Doomsday Totem

Chapter 247
A few minutes later, Nick Wagner, who was standing on the northeast wall, glanced at Captain Sacha who had just returned to the fortress with a complicated expression. He couldn't help recalling the thrilling scene just now, and sighed secretly.

This young commander is obviously the kind of person who is bold and cautious.In order to motivate the soldiers, he even put himself in danger and rushed to the insect tide alone.Although the battle just now seemed to be safe and easy, but in fact, as long as he made a small mistake, he would immediately die in the sea of ​​insects and be torn to pieces by the berserk swarm.Moreover, not only did he have to control the locomotive, but he also had to fight, and he had to keep an eye on the movements of the thorn insects at all times, which was really not easy.After all, it is difficult for people who are on the edge of the swarm to see the situation on the battlefield as clearly as those who stand far away.

Captain Nick asked himself, if it were him, he probably wouldn't have the courage.Although he, as a psyker, has the ability to fly for a short period of time, if he cannot avoid the volley of thorn insects, or encounters the mental shock of the crimson master, he may be finished.

It now appeared that Edward Southey was out of his mind to fight against such a person.

However, Captain Nick only knew one thing, but not the other.Iron Slag dares to act alone because he has the unique intelligent module in the world—Alice, which can assist in analyzing the battle situation or helping to drive the locomotive.

A few minutes later, when the iron slag returned to the city wall, the insect swarm in the distance had completely dispersed, forming a huge encirclement circle within a kilometer radius of the fortress.After the worm swarm dispersed, the lava behemoth on the top of the fortress stopped shelling.After all, shells are limited, so they cannot be wasted on scattered tiaolings.

Iron Slag picked up the binoculars and observed for a long time, but found no trace of "general worm" or "queen worm" among the scattered worm swarm.It seems that the commander of this bug swarm is at least the Crimson Lord or the Abyss Ant Queen.According to the contents of the college textbook, among the generals of bee ants and insects, the brain wave control range of the Crimson Master is about 3~5km in radius, while the Golden Ruler has a radius of 5~8km, compared to the Abyss Master 1~3km The radius of the control range is much larger.Among the queens, the queen ant has the largest control range, followed by the queen bee, and the queen is the smallest; among them, the abyss queen ant has a radius of 8~12km, the deep red ant queen has a radius of 12~36km, and the golden queen ant has a radius of 36~108km. The legendary Wujin Ant Queen, according to non-official information, has a control area exceeding 1000km in radius.

Generally speaking, only the lowest-level abyss masters will appear near the bug swarm, while the others can stay away from the battlefield, at least without being exposed to human sight.

A moment later, in a low-lying land 5000 meters away from the Tyre Fortress, a huge silkworm was moving its fat body and burrowing into the semi-desert soil layer.Taking a closer look, this big silkworm was covered with a crimson carapace.The segmented, ring-shaped carapace is extremely smooth, reflecting the luster of metal under the starlight.

The name of this crimson master is "Merna", and it is one of the many generals of the crimson queen--Serazer Bajaliel Amber.

For a small war of this scale, the Scarlet Queen would never be present in person.She didn't pay attention to this little resource in the Tire Fortress at all, she just wanted to blow the arrogance of the temple casually.What's more, if she fights in person, the level of this war will expand infinitely.So far, she has no idea of ​​a large-scale war, so she deliberately controlled the number of this bug swarm, so as not to make humans overly nervous, but also enough to flatten the fortress.

Not long after, Melna's huge worm body sank into the soil layer, and then she activated her brainwaves, commanding the first wave of gnats to enter the battlefield.

In an instant, thousands of crickets were divided into hundreds of teams and charged towards the fortress.I saw a group of crickets like giant pythons winding forward on the sand, dragging the dust from the sky, flocking from all directions to the steel city wall in the night.At this moment, there are dots of green light emitting from the group of crickets, and there is a penetrating breath under the dim starlight, which makes people's scalp numb and shuddering.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"

At this moment, the cannons in the fortress fired together, and there was a flash of fire in the night sky, streams of light pierced the sky, and fell straight to the rushing crows.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" ...

After a moment of silence, the cricket swarm screamed like mountains and seas, rushed out of the gunpowder smoke that filled the battlefield, and rushed towards the towering city wall.

In an instant, the swarm rushed to the vicinity of the fortress with five rounds of thunder-like bombardment, and then covered the self-explosive worms in the swarm and rushed towards the steel city wall.

"Ready to fight." Iron Slag stood on the edge of the city wall, watched the swarm of insects rushing from below, and then said in a deep voice to the intercom.

The soldiers raised their assault rifles one after another, pulled the safety catch, and aimed at the approaching insect swarm.

"shooting!"

Just as the swarms of insects rushed into the range, following Iron Slag's order, gunshots rang out on the city wall, and hundreds of assault rifles spit out flames, instantly lighting up the night sky.At the same time, the Vulcan cannon on the shooting platform rotated at high speed, making a slight "chi chi" sound.

"Da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da da..."

In an instant, dense bullets pierced the air and poured out, and countless yellow-orange-orange shell casings bounced to the ground.The crickets that rushed to the foot of the city wall were immediately beaten to pieces, and the insect shells and limbs were broken, and pieces flew around.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" Tie Slag pulled out the Mailin revolver and blasted towards the swarm below, seven or eight crickets exploded in response.

At this moment, a green-glowed crowfly covered with poisonous sacs came rushing through the hail of bullets and slammed into the steel city wall.

Hearing a soft sound of "Bo!", the self-explosive crocodile exploded on the city wall.In an instant, the thick acid splashed everywhere, and white smoke rose wherever it went, and the pungent smell quickly drifted away.At this moment, the steel-built city wall was melting at a speed visible to the naked eye under the attack of concentrated acid.

Seeing this scene, Tie Slag's eyes widened immediately. Perhaps if a few more self-destructing crickets hit the same position, a big hole would be burned out of this seemingly solid city wall.He hurriedly yelled at the walkie-talkie: "Attention everyone! Attention everyone! Prioritize shooting the self-explosive moth!"

"Yes, sir!" "Okay!" "Of order." In an instant, the sound of responses mixed with gunshots echoed over the city wall...

And at the moment when Tie Slag yelled at the walkie-talkie, a crow ran fast with its head raised, and rushed to the foot of the city wall in the blink of an eye, then bent over and kicked.The strong hind legs picked up a large piece of soil, soared into the air, and pounced on the city wall, hooked the metal wall with sharp claws, drew a series of white scratches, and followed the trend.The moment he climbed up the city wall, he kicked hard, opened his bloody mouth, and flew towards the human in front of him.

Facing the sudden change, Tie Slag shrank his pupils, leaned over and lowered his head, grasped the hilt of the sword, and at the same time drew the sword out of its sheath, he turned around and swept across with his sword!
With a soft sound of "唰", the oncoming cricket suddenly froze, the insect's body staggered from it, and the sticky green blood spurted out immediately, and finally broke into two pieces in the air, and slipped quietly down the city wall.

Tie Slag put his sword back into its sheath, walked to the edge of the city wall, and stared at the battle situation below.

At this time, a small number of gnats climbed up the city wall one after another. Although there were not many of them, they were very difficult for most soldiers.In order to avoid accidentally injuring friendly troops, they cannot use thermal weapons, they can only draw out daggers, or put on bayonets to fight them in close quarters.The scorpion was originally a swarm of bees and ants born for melee combat, with sharp minions, a sensitive body and a strong bite force.For a while, the city wall was in chaos.The soldiers fought with the crowflies that had climbed the city wall one after another, and their flesh and blood flew all over the place, howling endlessly.

Seeing this, Wang Hu quickly called the traditional evolutionists such as Porcupine, Match, Tuobasan, Marcus, Jerome, etc., to form a melee team to kill the crows that climbed the city wall.

With the charge of six people, the situation on the city wall improved, and the soldiers were able to focus on shooting the swarm below.

After a while, the first wave of insect swarms left corpses all over the place and gradually receded.

Looking at the swarm of crickets like ebbing tide, Tie Slag let out a heavy breath.According to the textbook, the first wave of insect swarms of bees and ants is usually a tentative attack, and its purpose is to test the firepower of humans.And the next wave of insect swarms is the real beginning.

However, once the swarms attack in an all-round way, there will be no retreat, and they will become even crazier and more persistent.Because if they can't take down the fortress, the loss will become very heavy.The reason why bee ants are not afraid of casualties is because the dead insect corpses will be recycled by them and become nutrients for larvae, and human corpses will also become one of their many nutrients.Therefore, as long as they can capture the fortress, they will not cause much loss.

However, Tie Slag felt a bit strenuous before the Thunder Beast and Stinger Worm went into battle.The stingers must be dealt with with artillery, or they will be rained down with spikes once they get a foothold.The Thunder Beast's impact is extremely strong, coupled with the cooperation of the self-explosive scorpion, it is estimated that it will not take long before the city wall will be breached.At that time, there is no choice but to retreat to the fortress.

And the moment of retreating to the fortress, it is not far from a complete fall.

I don't know when the reinforcements will arrive, maybe there is no reinforcements at all, and the news here cannot be passed on. By the time Eva Green realizes the change, they have already died in the sea of ​​insects.

Thinking of this, Tie Slag shook his head, shaking the thought out of his mind.With or without reinforcements, he must fight to the end, because now there is no way out.Looking around, the swarm of insects surrounded the fort with three layers, and it is estimated that even a bird could not fly out.

Afterwards, Tie Slag calmed down, walked to the edge of the city wall, and spit out a mouthful of saliva towards the corpse of Tiaoling below.

(End of this chapter)