Chapter 206 - 113- 123

Chapter 113: Battle the Beast King

The bright glare slowly toned down and revealed the shape of the weapon in it.

In the previous forge, only a short blade was made since the rat king's fangs were the only materials used. This time, the Verdant Emperor Saber had obviously become deadlier with the infusion of new materials.

The saber measured at 70 cm in length now. The size of its hilt remained unchanged while the blade elongated by 15 cm to reach 60 cm. Its width and thickness had also grown to 3.8 cm and 0.9 cm respectively.

It no longer looked like an ordinary cross saber. Despite the spurt in size, it was still rather flexible and had great sharpness. The color of the blade had also deepened and appeared to be cyan now.

Perhaps due to the addition of the Star Steel, there was a faint glittering pattern at the tip of the blade that contrasted its base color, which made the blade more enchanting.

"Nice sword!" Qin Feng complimented and picked up the Verdant Emperor Saber.

"I have prepared a scabbard for you as well. Better keep it hidden in public to avoid unwanted attention," Liu Zhenshan passed Qin Feng an ordinary-looking sheath. It was made from the skin of the rat king and Qin Feng figured he would make a better one when he obtained better materials in the future.

He agreed with what Liu Zhenshan had just said. There was no need to swank his weapon to everyone he met. The Verdant Emperor Saber now carried a faint gleam of gold radiance—a sign showed only when the weapon had surpassed the beast king's material limit. It was all thanks to the celestial steel.

"You shall have your thirst quenched by the beast's blood tonight," Qin Feng glanced at the saber and said smilingly.

He sheathed the saber and walked out from the forge. Wang Chen and others had yet to fall asleep at this hour. Someone had to be awake and guard the night but in fact, an idea was lingering in their minds.

That was because Qin Feng had claimed that he was going to challenge the beast king.

Without waking Liu Xue and others in the next room, Qin Feng and Bai Li crossed the sandbag wall and submerged into the darkness.

He Ling and co. watched as they departed.

"Do you think they would succeed?"

"It's hard to say…"

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"Why do I suddenly feel that he might actually make it…"

None of them uttered another word after that. They dared not make too much noise as their sounds might travel far in this quiet night. What if the insectoids were to hear them?

They were unable to take a look at the condition outside from the backyard they were at now. They were eager to find out what the situation of the town was at now and what was going to happen soon.

"Let's go higher up and take a look," He Ling promptly suggested.

Zhao Xiang contemplated and nodded. "Let's go to the top floor. We can use any of the rooms. It should be fine."

"Let's go!" Wang Chen could not hold back his curiosity too, and joined them.

They climbed to the fourth floor and found a decent spot. They then proceeded to set up their scope and scanned around the town through it.

On a distant building, Qin Feng was mounting a dark warhorse with the Verdant Emperor Saber on his waist.

The warhorse once belonged to the Emperor Knight. The horse could be steered by simply infusing dark energy into it. It could run at a speed faster than the hovercar. Most importantly, it could jump and sprint on all types of terrains.

Qin Feng was staring at the steel-limb broodmother further away.

Bai Li was behind Qin Feng with one leg on the saddle. She was not really stepping on it but was instead floating in mid-air.

'Such a giant beast. If only we could kill it from afar.'

Qin Feng sighed. A small-sized beast might not be weak but the rule of thumb was that the bigger the beast, the more powerful it was.

Even getting hit by one of its legs would be devastating. Not only that, Qin Feng would be easily trampled on if the beast decided to body smash him.

"Xiao Bai, the bazooka."

"Here!"

Xiao Bai pointed and a bazooka immediately popped up in front of Qin Feng.

Qin Feng retrieved it and placed it skillfully on his left arm. This was the same weapon he had used at Zimu Mountains to counter-attack Lu Heng and also the one that had put down the Emperor Knight.

Qin Feng took aim at the giant broodmother and…

Click!

Qin Feng pushed the trigger and the muzzle of the bazooka instantly buzzed with flares shooting out of it.

An orange missile broke free and flew straight out.

On top of the hotel, the three men that had failed to locate Qin Feng immediately turned their heads to the source of the blast.

"He's there!"

"It's a bazooka. He is using a firearm?" Wang Chen was bewildered.

"Maybe he is just trying to drive the broodmother away from its web?" Zhao Xiang expressed his doubt.

But Wang Chen was getting more and more astounded.

Boom!

The missile traveled at an astonishing speed. It reached the beast at a thousand meters away in the blink of an eye.

In the next moment, the missile landed precisely on the spider's abdomen.

An explosion swiftly followed and it trembled the giant web vigorously.

Chirp!

The broodmother wailed out of rage from inside the mushroom cloud. A wide string shot out from it and stuck to another building not far away from Qin Feng's position.

Next, a giant spider was seen dashing out from the fire through the string. It was largely unharmed as not a single wound was spotted on its body.

Qin Feng did not move and launched another missile.

Bam!

Similarly, the missile flew straight at the broodmother.

However, the broodmother came ready this time. It spitted string from its mouth and dragged itself away from the missile ballistic.

'Where are you running off to?' Qin Feng snorted and focused his consciousness. 'Turn!'

The missile that had missed the broodmother suddenly turned back and hit right at the beast's abdomen.

Kaboom! The impact flipped the beast and dropped it to the ground.

The three observers had their jaws dropped to the ground after witnessing the entire process.

"How did he do that?" Zhao Xiang could not close his mouth.

"Maybe because he is an ability user?" That was the only plausible explanation He Ling could muster.

Wang Chen did not think that it was that simple. "Although an ability user may have stronger consciousness than a gunner, it's still pretty difficult to manipulate external objects based on conscious energy alone. Besides, it is such a precise maneuver performed at such a great distance!"

Qin Feng was at least eight hundred meters away from the beast!

Wang Chen had no idea how Qin Feng achieved such a tremendous feat.

Nevertheless, no matter how accurate Qin Feng's missiles were, they had failed to halt the approaching broodmother.

The one thousand meters was shortened drastically under the beast's relentless charge.

In the meantime, Qin Feng had fired eight more missiles and hit the broodmother every single time.

Unfortunately, the twelve missiles left by He Li had been exhausted.

Cluck.

Qin Feng unlatched the bazooka and threw it to Bai Li.

Bai Li caught it and swiftly stored it into the spatial rune. At the same time, the broodmother had reached under the building Qin Feng was at.

Its spider legs climbed tirelessly up the twelve-floor building and the beast was closer than ever.

"Engage!"

Qin Feng promptly unsheathed his saber. The gleam of the blade brightened the night as if a meteor had just flashed across it.

Qin Feng signaled to the horse under his thighs and the umbra stallion immediately merged into the surroundings.

Dark Shadow!

Chapter 114: Sword Art—Blazing Sky

Qin Feng completely vanished from sight in an instance. Not even the scope could locate his position.

Qin Feng was not only watched by Wang Chen and co. but other aptitude users that had survived the attacks were startled by the battle noise and had come out from hiding to check on the situation.

Nobody would have thought that someone was daring enough to challenge the broodmother. He even chose the time when the beast might be at its strongest.

The audiences were treated with a wonderful execution staged by the mythical gunner from a thousand miles away.

"That's a shame. Gunners are weak in close combat. He is going to die after being caught up by the broodmother."

"Why waste such effort? That would only disturb and further enrage the entire insectoid troop."

The survivors began to hear rustling noises around them. The attacker had not only provoked the broodmother but at the same time had also attracted the entire fleet of insectoids toward him.

But neither the creatures nor the survivors knew that Qin Feng could come and go as he pleased in the dark. He was invisible in total darkness with the help of the dark gem. This environment maximized his dark ability to its fullest potential and not even the beast king could detect his presence.

He was the true master of the shadows. The darkness was his reign.

The umbra stallion appeared silently.

"Dark Laser!"

A band of ray darker than the night sky suddenly pierced through the broodmother's body out of nowhere.

The dark rune energy erupted and cells that were still vibrant a moment ago started to contract and lose their vitality. Its power and speed had been greatly compromised.

It went exactly the way Qin Feng intended it to. But naturally, the broodmother was not to be simply trifled with. It discovered Qin Feng's location the moment he used the ability.

Poof!

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A giant white web was shot out and shrouded Qin Feng from all corners. He retreated at once.

In the end, the web missed Qin Feng and landed on one of the buildings and was stuck there. Not only that but some of its strings hit the windows due to inertia and smashed them into pieces. What a brutal attack! One could only imagine the outcome if Qin Feng were to be hit by the strings.

The steel-limb broodmother twisted its legs and turned around. Its daunting eyes scanned the night painstakingly. Then, one of its legs slid up abruptly.

Clang!

Qin Feng was exposed after the impact. The Verdant Emperor Saber shone brilliantly in the dark like a star in the night sky.

The sharp saber crippled one of the spider's legs but Qin Feng was sent flying backward as well.

'umbra stallion!'

Qin Feng stopped short as his momentum was halted by the stallion's pull. Even so, he had flown straight into one of the tall buildings and blasted all its windows apart.

Poof.

Another thin string came flying and Qin Feng dodged dexterously. The string bypassed him and was attached to the wall of the building.

'Shit!'

Qin Feng's expression changed.

"Space Blade!" Bai Li who had not shown herself thus far finally made her first move. The blade cut the string and consequently, the giant spider coming through it fell instantly to the ground.

But the broodmother was persistent. Another string was squirted and glued to the building Qin Feng was at. It was in hot pursuit once again.

The building was seven floors high. This place was obviously one of the high-class residences in Han Town. Nonetheless, no matter how well-built this place once was, it could not sustain under the broodmother's rampage.

The beast raised one of its limbs vertically and launched a quick down-swipe with it. One of the building corners was effortlessly sliced off.

Qin Feng rode the umbra stallion and dashed out from the building. The sliced building came crashing down to the ground and raised a cloud of dust.

'Blooming Flame!' Qin Feng grasped the short window of opportunity and slid his saber across one of the spider's limbs. Fire emerged where the blade passed and another steel limb of the broodmother was removed.

"Roar!"

The broodmother was enraged. Its other limbs swung rapidly toward Qin Feng, trying to tear him apart.

Qin Feng could not be caught while he was on the stallion.

Boom!

Another building had fallen victim to the spider's assault.

'Bushfire!' Qin Feng once again triggered his ability.

Fire sparks appeared in the shape of a fan on the Verdant Emperor Saber. Triggered by his inner force, the runes exploded outward and spread out a few ten meters wide.

Even inner force as dense as Qin Feng's evaporated rapidly at this instance.

Immediately, the flame engulfed the steel-limb broodmother.

Boom!

Boom!

The broodmother hopped up and down terrifyingly. The burning flame on its body had greatly frightened the beast. It got more and more violent, and soon the entire area was demolished by the beast and had turned into an unrecognizable ruin.

The giant swerved about wildly and finally put out the fire. The beast charged toward Qin Feng once it recollected itself.

Qin Feng dared not brace the charge and could only escape with the stallion.

It was indeed a terrifying battle. The loud noise trembled the entire Han Town. Qin Feng was gasping for air as his battle against the steel-limb broodmother was reaching its climax.

'What a tough opponent!' Qin Feng guessed that it was due to the giant size of the broodmother.

The Dark-Robed Ripper was equally powerful but had a much smaller body size. Besides, Qin Feng was immune to dark runes. Those played into his hand and greatly reduced the difficulty of that battle.

It was an entirely different situation this time around.

He needed little energy to avoid the Ripper's attacks but against the giant broodmother? Every evasion took great effort and concentration.

Qin Feng would have been run over numerous times if not for the stallion's agility. However, the broodmother got a fair share of damage as Qin Feng managed to take away three of its limbs.

'Its weakness is going to present itself soon. Dark Shadow!'

Qin Feng once again blended into the darkness.

He had battled for almost two hours now. Dawn was almost upon them as Qin Feng could see the first light on the horizon. The sky might be brightened up in another ten minutes or so.

That was highly unfavorable to Qin Feng if the battle were to drag on to that point. He decided to take the risk and finish off the fight quickly.

"Xiao Bai!" Qin Feng summoned Bai Li to stand by his side.

"I want to teleport there later, is it possible?" Qin Feng pointed at the abdomen of the broodmother.

"No problem!" Xiao Bai nodded.

Actually, Bai Li could have defeated the broodmother easily if she were to turn into her fox form now. But Qin Feng thought that it was still too early for Bai Li to reveal her true power. He was even reluctant to use the Space Blade unless it was a real emergency.

This exact moment was such an emergency.

The broodmother was still crawling and had finally arrived above a pit.

"Go now!" Qin Feng ordered urgently.

Bai Li grabbed Qin Feng and vanished instantly.

Schawff!

Their vision changed instantly and Qin Feng could see the lower abdomen of the steel-limb broodmother as he looked up.

Numerous one-meter-thick reverse spurs were growing on the outer skin of the abdomen. It dragged out marks on the ground as the spider crawled by.

If Qin Feng did not teleport into the pit but directly under its belly, the spurs would have pierced through both him and Bai Li alive.

'Sky Burning Sword Art—Blazing Sky!'

Qin Feng drew up his saber and temporarily boosted his aura. The blaze rapidly gathered around the Verdant Emperor Saber and shot straight upward.

The fire runes vibrated rapidly and the resulting Hellfire erupted upward like a lava fountain.

The blaze penetrated the steel-limb broodmother's abdomen instantly. Then, the skyward blaze slanted and broke through the broodmother thorax as well. Qin Feng had practically opened up a giant hole through the beast's body.

The fire continued to rush higher and bridged with the sky. Instantaneously, the entire Han Town was lit red by the mighty flame.

Chapter 115: Extermination of the Broodmother

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

The Sky Burning Sword Art was categorized as an A-tier martial arts. The greater the inner force was, the stronger the sword art would manifest.

It was said that this art might even surpass S-tier if used by a combatant with powerful inner strength.

Though Qin Feng had mastered the sword art, his lack of inner strength meant that he could only manage one percent of its full potential.

Despite that, the destructive force exerted by the third skill, Blazing Sky, was still rather astonishing.

Schawff!!

Two figures promptly reappeared. They were none other than Qin Feng and Bai Li.

At the far side, the almighty broodmother struggled a few steps forward and suddenly felt abnormally light. That was because half of its body had just been cut off by Qin Feng's attack.

It did not die on the spot since insectoids were a species with powerful living force.

Qin Feng's face looked pale and he could feel nothing left in his dantian. His forty clouds of inner force equivalent to that of F9-tier had been completely exhausted. Such was the price to pay in using a skill as devastating as Blazing Sky.

Fortunately, he could still rely on his conscious energy.

'Dark Ray!'

The laser fell on the broodmother's head and snatched away its final trace of vitality.

Thud!

The broodmother was dead!

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The next moment, Qin Feng's core ability took over subconsciously. Unseen energy was being drawn in continuously from the fallen broodmother.

The steel-limb broodmother's greatest strength lay in its ability to reproduce. In other words, its power represented the source of life. Qin Feng could feel that his blood was beginning to circulate faster and his healing had been accelerated to a point beyond his imagination.

The wound that Qin Feng had been afflicted with in this fight was healing rapidly. Besides, though he still could not sense his inner force, he did not feel lethargic at all after the long battle.

"Not half bad!" Qin Feng gripped his fists and had a grasp that his body strength had just evolved into the F5-tier.

This was when he heard the heavy rustling noise in the dark that came from all directions.

insectoids would not interfere when their king was battling. The giant beast king would simply obliterate anything found on its path unselectively.

It was also a means of the beast king portraying its supremacy. No creature was allowed to share the beast king's prey.

The king's influence had vanished with the death of the broodmother. What was once the tip of the food chain had now become food itself. To other insectoids, the body of the broodmother was a rich source of nutrients.

"F*ck off!" The gem of darkness in Qin Feng exploded and formed a band of dark mist. The mist absorbed all light and covered Qin Feng, Bai Li, and the broodmother in complete darkness.

The mysterious mist created a barrier that could not be seen through. Not only were the insectoids unable to escape but aptitude users that had been paying attention also could not perceive what was happening inside.

"Xiao Bai, quick! Harvest the loot, spider claw, and crystal core!"

Qin Feng was not doing this for charity. Naturally, he was going after the sumptuous rewards of killing a beast king.

He had to summon the mist so that others would not learn about Bai Li's ability. Even though the beast materials were quite huge in size, people would only think that he had brought a spatial rune of extra-large space with him and suspect nothing.

Bai Li acted swiftly. She made good use of her Space Blade and harvested all the eight limbs of the broodmother. Three of them had only half left, which the other halves retrieved by Bai Li into her personal rift earlier during the fight.

She then raised her hand and created a space portal. Not long after, a crystal core of the size of a basketball appeared on her palm. It was the energy core that belonged to the broodmother.

Qin Feng, meanwhile, rounded to the back of the broodmother and used his saber to cut open the beast's burned flesh.

Blood of dark green color spilled out from the opening. Qin Feng continued to dissect the body and found its string gland in no time.

The gland was even larger than the core. It measured at three meters long and one meter wide.

"Catch this!" Qin Feng threw it to Bai Li for it to be kept together with other loots.

Then, Qin Feng once again unleashed Hellfire. The giant body of the spider swiftly caught fire. It became brittle without the core to support it. The remnants of the horrific beast were incinerated and turned into a pile of ash.

Coincidentally, the sun had risen at the same time and brought light to the ravaged land.

The darkness was displaced by the sunlight and Qin Feng came out from the dark mist together with Bai Li riding on the umbra stallion.

'Disperse!' The dark runes vanished altogether with the huge beast corpse.

The remaining insectoids rushed over to where the broodmother was supposed to be but they found nothing other than ashes on the floor there. Their feed had just disappeared mysteriously.

Some insectoids did notice Qin Feng and Bai Li but the umbra stallion stepped right through them and broke free like a weightless spirit.

Qin Feng had escaped the battle zone in the blink of an eye and turned into a street.

The insectoids were relentless and numerous worms swarmed the entire street behind them.

Buzz!!

Bloodthirsty beetles that could fly caught up to Qin Feng first.

Slash!

Qin Feng simply waved his saber to kill two of the pursuers. The lowly insectoids would be no match to the Verdant Emperor Saber.

Yet, they seemed determined to drown Qin Feng by their numbers.

'Go to hell!' Qin Feng was furious and triggered his consciousness.

"Hellfire!"

All of a sudden, the fire runes went wild and scorched the entire long street behind Qin Feng.

Boom!

The fuel tank of a few cars caught fire and exploded sequentially.

Several thousands of insectoids were instantly killed by the blast. Not a sign of life other than Qin Feng and Bai Li could be detected on the street after the explosion.

"Time to go!" Qin Feng pushed the stallion to gallop speedily forward. The insectoids at the rear were unable to chase after them as Hellfire was still burning bright.

Though the entire Han Town was roamed by the insectoids, Qin Feng could not care less and used the main road under broad daylight. They soon arrived in front of a tall building.

This was the place where the broodmother had set up its giant web.

"Argh!!!"

"Kill me. End my misery now!"

"It's so painful. Save me!"

Qin Feng could hear the shrieking and groaning coming from inside unceasingly.

The people trapped by the web were not dead yet.

The steel-limb broodmother would not kill them right away. It was using them as vessels and had injected its egg into the human bodies. The eggs would feed on the blood and flesh and slowly turn into small spiders. Those baby spiders would then consume the human from inside out. That was when the captured victims would finally meet their ends. But before that, they would first experience insufferable torture.

"Hellfire!"

The flame spread along the strings and burned the entire place down steadily. These strings were still weak against fire even though it was produced by a beast king. Moreover, Qin Feng's Hellfire was more destructive than a normal flame.

The spider web finally crumbled and the hostages on it were being charred alive.

Qin Feng witnessed the entire process from outside. He was not shaken despite the diabolical scene.

He had gone through similar episodes in his previous life. In fact, way too much and way worse. Qin Feng no longer held unnecessary sympathy toward such tragedy. There was no better way to alleviate the sufferers from this living hell, he believed.

Chapter 116: Unwilling to change

After the spider webs were burnt and destroyed, Qin Feng swaggered and returned near the hotel, he even went one round the area to clear up some of the insectoids that were in large numbers.

As soon as he returned to the forge, He Ling and the others had already returned from the hotel in front; however, they looked at Qin Feng with admiration and were also slightly puzzled.

Despite the fact that the entire Han Town had fallen, communicators could still be used by the people, and although some might not be able to see what had happened to Qin Feng at the outer part; however, some of them did manage to obtain recordings of him.

One of the highlights was when he managed to get out from being surrounded by the insectoids.

Qin Feng was leading in the front while being pursued closely by the insectoids from behind, the recordings had also clearly captured the moment of his angered expression.

It was the anger that had ignited blazing flames that covered the entire fifty-meter-long street, and the people had to stop recording and hide to avoid the flames, after Qing Feng had left, all that was seen from the window pane was burnt ruins.

How powerful could that energy be?

Besides, He Ling, Liu Xue and Liu Zhenshan were also there and had witnessed the recordings.

Those who were being rescued from the basement had also witnessed it.

All of them were shocked by the capability of Qin Feng and thought that they should have followed him earlier.

"Qin Feng, can I ask you a question?" Liu Xue hesitated for a moment and raised her question.

All sights landed upon Qin Feng while he was eating a meat jerky that tasted quite good, however it did not provide much energy and was only for his temporary fulfilment.

"What is it?" Qin Feng replied while he pulled out a strip and shared it with Bai Li, Bai Li stuck out her tongue after she took a bite.

"Spicy!"

Qin Feng chuckled and rubbed her head with his hand.

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Liu Xue felt that she could no longer let out her words.

However, there was still doubt in her mind.

"Qin Feng, with your capability, you could have easily left, why would you not leave just now?"

During the battle that took place during midnight yesterday, the ten extremely skillful bombing shots from him had forced the beast king to retreat, and the scene was deeply imprinted into the minds of Wang Chen and two of the others.

Until the next day, those who had witnessed the scene had even taken recordings of Qin Feng.

All of them thought that it would be very easy for Qin Feng to leave.

However, Qin Feng did the opposite and he had even come back.

They thought that Qin Feng had a crush on the beautiful Liu Xue, however, from what had happened, that seemed to be an invalid assumption!

Qin Feng looked toward the crowd.

All of them were carefully observing him.

They were glad that Qin Feng was powerful, and at the same time, they also had fear within them!

They were afraid that they would be left with no support after Qin Feng had left!

Suddenly, an idea struck Qin Feng.

"Let's assume that this is an appreciation for Uncle Liu who has taken the risk to make the Verdant Emperor Saber for me!" Qin Feng replied.

Uncle Liu did not demand for any compensation when he made the Verdant Emperor Saber, furthermore, he could have remained within the safe basement and waited for aid to arrive, it was Qin Feng who had exposed him to the risk when he brought him outside.

Liu Zhenshan was touched by the reason behind it and felt a little embarrassed.

"No, Qin Feng, you are the one who has brought my daughter back, and I have yet to thank you for that, I could not be more thankful for your help!" Liu Zhenshan replied.

Qin Feng muttered for a short while as he did not know how to reply, and he continued with his point, "Other than this, I do have a colony that requires talents of all sorts, and I would like to recruit Uncle Liu that is well equipped with his skills!"

At that moment, not only Liu Zhenshan, the others were all shocked!

A colony?

Wouldn't that be similar to Shi Tianhai?

It would indeed be seen as inappropriate by others for him to recruit from other colonies, however, Liu Zhenshan's skills were only average and Liu Xue was the reason behind his achievements.

What had Qin Feng seen in Liu Zhenshan?

It had caught everyone by surprise!

However, Qin Feng was firm in his judgement.

Liu Zhenshan's skills were only average?

In reality, it was Liu Zhenshan that had been used to the simple way of life for him and his family, and did not push himself for any improvements. If he were to leave Han Town, losing both his daughter and Qiao Yan, he would then seek to become stronger and might even grow into a highly skilled rune equipment master.

It was the opportunity and willingness to improve that were lacking in Liu Zhenshan.

"Well…" Liu Zhenshan was left speechless!

"Uncle Liu, the situation has changed for the fallen Han Town, and it will not be the same even if there were another replacement of space stabilizing device, and there will not be much room for development, why not leave with me, and I will fulfil all of your will, including wealth, and safety for your entire life!"

Liu Zhenshan was magically intrigued with Qin Feng's speech.

Although Liu Zhenshan could not figure out the reason, he had a very good impression toward the young Qin Feng since they met each other, it was as if both of them had known each other for years and he was a trustworthy person to him.

"Liu, why are you still hesitating, I do agree with Brother Qin!" Qiao Yan urged on.

If Qin Feng did not have his answer now, he might even leave immediately with frustration, who else would be left to provide protection for them?

Furthermore, Qin Feng was right about what he said.

Liu Zhenshan took the offer and nodded firmly, "Brother Qin, I will honour your high hopes on me, and from now on, I will serve you with all I can!"

Qin Feng let out a smile and replied, "Uncle Liu, I was not asking for that much, but I am glad that you can come with me!"

Qin Feng felt even more assured now that he had a partner that he had before his rebirth.

He had wanted change on some of the things, however, fate was not in favour for him, just like Zhou Hao.

He had also wanted some of the things to remain, as those were the inseparable close ties that he had from the past, just like Liu Zhenshan.

Now, everything has developed for the better.

"Well, Qin Feng, are you going to lead us away from here now?" Liu Xue forced herself to ask.

Qin Feng replied without putting much thought to it, "I'll leave it to Uncle Liu to decide!"

Liu Zhenshan replied spontaneously, "Qin Feng, you had a long night of battle, let's rest for now and leave that for later!"

Indeed, Qin Feng was exhausted from the battle that he had with the beast king.

Whether he was an A-tier ability user or an F-tier before he was reborned, it would be equally taxing for him to challenge a beast king or a beast general.

"Alright!"

Qin Feng agreed, after he had something to eat, he found a spot for him to rest, it was in the hotel right in front that provided a comfortable resting place with a few mattresses.

Xiao Bai lay down beside Qin Feng and wrapped herself around him as she slept together with him.

The others were afraid that they would disturb the both of them who were asleep together and went to another room.

After about two hours of sleep, Qin Feng was awakened by a sudden scream!

Qin Feng opened his eyes and observed the surroundings carefully, he expanded his consciousness to check if there were any danger.

In the next moment, Qin Feng frowned!

Chapter 117:

Ruthless

Qin Feng was able to sense from his conscious energy that the scream came from the basement.

It was from those people that were brought along by Liu Xue.

They were all running out together, and the reason was unknown. When Qin Feng met with Liu Xue to bring her back, he had already encountered some plow worms and killed them, yet, it was obvious that that was not all of them.

The people that ran out had caught the attention of the plow worms, therefore, the unfortunate ones were hunted down and eaten by the plow worms!

While the people were screaming and hiding, Qin Feng had felt the same presence from his conscious energy.

Liu Xue!

"Sight" from conscious energy represented perception!

Being an F-tier, Liu Xue had a different level of physical sturdiness and conscious energy fluctuation from the others, therefore, Qin Feng could easily recognize her within a short time.

Qin Feng's expression instantly reflected that something bad was about to happen.

Apart from Liu Xue, he was able to sense the presence of another beast general plow worm!

"Jeez! Why can't things go right for once?"

Qin Feng immediately opened the door.

At the same time, He Ling and the others were also standing in front of the door and not knowing whether or not to knock on Qin Feng's door.

"Mr. Qin!" He Ling was delighted and looked at Qin Feng. "It is Liu Xue that…"

"I'm aware!" Qin Feng frowned and asked with an irritated voice, "What is she doing down there?"

Wang Chen immediately continued, "We were discussing about leaving as soon as you are awake, however, it seems that Liu Xue has passed on the news to the others, and many of the survivors nearby are heading toward us, as they thought that it would be more advantageous by combining forces with us during our breakout!"

Qin Feng reacted with a sneer.

"Combining forces? Aren't they afraid of being eaten up by the worms?"

Some of them were aptitude users while some of them were merely ordinary people.

It was not that Qin Feng was not willing to save them but he did not like being forced to do something.

"That was why Liu Xue went down? Does she have an excessive sense of righteousness or what?"

He Ling and Zhao Xiang were unable to answer Qin Feng's questions. They themselves disagreed with Liu Xue's decision to go down, hence, they did not follow her. However, they realized that it was also inappropriate for them to ignore and not save Liu Xue.

Wang Chen added on promptly, "That's right, waiters from the hotel told me that those are the uncivilized people that came later and disrespected the Liu family after they have arrived. They know who owns the place, yet they are so shameless to the point where they want Liu Xue to rescue them now!"

"It's because they are all wealthy people!"

Qin Feng replied without any emotions.

Liu Xue was one of them when the crowd escaped from Central Square, and most of them in that crowd were influential people that sounded arrogant by nature. This kind of behavior and attitude stemmed from the thinking that they were not like the poor.

Those that were poor would not speak to Liu Xue in that manner.

While Liu Xue might seem arrogant from her behaviour, she was actually excessively compassionate to the others with her empathy and desire to help others, which was why those people had requested that Liu Xue go and bring them along.

"Then, Mr. Qin, should we still rescue Liu Xue?" He Ling asked.

Whereas, Wang Chen said, "I do think that Liu Xue would be able to handle it herself and she does not need us, we would not want to be involved in it although there might be more casualties without our aid!"

Wang Chen might have sounded selfish with his thoughts, however, it was the best option for the moment.

As Han Town had already fallen and was facing difficulties in sustaining itself, there should be no other resources to provide aid for the others.

Furthermore, Qin Feng might be very capable in battle, however, would that be enough? It would always be easier to kill than to save others, and Qin Feng might not even be able to cope with it!

"The situation would be even more dire if I choose not to go, however, with her behaviour, she could only be in logistics once she has joined my colony!"

Qin Feng was extremely agitated by the situation.

He went along the safe passage and arrived at the basement, there were more than twenty of them that were in the chaos, joined by three plow worms, while another plow worm beast general was wreaking havoc amidst the crowd.

Although the plow worms might seem to be large in size, however, they were merely G5-tier.

Qin Feng was still low in attack power as he had just woken up, yet he was still able to kill a G3-tier razor-fang infant with his calm and coordinated moves.

The large number of people, combined with the rebirth of Qin Feng, if a G5-tier plow worm were to be surrounded by five people, Liu Xue would be able to go for an easily secured kill.

However, all of them were scattered and had run as far as they could, while one of them that was being chased by the plow worm was running toward Liu Xue and intended to divert the plow worm to chase after her.

At that moment, Liu Xue was caught in an inseparable battle with a G8-tier beast general.

Obviously, the beast general was unable to take her down as she was a full tier higher than her opponent, and she just needed a little more time and she would eventually take down and kill the beast.

Qin Feng stood at the entrance of the safe passage without any emotions while he raised up the energy gun in his hand.

Poof!

A blue light ray appeared along with an explosion and hit onto one of the people who was escaping.

"Ahh!"

A miserable scream was heard before the person fell on the ground.

Immediately, a plow worm rushed forward and devoured the human into its stomach with its mouth opened wide.

Then, the plow worm twisted its body and penetrated back into the ground.

One human was enough to keep the plow worm satisfied, it would then move to a safe place to swallow its food.

Furthermore, the plow worm would not dare to stay near any longer as ultra beasts would be fearful toward the presence of Qin Feng, they would immediately escape!

Liu Xue was still caught in a battle as she saw the movements from Qin Feng, her eyes immediately widened like she wanted to say something.

However, she did not have enough time to say anything to Qin Feng and could only increase the speed of her hand movements.

"Ice Palm!"

A palm that was icy cold hit onto the body of the plow worm.

Liu Xue performed a deadly hit and continued to release her internal strength.

"Frozen Ice!"

A big patch of white ice had frozen the body of the plow worm!

"Ice break!" the plow worm took another hit from the palm and its frozen body shattered into pieces, the beast general plow worm had died!

Before Liu Xue could gather up the loot, she turned around and looked at Qin Feng with anger.

"What were you doing, why would you harm that person!"

"Why would I harm that person?" Qin Feng looked at Liu Xue. "Don't you know what he was about to do?"

Liu Xue was well aware of it!

Although it might be seen as inappropriate at that moment, he was just an ordinary human being that was trying to save himself.

"That could never justify sending him to his death. Furthermore, if you intend to help, shouldn't you just take a shot at the plow worm and kill it instead? Why would you kill that person, do you know that this would be equivalent to killing the innocent? You might even be charged at court for this!"

Qin Feng let out a sneer. "The court, who would put a charge on me, would it be you? With your position as the leader of the patrol team that has already been demolished? You should mind your own business!"

Liu Xue was being insulted directly by Qin Feng, and she could feel that her cheeks had turned red.

"You are acting inhumane!"

Qin Feng looked at Liu Xue in disdain.

"Being humane and allowing the people around you to set you onto the path toward death?"

At that moment, those that had run away had returned, and there were five deaths from the battle earlier on, while the lucky ones that had survived looked at Qin Feng with fear.

All of them had witnessed the scene earlier!

Qin Feng looked at them without any emotions and pointed his energy gun at them.

Chapter 118: An Implied Warning

"I don't know how you all forced Liu Xue to come back for you but with this kind of behaviour, I would assume that your secondary mandatory education has been wasted! If you don't know how to use a gun, then you run for your life. If you don't even know how to do that properly, your ending would be the same as his!"

Qin Feng pointed his energy gun toward the giant hole where the plow worm had just left.

"I'm not an aptitude user from Han Town, and I don't have the responsibility to protect all of you. For those who are going to continue acting greedy for their own survival and not care about the big picture, be prepared to be fed to the worms, you'd be doing us a favor since everyone would be safe once the worms are well fed!"

Qin Feng sounded very harsh with his words.

The shot that was fired earlier was actually an implied warning to the others!

Those who were observing were frightened.

They found out that the escape would be led by Qin Feng moving forward, he did not have much compassion and was different from Liu Xue.

However, the people had seen hope from his capability earlier.

Liu Xue seemed to be in disagreement while tears had already rounded the rim of her eyes, her body was trembling!

Qin Feng did not have any compassion for them.

"And you, do you think that you are invincible just because you are an aptitude user? Stop seeking for your own death, or else, I will stop rescuing you. I only came down here because I respect Uncle Liu!"

Qin Feng turned around and left after saying so.

The others saw the situation and immediately followed Qin Feng, none of them went to comfort Liu Xue!

Liu Xue looked as if she were lost as she looked up to the sky with tears rolling down from the corners of her eyes.

'Was I wrong?'

Was it wrong for her to save the others? Why would this happen to her?

"Do you wanna die? Why are you not following?" Qin Feng roared in anger from the front.

Immediately, Liu Xue reacted and followed up as she did not even have time to address her sad emotions.

Qin Feng was irritated as he frowned deeply.

"What a maverick, such a busybody!"

Qin Feng ignored Liu Xue and continued to walk toward the forge with an agitated expression.

There were about fifteen people that were following Qin Feng, and the waiters from the hotel saw them as soon as they regrouped with Liu Zhenshan; and immediately, the waiters had on an irritated expression.

Qin Feng said, "Uncle Liu, distribute the weapons to them, ask them, if they are not good with guns, save the hassle and replace it with knives!"

Liu Zhenshan nodded. "Alright, you can be rest assured, I am aware of that!"

There were only three among them that were given guns by Liu Zhenshan, while his own staff were handed huge sized weapons as they were all familiar with weapons from their frequent visits to the equipment store.

Before Qin Feng even had time to rest, sounds of battle ensued once more.

It was from the front of the equipment store.

Obviously, as mentioned by Wang Chen, they were those that wanted to join the escape.

"All of you hold the defense here, and I will head out to scout!"

"Alright!"

"Mr. Qin, be careful!"

"Stay here, Bai Li! Liu Xue, follow me!" Qin Feng commanded.

"Ah! Alright!" Liu Xue followed Qin Feng although she could not understand the reason behind it.

Bai Li nodded and looked at the newcomers that had just joined. "All of you have an obvious smell that would be easily detected by the worms, you can either wash it off or apply some of the beast repelling powder!"

Those were none other than the smell of their excretions, it was because they had gone through the night in the underground basement that was in chaos and without any order; or else, they would not have heard about the news and thought of leaving the shelter.

After all, the underground basement was not like the public bunkers readily available under giant malls.

The people were furious and embarrassed as they looked at Bai Li, yet they were afraid to voice out against her.

From the video recordings yesterday, Bai Li did not fight during the battles; however, she was calm and coordinated during every escape or battle, as if she was used to it. Furthermore, she was Qin Feng's girlfriend; hence, all of the people were reluctant to go against Bai Li and could only adhere to the instruction of cleaning up and applying powder.

***

On the other hand, Qin Feng led Liu Xue through a corridor and was moving forward.

There were more than ten people in the equipment store, and among them, five were aptitude users with two F-tiers, and three G-tiers. The remaining ones were equipped with fire-fighting axes, knives, or guns.

At the moment, worms were being attracted into the store and they were engaged in a fierce and merciless battle.

A bloodthristy beetle flew over when Qin Feng appeared.

Bam!

A strong blue beam was projected from the energy gun held by Qin Feng, and it pierced through the skull of the bloodthristy beetle, blasting it away.

All of the others were surprised and delighted when they saw Qin Feng.

"It's him!"

"Qin Feng!"

"And Leader Liu, we can now be saved!"

It was as if the crowd had encountered their saviours.

Qin Feng remained silent and raised his hand while a fire beam exploded and destroyed worms that were entering into the store within a split second.

Although it was their second visible encounter since last night, all of the people were still astonished by Qin Feng's ability.

"Qin Feng… ah, no, Mr. Qin, Han Town has fallen, let's break out together with all of our combined forces!" An F-tier approached Qin Feng with joy in his eyes. However, that person also came with other intentions.

Qin Feng ignored that person and looked at Liu Xue.

"How did they know my name!"

Liu Xue's face turned pale.

It was obviously her that had spread the news.

When Qin Feng was asleep earlier, being the leader of the patrol team, Liu Xue insisted on defending Han Town that had already fallen. She comforted the crowd and contacted the Coldstorm Battalion, now that they were about to attempt a breakout, Liu Xue also wanted to bring along the others.

Or else, how would these people come across Qin Feng's name!

However, after being scolded by Qin Feng, Liu Xue immediately felt guilty.

It was not a problem for Qin Feng to leave with her family.

However, how could he protect every one of these people?

Qin Feng knew what had happened just by looking at Liu Xue's expression, he laughed coldly, "My capability is only for my own use, and I hope you can remember that it should never be taken as your bargaining chip to convey your righteousness. I will take the lead to battle during this breakout, and I will only mind my own business where nobody can request for anything from me. You are not the saviour nor am I a hero, do you understand me?"

Qin Feng's warning served as a means to obtain the commanding authority from Liu Xue.

Afterall, these people only knew Liu Xue and respected her more than they did Qin Feng.

Qin Feng did not want any of them to have the impression that he was just a pawn that could be easily ordered around to lead any battle.

Liu Xue immediately hung her head low and replied, "I understand!"

Only then, Qin Feng acknowledged the few people that had just been rescued.

After the conversation, the once delighted group became solemn as they realized that Qin Feng was not all happy about the idea of saving them.

Chapter 119: Breakout Route

Qin Feng was being honest with them.

"I wanted to break out previously but I didn't plan on bringing too many people. You people are no different than grubs in the eyes of those insectoids. Having so many bug feed moving at the same time would attract the attention of those insectoids and I hope you are mentally prepared for that. The Coldstorm Battalion has assembled, my advice for you is to stay and wait for rescue!"

"If we wanted to stay, we wouldn't have come here… Qin… Mr. Qin, I hope you can bring us along!"

One of the F-tier aptitude users started changing his tone. He did not dare to directly address Qin Feng by his name.

At one glance, Qin Feng could see that they were begging him.

"Listen to my orders then!"

Qin Feng got them to go to the back and wait for the others.

"Send out a message to everyone you know. We will attempt a breakout in one hour. Follow this route!" Qin Feng opened a map of Han Town from his communication device. He drew a route and passed it on to Liu Xue.

At first, when she saw the route, Liu Xue was a bit skeptical. But moments later, her eyes lit up.

"You're going to the orphanage? Do you plan to save those kids?"

Qin Feng answered calmly, "Why else would I take this route?"

The conditions of the orphanage in Han Town was not much better than Chengbei colony's. In fact, it was much worse. The road leading to the orphanage was very narrow, and it was a far off distance from the two town gates. Going there was an inconvenience.

But this would mean that Qin Feng had to take a detour before being able to escape from the town!

Still, Qin Feng wanted to go there.

Children were the future of this world. Qin Feng himself was an orphan. He knew the helplessness felt by the orphans. If he did not rescue them, no one would.

Moreover, they were the most vulnerable group.

For a moment there, Liu Xue's feelings were rather jumbled up.

"I thought that you did not like to help people and treat them as a burden!" said Liu Xue.

"You thought correctly; they are a burden!"

Qin Feng was referring to those who were underground.

However, Liu Xue obviously misunderstood him. She was no longer afraid of Qin Feng. She even thought that Qin Feng's stern appearance was but a mask to conceal his true, kind self.

"Thank you so much, Qin Feng!" Liu Xue was grateful.

Qin Feng felt that Liu Xue had misunderstood something, but he did not care to explain.

More people started to make their way over in the next hour.

Furthermore, some even messaged saying that they would wait along the route for Qin Feng's team.

But those who were far away from them started crying for help. They were hoping that Qin Feng and his men would go to their locations, but Qin Feng ignored them all!

Luckily, Liu Xue was not foolish enough to announce the details of Qin Feng's communication device. Qin Feng would have strangled her to death.

But now, Liu Xue was put in a bind!

"Time's up! Get ready to depart!" Qin Feng gave the order.

Within the hour, two hundred people had reached Qin Feng's location. They were all from around there. There were even people who were hiding inside their hotel rooms that were not found by the bloodthirsty beetles.

Hence, there were quite a number of people who could fight in the team. There were a total of thirteen F-tier aptitude users and thirty over G-tier aptitude users. The rest were common folks!

But that would be sufficient!

"Ten people in one group, each F-tier aptitude user will take three G-tiers and seven civvies with you!"

Qin Feng gave the order.

It was a matter of life and death. The people were fast to move.

The thirteen F-tier aptitude users received the order from Qin Feng. They went on to pick their team members.

But of course, if fights were to break out later, they would not be able to take care of all of them. If the civilians could not keep up with them, that would be their fate.

"I'm only going to say this once. Later when more people join our group, be sure to maintain formation. Aptitude users should form an outside perimeter while the civvies stay inside. I will only be killing the beast soldiers, generals, or a large batch of F-tier insectoids. Keep all your mouths shut, do not scream or yell! If you can't do it, tape your mouth!"

Although Qin Feng was stern in his speech, it was for their own good.

One of the mothers asked for tape to seal her daughter's mouth before doing hers. Her eyes were filled with determination.

They could not stay here; they had to break out.

Qin Feng took a glance at that mother. He then pointed at her. "You're in my team!"

The mother was startled as she obviously did not think that Qin Feng would choose her. After all, Qin Feng was the most powerful existence in the whole group.

Other than Qin Feng, there were Wang Chen, Liu Zhenshan, his wife, four storekeepers, and the pair of mother and daughter. There were ten people in the group.

As for why there were two F-tier aptitude users in the group, it was because of Liu Zhenshan and his wife. Qin Feng could not allow any harm to come to them.

"Let's go!"

Qin Feng raised his hand. He led the charge out of the hotel.

The surrounding insectoids had been cleared by Qin Feng. It was safe to go outside.

But one or two insectoids that popped up were quickly decimated by the rest of the people.

As long as it was not some kind of unanticipated event, aptitude users were, after all, aptitude users. Their level of strength was enough to handle the current situation.

However, in moments of retreat, there were bound to be accidents. Death or injury was inevitable.

Buzz!

A group of black insectoids appeared from a corner. It was the infamous bloodthirsty beetle.

These beetles could reach up to F-tier. They were also capable of flying. They could smell the scent of fresh blood from a kilometer away.

Those who were wounded in the battlefield were like delicacies giving off a great aroma. The group beetles swarmed at them.

There were almost thirty over beetles in the swarm. The insectoid that led the charge was a bloodthirsty beetle beast general that stood at two meters tall. There were also three one point five meter tall beast soldiers among their ranks.

No matter the beasts, once they got to a certain level, their strength and speed would increase dramatically. They were no match for an ordinary human being.

The one point five meter tall insectoid was almost the same size as a human. They had the power to deliver an instant kill on an F-tier aptitude user.

Qin Feng was riding on the umbra stallion. He placed his hand on the handle of the saber on his waist and unsheathed the Verdant Emperor Saber!

The sword gave out a mesmerizing golden shine. A huge burst of flame followed immediately.

The umbra stallion leapt into the sky as if it were hovering midair to meet the bloodthirsty beetle beast general.

Slash!

At the draw of the sword, the indestructible Verdant Emperor Sword carried a fiery glitter with it and chopped toward the insectoid. Before the beast general could react, it had already been sliced into two by Qin Feng.

Another cross slash by Qin Feng's Verdant Emperor Saber!

"Blooming Flame!"

The fire opened up into a fan shape, sucking up the bloodthirsty beetles that were in mid-air.

The burnt bloodthirsty beetle let out an agonizing buzz. In an instant, they were turned into char and fell out from the sky.

Qin Feng attacked once again. After a few more times, the swarm of pursuing bloodthirsty beetles had been reduced by half!

A few of the beetles charged into the crowd to evade Qin Feng's attacks. A moment of chaos ensued among the crowd. Luckily, the beetles were quickly slain by the F-tier aptitude users.

As such, the team continued to move forward.

But there were too many insectoids. They had only managed to cross three streets in one hour. Normally, it would only take ten minutes.

Chapter 120: A Bloody Path

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Along the path, there were people who joined the group. In the buildings on both sides of the street, people were even waving at them with bedsheets.

"Save me! Help! There are insectoids below us, we can't get out!"

"Don't go, why are you leaving!"

"Bastard, are you just going to leave us to die?"

When they saw that Qin Feng's team did not stop for them but were charging ahead, their eyes were filled with despair. They threw stuff down from the building angrily, wishing that they would die.

Even Liu Xue's communication device was damaged!

She was helpless.

Wang Chen was escorting Liu Zhenshan and his wife. They were quite close to where Liu Xue was.

"If it were me I would've destroyed the communication device, or I might end up dead from all the distraction. I've saved you once pretty girl! Don't kill me now…" Wang Chen complained.

Liu Xue's face was pale. She forced a smile. "Thank you!"

"No need, just stay out of trouble. These people need your protection. It's impossible for our team to clear the buildings. If they don't even have the courage to come down then it's out of our hands as well!"

As Wang Chen spoke, he saw a few kids throwing down bedsheets from a building above. The children were climbing down the bedsheets. A swarm of beetles flew toward them, wishing to consume their tender, young flesh.

Bam! Bam! Bam!

Wang Chen fired his gun and obliterated the bugs instantly to aid the children's escape.

When the city had fallen, only the brave could survive.

Qin Feng was clearing the path up ahead. He frowned as he came to a street.

"Prepare to detour!"

Qin Feng said in a low voice.

They came to a market in Han Town. There was a constant supply of meat and vegetables in the market. The market contained a large cache of food. When the town fell, the insectoids gathered here at this place. The market was now the insectoid's hive.

Furthermore, it was a hive for the ant insectoids.

The blacksteel ants were twenty centimeters in length. Their chitins were similar to steel. There were almost tens of thousands of them around. Qin Feng did not plan to alarm these bugs.

Qin Feng led the group away from the hive. But obviously, it was rare to have so many food show up. The ants were not planning on letting Qin Feng and the group go.

"Run away, Xiao Bai, clear a path for us ahead!" Qin Feng yelled. He let the group escape first.

"Right! You guys come with me!" Bai Li was like a demanding queen. She flew ahead instantly. Some of the fearless insectoids appeared in front of her.

Bai Li raised her hand. Before the crowd could notice anything, a white light flashed past their eyes. The insectoids had been sliced in half!

Her fingernails were all it took to deal with creatures of this level. She did not need the space blade.

Even the F-tier ancient warriors thought that Bai Li was using some kind of claw technique. Although they were rare, there were still people who practiced the skill.

Qin Feng who was riding on top of the umbra stallion leapt over the crowd and went to the back of the line. The large army of blacksteel ants had reached them.

The last in line was instantly attacked.

Ka-chak!

A blacksteel ant chomped on the person's leg with its sharp mandibles.

"Arghh!"

The man wailed in agony. He had lost a tiny piece of flesh from his feet that had on a pair of slippers.

The pain slowed him down. More and more ants were surrounding him.

Like a black tsunami, the man was consumed and he fell onto the ground. Within the surging black wave, the man's struggling body turned into a skeleton in an instant!

Such was the terror of a bug wave!

Qin Feng took a deep breath and his consciousness level drastically expanded.

"Carpet Hellfire!"

Phwooh…

A fierce patch of scarlet flame appeared in front of Qin Feng. The flame covered an area like a rug.

Be it the fire that had torched the insectoids within the hotel or the hellfire that consumed the whole street on the previous day, Hellfire had evolved along with Qin Feng's gradual mastery of the ability. It had now developed into a powerful new ability.

Carpet Hellfire was the official name given by Qin Feng.

Like a carpet from hell, the blacksteel ants were like walking over hellfire. They were torched by the flame and perished instantly.

Carpet Hellfire spanned for fifty meters, putting the street into a lockdown. Fifty meters away, even the legion of blacksteel ants did not dare to give chase.

Qin Feng saw that there were some other items on the street that would fuel his flames. If he did not collect back his fire runes, the flame could still last for another five minutes. It was enough to stop the blacksteel ant army.

He quickly rode his umbra stallion to get ahead of the team.

Once again, a gigantic creature blocked the path of the team.

It was the double-headed steel-back snail that Qin Feng had encountered before when he was about to escape.

The crowd's terror level reached its peak when they saw the humongous creature.

Even the F-tier aptitude users were scared to go ahead. There were panicked looks in their eyes, as if they were waiting for Qin Feng to return.

Splash!

A wave of liquid had sealed off the path.

The crowd retreated frantically.

It was a steel-back snail's ability that was strongly corrosive. The effect of coming into contact with the liquid was similar to touching a strong acid!

Only Bai Li remained fearless.

The one who should be scared was the double-headed steel-back snail instead. After all, Bai Li was a real beast king.

But then again, the double-headed steel-back snail was an insectoid with low intelligence. It was only capable of taking orders. It had no idea how terrifying Bai Li was and that she had concealed her aura.

Bai Li strutted ahead and stepped over the liquid.

The people up front looked on anxiously.

"Be careful, that's a beast general!"

"Ahh! She's gonna die, shouldn't we be helping!"

"That's Mr. Qin's girlfriend!"

As the crowd contemplated, Bai Li had already raised both her hands. The white light flashed past them once again.

Bzzzt!

Blood spattered outward as the steel-back snail's severed head rolled down the ground.

Bai Li reached out her finger and slashed across the top portion of the two severed heads. She collected the water-elemental ability core before moving forward.

The crowd who saw the scene in front stared ahead blankly.

A black figure went past them at that moment. Qin Feng had already reached their side.

"What are you standing around for, go now! Are you going to feed the bugs?"

After being yelled at by Qin Feng, the team started running once again.

They used to think that Han Town was tiny in the past. It was no bigger than the size of a palm with crowded streets and enclosed roads.

Now, they felt that Han Town was huge!

They were only halfway to their destination after moving for three hours, and Qin Feng departed at one in the afternoon. After the three hours, the crowd was hungry and tired. If they were to continue moving at this pace, the casualties would be much larger.

"Here! Get into this mall!"

The mall was a large market built in the slums. Now, instead of two hundred people, there were five to six hundred people who had joined Qin Feng's exodus.

Chapter 121: Something Fishy in the Underground Bunker

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

As the group grew larger, it became more chaotic and bloated as well. They attracted more insectoids wherever they went.

Time for a cull!

Qin Feng was the first to break into the mall.

The market was in a mess. There were signs of insectoids inhabiting the place.

It was the knife-edge mantis!

The mantes possessed sharp scythes as their front limbs. Even the glass and steel doors were unable to prevent them from marching in. The mantes did not live in packers however, and were much easier to clean up.

The large group entered the mall and started to get busy. They sealed off all ventilation shafts and windows to form a defense perimeter!

They finally had time to catch their breaths!

There were large quantities of food within the mall. They ate without holding themselves back.

Although it was merely the second day of the doomsday, these people feasted as if they had not eaten anything for a week.

The psychological stress had taken a great toll on them.

Quite a number of them were crying. Some of them were even cursing. The whole crowd in the mall became rowdy.

Bam!

Qin Feng's gunshot sounded off once again. But it was not his energy weapon, it was his pistol.

"Looks like you guys haven't had enough, would you like to try living in the ends of time once again?" Qin Feng's eyes swept coldly at these people.

The crowd turned silent instantly.

In a cold voice, Qin Feng continued, "If you can't hold it in then use the communicator. The rest of you, shut your mouth! Liu Xue, tally them up and divide them into groups!"

"Okay!" Liu Xue hurriedly stood up and began counting the number of people.

Five hundred people was not that many, but it was not considered little as well. If it were a middle school, thirty people would make up a class. These people would just make up eighteen classes.

But in such a situation, if chaos were to erupt among these eighteen classes, the only thing that would await them was to be turned into bug feed.

Qin Feng was not asking them to restrict their movements, but he did not want them to give him any more trouble.

After that, he went up to the roof of the mall.

Wang Chen was already waiting there.

"Boss!"

Wang Chen called out to him. After dividing into groups, Wang Chen had been by Qin Feng's side. To get closer to Qin Feng, he no longer addressed Qin Feng as Mr. Qin.

"How's it looking!"

"Some of the insectoids have either heard or smelled our presence. They're congregating toward our position. If we don't clean them up, there would be more of them coming." Wang Chen explained.

Wang Chen as a gunner could also perform some surveillance and patrol duties other than offering long-range firepower support.

Just now, he had already climbed up to the top floor and surveyed their surroundings!

Qin Feng nodded and walked toward a window. He observed his surroundings using his sniper rifle before looking at the rift.

The rift that was left untouched was like a giant gaping mouth hole of a terrifying large beast. It could swallow up the whole of Han Town at any moment.

Qin Feng knew that more and more insectoids would pour down from the rifts. It would become unstoppable.

"Let's not worry about that first!" Qin Feng said.

"Yeah, but boss, there are too many people breaking out from here with us! If you're still going to save the kids, we better be prepared!"

Unlike the adults, the children over at the orphanage were a pitiful existence that was completely powerless.

"I know, I'll be moving out tonight!"

Wang Chen nodded without saying anything else.

However, things would not stop moving just like that. Although there were quite a number of people who were breaking out from the zone, almost five hundred in number, the casualties along the way were not little as well. Some of the civilians were already panicking.

When Qin Feng returned to the ground floor, Liu Xue was quick to meet up with him.

"Qin Feng, some of the civilians no longer wish to break through the encirclement with us. There's a large underground bunker here that can take in two thousand people, we should let them hide inside. We'll get them out when the Coldstorm Battalion comes in to reclaim the lost lands!"

They were the ones who wanted to break out from the encirclement. Now, they were scared for their own lives. Perhaps they would only understand the gravity of the situation when death comes knocking.

Qin Feng did not reject their decisions.

"Whatever you say then. How many of them want to stay? Get a quick count and we'll leave right now. When night falls it'll be harder to get them moving!"

"Yes, I've tallied up the numbers. About two hundred!"

"Ask them to pack their stuff, get them underground in ten minutes!"

"Yes!"

Liu Xue quickly replied before letting them pack their items.

Although there were supplies within every underground bunker, the crowd still filled up their bags found from the mall with food and water. They carried their puffed up bags and gathered round.

Qin Feng led these people safely through the underground car park. There, they found a large steel gate.

"Please open the gate, there are no more insectoids outside. We are seeking refuge inside!"

Liu Xue called out.

There was actually a communicator outside the steel gate to prevent people from being accidentally sealed inside.

In a short while, a voice came out from within the gates.

"There's no more room here, you'll have to go elsewhere!"

The crowd who followed Qin Feng and Liu Xue was enraged.

"On whose authority? This is a public facility of Han Town, why can't we get in!"

"How could there be two thousand people inside, bullshit!"

"What's going on!"

Liu Xue too was furious.

"How could you be so selfish, did you think we can't go in just like that?"

Liu Xue's communication just now was merely a formality.

There was an emergency protocol built in in public facilities such as this to prevent insiders from stopping other people from getting in. Of course, to prevent others from being scapegoats, not everyone could trigger the protocol.

Liu Xue slammed her palm on the side of the gate. A screen appeared. Liu Xue entered a string of codes without hesitation.

But Qin Feng suddenly stopped her.

"Did you leak the news about us going into the mall previously?" asked Qin Feng.

Liu Xue nodded. Slightly embarrassed, she said, "Although we have switched routes and have stopped here, there could be more people who would want to join us in the evening. Moreover, we have caused quite a commotion along the way. They should be able to hear us!"

"So, is there anyone in the underground bunker who wishes to join us?"

"Erm, there's none!"

"Not even one?" Qin Feng began to smile coldly. There must be something fishy going on here. "Open the door then!"

The code that Liu Xue had entered just now was interrupted by Qin Feng. Luckily, there were three chances.

Once again, Liu Xue entered a series of codes. Qin Feng hit the final confirmation button. A buzzing alarm sounded from the gate.

"Make way!"

Qin Feng waved his hand and signalled for the civilians who followed him to stay back.

Qin Feng's question just now had alerted the already startled crowd. After one whole day of surviving in such dire conditions, the crowd was already quick on their toes. After Qin Feng gave the order, the crowd dispersed and stayed away from the gates!

After the gate opened up by more than half a meter, the dark barrel of a machine gun emerged and fired away underneath the dimmed lights.

Ra-ta-ta-ta-ta!

A hail of bullets began to pour.

Chapter 122: Grimy Side of the End Times

The hail of bullets was nothing to a powerful ancient warrior.

Furthermore, Qin Feng was an ability user.

His consciousness was locked on to the bullets. They were not guided by a gunner's consciousness.

They were just an ordinary outpour of bullets that had no consciousness attached to them. What an utter waste.

But for Qin Feng, the act was similar to suicide.

"Negate!"

He injected his consciousness into the bullets and controlled them remotely. The bullets turned around.

Ta-ta-ta-ta!

The bullets hit the shooters. A wail of agonizing pain came out from within.

But there were also sounds of people drawing their sword to block off the bullets.

Clang! Clang! Clang!

The speed of the bullets was not that fast. These people were able to shield themselves from the bullets. Their reflexes were pretty agile.

It was like how Qin Feng used to parry the bullets with his Verdant Emperor Saber when he fought with He Li.

At this moment however, the gate had been completely opened up. Within their sights, other than seven or eight corpses that were lying on the floor, there were three other ancient warriors who were wielding weapons.

These ancient warriors had the capabilities of an F-tier.

"You've got a deathwish!"

"Let's do this together!"

"Kill him!"

The trio's eyes were filled with a murderous intent.

But compared to Qin Feng, they were too weak!

"Burning Sword Glare!"

Qin Feng swung his Verdant Emperor Saber. The area was enveloped by the glaring reflection of the flaming sword before the trio was knocked back by his slash.

"Arghh!!!"

Qin Feng closely followed the trio who had been knocked back into the underground bunker.

Under the dimmed emergency lights, Qin Feng was able to see what had transgressed in the underground bunker. His pupils suddenly dilated before he shifted his eyes away from the scene.

Qin Feng stepped out from the room.

"Liu Xue, you should go in and console them!" said Qin Feng.

Liu Xue did not understand what he meant. But when she entered and saw what was going on inside, her eyes widened.

"Animals!"

There were only about a hundred or more people in the spacious underground bunker. However, almost a hundred of them were clustered in an area. There were twenty over young girls whose clothes were tattered. They were dazedly lying down on the cold surface of the floor. It did not take much imagination to know what they had gone through.

There was also a pile of corpses in a corner of the room. Within a day, the corpses were already giving out a terrible stench.

Liu Xue quickly went over. She found the girls' clothes and quickly helped them to dress up.

"You… are you here to save us?" One of the girls' stammered, her eyes filled with intense hate.

Liu Xue did not know how to answer her!

"Yes, we're sorry, we were late!" Liu Xue replied with remorse.

She did not even know what had transpired here.

After the girls had put on their clothes, Qin Feng looked at the other hundred people. There were adult men and women in the group. There was guilt written all over their faces as they cowered in silence. They did not even make a sound after Qin Feng had come in with so many people.

In one day, the whole world had seemingly collapsed.

"What happened here?" Qin Feng asked in a low voice.

The previous girl raised her head and looked at Qin Feng. Qin Feng was the first to enter. Although he did not kill the three F-tier ancient warriors, he had severely wounded them.

"It's them! It's them!" The girl gritted her teeth. "We were hiding in the underground bunker last night, they came and harassed us. My classmates came to stop them, but they were all killed by them, they deserve death, death!"

The girl weeped as she spoke. The other girls who were numb at first cried out as well.

The large mall did not only sell groceries. There were clothing and accessory shops as well as a cinema and karaoke center at the top floor. It was a large department store.

The girl had only been injected with the awakening potion early this year. She was a highschool graduate like Qin Feng. After the graduation, she had a gathering with her classmates. As it was a holiday, everyone got together to have a singing session. When everything started falling apart, they went into the bunker in an orderly fashion!

But no one would have guessed that this was the beginning of a nightmare.

As F-tier ancient warriors, the scene was all too familiar. Status came with strength. Including the people that they had rescued along the way, they had become kingpins of the bunker.

They molested one of the students who was good-looking. Some of the students who had been injected by the awakening potion had their ancient warrior potential awakened. As they were young and hot-blooded, a fight quickly erupted.

The fight was more like a massacre!

After killing the newbies, these people became even more reckless.

"They deserve death?" Qin Feng appeared to be repeating the girl's voice.

She looked at Qin Feng. There were mixed feelings in her eyes.

They did not know how Qin Feng would handle this matter.

After all, aptitude users were the prized treasures of the colonies!

If it were not the end times, aptitude users could ask for a settlement by paying them off with an amount of money that was considered trivial to the aptitude users.

As she thought about this, the girl went into despair.

But at that moment, they suddenly heard Qin Feng's voice.

"As you wish!"

Although Qin Feng had knocked the three ancient warriors back, he did not kill them. He had only wounded them severely.

But right now, he was walking toward the injured trio without hesitation.

"What are you trying to do?" One of the F-tier ancient warriors put on a brave face.

"Mr. Qin! We did something wrong!"

They had seen videos of Qin Feng before. They knew how strong he was, but they thought that they would get lucky.

However, they were defeated the moment they met. It had crumbled whatsoever confidence they had.

It was hard to believe that this person could possess such powerful abilities.

Was he a gunner, or an ancient warrior, or an ability user?

No matter what he was, Qin Feng's abilities struck fear in them.

"Being sorry doesn't mean anything with mere words. I personally hate sand that get stuck in my eyes. If you're really sorry then pay the price!"

After saying so, Qin Feng swung his Verdant Emperor Saber. Another glaring flame ensued!

The glaring knife edge had sliced off his opponents' necks. Their severed heads rolled on the floor but no blood came out from the wound. They had all been turned into char.

Qin Feng charged up his Asteroid Assimilation. The three F-tier ancient warriors' internal energies were absorbed by Qin Feng instantly.

When they saw the scene, the girls who had been assaulted did not feel afraid at all. Instead, they felt much better!

Dead, these people who had abused them were dead!

"Are you going to break out of this encirclement with us, or do you want to remain here!" asked Qin Feng.

The girls went silent. Only the first girl asked him in a hoarse voice, "Will you protect us?"

"Only you can protect yourselves!"

Qin Feng raised his hand. He threw a pistol in front of her.

The girl stared at the pistol before clutching it tightly.

"I'm coming with you!"

At that moment, the girl realized something. She was never interested in killing before. But now, she was passionate.

Only by having power could she protect herself. The only person she could trust was herself!

Chapter 123: Aura of the Beast King

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Perhaps it was because of what had transgressed in the underground bunker, some of the people who were with Qin Feng abandoned their wish to stay in the underground bunker. They had decided to break through the encirclement with them.

Among them were mostly young, beautiful women.

Qin Feng came down with two hundred people. But when he left, he brought an additional fifty people with him.

"Liu Xue, get them some clothes from the upper floors!"

Their clothes were tattered and could barely cover the important parts of their bodies. There were three or four hundred people in the mall right now and Qin Feng did not want any additional problems to arise!

Liu Xue nodded and took them for a change of clothes.

Luckily, the floors had been cleared by Qin Feng so nothing eventful happened to them.

Night had fallen and the smell of food was too intense around here. Insectoids had started to gather, and soon, the whole building was surrounded.

Qin Feng was sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed as he meditated on his dantian.

His qi had increased after killing some people just now. Qin Feng used an absorption ability to harness the qi.

After the sparsely spread qi were absorbed by the veins in his body, the qi underwent a refinement process and quickly became part of Qin Feng's internal energy.

"The Asteroid Assimilation is getting stronger!"

Qin Feng could sense that as his internal energy increased, his Asteroid Assimilation skill was improving as well. He could feel a subtle field enveloping his body that was endlessly consuming the spirit aura from both heaven and earth.

The people that he had slain had been turned into a total of five qi clusters this time around. Including the previous ones, Qin Feng's internal energy qi clusters came to a total of fifty.

His internal energy had exceeded an F9-tier ancient warrior's by five times.

The internal energy was strong and came in an endless stream.

"Huff!"

Qin Feng exhaled once and opened his eyes.

At this moment, Bai Li was sitting beside him. She was so bored that she had started playing games on the communication device.

On the other side, about five meters away from him, a girl had appeared as well. It was the girl who had received Qin Feng's pistol in the underground bunker.

"Mr. Qin, thank you for what you did!" The girl was emotionally more stable now. Although her eyes were still swollen, her lips cracked, and her face bruised, her eyes were glimmering.

"I haven't introduced myself, I'm Shang Na!"

"Hi!" Qin Feng nodded. "I'm Qin Feng. This is my girlfriend, Bai Li!"

Bai Li raised her hand in acknowledgement. She continued to be engrossed in her game.

Shang Na smiled. "Your girlfriend is cute!"

Qin Feng gave an approving 'you've got good taste' look at Shang Na.

Shang Na was not trying to flatter Bai Li as Bai Li was really a perfect goddess that was impenetrable.

Her perfection had made Shang Na feel ashamed of herself.

"Our communication devices had been destroyed by those people yesterday, or we would have sent out word. I've heard about you from the team, you seem to be pretty strong! Bai Li as well!"

Perhaps she was afraid that Qin Feng would think that her words were meaningless so she paused for a moment before continuing, "I was injected with the awakening potion this year as well. On the fifth day, I was able to awaken the ancient warrior talent!"

Having an awakening on the fifth day meant that she had great potential!

Even Zhou Hao could only awaken after ten or more days.

But of course, it was one thing to have a natural talent. Aptitude was a whole other story.

Shang Na smiled bitterly. "I was afraid of danger and I didn't dare to go into battles. I never wanted to train, I was afraid of pain and injury, that's why I hid my own strengths. But now I realize how foolish I was!"

Such was the way of the world. There were people who could not get what they wanted even if they begged for it. But there were also people who did not appreciate what they could get easily.

"Qin Feng, I know that you are an ability user as well as a very powerful ancient warrior. Can I learn ancient martial arts from you? I've heard that you have a colony of your own!"

All these while, Qin Feng had been quietly listening to her. The girl had a terrible past. He even felt that without the awakening, the girl would have died in the city!

Qin Feng's act today had undoubtedly changed the history of Han Town.

Many people who were supposed to die were rescued.

Many people who could have lived died instead!

Qin Feng looked at Shang Na's determined pair of eyes. He then finally spoke.

"If you manage to get out from Han Town alive, you're welcomed in my colony!"

It meant that he did not reject Shang Na.

Shang Na was, of course, overjoyed!

"Thank you so much!"

She did not stay around and disturb Qin Feng. She needed to rest and fill herself up with food, or she would not be able to escape the next day.

Furthermore, she would have to defend herself with a gun.

After resting for a while, Qin Feng once again sprung into action!

Night was the best cover. It was also Qin Feng's domain.

As night befell the fallen city, the umbra stallion leapt silently into the building.

Qin Feng brought Bai Li along in the darkness.

This time around, they were not hunting for targets. Along the path, they did not attract the attention of any ultra beasts.

"Found it!"

It was an entrance to a transport hub.

To put it accurately, it was like a transport depot in Chengbei colony. Vehicles would depart from here. There were still about three trucks remaining.

Since these vehicles had to travel into the wilderness, the glasses were reinforced. There were also strut bars outside the truck and a machine gun on top.

Qin Feng leapt into the truck. There was no key inside, but it was not a difficult task for Qin Feng.

He tinkered around with the circuit and soon the truck came into life!

The insectoids naturally swarmed the truck as they heard the engine.

"Bai Li, scare them away with your aura!"

"Oh! That's a piece of cake!"

Bai Li channeled out her aura instantly. The insectoids could sense her beast king aura and retreated in fear.

After starting up the truck, Qin Feng towed another vehicle and headed straight for the orphanage.

After twenty minutes, the truck stopped outside the orphanage. The insectoids had been scared off by Bai Li's aura. Qin Feng focused his consciousness on the orphanage. There were no insectoids around, but there was no living person around as well.

Of course, it did not mean that everyone in the orphanage had already perished. On the contrary, they were unharmed and hidden in the basement.

Qin Feng could not care less about those people who cried for help in the communication device, but that did not mean that he was aloof. The orphanage in Han Town was tiny, there were only about a hundred over children inside. These two trucks were enough to carry them.

"Bai Li, can you leave your aura here to keep the insectoids from closing in?" Qin Feng asked.

What would she use to assert dominance in the area? The thought of what she might use made him feel rather devious!

Bai Li nodded.

"Okay!"

Hence, under the careful eyes of Qin Feng, Bai Li plucked some hair from her head that looked like a patch of beautiful fur.

"Huff!"

She blew the hair, scattering them across the trucks and the ground.

"With these fur, the insectoids wouldn't dare to close in!"

Qin Feng suddenly felt that he had been overthinking it.

"Let's go!"

He rode the umbra stallion and went back with Bai Li.