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  Chapter 246 Ambush

  Since she was a child, Kate has had an inexplicable longing for the starry sky above her head.

   Whenever she raised her head and looked up at the starry sky, Kate felt a part of her soul, as if she was going to be sucked into this vast and boundless galaxy. She always has a feeling that her soul seems to be closely related to that distant space. If possible, she even longs to go to space, where she can experience for herself... the feeling of soul connection.

   But it's a pity that the war ended the girl's innocent and romantic dream.

  After the pendulum war, human beings did not enjoy long-term peace, because soon, the orcs rushed out from the ground and turned the world into hell.

  In Kate's memory, her childhood after this was only escape, war, death, and various conflicts. Those once beautiful pasts have been completely destroyed. Even her power that once felt like she could connect to the starry sky seemed to have disappeared without a trace.

   Of course, for Kate, this is nothing to be concerned about. The kind of fairy tales that children go to bed have already become a thing of the past. What she is facing now is a completely different life.

   "Hoo......"

  Kate pulled back the worn-out scarf that covered her mouth and let out a sigh of relief. She clenched the rifle in her hand and stared around vigilantly. Behind her is a group of migrating vagrants—just a few months ago, they lived in a nearby small town, but as the town was discovered by the orc scouts, it represented the It is also increasingly unsafe. So people had to choose to migrate again...

  This is the life of nomads. For various reasons, they cannot enter the last fortress and base of human beings. The orcs cannot penetrate the Jasintu Plateau on the surface, so they live a wandering life outside. Of course, the reasons for these vagrants are different. Some people are not used to the iron fist of the security government alliance that ruled Jiaxintu, and some hate the security government because of the previous pendulum war. Others simply because there is no way to get in there...

   Kate is one of them.

When she was young, her parents were killed because of the orc invasion. After that, Kate just wandered around like a mouse. She used to be among many wandering groups, until now—— Fourteen years have passed, but for Kate, the horror of those orcs still makes her sleepless.

   "Hey, Kate."

  At this moment, a voice suddenly sounded, and Kate hurriedly raised her gun and turned around, only to see a young man wearing a helmet standing behind her, looking at her with a smile.

   "It's you, Carmon, be careful I'll blow your head off with one shot."

   "Hey, I didn't mean to."

  The young man raised his hand to signal.

   "I just want to buy you a drink, look, I found something good before..."

   As he spoke, the young man took out a bottle of wine from his pocket and shook it in front of Kate.

   "I don't have time right now."

  Although Kate was very jealous of the bottle of wine, she still looked around and spoke.

   "Don't forget, we are migrating, in case the orcs find us..."

   "Then go to hell."

  Carmon didn't care about Kate's remarks. He opened the bottle, took a sip, and then stretched out his hand to wipe his mouth.

"You said, Kate, is there really hope for human beings? We don't know how many orcs there are, and we have nothing left. The same is true for this tribe. We can't stay in one place for a long time. No matter where I am, I always worry that the ground under me will suddenly collapse one night, and then a group of orcs will come out and hack us to death... Isn't this what happens to the vagrants? The security government is useless at all, we How much better can it be? It’s better to leave this **** world early... at least it can give me a good dream.”

   "...you drank too much."

  Smelling the smell of alcohol coming from Camon's mouth, Kate frowned and hid back. There are not a few people like Camon who have lost hope for life and future among the homeless. They are afraid of the attack of the orcs, but they are powerless to resist. Every day is scary for them. Some people often choose to kill themselves because they can't bear the days when they can't see tomorrow and hope.

   What about Kate herself?

  She feels that she has no free time to think about this kind of problem every day. She is just doing her own work and immersing herself in it. Whether it is fighting or anything else, as long as there is something to do, Kate will not think about it.

   "What's wrong with drinking too much, come and drink too..."

  While talking, Carmon walked towards Kate with a smile again, and at the same time raised the bottle again, took a sip, and at this moment...

"boom!"

  Accompanied by a gunshot, Carmon's head was instantly pierced, and the wine bottle he put in his mouth exploded, and the wine spilled out of it, staining Carmon's head and face. And the young guy just stood there dumbfounded - and then fell headlong to the ground.

  At the same time, Kate also heard the familiar roar of a nightmare-like beast.

   "The enemy attacked, it was the orcs!"

Kate yelled, squatting down on the spot, and hid behind half of the wall. At this time, several tall orcs also jumped down from the surrounding ruins, holding weapons and aiming at the vagrant team. launched an attack. At this moment, the slow-moving vagrant team suddenly exploded, and many screamed and ran forward, trying to escape the attack of the orcs. They are very clear that these orcs will not just kill them, they will take humans as captives, take them underground, and then become miserable slaves and test subjects.

   Obviously, even these homeless people don't want to face this kind of ending.

   "Da da da da da da!!"

  Kate squatted behind the bunker, raised her gun and fired at the front, trying to block the attack of the orcs. At this time, several other guards also rushed over to cooperate with Kate to contain the orcs. In any case, now that these beasts have appeared, the rewards for Kate and other guards on this mission will also become much richer.

  The premise is that they can go back alive.

   "Hurry up! Get them out of here!"

  Kate yelled while pulling the trigger, aiming at the orcs in front of them and pouring ammunition crazily, but this was not very useful. The tough bodies of the orcs prevented them from falling down after being hit by a few bullets. Not to mention that Kate and other vagrants are not holding advanced weapons from the regular army, but just some light rifles that were eliminated during the pendulum war. Naturally, such rifles are no problem against humans. However, using them to deal with rough-skinned orcs is no different from shooting water guns.

  Kate saw with her own eyes that her rifle bullet hit the head of an orc soldier, and a flower of blood bloomed. If it were a human being, this shot would be fatal. However, the orc just tilted his body and continued to rush towards them with strides, until Kate fired half of the bullets before knocking the guy down to the ground.

   Hope it's just a patrol...

  Kate hid behind the bunker again, took the time to replace another magazine, and prayed silently in her heart. However, soon, a series of roars came from all directions, completely cutting off Kate's hope.

   "Damn it! It's the army of the orcs!"

   "We must retreat!"

  At this moment, the guards also began to retreat quickly. The vagrants in front were dead. They had obviously entered the ambush circle of the orcs. It was meaningless to manage those vagrants at this time. When Kate turned her head, she even saw a large number of orcs rushing towards the line of homeless people, knocking all those screaming and running away to the ground.

   "Go! Go!"

   There is no need to think about the reward. Being able to leave here alive is the greatest reward. The guards left one after another, but Kate was hesitant. She looked at the vagrants who were being attacked, and then at the retreating guards behind her, without saying a word.

   "Hey Kate, it's too late if you don't go!"

   Seeing Kate staying there, a guard yelled, perhaps his voice caught the attention of the orcs, and soon a bullet flew past and pierced his head. At this moment, the vagrants' team was in a mess, and those vagrants who had no time to escape were knocked to the ground by the orcs, and then arrested.

"Mommy mommy……!"

  A child was crying and looking for her mother, but the next moment, she was knocked down by the beast clan.

   Seeing this, Kate made a decision.

  She turned over the obstacle, rushed into the gap relying on her slender body, and then came to an abandoned sentry not far away, where an orc firepower emplacement was erected. At this moment, an orc is manipulating the firepower emplacement, laughing and pouring firepower on the vagrant team.

"Hey!"

  Kate jumped up and came to the back of the orc, then she patted the other's shoulder, and then directly stabbed the orc in the neck, kicking the corpse directly. Then Kate grabbed the firepower turret and aimed at the orc army.

   "You bastards! Go to hell!!"

   "Boom boom boom boom boom!!!"

  Accompanied by Kate's roar, the firepower turret poured out countless bullets again, but this time its target was not the vagrants, but the orcs. The orcs who were attacked from behind quickly realized that something was wrong, they turned around with roars, and fired wildly at the fort. Kate, on the other hand, didn't dodge, just stood behind the fort and continued to pull the trigger, roaring and firing a hail of bullets.

  But before Kate killed a few more orcs, a violent impact came from behind her, knocking Kate to the ground. She raised her head in a daze, only to see a burly orc staring at her viciously, shouting and stomping on Kate's head. And Kate rolled almost instinctively, dodging the fatal blow, and then she jumped up with almost all her strength, jumped onto the back of the beast tribe, and directly stuffed a grenade in her arms into the beast tribe's back. waist, and then Kate jumped back hard.

   "Boom!!"

  The grenade exploded instantly, splitting the body of the orc in two, and Kate was also blown out and fell heavily to the ground.

   "Poof!"

  She spat out a mouthful of blood. Kate, who was lying on the ground, didn't even have the strength to continue fighting. She could see that the beasts around her were slowly approaching her.

  Maybe, this is my own death.

  Thinking of this, Kate raised her head and looked at the starry sky in front of her.

   This starry sky is still so beautiful, but... there seem to be more stars twinkling in the sky than I remember?

Um? what is that?

   Soon, Kate discovered that something seemed wrong. In the starry sky in front of her, the countless shining stars seemed to be getting brighter and getting closer...

   Are these stars going to fall from the sky?

  At this moment, the thought that even made her laugh at Kate turned around in her mind.

  But then, she saw these radiances...falling from the sky, hitting those beast races heavily.

  (end of this chapter)