dark moon

Chapter 224 Fortress
The distance was shortened and the field of vision became clearer. Even the ordinary people in the team could see clearly the true face of the man-made buildings.

I originally thought that the dark area should be a village or a town, but when I walked in, I realized that it was a fortress, a steel fortress.

The fortress is a square with a length of 50 meters and a width of [-] meters. The outer walls are all made of metal and appear to be at least half a meter thick. The walls are ten meters high and slope slightly outward. The surface is smooth and extremely difficult to climb.There is only one entrance to the metal fortress, or I only saw one entrance, which is a pure metal door five or six meters high and nearly ten meters wide. There is also an ordinary small metal door in the corner of the door, and the two doors are nested together. , seems to be able to be turned on independently.

The inside of the fortress cannot be seen for the time being, but the interior should be open to the sky. You can see that the top of the outer wall is uneven like the wall stacks of the city wall. In each depression, there is a thick and long metal pipe. The 50-meter city wall , there are at least forty metal pipes. From the metal pipes, an ominous aura comes out, making people instinctively feel dangerous.

When observed from a distance, this metal fortress looked lifeless, with no movement inside, as if it had been abandoned. However, when the team was chased by bugs and approached the fortress, several lights suddenly came on.

Ever since they appeared in this world, the mercenaries couldn't tell whether it was night or day.It may be said that it is daytime, but there is no sun, and you can only vaguely see the stars in the night sky. But it may be said that it is night, and it is not dark at all. Even without any lighting equipment, you can still barely see the things around you, but they are relatively far away. The scene, as if hidden in the shadows, was vaguely visible.Therefore, no one can figure out what time period it is now. At first, they thought it was just dawn or dusk. However, after such a long time, the brightness has not changed, and there is no sign of night or dawn at all. In the end, everyone can only attribute it to Due to the special weather in the different world, I had to endure the uncomfortable low-light environment.

After finally adapting to the dark environment, lights suddenly came out from the fortress. They were strong lights produced by condensing equipment, and the brightness was extremely high. Although the light beams were shining on the insect swarm, even if they were watching from the side, The members of the excavation team also felt their eyes stinging, and some ordinary people with weak bodies even shed tears.

It would be fine if there was only strong light, but with the strong light, the metal pipes that were originally hanging down on the outer wall suddenly seemed to have regained life. At the same time, they raised their heads, and the black tube cores were aimed at the excavation. The direction of the team and insect tide.

"Speed ​​up, go faster." Seeing the changes on the fortress, Xiuer had a look of anxiety on his face and urged for the first time, "Get as close to the city wall as possible. As long as you run over, you will win, especially for ordinary people. If you can't run away, just wait for death, no one can save you."

"Do you think this is a weapon of the hostile insect forces?" The high-level mercenaries were still very leisurely at this speed of transfer, especially Mia and Miridi whose task was to repair, it was even more relaxed, at least they still had enough time to ask, "Will they attack indiscriminately?"

"At least I don't think those metal pipes are here to give a welcome speech." Shuer's eyes quickly moved between the fortress and the insect swarm, and he answered Mia's question without even thinking about it, "And the projections from other worlds usually don't There will be intelligent creatures, but I don’t think automatic devices can be smart enough to distinguish targets and avoid humans to fight bugs, especially when these people are not their own.”

"Have you seen those metal pipes before?"

"That's right. Although I didn't see it with my own eyes when I was in my hometown, I heard about it."

Indeed, Shuuer did hear about it when he was in his hometown. It is said that in the last civilization era, warriors fought with weapons similar to this. According to legend, these weapons are very terrifying. No matter how powerful the warrior is, they cannot escape from such weapons. s attack.However, no one has seen it with their own eyes and only regards it as a legend.

"Firearms?" Militi asked softly.

"Well, it's a firearm." Mia looked at the thickness of the gun's muzzle from a distance and sighed, "It looks like a live ammunition weapon, capable of physical attack, and it should be quite powerful. If it is not defended by an energy shield, even our The body will inevitably suffer some injuries, let alone ordinary people."

"Did you hear them all?" Shuer shouted loudly in the team, "If you don't want to be beaten into a fishing net by the insect's enemies, use all your potential and run over while the insect's offensive weakens."

Indeed, the bugs' offensive has weakened and is no longer as crazy as before.

Since leaving the purple carpet, the bugs seemed to have suddenly become lethargic. Their speed and strength have dropped a lot, and even their desire to attack is not as strong as before. Although they are still chasing after the excavation team, The pressure brought to them was much less. The insects moved more than 200 meters on the creep carpet, and the insects caused at least more than 100 effective injuries to humans. However, they had already traveled 50 meters after leaving the creep carpet, and no one was injured yet.Of course, no one can be sure whether this change is due to leaving the carpet or because the insects are approaching the fortress and need to pay some attention to guard against the fortress, but no matter what the reason is, this is a good news. The phenomenon.

"Hurry up, hurry up, Moria, take the one who is lagging behind, Dak, Saff, retreat a little, don't leave the team too far, Yuri, don't attack the bugs behind, knock those two out of breath. Take the weight from the guy who's out of breath."

"We agreed that the stragglers would die on their own?" After closing the distance, Dak finally felt a little free, "Beautiful Miss Saff, you see, this kind of guy will overturn what he said before at any time. The worst thing is, you must not be deceived by him, men like me who keep their promises are the most reliable."

"Shut up, idiot, I don't have time to beat you up now." Dak chose the time very well. Shuuer didn't even have time to argue with him, let alone take action. "Do you think your goal is not big enough? Do you have to run with your chest raised and your head raised? When I ran, I kept my body down. Those things on the wall did not distinguish between friend and foe. In the end, I did not die in the mouth of an unconscious insect, but died under the attack of a bunch of man-made objects. Be careful. Even if you die, you will become a laughing stock."

However, Xiu Er was wrong, the firearms in the fortress did not seem to be indiscriminate between friend and foe.

"Da da da", 80 meters, still 80 meters away from the fortress. In the sound of Shuer's constant urging, the muzzles of the neatly arranged guns on the fortress suddenly spurted out long tongues of fire, and there was a brief but crisp explosion. They were superimposed together into one piece, which made people's eardrums ache.The tongue of fire set off a metal storm, and countless metal bullets were continuously shot from the barrel, spraying into the insect swarm like water.The power of the warhead is not small. Although it is not as powerful as when an ordinary mercenary wields a sword, it is still considerable. Even if the insect is protected by a hard carapace, the bullet will still leave blood holes the size of a fist when it is hit on the body.

The dense bullets formed an invisible curtain behind the excavation team. Most of the turbulent swarm stopped at this barrage. Every insect that touched the barrage was hit by bullets like a sieve. Even the body was broken into pieces, and the remaining limbs and arms were scattered on the ground.It doesn't matter even if a stronger bug breaks through the barrage occasionally, within a few seconds, it will be killed by bursts of firearms that did not fire intensively and were purely for auxiliary shooting.

The timing of the fortress' firing was calculated quite accurately. As soon as the crowd passed the blockade, the barrage storm took shape. The members of the excavation team were unscathed, but the bugs were blocked and died on the other side of the barrage. There were only more than 100 bugs. Because the distance was too close, they followed the excavation team and passed through the barrage defenses.

"Ah", a closely protected scholar in the crowd was stabbed in the thigh by an insect's claws, and screamed as he was dragged towards the insect swarm. Fortunately, just after being dragged a few steps, a dagger stretched out from the shadow, making no sound. cut off the insect's head.

"Are you all idiots? Or do you think you are watching a performance at the opera house now?" Shuer roared, waving a hammer, "I'll wait until you are dead and you have time to watch. If you are not dead yet, just try your best to survive. Look, look, it’s just a massacre, what’s there to see, have you forgotten the mercenary code?”

No wonder Shuer was angry, the reason why the scholar was injured was too low-level.

Mercenary Code No. 17: During action, you can only have the current mission in your eyes. No matter what happens around you, it cannot affect the current action. Whether it is a volcano erupting or a fissure erupting, even if the end of the world comes, it must be done after the action is over. Thinking again, mercenaries who are easily disturbed by the environment will only die.

Just now, most ordinary mercenaries, including ordinary people in the team, made this mistake. The barrage storm came too suddenly, and the effect was quite amazing. The screams of dying insects could be heard endlessly, and the limbs of bloodworms were like It was splashing everywhere like rain. These people were shocked by the scene in front of them. They even forgot all about Shuer's previous orders and even stopped running.

And they were shocked that the bugs wouldn't do it. There were more than 100 bugs chasing around. Since humans had forgotten to escape and resist, the bugs would certainly not be polite and almost lost another person before they could be safely transferred. , no wonder Xiure gritted his teeth in anger.

"Run over, don't block people's doors, and gather on the right side of the gate." In the last 30 meters, the bugs couldn't break through the barrage. Seeing that there was no sign of the gate or small door being opened, Shuer immediately ordered, "After gathering, rely on For the defense of the outer wall, people with no fighting ability are concentrated on the innermost side. The mercenaries protect the outside and destroy the bugs that follow them as soon as possible. Experts, those who know magic can use magic bursts to help the mercenaries clean up the bugs. For melee combatants, you stay. Come down and help, Moria, you also stay, the mages will come back with me to help this fortress..."

"Boom", the deafening sound of the explosion interrupted Shuuer's order. A column of gunpowder smoke rose from the fortress, and at the same time, there was the whistling sound of artillery shells breaking through the air.

(End of this chapter)