Doomsday Totem

Chapter 232 Fortress
The orange-red sky was cloudless, and a sand sparrow flapped its wings lazily, and flew slowly towards the sky.At this time, the sun that was gradually sinking in the west was still scorching the red earth, and occasionally a small warm whirlwind blew around the ground, rolling up a small amount of withered grass and light red dust into the air.

In the sandbird's retina, the surface of Desert No. [-] is light red, and the part of the raised, gray-green place is a bunch of ball-shaped haystacks.Looking around, the vegetation on the surface is very sparse, as if it will die at any time.However, hundreds of millions of years have passed, and they still stubbornly grow on this dry red land, and the density of their distribution has remained unchanged for thousands of years.

For most plants, the living environment of Desert No. [-] is extremely harsh.On the one hand, there is a lack of water, the dry season is here all year round, and there are only a handful of rains; on the other hand, the sun exposure time is too long, with nearly [-] hours in the daytime; there is also a large temperature difference between day and night, hot in the daytime and cold at night .

Although the environment is so harsh, some plants can still survive here.There are six main types of vegetation in Desert No. [-], namely wilderness grass, sand pear, sea mulberry, Styx dandelion, dead sea poplar, and heaven and earth tree.Although these six plants have different shapes, they have a common feature, that is, particularly developed rhizomes.The roots of the Tiandi tree can even penetrate thousands of meters into the ground, directly absorbing groundwater.

At this moment, a steel castle appeared in Sand Sparrow's sight.Its small black eyes rolled around, and it folded its wings and landed.After a while, it flew towards a solitary Dead Sea aspen tree, and finally landed on a thin bare branch, looking at the castle in the distance.Then, it straightened its feathers with its small paws, and flapped its wings twice, as if doing warm-up exercises.And the human castle in front of it is its goal. There is a lot of food in it. If it is lucky, it can find some animal bones and a little bit of meat in the gaps between the bones.

After a while, the sparrow kicked hard with its little paws, and flapped its wings and flew towards the castle.Seen from above, the castle is oval in shape, with tall walls on the outside and a trapezoidal building in the middle.Looking carefully, there are square platforms every few meters on the city wall, and two Vulcan cannons are placed on each platform.The buildings in the middle are full of dense shooting holes.Looking up, the top of the building is a large platform, and a huge cannon is placed in the middle of the large platform. The diameter of the barrel is more than one meter long.This is a super-heavy mortar with a caliber of 120cm, named "Lava Behemoth".It is currently the largest caliber artillery for human beings, and it is also the largest range destruction weapon.

At this time, the castle was full of traffic and people were coming and going.I saw hundreds of Templars in white "Holy Light" power armor scattered throughout the castle, directing a large number of logistics personnel in blue overalls to move various supplies, equipment, and instruments.

Not long after, the sand sparrow flew over the castle, turning its small eyes, sweeping around the ground, looking for the food discarded by humans.However, it hovered in the air for a long time, but did not find any trace of food.Today's luck was terrible, and it let out a cry of disappointment, and circled again for a week.But just as it flew close to the city wall and was about to leave, a pile of grains flashed in that little retina.It quickly looked around, and after confirming that it was safe, it flew over and ate.

At the same time, at the blind spot of its line of sight, a middle-aged man in white "Scorching Sun" power armor was watching it with his arms folded.This middle-aged man is burly, with thick eyebrows and small eyes, and a standard poker face.His name is Arnold, he is a fifth-level psychic, he is 48 years old, and he comes from the NO.17 Silver City of the Northern Wilderness Continent.

NO.17 Silver City, also known as Bauhinia City, is the territory of the Lombard family under the rule of the Golden Duke, and he is a veteran who has served the Lombard family for many years.He is currently the captain of the Sixth Squadron of the Princess Guard, leading twelve psychic warriors and 24 psychic soldiers to garrison Tyre Fortress.Before the arrival of the interim chief, he was the supreme commander here.

However, he is not good at large-scale command, and he knows this better than anyone.Therefore, at this moment, he personally went to patrol the city wall, waiting for the arrival of the temporary person in charge, and threw this hot potato out as soon as possible.

According to Assistant Green, the newly-appointed interim leader dared to raid the underground ant queen with only a few subordinates in the dark forest war, and laid the foundation for victory in the entire war, and finally won the academy's honor. The Silver Medal of the Union.Although he hadn't met the new chief yet, he liked this kind of commander who was brave and resourceful, and willing to be at the forefront with the soldiers.

He always thought that he was a stupid soldier, and the only thing he could do well was to obey the commander's orders.Therefore, he needs a really capable and good boss.As a soldier, he is not afraid of death, but he is afraid of death for nothing.Fortunately, no matter whether he served in the Royal Guards of the Lombard House or the Princess Guards of the Third Miss, they all have a good promotion system and a rigorous assessment system, which can eliminate most officers with mediocre abilities and low moral bottom lines.

Seeing the little sand sparrow eating grains happily, he thought of his little daughter at home, and a loving smile appeared on his face involuntarily.About ten minutes later, the little sand sparrow was full, and with a kick of its little paw, it spread its wings and flew away.Then, he came out from the dark, watching the little sparrow fly to the sky...

When he turned his head, he suddenly found a cloud of smoke and dust in the southeast, and then he picked up the binoculars and watched carefully.Looking at the gray wolf heads painted on the truck's hood, he quickly concluded that the pack of wolves that Assistant Green had spoken of had arrived.After putting down the binoculars, he quickly picked up the walkie-talkie and issued an order: "All members obey the orders, and immediately go to the gate of the fortress to line up to welcome our new chief."

"Uncle Arnold, everyone doesn't know the name of the new chief." "Yes, where is he from? Is he from our Northern Wilderness?" "What title is he?" "At least a Viscount, right? "For a while, the team members chattered over the intercom.

"We are all soldiers, just do our part." Arnold said in a deep voice, "As a soldier, it is very impolite to talk about the newly appointed chief."

"Yes." "Uncle is right." "Okay, everyone stop asking." "Let's go."

Then, Arnold adjusted his clothes and walked down the city wall steadily.During this period, the walkie-talkie on his waist rang again: "Captain, the truck of the Dawn Expeditionary Army is blocking the door, and we can't line up."

"Let them drive away immediately." "I've already said, they won't." "Tell them that the new chief of the fortress was personally appointed by Assistant Green." "Okay."

By the time Arnold walked out of the gate of the fortress, all the trucks blocking the gate had already left.Then, under his command, the 36 members of the sixth team of the Princess Guard lined up in two rows and stood on both sides of the door to welcome the arrival of the wolf army.

About half an hour later, a red locomotive flew over the distant horizon.Not long after, the locomotive whizzed up with billowing smoke and dust, and stopped in front of the queue.Looking around, I saw a young man sitting on top of the locomotive.Perhaps it was because the sun in Desert No. [-] was too dazzling, this young man was wearing wide sunglasses at the moment, and the dark lenses completely covered his appearance.

"I'm Sachacha, the temporary person in charge of Tyre Fortress." After the car stopped, the young man said loudly.

Arnold immediately walked out of the queue, trotted all the way to the young man, stomped his feet hard, stood at attention and saluted with a "snap", and then said loudly, "Arnold, the captain of the sixth squadron of the Princess Guard, is reporting to you."

"En." Tie Slag nodded.

"Report sir, all members of the Sixth Squadron of the Princess Guard have arrived and are ready to be inspected by the superior at any time," Arnold said loudly.

"En." After finishing speaking, Tie Slag got out of the car, walked back and forth in a dignified manner, and inspected the members of the sixth team symbolically.On the way here, Eva Green told him that this team stationed in Tyre Fortress would be directly under his orders.

After checking around, there are 37 people in this team including captain Arnold.One of them wore the second-generation psychic power armor "Scorching Sun", 12 wore the first-generation psychic power armor "Holy Light", and the remaining 24 were equipped with various psychic firearms.

In most cases, novice psykers have relatively thin spiritual power and do not have the ability to drive psychic power armor, so they can only use psychic weapons with low consumption.Since these psykers cannot wear power armor, they are often referred to as "psychic soldiers" or "psychic marines".

There is an essential difference between psychic soldiers and psychic warriors. Compared with ordinary human soldiers, the former has no obvious advantages. The only advantage is that psychic weapons are more powerful and ammunition is relatively cheap.It's just that psychic soldiers have the opportunity to advance, but ordinary soldiers do not.Once advanced successfully, they can wear the first generation of psychic power armor and become psychic warriors.At this time, the advantages of psykers over ordinary humans or other types of evolutions are fully manifested.They are like magic soldiers in golden armor, riding the clouds and fog, bringing destruction and redemption to the world.

About an hour later, the transport convoy of the Wolf Clan Legion successfully arrived at the Fortress of Tyre, dragging billows of smoke and dust.Afterwards, under Arnold's arrangement, they drove into the fort one by one.

At this time, the Dawn Expeditionary Army in the camp hadn't completely evacuated, and they were bustling with supplies.Perhaps out of respect for Assistant Green, they all stopped what they were doing and gave way to the vehicles of the Wolf Clan Legion as they passed by.

After a while, more than a dozen rear eight-wheeled trucks filed in and stopped in an open space.Then, Arnold arranged for three logistics officers to lead the wolf army into the fortress.After the arrangements were made, he took the newly appointed young officer and the officer's two female subordinates into the trapezoidal fortress located in the center of the Tyre fortress.

(End of this chapter)