Chapter 1547: The Burning Fireball and the Dimming Heat Signal

On the front-left, Zhang Ling, holding a medium sniper rifle, and Azure Dragon Squad Five, under the suppressing fire of Blaze's snipers and machine gunners, responded in "panic."

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

On the front-right, Azure Dragon Squad One, disguised as a heavy-armor squad of garrison troops, exchanged rocket-launcher fire with Blaze's modified human Huo Ting; the violent shockwaves in the air and the spreading acrid smoke drove back the Western Wolf Pack that had been slowly crawling forward, and also startled awake the lords of Northern Sector One from their slumber.

Tan Junjie's solemn voice came through the loudspeakers mounted on the twelve signal towers of Northern Sector One: "Attention all territories 1-26 of Northern Sector One, attention all territories 1-26 of Northern Sector One: an invader squad carrying heavy equipment has appeared in Evolution Forest No. 48, moving toward our Northern Sector One territories. All lords, please protect your territories with everything you have. Any emergencies requiring Sweeper Squad assistance, please contact the Sweeper Group immediately through the walkie-talkie channel. All Sweeper Squads, immediately confirm the territories within your assigned range; notification received. Attention all territories 1-26 of Northern Sector One…"

"Holy shit! The last day of Year Eleven of the Calamity won't even let people have a decent time!" Wen Nengjie, after replying "received" on the lord channel of Territory 11-18, immediately ran to the lord channel of Territory 1-10 to seek a sense of security. "Where did this wave of invaders come from? Does anyone have news?"

"Don't know, but it sounds like machine guns, grenade launchers, and sniper rifles—these are definitely an organized, premeditated group of invaders." Hearing Zhu Li, now a machine gunner, put the machine gun first. Before Xia Qing left the territory, she had already sent a message on the core members' channel of the Territory Alliance; Hearing Zhu Li had long since put on her protective suit, hugged her machine gun, and lay prone in the bunker in the Northern Buffer Forest, looking down to protect her territory.

With mid-to-long-range firearms in hand, she felt much more at ease. Beside the greenhouse, Kuang Qingwei held a pistol, bombs hanging from his waist, and raised a loudspeaker to shout at the hired workers to guard the greenhouse immediately.

Territories No. 4, No. 5, and others were in the same situation. Inside the utterly quiet laboratory in Territory No. 7, Zhang San, utterly focused, dripped a drop of blood-red liquid into a potion bottle, and subconsciously glanced at his phone, which was still showing a black screen.

In Western Sector Forest No. 48, although Huo Ting and Huo Xia were shouldering cannon barrels, the enemy's firepower was no weak either, and they were locked in a stalemate. Three power-evolution members of the invader squad, carrying poison-gas bombs meant to destroy territories, afraid of being caught in the artillery fire, retreated toward a safe zone under the protection of two invader companions.

"Owlowl, front-left, descend… keep descending…" Behind Xia Qing, Lord of Territory No. 8 Seeing Xin Yu stared at the monitoring screen, directing her avian companion to reach the airspace above the power-evolution invaders.

Eight meters… six meters… five meters…

"Owlowl, pull back!"

The eagle owl, gliding silently through the night sky, received the order and swiftly spread its wings to fly toward the distant high sky; at the same time, a black fist-sized bomb fell from on high.

The hearing-evolution invader covering his companions' retreat into the safe zone heard a vicious gust of wind above; when he looked up, it was already too late!

"BANG!!!"

The black bomb hit the ground with a tremendous roar, and a fireball five meters high instantly lit up the night sky, swallowing three Blaze members carrying supplies and one covering member; the hearing-evolution invader struggled out of the fireball's range and fled desperately.

"Ah————" Huo Ting, shouldering his rocket launcher and advancing to attack, turned his head and saw two sniper companions who had been hit and were falling from the air; he let out a furious, anguished howl.

Xia Qing, who had put away her sniper rifle, pressed the walkie-talkie button. "Snipers eliminated. Four invaders left. They're all yours."

"Copy that." Brain-evolution Di Ming replied in a steady voice. Him, along with Azure Dragon Squad One and Squad Five, dealing with four Blaze scumbags was a piece of cake!

"Copy that!! Sister Qing, stay safe." Azure Dragon Squad One vice-captain Wang Liang whooped. He had recorded the video of that incendiary bomb exploding; as soon as the big captain came back, he would show it to him—no matter how many points it cost, their squad had to procure and equip this thing!!!

"Stay safe." Seeing Xin Yu, who had personally pressed the button to drop this bomb, was not one bit calmer than Wang Liang; she wanted 100 of these bombs, to burn Yu Dongming's home to ashes.

"Got it." When the fireball died down, Xia Qing, with a weasel on her head, led the two giant wolves around to the other side of Shanfeng; after avoiding everyone's line of sight, she swung herself onto the back of Giant Wolf Er-gezi and galloped toward the spot where the invaders and the Western Wolf Pack had just fought.

Six evolution wolves were still lying there; she had to hurry over and save as many as she could. Even if not a single one could be saved, Xia Qing still had to make the Western Wolf King understand that its companions had been killed by the invading Blaze squad; if it wanted revenge, it should go find Old Four and Broken-Waist Wolf, and fight the enemy alongside them, rather than unleashing a beast tide to retaliate against the humans of Hui-Three Base.

Neither the Western Wolf Pack nor the humans of Hui-Three Base should suffer heavier losses because of the Blaze squad's evil deeds.

Amid the dense sounds of gunfire, Xia Qing first reunited with Handsome Giant Wolf and Big Guy. She looked left and right, lowered her voice, and asked, "Big Brother Giant Wolf, where's your brother?"

Handsome Giant Wolf stared murderously at the humans fighting several hundred meters away, as if he could not hear Xia Qing's voice.

Saving wolves was like fighting a fire—Xia Qing didn't waste a single moment. "Big Brother Giant Wolf, will you take me to where the Western Wolf Pack members are injured? I've brought potions to save those wounded wolves. You're not going? Then I'll go by myself! Big Guy, come with me."

Er-gezi walked forward a few steps. Xia Qing noticed that neither Handsome Giant Wolf nor Big Guy had followed, so she walked and complained, "Big Brother Giant Wolf, if I go over alone and get bitten by the Western Wolf Pack, the Queen will definitely give you a serious beating—just you wait. Big Guy, your service attitude is terrible; when Broken-Waist Wolf comes back, I'm definitely going to have it refund me double points…"

"Woo—"

After losing the sound of Xia Qing's grumbling, Handsome Giant Wolf bared his fangs and let out an irritated growl, rose, brought Big Guy along, and retreated as he chased after her.

With Handsome Giant Wolf leading the way, Xia Qing smoothly passed through the area defended by three Western evolution wolves. When they reached the vicinity of the human-wolf battle site, Handsome Giant Wolf let out a low growl and stopped; Er-gezi, carrying Xia Qing, also stopped, and Xia Qing immediately realized what had happened.

"Handsome Wolf Brother, there's poison gas ahead? You two stay here and guard; I'll go take a look!" She immediately jumped to the ground, took the backpack off Black Er-ge's back, quickly checked her protective gear, shouldered the backpack, and with weapons in hand, charged forward alone for ten meters—then she saw the air-toxin detector on her arm light up with a bright red lamp.

Glancing at the string of toxin names displayed on the screen, Xia Qing let out a slight breath of relief. When she sped up and rushed to the scene, through her infrared night-vision goggles, she saw that among the six evolution wolves lying on the ground, two wolves' brightness had already noticeably dimmed, about to blend into the brightness of the surrounding environment.