144: Chapter 144 Inoue Maru's Seppuku Exploded
On an abandoned building at the bridgehead, Yun Zhuo, watching Inoue Maru speed away, turned back to Li Jianrong and said, "Regiment Leader Li, wake everyone up. It's time to get to work."
Li Jianrong smiled slightly.
Soon, the bridgehead was brightly lit, with some twenty thousand people crowding the entire area until it was impassable.
"Damn it, it's almost dawn. I thought you kid had forgotten about it already."
Sabowang walked out of the crowd, cursing, and continued, "Kid, forty percent of the crystal mines isn't so easy to get. You better think this through."
Yun Zhuo glanced at him, smiled coldly, and said to Li Jianrong beside him, "Are you ready, Regiment Leader Li?"
Li Jianrong was taken aback, "You want me to be the first to cross the bridge?"
"As far as I know, most of the crystal mines that Dongji Company obtained this time are on Watanabe. I hope you can be the first to capture Watanabe."
"You trust me that much?"
"Among these people, apart from you, there is really no one else I trust."
After speaking, Yun Zhuo's eyes swept toward Sabowang, meeting his sinister gaze.
Sabowang couldn't help but curse inwardly. Did this kid know something? Otherwise, why would he say that most of the crystal mines were in Watanabe's hands?
Wasn't this just drawing everyone's attention to Watanabe?
How would he be able to silence anyone then?
"Hey, wait a minute. Weren't you going over alone? Why has it changed to the Blazing Fire Adventure Group?"
"Idiot."
"Who are you calling names? If you have the guts, say it again."
"Idiot! I'm calling you an idiot, Sabowang. You're not just an idiot, you're also cheap. I called you that once, and you want me to call you that a second time. Tell me, aren't you cheap?"
"You!"
Sabowang pointed at Yun Zhuo, but saw that everyone around was holding back laughter, looking at him as if he were an idiot.
Just as he was about to lose his temper and rush up to kill Yun Zhuo, his War Princess grabbed him tightly, reminding him, "If you don't tolerate small things, you will spoil great plans."
Sabowang's pointing finger slowly retracted and curled into a fist. He didn't know how much strength he used, but his entire arm was trembling.
Yun Zhuo didn't expect this guy to be so capable of restraint. Just a moment ago, the words "traitor" were written all over his face. He had originally wanted to take this opportunity to deal with him, but he didn't expect the guy to be so patient.
He couldn't just kill him for no reason, as that would scatter the morale he had just gathered.
The Japanese at the Abandoned Well couldn't be handled by just himself and Di Zhenzhen and her fellow nuns; he had to let these Adventurers go.
Seeing that Sabowang had quieted down, Li Jianrong led his people onto the suspension cables of the bridge, riding his War Princess and sprinting along the cables.
The others followed suit, having their War Princesses activate their First Form and hurriedly following behind.
Sabowang didn't understand. Yun Zhuo was still here, so why were they in such a rush to go die?
What on earth did that kid conspire about with Li Jianrong today?
But seeing the people around him becoming fewer and fewer, he had no choice but to hurry and follow.
Otherwise, if everyone left and he didn't, that kid Yun Zhuo would definitely take the opportunity to kill him.
"Sister Zhenzhen, let's go too."
"Oh, okay."
Di Zhenzhen walked onto the suspension cable without hesitation, but was stopped by Yun Zhuo: "Hey, Sister Zhenzhen, where are you going?"
"Aren't we going over?"
"There is no goddess's protection over there. We are so weak, let's not go join the fun."
"Ah? But didn't you already promise them?"
"I only promised to help them clear the bridgehead; I didn't say I was going to risk my life with them."
"Will they agree to that?"
"Once they reach our territory, they'll have to agree whether they want to or not. Let's go, we're going to block the exit of the city so those guys don't run off with the goods. Who would we find to split the spoils with then? That's at least 1.2 billion."
"I worked so hard to negotiate that price, it can't just go down the drain."
Then Teacher Su activated her First Form, carrying Yun Zhuo and Teacher Su towards the city gate at high speed.
Although Di Zhenzhen didn't know what kind of medicine Yun Zhuo was selling in his gourd, seeing him leave, she hurriedly called the other nuns to follow.
On the other side, the escaped Inoue Maru had just arrived at the opposite bank.
"Who is it!"
Hearing movement from the suspension cable, a bridge-guarding mech suddenly aimed its corrosion energy gun at the cable.
"Is that you, Oda-kun? It's me, Inoue Maru."
After speaking, Inoue Maru climbed out from under the suspension cable and stood on it.
Looking from here, there were dense defensive fortifications everywhere, with about four or five hundred people, all in Body Integration with long-range mechs.
As well as dozens of Jianmu City's unique Type 1 heavy armored vehicles, equipped with Jianmu City's unique "bent-handle" machine guns.
"Inoue-kun, you've finally returned. If you hadn't come, we would have all left."
"The tunnel has been cleared? Didn't they say it would take another two days?"
"The actual situation is better than estimated. It will be cleared by tomorrow morning at the latest."
"I hope there won't be any more complications."
As he spoke, Inoue Maru had already walked down from the suspension cable.
"Inoue-kun, where are you going?"
"My stomach is upset, I'm going to take a dump. By the way, where are the President and the President's wife? I have some business with the wife."
"I really envy you, guy. Go ahead, she's waiting for you at the usual spot."
"Damn it, Oda-kun, do you have any paper? I feel like I'm about to go."
"Huh?"
Just as Oda was about to exit his Body Integration form to get paper for him from his wristband, the suspension cables on the bridge began to shake violently.
It was as if thousands of troops and horses were galloping on the suspension cables.
"Not good, those guys from Central Heaven City are coming over."
Oda had no time to find paper for Inoue Maru; he hurriedly ordered everyone to enter the fortifications, aiming all their guns and artillery at the violently shaking suspension cables on this side.
As long as the enemy dared to show their heads on the suspension cables, they would turn them into a hornet's nest.
But just then, a bloody light lit up behind the crowd, illuminating everything in front of them in a deep red.
Oda instinctively looked back, only to see a dazed Inoue Maru staring blankly at his own stomach.
Underneath his tactical suit, it began to glow and heat up, just like a paper lantern.
Veins were clearly visible through the tactical suit under the intense light.
"Inoue-kun, what's going on with your stomach?"
"I, I don't know! A sword, give me a sword quickly!"
Oda kicked a Japanese sword on the ground over, and Inoue Maru grabbed the sword and began to perform seppuku.
He threw away all sense of ritual for seppuku; he just wanted to quickly cut open his stomach and take out whatever was inside, otherwise his intestines would be cooked.
With a swift slash, it cut open with a tearing sound, followed by a thunderous explosion.
A small, blood-colored mushroom cloud rose into the air on the mountaintop.
The people guarding the bridge couldn't figure it out even if they racked their brains; wasn't it just a seppuku?
How did such a big fart come out of it?
The incandescent blood-red light illuminated the world in stark white, and the shockwave of several thousand degrees instantly vaporized everything within a hundred meters.
Everything within five hundred meters was torn to shreds.
At this moment, Watanabe, who had already completed Body Integration with Cangjing Bukong, was standing at the tunnel entrance behind the mountain, watching his subordinates clear the tunnel.
Suddenly, the arrival of the seismic wave caused the ground to shake; the tunnel, which had been cleared with such difficulty, was collapsing again.
The subordinates working inside scrambled to run out.
The mountain being tunneled was already desertified; this shaking not only completely blocked the tunnel but also caused a landslide. Not wanting to be buried alive, Watanabe had no choice but to lead his men and run in the opposite direction.
Just as they ran to the Abandoned Well, Li Jianrong also brought his people down from the suspension cables.
The area in front of the Abandoned Well had been crystallized by the high temperature of the blood crystal fission bomb, turning it into a concave mirror, like a giant pot with a radius of five hundred meters.
The people rushing from both sides, if they didn't stand steady, would slide down.
The Adventurers hurriedly completed Body Integration with their War Princesses. In this place that looked like a giant celestial pot, there was nowhere to run. The two sides collided directly and began slaughtering each other.