Reincarnated as A Bamboo

Chapter 40: Fierce Battle on a Rainy Night

"All troops, stabilize your positions! Gather! Attack! Fire!"

Per the squad's swift reactions, all the soldiers grabbed their weapons and showered the insects and beasts both in the sky and on the ground with bullets!

On the rainy night, the howls of the mutated creatures resounded through heaven and earth, perhaps even overshadowing the roars of firearms and weapons!

Rumble rumble rumble

The shockwaves and shrapnel from the explosion tore open cracks between the swarms of insects and beasts. Yet, these cracks were soon filled up with more insects and beasts immediately!

"Focus fire!"

The sound of the loudspeaker roared while the machine gun in his hand spewed fire, shooting down dozens of mutated birds and flying insects that were rushing toward him in the air!

"What are the flamethrowers squads doing? Charge forward!"

In the sky, the dark swarm of birds and insects in the pouring rain charged madly in the direction of the camp. Even though the soldiers were well-equipped, they were mortal after all and unable to withstand the most minor attacks!

The smaller carnivorous insects kept smashing into the soldiers' faces and bodies, biting their skin and all of their weak spots!

The mutated sparrows, mountain sparrows, and even the golden eagles turned into dark clouds of death!

Some of the soldiers had their throats slit; some had their heads punctured by the sharp beaks; some even had their eyes scratched out while their brain matter spewed out!

Screams erupted from time to time, but these screams were often quickly drowned out by even more shrill screams!

The giant insects and mutated beasts crawling on the ground did not slow down at all due to their sheer numbers even though they were being devoured by fire from both torches and cannons!

"Damn it! Nothing works on this beetle!" Dozens of soldiers sent sparks skidding off the two-meter-long beetle!

"Get out of the way! Let me do it!" A transcendent being covered in blood suddenly rushed out and jumped onto the back of the large beetle. He clenched his fist and landed an explosive punch!

The beetle howled as it tried to shake off the human that destroyed its invincible armor. However, an explosion suddenly tore it apart!

"How dare you!" The transcendent being tossed a grenade into the opening on the beetle and rolled far away. As the beetle exploded, his face was covered in the insect's green slime.

"Watch your back! Exploding Flames!"

However, before the transcendent being managed to get up from the ground, he felt a strong gust of wind behind him. In a sudden flash of intense heat, his head flew into the air!

Although Zheng Guodong's flames burned the huge mutated mantis to death, he failed to prevent his squad member from having his head chopped off by the mutated mantis!

"Exploding Flames! Exploding Flames, Exploding Flames!" Dozens of fire pillars erupted like fire dragons that wreaked havoc among the endless streams of insects and beasts!

The fire dragons reaped the lives of those maniacal mutated creatures that failed to understand what death was. Their shrill cries were exceptionally ear-piercing.

However, the intense flames were also constantly emitting thick white smoke due to the rain.

The white mist made it impossible for the soldiers to aim accurately at the mutated creatures. The battle was now progressing into a more unfavorable state.

"Damn it! Damn it!" Zheng Guodong panted heavily. He consumed a large amount of spiritual aura in one go, and he was already exhausted. All of a sudden, he was overwhelmed at the thought that even though he was Grade-C, he was too trashy to achieve anything.

"Armor-piercing bullets! Use high-explosive artillery shells as support! I"

The megaphone stopped midway. The soldiers realized in despair that the mutated birds had completely drowned and destroyed the command center!

The insect and beast swarms had already invaded the military encampment. Everyone understood that these seemingly endless mutated creatures were devils that they could not defeat even if they risked their lives.

A huge snake with a body as thick as a bucket swallowed two soldiers while its tail sent a few more flying.

Hundreds of wriggling worms the size of human thighs pounced on the soldiers, leaving only white bones in their wake.

Nearly a hundred sparrows the size of basketballs swooped down like cannonballs and instantly sliced dozens of soldiers' chests open or broke their legs.

Dozens of gophers the size of calves crawled out from the ground. They waved their extremely sharp claws and tore open the stomachs of the five transcendent beings who did not manage to escape in time.

Mutated wild boars, mutated wild cows, mutated lizards, mutated bees, mutated earthworms

There were too many of themsharp fangs, lethal poison spikes, long spear-like tails, and acid that corroded the flesh

Regardless of whether they were ordinary soldiers or transcendent beingsdespite having powerful weapons on them or possessed transcendent powersnone of them could stop these mutated creatures! They had become the epitome of death as they freely harvested human lives!

Even though they had powerful weapons, even though there were nearly a thousand soldiers accompanied by twenty-one transcendent beings in the military encampment, they could not continue this fight!

The fate of the entire military encampment was inevitably doomed!

"All troops, all troops retreat! Everyone, retreat!"

The sound of machine guns continued to roar. The remaining soldiers who were lucky enough to only suffer minor injuries fought as they attempted to retreat. They kept firing the remaining bullets from their machine guns to provide cover to the seriously injured and immobile soldiers.

However, the mutated creatures would not stop attacking just because they were retreating.

Zheng Guodong forced himself to step forward. He just absorbed the spiritual aura contained in the three spiritual rocks, and his strength had mostly recovered.

"All of you, retreat! I'll cover you!" He roared fiercely. Balls of fire exploded among the enemies, triggering waves after waves of screeches!

The mutated birds, insects, and wild beasts transferred all their wrath onto Zheng Guodong. They were like dark clouds that surrounded Zheng Guodong in the heavy rain and maniacally attacked him!

"Huff, you'll not see this stubborn old mule die here!" Zheng Guodong suddenly let out a roar. A scorching flame instantly ignited five meters away from him. At the same time, the flame transformed into a fiery storm!

All the mutated lifeforms that approached Zheng Guodong were instantly burnt to a crisp and turned as black as charcoal.

"It's not over yet! Fire Wall!"

A huge wall made of flames appeared out of nowhere, blocking the mutated birds in the air!

In just a few seconds of intense burning, thousands of mutated insects, birds, and beasts disintegrated into ashes!

Even the mutated creatures that ran amok knew that Zheng Guodong was not to be trifled with.

They wailed and tried to get away from the human who had transformed into a ball of flames, but they knew there was an even more terrifying presence behind them. They were stuck between a rock and a hard place!

"Captain Zheng! Retreat!" At this moment, a transcendent being rushed back and shouted at Zheng Guodong. This transcendent being who had just achieved a breakthrough to Grade-C possessed the ability to control fire elements. It was such a precious transcendent ability. If he died here, not only would it be a great loss to the Tang Kingdom, but the entire human race as well!

"Lil Zhao!" Zheng Guodong recollected his senses. He grabbed the last two spiritual rocks from the pocket at his chest and transferred the last bit of energy in his body to absorb the spiritual aura contained within those rocks. After ensuring that the flaming wall kept burning, he released his control over the fire wall!

Exhausted, he found himself supported by Lil Zhao who rushed over to him. In the pouring night, they disappeared into the small mountainous path.

The fire wall burned for dozens of seconds before it finally disappeared along with the flaming storm. Forced by the huge threat behind them, the mutated creatures continued to head to the outer regions.

The battle on a rainy night ended with humanity's defeat.

"This is far from enough"

As the initiator, Lin Ming's murderous intent grew even stronger as he stood by the Spirit Lake in the valley far away.