Many men had thoughts about a powerful female superior.
If it had been anyone else, Xu Long would have encouraged them, or even offered a little help.
But when their target was his older sister Xu Jiao, Xu Long could only sigh.
It wasn't because he wanted to go to German orthopedics, but because he hoped these people would stay alive.
His sister had been fiercely competitive since childhood. To win her heart, a man first had to be better than her in every respect.
With their strength, these people might as well wash up and go to bed.
"Master, Xu Jiao's run into trouble."
Just as Xu Long was firing a shot here and there out of sheer boredom, the Red Queen's voice suddenly came through his earpiece.
"How far away is she? Can we make it?"
"She's only five kilometers away. Given the current situation, if we leave immediately, we'll make it just in time."
The Red Queen answered.
"Move out now, three o'clock!"
Seeing Xu Long's serious expression, the others didn't dare ask questions and obediently did as he said.
Slash!
Xu Jiao cut the Flame Hell Beast in front of her in two with a single stroke, then looked ahead with a grave expression.
The military in this era was different from the one in Xu Long's previous life. As officers, they had to slay Flame Hell Beasts that matched their own rank, not sit in a command room drinking tea.
As commander-in-chief of the Southern Theater's Ninth Army Group, she had to pay attention whenever C-rank Flame Hell Beasts appeared.
If her subordinates couldn't kill them, she had to step in personally.
Shortly after Xu Long left, she received word that a full ten Flame Hell Beasts had appeared in the warning zone and destroyed thousands of robots with the force of crushing dry weeds and smashing rotten wood.
"Damn it, why did so many show up at once?"
Xu Jiao cursed, feeling that things were looking bad.
C-rank Flame Hell Beasts weren't especially powerful, but the poison in their bodies was extremely potent.
A constitution attribute above 150 was needed to ignore this genetic toxin, but that raised a question: how many reincarnators would use their precious points to strengthen their constitution?
The constitution attribute could improve cellular activity, increase stamina recovery, and strengthen internal force, but it contributed far less to combat power than the other four attributes.
As a result, even a reincarnator like Xu Jiao, whose three attributes had reached the C-rank limit, couldn't resist the Flame Hell Beasts' genetic toxin.
Slash!
Her sword struck a Flame Hell Beast's back, and scalding blood immediately gushed out like a spring.
The pressure inside a Flame Hell Beast's body was immense, and blood would spurt wildly from any wound.
If it landed on someone, it would burn and poison them, making it extremely troublesome.
That was why the Huaxia District of the First District and Western Europe of the Second District supported the Red Queen with all their might.
Robots that came out of steel furnaces heated above a thousand degrees weren't afraid of it, and toxins that reached the genetic level were useless against them.
It could be said that robots were the Flame Hell Beasts' natural nemesis.
Unfortunately, robot manufacturing technology was constrained by various conditions, and what they could produce at present was only cannon fodder.
They could cut down E-rank Flame Hell Beasts like slicing melons and vegetables, but against D-ranks, they were the ones sliced up like melons and vegetables.
And at C-rank, numbers could no longer make up the difference. Even a thousand robots couldn't kill a single C-rank Flame Hell Beast.
Hiss! Hiss! Hiss!
Shrill hisses rang out from every direction as ten Flame Hell Beasts closed in from all sides.
Clearly, their target was Xu Jiao, the commander-in-chief of the Southern Theater's Ninth Army Group.
"I can't stay. I have to go!"
Xu Jiao wasn't an idiot. She could handle one or two, and she could try fighting three or four.
But with ten coming at her at once, even she would die.
Xu Jiao had it all planned out, but reality was merciless.
The ten Flame Hell Beasts lunged at her almost simultaneously, blocking every direction she could dodge.
I'm screwed!
Xu Jiao wailed inwardly, but she still didn't give up hope of escaping.
At worst, she would be injured and poisoned. Although her strength would drop sharply, she wouldn't necessarily die.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Just as Xu Jiao was preparing to fight for her life, a series of muffled shots suddenly rang out.
The Flame Hell Beast lunging from the right was hit in a vital spot. The bullet entered its mouth and shattered its brain.
What a chance!
Seeing this, Xu Jiao knew she had been saved.
Without stopping to think about anything else, Xu Jiao planted a foot on the dead Flame Hell Beast's back.
Pfft!
Whoosh!
She sprang up, kicked off her shoe, and ran.
The Flame Hell Beast's blood had splattered everywhere. When Xu Jiao stepped on it, the scalding blood burned through the rubber layer of her sole before being stopped by the steel plate.
C-rank Flame Hell Beasts were immensely powerful, their toxins were stronger, and their temperature was higher. Even a steel plate couldn't hold out for long.
So Xu Jiao didn't dare waste any time. After throwing off her shoe, she ran toward Xu Long.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
After firing all eight rounds, Xu Long immediately changed magazines.
That bastard Zhang San drove like he was flying a plane, flooring the accelerator without even slowing down for turns.
An ordinary person would have been thrown out long ago.
But Xu Long held a heavy sniper rifle as steady as an old dog, accurately putting an entire magazine of bullets into the same Flame Hell Beast from hundreds of meters away.
"Nice work! I haven't doted on you all these years for nothing!"
Xu Jiao leaped through the window into the armored vehicle and punched Xu Long in the kidney, nearly crippling him.
"Oh, cut the bullshit! When we were kids, I never managed to get any of the good food. You ate it all!"
Forcing down the urge to pull out the Vulcan Machine Gun and shoot her until she cried, Xu Long held the heavy anti-materiel sniper rifle and continued firing in a steady, measured manner.
It had to be said that, among individual weapons, this was the only one capable of dealing effective damage to Flame Hell Beasts.
Thanks to all five of his attributes having reached the D-rank limit, Xu Long could withstand the tremendous recoil and track the Flame Hell Beasts' movements.
Flame Hell Beasts were difficult to deal with, especially these C-rank ones.
Xu Long had quickly shot three dead while they were off guard, but the rest were trouble.
After firing over a hundred rounds in succession, he had only managed to kill two.
"We're out of bullets!"
The soldier beside him spoke up, looking deeply embarrassed.
"Out of bullets?"
Xu Long's face was full of Are you fucking kidding me? The Southern Theater's Ninth Army Group had run out of bullets?
It was as ridiculous as going for a happy-ending massage without bringing any money!
"All we brought in the vehicle was machine-gun ammunition. Who knew you could shoot so much..."
The soldier's voice grew quieter and quieter. Even he found that excuse hard to accept.
"There's no need to keep fighting. Those Flame Hell Beasts have already run off. We're returning to camp immediately."
Xu Jiao gave the order.
"I haven't shot enough yet..."
Xu Long muttered, but when he glanced at Xu Jiao's pale face, his heart leaped into his throat.
He put the gun aside, swept his gaze over her, and immediately fixed on her leg.
He undid the tightly fastened leg armor, revealing a tiny wound on her fair, tender calf.
It was less than a centimeter long and barely deep enough to tear open the capillaries.
An ordinary person wouldn't even notice an injury like that, unless they were as frail and weak as Brother Ji.
But this was a fallen zone, and the injury had been caused by a highly venomous Flame Hell Beast.