and the enhancement of his bodily functions by “Quanlang Sea Ghost”.
The effect of the first had already been greatly reduced. When Li Yan employed Blood Dip on Mei Hu, while the marking effect remained, the direct soul-striking didn’t work, only causing a blue necklace around her neck to go dark. But against the same target, Li Yan could not trigger Blood Dip again so soon.
For Wu Zhiqi’s aquatic armor, the Black Star chariot had taken measures to counter it, such as low-speed explosive grenades and switched to pump-action guns. If it weren’t for Black Rider Ghost taking a loss on behalf of Li Yan, Li Yan would have had to escape in a very sorry state upon first contact.
Only the third reliance, the Heavenly Mother’s Guard, the Quanlang Sea Ghost, could not be specifically countered by the Black Star chariot.
The powerful and reliable buff state from the South Seas was completely beyond Li Yan’s expectations!
As long as he was near rivers and lakes, the “Quanlang Sea Ghost” would greatly improve all his abilities and give him incredible endurance and resistance to injury.
The limitation of terrain was originally the biggest drawback of Quanlang Sea Ghost, but combined with the Power of Wu Zhiqi, this weakness was mitigated.
Currently, a large part of Li Yan’s strength still relied on the foundation of Feather Class movement, but endurance was the biggest weakness of Feather Class in its early stages. In past Yan Fu incidents, Li Yan also tried his best to avoid getting into such situations.
But this time, Li Yan had been entangled with the Black Star chariot for over ten hours. Despite losing his left arm and bleeding profusely, he still maintained vigorous energy, all thanks to Quanlang Sea Ghost!
The Azure Phoenix Sword was lost, and Black Rider Ghost had fallen off a cliff together with an enemy’s main fighter. However, Li Yan was not too worried. Somehow, having attained the Wupozi Codex, Black Rider Ghost occasionally gave Li Yan the impression of a fated child; he felt that Black Rider Ghost would not die so easily.
The operational team still maintained less than half of its combat power, but what gave Li Yan a headache was Song Zuo’s black gun. Moreover, killing them all was not Li Yan’s goal; Shuishu Park was.
Thanks to the existence of the Sudu bird, even though Li Yan was embroiled in a bitter battle, he still had a certain understanding of the overall situation.
As offices of Shuishu Park collapsed under “Sifan’s power,” the Sudu bird witnessed Liang Zhengyong leaving with a briefcase. Around the place, people from Black Star chariot were arresting insiders of “Yak zombies” and “Medicine Buddha”.
Suddenly, Li Yan’s expression shifted. He had planned to deal with Mo Sui and the others in the woods, but an image transmitted by the Sudu bird caught his attention. Without much thought, he shook his head, walked out of the woods, and rushed towards the direction of the deathly white streaks.
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Underneath an old tree with sprawling roots, Song Zuo crouched inside a hollow, his face covered in mud and thick green tree sap, with a snakehead with a pale belly dangling from his mouth. He curled up motionless like a stone, cheeks sunken, gulping down the snake’s blood.
Faced with the predicament the situation had turned into, Song Zuo felt bitterness and little else.
Not even Song Zuo himself expected that a seamless encirclement and annihilation would turn into such shattered circumstances.
The Black Star chariot’s top-notch Special Action Team, along with Pompeii Armaments’ “Sinful Ashes” and Tanya Mining’s “Red Alert,” all representing the pinnacle single-soldier capabilities of the Age of Winter with their execution ability, tactical level, equipment, and genetic prowess. They were countless times stronger than his old bones. Yet, without producing any positive results, they were decimated.
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If one had to pinpoint a mistake made by the operational team, it was probably that they had not placed themselves correctly from the beginning.
Perhaps those arrogant elites of Black Star were only now beginning to taste defeat, realizing that it was not a trapped beast that fell into their deadly trap, but rather a fierce, reckless tiger that had burst into their usual comfortable hunting ground.
If they had recognized their position from the start, even at the cost of casualties, they might have been able to kill that terrifying young man.
Song Zuo thought so.
Song didn’t feel that he owed Li Yan anything, the word “friend” had already become extinct in the Age of Winter. If that young man harbored any absurd emotions such as “betrayal,” Song could only say that he hadn’t yet suffered enough at the hands of the Age of Winter.
However, when he broke the young man’s arm, there was an odd excitement in his expression, not unlike that of a large mutated creature being enraged, and in that instant, Song Zuo lamented that youth was indeed wonderful…
In fact, Song Zuo didn’t care much about Qiao Xing’s promise, not because he thought Qiao Xing would go back on his word, but because he felt he had already lived long enough, and dying wouldn’t be any great loss.
But the Black Star battle vehicle… Maybe the Black Star battle vehicle would be different.
With this thought, Song Zuo let out a bitter smile, perhaps he was getting old, to actually hold such vain hopes, and still be on the battlefield at that!
Song Zuo spat out his snakehead, a slight numbing sensation on his tongue from the dangerous trace toxins which helped to clear his mind somewhat.
Li Yan was an expert in close combat, even with an arm broken, Song Zuo didn’t believe his own dagger skills could spar with him.
But for any soldier, losing an arm on the battlefield would severely impair their combat ability. This would affect their use of weapons, agility, and even basic balance. The fact that Li Yan hadn’t used his favorite long spear in combat since the fighting started was clear proof!
“There’s still a chance, to kill him, what’s needed is patience…”
Song Zuo gathered his thoughts and focused entirely on the battlefield.
On the other hand, Mo Sui, who had rushed into the Black Mountain Forest, was now receiving a phone call.
Qiao Xing’s legs had been broken by an “Angry Shocker” from Li Yan and he had barely survived thanks to Song Zuo’s help, so of course, he wasn’t the one calling Mo Sui.
It was Liang Zhengyong.
“Commander Liang, even if you ordered it, it’s impossible for me to retreat at this time!”
Mo Sui’s tone was resolute.
He had always been directly under central command, with Liang’s base in zone i. Normally, that was fine, but at this time, Mo Sui firmly chose to defy orders.
“Eight level-one targets, four have already been apprehended and recovered, the other four confirmed dead. Sixty-three level-two targets, sixty-two have been killed. The remaining one, however, has tied up nearly a third of the force allocated for this cleansing operation. I really can’t agree with the standards of the Special Action Committee.”
Mo Sui didn’t retort, it was a fact, there was nothing to say.
Liang Zhengyong’s tone became stern: “I will not accommodate failures, as per my previous words, in two hours, all the soldiers associated with the Black Star battle vehicle, equipment, and research personnel in your area, will be completely withdrawn. By then, if you haven’t reached the designated safe location, I can only apologize for the tens of millions invested by the Committee on you.”
Before Mo Sui could speak, Liang Zhengyong hung up the phone.
Liang Zhengyong was currently hundreds of meters high in the sky, with the helicopter’s rotor blades sounding like thunder.
He pinched the bridge of his nose and suddenly looked up towards the cabin door. He asked the female staff officer beside him, “Have you seen that kind of bird before?”
The female staff officer turned her head; the bird Liang Zhengyong was referring to looked like a black hummingbird. There were about a dozen of them, following behind the helicopter.
“It must be a mutant species unique to zone b.”
The two staff officers, after all, were from zone i and weren’t familiar with the ecology of zone b, not to mention in the current Age of Winter where new species of birds were born every few days. No one paid attention to such matters.
“No,” Liang Zhengyong shook his head. “Zone b has significant temperature differences between day and night, high latitude, and thin air. The direction of animal mutations is traceable, and it’s highly unlikely for such a small bird species to survive normally in zone b during the Age of Winter.”
The female staff officer seemed a bit nervous as she bit her lip.
Liang Zhengyong smiled gently, “The military’s training courses include ‘Methods for Determining the Direction of the Evolution of Animals in the Age of Winter,’ a textbook with over 40,000 words. Written materials are precious in this era, and one should seriously grasp the knowledge that can be learned.”
He stared at the black Sudu birds, and his eyelids suddenly drooped. Instantly, the twelve Sudu birds turned to ashes, and another two Sudu birds seeing the situation tried to escape by diving. In a breath’s time, they descended nearly a hundred meters, but they still couldn’t escape and their small bodies turned into a few flecks of ash.
“Damn!”
In the continuous mountain range, Li Yan’s face darkened.
