Ling Cage: I come from Hisakawa

Chapter 149 Shocking change!

Upon hearing this, the morale of the crowd soared!
The gravity entity gradually approached the armored vehicle, and the Dust People and ordinary Wilderness Hunters crawled into the vehicle under its cover.

With engines roaring, the convoy broke through the obstacles of broken rocks and continued forward.

“Mark!” Ran Bing shouted.

Mark calmly replied, "Received!"

He circled the giant jaw beast once, then suddenly descended, flying close to the beast's skin.

The giant jawed beast briefly lost Mark's sight, its two legs supporting its massive upper limbs, and its four arms thrashing wildly across its body, producing a deafening roar.

Mark seized the opportunity.

He sped off and grabbed onto the armored vehicle at the back of the convoy.

"Huff—huff—" Mark gasped for breath.

Dealing with a behemoth like the Jaw Beast, one could easily be struck by its massive hand if one wasn't careful. Even if his physical strength could withstand the gravity, he would still suffer internal injuries from the impact.

Even he was exhausted after all the maneuvering.

Mark looked around.

"Lord He Guangzhe?" He was somewhat surprised. "You're on this vehicle too."

Vatican was pale.

She turned her face away, not speaking to Mark, but silently gazing ahead at the convoy.

That was the direction Bai Yuetian had gone.

"Finally cleared the passage, my gun is smoking."

"It should be safe now."

"We're almost at the signal station. Do you think there might be anyone inside?"

"There must be someone. It can't be that the Devouring Beast has evolved again and can even mimic buildings."

"Hey, you know what, you really shouldn't say that!"

"The ground is so dangerous. If there are any survivors, I don't know how they managed to survive."

The hunters whispered among themselves, trying to relax their tense nerves.

"How far are we from the signal station?" Bai Yuetian asked.

Ran Bing looked at the radar display and calculated, "At our current speed, we'll be close to the signal station in another fifteen minutes. There should be someone stationed there."

fifteen minutes?

Bai Yuetian turned his head and looked at the snake-dog chasing after him, his brows gradually furrowing.

"I feel like we'll be forced to stop in less than fifteen minutes," he whispered.

Ran Bing smiled and said, "You don't understand. Snake dogs are not known for their speed. Unless we run out of fuel, they can't catch up with us even if they run their legs off. Occasional skirmishes won't stop us."

Bai Yuetian nodded slightly.

He looked up at the two-jawed beast at the rear of the caravan.

The two-jawed beast ran wildly, its six legs gripping the sides of the canyon, kicking up clouds of dust.

However, its size was too large and its running speed was average. It barely shortened the distance between itself and the convoy and was instead left further and further behind.

It's possible that Mark exhausted too much of its energy.

Bai Yuetian pursed her lips.

If things continue at this pace, they should be safe from now on, barring any unforeseen circumstances.

But he always seemed too relaxed.

This time when they went down to the ground, they were attacked by a large group of Devouring Beasts, but almost no one died.

Even the common people are like that.

The difference between densely populated ecological areas and core ecological areas is really huge.
But upon closer reflection, although they encountered danger in the core ecological area last time, the hunters still managed to evacuate as a whole.

How exactly does ecology destroy human civilization?
Just as Bai Yuetian was deep in thought, he suddenly caught a clear sound of something breaking through the air.

call out--

A gravity-based creature exploded in a burst of blood right before Bai Yuetian's eyes.

The yellow observation window shattered completely, and a spike as long as an arm pierced the driver's skull.

Blood gushed out.

The driver was clearly not going to survive.

In an instant, everyone was stunned.

"Alan!"

Another gravity vehicle pilot, his eyes wide with fury, lunged at the gravity vehicle, opened its helmet, and checked on the pilot's condition.

It happened in the blink of an eye, and everyone was stunned for a moment.

"It's a spiny eel!"

Kun Jie said in a deep voice, "The attack is coming from above, everyone stay alert!"

Bai Yuetian's heart tightened, and he looked in the direction from which the sharp spikes had been shot.

An ugly Devouring Beast clung to the rock wall, staring at them menacingly.

At the same time, a large number of identical-looking Devouring Beasts emerged from the cracks in the rock wall, looking down at the sky, their patterns lighting up inch by inch.

A sense of foreboding arose in Bai Yuetian's heart.

Rat-a-tat-tat! Rat-a-tat!

Chu Chu Chu!
Without hesitation, he pulled the trigger and opened fire.

The bullet left the barrel, shooting towards the swarm of eels with a dull thud.

The group of spiky eels above Bai Yuetian's vehicle were hit by bullets and immediately jumped aside, their markings fading.

The impending invitation to death was destroyed without a trace.

call out! call out! call out! call out! call out!
But other vehicles weren't so lucky.

Countless sharp spikes rained down, like a sky-covering rain of arrows.

"what!"

"My arm!"

"What the hell is this!"

"Fight back quickly!"

Screams erupted from the convoy; in just one encounter, the hunters had left behind many corpses.

A bright blue light surged from the spikes.

Kun Jie is a veteran who survived the Red Army period and is very experienced.

He hid in the gap between the gravity bodies, his face dark, and said, "If you get hit, quickly pull out the spikes, they will absorb your life essence!" Bai Yuetian calmly swept the spiked eels on the rock wall, he held the trigger tightly, his arm exerting force with the muzzle of the gun, the bullet marks he fired were like a straight line parallel to the ground.

The eels screamed and ran wildly.

"Why didn't the radar detect them?" Mark's voice came through the communications channel.

Ran Bing said urgently, "They have a kind of biomagnetic field that shields them from radar scans. We don't know how many more are hiding around!"

"Don't let them launch a second salvo!" Bai Yuetian shouted.

Once attacked, the spiny eel will stop firing its spikes. Moreover, it does not have the tough skin of the snake dog, so it is less resistant to bullets and can be damaged by bullets from ordinary hunters.

Gunfire erupted from the convoy.

The surviving hunters, guns pointed upwards, fired wildly at the spiky eels on the rock face, fueled by intense fear and rage.

The spiny eel darts left and right, incredibly agile.

Bullets swept away the rubble on the rock face, and only occasionally would a spiny eel fall down. The vast majority of spiny eels followed the convoy at high speed above the rock face, ready to launch their deadly spikes at any opportunity.

call out!
A sharp thorn shot straight at Bai Yuetian's face.

Bai Yuetian turned his head in a disheveled state.

The spikes grazed his helmet with a screeching sound before embedding themselves in the roof of the armored vehicle.

Bai Yuetian shook his head; he felt a little dizzy.

"what!"

A scream rang out beside me.

A hunter was hit in the chest and swayed as he fell off the vehicle.

Anyone who has ever been in a gunfight knows how brutal the conditions are when the opponent is on higher ground and you have no cover.

Spiny eels are fearless and their weapons are more deadly than ordinary bullets.

The hunters have suffered heavy casualties.

If this continues, the entire army could be wiped out.

"Hahahahahaha!"

"Hahahaha!"

A strange, eerie laugh echoed from above the canyon.

A large, moving shadow appeared on the ground, swiftly passing over the convoy.

Looking up at the white moon.

A colossal creature with a tail that spread out like flower petals flew from one side of the canyon to the other.

Rat-a-tat-tat! Rat-a-tat-tat-tat!
Chu Chu Chu!
The hunters, filled with fear and terror, pulled the triggers and opened fire wildly.

The bullets shot towards the enormous object in the air, but crashed into the blue-purple mist as they approached its body and were easily deflected. Even the large-caliber bullets from the gravity body failed to make any openings.

At the same time, the thorn eels on the rock wall, no longer suppressed by fire, unleashed a barrage of spikes at the hunters.

Screams echoed through the convoy.

"We've encountered a mutated Devouring Beast, Mark, what do we do now?" Ran Bing used Bai Yuetian as cover, gripping the communicator tightly with one hand while firing continuously with the other.

"No parking," Mark said in a deep voice.

Once the car stops, the entire convoy will be stuck in the canyon, facing attacks from snake dogs, spiky eels, giant jaw beasts, and mutated Devourer beasts, as well as a continuous stream of reinforcements from other Devourer beasts arriving from nearby.

The entire team will be wiped out!

His hunters are all elites; if they all perish here, it will be difficult for the Lighthouse to gather supplies in the future.

At this moment, we live not only for ourselves, but also for the entire lighthouse.

Ran Bing asked anxiously, "Then what should we do? Should we leave someone behind to cover our retreat?"

Mark was silent.

断后
With so many Devouring Beasts, who should be left to cover the rear, and who is capable of doing so?

“I’ll stay,” Mark said slowly.

"The Jaw Beast is still chasing me. I might be able to use it to hold off the horde while also drawing the attention of that mutated Devourer."

He paused for a moment, then said, "Erica, stay here too. I need you to draw the beasts' attention. Afu and Feixue, stay here as well to cover Erica and me!"

As soon as the words were spoken, three firm voices rang out simultaneously on the communication channel.

"Yes!"

"understand!"

"Roger that!"

In the face of danger, the hunters were fully prepared to cover their companions' retreat.

"But the Hunters can't live without you, Mark!" Ran Bing was extremely anxious.

“No one is indispensable. Right now, only I can hold off the herd,” Mark said without hesitation. “All you have to do is run, get to the signal station, and ask the people there for help!”

"If you run fast enough, maybe we still have a chance to survive!"

The white moon hangs high in the sky.

The enormous, mutated Devourer hovered in the air, emitting a despairing, eerie laugh.

It clearly possesses considerable intelligence, knowing how to use the thorn eel to deplete the hunter's strength, thus refusing to come down.

“I’ll stay too,” Bai Yuetian said in a deep voice.

“Take good care of Vanti and 4709. I hope they can go back alive.”

After joining the Wilderness Hunters, all of them became his comrades.

Vatican is a Lightbearer of the Light and Shadow Society; she must live.

The hunters were severely weakened by this battle, and if their rift with the Light and Shadow Society were to deepen, the remaining hunters would face an even more difficult situation.

4079 was his roommate, and 4068 had specifically asked him to stay alive before they left.

But he can no longer take care of these two people himself.

Ran Bing clenched her fists tightly.

"accelerate!"

"accelerate!"

"accelerate!"

With red eyes, she shouted through gritted teeth.

Flames erupted from Bai Yuetian's feet as he leaped into the air. He used the rock face as a relay, his ant-like figure rapidly approaching the mutated Devouring Beast in mid-air.

The mutated Devouring Beast suddenly lowered its head.

The enormous pupils reflected Bai Yuetian's figure, and the eyes were full of mockery.

(End of this chapter)