The Invasion Day – Chapter 70

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Chapter 70

Miao Jia coughed dryly and stood up covered in smoke, the prostheses in his hand dropping to the ground. He paid completely no attention to them and, with a stupefied expression, stared at the blasted wall at the end of the corridor.

With such a huge hole blown into the wall, could he still be alive?!

“Wen ge!!!” Miao Jia screamed, feeling his heart almost burst.

“Cough, cough, cough!” Liu Zhao desperately wiped his eyes, but the dust on his hands made it even more difficult to keep them open.

Wu Shan was still lying on his stomach, mumbling feebly: “It can’t be? Why did the cell explode?” 

The three of them stood rooted to the spot, not knowing what to do. A moment later, Fu Shiwu ran over.

“Why did it blow up?” Miao Jia looked at the empty space in confusion: “We’ve brought his prostheses right here.”

“He won’t… He won’t come with us. This is exactly what he wanted to tell us… ” Fu Shiwu said with a trembling voice, his heart sinking heavily in his chest.

“What? He clearly said he would be with us!” Miao Jia turned his head and cried out: “…He’ll come as long as we find his prostheses or his wheelchair.”

“I think… I understand Wen Zhaoming’s thoughts.” With immense awe, Huo Enting glanced at the ruins at the corner of the building: “As long as the bomb is on him, we’ll still be in Shi Zheng’s palm and could never have the upper hand once we confront him. He… sacrificed himself to give us a better chance of surviving.”

There was one thing that Huo Enting didn’t want to say. Being humiliated like that, coupled with the self-inflicted guilt that he dragged down his companions — if it were Huo Enting, he might also resort to this extreme method.

“Wen Zhaoming…” Wang Dan looked at the corner of the building with complicated eyes.

“What’s the matter? Why are all you standing here in a daze? Don’t you know that such a big movement is likely to get Shi Zheng’s attention?” Tang Xuhai immediately said as he ran towards them, followed by Liu Peiqi.

“Hai ge!” Miao Jia couldn’t help but tear up, his eyes turning all red: “Wen ge… the bomb exploded, Wen ge, he…”

Hearing Miao Jia’s disorderly words, Tang Xuhai frowned in annoyance: “Talk properly!”

“Waaaa…” Even more lost for words, Miao Jia completely burst into tears.

His face and head were covered with white dust from the explosion and two streams of tears dripped down his face, making him look all funny and ridiculous, but unfortunately, no one had the heart to laugh.

“Wen Zhaoming detonated the bomb and killed himself.” Hollande said.

“What did you say?!” Tang Xuhai gaped at the cement board and broken bricks falling out from the corner in utter disbelief: “Wen Zhaoming?!! Why did he do that?!!”

Tang Xuhai’s expression was so frightening that Liu Zhao could only swallow his saliva and said helplessly: “Mr. Wen did that… so that we won’t be threatened by the remote control in Shi Zheng’s hand…”

Tang Xuhai’s mind trembled for a moment, then he noticed Fu Shiwu’s stiff back. He stepped forward and put one hand on Fu Shiwu’s shoulder as he clenched his teeth: “It’s Shi Zheng who killed Lao Wen! I’ll kill him myself to avenge Lao Wen!”

Fu Shiwu had been too shocked by the turn of events. Finally snapping out of it, he nodded solemnly: “Uhm!” 

“Someone is coming!” Liu Peiqi stood at the very end and was the first to hear the movement from behind.

Originally, two groups of Shi Zheng’s men came because of the girl’s loud screams, and after they perished, another batch of evolved aliens descended outside the prison, adding more powers to the alien wave that had gathered around here. They even woke up the aliens that had fallen asleep and completely besieged Ping Nan Prison. By this point, Shi Zheng still hadn’t been able to get his men to take a look at the situation.

Only when he heard a huge explosion from here did Shi Zheng become worried that it would affect his arrangement, so he rushed over with unease, followed closely by some of his underlings.

“Shi Zheng!!! I’ll kill you aaaahhhh —” The girl who had been quietly standing aside suddenly rushed towards the front frantically, but Wang Dan quickly grabbed her.

“It’s you?” Shi Zheng’s attention was piqued by this young girl who looked like she had gone crazy. “Mad woman!” His look of disgust provoked the girl even further, making Wang Dan almost unable to hold her down. Miao Jia immediately stepped over to help.

“Isn’t it enough that you used my classmates as bait?! You didn’t let my friend go! You clearly promised to keep her safe. Why, why did you let your men humiliate her?!!”

Shi Zheng let out a “tsk” and cast a devious look at the young girl: “So naive. What I meant was that people who were capable would be kept safe, and that didn’t include your friend.”

“Monster! You’re not a human! Liar! Scum!!!” The girl struggled desperately as her mind played back the scene when her friend died. She wanted to tear him up, eat his flesh and drink his blood!

She took a deep breath, opened her mouth and a silent sound wave ruffled across the air — “Buzz!!!”, it rushed towards Shi Zheng.

Shi Zheng had been aware of her ability for a long time, but a surprise swept over him nevertheless. Feeling the imminent danger, he swiftly dragged someone over to shield himself.

The man spurted blood, his eyes burst out and he died on the spot.

As Shi Zheng’s expression sank, he waved his hand and a man with a gun behind him immediately drew his weapon, directly pointing it at the girl.

“Only trash bullies a girl. Shi Zheng, your opponent is me!” Tang Xuhai stepped forward and blocked the girl behind his back.

“Tang Xuhai?” Shi Zheng cast a stern look at Tang Xuhai: “So you found a way out!”

Seeing Tang Xuhai grasping a huge sword in his hand, Shi Zheng understood everything at once. Tang Xuhai was just putting on a show before. When he was finally thrown into the cell, he took advantage of the moment when the gang’s attention was all on the aliens to escape.

“To deal with a cruel man like you, how can I not be prepared?” Tang Xuhai narrowed his eyes and his hand gripped the hilt of the giantsword even more tightly. He was only wearing a pair of tactical boots on his feet, while his long, sturdy legs were entirely exposed. Since the gang wanted to ridicule him, they never returned his pants and belt at all.

“You’re looking really ridiculous. I’ll send you to accompany your brothers soon, so perhaps you may want to take a photo to send to your people for keepsake? Isn’t this all very interesting?” Shi Zheng casually pressed on the remote control as his face put up a pretentious expression of regret.

Tang Xuhai shot him a fierce glare and said with a cold voice: “It’s a pity, you won’t have that chance.”

As soon as his words landed, a piece of steel armour slowly emerged from his ankle and wrapped itself around his leg. In a blink, from the waist down, his legs were tightly covered in steel!

Shi Zheng’s pupils shrank with sheer astonishment. What kind of ability was this?!

“Feng Zhuoming!” Shi Zheng bellowed as his figure quickly retreated to the back.

Feng Zhuoming stepped forward with a wicked smile, and with a snobbish tone, he said to Tang Xuhai: “Kiddo, you dare to turn metal into armour in front of me, don’t bluff1班門弄斧 is an idiom used when one tries to show off his skills in front of an expert.! Open your eyes and see how a real metal ability should be used. Let this senior teach you well. Your whole body is full of openings.”

Feng Zhuoming was obviously also a metal-type ability user. As he stretched out both arms, he sent a look of disdain at Tang Xuhai’s direction.

Tang Xuhai let out a cold sneer and held the greatsword horizontally in front of his chest.

Feng Zhuoming extended his arms with a relaxed expression, and Tang Xuhai was readily waiting for his move. A moment later, seeing Feng Zhuoming still carrying the same expression and posture, Tang Xuhai got a little suspicious. This braggart was standing there like a statue for way too long.

Tang Xuhai impatiently glanced at him: “You only have that much to show off? Shi Zheng, ask this useless underling of yours to f-off!”

Feng Zhuoming’s forehead was oozing sweat, his heart yelling, This is impossible. Why had Tang Xuhai’s weapon not fallen under his control yet?

A showdown between two metal ability users was always about who could gain faster control of the metal elements. It wasn’t like Feng Zhuoming had never met someone who was equal to or even stronger than him, but no one had ever stood that firm before him, without moving even an inch!

Being scolded as ‘useless’, Feng Zhuoming’s heart started pounding. There was nothing his boss hated more than a useless underling.

He looked back, and as expected, Shi Zheng was staring at him with such viscous eyes.

Refusing to accept his own helplessness, Feng Zhuoming tried again, but no result turned up at all, almost scaring him into believing that his ability had failed. He quickly turned to control the other metals around him.

At this point, Tang Xuhai was already clutching the greatsword in both hands, and his feet swiftly strode towards Shi Zheng

“Shoot!” Shi Zheng commanded.

“Bang bang bang!” The crisp sound of a gun came and the bullets flew towards Tang Xuhai, but they were all rapidly deflected by his sword.

Shi Zheng cursed “You worthless bunch!” and took a big diagonal step, then he bent over to hug a thick trunk amidst the stretch of trees behind him.

“Kyaaa!!!” Blue veins popped up all over Shi Zheng’s body as his waist and legs exerted all their strength. Letting out a loud howl, he uprooted the whole tree and quickly threw it towards Tang Xuhai. 

The thick tree, whose top was growing abundantly, was almost impossible to be dodged. Tang Xuhai took a large stride to avoid the main trunk and, with an earth-shattering roar, he brought his greatsword up high, gathered his strength and smashed it sideways.

With the greatsword’s incredibly sharp blade and Tang Xuhai’s enormous power, the big, lush tree suffered a huge cut on its trunk.

His wrist was sore from the impact of the tree. Tang Xuhai quietly flicked his wrist and carried the greatsword with one hand as he stepped on the broken branches.

Over there, Shi Zheng was already waiting for him with another tree of the same thickness hanging on his shoulder.

“Shi Zheng! Go to hell!” Scrutinising the opponent with his sharp eyes, Tang Xuhai brought his greatsword upright and rushed over!

At that very moment, under the control of the panicked Feng Zhuoming, the metal window frames next to him started shaking violently and their glass panel completely shattered into pieces.

Feng Zhuoming breathed a sigh of relief. There was really no problem with his ability.

He glanced at Tang Xuhai sullenly. It was Tang Xuhai who had a problem, not him! He manipulated the window frames to fly down from mid-air and float around him, then they slowly morphed into a rain of razor-sharp thorns.

Catching sight of Feng Zhuoming planning to bring disadvantages to Tang Xuhai, Fu Shiwu raised his pistol and was ready to fire.

“Creak!” With an extremely fast reaction, the metal thorns around Feng Zhuoming neatly blocked the bullet.

Feng Zhuoming gaped at the bullet floating right in front of his forehead, cold sweat pouring down his back.

“Don’t you have some guts! You dare to fire at a metal ability user, you really don’t know how to fear death!” Feng Zhuoming was enraged at once and the metal thorns quivered with his fury.

At this point, Hollande also raised his gun.

But these bullets were easily controlled by Feng Zhuoming and had absolutely no chance to even fly into a one-meter range around him.

Feng Zhuoming’s anger twisted into a smirk: “It seems that if I don’t show you my prowess, you won’t understand the greatness of metal-type powers. You useless pest! No metal will ever hurt me, for I control it all!”

Then he heedlessly thought of Tang Xuhai’s steel armour and greatsword that totally refused to listen to his commands.

He thought irately: …Except for that!

The guns in Hollande and Wang Dan’s hands broke away and flew up, while Fu Shiwu also couldn’t hold down a force that suddenly came from his pistol.

After a moment of standing still in mid-air, the pistol slowly turned its muzzle towards its original owner.