"Reinforcents! They’re saying reinforcents from Tianfu City will arrive soon!" The lieutenant clutched the communicator between his shoulder and cheek, hurriedly helping the sergeant bandage his wound as he spoke excitedly.
"Don’t be stupid, we’re over forty kiloters away from the city here, and the nearest battalion garrison is more than seventy kiloters away... By the ti they get here, it’ll be too late!" the sergeant said.
Veins bulged on his forehead, the pain of having a whole foot severed was unimaginable, yet this tough old man, nearly fifty, didn’t even let out a groan of pain.
"Morphine! Who’s got morphine? Bring a shot of morphine!" The lieutenant’s hands were covered in blood as he frantically rummaged through his portable dical kit, but for so reason, the morphine syringe that should have been standard in any field dic kit was nowhere to be found.
"Damn, where’s the morphine gone..."
"I don’t need that stuff, don’t bother." The sergeant propped himself up on the ground with his arm, forcing himself to sit up. "Drive that SUV over here, and help onto it."
"You’re injured!" the lieutenant said urgently. "You need imdiate treatnt!"
"In my state, I can’t leave... The space in your convoy is limited. If I stay, you can take one more person out." The sergeant gritted his teeth, "Go, take my soldiers, I’ll cover your retreat."
"Let’s wait a bit longer, maybe the reinforcents are already on their way!" the lieutenant urged.
"Wait for what? For them to collect our bodies? Get out of here! Get as far away as you can!"
Just ten minutes ago, this old soldier had used the sa tone to tell the lieutenant to get lost, but now the word "go" had a completely different feeling to the lieutenant.
On the other side, the fight between the Puppet Master and the black-cloaked Hunter had completely turned against her. She could only rely on the puppets as shields to block those tallic feathers constantly shooting down from the sky, and the female puppet, which had severed one of the Hunter’s claws, could only dodge relentlessly on the ground without touching the Hunter floating in mid-air.
It tried jumping as well—its jumping ability was indeed shocking, reaching over twenty ters high at its peak... However, this twenty ters was its limit.
It only succeeded in attacking the black-cloaked Hunter on the first jump. With its scalpel-like fingers, it cut down a swathe of tallic feathers. Yet, realizing the puppet’s significant jumping ability, the black-cloaked Hunter raised its altitude to beyond fifty ters.
The female puppet attempted a few more jumps but couldn’t even reach halfway, ending up covered in knife-like tallic feathers instead.
"Why haven’t you left?" the sergeant cursed. "Quickly, take my soldiers with you; they’re still young! They shouldn’t die here! Once you’re a safe distance away, call for remote artillery strikes—Laozi trusts the speed of flying shells more than those so-called reinforcents!"
The lieutenant gritted his teeth, as if making a very difficult decision—he grabbed a nearby soldier, pushing the sergeant into the soldier’s arms, and shouted, "Get your commander in the vehicle, onto the light-armored car in the front!"
With that, he stood up directly to run toward the off-road vehicle parked on the open ground, which was equipped with an anti-aircraft cannon!
"What the hell are you doing?!" the sergeant roared.
"I’m covering the retreat!" the lieutenant said without turning back.
"Cover your damn retreat! Stop wasting ti!! Put Laozi down! Don’t drag Laozi! Believe it or not, I’ll shoot you!" The sergeant shoved away the soldier supporting him, hopping on one foot to chase the lieutenant, "Don’t fight for the rear-guard job! Damned federal governnt spent so much money on your education, military academy teachers spent so much ti and effort on you, and you think you can just lay it down here? Not a chance!!"
The sergeant lunged forward, but the fully-limbed lieutenant was much faster, and the sergeant lunged at empty air, falling heavily to the ground.
"You little bastard! Get back here!" The sergeant, even as he lay on the ground, couldn’t help but curse.
Just then, a deafening sound of an air explosion rushed toward them, shattering all the glass windows of the outpost, forcing the soldiers present to cover their ears and squat down in pain.
"Bang!" With a booming crash, the black-cloaked Hunter, still "pouring firepower" from mid-air, suddenly vanished, leaving behind hundreds of misshaped tallic feathers drifting down from the sky.
"...Wha-what’s going on?" The lieutenant glanced back, half a feather shard, thin as a cicada’s wing, embedded in the shoulder joint of the Power Exoskeleton, with small bits of flesh still clinging to its surface.
The lieutenant could confirm that this flesh wasn’t his own.
"What happened?" The sergeant turned over, lying on his back on the ground, "What’s going on? Where’s that Hunter?!"
"I... I don’t know." The soldier next to him was equally baffled.
"It seems like a long-range strike from Tianfu City’s direction! That sound just now was a sonic boom!" The lieutenant suddenly realized and said.
"Did anyone see the flash of the explosion?" the sergeant asked.
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