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Jing Yuan didn't even want to argue with him.

Jing Yuan turned around and pointed at the three gravity bodies, including Luca's, saying, "Of you three gravity bodies, whoever has the most energy, swap your power source with mine!"

Luca said dissatisfiedly, "On what grounds should we swap with you? We only have one power source ourselves."

"On what grounds?" Jing Yuan felt speechless. "I'm here to help you. My energy is depleted. If I don't swap with you, how am I supposed to help?"

Luca said disdainfully, "Even if we swap the power source to you, you're still just one gravity body. Do you really think that, as a fellow gravity body, you're more powerful than us?"

"What time do you think it is? Why are you arguing about who's more powerful!"

"Hmph!" Luca bypassed Jing Yuan, strode forward, and said to everyone, "Brothers! Since the Lighthouse isn't coming to help us, I'll fight my way out myself! Let's go!"

Jing Yuan didn't want to save them in the first place, and seeing Luca's attitude, he wanted to save them even less.

Luca was very brave at this moment, driving his gravity body at the front and firing a heavy rifle at the Phage Beasts.

The Snake Dogs didn't react in time to the humans' sudden attack.

Under Luca's continuous fire, one Snake Dog's head was blown apart.

Another sniper also used a heavy sniper rifle to pierce through a Snake Dog's head.

However, this charge only killed two Snake Dogs.

Seeing this, the rest of the Snake Dogs rushed over, looking as if they were going to tear the two gravity bodies to pieces.

Although Jing Yuan was quite angry at Luca, he couldn't just stand by and watch people die.

Looking at the tiny bit of energy remaining on the progress bar, Jing Yuan still controlled his gravity body and rushed over.

A Snake Dog pounced on a gravity body from the side, tearing open its faceplate with a claw to reveal a terrified face inside.

The Snake Dog prepared to directly absorb life source essence.

Just when the pilot thought he was going to die...

Jing Yuan rushed over holding his Greatsword.

He slashed the Snake Dog's shoulder with one stroke, then pulled back and stabbed it in the abdomen.

The Snake Dog died!

The gravity body pilot lying on the ground looked at Jing Yuan as if he were seeing a savior descend.

However, Jing Yuan didn't notice this; he still wanted to continue the attack.

But now the energy was completely exhausted, and he couldn't move an inch.

Seeing the Phage Beasts rioting around him, Jing Yuan quickly climbed out of the cockpit, picking up the gravity body Greatsword and preparing to fight with his bare hands.

But then, the gravity body pilot he had just saved ran over and said, "Use my power source!"

After saying that, he climbed down, directly dismantled his gravity body's power source, and carried it over.

Under the current circumstances, Jing Yuan wouldn't refuse.

He took the power source, quickly dismantled his own gravity body's power source, and swapped in the one he was holding.

Jing Yuan entered the gravity body directly and saw that 70% of the energy remained.

He looked back at the pilot and said, "Abandon this gravity body and prepare to break through!"

The situation was urgent; there was no time for them to load the gravity body onto the vehicle.

On the other side, Luca was still firing at the Snake Dog pack with his firearms.

But with several Snake Dogs attacking at once, he couldn't hold them off.

He looked around; another gravity body had been pounced on by a Snake Dog.

A teammate with a gun was snatched away in a Snake Dog's mouth.

Another teammate had their life source essence absorbed by a Snake Dog.

Just then, a white gravity body holding a Greatsword, like a descending god of war, killed the Snake Dogs blocking his path one after another.

Jing Yuan killed two Snake Dogs in a row, finally helping them break through!

"Go, go, go! Move fast!"

The Armored Vehicles quickly broke through, reaching the outside of the encirclement and speeding toward the Lighthouse.

Luca looked at the two gravity bodies behind them: one was stationary because its power source had been given to Jing Yuan, and the other had been pounced on by a Phage Beast, its pilot turned into flesh soil after having their life source essence absorbed.

These two gravity bodies were both borrowed from the City Defense Force.

Not only did Luca fail to get the Deputy Captain position, but he also lost two gravity bodies and several Team Members.

He looked at Jing Yuan angrily and cursed, "It's all your fault! You're the one who got them killed!"

Chapter 46: Luca's Anger

Facing Luca's accusations, Jing Yuan found it baffling.

Just now when I asked you to swap power sources, you wouldn't!

Now that someone is dead, you're blaming me?

However, Jing Yuan didn't argue with him but continued to cover the Armored Vehicles' withdrawal!

After Jing Yuan repelled two or three Snake Dogs in succession, the distance between the Armored Vehicles and them widened.

Luca, on the other hand, had done nothing and was out of danger.

This team successfully withdrew.

News also came from the Lighthouse that Mo Cheng's team had already boarded the lift platform. Marc had joined up with Kun Jie and Gao Ge, and they had now also broken through the Phage Beasts' siege and were on their way back.

Jing Nan sent a set of coordinates, requiring the two teams to meet at those coordinates.

On the vast wilderness, the two convoys converged from different directions.

On Marc's side, Gao Ge's and Kun Jie's teams had merged. Because of their extensive experience in dealing with Phage Beasts, although there were casualties, they were few.

In contrast, Luca's side had the most casualties of all the teams.

And this was even with Jing Yuan's support.

Without Jing Yuan, it was uncertain whether their team could have returned at all.

Facing this situation, everyone remained silent. Jing Yuan placed his gravity body onto the lift platform.

At this time, a yellow-haired young man walked over and said to Jing Yuan, "Thank you for saving me just now!"

Jing Yuan looked and saw it was the gravity body pilot who had given him the power source earlier.

Indeed, without Jing Yuan, he would have already become flesh soil.

"My name is Teran, you're Jing Yuan, right..."

Teran seemed very polite, but then a discordant voice rang out.

"You're still thanking him? If it weren't for him, would so many people in our team have died?"

The speaker was Luca. He was already unhappy, and hearing Teran's words made him even angrier.

At this moment, Jing Yuan was also very angry. He shouted, "Just now when I asked you to swap power sources, you wouldn't. If Teran hadn't been willing to swap with me, none of us would have made it back!"

"Am I talking about that?" Luca's expression was somewhat twisted. "I'm talking about this selection trial! Everyone knows that you, Jing Yuan, have already joined Leader Charles. This Deputy Captain position was arranged specifically for you! We originally thought this was a fair selection, but in the end, the competition was rigged. Of our five teams, yours was the only one that didn't encounter any Phage Beasts. Why do you think that is?"

Luca's question left Jing Yuan unable to answer.

Since reaching the waypoint, Jing Yuan had felt that everything was going too smoothly.

They had only encountered a few Spinal Gu; they really hadn't run into any Phage Beasts.

"I say, if you people wanted to appoint a Deputy Captain for you, you should have just done it. Why did you have to arrange for us to put on this show? It's one thing to arrange a show, but why did you have to take our lives? Using our lives to highlight your so-called fairness and justice?"

Jing Yuan glared and walked straight toward Luca. He had been very displeased earlier.

Luca had been uncooperative and now even held a grudge against him.

Jing Yuan hadn't argued with him at the time for the sake of covering the team's retreat, but now that he was bringing up other nonsense, how could Jing Yuan endure it?

"Since you knew it was a show, why did you participate? Since you know everything, what was your purpose in participating in this selection? Speak up!"

Luca was momentarily stunned; he hadn't expected Jing Yuan to talk back.

Logically, Jing Yuan was the one in the wrong; shouldn't he have silently accepted the blame?

But he forgot that Jing Yuan was someone who even dared to offend Charles to his face. What was a mere Luca compared to that?

"Come! Let me tell you!" Jing Yuan walked up to Luca and shouted, "You thought that with the support of the City Defense Force and Senge plotting for you from above, you could fish in troubled waters during this selection and seize the Deputy Captain position? That way, the City Defense Force could plant their own person within the Wasteland Hunters. That's what you were planning, wasn't it!"

Jing Yuan knew Luca had support from the City Defense Force, but he didn't know who it was. The reason he mentioned Senge was that this guy had the greatest ambition in the City Defense Force, so it was highly likely to be him.

Jing Yuan didn't care if it was true or not; if you can spout nonsense, why can't I?

"Bullshit!"

Jing Yuan punched Luca in the abdomen.

Luca was in so much pain he couldn't straighten his back and fell directly to his knees.

He had wanted to throw this punch for a long time.