The Shang People all hid behind the male soldiers as soon as they heard the gunfire, using them as shields.
The woman grew anxious and sprayed a burst of submachine gun fire, killing many of the Shang People.
However, some Shang People were quick to hide, using the male soldiers in front of them as shields, which made the woman hesitant to continue firing.
Her gunmanship is lacking…
Xia Chujian shook her head inwardly, deciding to go down and help the female soldier.
She could tell that this person was here to rescue her comrades…
Xia Chujian immediately revealed herself in mid-air, the Judicator No. 7 Sniper Rifle mounted on her mechanical arm. She descended directly from the sky, firing into the Shang People as she did so.
Her gunmanship was far superior to the rescuing female soldier.
No matter how the Shang People used the male soldiers as shields, Xia Chujian's bullets could miraculously bypass them, striking the Shang People's foreheads or chests directly.
One bullet took down at least one Shang Person, and sometimes, one bullet took down two, if they were standing close together.
By the time she landed on the ground, standing next to the female soldier, she had already killed more than half of the Shang People.
Seeing that the situation was bad, the remaining Shang People immediately abandoned the dying male soldiers and turned to run into the thatched huts.
Xia Chujian directly deployed a fully intelligent submachine gun, firing at full speed at the Shang People scattering across the open ground.
Her gunmanship was unparalleled in its precision. Even if the Shang People used the male soldiers as shields, she could directly hit the Shang People without harming any of the "hostages."
Xia Chujian only needed three minutes to kill all the Shang People here.
Seven Lù counted for her, displaying the number "1540" on her visor screen.
This was the number of Shang People she had killed this time, not including the Shang People Team she had eliminated earlier.
The woman who had come to rescue them was startled when she saw her, instinctively raising her gun in alarm, before realizing that the Mecha Warrior before her was a friend, not a foe.
She immediately said with delight, "You're also from our First Interstellar Fleet?! What's your name?"
Xia Chujian still used the male electronic synthesized voice, saying blandly, "Just passing by."
Her gaze turned to the male soldiers collapsed on the ground.
Like the female soldiers in the deep pits before, these male soldiers had also been exposed to nuclear radiation, their Gene chains severely damaged, and were basically at their last gasp.
The woman rushed forward at this moment, grabbing the male soldier at the front and anxiously asking, "Where are Sister Zhang and the others? Where's Little Hui? Where did they go?!"
"I've searched the entire tribal village, and I haven't seen them!"
The male soldier made several heavy, rattling sounds in his throat, using all his strength to say, "They… they were dragged away… don't know… don't know where…"
The woman cried out, "What's going on?! How did you get separated from the Team?! I noticed you didn't board the Starship, so I came down to find you right away!"
"I've been looking for you for four weeks! A whole four weeks!"
"Tell me, what exactly happened?!"
Xia Chujian watched her silently, and after a while, said, "I might know where the people you're looking for are."
The woman turned her head to look at her, choking back sobs as she said, "Which fleet are you from? Did you also come back to save them?"
Xia Chujian said, "Unfortunately, I didn't come to save them. I'm here to carry out a special military mission."
The male soldier collapsed on the ground coughed violently, looking in Xia Chujian's direction, and said sharply, "Quick… leave… don't… don't carry out… the mission!"
He reached out his hand towards Xia Chujian, as if he had something to say.
Xia Chujian hurried over, but as soon as she took a step, the man's outstretched arm fell down.
His head tilted to the side, black blood flowing from his facial features, and he died just like that.
Looking at all the male soldiers on the ground, they had all died just like him.
The woman was startled, quickly standing up, at a loss as she said, "What's going on? What's going on?!"
On Xia Chujian's visor screen, Seven Lù was typing.
[Seven Lù]: Master, there's a sudden increase in deadly toxins in the air. The Shang People are releasing poison.
Xia Chujian said directly, "Location."
Seven Lù put a coordinate location on her visor display.
Xia Chujian's eyes flickered slightly. That coordinate location had already been entered into her Mecha's weapon system by Seven Lù.
She raised her mechanical arm, which was equipped with a Flame Thrower, and suddenly sprayed a burst of incandescent flame in one direction! "Ah—!"
Where the flames hit, a lush cluster of ferns turned to ashes.
A Shang People, who was hiding behind the plants and quietly releasing poison, was also burned to a crisp.
His source of poison was also burned away, but the toxins were still in the air.
Xia Chujian frowned and looked at the woman, saying, "Are you okay? These people have all been poisoned to death."
The woman shook her head and said, "I'm fine. I'm a Rank B Gene Evolver. Ordinary toxins don't work on me."
Xia Chujian understood and didn't worry about her.
A Rank B Gene Evolver could basically walk sideways on this Senze Star.
But those female and male soldiers who were ordinary people had all died.
Two thousand people...
Of course, even without those airborne toxins, these people wouldn't have survived.
The airborne toxins only accelerated the deaths of the male soldiers.
She didn't even have time to say a few more words to them.
Xia Chujian sighed and said, "Do you still want to look for those female soldiers?"
The woman suddenly looked up, looked at the three-meter-tall Mecha Warrior, and said, "Do you really know where they are?! Take me there quickly! Hopefully, it's not too late!"
Xia Chujian: "..."
Too late, it's too late...
She glanced at the female soldier and said, "Those female Starry Sky Marines are ten li from here. Do you... have transportation?"
The female soldier nodded: "I have a Small Combat Aircraft over there. You tell me the location, and I'll go find you."
Xia Chujian had the coordinates, Seven Lù told her.
But she didn't know how to tell the woman in front of her the location of the deep pit, so she said, "Then I'll fly in front, and you can follow me."
The speed of a Small Combat Aircraft was actually not as fast as her Mecha's full acceleration speed.
But if she used the regular Mecha speed, it would be fine.
The woman nodded: "I'll follow you right away."
Her speed was indeed not slow.
Xia Chujian had not been back at the deep pit for long when a black Combat Aircraft silently flew over.
The Flying Vehicle stopped in mid-air.
The hatch opened, and the woman jumped straight out of the hatch.
For a Rank B Gene Evolver, this height was a piece of cake.
She came to Xia Chujian and looked at the deep pit she was facing.
"Sister Zhang! Little Hui!" The woman let out a wail and jumped straight down.
Xia Chujian followed and jumped down.
At the bottom of the deep pit, the female Starry Sky Marines were still the same as before.
It seemed that death had stopped the continued deterioration of their body's gene chains.
Their appearance was preserved at the moment of their death.
The woman cried uncontrollably.
Xia Chujian sighed and said, "They were very brave, they didn't give in. They committed suicide with the toxins of the Mutated Jellyfish after they ran out of ammunition and food."
The woman's whole body was trembling.
She covered her face, kneeling before the dead female marines in the deep pit, too grief-stricken to speak.
Xia Chujian continued, "I plan to take them home."
The woman wiped away her tears, stood up, and said, "Let me do it. I'll take them home."
As she spoke, she took out a small flame stick and shook it.
A cluster of blue-white flames appeared at the tip of the flame stick.
Xia Chujian grabbed her arm in surprise and said, "What are you going to do?"
The woman was also surprised and said, "Cremation, of course. How else would I take them home?"
Xia Chujian said, "No need, I have body bags. I'll have two thousand body bags sent over."
The woman understood, "You have an Interstellar Airship?"
At least an Interstellar Airship would be needed to take all these bodies back.
Xia Chujian said, "I'm here on a special military mission, of course I have an Airship."
The woman quickly said, "Can you take me back with you? I stayed behind on my own to search for my comrades, and I only have a Small Combat Aircraft."
This kind of Flying Vehicle couldn't take her across the vast Space to fly near the Wormhole.
Xia Chujian said, "No problem. But what's your name? What's your position in the First Interstellar Fleet?"
The woman said gratefully, "My name is Qiu Zijun, and I'm a Second Lieutenant pilot in the First Interstellar Fleet. I fly a Ghost-Class Starry Sky Fighter."
Xia Chujian nodded and said, "Then you're not bad, willing to stay behind for those ordinary Starry Sky Marines, as a Gene Evolver."
Qiu Zijun smiled wryly and said, "Unfortunately, you can't argue with the higher-ups, so let's not talk about it."
Xia Chujian looked at her and said, "...Do you know they were abandoned as pawns?"
Qiu Zijun's expression was a little unpleasant, and she said in a low voice, "I don't know what happened, but no matter what they mean, I'm against it, so I stayed behind to find them."
Xia Chujian was curious, "You really searched for four weeks? Where were you before?"
Qiu Zijun continued to smile wryly, "I've been in the Southern Hemisphere. Our mission has always been in the Southern Hemisphere, I don't know how they were taken to the Northern Hemisphere."
Xia Chujian thought, it's a pity that these male and female marines are all dead, otherwise she could have learned more information.
As for the Shang People, there are more than 100,000 Shang People here, and she has only killed more than 1,700.
There are still many Shang People she can question.
She's not in a hurry.
Xia Chujian lowered her head and silently sent a message to Mao Yonggui, who was guarding the Interstellar Airship.
She asked her to prepare two thousand body bags, and then fly the Interstellar Airship over here.
Mao Yonggui was shocked when she received the message, and hurriedly had two thousand compressed body bags prepared, while inputting new coordinate information into the Starship Airship's Mechanical Intelligence.
The Airship automatically took off, its power activated, and quickly arrived near the deep pit where Xia Chujian was.
Mao Yonggui personally led hundreds of Starry Sky Marines in Mecha down.
They all saluted Xia Chujian.
Xia Chujian said, "You brought the body bags, right? Put these people into body bags one by one and put them in the Airship's cold storage."
This was also standard equipment for Interstellar Airships.
It had a huge cold storage in the bottom Hold, specifically for this purpose.
Mao Yonggui and the Starry Sky Marines were all shocked when they first saw this scene.
But Xia Chujian didn't say anything, and they didn't ask, silently following orders and working.
Soon, the female marines' corpses in the deep pit were all put into body bags and sent to the Interstellar Airship's cold storage.
Then Xia Chujian took them to the location of the tribe twenty miles away.
Xia Chujian said, "There are more than a thousand male marines here, send them to the cold storage as well."
"From now on, we'll stay here and use this place as a temporary base."
After issuing her orders, Xia Chujian, along with Mao Yonggui and Qiu Zijun, searched the tribe for the identity tags of the sacrificed soldiers.
But when they finally found them, the identity tags were in a thatched hut that had been burned to ashes, all melted into a lump.
This is the second update. There will be a new update at 0:05 tonight.
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