Fighting you is like being in jail.

Ouch! That's giving me the creeps!

As long as it doesn't exceed the higher-level narrative, hiding anywhere won't help.

The only problem is that his forelimbs are a bit of a liability, but what's wrong with going to jail for this kind of power?

This is a prison that no one else can even dream of sitting in!

"My goodness, I can't even imagine how I lost. Turns out, I was just using a cannon to kill a mosquito..."

Recalling the non-system that had previously tormented him with the ultimate attack, Leng Chang inexplicably felt a pang of guilt, and even his eyes darted away slightly.

It wasn't intentional; I genuinely didn't know.

But it doesn't matter!

What's past is past, let's just leave it at that and make this a happy decision.

Amen.

Just as Leng Chang was mentally atoning for the mistakes he had made, the black screen of the phone on the brown wooden table lit up.

Ding!

It's the sound of a text message.

Leng Chang raised an eyebrow and looked over curiously, wondering who would notify him via text message.

Unknown contact: 'Leng Chang, I'm coming to find you right now.' ???

The sudden news left Leng Chang completely bewildered, and he couldn't help but blink, revealing an expression befitting a college student.

What do you mean by "come find me"? What's going on here?

……

Meanwhile, in an underground base.

Blood splattered on the hard metal walls, and corpses in black uniforms lay scattered in the white metal corridor. The red lights of the alarm kept flashing, making the bloodstains on the ground appear black.

dong dong dong...

The heavy standard boots pounded on the metal floor, and the black standard trench coat billowed up slightly with each movement, revealing a black top and a black battle skirt underneath.

The person walking around was a young girl.

She stared blankly ahead, her eyes becoming wistful as she observed the situation in the corridor.

Her name is Ye Lisha, and she is a reborn person.

As someone who once fought against the alien beasts, although she didn't have powerful blood energy as a backing, she possessed decisive decision-making and command abilities, which made her highly respected as the commander of the West District.

However, even the strongest command ability cannot undo the past pain.

She still remembers the scene before she died: it was just clearing a small spatial vortex, with no more than five alien beasts.

He was attacked during the operation, ambushed by an unknown person, and a single blow pierced his chest.

Given her strength, she wouldn't have died, but she still gave up because she had no hope of surviving.

Especially after experiencing something like that.

As Ye Lisa wandered through the metal corridor, she felt as if she had returned to the moment when the initial tragedy occurred.

I remember it was 2063, eight years from now.

According to intelligence, a medium-sized beast tide is approaching, but intelligence indicates that there may be an even more powerful "guided" beast behind this tide, posing a great threat.

The beast tide came so suddenly that even the detectors couldn't detect it, and all the scouts died without transmitting any intelligence.

This was clearly abnormal, but the situation was urgent, and by the time it was discovered, it was too late to react.

The only option is to evacuate the residents as quickly as possible; only by hiding in shelters can they have a chance of survival.

Dark clouds gathered, and heavy rain poured down, causing mudslides to continuously wash over the mountainside.

Like a flood, the beast tide crushed everything in its path, splattering mud onto the beasts' armor and staining it with a layer of mud. The surrounding trees were uprooted by the sheer number of beasts charging, rolling into the horde and being crushed to dust.

In order to buy time for the evacuation, all personnel in the entire Western District Defense were mobilized.

This includes Leng Chang, a classmate of Ye Lisha.

As Ye Lisha's classmate, Leng Chang was assigned to a group after military training. As the main force of the squad, Leng Chang's blood energy has grown very high.

Ye Lisha has outstanding command skills, and with the cooperation of the two, they have successfully completed many tasks.

As time went on, Ye Lisha's feelings for Leng Chang gradually warmed up, but she hadn't confessed them yet.

She wasn't quite sure when she fell in love with Leng Chang; perhaps it was a sense of responsibility, or perhaps it was because Leng Chang always stood in front of her to protect her.

Perhaps it was that one time when Leng Chang disobeyed his orders.

During a search and rescue mission following the clearing of a small whirlpool, their team found a little girl trapped in the ruins of a partially collapsed residential building.

The girl was trapped in the twisted reinforced concrete structure. She was physically weak, making the rescue very difficult. Moreover, the ruins were extremely unstable, with a high risk of secondary collapse.

The team members tried several methods, but all failed.

As time passed, the ruins occasionally emitted a teeth-grinding scraping sound, and gravel fell in a soft rustling.

Ye Lisha, who was in charge of the operation, looked grave and even began to hint at whether they should give up in order to save the rescue workers.

A sense of powerlessness and oppression permeated the scene.

Just as she ordered an evacuation and abandoned the rescue operation.

Leng Chang suddenly disobeyed orders, silently took off the equipment that hindered his movements, and with only the simplest tools in hand, began to crawl into the most dangerous collapsed core area without saying a word.

"What are you doing! Come back! The order is to evacuate!"

Ye Lisha roared into the walkie-talkie, feeling that Leng Chang was impulsive, unprofessional, and would kill himself or even implicate everyone else.

They were about to force Leng Chang back, but they were drawn to his demeanor.

Sweat soaked his back, and his muscles trembled with extreme tension, but his eyes were as focused as the most precise instrument, without the slightest panic.

This almost obsessive pursuit of possibility displayed in dire straits creates a stark contrast with her own behavior.

She even felt like she was an emotionless machine, no longer a human being.

The immense psychological impact caused Ye Lisha's eyes to widen, deeply imprinting Leng Chang's appearance on her mind.

The rescue operation had reached its most critical and dangerous stage, as a massive precast concrete slab was teetering on the brink of collapse.

Everyone held their breath.

Just then, in order to soothe the girl below who was extremely frightened and about to cry out, as her crying might cause a tremor.

Without hesitation, Leng Chang did something that surprised everyone.

While bracing his shoulder against a critical point of stress and enduring immense pressure, he hummed a tuneless but gentle melody in a voice that suppressed his pain but tried to remain calm and gentle.

This man, who is usually taciturn and even somewhat aloof, actually possesses such profound tenderness and strength within him.

Her heart was jolted.

The girl was eventually rescued successfully.

Leng Chang was confined for three days for disobeying orders, but was also awarded a second-class merit for his heroic actions.

From then on, Ye Lisha began to observe Leng Chang intentionally or unintentionally. Every time she saw Leng Chang, the corners of her mouth would involuntarily turn up, and she found that he had changed.

It was as if she aspired to be like him, and it was also as if she had fallen in love with him.

When the western district was hit by a beast tide, Leng Chang was ordered to cover the rear.

It wasn't just Leng Chang covering the rear; the entire West District defense force was covering the rear for the residents, with Ye Lisha in command at the rear.

The entire western district defense force, numbering 36,000, was prepared to sacrifice themselves to create time for residents to evacuate.

After all the residents had evacuated to the underground shelter, Ye Lisha ordered all those covering the rear to retreat.

However, the speed of the beast tide was unexpected, almost matching the speed at which Leng Chang and the others evacuated.

The monstrous beasts charging through the streets are chasing the retreating troops toward the entrance to the shelter.

This situation made Ye Lisha's scalp tingle, plunging her into a hell of choices.

They are the heroes who immediately shut down all external gates, activated the internal defense system, relied on strong fortifications and reserve energy to hold their ground, and abandoned any attempt to evacuate outside the shelter...

Should we keep the gates open and wait for the evacuating troops to withdraw, leaving hundreds of thousands of residents in danger?

Is it to give the remaining 2,300 men of the rearguard a glimmer of hope?

Or should we close the gates to save the hundreds of thousands of residents inside the shelter?

It was cold, shivering, and the air was thick with the dullness of rain-soaked ground.

Ye Lisha's pupils dilated, her eyes became bloodshot, and she gritted her teeth, unable to make a decision.

The feeling of suffocation made it impossible for her to breathe.

Finally, a fierce glint flashed in her eyes, and she forced out a sentence through gritted teeth.

"Close the gate!"

After an extremely painful internal struggle, his sense of responsibility as commander overcame his personal desires.

With tears streaming down her face, Ye Lisha roared the order: "Close all outer gates! Activate internal defenses! Now!"

In the final moments before the gates closed, she shouted through the communicator to everyone, "I'm sorry... please, you must survive..."

"it is good……"

The cold, normal response was drowned out by the electrical noise.

boom--!!

In an instant, the beast tide engulfed the city, skyscrapers collapsed at a visible speed, the earth trembled continuously, and all that could be heard were the sounds of collapsing buildings and scattered gunshots.

"Aa ...

Ye Lisha screamed in pain as she stood in the command room, venting her guilt and resentment.

Then the command room was also engulfed by the onslaught of countless monsters, but she unleashed her last burst of blood energy and charged towards the monsters rushing into the command room.

Even if it means death, it must be in battle.

At that moment, however, she had no idea that the tragedy had only just begun.

Just as the gates of the underground shelter were closed, the internal defense system activated as scheduled.

One of the channels in the underground sewage system inside the base had long been secretly infiltrated by a special kind of beast that could mimic and burrow underground.

These beasts erupted from their weakest point inside when all their defensive forces were focused outwards!

They even dug a tunnel leading to the surface, causing strange beasts from the ground to flood in like a flood.

The shelter, the energy core, the underground command center... were instantly turned into a slaughterhouse.

The internal chaos led to the interruption of the external defense system's energy supply, weakened the gates, and ultimately allowed the external beast tide to breach them.

In the western district, all 500,000 residents were slaughtered by monstrous beasts.

After a bloody battle, Ye Lisha was knocked into a collapsed building by a monster and buried five meters deep in the rubble, but she miraculously survived.

None of the others survived.

Chapter 270 The Only Way to See You

I don't know how much time has passed.

Ye Lisha's trembling eyelashes suddenly fluttered open, her dark eyes widening and then contracting. Only after taking in her surroundings did she realize she was lying in a hospital room, the steady, continuous beeping of the monitor ringing in her ears.

The moment he woke up, the nurse excitedly shouted into the walkie-talkie.

"The patient has woken up."

Immediately afterwards, a cacophony of footsteps sounded outside, and countless people in military uniforms strode in.

Upon seeing the person who had arrived, Ye Lisha asked weakly, her lips trembling:

"How's the West District going...?"

However, what awaited her was a deathly silence, with sadness flickering in everyone's eyes.

No one dared to speak up; they simply told Ye Lisha to focus on recovering.