Dawn of a New Era

Chapter 243: Shocking Battle


Chen Shouyi's heart suddenly tensed up, and he gripped the war bow tightly.

These three were the strongest in the team for this mission. If they were to die, the mission might end in total failure, and whether he could survive was also unknown.

In the dim moonlight, Luo Jingwen and Zhang Wenlong quickly dispersed. Only Ye Zong stood still, electric arcs entwining his body, holding the war bow, and releasing arrow after arrow at the fast-approaching giant. The frequency of his electromagnetic cannon arrows was slow, requiring considerable time to prepare, taking almost a second for each arrow.

Chen Shouyi watched the distant battle without blinking.

With the first arrow, only a small blood flower burst on the giant's body, and the distance between them had closed to seven hundred meters.

With the second arrow, the wound on the giant grew to the size of a bowl, and the distance had decreased to less than four hundred meters.

The violent wind made the surrounding rice fields rapidly lay flat.

Ye Zong quickly took out another arrow and drew it back in an instant, bright electric light blazing from his entire body. He paused slightly, waiting until the giant approached within a hundred meters. The next moment, a faint red light flashed by.

This was the arrow starting to burn due to the intense friction with the air.

Before a response could form, the giant's hand shielding his eyes exploded with a bloody hole. Following that was its sturdy skeleton capable of supporting its massive body under three times Earth's gravity, but under such a terrifying electromagnetic cannon arrow, it fared little better than tofu. Its forehead immediately blasted open a large hole of thirty to forty centimeters, while the completely shattered tungsten steel arrow turned into a stream of metal, mashing the brain into a pulp.

The giant's body trembled slightly, continuing with inertia for one step, then staggered in its stride. The massive body fell to the ground, raising a huge splash of mud.

Meanwhile, Ye Zong had already retreated several dozen meters away.

Strong, incredibly strong!

Chen Shouyi opened his mouth slightly, shocked at heart.

This exaggerated attack power was simply inconceivable.

The giant's performance was not much worse than what he had seen from the God of Courage, perhaps even stronger.

In another world, this giant might not compare to the God of Courage, but on Earth, it might truly not surpass this giant.

"Director Ye, truly amazing!" Sun Mengyuan's eyes shone with starlight, she exclaimed excitedly.

"Director Ye can already be called a Martial God. I had only heard rumors of Godslayer before, but now I've truly witnessed it!" Lu Shouhu said, stunned.

"Eye-opening!" Xiao Changming sighed with emotion.

At this moment, Chen Shouyi noticed many barbarians running out from all parts of the village, desperately fleeing, interspersed with quite a few humans. Clearly, with the giant's death, all resistance forces had completely collapsed.

Ye Zong and his group did not return to the convoy but instead headed straight for the village.

Soon, a massacre began.

"Should we go?" Lei Ruiyang asked, unable to contain himself. From the start until now, he hadn't killed a single barbarian, and as a martial artist respected in Hedong City, he felt somewhat humiliated.

"No, ensuring the convoy's safety is more important than anything." Lu Shouhu solemnly rejected.

...

"Chug Chug Chug..."

A few minutes later, the speeding convoy finally stopped in front of the airship.

The soldiers who had already changed into protective suits on the way quickly leapt off the trucks, and several others, including Chen Shouyi, disembarked with bows in hand. He looked up, shocked by the gigantic airship before him.

It was enormous, towering nearly a hundred meters high, and its length spanned the equivalent of three or four soccer fields. For an average person to walk from one end to the other would take seven to eight minutes, and standing beneath it felt like being an insignificant ant.

The village occasionally echoed with the sound of arrows, and the smell of blood gradually filled the air.

The soldiers swiftly entered through the airship's opening. These strategic unit soldiers almost all had the strength of a martial artist apprentice, moving nimbly. Five to six minutes later, the first nuclear warhead was carried by several people and placed into a fully enclosed compartment.

Chen Shouyi glanced over and felt a chill run down his spine. He glanced at the others and found they weren't feeling much better. Apart from the strategic unit soldiers who often dealt with nuclear warheads, probably no one could face a nuclear bomb without trembling.

Just imagining a nuclear explosion vaporizing everyone here felt unnatural.

Fortunately, such a thing didn't happen.

The retrieval of the nuclear warheads went quite smoothly.

In total, fifteen nuclear warheads were moved, taking a full hour. The last one was carried and pushed out of the airship by over a dozen soldiers, the largest of them all, estimated to weigh three to four tons.

Xiao Changming and Lei Ruiyang jogged over to help, but the soldiers declined, handling it with independent care and caution into the compartment.

The convoy continued onward, heading for another airship.

Chen Shouyi noticed Ye Zong and his group standing there, covered in mud, with a group of people not far away.

This group numbered about seventy or eighty people, most wearing protective suits.

His gaze swept over their faces one by one.

Joy, excitement, fear, worry, as well as hatred, rejection—emotions varied widely,

and everyone jumped down from the vehicles.

"Director Ye, who are these people?" the strategic unit's major stepped forward and inquired.

"Major Qi, these are researchers captured by the barbarians! A few had already become cultists and were killed by me," Ye Zong said calmly. "But there are likely more among them!"

"Leave it to us to handle." Major Qi said that the military already had an effective method for identifying cultists. He called over a soldier: "Zhang Luoshan, send a squad over for screening. Those stubbornly refusing to repent, execute them on the spot."

"Yes, sir."

The crowd fell into a commotion, fear flashing across several faces. One person even attempted to flee amid the chaos.

The next moment, his head exploded from an arrow, and he fell face-first to the ground.

Chen Shouyi, with a cold expression, drew another arrow, and seeing this, the crowd fell silent, not daring to make a noise.

The soldiers began the screening, using a method not too different from what he had encountered at the checkpoint on his way through Dongning. It wasn't until the third person that something occurred:

"I'm a professor at Ningzhou University. This is my belief. The mind is free, and so is belief. No one can defile my belief. I want to see your commanding officer," said an excited middle-aged man loudly.

A soldier seemed uncertain, looking at his squad leader.

"Why are you looking at me? Take him away!" Zhang Luoshan said coldly, giving a signal.

Two soldiers immediately stepped forward, restraining the middle-aged man's arms. He finally looked panicked and struggled, but as an ordinary man, he couldn't break free. He said angrily, "You are wantonly killing people, acting against common sense. I'm not afraid of death, oh great God of Hunting..."

"Bang!"

A soldier stepped forward and smashed his mouth with the butt of the gun. His mouth was full of blood as he grunted, stunned by the blow, and was subsequently dragged to the corner by the two soldiers. A gunshot rang out, and the body thudded to the ground, convulsing unnaturally.

The crowd was screened one by one.

Fortunately, being under occupation only a short time, few were truly devout believers; most were just superficial believers or non-believers. Under the threat of death, most chose survival, with only five stubbornly unrepentant.

As their blasphemous words were uttered, their faith lines completely severed, dooming them from ever regaining the God of Hunting's faith. In a sense, they had been blacklisted by Him.

The atmosphere became inexplicably oppressive, as if anger permeated the air.

Chen Shouyi felt something and looked up to the moon, which seemed to have been tinged with a faint red hue.

Fortunately, the God of Hunting never appeared from start to finish.

Then, Major Qi suddenly strode to the front of the crowd, his face serious, and said, "One nuclear warhead is missing!"

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