Chapter 1368: Bombing

Bombing

So this was what it felt like to be a living person.

Chen Ling hadn't felt the stimulation from food for far too long. The sense of reality in this instant made him realize that he really had been a human once... His pupils emitted a glow of excitement. Sitting amidst the pile of snacks, he greedily tore open all the snacks nearby and poured them all into his mouth in one go.

He seemed to feel that eating like this still wasn't satisfying enough, directly splitting his mouth open like a shark, the corners extending almost to the roots of his ears. In one bite, he could eat a whole shelf of pickled pepper chicken feet!

Just as Chen Ling was enjoying the joy brought by the food, a scream rang out from outside the door:

"Mon... Monster!!!!"

Chen Ling's movements slightly paused. He turned his head to look out the door, only to see a survivor covered in blood, who knows where they came from, looking at him in horror at the entrance of the supermarket and letting out an ear-piercing scream.

Chen Ling subconsciously touched his own face, feeling somewhat helpless in his heart...

Having lived in the Ghost Mockery Abyss for so long, he almost forgot that his current self was still in the terrifying form of a Calamity.

After hesitating for a moment, Chen Ling still decided to ignore him and continued to feast in the supermarket.

It wasn't easy to finally have a chance to eat human food, he absolutely couldn't miss it... As for all those other messy things, they all had to step aside right now!

Under Chen Ling's storm-like chewing, he swept away more than half of the snacks in the entire supermarket. Just as Chen Ling was wondering if there was any hot water to make some instant noodles, a burst of messy footsteps sounded from outside.

"Are you sure there really is a monster here??"

"There's no mistake. I saw it with my own eyes. It's a pitch-black blob, squatting in the supermarket eating snacks!"

"Eating snacks???"

"We received news from above. During the nuclear strike process, mysterious monsters did indeed appear in several cities. And any city where monsters appeared hardly left any survivors... If a monster really appeared here too, then..."

"Go signal the nearby patrol fighter jets first and have them pay attention here!"

"..."

A few military figures holding guns appeared at the entrance of the supermarket. At a glance, they saw Chen Ling squatting on the ground opening instant noodles. The moment they saw that face clearly, everyone's hearts were shocked!

In fact, when they heard the youth's description just now, they thought it was a black person sneaking food in the supermarket. But when they saw this scene with their own eyes, they realized... No matter what this thing in front of them actually was, it was absolutely not human.

What human's face would continuously peel off like wall plaster? And that pitch-black hideous face, as well as the pupils emitting a scarlet glow...

"Fire!!"

The well-trained captain ordered without hesitation.

In the next second, the guns in several people's hands directly turned into several bright yellow bananas...

Just as everyone was dumbfounded, Chen Ling, who was concentrating on using a cassette stove to boil water, waved his hand without looking back:

"Don't bother me."

A Red Paper tentacle whipped out from his cuff, heading straight for everyone's faces at an astonishing speed. With one slap, it swept them all onto the wall across the street. Among them, two or three with poorer physical fitness fainted on the spot.

At the same time, waves of chaotic exclamations began to spread outwards from the street.

The current Chen Ling simply didn't care about the situation outside. His eyes seemed to only have the instant noodles with all the flavor packets already added. Even without adding hot water yet, the aroma emitted by the powder was enough to make him unable to stop swallowing his saliva.

Things from the Timeline Save File couldn't be brought to the outside world. After finishing this meal, who knows how long it would be before he could eat something so fragrant again...

Chen Ling earnestly added hot water to the instant noodles, used a fragmented brick nearby to press it down, and pinched the time to wait.

One minute, two minutes...

Seemingly feeling that waiting was too boring, he casually waved outside again, and the military radio on the unconscious figure was directly rolled back by the Red Paper tentacle.

As Chen Ling's pupils slightly narrowed, the sound of the radio rang out in the supermarket after a burst of interference.

"... Huai River Eagle is approaching the target."

"Formation 1-13 has received instructions, checking if the remaining flight mileage is sufficient to complete the Tongzhou City patrol mission."

"Mileage is sufficient. Head Eagle, what happened in Tongzhou?"

"The specific situation is unclear. But after experiencing the second round of nuclear strikes, an aurora... appeared in the sky above Tongzhou."

"Aurora? How could there be an aurora in that place??"

"The cause of formation is temporarily unknown, requiring us to investigate. The possibility of monsters appearing cannot be ruled out."

"... Will there really be monsters appearing? What exactly do monsters look like? Are they the same as the monsters on TV?"

"Monsters are real, and the locations they appear have no pattern to speak of... This is the most terrifying part. Right now, we know too little about them."

"What's there to be afraid of? If we really encounter one, feed it eighteen missiles first!"

"Huai River Eagle has arrived near the target area."

"..."

Aurora?

Hearing these two words, Chen Ling's gaze slightly focused.

He hardly listened to the conversation that followed. The appearance of Yang Xiao surfaced in his mind, and an ominous premonition rose in his heart.

A place like Tongzhou absolutely couldn't have an aurora in the natural sense. Since this was the case, there was only one possibility left for this aurora...

Did something happen to Yang Xiao?

No, if something happened to Yang Xiao, there shouldn't be an aurora appearing instead. Moreover, with Yang Xiao's current strength, it should be far from enough to create an aurora covering the entirety of Tongzhou.

Just to be safe, he should still go there and take a look. But before that...

As a burst of aroma drilled into Chen Ling's nasal cavity, his gaze immediately fell onto the perfectly steeped instant noodles. He licked his lips, wrapped a large mouthful of noodles with a fork, and stuffed it into his mouth in one bite.

At the same time, a missile trailing fire descended from the sky.

Boom——!!!!

The supermarket was reduced to a sea of fire under the bombardment of the missile. Countless shelves and steel fragments splattered from within the collapsing building. Under the burning of the raging flames, the entire building collapsed with a loud bang.

A fighter jet whistled past above the street.

"Target bombing complete, Huai River Eagle requests to return to base." The pilot glanced at the supermarket below that had completely been reduced to ruins and spoke calmly.

"Is the monster resolved?"

"Didn't see it... there's nothing inside."

"Nothing at all? But wasn't there a monster sighting report just now?"

"But didn't the intelligence from above say that monsters should appear in groups? Could the ground forces have made a mistake?"

Thud——

Before the pilot finished speaking, he felt the cabin jolt.

He looked up blankly, only to see a figure holding instant noodles sitting phantom-like above the glass cockpit, a pair of scarlet pupils leisurely looking at him.