Not long after, the stretcher stopped again, and the troops beside him sped up and dispersed. A team of 20 people rushed to the front while shouting. Seeing these people's agile reactions and good nutrition, Zhang Xiaoqiang looked up at the clouds in the sky. The soldiers here were all elites of the new era. Their movements were orderly, and they cooperated well. His troops were far inferior to them.
"Bang …"
The rear compartment was slammed shut, and the light in the compartment dimmed. Zhang Xiaoqiang's stretcher was placed in the middle of the compartment, with 10 soldiers sitting on both sides. Each of them had their backpacks by their feet, holding their rifles and looking at Zhang Xiaoqiang with vigilance. Zhang Xiaoqiang looked around. The twisting of his neck had pulled the wound on his right shoulder blade. He gritted his teeth and looked at the ceiling.
Not long after, the truck under him started moving. Listening to the reverberation of the engine, there were quite a lot of vehicles. Listening roughly, there might be more than 100 vehicles.
Perhaps it was because of Zhang Xiaoqiang's injury, the speed of the vehicles was not fast. From time to time, vehicles passed by them. Shadows flashed across the compartment, making the faces of the soldiers flicker. No matter how many vehicles passed them, these soldiers did not look at them. They just stared at the tied up Zhang Xiaoqiang.
Zhang Xiaoqiang closed his eyes and counted the vehicles that passed them. When he counted to 88, there were no more vehicles passing them. However, Zhang Xiaoqiang heard the engine sounds behind him. He knew that there were still vehicles escorting them, and maybe they were specifically targeting him.
Squinting and looking at the soldiers around him, analyzing their age and combat potential, Zhang Xiaoqiang's way of diverting the pain. The soldiers around him were all on guard against him. No one spoke, and no one moved. It made him feel depressed and uncomfortable. It was really uncomfortable to be squeezed in a car with 20 men. What was more uncomfortable was that he was surrounded by 20 men.
Suddenly, Zhang Xiaoqiang's eyes lit up. He found something interesting. A soldier's backpack was not zipped properly. He saw something that was very familiar. It was a bundle of explosives connected to cables and batteries. He had used this many times, so he naturally knew what it was. It was a remote-controlled bomb.
Every backpack was a remote-controlled bomb. Judging from the unzipped backpacks, these 20 soldiers were all men of sacrifice. They all knew what they might encounter. This also explained why You Yinhua's priests were not there to supervise him. You Yinhua probably did not want the evolved to perish together with Zhuo Mingyue, who had rushed into the carriage to save her.
Zhuo Mingyue stood at the top of the hill and watched the convoy leave. She saw everything from the moment Zhang Xiaoqiang was carried down the hill to the moment he was placed in the vehicle. She had wanted to rush down to save him more than once, but she was afraid that You Yinhua would kill Zhang Xiaoqiang in desperation. If she had not seen someone feeding water to Zhang Xiaoqiang, she would have rushed down to save him.
It was because of her moment of hesitation that she and Zhang Xiaoqiang managed to escape. If 20 bags of explosives and steel balls exploded at the same time, not only them, but even the transport vehicle would have been turned into inch-long pieces.
The thousands of armed men around him put down their weapons and collected the corpses at the foot of the mountain. One thousand and two hundred of his men became one thousand and two hundred corpses. All the wounded were slaughtered by New Era, and everything of value was taken away from them. Rifles, bullets, first aid kits, and even their rations were not spared.
The convoy disappeared into the distance. Zhuo Mingyue took a deep breath and was about to leave when her eyes swept across the boulder that Zhang Xiaoqiang had been sitting on. There were a few silver arrows and some blood stains on the boulder. Seeing that boulder, Zhuo Mingyue suddenly became very anxious. If she had not exposed Zhang Xiaoqiang, Zhang Xiaoqiang would not have been captured. Zhang Xiaoqiang had fought to the last moment. If it was not to save her, Zhang Xiaoqiang would not have been shot. In the end, she still owed Zhang Xiaoqiang.
She walked forward and stared at the arrows. After staring for a while, the arrows began to tremble on the boulder. Not long after, they all fell off the boulder and floated to Zhuo Mingyue's side. There were many arrows scattered on the scene. Aside from the ones in front of her, there were more than 10 arrows that had been cut by the Rat King Blade and a few that had flown to the back and burrowed into the ground.
Looking at the alloy arrows in front of her, Zhuo Mingyue fell into deep thought. The Rat King Blade had been very powerful under her control, but because she had never used it before, it was not very smooth. If she had practiced before, she might not have been able to shatter her telekinesis barrier like before.
The seven arrows scattered like fishes. Zhuo Mingyue raised her head and floated in the air. The arrows around her moved nimbly and gathered around her like stars surrounding the moon. In the first few minutes, the seven arrows shuttled back and forth around her, but they were still a bit jerky. From time to time, the arrows would collide with each other and fall down. After about ten minutes, Zhuo Mingyue's control gradually became more and more proficient. The silver arrows shuttled back and forth faster and faster. In the end, the arrows could no longer be seen, only flashes of silver light that would appear and disappear around her.
When her manipulation technique reached its peak, all the silver threads sank into the boulder together. The boulder cracked open with a loud bang, and countless gravel fragments scattered along with the flying dust. Rocks the size of a human head rolled along the slope at lightning speed, rushing into the busy crowd and causing a huge commotion.
Zhuo Mingyue waved her sleeves, scattering the dust in the air. The seven arrows scattered among the gravel. When the arrows floated up from the pile of gravel and gathered around Zhuo Mingyue again, she suddenly realized that if she had found a way to use the weapon earlier, perhaps Zhang Xiaoqiang would not have been captured.
Thinking of this, Zhuo Mingyue secretly cursed. She had not known Zhang Xiaoqiang for a long time, and they had not reached the point where they could live and die together. However, Zhang Xiaoqiang gave her a feeling that ordinary people could not. She had always been strong. As the Queen of Storms, no matter if it was Xiang Yu, whom she regarded as a sister, or her nominal fiancé, Fei Yun, they were all afraid of her, making her unable to feel the warmth of humans.
Only Zhang Xiaoqiang gave her a different feeling. In the beginning, Zhang Xiaoqiang did not fear her strength, making her feel that they were equal. There was no barrier between a superior and a subordinate. Later, Zhang Xiaoqiang's performance on the battlefield surprised her.
Although she rejected Zhang Xiaoqiang's advice, it turned out that Zhang Xiaoqiang was right. Even when she was fighting, if it was not for Zhang Xiaoqiang supporting her time and time again, she did not know what kind of losses she would have suffered.
However, this was not the key point. The key point was that when Zhang Xiaoqiang held the heavy machine gun, even she felt a sense of danger. In other words, as long as Zhang Xiaoqiang had the heavy machine gun in his hand, he could cause harm to her. She had already recognized Zhang Xiaoqiang's ability.
What Zhang Xiaoqiang had shown was enough to prove his excellence. It was enough to make this strong woman unable to maintain her arrogance in front of Zhang Xiaoqiang. In her heart, her ideal husband was a man who could suppress her in certain aspects.
Zhang Xiaoqiang had been captured, which made her feel anxious and regretful. It was as if her most precious thing had been stolen. That was why she was willing to compromise for Zhang Xiaoqiang. If it was not for her troops appearing, who knew what would have happened.
Suppressing the disappointment in her heart, Zhuo Mingyue prepared to return to the camp at the foot of the mountain. She looked around and saw half of a silver belt on the ground. She recognized the belt as Zhang Xiaoqiang's spoils of war from the three-leaf officer. The decay ray gun and all sorts of strange things were on it. Seeing the ray gun, she thought of the evolver that Zhang Xiaoqiang had killed when she was fighting with the evolver. Could it be?
Had Zhang Xiaoqiang already found the method to use this ray gun?
Half of New Era's logistics camp had been destroyed by the cannons. If not for the fact that the warehouse was hidden, it would have been destroyed long ago. Standing in the smoke-filled camp, Zhuo Mingyue arrived at the three-leaf officer's residence.
She had been here before in order to find clothes for Zhang Xiaoqiang. Zhang Xiaoqiang had been pierced by an arrow, so Zhuo Mingyue had wanted to find a new set of clothes for him. After searching for a long time, Zhuo Mingyue still couldn't find anything. She thought of Zhang Xiaoqiang, whose life or death was unknown, and became irritated. She couldn't help but scream. The arrow on her back opened up in the room, and after a series of explosions, the entire room was torn to pieces by Zhuo Mingyue.
Standing in the ruins, Zhuo Mingyue waved her sleeves to disperse the smoke and dust. An impulse welled up in her heart. She suddenly wanted to abandon her subordinates and turn around to find Zhang Xiaoqiang. At that moment, a silver flash attracted her attention.
It was an alloy box that was 1.5 meters long and 80 centimeters wide. There were two keyholes on the box, and the four corners of the box flickered with electronic red light. It was very sci-fi. Looking at the heavy box, Zhuo Mingyue turned her wrist. Under the light, the alloy key on the inside of her belt had the same texture as the metal box.
After walking closer, she saw that there was a small liquid crystal screen between the keyholes of the box. On it was a series of numbers that was counting down. The last number of the numbers was rapidly decreasing, like a stopwatch. She immediately recognized that the box was counting down to 33 minutes and 27 seconds.
She didn't understand what stopping time meant, but she didn't want to think too much about it. She just wanted to find a gorgeous military uniform for Zhang Xiaoqiang, so she took out the key and inserted it.
What Zhuo Mingyue didn't know was that she had accidentally destroyed the countdown timer for the bomb's detonation. The special bomb hidden in the box could not only blow up the entire box, but it could also burn everything within a hundred meters to ashes, whether it was steel or stone.
After twisting the key, the box opened. However, she didn't expect that there was nothing on the first floor other than an LCD keyboard. If Zhang Xiaoqiang was here, he would be greatly surprised. This thing was simply something out of a sci-fi movie. It looked like a touch keyboard on the LCD screen, but it was actually floating in the box. Under the light, one could see the chaotic black metal lines under the keyboard.