It has been two days since I returned to the vicinity of Eternal Night City.
Zero Heavy had been camouflaged to look like a bush in the wilderness. Even though this bush is a bit bigger, those dark guards will not be interested in it. They only attack life forms, and they should turn a blind eye to big iron blocks like locomotives.
He looked around, and in his perception, this area seemed to be dead. There is no trace of life activity, not to mention large animals, even bacteria are dying. Zero squatted on the ground, stretched out his hand on the ground to hold a handful of broken sand, and let the sand slip from between his fingers. Perhaps for ordinary people, there is nothing special about this handful of sand. But in fact, every grain of sand has crystallized, which is a sign that the molecular structure has collapsed.
This phenomenon only occurs when the energy in this area is completely extracted.
No life can live in such an area, the land will lose any nutrients, the water source will be dry or heavily polluted, and even bacteria cannot survive in this environment, let alone larger life. And in a few years, this area will become a real dead zone. Even if the planet can restore itself, it will take many years to restore such a creation.
Proseus is undoubtedly the natural enemy of all planets, whether it is itself or the biological weapons it creates, it will exhaust the energy of a planet. Agladis has not been in contact with Zero for a long time, which is probably related to the continuous extraction of energy from the planet by Proseus and his legion. Now Aglasdi probably doesn't even have the energy to descend, and everything can only rely on human beings.
Zero sighed softly, restrained his thoughts, and headed towards the deserted town that was used as a command position that day.
The town is very quiet, zero volts behind a rock outside the town. He didn't dare to perceive the situation in the town rashly, but his intuition told him that the tranquility of the town was just an illusion, and there could be no guards there. This is a natural sentry point, how could biological weapons let this place go. Ling picked up a stone on the ground and threw it with great strength. The stone bounced off the fuel tank of an abandoned gas station at the entrance of the town, making a crisp sound.
The sound echoed in the quiet town, and after a while, black shadows emerged from the houses and shops in the town, and quickly gathered near the gas station. It was the guards, who either stepped on the fuel tank or climbed up the iron shed of the gas station. Judging from the location of the distribution, the gas station has been surrounded.
There were about twenty guards. They looked around, and the three eyes on their heads were shining brightly, communicating with each other. After a brief exchange, it seemed that no abnormalities were found. Most of the guards withdrew to the hiding place, but one guard remained. After the humanoid monster patrolled around, it returned to the gas station.
There was a slight noise from behind a rock protruding from the ground outside the town, and the guards were keenly aware of the light noise. The three eyeballs on the head blinked, and then flew over lightly. It didn't rush to check behind the rock immediately, but drew its tail first. The needle ball at the end hit the half-meter rock, and the rock immediately shattered. If there is something behind who wants to make a sneak attack, the guards will definitely fight back.
There was nothing behind the shattered rocks, the guard blinked his eyes, and when he was about to return to the town, his whole body was shocked. It looked down at its own chest, and one hand quietly pierced through the armor of its body, pulling out a beating core. As the palm contracted, the core immediately shattered, and the plasma squeezed out from between the fingers, dripping onto the ground.
Put the guard's body on the ground, and use its blood to smear his body surface. In this way, his smell can be concealed to the greatest extent. Finally, he dug a hole by the side of the road and buried the bodyguard's body in it. After that, Zero bypassed the town and dived towards Eternal Night City.
Outside Eternal Night City, he found an abandoned factory area and hid there. Here at the edge of the city, a large number of guards seem to gather in the ruins of Eternal Night City. As for some sentries wandering in the edge area, there is no trace of Zero. The guard's scent combined with Zero's own stealthy movements made him feel like no one was there. He hid in the factory area for a whole day, and he didn't start to act until night fell.
On the way into Eternal Night City, several more guards died silently. Their cores were pulled out, and the squeezed out plasma became the camouflage on Zero's body. Now if you judge only by the smell, there is basically no difference between zero and a guard. The only thing that aroused the guard's suspicion was the heavy smell of blood on his body.
But at the moment when the Star Destroyer is missing and the Arbitrator has not yet been produced. The intelligence of the guards is not enough to analyze the meaning of the bloody smell on Zero's body. They simply classify Zero as the companion who killed more enemies. In this way, there is a reasonable explanation for the stronger bloody smell.
But after entering the fringe area of Eternal Night City, even with the scent of guards on his body as a cover, the speed of Zero's advancement slowed down. More and more guards occupy every inch of Eternal Night City, and the dense distribution makes Ling dare not be too ostentatious. He used conditions such as darkness and blind spots to sneak, but the slow speed of advancing like this can be imagined.
In an hour, Ling only cut two hundred meters. When he got into the ruins of a collapsed building, three fluorescent lights lit up in the darkness of the ruins. Zero didn't think much about it, and rushed forward in an instant, the battle was over as soon as it started. When Zero pulled his hand out of the guard's huge head, he frowned and shook his head. The palms and even the forearms were covered with the matter in the guard's brain, so Zero had to pick up the broken clothes on the ground and clean his arms a little.
The sound of guards' activities came from outside, and these dark biological weapons were dormant most of the time. Once something suspicious is found, it will appear from a hidden place. The sudden movement of a large number of guards like this is very abnormal. Zero held his breath and fell to the original window of the building. There is only half of the window left, the lower half is buried in the gravel, and only the upper half is like a window of a bunker where the outside world can be seen.
The night was dark, and Zero activated his low-light vision, only to see a large number of guards gathered together, and then began to kill. Ling was taken aback for a moment, and when he looked carefully again, he found that it was not killing. Guards in twos and threes catch pairs, and one of them will kill the surrounding companions. The guards who were attacked did not resist at all, and almost stood still to be killed by their own kind.
The guardian who kills his companion will take out the core from the corpse on the ground, and put it in his mouth. After the core of the corpse was eaten, the guards began to devour the corpses of their companions. This scene looked so familiar, and Zero suddenly remembered those living corpses and Fenli wolves who evolved by killing their companions to complete themselves and evolve. In other words, these guards are also for evolution.
It's just that all their killings are carried out in silence, whether it's the killing or the victim, it's terribly quiet.
Zero took out a pocket camera from a storage bag on his waist. Its base is an earmuff that can be fixed to the ear. After doing all this, Zero activated the recording function of the camera, so all the pictures outside were faithfully recorded. After returning to the Blu-ray Mountains, this precious video data will prompt those congressmen to make up their minds. After all, judging from the situation in Evernight City, there is not much time for them to hesitate.
The killing of the outer guards has ended, at least several hundred guards have fallen, but only seventy or eighty guards are still alive. After devouring enough flesh and blood of the same kind, they hugged their heads and fell to the ground just like that. Some off-white liquids are discharged from the gaps of their nail leaves, the liquids gradually solidify, and finally form a cocoon-like thing to wrap these guards.
From time to time, a crimson light flickered in the gray cocoon, and the flickering of red light was very regular, which looked like the breathing of a guard.
These guardians are beginning to evolve.
Zero was about to drill out of the ruins when footsteps sounded again. One after another, the new guards jumped to the vicinity of the gray cocoons, picked up the evolving ones, and seemed to be moving them to a safe place. After they all left, Zero drilled out of the ruins. Turning around the killing scene, he found that the ground was clean, except for some inedible beetles. As for the bloodstains, they were also licked clean by the guards.
He looked at the city under the night, and in the depths of the city, Zero felt a very oppressive atmosphere. He began to move, stepping into the city through the night. Although there were many guards in the city, none of them found Zero's whereabouts. Naturally, Zero cannot advance quickly either. He walked through the ruins under the night like a ghost, sometimes he just passed a street, but he had to lie dormant for half an hour before finding a gap for the guards to patrol.
As he went deeper into the city, Zero discovered that the number of guards continued to rise. They almost all gathered deep in the city, as if they were protecting something. After crossing another street, Zero knew that he could no longer go any further. The dense distribution of guards made him unable to find any gaps to use, so he had to pick a tall building and climb up. When he reached the rooftop, at least dozens of guards in the building died silently in his hands.
The wind on the roof was so strong that it made the hair flutter in bits and pieces. Seen from this direction, the city is no longer dark. On the edge of the explosion that the Star Destroyer self-destructed that day, the city had already disappeared here, and the seawater had accumulated to form an inner bay, and some tall buildings could be vaguely seen with their tops protruding obliquely from the sea surface, and more of them had already sunk into the seawater.
Near the bay, six behemoths are absorbing the energy of the mainland. Those things are like giant tortoises with meat sacs. They lie on the ground, and there are tube-like flesh whiskers on the outside of their bodies that connect to the ground. The light of energy constantly rose up, and then transported into the flesh bag of the giant beast. The meat sac is like a furnace operating at full power, the sac wall is illuminated by the energy flames within, so every blood vessel on the surface of the body is clearly visible.
Behind the giant beast is a hill-like energy spar, which varies in size and color. When piled together, they are like gems, exuding a hazy seven-color brilliance. However, in Zero Eye, those gems are the flesh and blood of the planet. They were extracted by these behemoths, and seeing these energy crystals, Zero seemed to be able to hear the cry of the planet.
A cluster of fluttering tentacles reached down, rolling up part of the spar. Looking along the tentacles, Zero saw another huge monster. There is a height of nearly twenty meters, the upper body of a human-like woman, and the waist below is a knobby insect body. No arms, just tentacles covered with suckers. Now, those tentacles picked up the crystal, and the woman's abdomen suddenly split from it.
On both sides of the rolled-up flesh, fine and broken teeth appeared, which turned out to be the monster's mouth. After throwing the spar into the big mouth, the energy spar was quickly digested, and the lines on the surface of the monster could be seen to light up sequentially. Spread from both sides of the mouth, the lines spread all over the body.
Zero's sight moved again, and under the light of the producer's body bag, this inner bay was shrouded in a layer of red light even at night. In addition to the producer and queen, there is a row of fraternal eggs in the inner bay area. Some of the fraternal eggs began to rupture, and humanoid creatures came out of them. Their body size is similar to that of normal human men, and their bodies are covered by thick and dark biological armor.
There are two spray tanks behind the armor, blood-red energy flames are continuously ejected from the tanks, which look like fluttering red cloaks.
Dragging alien weapons twisted together by bones, metal, and other things. The breath of these monsters is condensed, and they are no less than Zero's own Ogma giant.
Arbiter of death.
Just like seeing the Star Destroyer that day, at this moment, the dark core in the body once again conveyed the information of various biological weapons to Zero. So Zero knew the name of the humanoid creature in front of him, and at the same time knew that they were the command nodes of the army of creatures. As for the producer who extracts the planet's energy and the queen who keeps laying eggs and building soldiers, there are also materials passing through Zero's mind one after another.
Now, the first batch of arbitrators born by the queen has appeared. Each arbitrator can command three hundred or even five hundred guards, and the arbitrators are connected with each other to form a command network. Thankfully, the army of creatures lacks a commander. Originally, the intelligence of the Star Destroyer could be qualified for the role of a commander, but now, the only Star Destroyer is carrying out other orders, so the Black Legion in Evernight City lacks a "brain".
The arbitrator can only instinctively command the middle and low-level weapons to defend or attack, but they are powerless to ask them to formulate strategies. Zero thought that the army of these creatures should stand still at the moment, and the queen would build a large number of troops. The attack will not be launched until the missing Star Destroyer returns.
This gave humans some time, but the time should not be too long. Looking at the queen's production speed, it won't be long before Proseus' biological army will reach a new level.
Zero looked at the queen, and made a decision in an instant.
He reached out his hand into the void, and when he pulled it out, he already had a silver shotgun in his hand. As soon as Longinus appeared, he changed his form according to Zero's will, and finally settled on the appearance of a sniper rifle. Only after changing the shape, Zero felt that Longinus changed from the original three bullets to the current one.
He only has one chance, this bullet will be used on the queen, Zero intends to snipe Proseus's army unit, the queen!
While Zero took out the gun of Longinus, the phenomenon of energy overflow and power release inevitably occurred. Such an obvious vision, not to mention the arbitrator who has just stepped out of the egg shell, even the low-level guards have already noticed it. Immediately, a large number of guards rushed towards the building where Zero was located. Some guards even connected end to end to form wheels, and the spur wheels flew across the ground and climbed directly to the building.
Under the thick visor of the arbitrator, his eyes kept blinking, and invisible orders were issued, directing the guards to surround the building. But Ling on the rooftop at the bottom of the building was surprisingly calm. He squatted down, raised his gun, and aimed. Put the queen's body into the silver sight. The queen's body is so huge that there is no need to deliberately capture it.
Sensing Zero's murderous intent directed at her, the queen let out a scream. As a production type biological weapon, it is not without some means of attack. It's just that there is a huge distance between it and zero. In the absence of long-range attack means, the queen can only run for her life. So it turned around, and the worm-leg joints of its lower body moved, carrying the queen towards the sea.
Will Zero let it escape
When the crosshair in the sight moved to the queen's head, Zero pressed the trigger. All the dark gold patterns on the sniper rifle were lit up, and even extended complex light patterns pointing directly at the muzzle. A long tongue of flame spewed out from the muzzle of the gun, and a platinum-gold sniper bullet escaped, whirling and flashing a faint flame in the night sky.
As soon as the sniper was fired, Longinus disappeared. That bullet has exhausted its power, and at the same time, some guards have already jumped onto the roof. Zero turned and left, and behind him came the scream of the queen resounding throughout the city, as well as a brilliant beam of light pointing directly at the sky. Following the shock wave of the explosion, Zero had already jumped from the other side of the roof.
After jumping down again, a faint golden ripple spread out above the head, and the end disappeared into the void a hundred meters away. When a person is in mid-air, Zero can feel strong vibrations passing around his body. A violent airflow suddenly erupted from the doors and windows of the building behind him, and some guards caught off guard were ejected from the building by the airflow, and fell down one by one.
When Zero was about to hit the ground, he activated the anti-gravity field, and the fall immediately slowed down, allowing him to land on the ground safely. Only then did he have the time to look back, and he saw the direction of the Neiwan fire shining brightly. The queen's body was wrapped in a ball of flames, its head had disappeared completely, and the huge body fell heavily like a leaning building, kicking up a cloud of smoke and dust.
If the queen is killed, the number of creatures in Eternal Night City will not continue to increase until Proseus sends a new army-building unit. At the same time, it also delayed Proseus's plan to clean up the continent a little bit.
Humanity still has a chance.
The screams of the guards and the heavy footsteps of the death arbitrator sounded. Zero didn't want to single out hundreds of thousands of biological legions. Immediately enough foot strength, the figure kept flashing in the ruins of the city. When he swept out of Eternal Night City, behind him were biological weapons roaring unwillingly.