MCL CH93

Chapter 93: “Nice to meet you, I’m your…

“Brother Nian! Brother Nian, are you okay!”

“Quick, retreat—! Little Zhang over here is not going to make it!”

In the dim environment, special-made guns shot out showers of sparks.

In a battle that should have been a confrontation between ability users and contaminants, it had unknowingly turned into a firefight with firearms.

In the distance, a dense mass of species was still writhing. With their abilities severely overdrawn, countless people had completely lost control, unable to restrain themselves. The long, protracted battle was severely wearing down everyone’s will.

Chen Sunian repelled several contaminants that tried to get close, retreated behind cover, and when he turned his head, he saw the pale-faced Zhang Shen in his teammate’s arms. His open fingers kept trying to clench, clearly unable to control the rampant ability within his body.

After a short silence, he gritted his teeth and said: “I’ll cover you. Find a chance to take him and get out of the rift!”

“Leave here?” His teammate was stunned for a moment, his eyes widening. “No! If we go, you won’t be able to hold on here at all!”

“It’s better for one of me to die than for all of us to fall here! Even if I die, I’ll take these things down with me!” Chen Sunian spat out the blood filling his mouth to the side. On the verge of death, he couldn’t help but curse. “As long as you can get out of here safely, you can see for me where the hell everyone outside has gone! Based on the time we’ve been in here, they should have realized something was wrong outside by now, but not a single person has come to support us. They have to give us an explanation. Even as sacrifices, we should be able to die with our eyes closed!”

“Brother Nian…” His words moved the person next to him. However, when his gaze shifted to the distance, his tone inevitably became bleak. “But, it looks like it’s too late.”

At the edge of their vision, surging figures could be seen.

They began to gather densely. The complete lack of any humanoid silhouette was enough to make it clear what these things were.

This was it. A fight to the death was the only option.

A desperate look appeared in everyone’s eyes. Just as they were about to face the impact of the contaminant tide, at the critical moment, a series of violent explosions crashed into their eardrums, followed by a vast expanse of soaring flames.

The contaminants, which had been menacing just a moment ago, were like cats whose tails had been stepped on. They instantly screamed and scattered in all directions like loose sand.

Watching the once aggressive contaminants scatter like they had seen a ghost, the members of the Third Administration’s cleanup squad, still holding their guns, could only stand there stunned, unable to process what had happened.

“They… what… what happened to them?” a team member stammered.

The person next to him answered hesitantly: “That fire… is it a fire-type ability user?”

A single sentence finally livened up the atmosphere, and the team members’ tones were filled with joy: “Reinforcements! Are the reinforcements finally here!?”

Chen Sunian couldn’t make an accurate judgment for a moment, but the near-death experience had genuinely caused him to break out in a cold sweat all over. After relaxing, he inevitably collapsed onto the ground from exhaustion and subconsciously glanced down at his hand.

Just now, he had already gathered his power in advance. As he had said before, if necessary, he would choose to perish with those things to buy his teammates enough time to escape.

Soon, his attention was drawn by the incessant, miserable screams.

When he looked again, the situation was completely different from the beginning.

The contaminants, who had been ferocious just a moment ago, were now like startled birds. As the sea of fire from behind gradually spread this way, they no longer had time to bother with the cleanup squad here. Screaming and wailing, as if they had encountered the most terrifying monster in the world, they fled in a panic, some even resorting to biting and tearing at each other.

Chen Sunian: “…”

Compared to them, the humans, why did it feel like in this situation, these contaminants seemed so weak, helpless, frail, and pitiful?

This made him feel a sense of anticipation about the identity of the newcomer.

This was the inner world of an A-class rift. To be able to bring such immense pressure on these contaminants, could it be that some high-ranking official had personally led a team to support them?

With this hope, a figure finally appeared in Chen Sunian’s vision.

However, it was far from what he had imagined. After a long period of anticipation, what fell into his eyes was always—just a single figure.

Just one person?

Soon, Chen Sunian’s perception was confirmed.

The figure in his vision slowly walked towards them. With each step closer, the nearby contaminants would proactively retreat as if seeing a deity. One by one, sparks were thrown from the newcomer’s hand, as if creating a grand flame festival. At the points of impact, intense flames shot up and exploded one after another the moment they landed. Puffs of dense smoke spread out with the massive explosive damage. It was a short distance, yet it created an aura like that of a mighty army. The sea of fire soaring into the sky became the most magnificent backdrop for this figure.

With his back to the firelight, it was impossible to clearly see the specific appearance of the person shrouded in such intense colors. If not for the completely different ability attribute, Chen Sunian could only think of one person in the Third Administration who might possess such immense and dominant oppressive power.

But it was obvious that the other party was an extremely powerful fire-type ability user. It couldn’t be their director, Su Qiuyin. As for other Administrations, he had never heard of such a figure among this type of ability user.

Could it be that the Administration had sent a request for support to other countries?

Chen Sunian squinted hard, trying to identify the person. Finally, as the other person walked out of the sea of fire step by step, he could see their appearance clearly.

The unexpected familiarity almost made him crush the special-made gun in his hand with force: “.”

Vibrant red hair, a pleasant smile, and that handsome face that would stand out anywhere but always seemed to carry an unbearable burden.

Not long ago, this person’s photo had been passed around within the Third Administration, causing everyone’s disdain and strong dissatisfaction.

Yes, even he himself was very certain that this kind of beautiful but useless person who got their position through connections would have to pack up and leave very soon.

But the beauty was the same as ever. As for the description “useless,” it seemed…

“Hello everyone, looks like I finally made it?” Lin Xi greeted everyone with a gentle smile the moment he appeared. This pleasant demeanor was completely inconsistent with the one that had just made the contaminants flee in terror. He glanced at the person being protected by the cleanup squad. “Oh, this brother’s condition looks a bit bad. Why don’t you guys take him back to rest first?”

It was the same suggestion, but compared to Chen Sunian’s do-or-die attitude, when spoken from Lin Xi’s mouth, it sounded as if he were asking if they wanted to go back for a halftime break and have some afternoon tea.

After asking, Lin Xi waited for a long time without getting a response. He stared blankly with the group for a few seconds before clearing his throat softly and looking at the still-stunned Chen Sunian with a smile: “You must be Captain Chen, right?”

Chen Sunian’s brain, which had been frozen for a few seconds, finally reacted: “Ah, yes. You… you know me?”

“I saw your name when I was going through the files a few days ago. It’s just that there was a bit too much material to catch up on, so I haven’t had a chance to meet the brothers yet.” Lin Xi extended his hand with a smile, seeming completely unaware of the tense battle atmosphere in the rift, his smile extremely amiable. “Nice to meet you. Let me introduce myself. I am the newly appointed director of your Third Administration.”

Chen Sunian coughed a few times and tremblingly extended his hand: “…Hello.”

However, it wasn’t actually their first meeting.

Just before this mission, he and a few of his brothers had even placed bets that the new boss who replaced Director Su wouldn’t last a week.

But before this, no one had told them that this golden canary kept by President Yan was actually so strong!

Just based on this combat power, charging in single-handedly and crushing everything in his path, as far as he knew, you probably couldn’t find ten people like that in the entire United Administration.

Lin Xi glanced at the turbulent expression on Chen Sunian’s face. Combined with recent events, he could roughly guess seven or eight parts of the other’s psychological changes.

After a brief handshake, he withdrew his hand and extended an invitation to the squad leader with a beaming smile: “I’ve already cleared the path from the rift entrance. Have the brothers take the wounded out first as soon as possible. Losing control of one’s ability can be a major or minor issue, and dragging it out is definitely not good. However, since I’m new here and not familiar with the terrain, I’m afraid I’ll need Captain Chen to help lead the way and take a stroll with me to the contaminants’ nest.”

The successive battles had been enough to create a huge psychological shadow in the squad members regarding the contaminants’ nest. But under Lin Xi’s calm and nonchalant attitude, it was as if everyone had been given a tranquilizer, and everything seemed to no longer be a difficult matter.

Chen Sunian looked up to meet that smiling gaze and said in a solemn voice: “I will lead the way for you. Please follow me!”

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