39: The Scavenger is Here

Mo Yan's lips curled into a slight smile, and he nodded.

"Brother Li, let's clear the battlefield first. Not a single one of these bastards can be let go!"

"You're right! Kill them all!"

Li Zezhong's spirits lifted. His recovered right arm swung his saber, pointing at the ordinary sand worms, his killing intent boiling.

"Gun Gun, you go too!" Mo Yan patted the little fellow's head in his arms.

"Gulu, Gun Gun will help!" Gun Gun obediently jumped out of Mo Yan's arms, its short legs moving incredibly fast.

It felt full of strength all over now. Swallowing that shiny thing just now was more effective than eating a hundred primeval stones!

Although the emerald green bamboo that had accompanied it for a long time was only half left, with cracks at the top, this little fellow didn't care at all.

It held this half-broken bamboo, and its round figure suddenly became blurry.

Qingyang Bamboo Shadow Skill!

After advancing to Qi Refining Rank 3, Gun Gun's movement speed was more than double what it was before.

It instantly rushed towards a sand worm that was still trying to gnaw on the wooden wall.

The sand worm hadn't reacted yet, only feeling a blur beside it.

Gun Gun leaped high, pouring its spiritual power into that half-broken bamboo!

"Gun Gun hits!"

Bang!

A dull explosion!

The sand worm, which was more than ten times larger than Gun Gun, instantly burst open!

Yellow-green, foul-smelling liquid mixed with shattered carapace splattered everywhere.

Killed in one hit, clean and decisive!

The Soldiers who were entangled with sand worms around them, whether under Mo Yan or Li Zezhong, all witnessed this scene.

"Holy crap!"

"This panda..."

"One hit... and it's gone?"

The surrounding Soldiers were dumbfounded. They swallowed hard, their movements slowed by half a beat, and their voices trembled.

They had personally experienced how difficult these sand worms were to deal with: thick-skinned, tough, and incredibly strong.

But this seemingly harmless little panda, holding a half-broken bamboo, actually killed one with a single blow?

The damage was simply outrageous!

Gun Gun tilted its fluffy head, surprised by the exaggerated effect of its attack.

It looked down at the half-broken bamboo in its hand, then glanced at the pile of minced meat on the ground.

"Gulu?" It let out a questioning sound.

It seemed to be saying: Is it that fragile?

Immediately, its eyes lit up, and it excitedly waved the half-broken bamboo, rushing towards the next sand worm.

Gun Gun's figure once again turned into an afterimage, rushing towards another sand worm that was about to emerge from underground.

As soon as the sand worm poked out half its head, Gun Gun seized the opportunity.

Bang!

Another dull thud.

The sand worm's head was directly smashed back into the ground, and the surrounding ground collapsed with it.

Gun Gun was like a tireless whack-a-mole machine, moving nimbly across the battlefield.

Every time it struck, a sand worm was sure to die.

It no longer needed to cautiously seek opportunities like before, attacking the sand worm's mouth weakness.

The Breakthrough in Rank and skill gave its strength and speed a qualitative leap, enough to directly crush the sand worm's defenses.

A sand worm that originally required two or three Soldiers to cooperate to defeat.

In front of Gun Gun, it was as fragile as paper.

Li Zezhong had never witnessed Gun Gun's Divine Might, his mouth twitching, his gaze complex.

The pandas he had seen in the zoo before, which one wasn't a cute national treasure that ate and slept, slept and ate?

"This panda is not right, it's too strong!"

This was not a panda; it was clearly a Vicious Beast in panda skin!

He now understood what Mo Yan meant by that earlier remark.

It turned out that in this brother's eyes, this was truly normal operation!

"Cough... What are you looking at?!" Li Zezhong felt a bit embarrassed, his old face flushed, and he pretended to be calm as he roared at his subordinates.

"Learn from it, didn't you see the panda is fiercer than you? Hurry up and kill the enemy!"

After speaking, he himself swung his saber, charging even more vigorously towards the sand worms.

He couldn't be outdone by a panda!

Mo Yan also couldn't help but smile slightly as he watched Gun Gun's performance.

This little fellow truly didn't disappoint him.

After devouring the leader's core, not only did its injuries fully recover, but its strength also surged.

An Iron-Eating Beast at Qi Refining Rank 3, combined with proficient skills, killing these ordinary sand worms was indeed like slicing melons and dicing vegetables.

He himself wasn't idle either.

His Frost Sword unleashed streaks of icy sword light.

Each sword precisely pierced the sand worm's vital points, and the frosty Qi erupted, quickly ending their lives.

With Gun Gun, the super cleaner, joining in, plus the morale-boosted Soldiers fighting back bravely, the number of sand worms on the battlefield was rapidly decreasing at a visible rate.

The overwhelming, desperate swarm of insects from before no longer existed.

Only scattered sand worms were still stubbornly resisting, but their defeat was only a matter of time.

Wang Wu stood on the ruins of the Arrow Tower, his reinforced crossbow bolts continuously firing.

Each arrow precisely hit a sand worm's weak point.

"Brother Mo Yan, your pet is truly well-hidden!" Li Zezhong shouted to Mo Yan while cutting down a sand worm.

Mo Yan casually replied, "Lucky, I picked it up."

Li Zezhong's facial muscles twitched a few times: "..."

He felt Mo Yan's words were even more outrageous than the previous ones.

Could such an incredibly fierce panda be picked up casually?

He strongly suspected that Mo Yan was being humblebragging.

Gun Gun heard someone praising it, and in its busy schedule, it even took a moment to turn its head, letting out a "gulu" sound towards Li Zezhong's direction, waving the half-broken bamboo in its paw as if showing off.

Then it excitedly ran off to smash the head of the next sand worm.

"Hahaha!" Li Zezhong couldn't help but laugh loudly as he watched Gun Gun's adorable yet incredibly fierce appearance, all the previous suppression and despair swept away.

Who cares if it's illogical, as long as they can win!

The battle lasted for about half an hour.

The deafening shouts and hisses gradually subsided.

On the battlefield, only the whistling hot wind remained, stirring up dust, blowing over the scattered sand worm corpses and the ruined territory.

Under the dark red sky, on the grayish-yellow sand, there were broken sand worm bodies and splattered foul-smelling liquid everywhere.

The wooden walls had collapsed and were damaged in many places, only two Arrow Towers still barely stood, the ground was pitted, and there were holes where sand worms had emerged and scars left by the battle.

The air was filled with a heavy smell of blood, and the pungent odor of acid corrosion, mixed together, forming a nauseating stench.

The surviving Soldiers, regardless of which territory they belonged to, were all leaning on their weapons, gasping for breath.

They... survived!

In this desperate sandstorm, where there was almost no hope, they held on!

"We... won?" A young Soldier murmured, looking at the corpses all over the ground, his voice trembling with disbelief.

"We survived!!!" An old Soldier next to him slapped his shoulder hard and roared.

The suppressed emotions erupted like a tide. The surviving Soldiers let out earth-shattering cheers, many even cried tears of joy and collapsed to the ground.

Mo Yan looked at the cheering Soldiers, and his taut nerves finally relaxed.

This battle was too tragic.

He walked to Li Zezhong, who was also covered in blood: "Brother Li, it's over."

Li Zezhong turned his head, revealing a tired smile: "Yes, Brother Mo Yan, it's over."

The two looked at each other and smiled in unison.

Just then, a grand and solemn prompt sounded simultaneously in Mo Yan's and Li Zezhong's minds.

[Prompt: The third wave of Vicious Beasts has been successfully repelled. Joint Defense Rating: Perfect!]

Hearing the "Perfect" rating, both Mo Yan and Li Zezhong were invigorated.

A perfect rating meant that the rewards would be very generous!

Immediately after, a series of reward prompts appeared like a screen-filling torrent.