Chapter 215 - 206: Meeting in Hell

Chapter 215: Chapter 206: Meeting in Hell

She could feel it—the monster grew stronger every time it was hit and then recovered.

Its power was greater, its movements were faster, and its anticipation was more accurate.

Su Qing lunged with her sword, but "Jiang Jing" violently leaned back to dodge it, then threw a heavy punch toward her head!

She hastily raised her shield to block but was still driven back by the immense force, nearly stumbling into the assault vehicle.

"Miss Su, forget about us! Just save yourself..."

Zhang Wenyuan gripped the handles of the machine gun, a bitter laugh escaping him as he watched her tenacious figure.

"I can’t," Su Qing said without turning around. She wiped a trickle of blood from the corner of her mouth and her gaze swept coldly across the area. Neither "Jiang Jing" nor the tentacles rustling in the shadows of the surrounding ruins would let her escape so easily.

She centered herself, tightened her grip on her sword, and took her stance. Then, she charged once more at the seemingly undying figure before her!

’It seems there’s only one way to survive.’

His figure flashed through her mind.

"If you run into an enemy you can’t handle, just hold out and wait for me." That’s what he had told her.

She blocked the monster’s dagger with her shield, then thrust her sword out at an angle!

It was a cycle they had repeated countless times, but suddenly, it felt as if all the strength was violently drained from her body. Su Qing’s legs buckled, her sword strike went wide, and she only managed to slice a shallow gash across "Jiang Jing’s" torso!

’Crap!’

THUD! 𝘧𝓇ℯℴ𝓂

The monster seemed to sense her sudden weakness.

Su Qing could only muster her last ounce of strength to get her warped shield in the path of the punch.

The landslide of force brutally slammed through her, leaving no room to deflect it. She felt as if she’d been hit head-on by a speeding truck. Her entire body was sent flying backward, smashing hard against the assault vehicle’s rear bumper!

PFFT! The violent impact made her spit out a mouthful of dark, clotted blood. Her vision went black, and for a moment, her heart skipped a beat.

BANG! BANG!

Behind her, Zhang Wenyuan fired his last two bullets, tearing a V-shaped wound across its head and chest, bringing it to a temporary halt...

"That’s really the last of the ammo," Zhang Wenyuan said with another bitter laugh. He let go of the grips, his body hanging limply over the machine gun emplacement, completely spent.

’It’s over.’

The thought flashed through her mind.

The effects of the drug had worn off completely. Her body felt drained of all strength, and she could only lean against the side of the assault vehicle, watching as "Jiang Jing" dragged its ruined body toward her, one step at a time.

The huge cavity in its chest was slowly closing up. Countless fleshy tendrils writhed in the air like tentacles, a sight that seemed to declare an insurmountable despair.

’Am I going to die here?’

Su Qing slowly closed her eyes.

As the darkness began to swallow her consciousness, what emerged wasn’t fear, but the memory of a bright, sunny afternoon.

The afternoon she’d dragged Lin Fan home.

She’d been dead tired that day and had even fallen twice, but looking at the man passed out on her bed, she had felt an inexplicable sense of peace.

’Maybe... I just wanted to wait for him a little longer. Even if it’s just for a moment.’

VMMMM—!

A strange sound from behind made her crack her eyes open. She couldn’t see what was behind her, but she saw that "Jiang Jing," which had been walking toward her, had also noticed the noise and stopped in its tracks.

The gruesome wound on its chest had slowly sealed, with only a few ridges of flesh still squirming beneath the skin. But its eyes were fixed on the distance, a look of confusion on its face.

"Fuck! That’s an IFV! Someone’s here to save us? Shit, why’d they come back?!"

Behind her, Zhang Wenyuan lightly pounded the vehicle’s roof, his voice a mix of excitement and anger.

SCREEE—!!!

An ear-splitting screech of tires tore through the air, followed by a hurricane of hot air that roared past Su Qing’s face!

A "steel behemoth" roared past the assault vehicle, moving with a ferocious speed that defied its massive size!

The engine’s low growl tore through the curtain of rain. "Jiang Jing" only had time to swing a punch at the oncoming "behemoth" before it was struck by the incomparable kinetic energy of over twenty tons of steel!

There was no great crash of impact, only the wet, muffled sound of flesh and bone instantly disintegrating.

In the face of such absolute power, its seemingly indestructible body was as fragile as a ragdoll. It was silently torn to pieces, plastered across the front of the armored vehicle, and plowed backward at high speed!

CRUNCH! CRUNCH! CRUNCH!

The armored vehicle didn’t slow in the slightest. Like a fired cannonball, it pushed the monster’s remains through the burnt-out cars of the defensive line and slammed directly into the "mountain" of rubble behind them!

The grotesquely twisted monster, along with the rampaging war machine, vanished into the massive, gaping hole and the endless darkness beyond...

"Fuck! So that’s what the kid was planning!"

As the sound of the armored vehicle faded into the distance, Liu Bin and the others ran over, guns in hand.

"No wonder he asked if a few of us could right the assault vehicle!"

After speaking, he and Chu Zhaotian raised their rifles, warily aiming at the pitch-black "hole."

They had been observing the situation from a few hundred meters away with binoculars. When Cheng Qi saw that there were still survivors on the assault vehicle, he had everyone disembark. He said he would ram the monster, and the others should rescue the survivors and regroup with him. They just never expected he had no intention of hitting the brakes!

"Sister Qing!"

Covered in mud and filth, Chu Zhaozhao came stumbling over.

Ignoring the pain in her own arm, she used her good hand to carefully help up the collapsed Su Qing, tears streaming down her face uncontrollably.