the only savior

Chapter 569 The Encounter of the Seventh Fleet ([-] in [-])

His fingertips pressed firmly against the ground paved with brown stone bricks.

Sam gritted his teeth tightly, and tears slid down his cheeks along with sweat.

The fluffy hair covered the upper part of his face, making it difficult to see his expression clearly.

"Sam, are you okay..."

Dane squatted beside him, a little at a loss, not knowing how to comfort his younger brother.

He also didn't expect that Sam would fail so quickly.

Almost ten seconds later, he was kicked out of the illusion.

"Failed...I failed..."

Sam's voice was very soft, but it could still be heard by Dane who was the closest.

"Don't be discouraged, Sam! Didn't we also have mental preparations at the beginning?"

"If you don't succeed this time, then train hard, try to pass the next assessment, and regain the qualification for awakening!"

Dane tried to speak words of comfort.

But the other party didn't seem to respond, and was still muttering to himself.

At this moment, Sam only felt a buzzing in his mind.

When he withdrew from the illusion, he instantly understood what happened just now.

When he entered the illusion, he lost his ability to think clearly as if he was dreaming.

The memory seemed to be blocked, and he completely forgot that he was awakening.

He only saw the scene when his father faced the demon alone.

He wanted to do something, he wanted to tell his father to get out of that warehouse quickly.

His hand left the stone platform, and he failed.

Sam seemed to be able to feel the sympathetic eyes of the people around him when they looked at him.

In the ear, it seems that I can hear whispers full of various emotions.

Ahead, Star Master's eyes were full of disappointment.

The world seemed to leave him at this moment.

Everything that was expected before, along with the dissipation of those light spots, turned into nothingness.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Xiaoman shook his head slightly, turned and left.

If you want to say disappointment, there must be some.

Not only was he disappointed in Sam's failure to awaken, but more, it was the opponent's performance after the failure.

He will not comfort the other party, nor will he give the other party another chance.

They are adults, not children.

One's own failure must be borne by oneself.

The opportunity to awaken this time was what he had promised to the other party because of the Touching Spirit Flower Field.

Now, Sam has failed.

If you want to become an awakened person again, then go for it yourself.

In fact, Zhang Xiaoman already had some guesses about the result of this enlightenment from the very beginning.

After all, compared to Dane, Sam is always just an ordinary person.

Anyway, because Dane wanted to follow in his father's footsteps and maintain physical exercise, he often went to places with scary rumors.

In terms of mental strength, he must be stronger than this younger brother.

As for Sam, who has not undergone a day of training, there is a huge gap compared with everyone in the light blue department.

The group of people in the Danlan Department used to follow Master Bei to the wilderness to survive.

This is a very honed willpower, and the mental strength is much higher than that of most ordinary people.

Although Zhang Xiaoman has a way to avoid Sam's failure.

Just like helping the dog Jinbao awaken last time, he tied his hands to the stone platform with a rope or something.

Or simply use the dark energy to vibrate directly, and hold his palm down to prevent him from moving away.

But Zhang Xiaoman didn't do that.

If he does this, everyone will know in the future, anyway, with the help of the star master when awakening, he will definitely be able to succeed.

In this way, who would take the initiative to hone their will?

They will lose a lot of stress.

This point is not worth the candle.

Therefore, Zhang Xiaoman would rather lose some awakening materials than help them awaken.

Sam was unlucky to be the first person to fail to awaken, but he won't be the last.

Zhang Xiaoman wants everyone to understand that the journey of cultivation is like sailing against the current, if you do not advance, you will retreat.

Nothing is 100% successful.

All of them must be fought for with all their strength.

Otherwise, all that awaits them is failure.

Ignoring what happened next in the inheritance hall, Zhang Xiaoman walked into the office of the underground base.

However, at the moment he just stepped into the room, there was a sudden sound of alarms around him.

"what happened?"

With a fixed gaze, he immediately opened the watch.

This kind of alarm is different from the sound of the previous attack on the Dawn, which can be heard throughout the Covenant base.

When this kind of alarm appears, it means that the shield is being attacked on a large scale, and the damage exceeds 5%!

You know, those people in the United States used anti-material sniper rifles to attack, and they couldn't even break the defense.

A rocket went down and only hit 1 point of durability, and it was instantly repaired by the self-repair of the shield.

This layer of shield has a full strength of 50000.

The recovery rate is 500 per second.

Being able to make it damage more than 5% shows that the matter is already serious.

In Zhang Xiaoman's mind, he instantly thought of the alien species just now.

In this area, many high-tech things are affected by the magnetic field, so they should be useless.

Now the only ones that can threaten the shield are those monsters.

Thoughts just flashed by in an instant, he immediately took out his watch and said:

"Xingzhi, tell me quickly, what happened?"

"Star Master, it has been detected that a large-scale attack is underway in the northeast direction, do you need to check the projection?"

"Play the projection."

In the next second, a three-dimensional image appeared in front of Zhang Xiaoman.

I saw that at the position of the shield over there, there were overwhelming black figures attacking the shield.

They were either in the sky or on the ground; they were either biting or hitting, and they were madly attacking the translucent shield one by one.

The shield was also damaged one after another under their attacks, and then it was filled by self-repair.

"Desert! I didn't expect that I haven't looked for you yet, you came to me first."

Looking at the densely packed, let alone nearly ten thousand bugs, Zhang Xiaoman's expression was cold.

"Star rank, broadcast the remaining strength of the shield."

"Currently, the remaining strength of the shield is 93%, and it is expected to last for another 28 minutes and 36 seconds."

Hearing the other party's answer, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

It seems that although there are a lot of these bugs, they are not high-level alien species, and the threat is not too great.

"Zi..."

At this time, the door of the office was opened, and Su Changqing hurried in.

"Star Lord, we heard the alarm, and the star rank told us that the shield was attacked. How is the situation?"

Zhang Xiaoman glanced back at him, then pointed at the projection in front of him, and said:
"Don't worry, these guys are just here to give away heads,"

Along with his movements, Su Changqing looked at the projection.

In the swarm of insects, tens of thousands of vines suddenly burst out from the ground, strangling the group of monsters.

The originally tense situation on the field was immediately relieved.

The group of bugs could no longer be distracted from attacking the shield, and instead fought with the vines.

"This... this is the defense force of our base...?"

Su Changqing was shocked by the scene in front of him. He never expected that the so-called crisis would be resolved so easily.

The smallest of those terrifying monsters coming from all over the world was bigger than an adult buffalo.

If this kind of attack was encountered in another place, it would definitely be a catastrophic disaster.

But now, those ferocious insects are like little chickens, being overwhelmed and killed by more vines.

This made Su Changqing deeply feel the terror of the organization's strength.

"Okay, you go to appease the others, I'll go to the scene to see the specific situation."

Zhang Xiaoman said something to Su Changqing, and then launched the teleportation to the Shuguang.

He placed a Covenant Beacon in it, so it can be reached directly using infinite teleportation.

A moment later, the huge Aurora appeared at the edge of the shield.

Below here, a fierce battle is taking place.

The number of vines was about two to three times that of the bugs, and they attacked them indiscriminately from all directions.

Although it was a win-win situation, the battle went on for a while.

The bugs are not made of paper either, they are still resisting to some extent.

Zhang Xiaoman lowered the Shuguang for a certain distance, intending to observe these bugs.

He could see in the perception of the spirit detection technique that when these guys attacked, although they seemed to use actions such as biting.

But more or less of it also contains some additional damage from dark energy.

It's no wonder why the durability of the shield will drop so quickly.

"Desolate insects... are a troublesome population... I didn't expect their reproduction speed to be so fast, and I don't know how many such monsters are now flooding the island outside."

Zhang Xiaoman's mood did not become much better because of the upcoming victory.

On the contrary, when he thought of the scale and reproduction speed of these bugs, his heart began to feel heavy.

The scene in front of him reminded him of a certain race in a game he once played.

If these bugs were like them, the threat they would bring would be far more than that.

"It seems that I have to be busy again recently. I have to find out the source of these guys as soon as possible. Otherwise, if this continues, the entire Rebirth Island will be destroyed by them."

Zhang Xiaoman stared fixedly at the battle scene below, and already had a plan in mind.

……

On the other side, located in the northwest of Rebirth Island, in the landing base of the US Seventh Fleet.

This place is already a dilapidated scene, buildings, aircraft, radar, etc., have all been damaged.

The severed limbs of bugs and green blood can be seen everywhere on the ground, but human corpses are missing.

"boom!"

There was an explosion and it was a helicopter on fire reaching the fuel tank.

Flames rose from the ruins of this base, dozens of black figures heard the movement and ran out from hidden corners.

"sssssssssssssssssssssssssssss..."

They circled the helicopter several times.

He wanted to get closer, but he was a little afraid of the flames there. After hesitating for a while, he turned and left.

At this time, in a collapsed house not far from the helicopter.

A middle-aged white man in the Seventh Fleet uniform was leaning against the wall, sweating profusely.

Hearing the sound of the worm leaving, he couldn't help but let out a long breath, and then his body that didn't dare to move relaxed a little.

This man is the captain of the Sea Lion Reconnaissance Team, Cando Garcia.

Previously, they accidentally encountered a mysterious shield during their exploration mission.

Just when they finished reporting their work and planned to conduct an in-depth investigation of the shield, they suddenly found that a chaotic magnetic field had grown within the range they were in.

This magnetic field is the same as that outside the mysterious island, capable of paralyzing all electronic equipment and precision instruments.

For safety reasons, John, the commander of the Sea Lion Reconnaissance Team, issued a retreat order.

Taking advantage of the night, the group returned to the Seventh Fleet base non-stop along the original road.

On the way, they also encountered a paralyzed and crashed helicopter, where they were attacked by a group of bugs.

They won that battle, but this was also the beginning of a nightmare.

Kando clearly remembered that his commander John at the time was bitten through the thigh by the venom-spraying bug.

Later, John returned to the base and has been ill ever since.

The doctors looked at it several times, but they still couldn't find the cause.

Due to limited medical conditions, it was decided to let him return with the ship ten days later.

However, what happened next was far beyond everyone's expectations.

John died, just three days after falling ill.

Most importantly, he didn't die of illness!
When the doctor opened the door of his ward in the morning, what he saw was his disemboweled corpse.

Kando was there, and he'll never forget that scene.

A big hole appeared in John's stomach, the internal organs inside had disappeared, and the ward was full of blood.

This incident immediately aroused great attention from the base.

Because such a wound appears, it is obviously abnormal.

However, after checking for a while, everyone couldn't find any effective clues.

The base is newly built, and the surveillance system has not yet been installed in the ward.

John's cause of death is a mystery.

Being able to cause such a wound looks like someone planted explosives in his stomach.

However, this assumption is a bit too absurd.

No one has time to do this kind of thing, unless the explosives were planted by John before he came here.

In the end, after various investigations, the base still denied this possibility.

Because even if the explosives exploded, there would still be residues, but John's stomach was empty.

Originally Kando thought that this was the end of the matter.

But later, when the analysts at the base asked about the details of their recent encounters several times, they gave an astonishing answer.

John, it's very likely to be parasitized by bugs!
(End of this chapter)