Chapter 169: Chapter 57

What’s the point of leaving the students here?

Su Xiaocai sent a message to Fan Li, “Instructor Fan, I want to ask, who is Major General Mo? Why does he have the authority to decide the students’ stay or departure?”

“Major General Mo is Major General Mo Xianbin, he is responsible for arranging the work of frontline personnel.”

Su Xiaocai: “Are we considered frontline personnel? Shouldn’t Colonel Bai be the one arranging us?”

Colonel Bai is the highest leader of the student team.

Even if Major General Mo holds a higher rank, he shouldn’t overstep and interfere, right?

Fan Li, on the other side of the west district, was stunned. Indeed, Major General Mo should just give orders to the military in Huangyang City, there’s no need to unnecessarily involve the students’ arrangements.

Once suspicion arises, such doubtful thoughts linger persistently.

Fan Li reviewed the tasks issued by Major General Mo, the secret order pattern was correct, and the task contents seemed not too problematic.

Upon repeated checking, Fan Li suddenly realized and finally understood the issue.

Colonel Bai was already the highest responsible officer.

Logically speaking, the secret order pattern would only appear among his subordinates. Colonel Bai would only have his subordinates help issue tasks, not bother Major General Mo from over there.

The conclusion was obvious, Major General Mo, at a higher level, couldn’t possibly possess this secret order pattern.

Fan Li recalled the recent cases of disappearances, it seemed someone was spreading that these events were related to Major General Mo.

Unfortunately, he was just a Lieutenant and couldn’t probe into the particulars of high-ranking officers.

Realizing there was a problem, Fan Li immediately called, intending to seek instructions from Colonel Bai.

Yet, Colonel Bai didn’t answer the phone.

He made several calls, but Colonel Bai still didn’t pick up.

He then tried to contact the two deputies of Colonel Bai, to no avail, no one answered, as if they were blocked.

He turned to contact a few friends in the military, “Do you know where Colonel Bai is? Help me get in touch with him immediately, ask if he arranged for the students to return to the 022 Mechanical Planet today.”

Captain Tai was training the students. Seeing Fan Li’s message, he let the students continue training themselves and called Colonel Bai using the base’s line, but no one answered in Colonel Bai’s office.

Could something have happened?

Captain Tai had a bad feeling, “Could something have happened?”

The suspicion turned out to be true.

Colonel Bai, just half an hour before Fan Li’s calls, received a distress signal from a missing subordinate and was rushing to the battlefield; his communicator remained on, tracking the signal source.

What was strange was, ever since having this tracking signal, his communicator didn’t receive any other information.

Colonel Bai had his mind wrapped around the missing subordinate and didn’t pay too much attention to such details.

The situation was too urgent, he overlooked ordering the students to evacuate together.

He only thought that Fan Li and the others would prioritize student safety and retreat first.

He didn’t expect that someone would seize the right moment to act on his behalf, directly leaving the students on Huangyang Star.

Fan Li was very agitated without being able to find anyone.

Deciding to go back to find other instructors to evacuate the students, disregarding Major General Mo’s orders.

“Boom, boom.”

Fan Li turned his head, holding the railing and looking out.

Ahead, the whole area collapsed rapidly, several buildings continuously crumbling, sinking down.

What’s happening?

Feng Wansha shouted, “Su Xiaocai and the others are still over there.” She wanted to save them.

Fan Li shouted, “Ji Heng, Upper Machine, take Feng Wansha and retreat.” He himself also jumped out of the Mecha, grabbing Li Leilei by the collar, quickly jumping into the Mecha cabin.

The location where Su Xiaocai was still collapsing, very deep, unimaginably deep.

Fan Li and their location did not collapse, just the building tilted.

Why was it hollowed out, such a mild earthquake shouldn’t cause such a massive underground collapse.

The screams on the ground were continuous.

Someone luckily caught the edge of the collapse and escaped, patting his chest and turned around for a glance.

With just one glance, he met his doom.

A black tentacle lashed out from the underground, pulling him back.

“It’s the Insect Man.”

That scream shattered Huangyang City’s brief silence, like a resonating death knell, striking heavily on everyone’s heart.

Fan Li and Ji Heng flew high, avoiding the Mecha doing secondary damage to the collapsed area.

They saw Insect Men crawling continuously from the underground.

Feng Wansha felt ice-cold from head to toe, her brain froze, not knowing what to do next.

Wu Qingqing and Su Xiaocai were both her roommates, she couldn’t just ignore their safety.

“Ji Heng, make the call, quickly make the call.” Feng Wansha was too scared, her hands trembling violently, unable to operate the communicator.

“Don’t panic, don’t panic, I’m making contact now.” Ji Heng opened Su Xiaocai’s number and dialed.

It rang three times, no one answered. The lively ringtone at this moment seemed especially redundant, like a tragic background sound, making people restless and uneasy.

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