Chapter 297: 210: Slaughter (First Update)
Aside from soldiers, this CIA base was home to over one thousand three hundred people including other agents, various scientific researchers, chefs, doctors, logisticians, and more.
However, as these people came into contact with fierce ghosts, their numbers were rapidly dwindling.
Fierce ghosts had a high resistance to technological weapons, particularly ordinary infantry arms. To eliminate a fierce ghost wasn’t impossible—after all, the fierce ghosts were greatly suppressed by the lack of Spiritual Energy on Blue Star. But often, killing a single first-grade fierce ghost could come at the cost of dozens or even hundreds of soldiers’ lives.
With over thirty fierce ghosts, the truly powerful Lantern Ghost and Painting Woman hadn’t even made a move, while the Ghost Bride simply watched the chaos like a spectator, exerting effort only to block signals.
As a fifth-grade fierce ghost and a Ghost King, the Ghost Bride possessed the ability to disrupt human technology machines. Her power could precisely cover the entire base, blocking all signals—both outgoing and incoming—making it impossible to send or receive any communications.
“Huh! Quite clever, aren’t they? But I can’t let you expose my secret by calling for reinforcements.”
Suddenly, Su Jie’s expression shifted slightly, his Divine Sense washing over like water, and he overheard all the plans brewing in the command room.
Next to Su Jie, Han Ruyan stood quietly, the night wind lifting her red wedding dress, which seemed to grow more vividly red as the massacre progressed.
The fear and resentment of the dying soldiers were mostly absorbed by the Ghost Bride.
Nevertheless, the Ghost Bride didn’t absorb everything. A portion of the deathly fear and resentment were taken in by the fierce ghosts carrying out the slaughter themselves.
It was evident that the Ghost Bride had some sense of conscience.
Watching a group of soldiers run towards the ammunition depot, intending to blow it up, and others heading to operate the air defense missiles, Su Jie pulled out the Ten Thousand Soul Banner. A horde of Yin Souls screamed and flew out, attacking the soldiers planning to set fire to the ammunition depot.
“What the hell is this?”
“Ghosts, so many souls!”
“Why are there so many ghosts? We’re done for.”
The soldiers shouted in terror, futilely trying to shoot the Yin Souls with their bullets, but it was completely ineffective.
In the blink of an eye, the Yin Souls passed through their bodies, taking with them their souls and body heat.
Thump! Thump!
Bodies fell to the ground, lifeless, although there were no wounds on them.
In the distance, a group of soldiers was operating two close-range air defense missile vehicles; the missile nests in the rear of the carriages had been erected, pointing straight into the sky, ready to launch the air defense missiles inside to attract attention from Siam-deployed radars.
Su Jie’s gaze shifted towards them, his pupils showing a ring of faint purple.
The next moment, two beams of Purple Light Rays shot out, instantly striking the two air defense missile vehicles.
The rays melted the steel casing and made contact with the highly explosive warheads inside, triggering a massive explosion.
Such a launcher could hold several air defense missiles, which depended mainly on shrapnel for destroying aircraft, with explosive charges weighing up to several kilograms and a projectile weight of over a hundred kilograms. Along with the fuel, the resulting explosion was significantly more powerful than the usual 155mm howitzer.
As a series of explosions occurred, the shrapnel from the exploding air defense missiles acted like a harvester’s blade, tearing and piercing through nearby soldiers, turning them into a bloody mess with limbs and torsos flung up to dozens of meters away—a horrific sight to behold.
Having easily thwarted the enemy’s attempt to send out a distress signal, Su Jie looked at the time and spoke nonchalantly, “There’s one more hour, do you want to go down and have some fun?”
Han Ruyan’s eyes were deep as she replied, “Too weak, not interested.”
The ongoing slaughter below didn’t pique her interest at all.@@novelbin@@
Just with some ordinary fierce ghosts, the base was almost annihilated. If she were to make a move, it would be an absolutely crushing blow.
“Then let’s speed things up!”
Playing with a lighter, Su Jie took out boxes of gasoline from his Storage Bag. Behind him, pale corpse hands swiftly emerged from the hem of his pants, grabbing the gasoline cans and pouring them all over the base.
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Inside the base, the battle became increasingly intense.
“Don’t turn your back on her, never turn your back.”
A company commander kept reminding the soldiers, yet there were still those who became panic-stricken and, under the fierce ghost’s terrifying presence, turned to flee.
But it was this very act—turning around—that caused one to place their own hands around their neck, twisting their head 360 degrees around, again and again.
In front of them, the figure of the female ghost in white floated in, deliberately adjusting her position so that the soldiers would turn their backs to her.
In an instant, several more soldiers were killed, panic spreading even further among the troops. They realized that the bullets from their guns, when fired at the female ghost, were as effective as shooting the air, rendering their firearms nothing more than sticks for kindling.
“Flamethrower Soldiers!”
Responding to the company commander’s call, a few flamethrower soldiers, weighted down by heavy fuel tanks, stood forward and pulled the trigger towards the female ghost.
A surge of flame shot out, forming a long jet of fire. The temperature at the mouth of the flame reached thousands of degrees in an instant, the heat waves rolling around them.
The female ghost covered in the crossfire let out agonizing screams, her body turning into a burning torch, half of her figure melting away as she darted up and down erratically, fleeing the range of the fire, no longer daring to approach.