Chapter 35: Helping Hands
The people in the settlement were panicked, and there seemed to be an invisible string taut in the air, and a commotion would occur at the slightest pluck. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
When everyone saw Beth returning from the battlefield covered in blood, they gathered around to inquire about the situation. Beth reassured them, then told them to take refuge in the base as quickly as possible. She couldn't inform them one by one, she could only hope that the clansmen who knew the news would tell the other clansmen in time. She took the moment to look in her son's direction, bit her lip, stood out from the crowd, and ran towards the entrance to the base on the stone wall.
The stone walls were also deformed and cracked, revealing the silvery metal beneath them, and the stone staircase leading to the entrance was broken, too fragile to seem to bear her weight. But she stepped on it anyway, and it was wet and slippery and cold, and she felt desperate for a moment that she could not suppress for a moment.
"High Priest! High Priest! ......" cried Beth, so hard that veins appeared on her neck, as if the High Priestess would appear before her at once.
Behind her, several deer people rushed over, looking panicked, and said in a trembling voice, "The mutant beast has entered the village!" ā
Beth's heart was cold, her head was blank for a moment, and the mutant beast came in, didn't that mean that the defense line had collapsed? Canaanta......
She forced down the tears and her own thoughts, and said in a nervous voice, "Yes...... There are people who see the front line...... Withdrawn? ā
"Nope."
More and more deer people gathered, and they all felt a pang of despair at the sight of the broken stone staircase, did the high priest abandon them? Beth and the other deer men tried to climb up, but they all fell off due to a slippery hoof. Everyone looked at the dark stone wall, their eyes were full of despair, were they going to die here? In the crowd, some of the deer people had already begun to sob.
The crowd kept calling out to the High Priest, but because of the base's shielding function, their tidal shouts did not come in the slightest. Moreover, at that time, the base had just been restarted, and everything was on the defensive to avoid being attacked. The base wraps itself around like an iron egg, waiting for the restart and update of internal functions.
A feeling of despair weighed on the heads of the crowd like substance, and some of the deer people broke down, scurried around like headless flies, and ran away. More sobs were heard.
Beth was also upset that she didn't see her son. She wanted to run out in search of her son, but she had to stay behind to pacify her people and try to keep a mass riot from happening. She answered everyone's questions in a hoarse voice, trying to show composure. Her emotions did infect some people. But what happened next almost wiped out her efforts.
"The mutant beast is coming!"
The wind blew the fishy smell of the mutant beast over, and the crowd suddenly stirred and surged uneasily. Gritting her teeth, Beth burst out of the crowd and onto the wooden bridge that connected the village to the base. Encouraged by her, some of the female deermen picked up their spears again and joined Beth. They stood at the bridgehead, ready for a fight.
"Ahh Sky! ā
A smell of birds' peculiar feathers blew through, and some deer people noticed a large group of mutant birds in the sky at some point, hovering above the deermen, their red eyes like stars glowing red in the sky.
They swooped down and plunged into the crowd, screaming one after another, and the deer people fled in all directions like schools of fish that had been scattered, but it gave the mutant birds a clearer target, and more deer people fell.
Blood was running down Beth's cheek, and it was impossible to tell whose it was. She mechanically swung her spear to fight the mutants, screams of despair filling her ears.
Are they going to die here today?
The faces of her son and husband came to her mind, and her heart was like a knife.
A mutant tiger pounced, Beth's movements paused, and she suddenly felt a strange peace in her heart, as if she saw Canaan and Na Yao waving at her in mid-air.
"Mother, come quickly......"
She closed her eyes and waited for the pain to arrive.
Yet nothing happened.
The ground shook a few times again, and the stones on the stone wall peeled off one after another, revealing a metal wall, as smooth as a mirror, reflecting a cold light like moonlight. That's just one part of the base.
Powerful energy fluctuations spread in the air, and the mutant beasts retreated as if they had touched the flames, and the mutant birds did the same, screaming a few times and flapping their wings and leaving the place.
"Hint, the source force wave has been launched."
"Open the door and pursue!" Ansu commanded, and rushed out the moment the metal door opened, she was armed with the spear and waist knife provided by the base, and a style used by the deermen. Anso's original equipment disappeared as her original body vanished. This made her quite unaccustomed to it, after all, those equipment had been with her for so many years and helped her through countless difficulties. However, even with weapons that are not in hand, Ansu can use them to their fullest effect.
The scene outside the base was tragic, An Su lowered his eyes and sighed silently, no one could stop the cruelty of fate.
Suda organized the rest of the deer to rescue the injured people, carrying them up the base's escalator and transporting them to the base's treatment room. The High Priest had been transferred to another place, and although Suda had always wanted to meet the High Priest, Ansu was worried that something would happen again, so he didn't let them meet, but only let the High Priest's hologram meet with Suda. Although Ansu and the others were not present, their every move was under the monitoring of Zhina, and Ansu watched the whole process from the other place. The high priest seemed to be quite honest, but only told Suda to try to follow Ansu's arrangement. Since they didn't play any tricks, Ansu would keep his promise to open the base to save the deermen.
Although Li Kai was very eager to fight alongside Ansu again, he was left at the base, and compared to Simon, Li Kai was much more clever, and his flexible mind often allowed him to escape from difficult situations.
Orin took Ansule and Simon to find Canaan. Along the way, there were corpses all over the place, and they were in disarray. When passing by a stone house, Ansu heard faint breathing, as if she was being pressed by a heavy object, she swept it with her mental power, and found a small deer man hidden under the two corpses of the deer in the house. Ansu motioned for them to stop, and under Orin's anxious gaze, they entered the stone house.
There were also several corpses of deer people in the house, and they were in a miserable state, as if they had been eaten by wild beasts. Ansu walked to the corner and opened the two corpses, only to find a fawn man staring at Ansu with wide panicked eyes and grinning at Ansu.
It's like a little wolf cub. (To be continued.) )