Chapter 110: Masked Man (II)

Chen Yiming sensed that something was amiss, but he didn’t think too much about it.

“Can I bring my family into this air raid shelter?”

“But… it’s already full,” Zhong Tianyang replied, his voice trembling as he stammered.

Most of the people protected in this air raid shelter were people with connections, and each of them had an extraordinary background.

Therefore, they had always followed strict standards. It was not crowded inside, and there was enough space to move around. It was not like the air raid shelters outside the city center, where as many people as possible were fit into it.

Chen Yiming’s expression darkened and an invisible aura spread out.

He did not consciously do this, it was simply caused by the change in his emotions. However, it still made Zhong Tianyang feel an overwhelming pressure.

Although Zhong Tianyang was not a warrior candidate, he had undergone eight transformations. However, he had never seen a warrior candidate with such a powerful aura. He was not much different from the head captain of the city guards.

The expressions of the ordinary people who were hanging around dozens of meters away also froze. A feeling of impending doom inexplicably welled up in their hearts.

After being rejected by the person in charge of the air raid shelter, Chen Yiming didn’t push the issue. He wasn’t the kind of person who would act unreasonably just because he was strong.

“Let’s go back,” Chen Yiming said to Father Chen and Mother Chen.

The group was about to leave.

At this moment, a young man beside him elbowed Zhong Tianyang’s arm and even frowned.

Zhong Tianyang turned around and was stunned for a moment. He did not understand what his team member meant at first and finally reacted a moment later.

Before being assigned to manage the space-travel passage, the head captain of the city guards had warned them that they could adapt to the situation and make exceptions for the families of powerful civilian experts and allow them to enter the air raid shelter.

He had brought his team members to this air raid shelter and specially instructed them regarding this matter. However, Zhong Tianyang had been frightened by Chen Yiming’s expression earlier and had completely forgotten about this earlier.

“Mr. Chen, wait a moment,” Zhong Tianyang shouted at Chen Yiming.

Chen Yiming was 18 years old, and very few people addressed him this way. Coincidentally, he had something on his mind and didn’t register it, so he continued walking forward.

Father Chen and Mother Chen had always thought of Chen Yiming as a high school student, so they didn’t realize that Zhong Tianyang was referring to Chen Yiming.

Zhong Tianyang panicked and rushed over to stop him.

“Mr. Chen, I’m sorry. It was a mistake on my part,” Zhong Tianyang admitted honestly, “According to the rules, your family meets the requirements to enter the air raid shelter, but only if you don’t go in with them.”

“Hmm?”

Chen Yiming stopped in his tracks. He didn’t need to think to understand the intention behind this. They wanted the civilian experts to help hold back this air raid.

“There are a total of five people on my side. Can all of them enter?” Chen Yiming asked. Wang Shiyuan and Wang Rongshan weren’t his family, so he had to clarify first.

“No problem.”

Zhong Tianyang hesitated for less than half a second before agreeing to it.

Soon, Wang Shiyuan and Wang Rongshan entered the air raid shelter with Father Chen, Mother Chen, and Chen Yingying. Chen Yiming turned around and left.

…

In the southern suburbs, an industrial park was formed by dozens of factories.

This was the lifeline of East Lake City’s industries. If it was destroyed, it would greatly affect the industrial ability of the city, and it would take at least a year or two to fully recover.

In the sky hundreds of meters above it, two bird-type mutant beasts that were more than 10 meters long were circling around, staring at the large factory buildings on the ground.

In the industrial park below, all the workers had already left. Eight warriors from the military had gathered there.

With these warriors around, the ordinary flying mutant beasts did not dare to get within a kilometer of the area. Therefore, the industrial park still remained undamaged.

Just as the eight warriors from the military were in a standoff with the two flying mutant beasts, a masked man in a black cloak and a bamboo hat appeared in a dense forest near the industrial park.

The person who had arrived was Chen Yiming. He used the dense forest to hide his figure.

Now that he had obtained the Level-1 Undying Body talent, although the consumption of mental resources by the Heart Sword had not decreased, his resistance to the mental fatigue it caused had increased greatly.

Even if he used the Heart Sword ability three times in a row, and his mental resources were severely depleted until only a trace was left, with the unlimited stamina ability, he would only feel fatigued and would be able to automatically recover after a good rest.

With the Level-1 Undying Body talent that could protect his life, there was no need to hide the Heart Sword ability.

Chen Yiming knew that he only had one chance to make a move. After all, he couldn’t fly. His plan was to find a suitable opportunity to kill two flying mutant beasts in one strike.

“&;%$#” After the two birds communicated, they swooped down in an instant.

They were extremely fast, and their flying speed exceeded the speed of sound. Layers of air barriers were broken apart, turning into shock waves that spread out in all directions.

At the same time, their entire bodies were burning with black flames. These special black flames were a little different from the ordinary fire-attribute internal force. They could hover a meter or two away from their bodies.

“Get ready!” Cao Zhengjun shouted.

He leaped up and threw a punch in midair, aiming straight at a bird beast that was charging towards the ground.

At the same time, he released his internal force to cover his body, and red flames engulfed his entire body.

The red and black internal forces with the same fire attribute were about to collide in the blink of an eye.

In fact, there was no need for his reminder. The moment the other warriors saw the flying mutant beasts diving down, they released their internal forces at the same time.

Almost at the same instant, two warriors from each of the four directions of the industrial park activated the special powers of their internal forces. At the same time, they leaped towards the flying mutant beasts.

The two sides would cross the distance of hundreds of meters and clash within half a second.

Neither side had the slightest chance to dodge. They could only fight head-on with their internal forces.

The eight martial warriors from the military had the absolute advantage in terms of strength. Their goal was to cause an explosion at the point where the internal forces collided, and to position it as far away from the industrial park as possible.

The flying mutant beasts were not good at defense. In a one-on-four fight, they had no chance of winning. Their goal was to risk injury and let the aftershock from the internal force explosions sweep across the industrial park.

“Rumble…”

The intense explosions overlapped, with an intensity comparable to a large-scale bomb.

In the air above the industrial park, two balls of dazzling light lit up. Immediately after, two mushroom clouds about 10 meters wide were created from the explosion.

The shock wave from the explosion turned into a red halo that instantly spread out in all directions.

“How is that possible!”

eight surprised voices shouted at the same time.

The two flying mutant beasts were not forced back into the air by the eight people as they had expected. Instead, they spun around and crashed towards the industrial park below.

The eight of them were in a panic, but they were still in midair. They had to wait until they landed again before they could take any action.

A bolt of lightning flashed across heads.

The reason was not anything complicated. The black flames extending from the flying mutant beasts’ bodies were of an abnormal length. They had only needed to adjust the length of the black flames slightly to easily change their direction.

At this moment, the two flying mutant beasts were also seriously injured. One of them had a large hole in its abdomen that was about half a meter wide.

Inside the hole, one could clearly see smoking black flesh and destroyed internal organs. Although the wound was instantly covered by black flames again, one could still see blood flowing out of the hole.

On the other bird beast’s thigh, a piece of flesh more than a meter in diameter had disappeared, revealing a leg bone wrapped in blood vessels.

The leg bone was not intact either. Three cracks, each as thick as a finger, had appeared on it, and thick white liquid was flowing out of the cracks.

The only good news for the two birds was that both their wings were intact, which meant that they had not suffered any fatal injuries.

“Bang…”

A series of loud explosions rang out.

The two bird beasts used the inertia from their dive and impact from the internal force explosion to crash into the industrial park.

However, their bodies did not stop when they crashed into the ground. Under the protection of their internal force, they slid and smashed through all the obstacles in their way, only stopping when they were out of the industrial park.

Looking down from the sky, two paths more than 10 meters wide had been plowed down across the entire industrial park. The two paths formed a cross and nearly half of the factories in the park had been destroyed.