Chapter 14: Predatory Birds
  Huge birds were watching them, as if watching the food on the plate.
  Moraka felt that his blood became stagnant. He dared not move but his legs and feet had begun to tremble.
  This didn’t stop the action of the bird in front of him. It lowered its head and pecked the body of the ground worm with its beak.
  The ground worm twisted in revolt immediately, twisting into a ball.
  “Dragon God, my Dragon God!” Moraga shouted, he hurriedly lay on the ground worm and hugged the folded skin of it.
  However, the bird didn’t care about the human’s reaction. It found the worm’s weakness and took the link creature into its mouth.
  The worms are still struggling.
  In the midair, Moraka finally couldn’t catch his “Dragon God” and was thrown into the air by a bump.
  The teenage shaman without support begins to fall freely.
  During this period, he struggled in the air, trying to grab something but the only thing that passed through his fingertips was the raging sand.
  “Crack——”
  There was a loud noise from the side of the jeep, and he fell to the ground completely, making the sound of a broken spine.
  Moraka stopped moving.
  He was lying on his back, his eyes still looking at the sky.
  In the pupils, the birds raised their heads and opened their huge beaks, they swallowed the earth dragon whole.
  An unwilling “hoho” sound came out of his throat.
  The birds didn’t hear it, it only chirps high. The birds began to fly to a place not far away where there are more dragons.
  The wind and sand passed by, it was terrifyingly vast.
  At the end of his consciousness, he only heard the staggering steps on the sand. The white mouse came to him and looked at him coldly.
  “Dragon…Dragon God.” He tried his best to open his mouth.
  Lin Xi didn’t answer, he looked down at Moraka’s distorted body and the brains overflowing under his head.
  “White mouse, why… why isn’t you the one who is going to die?” Moraka asked with his mouth open again.
  Lin Xi twitched the corners of his mouth.
  Moraka said “Ho ho” again and suddenly became quiet.
  Lin Xi saw tears overflowing from his eyes but his pupils had not moved.
  In the end, the strong wind blew and the tears were quickly dispersed in this dim world.
  Lin Xi’s tattered Ge clothes were also fluttering in the wind. He slowly leaned over and took out the hidden dagger from his tied boots.
  There were still gunshots resisting in the distance. He tightly pressed his aching abdomen with his hands and slowly walked forward step by step with a dagger in hand.
  The appearance of the ground worms turned the situation of the war between the sand bandits and the soldiers. Human attacks could not suppress the regeneration speed of the ground worms, making the number of alien species on the field more and more difficult.
  Mu Yechen made a decisive decision and asked Gu Yang to fetch it and burn the ground worms.
  This method finally worked and the raging flames burned the torsos of the two splitting worms, giving them a brief respite.
  But the downwind situation did not last long, the sound of birds suddenly appeared in the sky.
  Larger aliens swooped down from the sky and began to eat creatures on the ground.
  Human beings were blown away by the strong wind from their wings. The ground worms thumped and drilled on the ground, the entire sandy ground rolled with dust. The rumbling vibrations even cracked the ground. The surface of the sandy soil began to subside continuously and a lot of quicksand appeared.
  Luo Xiaowei’s feet slipped and was almost swept away by quicksand but was picked up by Mu Yechen.
  He spat out the sand in his mouth “bah”, watching the chaotic scene in shock.
  “Commander, why are these vultures catching up?”
  Although ground worms are difficult, they are at best alienated low-level creatures. However, these vultures are alien predators, their difficulty is a hundred times more difficult than this group of invertebrate insects.
  Mu Yechen didn’t speak. He quickly avoided the struggling tail of a ground worm and joined Cang Jie.
  “Where’s Gu Yang?” Mu Yechen asked the moment they met.
  Cang Jie and Luo Xiaowei were stunned for a moment. They realized that since the appearance of the vulture alien, Gu Yang seemed to have never appeared again.
  The scene was so chaotic that everyone’s life would be in danger at any time. The three people’s expressions changed at the same time and hurriedly searched for Gu Yang’s figure.
  Their gazes swept between the ground worms and the mad sand, sometimes at the human beings who stayed on the ground had severed limbs. Until Luo Xiaowei’s pupils shook and pointed in one direction.
  “Commander, Gu Yang is there!”
  Mu Yechen and Cang Jie looked at them at the same time.
  In the sandstorm, a young soldier stood frozen on the chaotic battlefield, next to ground worms and vultures competing in the sand.
  He held the gun in his hand, as if he had been immobilized by something.
  “Yangyang! What are you doing standing there stupidly?” Luo Xiaowei hurried forward.
  But he slowly stopped at a distance of more than ten meters in front of Gu Yang.
  During the storm, he saw a small knife pressed against Gu Yang’s neck.
  Mu Yechen and Cang Jie also arrived and they also saw the sharp knife on Gu Yang’s throat…
  Behind Gu Yang, a strand of white hair blown by the wind and sand.
  There was a brief stagnation at the scene.
  There is only one person here with white hair like this.
  But he was stuck in the carriage not long ago and was pierced by a steel pipe.
  However, he person in front of him was indeed the one Mu Yechen took out of the carriage.
  He pointed the black muzzle in the direction of the three people.
  “Don’t come here.” He threatened and warned, “One step further, your companions will not be so safe.”
  As soon as he finished speaking, the sharp blade slashed Gu Yang’s neck. Soon, a row of fine blood beads poured out from the soldier’s wound.
  Luo Xiaowei did not dare to me move.
  Mu Yechen and Cang Jie did not move forward either.
  Gu Yang was strangled, his eyes were full of disbelief.
  “Xiao…Xiaobai, you…you are not…” He thought that not long ago. The same voice was communicating with him in the jeep, the voice was weak and timid and the smile was quiet and beautiful, which made him spontaneously want to protect desire.
  Ten minutes ago, he was still angry at the death of “Xiao Bai” and bravely sought revenge for this group of sand bandits.
  But now…
  “Don’t move.” The man behind him tightened the knife in his hand again, forcing him to retreat.
  Cang Jie’s reaction was the fastest at the scene. He quickly took out his machine gun and aimed it at Lin Xi who was behind Gu Yang.
  “You really aren’t human.” Normal humans can be revived without being seriously injured.
  Lin Xi didn’t speak. Mu Yechen looked at him and saw a crack on the other side’s face.
  But he didn’t give up on hijacking Gu Yang, the sequelae of repairing the fatal injury to his body were still recurring. He almost trembled in his entire leg but he still carried the gun very steadily, staring at Mu Yechen’s action.
  There are also advantages and disadvantages among mutants. In his current situation, Mu Yechen is the greatest threat to him.
  Sure enough, Mu Yechen also began to untie the pistol from the leather saddle.
  “What do you want?” he asked, staring at him.
  As he asked, he also loaded the bullet.
  Lin Xi didn’t change his face and pulled Gu Yang back a step.
  “I want three days’ worth of water, fuel, nutrient solution…” He listed the materials in the plan and at the end, he added one thing, “I also need enough antibiotics.”
  Antibiotics are not necessary, but Lin Xi’s current physical condition can’t last long.
  If there is no external support, he will soon be as ill like on his first night out of Gaia Village.
  “…” Mu Yechen seemed to think of that night and frowned uncontrollably.
  He began to observe Lin Xi again.
  Lin Xi didn’t intend for him to discover his weakness and stood up straight. Even when the sand filled the sky, the aliens were fighting beside him, and stray bullets passing by, he didn’t move a single point.
  He didn’t show any flaws and couldn’t detect anything.
  “Give those things to him.”Mu Yechen made a decision.
  “Commander!” Cang Jie said anxiously.
  Mu Yechen looked at Lin Xi: “I will give you the supplies. In exchange, you will let Gu Yang go.”
  “Wait until I get to a safe place.”
  “Give him the supplies.” Mu Yechen said again.
  Cang Jie understood, he slowly put away his gun and found the truck carrying supplies.
  The front of the truck had been damaged in the battle with the sand bandits. He avoided the birds and took out a bucket of clean water from it, a can of fuel, a row of nutrient solution and a few antibiotics in the medicine box.
  Then, he and Luo Xiaowei moved these supplies to the field and took out the gun and aimed at Lin Xi.
  “Do you want to count? “Mu Yechen asked.
  Lin Xi didn’t speak.
  He slowly let go of Gu Yang, pointed a gun at the back of the young soldier’s head and threatened him to go up and help him carry the supplies.
  Threatening his commander, Gu Yang was so uncomfortable that he almost burst into tears.
  He was forced to walk slowly to the supplies while his heart was at a loss.
  In a daze, he also saw a sand bandit surrounded by a long red scarf standing not far away from him and suddenly gave an order.
  In response to the sand bandit’s gesture, some bandits took the opportunity to raise their guns at him.
  They are attacking again.
  Gu Yang’s expression changed and he stood up in horror.
  He wanted to say something to remind him, wanted to shout at them but Xiao Bai’s gunshot sounded faster behind him.
  “Bang, bang.”
  In response to the gunshot, the two sand bandits who were just about to shoot at him were shot in the forehead and fell to the sky.
  At the same time, there were two more sounds of “bang, bang”.
  Luo Xiaowei and Cang Jie found the gap and shot Lin Xi as well.
  Luo Xiaowei aimed at Lin Xi’s right shoulder and Cang Jie aimed at Lin Xi’s left leg. The bullet swiped through the air with astonishing speed.
  Nearly the next second, Lin Xi was about to be shot. In just an instant, Xiao Bai suddenly took a step back and flipped back like a swallow.
  The bullet rubbed against his chest and his trousers, he raised it again. When he landed, he suddenly pulled the trigger and fired another shot at Gu Yang.
  “Bang!”
  The shot almost exploded in the hearts of the people on the other side.
  The people present hurriedly looked at Gu Yang, only to see the bullet cut across his cheek, leaving a long bloodstain.
  Gu Yang’s neck was covered in cold sweat.
  “You don’t want his life?” Lin Xi regained his footing. He was obviously weak and deceitful before, but now he looks like a masked and ferocious spirit.
  He pointed the gun at Gu Yang’s hand still very steadily.
  Luo Xiaowei and Cang Jie also broke out in cold sweat on their foreheads and they found that Xiaobai’s strength was far superior to them.
  In the past, being weak and deceiving was only a disguise. This person in front of them was his true face.
  They were all deceived.
  They looked at Mu Yechen.
  Mu Yechen’s face was extremely ugly.
  He stared at Lin Xi without blinking, and began to slowly put down the gun he was holding and ordered again.
  “Let him go first.”
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Edited: 7/20/22
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