Within the confines of the river system, with the support or limitations of various unspeakable reasons, there are many collectives of all sizes that have always wandered the dark world;

They either sit in the shadows of one side to control the order, or travel back and forth between the star fields to smuggle for profit, or wander the trade routes outside the wormhole waiting for opportunities to rob the road for money.

Their identities are also very complex, and under the cover of pirates, slave dealers, smugglers, etc., who are directly exposed to the most superficial layers, there are not only a collection of genuine pure criminals, but also those who have dreams of recovering the country, strengthening the country, and revenge.

For the former, because of the yearning for different goals such as wealth, stimulation, status, etc., there may be a group of people who are not willing to accept the status quo or simply yearn for chaos, forming a gang that wanders in the dark.

After countless years have passed, some of them will naturally disappear with the passage of time, and some of them will wash their hands and return to their homes after earning enough.

There are even some groups that have been inherited for tens of thousands of years in such a situation, and have the collective ideal of 'becoming stronger and bigger' under the precipitation of time, and have become the purest backbone dark force in the shadows.

The idealistic schools mentioned later have their own various reasons for their establishment, and they have been carefully concealed all along

In the meantime, there are high-level groups composed of people who have the ideal of recovering the country, or they are lurking in the darkness and fighting for the re-establishment of their civilization;

The high-level group that is actually a black glove of a civilization may carry the layers of infamy that have not been moved for tens of thousands of years, and fight for the living space of the civilization behind it in a bloody, dirty, and dark environment;

Or perhaps, a certain gang may be under the control of a regular Baidao merchant group, helping it suppress, plunder, and even destroy the competitors it is facing or will face.

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However, no matter which type of gang they are, their forces will be very complex in terms of the proportion of population composition, and they will not allow one or a few natural races to form an advantage at the grassroots level.

Even the black-glove groups, even if they have supporters of civilization behind them, will not deliberately introduce their own population to fill the grassroots because of their scruples such as avoiding suspicion.

As a result of this phenomenon, groups of all sizes in the dark world today are moving towards a multi-racial melting pot

Most of its groups are multi-ethnic from the top to the bottom, and the more they sink to the grassroots, the more complex they will be found, such as slave trade, primitive civilization breeding, and low-level civilization looting. A variety of different population sources are mixed, forming the foundation of the middle and lower and even the upper layers of the dark forces of all sides.

In those large and super-large groups, the phenomenon of dozens or hundreds of intelligent life forms of the river system being mixed into the grassroots is a trend that has been formed for a long time under various internal and external reasons, and the racial composition is much more complex than that of the various Baidao forces.

In such a situation, when the division of combat forces is carried out according to the general principle of 'unity at the grassroots level,' one can see many divisions along the ethnic lines of their respective armies.

Similar to single-race squads, squadrons, wings, etc., and mixed teams that contain a small number of races that are extremely similar to each other, they constitute the military forces under their respective commands in group warfare.

This is both an advantage and a disadvantage, and the large number of troop races makes it possible to choose from more extraordinary types, and when faced with raiding warfare, guerrilla warfare, and transcendent warfare within a certain scale, there are relatively more flexible tactical options.

At the same time, however, in a large-scale frontal battle battlefield of the same level, it may show its relatively chaotic and weak side under the influence of various reasons such as logistics.

Of course, most of them are smugglers, bandit legions, pirate collectives, black gloves, slave dealers and drug dealers, in addition to bullying the weak and being blocked and unable to get out, in fact, they can't actually take the initiative to find large-scale battles, and there are usually few moments when the disadvantages are reflected under the deliberate avoidance.

But there are some situations that cannot be avoided.

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Outside the black fog, nearly 100 temporary garrison points were set up in a range of tens to hundreds of kilometers, in a time interval of about two to three days.

Among them, the special forces belonging to the six forces that control the Fallen Star have descended from various parts of the orbit to the surface earlier in the morning, preparing to carry out the exploration mission of the Black Mist Ruins.

The mission was postponed for some reason, and it was changed to a small-scale multi-wave exploration mode, and these troops of different affiliations were dragged around the ruins, and began to choose a place to set up a camp due to the subsequent orders of the headquarters.

But when these extraordinary troops need to set up camp, it is difficult to get the Epton Hexapod Squadron, which is generally more than ten meters high, and the Big Head Nordting Squadron, which is only less than 1.6 meters tall, because it will only cause a lot of inconvenience and even become a source of dispute and cause chaos.

Therefore, at the moment, as many as a dozen or so transcendent units from various families that are independent of each other have temporarily stopped in this type of surface area according to the internal organization of similar squadrons, brigades, wings, etc., with different scales such as tens, small hundreds, large hundreds, etc., which is rare.

The camp was naturally established for a short time, and it was not a permanent fortification with soldiers stationed for a long time, but only a temporary camp of different scales;

However, with the scientific and technological support of the respective power groups behind them, these large and small camps can be described as small but complete, whether from the outside or analyzing the internal facts, the simple and bright style, the sturdy attributes, and the functionality of the garrison can be called a model of modular and convenient architecture.

In the meantime, the building modules should be produced from the same manufacturer, and there may be no directional signs due to various scruples.

In each station, there are quite complete non-commissioned barracks, garages, and supporting facilities, as well as command connection and early warning and monitoring rooms of different levels and specifications, as well as areas dedicated to armament maintenance and equipment inventory.

In addition, there are separate energy reserves for each camp, and they are also equipped with vital shield generators, and the scale of their respective energy reserves, as well as the specifications of shield power and strength, are matched according to the camp level;

Even if it's just a modular temporary base, critical facilities like this are usually built underground, and have multiple protective measures with higher vigilance, including but not limited to full-time duty guards, high-material barriers, and small independent shields;

The small shield is equipped with a constant state of constant power to maintain high protection power during wartime, rather than reducing the power to keep it on like the Imperial Shield, or simply set to a semi-closed mode that can be automatically activated in response to stress.

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At some point, countless flashes of dark red light pierced through the black fog and rapidly descended in the direction of the surrounding garrison camps.

The fog that shrouded the ruins cut off the detection of the outside world, which led to the attack being a little too abrupt, so that the first batch of strikes aimed at a slightly closer area was not detected in time by the early warning and monitoring system.

Immediately, in less than the blink of an eye, they crossed a distance of at least tens of kilometers or so and blasted into the nearby camps that were only equipped with low-power shields.

In addition, the same wave of strikes that attacked the rest of the farther away, as well as the next batch of attacks that were not clearly spaced, also arrived at their respective targets in the blink of an eye, and swept one after another with a dark red light that turned into impacts.

Of the thousands of bombardments before and after, more than a thousand of them pierced the low-power shield and exploded in the target camps before the shield power rose faster than the early warning mechanism;

By the time these shields were activated, the camp had already received a wave of attacks, and began to suffer the resulting casualties and the rest of the aftermath.

More than a thousand more rose into the air, blocked by distant targets and shields that had been automatically upgraded to a high-power state in the vicinity, and then exploded one after another against the dark blue cover on the outside of the shield.

Under the overly continuous and precise attacks and hit rates, there are those camps that have received too many attacks at the same time and are slightly smaller in size, and the shrouds that are in the highest power state under their existing functions begin to appear uncertain and are temporarily broken in a round of multiple attacks they are subjected to.

Naturally, there were follow-up blows that penetrated through it and exploded, and it was only after a little while that the shield was reopened that the previous process was repeated again.

This series of attacks from the ruins was simultaneously sent to all sides at not too long span intervals, and nearly 30% of the attacks acted within the shield, causing considerable losses to the lives, facilities, and armaments within;

The remaining 70% is not useless, in addition to the inevitable energy loss caused in the process, the shield consumption effect is also the key to the attack can reach the shield.

For the rest, when the shock wave spread through the camp with a dark red glow, the people who had not yet died barely realized that the diffused light was not really dark red, but a black halo in the bright red.

When the black halo dispersed, it was like the black mist that was covering the ruins not far away, but it didn't seem so thick.

As more and more attacks hit the ground, the diffuse black became visibly deeper, and although it was far from the homogeneous fog in the distance, this phenomenon also attracted great attention from the upper and lower orbits.

After all, there is a consensus on the level of annoyance of the black fog of ruins, and without discovering a cure for it, there is simply no way to ignore any similar phenomenon.

While the command was looking for a solution, new situations were reported in the latter part of the day, and they were once again informed of another situation that seemed to be troublesome as well.

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Outside of the black fog, it is normal for the special forces of each formation to be formed, and with the support of various weapons all over the body, they can exert their combat power here far beyond that in the fog.

After surviving the first round of the offensive equivalent to a sneak attack, they also showed the level of combat power that an extraordinary army should have, and indeed destroyed many enemies in successive counterattacks;

That is, those monster children that quickly run out of the black mist before and after the end of the ranged attack.

However, it was later discovered that the monster offspring would explode into a black mist when they died, and even when they were injured, black mist would spill out of their wounds.

Like the ruins behind it, the black mist that spread out was contaminated at the place of its death, at the place of its wounds, and the counterattack alone caused a dotted fog area outside the ruins, just like the camp and the surrounding area that had exploded by the dark red energy projectiles farther away.

In fact, the shield of the temporary camp was not really breached, but it was just in a state of turning on and off due to energy and power problems in the sudden concentrated attack;

After all, they still stopped most of the attack, and the direct casualties caused by the missed attack were not as good as the fog that was gradually dispersing at the moment, in terms of the level of threat.

Inside and outside the camp, the members of the special forces were already in the black fog, feeling the crazy imminence under the spiritual erosion;

Although due to the limitations of fog concentration and other aspects, it will not face the risk of dementia and loss of mind in a short period of time, and it can also evacuate from the hit point in time while the state is normal.

And they did so, and found that their mental state turned back after exiting the fog, and no stubborn sequelae were found in the approximate diagnosis at this moment.

However, the diffusion of the fog itself is also quite a tricky situation.

Regardless of the ranged attacks that have already fallen, at least the monster children that are equivalent to walking pollution sources must not be allowed to continue to spread into the distance from the madness of the spirit world.

But at the same time, since killing them outside of the Black Fog also has a polluting effect, it may be the right way to go into the fog and find a way to destroy them, at least if the Black Fog pollution is found.

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For a period of time from earlier, when many visions were temporarily focused on this change, there were gorgeous flowers blooming in the darkness that covered the ruins;

As a result, a large number of invisible brain phage transcendent viruses drifted out of it, mixed with all kinds of complicated materials that already existed in the atmosphere, and spread to the cities on the surface of the fallen commercial star.

After all, lacking the blessing of the black fog aura and the insect cocoon environment, and the fact that these brain phages themselves have also been functionally adjusted, the invisible and almost qualitative virus frenzy that is spread here will not cause symptoms enough to be immediately discovered by themselves and their friends.

After entering the body, these phages will still carry out a relatively limited mental invasion, although the degree will not have a substantial impact on the recipient, but will cause them to emit the desired thought band from the initial stage;

As a result, Cynthia tried to take advantage of the relatively large number of intelligent life in the local area to form an auxiliary and strengthen the traction of the giant armor.

So, when the area around the black fog was clanging and mingling, this synchronous brain phage catalyst also targeted the global surface and began its silent diffusion journey.

(End of chapter)