Chapter 353 (1/2)

Chaos still continued on the coast of Jing Ji island that was several kilometers long. All the soldiers were in disarray. All the subordinates could not find their superiors, and all the superiors couldn’t find their subordinates.

A heavily damaged wars.h.i.+p that had retreated from Hong Kong could not even dock at Jing Ji island. It could only stop offsh.o.r.e.

In the thick dark smokes, the wars.h.i.+p was slowly sinking. Many soldiers hurriedly jumped into the cold sea and desperately tried to swim back to Jing Ji island.

The heavy smell of blood attracted a large number of sea monsters, including the tentacles monsters that were expelled into the sea by Chu Yunsheng.

In the ocean, it was their paradise.

Although the troops in Jing Ji island had sent out a large number of helicopters to provide fire support, and the commander of the eighteenth regiment had even ordered his troops to push the defense line into the sea to save as many soldiers as possible, there were still countless soldiers being dragged into the sea by all types of monsters.

There was also a ma.s.sive amount of monster fish leaping onto the beach to attack soldiers.

In the chaotic crowd, a senior officer stopped a soldier who had just escaped from the sea, shook the soldier’s shoulders very hard, and hurriedly asked, “Which division do you belong to? Where is the division commander Ren? Did you see Ren Tongyan?”

The soldier’s face was as pale as a ghost, and he still hasn’t come back from the fear. He just shook his head blankly.

The senior officer immediately pushed the soldier away and dragged over another one. However, the more he asked, the more desperate he was.

At this time, a guard stepped on the sea mud and stumbled as fast as he could towards the senior officer and shouted, “commander! commander! Division commander Ren’s troops have been found! We found it!”

Feng Tianyun was overjoyed. He pulled his legs out of the mud and hurriedly said, “Where is Old Ren? Is he still alive? Quick, take me there!”

The guard hurriedly rushed towards the senior officer to help him, “commander, commander Ren… probably…” The soldier was hesitant.

Feng Tianyun immediately pushed him away and refused to believe it, “no! I will ask them myself! Old Ren is a lucky b.a.s.t.a.r.d. When we retreated from Wu Yang city, he stayed behind to delay the swarm. He still came back that time.”

The guard looked at his commander’s red eyes, and didn’t dare to say anything again. He lowered his head and took him to pa.s.s through countless wounded soldiers to arrive in front of an officer who was lying on a stretcher. One of the officer’s arms was missing…

Feng Tianyun suddenly rushed towards the stretcher and held tightly on the surviving hand of the man and said with a s.h.i.+vering voice, “Old Liu, Old Liu, thanks G.o.d that you are alive, that’s great, great, great!”

He said great three times, but his tone was full of worries.

The officer was struggling to lift up the b.l.o.o.d.y eyelids and try very hard to glance through the red and swollen eye slits. Just one glance, tears could not stop running down from his eyes. Then his b.l.o.o.d.y, muddy lips moved. It seemed like he wanted to say something.

His voice was too quiet. Feng Tianyun had put his ear on his lips to hear his intermittent voice, “All, dead, dead, all, all division, old, Ren, stayed behind, I, am, sorry,… old… old Feng, please, please…”

Feng Tianyun sobbed and nodded. He knew what old Liu was asking, but he could not do it, and he couldn’t bear to let him know.

Suddenly, the officer suddenly opened his eyes and looked up at the dark sky. He shouted while his mouth was full of blood, “Why! Why did the headquarters not want us to retreat!!!” Then he stopped moving completely.

“Commissar, Commissar!…” The soldiers that were carrying him suddenly cried out loud.

Feng Tianyun used his old right hand trying to close his old friend’s eyes. But no matter how hard he tried, those eyes still stayed open.

Feng Tianyun fell to the floor and looked at the sh.o.r.eline that was covered with many soldiers’ bodies. Seeing there were many more soldiers still struggling in the sea, he murmured, “I’m sorry…”

“Commander, commander!” A guard was running towards him breathlessly, “urgent message from headquarters!”

Feng Tianyun suddenly stood up, tossed the “urgent message” to the sky, and shouted exasperatedly. “Urgent! What urgent! Everyone is f.u.c.king dead!…”

The doc.u.ments were like falling leaves fluttering in the air, until they fell on the face of the commissar Liu who had already died; a line of words from the paper was reflected on his b.l.o.o.d.y eyes that were still open, “…stop the rescue. Gather all the troops preparing for the incoming…”

Feng Tianyun knelt down while facing the direction of Hong Kong and wailed hysterically, “I’m sorry, my brothers, I’m sorry, I’m sorry… I’ll repay you with my life in the next life…”

At this moment, a man with an ordinary dress silently walked behind Feng Tianyun and sighed, “commander Feng, can we talk about it now?”

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Jing Ji island temporary joint command center.

Unlike the noisy conference room before, it was extremely quiet and tense this time as if all the oxygen in the room was sucked out, making everyone feel suffocated.

Everyone looked like they were a decade older than before, and even the youngest person Ke Qianer was no exception.

The cold wind gently blew onto the death number report that was on the desktop, flipping pages after pages, names after names…

Tick-tock… Tick-tock…

It was the noise made by the only mechanical clock in the quiet conference room.

It was quite like this for a very long time, but no one was willing to speak first.

Huo Jiashan tightened his broken coat then silently began to tidy up the scattered reports on the desktop.

Everyone was looking at him, but n.o.body stopped him.

Halfway through tidying, he suddenly stopped. He was holding a doc.u.ment in mid-air. No one knew what he was thinking. After a short pause, he looked at Wu Fanghou.

Everyone looked at them and thought. Finally, it was time.

“We have decided to cooperate fully with it. If you guys…” Huo Jiashan paused, and his tone was very quiet. He looked at Ke Qianer who was next to him and took out a doc.u.ment from inside his coat and gently placed it on the table, and then continued, “If you disagree, this is a request signed by more than a thousand officers. Half of your division commanders have signed already…”

Wu Fanghou’s hands began to tremble on the conference table, he sat back slowly and weakly. But he did not read the doc.u.ment. His face was filled with guilt and grief. In the next second, he stood up silently, staggered to the wall and stepped out of the conference room.

He knew that he lost. He lost half of his force, and in the end, all he got was that the information Huo Jiashan got from that insect was correct.