Xia Chujian had no idea that she had just killed the last descendant of the so-called "Eternal Lineage" of the Da Zhao Shi royal family.
Now, these two hundred-plus Shang People were all killed by her here.
But Xia Chujian felt no joy in victory.
How could such despicable creatures... turn people into this state?!
Although these women hadn't been violated, their bodies were riddled with holes from nuclear radiation.
Xia Chujian took a deep breath.
Seven Lù's muffled voice echoed in her ear: "Master, the bodies of these women in the pit have been destroyed by high levels of radiation... They won't live for more than a few days..."
"The seven women above the pit are also in terrible condition, and can only live for a month at most."
"So none of them can bear children for these Shang People."
Xia Chujian didn't respond, but thought to herself, wasn't that normal? With such high levels of radiation here, unless it was a mutated race like the Shang People who had adapted to the environment, or Gene Evolvers, ordinary people coming here without protective measures would only find death! But hearing what the Da Zhao Shi said about trading their own soldiers, the level of malice still exceeded Xia Chujian's bottom line.
"Damn it! If I find out which bastard gave the order, I'll kill them!" Xia Chujian couldn't help but curse.
Who the hell would be willing to die for such people! And the women on the pit, who had been silent and despondent, hearing Xia Chujian's words, struggled to crawl to her feet.
The woman closest to Xia Chujian looked up at her with hope, and said, "Are you also from the Beichen Empire Interstellar Fleet?"
Xia Chujian restrained her hostility and said cautiously, "I am a First Lieutenant pilot from the Fourth Interstellar Fleet."
The woman looked at her expectantly, and pressed, "...Proof?"
Xia Chujian silently took out her identity tag and showed it to them.
Of course, she hid the side with her name and specific unit number, showing them the back.
This was something every member of the Interstellar Fleet had, to ensure their identity could be recognized after they sacrificed themselves.
Tears welled up in the woman's eyes.
She sobbed, "We have these tags too, but they were taken away by those Shang People as trophies."
She looked at Xia Chujian and pleaded, "When you leave, can you help us take our tags back? We won't be going back..."
Xia Chujian knew they didn't have many days to live, but still didn't want to give up, saying, "My Airship is over there, I can take you back."
The woman shook her head sadly, saying, "No, we all have severe Genetic Disease, you can't see it... Our bodies are already failing..."
"We've held on until now just to wait for someone to know our grievances and seek justice for us!"
Xia Chujian was silent.
She knew these people were telling the truth.
Seven Lù had already quietly told Xia Chujian the scanned health data.
The Gene Chain Base of these women had deteriorated on a large scale, and the functions of their entire bodies could not operate normally.
If Xia Chujian and the others had arrived a week later, these women would have died silently, and their bodies would have been unrecognizable.
Even if their bodies were later discovered, people would only think they were Shang People.
Xia Chujian was also a decisive person.
She stopped being sentimental and said, "Which Interstellar Fleet are you from? What are your grievances?"
The male Shang Person said they were "exchanged," but that was just his side of the story. Xia Chujian wanted to hear what these women had to say.
The woman said, "We are Starry Sky Marines from the First Interstellar Fleet. Four weeks ago, we came here with a team of high-level Gene Evolvers to carry out a Special Military Operation."
"There were a total of two thousand Starry Sky Marines, five hundred female soldiers, and fifteen hundred male soldiers."
Xia Chujian frowned and said, "So they took the male soldiers back and left the female soldiers to be exchanged?"
The woman said angrily, "...Would they be so kind?!"
"All two thousand Starry Sky Marines were left behind!"
"They sent us down from the Airship wearing Military Exoskeletons to carry out the mission, and we were ambushed not long after."
"These Shang People have a kind of poisonous stinger that paralyzes the whole body when it hits, making it impossible to move."
"We don't have mecha, only Military Exoskeletons, plus the nuclear radiation here is so severe, our combat power is severely damaged, and it's easy to get caught."
"Then we wake up in this pit."
"Those beasts threw us here, saying they would wait thirty days before taking away the strongest."
"The male soldiers were taken to another place."
"We, both male and female soldiers, are breeding stock for them to improve their race!"
"If it weren't for the hero's arrival, we would have perished with them today!"
The already weakened woman struggled to lie on the ground, making a gesture of kneeling to Xia Chujian, and said, "This hero, we know where the Longevity Flying Fish's nest is."
"If the hero can promise to avenge us, I will tell you the coordinates!"
Xia Chujian said calmly, "I will avenge you, you don't need to tell me where the Longevity Flying Fish's nest is."
She didn't want to trade for it with this.
The woman looked at her deeply, then opened her left hand in front of her.
On her open left hand, Xia Chujian saw a line of numbers that she didn't know how they were tattooed on.
The woman said, "This is the coordinate location."
"The one who exchanged our two thousand Starry Sky Marines for the Longevity Flying Fish is Major Rong Zhongruo, the captain of the First Interstellar Fleet Task Force!"
"Hero, please remember your words!"
"We, five hundred female marines of the First Interstellar Fleet, use our blood and lives to consecrate your banner!"
"Sisters! We can leave in peace!"
As she spoke, they suddenly rolled back into the pit one by one.
All seven of them rolled down, startling Xia Chujian.
No matter how powerful she was, she was only one person, without the three heads and six arms of the Shang People, unable to stop them.
She hurriedly activated the Shao Siming Mecha and flew into the pit as well.
In a hurry, she only managed to grab the woman who seemed to be in slightly better condition.
The other female soldiers were already dead.
Their faces were covered in black blood, but they all looked relieved.
The female soldier she grabbed was also covered in black blood.
Xia Chujian's gaze slowly moved to her hand.
There, in the palm of her right hand, she had crushed a small Mutated Jellyfish.
The toxin of the Mutated Jellyfish poisoned her instantly.
And the female soldiers in those pits all had a small Mutated Jellyfish in their hands.
Seven Lù's childish voice was a bit muffled, saying, "... They are small jellyfish born from Mutated Jellyfish that the Shang People captured to use as traps. They floated into the pit wanting to feed on them, but they were controlled by them."
So they weren't completely incapacitated.
They didn't give up in this desperate situation, waiting until someone came...
Xia Chujian said, "So they were really waiting, waiting for someone to know their grievances."
Living such a humiliating and painful life, just to wait for an almost impossible miracle! Xia Chujian took a deep breath and looked up at the sky, so that tears wouldn't fall.
...
After calming down, Xia Chujian lowered her eyes to look at the female soldiers who died in the pit.
"I am First Lieutenant Xia Chujian of the Fourth Interstellar Fleet, I will take you home." Xia Chujian said in a hoarse voice, giving them a military salute.
Xia Chujian's mood was also heavy.
Her chest churned with uncontrollable anger, wishing she could kill all those Shang People.
Just then, she suddenly heard a huge bang not far away.
Looking up, it was the direction of the Shang People tribes that Seven Lù had mentioned before.
Xia Chujian narrowed her eyes: "Let's go take a look!"
She flew towards the direction where thick smoke was billowing.
Seven Lù typed on her eyepiece display.
[Seven Lù]: That direction is towards the Shang People tribes. There's a smell of sulfur and fire, so there should have been an explosion.
Xia Chujian's heart sank.
Because it was an explosion, there must be gunpowder.
But how could the primitive tribes of the Shang People, a mutated race, have gunpowder?
The distance of twenty lǐ was instantly covered for Xia Chujian, who was wearing a Mecha.
When she arrived at the place where the flames were raging, she saw a small village made up of thatched huts.
The houses in this small village were not large, but there were many of them, arranged irregularly on this rare open space.
At this time, countless Shang People were running towards the largest thatched hut in the middle of this open space.
Xia Chujian put the Shao Siming Mecha into stealth mode and followed.
She was high in the sky, and the Shang People below were busy running for their lives, and no one had time to look at the sky.
Of course, even if they looked at the sky, Xia Chujian was not afraid.
Not to mention that she was in stealth mode now, even if she wasn't, she was fully armed, so why would she be afraid of these mutated races who used stone tools? But when she flew over the largest thatched hut, she found that behind the thatched hut, there was also an open space.
Many people were lying on the open space in a mess, normal men, still wearing the Combat Suits of the Beichen Empire Starry Sky Marines.
Xia Chujian immediately understood that these were the 1,500 male marines that the female soldiers had mentioned...
At this time, like those female soldiers, they were paralyzed on the ground like soft-bodied animals, looking at the sky blankly.
And after those Shang People ran in, they picked up the male soldiers lying on the ground one by one and dragged them towards the thatched hut.
They supported them one by one, standing at the entrance of the thatched hut, seemingly very confident.
Xia Chujian frowned.
What were these Shang People trying to do?
And in this small tribal village, the sound of explosions was increasing, seemingly starting from the grass sheds on the edge of the tribe, and the fires were burning one after another.
At the other end of this tribal village, a person wearing only desert camouflage Combat Suit walked over.
A rocket launcher was on left shoulder, a semi-automatic Submachine Gun in right hand, and circles of bullet belts were wrapped around body.
Xia Chujian inexplicably felt that this shape of carrying a rocket launcher, holding a semi-automatic Submachine Gun, and wrapping bullet belts around body was a bit cool.
When that person got closer step by step, Xia Chujian could see that it was a woman.
She was tall, with fair skin, short black hair, and a very delicate appearance.
She didn't even wear a helmet, and was exposed to this environment with extremely high radiation.
Seven Lù said quietly: "Master, this is the Combat Suit of the First Interstellar Fleet..."
Xia Chujian said: "This person is not wearing a Mecha, and dares to show her face in this environment, she must be a Gene Evolver."
Seven Lù had said that only Gene Evolvers were not afraid of the high-dose nuclear radiation environment here.
She watched the woman walk over step by step, confronting the Shang People who were holding the male soldiers.
The woman raised her Submachine Gun and said coldly to the Shang People: "Release them! I'll count to three! If you don't release them, wait to die!"
Then she fired a burst into the sky!
Xia Chujian quickly dodged, avoiding being "friendly fire" by the female soldier...
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