That night, the ruined outpost of Gray Embankment collapsed.
Among the broken bones and armor on the ground, players were still using searchlights to grab the corpses and divide the loot. In the dark and deep canyon ahead, the Ancient's earth-shaking roar exploded again!
"Damn it, don't you guys need to go offline to drink water?!"
A shieldman who had just pulled out the broken spear from the Tier Two insect corpse looked up in shock. He was still biting half of the high-energy nutritional paste in his mouth. He even forgot to stuff the fine armor he just picked up into his backpack.
Under the vast darkness of the night, a group of gray and white giants covered in blood stepped on the gravel and charged Berserk. The injured and exhausted guards retreated calmly at the fork, and another group of fresh troops covered with Bone Shield took advantage of the situation to take over like Steel Torrent, and the heavy step of advancement did not pause for half a second.
A hundred meters away, two giant heavy feet thicker than buckets and covered with black barbs just tried to grab the ledge to break out, when they were hit by a gray-white iron fist carrying tens of thousands of tons of wind pressure!
Boom!!
The carapace exploded, two severed legs were broken violently, and rubble rained down on Abyss.
[Vanguard Across the Realm] put [Origin Fang] back into the sheath, wiped off the black blood on the eyepiece, and looked sharply:
"The dike in front has just been broken, and the insect swarm is retreating. If we breathe a sigh of relief at this time, the ground line in front will soon be taken back by the returning insect swarm."
[Thunder King] looked back at the logistics carrier that was slowly pushed in along the outer stone path, raised his arms and shouted:
"After changing the ammunition at full status, keep up! If you need to change shifts and go offline, hurry up and hand over at the anchor point of the defense line! The logistics team stabilizes the supply line, and no one can leave alone and go deep!"
"The ugly words are ahead - step on gravel and take the hard road! If anyone dares to step on the golden living body Divine Membrane, I will personally send him to sit on the resurrection bench for half an hour!!"
Amid cheers and laughter, the army marched off again.
Separated by a dry cliff tens of meters deep, [Tom Pie] tore off the old bandage on his shoulder that had been stuck to death by blood. Looking at the hideous wound with rolled flesh below, he couldn't help but take a breath:
"Hiss... the bones of these Abyss bastards are so damn hard."
He patted on the First Regiment biochemical hemostatic gel without expression, wrapped it tightly with a high-pressure bandage again, and shook his right arm. The pain-sensing nerves were pulling, but the opening and closing of the claws were not affected.
"Tom, can you follow me over there?" [Thunder King] asked from the headset.
"Nonsense, I'll take the outer ring elevated highway and keep an eye on Tianling Gai for you."
[Tom Pie] Both claws were like steel drills piercing into the cracks of the hard weathered stone, and his body was like an arrow leaving the string, climbing up the dark mountain ridge higher up.
Three days later, the northern edge of Liver Region and Primordial Tissue folds.
"Fuck! That's the mark I put up, don't grab the monster!!"
Accompanied by a furious roar, several Tier-Two Hard-Shell Kinfolks tried to escape along the rock cracks, but were nailed to the stone wall by the enchanted heavy spears that were fired at them! The Tier Twos behind them were as heavy as a mountain. Mecha stepped forward brazenly, and the mechanical giant foot weighing several tons crushed the tail of the last one with one kick. With a backhand Mountain-Splitting Heavy Axe, the entire insect head was split open on the spot!
Dark green and fishy body fluids sprayed on the corrosion-resistant partitions, making a sizzling sound.
"Whoever picks it up is the one who gets it! Ma Liu dragged it away, and the supply carrier from behind is here!!"
Laughter, curses and noise echoed in the dark passage.
During these three days, the guild's vanguard army pushed crazily along the vast and magnificent biochemical folds of the god's body. The road signs placed high along the way were like beacons in the darkness, completely lighting up the entire battle corridor.
Players take turns to go offline to sleep, and then take over along the marked road after coming online. Narrow cliff sections are still transported by pieces, and roads that can pass people are connected first, and heavy vehicles have to wait for subsequent widening.
Players have thoroughly understood the fighting rhythm of these ancient bosses.
The Ancient Legion never looks at the tactical sandbox, nor does they listen to the player's instructions. They only accept death - as long as they find that Abyssal Parasite dares to contaminate the dark gold Divine Vein behind them, they will just use the shield, get close, and tear it apart with bare hands!
By the third day, the tacit understanding between the two parties had reached its peak.
The gray-white giant is responsible for serving as an unrivaled breaking tank;
Fourth Calamity, on the other hand, pulled up dragnets on both wings and the rear, accurately harvesting the defeated Tier Two troops who had been driven out of the bunker, and left the main force in the front when they encountered Tier Three!
On the towering stone ridge, [Tom Pie] watched his experience bar moving forward steadily, casually shaking off the pieces of meat between his fingers.
After changing the dressing in the past three days, the bloody mouth on the shoulder has closed up, and there is still pain after exerting a lot of force. A small amount of freshly killed Tier Two homologous flesh and blood replenished part of the consumption, but failed to satisfy the hunger at the bottom of the stomach.
He swallowed his dry throat, suppressed the surging hunger in his stomach, and was about to climb down the ridge, but his eyes froze in a fractured basin below without any warning.
Below, a dozen Tier-Two Mutant are falling into an extremely strange panic.
They did not choose to escape to the open and gentle biochemical plain, but instead squeezed like crazy into a weathered slit full of sharp barbs. Some even huge adults turned back ferociously and bit off the limbs of the same kind, just to fight for a gap where they could fit themselves into the slit!
The flat road is right next to it.
But they... would rather be scratched to pieces by the gravel than dare to step even half a step onto that slope!
"Everyone in the front row brakes! Stop!!"
[Tom Pie] Suddenly pressed the tactical headset, and the whole person was like a gecko clinging to the shady corner of the cliff, his pupils tightened:
"There is a big cargo blocking the road."
"Big product? What level is it?" [Vanguard Across the Realm] asked calmly from the headset.
"I don't know... but the slope is full of broken shells."
His eyes swept across the plain.
The broad slope was densely covered with crushed exoskeleton residue, and black slime was dragged along the weathered rock wall all the way to the top of the mountain. The air was filled with suffocating bloody violence, and bursts of dull... chewing sounds that echoed like thunder!
Click.
Click, click!
It was a Tier Three Heavy-armored Behemoth whose hind legs were smashed by the Ancient. It was using its front paws to desperately climb backwards on the slope. There was a huge punch dent deep in the bone on its back armor, and a large puff of black blood spurted out every inch it moved.
And the direction in which it was retreating and fleeing at this moment turned out to be the Taniguchi where the Ancient was coming to kill!
It would rather go back and face the iron fist of the gods than step onto the top of the slope!
Phew--!
Without any warning, a deformed gray-black arthropod that was more than thirty meters long and covered with dense suckers and barbs tore through the fog and shot out across the sky!
Poof!!
The sharp inverted bone spurs came from top to bottom, like skewers, pinning the struggling Tier Three Fiend on the spot!
The giant insect let out a miserable howl of despair, and several of its legs dug out a string of dazzling sparks on the hard stone ground. However, the giant leg just rolled inward lightly, like dragging a dead dog, dragging the behemoth weighing dozens of tons into the rolling thick fog on the mountain top!
Click--!!
The crisp sound of bones exploding makes your scalp numb!
The dense fog was pushed away to both sides by the heavy air pressure.
A twisted, aberrant body with a body length of more than thirty meters, like a moving flesh and blood fortress, slowly squeezed out of the darkness!
Its four load-bearing legs, as thick as giant pillars, are deeply embedded in the rock formations. The overlapping exoskeletons are like collapsed obsidian eaves, tightly covering its drooping belly that is almost hanging on the ground. Its face is deeply sunken into the chest cavity, and at the junction of its head and chest, there is a huge mouth of Abyss that occupies half of the body and is covered with three layers of ring-shaped bones and teeth!
The two long predatory limbs folded on the front open and close to bring the prey to the mouth.
The huge mouth bites slowly!
Click----Crack!!
The Tier Three Heavy-armored Behemoth was bitten into two pieces from the center on the spot!
The black and red plasma coated the internal organ fragments and gushed down like a waterfall along the hard seams of the armor. The monster's huge belly expanded violently in a large circle at the moment of swallowing. The severed limbs that were originally rolled outside were crushed by the bones and teeth, and disappeared into the huge mouth with the last swallow!
[Calamity Kin·Swarm-Eater Beast(LV.76, Tier Three)]
On the high-altitude stone beam, [Tom Pie] held his breath, Tactical Visor stretched the focus to the limit and locked on the lower edge of the monster's side ribs.
There was a tearing wound several meters long.
However, as the flesh and blood of the same kind was devoured in large mouths, the gray-white flesh at the edge of the wound was squirming violently like boiling water, and the everted muscles were shrinking little by little in the mucus. The deep wound... was actually stopping the bleeding and narrowing at a speed visible to the naked eye!!
The broken deck has not yet healed, and the deep gap has not disappeared, but the leakage of blood has decreased a lot.
[Tom Pie] is so familiar with this routine of replenishing consumption by devouring flesh and blood from the same source!
"Dharma King! Brother Feng! Look at the shared screen!"
[Tom Pie] Eyes twitching, voice hoarse and cold:
"This bastard... isn't trying to defend at all!"
"What the hell... it's eating its own defeated soldiers as blood packets!!"
[Thunder King] took a breath of cold air. "Eating a deserter will restore your health on the spot?! What kind of hellish self-healing trick is this?!"
"Weld all the branches upward for me!"
[Vanguard Across the Realm]'s voice was instantly cold and bone-chilling, with overwhelming murderous intent. "Send the order to the entire army! Tier Two broke up and killed them on the spot. Drag the corpses far away. Don't bombard Living Membrane with heavy firepower! Never allow half a bug to climb up that slope!!"
"Roar----!!"
Berserk's God of War roar exploded from the foot of the mountain the moment he finished speaking!
A heavy shield of pure bone weighing ten thousand kilograms whizzed out from the rocks like a meteor, carrying a sonic boom, and crashed onto the giant foot of Swarm-Eater Beast!
Bang!!
The armor shattered!
The 20-meter-long Warlord with half a black thorn on his left shoulder crushed the sky full of bone fragments. The blood scab from the new injury on his shoulder burst open with force. His fists brought Berserk's strong wind and smashed into Swarm-Eater Beast's ugly head like a meteorite falling to the ground!
The impact of Berserk instantly dispersed the thick death fog rolling on the top of the slope!
And at the edge of the rolling fog -
[Tom Pie], who was lying high on the cliff, subconsciously looked past the huge body of the beast and towards the hidden cliff plain behind the hillside.
The next second, his breathing... completely stopped.
The sound of water.
It was cold, dead, viscous water with a putrid stench, which was endlessly lapping at the steep obsidian shore.
And deep in the gap in the thick fog in the distance--
A huge broken beam inserted diagonally deep into the cliff vaguely revealed its familiar ferocious outline;
Under the broken beam, there are the remains of South Slope Bone Platform that were scorched black by the fire, as well as several player engineering searchlights that were bright and dark in the morning light and flashing cheerfully!
[Tom Pie]'s pupils swelled to the extreme at this moment!
That cut beam...
That broken beam he lay on and inspected repeatedly!!
"Quick! Synchronize the big map immediately!!"
[Tom Pie] shouted at the communicator almost like a broken voice:
"Call Black Pool south bank left-behind brigade! Report your visual signals due north!!"
On the sand table, the route left over from the three days of actual measurements has been returned to the old map, and is being checked one by one with the coordinates returned from the south bank -
In the past three days, they followed the Ancient army over the mountains and along the cliffs to create a large semicircle on the vast land of meridians that was dozens of kilometers deep!
And now!
They are standing condescendingly, standing directly above this Abyss Black Pool, a high platform on the north shore that they have never set foot on before!!
Zizzi--
In the headset, the trembling and ecstatic screams of the garrison captain on the south bank tore through the sky:
"Yes!! We saw the lights on the North Peak!!"
"You... Damn it!! You bought the bottom from the rear and went straight to the other side of Black Pool?!"
The strong wind roared, blowing away the gunpowder smoke in the sky.
[Tom Pie] Slowly straightened up, facing the vast wind, overlooking the dark dead pool that once enveloped him like a nightmare every long night, the ferocious smile on the corner of his mouth bloomed uncontrollably in the world.
Thunder breaks the dawn, and the gods step on.
Rows of Mecha searchlights and bone gun flames formed a blazing rainbow on the ramp behind them!
[Tom Pie] Both claws popped out slowly, with a murderous look in his eyes:
"Got you..."
He licked the blood from his lips and shouted to the sky:
"--You bastards, open your eyes wide and take a look!"
"This time... I have brought thousands of troops... back to raid your whole family!!"