The Invasion Day – Chapter 104

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Chapter 104

Raising an eyebrow, Wen Zhaoming said to Tang Xuhai: “Close the door.”

Tang Xuhai observed the situation in the room, confirming to himself that it didn’t seem like they were blaming him. He turned and closed the door, then laid the vase on the bedside table. In his seemingly crude movements, there was somehow a sense of delicateness as he opened the bouquet and placed it in the vase.

“Don’t forget to put some water in it.” Wen Zhaoming said.

Tang Xuhai paused slightly, then he picked up the vase and headed to the bathroom to collect water.

After that, Wen Zhaoming said to Fu Shiwu: “Even if Xuhai crashed onto you when he was trying to save you, wasn’t it because of the shells they fired? Xuhai was forced to take that action.” Wen Zhaoming said with a cold look: “There were cameras in the armoured vehicle. I’ve seen everything that happened at that time.”

Clenching his fists tightly, he gritted his teeth: “If the military wants to fool us with their praises, there’s no way I’m letting them!” 

“What’s going on?” After hearing this, Tang Xuhai’s expression didn’t look good either. Putting the vase back on the bedside table, he turned around and sat on the edge of the bed all very naturally, placing himself extremely close to Fu Shiwu.

“Hm.” Wen Zhaoming snorted coldly: “The two factions in the army are fighting hard against each other, and the faction that went to find us at the villa was the one that tried to trick us. It seems that they hope to bring down Shiwu’s credit. They simply want to send us off after giving a shabby amount of Civil Points!”

“Son of a bitch!” It was as if frost could be seen in Tang Xuhai’s eyes as a menacing aura emanated from his body. His eyes narrowed with contempt: “Do you remember his face? What was his rank?”

Wen Zhaoming coughed a little and said to Tang Xuhai: “What are you going to do? Run over and beat him up?”

Tang Xuhai’s expression turned sullen, revealing that he was actually planning to do so.

Wen Zhaoming sneered coldly: “That’s already too good for them.”

Fu Shiwu said solemnly: “They’ve been conspiring against us since the first day we went for the defence mission, so we can’t just randomly go against them.”

Wen Zhaoming proudly raised his head and said, his tone exuding a sense of satisfaction: “Of course, it can’t be done so randomly. Don’t worry, I’ve already contacted Captain Zou. Luckily, I had felt something odd by then and asked Miao Jia to come over to make a copy of the video on the armoured vehicle, otherwise, it won’t be easy to say who’ll lose in this game.”

Tang Xuhai raised his eyebrows with intrigue: “Oh? What are you planning to do?”

Wen Zhaoming showed a gloomy smile that didn’t quite fit his usual image, saying: “Obviously, we want to overturn them and knock them down from their high horses. We need to kick them really hard!”

Wen Zhaoming said sternly: “With the evidence in Captain Zou’s hand, the video kept by Miao Jia, and the official installation of new equipment, we can challenge the authority of the logistics department. Not only it’ll make the other party completely ruined, but it would also tarnish their reputation to the point they’ll never be able to recover!”

Seeing this overbearing side of his friend, Fu Shiwu was shaken to the core. With a dumbstruck expression, he gazed at the cold light that was enveloping Wen Zhaoming.

Tang Xuhai admired Wen Xiaoming so much that he was almost lost for words. Shaking his head, he heaved a sigh: “Remind me to never offend you in the future.”

Wen Zhaoming touched his neck with a hint of embarrassment: “Xuhai, you just take care of Shiwu with peace of mind. You both don’t have to worry about anything else, leave it all to me.”

Then he put on a very uptight expression and said sternly: “We can’t just let the hero bleed and cry to himself!”

Watching Wen Zhaoming’s excellent performance, Fu Shiwu, the person actually directly involved with the incident, actually felt quite ashamed of himself.

Wen Zhaoming rolled up his sleeves with utter excitement, energetically waving his arm that had been put back on a splint — because he insisted on not carrying any plaster cast. He had devoted himself to this ‘annual drama’ of Pei City, and now, Fu Shiwu and Tang Xuhai had earnestly listened to what he had to say and obediently took a step back to recuperate here.

Wen Zhaoming’s departure from the ward seemed to be the prelude to many visits that followed. One after another, the people in the Dragonbone Corps who could still walk came to pay Fu Shiwu a visit. Clearly, most of them had relatively less serious injuries, just that a bit of walking was necessary to get to different floors. 

The treatment they received wasn’t as good as Fu Shiwu. They were arranged to be in a triple room, but since people from the same corps got to be together, no one was lonely.

Wang Dan’s leg bone was fractured and put in a plaster cast, Liu Peiqi’s head was bandaged, while Hollande’s shoulder was pierced by an alien’s tube.

These three’s injuries were rather light compared to Zhen Zi, whose arms and ribs were ruptured. She just had an operation and could only lie in bed for now.

Gazing at them, Fu Shiwu asked with a slightly touched expression: “How did you all get hurt so badly?

Liu Peiqi put up a sheepish smile, saying: “Since Pei City raised the highest alarm, everyone nearby came to participate in the battle. As the situation turned more and more dangerous later, we couldn’t hold back any further and rushed to the wall.”

Wang Dan said: “By the time we went up, everything had become chaos. It took us a long time to locate Deputy Commander Wen and Zhen Zi, but the two of you were nowhere to be seen. So we had to follow Zhou Weihua and the others to fight against the aliens.”

Hollande said: “My wound is a bit on the dangerous side. It almost hit my heart.”

Liu Peiqi said: “Wang Dan was the brave one. When Zhen Zi got dragged by an alien and fell off the city wall, if Wang Dan hadn’t jumped down and killed the creature, Zhen Zi would’ve been in real danger.”

Wang Dan joked: “Wasn’t it thanks to your wood-type ability? You used it just in time to save both Zhen Zi and me.”

Intrigued, Tang Xuhai asked at once: “What happened at that time? Tell us clearly.”

Liu Peiqi laughed and recounted the whole event in detail.

Because Wen Zhaoming had stood up from the wheelchair, Fu Shiwu’s pulling on him caused his already-wounded arm to be dislocated again. Since his walking hadn’t gotten so good yet, he straightaway leaned against the wall. Seeing that, Zhen Zi never left his side, while Zhou Weihua cooperated with Zhen Zi’s attack. Unknowingly, they all gathered at one spot and totally didn’t find out that Fu Shiwu and Tang Xuhai had left.

By the time Wang Dan and the others came up, they realised that no one knew the two’s whereabouts.

During the battle that followed, Zhen Zi was overtaken by an alien and fell off the wall. Wang Dan jumped right after her and killed the alien, but Zhen Zi couldn’t move. No matter how powerful Wang Dan might be, it would be a challenge to deal with an endless wave of Level-2 aliens.

Liu Peiqi then quickly threw down the weed seeds he carried with him. The dense seeds rapidly grew into very long yet extremely firm weeds and warped into a tight, solid layer of protection around the two of them.

The moment any alien stepped on the weeds, its feet would be tightly bound before it got killed by Wang Dan or other ability users.

As a result, with Liu Peiqi’s trick, they kept fighting till the very end and not a single person died.

“Oh~” Tang Xuhai praised Liu Peiqi: “I didn’t expect that at the critical moment, it was your wood-type ability that turned the tide. Amazing.”

Liu Peiqi beamed with eagerness: “Weeds might be very small, inconspicuous plants, but I learnt that if we know how to dig deep and make the best use of them, their impact is huge.”

“Indeed.” Fu Shiwu nodded: “Wood-type abilities aren’t weak at all. On the contrary, it could play a big role in defence and support. Liu Peiqi, in the future, you can try developing more functions in this area. Of course, we can’t ignore the attack side either.”

“Yes, Commander.” Hearing an acknowledgement from his poker-face Commander, Liu Peiqi’s excitement rose even higher.

Everyone chatted for a while before Wang Dan’s group returned to their ward. Their injuries might not be in a favourable state, but thanks to their physique, they would soon be discharged from the hospital and allowed to return to the villa to continue with recovery.

Fu Shiwu and Tang Xuhai went to Zhen Zi’s ward to see her. Because of her serious conditions, she was assigned to a private room.

Zhen Zi was still asleep, with only one nurse beside her to check on her symptoms.

“We need to find someone to specifically attend to her.” Fu Shiwu furrowed his eyebrows. “There’s only one lady in our group, Wang Dan, while among the others, there’s only Miao Jia.” 

Tang Xuhai patted Fu Shiwu’s head and said softly: “Don’t worry, I’ve already talked to the people in Ping Nan. They’ll find a middle-aged lady in good health to take care of Zhen Zi for a while.”

Except for Wang Dan, these people were all men, which made it inconvenient to take care of Zhen Zi’s hygiene.

Pondering the thought for a while, Fu Shiwu said: “We can only do that for the time being.”

After they had paid a visit to Zhen Zi, Tang Xuhai supported Fu Shiwu’s arm and they walked back slowly together.

Fu Shiwu didn’t reject his good intentions, for the contusion in his chest always made him feel this dull pain when he breathed or did anything. He didn’t dare to exert much force either.

Tang Xuhai helped Fu Shiwu get back with a blank expression, but his heart was full of emotions and joy was rippling all over his body.

He himself had no idea what was wrong with him. Obviously, his friend was wounded and couldn’t move around, so why was he so happy?!

He felt that he was going further and further down the road of madness!

The two waddled back to the ward at the speed of two old men, and upon reaching the door, they spotted Miao Jia pacing in a circle there.

“Miao Jia!” Fu Shiwu called out first.

“Fu ge! Hai ge!” With his precious little laptop hanging behind his back, Miao Jia grinned when he saw the two of them.

As the three returned to the ward, Tang Xuhai even took the initiative to help Fu Shiwu every step of the way, to the point that Fu Shiwu was made embarrassed to climb into the bed with his help. He sat down against the head of the bed.

“Fu ge, Hai ge.” Miao Jia took out the laptop with a grim expression and put it on the mobile tray that was often used for patients to eat in bed: “I came to see Fu ge and other teammates. On the other hand. I also want to show you the siege that’s happening in other cities.”

Tang Xuhai’s face turned solemn and he said in a deep voice: “What’s happening to other cities?”

Miao Jia shook his head with a heavy heart: “It’s not good at all! Except for a few large military districts nearby, many survival bases have been wiped out by aliens. Some cities are still fighting, but the situation isn’t optimistic.”

Miao Jia turned on the laptop, brushed his fingers smoothly across and swiftly called up a video he had specially made.

This video was taken from an airplane after the city had collapsed, and the scenes were immensely heart-wrecking. The inner side of the city looked as though it had been hit by a tsunami, with white waves rushing into the city and tragedies taking place everywhere. People were fleeing in all directions, scrambling over each other to escape.

Miao Jia mumbled: “It’s different from our side. Although these cities also had artillery shells, there just wasn’t enough firepower, which eventually led to their downfall.”

Unable to watch it any longer, Fu Shiwu silently turned his head away.

Tang Xuhai cast a glance at him, then turned to look at the images on the computer with seriousness and all his attention.

“Wait.” Tang Xuhai suddenly voiced out, pointing his finger at the screen: “This spot, replay it.” 

Hearing this, Fu Shiwu couldn’t help turning his head again.

“Zoom in.” Tang Xuhai said with his arms crossed.

“This is…?” Fu Shiwu exclaimed: “Level-3 aliens?!”