Chapter 248
Chapter 248
Seeing that only two insects remained around the Brood Nest, Qingqing tightened her grip on the massive cleaver in her hand.
“Charge!”
A squad immediately rushed toward the Brood Nest.
Two members drew the insects away while the other three surrounded the Brood Nest and launched their attack.
This was the absolute limit of what they could do, yet it achieved nothing.
The Brood Nest was tougher than anyone could imagine.
Bullets couldn’t even penetrate its defenses, let alone the rock-hard carapaces of the other two insects.
The Captain watched sparks scatter from every impact, then turned toward Qingqing’s position.
“Commander, fire the cannon!”
“Hurry! We can’t hold out much longer!”
Qingqing let out a long sigh. “Targeting Cannon. Target: Insectoid Brood Nest. Fire!”
A flame-tailed missile soared into the sky before plunging toward the Insectoid Brood Nest.
A thunderous explosion erupted, and flames transformed everything before them into a sea of fire.
After enduring the fierce bombardment, a breach was finally torn open in the Insectoid Brood Nest.
But it still wasn’t dead.
New insects continued pouring endlessly from its honeycomb-like openings.
Only one squad remained at Qingqing’s side. Its members exchanged glances, then charged straight toward the Brood Nest.
“Commander, fire!”
Qingqing stared at the fully calibrated Targeting Cannon before her, utterly numb.
Once she fired, every last member of the hundred-man unit she had brought here would be wiped out.
It wasn’t the insects that had killed them. Most had already died under friendly artillery fire.
As tears welled in Qingqing’s eyes, the final missile descended upon the ground.
The enormous Insectoid Brood Nest finally failed to withstand the bombardment and was reduced to ash.
At the same moment, countless insects across the battlefield abruptly froze.
Then they began racing toward sparsely populated areas.
Seeing several giant insects attempting to escape, Qingqing charged after them with her cleaver in hand.
But these three-meter-tall monsters were not creatures that Earth’s technology could kill.
After several futile attacks, Qingqing came up with the perfect solution.
Using the mobile terminal in her hand, she retargeted the Targeting Cannon onto herself, then lured the insects toward the cannon at full speed.
The missile wasn’t large, but its point-blank explosion would be more than enough to destroy them.
The screen faded to black. A moment later, another sequence unfolded like the closing montage of a movie.
With the death of the Brood Nest, countless insects attempted to retreat.
But countless soldiers stood in their way.
This time, the crisis that could have destroyed Earth was completely eradicated within the uninhabited region.
The truth of the 2012 Apocalypse remained known only to its many survivors.
The scene finally shifted to the foot of a volcano.
Cherry blossom petals drifted across the ground as a young man admired the beautiful scenery before him.
Suddenly, an incredibly tiny insect crawled along his wrist and burrowed into his body.
[2012: End!]
Qingqing couldn’t tear off her glasses fast enough. She immediately rushed over to Boss Zhang, who was lying on a recliner.
When old acquaintances meet, tears stream down both cheeks. (Lu Charun)
With tears still clinging to her face, Qingqing threw a punch at Zhang Bei.
Zhang Bei easily dodged the attack and arched an eyebrow.
Had this Little Dark Girl gone insane?
Qingqing said nothing. Instead, she unleashed every move she had learned in her life.
Unfortunately, if Qingqing were capable of landing a hit on someone with Boss Zhang’s combat prowess, he would never have survived this long!
A moment later, Qingqing was sent flying and crashed hard onto the ground.
“Are you crazy?”
Qingqing’s eyes practically spat fire. “Not one of them survived! What the hell were you thinking?”
Zhang Bei froze for a moment. “You really got them all wiped out?”
“Wasn’t that supposed to be the ending?”
Zhang Bei glanced at the tablet in his hand. “That guy who just came out over there managed to keep thirty people alive.”
The moment she heard that, Qingqing snatched the tablet out of Zhang Bei’s hands.
The backend System was complicated, but Qingqing had spent plenty of time hanging around the Amusement Park by now.
At the very least, she could understand what the data meant.
There were quite a few total-wipe endings like hers.
But there were also several runs where more than twenty people had survived.
Just as she began wondering whether there had been something wrong with her decisions, her gaze landed on a tag marked “Extremely Dangerous.”
She tapped it.
Sure enough, it was the exact scenario she had just experienced.
Qingqing’s eyes took on the exact same look as the doctor’s.
“Zhang the Thief!”
Zhang Bei cleared his throat and snatched the tablet back.
Careless. He had been too careless!
He had forgotten to change the value back!
Qingqing wiped her tears. “Does this scenario have a sequel?”
“No. That’s where it ends.”
Qingqing stared at him. “Then what the hell was that final scene supposed to mean?”
“It was a cliffhanger. Isn’t that what movies always do?”
Qingqing fell silent for a long time before finally forcing a sentence through gritted teeth.
“Keep doing rotten things like this and you’ll die young!”
“Not a chance. I’m in great shape!”
Qingqing drew a deep breath, turned around, and headed for the water park.
She was on the verge of a complete breakdown. The only way she could recover was by going to the water park and admiring a few more handsome guys’ abs.
Zhang Bei burst out laughing as he watched her walk away.
That girl could handle quite a lot. Naturally, he would have to include her in the Island attraction as well.
The Amusement Park’s booming popularity had led to two new residential developments being built nearby.
Never underestimate real estate developers.
They had exceptionally sharp noses for opportunity.
There was even a new commercial district under construction now!
A sizable number of people had already moved into the newly built developments.
The most conspicuous among them was the drug trafficker Boss Xiang.
At that moment, however, Boss Xiang had reached the most desperate point of his life.
Nangong Guo stood before him, pressing a pistol against his head.
“Sorry. I’m undercover.”
Boss Xiang showed no trace of panic. He calmly lit a cigarette.
“I know.”
Those three simple words left Nangong Guo completely dumbfounded.
“You knew?”
“I knew the moment you arrived. You graduated at the top of your class from the police academy.”
A chill rose in Nangong Guo’s heart when he heard that.
“Then why did you still put me in charge of the factory?”
Boss Xiang leaned back against the sofa. “If I hadn’t, how else could I have rooted out all that trash hiding across the country?”
Seeing Nangong Guo’s stunned expression, Boss Xiang began to explain.
“My father, my mother-my entire family died because of drugs. Back then, I had dreams too. I wanted revenge…”
Boss Xiang’s story was not a long one, but it was nothing short of extraordinary.
Nangong Guo’s eyes filled with shock.
Had this man been born in an age of war, he would have become a formidable warlord.
To eradicate the country’s drug trade at its roots, Boss Xiang gave up on attending the police academy and instead worked hard to get into a university specializing in chemical engineering.
He started with a tiny workshop and gradually spread his network throughout the entire country.
Of the enormous amount of product his operation manufactured each day, most was even sold overseas.