Chapter 323: The Support Army from the Parallel World Has Arrived!

Then several more triangular combat aircraft arrived on the ground.

From these aircraft, a group of Descendant Legion gene‑modified soldiers gradually stepped out.

They carried no firearms, all wielding machetes, continuously hunting for any living Huaxia Guo soldiers, and then proceeded with a slaughter.

A swing of the blade… a head hits the ground…

"Hahaha! Finally, this is getting interesting!" Ning Yao said in front of the holographic screen, watching the massacre in real time through the cameras equipped on the gene‑modified soldiers.

"Let's fight them!" a heavily wounded Huaxia soldier roared, clutching explosives and lunging onto the gene‑modified soldiers.

The other nearby soldiers followed suit; if one couldn't hold them down, two would press, and if two couldn't, even more would pile on!

Boom!

Finally, by a dozen or so people sacrificing themselves with explosives, they killed a gene‑modified soldier.

Unfortunately… this still couldn't change the situation.

"General Shangguan!" a voice from the higher‑ups in the Underground City came through the tactical helmet of Shangguan Ying, "Millions of civilians in the stronghold are pleading to be let out; they say even if they die, they'll fight those beasts to the end!"

Shangguan Ying's eyes reddened, "No! Not only are the civilians unarmed, even if we still have weapons and ammo, we are no match for the Descendant Legion! Even if all civilians emerge, any number will only be a death march! They must stay in the Underground City, at least we can hold out until the Descendant Legion breaches the rock layers several kilometers deep! Until the very end, you must not lose hope!"

Having said that, Shangguan Ying turned off the communicator.

"General Shangguan? General Shangguan!" the higher‑ups inside the Underground City shouted into the communicator.

But there was no response.

Using the terrain for cover, Shangguan Ying slipped to a triangular aircraft and quietly crawled inside.

Moments later, the triangular aircraft lurched and powered up.

The ground‑based slaughterers turned their heads and saw the aircraft barreling straight toward them.

"All of you, die!" Shangguan Ying roared in the cockpit.

Boom!!!

The aircraft she piloted slammed into the ground, shredding those gene‑modified soldiers into flesh, then reversed course into the air and rained cannon fire on them again until they were reduced to ash.

With bloodshot eyes, Shangguan Ying, after wiping out the soldiers, thrust the aircraft upward, firing cannons at the countless Descendant Legion aircraft hovering densely in the night far away.

The enemy responded, dispatching a squadron of aircraft.

Thanks to her extraordinary talent, Shangguan Ying, on her first flight with this advanced aircraft, proved more agile than the enemy, weaving through the sky several times and brutally downing over a dozen Descendant Legion aircraft.

"Hm? The Huaxia Guo army actually has someone this formidable?" Ning Yao said, eyes widening in disbelief at the screen.

"Heavenly Venerable, that aircraft is heading toward us," a subordinate reported.

Ning Yao sneered, "Oh, trying to take down my headquarters mothership? Overconfident! Shoot it down for me!"

"Yes, Heavenly Venerable."

The subordinate raised his right hand and tapped his bracelet a few times.

Immediately, a laser thinner than a finger fired from a point on the pyramid‑shaped headquarters mothership, instantly piercing Shangguan Ying's aircraft.

Bang!

The aircraft erupted in flames, plummeting straight to the ground and exploding into a massive mushroom cloud.

"These ants are amusing," Ning Yao said with a curled lip, calmly ordering, "The Huaxia Guo army is all gone, now dig up the ground; I want to crush the ant nest."

"Understood!"

Soon, tens of thousands of triangular aircraft swarmed above the Underground City, taking turns bombarding the ground, blasting it layer by layer in the simplest, most brutal manner.

Each barrage's massive shockwaves penetrated kilometers of rock, continuously applying psychological pressure on the tens of millions of Huaxia inside the Underground City.

It was as if they were deliberately creating a death countdown for them.

The sleeping Ning Jingli was jolted awake.

Upon learning of Shangguan Ying's situation, she forced her extremely weak body to resolve to go personally to Shangguan Ying's crash site.

She couldn't accept that she would just be sacrificed.

Moreover, even if she did die, she would bring her body back.

The higher‑ups, unable to persuade her otherwise, could only give her the crash coordinates of Shangguan Ying.

Ning Jingli changed into combat attire, opened a temporal‑spatial portal on the spot, and instantly arrived at the crash point.

It lay over ten kilometers from the surface defense zone above the Underground City, yet had long been reduced to ruins; the view showed only jagged, barren mountains standing, while everywhere lay scorched pits littered with human and weapon debris.

Ning Jingli turned to look toward the stronghold more than ten kilometers away.

The densely packed Descendant Legion combat aircraft swarmed like a hive, circling the ground and taking turns bombing, their flames and smoke even forming mushroom‑cloud‑like tornadoes.

Meanwhile, the Descendant Legion headquarters mothership hovered kilometers high, casting an endless massive shadow over the earth.

Ning Jingli had no time to ponder, rushing to find Shangguan Ying.

At the Descendant Legion headquarters, Ning Yao watched the screen with amusement, where a high‑altitude view of Ning Jingli was displayed.

"What are you looking for? My dear cousin," Ning Yao muttered with a cold sneer.

Over ten minutes later, Ning Yao saw on the screen that Ning Jingli, a few hundred meters from the emergence point, had found the unconscious Shangguan Ying.

"Oh, so you're looking for her," Ning Yao's eyes flashed with a cold, cruel glint, "She seems important to you; in that case, I'll send both of you to the afterlife."

Ning Yao did not rush to act.

She wanted Ning Jingli to fully feel despair before dying.

Just as before, first giving the last surviving Huaxia soldiers a breath of hope, then delivering the most desperate annihilation.

"Sister Ying! Sister Ying!" Ning Jingli shouted, cradling the blood‑soaked Shangguan Ying, injecting a bit of Internal Strength to keep her breathing.

Shangguan Ying's eyelids lifted slightly; she tried to speak but lacked the strength.

Seeing she was still alive, Ning Jingli burst into tears, "Sister Ying! I'll take you back! You must hold on!"

Just as Ning Jingli was about to lift Shangguan Ying, Ning Yao personally pressed a weapon fire button.

A beam of energy cannon pierced the clouds, striking directly at Ning Jingli's location.

Ning Jinli bent at the waist, completely unaware of it.

Shangguan Ying suddenly burst forth with her last bit of strength, grabbing Ning Jinli's arm and rolling them to the side.

Boom!

As soon as they rolled apart, the spot they had just occupied was blown open into a large hole.

Ning Jinli could see from Shangguan Ying's gaze that the other hoped she would no longer risk herself for her sake.

But Ning Jinli refused to give up, insisting on taking Shangguan Ying with her.

Ning Yao watched this scene through the screen, sneering repeatedly, deliberately waiting until Ning Jinli staggered while hoisting the person onto her back, then she pressed the launch button again.

Whoosh—

Another energy cannon blast slammed down.

Ning Jinli dodged in a sorry state, almost falling over.

Ning Yao burst out laughing, continuing to toy with Ning Jinli like a cat playing with a mouse.

Seeing Ning Jinli carrying Shangguan Ying draw ever closer to the teleportation portal, Ning Yao's eyes turned vicious and ruthless; she cranked the energy cannon to maximum, planning to blast the two to ashes the moment Ning Jinli reached the portal's threshold.

"Ying sister… quick… we're almost there…" Ning Jinli clung on purely through sheer willpower.

If her Internal Strength and stamina weren't completely exhausted, she could have opened a spatiotemporal teleportation gate right before her to bring Shangguan Ying back, but now she simply couldn't.

Ten meters, nine meters, eight meters…

Ning Jinli bit her teeth until they bled, dragging the dying Shangguan Ying toward the teleportation portal she had opened earlier, her footsteps leaving two long tracks on the ash-covered ground.

Almost there—less than half a meter remained.

Just then, a thick energy cannon beam five meters wide tore through the heavy clouds and plummeted from the sky!

The power of this energy blast was comparable to a nuclear bomb.

If it hit, neither Ning Jinli nor Shangguan Ying would leave even ashes behind.

In the flash of lightning and fire, Ning Jinli sensed the deadly danger, yet she was willing but unable to act.

Boom!

In an instant, the tremendous sound of the energy impact rang out.

Ning Jinli had thought she was doomed, but she was astonished to discover that the terrifying energy cannon beam was actually destroyed in mid‑air by another energy beam.

The shockwave's aftermath slammed her hard onto the ground.

Although it knocked blood from her mouth, at least her life was spared.

"What… what's going on?"

Ning Jinli hastily turned her head to look at the sky.

At the same moment, Ning Yao also gasped in shock and roared, "Who's firing wildly! Find out and execute them!"

"Heavenly… Heavenly Venerable, not one of ours," a subordinate beside her pointed to the opposite window, "the energy cannon came from over there—looks like another aircraft has appeared!"

"What?!" Ning Yao immediately looked.

Almost at the same moment, above the underground city of Huaxia's final stronghold, layers of rock several kilometers thick had been forcibly broken open by the Descending Legion.

On the ceiling of the underground city, several huge fissures tens of meters wide appeared.

Rubble pattered down.

Light from outside also streamed in.

"What… what is that?" someone exclaimed, gazing up at the rift in the dome with astonishment.

More and more people looked up, all stunned into silence.

Huaxia's senior officials and members of the Repair Plan Team all came out to the laboratory.

Upon seeing the scene unfolding in the sky, the scientists on the team trembled as they shouted, "Success… success! Civilizations from other worlds have received our distress signal and come to our aid!!!"

In the churning dark sky, massive spacetime rifts appeared one after another, and strange-shaped aircraft continually flew out of them.

The very thing that had just blocked Ning Yao's energy cannon blast was none other than the first of the enormous flying warships to appear.

Upon the hull of that kilometer‑long leviathan, a totem bearing Ning Jinli's likeness was emblazoned!

Ning Jinli clung to Shangguan Ying, gazing at the incessantly flashing spacetime rifts above and the assorted aircraft streaming out, and tears poured down like rain.

Countless aircraft of all sizes immediately launched an attack, assaulting the Descending Legion's aerial forces.

Tens of thousands of the Descending Legion's combat aircraft, caught off guard, had their formations disrupted and were forced to retreat from above the underground city.

Inside the underground city, tens of millions of Huaxia survivors looked up as aid aircraft from parallel worlds streamed past, everyone in tears.

"Where the hell did all this junk come from?!" Ning Yao watched her Descending Legion taken completely by surprise, countless triangular aircraft falling like broken kites, and she flew into a rage.

Beside her, a subordinate broke out in a cold sweat, indicating that the original world could not possibly possess such military technology; it must have come from other worlds, but why it would come to aid the original world's Huaxia Guo was unknown.

Ning Yao, having amassed considerable combat experience over the past century, immediately composed herself, issued commands, and swiftly restored the formation of the Descending Legion's air combat army.

She then ordered more air combat forces to be deployed, while the ground‑based Surrenderers Army simultaneously launched an assault, and additionally dispatched the Descending Legion's ground combat legion to the surface.

Furthermore, she specifically ordered that the genetically modified soldiers of the Ground Combat Legion must capture Ning Jinli alive and hand her over, for she had to kill her personally.

Soon, in the sky, the support army from parallel worlds and the Descending Legion's air combat army engaged in large‑scale combat.

On the ground, the Surrenderers Army surged like a tide toward the fissure in the underground city's dome.

Inside the underground city, all Huaxia survivors, regardless of former status, grabbed anything nearby that could serve as a weapon and fearlessly charged at this world's traitors.

"I just knew… Ning Jinli, you… you… you would definitely succeed…" Shangguan Ying whispered, her lips as pale as a thread of breath.

"Let's go!" Ning Jinli gritted her teeth, hoisted Shangguan Ying onto her back again, and rose to her feet.

Half a meter—only half a meter remained.

Ning Jinli lifted her right leg, which felt as if it weighed ten million catties, eyes fixed on the teleportation portal she was about to enter.

Swish!

A sudden tearing sound split the air.

Ning Jinli, carrying Shangguan Ying, was knocked flying four or five meters away, then the two rolled together down the large slope beside them, rolling all the way to the bottom of the slope over a hundred meters away before stopping.

Fortunately, this area was piled with thick battlefield ash, especially at the slope's base, where the ash lay in layers over a meter deep, becoming a cushion for the two.

"Sister Ying!" Ning Jinli didn't have time to check her own condition, quickly grabbing Shangguan Ying's arm.

Shangguan Ying was completely unconscious, seemingly without even breathing.

Ning Jinli looked up the slope and saw several genetically modified soldiers of the Descent Legion, each over two meters tall, rushing toward them.

These soldiers clearly possessed powerful lethal weapons, yet they did not strike a killing blow at her.

She quickly realized they wanted to capture her alive.

Ning Jinli swiftly surveyed the surroundings, glanced at the now distant spacetime teleportation gate, then seized Shangguan Ying and scrambled desperately toward the nearest cave.

The thick ash slowed the Descent Legion soldiers' pace, also buying Ning Jinli more time.

Finally, she crawled and scrambled into a narrow cave whose entrance was half-buried in ash, exhausted her last strength, and forced the cave mouth shut with brute force; dragging the unconscious Shangguan Ying whose fate was unknown, she went on until utterly spent, then her vision darkened and she fainted.