Chapter 206: Spoils of War

Rat-tat-tat!!

The Impersonators on the station platform were now cleared out. Da Lou, Shasha, and Shu Qin led people out of the station. The entire crew of the Infinity was now frantically firing at the burning monster. Everyone gritted their teeth, venting the fear and exhaustion from their past escapes in the night, as if they wanted to empty every last bullet.

Fire and bullets bombarded the creature continuously for four or five minutes. The barrels of all the machine guns were red hot. At this point, the frequency of the parasite’s writhing tentacles in the black smoke and fire finally decreased, and gradually, there was no more sound.

Rat-tat~ Clank~

Until the last bullet was fired, the hillside outside the station finally fell silent, leaving only the crackling sound of the great parasite burning in the raging fire.

Hoo, hoo~

At this moment, everyone stared at the charred, unknown creature, their eyes wide, breathing heavily.

“Is it dead?”

Someone spoke up.

“It should be dead.”

Whoosh~

A plume of black smoke shot straight up. Lin Xian saw this and thought, *not good*. But the next moment, the black smoke suddenly turned and flew towards the back of the crowd.

Ding Junyi stood there, the Hell Black Chrysanthemum she had brought placed in front of her.

As the surging black gas poured in, the crimson in the stamen of the Hell Black Chrysanthemum seemed to fade completely in an instant, and it began to emit a white, glowing aura.

“It seems my deduction was correct.” Ding Junyi pushed up her glasses, revealing a rare hint of excitement.

Lin Xian watched this scene, then closed his eyes and let out a long sigh of relief, saying softly,

“We succeeded.”

As soon as his voice fell, a look of ecstatic joy quickly appeared on everyone’s faces.

“Yeah!!!” Shasha jumped up directly.

“That’s great!” Shu Qin cheered excitedly and high-fived Da Lou.

Lu Chang, Miao Lu, and the others all cheered.

“I can’t believe we actually killed such a huge monster!”

“It’s simply unbelievable!”

“Long live Captain Lin!”

Chen Sixuan’s face was pale, her chest heaving with rapid breaths. She looked at the burning giant monster and the excited expressions of her teammates around her. The firelight shone on everyone’s face, and everyone cheered from the bottom of their hearts.

Lin Xian, panting, looked at KIKI in the air and Lu Xingchen walking out of the fire, and finally smiled.

“I couldn’t have done it alone. It was all thanks to everyone, and Brother Huo descending like a god!”

“It was nothing, nothing at all.” Lu Xingchen walked over from the midst of the fiery cheers, still maintaining an unfazed expression, and said calmly, “My clothes got a little dirty today. This venerable one still needs to improve.”

“Wow, Brother Lu was a god today!”

“So amazing!” Some female team members gathered around, cheering in admiration.

“This guy~”

KIKI landed beside Lin Xian from the air, glanced speechlessly at Lu Xingchen, “He really stole the show today. He’s probably so full of himself inside, yet he’s still putting on a calm act. Clothes a little dirty? Where are his clothes?”

Lin Xian smiled, not minding. “You know, I think he stole the show too.”

“Look.”

KIKI raised her hand, and at that moment, a jet-black bead flew out from the raging fire and landed in Lin Xian’s hand.

Lin Xian’s expression changed. “Is this… a blood essence?”

“This should be a level 3 blood essence.” Ding Junyi walked over at this moment. “The Federation’s database has records of this. The value of this kind of level 3 blood essence is extremely high, equivalent to the value of an entire company of soldiers!”

“Wow, that’s amazing!” KIKI said in surprise.

Lin Xian weighed it in his hand, his eyes shining. “We paid such a high price, it’s only right that we get this value back. But how to make use of this value will depend on Director Ding.”

After speaking, Lin Xian directly handed it to Ding Junyi.

Ding Junyi reached out and took it, looking at the bead in her hand and pushing up her glasses. “The Phoenix Society and the Federation must have already made some progress in the research of blood essences. My suggestion is that we can use the research data and conclusions of the [Dark Mark] to exchange for the latest progress data from the Phoenix Society. On my end, this can speed up some results.”

“Exchange?” Chen Sixuan walked over, frowning slightly. “With the Federation?”

“It’s just an exchange of interests, it has nothing to do with any organization,” Ding Junyi explained.

“Forget about exchanging.” Lin Xian directly rejected the idea and said, “Our conclusion still needs to be confirmed after we enter the night tonight. If it is confirmed, then we will contact the Phoenix Society and directly synchronize the research data of the [Dark Mark]. Perhaps they have already had some research and speculation, but the sooner this information is told to other survivors, the more people might be able to live a few more days.”

Ding Junyi looked at Lin Xian, fell silent for a moment, and then nodded. “Alright, I’ll follow your decision. I will continue to study this blood essence. If you need to exchange blood essences for items, I suggest you use the level 1 and level 2 blood essences first. The properties of this level 3 blood essence are very different and will be of great help to my research.”

“No problem with that.” Lin Xian nodded.

His gaze swept over the gloomy sky. Most of Rain Town was now burning. The parasite had turned into a huge piece of charcoal. The battle scene inside and outside the station was tragic, with Impersonator corpses everywhere.

Lin Xian walked over and asked Shu Qin to take stock. “Do we have any casualties?”

Shu Qin shook her head and looked at Lin Xian with some excitement. “There are injuries, but not serious. No casualties.”

Lin Xian nodded, relieved. Facing such a large parasite without any personnel losses was truly beyond his expectations.

He looked at Ding Junyi. “Director Ding, thank you. Your judgment was correct.”

Ding Junyi nodded slightly. “Thank you.”

Although a large amount of ammunition and supplies were consumed, they had solved the monster without losing a single person. According to their expectations, it might even clear the [Dark Mark] for the entire team. There was another point that Lin Xian felt was very important: this great battle had caused a huge shift in the team’s mentality, and their confidence had increased significantly. It could be said that the gains were substantial!

Lin Xian looked at the time. It was more than an hour until dark. To be cautious, he had the team waste no more time.

“Everyone, quickly clean up the battlefield and return to the train. We will leave Rain Town tonight under the cover of darkness.”

“Yes!” everyone responded in unison and immediately began to act quickly.

Lin Xian also had Da Lou bring the Roarer K23 electric rotary machine gun onto the train to strengthen its firepower.

The only problem was the bullet supply. The more heavy firepower on the train, the greater the manufacturing pressure on Lin Xian.

With Lin Xian’s order, everyone returned to the Infinity. The first thing Lin Xian did after everyone was on board was to activate the Isomeric Cube.

[Beep! Using non-mechanical force for reflection detection.]

[Detection successful. No fear risk within the train. Dark side force intrusion has been shielded.]

“Phew~”

Lin Xian breathed a sigh of relief. The entire crew had just gone through a fierce battle, and with the great parasite spewing parasites, he was really worried that the situation of the Impersonator invasion from last night would happen again.

“It’s a good thing we have the Isomeric Cube and a Hell Black Chrysanthemum. These two things have done a great service.”

One could shield the power of dark infection and detect invasion crises within the train. The other, although more mysterious, was, in Lin Xian’s opinion, extremely valuable just for its current demonstrated ability to perceive the [Dark Mark].

To some extent, this function of the Hell Black Chrysanthemum was equivalent to a higher version of the Spirit Oscillation Value detector.