"They don't sleep, they wander there with their eyes open all the time. They are the dead, forever protecting their lairs."
Back then, the survivor who had swept the Hall of the Dead left Ademily with such an impressive sentence. Of the mopping-up team of 300 people, only a few returned, and all of them were seriously injured. Some even survived for two days before being killed by the god of death. In the end, only two or three people survived. Since then, Ludu has not continued to sweep the Hall of the Dead.
The Hall of the Dead is the name given by the Green City. In the former research base, the ice corpse mutated by the living corpse had no plans to leave the base. Their existence only made the road from Green City to the outside world a bit farther away, but did not cause substantial damage, so the base and corpse demons remained. Unexpectedly, today, this black area in the territory of Ludu will come in handy.
The team continued to advance, and the wreckage of the car and various scattered equipment parts or fragments could gradually be seen in the tunnel. In the rear, the voices of the soldiers in charge of the rear gradually faded, and Ademili knew that those soldiers had completed their mission. They used their lives to win a moment of buffer time for the team.
The guards were still in hot pursuit, and the number of biological weapons had been reduced, but it was still not enough to produce a decisive factor, and the combat power of the enemy army was not greatly affected.
The tunnel is the bridge from the base to the outside world, and its entrance is the material transportation platform of the base. When the guards from the Green City came to the entrance of the tunnel and entered the automatic door of the transport platform that was not completely closed, the ten soldiers behind the team spread out, each looking for a place to hide. They will be in charge of the rear, closing the gates. This is a mission that is doomed to death, but from the beginning to the end, none of the soldiers assigned to the mission hesitated, not even for a moment.
The transportation platform has several elevator shafts leading directly to the interior of the base, other than that, there is only one safe passage. The gate of the safe passage was closed tightly. A few soldiers stepped forward, swung their epees and slashed several times before knocking down the gate. Boom, there was a dull impact sound, along the passage to the inside of the base that was as silent as a tomb.
At this moment, a thick layer of mist is floating in the base, which is formed by countless dark ice particles. The shadow ice fog remained unchanged all year round, but when the sound came faintly, the ice fog began to flow slowly.
Apparently, the dead who lingered in it knew of the visitor.
The guards poured into the safe passage. They didn't care about disturbing the ice corpses in the base. They galloped on the iron ladder of the safe passage, making footsteps like rain. Finally, a moment after they left, the guards crashed into the transport platform one by one. They only took a short look, and found the traces of the guards, so they flocked into the safe passage.
The guard's vanguard even chased after it in the form of a flywheel, and the pitch-black flywheel blew sparks in the darkness and went down the passage. With a sharp spin at the turning point, the direction adjustment action is completed. They were running more and more quietly, the iron ladder of the safe passage did not stop ringing for a moment, the iron ladder kept vibrating, and a series of dust fell, making the air turbid.
In a blink of an eye, the guards almost walked away completely, but two guards behind them stopped suddenly. They looked at each other, separated, and looked for the Ludu warrior hiding behind the cover.
A guard jumped onto a forklift, and as soon as he poked his head out, an epee floated up from the darkness, slashing across its head. The guard immediately retracted his head, and the ball-shaped end of the needle slapped into the darkness, colliding with the epee. The guard jumped back with his strength, and in mid-air, two epees flew out with lightning, finally beheading it in the air.
The battle on the other side also ended quickly, killing the two guards. The Ludu fighters came out of the cover and fixed them on the blasting point with the explosive package prepared earlier in the morning. At this time, another five or six guards jumped out of the safe passage. They were connected end to end, rolled into a flywheel, and lightning flashed across the ground, rushing towards them.
Seven or eight Ludu warriors roared and greeted him with swords.
There was a fierce battle, and blood danced wildly. After bringing down the three guards, there was a bang and all the explosives exploded. The violent shock wave and flames instantly engulfed the guards and the green warriors together. The transport platform is filled with flames, and the explosion in a limited space increases the superimposed power of the explosion. The original solid wall of the base could not withstand the violent impact, and a large crack spread like a spider web. The support of the dome broke, and a large amount of debris poured down, blocking the open door to death.
The flames are still burning, but the bodies of the warriors and guards of the Green City have been buried deep under the rubble, dying together with the enemy!
"This way!"
Ademili pointed forward, and the guards were galloping through the complex passages of the base. Although it was her first time to enter the Hall of the Dead, she could perceive a deep and icy energy hovering somewhere in the hall. Ademili believed that that was where the deep cold lord was. So everything became simpler. The shadowy ice fog that filled the interior of the base was projected into Ademili's spiritual perception, and it was a clear energy vein map.
The energy response of the deep cold lord is located at a point on this vein map, and all Ademili has to do is to command the guards to advance towards the lord's position. There, it will be the place where the corpse demon and the guards will have a decisive battle, and what they have to do is to promote this.
The guards are chasing after him, time is running out. Ademili's spirit was highly concentrated to an unprecedented degree, she had to make correct judgments at every fork, and constantly lead the guards to the designated location. Traces of corpse demons can already be found along the way, and there are even ice corpse demons passing by the left of the team. However, they did not launch an attack hastily, but gathered quietly.
Sometimes the sound of sharp claws scraping against metal can be heard from the top of the head, or two faint blue will-o'-the-wisps flickering, which are all traces of the corpse demon's activities. Ademili knew that they had penetrated deep into the corpse demon's lair.
Finally, they crashed into a research hall. This should be a biological experiment base. You can see strange biological specimens still immersed in containers, or some mummified corpses in researcher overalls. Here, the line of sight has become quite blurred. This is the place where the shadow and ice fog are the thickest. Only the corpse demon can clearly grasp the location of the prey in this environment. The perception of others, including Ademily, has become blurred.
It's like a layer of tulle is separated from the world. Although I can see the general outline, I can't grasp its clear face.
There was a movement behind him, and the hiss of corpse demons sounded, as if sporadic corpse demons had already handed over the guards. Ademili made the guards stand still, and she vaguely felt that the energy like black ice began to change. Like cracks appearing in the ice layer, more intense energy spews out from the cracks. At the same time, a beast-like roar sounded from the depths of the ice fog.
The deep cold lord was coming towards them, and Ademily immediately opened up a shielding force field for herself and the guards. The effect of the force field is like the shadow ice fog of the corpse demon, which plays the role of sensory occlusion. So in the corpse demon's senses, the breath of Ludu warriors disappeared one by one. In this way, the existence of biological weapons is particularly dazzling.
The dead do not allow other creatures to step into their lair, whether it is a warrior from Green City or a biological weapon. After Ademili successfully made her own personnel enter the "invisible" state, the Ice Corpse turned its attention to the guards. In the darkness, the blue ghost fire fluttered and swayed, and the ice corpse appeared from the darkness. They still maintain the general outline of humans, but a layer of blue ice armor like scales grows on their bodies.
Their nails are several inches long, and the hook-shaped long nails with blue luster flowing from time to time are not so much nails as claws. A row of spikes of different sizes grow on the back, and when the mouth at the root of the ear is opened, it will spit out a long tongue with mouthparts. The eyes have degenerated, but the ice corpses with extremely sharp other perception methods gathered in groups in this experimental area.
When the flywheel transformed by the first guard rushed into the experimental area, a corpse also fell from the dome, screaming and throwing the guard down. The flywheel was still spinning wildly, but the sharp bone spurs on the guard's body only sparked a series of sparks on the corpse demon's ice armor, unable to break through the defense of this seemingly fragile but actually hard ice armor layer. The flywheel was still whistling, but the corpse demon inserted its claws into its body. The crampons located in the hot cavity released the same substance as the shadow ice mist, so the guard quickly froze from the inside out.
The corpse demon split his hands again, and the guard's body was immediately torn apart. The corpse demon casually picked up a piece of flesh with ice shavings and threw it into his mouth to chew. But at this moment, more guards poured in, and the Ice Corpse Demon just rushed into the arena to welcome these cold and emotionless visitors.
The entire experimental area immediately became a battleground between corpse demons and guards, but the guards of Ludu were ignored. Under Ademili's signal, the guards cautiously moved towards the exit on the other side. At this time, several muffled roars sounded from the ice fog, and suddenly a big hand protruded from the ice fog and grabbed a guard inside. After a while, the guard's head rolled out of the ice fog.
This head fell not far from Ademili, and the head was already covered with ice shards, it was the deep cold that even the molecules froze!
Finally, a figure emerged from the ice fog. It was a man with a height of two meters, very strong. **'s upper body is covered with clear muscle lines, and her skin is also covered with blue scales. It has an extra row of purple spikes on the back of its hands, knees and back. The humanoid monster seemed to sense where the guards were, and turned away from Ademili, so everyone saw a ferocious face.
On the bare head, two eyes exuded a blue cold light. No nose, just two small holes that resemble nostrils. The mouth is cracked to the ear root like a normal corpse monster, and the big mouth without lips is full of fangs.
Ademili can be sure that this guy is the Lord of Deep Cold, and there is a circle of thick blue ice mist like milk dripping from its feet. When the deep cold lord walked all the way, he kept up with the ice flames that lingered for a long time.
Perhaps it was the guards that attracted the lord's attention. After glancing in Ademili's direction, the deep cold lord strode towards the guards. With a distance of more than ten meters away from the guards, the deep cold lord waved his hands upwards, and immediately a meter-long purple ice thorn soundlessly protruded from the feet of many guards. The ice thorns pierced through the bodies of many guards, and the extremely cold air released from the ice thorns immediately made the guards' light armor covered with blue ice flakes.
Following the deep cold lord's growl, he gathered his five fingers together. The ice thorns exploded, tearing apart the guards' bodies from the inside. Suddenly, there was a blue-purple blank area in the black tide.
Ademili stuck out her tongue secretly, thinking that she was indeed a lord-level monster with Malrog the Ice Wing, and it was easy to kill the guards. The other Ludu warriors were also captured by the power of the deep cold lord. At this moment, the deep cold lord gave his hands a pause. The icicles all over its body glowed with purple light, and a cloud of blue-purple ice flame quietly entrenched on its hands.
Holding Bingyan in his hand, the Lord of Deep Cold threw it casually towards the guard camp. A mass of icy flames smashed over, and everything within a radius of ten meters was frosted, freezing the guard's movements in the air. There was a flash of purple flame in the frost, and the guard immediately exploded. The deep cold lord roared, crashed into the guard army and started killing.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ademili immediately issued an order to evacuate. When the deep cold lord and the zombie flicked the guards, the guards left through the exit on the other side. Then close it, so that those guards can only fight against the corpse demon in the base without dying.
"We succeeded, Lord Ademili." A soldier said excitedly.
Ademili nodded, and then said: "But we still have a lot to do."
There are indeed many things that need to be done, the first is the resettlement work of the common people in Green City, and the second is to meet with Zero. Ademili only hopes that she can meet Zero when she arrives in Dawn City, she has many things she wants to know. For example, these Black Waves foreseen by Hamemis.
Ademili didn't know that Zero was on his way back to Dawn City at this moment. Two off-road vehicles were speeding across the wilderness, and there were not many people returning to Dawn City, except for Ling, only Haiwei and Yeliu, and two soldiers. In addition, there was another passenger in Zero's car.
Each passenger wrapped himself in a thick cloak, but from the occasional claw-like hands exposed from the cloak, as well as the purple light shining from the shadow of the hood from time to time, it was obvious that this passenger was not Humanity.
It wasn't originally on the return list, but it was added to it suddenly when it set off.
This passenger is indeed not a human being, but a biological weapon sent by Ansula. Ansura called it a messenger, and its role can be a communication bridge between Ansura and Zero, and it can accept some information sent by Ansura, which solves the problem that the distance between the biological army and the core is too far to communicate. problem.
The courier usually sits still, and even when everyone is resting, it sits on the car like a dead thing. This weird scene made the two accompanying soldiers shudder. In this regard, Zero is also quite helpless. Ansula seemed to have set some kind of order on the courier early in the morning, for example, it would never leave within zero or ten meters. However, the messenger is not just a simple communication tool, because its long-distance communication ability is also built on the basis of the perception domain ability, so the messenger can use some perception capabilities.
On the return trip, Ansula communicated with Zero only twice. Once, he reported to Zero the Kuian knights produced by the brood, which had formed an army of 5,000 people. The other time is to notify Zero that the reverse analysis of the guard has been completed. Next, a reverse search of Proseus will be performed.
All this indicates that the decisive battle with Proseus is coming. For this reason, Zero also intends to advance to the twelfth rank. After successive battles, he has already accumulated enough evolution points to advance. It's just because people are on their way home, Zero didn't put it into action. However, that day will come soon. When he arrived at Dawn City and stayed temporarily, Zero planned to sprint to the next stage.
Three days later, he finally saw the Arc de Triomphe Bridge.
Dawn City is like a huge arsenal, which has been continuously operating since Zero decided to join the war on the Central Continent. During the time when Zero was away, Theon produced another batch of war materials for Zero, and the conscription work went smoothly. This time, Dawn City recruited not only wilderness wanderers who had wandered to the city, but also foreigners.
So after Zero arrived in Dawn City, Theon accompanied him to the new barracks, and Zero found that at least 20% of the newly established army was foreign soldiers. Theon's suggestion is that the average level of alien soldiers is higher than that of humans, and they can be used as a special force. Regarding this point, Zero had no objection. What he thought of was that it was time for Froman's Trident force to expand.
After saying goodbye to Theon, Zero drove back to the Black Rose Mansion alone. As soon as he entered the gate of the mansion, Zero saw Beyoncé and Leah waiting at the steps in front of the main building. I haven't seen her for a while, and the second girl's stomach has already bulged. Zero's eyes lit up, and two thin golden flames spewed out as if in substance. Under his full perception, Zero could already feel that in the stomachs of his two women, two little lives were growing up healthily.
What made him even more delighted was that the little ones in the stomachs of the second daughter all responded to Zero's breath. The little life in Beyoncé's stomach gave back a forceful breath, as if a naughty little guy stretched out his hand to touch Zero not to be outdone. Ling Beng's own energy was too strong, it would shock his own child, so he quickly restrained his strength, letting that light breath pass by his will like a pair of immature hands.
When the breath disappeared, Zero felt that there was a ray of joy remaining in that breath.
As for the little guy in Liya's belly, it was much more reserved. It didn't transmit its own breath back, but made its sense of existence blurred and elusive, like a shy child. Therefore, Lingji can be sure that Leah's child will be born in the future, and it must be a person with the ability in the perception domain.
Before the two little guys were born, they each showed their amazing talents, which surprised Ling, and at the same time felt a feeling of being a father for the first time.
That feeling is called anticipation.