AWB Chapter 157 The Village Slaughtered by Monsters
Chapter 157 The Village Slaughtered by Monsters
Half an hour ago, on the outskirts of Pingjiang City, on the same winding mountain road.
Two groups of people confronted each other in front of the abandoned roadblocks.
The team on the left, consisting of five people, wore matching uniforms with a burning flame embroidered on their chests. They were the "Wildfire" team, a local name in Sichuan and Chongqing.
On the right, one person is missing, making a total of four. Their equipment is mixed, and the leader is a one-eyed man with a scorpion tattoo on his neck. They are the roving mercenary group "Lynx".
"Captain Wang, this place was discovered first by our 'Lynx' team. Shouldn't we follow the principle of first come, first served?"
The one-eyed man scrutinized his opponent with his good eye, his hand resting on the hilt of his sword.
Wang Meng, the leader of the Wildfire Squad, took a step forward, his feet sinking into the gravel. "Liu Scorpion, shut the fuck up."
This mountainous area was only reopened two weeks ago.
The state has decreed a great reward for anyone who provides clues about the gods; whoever has the ability can claim the clues to this secret realm.
A tall, thin man behind Liu Xiezi cursed, "Wang Meng, don't push your luck! We chased this secret realm all the way from the south. If you hadn't interfered, we would have been in long ago!"
Wang Meng ignored him and just stared at Liu Xiezi: "There's only one way out. Either fight it out or get lost."
Liu Xiezi exchanged a glance with the person next to him.
He knew he was one man down, so his chances of winning a real fight were slim.
His eyes darted around, and he suddenly pointed behind Wang Meng and shouted, "There's a monster behind us!"
The Wildfire Squad members all turned around.
In that instant, Liu Xiezi and the three men behind him turned and rushed toward a cliff face covered with vines by the roadside.
There was a barely noticeable space there.
"Damn it!" Wang Meng realized what was happening, cursed angrily, and led his men to chase after them.
Liu Xiezi charged ahead, completely disregarding the stability of the entrance to the secret realm, and crashed straight in. One of his teammates was a beat slower and was kicked in the back by Wang Meng, who caught up with him, and rolled to the ground.
In the chaos, no one noticed that the cracks at the edges of the space that had been forcibly entered were rapidly expanding.
A roar that did not belong to a human came from inside the cliff.
On the riverbank outside Pingjiang City, three young women were splashing in the water, lifting their skirts. Water splashed on their faces, eliciting bursts of laughter.
"Huang Lu, don't run away, see how I deal with you!" A girl with a ponytail scooped up water and splashed it at her companion who was furthest away.
The girl named Huang Lu laughed and dodged away. Just as she was about to retaliate, she noticed that another sister who hadn't spoken was standing quietly in the water, without making a sound.
"Xiaoya?"
She called out, but there was no response.
Huang Lu's smile froze. She waded through the water and nudged her companion's shoulder.
My companion's body slumped down, severed at the waist. The upper half sank into the water, staining it a murky red. The lower half remained upright.
A beast covered in black slime and with insect-like compound eyes stood where Xiaoya had been standing, with half of its still-beating internal organs in its mouth.
It raised its head, and dozens of scarlet compound eyes looked at Huang Lu together.
"ah--!"
A scream ripped from his throat.
The other girl with the ponytail was also terrified and turned to run to the shore.
The monster, moving on all fours, was so fast that it left only a blur, and pounced on her in an instant.
The sounds of bones shattering and flesh being torn apart were clearly audible.
Huang Lu's mind went blank; her only thought was to run. She scrambled up the riverbank and ran wildly toward the village.
But at the village entrance, another monster of the same kind was crawling out of the courtyard wall of a house, dragging a mutilated corpse in its mouth.
I can't go back to the village.
Huang bit her lip tightly, not daring to cry out, turned around, and ran desperately toward the winding mountain road in the distance.
There are cars there, and perhaps... perhaps there are still living people.
She heard a strange wind behind her; the monster was catching up.
In the high beams of the SUV, the huge black shadow stood up straight.
Thick saliva dripped from its mouthparts, corroding the asphalt road surface and emitting a puff of white smoke.
Several refugees scrambled out from behind the roadblock, their faces filled with terror.
"Help... Monster! The monsters from the secret realm have escaped!"
"Run! Run!"
The shadowy figure ignored the fleeing ordinary people; its compound eyes locked onto the roaring SUV.
The metal shell, in its view, was a more attractive prey.
Lu Yan kicked open the car door and was already outside.
Wen Yue got out of the passenger seat almost simultaneously, without pausing at all.
The weapon was already in hand.
The monster used its hind legs to propel its massive body toward the off-road vehicle like a cannonball.
Lu Yan did not retreat; the seven-colored vine on his right arm lit up.
A temporary shield wall made of garbage and soil was formed instantly.
boom!
The monster slammed headfirst into the shield wall, sending rubble and metal fragments flying everywhere.
That's the pause.
Wen Yue pulled the trigger.
The crimson grenade, trailing a fiery tail, pierced precisely into the monster's open mouth without the slightest deviation.
The next instant, the flames of the explosion shone from inside the monster's skull, while the muffled thud was suppressed within its body.
Its upper body was completely blown apart, and black slime and tissue fragments covered the abandoned car behind it.
His lower body continued to run forward two steps due to inertia before collapsing to the ground with a thud.
From getting off the vehicle to the end of the battle, it took no more than five seconds.
The girl named Huang Lu happened to run up to the scene. Seeing it, her legs went weak, and she knelt down on the ground, bursting into tears.
Lu Yan walked up to her.
"The village...please save our village!" Huang Lu grabbed his trouser leg, her face covered in snot and tears. "So many monsters, Xiaoya and the others...they're all..."
Wen Yue walked over and put away her weapon.
She looked at the girl, then at the distant village, where all was silent except for a few wisps of black smoke rising from it.
The veins on the back of her hand, which was gripping the straps of her tactical vest, were slightly bulging.
"Hurry up, get in the car."
He pulled Huang Lu up and shoved her into the back seat of the SUV.
Wen Yue sat back in the passenger seat.
The SUV engine roared, and Lu Yan slammed the steering wheel, shoving aside two wrecked cars blocking the way, and drove straight through the gap in the roadblock.
A few minutes later, the SUV stopped at the village entrance.
This place can no longer be called a village.
The walls were in ruins, marked with burns and tears. The stench of blood and decay mingled together, assaulting the senses.
The ground was littered with the corpses of villagers, most of them mutilated. Not a single one was alive.
Huang Lu, sitting in the back seat, let out a suppressed sob and finally fainted.
Wen Yue pushed open the car door and got out.
She looked at a disemboweled corpse, a child who looked no more than five or six years old... still clutching a cloth tiger tightly in his hand.
Just then, from the nearby mountains and forests came the crisp sound of weapons clashing and shouts of killing mixed with angry curses.
"Liu the Scorpion! I'll skin you alive today!"
"Wang Meng, are you fucking crazy?! Monsters have all come out, why aren't you killing them? What are you chasing after me for?!"
"You're the one who did this! If you hadn't barged in like a bastard, would this have happened?"
The sound was getting closer.
The two groups fought their way from the woods to the road, both covered in wounds and their clothes stained with blood and mud.
It was the teams "Wildfire" and "Lynx".
Neither of them gained an advantage; both had someone injured.
They also saw the SUV parked at the village entrance, and Lu Yan and Wen Yue beside it.
"Wildfire is in the thick of things, get out of the way!" Wang Meng's eyes were bloodshot, clearly he was already engrossed in the fight, and he drew his knife, intending to drive them away.