On the north side of the Languang Mountains, the traces of the battle are still there, and the potholes in the mountains are still not refilled, and the traces of the artillery bombardment are still maintained. The fortifications on the edge of the city are being rebuilt, shells and various types of ammunition are being produced by factories, and the city is recovering its vitality. This morning, Leo learned that Zero and Douglas had defeated the invaders, but his long-term cautious style still allowed Leo to send a few patrol teams to the surrounding areas as usual.
Two of the patrol teams were in charge of the mountains on the north side and the forest bordering the mountains.
After the two teams went deep into the forest for ten kilometers, they dared not go any further. Nearby, the guards left by Ansura to protect the brood could already be seen. The guards are basically composed of lizard dragons and Garcia flying insects. Garcia flying insects that can reflect ambient light are almost invisible, and lizard dragons move around. Use your own paw prints and scents to mark your territory.
When one of the patrol teams came to the defensive infested area, a Sauropod suddenly emerged from the bushes. The sudden appearance of such a big guy startled the soldiers. Fortunately, they had received a notice from their superiors before setting off, so they didn't need to pay attention to the lizard dragons that appeared in this area.
The lizard dragon didn't seem to be interested in humans either. After sniffing one of the soldiers with its big nose, it lazily burrowed back into the bushes. The team leader gestured to leave, and glanced at the forest ahead before leaving. In the territory divided by the lizard dragon, a layer of yellow mist is floating. Even with the mountain wind in the forest, this layer of mist would not disperse, only a smell like rotten eggs drifted along with the mountain wind.
The smell is very unpleasant, and after taking a sip, you will feel a little dizzy. Thinking about it, I know it can't be a good thing. The team leader didn't care about what was in the forest. Those were the important things to worry about. He just had to make sure that there were no dark biological weapons like the guards in his line of sight.
Of course the captain would not know that the yellow mist was actually a ripening agent released by the brood. In the area shrouded in yellow mist, all the trees in the original forest withered within a day, and all their plant essences were converted into energy for the brood to absorb.
The three mother nests are located in the center of this area. The mother nest looks like a fat worm the size of a mountain, with a light brown breastplate and a row of short and thick legs on both sides. It drags a long flat tail that is about three meters long. When the tail skims over the ground, it will leave a light yellow tail.
Now these three production units that have advanced to the middle level are lying on the ground. In the middle of them, the ground sank at some point, and the sunken part is filled with light green liquid, looking like a small lake.
There are countless milky white follicles floating in the lake water, and in each follicle, a miniature weapon embryo can be seen. Around the shore of the lake, countless interlaced and complex rhizomes spread. They are like the roots of some kind of plant, and they are like some transmission conduits. Along with this rhizome network finally radiating out, there are hundreds of strange trees that grow overnight.
These dark brown strange trees have no leaves, bare trunks, and gray-white cocoons that are half a meter high hang from the few branches. From time to time, light flickers in the cocoon bubble, and at the same time, the shadow of some kind of creature appears.
In fact, these strange trees and the small lake are the production tools of the brood. After being promoted, the brood has abandoned the original production method. They build deep wells of energy liquid, and create strange trees that are equivalent to cultivation tanks. Then discharge the fetal eggs of biological weapons directly into the liquid deep well. When those weird trees spread their roots deep into the deep well to extract energy liquid for their own needs, the follicles will randomly follow the energy liquid to reach a certain tree. The strange tree, and then the strange tree completes the incubation process from the follicle to the cocoon.
At the same time, the brood will also release ripening mist, which covers the production area to form a natural protective layer, and at the same time can be absorbed by the meat cocoon, thereby accelerating the growth of biological weapons in the meat cocoon.
This scene of mass production of weapons on the assembly line is very similar to that day when Proseus produced the first batch of charging bugs underground in Liudao.
The day passed quickly, and when night fell, the first cocoon fell to the ground. The wall of the cocoon was broken, and a humanoid weapon about 150 centimeters in length poked its head out of the cocoon. It quickly tore off the cocoon completely, and the viscous cocoon liquid was still on its body. After getting out of the cocoon, this thing first ate up the cocoon clothes and the mucus on its body.
Following the slapping sound of the body, the body grew about ten centimeters taller, and it was replaced with a pair of dark light armor. The biological armor had a metal-like luster, and biological weapons like this kept appearing. In the blink of an eye, there were more than 500 humanoid weapons in the forest. They are the Kui'an knights who can cooperate with the lizard dragon. After the Kui'an knights completed the rapid transformation from larvae to mature, the larvae shells they shed are cooling, and the soft shells gradually become cold and hard.
The Kuian knights will collect the shells that they have shed, spray energy flames from their hands, and weld these hard shells to grow into a two-meter long sword. When the hard shells were completely cooled, they became harder than metal, and their weight increased a lot, becoming heavy swords. Kui'an Knight put his palms together and wiped the edge of the blade, and a layer of debris fell off immediately, and the originally rough blade became sharp.
After finishing making the weapon, the knight dragged the epee out of the forest. The lizard dragons that had been waiting for a long time rushed out from every corner of the forest. Each knight picked a lizard dragon and jumped on it. Immediately, there were 500 more mobile and powerful lizard cavalry in Zero's army.
When Ansula reported the newly born Kuian knight to Zero through the core, Zero was reviewing the battle damage report in the temporary camp. After obtaining the basic data of the Kui'an Knight through the core, and the increased combat power after matching with the Lizard Dragon, Zero is very satisfied. After the combination of the knight and the lizard dragon, its destructive power is comparable to that of the Paladin mecha in the Western Continent.
Even the improved version of the paladin mecha now has the same combat power as the lizard dragon cavalry. However, the production speed of the mecha is limited, and the driver also needs time to train, but the Kuian Knight produced by the brood only takes about 24 hours. If the resources are sufficient, the brood can continuously produce Kui'an knights, and after a month, Zero will have more than 10,000 cavalry.
This kind of rapid production speed is not comparable to mechs.
With the lizard cavalry, Zero's legion's combat power will increase by 30%, which is definitely a big help!
With Zero's help, all the lizards returned to the breeding grounds in order to reintegrate with the Kuian Knights into a new army. As for the other biological weapons, they were scattered among the nearby forests and mountains, waiting for the next opportunity to attack. Ling Xin thought, the next time he dispatches, if there is no accident, he should go straight to the location of Proseus. But before that, whether it is Zero or Douglas, it will take time for the army to rest.
They still have a lot of work to do, the wounded need to be recuperated, the equipment needs to be repaired, and the army still needs to be augmented. And the most important problem is that they don't know where Proseus is hiding. But on this point, Ansula can do it for her. He captured enough guards, even some arbitrators. There is a connection between these biological weapons and Proseus, and Ansura can reverse engineer these biological weapons to find out the location of Proseus.
However, that takes time.
Zero continued to look at the battle damage report at hand. This time, because the underground legion served as the vanguard, the number of casualties of the human and alien coalition forces was within an acceptable range. Over 2,000 people died in the battle in Dawn City, hundreds of people were seriously injured, and there were countless minor injuries. More than 50 chariots were destroyed, of which 100 can be repaired.
Looking at the series of numbers on the report, Zero shook his head and smiled wryly. Recalling that when I entered the wilderness at the beginning of the year, I had hundreds of dollars in my pocket. At that time, when the mission was launched, the death of the people around him was the most intuitive impact, unlike now, it was just some numbers. But when these numbers are linked to life, they appear very heavy. What Zero can do is to make these numbers as small as possible, and then less.
This is also the duty of being a lord.
The next day, under the order of Leo, the army of the parliament planned to continue going north. They want to return to Eternal Night City. Although most of the city has been destroyed, at least the fringe areas can be restored. Moreover, the two underground material warehouses were not affected by the big explosion, and many strategic materials in them were exactly what the parliament was in short supply. Leo's plan is to rebuild the remaining city into a forward base to monitor and prevent another attack by Proseus' army.
As for Douglas, he intends to return to Asgard. The army of the Hall of Valor needs to recover and wait for Ansura to obtain the coordinates of Proseus before making plans. It was impossible for Zero to stay in the wilderness, but he didn't think about returning to Dawn City. At least the army didn't have to travel long distances back to the hinterland of the mainland. He wanted to place the army in Phoenix City.
Firstly, Phoenix City is located within the range of the coastline, and in the event of an emergency, it can also assist each other with the parliamentary army; secondly, Ansula seems to be planning to transform the forest area near the Blue Light Mountain into a breeding ground for biological weapons. The location is adjacent to the Blu-ray Mountains. Once there is friction with the parliament, Brown, who stayed in Phoenix to manage the army, can negotiate in time.
As for Ling himself, he had to go back to Dawn City both on public and private occasions.
In this way, the three forces in Central Continent went their separate ways for the time being.
Although the Black Legion had been crushed, Zero was not completely relieved because there was still a Star Destroyer missing. After the thing dived into the sea, it disappeared and did not know where it went.
At this moment in summer, even the coldest region of the Central Continent is located in the tundra region of the Far West. The ice and snow covering the surface have quietly melted for at least 300 days a year, and the surface will show its original appearance in just over 60 days in summer. Until sixty days later, the ice and snow will return and turn everything into silver.
At the edge of the tundra, a steep cliff like a knife extends to the northeast in a zigzag way. After advancing for hundreds of kilometers, the terrain of this special coastline tended to be flat. The gentler area borders the sea, forming a large sandy beach. On this beach, a large number of cave crabs come out of their nests and come to the beach every summer.
This is a busy season, and the cave crabs that have mutated and evolved will take advantage of this short period of warmer weather for *breeding. For saber-toothed seals, the cave crabs all over the ground are undoubtedly crawling delicacies, so when summer comes, this beach will become a carnival stage for cave-dwelling crabs and saber-toothed seals. Dense cave crabs will occupy this beach, and thousands of seals can eat their bodies round.
This year, however, appears to be an exception.
When Dongfang Lubai came, the beach was already covered with crabs. The saber-toothed seals began to climb up the beach, and were about to start a whole day of gluttonous feast. Suddenly, the sea water turned red first, and a crimson band of water approached from far away, dyeing all the sea water near the beach red. Then the sea water rolled back without warning, which was obviously far ahead of the low tide, and the saber-toothed seal felt vaguely uneasy.
The anxiety in their hearts made these greedy guys let the crabs crawl around under their noses, but not many seals would catch them. These chubby animals looked at the sea surface in the distance, where the revolving sea water was constantly accumulating, and the sea level was rising at a speed visible to the naked eye. The sea-smelling wind was blowing from the sea, which made the seals feel even more uneasy.
Finally, when the sea level rose by ten meters, a sea wall swept over. The panicked calls of the seals sounded on the beach, and these gourmets no longer cared about the delicious food on the beach, and rushed to the beach. Because behind them is a devastating tsunami!
Unfortunately, no matter how hard the saber-toothed seals tried, they couldn't move faster than the sea wall. Finally, the sky-high waves slapped heavily on the beach, and tens of thousands of cave crabs were directly smashed to pieces under this violent impact. With just this slap, the waves surged onto the beach and penetrated deep into the back of the beach. The mountains are hundreds of meters. When the sea water rolled back, the entire beach became a vast ocean, with countless dead crabs and saber-toothed seals floating on it.
After the disaster, only a pitiful number of seals survived. As the guys struggled to the surface, a deep roar was heard from the sea. A huge head gradually protruded from the sea level, the Star Destroyer that had appeared in Evernight City and slipped into the bottom of the sea. After disappearing for nearly a month, it unexpectedly appeared in the extreme west of the Central Continent.
Under the action of the anti-gravity organ, the Star Destroyer forcefully leaped out of the sea surface, and tons of seawater continuously poured down from both sides of its body, forming hundreds of water columns, large and small. The Star Destroyer let out a roar, and the fins on both sides moved, like a fish swimming in the water, and this behemoth flew towards the beach. When it reached the sky above the beach, a gap opened in the abdominal cavity of the Star Destroyer, and then one after another, the eggs still dripping with body fluids spewed out from its body, and then continued to fall towards the beach.
After a while, this beach has changed a group of new owners. More than 30,000 fraternal eggs occupied the beach, and soon after they fell to the ground, they began to tremble, and then only guards got out of the egg shells. At this time, the sea water continued to retreat, and finally the water level on the beach only reached the guard's knees. After these things broke out of their shells, they took the egg shells as their first food, followed by seal and crab carcasses, and everything that could be eaten became their food.
Even so, after swallowing all the edible food on the beach like a gust of wind, the guard did not stop eating. Some of the guards began to kill their own kind, devouring the corpses, and soon fell into a pre-transformation state of sleep. The rest of the guards didn't take any further actions, they just stayed on the beach, becoming guards of the same kind in the process of evolution.
The Star Destroyer let out a low cry, as if it had given an order, it flapped its wings and flew towards the mountains. After expulsing more than 30,000 fraternal guard eggs, its aura became very weak. The Star Destroyer finally entered the mountain area, and that huge aura gradually disappeared.
Three days later, more than a thousand guards completed their evolution. Their shells turn a scarlet color, and beetle wings grow from their backs, which can convert biological energy into explosive fireballs. After the full version of the guard with the ability to dominate the air came to life, he led the army away from the beach. They headed northwest and cut into the tundra two days later.
If the advance route of the Guardian Legion does not change, then they will arrive in a city in two days.
Green City!
"Master Merlin! Lord Merlin!"
In the morning when the sky was slightly bright, the Red Grand Duke Merlin was waving his battle ax to judge with flames. The scarlet battle ax flew up and down, interweaving a bright red light curtain, and the red prince was placed in this light curtain. When the tomahawk danced, the light curtain remained in the air for a long time.
The door of the fighting hall was pushed open, and a scholar from Ludu rushed in. The scholar is not good at physical strength, running so fast made him gasp for breath again and again, which made Merlin shake his head. After the scholar recovered his breath, Merlin asked, "Why are you so flustered so early in the morning?"
"Quick, you have to take a look. It's successful, it's successful..." The scholar raised his head and said happily: "We have found a substitute for the Sky Stone, which is an element after treatment. It is efficient, pure, and not With radiation. The only disadvantage is that it will reduce the purification range and quality of the Netherese shield, but it has already reached the vision proposed by Dawn City that day."
"If this element is mass-produced, then a new era of cleanliness will surely come!" the scholar said excitedly.
Merlin also showed joy, and said, "Go, take me to have a look."
The Red Grand Duke is naturally very excited. If all this can be realized, then this will realize that a chapter of a new era will be opened in their hands. What an exciting thing!