Chapter 233: The Detection Technique (1/2)

Chapter 233: The Detection Technique

Translator: InsigniaEditor: Svjohn

Everybody grabbed their bags and ran for their lives. The moment the cockpit’s door closed, the wall collapsed. Countless mutated ants flooded in like spring water, filling up the cave within seconds.

Luo Yuan took a glimpse and felt his scalp tingling. ”Come on, we need to run!” he shouted. He knew that the cockpit’s metal door would not hold against the mutated ant’s sharp teeth any longer. They all ran out of the aircraft anxiously, slowing down their footsteps when they saw the giant ape moping around in the distance.

The ape was seven meters tall standing up and three meters tall squatting down. Its muscled body intimidated them even from a distance. ”Don’t stop running! This is the new Battle Beast I adopted!” Luo Yuan said loudly while gesturing for the giant lizard to lower its body.

The lizard snorted and lowered itself immediately. Everybody ran towards it in shock and climbed up on the lizard’s back clumsily. The beast seemed to know that something was wrong and ran towards the forest without hesitation.

Noticing that Luo Yuan had left, the giant ape stood up and caught up with them quickly. Thanks to its painful lessons, it knew it would be a nightmare if it did not follow the short fellow and stayed there.

Sitting on the giant lizard’s back, everyone felt slightly relieved. They turned their heads to glimpse at the strange beast from time to time. It had the appearance of an ape, with golden brown hair all over its majestic body and hands that extended lower than its knees. It was shining bright under the dusking sun. If it were holding a baton, it would have been easily associated with a wild mythical character.

However, its expression ruined its stunning appearance completely. The way it walked betrayed its uncertainty and made it looked like a wretch. When it noticed everyone looking at it, it took on a flattering expression that made the situation awkward. Apparently, the giant ape treated Luo Yuan’s companions with the same fear it treated Luo Yuan himself.

”Boss Luo, look!” Lin Xiaoji shouted. Luo Yuan turned his head to look, and frowned at the wreckage of the aircraft that was being devoured completely by the mutated ants. From a distance, it looked like it was covered by a thick layer of turquoise carpet, the carpet spreading and wiggling like waves.

Everybody was affected by the sight. Their scalps were tingling, and even the two mutated beasts were acting up. Fortunately, the ant tide was spreading slowly and did not cause any major uproar. Eventually, they were not able to see it anymore as they kept moving forward. They were all relieved.

”It would be great if we had some gasoline. We could burn them once and for all!” Huo Dong said.

”Gasoline? Even if we did have some, we would not waste it on them. There’s insufficient gasoline in the reconstruction area,” said Commander Xia.

”The reconstruction area is in trouble. Isn’t there a large gasoline field there?” Hua Jiahui asked in confusion.

Commander Xia shook his head solemnly and said, ”There is a gasoline field in Taklamakan, but it can’t be used in large quantities anymore. There are more than 10 million military teams as we speak, including those in reserve. Let’s not even talk about the transportation trucks, the tanks, and the armored vehicles. The self-propelled artilleries alone are hundreds of thousands. And that’s just the land force, we haven’t even taken the air force into account. They use as much gasoline as the land forces. The amount of gasoline is barely enough. As a matter of fact, they also lack food, ores, coal…”

Huang Jiahui and Huo Dong stopped talking. It felt as if a huge rock was pressing down against their hearts. Luo Yuan kept quiet. He had an urge to take a look at the reconstruction area. It was a most magnificent era, despite the fact that humans were the most cruel they’d ever been and it took everything they had in them to survive.

He knew that he could not keep running forever. If he wanted to live, he had to learn to face all obstacles.

He could not save all humankind himself, he didn’t have that ability. As a part of humankind though, he had to work together with others and give it his all.