Chapter 161: Aftermath of Disaster 154
Bai Zhongqi was completely unconcerned with the extent of Infia City's losses at the moment; instead, he found an emergency medical kit among the ruins of the palace. Although the palace had not been equipped with a shield system in time, it still had medical supplies. There were even specialized medical devices there, but they had been damaged by the earthquake.
Bai Zhongqi tore open an emergency medicine injection with his teeth. This medicine could activate bodily functions in a short time, but if the patient did not receive help after the effect wore off, their death would be hastened.
Han Jiaxue was already in so much pain that she had passed out. Bai Zhongqi injected the medicine into her body, unable to stop his tears from flowing.
Just a few minutes earlier, he had sworn that he would protect her, but now he had once again put Han Jiaxue's life in danger.
What moved him even more was that, at the critical moment, Han Jiaxue had thoughtlessly pushed him away. Had she not moved and stayed embraced with Bai Zhongqi, she might have been unharmed. Lanzhou's Knight's Shield had activated the moment Bai Zhongqi was in danger, and not even a massive rock could disturb the shield in the slightest.
"Chancellor, the emergency rescue squad has departed and will definitely reach Infia within ten minutes!" Lanzhou had also seen the rubble that was once Infia City through orbital satellite reconnaissance imagery. The one consolation for her was that Bai Zhongqi was unharmed.
She touched her own collar where a shield-shaped pin had been. She knew that the shield she held had already appeared next to the Chancellor, protecting him from all harm.
Bai Zhongqi dared not move the seriously injured Han Jiaxue even slightly and had no choice but to wait for rescue here. With each passing minute, his mood grew heavier. The people of Infia City had not come for rescue, indicating that Infia had suffered catastrophic damage, and even with the Chancellor there, no one came.
In the eighth minute after the disaster occurred, movements finally appeared outside the palace. Bai Zhongqi could judge, by Supreme Command's authority, that it was the bionic humans who had survived within Infia City starting to clear the rubble, preparing to rescue him.
Bai Zhongqi didn't need a detailed report to know how much had been ruined. All of the Iridium Star equipment was under his surveillance and control, with more than ninety percent of the equipment in the inner part of Infia severely damaged, and more than sixty percent of the bionic humans lost.
Because of human flexibility, people had a greater chance of survival in this disaster compared to fixed devices.
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The first action of the surviving bionic humans after the disaster was completely unified: to rescue Bai Zhongqi, the Chancellor.
However, lacking engineering machinery, their bare hands were ineffective at clearing the rubble.
About ten minutes later, a large group of engineering spacecraft and drones, along with the rescue squad sent from the orbit base of Emerald Sea Star, reached Infia. The massive engineering ships, with their nimble and precise arms, lifted the ruins, revealing Bai Zhongqi and Han Jiaxue inside.
The rescue team quickly jumped in, intending to take Bai Zhongqi away, but he shouted angrily, "I'm fine—hurry and save her!"
Nearby, an iron-colored giant shield had now shrunk to the size of a fist, but there were still nearly invisible ripples around him, covering his entire body.
The rescue team brought out a medical pod as tall as a person, while others directly pulled out cutting tools, fully severing Han Jiaxue's leg. This was a specialized medical cutting tool that could completely seal the cut, stopping the patient from bleeding out.
Watching the nearly unrecognizable Han Jiaxue being placed into the medical pod, Bai Zhongqi finally let out a slight sigh of relief. Her life was saved like this, Iridium Star's medical pod was an extremely powerful medical tool, capable of curing almost all human injuries and illnesses.
Even with Han Jiaxue's severe injuries, the medical pod could ensure the natural functioning of her body, while extracting her DNA, and using it to proliferate and bioprint her lost organs.
As Bai Zhongqi supported the medical pod, he could see, in the glue-like liquid, Han Jiaxue's legs were gradually growing back, a scene that was somewhat frightening.
When Han Jiaxue woke up, she wouldn't even realize that she had a new pair of legs, real ones made from her own DNA, not prosthetics.
Only then did Bai Zhongqi have the energy to focus on other matters. He boarded a landing craft and looked down from the sky, a hellish scene unfolded before his eyes.
Infia was destroyed.
The everything he had built here in the past few months was almost entirely gone. Not only were various Iridium Star constructions destroyed by the strong quake, but a huge amount of military equipment stored here was also nearly completely destroyed.
If it weren't for the rapid progression of the war, Star Alliance troops had already moved all their forces to the forward bases within the Shangduohan territory, otherwise, the Star Alliance forces would have suffered severe losses.
The personnel casualties were also extremely severe, even causing death and injuries among Iridium Star and C-nation individuals, because their numbers in Infia were very limited, so the casualties were in single digits.
However, the local people of Infia suffered much heavier casualties, many of whom died directly from burst bodies under the assault of scalar waves, as they had not undergone Genetic Advantage Liberation.
This kind of destructive power, Bai Zhongqi ruled out the possibility of a natural disaster immediately. On any of the planets known to Iridium Star people, such an earthquake effect does not exist. This was definitely a premeditated, planned, targeted attack!
Recalling the threat made by that envoy from the Mage Tower, Bai Zhongqi's face turned icy.
At the same time, Bai Zhongqi's skull-brain received a report from the front lines at Cedar Ridge on the Northern Continent.
"Star Alliance military has begun a full-scale attack on Cedar Ridge!"
This battle was carefully prepared by Bai Zhongqi, because the kingdoms of the Northern Continent had formed a union, and assembled a joint army at Cedar Ridge. Bai Zhongqi, to save trouble, specially ordered Xiao Yu to slow down his attacking pace, wait for his opponents to gather their forces, and then annihilate them all at once. It was easier that way.
Before Cedar Ridge, the kingdom's joint army assembled more than two hundred thousand troops. On the Star Alliance side, the 20th Combined Group Army of C-nation appeared completely on the battlefield as the main strike force. Xiao Yu also deployed three divisions' assault corps for cover, resulting in a total force of about 150,000 troops.
This was a battle they simply could not lose. As a highly experienced commander, Xiao Yu planned to engulf the two hundred thousand kingdom troops in a sea of fire, using firepower clusters he had set up once they were assembled at Cedar Ridge.
Xiao Yu had far too many good cards in his hand, even calling them trump cards seemed an understatement. The C-nation military was also ambitiously eager to test the strike capabilities of their newly acquired weapons.
The 20th Combined Group Army's artillery units had set up more than twenty artillery positions in front of Cedar Ridge, using nothing too fancy, just as many as five hundred electromagnetic accelerator cannons.
The aviation soldiers were scheduled to strike in the second wave. This war centered on training troops. Since the artillery had not yet shown its capabilities since the start of the war, naturally, the frontline command of Star Alliance was eager to see the new artillery's fangs and claws.