Chapter 494 - 239: Escorting the Survivors, the Battle of Yunxia Ridge Begins

Chapter 494: Chapter 239: Escorting the Survivors, the Battle of Yunxia Ridge Begins

After leaving the Doomsday Cult’s villa headquarters, Lin Feng returned to the high wall of the Second Defensive Line, carrying a bag full of Tier Two Late-stage Mothers.

He stopped beside Jiang Yun’er.

She had already woken up and was lying on the concrete top of the high wall. The black robe draped over her was tattered from her struggles, faintly revealing large patches of pale white skin and Zerg-like limbs beneath.

She had the unnatural, perverse allure of an alien monster.

But lying under the great Sun of early September, baked by its scorching rays, even a Tier Two Peak Mixed Blood Species like Jiang Yun’er could not withstand such a harsh environment.

The grievous wounds and Damage she had suffered were healing with agonizing slowness.

He looked at the woman, barely breathing, her face pale and her lips cracked. Even the indignation and resentment in her eyes from his arrival had vanished, replaced by a look of hope and longing...

The will to survive had triumphed over all other emotions.

Right now, all Jiang Yun’er wanted was for Lin Feng to take her away.

Away from the miserable fate of being baked to death under the sun.

Lin Feng stepped forward and, without a change in expression, hoisted her up and slung her over his left shoulder.

The moment he lifted her, the skin on Jiang Yun’er’s arms and legs, which had been touching the concrete, had melted from the intense heat, turning into a gelatinous liquid and sticking to the surface.

As Lin Feng roughly hoisted her up, large chunks of her skin and flesh were ripped away.

The Zerg Shell that had grown out when she overused her Mental Realm was also ripped away, sloughing off in pieces.

The pain caused Jiang Yun’er to let out a series of hoarse, wretched screams.

Fortunately, it was better to get the pain over with quickly. As Lin Feng carried her, leaped down from the Second Defensive Line, and prepared to vault the high wall of the Third, the rushing wind began to cool her searing wounds, which gradually started to heal.

For now, Jiang Yun’er could only use the remaining nutrient Energy in her body to focus on repairing her broken neck.

During this time, she unexpectedly sensed a familiar spiritual fluctuation coming from a large cloth bag slung at Lin Feng’s side.

She quieted her mind and listened for a moment...

It was the group of Zerg mothers that was supposed to rendezvous with her and be installed in the Capital City!

Counting carefully, she found there were exactly eighteen of them.

’How could Lin Feng have captured all of them in just a dozen minutes!?’

’Even if Lin Feng had already entered Tier Three, how could he have located all the mothers so quickly without a corresponding Spiritual Type reconnaissance ability?’

Jiang Yun’er swallowed, her eyes wide. Using the Zerg Race’s method of spiritual communication, she began a silent exchange with the Zerg mothers in the bag, who had been captured just like her.

After learning what had happened, her fear of Lin Feng deepened severalfold. It was just like that time at the highway service area in the South Suburb of Wu City—she was completely at his mercy.

The profound sense of powerlessness she had felt when facing Lin Feng before now washed over Jiang Yun’er’s entire being.

Therefore, after repairing the break in her neck, even though she had regained feeling in her lower body, Jiang Yun’er chose to remain obediently draped over Lin Feng’s shoulder, not daring to entertain any thought of struggling or escaping.

’It’s just... Lin Feng runs way too fast...’

The jostling was making her stomach ache.

...

Five minutes later, Lin Feng passed the Capital’s sixth defensive line, exited the South District, and stepped into the Zerg-ruled territory outside the city.

But what met their eyes was not a Swarm of Zergs, but over a hundred thousand survivors emerging from behind the southern battlefront.

They were a vast, teeming mass of people, carrying personal luggage and issued supplies in bags of all sizes. Far in the distance, they all followed the Southern Line Corps, which was already skirmishing with the Zerg’s remaining forces.

Jiang Yun’er peeked at her surroundings, confused.

She was only slightly surprised that the Southern Line Corps, which was supposed to have been betrayed, had chosen to break out directly to the south. After all, Lin Feng’s arrival meant the Capital City’s sacrificial plan was completely exposed.

It stood to reason that General Qin, the commander here, would choose to risk everything on a breakout.

But the Zerg forces blockading the south were by no means weak.

They included three Early-stage Mother Empresses in the Southwest, as well as one Tier Three Middle Stage Mother Empress.

There was also the Yunxia Ridge Mother Empress, who guarded the critical westward route.

Even with 150,000 Awakeners under his command, Qin Hu couldn’t possibly break through an encirclement by a Swarm several hundred thousand strong.

What’s more, they were even daring enough to bring along ordinary civilians with no combat ability.

Forced to worry about both what’s ahead and what’s behind, they were bound to be weighed down.

There was no way they could possibly succeed in breaking out!

’Then why haven’t the Zerg to the southwest and south launched a fierce attack to stop the defenders’ breakout?!’

As Lin Feng moved deeper into the territory, Jiang Yun’er saw squads of Awakener soldiers, weapons in hand, surrounding several Zerg tunnels along the path and killing any of the Swarm that tried to emerge.

The Tier One Black Spine Zerg Squads that should have been patrolling the surface were now nowhere to be seen.

And the tens of thousands of troops in the Mother Empress’s Swarm... they also hadn’t made a move this whole time?!

Lin Feng noticed the woman on his shoulder stirring with confusion, but he offered no explanation.

He had remained silent the entire way because he was pondering a question that had been troubling him for a long time.

To be precise, it was a highly likely theory.

The moment he heard Zhang Tianming’s voice in his earpiece, an astonishing theory had surfaced in Lin Feng’s mind.

’Perhaps his own mother, He Yiwen, had a situation similar to Zhang Tianming’s, and had once awakened a similar Realm Ability.’

’And with her obsession for science, she would have been driven to understand everything about the Cosmos, including its ultimate laws.’

’That was the dream she had pursued her entire life, a dream more important than life itself.’

’Perhaps that was why she possessed Tier Four Spiritual Energy before even stepping into Tier Four. Her physical body was unable to bear it, leading to a catastrophic chain reaction and, ultimately, complete Energyization.’