Ch 148: Surprise Attack

At this time, Li Yu was walking at the front of the team, continuing forward on a large flat expanse of ground.

Along the way, they encountered more and more Central State patrol soldiers.

These soldiers all had serious expressions, each holding a peculiar tool resembling a circle, appearing to be some kind of advanced detection device.

They seemed to be searching for something, ignoring the migrating crowd around them.

In this way, Li Yu’s team walked smoothly for most of the day.

While continuing forward, Xiao Hei, carrying Li Yu, suddenly stopped.

“What’s wrong?”

Fu Xiyao, sitting on Xiao Hei’s back, curiously reached out and touched Xiao Hei.

However, Xiao Hei was unusually restless at this moment. Its originally soft ears kept turning to the sides, as if it were catching subtle sounds in the air.

Its nose also expanded particularly large, sniffing the surrounding smells forcefully.

Its limbs were also constantly tapping the ground due to tension, continuously splashing water.

Li Yu immediately raised his crossbow. He immediately recognized this as Xiao Hei’s reaction when encountering danger.

Ma Yuanbai’s hair stood on end, his face changing drastically.

“No good! There’s danger!”

Almost at the same time, all the Awakeners in the team sensed the danger.

This feeling was like needles pricking their backs.

Not only the Awakeners in the team, but even other Awakeners not far away also felt a strong sense of crisis at this moment.

For a moment, everyone unconsciously stopped.

In everyone’s ears, there was only the sound of the rainwater.

All the Awakeners in the entire zone fell into a deathly silence, constantly observing their surroundings with vigilance.

Fu Xiyao instantly realized that the situation was bad and, without hesitation, fully activated her Psionic Ability, expanding her perception range to its maximum.

“Soon, above!” she hurriedly shouted to Li Yu.

Hearing Fu Xiyao’s shout, everyone looked up to the sky.

In an instant, everyone’s face turned pale, because they saw a missile trailing flames, descending at an astonishing speed, and its target was clearly Li Yu’s location.

Everyone within this range changed their expressions, panicked and trying to escape.

But they were too close to Li Yu; they almost had no time to dodge.

“Damn it! The Eternal Fire Alliance actually wants to kill me too.”

The Captain following behind Li Yu was filled with anger, his expression extremely unsightly, and he couldn’t help but curse.

Clearly, the Eternal Fire Alliance had no intention of keeping its promise, but rather intended to kill him and Li Yu together.

“Damn it! Eternal Fire Alliance, I’m not done with you!”

The Squad Captain roared while performing a swift roll to the ground, hugging his head tightly. At this moment, whether he could survive depended on destiny.

Seeing the missile whistling down with the aura of destruction, Li Yu unhesitatingly quickly raised his crossbow, aiming at the sky and firing a single arrow.

The Armor-Piercing Arrow instantly collided with the missile.

“Boom!”

A deafening explosion resounded through the sky, flames soaring into the sky, illuminating the entire zone.

The fast-approaching missile was shot down by one arrow, countless fragments flying everywhere, scattering like flowers falling from the sky.

Flames and shockwaves raged in the air, forming a strong storm.

Ordinary people directly below the explosion were even blown to the ground by the blast wave, some thrown several meters away, falling heavily to the ground, their ears echoing with the residual sound of the explosion.

“Damn it, this power is too great!”

Even the usually calm Ma Yuanbai couldn’t help but curse, wondering what kind of deep hatred there was to use such a powerful weapon.

“It’s not over!” Li Yu shouted, but his voice was almost drowned out by the explosion.

Before the words fell, a metal rain began to fall from the sky.

After the missile exploded, countless fragmentation bombs rapidly fell from the air, violently impacting the ground, emitting a series of explosions.

In an instant, the ground below was blown to pieces, one pit after another appearing, flames and rainwater splashing, the scene unusually chaotic.

“Find cover!”

Ma Yuanbai loudly commanded the team, his voice trembling slightly.

Li Yu looked up; the falling fragmentation bombs were too numerous; even he couldn’t stop them all.

Fortunately, however, he intercepted early; the missile did not explode directly above Li Yu and his group, and only a few fragments were splashing toward their direction.

Seeing this situation, Li Yu instantly switched to his bow and arrow, quickly taking five arrows from his quiver and aiming at the approaching fragments.

“Volley!”

The bowstring snapped, five arrows shooting out like lightning, accurately intercepting several fragments flying in this direction.

Under Li Yu’s precise calculation, the five arrows, after successfully intercepting the first fragment, directly pierced through several more fragmentation bombs.

But even so, there were still some that slipped through; a fragmentation bomb successfully landed on the edge of Li Yu’s team.

“Boom—”

The nearby vagrants did not have time to react before they were instantly blown to the ground by the intense explosion.

The fragments in the sky were like dense and lethal raindrops, scattering everywhere in this area.

The intermittent explosions continued to ring out nearby, the whole area as terrifying and horrifying as the end of the world.

It was even more tragic directly below the missile, some migrating teams suddenly suffering unwarranted disaster without warning; they did not even have a chance to resist before being completely devoured by countless fragmentation bombs.

All kinds of screams came from nearby. The teams in the Safe Zone raised their firearms and continuously fired into the sky, trying to block the falling fragments, but they did not have the same accuracy as Li Yu and were not effective at all.

Only some defensive Awakeners survived; most people could not withstand the fragmentation bombs falling beside them.

In the end, except for Li Yu’s team, which only suffered minor casualties, the crowd in the surrounding area was almost completely wiped out.

Looking around, bomb craters were everywhere. Beside the pitted craters, vagrants with missing arms and legs screamed, blood staining the rainwater, the scene too horrible to bear.

“Look, there are no bombs over there!”

Someone pointed in Li Yu’s direction.

“Run that way!”

Some of the nearby people had witnessed Li Yu’s strength. They were like grabbing a lifeline, all running frantically towards him.

They knew that only by being close to Li Yu’s team would they have a chance of not being killed by the fragments.

Seeing the sudden missile attack, the surviving Central State soldiers in this area immediately reported.

“Enemy attack! It’s the Eternal Fire Alliance’s cluster bombs!”