Chapter 69 The Prelude to the War [Please order first]
[From the attack and defense of the fortress: 16 hours. 】
Under the dunes, Zheng Shiduo was jumping up and down, trying hard to complete the work of Lingtong and Wang Jixuan, mapping the terrain and burying the detector.
Zheng Shiduo wore a collar around his neck.
It was a self-explosion collar, which did not affect Zheng Shiduo's turning and observation, and had a certain protective effect. However, if someone pressed the remote control, Zheng Shiduo's head would explode with a loud bang.
"this is for you."
Lingtong handed a blue remote control to Wang Jixuan and said softly:
"I checked and found that the energy contained in the self-destructive collar around Zheng Shiduo's neck was enough to kill him ten times.
“He was sent by the Commander-in-Chief.
"This remote control device is mainly to reassure you. Zhou Zhengde asked him to wear it. With this, you can control his life and death."
Wang Jixuan was a little confused: "Why should I control his life and death?"
"He was sent to protect you," Lingtong shrugged, "This guy is pretty good."
Daozhang Wang's expression suddenly felt a little...
Psykers, to protect him?
And the psyker who once tried to interfere with Lingtong's mission?
He really doesn’t understand the brain circuits of these people.
Lingtong put the remote control into his hand, turned around and leaned on the quad bike with him, looking at the drone passing by at low altitude in the distance.
Wang Jixuan asked: "Will the next battle be dangerous?"
"This can be said to be a reflection of the importance they attach to you," Lingtong smiled, "That's what psychics are like, they will obey whoever's life is in their hands. Zheng Shiduo's current life control is in the hands of the headquarters. Here, the Psychic City also handed over control of their group of psykers."
"I still can't trust him."
"Just look at him, he knows the secret of your identity."
Lingtong said it very easily:
"Zheng Shiduo can be regarded as my comrade-in-arms, but sometimes his stance is inconsistent with mine."
"Okay," Wang Jixuan shrugged, "I will put on the helmet directly later and act as Black Storm to prevent him from going out with Wang Zheng."
"You can tell him this yourself. I hate the smell of him."
"What is the taste?"
"Perverted smell."
Wang Jixuan thought of the crystal stopper and couldn't help but raise his hand to his forehead. He didn't know how to evaluate it for a moment.
He urgently needs an idiom that is more serious than the collapse of rituals and the destruction of music.
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[From the attack and defense of the fortress: 14 hours. 】
The evolution of the situation completely followed Lingtong's prediction.
Wang Jixuan and the others had just finished surveying the terrain when news came from the northwest that a group of blade beasts had broken through the defense line.
A herd of blade beasts broke through the defense line, numbering approximately 300,000.
The setting up of human defense lines is very complicated, not only by sea, land and air, but also by underground defense facilities.
After crossing the defense line, this group of bladed beasts split into three groups. One group sneaked into the nearest fortress, and the other rushed to attack the nearby human defense line in an attempt to open a larger gap.
One group entered the underground and headed towards Fortress No. 76 along the underground passage they opened up at some point.
There are about 70,000 bladed beasts that will arrive near No. 76 in a dozen hours. Along the way, a certain number of them will be consumed by the underground minefield. Judging from the energy reaction, there are two general-level bladed beasts inside.
The United Defense Force is working hard to cut off the retreat of this group of blade beasts, and is engaging in a high-intensity battle with the blade beasts near the gap in the defense line.
Weapons and various materials produced by each fortress were continuously transported to the defense line of the Medieval Basin theater, and were poured crazily towards the blade beast group.
Several outer expansion areas of the fortress have been cleared, and reserve troops inside the fortress have been prepared. Dozens of small fortresses have been built on the surface, and underground is a minefield surrounding the fortress that is several kilometers thick.
There is also an upper limit to the ability of ground-burrowing blade beasts. They can only march quickly in the deepest layer of two hundred meters. Marching underground is to avoid the indiscriminate bombardment of human long-range firepower.
This is a contest between old rivals.
The military determined that the blade beast's target was [Battle Ji Lingtong].
Lingtong has been stationed in the desert outside Expanded Zone C, where a decoy military camp is being built. In addition to Lingtong and an elite combat team, there is also a group of autonomous guards disguised as humans, as well as dozens of psykers.
As Lingtong's support team, Uncle Tai, Sister Wan, Wan Xiaoqi, and Wang Jixuan must stay at the supply station in Expanded Area C, ready to send out supplies at any time.
In addition to two large mechanical dogs, there are also three heavy drones that transport supplies.
Expanded Area C has become an important fire camp deployed by the military, and it will inevitably be invaded by blade beasts later.
This will also be the front line.
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[From the attack and defense of the fortress: 9 hours. 】
In the supply station, Uncle Tai stood in front of a huge projection screen with his arms folded. In the middle of the projection screen was the 'bait camp'.
In the middle of the screen, Lingtong is being inspected by Sister Wan’s robotic arm.
"Look at these dunes."
Uncle Tai smiled and said:
"The blade beasts will probably wait until night before attacking. They have no eyes, so day and night are no different to them.
"This side will be the main battlefield. We must kill the blade beasts as much as possible. The Expanded Area C will be the main force to respond to this bait.
"Every large-scale attack by the blade beasts has a clear combat goal. They will calculate how much firepower we have and how much firepower we have hidden. For the blade beasts, as long as they can achieve their goals, it doesn't matter how many basic blade beasts die.
"This is the worker nature of the basic blade beast."
Wan Xiaoqi brought two cups of industrial coffee.
Wang Jixuan thanked him and asked in a low voice: "Is there anything else I should pay attention to?"
"We shouldn't have to send supplies later. The military has a dedicated supply brigade and fire cover brigade."
Uncle Tai pretended to be excited and shouted: "Later, you can see Lingtong operating a mecha! Although it is only a fire-power mecha more than ten meters high, that is the embodiment of the value of Battle Girl!"
Wan Xiaoqi said depressedly: "Dad, Teacher Xiao Wang is asking about precautions!"
"Okay, okay, the important thing to note is...complete the mission and survive."
Uncle Tai exhaled:
“The war with the Blade Beast was extremely cruel.
"We are rear support personnel. There will basically be no problems until the fortress is breached. The firepower density here is also much stronger than that of the fortress.
"The only thing you have to watch out for is the Mimic Blade Beast. These guys will disguise themselves as humans and cause damage internally."
Wang Jixuan raised his eyebrows slightly.
He asked: "Approximately how long until the attack starts?"
"It will take more than nine hours. According to the speed of the blade beast, the attack should start from three to five o'clock in the morning. We cannot rule out that a small group of blade beasts wandering in the ground will suddenly appear in front of us."
"Uncle Tai, do you still have a job now?"
"No, I'm going to have a good sleep later and recharge my batteries!"
"Then help me."
Wang Jixuan muttered for a few times:
“I want to add a sense of technology to my weapons.”
"No problem," Uncle Tai's eyes shone, "Please let me participate more in the research and development of [Lingtong 071 Project]! Just send me four or five papers and it's enough!" Wang Taoist priest squinted and smiled.
Even though I didn’t understand what it meant, I just laughed.
Due to time constraints, Wang Jixuan could only make a simple modification to his long gun. He added a laser shooting device to the tail of the gun and connected it to a charging backpack. The long gun could be turned upside down and used as a miniature laser cannon.
The disadvantage is that the heat dissipation is not very good.
A sneak attack on blade beasts and psykers is more than enough.
There is still a lot of preparation work ahead, including making talismans and making some more perfect penetrating bone nails.
Wang Jixuan could already feel the tension filling the air.
The soldiers rested briefly at their respective combat posts. Vehicles and drones were shuttled along various supply lines. All kinds of artillery, rockets, and air-dropped bombs that Wang Jixuan had seen in mechanics textbooks could be seen everywhere.
Almost overnight, more than a dozen high-speed electromagnetic guns were added to the entire Expanded Area C. The underground nuclear energy supply station in Expanded Area C can only meet the energy supply of seven electromagnetic guns.
I heard Uncle Tai say that if the energy is not enough after the war, they have various methods, such as using thermal power generation, fuel power generation, etc.
Everyone is worried that they are not prepared enough.
Wang Jixuan seizes the time to improve himself.
He left three crystal cores and released all the spiritual energy in the two crystal cores plus the remaining crystal cores. He took a firm step forward in his cultivation.
The improvement of cultivation also lies in the enhancement of Tao body and soul, which will take some time.
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[From the attack and defense of the fortress: 1 hour and 28 minutes. 】
‘It should be able to be defended. ’
Wang Jixuan thought so, slowly wiped the segmented spears in his hands, wrapped them in cloth and put them aside.
Uncle Tai's shout came from outside the door:
"Holy crap! Where did the second wave of blade beasts come from! The blade beasts were traveling underground, and the number suddenly increased. Now it is estimated that there are 110,000 blade beasts and four generals rushing towards the 76 fortress! No, against one Lingtong, is the Blade Beast so crazy? Or does Lingtong have potential that we haven’t seen yet?”
"Four generals?"
"Ah! Four generals!"
"Where are our reinforcements?"
"The number of reinforcements is unknown. We don't have enough authority and can only see the enemy's intelligence. What I know is that two combat girls came over, as well as mecha troops and air support troops. This time, no blade beasts were detected. Air Force, air superiority is with us!”
"It's hard to say...it feels like the Blade Beast is going crazy."
Sister Wan, who had returned to the supply depot, frowned and said: "If this blade beast is completely wiped out by us, the defense force's front line will be able to advance a considerable distance. Why would they do this?"
Uncle Tai pondered for a few times: "Is it true that the king-level blade beast commanding these blade beasts was beaten by Lingtong before? Is he here to take revenge?"
Wang Jixuan blinked.
Shouldn't it be said that he had given the vertical pupil a Dayan Heart Sword before, and that thing... he had relied on magic power to trigger it, and it had consumed the power of the collected souls. The soul of that bladed beast would surely suffer. Heavy damage.
So Blade Beast went crazy?
No way.
Taoist Wang touched his chin and decisively believed that it was not the poor Taoist who did this. He stood up and walked to the corner closet and slowly opened the door.
Black helmet, black combat uniform, and two buckets of undeactivated turquoise blade beast blood.
While there are still a few hours left, get some more talismans!
Wang Jixuan has tried it before. Using the blood of these blade beasts full of spiritual energy to soak paper and refine the spiritual liquid, he can make talismans that are 40 to 50% more powerful than before.
What's more, he also obtained a thick stack of ancient pulp paper through Lingtong, which has the aura of vegetation.
Buzz, buzz!
The text switch vibrated slightly. Wang Jixuan opened his right hand, and a wisp of breath wrapped around the small square box and flew straight into his hand.
It was a message from Lingtong.
By the way, at Lingtong's suggestion, he and Zhou Zhengde had both changed their remark names. This text switch was a channel that the three of them could see at the same time.
[Lingtong (Chief Long-Legs): The second wave of blade beasts has appeared, and five general-level blade beasts have been discovered. The subsequent battle may be very fierce. It is recommended that Wang Zheng move to the fortress. 】
[Zhou Zhengde (Zhou Yanei): Hurry! Transfer! 】
[Wang Zheng (a decent person): No need for the time being, I can be used as support for Ling Tong's combat force. 】
Sudden.
Wang Jixuan's spiritual sense jumped slightly, and his spiritual consciousness spread out toward the southwest of the camp.
It was about two hundred meters away from him.
In a brightly lit alley, there was a female soldier walking with her head lowered. She did not have a gun on her body, but was holding an engineering shovel.
"You! Stop!"
A group of three soldiers on patrol approached slowly on powered mechas. They stared at the female soldier's back and raised their pistols.
"Raise your hands! Squat down with your head in your hands!"
The female soldier turned her head slightly, and a strange sneer suddenly appeared on her ordinary-looking face.
She suddenly turned around, her body seemed to be torn to pieces, but what was torn apart was only the outer layer of light film, from which suddenly emerged a bladed beast with a body spread of less than two meters!
Its slender body like a praying mantis swayed from side to side.
The three soldiers were about to fire immediately, but before they had time to pull the trigger, the thin light blade flying from the front had already severed the soldier's neck!
Mimetic Blade Beast!
Wang Jixuan grabbed the helmet and was about to put it on, but before he could make the next move, he immediately stopped.
gas.
Mottled Qi.
Two mottled auras quickly approached the spot where the three soldiers were killed.
Spiritual consciousness is barely visible.
The body of the mimic blade beast kept folding and penetrated into a soldier. The soldier slowly stood up wrapped in a layer of light film, and the fluctuations of the blade beast's spiritual power almost disappeared.
At this moment, two figures emerged from the darkness, and one person raised his right hand to the Mimic Blade Beast while floating in the air.
The Mimic Blade Beast turned around and was about to escape, but a strong man with an upper body covered with long hair jumped out from the left. A bear paw slammed down and slapped the Mimic Blade Beast to the ground!
Whoosh!
A rapid whistling sound passed by, and several silver-white spikes shot out, piercing the mouthparts of the mimic blade beast with its own crystal membrane, splattering green blood.
Woohoo——
The alarm sounds loudly at the camp in Expanded Area C!
The red warning light keeps flashing!
Gunfire erupted in several areas at the same time, and more than thirty psykers sent from the front line were sent in pairs and shuttled throughout the camp.
In the dark night, black shadows quickly crawled out of various mines and rushed toward the camp in Expanded Area C.
This is not the herd of blade beasts that has been monitored.
Wang Jixuan raised his eyebrows slightly when he saw this.
He put down the helmet, picked up the nano mask in the box nearby and put it on. The mask adjusted itself, allowing him to temporarily return to the appearance of 'Zhou Tiantian'.
Picking up the text switch, Wang Jixuan replied simply.
[Wang Zheng (a decent person): It’s too late to transfer. I put the text switch here so I can call from my helmet. 】
Anyone who engages in crystal cores through formal channels may be targeted by Thirteen.
This war with the Blade Beast was his best opportunity to stock up on food.
The spiritual power of the mimic blade beasts is slightly stronger than that of ordinary blade beasts. There must be a crystal core of good quality in their bodies.
The war has begun.
[From the attack and defense of the fortress: 1 hour and 23 minutes. 】
(End of chapter)