Chapter 163: Chapter 137, Beast Slaughter Group (6.4k Subscriptions Please!)_2
Swan said he would find a way to deal with it.
He wasn’t just going to handle those who wanted to flee; he would also try to rally the fleeing soldiers and maintain the battle line as much as possible.
Hearing Swan’s assurance, Henry breathed a sigh of relief.
This big shot from Rubbish Town, if he truly intended to stop this situation from worsening, probably had a way to do so.
But there was one thing that Henry felt uncertain about: what if Swan himself wanted to run?
What if he had convinced Perbov to go to the front lines just to buy time to move assets and wealth?
To put it bluntly, he was afraid Swan was deceiving him.
For a moment, he felt a confusing turmoil inside.
Seeing that Perbov had already begun to give orders for the artillery support unit to deploy, he said to Perbov:
“I’ll stay here.” He paused, then continued, “There’s no help I could provide at the front, better to stay here. Leave me a radio set, and I’ll keep in touch with the interior of Rubbish Town at all times to ensure no unrest occurs. If all goes well, I’ll manage to rally some fleeing soldiers and retreating units here. If… if there really is a major problem inside Rubbish Town, I’ll notify you in time. I won’t let your army get mired alone.”
“Alright, let’s do that.”
…
Half an hour later, at the front lines of the Fifth District.
As expected, the battle was still ongoing, with many adventurers resisting, but they had no advantage. From a distance, the Green Skin Orcs were killing the adventurers one by one, and occasionally, entire teams of adventurers were collapsing and retreating.
Among them, those with the most resolute fighting attitude were a group wearing gray combat coats. On their arms, they had uniform armbands with the image of a spear piercing upward through the skull of an orc.
This armband represented an adventuring group that had only been established six months ago but had rapidly expanded and swollen in size: The Beast Slaughter Group.
These were people determined to take revenge on the Green Skin Orcs, gathered together to form a team. Its founder, who was also the current leader, was named Lucy Lee Ko Xi.
Li Kexi used to be the leader of a medium-sized adventuring group, often mixing in Rubbish Town, known for his generosity, enthusiasm, and loyalty he held a reputation within the entire adventurer industry.
Six months ago, his group encountered a band of Green Skin Orcs and were nearly wiped out. He and a significant part of his comrades were captured by the Orcs.
He witnessed many of his closest comrades having their heads split open and their brains devoured, their abdomens ripped open to be used as food by the Orcs.
Among them were even his wife and two sons.
Later, the small Orc encampment was raided by another team of adventurers. During the chaos, Li Kexi managed to escape. Since then, he dissolved his former group and established a new adventuring team named ‘Beast Slaughter Group’, intent on revenge.
Anyone harboring a grudge against the Green Skin Orcs and determined to eliminate them could join the adventuring group. In fact, it could no longer be considered a usual adventuring group as their main goal was no longer urban exploration and scavenging for high-value items, but instead hunting down Green Skin Orcs.
In the past few years, there were no shortage of people with grudges against the Green Skin Orcs. Some would be terrified by the Orcs’ strength, brutality, and belligerence, but naturally, there were also those who were instead filled with anger and hatred.
They gathered in the Beast Slaughter Group and began their war against the Green Skin Orcs.
For Rubbish Town, which was facing an increasingly severe threat from the Orcs, such a team was, of course, very welcome. Although they were not productive, no longer scavenging, and rarely accepting employments, the merchants and agents from various districts of Rubbish Town were still willing to provide generously for their weaponry, logistics support, and even additional financial aid.
With hatred fueling them internally and financial support externally, the Beast Slaughter Group expanded rapidly over six months and also proved to be the best performing team in combating the Green Skin Orcs out of all adventuring groups in Rubbish Town.
Their original defense zone was neither in the eighteenth district nor in the Fifth District. However, after the outer defense line of the eighteenth district was breached and pierced through to the Fifth District, they too had to retreat to avoid being flanked.
At the same time, they realized the Orcs’ breakthroughs were not yet over. If they were allowed to continue their assault, Rubbish Town, the major rear area, could very well be lost.
Li Kexi led his Beast Slaughter Group, which boasted more personnel than usual, to the Fifth District for reinforcements, trying to plug the gaps in the defense line.
Then, as the battle raged on, his forces became the mainstay.
Other allied forces retreated one after another until only a few remained fighting alongside them.
Grasping his personally modified shotgun, which had three large barrels bound together, Li Kexi pulled the trigger, and the barrage of large-caliber shot at close range blew apart the head of a Green Skin Orc. “Pah,” he spat out the cigarette in his mouth that was almost burnt to the end, looking around him.
A sense of sorrow welled up inside his heart.
He knew this might be where his bones would finally lie.
The number of Green Skins rushing towards the gap in the defense line seemed to have surpassed three thousand; by contrast, the only ones still persevering in combat, apart from his own three-thousand-strong Beast Slaughter Group, were probably just a thousand or so other adventurers.