Chapter 111: I’ll Go Catch Some People
Two hours later, reinforcements from Ningjiang City arrived at Tongguan Mountain Mine, following the location signal given by Fan Tie, and reached the designated position.
Ahead was a makeshift rudimentary camp. In front of the camp, a team of soldiers was stationed on alert, while behind were some wounded soldiers, with a military doctor bandaging their wounds.
The sound of the vehicles caught the camp’s attention, and they all raised their guns toward them, but relaxed upon seeing the painted off-road vehicles.
“Here! Here!”
Fan Tie in the camp waved his hand, signaling the off-road vehicle to come over.
As more than a dozen off-road vehicles moved, they spread out to the left and right, and even a wheeled armored vehicle could be seen.
After the vehicles stopped, the soldiers from the off-road vehicles all got out. The leading soldier saluted Fan Tie and said loudly:
“Report, Ningjiang defense force totals one hundred twenty people, all in position!”
“Demonic Creatures!”
As soon as the words were spoken here, the soldiers responsible for alert ahead shouted.
Da-da-da!
The assault rifle burst out sparks, and all bullets hit the Gall Tear Slave that suddenly ran out from ahead.
After several bursts of bullets, the Gall Tear Slave was riddled with holes like a sieve. After falling to the ground, it trembled for a while and then stopped moving.
Right in front of this camp, many demonic creatures lay scattered, including corpses of Gall Tear Slaves, Coin Moths, Grave Dust Ore Demons, and Ore Mule Silver Fiends.
The martial artists who followed behind were shocked at the sight.
Fan Tie glanced at the direction where the demonic creatures fell and said to the soldiers:
“Your task is to go to the designated position and hold it firmly. You must protect the alert line, but be careful not to enter the mine!”
“Yes!” The soldiers shouted with resolute faces, then quickly moved to the position specified by Fan Tie.
Song Zhengyu of the Fei Peng Gang gripped the spear in his hand, glanced at the demonic creatures in front of the camp again, felt relieved in his heart, and asked:
“What about us? Where is our position?”
Demon Realm, he had heard of it in his life but never seen it. Back in school, because the school’s level was not high enough, it wasn’t his turn to go to the Demon Realm. He only knew from related information that the Demon Realm was dangerous.
Later, he went even less.
But even if he hadn’t eaten pork, he had seen pigs run. The appearance of a Demon Realm, let alone Breaking Through Realm, even Opening Origin Realm could easily fall inside.
But now it seemed that if they were just defending here, it wasn’t that dangerous.
“You come with me to the mine, enter the outskirts of the Demon Realm.”
But Fan Tie’s next sentence made their faces change.
“This isn’t the outskirts?” Song Zhengyu asked in shock.
“This is outside the pollution line. We don’t have enough manpower, so we are following orders to hold here.”
Fan Tie said: “But your orders are to go in together.”
“That’s not right!”
Song Zhengyu shouted: “You’ve all retreated outside the pollution line, and we still have to go in? Clearing the Demon Realm is originally the military’s responsibility. We’re just here to help. How is this putting the cart before the horse!”
“Exactly.”
Bai Rongzu sneered from the side: “What does the order you received have to do with us? We didn’t receive it. We’re looking at Bureau Chief Li.”
“The order I received is from your Bureau Chief Li.”
Before he finished speaking, Fan Tie said: “Either you go in, or I send a message for Li Ye to come out. You choose.”
Bai Rongzu changed his tone: “But having said that, for Bureau Chief Li’s sake, we will do it without hesitation!”
Song Zhengyu said even more righteously: “How can we let Bureau Chief Li come out? We’ll go ourselves!”
“Right, that’s the best. Let’s go.” Fan Tie took the lead, crossing over the demonic creature corpses, heading straight for the mine.
The remaining martial artists exchanged glances and saw the helplessness in each other’s eyes. They could only speed up to follow.
They had already come, and the military was something they absolutely could not offend.
Secondly, Li Ye was even more someone they could not offend.
Moreover, they weren’t fools.
Song Zhengyu had only a half-knowledge of the Demon Realm, but that didn’t mean everyone did.
The demonic creatures in the Demon Realm wouldn’t go out, but the Demon Realm itself was a massive pollution source. Once it appeared, it had to be stopped, or the pollution source would spread, expanding the Demon Realm’s territory.
Without clearing the demonic creatures, the pollution would only grow larger. There was no reason to station outside the pollution line. Only by finding a way to kill the demonic creatures could the pollution line be controlled.
The combined troops from Ningjiang City and Jinze City might not even total two hundred people, and their equipment wasn’t fully equipped.
These troops weren’t military region troops; they were mainly here to rotate and control the experience points in various cities. Naturally, they wouldn’t be fully prepared for sudden situations.
But the situation on site wasn’t as dire as they imagined. Since they had all retreated outside the pollution line, it meant someone was definitely holding the polluted area.
Besides Li Ye, who else could it be?
At present, only he had the capability.
They just didn’t know how many martial artists were in the polluted area. If the number was small, they indeed needed to hurry a bit.
No one would have the stupid idea that Li Ye would suddenly die here.
He was the Disinfection Bureau Chief, not military, and didn’t have ironclad military orders. If it really didn’t work, he could just retreat. It wasn’t like he had to die here.
If they dropped the ball at this time
No one wanted to think about the consequences!
And soon, they knew that not raising any resistance was a very correct choice.
Along the way, they didn’t see any demonic creatures, but as soon as they approached the mine, their bodies stiffened one by one, looking incredulously at the scene before them.
It was full of corpses.
Unlike the ones killed by soldiers, which were full of bullet holes but at least kept intact bodies—at worst exploded to death but still recognizable in complete form, the demonic creatures
Inside the mine, the demonic creatures couldn’t be distinguished as to what they were.
Only fragments and meat mud all over the ground, like iron mud crushed by a hydraulic press or violently shredded iron scraps, with no form discernible.
Sizzle!!
Just as they were shocked, a tearing sound rang out not far away. Everyone instinctively looked over and saw, amidst the demonic creature fragments, a demonic creature combining a mule and a mine cart being torn in half from the middle.
That was Li Ye.
After fighting in the mine for two hours straight, his clothes weren’t even damaged, just the hem slightly dirty.
After tearing apart one demonic creature, Li Ye also noticed Fan Tie and the others.
Bang!
He yanked with his five fingers, piercing and tearing through half of the demonic creature’s body. The qi force he brought forward twisted it, turning the demonic creature’s body into fragments.
The other half he threw to the ground as an irregular seat, sat down, took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, and lit one.
In the demonic creature field full of fragments around, only that half ‘seat’ was the tallest, and Li Ye sitting on it was even taller!
“Bureau Chief Li!”
Those martial artists lowered their heads and shouted respectfully.
Fan Tie shook his head with a bitter smile: “Looking again, it still feels terrifying.”
This wasn’t the first time he had seen Li Ye like this. When Li Ye was single-handedly dealing with the mine’s demonic creatures, Fan Tie had also gotten off the helicopter to support him.
Later he found it was completely unnecessary. These demonic creatures were as simple as tearing vegetables in front of Li Ye. With fists, feet, claws, knees, every strike killed a demonic creature.
Plus, Li Ye had already said only he was needed here, so he went to station at the camp.
But that terrifying combat power also relieved Fan Tie.
Although many demonic creatures slipped through the net, it indeed reduced a lot of pressure.
Now coming to see again, it was even more exaggerated.
Li Ye exhaled a puff of smoke, glanced at the demonic creature remains around, and looked at Fan Tie.
“How long until reinforcements arrive?”
“At least another thirty hours. The main force and support equipment will arrive together.”
Fan Tie replied: “Our Ningjiang people can now continue to hold the defense and try to hold on.”
“Too long.”
Li Ye shook his head: “No matter how many I kill personally, one person can’t control all demonic creatures. And holding the line waiting for reinforcements is just filling the line, not suitable for our people. You hold it for a bit first.”
As he spoke, he stamped out the cigarette with one foot and walked toward the outside of the mine.
“I’ll go grab some people.”
Nap for a bit, today’s update will be late.
