Chapter 26: Chance Encounter in the Ruins

  In the villa on the outskirts of Lushan City at night, after a day of trivial matters, Mudan Xing and Old Xia were watching live coverage of the rescue efforts after the meteor shower in the living room. At noon, two ugly monsters were preparing to attack Old Xia, who was resting in the garden, but they unfortunately ran into Athena and Xialin, two beautiful women, and ended up with a miserable death without a whole corpse. Old Zhou took a piece of monster meat to the laboratory for research, wanting to see what kind of creature it was and how he had never seen such a ferocious beast before. As for the two ladies, they were preparing dinner for the day.

  At this moment, on the ultra-large screen of TV, a reporter is conducting an interview in the disaster area: "Ladies and gentlemen, it's now 5 o'clock in the afternoon. I'm currently at one of the seven affected areas in Lushan City where the meteorite hit. Due to some unknown reasons, the closer we get to the center of the meteorite impact, the more interference electronic instruments receive. Moreover, the police have blocked off roads leading to the center of the meteorite impact, and no one except for rescue personnel wearing special equipment is allowed to approach. Our reporter will continue to pay close attention to the situation on site. Now let's interview a survivor..."

  Mudan Xing heard the result of the TV reporter's interview, pointing at the reporter on the screen "Lao Xia, it seems that the government has concealed the truth from the public. If we release the true information we have now onto the internet, I think it will definitely cause a huge stir!"

  One night before the meteor shower ended, Mù Chén Xīng and Lǎo Xià sent Xiao Dīng Dāng to fly to the area of the city that was hit by the meteorite to take a look. They wanted to understand just how powerful these meteorites were. As a result, they found that within a radius of 100 meters of the impact zone, all buildings had been severely damaged, and the impact had formed a large crater, just like on TV. Moreover, the electromagnetic waves in that area were abnormally chaotic, and the radiation dose was astonishingly high, making it completely unsuitable for biological survival.

  Lao Xia looked at Mu Chen Xing and shook his head, saying "You'd better not do this. The government is hiding the fact that the meteorite has strong radiation, they don't want to cause panic among the people in the disaster area, in order to create a good environment for rescue efforts. If this event gets spread online, the consequences will be unimaginable. And isn't it reported in the news? Other parts of the world have also been severely attacked by meteorites, I think foreign governments will also choose to hide the fact that the meteorite has lethal radiation!"

  Mudanxing is actually just joking around, this matter's weight he still distinguishes clearly, now the government is fully engaged in disaster relief efforts, of course he wouldn't do something as despicable as pulling back his legs for no reason.

  Mudan Xing gazed at the ongoing interview on TV, sighing as he spoke: "Those survivors from the meteorite impact areas are probably doomed. Based on the data collected by Xiaoding, the radiation levels there have already exceeded lethal standards by tens of times. That place will be completely uninhabitable in the future, just like a piece of wasteland. The city government officials will start to get headaches again, as it's not easy to resettle so many disaster victims."

  Lao Xia also watched the ongoing interview, speaking in a very calm tone: "It should be like this, after so many days of strong radiation pollution, I think almost all living things in that area are on the verge of extinction. As for those bodies located at the center of the meteorite impact zone, I estimate that the government will collect them together and cremate them later. As for those few places, if the government is willing to take drastic measures to completely demolish the land and buildings contaminated by radiation, I think it can still be used for purposes other than residence, but the cost would be enormous."

  Mudustar shrugged and said with a playful tone, "It seems that this time the governments of various countries will also have to suffer. The high radiation situation in these places is absolutely unbearable and will eventually be exposed to everyone. At that time, the governments of various countries will have to come forward to explain the reasons. As for those areas directly hit by meteorites, they should not be habitable anymore. Why don't we take this opportunity to bring back a piece of such naturally highly radioactive meteorite for research? What do you think, Old Xia?"

  Lao Xia thought this idea was not bad, and such a naturally high-radiation substance from outer space was extremely rare. He said: "Your idea is indeed good, but it's best to send Xiao Dingdang to carry out this dangerous task. The radiation dose there is really too high."

  "I know what you're thinking, kid. You want to go downtown and check out the situation yourself. But apart from the Accelerated Armor, we don't have any other equipment that can quickly collect data in such a heavily irradiated environment. And even with the Accelerated Armor, it's too conspicuous - if someone discovers us by mistake, it'll be trouble."

  The Accelerator Armor, which was damaged by Umbrella soldiers in the Resident Evil movie, has been repaired and upgraded with the help of Alice and Athena after Rain dusted off the materials from the military base's warehouse that she took over during the Terminator storyline.

  Xingchen saw that his little thoughts were seen through by Lao Xia, and he smiled awkwardly: "It's still you and Lao Zhou who understand me, I was indeed thinking... what was it..." But before he could finish speaking, his attention was drawn to the live TV broadcast of the disaster area nearby.

  Lao Xia saw that Mu Chen Xing had only spoken half of what he wanted to say, and was now staring at the LCD TV with a look of astonishment. He hastily turned his head to look at the screen, and found himself wearing the same expression as Mu Chen Xing.

  At this time, on the live TV screen, there were several people with green eyes and bloody mouths attacking some civilians around them with simple weapons. One of the green-eyed individuals suddenly shot out several bone-like protrusions from their body, instantly piercing a dozen or so civilian volunteers who were clearing debris nearby. The innocent civilian volunteers were all stuck together like sugar canes, their bodies pierced, and as the bone spines were pulled out, they all fell into a pool of blood.

  "His eyes widened in shock as he stared at the strange, protruding object. 'What's going on? Can a human's ribcage really extend out of their body like that and become a weapon?!'"

  Lao Xia also looked puzzled and said: "Don't ask me this question, I'm not clear either. But those guys on TV don't look like humans at all!"

  At this time, a bloody mouth suddenly appeared on the TV screen, and then the live broadcast was completely interrupted. It seems that the reporter who was being interviewed had unfortunately died.

  Mudanxing immediately stood up and said to Lao Xia: "It seems that a big disturbance has occurred in the city, I won't have dinner tonight, now I'll use the flying skateboard to go take a look at the situation. You tell Lao Zhou and the others later."

  Lao Xia stood up and said, "Are you going to go there all by yourself? Why not call Athena along, she's completely immune to radiation, it'll be good to have someone to take care of you!"

  "Athena, stay here and take care of the villa's security, just in case that monster shows up again at noon. Don't worry! Those things on TV are nothing to me, you know my eyes have a lethal effect on any living being!"

  Seeing Mudan Xing so resolute, Lao Xia didn't force the issue anymore. He sent Mudan Xing to the outside of the villa and only walked back home slowly after Mudan Xing flew towards Miao Shang City with all his might in mid-air.

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  As the hoverboard flew at full speed, when the meteor came to the city sky, a large area of the urban area had already fallen into darkness, with only some burning car wreckage being particularly eye-catching.

  He put on the helmet of the acceleration suit and, through the night vision mode in the helmet, Muxin Xing clearly saw the situation below. He directly bypassed the center area of the meteorite impact and released Xiaodingdang, ordering it to fly to the meteorite immediately for collection work, and return to the villa after completion.

  As the flying skateboard flew forward, the street scenes that appeared in front of Mudan Xing's eyes were simply unbearable. The ground was littered with incomplete bodies of citizens and rescue personnel, but those monsters had not been found anywhere.

  To conduct a thorough investigation of the strange people appearing on TV, Muxin Xing directly landed on a street in front of him. However, he soon discovered that as soon as he landed on the main street and hadn't started acting yet, he was stared at by several monsters emerging from the collapsed houses, and now he found his luck to be really bad.

  Mudanxing discovered through night vision devices that the monsters in front of him were very similar to the two strange creatures they encountered near the villa at noon today, all with large mouths, full of sharp teeth, well-developed muscles throughout their bodies, and a pair of extremely huge eyes like lanterns.

  Could it be that these monsters in front of him were the same kind as those two from noon, Mu Chen thought to himself in confusion, but now he didn't have any spare energy to engage in a thrilling battle with these beasts.

  Now, Mu Chen Xing's main task was to investigate those green-eyed monsters. As for the few in front of him who were staring at him with drooling mouths, he didn't bother to exert himself and simply removed the helmet on his head, using his own Medusa eye. With a direct blast of deadly petrifying light, these monsters with such obvious large eyes were extremely lucky to be completely petrified, becoming several vivid monster statues in front of him.

  Just as the few arrogant monsters in front of him had just turned into stone, Muxin Xing was about to leave when a crashing sound came from ahead, accompanied by several eerie howls. Those sharp cries were particularly jarring in this eerily quiet and pitch-black area.

  Before long, Mudan Xing saw a person in black combat uniform being chased by several monsters on the street ahead. Looking at his disheveled appearance, he should have been chased for quite some time.

  Through the device on his helmet, Muxin Xing discovered that from her figure, she should be a woman. Since she was a human and a lady, he decided to lend her a hand.

  Medusa's eyes can't be used in that kind of situation, it's just too shocking. Besides, he only wants to save people now, not turn the woman and monster into stone statues together.

  A XM8 light assault rifle suddenly appeared in Muxun Xing's hand, he immediately aimed at the several monsters in front of him that looked like giant shooting targets and pulled the trigger, a burst of gunfire erupted.

  Those enormous monsters were instantly hit by multiple shots, but they seemed to have no reaction at all. They turned around and charged towards Muxin Xing, the human who dared to attack them, as if preparing to bite him to death first.

  Seeing the XM8 lightweight assault rifle in his hand having no effect on the attack, Muxin Xing didn't show any panic. He found that those monsters had already been lured away from the woman's side and were now rushing towards him. He directly used the grenade launcher under the gun to fire at the monsters that came to seek death, pulling the trigger. He didn't believe these ghosts could still withstand the powerful grenade attack at close range.

  As the grenade exploded at close range, one of the monsters was blown to smithereens in a spectacular fashion, while the other two were knocked off their feet by the shockwave and sent tumbling to the ground.

  Mudustar took advantage of the opportunity to launch another grenade, quickly pulling the trigger on a monster lying on the ground. As a result, another monster became a pile of minced meat under the explosion's flames. Another monster was just about to get up when it was unlucky enough to be knocked down again by the shockwave.

  As another explosion sounded, the last monster on site finally bit the dust. Looking at the mangled remains of the monster's corpse, Mochizuki couldn't help but smile in satisfaction, thinking to himself that since bullets couldn't kill it, then a grenade would do just fine.

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  Fang Yingying was attracted by a sudden gunshot and turned around to rush towards the direction of the sound.

  Fang Yinyin discovered this situation and was about to remind the shooter that the weakness of these monsters is their head when a burst of flames from an explosion appeared in front of her, and one of the monsters had already been blown to smithereens. Immediately after two loud explosions were heard, those damned monsters that were chasing her just now had disappeared completely.

  Seeing the opponent holding heavy firepower, Fang Yanyan immediately walked towards the position where the opponent was. After getting closer, she found that the person who fired to help her out of trouble was also wearing a black special combat suit, but the style was different from hers.

  "Fang Yingying immediately thought of the possibility that it was one of their own people, so she quickly spoke up and asked: 'Hello, I am Fang Yingying, the leader of the National Security Bureau's action team. Which unit are you from?'"

  "You're from the National Security Bureau! Dammit, I've saved a troublesome character!"

  This was the first sentence that made Fang Yanyan feel depressed after hearing the other party speak!