Chapter 71: The Black Spinal Bug Army, Ruthlessness, Kneel Before Me!

Though Black Spinal Bugs appeared fragile under artillery fire, their mandibles and stingers were anything but weak. When enraged, three Black Spinal Bugs could destroy a tank.

Their mandibles exerted a pressure of several tons, easily piercing ten millimeters of steel.

Even with his Crimson Armor, Lin Feng dared not face a swarm of Black Spinal Bugs directly, relying instead on the camper's cover to strike from above.

Jiang Yuner's reckless attempt to kill a single Black Spinal Bug was shocking in its folly.

Lin Feng wasn't sure whether to admire her courage or lament her ignorance.

The Black Spinal Bugs, agitated by the armed camper's obstruction, lost their target and turned their ire on the humans who emerged in front of them.

With a sharp screech...

The remaining ten Black Spinal Bugs charged at Jiang Yuner and her team with all their might.

The two supervising soldiers stayed in the van's driver's seat, ready to flee at a moment's notice, having faced the insect horde and survived before.

They knew well the terror of Black Spinal Bugs.

They were willing to stay only because of Lin Feng's super bullet ability, which they believed could handle the swarm easily.

But once hundreds more Black Spinal Bugs arrived, they would flee.

Their goal achieved, neither Jiang Yuner nor Lin Feng mattered to them.

Facing the ten Black Spinal Bugs, the team of ordinary people finally realized the magnitude of their peril.

In the face of charging three-meter-wide, two-meter-tall behemoths, with the soldiers absent and Lin Feng shouting his warning...

Jiang Yuner finally came to her senses, feeling death's grip tighten.

As panic spread through her mind-controlled film crew, fear overtook them all.

In the next instant, a healthy Black Spinal Bug leaped twenty meters, landing in front of the cameraman.

Its stinger pierced his arm, and with a snap of its mandibles...

The cameraman's shoulder and arm were severed, his torso torn in half by the bug's bite.

Blood and viscera flew in all directions.

Red, yellow, green... splattered everywhere.

Blood sprayed the group, and Jiang Yuner, standing next to the cameraman, was drenched in gore from head to toe.

She froze, but as the Black Spinal Bugs continued their assault, the screams of the dying snapped her back to reality. She grabbed her rifle and, at point-blank range, unleashed a barrage on the attacking bug's mandibles.

Bullets tore into its mouth.

This is one of the few vulnerable spots on a Black Spinal Bug, but having such an opportunity also meant being close to death.

Fortunately, Jiang Yuner's heightened mental acuity enabled her to aim and fire in the final two seconds before death.

The large-caliber bullets penetrated the bug's mouth, destroying its brain within the mandibles...

Its nervous system collapsed, and the leading bug fell dead at Jiang Yuner's feet...

Its mandibles nearly grazed her chest as it hit the ground.

After sacrificing three crew members, Jiang Yuner managed to kill a Black Spinal Bug herself.

But this was just the beginning; the danger was far from over.

Exhausted, especially after the bug's last desperate charge...

Her legs gave way, and her military pants were soaked with fear.

Meanwhile, the other Black Spinal Bugs were only ten meters away.

Lin Feng decisively opened fire, his grenade launcher obliterating three severely injured bugs and disrupting their charge, while the shockwave knocked down Jiang Yuner and the remaining survivors.

Seizing the opportunity, Lin Feng continued his assault, quickly dispatching the remaining six bugs.

Of the twenty-two Black Spinal Bugs, nineteen fell to his Lv17 grenade launcher, enough to upgrade it to the Lv19 red perfect stage.

Lin Feng initiated the upgrade. With no time-sensitive attribute choices or physical anomalies, he could proceed smoothly.

However, it would now serve only as supplemental firepower; the main task of earning upgrade points would fall to the camper.

The Lv19 grenade launcher could no longer ascend to the next tier.

...

With the Black Spinal Bugs eliminated, Jiang Yuner and the surviving crew rose shakily.

They turned to retreat to the van.

Only the van offered a semblance of safety.

But when they looked back, the van, which had been parked near the armored camper, was now hundreds of meters away, driven there by the soldiers who had abandoned them.

The last van also had its tires shot out, leaving it unable to outrun the bugs.

Their only escape lay with the armored camper.

Yet the man on its second-level lookout was focused intently ahead, indifferent to their cries for help.

Jiang Yuner swallowed hard, utterly spent after killing the Black Spinal Bug, and the energy from her nine enhancements was nearly depleted.

Having ordinary physical traits, she was no match for another bug.

And a first-tier upgrade required a stable state and environment.

Jiang Yuner knew that if she didn't beg Lin Feng to let her onboard...

Death awaited her.

She stripped off her bloody jacket, revealing her pale skin and impressive figure.

Wiping her face clean, she shouted to Lin Feng:

"Lin Feng, take me with you! I'll give you anything you want, including myself!"

"Isn't that what you've always wanted? Let me on, and I'm yours, all of me!"

Tears welled in her eyes, her voice pleading:

"Please, save me!"

Hearing her desperate cries, Lin Feng frowned, turning his gaze from the distant swarming bugs.

His attention had been on the horde of Black Spinal Bugs approaching from two or three kilometers away, a thousand-strong wave forming a black line on the horizon, a formidable sight.

The soldiers' retreat was prompted by this sight.

With the bugs closing in, Lin Feng finally turned to Jiang Yuner, seeing her abandon dignity to plead for her life.

He smiled slightly, instructing Chen Yanyan to open the camper's rear hatch.

The upgraded, widened hatch was separate from the camper's main space, preventing them from entering the vehicle. But it was filled with the remains of live bugs, and in the heat...

The stench was unbearable for most.

However, with death looming, Jiang Yuner and the survivors rushed to the open hatch, clambering inside.

Fearful Lin Feng might abandon them to the deadly insect territory.

Lin Feng laughed, watching their frantic scramble, calling out:

"Relax, we'll all go. I'm not a bad guy; I'll get everyone out safely."

With Jiang Yuner and her group onboard, the last two crew members shut the door.

As they breathed a sigh of relief, Jiang Yuner flushed with embarrassment, angered by Lin Feng's mocking tone.

Recalling the scene, she realized everyone had seen her strip down, leaving her upper body clad only in a thin, tight vest...

The cramped space and foul odor intensified her discomfort.

She glanced at her four surviving subordinates, a fierce glint in her eyes, her hands tightening on the rifle slung at her waist.

...

With everyone aboard, Lin Feng called to Chen Yanyan at the wheel:

"Time to go!"

Chen Yanyan reversed, spun the vehicle around, and sped back the way they came.

Lin Feng, seizing the moment, tossed the prepared ten blocks of TNT into a narrow pass flanked by small hills.

As he threw them, he removed the safety.

Holding the detonator tightly.

The detonator had a maximum range of just under two kilometers, less precise than a wired detonation.

But Lin Feng couldn't stay put, needing the armored camper to maintain a set distance from the pursuing bugs.

Fortunately, Chen Yanyan's mastery of the camper allowed her to execute Lin Feng's commands flawlessly.

A kilometer from the explosion site, the camper slowed.

Lin Feng watched tensely as the Black Spinal Bug army surged through the pass, swarming the highway and hills in a teeming mass.

The insects had prepared, no longer allowing Lin Feng free reign after consecutive ambushes.

The Empress had anticipated attacks on this highway.

Such a vast bug army could only gather quickly with prior positioning.

But Lin Feng wasn't capturing live bugs this time.

There would be no hesitation or delay!

His goal was slaughter...

To annihilate as many Black Spinal Bugs as possible!

As part of the bug army entered the pass, Lin Feng pressed the detonator, and a thunderous explosion erupted.

The TNT planted on the highway and hills detonated simultaneously, sending debris flying.

The resulting landslides buried the shattered highway.

The shockwave obliterated seventy to eighty bugs at the epicenter, knocking down all within three hundred meters.

Many bugs lay crippled and dying.

Unfortunately, those incinerated at the blast center yielded few upgrades for Lin Feng, perhaps due to distance or lack of direct involvement.

But these were minor concerns.

The downed bugs were the real prize!

Chen Yanyan unleashed the camper's autocannons and ten infinite-ammo heavy machine guns, firing wildly into the explosion zone.

No need for precision.

With thousands of bugs, every shot hit!

Lin Feng reveled in the thrill of the battlefield, mowing down four to five hundred wounded bugs.

Watching the camper's upgrade points soar to eighty-eight in seconds, Lin Feng, satisfied, ordered Chen Yanyan to drive on.

The camper's engine roared, pursued by hundreds of surviving bugs.

Having narrowly escaped, they rushed to catch up.

Lin Feng instructed Chen Yanyan to conserve autocannon ammo, its slow recharge making waste unacceptable.

The earned points sufficed for maxing out upgrades; his Lv17 grenade launcher could handle the remaining bugs.

Lin Feng primarily assisted, leaving the ten heavy machine guns to mop up, awarding Chen Yanyan a tenth of the upgrade points.

This way, she could safely accumulate the kills needed for her upgrades.

Unexpectedly, during their escape, a gunshot rang from the camper's rear.

The door opened, and a body rolled out. Under Jiang Yuner's coercion, the three remaining crew members were forced against the door, kicked out.

Facing death, mental charm paled against a gun's threat.

Ordinary strength couldn't match Jiang Yuner's nine enhancements, even in her exhaustion.

The three hit the ground, breaking limbs, and like the earlier body, were consumed by the insect tide.

Flowers of blood bloomed.

Lin Feng glanced down, meeting Jiang Yuner's gaze as she shut the door...

She called out:

"Lin Feng, let me up! It's too foul in here!"

A ladder on the rear door led to the second-level lookout.

Lin Feng glanced at the sky, nodding:

"Drop the gun, come up."

Jiang Yuner hesitated, eyeing Lin Feng's armor before discarding her rifle and gripping the ladder tightly.

Step by step, she climbed.

Exhausted, buffeted by the wind, she reached the top...

As she was about to enter the lookout, Lin Feng's keen senses detected something!

He looked up abruptly.

A blue streak hurtled downward at terrifying speed!

Lin Feng shouted fiercely:

"Kneel!"

Jiang Yuner paused,

But as if conditioned...

She instinctively crouched, clutching Lin Feng's pockets.

Unbeknownst to her, that action saved her life.

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