"What a joke that the rabble are trying to attack our fortress?" a man with a shiny face and a fat body stuffed himself in a leather chair. While drinking wine, he said with a smile, but this chair seemed to be too narrow, so the fat man was not very comfortable, and sighed: "It seems that I have to make another chair." ”

Another tall man shook his head and sighed, "It's been almost twenty years since you came to Canon, and you've changed at least five chairs. Your Excellency, it seems that you need to watch your weight. ”

The man had long, straight black hair and slender hands and feet. The facial features are exquisite, delicate as if they are too perfect. Things that are too perfect can sometimes seem scary, like this man. He looked cold, like an emotionless machine. A man named Thundering, whom Essian had known for a long time. During the construction of the Canon Fortress, this man arrived at the fortress with an official document from the Papal Hall, which designated him as the commander of the 6th Order of the Knights, who had been killed in the Battle of the Bloodstained Path.

The thunder that came to Canon Fortress that day was like this, and nearly twenty years later, this man was still like this. It was as if time had lost its effect on him, and Thunder's abilities, appearances, and even habits remained strikingly consistent. People who don't know Lei Ming may think it's nothing, and those who know him and don't have enough strength to understand him probably think he's weird.

Only Esin, who is also the commander of the legion, will understand the horror of this man. He's like a machine that never goes wrong, maintaining terrifying precision. Essien knows that even a self-disciplined person. When you magnify his life, you will find that there are always some subtle fluctuations. Or the mood, or something. But since he met Lei Ming, his daily life can only be described as mechanical.

Wherever and whenever the day should be, the thunder will be there. He's not a second late, he's not a second early, it's always just right. This reminded Essien of rumors about some secret experiments in the Papal Chamber. These experiments are classified within secrets, so important that if they were leaked, they would disintegrate the papal chamber, the pillar of faith.

Because those experiments were really contrary to some of the taboos in the canon.

The fact that Thunder always has to return to the Papal Hall a few days in March every year has reinforced Essien's suspicions in this regard.

Although, on the surface, he went back to the Papal Chamber to report on his duties. But as far as Essien himself is concerned, the quarterly report is just a matter of remote communication. It was only on the triennial Hanukkah that the captain, who already weighed nearly a ton, had to return to the city of New Rome.

Struggling to move out of the chair, the overwhelmed chair broke up into a pile of parts with a groan. Essien sighed and said, "It's the sixth now." ”

Lei Ming glanced at him indifferently and said quietly, "Captain Essin, I think it is necessary to pay attention to the message conveyed by Commander Yafidi. ”

"Tell me how you want to pay attention to the Fa?"

Essien circled around the command room, couldn't find a suitable chair, and simply sat down on the floor.

"Insert sentry posts and overhaul equipment. If I'm not mistaken, your knight hasn't been in operation for almost a year, and I suggest you do a full check today in case you need it. Lei Ming gave a few suggestions in one breath, and Zuihou said: "We have to send an elite reconnaissance team to the Fracture Bay to take a look, if the pirates attack, it is the closest landing point to us." ”

"Okay, okay, do as you say. But I still don't think there's a need for this, Canon isn't the soft-egg Facero, and the towering wall is something that a group of pirates can tear apart. It would be better if they did fight, Lao Tzu had forgotten how long it had been since he had fought. Essien said excitedly, a chubby face flushed. But Suiji's face turned pale, and he said: "But the inspection of the Knight of the Round Table will be exempted, damn it, I don't know if I can squeeze into the driver's compartment now." ”

Lei Ming looked at his fat body, and there was a ray of melancholy in his eyes. It wasn't Essien's weight that worried him, but his fighting power. Too long of peace and alcohol have probably brought this legion commander to the lowest baseline. As for himself, what strength was twenty years ago, and what strength is twenty years later. It has not decreased, but it will not increase.

From the perspective of time, it is not a good thing to increase or decrease.

This day, Canon hasn't been so lively for a long time. The working slaves watched suspiciously, as the soldiers carried the equipment that had been left in the warehouse for an unknown amount of time, and began training in the square of the fortress. It's not that I don't have this kind of training, but it's rare to see it a few times a month, and today is not the day for training. If you pull all the soldiers of the Knights of the Pope's Hall out for military exercise, you will find that the soldiers of Canon are fatter than other knights. No way, who made Canon's life too good.

Other knights usually have to fight pirates or something, but no pirate who is not long-sighted will come to attack Castnon. So in the Knights, being able to serve as a soldier in Canon was like a vacation. Therefore, Canon's soldiers are not much different from Essien. After a few years here, you'll notice that you've gained a lot of weight.

But not many people noticed that their physical strength, reflexes, will, and fighting instincts were declining accordingly.

While the soldiers of the Order were training, the artillery, anti-aircraft machine guns and other equipment that had been covered with dust on the walls of Canon finally waited for a chance to be repaired. It's just that the thunderous order is issued, and the repairable soldiers don't seem to be so concerned. They were examining their weapons and laughing quietly, so that something slipped out of their noses without the soldiers noticing.

The only one who is working seriously is probably the mech technician who is inspecting the two Knights of the Round Table. After all, this is the seat of two legion commanders, and they know what can be dealt with sloppily and what must be done with all their might. But at the end of the day, no one believed that pirates would be so fearless as to hit Canon's iron plate.

In the afternoon, a convoy of light motorcycles drove out of the fortress and headed down the Emerald Forest towards Fractured Bay. They are the guards under the command of Thundering, and they have the level of ordinary soldiers and above. More importantly, they are serious, careful, and efficient. Even living in the comfortable environment of Canon, they have not lost their former sharpness.

For them, Lei Ming is very relieved.

The motorfleet was like a dagger, and the icy metallic light passed through the green and green emerald forest, creating a stark contrast. The forest is inhabited by wild animals, most of which are harmless. And the more powerful mutant beasts died early under the opening of the bloodstained road. At that time, the Pope's Hall was a battle without a fight, and a war must be fought with all its might. And the meaning of full strength is not something that can be satisfied by defeating the opponent. It usually refers to the extinction of the race, and during the Dark Ages, at least 10,000 species were extinct on the Western Continent.

Without the source, there would be no evolution and growth, which is also the reason why the alien races and high-level mutant beasts in the Western Continent have almost disappeared.

The dominance of human beings was a good thing at the time. At least the vast majority of the resources on the Western Continent have fallen under the control of humans, but from the perspective of the entire era, it has done more harm than good. Without competition, the Western Continent is like the fortress of Canon, and the evolution of humanity has slowed down. It may not be obvious in a short period of time, but if the time is measured in a hundred years. Then the today of the fortress Canon is the tomorrow of the Western Continent.

It's just that few people think about the long-term problem, and most human beings will only focus on the present, and rarely look at the disadvantages that will only appear in a hundred years. Living in this era of precariousness, being able to see that ten years later can already be called a wise man. If you can see through a hundred years, you are already a saint.

It's a pity that there are countless mediocre people, but there are few saints. Looking at the whole Shijie, probably not many people will take such a long-term view.

At least not Hoddle.

He was the captain of Thundering's Guard, Lightning, and was only a 15-year-old boy when he followed Thunder to Canon Fortress. At that time, he was still ignorant, and he joined the army with only one heart. Because it has good potential, it is cultivated by Thunder. Now he is the number two in the Sixth Legion under the thunder.

Hoddle, who is thirty-five or sixteen, has short white hair and a pair of flexible eyes on his square face, he is a strict but flexible person. During his years in Canon's service, Hoddle spent at least half of the year away from the fortress. With Thunder's approval, he continued to move to the front of various legions, participating in many activities against pirates.

The other legions also welcomed such a person who had reached the seventh order, and Hoddle was only one step away from the high rank.

By sunset, Hoddle came to Fractured Bay.

It's a strange geography.

The coast of the Western Continent follows from west to east, and it is a coastline with gentle drops. But when I got here, I suddenly concave into an N-shaped terrain. If the mainland is an irregular cake, then the broken bay is like a small corner of the cake that has been rudely torn off, which is also the origin of the name of the bay.

The coastline that stretches east from Facero is not sandy beaches or shallow rocky beaches, but towering rock faces. The rock wall serves as both a natural levee on the outer edge of the continent and a barrier against assaults from the sea. Only by coming to the fracture bay will the strange fracture face allow the ship to sail a little inland. Even the fortress Canon has built a rudimentary dock here in the bay, but the dock was out of use ten years ago, and all that remains is the wreckage of some of the facilities.

The coastline continues to stretch eastwards and then turns north before a calmer beach gradually appears. So, if the pirates attacked, there was no other way but to land in the Fractured Bay.

By the time the motorcade reached the bay, it was already dark. Hoddle and his team spent the night in the ruins of the bay pier, and the next day began a search around the bay. They inspected it carefully, but there was no sign of a large number of people landing in the bay or at the pier. Judging by the time, if the attack on Facero was just a feint by pirates, then the main forces would have reached the bay long ago.

However, as far as the eye can see, except for a few isolated islands on the sea, there is no trace of any ships, let alone a huge fleet. Hoddle frowned and reported the news to Thunder. Then the guards stayed nearby for another night, and the next morning they returned to the fortress.

"Look, I'll just say it's impossible. Essien grabbed the bottle in one hand and swept the food in front of him into his mouth with the other. The regimental commander's mouth is like a black hole, and he eats nearly a ton of food every day.

Thunder Ming was still standing at the window, his eyes unchanged as he looked at the vast sea on the other side of the fortress: "It's true that Hoddle hasn't found any pirates, but that doesn't mean we can relax. Commander Essien, I suggest that the previous order must continue, and that some men must be sent to the Fractured Bay. That pier, we may have been abandoned for too long, and we have to reconsider building it. ”

"That's not good, the lords of the Papal Hall won't allocate more funds to us. Essien frowned.

Thunder looked at the food on his table, and Esin shivered, then protested angrily, "I warn you, Thunder, don't let you beat me for the idea of this food. This is the only joy of my life!"

"If you can cut the food supply in half, let alone one pier, we'll build ten. Lei Ming said expressionlessly, "Captain Esin, sometimes I suspect that you are not eating food, but gold coins. Piles of gold coins. ”

Leaving this sentence, Lei Ming said that he was going to check the training of those soldiers. After he left, Essien frowned and said, "How can a guy like you understand my pain. There is no war to fight, no woman to soak. If I didn't have good food, I wouldn't have been able to enjoy life. Hey, forget it, let's eat less today. ”

Captain Essien did eat a little less today.

But that's about it.

It's another night.

But tonight, the beasts that inhabit the Emerald Forest are not as calm as usual. Originally, they should have returned to their nests to rest at this time, but at this moment, they were far away from their nests. The direction in which the beasts were far away was the one that was close to the fortress of Canon.

Half a kilometre from the edge of the forest, a flock of night birds wants to fly. But just spread his wings, but found that no matter how he flapped his wings, he couldn't fly into the sky. The air, which normally had no resistance, became as viscous as a swamp, and an invisible force field held the birds close not far from the canopy. Then another force field swept over the birds, all of which stopped any activity and fell one by one.

The bird that fell on the soft ground has lost any life.

Countless black shadows passed quietly in the forest, and they were like a black undercurrent, flowing quietly in the forest. The undercurrent refers to the fortress Canon in the night.

Even though it was late at night, the lights were still on. In a golden pupil, one could even see a soldier yawning in the sentry post on the high wall of the fortress. The owner of the pupil is Zero, and behind Zero, there is the Poseidon Regiment who is not in the Hoddle report!

They had already arrived, and on the morning of Essien's summons from Facero, the Poseidon fleet had quietly reached the Fractured Bay. However, the fleet did not stop, and after leaving behind a total of 3,000 Poseidon soldiers, the fleet stayed away from this area according to Zero's order. The Zero and Seagod Regiment poured into the Emerald Forest for the first time, although the number of Poseidon Groups was large, but the Emerald Forest was large enough. The vast primeval forest was more than enough for three thousand people, and the thundering guards, although elite, did not have the strength to inspect the entire forest without leaks.

The Poseidon even stayed in the forest for a day, and only after the thundering guards had left did they move on to the fortress.

Now, Canon was in front of him, and as if he had never imagined it, his defenses were sparse.

"Do as Jihua does. Zero said lightly.

So Su Yue came out, and behind the Destroyer, a team quietly followed. There were only seventy or eighty people in this team, but everyone was calm. Like a sharp sword tucked in its scabbard, the sword has not yet been unsheathed, but it has already loomed into its edge. This team is the Seagod Trident, and its average combat power is in the sixth-order ability group.

Under the cover of night, the Trident quietly passed through the forest and quietly touched the fortress.

The weather is already in autumn, autumn is here, will winter be far away?

Even though it's only autumn, the weather is already chilly at night, which makes a set of knightly uniforms look a little thin. Then one of the sentries on the wall shrank his neck, and he yawned, calculating how long it would be before the time for the change of shift.

The walls of the Canon Fortress are 30 meters high, and the main building of the fortress is wrapped in the form of an arch. From west to east, there are five towers on the wall, each equipped with two anti-aircraft machine guns and ten sentries. In addition to this, there are four Pathways cannons and several outposts in other parts of the city. There is also an inner wall behind the wall, and there is a passage between the inner and outer walls.

This passage, called "Between the Dead", can deliberately open the gates to let the enemy in when needed, and then trap the enemy in the Death Room, and annihilate the enemy with fire points on the inner and outer walls. Naturally, during the twenty years of peace in Canon, such a design was useless.

Behind the city walls is the plaza area, and there are several areas nearby, such as a warehouse area, a slave quarter, a military quarter, a command post, and a mecha warehouse. The buildings in each area appear to be unplanned, but in fact there is very little space between the buildings. It makes the passages in the fortress twisted and twisted, and if you are not familiar with the fortress, it is not surprising that you can even get lost in this place without any road signs.

This design is based on the consideration that once the enemy army breaks through the inner and outer walls, it can take advantage of the special environment here to divide the enemy army to the greatest extent. While reducing the onslaught of enemy troops, it also allows the presiding officer of the fort to turn frontal combat into street fighting.

This is the Canon Fortress, a "city" designed entirely from the perspective of war.