Doomsday Totem

Chapter 256
Five hours after Iron Slag left Fort Tyre, it was Dr3713-01-31, 0:41 am Silver City time, [-]:[-] am Sete time.

In a small villa on the Garden Avenue in ancient Babylon, Eva Green was watching the video of the defense battle of Tyre Fortress repeatedly.Because the war was extremely fierce, many cameras in the fortress were damaged, so the video is somewhat incomplete and the angles are few.But compared to the later period of the war, the video in the early stage is more complete.

At this moment, Eva Green was clutching the small handkerchief tightly, watching Iron Slag announce the simple pre-war mobilization with reddish eyes, and then rushed towards the swarm of insects without any hesitation.She watched this scene over and over again, and every time she would be completely moved by Tie Slag's sentence "A man should be like a gorgeous firework, bursting out with the most beautiful brilliance in the world...".

It wasn't until this moment that she really understood why that person could win the handkerchief's heart, and why even the princess of the temple lost herself for him.

This man could have evacuated the fortress, but he didn't do so, but bet his life on it.He is not an aristocrat, has no family, and has no concept of glory, he is just himself.Unencumbered, like a rootless duckweed, he neither bears nor needs to bear the blame, but he actually fights to the death because of his courtesy...

In fact, in this case, if he chooses to retreat, no one can blame him.According to the feedback from the Fifth Army of the Dawn Expeditionary Army, the number of bug swarms this time was six to seven times that of the defenders. With such a disparity in strength, it was completely reasonable to retreat.

However, he chose to persevere and choose to face death.Perhaps, he didn't take his own life seriously at all...

Whenever she saw the sight of the iron slag being kicked away by the Thunder Beast and hitting the city wall like a cannonball, she felt faint heartaches.The pain was indescribable, like the heart was pierced by a long and thin needle, piercing straight into the deepest part.At this time, she just wanted to get him back quickly, keep him away from danger and death.She believed that Yugo Lombard would rather not have Fort Tyre than put this person in danger.

If the fortress is lost, they can grab it back; if the resources are gone, they can collect them again, but if such a person dies, there may not be another one...

Suddenly, Eva Green subconsciously dialed Tie Slag's voice communication.However, there was a busy tone over there.She was startled and called several times, but the busy tone was still there.This means that the iron slag has left the coverage area of ​​the satellite signal.She couldn't help worrying, and began pacing up and down the room impatiently, her chest heaving up and down, her heart pounding.She frowned slightly thinking, did he leave the signal area on his own initiative, or did something happen?This guy is really worrying, you must teach him a lesson when you come back!
And about an hour ago...

On the vast Gobi Desert, a red locomotive gallops past.The thick rubber wheels rolled over the dry and cracked red soil, raising waves of sand and dust, which scattered in all directions.

Under the strong sunlight, the front is endless, except for the occasional grass ball rolling by, or a solitary dead sea poplar, there is nothing in this huge world, and the silence is boundless.

At this moment, Iron Slag was half lying on the locomotive, staring intently at the front. Even in such a peaceful environment, he still maintained a high degree of vigilance.This is a habit he has developed over the years. In his opinion, apart from safe places, there are only dangerous places in this world. There are few safe places and many dangerous places.In the boundless wilderness, there are always murderous intentions lurking. It looks calm on the surface, but no one knows whether there may be deadly poisonous scorpions hidden in a certain seemingly harmless grass, and whether there are deadly poisonous scorpions hiding in the shallow sand. A bouncing centipede.

Looking up, there is a light red between the sky and the earth.After watching for a long time, people will have a strange illusion, feeling that they have been spinning in circles, standing still, and thus losing their way.Therefore, Iron Slag has been carefully observing the surrounding scenery, looking for differences in the roughly similar pictures.His memory is so good that he can keep his memory for hours just by looking at it, avoiding to completely lose his coordinates in the wasteland.

At this time, several car marks of different shades suddenly appeared on the land ahead.Iron Slag narrowed his eyes immediately, slowed down, and walked along the tracks of the tires.Because Desert No. [-] is very dry, there is little rainfall, and the ground is mostly dry and hard red land.Therefore, when a vehicle drives by, the car marks will remain for a long time.

After observing for a while, he concluded that about thirty fully loaded rear eight-wheel trucks and two monster jeeps passed by here.Based on Wang Hu's previous report, on the eve of the battle, Edward Soci and another regiment leader hurriedly left Fort Tyre with their legions.There are various indications that Edward may have noticed the attack of the swarm in advance, and even noticed the disappearance of the satellite signal.

And Edward Sosh's abnormal behavior is really puzzling.He became a deserter, not only the end of his personal political career, but also the shame of his family.Such a price is undoubtedly extremely heavy.For the little nobles of Yincheng, it may be worse than death.However, life is more important than glory most of the time, at least Tie Slag thinks so.If Eva Green hadn't helped him in times of crisis, and if the real master behind the fortress was Yugo Lombard, he would have fled with the wolf army long ago.

After identifying possible targets, the iron slag followed the car tracks all the way.His red comet is faster than most vehicles, so he is confident and decides to follow it.

As time went by, Iron Slag gradually became aware of the abnormality, and the direction of the car marks became more and more deviated, away from the direction to the Sandcastle, and turned a large circle towards the east.After a while, Iron Slag figured out the reason. Edward planned to avoid the reinforcements going to Tyre Fortress and avoid being forcibly recruited by general-level officers.When he figured this out, Tie Slag couldn't help but frowned, because this brought up another problem, that is, Edward probably knew exactly the scale of this bug swarm, and he was sure that reinforcements would come.With such doubts in mind, Tie Slag continued to chase.

Half an hour later, the iron slag left the coverage area of ​​the satellite model and headed for a farther place.

Three hours later...

The iron slag drove into a sparse dead sea poplar forest along the car tracks.There was a vague smell of blood floating in the air here, the surrounding silence was a little penetrating, and the bare branches trembled slightly in the breeze.

After walking for a while, the smell of blood became stronger and stronger, as if it was insoluble watercolor, sticky and dry.

[Master, there is a lot of dry blood cell powder in the air. In order to avoid being infected by unknown diseases, Alice recommends leaving immediately or wearing a gas mask] A warm girly mechanical voice sounded from the front of the car.

"Don't worry, I'm a worm, and I'm highly resistant to diseases." Iron Slag said while pulling up a checkered scarf to cover his mouth and nose, breathing through the cotton cloth.

[It’s not exactly a disease. Alice tested the samples on the air filter just now and found that some unknown mutations have taken place in these dry blood cells. Alice is worried that it is a new type of virus]
Tie Slag lowered his head and pondered for a moment, and was about to ask further questions, but when he looked up, he saw a pale whiteness in the woods in front of him.He twisted the accelerator immediately and rushed over.When he saw the scene in front of him clearly, he couldn't help taking a breath.I saw that the semi-desert red land was full of bones.And the surface of these bones still has a sticky feeling, it seems that it has not been formed for a long time.

Looking around, these human skeletons are fragmented, none of them are complete, as if they have been eaten by something, the skulls, limbs, sternum, and spine are scattered all over the ground.

[Master, please pay attention to safety, Alice scans to the direction of two o'clock, and there are signs of life pulse at 160 meters]
"Go and have a look." Tie Slag said.Although the sight in front of him was creepy, it was nothing to him.When he was ten years old, he once had a good sleep in a camp full of corpses, completely unaffected.

[Master~ Broken bones are easy to get stuck in the tire and scratch the paint, is this really good? ] Alice said in a whining voice, not knowing which girl she learned from.

Tie Slag rolled his eyes, then got out of the car, and said, "Take care of yourself."

[Obey, my captain] Alice said happily.

Iron Slag twisted his neck, stretched his muscles and bones, then gave a deep drink, retracted his scapular muscles forcefully, two pairs of translucent membranous wings rushed out, and then stretched out to both sides with a soft "tearing" sound. .Then, he leaned over and jumped, the membrane wings vibrated at a high frequency, the air around him surged rapidly, and then he soared into the air and flew towards the direction Alice pointed at.

The flying speed of this pair of wings is not fast, but it is about 12 meters per second. Although it is not as fast as his full running speed, it is also much faster than ordinary people.Compared with birds, insect wings have many advantages, such as the ability to hover in the air and the ability to make small turns, which are completely different from each other.

After flying more than 100 meters, he found a place with dense bones, so he flew over, hovered in the air seven or eight meters, and scanned the scene below back and forth.

A few seconds later, he was startled, and saw some piles of white bones on the ground, and in the middle of the piles of bones was fixed an egg that was half the height of a person.Looking around, there are about a dozen such eggs here.They appear translucent when exposed to sunlight.Looking carefully, the inside is covered with bloodshot and light green liquid, and the soft egg shell shrinks and shrinks, as if it is breathing.

Iron Slag observed for a while, then pulled out the Magnin revolver, opened the hammer, and fired a shot.

With a muffled sound of "Boom!", the egg exploded in response, like a water bag that suddenly exploded, and the light green mucus sprayed out and sprinkled everywhere.

"Uh... Goo... Uh... Goo..."

At this moment, a naked figure covered in green mucus rolled out of it. While struggling on the ground, it made a sound like drowning, as if its throat was filled with viscous liquid...

(End of this chapter)