White Rain Strikes

Screams, gunshots, and explosions.

Various voices rose up behind Chen Ran.

Chen Ran ignored everything and ran away as fast as she could.

"I'll be fine."

"I'll be fine!"

A scream rang out from mid-air as the girls who had been lighting the fire fell to the ground, crashing into a hard rock and punching a hole in their heads. Chen Ran didn't dare to look.

He turned around, and right in front of him, limbs, broken bones, organs, heads—one by one, human remains—fell off.

It fell on the grass, it fell in the mud, it fell on the rocks.

Chen Ran looked back and saw Captain Zhuo Long standing on a high ground, holding two machine guns, covered in blood, roaring angrily and firing at the snake coiled around him.

Soon his figure was obscured by the sections of grayish-white snake bodies behind him.

Chen Ran screamed and rushed into a forest, his chest heaving, as if a flame was burning in his lungs.

Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of something darting through the woods to his left.

Chen Ran didn't dare to look. He only caught a glimpse of a gray shadow, like a train but much larger.

As the gray shadow suddenly accelerated, the trees in front of it flew into the air one by one, only to crash down again.

Suddenly, the gray shadow darted out sideways and loomed right in front of Chen Ran.

But Chen Ran could clearly see that the gray shadow was not completely flush with the ground; there was at least a meter or more between them.

Chen Ran yelled, but instead of slowing down, she ran even faster.

Just as he was about to collide with the gray figure, he used a sliding tackle to slide across the cold, slippery grass, passing under the gray figure.

"It's a success!"

A surge of joy Chen Ran's heart.

Suddenly, everything went dark again.

Just ahead, a gaping maw of abyss opened wide, and Chen Ran could see the thick, mucus-covered walls of the mouth, as well as a huge, frog-like tongue.

He slipped himself into that mouth like a mosquito.

The big mouth closed.

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Dragon Spring Base.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Xiao Yun, the Minister of the Enforcement Department, finally entered his office.

The work of the Enforcement Department has always been leisurely. Apart from the 'Black Wave' company incurring public wrath several months ago, things have been peaceful at the base for the past few months, and there's nothing for Xiao Yun to worry about.

He originally thought that it wouldn't be long before 'Black Wave' Company would come back to settle accounts with those pharmaceutical companies.

To be honest, Xiao Yun was quite reluctant to part with 'Black Wave' Company. After the company left, his wallet shrank considerably.

Several months passed, and the 'Black Wave' company seemed to have forgotten about it, neither returning to cause trouble nor retaking Medicine Valley.

Not long ago, a group of merchants who had just arrived from Qingyang told Xiao Yun that the 'Black Wave' company had gone bankrupt.

Furthermore, Qingyang City underwent a tremendous change, and the city almost disappeared.

At this point, Xiao Yun no longer brooded over his inability to move into the Undercity.

"Xiao Liu, have you seen my Walkman?"

"Isn't it in your drawer?"

"Really? Yes, it is."

Xiao Yun put on his Walkman; these things are now impossible to buy even if you have the money, they're truly a collector's item.

It contains excerpts from Peking Opera and crosstalk performances that Xiao Yun personally enjoys, things he's listened to for many years.

He listens to it every afternoon; it has become a habit.

Like now, she sits in the wicker chair, puts on her headphones, and starts humming.

After an unknown amount of time, Xiao Yun was suddenly shaken by his deputy. He called out, "What's wrong?"

Seeing that Xiao Liu had his mouth open but couldn't hear anything, he remembered that he had been listening to music, so he took off his earphones and asked again, "What's wrong?"

But Xiao Yun knew without Xiao Liu's reply, because he wasn't deaf, so he could clearly hear the giant beast alarms that were blaring all over the base.

"Alarm! Alarm!"

"A behemoth signal has been detected approaching the base. All residents are advised to immediately proceed to the shelter."

"Let me repeat that..."

Xiao Yun was a little confused.

Giant beast?

It's been so many years since any giant beasts have approached the base; he's starting to wonder if there's been a mistake.

Looking towards the window, Xiao Yun saw that the streets were in chaos. Who were the residents of the base?

They're definitely not those obedient little lambs from the Undercity. Anyone who dares to come to the Forbidden Land area to freeload is risking their life. Now that they hear the behemoths are heading for the base, do you expect them to obediently go to the shelter?

That would only happen if the sun rose in the west.

Xiao Yun didn't need to look to know that everyone was rushing to leave the base, and the base wouldn't stop them.

The base's focus is now definitely on the behemoths.

"It shouldn't be any troublesome behemoth; it probably escaped from the Safe Zone, where it's mostly inhabited by Lower-tier Giant Beast."

Despite saying that, Xiao Yun still left the office. Even the lower ranks were beyond the capabilities of someone like him without a mecha.

It would be such a tragedy if someone were trampled to death.

Xiao Yun hurriedly headed to the base's high-level private shelter. On the way, he saw mechs heading towards the outer Alert Zone of the base, preparing to confront the giant beast.

The base's high command's private shelter was converted from an Underground mall. Although it couldn't compare to an Undercity, it still had three layers of protective armor.

Xiao Yun stepped out of the elevator and entered a large hall, where he saw that almost all the base's supervisors and department managers had arrived.

"What kind of behemoth is it? Have you figured it out?" Xiao Yun asked.

At that moment, the screen in the hall lit up, and a projector projected the scene outside the base onto the screen, showing snow falling in the air.

Xiao Yun was taken aback. "It's snowing?"

It's not snowing yet.

Immediately afterwards, trees in the direction of the Forbidden Land collapsed, and dust billowed up.

Then cars came rushing out of the forest, each carrying a man carrying a rifle and firing into the woods; some even picked up Rocket launcher and fired into the trees.

A moment later, a swarm of trees suddenly flew out of the forest and rained down on the convoy.

If you are unfortunately hit by a falling object, at best your car will overturn, and at worst you and your car will be crushed into a pulp.

Immediately afterwards, a gray shadow burst out of the forest. On the screen, Xiao Yun could clearly see that it was a toad!

But it soon became clear that the thing only had a head that looked like a toad, but a body that looked like a snake, with fleshy bumps all over its long body, and faces embedded in those bumps.

Xiao Yun exclaimed in surprise, "Upper-tier Giant Beast, Bai Yu?"

Someone exclaimed, "Wait a minute, this looks a bit different from Bai Yu. When did that thing start growing human faces?"

"That's not the main problem. The problem is, wasn't Bai Yu in the danger zone? How did she get out of the Forbidden Land?"

Problems were raised one after another.

Then someone asked a question, "Can our base's mechs defeat Bai Yu?"

The hall fell silent for a moment, then Xiao Yun cried out in alarm, "Quick, contact Guangling City!"

"Quick!"