Knights of the Wasteland Fortress

Chapter 137 Blood Blade

Regarding the legend of the wolf family, Nolan has always held a noncommittal attitude.

Because for him, the villagers of the tree wolf tribe have always been barbarians in the population of the empire, and the legends in the barbarian population have no corresponding written records, so the credibility is naturally a big question mark.

But the trainees who get along with the tree wolf people day and night don't think so.

Because they know very well how much the priests and villagers of the tree wolf tribe value their own customs, whether it is the tradition of making grass, or the magic of "The Seed of Desire", or even the belief and devotion of Lengdao and Bika. It is the "empathy" that they have personally experienced and cannot be conveyed in words.

And these, deep in the Nordwar family, the explorers of the second corps far away from the tree wolf village can't understand, and it's impossible to understand.

Only Sun Simiao and Wu Ning know, only the trainees know——

On the issue of the survival of the group, Leng Dao and the tree wolf people are serious——

"Even with short manpower, we have to make a last-ditch attempt."

After explaining the tradition of the tree wolf clan to the trainees, Leng Dao and the others turned over and stepped on the giant wolf, and gradually walked away in the direction of Tianhuo Peak. The story of the tree wolf family is passed down——

For such is the pride of these children of the forest—

They hunted, they fought, they died—

Then they accept everything.

"So what are we going to do?"

Looking at the backs of Leng Dao and the others going away, the trainees all looked very enthusiastic.

But Warren still calmed down, and looked at Jiatu with a discussion look:

"Leng Dao's strength is too bad, and the noble wizards of the empire... they can't win alone..."

Warren's claim has no basis.

But Jiatu knew that Warren wanted to join them, so he found a very likely reason for himself.

However, just as he was about to answer, he heard Sun Simiao's voice behind them——

"It's okay to refuse."

He coughed lightly and walked towards the trainees.

His gaze was very calm, and he swept over the excited teenagers:
"I said that you should put your own life first."

"So...you have to analyze the pros and cons, right?"

Jiatu took a deep breath and interrupted Sun Simiao's retreat:

"For the expedition team, I just want to ask-"

"Is it a suitable deal to gamble on the ten-year use right of an entire forest at the cost of the names of thirty explorers?"

Jiatu is very calm, he understands that at this moment, it is meaningless to look at the problem from a personal perspective.

Each of them is a member of the shelter—

Perhaps not the most important kind, but it is far beyond ordinary people.

At this time, for the refuge, there are only two options——

The lives of thirty trainees were compared with the lives of thirty explorers on the balance.

They can choose to decline.

The price is that in the near future, the refuge will see difficulties and disasters that are approaching step by step.

Perhaps, this is not something they should consider——

But maybe this is something that the Presbyterian Church of the Sanctuary didn't consider?
If you punish yourself for the mistakes of others—

Will you accept it with peace of mind?
At this moment, Jiatu suddenly remembered a saying that he had heard in his previous life——

"Saturation Rescue".

Perhaps the essence of "everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world" is a kind of "saturation rescue"?
Before Jiatu could think it through, he heard Sun Simiao say.

"In this world, I will not be any better than you."

Sun Simiao's eyes swept across the young people like Jiatu:
"Once you become the Juggernaut rank, you have touched the 'ceiling' of this world. Even if you replace other stronger explorers, they are trapped by the low level of demons in this world, and they may not be stronger than you .”

"Of course, the gap in combat experience cannot be made up."

Sun Simiao's eyes lingered on Jiatu and the others:

"However, the exoskeleton will give you a high enough chance of fault tolerance, and this opportunity—"

"Only now, right?"

Jiatu nodded, understanding what Sun Simiao meant:
"If it is changed to peacetime, the probability of all our staff using exoskeletons is almost zero."

"Not to mention using them recklessly until they are scrapped..."

Warren also gradually came to his senses, and murmured.

"Motorcycle hours and flight time..."

Wei Wei also belatedly realized the true value of manipulating the exoskeleton to them.

"Yes."

Sun Simiao nodded, and looked at the young people in front of him with some relief——

"So my request to you has never changed—"

"Save yourself and get as strong as possible."

"I hope you will help Leng Dao them—but I don't want you to risk your own lives for this, but you should try and be familiar with your limits as much as possible under the premise of protecting yourself—— "

"Because it's just a small preview of the dangers we're going to actually face in the future."

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Little rehearsal.

Cato liked this statement very much.

Because this means that for these trainees, even though the wizards of the empire and the priests of the tree wolf tribe have prepared a big stage for them, for them, this is just a training——

It is no different from the training they have experienced before.

Except that the battlefield is real, and so is death.

They are not tree wolf people, nor are they imperial people. For them, this is just exchanging training for rewards——

The reward is the right to use the entire forest for ten years.

As for ten years later, when the "Gate" disappeared completely, the future of the tree wolf clan would have nothing to do with them.

With this clear boundary awareness, they only need to make appropriate and appropriate efforts.

"Everything is just a transaction, everything is just an economic act."

"We are mercenaries, mercenaries fighting for the benefit of the Timberwolves and the Sanctuary."

"We hammer out plans, execute tactics, risk our lives—"

"To get what we deserve."

Jiatu felt his heart roaring, but his brain was very calm. The clear direction turned the blood and passion in their hearts into targeted flying arrows, and they started to act with the same goal.

There are still a large number of teenagers and foot soldiers in Lengdao's team, plus the blocking of the ghoul group, so their speed will not be very fast.

And the trainees who had a clear goal also took action. With the help of other explorers, they attacked for the first time in the state of full exoskeleton——

And such a luxurious combat configuration is very rare even in the battle of the Great Expedition——

Because even during the Great Expedition, the explorers will bring more than 20 exoskeletons, but due to logistical maintenance and battle damage, their proportion of appearance is only about [-]%.

What is even more extravagant is the use of Moko stock solution. A large amount of Moko stock solution that has not been consumed in previous battles is mounted on them in the form of auxiliary fuel tanks. Each person has a supply of about 5 liters, which is quite In fifty thousand demons.

Compared with their own 1200 points of Moko, it has reached 40 times.

Even without any supplies, it is enough for them to fight continuously for more than a week.

And this is only about 50% of the reserve of the entire cave camp.

"These magic essences were originally intended to wait for the "Gate" to stabilize, and then slowly send them to the refuge...but instead of sending them to the refuge, destroy the "Gate" in one go and let you use it, maybe you can save it The entire Timberwolves forest... or the latter is more cost-effective..."

As the camp leader, Wu Ning patted Jiatu's exoskeleton with some sighs.

Judging from the scratches on it, the exoskeleton Jiatu used was the one she had used before.

And there are about the same number of explorers, helping Jiatu and the others organize their equipment, fill up the stock solution, and check the vulnerable parts.

Seeing these "predecessors" bow their heads and work hard, Jiatu and the others felt the feeling of "responsibility" and "high expectations" for the first time.

"Come on, it's up to you!"

When everything was ready, the turbulent cave camp calmed down instantly.

Jiatu and the others were wearing exoskeleton armor that was not suitable for them. They turned around and looked at the explorers behind them who raised their hands to salute them, and felt a strong emotional bond——

"Remember, come back alive!"

Sun Simiao coughed lightly, looked at Jiatu and the others, and finally waved his hand——

"Go! Don't look back!"

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Jiatu manipulated the exoskeleton, adjusted the afterburner nozzles on his legs to the maximum, and jumped into the forest.

And behind him, there are other members of the first group, following them to do so.

After the Corpse Tide Giant incident, the four captured members of the Silver String team also rejoined the team, and the entire trainee team was restored to 29 members.

And the six groups of five (Jiatu's group lacked one person), dispersed into two echelons, with three groups at the front and three groups at the back, and headed towards the East River Valley.

At the beginning, Jiatu and the others were not very used to the exoskeleton armor under full load.

But soon, as the main and outer outfits of Brainstorm and Brainstorm came into play, Jiatu and the others also quickly entered the state.

The Vault's exoskeleton was very different from what Garto had envisioned.

It is very similar to the principle of the external brain terror, and will inject a large amount of atomized robots into the driver's lungs through the airway.

And through a principle similar to that of the external brain, it is directly connected with the user's thinking, thereby manipulating the exoskeleton to perform highly complex operations such as boost jumping and missile locking——

Even Jiatu didn't understand the scary yellow box scanning function of the exterior before, and now has a very reasonable explanation at this moment.

[150 meters ahead, there are 25 ghouls in the medium group, three in the silver stage, and 22 in the black iron stage. 】

After inserting the exoskeleton into the attached cabin of the exoskeleton, Heiyin can also synchronize with the exoskeleton, and Jiatu uses the black box system of the exoskeleton to communicate with her while on the road.

Heiyin also assisted him in battle from time to time.

For the sake of continuous combat, Jiatu and the others did not use 12.7mm large-caliber machine gun bullets like Wu Ning, but used the smallest caliber 5.8mm electromagnetic bullets.

So in the face of the attack of the ghouls, Jiatu and the others did not start attacking until the enemy approached more than ten meters away.

"Free to fire!"

With previous experience, Jiatu did not give too much command.

The data link system of the exoskeleton has clearly marked the locking target of each machine body, ensuring that they will not waste too many bullets on the same enemy, while ignoring other "corpses" rushing in from dead ends.

Almost in an instant, the silver bullets poured down like a torrential rain.

The 25 ghouls exploded their heads one after another at almost precise intervals.

When Jiatu and the others passed through the ghouls, they didn't even change direction or jump.

And this kind of massacre, which can be called one-sided, continued to happen almost continuously on the nearly 300-meter-wide longitudinal surface of the entire trainee team.

The exoskeleton scattered in a row almost seemed to be swept by a plow through the black forest, leaving a whole stump of ghouls.

And soon, they caught up with the coyotes who had set off half a day earlier.

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To be honest, Lengdao and the others are no worse than Jiatu and the others.

In terms of number, they have nearly 500 people.

In terms of quality, they have giant wolf mounts transformed from nearly a hundred former tree wolf warriors.

These behemoths, who are proficient in humanity and have a blood relationship with the tree wolf warriors, are the weakest and have the strength of the lower level of the sword master.

But compared to Jiatu and the others who were equipped with exoskeletons, they were still a world apart.

When Jiatu found them, they were surrounded by thousands of ghouls at the side of a hill, and a defense line composed of hundreds of silver-level fighters was struggling to protect the future of the black iron-level soldiers in the inner circle. adults and priests.

The remaining dozens of giant wolves are rushing to kill the ghoul group, preventing the ghoul group from gathering into a wave of corpses and directly breaking down the defense line of the tree wolf clan.

But their killing efficiency is too slow, even if they try their best, they can't keep up with the speed at which the ghouls gather——

The same is the lower part of the Juggernaut.

The giant wolves only have fangs and sharp claws, and occasionally spit out one or two bursts of flame breath, or other special abilities, and the consumption of demons must also be taken into account——

But Jiatu and the others paid no attention to this——

"Everyone! Use the chopping knife!"

Seeing the number of ghouls in front of him, Jiatu, who was the temporary commander, simply stopped acting, and directly ordered the trainees to hang the exoskeleton on their waists with small-caliber submachine guns, and then pull out the exoskeleton from the knife slot on the back. A full carbon titanium alloy long knife——

With the sound of "嗡——", the air near the blade suddenly became blurred!

And with the jet thrusters mounted on the waist of the exoskeleton loaded to the maximum, Jiatu and the others slammed into the tide of ghouls like cavalry——

The severed limb flew across in an instant!

At the moment when about fifteen exoskeletons rushed into the group of ghouls, they were like the teeth of a rake, cutting more than a dozen paths through the group of ghouls!
Jiatu didn't even need to swing the long knife too hard, he only needed to straighten the long knife, aim at the heads or hearts of one ghoul after another, and he could easily tear apart those hard ghoul bodies!
Compared with the fangs and claws in Leng Dao's hands, Jiatu's long resonating long knife is more than ten times more efficient!
And this is industrial capability, and this is the confidence brought to them by "military equipment"!

(End of this chapter)