AGTCTCC Chapter 73

Chapter 73 The Faded Peace Jade Pendant…

Chu Qi shook his head, forcing himself to wake up. The constant pain in his chest was now his best stimulant.

Silver-white Spiritual Power was continuously sent to the broken area of the barrier above his head, forming a dense web to block the Polluted Entities from entering.

The sharp, dense teeth in their mouthparts were tearing apart the only soft spot in the entire barrier.

He gritted his teeth, his trembling fingers once again reaching for the Spiritual Power Restoration Agent that Xing Zi Mu had given him.

Only one left…

A loud explosion sounded not far away. Chu Qi thought it was another attack. The holographic display on his chest slowly rotated as he struggled to open his eyes to see what was happening.

A red mushroom cloud slowly dissipated in the distance. Dizzy, he saw the figures of Qi Xiao and Ning Li An running towards him.

Chu Qi squinted his eyes, and after confirming that it wasn’t his imagination, he stood up straight.

Qi Xiao and Ning Li An stopped a few steps away from Chu Qi, looked up at the repaired barrier, and then at Chu Qi.

Qi Xiao stepped forward, scrutinizing Chu Qi’s face, and said, “Colonel, why be so serious? It’s just a position. Agree, and we’ll immediately withdraw them.”

Chu Qi’s face was cold: “Qi Xiao, you were once human, a citizen of the Empire. How can you not understand that this is not just about a position?”

Qi Xiao didn’t care: “Colonel, you have to admit it. Our appearance marks that humanity should step down.”

“The strong eat the weak, survival of the fittest.”

Qi Xiao slowly said, “We are willing to give humans a chance. You should be grateful.”

She turned her head to look at Ning Li An beside her, who was wooden and dull, with only occasional moments of clarity before returning to his sluggish state.

Chu Qi’s gaze also followed Qi Xiao’s to Ning Li An for a second.

He clenched his teeth, blocking the bloody taste that surged into his chest, his throat bobbing up and down.

He inconspicuously raised his eyes to look at the barrier. Right now, he could only avoid arguing with Qi Xiao and the others, delay for time, and hope that someone else would come.

Otherwise, Chu Qi sensed the Spiritual Power circulating in his body. He might not be able to hold on for much longer.

Qi Xiao reached out her hand, and Ning Li An placed his on it. Green branches appeared again, the plump leaves softly brushing Qi Xiao’s fingertips.

Qi Xiao’s eyelashes trembled. She turned her head, and Ning Li An in her vision was still that wooden puppet. She lowered her eyes, her thick eyelashes hiding the emotions in her eyes.

Qi Xiao injected Spiritual Power into the branches, and countless green sprouts grew under Chu Qi’s feet, tightly wrapping around Chu Qi’s combat boots.

Chu Qi tried to struggle, but couldn’t pull his feet out. Or maybe he just didn’t have the strength to struggle now.

The branches traveled up Chu Qi’s legs, soon reaching his neck.

When Xiang Li rushed over, Chu Qi was already half-swallowed by the green branches.

He rushed up, and the dagger that appeared in his palm cleaned Chu Qi up.

Chu Qi, who had been pulled out of the green, felt like he could finally breathe, collapsing onto the instrument.

Qi Xiao narrowed her eyes, glancing in the direction Xiang Li had come from.

Wu Zhen didn’t come.

After settling Chu Qi, Xiang Li was about to rush towards Qi Xiao and the others again.

Chu Qi stared at Xiang Li’s back. The Spiritual Power in his body was rapidly disappearing. He trembled as he opened the last bottle of Spiritual Power Restoration Agent and drank it.

On the barrier above, another layer was added to the dense web that was about to be torn apart.

Chu Qi heavily exhaled, his mind a little clearer, but he still felt something blocking his throat.

A needle-like pain at the back of his neck.

Chu Qi knew that this bottle of Spiritual Power Restoration Agent wouldn’t support him for long, and his body was also close to not being able to withstand such drastic Spiritual Power usage.

Chu Qi’s gaze followed Xiang Li closely. Without Wu Zhen’s Spiritual Power barrier protection, Xiang Li was fighting two against one very easily.

Chu Qi therefore didn’t notice the figure that suddenly appeared behind him.

“!”

Xiang Li suddenly heard the sound of a cold weapon slicing through the air and subconsciously turned his head to look.

Chu Qi also heard it at this time, but the nerve paralysis caused by Spiritual Power exhaustion and the dull pain in his limbs made his reaction two seconds slower than usual.

The metal weapon on Ke Man’s metal arm barely brushed past Chu Qi’s body, landing straight on the instrument.

With a few “sizzle” sounds, the entire instrument was scrapped. Xiang Li ran over to check Chu Qi’s injuries: “How are you?”

Chu Qi gently pushed him away, indicating that he was fine, and then looked up at the dense web.

After ruining the machine, Ke Man’s entire body went limp, his knees hitting the ground with a “thud.”

The head that was lowered blinked his eyes. Dark green Spiritual Power with purple slowly dissipated. Ke Man looked around in a daze.

What… happened?

Just now, it seemed like—

Before him, without Chu Qi’s constant Spiritual Power supply, the dense web was quickly torn apart by the Polluted Entities outside the barrier.

Countless invisible Polluted Entities swarmed in through the broken hole.

Chu Qi immediately gave the order for everyone to hide in the starship, the soldiers to board the mechs, and not to let anyone be missed.

Then Chu Qi turned his head, looked at Xiang Li, gritted his teeth, and shook his head. His vision was already starting to blur.

He grabbed Xiang Li, tearing off the communicator on his wrist that was exclusive to the Colonel and putting it on Xiang Li’s wrist.

Xiang Li: “?”

He reached out to stop Chu Qi’s actions: “Why are you giving it to me?”

Chu Qi explained, “My Spiritual Power is exhausted, and my mind can’t think clearly anymore. You take command.”

His gaze was fixed on Xiang Li, word by word: “I taught you.”

After Chu Qi said this, Xiang Li remembered the devilish training schedule that Chu Qi had made for him before. There was indeed an item called “Command Operations.”

At that time, Xiang Li had complained to Chu Qi: “They’re all so weak. I’m so strong. Dividing my energy to them and commanding them to fight is not as good as letting me do it myself.”

How did Chu Qi say it to him at the time?

Chu Qi: “That’s because you haven’t thought about the best formation method.”

“The purpose of fighting is not just victory, but also to minimize our own losses and maximize their strength.”

Now Xiang Li thinks about it, he still feels it’s just high-sounding words.

But he still accepted the transfer of the communicator, just because Chu Qi’s face now… was really ugly.

Chu Qi had already reached out to pull Ke Man, stuffing his entire body into the mech.

Xiang Li waved his hand, and a black mech immediately appeared beside him. The small screen in the middle allowed Chu Qi to immediately recognize that this was Xiang Li’s previous mech.

Xiang Li was not a person who liked to use mechs very much. He preferred to do things himself. Hiding in a mech and fighting with weapons was not as easy to use as his limbs.

Chu Qi stuffed Ke Man into the mech, and Xiang Li stuffed Chu Qi into the mech.

Xiang Li: “OK, you’re good at this thing, you do it, I’ll do close combat.”

Chu Qi nodded, while Ke Man, who was on the side, was stiff all over, remembering what he had just done.

When Wu Zhen called him N10, Ke Man didn’t know why, his mind went blank and his body lost control.

The other party stepped forward and didn’t grab Xue Hu Su’s heart as he had said, but reached out and slowly touched Ke Man’s chest with blood-stained fingertips.

He was looking for “Ke Man’s” peace jade pendant!

The string of the jade pendant was hooked out by his fingers, along with the jade pendant.

A huge bullet hole on the warm jade pendant was out of place. Wu Zhen reached out and grabbed the jade pendant.

The blood shattered in the air like pieces of a puzzle the moment it was about to touch the jade pendant.

After touching the jade pendant, Wu Zhen tilted his head in confusion. The fluorescent light of the jade pendant itself visibly dimmed, eventually turning into an ordinary white plaque.

Wu Zhen blinked his eyes, and the air around him instantly became difficult to breathe.

After a long while, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

He put the white plaque back into Ke Man’s arms and said, “Thank you.”

Then, he almost… Chu Qi…

Ke Man frantically took out the peace jade pendant from his arms. The jade pendant was completely different from its previous luster, and there was no response when Spiritual Power was sent into it.

Ke Man’s throat bobbed up and down as he raised his eyes and looked through the mech’s screen to see Shen Gui’s and Xing Zi Mu’s mechs in the distance, followed by many, many more mechs.

But the number of Polluted Entities was far, far greater than them.

Shen Gui and Xing Zi Mu heard Xiang Li’s voice from Chu Qi’s communicator, and they looked at each other, but they didn’t dwell on it.

Chu Qi must have his considerations for doing so.

Humans were driving mechs to fight Polluted Entities, and at the same time, Yan Zhou Ping sent a message on Xiang Li’s communicator.

[Yan Zhou Ping: Ning Le’s condition has been brought under control, but be careful not to hurt the person who injured Ning Le.]

[Xiang Li: .]

The other party quickly sent a message to explain.

[Yan Zhou Ping: The other party’s ability has the ability to paralyze people’s minds and is accompanied by a feeling of devouring Spiritual Power and blood.]

[Yan Zhou Ping: Ning Le was only briefly unconscious because her Spiritual Power was drained. She won’t die, but if it were a human—]

Yan Zhou Ping didn’t need to say the result clearly, Xiang Li could guess.

He looked worriedly in Chu Qi’s direction, but he could only see the outer shell of his black mech and couldn’t see the people inside the mech at all.

Yan Zhou Ping then sent another message.

[Yan Zhou Ping: Bai Yan and Hill knew about the situation on the Main Star and had long been rushing to the Main Star from the black hole where the Zerg are. The Zerg’s support is coming soon.]

[Yan Zhou Ping: So please hold on a little longer.]

Xiang Li didn’t reply, but he synchronized the message with Shen Gui and Xing Zi Mu.

[Shen Gui: shit]

[Xing Zi Mu: .]

Xiang Li tirelessly slashed at the disgusting things that kept rushing up to die in front of him. Behind him was Ke Man’s mech.

Ke Man was slow to act. Xiang Li had been cutting down the Polluted Entities that pounced on him one by one without mercy.

Ke Man looked at Xiang Li’s back, and after a long time, he raised his finger as if it weighed a thousand pounds.

He remembered.

There was only one person on the Ke family tree that could match.

—Ke Mu.

It was at this moment that Ke Man saw Ke Mu hiding in the pile of Polluted Entities not far away—no, it should be Wu Kun now.

He stared at Xiang Li’s figure, his eyes filled with undisguised malice.

Ke Man saw Wu Kun raise his hand, grab a Polluted Entity that was closest to him, and inject Depressedpurple Spiritual Power into it.

Ke Man: “!”

The Polluted Entity became huge, disgusting, and terrifying, and then with lightning speed, it spat a sticky liquid towards Xiang Li.

Ke Man’s mind went blank for a moment, and his body reacted on its own, piloting the mech to block in front of Xiang Li.

The moment the liquid touched the titanium alloy mech, it made a “sizzling” corrosive sound, and black smoke slowly rose from the bonded area.