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Chapter 1393 1390. On the Eve of the Expedition: The Swarm of Insects Comes from Afar
"Fuck! This number is quite high."

The Immortal Furui, who was commanding several mighty war beasts to carry out group hunting with himself, had just killed an elite insect. While harvesting the spoils from this strange-looking creature with a hunting knife, he complained to the Moon Wolf beside him:

"Why do the enemies we encounter always have such a damn advantage in numbers? And I don't know if it's an illusion, why do these things look so much like aliens? Especially these elite bugs, not only do they look similar, their attack movements are also similar, even the tongues in their mouths that eject are exactly the same."

"Well, it's not an illusion, it really looks like one."

Moonlight Mad Wolf frowned as he looked at the still twitching black elite bug at his feet.

This guy has gotten rid of the round scarab posture of an ordinary insect and transformed into a weird human form.

It has an alien-like body structure covered in a shiny black chitinous carapace, but has four hacking claws, a ferocious head with a tongue that can pop out to attack, and a large tail covered with bone spurs.

Its combat capability is absolutely worthy of its specialized appearance!

Even if a Silver One is besieged and attacked by multiple elite bugs, it is difficult to repel them without any injuries. This thing's speed and agility are very deadly. In medium-range combat, it can also spray insidious and corrosive bile from its mouth. If you are not careful, you will be disfigured and then beheaded by its sharp claws.

To be honest, suddenly encountering this thing at night would definitely scare the shit out of a coward.

The only good news is that the number of these elite insects is not large. They are more like the vanguard warriors of the Zerg, not responsible for command but for charging and breaking through the formation.

The Broken Tooth Clan's positions were breached twice due to cluster attacks by these elite insects.

However, Grand Marshal Popok did not feel anxious about this, because in his opinion, although this group of insects was dangerous, they were not yet to the point where they could not be handled. Especially after he had called on the elite of the Broken Tooth Clan for support and mobilized a large team of Creation Guards, Popok had no doubt about winning this battle.

But just as the Grand Marshal was manipulating the exoskeleton to kill the Zerg for a while, satisfying his fighting desire and returning to the rear to command, a piece of bad news appeared before him.

"Grand Marshal! Old Chief Senk sent a messenger, saying that the Black Servant Ratmen of the Vampire Coast have sent people to ask for help, and several of the Ratmen's strongholds have been breached by the bugs!"

Popok's guards rushed over to report the news, which immediately made the commander-in-chief frown.

The Black Servant Skaven of the Vampire Coast are allies of the Jackals recognized by the Wise Wolf himself. Although the chief of the Black Servant clan, Black Servant Sen, has not returned yet, the Jackals are still secretly assisting the Skaven in their effort to seize Bloody Harbor. Now that the Black Servant Skaven are under attack, the Jackals should send support, but the current situation in Broken Tooth Heights prevents Popok from sending any extra men.

Given the size of the insect swarm, if we send too few people, the result will be that the insects will have another meal.
However, Popok is no longer the reckless man he used to be. He is also making progress, although the speed is slow. But as a commander, he is already hovering around the passing line. Therefore, Popok soon made a very correct decision.

It called Moon Wolf over and gave him a special task.

"Warrior! I order you to immediately gather the elite warriors of the Gray Wolf Army and take an airship to the Vampire Coast to support our ratmen allies!"

Popok warned Moon Wolf:
"The Black Servant Clan has also been attacked by the Zerg. With the poor fighting power of the Skaven, they simply cannot stop the swarm of Zerg. The worst thing is that their chieftain is not in the territory now, and the Skaven may very likely collapse.

Therefore, you don't need to try to save their battle situation, it is impossible to save it.

All we need to do is bring out the warlords and rat sages appointed by Black Servant Sen before the Black Servant Clan completely collapses. The rats’ strange organizational structure means that as long as these leaders are still there, it only takes a few minutes to use cannon fodder to reunite a clan.”

"Yeah, I understand."

Moon Wolf looked at Popok with a strange look.

To be honest, there is a really strange feeling when the word "organizational structure" comes out of Popok's mouth, just like Black Whirlwind pulling you to discuss several solutions to a linear equation with three variables.

But Moon Wolf is a commander of the same type as Bang Ge after all. While gathering the Jackal players, he also reminded Popok:
"Since the ratmen on the Vampire Coast have been attacked by the bugs, then other forces in the edge area of ​​the Dark Mountains are also very likely to face the attack of the bugs. In addition to gnolls and ratmen, there are also goatmen, sinful dwarves and an area in the other direction leading to the Eternal Rift.

Do you want to try to see what's going on in other places?"

"Now is not the time to talk about this!"

Popok shook his head and said:

"We have to get rid of these bugs attacking Broken Tooth Hill first! Look! The Light Chaser is here. It seems that Commander Murphy has noticed the problem here. The situation in Broken Tooth Hill has stabilized. You should set off quickly to support the ratmen."

The Light Chaser, which fell from a great height, bombarded the Zerg with a solar bomb the moment it entered the battlefield, then opened the lower deck and dropped twenty landing capsules, announcing the participation of the Holy Blood Regiment in the battle. However, in the command room of the bridge, the officers from various clans of the Holy Blood Regiment and the Lord silently looked at the reflected image in front of them.

Murphy connected a data node of the world monitoring program to the radar of the Light Chaser, reflecting the real-time situation in the nearby area.

The screen was divided into several parts, representing the strongholds of several forces in the edge area of ​​the Dark Mountains. As expected, there were signs of Zerg activity in Abyss City, Sin Castle, Vampire Coast and Eternal Rift, and the number was quite astonishing.

"They can't stop the swarm. There's no unified front."

Sitting in the captain's command chair, Lord Pa Ying looked at the tragedy of the sea of ​​insects on the screen, then turned his head to look at the optical projection topographic map at hand. He said in a serious tone:
"The swarm of insects coming from the Gray Desert will march straight in, following the path of the Jackals during the Black Plague, all the way to the inner circle of the Dark Mountains! Courage Castle, Shadow Valley, and Filthy Swamp don't have positions specifically designed to stop the swarm of insects, which means that at least those flying insects will reach Transia in a short time."

"Not just Transia!"

Murphy shook his head and said:
"Bugs don't fight among themselves like gnolls do. Their goal is to plunder genes to strengthen themselves, which means that all life is nutrients in their eyes.

While attacking Transia, the bugs will also move westward along the Hungry Plains, eventually reaching the Gorgon Pass, and from there enter the Genoese Peninsula, spreading across the entire continent.

If left unchecked, an insect plague a hundred times more dangerous than the Black Plague would sweep across the Old Continent.

But the good news is that the operating mode of the insects determines that if they want to expand rapidly, they must have sufficient nutrients and propulsive large and small insect nests. This also means that as long as we react in time, we can block the main force of the insects at the Broken Tooth Highland line.

The problem is that we can't just stop the bugs, my Lord."

The vampire lord turned back to look at Paying and said:

"The Zerg is just an obstacle released by the scholars to delay our progress to the Gray Desert. As you can imagine, that guy's control over the Greenhouse of Life has reached the final stage, so we must advance on two fronts!
One part of the force will be used to stop the insect swarm, and the other part will go to the Gray Desert to eliminate the insect plague from the source of the greenhouse of life."

"Ah."

The Lord did not object to this, but then he said:
“How should the power be distributed specifically?”

"The Holy Blood Regiment and the elite aliens will serve as the main force of the expedition! You and I will lead them to the Gray Desert, and all the remaining forces will be concentrated in the Dark Mountains to fight against the sea of ​​insects."

Murphy had already prepared a plan, and he said eloquently:

"We don't need to get involved in this insect plague. Let the various forces in the Old Continent work together to deal with it. I think the Songhai Empire will definitely be willing to get involved. I have realized that as the chosen one of the Creator God, I cannot help the people on the continent to solve all the troubles. That will only exacerbate their speculative mentality.

Unity is not just empty talk, it is a force that can only be condensed with blood and tears.

Under heavy pressure, it is either rebirth or destruction.

In fact, if the kings, chiefs and dukes still don't realize the seriousness of the problem, then it's not too late for us to start preparing to form a unified continental empire."

"I'll listen to you and start preparing now." Lord Pa Ying made a decision in a short time. He said:

"I will contact the Grand Dukes of the Blood Clan, and you mobilize the foreign warriors. We will set off immediately!"
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"Ding"

The prompt sound of the mission triggering sounded quietly in the afternoon of Transia. The jumping red light danced on the interface of every player who had something to do or nothing to do, outlining the unique expressiveness that only appeared when a world-class mission was activated.

This overly exaggerated task prompt represents Ms. Rose's improvement in "technical ability", and also makes the players who are almost bored during the "plot lull period" immediately excited and eager to try. They run out from all directions, reading the task content refreshed on the interface, and heading towards the nearest assembly point.

This time, the world quests and version updates are more concise than before:
[Warriors of Transia! The wind of war has blown again from the Dark Mountains! The biological weapons from the evil forces have awakened from their nests and marched towards the border of the civilized world. An insect plague sweeping across the old continent is taking shape.

This is a situation more dangerous than the black disaster!
The confrontation between order and chaos has formed a final standoff in the aftermath of the material world. We are only a few steps away from the final decisive battle. Evil is preparing for a last-ditch effort in its escape, and the walkers of order will surely take advantage of the victory to create another miracle!
Therefore, in the name of the Governor of Transia, I ask all warriors of order to perform their duties conscientiously and devote themselves to this inevitably tragic battle with supreme courage and enthusiasm, in order to comfort those pioneers and heroes!

mission details:

This mission is the forerunner to the main storyline Chapter 4 "Echoes of Eden", and all players are allowed to participate in the experience. All players are requested to go to the nearest airship station and teleportation point, and follow the mission prompts to gather at the Maginot Line and participate in Transia's battle against the Zerg Vanguard.

The outcome of this battle will determine the direction of the missions in Chapter 4 of the main storyline.

Players who perform well in this battle will be awarded a place in the "Gray Expeditionary Force" and directly participate in the "Gray Desert Great Expedition" operation led by Lord Murphy and Lord Paying.

After the battle, a series of player functions will be unlocked as the functional testing phase of the final stage of internal testing. The functions currently awaiting testing include but are not limited to: air combat operation interface and convenience module, guild faction war behemoth system, personalized mechanical war module, heavy weapon operation and maintenance module, etc.

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hint!

The fourth chapter of the main storyline will serve as the last chapter of the internal testing phase. Alpha Corporation will decide whether to launch the public beta and the mode of public beta advancement based on the content of this chapter and player performance.

Therefore, please try your best to cooperate and complete this test.

mission target:

Head to the Maginot Line to complete the confrontation with the Zerg Vanguard!
Task failure conditions:

The Maginot Line was breached and the swarm of insects invaded the Old World.

mission rewards:

Unlock the fourth chapter of the main storyline, "Echoes of Eden". 】

"What the hell! Public beta?"

Ah Zhu, with the note from playing cards still on his face, exclaimed:
"Alpha Corporation is really planning to launch a public beta? I thought the development team had forgotten about it a long time ago. Which good game company's closed beta lasted for more than a year and updated four major versions?"

"Shut up."

The pigeon next to him inserted the magazine full of burning gold bullets into his customized Berserker rifle and complained:

“The number of registered users of the Transia Bistro APP has exceeded 30. Those guys are constantly attacking the comment section in various ways. Some even started live broadcasts to scold the development team for being a bunch of idiots waiting to be sold at a high price. If I were the development team, I would be in pain too.

Currently, the number of internal beta test players has exceeded 12,000, and it is time to further expand the player base.

I just don't know how many quotas and game helmets the development team has saved, are they enough for the 30 points? And did you notice? The mission content clearly states that only those who perform well in this battle can join the "Gray Expeditionary Force".

Tsk tsk, just the elite ones!

Ha, I like it!
Brothers, be fully alert!
This battle will show other players the power of our Beast Group! By the way, Zhubao, take Meowth Shark and Snail to the Mechanical Church Factory in Under Armour Hills and bring back the "black technology" we ordered there.

Good things should be put to good use, right? "

"Okay, wait, I'll leave right away!"

On the other side, in the barracks of the Maginot Line, Bang Ge rushed into the cafeteria holding a mechanical helmet, glanced around, and then walked to the corner. He stood there looking at Grandpa Qin who was having lunch with Grandma Liu, and was a little hesitant whether to disturb the old couple's leisure time.

"What are you doing standing there?"

Mr. Qin, who was eating rice noodles with a bowl in hand, raised his head and glanced at the Happy Bar, curled his lips and said:

"Are you worried that I won't be able to get any missions? Don't be silly. Although I am no longer a player, I still have a player interface. Gather your people, and I will assign you missions after I finish this meal."

"No, Master Qin, the brothers nominated me to come here to persuade you not to stay on the Maginot Line."

Bang Ge said to Qin Ye with some hesitation:
"Your situation is special after all. If the fight breaks out, your brothers may fail to protect you..."

"I need your protection?"

Old Qin sneered and said:
"You really think I'm weak just because I only have one life, right? Keep your heart in your stomach. I am the commander of the Maginot Line now. Unless this line collapses, I will not go anywhere."

"Oh, Mr. Qin, please don't be so stubborn at this time."

Happy stick has a painful face.

He knew that the job of a lobbyist was not easy, and wanted to ask Grandma Liu to help say a word, but Grandma Liu just smiled kindly and signaled him to stop trying to persuade her. Wasn't she aware of what kind of bad temper her old man had?

"Come on, I'll take you to see something and you'll understand."

After eating and drinking, Old Qin rubbed his stomach, said a few words to his wife, then stood up, picked his teeth, and took Happy Stick to a secret warehouse on the defense line. After Old Qin entered the password and unlocked it with his iris, the things hidden in it were exposed to Happy Stick.

"Fuck!"

Bang Ge's eyes widened immediately and he exclaimed:

"Isn't this the Warmaster's Armament? No, that's not right. There are some problems with the details, and the color is not right. Is this a downgraded version?"

"Yes, because of the contribution I made to Transia during my lifetime, Lord Murphy personally gave this thing to me. This time it is not only your mission, but also a combat test between me and this set of 'Star Warrior' power armor."

Mr. Qin put his hands on his waist and said:
"The specifications of this thing are there. Unless the other party can create a demigod-level bug to kill me alone, this thing and I are invincible on this line of defense. Of course, I will only use this thing in the most critical moments. I can't take away all the fun of your battle.

So put your little thoughts back into your stomach.

I can't miss this battle!
After all, it’s just a task for you, but for me now, it’s truly ‘defending the country’!”

(End of this chapter)