In fact, long before the hound shouted, Layton had desperately pulled the joystick to the highest position. The nose of the plane suddenly tilted, and the propellers at both ends of the wings, which were perpendicular to the ground, increased their speed to the fastest. At the same time, a strong airflow suddenly spurted out from the propeller at the tail - in less than two seconds, the relative height between the plane and the base had climbed to more than 800 meters.

The blood column below collapsed when it extended to more than 200 meters high. Countless red insects that made up the blood column scattered like raindrops and fell on the square.

Ke Lan always felt that this scene was familiar.

"Hoo...Hoo..." The Hound tightly grasped the handrail on the inner wall of the cabin, gasping for breath - he was standing in the aisle of the cabin just now, and he was not fastened with a seat belt, and was almost thrown out by the inertia of the plane when it took off.

"This place... is too dangerous... We... absolutely... absolutely cannot... stay here any longer..." The Hound looked at Ke Lan and spoke intermittently.

"Okay... let's leave here first," Ke Lan suddenly remembered something and turned to ask Layton in the cockpit, "Layton, I just asked you to send evacuation notices to several other bases. Did you receive a reply?"

"...No." Leighton was silent for a few seconds before answering. There was a hint of trembling in his tone, and it was obvious that he had anticipated something bad.

"Not even one?" Ke Lan and the hound looked at each other, and both saw astonishment and fear in each other's eyes...

"Not even one." Layton's hand, which had not been transformed by prosthetics, tightly grasped the joystick. Because he was holding too tightly, his finger joints had already turned pale. "Could it be...could it be that they also..."

"Let's raise our altitude by another 300 meters. We'll go to the Mitsui Group's base first... Keep calling on the radio and don't stop until we receive a reply." Ke Lan said. He unbuckled his safety belt, walked to the hatch, and looked down - he saw that the entire mining base had turned into a sea of ​​blood. Even the main control building, which was the largest building in the base, had been completely enveloped by this terrifying red color.

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"It's over... It's all over..." Manstein closed his eyes, leaned his head back on the chair, and muttered to himself.

"Hey, old man." Zhuoligetu, who was sitting next to him, patted his shoulder and said, "Don't be so pessimistic. At least we have our lives back, right? As long as we are alive, it's not over yet."

"What's the point of living!" Manstein shouted in frustration, "If the base is gone, I'll be finished too. It's better to be killed than to live like this... The consortium will not let me go, and neither will the loan sharks who lent me money..."

"Fuck, if you keep annoying me, I'll just throw you out!" The Hound was already in a bad mood, and Manstein kept yelling over there with a crying voice, which finally pissed him off. He strode directly to Manstein's seat, picked him up, and stretched him out of the cabin, leaving him hanging in the air.

"Ah, no, no, no, no, no, don't kill me!" The cold wind outside the cabin with a strong smell of blood suddenly made Manstein shudder. He immediately hugged the hound's arm like a ghost howling, for fear that the hound would suddenly let go of his hand.

"Then shut up and stay here quietly!" After saying that, the Hound threw Manstein back into the cabin. At this time, everyone was speechless to find that Manstein's pants were actually soaked, and liquid was still dripping from the trouser legs.

"Mr. Manstein, you don't have to be too depressed. The base's affairs are not your responsibility. I will make it clear to the consortium... As for the high-interest loans you owe, pay them back slowly. There will always be a day when you will pay them off." Ke Lan symbolically comforted him with a few words, and then turned her gaze to Sakurai Na - just now, the girl had woken up from a coma, and after seeing Ke Lan and others, her first reaction was to reach into the inside pocket of her white coat... but she touched nothing.

There should have been a pocket pistol for self-defense hidden there, but now it is gone.

"Are you looking for this?"

Ke Lan raised his hand, and the exquisitely crafted pocket pistol was hanging on his index finger.

"You kidnapped me...what is your intention?" Sakurai Na looked at Ke Lan warily and shrank back as far as possible.

"We didn't kidnap you... You didn't have a smelly sock stuffed in your mouth, and your hands and feet weren't tied up with ropes." Ke Lan said to her in a very calm tone, "If you want this gun, I can give it back to you. I just kept it for you temporarily in case it went off accidentally."

After saying that, Ke Lan threw the pocket pistol to Sakurai Na.

The girl reached out to take it hastily, but the gun slipped from her hand. After a flurry of activity, she finally picked up the gun and pointed it at Ke Lan who was sitting opposite her.

"I forgot to tell you, I unloaded all the bullets for fear of accidental discharge." Ke Lan took out an equally small magazine from his pocket, which contained four 9mm Parabellum pistol bullets.

"It's not good for a little girl to wield a knife or a gun. It's too dangerous." After saying that, Ke Lan threw the magazine out of the cabin.

"You--" Sakurai Na bit her lip, her eyes wide open, staring at Ke Lan angrily.

"If we hadn't saved you, you would be dead now." Hound hugged his head and leaned against the inner wall of the cabin, looking up and down at Sakurai Na who was curled up in the seat, "Is this how you treat your savior?"

"You saved me? What about the others? Where is Mr. Mitsuisuke? Where are the workers and soldiers? And where are the medical staff I brought?" Sakurai Na asked repeatedly.

"Dead, those things were too fast, I didn't have time to save them..." Ke Lan shook her head with a look of "regret", "If I hadn't knocked you out and forced you onto the plane, at least a step slower, we would both have died there."

"What exactly happened? They...they were killed by something, you can always tell me!" Sakurai Na gripped the handle of the pistol tightly, even though there was no bullet in it.

"A kind of flesh-eating bug. Their numbers are almost endless. When they gather together, they look like a blood-red ocean... Do you know that there are carnivorous creatures on Earth called army ants? Wherever they go, all living things will be eaten away, leaving only a white skeleton... But these bugs that emerge from the rock formations are more terrifying than army ants. They won't even leave you with bones... Moreover, even flamethrowers and energy shields can't deal with these bugs."