Bulwark of Light

2022-08-31

Frost and snow covered the source armor, freezing hard.

And that narrow knife mark was almost hidden in the snow.

Every member of the team fell into silence…

Who made the knife?

The answer is ready.

“di di di!”

Just when the whole crew was silent, the Elementium Detector issued a sharp alarm sound!

Yuan Yuan stood up abruptly, turned his head to look in the direction he came from, and the alarm sound of the detector sounded from a distance… and the scalp was numb, looking back, it was still intact.” long way”.

Naked eye to see, can not see the slightest difference.

But no one dared to take a step back…

The silver brilliance emanating from the [Original Eye] gradually subsided, Li Chen looked ugly, and whispered: “I can’t sense it. The source of the return direction is gone, and there is a powerful force that cuts off the way.”

“So that’s how it is…”

Yuan Yuan narrowed his eyes.

He once speculated that Hong Zhong’s team must have encountered an incomprehensible “extraordinary phenomenon” that would lead to “the annihilation of the entire army”.

Now, the guess is correct!

The “strangeness” that the previous team encountered is repeated at this moment!

“Captain…the way back is broken!”

A voice of inquiry came from the command channel: “What should I do next?”

“Of course it is to move forward! We have no choice, don’t we?”

Yuan Yuan coldly said: “Even if the road is not broken, the main goal of this mission is to determine the existence of the ‘oasis’… If Hong What Zhong said is true, then the oasis is not far ahead. All members, rest in place, ready to go!”

“Received!”

Always The silent Su He was the first to respond at the moment: “Su He, the deputy team, is ready to set off!”

“Jiang Yu, stand by at any time!”

one after another response , sounds in the channel.

Team 2’s Essence, Qi, and Spirit are in great shape at the moment, with high morale and no signs of getting tired!

Before they set off, they were mentally prepared, and even if they encountered a “broken road”, they were not afraid… Since Hong Zhong can find a “way to return home”, then they must be able to!

After witnessing the “strange death” of their comrades in arms…they desperately want to know the real truth of the “knife scar”!

And the truth is not far ahead…

In just a few tens of seconds, the entire team has completed the rest, maintained the formation, and moved on!

A giant snowflake swept across the sky.

The howling wind blew through the slits of the labyrinth stone mountain.

Gu Shen turned his head.

Before he set off, he looked at the “cut off” return route for the last time, the fire debris floating in the snow and wind, sticking between the rocks on the mountain wall… as if he felt a trace of it. temperature.

That’s a very similar temperature to snow.

But the difference is that the cliffs to which the fire debris sticks are more icy than snow…

 …

 …

The snow was flying and falling.

The tall man extended the hand and brushed the snow off his shoulders.

In the fortress of Kubao, a small-scale cemetery was built, and many heroes were buried here. Stone tablets have witnessed the Legendary of their life, and the blood has been poured out…

The soil in this cemetery is red, even if it is covered with frozen snow, it is still hot and hot.

And now.

The soil was dug up by several soldiers, and a wooden coffin was in the process of being buried.

The stone tablet on the side is ready.

“Investigate Legion, the second team, the maze mission, Captain, Hong Zhong.”

Zou Hai watched this scene silently.

The funeral of Hong Zhong is the meaning of Lord Lin Lin.

These days, regarding the ownership of the corpse, the second team investigating Legion has negotiated with the Kubao Fortress more than once… and Lord Lin Lin’s reply was very simple, he refused to hand over Hong Zhong.

With the support of Corps Head, the second team is helpless.

The second team Captain Zhongyuan, who is in the field, is leading the second team’s highest group of transcenders to perform an extremely important mission in the [Old World] on the flank front.

The operator was left with harsh demands and angry protests.

Unfortunately.

Gubao fortress does not eat this set.

The “soldiers” responsible for burying the corpses all wore extremely complete protective gear with strong logic materials, and were armed from beginning to end… If this scene was seen by the second investigation Legion, they would definitely be very angry.

This is the corpse of a hero… And these guys, it’s like burying a corpse with a virus?

Why?

It is also the meaning of Lord Lin Lin.

The second departure of the “Maze Mission” has lasted for more than ten days… During these ten days, Lord Lin Lin has observed and researched Hong Zhong’s body more than once. No gain.

He couldn’t find out why the “Life and Death Book” was different.

This is the weirdest thing in the world.

The sea that should have been stormy sea is calm and tranquil.

A person with a keen intuition can smell the depression before the rainstorm. Zou Hai is such a person, and Lin Lin is even more so.

After returning from “Hong Zhong”, Adjutant Zou always felt ominous in his heart, until he met Gu Shen, and it calmed down a little. small , his intuition never went wrong.

And this time, he is extremely supportive of Brigadier General’s decision!

Bury “Hong Zhong”.

We will no longer conduct corpse research, and we will completely cut off the idea of investigating Legion II.

Wait until the latest labyrinth mission, there is an echo… and then decide whether to restart the research based on the clues brought back.

“Lord Adjutant… something happened!”

Not far away, a sentinel ran over with a nervous expression.

Zou Hai frowned.

Something happened?

“On the Life and Death Book… the members of the labyrinth quest have lost their telepathy again!”

This news made Zou Hai groan in his heart.

He hurried to the combat command post. The command room was in a state of anxiety at this moment. Lord Lin Lin stood in the center.

The apostle’s expression was very ugly, with a pair of beautiful eyes staring at the big screen.

The data transmitted by the “Life and Death Book” is projected on the screen, and the files of the twelve transcenders all show “death in battle”… The word “death in action” is not necessarily a physical death in the true sense. .

But…the lingering breath on the Life and Death Book dissipates, which means they are at least in a “spiritual death” situation!

“Again…appeared…”

Amel’s voice was hoarse.

This was the case with the last maze mission.

No one knows.

What happened to the team outside the fortress?

She didn’t move her eyes at all, but unfortunately the message of “Life and Death Book” didn’t fluctuate, it was very stable…it didn’t look like a miracle would happen.

“It’s good news.”

Lin Lin said calmly: “This phenomenon means that Gu Shen has reached the same position as the last expedition team.”

He was the calmest man in the war room.

None of them.

“The difference between Life and Death Book, I don’t think it has any reference value. Since Hong Zhong can come back, there must be a way to ‘return’.” Lin Lin said slowly: “This labyrinth mission, Just to find out the real reason for the strangeness… I think Gu Shen and the others have touched the truth at this moment. As a stronghold within the giant wall, we can’t give any help at this moment, the only thing we can do is Pray for their safe return.”

This was said calmly.

Lin Lin mobilized his authority and erased all those “death in battle” files…

At this moment, such negative information will only lower the morale of the combat command team.

Lin Lin’s voice was very calm, and he directly rejected the authority of the “Life and Death Book”, but after careful calculation… After the two teams were out of the game, it triggered the “Life and Death Book strange” time node, It is indeed similar.

This is not nonsense.

Perhaps…is there really some kind of special regularity that caused such an abnormality?

“By contrast, there is one more important thing that we need to prepare for…”

The message on the screen changes again.

Dozens and hundreds of shots were projected at the same time…

“Two hours ago, the ‘sky eye’ of the Umbrella Defense Line sensed a strong ‘wind pressure’ .” Lin Lin spoke softly and said, “The wind pressure is from the north direction.”

This statement came out.

Zou Hai’s expression suddenly became solemn.

Having been stationed in the Kubao fortress for so many years, he knows too well the true meaning of the word “wind pressure”!

The “Eye of the Sky” in Beizhou is extremely difficult to deploy. Outside the giant wall is a world that collapses in an orderly manner, and the umbrella line of defense as a buffer zone is the last zone where the “spiritual network” can be linked…similar tentacles in the human world.

Even if those tentacles are short.

But… yes, it’s better than nothing!

After deploying the “Eye of the Sky”, the Umbrella Defense Line has been able to feel the early warning before encountering the impact of the source material tide… The impact of those source material tides will trigger many natural phenomena in advance.

Earthquakes, wind pressure, high tides…etc.

And this time.

The wind direction map returned by the Umbrella Defense Line shows several terrifying vortices…

“The preliminary scale statistics of wind pressure are A-Rank, and the Umbrella Defense Line will It will usher in the most violent impact in twenty years… The estimated result given by [Deep Sea] is that after the source energy of the Umbrella Defense Line is exhausted, it can intercept 95% of the source material tide, and the remaining 5% of the force will be It will infiltrate the defense line and hit the giant wall. If we don’t respond, then this 5% power is likely to break through the giant wall.”

Lin Lin slowly turned his head and looked at the combat command room. Everyone in the room said word by word: “Everyone, Kubao… It’s going to be windy.”

……

……

The wind Howling!

Blizzard is dying out!

The cold and shattered world, which has become a reflection of the old world, was thrown behind, a team of twelve, standing at the exit of the Snow Mountain canyon… No one could have imagined that the end of the labyrinth 38 The route is so easy to explore.

It’s only tens of minutes.

The vision in front of me suddenly clears up.

There are clouds floating in the high sky, and large tracts of light are cast on the ground, and my body…

A warm.

The distance is the “land of dreams” for all travelers yearn for something even in dreams.

The end of the journey.

Oasis.

Yuan Yuan lost his mind for a while. He felt that the blood in his body was boiling, and a strong “sense of belonging” welled up in his heart. It turned out that everything Hong Zhong said on the hospital bed was true… The oasis is outside the maze, and the oasis is right in front of him. !

Everyone in the team was immersed in the joy of “seeing the oasis”, showing a silly smile.

Only one person with a different look.

Gu Shen frowned, he squatted down… staring at the thick layer of snow under his feet, in the silver-white snow, there were some broken and scattered sawdust, Hong Zhong from the labyrinth mission, Also brought back a piece of sawdust.

Gu Shen stretched out two fingers and picked up a piece of sawdust.

this time.

He felt the familiar Spiritual Fluctuation…

This is the teacher’s [Holy Wood] aura.

However, the Spiritual Fluctuation contained in this sawdust is already very weak, and it also carries the artistic conception of apoptosis and annihilation.

Gu Shen stood bewildered at the exit of Snow Mountain.

Here is the end of the maze.

The vast expanses of green in the distance, as well as the blue sky, are as beautiful as a picture scroll… But the more beautiful things are, the more dangerous they are.

Gu Shen thinks that oasis is too beautiful.

It’s as beautiful as a dream.

Maybe…it really is a dream.

“Wait a minute…”

He stretched out a hand and pressed Li Chen who was about to move forward.

“Everyone, don’t rush forward!”

This voice, using the “Spiritual Power” remaining in the fire debris…all directions of the fire debris, Around everyone, at this moment, it has shrunk into a circle with a radius of tens of meters, and the flames trembled.

This sound, after the fire debris trembled, rolled away!

next moment … Li Chen turned his head, but his expression was dazed and angry.

“Brother Gu, didn’t you see… this is an oasis!”

Li Chen said coldly.

He patted off Gu Shen’s palm and walked forward.

Gu Shen squinted his eyes and watched the silver pupil that kept spinning on top of Li Chen’s head, but stopped releasing rays of light.

I don’t know when, [The Eye of the Source] has stopped running…

Perhaps…the exit of Snow Mountain at the moment is already a dream.

The whole team is moving forward “slowly”, the only thing that is a little different is Captain Yuan Yuan, the fourth rank transcender’s expression is different from other team members, usually joy, usually pain, As if struggling.

Gu Shen took a deep breath.

He stretched out two fingers again, ready to fight against the “golden hoop”, releasing more blazing fire to wake up the people in the dream.

When his fingertips touched the blazing fire.

“peng!”

A familiar wave surged in my heart!

Gu Shen pupil shrink.

That wave…I felt it once before I entered the canyon!

Something that resonates with “Blazing Fire” or “Pluto Spirit”!

this time.

The familiar fluctuations reappeared, followed by the sound of the collapsed and shattered rocks behind, a huge shadow, shrouded in the high sky, and the crash-bang metal sound like a chain collision. , sounded intensively.

Everyone looked up “subconsciously”.

The lost person, who is shrouded in the dream, sees the sun burning in the shadows.

They had a faint smile on their faces.

What Gu Shen saw…

It was a huge snake head with a coiled body and several tens of meters. A pair of golden and fiery snake pupils opened!

“si si sizzle…”

The mountain rock is the snake scale.

The way back is the body of the snake.

In the data files that have been investigating Legion for so many years, it has never been mentioned that there are such terrifying “extraordinary creatures” outside the giant wall… This snake can’t see the whole picture at a glance I am afraid there are several hundred meters long.

Humans cannot survive in the 【Old World】.

But this snake… Can.

This is probably the major news that shook the entire Beizhou, and the most terrifying thing is that in the vast [Old World], an extraordinary creature appeared, does that mean… the second ?

Or rather, countless?

It’s ironic.

At the end of the labyrinth, simply is not a hope… but a dream leading to a dead end.

This path of hope to the dream land of the oasis is actually a Death Road in the arms of this giant snake.

The big snake, which was entrenched high, closed its body.

Gu Shen suddenly took out the ghost veil, put it on, and the moment he put on the “ghost veil”, his spirit strength began to suddenly condense and increase!

The effect of the ghost veil!

This Sealed Artifact began to erode Gu Shen’s Essence Divine Sea.

It’s just that at this moment, what the ghost veil directly encounters is the fighting gold hoop.

The blazing fire in the Divine Sea of Gu Shen sensed the provocation of the “low-level sealed artifact”, and actively stirred up the meaning of suppression… After the two collided, a blazing fire went smoothly. released.

Gu Shen’s eyebrows ignited with fiery fire!

He growled in a low voice.

“Wake up!!!”

This spiritual thunderous sound resounded in the hearts of every transcender in the explorer team!

Like a sledgehammer!

Smashing this fantasy!

The first person to wake up was Yuan Yuan. The Captain was in a predicament of struggle. With Gu Shen’s fiery voice, he broke free from this fantasy. It took him two seconds. Seeing the extremely shocking picture at this moment…

Yuan Yuan’s roar sounded in the snow wind!

“Investigate Legion! All the team members, let’s fight!!”

The second sober one is not Li Chen, the spiritual transcender, but Vice Captain Su He!

This man’s spirit strength cultivation is quite strong, and he is the most tenacious person in the second team… Before the Captain’s roar sounded, he woke up by the fiery alarm sound.

Vice Captain Su He, after sobering up, his first reaction was not to retreat, but to move forward.

He charged directly towards the “huge monster” of aloof and remote.

This taciturn man, his actions are extremely sturdy, he kicked off the ground and stepped on the “flowing” cliff – it was a flying snake scale, and after a few seconds, he jumped high. !

He throws a punch!

This is a full punch from the third rank top powerhouse!

“Boom!!!”

A sonic boom exploded.

Above the sky, the big snake’s pupils are indifferent.

The lips twitched slightly, as if smiling.

It didn’t even dodge, it just looked down at the tiny ants who provoked itself so calmly and indifferently, this fist wrapped the embryo of the domain that Su He cultivated, blasting a violent roar in the air. !

Snow splash!

Su He fell to the ground and looked up at the big snake. His indifferent pupils, which were covered by the wind and snow, penetrated the thick mist and bloomed with a soul-penetrating dark golden glow. This fist did not give it to him. Leave the slightest wound.

It’s just…the purpose has been accomplished.

This fist is a fist of loud thunder, but only tiny drops of rain.

Do not seek to hurt the enemy.

I just want the noise to be loud enough.

The entire team, awakened by Gu Shen’s blazing fire and the loud outside noise, woke up one after another.

“Fight!”

“Fight!!”

The sound of drawing a sword quickly sounded, without any communication, this is only the absolute elite division investigating Legion , The formation adjustment was completed within three seconds after waking up… The [Original Eye] above Li Chen’s head began to rotate again, and a shared spiritual link was established between the twelve people in the team, and everyone’s mental state was It became stable under the coordination of 【Origin Eye】!

Jiang Yu stretched out his hands, and the broken snow on the ground rolled up, turning into a blurry rain curtain.

The B-Rank ability [Amuma], the domain embryo is activated!

Above the ground, a harsh sound of “friction” sounded, [Amuma] tried to pull the snake’s body into the ground, but the scales seemed to have strong domain protection power, directly Shattered this field!

【Amuma】, invalid!

In the team at the end of the Snow Mountain canyon, there are several dazzling rays of light, and the various abilities of the third rank transcender are fully exerted at this moment… The link magnification effect of [Original Eye] Underneath, these powerful attacks that could shatter a small hill, hit the scales of the snakes, and at most only collided with dazzling fire.

The only one who deals the most damage is Captain Yuan Yuan.

He pulled out his two knives, and danced wildly on the snake like a cheetah. A light white mark was left… Yuan Yuan was more fierce than Su He. He alone cut from the tail of the snake and cut it directly to the head of the snake, and the big snake maintained its usual “indifferent”.

In the end, Yuan Yuan jumped high and inserted the long knife into the snake’s pupil!

A crisp sound of “珰”.

All abilities, domains, are all removed.

And Yuan Yuan’s knife cut was also bounced away——

A golden glow burst out from the big snake’s pupil, like the radiance of the sky, and shot him directly. Put on.

Above the flowing clouds in the high sky, there is a bright hot blood that explodes.

Scalding blood rained down.

Raised above the raised faces of each.

Li Chen’s expression was pale, he stared blankly at this scene, and felt that his soul had been hit hard… Captain Yuan Yuan’s “corpse” exploded directly under the gaze of the fiery pupil light in the air, shattering into pieces. Broken into thousands of pieces of glow.

And his [Eye of the Source] trembled violently uncontrollably.

It’s not because of the emergency link of twelve people, overloaded operation.

It was because he saw something he shouldn’t see…

The pupil of silver stared straight at the huge snake spirit, feeling the oppression of the incomparable on Spiritual Plane.

Li Chen’s eyes slowly flowed blood.

He looked up, wanting to remember the last scene before Captain’s “death” in his mind, but his last vision turned gray… in the true sense of gray.

He was deprived of his sight.

The link to [Original Eyes] was also broken at this brief moment.

The communication channel has already been broken in the dream, but without the spiritual link of [Original Eye], it will not have any effect on this team…because everyone fell into a shocking silence among.

That big snake did nothing.

Just waiting and welcoming their attack with arrogance, shattered all the offensive desires of the elite Legion Second Team.

What kind of strength do you need to fight against such a monster?

The full attack of the fourth rank transcender can only barely leave scars!

If you want to kill him, I am afraid you need title-level strength, right?

No…

No one has ever seen a “monster” like this.

Can the title of the highest among human transcenders really kill it?