At the southernmost part of the Middle Continent, there is a beautiful place with lush jungles, colorful flowers, and glowing corals and seas.
Its name is Haiya Province.
It is said that many years ago, the area of this land was larger, and the glowing sea was once a land with a rich city on it.
However, one day something suddenly fell from the sky and wiped it out along with the land under its feet.
Li Jinrong has never really seen what this land looked like before, and only heard a few words from his grandfather.
It is said that two hundred years ago, the glowing sea was even more exaggerated, with azure arcs connected into one, like a burning flame.
It is said that it is the flame of the god of death.
Everyone who saw it died.
Most people migrated to the north with the help of the post-war reconstruction committee, and a few people were still unwilling to leave their hometown even so. After all, the world has been destroyed, so what if they go to the north?
It's all death.
It's better to leave in a dignified way.
When he was very young, Li Jinrong didn't understand why people at that time thought so. How could such a tenacious creature as human beings become extinct because of such a small matter?
Even in a place where grass can't survive, people can survive.
And isn't that the truth?
If those people really died out, how did he come here?
What he didn't understand was not only the despair in the hearts of those who stayed at that time, but also why those people fled. In the eyes of him who was still a child, there was obviously a better way.
"Why don't everyone unite and put out the flames of death?"
He still remembers asking his grandfather this.
However, the always wise old man showed a rare embarrassment on his face when facing this question.
"Not all problems have solutions. Some problems have no solutions at all. Even if some problems have solutions, there are still problems of order..."
"Then, what category does our problem belong to?"
He still remembers that he asked such a thorough question, and his grandfather just answered with a helpless expression.
"Sorry, kid, I don't know either."
What happened two hundred years ago is too far away.
Let alone two hundred years, even if it happened a hundred years, fifty years, or even twenty years ago, if no one deliberately recalls, records, and spreads it...maybe soon no one will remember what happened at that time.
Just like that glowing sea.
Even if it once took the lives of tens of millions of people in an instant, there are still people who will unreasonably worship its vast power and kindness.
But fortunately, the blue arc of light has sunk to the bottom of the sea, and can only be seen in the dark night.
In fact, compared to the origin of the Glowing Sea, the young Li Jinrong was more interested in the post-war reconstruction committee mentioned by his grandfather. In his grandfather's words, that organization seemed to be omnipotent.
Even though Haiya Province did not have a settlement planned by that organization, and even though they thought that the survivors here were a group of "self-destructive" guys, they still did not give up the people who decided to stay.
The signal towers standing in Haiya Province were traces of their presence.
It is said that for a long time, even after the disintegration of the post-war committee, the iron towers were still spreading self-help knowledge to the survivors nearby over and over again, and calling on the residents of shelters everywhere to fulfill their original oaths.
During that time, many good people wearing blue coats appeared in the settlements. The knowledge and tools they brought helped many settlements in Haiya Province live a good life.
The Iron Tower Organization was born at that time.
The locals and residents of the shelters who were helped by the Post-War Reconstruction Committee decided to unite to help more people, end the wasteland on a larger scale, and rebuild the collapsed order.
It can be said that until twenty years ago, the Iron Tower played an important role in Haiya Province.
Li Jinrong could not remember the exact day.
He only remembered that he was still very young at that time. Suddenly, from one day, everyone in the settlement no longer believed in those guys who called themselves Iron Towers, but threw themselves into the arms of the Torch Church.
At first, the Iron Tower left by the War Reconstruction Committee was dismantled and turned into molten steel, and then invisible high walls stood between villages, and settlements became isolated plantations.
He didn't know why it became like this.
He only remembered that it started from that day.
Everything changed...
...
"...It's a mutant."
Holding a telescope in his hand, Li Jinrong, standing on the edge of the hill, looked at the rolling dust raised on the plain several kilometers away, and his eyes narrowed dangerously.
The number is uncertain, at least more than 500, but should not exceed 2,000.
There are quite a few vehicles, and this group of guys is actually a motorized unit - half of the greenskins are sitting on trucks and off-road vehicles, and the other half are running behind them.
Although by the standards of mutants, such discipline and equipment can be regarded as elite, after all, these beasts don't rely on those things to fight, but he still wants to say that these guys don't look like they are going to war, but more like they are rushing to a banquet.
The man leaning against the motorcycle yawned and said.
"Don't these greenskins need to sleep? They are still hanging around outside at three in the morning."
The man's name is Xiao Yue, a subordinate of Li Jinrong. He and he were rescued by the Alliance's plane that night.
Lao Li suspected that there was a traitor in the organization, so he did not go to join the organization.
Although he felt that Lao Li was a little oversensitive, after all, he was still a partner who had been through life and death together, but he was really worried about this guy acting alone, so he followed Lao Li and stayed.
In the past few days, they have been hanging around the Qi tribe, investigating clues about the Holy Land in various settlements, and also cooperating with the people of the alliance to collect some information about the Torch Church and.
Those guys in the north are very generous.
You can even exchange food and ammunition with their intelligence.
If it weren't for the fact that the Torch Church also came from the north, and Qingquan City was called a holy land by those crazy people, Lao Li might have a slightly more amiable view of the wastelanders in the north.
"... They are obviously not just hanging around outside. So many guys are going out together, they must have a clear goal."
Putting down the telescope in his hand, Li Jinrong took out the map and unfolded it. His index finger moved along the grid line for a while, and soon stopped on a red circle, and his brows frowned.
He whispered in his mouth.
"Songguomu Farm."
Hearing the name of Songguomu Farm, Xiao Yue couldn't help but sigh.
That was their first stop when they arrived in Jinhe City, and it successfully contracted all his bad impressions of the settlements in this area.
The arrogant farmer didn't even see them once, and drove them away without saying anything, and shouted that Songguomu Farm only negotiated cooperation with truly powerful forces and didn't need them, homeless people who didn't even have a home.
"Those guys are hopeless. This is a mutant force of one or two thousand. The soldiers in that settlement may not add up to that many... I even doubt that those few people are not enough for those mutants to eat."
"Whether it's useful or not, we have to notify them, at least let them prepare a little."
Back on his motorcycle, Li Jinrong started the engine and looked at Xiao Yue and said.
"Are you going with me, or staying here?"
Xiao Yue sighed and turned over and sat on the motorcycle.
"Although I think you are wasting your energy... never mind, I'll walk with you for a while."
Li Jinrong grinned and twisted the handlebars of the motorcycle.
The thick tailpipe spewed out black smoke, and just as he was about to drive down the slope, a dull roar suddenly came from the sky.
He looked up at the dark night sky.
Through the gaps in the black clouds, he could vaguely see a series of cross-shaped black shadows with the help of a little moonlight.
Xiao Yue, who was following him, also noticed the abnormality above his head, and muttered to himself while looking at the sky.
"...What is that?"
Li Jinrong also wanted to know what it was.
His Adam's apple moved slightly, and just as he was about to speak, he saw the dark crosses break away from the edge of the clouds and rush towards the mutants on the plain under the cover of the night.
With such a big noise coming from the sky, the mutants obviously also noticed the abnormality above their heads, and the convoy driving on the plain was in a commotion for a moment.
Standing half of his body on the off-road vehicle, the burly Kuru looked up at the sky, frowned, and his sharp fangs leaked out from his mouth.
The buzzing sound made him feel a sense of threat instinctively.
However, at this moment, he obviously did not realize the seriousness of the problem - what does it mean for a marching army to encounter an air raid on the plain.
Just as he was stunned, the cross flying in the sky began to dive towards the ground, accompanied by the piercing whistle of the buzzer, and threw bombs to the ground one by one.
Hundreds of kilograms of bombs rained in the air, and balls of fire exploded on the plain in an instant.
The blast overturned trucks one by one, and the mutant warriors on the carriages were either killed on the spot or thrown out by the overturned trucks.
The mutants who were stunned by the explosion had no idea what was happening, especially those who were following the truck and breathing in the exhaust. They saw the truck being blown away while panting.
Some mutants thought they had awakened some incredible ability and blew the truck away in one breath. It was not until the next second that they saw almost all the trucks were blown up that they realized it was an enemy attack.
Unbelievable expressions appeared on every ugly green face.
The moon came out from the west!
Someone actually dared to take the initiative to cause trouble for them!
And they beat them so badly right away!
Most of the survivors on this land were weaklings, since they were born. Those two-legged animals have always been chased by them. Even if they occasionally took out one or two powerful treasures, they would be quickly snatched away by them. This was the first time they saw such a scary thing, and so many of them appeared at once.
No——
It can't be said to be the first time.
In fact, they had experienced the Alliance's missiles as early as that night, but no one took that weak thing seriously.
After all, not many people were killed at that time, and the strong mutants shook their heads and climbed up.
The disastrous defeat that Oger suffered later obviously did not let them learn any lessons. They just thought that guy was a coward who couldn't even deal with a group of weak human things, and didn't dare to come back after the failure.
Facing the planes that they couldn't reach, the mutants who were stunned by the bombing had big confusion on their faces.
This thing couldn't be reached, and it couldn't be aimed accurately.
They didn't know what to do for a while.
At the same time, above the night sky.
After the W-2s completed the dive bombing, they pulled up their noses and returned to a safe height to prepare for the next dive.
"Hahaha! It's so fucking exciting!" Sitting on one of the planes, Mosquito looked at the flames blooming on the ground behind him excitedly, his face flushed with excitement.
Since the war in Luoxia Province came to an end, he, a pilot, has no place to use his skills, and he has been running to join the fun of professional players.
Later, he was tricked by his teammates and blew up the kitchen in the barracks.
This time, the brothers of the next regiment made the mistake, and he finally had to clean up the mess.
He finally got the chance to play!
The communication channel was whirring, and Feng Qing's voice came soon.
"... Captain, what should we do next? Go back for supplies or?"
Mosquito smiled.
"Supply? What the hell! Beat it with the machine gun!"
"But it's too dark and I can't see anything on the ground."
Even if flares are thrown, the visual range is quite limited.
Without the cooperation of ground troops, a simple air strike is indeed a bit difficult.
Feng Qing estimated that only about a hundred mutants were killed in the dive bombing just now.
As for the minor and serious injuries, there is no need to count them. After all, with the mutants' recovery ability, most of them can recover as long as they are not killed on the spot.
Of course, killing a hundred is not bad.
At least their first goal has been achieved - paralyzing the vehicles of the mutants and preventing the green beasts from marching towards the Pine Cone Farm.
As long as the mutant troops lose their mobility, even if they don't die many, the pressure on the friendly forces of the Pine Cone Farm will be much less.
Mosquito obviously knows this, and their mission has been completed.
However -
It is too unlike his style to call it a day after completing the mission.
"It doesn't matter! It doesn't matter if you can't see it, just draw a picture of the approximate position for me and it'll be done! Brothers, follow me! Gaga gaga——"
With a presumptuous and strange laugh, Mosquito held the joystick and swung it to the side, turning the nose of the plane to kill again, and fired a burst of machine guns at the ground.
At the same time, on the ground where he fired a burst of machine guns, the mutants who were stunned by the explosion finally came to their senses and began to scatter to avoid the planes that turned around and killed them.
Looking at the small flies flying all over the sky and the burning steel slag on the ground, Kuru, who was standing on the off-road vehicle, hated it so much that he almost bit his teeth to pieces.
Forty armed trucks!
He had robbed more than a dozen caravans to get all the equipment, and just this round of explosions destroyed more than half of it!
His heart seemed to be bleeding, and he roared to the sky in anger.
"Kulu! Fire! Everyone, fire! Shoot down those noisy sparrows!"
Blinded by anger, he grabbed the machine gun welded to the roof with both hands and fired at the night sky.
The thick flames and bullets chased the rear of the plane, and the tracers in the sky looked scary, but he didn't know that the gun flames had exposed his position.
There was no sign at all.
The 20mm machine gun was faster than the gunshot, and almost at the moment he heard the whistling sound, a string of bullets had already been nailed to the car under him.
Huge bullet holes climbed from the hood of the off-road vehicle all the way to the muddy trunk. The driver in the front seat was killed on the spot by the whistling bullets, and then his deputy sitting in the back seat.
"Ah——!"
The muddy flesh and blood splashed in the car, and Kuru was also in trouble in the blood rain. The machine gun in his hand was shot into scraps.
Fell out of the out-of-control off-road vehicle, Kuru screamed and was about to curse, but saw that his car had not driven far away, and was hit by a plane chasing it and sweeping it randomly, and it was stranded in the wilderness and exploded into a ball of sparks.
A wisp of hot sweat rolled down the caterpillar-like eyebrows to the ground. Kuru's Adam's apple moved, and he finally realized that he had saved his life.
He struggled to get up from the ground and saw the half arm that fell beside him. He subconsciously stretched out his right hand to pick it up, but saw the remaining half that was lifted up.
The pain that gradually came to his senses crawled along the wound and spread all over his body. The hideous and twisted green face instantly twisted into a ball.
Looking up at the messy battlefield around him and the countless mutant soldiers who were killed and injured in an instant, he could no longer suppress his anger.
"Ahhh!
!"
At the same time, the Mosquito, which had completed a round of strafing, pulled up the nose of the plane again.
Looking back at the surface where the fire was flickering sporadically, a trace of surprise appeared on his face. Even though he had seen all kinds of weird opponents, he was also a little surprised at the courage of these green guys.
"Good guy..."
Firing a gun into the sky is okay.
Is this because they are afraid that his eyesight is not good and he can't find where to shoot?
...
On the other side, next to the hills several kilometers away.
Looking at the flames blooming on the plain in the distance and the mutant soldiers fleeing in all directions in amazement, Xiao Yue couldn't help swallowing his saliva and finally squeezed out a word from his throat.
"...It's the Alliance's plane."
Li Jinrong half opened his mouth, didn't say anything, just stared straight at the plain.
He had heard earlier that an organization called the Alliance had fought with the Legion in the northwest, but he had no specific concept of either the Alliance or the Legion.
Now he understood.
The noisy rain of fire left an indelible impression in his heart.
The mutant army, which was murderous and arrogant a second ago, was instantly engulfed in a sea of fire, and the green beasts who survived by chance fled desperately under the flying tracers.
Seeing that there was no sound for a long time, Xiao Yue looked at Lao Li on the side and said with difficulty.
"...Do we still need to go to that farm?"
This seemed to be nonsense.
Li Jinrong was silent for a long time and nodded.
"Let's go."
Of course.
This was not for reporting or anything. Those people obviously already knew about this group of mutants leaving the city, so there was no need for them to report.
The interesting part was why this group of mutants rushed to the Pine Cone Farm in the middle of the night, and why the Alliance's plane appeared above the heads of the mutants.
As we all know, the Pine Cone Farm is the sphere of influence of the Torch Church, and the Qi Tribe is an ally of the church.
Li Jinrong vaguely guessed something, and a trace of joy surged in his heart.
Could it be that the Alliance officially sent troops to the Torch Church? !
This is great news...
...
Pine Cone Farm.
The brainwashing of the mind interference device has been lifted, but the chaos in the settlement is far from over.
However, the players who stayed in the settlement at this moment had no time to take care of those crazy guys. Some of them stayed in the annex, and some of them, led by Brother Ye Shi, went to the church in the settlement.
"Open the door! FBI! Bah, send warmth!"
Kicking the half-closed door open, the Kidney Fighter with a rifle rushed in first, sweeping around with murderous intent.
Looking at the guy with only half of his body, the pastor hiding in the church was frightened on the spot. The grenade that was originally used to die together fell to the ground, and the pull ring was forgotten.
He didn't know anything.
The people outside suddenly went crazy and bit anyone they saw.
At this critical moment, the respected apostle disappeared, and the gunshots outside were like firecrackers. He was immediately frightened and didn't know what to do except pray.
Seeing the pastor huddled in a corner of the church, the murderous dagger strode forward with two fists like excavators, and the two big fists stuck next to him, grinning and saying.
"Where is the apostle here? The apostle of the Torch Church, don't play dumb and say you don't know."
"I, I--" The pastor trembled and couldn't squeeze out a word for a long time.
"Don't talk nonsense with him."
Ye Shi walked in front of him, poked the muzzle of the gun on his forehead, stared into his eyes and said.
"Tell me, where is the basement of this church?"
"I, I'll take you there."
Pointed at by the black muzzle of the gun, the pastor still didn't have the courage to keep a secret, and tremblingly led a group of people to the basement of the church.
It was pitch black here.
Just as the Kidney Fighter was about to take out the flashlight, Quitting found the button on the wall and pressed it, and the dark basement was illuminated by the incandescent light.
Embarrassedly put the flashlight back, the Kidney Fighter coughed and said.
"Is there really an underground passage here?"
This seems to be just an ordinary study room, about seven or eight square meters, with two bookshelves and a table on the wall, and there is nothing on the table.
Ye Shi looked at the pastor standing beside him, who turned pale at his sight and shook his head like a rattle.
"I, I don't know, this is the study room of the Apostle... I have only been here a few times."
"Generally speaking, you have to find the mechanism to open the door..."
Quit Smoking touched his chin, squatted beside the empty table, and looked around, but he didn't find any way after a long time.
Seeing him fiddling with the bookshelf again, Murder Dagger couldn't stand it anymore, and he squeaked and walked forward with his hands and feet.
"Get out of the way, I'm coming!"
Quit Smoking subconsciously stepped back and glanced at this guy.
"What do you want to do?"
"Hey, is there any need to ask? Great strength can make miracles happen!"
The Killer's Dagger chuckled. He had installed this exoskeleton for so long, and finally found a chance to use it.
Without saying anything, he raised his fist like an excavator and smashed it against the wall with all his strength.
The punch was indeed heavy enough, but the wall was not made of mud after all, and it bounced back with a dull sound.
The wall plaster was stripped off, and even the cement underneath was broken, but the wall did not move at all, without any reaction. However, from the sound, it was known that the wall behind was probably solid, and even if there was a secret door, it could not be here.
Seeing a pair of eyes staring at him, the Killer felt embarrassed, coughed, wanted to scratch his head, looked at his hand and gave up.
"Uh... not this side, I'll try another wall."
He also realized that this method was a bit unwise, but the problem was that he had already pretended to be so arrogant. If he turned back now, he would be a bit embarrassed.
Seeing that Brother Shabi then walked towards another wall, the Night Ten people standing at the door were dumbfounded.
"Fuck... what if you don't find the door and block the passage?!"
And if there is a trap-
Before he finished speaking, the iron pot-sized fist had already hit the wall, but this time it was different from the past. There was a crack under the broken wall plaster.
Seeing this, Shabi was shocked and said happily.
"There is something behind!"
He raised his fist and was about to smash it, when suddenly there was a noisy sound outside the basement.
The player guarding outside shouted loudly.
"... Don't move! Put down the gun!"
As he spoke, there were two gunshots.
Before the gunshots rang out, Ye Shi had already rushed out, and the other players followed closely behind him.
After a while, the gunshots outside stopped,
The voices of teammates came from the communication channel.
"The man has been caught... The guy came directly from the main entrance of the church and ran into me, hehe."
"Good guy, after all this time, their news is half a beat slower than our mission, and they haven't even entered the tunnel yet..."
"Four apostles!"
"Caught a big fish!"
"Who will go back to the annex? Let Lao Bai turn off the mind interference device, the intermittent signal is too uncomfortable!"
Just...
Cleared the game?
Listening to the voices of teammates in the communication channel, the murderous dagger standing by the wall was confused, and it took a long time to squeeze out a word from his mouth.
"Chao!"