Chapter 262: Storm Pursuit Battle!

On the snowfield above the Trakama Ice Valley, the convoy rolled over the snow like a torrent of steel, the roar of engines tearing through the howling storm.

"Watch your ammunition, those big guys haven't come out yet!"

Lin Xian shouted into the communicator. The four-legged Snow Demons and the winged anomalies in the blizzard had yet to appear. Ammunition had to be conserved, especially the deployment of heavy firepower. From the defensive line to the Infinite, it was nearly an hour's drive at full speed. Even if they successfully rendezvoused with Longshan No. 1 and the Infinite, it would only be the eve of the crisis. Once they entered the darkness, these thousands of people bearing the mark of darkness would face true terror.

Squeak—ah!!!

Hundreds upon hundreds of Snow Demons with sharp tail stingers burrowed out of the deep snow, swarming the convoy like locusts. The convoy had already picked up speed, and large numbers of Snow Demons wove through the snow layers. Soon, from the deep snow in all directions, monster swarms gathered toward the convoy like a tide. That overwhelming momentum made many hearts tighten.

Hum!!!

On the polar vehicle, Xiaoqing slammed on the accelerator. The engine roared, driving the crawler traction wheels to spin wildly, kicking up a massive cloud of snow behind the vehicle. The polar vehicle charged directly to the side and rear of Shi Diyuan's train.

Clang! A Snow Demon suddenly lunged from the snow they had just passed, pouncing onto the door panel next to the driver's seat. It hissed, preparing to pierce the people inside with its tail stinger.

Xiaoqing lowered the window, pulled her blade with her left hand, and slashed backward outside the window, cleanly severing the Snow Demon's head. Immediately after, she kicked the door, sending the door and the Snow Demon's corpse flying.

Lin Xian looked on, feeling helpless. He had just fixed that door, and this girl really wasn't afraid of the cold.

Bang! Pitter-patter!

The left and right flanks of the entire convoy were now facing swarms of Snow Demons. Beyond the sound of gunfire, a dense barrage of impacts rang out, forcing the flanking vehicles to crowd toward the center of the convoy.

"3 o'clock direction, four-legged monsters appearing, all large-sized!"

"7 o'clock direction too!"

"Watch out for the Hercules crash zone ahead!"

"Unknown winged creatures, rear airspace, everyone watch out!!"

Boom, boom, boom.

The earth shook and the mountains swayed; the snow layer across the entire field was trembling!

At the edge of the canyon, countless monsters gathered, surging toward the convoy like a torrent, forming a pursuing army of monsters in the rear.

Yu Yu sat in an all-terrain snow vehicle in the middle of the convoy, huddled with colleagues from the technical team. Everyone was fully armed and bundled up tightly. Feeling the roaring attacks outside, his face was filled with shock and unease.

"Team Leader Yu..."

Two colleagues beside him looked toward the rear of the vehicle with horror. Yu Yu turned his head, and the next moment, his face changed drastically; he nearly gasped.

Behind the convoy, the snowfield was almost no longer visible. The gathered army of Snow Demons seemed to have become a gray-white wave, pursuing the convoy with the momentum of a raging tide.

A massive amount of gunfire poured toward the rear. Every time a grenade exploded, it kicked up swaths of fragmented Snow Demon corpses.

"It's too terrifying, how could there be so many in this snow..."

"I remember when we did the initial machine experiment, there weren't this many. Why are they all gathering here?"

Yu Yu's eyes flickered, and he murmured, "It might be related to the No. 13 S-class creature."

A middle-aged researcher nearby asked nervously, "Didn't the observation team confirm that No. 13 headed toward the Yunwang Swamp!?"

Yu Yu shook his head. "It's not that simple. After that collision, the initial machine seemed to suddenly become the target of all anomalies under this extreme cold vortex. This kind of large-scale phenomenon has never happened before."

"Team Leader Yu." The researcher looked at him with a solemn expression. "Is it possible that the S-class anomaly possesses some kind of summoning or... something similar to... incitement?"

"Command." Yu Yu's glasses flickered slightly. "That's what you want to say, right?"

The researcher nodded upon hearing this and said hurriedly, "Yes, that's the feeling. Perhaps they marked us and the initial machine with some kind of sign, and then the monsters in these areas swarmed us. This matter has been highly abnormal from the start."

"Yes, we all find it strange." Another person said at this time, "At first, we superficially thought it was caused by the initial machine's excessive movement. But looking at the information fed back by Lin Dui and the others, when we were being attacked, they suddenly couldn't see any Snow Demons hundreds of kilometers away. Isn't that too strange..."

"That's why we suffered such heavy losses. The destructive power of those black worms far exceeded the A-class assessment, yet there was more than one of them in this canyon alone."

"These situations are helpful for our research on the characteristics of anomalous creatures." Yu Yu nodded. The gunfire in his ears sounded like dense firecrackers, and behind him was a boiling tide of Snow Demons. He kept looking back, then said to his team members, "Especially the characteristics displayed by the No. 13 creature..."

Having said that, he looked at the metal devices placed inside the vehicle, his gaze heavy. "The initial machine has been abandoned, but the experimental data must be brought out, otherwise all our hard work will be wasted!"

Boom, boom, boom. The earth shook. At the edge of the canyon, large amounts of snow began to settle. The convoy drove into the edge of a valley, and ahead was a mountain pass—the exact place where Lin Xian and Xiang Ningjing had parked earlier.

The convoy passed through countless fighter jet and car wrecks, and head-on, they saw a black corpse like a small mountain stretching for hundreds of meters.

"It's the corpse of that black worm."

On the all-terrain vehicle of Longshan No. 1, Xiang Ningjing, wearing cold-weather gear, looked at the giant worm corpse ahead and said immediately, "We're about to reach the location Lin Dui mentioned!"

Shi Diyuan looked at the swaths of hills at the left pass and the canyon cliff on the right, saying sternly, "We have to move fast, it's going to be noisy in a moment."

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.

The monster tide surged.

The last vehicle in the convoy was Qian Dele's Joker convoy. Qian Dele, dressed in a thick mink coat, stood elegantly on the outside of a large polar vehicle, gripping the guardrail. Facing the cold wind, he watched the Snow Demon tide, which resembled a pack of hyenas, churning in the snow layer. The closest ones were only a few meters away from him.

"So disgusting~"

He pressed the communicator at his ear. "Everyone pay attention, an avalanche is coming, get your speed up."

"Yes." Subordinates responded one after another.

"Everyone get ready!" Lin Xian's voice came through.

On the polar vehicle in front, Lin Xian glanced at the hillside behind the black worm corpse, then stared fixedly at the watch in his hand and the signal light on the detonator.

Before this, he had already had Kiki come here to place his metal bombs on the hillside, and he had also had Kiki attach some bombs to the black worm corpse.

Kiki turned her head to look at him, feeling a bit nervous. "I forgot to ask you, can the snow suppress those Snow Demons?"

"It can't suppress them, at most it can disperse the pursuing monster tide and let us catch our breath." Lin Xian stared at the detonator in his hand. "My main target is that worm corpse, which is why I had you install thermite bombs."

Kiki nodded. "I hope it can lure that thing underground out. Every time it just sneaks an attack and burrows away. It's even harder to deal with at night."

Feeling the tremors coming from underground, Lin Xian narrowed his eyes. "It's about to come out too. We must disrupt its rhythm."

What he was worried about now was the monster bursting out directly from the middle of the convoy; that would be troublesome.

Beep!

Just then, the detonator suddenly flashed a green light; it had finally connected to the signal!

"Everyone be careful, it's coming!"

Lin Xian roared into the communicator. At this moment, the convoy was just passing the giant black worm corpse, and Lin Xian decisively pressed the detonation button!

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom!!

In an instant, a series of explosions erupted on the hillside in front of the convoy, and on the black worm corpse in the rear, explosive firelight burst forth!

The massive explosion of the thermite bombs instantly shattered, melted, and sprayed the frozen, hardened tissue on the black worm corpse!

Hundreds of churning Snow Demons were also caught in the blast and shattered. The shockwave kicked up the green plasma and black worm flesh, sending them flying with a massive fireball, all of which splashed toward the sky and ground, falling onto the pursuing Snow Demons.

These green plasma splashes seemed to cause some chaos among the orderly pursuing Snow Demon swarm, and an anxious, restless aura began to diffuse.

Rumble.

At the same time, on the hillside in front of the convoy, the massive explosion caused swaths of snow to begin collapsing and sliding, gradually forming a rolling avalanche that slid down the mountain.

"Speed up!"

"Drive fast, drive fast!"

"Watch the formation!!"

Thump, thump, thump!

A black shadow approached rapidly. A giant four-legged monster suddenly attacked from the wind and snow on the flank, its hard, long legs smashing directly onto the roof of a small vehicle on the left wing!

"Too late!"

The armed personnel inside the small vehicle, who were firing outward, saw this scene and felt their vision go black; even their heartbeats stalled for a moment.

The teammate driving saw the scene in the rearview mirror and immediately prepared to slam the steering wheel to drive away from the convoy, so as not to let their destruction affect the formation of the convoy behind.

But at this moment, a golden phantom suddenly flashed out from the snowfield outside the vehicle. The phantom's speed was extremely fast. The surging snow tide on the hillside behind and the four-legged monster's surprise attack seemed like slow motion before it. The golden figure seemed to step on the snow layer, leaving no trace, leaping up and kicking directly onto the four-legged monster's incredibly hard foreleg.

Clang!

A sound of metal clashing actually rang out.

The four-legged monster's foreleg was snapped in the opposite direction. The massive force pushed it backward. By this time, other teammates had reacted, and a dense barrage of metal projectiles greeted it, instantly blasting the four-legged monster's upper body into fragments, which rolled into a swarm of Snow Demons.

The golden phantom disappeared again, returning to the rear of the convoy. After stepping on dozens of Snow Demons, it landed gracefully on the roof of the large polar vehicle.

"Ouch, so dirty~"

Qian Dele looked down and saw green plasma stained on his exquisite pointed leather shoes. With his severe mysophobia, his face changed drastically. He hurriedly took a handkerchief from his mink coat and carefully wiped the plasma off the edge of his shoes. Afterward, he looked at the handkerchief with disgust, then at the Snow Demon tide behind, and threw it away, saying viciously, "This silk handkerchief is a reward for you."

Boom, boom, boom!

With the steady progress of the convoy and Lin Xian's precise judgment, the avalanche rushed down just after the convoy passed, instantly sweeping away and submerging all ten thousand pursuing Snow Demons. The massive flow momentum carried these Snow Demons toward the cliff under the canyon, instantly blocking a large number of pursuing monster swarms.

But before the convoy could catch its breath, more Snow Demons surged out from the snow layer like locusts.

Just as they were about to cross the area of this mountain pass, the surging sound from underground began to become more intense, and the entire snowfield seemed to have turned into a liquid, constantly rising and falling.

"That thing is coming out!"

"Girl!"

!

Lin Xian and Kiki immediately opened the vehicle doors and got out. Kiki flew into the air, while Lin Xian stood on the side of the vehicle, gripping the handle, watching the snowfield ground with a solemn gaze.

Then he looked up at the sky. Under the extreme cold vortex, dark clouds filled the sky, and the cold wind and snowflakes never stopped howling. The setting sun in the west fell through the gaps in the clouds onto the ten-thousand-mile snowfield formed on the Parma Grassland. The pure white sea of snow shimmered with a blinding light. At this moment, the light was indeed much stronger than when the blizzard arrived.

Those Snow Demons burrowing out of the snow seemed to be subjected to some kind of dislocation and tearing; the skin on their bodies cracked inch by inch, constantly emitting painful hisses, and they attacked the convoy frantically.

A vehicle with stalled firepower was entangled by seven or eight Snow Demons, dragged out of the convoy while swaying, and then rolled into the Snow Demon tide, quickly being swarmed and submerged by the dense mass of Snow Demons.

"Ah!! I'll fight you to the death!"

Boom!

The people on that vehicle, filled with rage, detonated the explosives at the last moment, and the several people on the vehicle turned into fire fragments along with hundreds of Snow Demons around them!

Hum, hum, hum.

One vehicle fell, and another vehicle behind the convoy immediately added full power to fill the gap, protecting the living vehicles and technical personnel vehicles in the middle.

Casualties kept appearing, and the heartstrings of the entire convoy began to tighten further.

Lin Xian scanned the battlefield with a cold gaze and lowered his voice to Kiki. "Remember what I told you, if that thing emerges from the middle, save as many as you can!"

"I know!"

Kiki's eyes were already glowing with psychic power, and her whole person was wrapped in telekinetic power; the cold wind outside could not affect her at all. At this moment, her mind was already sensing the ground and the dozens of vehicles in the central area. This level of action was also an extremely extreme test for Kiki!

On the other side, Shi Diyuan, Xiang Ningjing, Abai, and more than a dozen powerful combatants from other convoys also got out of their vehicles. Facing the cold, knife-like wind, everyone was searching for the target underground.

Xiang Ningjing stood on the roof of the Longshan No. 1 train, gripping the frail Abai. Abai was breathing nervously with his mouth open, searching the ground constantly under his heavy sunglasses.

"Did you see it?"

Abai trembled nervously, searching constantly against the cold wind.

At this moment, everyone's heartbeat seemed to tighten.

Rumble!

The violent earthquake intensified, and the snow layer at the edge of the Trakama Ice Valley collapsed toward the valley below in swaths. Just as the convoy was about to rush out of the mountain pass, Lin Xian and Abai suddenly turned their gazes toward the front of the convoy!

"In front!"

"In front!"

Their voices rang out on the communication frequency at almost the same time.

Fatty Cat, who was responsible for driving Longshan No. 1, heard the voice. At this moment, he saw the ground at the mountain pass ahead suddenly explode, and snow and dust shot straight into the sky like a fountain!

Empty, empty, empty!

A massive humming sound, accompanied by the cracking sound of the earth's crust being shattered, instantly echoed over the canyon and snowfield.

The entire convoy had no time to stop its momentum. Just as they were about to collide head-on with the exploding snow fountain, behind the sky-filling snow dust, a black worm like a mountain rose into the sky. The massive body made people's scalps tingle; it was like a strange parasite standing on the earth!

The giant worm opened its mouth, which was like an abyss, appearing in front of the convoy and blocking out the sky. The shocking scene even made people lose their focus for a moment.

"Split the convoy left and right!!"

Seeing that the entire convoy was about to rush into that giant mouth unprepared, Lin Xian made a decisive decision and shouted directly to Kiki.

"Turn the steering wheel, we're going to crash!"

Seeing this scene, Kiki's face also turned pale. She flew forward, her hands operating the surging telekinetic power, condensing an invisible torrent of telekinesis to push the convoy behind to the left and right!

Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle.

At this moment, everyone was slamming the steering wheel. Longshan No. 1 turned left, and Lin Xian's polar vehicle turned right. All vehicles followed the lead of these two vehicles, turning frantically. The steel torrent began to show a Y-shaped diversion!

The vehicles behind that couldn't avoid it seemed to hit an invisible wall of airflow, banging and crashing, and then drove to both sides.

"Ah, ah, ah!!"

The living vehicles and technical team vehicles behind, seeing the abyss mouth rushing straight at them, were all dumbfounded. This horrifying scene made many people reflexively emit sounds of fear.

A truck that couldn't be controlled hit Kiki's telekinetic wall. The vehicle lost control and crashed into the armed convoy on the right wing with massive potential energy, colliding with a snow vehicle and knocking a huge gap in the right wing's traffic flow. Immediately, several out-of-control cars fell toward the canyon cliff.

Seeing this scene, Kiki hurriedly distracted herself to pull the truck, but a gap appeared in the diversion telekinetic field in front. The two vehicles in the middle, under the condition that their vision was completely obscured by the sky-filling snow dust, rushed into the mouth of the abyss worm, and screams rang out everywhere.

"Oh no!" Kiki exclaimed.

Boom, boom!

Ang, hum~!!

The inside of the abyss mouth emitted a sound wave that seemed to come from hell, and the flesh skirt around the mouthparts kept rolling, bringing out a large amount of foul-smelling air!

Bang!

But at this moment, an armed vehicle took the lead in launching an artillery offensive. The vehicle-mounted machine cannon emitted a massive air shock, and the 75mm alloy armor-piercing projectile shot out with terrifying power!

Chen Wei!

Looking at the abyss mouth, Chen Wei had no hesitation or fear on his face. In his view, this massive giant had no impact on his attention at all; instead, raging war fire sprayed from his eyes.

"Baiting the mouth, seeking death!"

Chen Wei's roar rang out in the communicator.

Lin Xian and Kiki looked back at the man, both flashing a hint of surprise in their eyes.

At this moment, Chen Wei's words immediately brought everyone back from their astonishment. The abyss worm's mouth was facing the convoy directly; although terrifying, it was also the most vulnerable place!

"Fire, screw its grandmother!" On the roof of the vehicle, Shi Diyuan didn't know where he got a shiny 155mm howitzer, even the primer was completely worn out. He saw his hands expand into thick tiger arms, his whole body carrying powerful strength and prestige. He actually lifted the 155 howitzer, which weighed forty or fifty kilograms, with one arm, stood on the roof of the train, and threw it hard at the giant black worm mouth.

Woo!

A sound of breaking through the air, the howitzer was actually thrown out by him with a powerful force, shooting straight more than a hundred meters away. Longshan No. 1 was the closest, and the howitzer blasted directly into the monster's black abyss mouthparts. A few seconds later, it exploded!

Boom!

"Don't be afraid, kill!"

"Damn it, kill it!"

"Fire at full power!"

Da, da, da, doo, doo, doo!!

Firepower guidance, in an instant, the firepower of the entire convoy was projected toward the abyss worm!

Hum!

More than a dozen psychics also took action together, accompanied by a dark red laser beam shooting straight at the giant monster.

Lin Xian looked back at the rear. The firepower of all convoys had been turned around. He seized the opportunity, turned around, stretched out a finger toward the sky, and his gaze turned cold.

"Give me light!!!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 263 =====