Chapter 122 Lighting the Torch
Han Meng was stunned.
He watched Chen Ling flying and disappearing into the thick fog. After a moment, he suddenly came back to his senses.
"Light the torch..." He muttered this sentence repeatedly, as if he thought of something, he squinted and looked at the factory area in front of him.
Han Meng hesitated for a moment. He was thinking about whether to trust Chen Ling, a member of the Dusk Club, but he quickly came up with the answer... Although he didn't know what reason Chen Ling had to help him, at least, he didn't need to lie to himself.
At this point, Han Meng decided to take a gamble.
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"What are the casualties?"
Xi Renjie walked slowly back to the street with tired steps.
"We are still counting... there are too many casualties, and we will not be able to calculate them for a while." A law enforcement officer said bitterly, "But conservative estimates suggest that the number of casualties in the three districts this time accounts for at least one-third of the total number. one."
"One third..."
Xi Renjie nodded slightly.
"Is there any news from Director Han Meng?"
"...Not yet, I keep calling, but there is no response."
Xi Renjie's heart sank slightly. He subconsciously looked in the direction of the steel plant. The thick fog was still flowing quietly. No one knew what was behind this fog.
He was about to say something when a rustling sound suddenly came from a distance.
"...Did you hear anything?"
"It seems like something... is getting closer to us."
"Why do I feel like the ground is shaking?"
"...No, let's get out of here!!"
In Xi Renjie's field of vision, a giant shadow was outlined from the depths of the thick fog. He immediately yelled and the people quickly retreated around!
boom--! !
A huge shadow centipede broke through the thick fog and directly crushed the surrounding houses into rubble. The residents hiding inside didn't even have time to shout before they turned into puddles of flesh...
In the horrified eyes of everyone, a huge ten thousand-legged centipede raised its head, its dark red holes opened, and countless shadows extended from it like branches, grabbing at the people on the street.
This attack came too suddenly. No one expected that such a huge shadow centipede would appear in the neighborhood that had been mostly cleared. Most of them had no time to escape and were caught by the shadow.
Their hands were raised stiffly, and they strangled their necks violently, using all their strength to twist and distort the flesh and blood vessels.
Scarlet bloodshot spread over the eyeballs, and their breathing gradually stopped... Eventually, they turned into stiff corpses, falling into the swarming wave of shadows, and were instantly submerged without a trace.
Seeing this scene, those who were lucky enough to escape were frightened to death. Xi Renjie stared at the huge shadow, his heart sinking to the bottom.
"Brother Meng..."
This shadow centipede is most likely the "mother body" in Han Meng's words, and since the mother body rushed out of the factory and appeared here, it means that Han Meng has died in the battle... Xi Renjie's eyes could not hide the despair.
Once Han Meng dies, unless someone comes from Aurora City, who else in the three districts can stop this mother body?
He tried his best to clear the streets, but he never expected that he would end up like this... Xi Renjie stood there with a pale face, like a puppet that had lost the support of his soul.
boom--! !
At this moment, a soaring torch ignited from the depths of the thick fog, like a miniature sun, burning blazingly.
The flame was so huge and hot that the existence of the light could be seen from such a long distance. The shadow centipedes swarming into the street stopped at the same time and turned back to look in the direction of the flame.
The mother body that crushed the house also turned around, looking at the direction of the torch with its dark red hole, and without hesitation, it neighed, leaving the people and streets in front of it, and rushed straight towards the torch, followed by a dense wave of shadows. thereafter.
The shocked people were all confused at this moment. They stared blankly at the direction in which the disaster was retreating, and they still couldn't recover for a while.
"Go and take a look!" Xi Renjie was the first to regain consciousness and quickly chased into the thick fog.
The rest of the law enforcers looked at each other, and only a small half chose to follow. As they continued to advance, the torch became increasingly clear in the thick fog.
"Sir Xi." A figure in black ran out of the crowd and followed Xi Renjie.
"Chen Ling?" Xi Renjie saw the man and asked in surprise, "Why are you here too?"
"I was resting when I saw a sudden fire here, so I rushed over immediately." Chen Ling wiped the sweat from her forehead and said.
Xi Renjie looked at Chen Ling carefully, and after confirming that he was fine, he nodded.
"There may be danger ahead, so be careful."
The outline of the factory gradually appeared in everyone's field of vision, and the torch soaring into the sky was lit from the devastated workshop of the steel factory.
I saw that all the high-temperature furnaces in the workshop were smashed to the ground, and the raging fire ignited the entire factory. The steel supports melted in the extremely high-temperature fire. From a distance, it looked like a sun burning on the ground.
In the raging fire, the two lines of gilt characters originally engraved on the door, "Steel Bones Forged by Thousands of Hammers" and "Hardworking and Standing the Most Honorable", gradually disappeared... only the golden characters at the top remained.
Under the slogan "All for Humanity", a figure in black stood in front of the sea of fire, holding a burning cigarette in the corner of his mouth, looking at the swarming wave of shadows with piercing eyes.
"It actually attracted him?" Han Meng muttered to himself.
He looked at the ground aside. The [6 of Hearts] playing card was being ignited by a falling flame and slowly burned to ashes...
"Do you owe another favor..."
Han Meng let out a long sigh. He raised the muzzle of his gun and pointed it at the mother centipede that was approaching rapidly. Under the pressure of the other party's powerful aura, Han Meng's aura began to rise steadily!
I don't know if it was because of breaking and then standing, or because of the fire behind him, which ignited Han Meng's fighting spirit to fight again. He felt that a certain layer of imprisonment deep in his body began to loosen, as if the huge waves that kept hitting the dam were about to burst. out!
boom--
A soft sound came from Han Meng's body, and terrifying spiritual power surged out!
On the black divine path to the sky, Han Meng's hanging footsteps finally landed heavily on the fifth step. His aura was instantly more dazzling than the burning factory area, and even the shadow centipede mother body that was approaching crazily. He stopped instinctively...
But at this moment, it is already too late for them to retreat.
Because the figure in black in front of the sea of fire has slowly raised the muzzle of his gun and pointed it at the black wave of shadows.
"This time...it's my turn."