In an instant, all light was gone. The boundless darkness swallowed everything, as if the whole world was shaking. Everyone trembled and shrunk into a ball, for fear that the cave would collapse.

Huge noises kept coming, dull as thunder, earth-shattering, shaking people's internal organs and almost displaced. Chen Xing held his head and hid in a corner of the cave, bitter in his heart, when would he be able to get rid of the fate of the ants, there was no need to cower like this.

No one made a sound, despite the imminent threat of annihilation, and perhaps this is the ultimate manifestation of fear—being frightened to the point of silence.

When Chen Xing was in the Thunder Light Regiment in his last life, the highest-level battle he had seen was only at the small lord level, and a few kilometers away, he had never seen a king-level battle. Because for a mercenary group of the size of the Thunder Light Regiment, the king-level disappeared with a wipe of his little finger, and there was no possibility of participating in the war at all. Unless a large mercenary group like the Northbridge Regiment can still play a role, but it is only a small corner of the battlefield.

The so-called "king" is to fight against a country with the strength of one person. The small king level corresponds to the combat power of the principality, and the big king level corresponds to the combat power of the kingdom.

There are very few battles between the kings. Once the fight starts, it may be worldwide. After humanity stepped out of the underground safety and returned to the surface, there was only one world war. The main battlefield was in the central wilderness, where the red, blue, and yellow kingdoms were in great war, and the countries of the eastern and western continents all sent troops to participate in the war.

According to the depiction of history books, the war was fought in tears, and the sun and moon were lost. Vast expanses of land have been rolled up, mountains have been torn apart, and deep scars can still be seen ploughed by the great force, crisscrossing and crisscrossing like the scars of the world.

In the darkness, I don't know how long it took, the battle outside gradually subsided. The beams of flashlights lit up, and everyone looked at each other, their faces full of happiness for the rest of their lives. Then the group moved, picking up the gravel and dirt that buried the hole.

"Whoa!"

The afterglow of the setting sun shone in, and everyone's faces were golden. Drilling out of the hole, fresh air rushes in front of you, as if you have been reborn. The whole world was silent, and the cols were littered with locust corpses.

At the end of the mountains, a palm-sized creature was slowly leaving. The steam corpse was repulsed, and everyone was safe. Maybe it's the aftermath, or maybe it's the loss of several companions, the mood is heavy, and no one cheers.

If you want to completely eliminate the corpse kun, the little king-level McCorroy can't do it, at least two big king-level people need to join forces to have a chance. But the big king level will not care about such a trivial matter, even the small king level will not, only a strong person like Michael Rollo who is close to the bottom will be willing to make a move.

After a moment of silence, everyone began to clean up the scene. There is still food to eat, a place to live, and there is not so much time for them to sigh.

The big cat directs the restoration of the cave, and Chen Xing contacts Ghost Fox, Wu Jinjian, and Cassie.

"Boss, I'm fine." "Commander, the golden sword is still there." "Mr Qin, I'm here, I'm fine, I'm a lucky little black man......"

When a familiar voice came from the walkie-talkie, Chen Xing finally breathed a sigh of relief. The list of losses came out quickly, Chen Xing had cave cover on his side, and the losses were the least, only five people died, and the remaining three camps were exposed, with more than half of the troops reduced.

Half of the team of more than 200 people disappeared in an instant, which is really sighing.

But in fact, if you look at it from the perspective of team building, it is not entirely a bad thing.

First of all, the cohesion of the team will increase. Disasters can quickly bring people closer together, but once they have experienced life and death, their friendships will be much deeper. In addition, the combat effectiveness will also be increased a lot. There is often only one battle between a recruit and a veteran. If you have been on the battlefield and seen life and death, you will know what is going on, and the next time you go to the battlefield, you will be much calmer.

The corpses and relics that could be found were all moved together, wrapped in sheets, and placed under the hill of the stronghold. Chen Xing, with several squadron leaders and all the members of the master group, held a solemn military funeral.

The cemetery was located in a nearby valley and surrounded by some cold-tolerant and drought-resistant shrubs. The tombstone is made of cut stone and the names of the victims are engraved on the flat side with a carving knife. Although it is very simple, it is more than a thousand times better than the habit of discarding corpses at will on the Black Death Continent.

When all this is done, looking at the tombstones in the valley, a faint sense of belonging arises. Wu Jinjian sighed, saying that if he could be buried here in the future, it would be regarded as a beginning and an end.

Indeed, as long as a companion is willing to collect his body and find a place to bury it, and there are still people who think of him after death, there will be more peace in the face of death.

In his previous life, Big Cat had said more than once that he wanted to return to Dragonstone Town and be with his family after he died. As for Chen Xing, he is a rootless person, and it doesn't matter where he is buried. This is the difference between rootedness and rootlessness, and people without roots don't even know where to bury them when they die. This kind of sorrow is often only experienced by those who are in it. Wandering in a foreign land, the leaves are nowhere to be dropped.

After the funeral, Chen Xing asked the big cat and Wu Jinjian to be responsible for sorting out the relics of the victims, and as long as they could find their home addresses, they would all be given pensions according to the standards of the garrison of the edge town.

This initiative touched the team members, and they felt that everything was worth it when they thought that their families would have a good income after death and would not sacrifice in vain. Although they are all criminals, criminals are also human beings, and they also have families and feelings. There are also ways to steal, and there are only a few people who are really perverted to the point that they don't even care about their families. And this kind of person, usually no one wants it.

Just imagine, if you don't even care about your family, will you take care of other people?

Over the next period of time, order was slowly restored to the stronghold. In order to replenish the personnel, Big Cat and Wu Jinjian led people to a nearby security station to recruit people. In fact, there are also outcasts' strongholds nearby, but they are all incapable of living in safe places, and their combat effectiveness and courage are not good, and they rely on a little relief food to survive.

Relief food is a basic subsistence item distributed by the Security Institute, which is distributed once a month to ensure that the exiles do not die of starvation.

And in this world, discrimination is everywhere. These people who live on almsfood are called "wandering rats" and have the dual identities of exiles and beggars. In the eyes of other exiles, they had a lower status than the exiles.

But it didn't take long for Big Cat and Wu Jinjian to come back empty-handed. In other shelters, they were stopped by local forces. There is an unwritten rule on the Black Earth Continent that the Legion can only recruit in the security of the garrison.

Since Regions 26 and 28 did not have a strong force, they could recruit people there, but other areas did, and in order to avoid conflict, they did not continue.

There was no way, Chen Xing had to take people to a large stray rat gathering place nearby to see if there were any suitable personnel.