Chapter 404: Encirclement
It was dark all around, and strange dark clouds were surging like snow, completely obscuring the sky.
Under the clouds, all kinds of strange and dangerous lights in the shape of electricity, flames, rainbows, and balls flew horizontally, cutting through the inky darkness, reflecting the outlines of huge ships with front crash angles and ballistas on the seats.
At the same time, the dense, rapid, and mysterious drums that sounded like thunder in the sky swept across the battlefield like a rushing rain, making the souls of those who heard them tremble with fear.
What should have been a sunny morning has now become purgatory.
Hundreds of flying boats slowly pressed forward. Two terrifying solid-based ballistae were installed on the foredeck of each skyship, and as they advanced, they kept ejecting giant arrows that swirled around the dark blue flames, and swept towards the Giant Bamboo Fort with a piercing roar, cutting the beautiful Giant Bamboo Fort into a thousand holes.
However, the giant bamboo castle also stripped away its usual charming and beautiful appearance, revealing its hideous true face, and a thick blue light flew up from the unclear launch port, like an evil dragon flying through the sky, shooting at the enemies in all directions.
The group continued to advance with difficulty and tenacity, and as the distance from Juzhu Fort narrowed, the resistance suffered became more and more fierce, the formation was slightly disorganized, and the degree of damage gradually began to increase.
A flying boat that rushed to the front was hit on the side of the ship, and a huge hole appeared in the belly of the ship, and the blue light stuck in the belly of the ship showed its original form, which turned out to be a giant cannon bolt cut from the entire golden spirit bamboo.
The building of the other flying boat was hit hard, and the hull began to tilt slowly, and then it broke out of the attack queue and turned back.
But in the end, a flying boat rushed through the dense fire net in a thrilling way, approaching within thirty meters of the Giant Bamboo Fort. At this moment, a piece of the originally smooth and seamless wall of the Giant Bamboo Fort suddenly slid to the side, revealing a black hole, followed by a green glow, and a string of gorgeous and dazzling light spewed out like a bead, unexpectedly blasting the hull of the ship to the ground, which was almost entirely made of hard and gold-like golden spirit bamboo.
The giant ship soon lost its direction and spun helplessly in the air. The hull of the ship began to make a terrible creaking sound, and the place where the middle wound suddenly broke at the waist, and more than a hundred evil armor and evil corpses flew out of the ship, screaming and scattering into the air, except for a few evil corpses who were good at flying and flying luckily fell to the protruding part of the giant bamboo castle, and the rest all fell to the ground from a hundred feet in the air, falling to pieces.
However, the dozen or so surviving evil corpses were not lucky for long. A group of machine gunners led by the good sword Jiang Jun rushed out of the bamboo forest and easily annihilated them all.
A few miles south of Giant Bamboo Fort, a group of more than thirty skyboats hovered spectacularly in the air, thirteen of which had been emptied of the foredeck's giant base ballista and replaced them with a tower-like strange giant.
Next to each giant stood four or five mages with magic weapons and more than a dozen big men with carts and cables, and rows of heavily armored guards were lined up near the port on either side.
In the midst of these flying boats, a large ship comparable to the Kunpeng is extremely eye-catching, with seven floors on it, guns and halberds like a forest, and flags like clouds.
On the top floor of the building, more than 100 murderous generals stood silently. Under the handsome banner in the middle, there was a person sitting proudly on the iron-cast chair, his eyes shining, not angry and arrogant, it was the commander of the Seven Peerless Realms Futian Great Commander.
On his left side, a woman sat gracefully, wearing a long robe, covered with a light veil, revealing only a pair of wonderful eyes, who was not the head of the four major priests, Dong Yuanshuang, the chief priest of the soul.
"Didn't you say that the strongest defense of the Giant Bamboo Castle is in the east!" The Great Commander of the Angry Sky suddenly shouted.
One of the generals hurriedly came out of the ranks, fell on the ground, and replied in a trembling voice: "Back to the commander, the kid will never dare to talk nonsense, the east of the giant bamboo fort is densely packed, and there are a total of fifteen crossbow towers in light and dark, which is indeed the strongest defensive direction." ”
This person had a blue face and white lips, and his voice was thin and short, it turned out to be Liu Xuan, the son of the thousand-armed Great Sage, who died not long ago.
"What's going on?" The Great Commander of the Angry Sky stared ahead with a grim face, and another flying boat that rushed towards the Giant Bamboo Fort was bombarded by a string of brilliant light balls, spinning and struggling in the air, and finally crashed diagonally into the castle wall, breaking out with a shocking bang.
Building each Sky Flying Boat requires countless golden spirit bamboos and other rare materials, which is extremely labor-intensive and time-consuming, and the one hundred and twenty Sky Flying Boats used to attack the Giant Bamboo Fort this time are almost all the belongings of the Great Commander of the Angry Heavens, although only a few of them have been damaged, but it also makes him extremely distressed.
"Presumably, the demon girl attacked the Giant Bamboo Fort that day, and knew that the defense in the south was weak, so she strengthened the defense." Liu Xuan trembled.
Dong Yuanshuang nodded, and said to the Great Commander of the Angry Heaven: "I said it a long time ago, that demon girl should not be underestimated. ”
Her voice was low and delicate, and there was a wisp of mysterious hoarseness that contained some kind of magic, which was extremely tempting and sultry, Liu Xuan was so relieved that she almost wanted to look along the voice, but in the end she still fell on her stomach, where did she dare to raise her head for half a minute.
Dong Yuanshuang raised his arms slightly, and a white arm like milky condensation slipped out of his robe, and his jade finger was a little farther away, and he said lazily: "What are those green light clusters flying around?" It's amazing. ”
"Back to the high priest, the kid just took a closer look, and it didn't seem to be the base crossbow of the Giant Bamboo Castle. The kid thought about it again, and it must be the legendary giant bamboo castle's secret large-scale weapon-Lianzhu Ballista. The arrows used are all made by the top grade gold spirit bamboo, engraved with secret talismans, containing spiritual power, once launched dense and rapid, the power is very amazing, although the shooting distance is not as good as the base crossbow, but the body can walk and move, can attack and defend from various critical positions at any time, it is a short and medium distance attack and defense artifact. Liu Xuan said at length, but he was afraid that the answer would not be detailed enough.
"Good thing, I don't know which is stronger or weaker than the thunderbolt in my world?" Dong Yuanshuang looked at his slender onion fingers and asked with self-pity.
"There should be their own merits, when my father took the Giant Bamboo Fort that day, he searched everywhere for this offensive and defensive artifact, but unfortunately he never captured it. I don't know where the demon girl came from, and she strengthened the weakest defense south of the giant bamboo castle, which is really hateful! Liu Xuan took the opportunity to defend himself.
"It seems that ......," Dong Yuanshuang said, "it is not a good choice to attack from the south. ”
"Fortunately, Ben Shuai didn't bet on this waste." The Great Commander of the Angry Sky snorted coldly, raised his eyes, and saw a group of black shadows faintly appearing in the sky above the Giant Bamboo Fort, descending from the rolling dark clouds, and there were more than fifty flying boats, more than the south of the Giant Bamboo Castle. When they descend to a certain height, they all hover as if waiting for something.
The mysterious sound of drums that filled the entire Giant Bamboo Valley was then clear, penetrating into everyone's chests and pounding heavily on everyone's hearts.
Dong Yuanshuang's eyes lit up, and he said with a smile: "The commander judges, is it the cover door of the giant bamboo castle above?" ”
"Condescending, it has always been a soldier." The Angry Sky Commander narrowed his eyes: "What's more, I have a flying boat." ”
At this moment, I suddenly heard a strange roar in the sky, and the dark clouds were colorful, reflecting the figure of a giant bird, and then an evil queen flew down into the air, with Yingluo on her upper body, bloomer pants, and ribbons wrapped around her body, like a scattered flower concubine, but she was one of the eight demon goddesses under Dong Yuanshuang's seat.
The demon lady fell in front of Dong Yuanshuang's seat, and hurriedly whispered, as if she had blessed some kind of secret method of sound transmission, and others couldn't hear it at all.
Dong Yuanshuang listened quietly, and suddenly his eyes widened, and his eyes were surging with anger.
"How?" The Angry Commander asked.
Dong Yuanshuang's chest rose and fell, and he said half-loudly: "It's okay." When this is over, this seat will solve it. ”
The Great Commander of the Angry Heavens was secretly surprised, but he couldn't guess what made this high priest who could kill gods and destroy Buddhas so angry.
"Fortunately, the yin and yang lock has been planted for him, otherwise this peerless treasure would have slipped away...... Xiao Changjing, Xiao Changjing, in the end, you don't have to obediently return to my palm! Dong Yuanshuang secretly rejoiced, and his mind gradually settled.
Suddenly, a person hurriedly came to Shuai Qi and said loudly: "Great Commander Qiqi, each ship has reported that the thirteen thunderbolts have all been erected!" ”
The Great Commander of the Angry Sky squinted at the Giant Bamboo Fort in the distance, and said in a deep voice, "Begin." ”
Captain Feng, one of the four lieutenants of the angry department next to him, immediately made a gesture.
"Ready to launch!" A herald shouted loudly and quickly waved the command flag in his hand.
The military order was like a mountain, and he saw that the surrounding ships were in a hurry. A tower-like thunderbolt opened one after another, the topless gunners shouted and pulled out the throwing arms that were more than ten meters long, and the bombardiers quickly pushed a cart of black objects and poured them into the bomb bowls......
"Launch!" The herald roared loudly, waved the command flag heavily, only to hear a dozen dull string strikes, thirteen thunderbolts threw their arms together, and a cloud of pitch-black balls was thrown high, whistling towards the giant bamboo fort, on the way to fly, those balls actually appeared cracks, and the dark red surging in the cracks, like boiling magma, extremely ugly.
The giant bamboo castle is as majestic as a peak, looking at it from a distance, but it is like a huge column standing towards the sky, plunging into the clouds from the bamboo sea. In order to facilitate defense, the four walls are as steep as sharpening axes and chisels, and it is not until more than 1,200 meters high that some platforms are allowed to stand on, on which crossbow towers, arrow towers, observation posts and other buildings are built, and in addition to this is a piece of Jinling bamboo forest full of traps.
However, the largest and most extensive platform of the Giant Bamboo Fort was at the top of it, that is, the Yumengtai that Li Changjing passed by when he sneaked into the fort with Xixia that day.
At this time, Yumengtai is still beautiful and picturesque, but the atmosphere is completely different, and if you look closely, you can see that under the bamboo corridor and in the bamboo forest, there are groups of machine gunners with heads and faceless faces and more than a dozen burly sword mantises.
Sitting in Yumengtai is one of the four strong generals of the Endless Palace, Li Jiu Ming, he is squatting in the dense bamboo bushes, staring at the sky with some annoyance, those dozens of huge spaceships that have come out of the rolling dark clouds seem to have been pressed overhead, making people almost suffocated, and what is even worse is that the waves of mysterious and weird drums make him restless.
"His grandmother's, rub a bird, come down and fight with Lao Tzu!" Li Jiu Ming cursed in a low voice, and suddenly felt the palpitation and uneasiness in his heart, Yuan Li quickly lifted, and eight claw armors sharper than knives immediately opened out from under the covered palms, and there was a faint glow, and then looked around, the forest was full of spearmen, and there were three sword mantis with a sense of strength nearby. The last time he attacked the Giant Bamboo Castle, he had already fought against these strange creatures made of bamboo, and he knew their abilities and powers, so he was a little relieved.
"So many guys who are harder than toilet stones, enough for the seven evil monsters to drink a pot!" Lijiu Ming grinned to himself, and then at this moment, he suddenly heard a few strange whistlings that he had never heard before, and a strong and incomparably strong chill suddenly rose in his heart, and he quickly got up, only to see more than ten black spots flying in the air, which seemed to be slow, and he was close in the blink of an eye, each of them was four or five meters in size, and hurriedly rolled to the side, and jumped out obliquely on his toes, and suddenly heard a shocking loud noise, and a wave of hot force in the shaking of the earth and mountains chased from behind, and actually pushed his whole person off the ground.
The body of the nine lives is a bobcat, once studied under the alien, the skill is very fast, this roll has been more than ten meters away from the place, but it was still affected by the explosion, flying to the ground, even unable to contain the momentum, and rolled out several meters before stopping, embarrassed to get up, only to feel the blood and blood churning all over the body, and then touched the back, and found that the clothes had been torn off a large piece.
He looked back in horror, only to see the clumps of evil things roaring and smashing down, causing an earth-shattering explosion, almost overturning the bamboo forest, shaking the entire giant bamboo castle trembling, the terrible thing is that this is not over, and the bamboo forest that is beyond sight is boiling, thousands of gravel wrapped in red flames flew out of the explosion, with a buzzing roar like frightened swarms rushing around, crashing into those gunmen and knife mantises, and some even burrowed into the body, and then caused countless small explosions, igniting raging flames.
The main material used to create the spearman and the sword mantis is golden spirit bamboo, which is not only stronger than gold and iron, but also difficult to invade, but when encountering this pervasive violent explosion and burning, the limbs are shattered, and the fragments are still adhered to the purple flames that refuse to be extinguished.
It turned out that there were hundreds of thunderbolts hidden in each bullet stone of the thunderbolt, this rare foreign body can not only produce an explosion, but also cause combustion, and then bless the evil magic of the Seven Peerless Evil Magicians, the fire contains poison and is extremely adhesive. Although Jin Lingzhu resisted fire, it had been grilled for a long time, and the weak parts such as joints and ropes of the monsters were also difficult to bear, and they cracked, broke and then dismembered.
In the blink of an eye, most of the spearmen and sword mantis in the ambush bamboo forest fell, and their combat strength was lost.
"Grass you milk! What the hell! Frightened and angry, he suddenly heard the whistle on the top again, looked up, and saw more than a dozen black dots flying through the air, and couldn't help but shudder, turned around and fled, and drilled into the doorway to the fort.
A violent explosion occurred in another bamboo forest, startling hundreds of machine eagles, most of which were already broken and almost all of their bodies were clinging to flames, and a moment later some of them began to circle and fall, destroying nearly thirty percent of them.
From the door of the Nine Lives, he rushed down a bamboo and wooden spiral ladder that was erected in the air, and suddenly someone shouted: "Old cat, why did you run down?" ”
Li Jiuming raised his eyes and saw two rows of gunmen and a few swords Jiang Jun standing on a platform in front of him, headed by a fat and short general, it was his old partner Zang Qianthorn, his mind was a little calm, and he shouted: "It's not good!" The Seven Absolute Monsters don't know what evil things they have gotten, like thunder, they have overturned the roof of the fort, it is really terrifying, and now there are fires everywhere, and they can't stop people! ”
Zang Qian said: "I heard the sound down here, it's really powerful, Lao Tzu is guarding here, you go to the Star Heaven Temple to report to the palace master!" ”
"Be careful, I just saw forty or fifty big ships hanging in the sky, I'm afraid they're about to come down!" Gasping for the Nine Lives.
"Humph!" Zang Qianting waved the long nail shield on his hanging arm, and said viciously: "If you dare to come down, you will definitely let them come and go!" ”
Leaving the Nine Lives to sweep forward, he traveled to many places, and finally arrived at the Star Heaven Palace, and then rushed through the large group of demon soldiers and demon generals, and ran into a huge circular hall in the middle of the corridor, which was the heart of the giant bamboo castle - the Star Heaven Palace.
"Where is the palace master?" He shouted from the nine lives, and was suddenly stunned.
I saw that the hall was full of demon kings, such as the Peerless King, the King of Bashan, the King of the Pecking Sun, the Golden Armor Marshal, Ma Tianhai, Qing Xuanzi, Bu Thief Wing, and the Land Hu San, who were standing solemnly around a huge round platform.
The round platform is very peculiar, there are many bronze mirrors of different sizes lying flat or obliquely on the table top, the mirror edge is finely decorated, the sun, moon and stars are cast, all the mirrors project a touch of different shades of green light, from the top of the round platform to interweave a three-dimensional image, it is the scene of the top of the giant bamboo fort.
The image is cyan, but the light and dark are incompatible, but it presents an incomparably clear picture, and the violent explosion is still raging in Yumengtai, burning everywhere, and the corpses of the broken machine soldiers are scattered all over the field.
Li Jiu Ming was dumbfounded.
"Panic what!" Cai Colorful whispered at him.
Li Jiu Ming looked along the voice, and saw the cloud hair coiled, a purple robe in the summer, Chu Huan, Xiao Zi, Cai Colorful and all the women were all standing in her figure, and then she woke up like a dream and shouted: "Oh no! Fort top ......"
"Got it." Xixia silently intercepted, and Dingqing stared at the huge image above the round platform.
"This is the Star Celestial Book?" An old man next to Xixia suddenly spoke, his voice weak and hoarse.
The old man has frosty beard, his back is bent, his hand is a strange head wooden staff, thin as a candle about to be extinguished, but there is a strange light in his eyes, and his body seems to be hidden in an indescribable bewitching aura, followed by several attendants, all of whom are strange people.
"Hmm." Xixia nodded.
"Can this treasure really observe the landscape of the Zhou Tian Meteorological Realm?" The old man asked.
"This is an exaggeration from the outside world, and this lesson is just to look farther." Xixia said lightly.
"Fetish! Fetish! The skills of the Giant Bamboo Valley are truly unique. The old man praised.
"Mr. Yun has a good reputation, there are many places that cannot be reached, and it is very costly, and it is really a luxury and expense." Xixia Road.
The old man listened, but still admired: "I heard the mystery of this lesson earlier, and when I saw it today, it was true." ”
It turned out that this person was one of the four great think tanks under the command of the Ten Thousand Tribulation True Monarch, Yun Suo Yunguzi, after the founding of the Great Demon Realm Kingdom, he specialized in serving the eldest son of the True Monarch, Prince Zhengyuan, and had a very high prestige in the Demon Realm.
"It's a pity that this Jian must be connected with the Taibi Yin Vein to be energy efficient, and it will never be separated from the Giant Bamboo Castle." Xixia said intentionally or unintentionally.
Yun Guzi's eyelids jumped slightly, and soon returned to normal.
In the evening, I pulled the mechanism on the edge of the platform, only to see that the horizontal angle of the large and small bronze mirrors on the round platform was changed, and the three-dimensional image above also changed, the perspective was extended from near to far, and the rain dream platform in the picture quickly became smaller, and then the entire giant bamboo fort appeared, not only that, but the flying boats attacking from all directions also fell into the picture, and the number and distance were all clear and clear.
"It seems that the real main attack direction of the Seven Evil Monsters is above." Yun Guzi looked at the sky above the Giant Bamboo Fort and said slowly.
Dozens of giant warships with front embedded collision angles hung high in the air, and the contours of the images were extremely clear, and they were the large-scale war weapons of the Seven Peerless Realms.