Chapter 308: Flame Land Remnants (1/3)
In the underwater passage of S-14 at the Sequoia base, the remains of some magical beasts can often be seen, as well as various metal artificial wreckage that are extremely old and can no longer distinguish any shape and past function.
This place used to be one of the high-speed passages for underwater transportation at the base, smoothly transporting various materials through the movement of water, but after a thousand years, it has become almost a sewer place, and the surrounding monsters will throw leftover bones or hard bones here, making it more and more congested.
At this point, the light is dim.
Even though there was a stirring of psionic fields, causing the surrounding water mist to glow almost like lightning, the light was still very faint, and people could only vaguely tell who the surrounding skeletal remains belonged to.
And at the middle exit of the underwater passage, the survivors of the Sequoia Special Operations Team and the two Spiritual Mechanic Church monks were just finishing a high-intensity march that almost fled, and were now slumped at the entrance and exit of the road, with their backs against the rib bone plate of what was probably a giant armored crocodile, slowly trimming.
"This mission is a complete failure." The captain smiled miserably, and he looked down at the windshifting sword in his hand, which had the emblem of ivy wrapped around the sun, which was the military insignia common to the Abbasaroma bloodline.
The sword itself is of average value, just an ordinary inscription long sword, but the military badge is a symbol of his honor, and it is proof that he has performed well in the Battle of Leaf Shadow Demon and has been rewarded by the king.
And this veteran, who has always been proud of his identity, is thinking about whether to simply use this sword to finish himself off.
But in the end, he gave up on this tempting option - even if the entire special forces were almost wiped out, there would only be five survivors including the two people in the Church of Spiritual Machines.
But he still had to survive and inform the king of everything that happened in the Great Ruins of the South China Sea.
"At the end of the day, it's not my fault."
Everything is due to luck, this is the real thought in the heart of the captain.
They were the first team to arrive at the South China Sea Ruins in full gear and in the most formal format, and they were also the first to find the location of the Brain Eater's lair!
If it weren't for the white people appraiser who inexplicably spoiled them, they would have captured the young son of the Eren family and an alchemist long ago!
And if it weren't for these three people to make trouble, they would probably have been able to defeat the giant golden centipede of the ruins giant soldier long ago, and then maybe they would have been able to pick up the leak when the crystal dragon and the hive mother worm were both defeated!
My king is above, it's a strange relic xenomorph, and a hive mother!
Not to mention bringing back alive, even if they bring a dragon egg and a female insect living tissue back, they will be considered successful this time!
You must know that the Wild Sea King of Abasarom was interested in the special inheritance of the natives of the Southridge Redwoods, the 'Symbiotic Worm' and the various primordial epidemic viruses in their hands, so they sent their special combat team to this place.
Their mission originally included helping the local natives improve various epidemic viruses and even infectious diseases, and using biochemical attacks on the southern borders of the empire.
Plagues, poisons, parasites, and berserk creatures will lead the Warcraft hordes to storm the town...... As the subordinates of the Wasteland King, they are very knowledgeable and skilled in these methods.
They will be a disaster for the Empire, with the least number of troops, the Southridge Legion will be drawn locally, unable to support the Western Plains.
The crystallized dragon is easy to say, no matter how strange it is, it is just a crystallized dragon, and its value is not great.
But the kind of parasite that can devour human brains and quickly turn people into monsters...... Even a parasite with a hive psionic network is worth as much as a pre-civilization Aether weapon.
Even the Apocalypse Armament.
But all this has been completely stirred up by the Imperials who do not understand the value of these creatures at all.
They killed the mother worm, destroyed the hive, and even ...... Activated the function of the relics that I don't know exactly what it was, and rushed the corpse of the mother worm and the hive into an endless torrent of blazing heat.
Including most of their team.
The captain saw with his own eyes that several brothers who had no time to retreat fell into the bottomless dark abyss with the giant gold centipede with a blank face, and then were closed and cut off by silver metal pipes and disappeared.
And then the extreme heat erupts from the pipes, incinerating everything.
Failed, utterly failed - whether it was a special operations team, or the exploration of ruins; Whether it's a mission to disrupt Southridge, or to cooperate with the Church of Spiritual Machines to find the fire...... It all failed completely.
But not completely failed.
"The Nanling Great Ruins Group does have modules related to the 'xenobiosphere' - the worm nest is one of them! Among them, there may not be no relevant information and spare bloodline reserves! ”
When he opened his eyes, the captain was already confident: "With this information, even if it is a result." ”
"And ......"
Raise your left hand.
The captain stared into his palm.
There are blue streaks that are spreading, but they are blocked by essentia.
- Not all brain-eating bugs are destroyed...... Before retreating, he deliberately allowed himself to be infected, using his own flesh and blood to feed this strange parasitic creature, but he would not let himself be completely invaded.
Of course, it's painful...... But compared with the complete defeat, in which all his subordinates and brothers died without the slightest result, this pain is like a spring breeze and a gentle breeze.
Clenching his palms, the captain closed his eyes, and sighed slowly.
Either way, they are not defeated yet.
"It's over."
However, on the other side, the nun of the Spiritual Machinery Church, who had lost a hand, made a voice that did not know whether it was calm or regret: "We are all going to die. ”
"You guy!"
In an instant, the captain was enraged by the nun's words.
- Defeatist strategists, huh?!
He clenched the sword in his hand, then stood up and glared at the other party: "If it weren't for your radical demand, we would have retreated back to the coast long ago, and then cooperate with the fleet that arrived with us to suppress that Viscount Harrison Port!" ”
"We can even temporarily replace the dead Grand Elder of the Redwoods and lead the local Southridge natives to attack Port Harrison - with the firearms unit we have trained, Port Harrison will definitely be taken by surprise and will require a lot of energy to resist!"
"In this way, as long as the viscount and the Southridge fleet are suppressed along the shore, we will have the opportunity to slowly explore this nascent labyrinth of ruins...... How can there be so many things now! ”
Although it is said that the captain of the Flying Flame Land Special Operations Team has a persistent prejudice and hostility towards the Imperials, if there is anyone he hates the most now, it is undoubtedly this group of madmen of the Spirit Weapon Church.
If it weren't for their intent on determining what relics and holy relics they had to take the first step to explore the labyrinth, they might have already begun to come here to explore this extremely dangerous prehistoric relic with the protection of the most professional team and the second-level sublimator!
However, in the face of such an angry captain, the nun didn't care at all.
She just turned her head, looked at the other side of the corridor, and sighed softly, "We're going to die." ”
"Haven't you sensed it yet?" That caused the situation in which we had a great advantage to take a turn for the worse, and directly led to the breath that we were completely reduced to this situation. ”
"The young outlier has arrived."
"What?"
The captain raised his head in horror and looked at the other end of the corridor.
At this moment, he did hear the sound of gentle, steady footsteps approaching them from the other side of the passage.
The face of the young man of Bai Zhimin passed through the shadows of the shadows, and his calm face appeared in front of everyone's eyes.