Chapter 654 - Hold The Sword Tightly (1/2)
“Ah!”
A hair-raising scream interrupted Chu Yunsheng’s thoughts. The sound came from the darkness on the right side of them where the lights couldn’t reach. It was a little further away from the position of Chu Yunsheng and others, but it was very harsh in the silent night. It was clearly a dying scream.
“Old Feng, go and check what’s going on.”
Chu Yunsheng turned his head back and ordered Feng Yingxi. Based on the energy fluctuations, it was only about one or two red-sh.e.l.led insects. There were now 13 awakeners under Feng Yingxi. If they could not even defeat one or two red-sh.e.l.led insects, they would not go far in the dark wilderness.
Feng Yingxi knew that Chu Yunsheng was always very strict with the awakeners, so he went to check what happened without saying anything, and Yu Jian volunteered to help.
“Captain Luo, I have a task for you.” Chu Yunsheng looked at the road ahead and said with a helpless expression.
“What is it?” Luo Dalian stepped forward, holding an a.s.sault rifle.
From a small group that had around seven people until there were around fifteen soldiers that Luo Dalian, later on, gathered in the train station, basically all of them were from the former Xuzhou city Infantry Brigade. All their immediate family members had already been transferred to Shanghai before the darkness arrived, so they all just wanted to return to Shanghai and reunite with their families as soon as possible.
This was also one of the reasons why they were willing to follow Chu Yunsheng.
“There is still a long way to go if we want to get to Shanghai. In the dark, anything can happen. There are still many unexpected situations just like what is happening now. You are a soldier. Unlike Feng Yingxi, you should not run around in a panic when you encounter things. Stabilizing the formation is the most important thing. If you panic first, no matter who or where the enemy is, you will eventually collapse without a fight.”
Chu Yunsheng has seen too many examples of losing without a fight. Sometimes, just one insect jumping out of the darkness could make a team of awakeners collapse without a fight, and turn an easy battle into a chaotic scene where people were running everywhere in a panic.
Luo Dalian understood what Chu Yunsheng was referring to. He couldn’t help but be ashamed, and said: “We were indeed a little bit disorganized.”
“I can’t blame you all, because I didn’t explain it clearly in advance.” Chu Yunsheng said seriously: “So I have a task to ask you and your comrades, no matter what happens, no matter what you encounter, or where I went, your team can’t be disorganized again. Protect Gai Yi Ya for me. You must safely send her to Shanghai. If I don’t catch up with you, don’t give her to the military and the government. Find a place to settle down first, do you understand?”
“Understood! Mr. Chu, we wouldn’t have been alive without you. With this alone, you can rest a.s.sured that our brothers will fight for their lives and protect her.” Luo Dalian clenched the gun and said.
“There is no need to say things like that. Everyone’s life is important. I have heard many promises before but in the end…” Chu Yunsheng looked at the chaotic crowd and suddenly stopped. The way he looked at them as if he had been through a lot of traumatic events, it was out of keeping with his youthful appearance. In the end, he only murmured, “maybe, she is your only hope of survival…”
Luo Dalian smiled awkwardly. Although Chu Yunsheng’s words were very explicit, it was very straightforward. If Chu Yunsheng was not there, and if they fell into a life and death situation, would they really use their precious lives to protect a verbal promise, and protect someone that they barely know? He didn’t know, because it hadn’t happened, so he didn’t know.
The sound of fighting in front was getting stronger and stronger. The fierce gunshots and the hiss of insects floated in the icy air, and there was a faint smell of blood.
“Let’s go, it’s time to take a look.”
Chu Yunsheng estimated that without any experience in dealing with insects, Feng Yingxi and others might already be at a disadvantage. If he didn’t go to help them now, those awakeners might really be scared away.
The red-sh.e.l.led insect with a thick black line on its back ridge also followed him closely. It seemed like it would follow Chu Yunsheng wherever he went, not showing any signs of wanting to leave.
Chu Yunsheng also felt a slight headache. It was not Shang, he could not communicate with it. Originally, it could be a good mount, but it couldn’t understand his command.
One person and one insect plus Luo Dalian and others quickly came to the battlefield on the right side of the crowd. The survivors around had already run away, leaving only one b.l.o.o.d.y body that had been split into halves, and Feng Yingxi and others that were fighting fiercely while shouting loudly.
Sometimes, shouting out loud in front of fear was also a way to give people the courage to face a desperate situation.
Said it was a battlefield, in fact, it was a piece of farmland. The crops in it have already withered. There was a fire awakener trying to burn the crops in the farmland. Probably, he was trying to use that to scare them away. Although the fire spread quickly in the farmland, it didn’t do any damage to the insects.