The Invasion Day – Chapter 95

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Chapter 95

As they ate breakfast, everyone felt that Fu Shiwu’s suppressing aura today was extremely low, and they couldn’t help hiding far away from him.

Tang Xuhai nonchalantly stuffed the food into his mouth, cleared his throat and said: “Eat quickly, we still have to meet up with Zhou Weihua’s people.”

Fu Shiwu sharply glared at him through the glasses, but Tang Xuhai, as thick-skinned as always, simply raised the corner of his mouth towards Fu Shiwu, mischief unconcealed on his face.

Fu Shiwu immediately became deflated. Towards this kind of man who really never changed no matter how Fu Shiwu tried to ‘educate’ him, he seriously shouldn’t lose his temper over this sort of thing, right? What else could he do?

He pursed his lips, determined to never compromise with the evil forces!

Zhou Weihua and the others respected Fu Shiwu’s team from the bottom of their hearts, for they were the ones who freed Ping Nan citizens from Shi Zheng’s clutches. As soon as Miao Jia asked them to send a few men with good combat capabilities, Zhou Weihua’s five strongest fighters who were acquainted with Tang Xuhai all came forward.

Seeing these five men coming, Tang Xuhai was immensely relieved. He turned towards Fu Shiwu and said: “Today you’ll focus on scanning for level-2 and level-3 aliens. Leave the task of defending the low wall to us.”

Captain Zou was already mentally prepared for another hard day. When he saw their number doubled, he was over the moon.

“Where did these ability users come from?” He asked.

“They all entered Pei City with us, but they’ve only recently settled down and haven’t registered yet.” Tang Xuhai introduced the five men to Captain Zou.

Hearing that these five people all had attack abilities, Captain Zou felt his heart even more unwavering.

“Very good. With them, we should be able to survive this alien siege without any trouble.” Captain Zou nodded: “Beside that, I have both good news and bad news to inform you.”

Tang Xuhai raised an eyebrow and said with a humourless smile: “I didn’t expect that Captain Zou also likes to reveal information in that way. Let’s go for the bad news first.”

The corner of Captain Zou’s mouth pursed a little as his face darkened: “Although I tried to reason with them, the logistics department only can guarantee our ammunition, while flamethrowers and grenades have to be supplied in accordance with the plan. They can’t be given to us beyond the scoped amount.”

Tang Xuhai’s expression also turned solemn. Squinting his eyes, he sneered coldly: “Your higher-ups are useless.” 

Embarrassment flashed across Captain Zou’s face, and he had to say defensively: “This isn’t the higher-ups’ fault. It’s because logistics are under that party’s control.” He heaved another long breath before continuing: “But rest assured, new weapons and equipment will be put into use soon, and they’ll no longer be able to manipulate logistics to coerce us.”

Captain Zou pulled a smile: “Now is the good news. My superior has heard that there’s a sharpshooter on my side, so he has specially approved for us to use a new weapon in advance. Look! We’ve specially prepared high-energy pistols for Commander Fu.”

He held two bright silver pistols in his hands. These guns were a bit larger than those used by Fu Shiwu, whose handles were also wider and the magazines seemed to be different.

“These?!” Dumbfounded, Tang Xuhai stared at the guns. Even when he was still in the Special Forces Brigade and equipped with the latest weapons, he never saw a gun with this style.

Finally able to feel that he was having an edge over them, Captain Zou proudly introduced it to Tang Xuhai: “This is a brand-new weapon specially designed by weapon experts of the Institute of Science, based on the energy structure of the heterogeneous molecule! Look at this magazine.” He continued, pulling out the magazine for the others to see: “This is a device that can extract the heterogeneous molecules in the air, then convert them into an energy bomb inside the magazine. The most powerful thing about this gun is that it can be charged by itself, so the load wouldn’t just easily run out. Of course, there’s also a time and energy limit. Each charge takes 12 hours, which will allow you to fire 200 energy bullets.”

While the group was awestruck, Fu Shiwu felt both excited and a tad complicated.

New weapons had come their way and he no longer had to worry about running out of ammunition so soon, but mankind had discovered the heterogeneous molecule, a completely new substance, not too long ago and already found a way to make weapons with it. He couldn’t help thinking that mankind might really hold the most devastating destructive powers.

“But this gun has a little flaw.” Captain Zou stroked his nose and said with a little unease: “Because the energy bullet is too powerful, this gun can’t be used continuously and needs to be cooled. Of course, this is only a limitation due to the material. It’ll be perfected when we have better materials to make the gun body in the future.”

“You mean this gun may blow up?” Tang Xuhai looked unhappy. If any weapon was unstable, it shouldn’t be put into use. Isn’t this putting Fu Shiwu’s life on the line?

“It won’t blow up, but the gun body may heat up.” Captain Zou hurriedly explained: “Once the heat exceeds the melting point, the gun body will deform, and the bullet may become inaccurate.”

“After the deformation, the bullet will be stuck and can’t be launched, then how is it different from blowing up?” Tang Xuhai stared at him in disbelief.

Captain Zou said: “Based on the current experiment, there has never been any situation of jammed bullets. A slight deformation of the gun body will only cause inaccurate shooting. Therefore, if the shooting is no longer precise, do not continue to use until the barrel is deformed, else the barrel may be jammed!”

“During a battle, nothing may guarantee that this extreme situation won’t happen.” Tang Xuhai gazed intently at the captain, his face conspicuously turning black.

Fu Shiwu couldn’t help but feel that Tang Xuhai was at the verge of annoying Captain Zou, so he hurried over to catch the two pistols and offered his sincere thanks to the captain.

Captain Zou also didn’t bother arguing with this stubborn fellow Tang Xuhai. He arranged for the soldiers to withdraw from the low wall and let Tang Xuhai and the others stand at the top.

Tang Xuhai said to Wen Zhaoming: “Today you’ll take turns with the people from Ping Nan.”

Wen Zhaoming shook his head: “You don’t have to be so meticulous. With the wheelchair, I won’t have any issues sitting on high positions.”

Tang Xuhai stopped trying to persuade him any further, for he didn’t want to hurt Wen Zhaoming’s ego; instead, he simply said: “Don’t try to act strong. Do what you can.”

Fu Shiwu stole a glance at him before turning away with a strange look in his eyes. This guy himself loves to act strong all the time. Who do you think you are, advising others to not do the same!

Of course, Tang Xuhai absolutely never thought that he ever tried to act strong, because clearly, he was actually strong.

Zhou Weihua and the others had all experienced a siege caused by level-3 aliens back at Ping Nan Prison. Although they were secretly stunned by the overwhelmingly potent aliens, they remained relatively calm. This time was different from the last time. They now had a powerful base backing them up, with impressive firepower and certainly no lack of confidence.

Captain Zou stood on the upper side and looked at them for a while to find that each of the supporting fighters who came today was extraordinary. This heightened his appreciation for Tang Xuhai’s team to another level.

With the addition of the new force, with a blank expression, Fu Shiwu stood aside hugging his arms, and later, he went up to a higher spot to look far into the distance. Though confused by this man’s intense yet unpredictable aura, Captain Zou couldn’t help but place more attention on this Dragonbone Corps of only eight people.

Fu Shiwu didn’t care about the more-or-less strange gazes that those soldiers gave him. He only cared to remember Tang Xuhai’s request and scanned the ground from time to time to distinguish the evolved and higher-level aliens that hid among the alien wave.

What made him feel most puzzled and a little frightened was that there remained totally no trace of these aliens.

This is strange…

As he kept straining his nerves and scanning everywhere, Fu Shiwu’s face gradually turned paler. Incidentally, Tang Xuhai looked up, and his heart thumped at once. From the low wall, He made a few quick jumps and landed straight on the high wall.

Tang Xuhai’s big hand patted Fu Shiwu’s head: “Is it very draining?”

Fu Shiwu’s face was as white as a sheet yet extremely stern. He shook his head, his lips pressed tight and his expression unflinching.

“I’m okay.” As his eyebrows furrowed, he pulled the little bit of energy left in him and looked up at Tang Xuhai.

Fu Shiwu’s state made Tang Xuhai’s heart twitch tightly. After pondering for a moment, he whispered: “You’re a human, not a machine. You can’t scan all the time like a radar. How about this, let’s scan every 15 minutes?”

Every 15 minutes was almost the frequency of each alien wave attack, thus there would be no major deviations during this period.

The corner of Fu Shiwu’s mouth quivered a little, revealing a tiny arc: “Uhm, I understand.”

Tang Xuhai patted him on the shoulder with a hint of worry and jumped off the high wall.

When the shift was changed at noon, like before, it was Captain Zou who sent the soldiers carrying flamethrowers and grenades to take over. After having their meals and resting for an hour, the nine people continued to fight.

The sky today was very clear. While the autumn sun was scorching, the breeze was rather chilling. Those standing at the top of the wall were entirely exposed to the blazing sun, pushing them to fight relentlessly under a difficult environment.

That said, Pei City’s strong firepower played an extremely important role in this battle. The aliens hadn’t managed to make any opening on the wall, and there had been almost no casualties.

This strongly raised the confidence in everyone’s heart. As time slowly passed and dusk arrived, the sun started descending in the west and the last ray of sunlight vanished, then the sky gradually dimmed.

It was about to get dark. Everyone at the scene couldn’t help but feel their hearts thump faster. Once it got dark, the aliens would come to a stop and quickly retreat.

It was exactly when everyone loosened up that a change dropped on them like a bombshell!

A bright wave line suddenly appeared at the end of Fu Shiwu’s three-dimensional image, which alerted his nerves at once and, involuntarily, his eyes opened wide in that direction.

That was a wave of aliens made up entirely of level-2 aliens, with thousands of them!

Fu Shiwu’s nervous throat tightened, so much so that he almost couldn’t make a sound.

“…Xuhai, Tang Xuhai!” Fu Shiwu shouted in a sharp tone: “They’re coming!”

What’s coming? Guarding on the high wall, the soldiers beside him looked in confusion at the horizon fully formed by aliens, one that was rapidly spreading under the dim twilight.

Tang Xuhai had been fighting for a full day, and even though he had used the reliever medicine to recover himself yesterday, he was, after all, different from other people. He consumed more physical powers than an average person and had begun to feel tired.

Just as he finally relaxed and started to think that he had enough strength left to take a hot bath after going back, he heard Fu Shiwu’s cry.

“Damn!” Tang Xuhai cursed, these aliens were getting more and more cunning, even knowing how to take advantage of humans’ tendency. They launched a full-scale attack full of level-2 aliens when humans were at their lowest guard!

“The level-2 aliens are coming!” Tang Xuhai let out a wrathful roar: “Don’t put your guard down. Ability users, attack with all your strength!”

With utter disbelief, Captain Zou gaped at the group who had suddenly turned nervous upon hearing Tang Xuhai’s roar.

“How do you know?” Captain Zou yelled from the high wall.

“It’s our commander’s ability!” Zhen Zi turned around and screamed at the startled soldiers: “Go carry more ammunition! A big battle is coming!”