Starting Off Survival With A Small Treehouse

Chapter 1452 - 715:

Moreover, those eyes were regenerating at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Some of the eyeballs in those eyes had already mostly grown back, blinking and rolling nonstop.

In stark contrast to that were the bullet paths punched through this guy’s body.

Just now they’d been hidden by Wen Guixin’s insanely dense fire, but now everyone could see them clearly.

Xu Xin had hit it three times; his weapon was already out of ammo.

Right now, the five bullet paths torn through this thing’s body were burning with red‑yellow sparks, slowly expanding!

Two of those were from Xu Ying’s shots.

The reaction was almost exactly the same as what they’d seen in their tests on the corpses.

Only, on the corpses, the holes enlarged at an insanely fast pace, turning an entire body to black ash in a few seconds.

But now, the burn spreading along the bullet paths was much, much slower.

It was like some kind of body‑burning torture!

And at the same time, the writhing of this alien invader was growing more and more violent.

More than a dozen sharp blades suddenly pushed out from inside its body!

Off to the side, Wang Lei saw this and instantly grabbed another big rock, smashing it down on the thing.

”Clang!”

It was flattened on the spot.

Even flattened, the whole boulder was still trembling.

Because the alien invader pinned under it was not dead.

”Brother Xin, this is way too dangerous, watch out or you’ll get your head popped and die on the spot.” Wang Lei clapped his hands and said, ”Even if it’s been hit by a weapon made specifically to deal with alien invaders, you still can’t throw yourself at it out of moral righteousness.”

”...Yingying, you should... huh? Where’s Yingying?”

Xu Xin looked around, but couldn’t find Xu Ying anywhere.

...?

Where’d she go?

Wasn’t she going to fire up the super‑ship’s main cannon...

And right then, a purple‑black vortex rippled open on the floor again, and Xu Ying appeared in front of everyone.

Her expression scared the hell out of them!

Her face was deathly pale, and there were streaks of blood at the corners of her eyes, nose, and mouth!

Her pupils were also kind of unfocused at the moment.

Xu Xin was shocked: ”Yingying, what happened to you...”

Xu Ying didn’t answer. She shoved a pill into her mouth with one hand, staggered forward and threw herself onto the control console with the other, then...

She aimed the super‑cannon at the roots of that World Tree and fired it on the spot!

Immediately, a world‑shaking scene played out before everyone’s eyes.

After that blinding, searing flash of light, a massive, dense mushroom cloud wrapped around the entire area where the World Tree stood.

They couldn’t see a thing.

”Holy shit!” Zhao Xiaochuan yelped, ”What the hell is that?”

”We’re inside the super‑ship, right? That’s the ship’s cannon?” Wen Guixin stared wide‑eyed at the image on the screen.

”Fuck, this place was actually the super‑ship’s control room!?” Wang Lei was stunned, his jaw hanging open.

Thick smoke boiled upward and spread; there was no seeing anything at the blast site.

Xu Ying’s body went limp; she just collapsed to the ground and started gasping for air.

Xu Xin, Li Wenxi, Lou Fei’Er and the others rushed over immediately.

”How are you?” Xu Xin crouched down and asked.

Fortunately, Xu Ying had already taken the medicine; her complexion had recovered a lot and wasn’t nearly as ghost‑white as before.

Just now she’d looked practically like a corpse.

But the blood streaks on her face were all still there.

”I’m... I’m fine now.”

She looked miserable, but she was laughing.

Laughing with real relief.

”Haha, I should’ve... blasted that alien invaders’ leader to death with that shot, haha...”

Blasted the alien invaders’ leader to death?

Xu Xin’s eyelids twitched.

He kind of realized what Xu Ying had just gone off to do.

”How... how could you end up looking like that?” Li Wenxi propped Xu Ying up against the edge of the console, ”You scared me to death...”

”Yeah, your face just now, I almost thought a zombie had shown up...” Lou Fei’Er handed her another pill, ”Take one more, you still don’t look so great.”

”Mm...”

Xu Ying took the pill and swallowed it; her face looked much better again. Seeing the complicated look on Xu Xin’s face, she smiled and said, ”Ah, looks like my dear brother already figured out what I went to do.”

”Just now, I went over by the scarlet crystal to check things out,” she said with a smile.

”...Huh?”

”What?”

”Hah? You went to do what?”

Her words pulled everyone’s attention away from the shock of the blast.

”You went to the spot where those nukes went off?!” Zhao Xiaochuan was stunned, ”You...”

”Yeah... the explosions there are over, but the temperature is still super high, and the radiation is insanely strong.”

Xu Ying braced herself and stood up from the floor: ”So that’s why I looked like that just now. Aah, I almost got killed by the radiation.”

”You you you... you’re out of your mind!” Zeng Tao was so shocked he slipped right off his boulder.

Xu Xin opened his mouth, wanting to give her a scolding too, but in the end he just sighed helplessly: ”You... so you went to see if the alien invaders’ leader was still there?”

”Yeah.” Xu Ying wiped the blood from the corners of her mouth and eyes, and said, ”The scarlet crystal got blasted into chunks, about...”

She looked at the boulder next to them: ”About this big.”

All those nuclear blasts had only blown the scarlet crystal into pieces?

It was within expectations, but still left everyone a bit speechless.

”The leader had just finished transporting there, going ’ooaaah’ and saying something, looked super pissed.” Xu Ying laughed. ”I was worried it would bail because of the radiation, so I jumped back right away and then fired up the super‑ship’s main cannon.”

She looked toward the slowly rising mushroom cloud, narrowed her eyes, and the corner of her lips hooked up in a faint grin.

Everyone turned to stare at the spot hammered by the ship’s main gun.

Smoke billowed upward; even the purple‑black light pillar had vanished without a trace.

The change felt dreamlike.

It didn’t even feel real to them, and yet it had all already happened.

Their mission...

Did they pull it off?