"No !!"

A roar erupted from the blood-filled cavern, and the bloodied Beastmaster awoke from his fury and heard the wail that filled the red mist.

Altar!

Those guys touched the altar!

A drop of cold sweat mixed with blood slipped down his forehead, and he suddenly realized that he had focused on a certain body for too long!

After completing all the layouts, he wanted to know the expression on the guy's face, so he deliberately selected the most perfect body from his collection and used it as a container for himself to walk in the mortal world.

However, it is precisely because of this conceit that the plan has made undeserved mistakes.

The negative emotions generated by the imperfect container ate his spirit, and he was led by the nose by anger when he should have been thinking calmly, so that he became a puppet of emotions.

And in this trance of negligence, those people actually touched the side of the brood.

But now it's too late to regret it, he can only hope that that guy's two hundred years of "cultivation" can more or less start to work.

“…… No, my friend, can you hear me? Answer me quickly! ”

Struggling to smash a warrior who opened fire on him, the Beastmaster forced the others back with a deafening roar.

Taking advantage of the slightest stagnation in the offensive of the difficult fellows, he cried out to the Lord of the Plague in his heart, and at the same time tried to contact the plague monks in the "altar".

However, what made him feel at rock bottom was that he couldn't contact those guys at all.

They had begged for help, but the cries were drowned out by the cacophony of gunfire and roars.

At this moment, a weak voice drifted into his ears, like the whisper of a dying man lying beside a bedside.

“…… Goodbye, my friend. ”

"Two hundred years of travel was a pleasure, but ...... After all, the world belongs to the newborn little ones, and I'm still too old. ”

"For more than 200 years, my footprints have spanned five light years, but I have not been able to get out of this mountain. That kid didn't make sense, and my approach might have been wrong from the start. ”

"Luckily, you're still young...... This is true by human standards as well as by our standards. ”

"May you find that ideal kingdom of heaven."

That sentence was like a last word.

At the same time that the words fell, the last trace of thought connecting to the sea of his consciousness was completely cut off, and it fell into the bottomless abyss with its breath.

Although it could not affect the "Kingdom of Heaven" that had come, he had lost the most important "card" in his hand!

Now we can only hope that the power of the Kingdom of Heaven itself, and the reinforcements of the Human Emperor, are reliable enough.

"Die! Give me all the death! ”

The Beastmaster let out a roar of rage, completely venting his anger on the group of guys in front of him who were biting him, but it was this fury that caused more and more flaws in his attack.

A second needle was inserted into his right leg, and the type B strain extract injected into his body completely exceeded the limit of his resilience, followed by a white phosphorus bomb that slammed into the right half of his body.

The boiling flames carbonized large swaths of his skin, and the intense pain nearly lifted his consciousness out of the body.

He staggered backwards, but stepped on a corpse, his three-meter-tall body falling backwards uncontrollably.

It was the corpse of [I'm responsible for dying first], and this guy was indeed the first of the hundreds of corpses lying all over the tunnel.

Not missing this fleeting opportunity, the outlaw took the needle thrown by his teammate and pounced on it desperately, plunging the needle into the monster's chest.

As soon as the frustration of piercing the flesh reached the tiger's mouth in his right hand, the outlaw fanatic felt a large hand grasp his waist, and then his whole body was lifted.

"Ah——! Fuck off, you bug! ”

The Beastmaster let out a painful roar, grabbed the human lying on his chest with his right hand, and brutally pinned him against the wall into a mess of minced meat.

And at this moment, the self-exposure drone controlled by the [Wake Up and Sleepy] of the Department of Intelligence came to him and directly activated the self-exposure switch.

The flames of the explosion pressed him back as he had just sat up, and his upper body fell heavily to the ground.

It was too late, it was too late, and at midnight with an umbrella and no knife a flash stepped forward and grabbed the shotgun that the outlaw fanatic had dropped on the ground, and then smoothly slammed the huge muzzle directly into the monster's chin.

"Die—"

He pulled the trigger.

The shattered projectile erupted with the jet of flame, and the head shattered to the ground like a watermelon.

He didn't stop, but pressed down the muzzle and thumped five more shots until the magazine was completely emptied.

The Plague Champion's body was a blur of flesh and blood, and the ground was covered in scarlet flesh.

In that piece of minced flesh, he even saw the emerald eyeball......

"It's over...... Is it? He let out a sigh of relief and sat back on the floor, unable to tell whether the heat was blood or sweat.

His right hand touched a puddle of slippery liquid, he raised his hand to look at it, only to see a black color, and then wiped it on his body with a wry smile.

This game doesn't have a harmonious system.,I'm afraid it's hard to get a version number......

The entire tunnel is littered with corpses, from players from the Death Legion to Plague Monks and Goblins. And the thing in front of him, the talking plague champion, is probably the final boss.

At the same time, the red mist that permeated the tunnel also changed slightly.

The rancid smell seemed to disappear, replaced by a familiar touch.

All players know what that is.

"Xiao Yu should have won."

Laplace looked up, looked around, and then looked at the umbrella brother who was slumped on the ground, "What are you doing now?" Moving on? Or go back and plant the flag on the top of the mountain? ”

Their mission is to capture the brood.

In fact, the capture of the brood is equivalent to the capture of the entire blood mountain.

Once Xiao Yu has full control of the brood in the mountain, he will soon be able to synthesize new fruiting entities to search every corner of the mountain to find the mutants and the human survivors they have captured.

If there is anything left.

"It's going to be a walk ahead."

He got up from the ground and reloaded the shotgun with an umbrella and no knife at midnight, his tired expression swept away, and he regained his energetic appearance.

“…… I'm going to see what treasures those mutants have hidden in the palace, and they're all here, so wouldn't it be a loss if I didn't take a look. ”

Laplace's expression became a little subtle, and he said as he looked to the side with a fluttering look.

"I think there's a higher chance of being mentally polluted......"

……

"No, honorable Lord of the Plague, I beg you not to leave your children...... We can't live without you. ”

His bloated body was huddled together, and Sodo, who was slumped in front of the cauldron, had despair written on his face, and he lost interest in the tireless soup cooking.

It used to be supported by countless believers, but now it is alone.

The plague monks who used to crowd here have all died in battle with the humans, and there are no weaker cubs craving its soup anymore.

The red mist around him was still a thick crimson red, but he could no longer smell the Plague Lord's breath, and all that was answered by its prayers was the boundless silence of death.

This is the end of its evolution.

There will be no new stuff coming out of his pustules.

It lowered its head, like a two-hundred-ton child, staring at its belly heaped on the ground and muttering.

"Why ......"

A sigh came from the reddish fog that gradually cleared.

He looked up blankly at the fog, trying to find the source of the sound.

“…… What kind of evolution do you have to evolve to be satisfied? ”

"You can eat everything!" Sodo said without hesitation, not even thinking for a second.

A long sigh came from the voice that floated through the fog.

“…… There is no such thing, even a black hole has something that cannot be swallowed. ”

What is a black hole?

Sodo looked blankly ahead, not knowing what he meant, but he heard the negation in it.

In an instant, the hateful face twisted into a ball, and became more and more ugly.

"You...... Nonsense! The Great Plague Lord tells us that its mother can swallow an entire planet! As long as we keep evolving, one day we can too—"

"Maybe."

As if it didn't want to hear its dreams, the voice interrupted it lightly.

“…… But if that day exists, it will be a catastrophe for the entire universe. ”

The voice was gone.

It's like never coming.

Sodo looked around uneasily, feeling a hint of trepidation at the silence that suddenly surrounded him.

At this moment, a brisk pace and noise broke the silence in the palace.

Footsteps stopped at the entrance to the palace.

"it!"

"What a big toad! Wait a minute...... Can this thing be considered a toad? ”

"It's a loss to look at it, and I almost missed the truth. BOSS。 ”

"Brothers, it's time to start the group!"

"Oooo

I didn't know what those people were talking about, but Sodo could sense that it wasn't a good thing.

Facing those guys with green eyes alone, this time Sodo was completely panicked......

……

The battle of Blood Mountain has come to an end, but the fierce battle in the Weifu Wasteland has just entered the white heat.

With the support of the Iron Heart and the Loyalty airship, the armored formation of the Skeleton Corps fought their way through the encirclement of the fruiting entities.

The 37mm rapid-fire gun was constantly venting fire, along with the on-board machine gun of the No. 2 tank.

Whether it was the infected who were corrupted by Nago, or the dead who were awakened by Nago, they turned to dust in front of the rain of steel and fire, and then were crushed into the ruts of the tracks.

But even so, the puppets manipulated by the mycelium did not stop, or gathered towards the armored formations that broke into the wasteland, or flocked to the Weifu military base.

When killed, they sink into the dirt and grow back after a long time.

It's like the weeds after the spring breeze blows.

As long as the gray-green haze does not dissipate, as long as the mycelium rooted in this soil does not die-

They are endless!

The sky over the military base of the Eifu.

Fierce firefighting continued, with twenty Cloudfly ornithopters scurrying through the fog-filled air, raining down cannons and rocket nest ammunition.

However, the number of batwings flying in the sky was too large, and even with the support of ground air defense positions, it was still difficult to stop the three attack formations composed of only twenty cloud flies.

The four "Thunder" fighters parked in the base scrambled into the air to support, and the 20-millimeter cannons continued to roar, pulling out dazzling tracers in the air.

In addition to this, 100 propeller planes took off from the Iron Heart.

But even so, the quantitative gap between the two sides is still huge, and it is not in the same order of magnitude at all.

In particular, the batwingers did not rush up in a swarm to send them to death, but scattered in the vast night sky.

And that's not all.

Their trajectory is unpredictable, and even if their speed and climb rate are far inferior to those of the Alliance's older propeller aircraft, it is difficult to hit them.

This did not surprise the Alliance, after all, many players had already learned in the battle of Geumhe City, and even developed a "bird-fighting tactic" specifically to deal with this kind of birdman.

While propeller planes aren't as maneuverable as those with wings, it's nearly impossible for those guys to catch up with propeller planes that are fleeing at full speed.

However, the torch also seemed to know this in his heart, and did not entangle with the coalition planes in the sky at all, but went straight to the ground military base, especially the airport!

Once the airfield is taken, the Alliance planes will not be able to resupply and will either return to the Iron Heart or land somewhere in the wasteland.

The entire wasteland is filled with fruiting entities that have been awakened with the "Kingdom of Heaven".

Even if their individual combat power is weak, even the claws of death cannot withstand the huge number of entanglements.

The defensive line in the air was quickly broken through, and the center of the battlefield was transferred from the air to the ground.

In the face of the monster falling from the sky, the air defense positions of the Weifu military base were forced to stop the output.

The soldiers had to grab their rifles and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the beasts with fangs, wings, and claws.

And for those targets that are close to friendly units, the planes hovering in the air cannot let go of their hands and feet to support, and can only focus on those targets that have not yet landed.

As the fighting continued to burn, it was not only the air defense positions and airfields that were affected, but also the machine-gun positions on the edge of the military bases.

Sitting in the cockpit of the Thunder fighter, a trace of hot sweat ran across Luo Yu's forehead.

Four ground-to-ground TV missiles have been depleted, and there are still 300 rounds of cannon ammunition left.

Even though there were nearly 100 batwing people who died at his hands, it was still difficult to have an effective impact on the current battle situation.

Unless—

Kill all those guys in biodynamic armor!

He clearly remembered the information on the official website, that these batwingers were bred by mutant cubs, and due to their rapid growth rate, they did not have a complete mind, just like those "goblins".

They are even more chaotic than goblins, so much so that they need to be commanded with the help of a telepathic intervention module.

The Alliance Biological Research Institute has attempted to decipher the telepathic interference signals that manipulate them, but unfortunately it has not been able to succeed.

This technology is a singularity for both the Torch and the Alliance, and the use of this technology and its ethical boundaries are still being explored.

Since the torch has no bottom line in the application and experimentation of this technology, and has been studying in this field for more than ten years, it is difficult to say who has the better technical strength.

One thing is certain, however, that as soon as the biological power armor as a "communication node" is destroyed, these winged monsters will immediately lose their backbone like headless flies, and will be transformed from cannon fodder for collective action back into undisciplined beasts.

Beasts are nothing to fear, just like the xenos that can be found everywhere in the wasteland, and even if they are numerous, they are only mobile experience packs.

At least for the players.

But then Luo Yu made another difficulty.

There's fog all over here, and it's hard enough to shoot down those batwingers, let alone identify them in bio-powered armor.

Those people were smart enough not to throw all the cannon fodder on the military base, but to leave a considerable part of it to continue to entangle with the coalition planes, thus covering themselves hiding in them.

What's worse is that this time is different from the last time, and there may not be only one biological power armor mixed in with it.

At this moment, a voice that had been silent for a long time suddenly came from the communication channel.

"Hmmm! (I'm all right!) ）”

Luo Yu was stunned when he heard it, and then said in surprise.

"You've got it done over there? That's great! How does it feel? ”

"Babble......"

Xiao Yu seemed to be in a somewhat complicated mood, and Luo Yu didn't understand what it was saying for a while.

This is not unusual.

In a sense, its voice is an expression of emotion, and when it can't describe that feeling, it is naturally impossible for others to understand it.

Even he was.

"Got a bad stomach?"

"Hmmm. (No, but it's a pity...... Those people, actually, are quite interesting. ）”

Those people?

Are you referring to those guys in gas masks?

Luo Yu remembered that Xiao Yu had complained to him about the boring of those guys before, and now he suddenly changed his opinion of them.

Vaguely guessing what was happening, his Adam's apple moved slightly.

Just as he was thinking about how to comfort Xiao Yu, the little guy suddenly perked up.

"Hmmm...... Not? (The battle isn't over yet, and I'm not going to let their sacrifice go to waste...... Is there anything I can do to help? ）”

Now is not the time for small talk.

Hearing the firmness in that voice, Luo Yu did not hesitate and immediately said.

"Can you sense those spores around you? Spores secreted by the hyphae of Nago! ”

"Hmmm! (Yes!) ）”

Luo Yu was overjoyed in his heart, and hurriedly asked.

"That'...... Can you find out where their brood is? Or rather, the nucleus that governs them and similar beings? ”

His expression is very abstract, but he believes that Xiao Yu can understand, after all, sound is only a carrier of information, they ostensibly communicate with words, but in fact they communicate with their minds.

Xiao Yu: "Hmmm...... (I don't perceive it.) ）”

Hearing this, Luo Yu suddenly remembered that the fourth stage of the heavenly kingdom seemed to need a brood to exist, and this was also the final stage declared irreversible by the torch.

But at this moment, another thought suddenly came to his heart, and he had a whim.

"If that brood on the Blood Mountain is used to produce some fruiting bodies, is it possible to use those fruiting bodies as seedbeds to breed B-type Naguo strains?"

Although the brood on the Blood Mountain has no experience in synthesizing fruiting entities, the brood in Qingquan City has a large number of fruiting body "blueprints".

Even mutants of different species can be used as seedbeds to produce spores, and there is no reason why a niver who can already emit spores can't make a seedbed.

They just need to find a way to insert the gene fragment of the type B nano strain into the body of the niver.

And the ability to "borrow to produce spores" is stored in the mother nest named after Alpha on the Blood Mountain.

That guy has been honing this craft for nearly a hundred years, and can even transform mutants into all sorts of shapes without duplication.

Luo Yu clenched his fists and prayed in his heart.

Xiao Yu was silent for a while, as if he was seriously thinking about the feasibility of this, and he seemed to be making some kind of attempt.

After a few moments, it gave an affirmative answer.

"Hmmm! (I just tried it and it works.) ）”

Hearing that heavenly sound, Luo Yu's face suddenly showed a happy expression, and he couldn't wait to pick up this guy and kiss it...... It's just a pity that he was on the plane.

The B strain inhibited the growth activity of the flare-modified J strain, and the spores produced by the former had the same effect on the latter.

In other words, the Eater with the Type B strain will be the most direct nemesis of the puppet manipulated by the J Nago strain!

Those guys are going to destroy the Heavenly Kingdom of the Guardian Wasteland from the roots!

Let the dirty stuff that keeps popping up completely lie back!

"Quick! Give birth to some more! Without a moment's hesitation, he shouted at the communication channel.

And there was an energetic answer from the other end of the communication channel.

"Hmmm! (Roger!) ）”

……

At the same time, the altar in the depths of the Blood Mountain, a thick red mist rose from the bottomless abyss.

Standing next to the deep pit, he stared at the red mist in a daze.

The other players next to him were the same, including the roller shampoo that he had pressed their heads on before, all of them stared at it in a daze.

"It's better to let me go down......" Debt Big Eyes muttered, a hint of remorse written in his eyes.

It would be nice to bring a little more.

Not twenty, but one hundred and twenty, and those people may not have to sacrifice themselves......

Although he had developed feelings for those fruiting entities, he also knew in his heart that it was just Xiao Yu's dandruff, and he didn't have an autonomous consciousness, and he never regarded him as a father or anything, just eating him and drinking him.

And those guys are alive...... Even if it's AI running on a server.

Edge paddling put his hand on his shoulder and shook his shoulder.

"It's time for us to go...... At the very least, they have to bring their things back and give them to their families. ”

In order to take this position, the entire brigade of 1,000 people was almost completely wiped out.

Including those who rushed to reinforce them, they also left behind thousands of corpses, and the corpses that were thrown down almost filled the entire passage.

The victory was quite a tragedy......

Debt Big Eyes nodded, and the last look at the deep pit was about to leave from here.

But at that moment, the crimson mist shook suddenly, and something crawled out of the pit.

Slightly stunned, a trace of joy suddenly appeared in his heart.

Don't......

However, before the slightest hint of luck of joy crept up on his face, the moment he met the staring eye with the thing, his mood sank to the bottom with the ensuing loss.

The miracle did not happen.

Climbing up was a group of "creepers".

Some also carry several "nibbles" or other types of fruiting bodies on their backs.

However, none of those faces were familiar to him.

"Only we are immortal...... This has been the case since the launch of the server. Standing next to him, he slowly spoke.

Although they have only known each other for a short time, he admits that she is a brave guy.

“…… I've known for a long time, I didn't just get my helmet, so I don't need you to remind me. Debt Big Eyes grunted.

The edge paddled in understanding, and instead of continuing the heavy topic, he patted his good brother on the shoulder.

“…… It's time to go. ”

Debt Big Eye didn't speak, just nodded silently, and then followed behind him.

The battle outside is not over, and the spring brothers are in the midst of a fierce battle with the torch at this moment.

There's a lot more to do.

They had to leave some men behind to fortify their positions here, while also dedicating some of their men to reinforce the friendly forces at the Weifu military base.

If the manager needs it......

(End of chapter)