The world is silent and gray.
The pieces of gray flakes falling from the sky are like snow. It seems to have returned to the era that has not changed drastically, as if everything is just a big dream.
Unfortunately, this dream will not wake up, nor can it wake up.
Ugly, it is still ugly, even if it is decorated with false beauty, it cannot conceal the truth behind it. So when Oglok stretched out a finger and lightly touched the "snowflake" that fell from the sky, he felt a slight tingling sensation from his finger, which was a sign of strong radiation. The snowflakes melted into a wisp of smoke. Flying away, returning to nothingness.
Oglock knew that it was not snow, but the high-temperature hot gas produced after the big bang, which evaporated the water in the space. The evaporated water was mixed with the dust material that was swept up into the sky by the explosion. After the heat energy dissipated, the strong temperature difference caused the mixture to freeze rapidly, forming ice crystals, just like a snowfall.
An ugly snow.
If you know it, you know it, but he is unwilling to discover it. Unfortunately, whether he wants to or not, the truth is there. Facing the snowy sky, Oglok let out a low sigh, and lifted a few rocks that were weighing on him. Looking back, two-thirds of Eternal Night City had already disappeared.
The powerful explosion split and sank the earth. The city is close to the sea, and now the buildings are scrambling to sink into the sea. The sea water poured back, vying for more territory and peeling off more land. Oglok is on the edge of the city, and the buildings in this area have long been leveled by explosions. The cracks in the earth did not stop spreading. They made a crackling sound, splitting the land, and then separated, and were finally swept away by the sea.
The aftermath of the explosion even formed a vortex on the sea surface, and above the vortex was a dark gray mushroom cloud. In the clouds, lightning flashes still appeared from time to time, reminding Oglok of the power of the explosion just now.
If he hadn't tried his best to defend, even if he was on the verge of an explosion, Oglok would not be alive. At the moment of the explosion, the high-temperature jet over 4,000 degrees diffused radiation, testing Oglok's defensive force field. The result is that he survived, but his energy has been exhausted, and most of his body tissue is necrotic. Even if he can recover, his strength will also drop, and he will never return to the previous twelve-level height.
To Oglok, it was no different than being dead.
The sound of fine footsteps pierced into his ears, and Oglock saw that from the ruins of the city, black guards crawled out one by one. They were ordered by Proseus to leave early before the Star Destroyer self-destructed. Only a few unlucky ones were swept into the blast zone, but overall, the number of Guardian losses was limited. Now they are back again, naturally to deal a fatal blow to Oglok.
As the dark guards approached, Oglok smiled instead. He stood upright, with his arms outstretched, and his eyes closed. Just before his death, his state of mind was strangely peaceful. At this time, what idea, what ambition, everything becomes unimportant.
Absolute calm.
The temperature in the air suddenly dropped, and the chairman, who noticed something different, opened his eyes and watched the pure white snowflakes fall down. This is real snow, ice crystals formed purely from water cooling! Oglok seemed to understand something, when he looked up, there was a burst of excitement behind the guard. Suddenly, the azure blue guns whizzed past, and the guards turned into ice sculptures in an instant, and then exploded one by one.
The exploding ice sculpture created a passage between the guards. At the other end of the passage, the flying blue long hair is like a burning ice flame.
A pair of wings made of ice and snow spread out, setting off a gust of icy wind and freezing air, freezing the guards rushing on both sides of the passage. The huge inverted V-shaped ice sword drew clear lines in the air, and all the guards on this line were mercilessly beheaded.
The cold wind swirled, and a figure quietly fell. The blue hair was fluttering in the air with invisible energy, Xiu Ya showed a flamboyant smile and said, "I'm sorry, Father, I once again disobeyed your request."
"Smelly girl!" After a while, a faint smile appeared on Oglock's face, and there was a soft curse.
But Xiuya was very disappointed, and stretched out her hand to support her father's shoulders. With a flap of ice wings, she and Oglock flew up, skimmed over the black ocean, and flew away in an instant.
On the second day after the Star Destroyers attacked Eternal Night City, in a wilderness 200 kilometers away from Eternal Night City, the human army had just set up a new camp, and soldiers who had no time to catch their breath joined the ranks of vigilance and deployment. In the command camp, Douglas sat silently, watching Kario and others arguing loudly around the tactical map.
Zero came to his side and said gently: "Are you okay?"
"This little injury doesn't matter." Douglas shook his head and said, he was indeed injured in the duel with Oglock. But the heaviest wounds were self-inflicted, as Douglas used unparalleled strength to control Oglock's movements. This force placed a heavy burden on his body, but the broken blood vessel was indeed just a minor injury in the eyes of a twelfth-level powerhouse.
In a day's time, these injuries have already healed. What really made Douglas feel heavy was not his injury, but the lingering image in his mind.
The scene of Oglok standing alone on the ground, being overwhelmed by countless guards.
"Oglock may not die." Zero patted him on the shoulder and said.
Douglas smiled wryly and said, "It seems that I'm really old, and I actually wrote my thoughts on my face. Otherwise, how could you see through my thoughts so easily, kid?"
"Since you said that, I will try to pretend to be a little stupid in the future." Zero said intentionally.
Then the two laughed.
Cario and the others, who were arguing about how to deal with this sudden incident, all glared at the two of them, and then continued the discussion. Douglas winked at Zero and said, "Are you interested in accompanying an old guy for a walk outside? These guys seem to be angry."
Zero shrugged, it would never be pleasant for any commander to suddenly lose a large number of soldiers and resources. He walked out of the camp with Douglas, and the two came to a high slope where they could see the wilderness in the distance. Several sentries stood at attention and saluted the two, Douglas nodded, pointed in the direction of Eternal Night City and said, "Look, Eternal Night City has disappeared."
Douglas looked serious, found a rock protruding from the ground and sat down and said: "Eternal Night City is Ogg's painstaking effort. It is gone now, even if Olo is still alive, I am afraid that life would be worse than death."
"It's better to be alive than to be dead. If you're dead, there's no hope. If you're alive, even if you're desperate, you still have a chance." Ling said in a deep voice.
Douglas looked at him, nodded and said, "You're right."
He looked at the camp behind again: "It's a pity that not everyone has the same courage as you, Zero. Look at these soldiers, facing unknown creatures, they will also be afraid. Especially after going through the battle like yesterday, I think , it will not be easy to restore their confidence."
Zero fell silent.
It was suddenly attacked by the Star Destroyer and the Guardian Legion yesterday. First, under the destructive high-energy beam of the Star Destroyer, countless soldiers died. Then the Guardian Legion attacked. If the Star Destroyer's attack gave them the shock of the instant loss of a large number of lives. Then what these guards bring is the fear brought by ruthless killing.
The army of the guards suddenly rushed into the chaotic barracks while the human coalition forces had not yet recovered from the attack of the Star Destroyers. It was not a battle at all, but a massacre. The command network exists in name only, the soldiers are almost fighting independently, and the two armies continue to lose blood under the influx of a large number of guards. It wasn't until the ability user troops built the first line of defense, and then Kario and others rushed back, that the situation was gradually reversed.
After dropping tens of thousands of dead bodies, the army was able to retreat in an orderly manner. After withdrawing for two hundred kilometers, the guards did not continue to pursue, and the human coalition forces got a chance to breathe. After that, there was an inventory of the battle damage. In the wilderness outside the Eternal Night City, the two coalition forces lost more than 40,000 lives. In terms of battle damage, if you compare the total number of soldiers in the coalition forces. Although the amount of loss is heartbreaking, it is barely acceptable, but the army's battle damage came too fast and too hastily.
A large number of lives withered in an instant, and the huge impact of death made these well-trained soldiers feel fear. It was a kind of helpless, even hopeless fear of tyrannical power.
To alleviate or even reverse the psychology of these soldiers, the difficult problem facing commanders such as Douglas or Cario now is to win a victory. Use this to boost morale and sweep away the shadows in their hearts.
However, all this is not easy, Eternal Night City has been completely wiped off the continent's territory. All the soldiers knew this, even if it was just the destruction caused by the Star Destroyer's self-explosion, to these soldiers, it seemed to imply that the invaders were irresistible. It is not easy to remove this shadow of the mind.
The wind blows from behind, and in the wind, there is a fishy smell. Zero frowned and turned to look. The light in the distance in the wilderness was dim, and gradually, a black cloud was spreading close to the horizon. Zero pupil dilation, narrowing the field of vision. He could see clearly that it was not a black cloud at all, but a pitch-black flood composed of hundreds of thousands of guards!
"Enemy attack!" Zero roared, his voice echoing in the camp behind.
Douglas sighed and stood up.
On this day, more than half a million guards hit the camp of the human army like a flood. On this undefended wilderness, only a defense line composed of capable people can barely withstand the impact of a large number of guards. The black waves set off flood peaks one after another, rushing forward and attacking the human defense line one after another. At this moment, the Hall of Valor and the Dark Council were closely linked, and the blood cavalry and Doomhammer constituted the main body of the line of defense, blocking the enemy's black soldiers from attacking.
The army retreated again, this time as far as the Blue Light Mountains. Relying on the terrain of the Blu-ray Mountains and the defense facilities that the Augustus family had built before, the human army got a chance to rest. The black soldiers chased all the way to the vicinity of the blue light mountain, and then retreated after receiving an invisible order.
In the Blu-ray Mountains, led by Leo, some of the original members of the Dark Council formed a temporary council, and discussed with Douglas from the Hall of Valor how to deal with the next war. Douglas's suggestion is to reorganize the army and go north again, and remove Proseus' biological army from the mainland as soon as possible before they can gain a foothold.
However, except for Leo, the rest of the members opposed Douglas's opinion. They believe that it is not wise not to raise troops to counterattack at this time. The morale of the army and the allocation of materials are all problems before them. If these problems cannot be solved and they rush northward, they will face another big defeat. And now, they can't afford to lose. If another battle is lost, the morale of the soldiers will drop to the bottom.
There may even be deserters. Once there are deserters, the army is not far from collapse. Therefore, the next actions must be cautious and not too risky.
In this way, the two sides entangled endlessly on the issue of offense or defense. The meeting was held several times, but no consensus was reached.
On the third night of retreating into the Blu-ray Mountains, Zero met Douglas. Douglas looked a little tired. He shook his head and said, "These cowards have reached this point and still don't dare to take a risk."
"Because they are not you, they don't have the courage to go all out." Zero said.
"If at this time, we can't abandon our self-interest and consider the overall situation, why should we fight this battle." Douglas sighed.
Zero shrugged: "Maybe they need time, or maybe they need something to help them make up their minds."
"For example?"
"I don't know." Ling smiled and said, "But I plan to go back, and I'm alone. Someone needs to know the latest situation of the enemy, right? Perhaps, I can bring back some for the members to make up their minds." s things."
Douglas looked at him and said, "I won't say anything superfluous, you should be careful."
"I see."
At night, Zero Secret left the Blu-ray Mountains and returned to the northern part of the coastline alone.
In a blink of an eye it was another day.
The northern part of the coastline has fallen under the control of Proseus, and the mutant beasts wandering in the wilderness are moving away from that area in groups. Whether it is the aura emitted by the Star Destroyer or the Guardian Legion, the mutant beasts feel Fear, that is the fear of facing natural enemies. Even if some mutant beasts in the wilderness have evolved energy crystals, they still cannot avoid this instinctive panic.
Only the fringes of Eternal Night City are left now, and the sea water has overflowed the city area, and the waves are beating against collapsed buildings or car wreckage. The sky here is gray. On the dark gray sky, the remaining Star Destroyer slowly descended towards the sea surface. Its huge body slid into the sea, causing huge waves one after another. The Star Destroyer let out a low cry, and when the sound disappeared completely, it had completely sunk into the bottom of the sea without a trace.
A group of about 100,000 guards left Eternal Night City at the same time. Instead of going south along the coastline road, they slanted through the wilderness and disappeared on the horizon.
The remaining guards entrenched near the Evernight City, occupying every corner of the ruins. If the area occupied by the guards is marked out, they are fanned out. And in the depths of this fan-shaped area, there is a queen and two producers. Now, the two producers are absorbing the energy of the mainland, and the produced energy spar is used by the queen.
The queen did not produce combat type biological weapons, but gave birth to two fraternal eggs as high as hills. There are two producers in the fraternal egg. Originally, each Star Destroyer carries a queen and two producers. They will be the basic production unit of Proseus in the middle continent. But a Star Destroyer blew himself up in order to obliterate Oglock, and the three production units were reduced to ashes together with the Star Destroyer before they could be released in time.
In this case, the queen can only produce other arms after expanding the number of production units. The queen is the maker of the biological army, but it cannot produce the same kind. However, the channel expands the number of producers. With enough energy spar supply, the queen can shorten the production cycle of biological weapons, thereby increasing the number of biological weapons in a disguised form.
Now, the guards occupying Eternal Night City, their duty is to ensure that the Queen will not be disturbed when she produces the army. In the production list received by the queen, since a large number of guards are equivalent to mid-level and high-level weapons, the queen will directly ignore low-level weapons such as charge bugs and reapers. After the other two producers hatch, the energy spar produced by the producer will be supplied to it to produce high-level weapons.
The first weapon to be produced is the arbitrator. This kind of biological weapon, which is powerful in melee combat and can serve as the command node of the biological army, is listed in the priority sequence. After they are put into the battlefield, they will form an effective command network. In this way, the combat efficiency of the Guardian will be doubled.
After the arbitrator, there will be Inspector Black Flame and Guardian of Fear. The former can produce a small fire puppet army by itself, and each black flame inspector can be regarded as a small army, and their combat flexibility is very high. Especially positional warfare within a medium range is the field that this biological weapon is best at; the latter is the auxiliary arm of the entire biological army, and the fear guards who have reached a certain level jointly cast a fear force field, which will attack ordinary soldiers and low-level soldiers. The morale of the capable user was dealt a huge blow.
At the same time, their other abilities can also serve as assists and assistance. Once under the unified command of the arbitrator, the combat capability of the entire legion will be raised to a higher level.
The horror of the Black Legion lies not only in its quantity, but also in the cooperation of multiple arms. Once they are scaled up, with the cooperation of different arms, it is not empty talk to sweep the Central Continent. Of course, to accomplish this goal, Proseus needs time.
Humans need it too.
A heavy locomotive was speeding along the coastline road. On the locomotive, Zero, who was wearing windshield glasses, had a stern expression. In the reflection of the mirror, a black mist hovered over the city of Evernight. That is not the magnetic storm cloud formed by Proseus, but the natural matter formed after the producer extracts the energy of the continent. These substances form a fog cluster, and the fog cluster itself is filled with countless material particles, which will effectively isolate most of the detection wave energy from entering, thus turning the occupied area into an unknown area.
Zero is heading towards this area, and the area at the northern end of the coastline seems to have become a no-man's land.