It's been two days since I returned to the vicinity of Eternal Night.

Zero has camouflaged the reloaded locomotive, making it look like a bush in the wilderness. Even though the bushes were a little bigger, the dark guards wouldn't be interested in it. They only attack living organisms, and are oblivious to the large iron mass of the locomotive.

He looked around, and in his senses, the area felt like it was dead. There is no trace of any life activity, let alone large animals, even bacteria are dying. Zero squatted on the ground, reached out on the ground and picked up a hand of crushed sand, and then let the sand chips slide between his fingers. Perhaps for ordinary people, there is nothing special about this handful of sand. But in fact, every grain of sand has crystallized, which is a sign that the molecular structure has collapsed.

This phenomenon only occurs when the energy in the area is completely extracted.

No life can survive in such an area, the land loses any nutrients, the water sources are dry or heavily polluted, and even bacteria cannot survive in this environment, let alone larger life. In a few years, the area will become a real dead zone. Even if the planet were to restore itself, it would take many years before such a creation could be restored.

Prosius is undoubtedly the natural enemy of all planets, whether it is itself or the biological weapons it creates, it will drain the energy of a planet. Agradisus hadn't had contact with Zero for a long time, presumably due to the fact that Prosius and his legions were constantly pumping the planet's energy. Now Agrasdi probably doesn't even have the energy to come, and everything can only rely on human beings themselves.

Zero sighed lightly, gathered his thoughts, and headed towards the deserted town that was used as a command position that day.

The town was quiet, lying behind a rock outside the town. He didn't dare to rashly perceive the situation in the town, but his intuition told him that the quietness of the town was just an illusion, and it was impossible that there would be no guards in it. This is a natural sentinel site, how could a biological weapon let this place go. Zero picked up a stone on the ground and threw it with great luck. The stone catapulted into the fuel tank of an abandoned gas station at the entrance of the town with a crisp sound.

The sound echoed through the quiet town, and a moment later, dark shadows burst out of the town's houses and shops, and quickly concentrated near the gas station. It's the guards, they either step on the fuel tank or climb up the iron shed of the gas station. Judging from the location of the distribution, the gas station has been surrounded.

There were twenty or so guards, and they looked around, and the three eyes on their heads were shining and communicating with each other. After a brief exchange, no anomalies seemed to be found, and most of the guards withdrew to their hiding spots, but one remained behind. The humanoid monster circled around the area before returning to the vicinity of the gas station.

There was a slight thud behind a rock jutting out of the ground outside town, and the guards were keenly aware of the soft sound. The three eyeballs on the head blinked, and then they sped lightly. It didn't immediately pounce on the rocks to inspect it, but twitched it first. The needle ball at the end of the tail smashed on the half-meter-old rock, and the rock immediately shattered. If there is something behind that that wants to carry out a sneak attack, it will definitely be countered by the guards.

There was nothing behind the crumbling rocks, and the guard blinked, and as he was about to return to the town, he suddenly shook his whole body. It looked down at its chest, and a hand quietly pierced through the armor of its body, pulling out a beating core. As the palm of the hand contracted, the core immediately shattered, and the plasma squeezed out of the fingers and dripped to the ground.

Place the Guard's corpse on the ground and smear its blood on his body. In this way, his scent can be concealed as much as possible. After digging a pit on the side of the road and burying the body's body in it, Zero bypasses the town and sneaks towards the City of Eternal Night.

Outside the city of eternal night, he found an abandoned factory and hid. Here, at the edge of the city, a large number of guards seem to be gathered in the ruins of Eternal Night, and some of the sentinels in Yougo on the edge of the city are unable to find any trace of Zero. The scent of the Guardian combined with Zero's own stealth movement made him feel like no one was in a no-man's land. He hid in the factory for a whole day, and it was not until night fell that he began to move.

On the way into the city of eternal night, several more guards died silently. Their cores are pulled out, and the plasma squeezed out becomes a disguise on Zero's body. Now, if you judge by smell alone, there is no difference between Zero Basic and a Guardian. The only thing that would arouse the guard's suspicion was the heavy smell of blood on his body.

However, at this moment when the Star Destroyer is nowhere to be found, and the Arbitrator has not yet been produced. The Guardians' intelligence is not enough to analyze the meaning of the smell of blood on Zero's body, and they simply classify Zero as a companion who kills more enemies, so that there is a reasonable explanation for the smell of blood.

But after entering the edge of Eternal Night City, even with the scent of guards on his body as a disguise, the speed of Zero's advance slowed down. More and more guards occupy every inch of the Eternal Night City, and the dense distribution makes Zero dare not be too ostentatious. He uses conditions such as darkness and blind spots to sneak, but the speed of his progress can be imagined.

In an hour, Zero had only cut two hundred meters. When he burrowed into the ruins of a collapsed building, three fluorescent lights lit up in the darkness of the ruins. Zero didn't think much about it, he pounced in an instant, and the battle was already over as soon as it began. Zero frowned and shook his head as he pulled his hand out of the guard's massive head. The palms and even forearms were covered with the material in the guard's brain, and Zero had to pick up the torn clothes on the ground and clean his arms slightly.

Outside, the sound of the guards moving, the pitch-black biological weapons that were dormant for the most part. Once something suspicious is discovered, it will emerge from a hidden location, and suddenly a large number of guards like this are very abnormal, and they crouch down to one of the original windows of the building with zero bated breath. Only half of the window remains, the lower half is buried in the gravel, and only the upper half looks out into the outside world like the window of an earthen fort.

The night was dark, and Zero activated the shimmer vision, only to see a large number of guards gathered together, and then tore them apart. Zero was stunned, and when he looked closely, he found that it was not a tear. Guards in pairs of three and two catch in groups, and one of them will kill his companions around him. The attacked guards did not resist at all, and almost stood still for their kind to be killed.

Guards who kill their companions will pull the core from the corpse on the ground and put it in their mouths. When the core of the corpse is eaten, the guards begin to devour the corpses of their companions. The scene seemed so familiar, and Zero suddenly remembered the living corpses and Fenri wolves who had been able to make up for themselves by tearing up their companions and evolve. In other words, these guards are also for evolution.

It's just that all their killing is carried out in silence, whether it is killing or being killed, it is terrifyingly quiet.

Zero pulls out a pocket camera from a storage pocket around his waist, and its base is an ear tip that can be fastened to the ear. After doing all this, Zero started the recording function of the camera, so all the pictures outside were recorded faithfully. When they return to the Blue Light Mountains, this precious video material will prompt those councilors to make up their minds, after all, judging from the situation in Eternal Night City, there is not much time for them to hesitate.

The killing of the outer guards is over, and at least a few hundred of them have fallen, but only seventy or eighty are still alive. After devouring enough flesh and blood of their own kind, they folded their heads and sat down on the ground. A grayish-white liquid drained from the cracks in their nails, and the liquid gradually solidified, eventually forming a gray cocoon that enveloped the guards.

From time to time, a crimson light flickered in the gray cocoon, and the flickering of the red light was so regular that it looked like the breath of a guard.

These guards are beginning to evolve.

Zero was about to dig out of the ruins when footsteps sounded again. One by one, the new guards jumped up to the Cocoon, picking up their evolving kind, apparently to move to safety. When they're all gone, Zero emerges from the ruins. Walking around the killing site, the ground was clean, with only a few inedible nail leaves remaining. As for the bloodstains, they were also licked and eaten by the guards.

He looked at the city in the dark night, and in the depths of the city, Zero felt a very oppressive atmosphere. He began to move, stepping into the city through the night. Although there are many guards in the city, none of them have found Zero's whereabouts. Naturally, zero cannot be moved forward quickly. He wandered through the ruins in the night like a ghost, sometimes passing only a street, but it took him half an hour to find a gap for the guards to patrol.

The deeper he went into the city, Zero found that the number of guards was rising. They're almost all clustered deep into the city, as if they're protecting something. After crossing another street, Zero knew that he couldn't go any further. The dense distribution of guards made it impossible for him to find a gap to take advantage of, so he had to pick a tall building and climb up. When he arrived on the rooftop, at least dozens of guards in the building had died silently at his hands.

The wind on the rooftop was very strong, blowing and blowing Zero's broken hair. From this direction, the city is no longer dark. At the brink of the Star Destroyer's self-detonation that day, the city had vanished by the time it arrived, and the sea had accumulated to form an inner bay, and some tall buildings could be faintly seen sticking out of the sea with only the tops diagonally out of the sea, and more had sunk into the sea.

Near the bay, six behemoths are sucking the energy of the continent. They resembled giant tortoises with fleshy sacs, lying on their stomachs on the ground, with tube-like tendrils on the outside of their bodies connected to the ground. The light of energy rises and is transported into the flesh of the beast. The sac is like a furnace running at full strength, and the walls of the sac are illuminated by the energy flames in it, so that every blood vessel on the surface of the body is clearly visible.

Behind the giant beast are a mountain of energy crystals, which vary in size and color. When stacked together, they resemble gemstones, exuding a hazy seven-colored brilliance. However, in Zero's eyes, those gems are the flesh and blood of the planet. They were extracted by these behemoths, and seeing these energy crystals, Zero seemed to hear the planet weeping.

A fluttering tentacle poked down and rolled up some of the hedrons. Looking down the tentacles, Zero saw a huge monster again. Nearly twenty meters tall, the upper body resembles that of a human female, and the body of a knotted insect below the waist. There are no arms, only tentacles covered with suction cups. Now, the tentacles picked up the crystal, and the woman's abdomen suddenly cracked open from it.

Thin broken teeth appeared on both sides of the rolled flesh, which turned out to be the monster's mouth. After throwing the hedron into the big mouth, the energy spar was quickly digested, and the surface of the monster could be seen to light up with lines. Spread out on both sides of the mouth, and the lines spread all over the body.

Zero eyes moved again, and under the light of the producer's body, the inner bay was shrouded in a layer of red light, even at night. In addition to the producer and queen, there is also a row of exozygons in the Inner Bay area. Some of these foliths began to rupture, and from inside came humanoid creatures. They are similar in size to normal human males, and are covered in heavy pitch-black biological armor.

There are two spray slots behind the armor, from which blood-red energy flames are continuously spewed, looking like fluttering red cloaks.

Dragged alien weapons screwed together by bones, metal, and other things. The aura of these monsters is condensed, and they are no less than the Ogmar giants of Zero.

Death Arbitrator.

Just like when I saw the Star Destroyer that day, the dark core in my body at this moment once again transmitted the information of various biological weapons to Zero. So Zero knew the name of the humanoid creature in front of him, and he also knew that they were the command node of the biological army. As for the producer who extracts the energy of the planet and the queen who continues to spawn and build troops, there are also information passing through Zero's mind one after another.

Now, the first arbitrators born to the queen have appeared. Each arbitrator can command 300 or even 500 guards, and the arbitrators are connected with each other to form a command network. Thankfully, the biological army lacks a commander. Originally, the intelligence of the Star Destroyer could be up to the role of a commander, but now, the only Star Destroyer is on the line to carry out other orders, so the Black Legion in the Eternal Night City lacks a "brain".

The Arbiter will instinctively command low- and mid-tier weapons to defend or attack, but they will not be able to develop a strategy. Zero thought that at the moment, these creature armies should be immobile, and the queen would build a large number of troops. Wait until the missing Star Destroyer returns before attacking.

This gives humanity some time, but it shouldn't be long. Looking at the speed of the queen's production, it won't be long before Prosious' biological legion reaches a new order of magnitude.

Zero looked at the queen and made a decision in an instant.

He reached into the void, and when he pulled it out again, he had an extra silver-white shotgun in his hand. As soon as Longinus appeared, he changed his form according to Zero's will, and finally froze on the appearance of a sniper rifle. It's just that after changing his form, Zero feels that Longinus has changed from the original three bullets to the current one.

He only had one chance, and this bullet would be used on the queen, and zero intended to snipe Prosius's troop unit, the queen!

At the same time as Zero took out the spear of Longinus, it was inevitable that energy would overflow and power would be released. Such an obvious vision, not to mention the arbitrator who had just stepped out of the egg shell, even the low-level guards had already noticed it. Immediately, a large number of guards rushed towards the building where Zero was. Some of the guards even formed wheels from end to end, and one by one the spurs spun and flew across the ground, and climbed directly to the building.

Under the thick armor of the arbitrator, his eyes flickered, and invisible orders were issued, directing the guards to surround the building. On the rooftop of the building, Zero was surprisingly calm, squatting, raising his gun, and aiming. The queen's body was put into a silver-white sight. The queen's body was so huge that there was no need to deliberately capture it.

Feeling Zero's murderous intentions directed at her, the queen let out a scream. As a production biological weapon, it is not without a little means of attack. It's just that it's far away from Zero, and in the absence of a long-range attack, the queen can only flee for her life. So it turned, and the worm-legged limbs of its lower body slashed, and carried the queen toward the sea.

How could Zero let it escape?

When the crosshair in the sight moved to the queen's head, Zero pressed the trigger. All the dark gold lines on the sniper rifle are lit up, and even extend into intricate light patterns that point directly at the muzzle. A long tongue of fire erupted from the muzzle, and a white-gold sniper bullet burst out of its chamber, spinning and passing a faint flame through the night sky.

As soon as the sniper bullet was discharged, Longinus vanished. The bullet had used up its power, and at the same time, there were already guards jumping onto the rooftop. Zero turned and walked away, and behind him was the queen's terrible cry that resounded throughout the city, and a brilliant pillar of light that pointed straight into the sky. Following the blast wave of the explosion, Zero had already jumped from the other side of the rooftop.

Jumping down again, I saw a faint golden ripple spread out above my head, and the end disappeared into the void a hundred meters away. The person is in mid-air, and Zero can feel a strong vibration passing around his body. Violent air jets suddenly erupted from the doors and windows of the building behind him, and some of the guards who were caught off guard caused the air to pop out of the building, and they fell one by one.

Zero activated the anti-gravity field just as he was about to hit the ground, and the fall immediately slowed down, allowing him to land safely on the ground. At this time, he had time to look back, and saw that the direction of the inner bay was dazzling. The queen's body was entangled in flames, her head was gone, and her massive body fell like a sloping edifice, sending up a puff of smoke.

If this queen is killed, the number of creatures in Nightnight will not continue to increase until Prosius sends in a new troop unit. At the same time, Prosus's plan to clean up the continent was delayed a little.

Humanity still has a chance.

The screams of the guards and the heavy footsteps of the Death Arbiter rang out, and Zero didn't want to take on hundreds of thousands of creatures alone. Immediately, he had enough strength to move his feet, and his figure kept flashing in the ruins of the city. As he swept out of the city of Eternal Night, behind him were the creatures roaring unwillingly.