CHAPTER 408: CHAPTER 194: MELTDOWN (PART 2)

"We’re doomed, we’re doomed..."

Liu Qi murmured to himself, collapsing to the ground as if he lost his soul, curling up in a ball.

The coworker whose stomach had been torn open by the monster’s claws had long since stopped moving. His intestines spilled out, their bluish-gray hue strikingly eerie under the reflection of the glowing molten iron.

"Quiet!"

Yu Qian pressed down on Liu Qi’s shoulder.

At this moment, he seemed surprisingly calm.

"Do you want those monsters to find us?"

"Keep it down!"

Liu Qi immediately shut his mouth, survival instinct forcing him to clench his jaw tightly, making no further sound.

Yet even so, their last hiding place was still exposed.

The newcomers attracted the monsters, and as soon as the monsters entered the factory, screams erupted.

"Shoot! Shoot!"

"Bang bang bang bang----"

The chaotic but intensive gunfire echoed within the factory, Yu Qian heard something crash heavily.

He peered out, just in time to see a monster jumping over its companion’s corpse, rushing towards the half-open gate.

The creature was already very close to the people inside the gate.

And the two with guns had already run out of bullets.

At this moment, Yu Qian didn’t even know what he was thinking.

His mind stopped working, but his body moved independently.

He grabbed the Type 75 rifle that Liu Qi had dropped at his feet and held it in his hands.

Then he stood up, exposing himself from behind the cover.

The distance wasn’t enough.

His intuition told him it wasn’t the right spot to shoot.

So he stepped forward a few paces, steadied himself, and pressed down the rifle’s stock.

The next second.

"Bang bang bang bang bang----"

The bullets poured out.

An entire magazine was emptied instantly, and from less than 20 meters away, almost every bullet hit the monster precisely.

Flesh scattered, and the monster’s corpse fell heavily.

Yu Qian thought he would be excited about the successful kill, but in reality, when he saw the monster’s body fall, his heartbeat slowed dramatically.

His emotions seemed drenched in a bucket of ice water, transitioning from uncontrollable heat and boil to nearly frozen calm.

Reload.

It seemed as if a second voice appeared within Yu Qian’s mind.

He steadily reached for his waist where the magazine was no longer there.

So he turned to rummage through the belt of a fallen body, quickly loaded the bullets into the magazine, and then inserted the leftover magazines back into his own belt.

"All three of us together."

Yu Qian said:

"We’ll form a line. If a monster comes again, I’ll shoot first, and you don’t fire."

"After I’m done shooting, if the monster is still alive, then you shoot!"

"...Okay!"

"Got it!"

The two still holding weapons remained quite composed, as the three gathered all weapons and magazines around, half-knelt before the door in positions drilled during emergency training.

Yu Qian’s hands were steady, and his breath even more so.

When he saw a black eagle flash across the door, he hesitated not and pulled the trigger.

"Bang bang bang bang!"

The bullets pierced through, he hadn’t even emptied the magazine before the monster fell.

"We can hold out!"

"There’s still enough bullets!"

Yu Qian encouraged his companions, and the other two chimed in with encouragement too.

"It’s not that scary!"

"Only that special monster is slightly stronger!"

"It’s now tangled with the tanks, it can’t pay attention to us!"

"We just need to finish off these weaker ones wandering outside!"

"The turret is still active, the machines are still working!"

"If they can focus on dealing with that monster, it definitely won’t survive!"

"Exactly!"

As the words fell, another monster charged towards the factory gate.

Yu Qian pulled the trigger, and bullets shot out once more.

"Bang bang bang bang!"

But this time, the monster didn’t fall immediately.

So his companions quickly followed up with extra shots.

After another torrent of bullets, the monster finally collapsed.

It was larger than the monsters they’d seen before, its appearance more terrifying.

Yet even such a monster had fallen under their fire.

How hard is survival?

I don’t think it’s impossible!

Yu Qian pressed bullets into the magazine again, and at that moment, a dark silhouette rushed directly at them.

He didn’t have time to fire.

He didn’t even have time to raise his gun.

It was the "Mountain Demon"!

"Get down!"

Yu Qian shouted and lay flat on the ground. Fear struck him once more, but this time, he was not as panicked as a few minutes ago.

He wasn’t sure if he could avoid the monster, but he knew that lying down was the most rational choice.

"Bang!"

The monster rushing into the factory violently scattered the piles of scrap steel in the warehouse. The collapsing scrap made an ear-piercing clatter, and the monster quickly rose up, its ape-like head scanning around.

Yu Qian finally saw its appearance clearly.

It didn’t look like a monster.

Its body was covered in a layer of something unknown, a "shell," and parts of that shell were sparkling with a "dazzling brilliance."

What on earth was this thing?

Yu Qian raised his gun. The monster noticed his movement and instantly, its eyes burst with a red glow.

It was here.

There was no avoiding it.

Yu Qian calmly pulled the trigger.

He knew he was going to die.

Yet at this moment, he seemed to feel no fear.

"Bang bang bang bang!"

Bullets poured out, sparking against the monster’s body, slightly hindering its movement but not diverting its leap.

The long claws already slashed out, and Yu Qian saw the monster’s claws shimmering with a metallic luster.

He finally closed his eyes.

But in the next moment.

"Bang!"

"Boom!"

The gunshot and explosion sounded almost simultaneously.

Shrapnel flew and grazed Yu Qian’s face, a cold numbness followed by intense pain.

The monster was pushed to the side by the impact. Yu Qian braced with his feet to quickly retreat while firing at the monster, emptying the last bullet from the chamber.

"Bang bang bang bang----"

The monster rolled incessantly on the ground, and as Yu Qian’s eyes shifted slightly, he suddenly saw a warrior fully armored standing at the gate.

The regiment leader had arrived!

Yu Qian got up, then heard a calm command.

"Fall back!"

Immediately, the sound of the explosive gunfire was heard.

"Bang bang bang bang bang---"

Every bullet accurately hit the monster that hadn’t yet managed to get up, pinning it firmly to the ground.

At the same time, all the weapons on the armored regiment leader began firing almost simultaneously.

Bullets poured like rain, and Yu Qian, dragging his coworker, quickly retreated.

He knew what the regiment leader was going to do.

He was going to use a rocket launcher to completely end this monster.

What he had to do was to stay as far from it as possible, to avoid being caught in the explosion!

Yu Qian retreated to the edge of the warehouse, taking a slight breath.

But at this moment, he noticed the monster was struggling to stand under the regiment leader’s firepower.

As if it was about to leap away again in the next second.

A weapon was needed.

Yu Qian quickly searched inside the warehouse, but he couldn’t find anything useful.

The only thing he could use was the Type 75 rifle at his side.

Load the bullets, fire.

Almost simultaneously, the rocket launcher on the regiment leader erupted in flames.

"Boom!"

The blinding iron stream finally pierced through the monster’s body, and then that brilliant iron stream shot into the sky, descending like raindrops.

The immense impact sent the monster flying several meters, but it was still struggling.

In that instant, Yu Qian had a stroke of inspiration.

He rushed to the factory’s manual control table and slammed down a button.

Molten iron poured down.

Black smoke rose fiercely.

The monster staggered a few steps forward, but the intense heat completely melted it.

"Poof."

With a soft sound, the monster fell to the ground.

Chen Jian, who had just reloaded his explosive gun magazines, looked at Yu Qian in surprise. Yu Qian stood there dumbfounded and heard him say:

"Well done."

"The battle inside the base is almost over."

"If you can still move, come with me to finish it up!"

Yu Qian shivered all over.

Then, he grabbed the gun on the ground and responded without hesitation:

"Yes, Captain!"