With machine gun fire strafing from the airship above, the charging White Plagues couldn't be stopped on the road, so they poured into the Rift in endless waves.
Many of these White Plagues were suicide bombers, their bellies packed with explosives. Chen Chuan and Chen Bitong spotted some of them charging too far ahead and picked them off from a distance with thrown stones.
Others, however, detonated their explosives the moment they saw the two men, unleashing a constant stream of massive explosions. The resulting shockwaves ravaged the area one after another.
The tide-like assault lasted for a full half hour. It only stopped, perhaps because the army had run out of White Plagues, or because they believed their targets had already retreated.
But the whirring of propeller blades from above was still clearly audible, a sign that the Airship hadn't left and was still hovering in place.
