Chapter 188: Bombing the Square

Feng Mo, who could not bear to watch his brothers be buried in the ants' maws, truly could not bear it, so he broke through his teammates' restraint and rushed out of the Air Raid Shelter, clutching his firearm.

"Wait for us, for our brothers!"

The other two members of the Black Fire Gang could not sit still at all and followed closely behind.

The remaining four looked at each other, "Draw lots, whoever draws it stays to contact the Barrier!"

The shortest team member drew it, but he was unwilling to accept it and claimed the other three must have cheated.

"Laoqi, there's no time to draw again. Brother, tell everyone, we are no worse than the people from the Black Fire Gang!"

"I want to go too..."

The delicate-looking Laoqi, who had been left behind, leaned against the doorframe like an abandoned pet cat, rolled his round eyes twice, and returned to the monitor to start contacting the Barrier.

But the warehouse monitor made him freeze in his chair.

A plant beyond his understanding emerged from the ore pile as if blowing up a balloon.

Extreme speed, density, and massive size—these words instantly filled his brain; by the time he reacted, all the space the camera could capture was already completely occupied by it.

In the faint gaps, one could still see the large black ants being crushed by the vine roots.

"It's over, Brother Black Fire is truly finished this time. No! I can't let the others go to their deaths!"

From extreme shock to despair, and then to panic, it all happened in just a few short minutes.

After hesitating for a moment, the somewhat short youth gritted his teeth, grabbed his weapon, and went out to chase the colleagues who had just left.

Out of long-term considerations for the Steel Factory, the warehouse for stacking ore was the largest of all the warehouses; if anyone had seen the process from the outside, they would have discovered that this overbearing Mutated Plant took less than five minutes from sprouting to bursting the warehouse open.

At this growth rate, if left alone, perhaps in just one day—no, even half a day—the entire Steel Factory would likely be occupied by it.

By then, whether it was Mutated Animals or humans, all would have to keep a wide distance.

When Laoqi arrived, he saw the others standing a few dozen meters outside the warehouse, staring blankly at the increasingly large plant growing wantonly.

"Run!" Laoqi went up and pushed each of the six people standing in a row, "This grass can kill a pile of black ants in a second, hurry up and go, if we don't leave now, we'll be dead too!"

"No, it's impossible!" Feng Mo's eyes turned red with anxiety, and he pushed Laoqi away, "Black, Brother Black Fire is, is inside, I, I cannot..."

"How can you still go in?" When Laoqi was watching the monitor, his view was blocked by a forklift, so he hadn't seen what happened to Black Fire, but he had witnessed the fate of those Mutated Ants with his own eyes.

He briefly explained what he had seen, and in the end, he had to state the conclusion, "Brother Black Fire is likely already gone. We saw him go in, but we didn't see him come out. Let's go, the Mutated Ant swarm over there has already been alerted, and there is a Mutated Plant here; there is no point in us staying."

The others gradually sobered up, looking at Feng Mo in silence, waiting for him to make the final decision.

This plant took only a quarter of an hour to grow wildly to within ten meters of them, and Feng Mo finally took a step back.

"Evacuate!"

"Go find the Boss!"

The seven people took one last look at the 'submerged' warehouse and left with heavy steps.

Black Fire didn't make it, the factory couldn't be held, and in the freezing cold, they had ultimately disappointed both the Boss and their colleagues.

Such a massive investment had, in the end, been lost in their hands.

And at this moment, less than twenty-four hours had passed since the evacuation.

But, faced with this kind of crisis that human power could no longer control, what else were they supposed to do, and what could they do?

To keep fighting would just be throwing away their lives for nothing, without the slightest value.

Fortunately, the Mutated Black Ant swarm was likely over by the steel-smelting furnace to keep warm. By the time they noticed the anomaly here and came over, it would be in a different direction from where the group had left.

In their panic, they had brought some supplies, and after leaving, they followed the tracks of the beast herd all the way into Mei City.

Black Fire hadn't been saved, and now the few of them were burning with a fire in their hearts, hoping only to be able to help Liu Mu in time.

Even if it wasn't a rescue, if they could help with something, then even if they laid their lives down in the ruined city, it wouldn't have been a life lived in vain.

That was what Feng Mo thought, and on the way forward, he told the others to find their own way to escape, but the others ignored him.

Someone was unconvinced, "Wait until I help Boss Liu kill the Mutated Animal, then you'll know how tough I am!"

"Exactly, who isn't a real man? At a time like this, you want us to abandon Sister Mu? Are you looking down on us?"

"Handsome, walk faster, there's movement!"

The movement was not small; it traveled from the People's Square in Mei City, through three abandoned streets, all the way to their ears.

The group immediately quickened their pace, holding their guns to prevent being attacked before they even arrived.

... Upon seeing the beast herd, Liu Mu already had a plan.

The Steel Factory naturally could not become a battlefield; considering the losses, she would not be able to perform well.

The ruins of Mei City, which had been vacated after the residents successively migrated to the Haicheng Barrier, became her natural hunting ground.

With Niu Boyi's speed, even things flying in the sky might not be able to catch up.

Entering the ruined city, Liu Mu slid out from the blanket and leaped into a dangerous building that had two-thirds collapsed.

Before being discovered by the beast herd behind her, she used a Space Jump, her figure vanished on the spot, and the remaining third of the building was completely razed to the ground by the Force Field.

The time spent entering the Wormhole was elongated; Liu Mu could now clearly see the destructive power of the Force Field and was shocked by it.

It was fortunate that she hadn't had a whim to leave Niu Boyi's back directly, otherwise even Gouzi would have been severely injured.

Of course, the first time she completed a Space Jump, she was very impressed by her own hardiness; at that time, moving several times under the lake following Da Manyu Wang, she hadn't been torn into Fragments by the Force Field.

For the upcoming battle, she only used one Space Jump, covering a distance of only a few dozen meters, and switched to running afterward.

She was in front, and Niu Boyi, having received the order, deliberately slowed down a bit, leaving about a minute for the Master to set up traps.

Although she hadn't had time to replenish supplies after returning to the Barrier, the thermal weapons in her space had been loaded up quite a bit during the evacuation of the Mine and the Steel Factory.

Especially at the Mine, the first step of mining was drilling holes and spot explosions; if there was nothing else, there were certainly plenty of explosives.

At the People's Square, the surrounding buildings were originally not tall, and now that they were burned and collapsed, looking at it at a glance, it could be considered truly accessible from all directions and unobstructed.

One and a half minutes was enough for Liu Mu to set up, given her speed.

When Niu Boyi arrived, there was a pitch-black mass behind him, all Mutated Animals following closely.

"Charge through," Liu Mu waved her arm, signaling that Niu Boyi did not need to stop by her side, just pass through the square and leave.

The wind-like Military Dog suddenly accelerated, not letting a single snowflake on the square stick to its body; as it rushed past, it even stuck its tongue out at Liu Mu—walking a herd of low-intelligence beasts is so much fun!

Liu Mu wiped the snow from her face and scolded with a laugh, "Pah, you brat, are you itching for a beating?"

"Awoo, woof woof woof woof!"

The wind-like Gouzi left behind the dashing shadow of its backside.

It was also at this moment that, among the relentlessly pursuing herd of beasts, some of the less stupid ones actually slowed their speed, looking with quite a bit of wariness at Liu Mu, who was standing on the roof of a dilapidated building across the square.

That human figure was so tiny, yet the rampaging dog hadn't touched her in the slightest—there was something fishy!

However, the next second, they all raised their heads, greedily inhaling the scent drifting in the air, and one by one, their eyes gradually turned red.

The scent came from that human figure!

It was her!

It was the Red Mist!

Standing in the wind, Liu Mu curled the corners of her lips, watching the herd of beasts that had lost their reason, and pressed the detonator with satisfaction.

The earth-shattering explosion made this abandoned city tremble, and countless teetering buildings collapsed with a roar amidst the shockwave.

And this explosion was not just one round; as if it could predict the direction the herd of beasts would flee, every passable intersection exploded in succession, and the Mutation beasts had no time to dodge at all.

For a time, fresh blood permeated People's Square, heat waves rolled, and under such an impact, the heavy snow actually turned into a torrential downpour.