The distance was shortened, and the vision became clearer, and even the ordinary people in the team could see the true face of the man-made structure.

Originally, I thought that the black pressure should be a village or town, but when I walked in, I found that it was a fortress, a steel fortress.

The fortress is a square of 50 meters in length and width, and the outer walls are all made of metal, which seems to be at least half a meter thick, and the walls are 10 meters high, slightly sloping outward, and the surface is smooth and extremely difficult to climb. There is only one entrance to the metal fortress, or only one entrance is seen, which is a pure metal gate five or six meters high and nearly ten meters wide, and there is an ordinary small metal door in the corner of the gate, and the two doors are nested together, and it seems that they can be opened independently.

For the time being, you can't see the inside of the fortress, but the inside should be open-air, you can see that the top of the outer wall is like the battlements of the city wall, and in each depression, there is a thick metal pipe, and there are at least forty metal pipes in the fifty-meter city wall, and from the metal pipe, an ominous aura comes out, making people instinctively feel dangerous.

Viewed from a distance, the metal fortress was lifeless, with no movement inside, as if it had been abandoned, but as the team was chased by the bugs and approached the fortress, several lights suddenly lit up.

Since appearing in this world, the mercenaries have not been able to tell whether it is night or day. It's daytime, but there is no sun, and you can only vaguely see the stars in the night sky, but if you say it's night, it's not dark at all, even if you don't use any lighting equipment, you can still barely see the things around you, but it's a distant scene, as if it's hidden in the shadows, and it's vague and can't be seen clearly. Therefore, no one can figure out what time period it is, and at first I thought it was just dawn or dusk, but after so long, the brightness has not changed, and there is no sign of night or dawn at all, and finally everyone can only attribute it to the special weather of another world, and have to endure the uncomfortable low light environment.

Finally adapted to the gloomy environment, the fortress suddenly shot out of the light, it was a strong light illuminated by the concentrating equipment, the brightness was extremely high, although the pillar of light was shining in the swarm, but even if they watched from the side, the members of the excavation team also felt that their eyes were tingling, and some ordinary people with weak bodies even shed tears.

If there was only strong light, it would be fine, but with the strong light, the low-hanging downward metal pipes on the outer wall suddenly seemed to be rejuvenated, and at the same time raised their heads, and the cores of the black hole were aimed at the direction of the excavation team and the insect tide.

"Speed up, go a little faster. Seeing the changes on the fortress, Xiuer had a little more anxious look on his face, and urged for the first time, "Try to get as close to the city wall as possible, as long as you run over, it will be a victory, especially ordinary people, if you can't run over, wait for death, no one can save you." ”

"Do you think this is a weapon of the hostile forces of bugs?" This kind of speed transfer, the high-level mercenaries are still very leisurely, especially Mia and Miridy, whose task is to trim, is more relaxed, at least there is room to ask, "Will they attack indiscriminately?"

"At least I don't think those metal pipes are here to give a welcome speech. Shure's gaze quickly wandered between the fortress and the insect tide, and he replied without thinking about Mia's question, "And there are usually no intelligent creatures in the otherworldly projections, and I don't think that automata can be smart enough to distinguish between objects and avoid humans and fight bugs, especially if these people are not their own." ”

"You've seen those metal pipes before?"

"Sort of, I didn't see it with my own eyes when I was in my hometown, but I heard about it. ”

Indeed, when he was in his hometown, Shur did hear that in the last civilization, warriors fought with weapons similar to this one, and legend has it that these weapons were so terrifying that even the most powerful warriors could not escape the attacks of such weapons. However, no one has seen it with their own eyes, and it is just a legend.

"Firearms?" asked Miridy softly.

"Well, it's guns. Mia looked at the thickness of the muzzle from a distance, and sighed, "It looks like a live ammunition weapon, a physical attack, and the power should not be small, if we don't use the energy shield to defend, even our bodies will inevitably be injured, let alone ordinary people." ”

"Did you hear that?" Shul shouted at the group, "if you don't want to be beaten into a fishing net by the enemies of the bugs, force them to their full potential, and run over while the bugs' attack is weakened." ”

Indeed, the bugs' offensive has weakened, and they are no longer as frantic as before.

Since leaving the purple fungus blanket, the insects seem to have suddenly become unenergetic, their speed and strength have decreased a lot, and even the desire to attack is not as strong as before, although they are still chasing after the digging team, but the pressure on them is much less, the fungus blanket has moved more than 200 meters, and the insects have caused at least more than 100 effective injuries to humans, but after leaving the fungus blanket, they have run for 50 meters, and no one has been injured.

Of course, no one knows for sure whether this change is due to the departure of the fungus blanket or the fact that the bugs need to pay some attention to the fortress due to the proximity to the fortress, but for whatever reason, it is a reassuring phenomenon.

"Hurry, hurry, Moria, take the one who has fallen behind, Dark, Saf, retreat, don't get too far from the group, Yuri, stop attacking the bugs in the back, take the weight from those two breathless guys. ”

"What if the one who is said to be left behind will die by himself?" Darker finally had a little free time, "Beautiful Miss Saff, you see, this kind of guy who can overturn what he said at any time is the worst, you must not be deceived by him, or a man like me who keeps his promises is the most reliable." ”

"Idiot, shut up, I don't have time to beat you up right now. Dark's choice of time is very good, Shure didn't even have time to argue with him, let alone do it, "Do you think your goal is not big enough? Do you have to run with your chest up and your head up, keep your body down for me when you run, those things on the wall are not indistinguishable from me, and in the end I didn't die in the mouth of an unconscious insect, but died under the attack of a bunch of man-made objects, and I was careful to become a laughing stock if I died." ”

However, Shul was wrong, and the guns in the fortress did not seem to be indistinguishable from each other.

"Da Da Da", eighty meters, eighty meters away from the fortress, just in the sound of Shuer's continuous urging, the muzzles of the guns arranged neatly on the fortress suddenly erupted a long tongue of fire, and the short and crisp banging sound was superimposed and connected, shaking people's eardrums. The tongue of fire set off a storm of metal, and countless metal bullets shot out of the barrel of the gun, splashing water into the swarm. The power of the warhead is not small, although it is not as powerful as when an ordinary mercenary wields a sword, but it is also quite impressive, even if the insect is protected by a hard carapace, and when it is hit by a bullet, it is a fist-sized blood hole.

The dense bullets formed an invisible curtain behind the excavation team, and most of the surging insect swarms stopped at this barrage, and every insect that touched the barrage was hit like a sieve by bullets, and some even had their bodies shattered, and their stumps and arms were scattered all over the ground. Even if a stronger bug occasionally breaks through the barrage, it doesn't matter, but after a few seconds, it will be killed by a firearm that is not fired intensively and is purely for auxiliary shooting.

The timing of the firing of the fortress was calculated quite accurately, as soon as the crowd crossed the blockade line, the barrage storm had already formed, and the members of the digging team were unharmed, while the bugs were blocked on the other side of the barrage and kept dying, only more than a hundred bugs were too close to each other, and followed the digging team to cross the barrage's defense.

"Ahh

"Are you all idiots?, or do you think you're watching a show at the opera house right now?" Shure roared as he brandished his mace, "I want to see when you're dead, and if you're not dead, you'll have time to watch slowly, and if you're not dead, you'll try to survive, look, look, it's just a massacre, what's there to see, have you forgotten the mercenary rules?"

It's no wonder that Shure is angry, the reason for the scholar's injury is too low-level.

Article 17 of the mercenary code, during the operation, there can only be the current task in the eyes, no matter what happens around, it cannot affect the current action, whether it is a volcanic eruption or a rift eruption, even if the end of the world comes, it must be considered after the end of the operation, and the mercenary who is easily disturbed by the environment has only a dead end.

Just now, most of the ordinary mercenaries, including the ordinary people in the team, made this mistake, the barrage storm came too suddenly, and the effect was quite amazing, the neighing of insects dying was endless, and the blood and insect limbs were splashing around like rain, these people were shocked by the scene in front of them, and even forgot Shuer's previous orders, and even stopped running.

And they were shocked, the bugs wouldn't, there were more than a hundred bugs chasing around, since the humans had even forgotten to run away and resist, of course the bugs would not be polite, so that they almost lost another person before they could safely transfer, no wonder Xiuer gritted his teeth angrily.

"Run, don't block the door of the house, meet on the right side of the gate. "In the last thirty meters, the insects have not been able to break through the barrage, Xiuer saw that there was no sign of the small door of the gate opening, and immediately ordered, "After the assembly, rely on the outer wall defense, the people without combat power are concentrated in the innermost side, the mercenaries are protected on the periphery, and the insects that follow are eliminated as soon as possible. Melee ones, you stay and help, Moria, you stay too, the mages come back with me, help this fortress......"

"Boom", the deafening sound of the explosion interrupted Shuer's order, and a puff of gunpowder smoke rose from the fortress, and at the same time, there was the whistling sound of shells breaking through the air.