"General Melsa, go this way."

Two adjutants escorted the generals of the An Long military from the rear of the barracks.

One of them leaned over and whispered:

"Your order has been delivered, and the Seventh Legion will detonate all explosives on time...... In addition, the 2nd Army Corps, which had been deployed in advance, was already waiting in the underground passage, and would come to meet us later, join up with the main force, and leave together. ”

"Good."

General Mersa said with a blank face.

As he walked briskly, he straightened his hat and patted the dust off his shoulder, as if he didn't want to show his men his embarrassment.

Soon, the army of Anlong, who had received the order to retreat, continued to pour in, followed by the ranks of generals and other high-ranking military officials, and came to the northeast corner of the bridgehead and entered through the gate of an inconspicuous bungalow.

Inside, there is nothing else to do, the living room is empty with no furniture or decoration, and in the middle of the floor is a huge underground passage entrance, square enough to accommodate dozens of people to enter side by side, and steps lead to the dim place below.

There were already soldiers guarding here, and when they saw the arrival of the general and other high-ranking officials, they immediately saluted.

General Mersa nodded to the soldiers, and was about to enter through the underground entrance, when suddenly a herald ran behind him, his face full of anxiety.

"Huh?"

The general stopped, frowning and looking at the other.

"General, an urgent message has come from the Seventh Legion that all the detonating devices have failed...... The powder keg that was buried before may ...... May not detonate on time! ”

"Damn it!"

General Myrsa couldn't help but curse on the spot.

He knew that time was of the essence, and if he could not detonate the explosives, it would be all in vain...... Not only will you lose this important military fortress, but you will not be able to hold back the enemy's footsteps, and the retreat of your own troops will likely be intercepted halfway, and the casualties will be extremely heavy at that time, or even the entire army will be annihilated!

The strength of the Imperial Army is obvious to all, and no one dares to guarantee whether they will live to see the sun tomorrow.

"Do you know what the reason is?"

General Milesa forced his anxiety and asked in a deep voice.

"It's not clear yet...... However, according to Colonel Miller of the Seventh Army, it may have been a problem with the gunpowder that prevented the timed detonation device from working properly. ”

The herald wiped his cold sweat and said with a pale face.

The rest of the command top brass looked at the general, and they all realized the seriousness of the problem.

"What's next? Checkmate. ”

Someone asked.

General Melsa, with a gloomy face, paced in place, and after a few breaths, he looked at the adjutant.

"It seems that we can only send someone to detonate explosives at close range......"

"But, the general...... There are more than a dozen explosives under the bridgehead, and they are not connected to the bridge, and our death squads are running out, so I am afraid it will be difficult to complete this task......"

The adjutant said in embarrassment.

He then spoke with some hesitation:

"If you force other legions to carry it out, I'm afraid that the royal family and the combined military command will have an opinion on you......"

"Joint Military Command? To hell with it! What a soldier has to do is obedience! ”

When General Milesa heard the adjutant's words, he couldn't help but be furious.

"The Imperial Army as an enemy is already strong, but our allies are still struggling with all kinds of trivial things...... I really don't know how to fight this battle! ”

The United Kingdom of Anlong, led by the three principalities and composed of dozens of small countries, is not as united as it seems on the surface, and various contradictions have long arisen within it...... The joint military command that was temporarily formed because of the war always stumbled on Melsa.

He had already held back the fire in his belly.

"Let those undead strangers who have taken refuge in the royal family go!"

General Mersa said with a calm face.

"That's right, this kind of thing should be left to ......"

The rest of the military top brass thought about it and nodded in agreement.

Anyway, undead strangers don't really die, so they're perfect for such a mission.

Seeing this, the adjutant turned his head and gestured to the herald, who quickly nodded in acknowledgement.

"Yes, General, I will relay your order to the Legion of Undead Outlanders at once."

As he spoke, he turned and left.

It didn't take long for the Miracle Guild players who had just gone through a round of fighting and had been resurrected from a corner of the bridgehead to receive a mission prompt from the panel.

"Huh? New quest? ”

One player wondered.

But when they finished reading the task description, their faces couldn't help but change greatly.

"Blanch! The military is using us as cannon fodder after the break! ”

"Inform the president and vice president and see what happens next."

The crowd used the chat channel to get in touch with the guild higher-ups.

However, after a few minutes of silence, the president allowed each member to choose to accept the arrangement.

"—I know we're all annoyed, but we don't have any choice for the time being, and if we refuse the mission, we will not only lose all our friendship with the royal prince, but we may also be charged as a 'rebel', and we will be hunted down and captured...... Although it will waste a chance to resurrect, the experience value of this quest is not low, and it can be regarded as making up for a little loss...... In addition, through this battle, I and other high-level officials also saw that the United Kingdom of Anlong was very likely to be defeated, so they are planning a way out in the future. ”

The president posted a long text in the channel, and many members fell silent after seeing it.

In fact, they all know very well that the group of "players" is not only unpopular in the United Kingdom of Anlong, but even in the Trisur Empire and the other three kingdoms, it is commonplace to be used as cannon fodder and pawns.

Only those very few lucky people will be regarded as "normal people" by their own extraordinary forces, and they will be respected and given sufficient benefits.

For example, their current enemy, the NPC Archon named Jack, and the circus players under his command are among those lucky ones.

The group of players, led by Polaris and Dongyang, has attracted much attention since the beginning of the open beta, not only because they are the first batch of transcendents, but also because they have many exclusive benefits, which are enviable......

The most important thing is that Mr. Jack, and the circus officials, have a lot of respect for them.

"-President, why don't you wait until the war is over and find a way to go to the Trisur Empire......"

"—Yes! If you can, it's best to join the circus organization and join Jack! ”

"-If you can't beat it, join in, right? But I think so! ”

"-Good guy, the battle is not over yet, let's think about going home here, you don't look at how many people in the forum want to go to the circus, our entire guild, it would be nice to have ten people in it......"

President Miracle, who was hiding in the dormitory of the bridgehead barracks, and the other two high-ranking officials looked at the chat records in the channel and smiled bitterly at each other.

Then he let out another long sigh.

In addition to the Miracle Guild, the other two Rock Elysium and White Horse Guilds, which are also on the battlefield, have received tasks issued by the military, asking them to sacrifice their lives to detonate explosives.

These two guilds also did not dare to refuse, and made the same choice as the Miracle Guild and accepted the task after the break. So the three players started to move from all over the place, and after only a few minutes before and after, they came to the underground area where the explosives were buried.

However, it didn't take long for the group of players to stand in the dim environment with wide eyes, as they realized that although it was full of powder kegs, none of them could detonate.

"Damn! I don't believe in evil! ”

One of the players in Bliss Rock dropped his torch and raised his right fist, which lit up with a fiery golden glow.

This is a Sequence Nine Transcendent of the solar system.

Rumble!

He slammed his fist into the powder keg in front of him, and with a loud bang, countless pieces of wood flew everywhere, and flames overflowed.

However, the gunpowder was scattered all over the ground and even sprayed on nearby players, but it did not explode.

"Bah, this gunpowder can't be fake, right?!"

One player slapped the black powder off his body and said in embarrassment.

"I can't point it, and I can't detonate it with extraordinary power...... Is the military playing with us?! ”

The rest of the players were not willing to accept the failure of the mission, and tried one after another, but neither the oil can, nor the torches, nor even some explosives they carried with them, could detonate them...... As if those barrels were filled not with gunpowder, but with sand, they were indifferent to all kinds of temptations.

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"General, the mission of the immortal stranger has failed."

Inside the dark underground passage, the adjutant once again delivered bad news.

General Milesa almost vomited out a mouthful of old blood.

"Failure? Could it be that they were discovered by the Imperial Army?! ”

"No...... No, but the explosives could not be detonated at all, even if they were ignited directly with an open flame, they could only burn the barrels outside, but the gunpowder did not react at all. ”

The adjutant told the truth, but the top military officials, including the general, felt that this matter was full of absurdity.

General Mersa soon realized that something was wrong.

"Either there was a traitor within us who used explosives, or the enemy knew the plan in advance and used some kind of extraordinary means......"

He said through gritted teeth.

"General, Ibra is a sage of the galaxies, and he is an expert in divination and anti-divination...... Could it be that the Imperial Army has dispatched a stronger transcendent being that can blind His senses? ”

A senior military officer whispered at the general's side.

General Melsa's brow furrowed deeper and deeper, and all he felt was his head buzzing now, and all kinds of mysteries accompanied by all kinds of bad news made him breathless.

The surrounding military high-ranking people noticed the general's silence, and each of them had a bad premonition in their hearts, and a depressing atmosphere gradually spread, and they even had all kinds of suspicions, not knowing what other terrible means the imperial army had not used.

"Let's go, since the situation is already so bad, we can only evacuate to the interior of the principality first."

General Mersa said one last word, and quickened his pace.

But it didn't take long for everyone to feel a shaking, and the entire underground passage trembled violently.

Thundered!!

"Protect the General!"

"Watch the top of your head!"

The adjutant drank violently, and the soldiers immediately surrounded General Melsa.

After a while, the tremors stopped, but a thick layer of dust fell on all the soldiers and officers who had withdrawn from the troops. Fortunately, a lot of effort was put into the construction of this passage, and it did not collapse, otherwise they would have felt that it would be ironic to die here.

"General, are you alright?"

The adjutant asked with concern, holding on to Milesa.

General Milesa stood firm with his hat on his hand, patted the dust on his body, let out a sigh of relief, and said with palpitations:

"I'm fine......"

"What's going on?"

A senior military officer got up from the ground and asked in embarrassment.

"I don't know, it could be ......"

Before the adjutant could finish his words, footsteps could be heard in the darkness in front of the underground passage.

"Don't talk yet! Something is wrong! ”

The general shouted in a low voice.

The crowd was immediately silenced.

Dada, Dada......

As the general gestured closer, the soldiers behind him raised their flintlock pistols and aimed ahead.

"I remember that the front was supposed to be the troops of the 2nd Corps, why did they come back? And he doesn't speak......"

A man with a major's epaulette on his shoulder whispered.

"Shut up!"

The general scolded in a low voice.

The major immediately saluted, not daring to say anything more.

Soon, under the light of kerosene lamps and torches by the wall, a group of more than a dozen people slowly appeared in their sight.

There are men and women on the other side, and there is even a cow following, which looks quite weird. At the head was a woman in a long black and purple dress, quite beautiful, with a pair of lilac eyes quietly staring at General Melsa.

"You are the transcendents of the Imperial Army?"

General Milesa said in a deep voice.

He did not inquire about the Second Legion, because he knew that most of them had already been killed.

"Ladies and gentlemen of the United Kingdom of Anlong, we have been waiting here for a long time...... I, Floy, will send you on your way on behalf of Lord Jack. ”

The woman in the black dress said in an ethereal voice.

With a faint smile on her face, she leaned slightly towards the general and his party.

"They are the transcendents under Archon Jack!"

Behind General Myrsa, seven or eight extraordinary officers stepped forward.

"General, please retreat! We're here to cut it off for you! ”

"Let's go!"

General Mersa was very decisive, turned and ran.

At the same time, he opened his mouth and motioned for the soldiers to shoot.

Bang bang bang ......!

Dense gunfire exploded in everyone's ears, and countless fires and ballistics flew through the underground passages.

However, the military top brass looked back and saw two men in bowler hats on the other side raise their hands and wave, and the shadows behind the group of strange men and women hit like a tide, and the torches and kerosene lamps were extinguished one after another......

Darkness enveloped everything, engulfing everything, including bullets.

All the military high-ranking people were nervous in their hearts, and they knew very well that ordinary firearms could not hurt each other at all!

"Ahh

"Ahh

The screams followed, it was those extraordinary people cultivated by the royal family, who were sent to the troops to protect the high-ranking generals, their strength was not weak, and they all reached the level of the middle sequence, but they didn't expect that they couldn't last half a minute in the hands of the other party.

Fortunately......

They had already pulled a certain distance, and as long as they could return to the surface, there were several other alternative routes to evacuate.

"General! The herald has sent an urgent message! ”

The adjutant was holding the walkie-talkie, and his face suddenly changed drastically.

"A large number of undead strangers on the imperial side have surrounded the entrance to the underground passage, and have even rushed towards us!"

"Kill it!"

General Milesa clenched his fists and shouted angrily.

"We have five legions of troops, and thousands of guns can still be blocked by those damned strangers?!"

"Yes...... However, there were thousands of undead strangers in that group, and all of them were ...... All of them are transcendental! ”

The adjutant said with a pale face.

General Milesa only felt that it was dark in front of him, and he almost did not stand firm.

"How...... How could so many transcendents gather in Hercule? ”

He suddenly felt a sense of despair.

I really don't know how to fight such a battle?!

Damn the United Kingdom! Damn pig-brained politicians! provoked the Trisur Empire, but let these soldiers come out to resist and surrender!

What glory and face, to hell!

Far away on the "ruined platform" at the top of the high wall of the bridgehead, in the hazy picture of a gentleman in a black hat sitting on a broken stone pier, a silver cane resting quietly on his lap.

The gentleman slowly poured the blood of sin in the cup on the wooden sign in his hand, chuckled, looked up at the rain, and muttered:

"Everything is under control......"

(End of chapter)