Game: Civilization Paradise

A terrifying fist grazed past his head. The violent force of the punch made his cheeks sting.

At that moment, Ailo also clenched its left hand into a fist, hammering at Long Ming again and again!

Long Ming’s nerves were stretched to their absolute limit as he dodged miserably.

"ROAR."

Seeing its fists couldn’t hit Long Ming, Ailo furiously kicked out.

Long Ming quickly raised the gun in his hands horizontally to block it!

THUD~

Long Ming was sent flying by the impact, crashing heavily onto the ground.

PTHOO!

Long Ming spat out a mouthful of blood, feeling as if his sternum was about to break.

Seeing that Long Ming was on his last legs, Luoxue slammed her right foot against the device and pulled with all her might.

CRACK!

The nuclear fuel rod was pulled out another section, but then it got completely stuck.

Luoxue froze for a second. She tried to push it back in, but it wouldn’t budge.

She turned her head toward Long Ming and saw Ailo walking toward him, step by step.

A look of deep frustration appeared in Luoxue’s eyes. She hadn’t expected to find a fuel rod here. If she had known, she definitely wouldn’t have come with so few people.

But it was useless to say anything now.

At that moment, Long Ming watched the approaching Ailo as he scrambled to his feet. He clutched his weapon and backed away continuously.

Every move he made sent a jolt of pain through his chest.

Just when he thought he was a dead man.

BANG! BANG!

Bullets slammed into the back of Ailo’s head, the warheads simply falling to the ground afterward.

Ailo immediately whipped its head around to see Luoxue, who had given up on the nuclear fuel rod and was now shooting at it.

"Go!"

Luoxue shouted to Long Ming.

Without a moment’s hesitation, Long Ming turned and ran for the exit.

Luoxue immediately ran for the exit as well, but Ailo had no intention of letting her go and charged straight for her.

Her eyes turned cold as she pulled out a flashbang and threw it.

POP~

A blinding light erupted.

Relying on her excellent memory, Luoxue sprinted toward the exit.

But in the next second, a chill shot up her spine from behind.

Luoxue reacted instantly. ’This is bad!’ She immediately leaped to the side.

At the same time, Ailo had locked onto its prey using the heat radiating from her body and threw a vicious punch.

Unfortunately, it missed by a hair, brushing past Luoxue.

After its attack missed, just as Ailo was about to charge at Luoxue again...

BANG! BANG!

...a volley of armor-piercing rounds slammed into its face.

"AH!"

Ailo cried out in pain, raising its hands to protect its face.

Long Ming, meanwhile, kept moving his aim, laying down continuous suppressing fire on Ailo.

"Go, I’ll cover you."

Seeing her chance, Luoxue scrambled up and immediately sprinted for the exit.

After emptying his clip, Long Ming immediately turned and followed.

Ailo quickly gave chase.

Long Ming glanced back and saw Ailo catching up. Wincing, he pulled several grenades from his tactical belt, pulled the pins, and dropped them where he stood.

RUMBLE-RUMBLE~

A series of violent explosions erupted.

Using the cover of the grenades, Long Ming and Luoxue burst out of the power room and into the central control room.

Inside the central control room, a piercing alarm was blaring continuously.

"Warning: Insufficient power supply. Auxiliary power will be depleted in 52 minutes and 16 seconds."

"Warning: Upon depletion of auxiliary power, emergency protection mode will be activated, sealing the entire shelter base."

...

Hearing this, Long Ming’s expression changed slightly as he said to Luoxue,

"We need to get out of here. Once the auxiliary power runs out, this whole base will be sealed."

"Got it."

Luoxue replied in a low voice.

Just then, Ailo emerged from the passageway.

The two of them glanced back, then immediately sped up and ran for the exit.

Ailo watched the two flee but didn’t continue the chase. Instead, it stopped and walked toward a wall at the edge of the central control room.

There was a large lever mounted on the wall.

It reached out, grabbed the lever, and yanked it down hard.

CLANK!

In that instant, the entire underground shelter began to tremble slightly.

Meanwhile, Long Ming and Luoxue were running toward the main staircase.

"Why were you so obsessed with that nuclear fuel rod? Is it that valuable?"

Long Ming asked Luoxue, completely baffled. In his experience, Luoxue wasn’t the type of person who didn’t know when to cut her losses.

"It’s not about the money."

Luoxue shot back, clearly infuriated.

"Then what’s it for—"

Just as Long Ming was about to press further,

the metal floor of the twelfth sub-level suddenly split open, revealing a huge gap.

Immediately after, civilians in various styles of clothing, all exuding a chilling aura and possessing blue eyes, began to shamble out in horrifying numbers.

The moment Long Ming saw them, his pupils dilated.

At that moment, he finally understood where all the people in the shelter had gone.

’So they were all sleeping underground.’

"Up the stairs, now!"

Luoxue immediately led Long Ming up the main staircase, sprinting all the way.

BANG! BANG!

Just then, the sound of dense gunfire echoed from above.

"What’s going on? Why is there fighting upstairs, too?"

Long Ming immediately sensed that something was wrong.

"I don’t know."

Luoxue’s expression grew even colder as she continued to run upward.

Soon, the two of them reached the tenth sub-level and ran right into An Qing and the others.

"Guild Leader!"

An Qing and the others cried out joyfully.

"Get moving!"

Luoxue didn’t waste a single word, shouting at An Qing and her group.

An Qing’s group froze for a moment. Then they saw the monsters climbing up behind Luoxue’s party and each of them screamed in terror.

"Oh my god! Run!"

The terrified members of the Rat Group followed Luoxue and Long Ming, scrambling up the stairs.

At that moment, Jing Chuan’s group was locked in a stalemate with Akaban’s group. Neither side could get the upper hand.

"Heh heh, come on up if you’ve got the guts!"

"Don’t get cocky! You come down here if you’ve got the guts!"

Jing Chuan was so pissed off he could spit.

Just then, Luoxue rushed over with her people.

"Luoxue, you’re just in time! We’re blocked off by those bastards from the Scorpion Guild."

Jing Chuan said hurriedly to Luoxue.

"Now we’re in real trouble."

Luoxue stopped, her expression grave.

"Wait, did something happen?"

Jing Chuan immediately sensed that something was wrong.

Long Ming said, panting,

"Look down."

"Fuck! Why are there so many monsters?"

Jing Chuan quickly looked down and saw a dark, teeming mass of mutated humanoid monsters crawling up the main staircase.

"So what do we do now? We’ve got Scorpion Guild players in front and monsters behind. We’re trapped."

Zhihan sounded somewhat desperate.

Everyone else fell silent, their morale hitting rock bottom.

At this time, Akaban and his men also noticed something was off. They all looked down and were instantly dumbfounded.

"Boss, that’s a lot of monsters! Let’s get out of here!"

Bito shouted in terror.

"Run from what? Block the stairs. Let the Star Wish Guild down there hold them off for us."

Akaban said with a savage grin, seeing that the monsters weren’t moving very fast.

"Boss, you’re a genius!"

Bito and the others instantly understood and said excitedly.

Akaban then cleared his throat and shouted smugly at Jing Chuan’s group,

"Listen up! You’re cornered now. The monsters are about to come up and tear you to shreds. If you want to live, throw up all the Rat Group’s backpacks. I might consider letting you off the hook. Otherwise, you’ll have to face the consequences!"

"Bullshit! I’d rather die than compromise."

Jing Chuan cursed back.