The Invasion Day – Chapter 12

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Chapter 12

Even if Wang Ziping couldn’t pull Tang Xuhai into his car, he didn’t plan to just give up Tang Xuhai, a man with such prominent strength.

Wang Ziping had his family in the car. Compared with going alone, clearly going in groups would give them better odds of surviving an encounter with the aliens. After observing the past few days, he told Liao Ke that around them were mostly young adults, middle-aged folks and families who had someone they wanted to protect. Facing the threat of these aliens and knowing now that the army was stationed near the eastern suburbs, of course many people would be willing to head there to take shelter under the army.

Some people, like Wang Ziping, were driving in front of Tang Xuhai while some were behind him, trying their best to stay ‘united’ with Tang Xuhai.

It wasn’t that Tang Xuhai didn’t see other vehicles ganging up around him. Although he didn’t directly get rid of those people, he also didn’t intend to be conveniently used by them — especially Wang Ziping.

But Wang Ziping probably hadn’t thought of this: If he travelled alone, coming across an alien might or might not be possible; but the moment a big group travelled together, it became almost inevitable!

After all, they made such a huge prey with their large number and naturally became the best target for an attack.

An alien waved its tentacles and jumped down from a tall building on the roadside, hitting the roof of the car in front!

This shocked the driver and he stepped on the brakes out of reflex.

However, this sudden stop dangerously jammed up all the cars behind. Tang Xuhai forcefully turned the steering wheel and swiftly passed over that car, but the car behind wasn’t so lucky and rammed directly into the car in front.

With this violent impact, any human would definitely be thrown off if he was standing on the car roof. But this alien’s tentacles likely had either suction cups or hooks at the tips, so it continued to stand firmly atop the car.

The door flicked open and the people in the two cars ran away hysterically. At this point, another alien rushed out from the side alley and pounced itself onto the crowd, its long tentacles quickly wrapping around a man’s neck.

“Help me!!!” The man cried out, but unfortunately, he only had an iron rod in the car, which he didn’t even bring along as everyone had jumped out of the vehicle in complete panic.

Both frightened and dismayed, the man’s companion could only look helplessly, knowing that there was nothing he could do. As he was hesitating, the alien bit off the other man’s head and charged towards him!

The alien’s tentacles allowed them to move swiftly on these streets with tall buildings, utility poles and billboards scattered at all corners, just like Tarzan in the jungle.

Wang Ziping slammed on the gas pedal. Seeing another alien appearing from behind, he made up his mind and turned the wheel, then he pushed the car that was following him to the side.

The driver stared in horror at the alien in the rearview mirror. He totally didn’t expect that Wang Ziping would suddenly push his car. In that desperate moment, he suddenly turned left and smashed into the median strip, at which moment the alien quickly ran a few steps forward and got into the car via the broken window.

Hearing the horrified scream behind him, Wang Ziping loosened up. With a sullen face, he said to his frightened family members: “Sit tight.” 

Meanwhile, Tang Xuhai remained utterly composed and reacted to the car in front of them. When that car hit the strip, he slowed down. After the car next to them sped ahead in fear, Tang Xuhai turned over the next lane.

Fu Shiwu’s tightly gripped the handrail below the car window, feeling his heart almost jumping out of his throat. The sight had him so petrified that he couldn’t even scream.

Fu Shiwu watched Tang Xuhai change from his usual lazy and nonchalant appearance to a remarkably serious expression, all while his hands flexibly turning the steering wheel and pulling the gear from time to time.

Fu Shiwu had to admit that with his driving ability, it was very likely that he would reflexively step on the brakes when the first car made its sudden stop.

More aliens came over as the whole place turned into chaos. The alien that got into the other car had crawled out of the rear window and was about to jump towards them.

Tang Xuhai made a decisive call and slammed on the accelerator, then he directly banged into the rear of the other car that was blocking the road.

Under the massive impact of the crash, the creature was sent flying backwards.

Tang Xuhai then pursed his lips and knocked over the other car.

Fu Shiwu turned around to glance over. People who’ve died can’t die again, he sighed.

He grabbed the handrail with one hand and aggressively pulled the seat belt with the other hand. Tang Xuhai was now speeding up to get rid of the alien that was climbing up from behind.

“What do we do now? It’s climbing up!!!” Fu Shiwu turned around to look and said nervously.

Tang Xuhai glanced at the rearview mirror and recognised that it was the one that he had hit just now. The alien had tentacles, so even though it was sent flying backwards, these tentacles flung back and tightly hooked into the car rear.

“This motherf**ker is really persistent!” Tang Xuhai cursed. If it was any normal animal, it would be dragged to death at such a crazy speed, but this creature could even climb up.

The alien punched on the roof of the car, but this off-road SUV was made of extremely tough materials and showed no signs of cracking, albeit it started deforming with the attack.

“What should we do, what should we do?!” Fu Shiwu stared alarmingly at the pit that was getting deeper and deeper, himself starting to ramble incoherent words.

“Be quiet!” Tang Xuhai frowned. For now, they needed to leave this block first.

The car turned into the main road that had tall buildings on both sides, then Tang Xuhai drove towards the parking lot behind these tall buildings.

“Where are you heading?” Fu Shiwu asked.

“To find a place with an open field of view. I don’t want to be surrounded by these unknowns.” Tang Xuhai looked at the tentacle hanging down from the window next to him, which carried hooks that would send a chill down anyone’s spine upon the sight.

“Fu Shiwu!” He shouted.

“Yes?” Fu Shiwu had his eyes fixed on the car roof, his nerves stretched to the extreme.

“Didn’t you say that your driving is good?” Tang Xuhai stretched out one hand and pulled Fu Shiwu’s chin over so that he looked Fu Shiwu in the eyes: “I’ll jump out of the car and chase this monster away. You lean over and take the wheel, then climb here and hit the brakes, do you understand?”

“Huh?!” Fu Shiwu stared back at him in utter shock.

He understood every single word, but this surely wasn’t an easy task. I’m afraid I can’t do it!

“Catch it!” Tang Xuhai grabbed his hand and pressed it on the steering wheel. The moment he opened the door, the tentacles outside directly flew towards him. Tang Xuhai pulled out his combat knife and slashed the tentacles.

“Squeak———” The alien let out a harsh cry, as though its vocal cord had been torn apart. Its tentacle was cut off!

Tang Xuhai immediately took the opportunity to jump off the car.

Although the car wasn’t going at excessively high speed, he still rolled on the ground for a while before the momentum stopped.

“Tang Xuhai!!!” Fu Shiwu screamed since he hadn’t even unfastened his seat belt! Why did you jump so fast?!!!

Fu Shiwu was about to cry. With one hand holding onto the wheel, his other hand rapidly flicked to release the seat belt. Wen Zhaoming hurried over to help him. Luckily, no dog-blood situation of a seat belt not being able to be unbuckled at the critical moment happened.

With Wen Zhaoming’s help, Fu Shiwu smoothly climbed onto the driver’s seat and slowly stepped on the brakes, but instead of coming to a full stop, he turned around and drove back.

It was getting dark and Fu Shiwu wanted to shine the car lights for Tang Xuhai’s vision.

This parking lot was built for the grand commercial building on the main road. It was often full of vehicles during busy periods, however, since the days following the astronomical phenomenon, almost no one had returned to work and the parking lot was scattered with only a few cars.

This empty field was extremely favourable for Tang Xuhai to carry out his plan. After jumping off the car, he had pulled the alien’s grudge with him. The creature definitely despised the human who had cut off one of its tentacles.

Its other tentacle tried to twist around him.

These aliens had extraordinarily fast movements that most ordinary people wouldn’t be able to react to, but for Tang Xuhai, a man who had undergone rigorous training as a soldier, this speed could still be avoided.

And he could not not avoid it anyway, because if the hooks on those tentacles managed to tug on his body, a large piece of flesh would be gone. Fighting with these aliens could easily have him end up being skinned alive.

The alien’s tentacle swept across his chest and Tang Xuhai instantly dodged with a backward fall, then he swiftly pushed his body up and stabbed the alien with the combat knife.

The alien flipped its tentacles and ducked to one side, letting out an excruciating scream. It panted heavily and seemed horribly irritated.

Getting closer, Tang Xuhai found that only the front end of the tentacles contained those hooks. This gave him an idea.

Tang Xuhai pretended to target the alien’s left arm that had been chopped off earlier. Now that it had been severely wounded, the alien seemed particularly sensitive to pain and couldn’t help being on guard, especially on its left side, to prevent further harm. Taking advantage of this chance, Tang Xuhai grabbed the alien’s right arm from behind, twisted its waist and threw it over the shoulder. The moment the creature hit the ground, Tang Xuhai slammed the combat knife right in between its eyebrows.

As Fu Shiwu drove the car over slowly, Tang Xuhai defeated the alien with lightning speed.

Tang Xuhai pulled the knife out and the alien’s blood forcefully spurted out. As the tension had passed, Tang Xuhai’s senses came back to him and various parts of his body started sending their collapse signals.

His whole body trembled and he was almost unable to stand.

Fu Shiwu pushed the car door open and quickly came over to lift him up.

“Are you okay? Are there any injuries?” Fu Shiwu asked cautiously.

“It’s okay, there’s nothing too serious.” Tang Xuhai brushed off Fu Shiwu’s hand, not allowing the brat to support him.

Tang Xuhai paused for a moment, then he walked towards the off-road SUV.

“Let’s go quickly, else it’ll be too late.”

Knowing that Tang Xuhai had an existing wound on his leg, Fu Shiwu could now immediately notice that something wasn’t quite right: “How is your leg?”

“It’s okay!” Tang Xuhai said sternly: “You drive, let’s go first. We can talk later!”

Fu Shiwu decided to stop arguing. If Tang Xuhai’s leg had been fine, he would never have let Fu Shiwu drive.

Tang Xuhai waited for Fu Shiwu to get in first before he slowly climbed into the car. He stabilised the left side of his body onto the seat, then seemingly pulled his right leg inside.

“What really happened to your leg?” Fu Shiwu became enraged and turned around to cast a sharp look at Tang Xuhai, his aura screaming “If you don’t tell me, we’re not going anywhere.”

Tang Xuhai felt infuriated yet helpless at the same time: “It’s okay. I might have twisted it a bit when I jumped down just now.”

Fu Shiwu nodded and finally started the car, completely failing to notice that his gaze seemed to have conveyed the wrong intention again.

Tang Xuhai felt downhearted because he was threatened by Fu Shiwu’s eyes.

Poor Fu Shiwu actually just wanted to express his genuine concerns.