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The battle is over.
The servants cleaned up the battlefield on the bridge, and the corpses of most of the aliens were thrown directly into the Shadow Canyon. They will fall to the ground and become the nourishment of the earth after a few years. The few still intact corpses were brought back to the barracks and handed over to the staff of the biochemical laboratory in the barracks for dissection and sectioning to analyze the body and even the genetic structure of this alien race.
It's almost become a habit.
Every time a new alien race is encountered, the corpse will be analyzed as a specimen. The biochemical laboratory will generate relevant reports on the alien race as soon as possible, including naming, body structure, characteristics, possible weaknesses, and so on. And these materials will be cataloged into the information base, and copied and archived for contingency needs.
While the servants were clearing the battlefield, the members of Zero and his subordinates walked through a narrow working passage to the exit west of the bridge, and stepped on the ground west of the canyon. Looking up, you can see the thick smoke rising from the distant city in the distance. Without using a telescope, part of the scene in the city can be clearly seen from this distance zero through the free field of vision.
Many unnamed monsters are gathering in an open space like the urban square, giving Zero reason to believe that they are preparing for a second attack. And in those factory-like buildings, the flickering fires were even brighter. Even though he was far away, Zero seemed to be able to feel the scorching heat of those firelights. God knows what is going on there, but there is no doubt that it will never be good for humans.
"Over there, yes, that's there. Quickly, dig me a trench, the specifications I need are..."
On the canyon to the west of the bridge, Brown has already begun to lay out the defense line. The terrain on the west side of the canyon is from high to low, with a naturally formed mountain road winding to the wilderness plain below. On the wilderness between the canyon and the city, there are several old high-voltage electricity towers and the ruins of a small town. The town is close to the mountain road. After Brown observed the terrain, he decided to start from the town and set up multiple lines of defense all the way to the top of the canyon mountain road to contain the aliens' attack.
Most of the buildings in the town were collapsed, but there was still a bell tower and a church that were still intact. They became the only commanding heights in the town. Brown ordered two rapid-fire heavy cannons to be installed on these two commanding heights. In addition, some important strategic locations in the town were also quickly cleared out. Firemen were deployed at these locations. If foreigners passed through the town, they would be cut off by human firepower.
In the evening, the town's defense line was initially completed. However, the fortifications at the back of the town and even above the canyon road only have a prototype, and those relatively simple, such as anti-infantry mine phalanxes and trenches, have been completed under the continuous work of servants. However, such as shooting bunkers, sentry towers, etc. cannot be completed in just one afternoon. Moreover, because the west bridge was not yet completed, many heavy weapons such as self-propelled artillery and cannon could not be transported one by one.
If this is not the case, Brown even wants to transfer artillery tanks and guided missile armored vehicles. With the help of these big guys, he is confident that he will be fine for a month, not to mention ten days.
Of course, this is impossible. If even the tanks can come over, then the human army has already launched a general offensive, and three elite teams are needed to carry out defense work here.
Facing the alien race who didn't know when they would attack, the servants brought by Zero rushed to work overnight. Under Brown's arrangement, they were divided into three shifts, taking turns to rest and work, so that the defense work was carried out in an orderly manner. During this period, even capable persons such as Su and Feng were directed by Brown to work, and Brown was a little proud of it.
Compared with Zero's defensive work, the two teams of James and Staley remained silent. The two captains had no plans to discuss this defense with Zero, and none of their subordinates participated in setting up the defense line. After they reached the west side of the bridge, they set up a temporary camp on the canyon, and there was no movement after that.
At this moment, James stood outside his camp, looking indifferently at the ruins of the brightly lit town below the mountain road. James is dressed in the black uniform of Doomhammer, his hair is combed back meticulously, and the beard on his resolute face is obviously carefully trimmed, thus enhancing James' rigid beauty. Coupled with his upright figure, this man is full of iron-blooded military flavor.
"Look, our colleagues are really hardworking."
The strong smell of alcohol made James frowned. He coughed lightly and said, "Stali, I don't think the head of the regiment has abolished the prohibition on alcohol in wartime?"
It was Staley who was walking towards James, also wearing a uniform, but Staley unbuttoned his chest, revealing his strong chest muscles. Slightly younger than James, with a mess of hair like a bird's nest. Compared to the aristocratic James, Staley would have looked more like an outcast in the wilderness, were it not for his Doomhammer uniform.
He was very disapproving of what James said: "Don't say that. The captain is not here, and besides, I don't drink much."
After finishing speaking, Staley burped immediately, and a strong smell of alcohol suddenly spewed out from his mouth. This forced James to take out a clean white handkerchief from his pocket and hold his nose in disgust. Staley saw it and didn't say anything. He knew very well that his colleague had a little obsession with cleanliness. Starley turned his head to look down the mountain road, pointed at the town that was being fortified and said, "This new colleague, what do you think?"
"More than cautious, not brave enough." James seemed to cherish words like gold, lightly spit out this eight-character comment from his mouth.
Staley laughed loudly: "We must forgive him, who told him that he just joined our legion. It's understandable that he doesn't understand the style of our legion, but what puzzles me is that this kid is obviously strong enough to be called a strong man." , but the courage is still as small as the refugees in the wilderness. Setting up a defense line? It’s ridiculous, no matter how many ugly and dirty things come, killing them is only a matter of time.”
"It's no wonder he is, first of all, he comes from the wilderness, and his style of acting naturally has the style of a wilderness mercenary. Secondly, unlike you and me, as a shadow wanderer, he is better at single-player duels .So he was able to draw with the head of the group, but there is nothing he can do when he meets a group of alien races."
As if he was not going to talk anymore, James turned and left, and went straight into his tent. Starley looked at him, then at the town below, and finally raised his hand. Holding a bottle of vodka in the big man's hand, Staley poured it down his throat like water, letting the spirits wet his clothes. Afterwards, the martial artist staggered towards his camp, shaking his head as he walked, "They're all boring guys."
Zero sneezed.
"What's wrong?" Leah asked curiously, "You don't catch a cold, do you?"
"Cold? How is that possible?" Zero smiled. It is impossible for a person with abilities to be affected by low-level germs. Even the mutated beasts in the wilderness rarely have such things as diseases. In the new world of the new era, the main threats to the survival of species are the lack of resources and the stability of their own genes, rather than the various diseases of the old era.
Zero and Liya are in a house that has been cleaned up in the ruins of the town. In Zero's hand, the screen of the tablet brain is displaying a nearby topographical map. From the topographic map, you can see the overview of the town and the mountain road behind. In this area, there are red lines marking the lines of defense that have been set up and will be set up soon. Brown uses a tight defense, which means forming a linked defense zone through multiple lines of defense.
There is no way around this. If the situation permits, Brown can use heavy weapons and superior firepower to arrange two or three lines of defense. But under the current conditions, we can only increase the number of defense lines to make up for the lack of firepower and personnel.
Kan Ling frowned, and Leah asked, "Is there a problem with Brown's line of defense?"
"There is no problem. Brown has sufficient military experience. He uses multiple lines of defense to make up for the lack of firepower personnel. It is an extremely correct means of defense. But the problem is that with our manpower and resources at hand, it is necessary to defend such a large area. The area can only be said to be barely enough. When necessary, we can only give up some defensive lines and shrink the defensive surface to strengthen firepower. But this is not the way..." Zero raised his head and sighed: "It would be great if those two would help That way, we can allocate at least half of our staff to carry out Hai Wei's proposal."
As soon as the voice fell, Zero suddenly trembled all over. Liya could clearly feel that the energy in Zero's body suddenly surged and boiled, like a volcano about to erupt, actually entering a battle state. But Zero didn't move at all, his eyes became blank and far-reaching, as if he was staring into the distance.
Liya didn't know that Zero saw two worlds in his eyes at this moment. The left eye sees the real world, but in Zero's right eye, things are blurred and transparent. The walls of the room gradually disappeared, and Zero directly saw the world of the town, and could even see soldiers smoking cigarettes in the firepower point. The flames of the cigarette butts flickered, becoming the most obvious landmark in this world.
Then, the world of nothingness continued to expand. When small towns, soldiers, wilderness, electricity towers and even distant cities disappear. What Zero saw was a barren and uncontinuous world, this world was so desolate that Zero could not feel any vitality. And at the end of the world, lies a huge shadow.
From a distance, the shadow seems to be frozen. But Zero felt endless majesty from that shadow, that pressure was as deep as an abyss, as if there was no limit and end. When Zero felt this coercion, the shadow began to roll towards Zero. Wherever the shadow goes, the world disappears from zero perception, as if it eats away at the world of consciousness.
The intense crisis made Zero instinctively enter the battle state, but in this conscious world, he couldn't do anything. After the area of the shadow nearly doubled from what it had seen at the beginning, two long and narrow rays of light appeared in the shadow. The light suddenly expanded from up and down, forming a pair of huge eyes.
There is nothing in the eyes, but Zero has the feeling of being stared at.
A desolate voice rolled from far away: "O Son of the Planet"
Zero yelled in the conscious world, bursting with energy. So the world of consciousness suddenly disappeared, and when Ling came back to his senses, he found that there were cracks in the walls of the room, but they were shattered by the energy he just burst out.
Everything is like a dream, but Zero knows that it is true.
Something is spying on him.
But that thing is not Proseus, Proseus gives Zero the feeling of destruction and death, but the shadow just now only reveals a desolate breath, like a long life that existed in the prehistoric.
"Are you okay, Zero?" Liya's face turned pale. With her current level of barely squeezed into the third level, it is not a joke to fully bear the breath of an eighth-level powerhouse like Zero. If it wasn't for the close relationship with Zero, Leah had a certain resistance to Zero's aura and coercion, and other low-level ability users would have been stunned.
Zero shook his head, only then did he realize that he was sweating profusely and felt a sense of emptiness. He observed himself silently, and found that his energy level had plummeted by nearly 40%. In the conscious world just now, he forcibly broke through the opponent's conscious world, but he didn't expect to consume such a huge amount of energy. And all of this happened in just a few seconds, but it was no less than a big battle.
"Just now, I seemed to be spied on." Zero said.
Leah was at a loss: "But I can't feel anything."
Nodding his head, judging by the other party's rank, he might not be inferior to him, or even surpass him. Due to the suppression of rank, it is normal for Liya not to feel the other party's peeping.
Kelia had just spoken, but her face suddenly changed. She raised her head, her eyes became blank, and she said anxiously: "Wait, I feel a lot of life reactions. They are approaching!"
As soon as Ling heard it, he immediately climbed up to the third-floor rooftop. But holding on to the railing of the roof and looking over, the wilderness beyond the city is pitch black, but there is no trace of any moving objects. Just as he was wondering, he heard a sound of flapping wings, and Ling suddenly raised his head, only to see a large black cloud in the sky pressing down!
That is naturally not a dark cloud, but thousands or even more flying beasts. These flying beasts have the body of a wolf, but the wings of an eagle. They are exactly the alien race that Ling saw from the data.
Pelydons!
"Attention, air strike!" Zero yelled, and the voice spread throughout the town and wilderness, and reached the camp above the canyon.
James and Starley ran out of the camp with disheveled clothes, and when they looked up, they saw a black cloud hovering over. When they passed above the town, two bright flames blasted into the air, cutting into the black clouds. The next moment, several flying beasts fell down, thus kicking off the prelude to the night attack.
The two bright flames came from the rapid-fire heavy artillery on the two commanding heights of the town. The heavy gunner squeezed the trigger and controlled the heavy artillery to blast the shells into the air. Wherever the flaming ammunition passed, the flying beasts were immortal and injured, and it seemed that their individual defenses were not strong. But this is only compared to the heavy firepower of the rapid-fire heavy artillery. Brown's soldiers at various firepower points in the town also started to attack, but the automatic rifles in their hands were limited to the threat to the flying beasts.
Generally, it takes eight or nine bullets in a row to knock down a flying beast. But the flying beasts that fell did not die immediately, they crashed into the firepower point. When they rushed out again, they usually had one or two soldiers on their lips. With a fierce swing of the wolf's kiss, a living being was torn in half!