NOVEL NEXT Chapter 1298: In the Desert
"These are Russia's most advanced fighter jets, we're doomed."
A passenger plane encountering a fighter jet becomes a living target in the sky, with being shot down as the only outcome.
The passengers who had just escaped the God of Death's grasp felt their nerves tighten once more; this was a public sea area, making rescue impossible.
Even if there were rescuers, they couldn't save them before the fighter jets shot them down.
"My dear child, it's grandpa who couldn't protect you..." Nus's face was ashen as he held Julia tightly in his arms.
At this moment, it seemed there was no other way but to wait for death...
"It's okay, grandpa, Julia's not afraid of dying..." The little girl's big eyes were filled with fear, but she was still comforting her grandpa.
Just when everyone thought they were doomed, a myriad of golden lights suddenly shone outside the window.
Boom!
A tremendous roar echoed, and the passenger plane shook violently.
"We've been hit by a missile, we're going to crash..." Faces turned pale with despair.
The plane was shaking so much that it seemed it might fall apart at any time, but the flight remained relatively steady. After dozens of seconds, the plane returned to normal.
"We aren't dead, thank goodness!"
"Where did the big brother go?" Julia noticed that Wang Dadong, who had been sitting in his seat, was nowhere to be found.
Boom, boom!
Two more deafening booms sounded, and thick smoke billowed from the tails of two advanced Russian fighter jets as they plunged toward the ground.
The huge bodies of the jets crashed not far from the passenger plane, clearly visible to many.
"What's going on, the fighter jets crashed!"
"Are we saved?"
No one knew what had happened or why the fighter jets suddenly crashed.
When Wang Dadong's body suddenly appeared in the cabin, kneeling halfway, blood continuously spilled from the corner of his mouth.
"Brother Da Dong, are you alright?" King Kong hurriedly helped Wang Dadong back into his seat.
"Just now, the fighter jets launched two rockets at the passenger plane. I blocked them a bit," Wang Dadong whispered, his face pale.
Wang Dadong had disappeared from the cockpit earlier, naturally to deal with those two fighter jets.
Just after exiting the passenger cabin through the safety door, he found that the opponent had fired two rockets directly.
Wang Dadong quickly used the Zhe Character Sword Technique to shield the plane. The golden light thousands of people saw was actually the scene when the golden War God formed by the Zhe Character Battle Decision shattered into fragments.
Though the rockets exploded a few meters away from Wang Dadong, the Golden Giant was connected to his energy, causing him to suffer some internal injuries.
Luckily, they only launched rockets; otherwise, even if Wang Dadong blocked them, the passenger plane would have been doomed.
The shockwave caused the plane to shake, making people think it had been hit by a missile.
"God bless!"
Having twice escaped death, the people on the plane didn't know how to express their feelings.
The rest of the journey passed without incident, and the passenger plane landed smoothly at Delai City International Airport in Lesotho.
As they got off the plane, many people took deep breaths of air, having survived two dangers, they hadn't expected to stand on solid ground again.
Although they still harbored some resentment towards Wang Dadong, when their feet touched the ground again, the woman also felt a sense of rebirth from disaster.
Indeed, compared to death, merely being bullied was nothing.
"Luckily, we will never see each other again!" Thinking that they would never meet again made the humiliated woman feel somewhat better.
But will they definitely not meet again? No one can be sure.
Nus left with Julia, what awaited them was unknown to anyone.
While still in the sky, Wang Dadong wished for the plane to land immediately so he could save Piao Xue. However, when the plane finally arrived in Lesotho, Wang Dadong was bewildered.
He had no idea where Piao Xue was now!
Though Lesotho wasn't large, finding someone was like searching for a needle in a haystack.
Standing at the airport, watching the flowing crowds, Wang Dadong's eyes turned red.
"Brother Da Dong..." King Kong lightly patted Wang Dadong's back, not saying much as he understood Wang Dadong's current feelings.
In his eyes, Wang Dadong was always a god-like figure, yet even a Heavenly God might have moments when he is out of his depth.
...
In Lesotho, October's weather was no longer so scorching, except in one place.
Lamagan Desert!
The endless yellow sand formed nature's most magnificent spectacle, but for those daring enough to enter the Lamagan Desert at this time, it was nothing short of hell, a Devil's Den!
Under the sun's baking, daytime temperatures on the desert surface could reach over sixty degrees, dropping to below zero at night.
In such extreme weather, one could fry eggs on the iron pan during the day and make popsicles at night.
At that moment, two extremely thin figures were struggling through the yellow sand, one step at a time.
These were two women, one wearing sunglasses, with a large military backpack, covered in scars, a very noticeable scar on her left cheek caused by rocket shrapnel.
It's said that a woman's face cannot have scars; no matter how beautiful, once her appearance is marred, her score plummets.
But that theory didn't apply to the woman with the military backpack.
Her face was dirty, seemingly unwashed for many days, yet it could not hide her breathtaking beauty. The grotesque scar didn't ruin her beauty; it accentuated it like the finishing touch, adding a unique aura that no other woman could possess.
The other woman was using a broken tree branch as a cane.
Compared to the backpack woman, this woman seemed much more delicate, and every step appeared to require immense effort. If not for the support of the branch, she might have already collapsed.
"Sister Piaoxue, I can't go on, let's rest..." The girl with the cane could hardly move, wanting to just lie down and never get up again.
"No, we've run out of water, we must find a water source before nightfall, or we won't survive until tomorrow." The female soldier walked to the cane woman's side, grabbing her dry and peeling hand.
The desert's daytime temperatures were too high, so they could only travel at dusk and dawn. If they couldn't find a water source before dark, it would be even harder in the pitch-black night.
During the day, they could only be roasted by the sun like dried fish.
Lu Qi looked around, seeing only endless yellow sand, with no sign of even a drop of water.
"Sister Piaoxue, we're going to die here, aren't we."
"Don't say that; we won't die here. The country won't abandon us."
Lu Qi smiled bitterly, "Sister Piaoxue, you probably know better than me that the country has abandoned us. Otherwise, there would have been contact by now."