A fireball exploded in mid-air, the resulting shockwave nearly overturning the bus! Shattered missile fragments were ejected by the violent explosion, creating a shower of metallic debris in the air!
The recruits inside the bus covered their ears tightly, as the close-range explosion nearly ruptured their eardrums. As the bus shook violently, luggage placed on the roof fell down, leaving the entire bus in chaos.
Unfortunately for Lin Xi Chen, she was sitting by the window closest to the explosion, causing shards of shattered glass to fly straight at her when she turned around to cover it for Shen Qingzhu!
At this moment, Lin Qiye suddenly opened his eyes wide!
The next moment, an extreme darkness erupted from him, rapidly engulfing the entire bus, and then continued to spread, quickly forming a hemisphere around the bus.
Swish, swish, swish—!!
Countless missile fragments were ejected, traveling at speeds comparable to bullets, embedding themselves in the darkness of the night and freezing in mid-air the instant they entered the Darkest Ruins.
Even if some managed to escape, their speed was reduced to a minimum by Lin Qiye, and they were embedded in the metal protective layer of the car roof like blades, with none actually piercing into the car.
Once all the missile debris was blocked, Lin Qiye finally released the Dark God Ruins, kneeling on the ground, panting heavily, his back already soaked with cold sweat.
No one knows what he went through in those brief few seconds.
After the missile explodes in mid-air, the fragments can reach speeds of over 200 meters per second due to the violent propulsion generated by the explosion. In other words, it takes at most two seconds from the moment the fragments explode to the moment they pierce the bodies of the new recruits inside the bus.
In those two seconds, Lin Qiye's thoughts raced like lightning. He first realized the possibility of a fragment attack, then disregarded everything and opened his eyes at full speed towards the Dark God Ruins. In the end, he had less than a second left.
When Lin Qiye first unleashed the Dark God Ruins, it took him a full five seconds to cover an area of ten meters in radius. If Lin Qiye hadn't just advanced to the "Pool" realm half a minute earlier, he definitely wouldn't have had time.
Even if he managed to open the Darkest Ruins before the debris arrived, the missile fragments were incredibly fast! From entering the Darkest Ruins to piercing the recruit's body, it would only take them a maximum of 0.25 seconds. In addition, there were so many of them that intercepting them all would still be an impossible task!
Fortunately, once Lin Qiye entered the "Pool" realm, the range of his mental perception was expanded to a distance of 100 meters!
Hundreds of meters away, in the mere 0.5 seconds between the missile fragments just touching the boundary of Lin Qiye's mental perception and their contact with the bus, Lin Qiye relied on the terrifying speed of his brain and his abnormal dynamic vision to predict their trajectory in advance, thus imprisoning them all within the Darkest Ruins!
The missile exploded, opening up to the Dark God Ruins, predicting the trajectory of each fragment, and capturing them all!
This is what Lin Qiye experienced in those two seconds.
In those two seconds, Lin Qiye saved the lives of nearly fifty new recruits on the bus.
For others, those two seconds would be just a blink of an eye, but for Lin Qiye, it felt like an eternity.
"What happened? What just occurred?"
"Yeah, I felt a sudden darkness before my eyes, and then..."
"Scrap! Missile fragments are falling everywhere!"
"What happened? If these fragments explode out, the car's metal body definitely won't be able to stop them!"
"Did we just brush with death?
"..."
The vast majority of people didn't know what had happened, except for four people.
The people closest to Lin Qiye were Baili Pangpang, Cao Yuan, with Lin Xi Chen who can see everything clearly and Instructor Hong, who was sitting at the very front!
Just as everyone on the bus was filled with doubt and uncertainty, Lin Qiye, who was severely exhausted, turned pale and felt dizzy, as if everything in front of him was slowly darkening...
"Qiye, Qiye! Lin Qiye!"
Instructor Hong ran up to Lin Qiye and spoke anxiously. Lin Qiye's consciousness sank, and he fainted.
"Qiye—!" Lin Xi Chen's eyes widened, and she leaned foward and going to help him, yet somehow, she could not speak. Her hand trembled as she pressed it against her neck, where a shard of glass had sliced into her neck.
"You!? Lin Xi Chen!" Just as Shen Qingzhu regained his composure, he saw Lin Xi Chen clutching her neck to stem the bleeding; panicked, he immediately took off his jacket and pressed it against her neck. He gripped her arm forcefully when he saw Lin Xi Chen looking dazed, her face deathly pale from blood loss. "Stay with me...! Focus here you dumb girl!"
"Instructor Hong! Fatal injured!"
"Guys, take the medic kit for her fast!!"
"Keep her awake! Don't let her sleep!!"
So much blood loss...
It's so cold...
Lin Xi Chen knew she would die if she closed her eyes, yet an overwhelming drowsiness was making her eyelids heavy. Perhaps she wouldn't die after all...?
In her daze, she saw Shen Qingzhu frowning as if to scold her while he said something. She vaguely waved her hand to signal that she was fine and managed to force a soft smile. "Qingzhu.... I'm fine.... I just need to rest a bit..."
Her eyelids felt so heavy that she just wanted to close her eyes and sleep...
...
Training camp.
A thin, pale gold film covered half of the training camp, saving the lives of all the instructors and support staff inside, and the buildings were not damaged in the slightest. However, the other half of the training camp was completely engulfed in flames!
Wearing a military uniform, Yuan Gang stood before the sea of fire. The pale gold on his body slowly faded, and his angry eyes reflected the towering flames before him!
His fists clenched tighter and tighter.
"Sir!" An instructor rushed over from a distance, binoculars in hand. "One missile landed on the road leading out of camp!"
"What?" Yuan Gang turned his head sharply. "How are the new recruits?"
"It seems a member of Squad 136 shot and destroyed the missile. Two of the missiles were diverted in a different direction and exploded shortly thereafter. There was also a black flash, but in the end, one of the buses windows shattered, and..."
"Lin Xi Chen was in critical condition and had lost a significant amount of blood... Fortunately, they were able to administer first aid in time....."
Yuan Gang's body tense for a while with a frowned on his face, the anger in his eyes grew even stronger!
"The recruits had barely left the training camp when missiles were launched..."
"There really is a traitor among us!!"
Yuan Gang took a sudden step forward, stomping heavily on the fire. A brilliant golden light burst forth, and in the next moment, the flames in half of the training camp were extinguished!
Amidst the ruins, Yuan Gang straightened his military cap, his gaze fixed on the sky above, deep and unfathomable.
"But I don't understand... how did they manage to maneuver the missiles?"
...
It is hundreds of kilometers away from the training camp.
Missile launch site No. 39.
The piercing alarm echoed throughout the base, and the red warning lights flickered on and off. This extremely secretive missile launch site had fallen at some unknown time.
"Missile Launch Site No. 39, please respond immediately!"
"This is headquarters, Missile Launch Site No. 39. Report your situation immediately!"
"Calling Missile Launch Site No. 39! Calling Missile Launch Site No. 39!"
"Please respond if you hear me!"
"..."
In the vast control room, only intermittent calls could be heard. Under the flickering lights, there were pools of scarlet blood and broken stone statues wailing in agony.
In the very center of the control panel, a seductive woman sat casually, a bloodstained, hiltless blade in her hand, tossing it up and catching it, tossing it up and catching it again…
She looked up at the satellite monitoring screen in front of her, a strange smile curving her lips.
"They actually released the new recruits from the training camp... These people are smarter than I thought."
"Those idiots have been making too much noise in Cangnan. They must have leaked the information and noticed something." Another deep male voice came from the phone.
"But it doesn't matter, this makes things even more interesting..."
She grinned, her long, scarlet tongue darting out like a snake, and licked her lips.
"In that case, I'll go to Cangnan myself and meet that guy... Hehe, I heard his sister is quite a beauty"
She stood up, a morbid excitement in her eyes, and casually smashed a hunched male statue next to her. The fragments of flesh and blood scattered on the ground with the stone chips, a nauseating sight.
On the floor of the huge control room, a ferocious snake eye was drawn with a large amount of bright red blood!