Forced to Land
Just as everyone was staring down outside the plane window, the announcement came on again. "We apologize, dear international passengers, but our fuel may not be able to return via the same route. Air traffic congestion in other cities makes it impossible for us to maintain our high-altitude circling formation. We will be making a forced landing in New Suzhou City. After landing, a team of military personnel will escort you to your evacuation. Please strictly follow instructions and do not act rashly."
"..."
This announcement was repeated twice, leaving all the passengers on the plane completely dumbfounded!
Demon Beast are attacking the city below, and they actually want to land here?
You're kidding!
How can they possibly survive if this continues?
The Egyptians, who were just moments ago so confident of conquering the world, who were just moments ago so calm... are now anything but quiet.
Thinking about it, it makes sense... They'd rather crash-land in the desert than land in a war-torn city and expect the military to escort them to safety?
It's hard to say whether the army can withstand the pressure; it's entirely possible that they could all be buried here if things go wrong.
However, no matter how much these people made a fuss, the flight attendants remained calm and soothing, showing no signs of anger whatsoever. One could even say they were used to this kind of thing.
"Is it that chaotic outside?" After a long pause, Blanche, who was sitting in the front, finally uttered these words.
Having spent so much time at the Alps academy, Blanche thought the world was at peace, but little did she know that her very first destination would present such a startling scene...
Heidi, who was next to Tang Miao, didn't say anything, but she held his arm tightly with her delicate little arms.
It seems like you're very scared?
Tang Miao looked down and then responded to Heidi, saying, "The war has never stopped. Demon Beast are in a dominant position, and the territory they occupy is hundreds or thousands of times larger than the territory humans inhabit. Once a tribe or empire becomes too powerful, and the different Demon Race cannot restrain each other, then the bloodthirsty Demon Beast will invade human cities!"
Blanche paused slightly upon hearing this...
Having spent so much time in the nunnery, she never realized that she actually felt somewhat like a frog in a well.
At this moment... the plane was flying sideways, and could see the scene below. The Egyptians' use of the serpent and scorpion metaphor was not a reference to a cruel and vicious woman, but rather to a real person whose upper body was that of a woman and Scorpion-Woman lower body was that of a snake or scorpion!
The snake people are vassals of the scorpion people, but they can also interbreed, resulting in snake-scorpion people with the lower body of a long, monstrous python, the upper body of a giantess, and six Scorpion-Woman arms.
Because their bloodline is not pure, these Scorpion-Woman are looked down upon by both the snake-people and scorpion-people clans, and are often used as vanguard cannon fodder in wars. However, their lowly status does not mean that their fighting ability is inferior to those of pure-blooded scorpion-people or snake-people...
The Scorpion-Woman have always been considered one of the more fearsome races in Africa...
The closer they got, the more obvious the dense clustering became. Heidi, like a clingy kitten, kept snuggling into Tang Miao's arms.
He felt no resistance whatsoever to that delicate little body squeezing in.
Blanche turned around and saw this scene. She then looked at Zhao Manyan and Mo Fan, who were both disgusted, and said, "Heidi has trypophobia of reptiles..."
Then he looked at Tang Miao and said, "Please take good care of her later."
"Don't worry, I'm here to ensure she doesn't get hurt," Tang Miao said with a smile.
At this moment, Heidi was truly pitiful. No matter what Tang Miao did, she didn't care and instead buried her head in his chest.
Mo Fan, Zhao Manyan, and Mu Bai all gaped, their eyes simultaneously fixed on Heidi. However, Heidi had already buried her face in her arms, so they couldn't see anything...
In short, Mo Fan and Zhao Manyan were filled with envy...
After all, who wouldn't want a normally proud girl to be so timid and fearful, nestled in their arms?
Mu Bai then inwardly condemned himself once again...
Of course, he might also be envious, or he might just be jealous and resentful.
However, a good man always needs to learn to bear these things.
Therefore, Tang Miao completely disregarded their gazes and their inner grumbling...
"Tang... Tang Miao, are we really going to descend..." Heidi glanced at the ground getting closer and closer, and saw the dense swarms of creatures also getting closer and closer. She immediately shrank back into Tang Miao's arms and asked weakly.
"It's alright, I'm here, they can't hurt you. Besides, you probably don't know, but these densely packed Demon Beast are a disaster for them if they encounter me," Tang Miao said with a smile.
Whether it's his lightning or his fire, they are the absolute nemesis of groups of Demon Beast.
Hearing this, Heidi felt even more secure against that chest.
As the plane began its descent, the passengers stopped hurling useless insults and started praying.
After all, even if it's just a waste of breath, it's already come to this...
During the descent, the foul stench produced by the Scorpion Monster floated in the air, turning a sunny afternoon into a gloomy twilight. Ordinary people could easily be poisoned if they stayed in it.
Snakes and scorpions feed on the rotting flesh of the dead, and are also servants and guardians of some powerful undead. The foul aura emanating from them is very similar to the deathly and malevolent energy of the undead, so the air is filled with a pungent stench when they appear in large numbers.
And the plane, seemingly dissatisfied with the air quality at the landing site, actually veered off course...
Instead of landing where Military Mage were stationed, they ended up among hordes of Demon Beast...
The sight of those densely packed, relentlessly advancing things on the ground was absolutely terrifying!
Heidi wished she could merge her petite body into Tang Miao's.
Seeing this, the cabin door was too dangerous to open. These crawlers weren't particularly powerful; though numerous, they couldn't tear through the aircraft's metal. But the captain and flight attendants were also dumbfounded, unsure of what to do.
On the window, a bunch of dark, Deformed Scorpion Bug were already crawling on it, gnawing haphazardly. They had clearly spotted the living people inside the plane and were eager to attack.
"The army is coming soon, everyone please calm down, everyone please calm down." Although the flight attendant was also in a panic, he forced himself to remain calm and continued to try to reassure the passengers.
However, his words of comfort had no effect, because at that very moment, tiny Demon Beast had begun to pour in from all directions...
After all, not all Demon Beast are enormous; some are the size of a palm... or even smaller. But regardless of their Demon Beast, they can cause significant harm to ordinary people!