Chapter 46: Great Change

The situation did not develop as Qian Deduo had hoped.

A loud shout came from behind the bus: "Qian Deduo!!!"

Before the words had even finished, a figure leaped onto the truck. It was Captain Zhong Nan, his eyes blazing with anger. He kicked Qian Deduo away and scolded, "Qian Deduo, you big mouth! Can't you just behave? Do you think it's not chaotic enough?"

Qian Deduo laughed and climbed up from the truck bed, rubbing his hands and said, "Captain, don't get so angry. I was just experimenting. Don't be so tense, no one will die!"

Zhong Nan snorted angrily, "No one will die? I warned you to behave. Look at the mess you've made!"

Qian Deduo glanced outside and exclaimed, "Captain, this isn't my fault. You kicked me, and I lost my grip on the sausage, and it fell out!"

Chu Yunsheng had seen many people fight over a shop, but he had never seen a melee break out over a half-eaten sausage that had fallen to the ground.

He couldn't even see the sausage clearly, but he could hear people shouting, "It's over there!" followed by a surge of people overwhelming the poor suspect!

The crowd became increasingly chaotic and frenzied, the disturbance gradually spreading. Some people joined the chaos blindly, and cries for help echoed as people were trampled and crushed.

Zhong Nan's face was ashen, and even the usually thick-skinned Qian Deduo looked pale. If they didn't stop this soon, it might really end in fatalities! Although human life seemed to be worth little in this era, if things got out of hand, it could lead to a challenge to the school's command system.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Four sharp gunshots rang out!

The crowd was momentarily stunned, even the fighting paused.

It was Zhong Nan who fired the shots. He leaped onto the truck's roof, took the megaphone handed to him from the cab, and shouted, "Students! Students! Please stop all the chaos immediately! Please remain calm!"

Clearly, his oratory skills were far inferior to those of the political commissar Chu Yunsheng had seen long ago. Not only did he fail to stop the chaos, but it also triggered the very thing Zhong Nan and others feared.

A male student tore off his hat and threw it to the ground, shouting, "Students, calm my ass! These bastards eat well, dress well, and have cars to ride in. Why do we have to go hungry, be cold, and be food for the bugs!"

"Right, students, they claim to protect us, but who are they protecting? People die every day, where are they?" a female student shouted coldly.

"All they do is bully us! We'll either die at the hands of the bugs or at their hands!"

"Damn, they've ruined my girlfriend!"

"Charge, students!"

...

The food fight instantly turned into an internal riot. The students rushed the truck, the bus, and all the vehicles!

The momentum was like a mountain collapsing and a tidal wave surging!

The military captain, who was cooperating with the school, had a cold expression. He drew his pistol, stood on the roof of the bus, and shouted at the crowd, "Anyone who advances will be shot dead!"

"Everyone, prepare to fire!"

Zhong Nan was in a panic. He threw away the useless megaphone and shouted at his team, "First group, guard the truck! Second and third groups, come with me to buses two and three. The research results must not be destroyed! Fourth and fifth groups, to bus one! Remember, no one is to be killed without my order! No one is to be killed! I repeat, no one is to be killed without my order!"

Chu Yunsheng instantly activated his battle armor. He had no intention of joining the internal riot, whether on the side of the ordinary students or the authorities, as it didn't concern him much.

But now, the surging tide of students forced him to make an immediate choice!

Rather than stand with the weak, he chose to stand with the strong. The victors of this internal riot would never be the weak ordinary students, but the school authorities with weapons and powerful awakened abilities.

Moreover, Chu Yunsheng had personally seen the team members fight the bugs with blood and sweat. While they might have overstepped in some areas, they had indeed made the greatest effort to protect the people! So he felt that the students inciting the riot were completely irresponsible, or perhaps their minds had completely broken down.

Bus one was the Achilles' heel or weakness of all the team members, as their closest and dearest were on this bus. Zhong Nan entrusted the safety of this bus to the fourth and fifth groups, the largest and strongest, for this very reason.

The students had already rushed to the bus, some climbing up, others pushing the vehicle.

Qian Deduo's face was completely pale. He never imagined that a joke about a half-eaten sausage would cause such a huge mess. He mechanically followed the team members to the roof of bus one, still in a daze.

As students rushed up, team members kicked them away, but there were too many. Chu Yunsheng could already feel the bus swaying under the force of the crowd.

The windows of the bus were smashed by the students, but the steel bars outside prevented them from getting in. Even so, the people inside screamed incessantly.

At this moment, a sudden change occurred.

A team member, accidentally, had his ankle grabbed by a student he had kicked down. Before he could react, he was dragged down and immediately swallowed by the surging crowd.

The team member was fire-attribute. As he was swallowed, he unleashed his most instinctive and powerful ability, and a raging fire erupted from the crowd!

When life was threatened, no one cared about orders!

One, two, three, ... one after another, students were set ablaze by the dark energy fire that could burn the red-armored bugs, screaming in agony!

The fire spread along the team member's body, reaching bus one. Chu Yunsheng was alarmed and quickly took the crossbow from Yu Xiaohai, infused it with a bit of essence, and shot an arrow, quickly freezing the fire that was about to get out of control.

The sudden fire made the students lose their nerve. In front of the awakened team members, they seemed as weak as ants, easily crushed.

The chaos reached a stalemate.

"Look! Helicopters!" Zhou Tingyun, with her sharp eyes, pointed to three bright spots approaching from behind.

As the helicopters drew closer, the alert captain suddenly ordered the machine gunner to turn the gun. Chu Yunsheng noticed something strange because the three helicopters looked like they were fleeing!

Chu Yunsheng rushed from the front of the bus to the back and looked through the night vision device. Behind the fleeing helicopters, several small dots were rapidly approaching.

What is it? Chu Yunsheng's heart sank!

Rat-tat-tat... ...

The helicopters fired their machine guns, bullets flashing in the darkness, shooting at the small dots.

The crowd below, including the awakened team members, were stunned. Everyone looked up at the sky, no one knowing what was happening.

The helicopters flew closer, the small dots becoming larger, and finally, the thing caught up with the helicopters, entangling with them.

The sky was filled with the sound of machine guns, and the leading helicopter even fired two rockets backward.

"It's bugs! Flying bugs!!!"

Someone in the crowd shouted in alarm!

The helicopter attacked by the monster finally lost balance, smoking and crashing forward. The monster screeched and pounced on another helicopter.

At this point, Chu Yunsheng could see clearly. It was a monster the size of a helicopter, with wings like a dragonfly, a long beak, and four legs—two short ones in front and two long ones in back, flying as fast as the wind!

Two more were following the first one!

One of them, diving and screeching, pounced on the burning bus one.

The machine gunner, on the captain's order, immediately pulled the trigger, the dark barrel spewing a long tongue of fire.

Chu Yunsheng, in shock, took several steps back and shouted, "Get down! Get down!"

In a short moment, the flying bug swooped down. Chu Yunsheng ran and tackled the dazed people at the front of the bus.

The bug flew over bus one and pounced on the truck, its hind legs piercing and hooking a person, then soared into the sky.