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"Lieutenant! The right side has suffered heavy casualties! The target has shifted direction and is heading towards the rear!"

"Retreat and shoot on the left wing! The rear team forms a fan-shaped formation to resist! Rexxar!" Upon hearing the order, the adjutant followed Dashita's charge without hesitation, blocking the bloody monster's movements on the left and right.

A round of crossbow fire filled the monster's back with arrows. It was furious and wanted to turn around but was stopped by Dashita and Rexxar.

After several battles with this monster, Dashita and Horn realized that this monster was barely manageable for warriors like him and Rexxar, and it was difficult to kill it. However, for low-level soldiers, in the current terrain and with their current numbers, they could only drive away the monster at a terrible cost.

A rough estimate shows that it would take two hundred Victorian regular troops to kill this bloody monster - Dashita did bring two hundred and fifty people, but when entering the mountains, he divided them into several groups of twenty to guard and set up temporary medical points, and two groups of the reconnaissance team had not yet returned to the team and only met up with a medical point. Now there are only one hundred and sixty people around, and they have lost two units of firepower. In addition, the incident happened suddenly, so they have now confirmed that nineteen soldiers have died and three are seriously injured.

But this monster must die here today, because they will not allow this monster to become a hidden danger to border residents, and there must be human factors involved. Weixians cannot become like this out of thin air.

"Lieutenant Dashita!" Dashita heard the call of the horn and glanced at Rexxar, who was also struggling to resist the monster's attack. The two of them fought back at the same time, leaving a slash wound on the monster's waist and then retreated to the left and right respectively. The angry blood-red monster only had time to leave a hideous wound on Rexxar's shoulder.

"Look here!" The moment the monster raised its head, a two-meter-tall figure jumped up and chopped down with a heavy axe. The axe blade cut off the monster's left shoulder. Cello quickly kicked it in the chest, pulled out the axe, turned around to dodge the sudden attack of the bloody claws, and at the same time gathered strength to chop the monster away with an axe.

"It's okay." Horn seized the opportunity and fired five high-explosive grenades at the same time, all hitting the target. Fire and smoke penetrated into the monster's throat, and the black smoke engulfed its figure.

The horn did not stop and immediately completed the reloading preparations. These were all the grenades she carried with her - Cello also had her own grenade reserve on her.

A low roar just emerged from the black smoke, and Dashita gave an order for the gunners in the team to fill more than a dozen flame bombs into the smoke again.

Horn narrowed her eyes slightly, and the next moment she suddenly burst out from her original position. The blood-red monster that rushed out almost at the same time missed, but after shaking its body on the ground to eliminate the impact of inertia, it leaped towards the target again. Horn stood firmly and held up the shield to withstand the lightning-like blow. The heavy force left two marks of more than one meter long on the ground with her feet. Horn backhanded and smashed the monster's chest with the shield, causing it to stagger back, then quickly raised the shield and fired a grenade to directly blow the monster away, and quickly followed up with another shield attack when it tried to adjust its landing posture.

The monster let out a mournful cry for the first time, and it obviously took it some time to get up after landing. During this time, Dashita naturally would not miss this opportunity and ordered another round of crossbow fire.

But Dacita couldn't help but marvel at Horn's strength. He had personally experienced the power of the bloody monster, and he was also impressed by Horn's combat skills. He was worthy of being the descendant of Scamander.

He didn't think much about her identity as a member of the Stormtroopers, but immediately thought of her bloodline.

"That guy..." Dashita's eyes fell on the big sword behind her waist again, "She can be even more lethal."

"What a pity." The authority and the leader of the observation team in the distance shook their heads. "Time is up. The experiment has entered the final stage. We will try to use Originium to assist in fusion to promote the fusion of the reagents."

"Detect when a natural disaster will occur."

"Three minutes and fifty seconds. Estimated duration is about two hours."

"Activate the anti-source stone devices on your bodies and be ready to evacuate at any time." Although they had experienced many operations under natural disasters before, this was a natural disaster after all. The absolute safety time of their protective equipment was only 30 minutes. If it exceeded half an hour, they had to retreat.

However, the theoretical survival time of the "Blood Origin" experimental subject is only about ten minutes, which is enough for them to record.

And if it mutates through a large amount of exposure to violent Originium energy, promoting the degree of fusion between the reagent and the human body, then the results of the previous experiments might be different.

Escape? No problem, even if we can't catch it now, the Scepter and the task force will be able to catch it back in no more than three days.

As another round of crossbows fell, the monsters' unwilling roars rang out, and the long-dull disaster clouds turned into a rainstorm and pounced on the mountains in the long silence.

"Ah! Isn't it a rainstorm? Why is there such a noise?!" Ling Dengxian was startled by the flashing lights in the rainstorm and wind. At this moment, the four of them had retreated to the outer area. There was only a little bit of wind and rain falling, which was not a big threat if they were well prepared.

"Haven't you ever seen a natural disaster?" Xueya held the small drum and shook his ears to shake off the raindrops gathered on it, and explained, "During a natural disaster, a high concentration of Originium crystallizes in the air, and the originally unstable energy is restrained, part of it is stored, and part of it is released, thus forming a highly threatening natural disaster flash."

"...Xue Ya, I feel a little..." Ling Dengxian didn't understand why this Pelo girl was so familiar with him. Although she was called by Uncle Du Wa to help, it was a bit offensive to say that.

"...I'm quite familiar with Uncle Du Wa. He can be considered as my senior." Xue Ya walked in front of Ling Deng Xian and raised her hand to brush her hair. "You have also received a lot of care from him, right?"

"Yeah." Ling Dengxian was a little confused.

"Then it should be okay for me to treat you as my brother, right?"

"Oh, so that's how it is, what do you think of me?!" Ling Dengxian was petrified by this conclusion.

"No, why is it my brother!" Ling Dengxian couldn't understand at all. The Pero in front of him looked much more mature than himself.

"Because you look like my brother." Xue Ya said calmly, not at all affected by Ling Dengxian's reaction.

"Besides, I'm seventeen."

Ling Dengxian felt a little confused when he saw Xueya, who was almost the same height as him. Xueya turned around and revealed her beautiful profile, her cyan eyes not moving for a moment.

If you look closely, Xue Ya is indeed not as mature as the stereotype suggests, and her face still has a hint of immaturity, but her casual and easygoing demeanor makes her look calm and composed, as only an adult can.

"Do I look old?" Ling Dengxian couldn't help but complain in his heart, he was only seventeen years old.

"It feels like you are older than me." Xue Ya smiled, turned around and continued forward.

They did not plan to go to the medical points because they had probably moved to a safe distance by now, and the direction of the road they had taken after many twists and turns was no longer Qicheng Town. They could only go to an unmanned post station more than a thousand meters away from Qicheng Town.

Xue Ya said that Uncle Du Wa also agreed to meet there, and the army’s medical point should also go there to support the large force.

Ling Dengxian looked towards the area in the mountains where the rainstorm was raging with some worry. Dizi should be able to reunite with the team.

"Are you still worried about her?" A weak voice came to my ear.

"Are you awake? Yeban." Yeban nodded with difficulty and said softly, "I'm sorry to trouble you... I feel a little useless."

"Then you must help me when you have the chance after you get out." Ling Dengxian indicated that he also needed her help.

"Row."