great-warnovel Chapter 318 2 minutes, clearing a path for the wounded.
Chapter 318 2 minutes, clearing a path for the wounded.
The alarm on the east wall ripped through the night sky.
The red dots on the tactical board formed a continuous line, rushing towards the Xichuan city wall along the abandoned railway and sewage ditch.
The monster at the front is only twenty minutes away from the wounded evacuation line.
Lu Yan put away the Void Disc and turned to walk towards the outlet of the sewage ditch.
"Search is nearing completion; prioritize securing the transit line."
Qin Wuyi pulled out the array plate embedded in the ruins, and the search network underground in the old city closed in towards the east wall.
Xiao Qianyu took one last look at the collapsed passage and nailed a warp beacon into the broken bloodline.
"The door will be open when the first snow returns."
Lu Yan stepped onto the gravel slope at the mouth of the canal, while the alarm sounded from the east wall, drowning out the old city.
"Twenty minutes to clear a path for the wounded."
Zhao Leiguang fastened his double shields and was the first to rush out of the sewage ditch.
Shen Xinglin followed behind, switching his lance into an armor-piercing long spear as he ran.
Su Yunqing's shield landed on everyone's nail seams, and the light of Yao Guang's Gift flashed briefly in the darkness.
After the five gates went out, Xichuan's defenses hadn't even had a chance to catch their breath.
The defense commander moved the temporary command post into the tent next to the medical station. He had just sent the shell that the insect queen had dropped for analysis when the girl he had brought out from the fifth door was brought in.
Su Yunqing set up a testing device beside the hospital bed, and the beam of the bone age scanner swept across the girl's entire body.
Seventeen years old.
The data coincides with the ten years since Lin Chuxue's sister disappeared.
"Her blood sample was sent to the back-end laboratory for comparison, and her identity was not determined until the results came out."
Su Yunqing put away the instruments.
The girl lay in bed, still unconscious, and the old injury on her ankle did not worsen.
At the other end of the tent, Lu Yan's Void Disc hung in mid-air.
Below the disk were piles of fragments stripped from the fifth gate's crystal core.
The fragments were disassembled layer by layer, revealing a complete structural diagram of a flesh and blood array.
Five secret gates surround the old city hospital, forming an irregular pentagon.
The first four gates are responsible for clearing out any living creatures on the outer perimeter, thus clearing obstacles for the great formation.
The fifth gate is the core of the formation; its goal is not to kill, but to extract.
Extract the blood mage mark left by Lin Chuxue in Xichuan.
Lu Yan pulled up the hospital's design drawings, and the endpoint of the array diagram landed on the sixth underground floor, where the drawings were missing.
There was a sign indicating an area that had never been open to the public.
Ward 6.
Outside the medical station, Lin Chuxue sat on the steps.
The pool of blood wailed across his knees, the blood-stained patterns on the staff head pressed darkly.
A pile of torn candy wrappers lay at her feet. She didn't eat them; she just unwrapped them and threw them away.
Wen Yue placed a bottle of water next to her.
Lin Chuxue neither looked at the water nor at Wen Yue.
"Is she awake?"
Wen Yue glanced at the glass window of the ward.
Su Yunqing shook her head gently at her through the glass.
"Still sleeping."
Lu Yan stepped out of the tent and ordered Lin Chuxue to stay at the medical station.
"Wait until she wakes up, find out what happened, and then decide whether or not to go to the Old Town Hospital."
Lin Chuxue did not answer, but simply hugged the staff on her lap even tighter.
The ward alarm didn't go off during the night shift handover.
The access control system did not leave any record of opening.
Everything appeared normal on the patrol terminal's monitoring screen.
The nurse pushed open the door, and all that was left on the bed was the uncovered blanket.
The girl's hospital gown hung at the foot of the bed; she took the broken rusted chain with her.
Lin Chuxue took away her Blood Pool Aho.
The ventilation shaft's fence was removed, and two bloody streaks trailed along the shaft wall, bypassing all monitoring points and extending all the way to the sewage ditch beneath the old city.
Now, that bloodline has been severed.
Lin Chuxue and her sister, whom she hadn't seen for ten years, disappeared into the depths of the old city ruins.
Instead, a horde of monsters swept across the entire eastern wall of the defenses.
On Lu Yan's tactics board, the red dot representing the monster has crossed the third warning line.
Their route of movement is neither a straight line nor a chaotic charge.
The red dots converge along the underground pipeline network and abandoned railway lines, forming two streams like a giant pair of pincers, clamping down on the only route for transporting the wounded.
This kind of tactical planning is something that ordinary monsters cannot do.
Lu Yan stopped in his tracks.
He looked at the two precise attack routes on the tactics board, which almost overlapped with the energy flow of the flesh and blood array.
Old City Hospital, Ward 6.
That's not the end of the trap.
That was another beginning.
Lin Chuxue's disappearance and this monster siege were both part of the plan.
"Plan changed."
Lu Yan's voice came through the team's internal channel.
Zhao Leiguang and Shen Xinglin stopped abruptly ahead, leaving two long tracks in the gravel beneath their feet.
"Old Zhao, you and Old Shen take the main road and seal off the railway bridge underpass within five minutes."
Lu Yan marked the first interception point on the map.
"Hold on for ten minutes."
Zhao Leiguang brought his two shields together in front of him: "And then in ten minutes?"
"We'll address the root cause."
Lu Yan swiped the map to the other side and pointed his finger at an inconspicuous coordinate.
Xichuan Old Town, Third Water Supply Pumping Station.
"The monster siege is a feint; its purpose is to hold us back."
"The command center is here."
Lu Yan turned to Qin Wuyi and Wen Yue.
"The three of us will go and dismantle its water pump."
Qin Wuyi put away the array plate pointing to the east wall; in his canvas bag, a new array combination was already ready.
Wen Yue pulled back the quiver and pressed three high-explosive shells into the crossbow slot.
"I'll open the door."
Su Yunqing and Xiao Qianyu stood on either side of Lu Yan.
"We'll take care of the cleaning."
The team split into three.
Zhao Leiguang and Shen Xinglin turned and rushed towards the railway bridge arch, their heavy footsteps echoing through the ruins.
Lu Yan led the remaining men and disappeared into the shadows of the old city.
Under the railway bridge, half of the Xichuan Defense Army's temporary defensive line had been torn open.
A dozen soldiers leaned against the overturned armored vehicle, putting up a last stand with their rifles.
A sharp claw tore open the roof of the armored vehicle, and the soldier was dragged out.
Zhao Leiguang crashed into him from the side.
A brutal collision.
The Earth Pulse Shield, like an out-of-control truck, sent the monster flying more than ten meters.
He didn't stop.
With two shields protecting the front, Zhao Leiguang alone was a moving city wall.
He charged straight into the area where the monsters were most concentrated.
War tramples.
The pulse patterns swept outwards from him.
The leg bones of dozens of monsters in the front row were shattered on the spot, and they fell to the ground howling in pain.
Shen Xinglin leaped over his head.
The ever-changing lance extends through the air, transforming into a high-speed rotating chainsaw.
He landed in the midst of the monsters, the chainsaw tearing up a patch of flesh and blood.
No shell can stop the chainsaw from cutting.
Shen Xinglin remained silent, continuing to kill.
His task was to eliminate any remaining fugitives on either side of Zhao Lei's shield wall.
The two, one in front and one behind, one attacking and one defending, carved out a safe zone amidst the monster wave.
The surviving soldiers stared at the two men and forgot to fire.
Zhao Leiguang turned around and shouted.
"What are you looking at? Hurry up and drag the wounded back!"
"We'll hold the bridge arch!"
On the other side, the third water supply pumping station.
It's unusually quiet here.
There were no monsters, no alarms, only the low hum of the water pump unit.
Qin Wuyi threw out six array plates, which silently adhered to the outer wall, pipes, and foundation of the pump station.
The boundaries between heaven and earth are established.
The gravity, spatial coordinates, and sound field of the entire pumping station were instantly locked.
There's something inside.
Qin Wuyi said.
"A living thing, mimicking the frequency of a water pump."
Lu Yan walked to the iron gate of the pumping station.
He did not push the door open.
The disk of nothingness spun in his palm.
The black lotus pattern climbed up his arm and onto the iron gate.
The structure of the door lock was analyzed, disassembled, and reassembled.
Click.
The door opened.