The plain was filled with the smell of scorched earth after flames burned. The dry hot wind from the east rolled up sand and dust and slapped on the track guards of the tanks. Twelve tanks were lined up in a vigilant procession, facing the sinking The setting sun crushed the scorched ground of the Holy Spirit Plain.
The company commander Senior was in the command vehicle, observing the situation in the distance through the periscope.
This is a reconnaissance team—a reconnaissance team with strong firepower and excellent survivability. It has nine Warhammer main tanks and three Steel Ambassador tanks, as well as dozens of experienced, loyal and brave soldiers. Under normal circumstances, Such a team is enough to defeat ten times or even dozens of times the number of old-fashioned aristocratic troops, and break through a fortress occupied by extraordinary people below the middle level. As a "reconnaissance team", it can be said to be too strong, but in On the scorched earth of this war zone, Senior still needs to be extremely cautious.
Because the plains are full of wandering drake giants, and he and his company have entered areas that have not been "purified".
Around Solinburg, this is the area where the cluster giants ravaged the most, and the wounds suffered by the land and towns were naturally more tragic. Along the way, Senior saw countless collapsed and abandoned city walls and deserted farms, built by the rich. The gorgeous houses were demolished into ruins, and the once precious fertile fields were trampled and devastated. When they were still sane, the cluster giants had at least a trace of order, but since they fell into frenzy, they began to destroy everything in their path , basically nothing survived where they gathered.
The vibration generated by the engine running of the chariot came from under his body. This heavy and sturdy steel machine gave Senior enough sense of security—a few months ago, he was just a beginner who had just been exposed to magic equipment for a long time. Machinist, after a short period of assault training, was sent to the northern battlefield. It was the pressure of the battlefield and actual combat experience that made him really proficient, and even became the commander of the company—for the entire newly formed, emergency As far as the trained chariot units are concerned, there are not a few commanders like him who have grown rapidly on the battlefield and been promoted rapidly.
Senior moved his eyes away from the periscope, gave the position to the observer, and came to the vehicle communication station himself: "Be careful, we are getting close."
For middle and lower-level command nodes and ordinary tanks, the vehicle communication station is a simplified magic network terminal - the projection crystal is removed to reduce costs, and it can only transmit sound signals within a limited range, which can be regarded as the most basic Communication spells, but even with such simplified equipment, the role it can play on the battlefield is still invaluable.
The tanks responded, and the reconnaissance unit consisting of twelve tanks slowed down slightly. The three steel ambassadors adjusted their positions forward to ensure that the emergency shield booster could cover the entire convoy in time. Meanwhile, Senior pushed away the upper armor plate, poked out half of his head, and directly observed the situation on the plain.
This behavior may seem dangerous, but Senior's experience tells him that doing so is actually not a big problem: the protection of the "Warhammer-i" mainly relies on the shield system, this layer of shield is stronger than steel, and the chariot's Armor is only a "backup" that provides limited protection after the shields fail, poking your head out of the hull is a viable solution in situations where visual observation is required - the shields protect you if you are attacked , and if the attack strength reaches the level that can penetrate the shield in an instant, then hiding behind the armor plate is meaningless.
In front of the field of vision, the white radiance with a sense of holiness is already clearly visible. Even without the aid of any equipment, you can clearly see all kinds of strange halos it presents in the air, and the radiance contains strong malice, The aura of hidden madness has also become stronger than before, even so strong that it makes ordinary people faintly tremble.
Senior didn't know what he was going to face. After all, he was only executing orders, but the incredible power contained in that brilliance was enough for anyone to be vigilant, enough for him to realize that what he was going to face was an extraordinary domain The most dangerous part of the "secret".
Fortunately, in this era, even ordinary people have ways to deal with the transcendent realm.
He retracted his head, calmed down his turbulent emotions, and turned his head to order: "Turn on the mental protection system!"
"Yes, turn on mental protection for each car!"
Accompanied by a slight sound of magic power running, around the seats inside the chariot, on the surface of the periscope and various observation windows, some magical runes that were originally invisible became brighter as they were charged. Those runes are twisted and twisted, and they don't belong to any rune system known to humans. In fact, the various systems of the chariot can't control the operation of these runes at all. What the power ridge can do is to treat these runes mixed with magic materials. The runes charged by them are just to make them glow and appear, but this kind of "appearance" has incredible effects.
With light blue mysterious lines appearing everywhere in the car, Senior quickly felt his mood calm down, and the faint sound of ocean waves came gently, bringing sober, uplifting and high-spirited power, making him feel calm. His previous anxiety and vague fears all disappeared, not only that, he even felt a little happy...
This is the mental protection system, which is a new equipment installed on the chariot by the magicians not long ago. Senior does not know the principle of this system, but he has vaguely heard of this device and the rear It is related to a certain "technical cooperation project", and its role is to protect the minds of soldiers in the face of spiritual attacks from the superhuman realm. Now it seems that it is indeed very effective.
It’s just that this device also has a limit—once it runs for too long, the soothing power released by the mind protection system will become another kind of mental pollution, and the user will inevitably fall into a state of excitement and joy, and even suffer from “ "Being called by the sea" and making irrational behaviors. Currently, the technical personnel behind are trying to eliminate or weaken the negative effects in this regard, but it seems that the problem has not been solved for the time being.
"Pay attention to the timer of the protection system," Senior reminded his subordinates, and then ordered the team to move on, "close to that light."
Under the protection of the mental protection system, Senior's reconnaissance team continued to move forward, the hazy light became more and more clear, and the source of the light also faintly emerged.
After passing a crumbling wall, Senior saw it.
That monstrosity that is both holy and terrible, pure and profane.
The giant deer shrouded in white light, the man-made god who continues to disintegrate and reorganize his flesh and blood.
"Ancestor..." A soldier looked at the giant deer standing quietly in the ruins through the front observation window in astonishment, his voice trembling unconsciously, "What is that?"
"There is no doubt that it is a monster," Senior was equally astonished, but said calmly, "The rest of the teams approached in groups of four."
The convoy immediately followed the plan and formed a group of three "Warhammer-i" and one "Steel Ambassador". After dispersing, they cautiously approached the giant deer in the distance. With these uninvited guests approaching.
But Senior kept in mind the orders of his superiors, and when the convoy was still far away from the halo around the giant deer, he ordered the whole team to stop, and stopped hundreds of meters away from the giant deer.
The giant deer still stood motionless, looking into the distance like a soulless body. The extraordinary brilliance shrouded its body, in stark contrast to the hideous scars and deformities on the body. It is like a scene of impression paintings standing between heaven and earth, extremely strange, but extremely contradictory beauty.
"I can't get any closer, it's too weird, something is wrong with this thing," Senior frowned tightly, "Activate the photo-recording crystal outside, save some video data, and the crews retreat..."
The engine of the chariot was activated, and the tracks turned, driving the heavy vehicle back slowly. Senior watched the giant deer vigilantly. Suddenly, he saw the eyes of the giant deer, which had been motionless, turn slightly.
Perhaps some sort of slumber phase was just ending, or perhaps the chariots had finally caught the monster's attention, and it moved.
Accompanied by the sound of the engine of one of the chariots, the giant deer slowly lowered its head, watching the slowly retreating chariot with crystal-like eyes, and the extreme madness was brewing in the eyes in calmness.
Senior reacted almost instantly, and shouted loudly while tapping the button of the communicator: "Accelerate! Retreat!!"
The engine of the chariot turned from a low noise to a roar in an instant, and all the chariots suddenly turned to accelerate, and at this moment, the eyes of the giant deer suddenly became blood-red, followed by a sound that seemed to be mixed together with countless roars and murmurs. Roaring wildly, a dazzling light cluster formed between the horns of the giant deer like light casting. The light cluster jumped, surrounded by countless lightning bolts, and turned into a long spear, shooting straight at one of the chariot squadrons. .
The Iron Ambassador instantly activated the shield booster on the vehicle, a translucent energy barrier enveloped the entire team at the very moment, and the energy spear struck at almost the same time—a piercing piercing scream In the process, the shield and spear were annihilated together, and the magic energy crystal fixed above the Iron Ambassador chariot was also blown to pieces—
Immediately afterwards, the second energy spear quickly condensed, and before everyone could react, it swept across the heavily damaged Steel Ambassador, accompanied by a series of deafening explosions, and the latter was instantly wiped out.
All the chariots turned, accelerated, and sprinted away at the fastest speed, while the giant deer let out a second frenzied roar. Amidst the roar that was enough to break the mind, it stepped forward and moved towards the direction of the scouting team's retreat. rush away.
At this moment, another chariot suddenly fell behind. Its shield flickered violently, as if it was being attacked by invisible magic power. After a short struggle, its shield was completely extinguished, and a large number of blooming flowers and emerald greens were about to drip. The vines grew crazily from its steel cracks, wrapping the entire chariot into a tomb full of vitality in a few seconds, which was frightening to look at.
"Boom!" "Boom!!"
Continuous explosions sounded one after another, and the chariots turned their turrets one after another, and fired at the terrifying monster on the way. At such a short distance, and on the basis of the latter's relatively large size, almost all the shells hit the target.
The holy light around the giant deer surged violently, half of the shells were detonated before hitting the target, and the rest of the shells hit the mutated flesh and blood body of the giant deer. Senior saw the monster's flesh and blood splatter, The scarred body seemed to be shattered by several bombardments at any moment, but the monster only staggered a few times, then let out a roar, and continued to catch up! !
The shelling only left some small scars on its seemingly fragile and broken body, and it repaired itself in an instant!
"We might have pissed it off..." a soldier yelled, "It looks very, very, very angry!!"
"It didn't intend to get along with us when it wasn't angry—but you're right, we provoked it!" Senior responded loudly, "Scatter the queue and prepare to throw mines—"
At this moment, the terrifying giant deer suddenly uttered a different cry than before, and then stopped without warning. It roared and made various vague and terrifying sounds. Its body All sorts of terrifying changes also took place: the rolled and ruptured flesh and blood sometimes merged and sometimes separated, the light around it sometimes became stronger and sometimes dimmed, and its crystal-like eyes sometimes became blood-red, and sometimes became dazzling—
It seemed to be in an extremely unstable state, and it stayed in place for a short time.
Senior didn't know what happened, but he knew one thing—life appeared.
The entire reconnaissance team quickly adjusted its direction and quickly evacuated towards the distance.
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Saint Sunil, Gawain was interrupted by an urgent communication. He hurried to the study and saw Maryland's serious face emerging on the holographic projection.
"My lord, it has appeared," said the former general of the Rock Fortress, now the commander of the Iron Throne, "a monster that looks like a deer—but is as huge as a castle."