A huge mushroom cloud mixed with blazing fire rose from the ground, reaching a height of more than ten kilometers.

The dazzling white light rising in front of him made the ground tremble, writhe, crack, and churn.

The temperature is rising, and the heat is biting.

After an unknown amount of time, the world restarted playing from the pause button.

"Crackling...... Crackling ......"

At this moment, everyone can only hear the sound of the world burning.

With 70,000 or 80,000 square kilometers, the Schulz Forest, the size of several medieval cities, is like falling into a black and white quagmire.

The world snapped its loin, and black thorns grew out of its corpse, not one, but one, endlessly spreading into the far sky.

The most powerful attack the Black Elves had ever seen in their previous lives was the Flame Dragon's Breath, but today they had refreshed their understanding.

Not to mention one flame dragon, even ten thousand of them would be difficult to turn the entire Shulz Forest beyond recognition with a single attack.

"What kind of reinforcements did Yao find?"

In the camp, the Black Elf Elder looked at the apocalyptic scene in the distance, and suddenly let out an inexplicable sigh.

Hehe, what a dragon slayer warrior.

I and my clan think that it is the most powerful title in the mainland, and it may be one of the most insignificant honors of the other party!

And the commander of the three armies, the supreme ruler of the Star Empire, is the crown that summons the true great power.

The swarm of insects in the forest was nearly completely wiped out in the first wave of blanket explosions, leaving only a few of the remnants of the army roaming around the periphery of the periphery fleeing towards the outlying areas where there was no explosion.

In this regard, Shen Sen issued an order to all the troops that were ready to clear out the remnants of the enemy.

"Attention troops, attention to units, and begin to clear the enemy forces in their respective target locations."

"F1 Squad Receive!"

On the mountainside, Yao, who was crawling motionless at the firing point, relocated the gun in her hand and looked towards the area she was responsible for.

Several members of the Black Elf team who had not yet recovered from the aftermath of the explosion just now also hurriedly operated their sniper weapons according to the movements of the training after seeing Yao's movements.

They act according to their own experience, and with their agile movements blessed with psionic energy, they leap over trees and weave through treacherous canyons, searching for fish that have been caught in the net.

The large army on the stagnant rear plain finally began to move with the cooperation of skycraft and ground armor.

Among them, the Pioneer Mecha took the lead, advancing towards the forest that had almost turned to ashes with great speed.

"To the southeast, five hundred meters away, the fleeing insect team was found."

As the prompt came, a small group of mechs saw the enemy forces "fleeing" in front of them.

Although it is said to be fleeing, it seems a little inaccurate to describe their movements at the moment.

Because after the other party saw the mecha team, he rushed towards them without hesitation.

They are cold and merciless, silent, without shouting or roaring, like puppets that are not afraid of death.

In the bug team, it is basically the same as the black elf said, the two forms of bugs are mixed together, and it looks like a sea of purple-red carapace is moving.

The leader has two pairs of clawed forelimbs and a long hind leg that is strong and powerful, and charges quickly in a series of leaps and forwards.

They are scattered behind them, only two meters long from head to tail, using their nimble rear limbs, which hold rifles made of flesh and bone, and shoot at the mechs.

"Watch your defense!"

This mech team encountered the enemy for the first time, and they didn't care about the strangeness of the bug team, looking for cover at the moment of the opponent's charge, and aiming the electromagnetic rifle in their hands at the enemy.

"Bang bang bang!"

Driven by the electromagnetic device, the bullet shot out rapidly, instantly forming a metal storm that covered the sky and the sun, covering the insect team.

At the same time, the first wave of attacks from the other side also came as scheduled.

However, the Bugs' first shot was somewhat unexpected, as the bullets from their guns were not living creatures that would deplete their life force in the next few seconds and frantically break through armor, flesh, and bones.

Nor is it a biological bullet filled with an unstable, corrosive chemical mixture ignited by impact that bulges the chest cavity and makes the target's armor and flesh burn.

The "rain of bullets" that struck the mecha soldiers was a grotesquely shaped screaming beetle that the black elves had never encountered.

It unleashed a deafening scream as it advanced at high speed in the air.

The dense rain of shrieking beetles emitted nightmarish sounds that could tear the nerves of even the most battle-hardened veterans, spreading fear and confusion to the soldiers who heard it scream.

"Everyone, turn off the perception of outside sounds!"

The moment the captain of the team led by the pioneer mecha soldiers heard the voice, he felt that his very firm will, which had been tempered normally, was actually a little shaken by the other party's scream.

It doesn't matter if you have one person, but when you zoom in on the whole soldier, it's a very terrible psychological effect.

Just in case, he hurriedly ordered the mech team to turn off the sound perception system.

"Roger!"

"Captain, the enemy is too evil, let's increase our firepower and destroy the other party as soon as possible!"

For most human soldiers, they are not afraid of the strength that the enemy will show.

But for these weird bugs, the attacks that can't be seen and touched are really a little numb.

"Okay, everyone, don't keep your hands, give me a hard beating!"

More than 30,000 people were scattered in the Schulz Forest, which had become very empty, with the armored troops and the floating laser matrix scattered in the sky, like two large nets that had been closed, advancing step by step.

Most of the troops managed to wipe out the remnants of their encounters, but there were still casualties.

In particular, a company of electromagnetic infantry recruited from the fantasy world encountered the third type of bug that the Black Elf had mentioned.

The human's body was twice as tall, with a thick purple carapace covered with spikes, and a white bone plate armor on the chest, using the muscles of the whole body to quickly shuttle through the battlefield.

It wields blood-red, slender, sharp-edged, serrated scythe-shaped claws, each with highly elastic muscle manipulation that can swing at lightning speed to pierce, shredd, and debone its victims.

Even more terrifying, they are also armed with a strange bio-chemical firearm, which at first glance looks like a partially decomposing, cone-shaped mass in which a fleshy worm with a smooth black head wriggles.

When fired, worms rained down on the enemy, and then the worms quickly burrowed into the victim's muscles, eating along the nerves all the way to the brain.

Under its leadership, the Bug Team seems to have found the backbone, and its actions have become targeted, and some tactical adaptations are understood.

Although there was only one, on the premise of not knowing the information of the other party, it still caused more than 30 casualties before killing the other party.

War is like this, some people will win, some will lose, some people will live, some people will die.

However, compared to the previous scene where the black elves were one-sidedly killed by the swarm, Yao, who was in charge of the sniper insect team, only felt that they had finally turned over and became the masters.

As bullets from the sniper rifle were fired one after another, a bug was killed in a kilometer-away area.

The Black Elves lived up to the name of the Forest Hunters, and they killed more than 100 bugs, perfectly undertaking the order to encircle and intercept.

Yao led her team and moved around the mountainside, searching for bugs that might escape.

Gradually, unconsciously, they came to the side of the mountain.

It was an open field, and two kilometers ahead was a defensive line of troops from the wasteland.

Yao hadn't been here before, but what puzzled her was that the area in front of her was shrouded in a black-gray mist.

Although she was covered with green plants, as a black elf, she didn't feel any life, as if they were all withered.

"Strange, have any of you been here before?" Yao asked his teammates.

"Hey, I've been here!" The black elf Noko replied.

"When you came before, was there a black-gray fog?"

"I don't think so, but isn't it normal to have fog in the forest?" In the face of Yao's question, Nuo Ke didn't quite understand.

"No matter what, killing those nasty bugs is the most important thing right now."

As he spoke, one of the black elves in the team couldn't wait to walk into the black and gray mist.

However, he had just walked a few steps, and the moment his body just came into contact with the gray-black mist, the whole person seemed to freeze, and his movements became slower and slower, until he could not lift his footsteps, and stood in the gray-black mist like a statue.

The other black elves just wanted to follow each other's steps and step forward, but they were suddenly stopped by Yao, whose expression changed slightly.

"Don't move yet!"

"Why?"

"Don't you think there's something wrong with Huck?"

"Ahh The Black Elf team members were stunned when they heard Yao's warning.

"No, it won't!"

"Huck! Huck? ”

"What's wrong with you, did you see something? Why doesn't it move? ”

"Huck, can you hear me?"

Accompanied by the gray-black mist, the motionless body was the increasingly rapid and panicked shouts of the members of the Black Elf team.

After a full four or five minutes, their hearts had sunk to the valley, and even if they didn't want to admit it anymore, they knew that something was wrong, and Huck was probably already bad luck in the gray-black mist.

"There's something strange here, no one is allowed to go in, you stay here, and alert someone when they come near. I'm going to prepare the evidence and report to the command center as soon as possible. ”

"Okay, we're not going to let anyone else go into the black fog again."

If the black fog is compared to a lake, an hour later, Shen Sen's people who followed Yao to this place landed on the lakeside.

The insect team that survived the first wave of covering blows in the Shulz Forest was finally wiped out, and before Shen Sen could count the results, he met Yao, who ran to report the new situation in a panic.

Everything the Black Elf had seen and encountered, and he had to suspect that this place had a great connection with the sudden arrival of the swarm.

Therefore, after urgently mobilizing the mecha troops and scientific research team, a group of them came to the "Land of Black Mist" in Yao's mouth.

"That's it, Führer."

Shen Sen, and many scholars involved in biology, physics, and even cosmology behind him, were speechless when they saw the scene unfolding in front of them.

After being surprised, the instinct of scientific research led them to set up video and detection equipment and began to record and study this tragic scene.

"This—This is ......"

It was a sight of the foothills and valleys of the plateau completely obscured by black mist.

It can be seen from the air, but the severity of the impact can be better understood when viewed up close.

Shen Sen calmly observed the area in front of him, and when he got closer, he found that it was not so much fog as it was closer to mist or shadow.

The scientific researcher operator of the machine did not get close to the black fog, and at the same time carefully inspected the plants, and sighed.

"It's weird......"

"What's going on?"

"All dead, all living things have ceased their life activities......"

All plants covered in black fog with their roots remain green and die.

If the leaves turn red and fall off, it's a natural phenomenon.

But even the leaves of the trees that weren't deciduous trees were falling green, which was an unusual sight.

Through the light gray on the surface, the deeper it goes, the thicker the black becomes, and the black mist spreads like a shadow as black as ink.

The biologist who found the insect carcasses on the other side of the fog operated the machine and used a long mechanical arm to clip their carcasses like chopsticks.

The insect looked like it had just died, and the corpse looked fresh, even the moisture was still there.

"Did you just die? Or will the plants and bugs that die in this black fog not rot? That is, even the putrefactive bacteria are dead. ”

Several scholars with profound scientific knowledge stared at the hand of the robotic arm while searching for clues and discussing with each other.

"Is it radiation?"

"No, maybe it's poison gas."

But the results of subsequent tests with Geiger counters and gas detectors overturned their suspicions.

The scientist pointed around with a radiation detection machine and read the value, "The value is within the normal range." ”

In addition, he took out the gas detector and inserted his head into the black fog to measure whether it was toxic, but there were no test results that could confirm the presence of toxic gases.

"Academician Zhang Rui, what do you think of this thing?" Shen Sen asked in a heavy tone.

"Something that looks like fog at first glance......"

Excavated from the wasteland a year ago, Academician Zhang Rui, who is a master of physics, walked down the slope slightly, wanting to get a little closer to the surface of the black fog shaped like the surface of the water, but was stopped by the black elf Yao.

"Academicians must be careful, if you are not careful, you may lose your life."

Yao said this, plucked a leafy branch from the tree that had not yet died, inserted its tip into the black mist and stirred it a few times, and then pulled it out and brought it to the eyes of Urushihata.

The green leaves attached to the tips of the branches shattered at the slightest touch of liquid nitrogen.

Zhang Rui insisted on picking a branch as well, inserting its tip into the black mist.

If it is an object such as water vapor or fog, it will cause a fluctuation and other reactions, just like smoke made by stirring dry ice. But the black mist was as unresponsive as a shadow, fixed there.

"If you look 4-5 centimeters down from the surface, you can barely see through it."

He instructed the crew to operate the machine and use the utensils, then crouched down, and scooped up the black mist like a suckle of water.

But no matter how many times it was repeated, there was never a black object left in the container that was scooped up.

When I put the vessel inside, a black mist-like object did enter.

"It's not like a gas or a liquid, and not only that, but it doesn't seem to be a 'substance.'"

Hearing Zhang Rui's words, "That's the case. Anderson and Old Man Li on the side nodded.

Like children staring at a puddle, the three adults squatted on the ground face to face, observing the black mist.

"I make a possible point, maybe this thing is something like a shadow?"

"Black shades?"

"It is not yet possible to draw a definitive conclusion. But I think it's probably a shadow of other dimensions. ”

"Other dimensions?"

Hearing the familiar and unfamiliar physics terms, Shen Sen was really surprised, what is the fantasy world like, how can there be so many messy things.

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