Volume 1, Chapter 38: Yet, the newcomer Li Yan did it

The call was disconnected abruptly.

Aaliya had not asked Li Yan for help. Perhaps she felt that Li Yan was a newcomer and would not be of much assistance to them. If that were the case, it would be somewhat better, as it would at least prove that Aaliya and her team were confident in dealing with those dinosaurs. However, there was another possibility: she simply had no time to ask Li Yan for help.

A pack of mutated, contaminated dinosaurs, specifically carnivorous Tarbosauruses—the situation was extremely perilous.

Clearly, the second possibility was the most likely.

A flash of tension crossed Li Yan's face.

Compared to those from World 87, he was undoubtedly most concerned about the members of the Order Administration.

"You are safe now. Go and reunite with them. Someone will come to rescue you soon, and they will take you home."

Li Yan spoke loudly to the more than eighty people following him, directing them to join the others who were already stationed here.

Over the past few days, Li Yan had become their emotional anchor.

Now, by saying this, Li Yan meant he was going to leave them—presumably to rescue others.

Some faces were filled with reluctance, while others remained silent.

"Alright, as I just said, someone will come to rescue you soon. All you need to do now is try your best to survive and wait for rescue."

Naturally, he was referring to the personnel from the Order Administration. The Order Administration definitely had a way to resolve the events unfolding in World 87.

Teacher Zhao nodded and stepped forward first.

He bowed to Li Yan and said, "Thank you, Old Bai. We will take care of ourselves from here on out. You have more people to save, and we mustn't become a burden to you. Remember to protect yourself."

The others chimed in one after another.

"Old Bai, thank you. Make sure you survive."

"You must protect yourself and make it through alive."

To these people, the greatest blessing they could offer Li Yan was the wish that he would survive.

Because in this unfamiliar world, survival was their ultimate goal.

Li Yan nodded at the crowd, deeply moved by their words.

At that moment, Ye Lele walked over, her face showing reluctance and a deep sense of dependence.

She reached out, wanting to take Li Yan's hand, but hesitated for a moment.

Finally, she mustered her courage, grabbed Li Yan's hand, and stared at him without blinking.

Leaning close to Li Yan's ear, she whispered, "Old Bai, I know you are definitely not a government special forces soldier; you must come from some very mysterious existence. Thank you for saving me. You must protect yourself—my name is Ye Lele, please remember me."

A flicker crossed Li Yan's eyes; he had not expected Ye Lele to perceive him in this way.

He nodded and said, "Mm, strive to survive."

With that, Li Yan bid farewell to the crowd.

"Activate the Eighth-fold Enhancement."

Free from the burden of these eighty-odd people, Li Yan could unleash his full speed.

Within just a few breaths, he had sprinted a vast distance away.

Watching Li Yan's receding figure, Ye Lele murmured to herself, "Will I ever see you again? Old Bai, my hero."

At this moment, Li Yan was nearly two hundred kilometers away from Aaliya and her team.

Since he was in a primeval forest, although his speed was phenomenal, he still had to navigate obstacles along the way.

Many vines and bushes blocking his path were simply plowed through by sheer force, all to provide timely support to Aaliya and the others.

Finally, forty minutes later, Li Yan's ears caught the roars of dinosaurs and the terrified screams of humans.

"Team Leader, we can't keep going like this; my combat suit is running low on energy."

"Yeah, if this fails, let's just use the quantum impact cannon. Several people have already been eaten."

More than a dozen mutated, contaminated Tarbosauruses had formed a semicircle, trapping a group of over two hundred people.

Aaliya and two of her team members were split into three directions, engaging the Tarbosauruses in close combat with energy blades.

However, there were only three of them against more than a dozen Tarbosauruses, making it impossible to protect the ordinary people from World 87.

Many people were holding wooden clubs or throwing stones at the gigantic mutated Tarbosauruses.

Such feeble attacks were nothing more than tickles to the Tarbosauruses, which stood at the apex of the food chain in this world.

The ground was already littered with severed human limbs and pools of blood.

For fragile humans facing such a situation, it was practically no different from waiting for death.

Many people desperately wished they were in the middle of the crowd, constantly shoving inward.

Run?

They wanted to run too.

Those who had tried to run off on their own earlier had already been eaten.

These dinosaurs wanted to herd them together, much like a pack of wolves hunting sheep, gathering them into a tight cluster for an easy buffet.

The two hundred-plus people were now mere lambs with no options left.

Aaliya's face was a mask of anxiety and hesitation.

If she used a high-yield weapon like the quantum impact cannon, it would inevitably cause a small-scale space-time collapse in this world, which could easily expose the time coordinates of this realm.

Furthermore, once the quantum impact cannon was used, the energy in one of their combat suits would be nearly depleted.

Without the augmentation of a combat suit, they would essentially be no different from these ordinary people.

It would be fine if they could hold out until reinforcements from the Order Administration arrived, but if they couldn't, everyone would die here.

Aaliya cursed furiously, "Are the higher-ups at the Order Administration eating shit? Why haven't they pinpointed our location yet? Damn it!"

Dealing with these mutated Tarbosauruses was no easy task; their strength was only slightly inferior to junior void-devouring beasts.

There were three members in her team: Aaliya single-handedly held back three, while the other two barely managed two each—which was already their absolute limit.

They simply had no spare capacity to deal with the rest.

Faced with contaminated Tarbosauruses that were formidable in strength and vastly outnumbered them, while constantly hearing the agonizing screams of their fellow humans in their ears,

Aaliya and her team were growing frantic.

Suddenly, a figure came hurtling toward them at incredible speed.

Aaliya noticed the newcomer.

"Li Yan from Team 11?"

"Team Leader Aaliya, it's me." While maintaining his sprint, Li Yan summoned his energy blade.

Seeing Li Yan arrive to provide reinforcement, Aaliya felt a mixture of surprise.

She had not asked Li Yan for help because he had joined the Order Administration only recently.

A newcomer could easily be killed in a situation like this.

If Li Yan were to perish because of her,

leaving aside岳承泽's reaction, it would be extremely difficult to explain things back at the Order Administration.

Yet Li Yan, the newcomer, had come to help.

The other two team members were similarly surprised and delighted to see Li Yan arriving as reinforcement.

Yet they harbored the exact same worry as Aaliya: hopefully, this newcomer wouldn't lose his life here.

The terrain here was open, with very few obstacles.

Li Yan's speed surged abruptly.

"Ninth-fold Enhancement!"

"Die!"

Leveraging the momentum of his high-speed sprint, Li Yan sprang forward in a single bound, raising his blade and striking with full force at a mutated Tarbosaurus that still had a human leg hanging from its maw.

"Screech—!"

He felt a slight resistance as his long blade met the target, but the resistance was minimal.

As soon as his feet touched the ground, the Tarbosaurus crashed heavily to the earth.

Its head and neck were severed, decapitated in a single blow.

Compared to the astonishingly durable titan salamander, this Tarbosaurus was far inferior; its bones were merely a bit harder.

Witnessing this scene, Aaliya, who had been struggling to cope, wore an expression of sheer disbelief.

How did he pull that off?

Even with the enhancements of speed and her combat suit, she wouldn't have been able to decapitate a Tarbosaurus—whose strength approached that of a junior void-devouring beast—with a single strike.

Yet Li Yan, the newcomer, had done it.