Super Gene Hunting Ground

Chapter 239: Chapter 239: Leave or Stay? (Four more, please subscribe)

”Boss, make a decision quickly, Yang Xiao’s Soul Skill is too terrifying. With just one Sweeping Void, we’ve suffered over two hundred casualties, most of them elites.”

Yue Ying gritted his teeth bitterly and said:

”A wise man knows better than to fight when the odds are against him. We retreat! Must have forgotten to check the almanac before leaving today, not a good day for a fight. We’ll pull back for now, but we will take our revenge when the opportunity arises. Otherwise, I swear I’m not a man.”

With a wave of his hand, Yue Ying led a troop of two thousand back towards Star Moon Town.

”Boss, should we pursue?”

Long Yongjun asked.

”Don’t chase a desperate enemy. Just send someone over to the ice to pick up the spoils; we can sell them for some money.”

”Alright.”

Long Yongjun went off to collect the bodies.

Zhou Qiang asked:

”Boss, are we just going back like this?”

”What else do you have in mind?”

”Aren’t we supposed to take over Star Moon Town?”

”Isn’t there a rundown village nearby? Take everyone there for a rest, cut down trees for a bonfire, have a meal, and treat the wounded.”

Therefore, with only a few dozen casualties, Yang Xiao’s troop of two thousand disrupted all of Yue Ying’s plans, crucially causing him heavy losses of his key elites.

Leaving Star Moon Lake, the group arrived at a nearby dilapidated village, devoid of living souls, with eight or nine out of ten houses collapsed.

They found a few barely sheltered spots, lit bonfires, and began to eat and keep warm.

Everyone was exceptionally excited about this battle, filled with fighting spirit, not expecting today’s fight to go so smoothly, thinking it would be a bloody battle.

Yang Xiao, Xia Luo, Huang Wen, Zhou Qiang, Long Yongjun, and others gathered around the fire, chatting while eating barbequed meat.

”Long Yongjun, how much ammunition do we have left for the machine guns?”

”We brought two boxes of ammo, used about half in the earlier fight, so we have half left.”

”Right, machine guns are useful only at a time like this. In a few months, they’ll practically become junk metal; they’re of no use against someone in the Enhanced Gene Stage.”

”Boss, do you think Yue Ying and his men will continue to stay in Star Moon Town tonight? Will he plan a counterattack against us?”

Zhou Qiang asked.

”No, Yue Ying dared to attack us because he had over a dozen at the Primordial Gene Intermediate Stage and more than a hundred at the Primordial Gene Primary Stage,”

”However, this battle has dazed him. Though he begrudgingly wants to fight me to the death, having witnessed my Soul Skill and our machine guns, he’ll put that thought aside for now,

He’s a smart man, didn’t you see how timely his retreat was? At least he preserved his main strength and could rise again. If he’d persisted, we would have wiped out his elite troop today, and then he really would be at a loss,

So, judging by his timely retreat and preservation of strength, he’s intelligent. Let’s eat up and drink up, and later tonight, we’ll take over Star Moon Town.”

”You’re so sure he’ll leave Star Moon Town and fall back to Shanyun City?”

Huang Wen asked.

Yang Xiao counter-asked:

”If it were you, would you hold Star Moon Town?”

After thinking, Huang Wen shook her head.

Xia Luo remarked:

”Star Moon Town is just a small town and an isolated one at that, facing Shanyun City across the lake, more than fifty kilometers apart. This small town is hard for Shanyun City to defend,

Yet for us, it is both easy to conquer and to hold, since Star Moon Town is connected to our Nanmu City. Even without a Transmission Array, we can send reinforcements through several nearby strongholds,

We can also build temporary strongholds between Xiao Yang Town and Star Moon Town. Usually, we can mine Ice Fish, and in times of battle, we can assist each other.

If Yue Ying is smart, he’ll surely take all his main forces back to Shanyun City and give up the stronghold of Star Moon Town.”

Yang Xiao nodded and said:

”Xia Luo’s analysis is spot on. Now it all depends on what Yue Ying will do. His best option is to take everyone away from Star Moon Town and hand it over to us,

The next best thing is to leave behind the original garrison of Star Moon Town, gambling that we won’t attack it,

The dumbest move would be to have all his forces hole up in Star Moon Town, waiting for us to attack.”

Huang Wen was taken aback and asked:

”If he stations all his forces in Star Moon Town, can we take it down?”

”Even if he can hold it for a while, he can’t hold it forever. Shanyun City must be facing competitors from other places as well. He can’t possibly station all his troops in Star Moon Town, can he?

Doing that would put him at a disadvantage. When he has many people, we won’t attack; when he has few, we will go on the offensive. The initiative to take Star Moon Town is in our hands, and we can harass them from time to time to drive them nuts, haha.”

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At this moment, in Star Moon Town, Yue Ying called a meeting with the key members. Everyone was seething with anger with no outlet, frustrated, unwilling to just accept the setback dealt by Yang Xiao’s surprise attack.

Yue Ying’s face was grim.

”Has the casualty report been compiled?”

”Boss, we lost eight individuals at the Primordial Gene Intermediate Stage and fifty-two experts at the Primordial Gene Primary Stage. We’ve also lost 378 others.”

The hall fell into silence, enveloped by a somber atmosphere.

These losses represented a heap of resources, the pillars of Shanyun City.

No one spoke.

After a while, Yue Ying sighed heavily and said:

”It’s all my fault. I underestimated the enemy. I didn’t expect that young Yang Xiao would launch a sudden attack and so urgently. Moreover, I didn’t foresee that his Soul Skills would be so formidable, and what I least expected was that he managed to get his hands on two heavy machine guns, sigh!”

Nanmu City and Shanyun City both used to be under Kongming City, but the difference is that Nanmu City is a provincial capital, while Shanyun City is a prefecture-level city. The provincial capital’s Armed Department is located in Nanmu City, which is why Yang Xiao was able to get heavy machine guns from Xie Jun and others, whereas the best Shanyun City could muster was a few pistols from the Public Security Department, hardly significant.

”Does anyone know what Yang Xiao’s Beast Soul is?”

The room was silent; everyone shook their heads.

Indeed, Yang Xiao’s Beast Soul was shocking, especially his Sweeping Void that killed more than two hundred people in one go. Most of the casualties were caused by that move.

It was precisely because of Yang Xiao’s stunning Soul Skill that even the always confident Yue Ying lost his confidence.

”Let’s discuss what to do now. Will Yang Xiao and his men attack our Star Moon Town? This guy has a big appetite – he’s coming for Star Moon Lake.”

And so, a heated debate unfolded among Yue Ying’s subordinates.

”Boss, this battle was too suffocating. I can’t stand it. Let’s fight them again tomorrow.”

”We’ll just defend Star Moon Town. I don’t believe we can’t beat them when they come.”

”We still have a thousand elites in Shanyun City. Call them all over. Our main force is still strong. There’s nothing to fear!”

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