BFET Chapter 25

Turmoil

A piercing creak emanated from the rear of the vehicle, and in the next second, the back door was ripped open from the outside!

Several tendrils, fused into claw-like shapes by a red misty substance resembling flowers, reached in.

Xie Yi swiftly grabbed a submachine gun from the back of the vehicle, aimed at the rear, and pulled the trigger, firing decisively!

The rat-a-tat-tat of gunfire instantly filled the entire vehicle!

The tendrils, along with the teetering back door, were completely blasted away by the gunfire. The deformed door swung backward with momentum, taking down a large portion of the nearby swarm of corpses.

A thick, bloody scent mixed with the acrid smell of gunpowder filled the air.

With the roaring of the engine, the jeep finally broke free and sped away like lightning!

“What on earth are these things?” You Xue gripped the steering wheel tightly, still shaken. “I clearly shook them off and activated the camouflage. How did they find us and catch up?”

Xie Yi retracted his gaze from the back of the vehicle, not responding for a moment.

The swarm of corpses had no independent consciousness. Normally, if the Curse Gu didn’t have any intention of actively attacking, they should be able to get rid of it as long as they moved out of the swarm’s line of sight.

Not to mention they had also activated the camouflage mode.

That Curse Gu…

Xie Yi suddenly looked at Shen Shu next to him. Could it be because of him?

Scenes flashed through his mind. It was absurd, but Xie Yi felt that his intuition was correct.

But if that was the case, it meant that no matter how many times they tried to evade, the Curse Gu would eventually control the swarm of corpses to follow them.

As if sensing something, Xie Yi looked back in the direction of the vehicle.

As if confirming his thoughts, faint black shadows began to appear in the distance.

Xie Yi narrowed his eyes, turned back to look at the still-unconscious Shen Shu, and then said to You Xue, “You Xue, change course ahead. At the fastest speed, we’re going to the location of the Jiangbei Gigawhale core launcher.”

You Xue raised her head in confusion, looking into the rearview mirror, “What are we going there for?”

Xie Yi paused for a moment, “To activate the core launcher’s self-destruct system.”

You Xue was stunned: “?”

Since its birth, the Tianmu Gigawhale had undergone several iterations, but the only thing that remained unchanged was its name.

The initial design of the first-generation Tianmu Gigawhale did not include a self-destruct system. Later, in order to add a failsafe, research and development began two years after the Gigawhale’s birth.

Jiangbei was one of the first safety zones to trial the new second-generation Gigawhale.

Unfortunately, due to technical flaws at the time, the entire Gigawhale was paralyzed when Jiangbei had an accident, and the so-called failsafe self-destruct system was never used.

“Why are we going to activate that thing?” You Xue asked, puzzled. “The core launcher of the Jiangbei second-generation Gigawhale is connected to the self-destruct systems of the surrounding auxiliary launchers. Are you going to blow up the entire Jiangbei?”

“Yes.” Xie Yi pulled out the seat belt and fastened it on Shen Shu, “We can’t let this Curse Gu control these things and keep following us. This is the only way.”

“I don’t understand? How did it suddenly become the only way?” You Xue felt completely lost. “Can’t we just find a way to avoid them? If you blow up Jiangbei, the areas near the Jiangbei district might become polluted and destabilized!”

Xie Yi replied, “This Curse Gu is coming for Shen Shu. Unless we abandon him, it will keep bringing the swarm of corpses after us. The external pollution will destabilize anyway.”

Shen Shu? What does it have to do with Shen Shu?

You Xue felt like her thinking couldn’t keep up.

However, before she could respond, Xie Yi spoke again, “There’s no time to explain clearly. Do as I say. Those things are going to catch up again!”

Hearing this, You Xue looked in the rearview mirror, and sure enough, she saw a large, surging black shadow not far behind the vehicle.

She gasped and quickly changed course, speeding away in the direction Xie Yi pointed.

The Jiangbei Gigawhale core launcher was located in the northwest direction, near the center of the Mid-Section Zone.

It wasn’t far from their current location, but they needed to detour due to the ruins and debris blocking the road.

You Xue looked at the increasingly clear swarm of corpses in the rearview mirror, “After the Jiangbei Gigawhale was paralyzed, the self-destruct system can only be activated externally. Even if we get there, we won’t have that much time to perform the operation.”

She still didn’t agree with Xie Yi’s approach of activating the self-destruct system. It was too dangerous.

“I’ll go activate it alone.” Xie Yi was looking at the design on the holographic screen. “You take Shen Shu and drive to lure those things away. After half an hour, lead them back towards the core launcher’s location. I’ll activate the self-destruct system when you arrive.”

You Xue, “What about you?”

“There will be a 10-second countdown after the self-destruct system is activated.” Xie Yi didn’t even lift his head. “I’ll leave within that time.”

“10 seconds is only enough for you to leave the ruins of the core launcher.” You Xue said, “There are a total of 4 auxiliary launchers near the core launcher. That area will be an explosion zone. After I lead the swarm of corpses over there, I’ll meet you outside the core launcher.”

Xie Yi finally put away the smart terminal’s holographic screen and looked out the window. He didn’t object to You Xue’s suggestion, “Okay.”

Not far away, there was a half-collapsed building in a collapsed ruin. That was where the Jiangbei Gigawhale’s core launcher was located.

You Xue drove quickly towards it, suddenly slowing down as she got close. Then, a figure jumped out of the back door and quickly disappeared into the nearby ruins.

Xie Yi moved nimbly through the ruins, creating distance from the swarm of corpses chasing behind him. Then, he found a place to temporarily hide and watched from the cracks in the ruins as the swarm of corpses passed by. He saw a faint hint of red and white in the swarm.

After the swarm of corpses was lured away, Xie Yi immediately emerged from behind the ruins and moved towards the core launcher.

The half-collapsed building stood out like a sore thumb in a pile of ruins, with a broken white tree lying horizontally behind it. The tree trunk was full of cracks, and its surface seemed to be covered in something yellow.

The core launcher of the Jiangbei Gigawhale was located on the second floor of the old Jiangbei Security Defense Team headquarters. After the safety zone was attacked, the Security Defense Team bore the brunt of the attack, and the core launcher was affected, with a large number of reaction modules damaged.

Therefore, although the self-destruct system was still intact, it could only be activated externally.

Xie Yi quietly entered the old Jiangbei Security Defense Team headquarters and quickly found the core launcher.

After starting the Gigawhale’s backup power supply, he took out a spider-shaped detector and manually connected the detector’s mouth extractor to the core launcher’s signal port.

Then, he brought up the holographic screen and used the smart terminal to perform permission configuration connection operations.

Time passed second by second. After a long wait, the progress bar on the holographic screen jumped to 95%.

Xie Yi looked at the time. It was 5 minutes before the half-hour agreed upon with You Xue.

Cold sweat trickled down his forehead. The pain that had been faintly drilling out of his body earlier became more obvious. Xie Yi gripped his trembling hand and stared at the holographic screen with a grim expression.

When the progress bar jumped to 99%, Xie Yi heard the sound of a car engine.

The sound came from far away and was approaching very quickly.

100%

The moment the holographic screen displayed a permission unlock prompt, he immediately pulled up the self-destruct system activation interface and activated it without hesitation.

A bright red countdown alarm suddenly occupied the entire holographic screen.

At that moment, he heard the jeep honking as it drove past him from behind.

Xie Yi quickly stood up and rushed out, but the already widespread throbbing pain caused him to stumble.

He grabbed the wall to steady himself and vaguely saw that the countdown on the holographic screen on his wrist was about to reach the end.

Too late, he gritted his teeth and ran towards the collapsed area on the second floor, grabbing the broken wall and jumping straight down.

He hadn’t gone far after landing when a series of explosions roared from behind him.

In the next instant, he was blown away by the heat wave sweeping in from behind.

In the roar of artillery fire.

The blazing fire illuminated the sky above Jiangbei before the dim light of dawn.

Xie Yi rolled all the way from the ruins. The throbbing pain caused him to curl up on the ground.

He couldn’t even tell if it was the pain in his body or the impact of the explosion.

In a daze, he seemed to see a figure approaching him in the distance. The figure grew smaller and smaller, eventually turning into a boy of about half his height.

Before completely sinking into darkness, a youthful and indifferent face appeared in Xie Yi’s last consciousness, along with a conspicuous white short hair.

——Who is it?

[End of Volume 1]