Chapter 625 Brave Padu, Not Afraid of Difficulties

"Boom--"

"Boom--"

"Boom--"

The earth was wailing, but the humans living on it were not too panicked, only because such vibrations had existed for nearly two hours, and also because... their duty was to use their lives to stop the vibrations that had swept across half of the old continent here, and prevent them from going to the more densely populated east.

If you want to ask why, perhaps it is simply because they want to protect their hometown.

The military green tents and camouflage nets with sparse grass leaves were trembling gently. It was not just the collapse that caused the earth to shake, but the countless collapse beasts and the thousand-meter-tall giants, as well as humans themselves.

One tank and armored vehicle after another drove into the earth pit that looked like a grave with a roar. These heavy weapons that should have been galloping on the plains were now fixed in large and small "ambush positions" and used as fixed artillery positions. The crew members climbed out of the armor protection one by one, and the gunner fired the first shell by pulling the ignition cord. After confirming that the gun was safe and usable, the crew members returned to the armor protection without saying a word - although everyone knew that these defenses that could block ordinary human weapons would not be much stronger than a layer of paper in the next war.

The arrival of the helicopter formation made the sky noisy, but they only circled over the position for two weeks before returning - this was just a preview of the next defensive battle. Each helicopter formation must be familiar with the specific location and situation of the defense position that was divided into countless parts, so as to provide timely and accurate support when needed.

The infantry company marched forward in neat steps amid the shouts of "one, two, one" and the sharp whistles. After reaching the designated position, accompanied by a few brief speeches from the officers, a complete company was directly dismantled into nearly a hundred two-man tactical teams. The sergeants carried guns and one or two rocket launchers on their backs, crouched and leaped forward two steps, and soon completely disappeared in the endless Gobi Desert.

Su Shang stood between the military tents, watching the staff officers with folders under their arms walking around, and occasionally watching the soldiers with live ammunition disperse into the Gobi Desert from the more distant passages. The voices alone were enough to make her ears drink a pot, but there were also the debugging sounds of various electronic instruments, and the alarms that sounded and disappeared like a convulsion of radar...

But for some reason, she still felt that everything in front of her was too quiet.

It was so quiet that she felt a little panicked.

Was she the only one who was so panicked?

Looking at the sunset falling obliquely in the mountains in the distance, Su Shang couldn't help but think of something that had nothing to do with the war in front of her - what was Luosha doing at this moment? Speaking of it, the pressure on his side would be much greater than that of Dongfang, but he only sent a deployment map through private contact and said nothing more.

Did he think from the bottom of his heart that she could complete this task, so there was no need to say more, or was the situation so urgent that he didn't have time to say more?

Because she didn't know the specific situation, and the local arrangements were also complicated, Su Shang didn't think of contacting Otto to find out the situation until now.

But it seemed unnecessary to contact.

She believed in the man's ability. Since he only gave her the deployment map, it meant that all she had to do was to guard the current defense line and block all dangers outside Shenzhou. This was the best help for Luosha... It should be like this.

However, compared to Luosha, who was still somewhat contactable, the master and senior Paduo were silent.

Did something happen to the Herrscher of Knowledge? Or did the excessive concentration of collapse energy in Central Asia block the transmission of signals?

Today's weather is clear, but it's a pity that everything in the distance still looks so blurry.

However, the master's strength is enough to protect himself. The photos they took before seemed to be in Europe, but with the master's seemingly cold-hearted personality, once he finds something wrong, he will definitely return to Shenzhou as quickly as possible. Maybe he will arrive soon - Su Shang can't tell whether this is a rational analysis or a wishful self-consolation.

Sure enough, she is not the type who is good at thinking.

Taking a deep breath, Su Shang looked at the soldiers who kept their heads down and said nothing, just silently executing orders, and suddenly remembered that, like herself, most of them were just on the battlefield for the first time.

Even more, she had brushed shoulders with death countless times in five hundred years, and these children who were too young compared to her had not even reached the age of thinking about what death was.

After realizing this, Su Shang saw the abnormality of the soldiers' footsteps when they ran. The footsteps of the boots were heavy enough, but the knees seemed quite unnatural when they bent, either too quickly or unable to bend. She knew that it was a sign that people unconsciously tightened their joints to the point where they could not move freely under tension.

Yes, their silence was not out of courage, but because they were afraid that once they opened their mouths, they would expose their fear and confusion. So they just kept silent, and numbed themselves by strictly obeying the orders of the officers and performing extremely standard tactical actions. They recalled the slogans of the past and the key points of every action they had made on the training ground in the past. Only in this way could the brain temporarily get rid of the shadow of death, although they also knew that such thinking was meaningless to the monsters that were coming.

She also saw the trembling, pale lips of many soldiers. With her hearing, she only needed a thought to know what those soldiers were mumbling. But she would not do that, because everyone needs some space. There is no need to do that, because they have come here, they have proved that they will not simply succumb to fear...

Yes, no matter who this person is, it is impossible to get rid of [fear] at the end of life.

But fear and courage are not contradictory, and they often appear together, just like these soldiers at this moment.

They are afraid of death. They know that they are about to face an enemy that may not be defeated at all, so they are afraid... Fear to the extreme.

But it is precisely because of the extreme fear, and because they have fully experienced the taste of death, that courage comes with it.

Because I don’t want the people I care about to feel this fear, because I don’t want people who should not bear the responsibility of "soldiers" to feel this fear, because I don’t want humans other than myself to feel this fear... So, fear in turn becomes the food of courage, because the so-called essence of human beings is to sacrifice their lives for something that is not for me.

So, there is more than just fear in that silence.

Su Chang walked silently.

Turning the corner of the tent, she happened to run into six or seven officers who were smoking together.

Each of them looked full of thoughts, but no one spoke tacitly. They just stared at the ground under their feet and sucked hard on their cigarette holders, one after another, until all the cigarettes they had were smoked out, leaving cigarette butts and packaging boxes on the ground, then they waved to each other, or bumped fists, and walked in different directions.

Su Chang's figure hid in the corner of the tent and did not disturb them.

Walking a few steps forward, she came to a very large tent.

The guard holding a gun saluted her, and she just nodded, then lifted the curtain and walked in.

The tent was full of the sound of keyboard tapping and the "beep beep" alarm. Dozens of computers were neatly placed on both sides. In the middle of the venue was a huge 3D projection sand table. Behind the sand table, at the innermost part of the tent, was a huge screen made up of dozens of LCD screens. It was playing the pictures taken by the fighter formation taking off from the front-line airport at the risk of their lives. Because the accumulation of Honkai energy distorted the space, light and shadow, and disordered the electric charge, satellites, high-flying reconnaissance aircraft, and long-distance controlled drones were all useless waste. In the end, they could only rely on the lives and courage of the pilots to bring back intelligence.

One thousand-meter-tall headless giants formed an unbreakable wall. The armor made of Honkai beast corpses on their bodies completely ignored the missiles and guided bombs of the fighters. They just mechanically stepped forward and flattened everything on this land. Even the Zhagros Mountains, which was the end of the long plain, disappeared from the map along with the 100,000 troops, 13 A-level Valkyries, and 78 B-level Valkyries on the defense line.

Even the layers of hills on the Yilan Plateau could not stop the enemy's footsteps, but it was only the [earth] that was flattened.

Because the humans on the earth had died in the hands of the Honkai beasts without exception before the giant's foot stepped on them.

Every once in a while, countless white tracks would rise from the desert in the northwest of Shenzhou or the gullies in the southwest. After spending a short time in the sky, they would fall into the Honkai beasts like meteors.

However, such attacks could only destroy some smaller Honkai beasts. The lower-level Honkai beasts of ten meters and twenty meters were also completely destroyed after more than ten consecutive rounds of attacks, but the larger ones were beyond the reach of missiles.

And was the destruction of those small Honkai beasts meaningful? Judging from the images sent back by the fighter jets, Honkai beasts of various sizes grew quickly like leeks on the land ravaged by Honkai, and quickly caught up with the large army.

Moreover, the Herrscher in the Tower of Babel seemed to have mastered some of the power of the imaginary side. More than once, fighter jets have filmed the space being torn apart, and the hundred-meter-high Honkai beasts caught up with the main force through the passage on the imaginary side.

That's right, the Herrscher in the tower should have realized the uselessness of ordinary lower-level Honkai beasts, and is constantly increasing the number of giant Honkai beasts in this way. According to the results observed so far, the number of relatively short hundred-meter-level Honkai beasts heading east, as if being chased and driven by giants, has exceeded one thousand. Compared with the initial number, this number has increased dozens of times.

Although these huge Honkai beasts may even be killed instantly in front of the elite A-level Valkyries, the total number of Valkyries is only three thousand. Asia is still the area with the least deployment of Valkyries due to the existence of Shenzhou. Now, there are only five A-level Valkyries and more than forty B-level Valkyries who have joined this line of defense and accepted Su Shang's leadership.

Fortunately, there are still enough Taixu disciples and knights in Shenzhou...

"General Wang."

Thinking of this, the girl suddenly called out to the middle-aged man who was frowning and writing and drawing on a piece of paper. Come to think of it, the general that the master met in Mobei was also named Wang. Is it just a coincidence? Or is history just repeating itself?

"Ah - it's Immortal Feiguang, you actually came to our... Uh, forget it, I won't say these polite words, but a new situation has arisen?"

Shaking her head to throw away those meaningless thoughts, Su Chang nodded again:

"I moved my sword around this world. The terrain here looks like many river valleys and some mountain ranges. Even those thousand-meter-tall giants would have a hard time walking across them. So I still persisted. When the railgun is too late to be in place, I should be allowed to take the lead with the Valkyries and Knights, and then the mecha troops will separate the battlefield. You can use a large number of armor-piercing bullets to provide fire support in the rear, aim at those giants and hit them hard!

"Judging from the information sent back now, the defense of those giants is inferior to that of the 100-meter-tall Honkai beasts. It's not impossible to smash their legs with your armor-piercing bullets. And we will use Honkai The corpses of beasts block the river valley and buy more time."

"I understand, I understand, Feiguang Immortal, if there is a choice, who wants to sacrifice his soldiers in vain? It's just... behind our soldiers is the South Asian subcontinent, which has been breached, at least from my standpoint It is within the acceptable category, but if all the immortals like you are harmed here, what will China do?"

"..."

Su Shang took a deep breath, but couldn't say anything accusatory.

"But we can't just watch ordinary soldiers die in vain in front of us. Besides, if time and space don't allow it, I can handle those Honkai beasts and even giants by myself."

"I, an ordinary person like me, really don't understand the fighting of you immortals, but you admit it. In fact, you are not sure that you can stop those things?"

General Wang's smile was a little forced.

Su Shang also sighed. There are some things that she cannot accept but have to accept...

"Although it seems that this girl is very shameless, it would be great if the master and Xiaoshi can come back. One manpower is not enough, but if there are three people who have mastered the Taixu Sword God here, it will be enough to hold the line of defense. , one man is in charge..."

"Huh? Who do you call Xiaoshi? Can you call me Xiaoshi?"

The sudden sound made everyone in the military tent startled. The guard with the fastest reaction had already taken out his gun and was ready to shoot, but when he saw the two women in classical clothes, he was a little confused.

"Master! And... Ms.... Mr.... Ms. Shi?"

"Well, it seems we got back in time."

Ling Shuang walked up to the middle-aged general expressionlessly, stretched out her five fingers and shook them in front of his blank eyes.

"Introduce yourself, Cheng Lingshuang."

"It turned out to be the legendary Immortal Isla..."

"I also heard what my disciple said. I support this plan. What do you think?"

"Uh... I need to think about it."

General Wang wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeves, and his whole body trembled slightly. It was the excitement brought about by seeing two characters from Chinese mythology one after another. Just Su Shang was okay, because she had appeared in major occasions in China many times. This was the first time he saw the Immortal Cheng Lingshuang.

but……

"As a reminder, those things will arrive in less than ten minutes, so we can only give you three minutes. Well, we will wait outside for your decision. Of course, no matter what your decision is, Taixuzhi There is no need for anyone to obey your orders. After all, theoretically speaking, Su Shang is the commander-in-chief here. She just transferred the command to you because she was afraid that she would delay the decision-making due to some personal affairs. Do you understand what I am saying? "

After Ling Shuang said such a long series of words in the calmest tone, she took Su Shang's hand and led her away from the camp.

As for the Herrscher of Knowledge, she stayed in the tent, looking left and right, like a curious baby, but no one was aware of her existence.

"I really didn't expect you, Master, to be able to come back in time, but where is Senior Padu?"

"That's what I want to tell you."

After a certain distance away from the military tent, Ling Shuang stopped, turned around, and gently pinched his apprentice's face.

"You don't have to worry about things in the west. That man's ability will only be stronger than yours. Isn't it bad to talk about your apprentice in this way?"

"You also know it's not good..."

"And Pado's departure was also related to the situation there. In her words, we happened to be at the [right place] when we discovered the situation, so she wanted to try her luck again and see if we could find it. The entrance to a certain place, and then find the power that [will definitely help mankind overcome the current difficulties].

"Now, whether it's success or failure, there should be results already, right?"

…………

In the Aegean Sea, this ocean that connects the Black Sea and the White Sea and is divided into countless pieces by countless islands has completely become a world of ice and snow.

The silver knight shuttled through the cold air like a ghost, his figure stretched to the extreme due to the extreme speed, like a ray of white and silver moonlight.

"bass--"

The ice-blue scythe in the knight's hand continues to bring death to the Honkai Beast in front of him, and suspended behind the knight, the mirage phantom named "Silver Moon" also uses an even bigger scythe to harvest everything that tries to get close to the knight's back. .

This strange duo dashed left and right among the Honkai beasts, cutting off the Minions of the Honkai beasts over and over again, until they faced the unreachable giant for an unknown number of times.

"Shua——"

The silver knight jumped high, and her inhuman physical fitness only allowed her to jump to the giant's knees.

That was enough.

Skadi of Sky Frost drew a beautiful circle, and one of the giant's legs was divided into two parts with the knee as the dividing line. Silver Moon almost cut off the other leg of the giant at the same time, and the giant's body began to fall toward the sea. The sickle quickly turned around and cut off the giant's two thighs from the root.

In this way, the two sickles cooperated with each other and cut the seemingly invincible giant into dozens of pieces at the fastest speed, but the flesh and blood soon began to gather again.

Rita tore several giants apart in a row, but no matter how hard she tried, she could only hurt the flesh and blood, and could not touch the silver line hanging from the sky.

"Damn..."

The pale light passed through the battlefield, and Rita's feet quickly stepped on the land.

"Alvette, let the Immortal Blade retreat first to gather and count the number of people."

It's not a solution to continue fighting like this.

While the other girl was giving orders, Rita's brain was spinning rapidly, calmly analyzing the situation on the field.

But no matter how she thought, it was doomed to be futile if she didn't have the power to break the status quo.

"Report to the vice-captain, 45 of the 48 team members have arrived, three of them are slightly injured, and one is seriously injured and can't fight."

"Have four people been reduced..."

Rita's face was unusually solemn. It's not that the Indestructible Blade has not suffered more serious damage in the battle, but it's only been less than an hour. If it is based on Dr. Mei's estimate that it can block for a maximum of 25 hours, the Indestructible Blade may have to stay here...

After all, people will get tired, but those headless giants will not.

Rita's eyes swept across the field. With the efforts of the Valkyries, the number of Honkai Beasts was less than one-third of the original, but no matter what they did, they couldn't stop the giants from moving forward.

Is the problem with those silver threads?

She remembered that two of the three lost Valkyries were entangled by the threads, and then their bodies were twisted to pieces.

It is indeed something that can be touched, but when the sickle swept over those silk threads during the previous attack, it did not feel like hitting a real object.

Is it in a quantum superposition state, and will it only have a physical body when attacking?

However, even if it has a physical body, it is still unknown whether the weapon can cause damage to it.

But no matter what, we have to try it.

"Everyone rest for five minutes and prepare for the next round of attack."

Rita's voice was as cold as the surrounding cold air, but the next moment, she was stopped by another equally cold voice:

"No need, those silk threads are the embodiment of the power of the Herrscher. Trying to cut off the power of the Herrscher with human weapons, should I say you are arrogant or stupid?"

Rita turned her head suddenly, and saw a boy with strange horns on his head standing beside her at some point.

The Valkyries did not react at first, but when the boy spoke, everyone quickly surrounded him quietly with a vigilant attitude.

But another voice sounded on the other side of Rita:

"I'm sorry, that's how he talks. He doesn't really think you're stupid or arrogant, he just thinks it's cool to talk like that."

The girl with a golden high ponytail smiled and waved her hand, but she ruthlessly exposed the boy's true face.

The boy's eyes twitched visibly, and he wanted to say something but was ruthlessly interrupted:

"... Desdobia, you-"

"Oh, by the way, let me add that we are not villains. In a sense, we should be reinforcements."

"Reinforcements?"

Rita had an unreliable guess in her mind.

"Well, we are indeed reinforcements."

The boy took a step forward.

"Leave it to us next. But Desdobia is wrong in one thing-in a sense, I am more like a villain."

The boy's eyes were shining with a faint blue light. He first crossed his hands in front of his chest, but after a soliloquy, he changed to a cooler posture.

He clenched his left fist, bent his elbow and raised it, and stretched his right palm straight to the sky.

Then, his right arm slid from the front of his body to the left, but after reaching a certain peak, it overlapped with his left arm——

"Xuguang, transform!"

The boy's body turned into an inhuman monster in an instant, leaving only Rita's unreachable back.

"That look is like the one at the Salt Lake City base... No, that's not right. The one that Mikael turned into was more like a human, and the one that this boy turned into was a real monster. And this posture... How come it looks so much like Vishnu in the record?"

The "monster" began to devour.

It grabbed a pool of flesh and blood from the ground and stuffed it into its mouth, swallowing it directly without chewing, and the silver thread connected to the swallowed flesh and blood actually disappeared.

As if aware of its threat, all the giants suddenly changed their direction of advance. They turned slowly and heavily, and stepped towards Kosmo step by step.

"Hey! Amo! It's obviously easier to just swallow those silk threads!"

Destobia shouted with her hands combined into a trumpet.

Kosmo's movements paused, and he quickly swallowed the silver threads.

The girl sighed softly and explained to Rita at her side:

"See, men are like this, they will always ignore some simple things in order to be cooler. However, I have to move, too. Letting Ah Mo fight alone is a bit unworthy of his identity as a [girlfriend]!"

The girl smiled and snapped her fingers, and the dozen or so giants closest to Kosmo suddenly stopped moving, and then their bodies seemed to be torn into pieces by countless invisible hands.

"After all, I was once the best at controlling telekinesis among the spiritual perception fusion warriors. Neither Abonya nor Su was as good as me on the front battlefield."

…………

Under the Great Pyramid, the face of the A-level Valkyrie Lewis was as sharp as steel cut by a knife.

However, as the commander-in-chief of the North African front, no matter how determined she was, she could not change the crisis of the entire front.

It can be said that from the beginning, the North African direction was an abandoned front. According to the headquarters' prediction, the defense line should have retreated to Tunisia at this time.

Without the support of the S-level Valkyrie, nor the elite A-level Valkyrie team like the Immortal Blade, the only reinforcement came from the anti-entropy mecha unit.

That is to say, because the population of North Africa is relatively small, the enemy's strength is much weaker than expected, and both the Anti-Entropy Mech troops and the Valkyries of the Destiny Africa branch fought hard and fought to the death in an unprecedented unity, so they barely managed to hold the front line on the left bank of the Nile.

But this is already the limit.

The flesh and blood on the ground are slowly merging, but everyone has no time to enjoy this rare rest time. If possible, Lewis would rather never stop attacking.

Every time such a rest time, each team will count the number of people, and every time they count, everyone will despair.

If the battle never stops, everyone will not realize the death of their comrades at all, and they may be able to hold on longer, but when they see the empty sides of the formation, the despair in the hearts of the soldiers will only get deeper and deeper.

Can't hold on.

Lewis is very clear about this.

And judging from the current morale, there is no chance to reorganize the defense line. Even if they retreat to Tunisia, the defense line cannot be organized, and everyone may collapse all the way to Iberia.

But maybe, everyone doesn't even have a chance to retreat.

What can we do?

"It seems that we can only die here today."

Lewis whispered discouraging words, but his face was still trying to be stern, not letting people see any frustration.

But the next moment, a soft voice sounded behind her:

"Don't be so desperate, because hope is born from despair. So, [please] don't give up, at least we still have us."

"You are-"

Lewis looked at the nun who suddenly appeared behind him, and wanted to say something questioning, but he was dazzled by the holy light emanating from her body.

Turning around, he saw that the Valkyries who were originally decadent and desperate had stood up again. No matter how their hearts were beating, they at least held their weapons again.

"You... what did you do? Even so, their strength is not enough to continue fighting..."

"It doesn't matter."

The nun smiled gently.

"There is a poor child who has been longing for this battle for a long time-"

"Hahahaha! Hahaha! Hahaha!"

The nun's words were interrupted by a series of arrogant laughter. Lewis looked up at the sky following the laughter and saw a tiny flame falling from the sky, but it was getting bigger and bigger, burning more and more vigorously.

"Boom!"

The flames hit the ground, burning everything equally.

She saw a man on fire, carrying a lava column, madly killing, torturing and chasing all non-human things.

"Hahaha! Hahaha! Fight, fight, and destroy... You guys who can't die are worth my killing! Hahaha!"

Everything in front of him was undoubtedly a one-sided massacre. The man easily did what hundreds of Valkyries and Anti-Entropy's almost all mecha troops and aviation troops could not do.

He slaughtered the giants cruelly. He would tear the giants apart and burn them dry in various ways, but he would patiently reassemble the broken meat and repeat the above process...

The disgusting smell of burnt flesh and blood could be smelled from a long distance. Lewis's face was not very good, but he seemed to be grateful that at least the man looked like he was on the side of humans.

She turned to look at the nun who was suspected to be the man's companion, and asked with some concern:

"That... Is he really okay like this?"

"Of course he's okay. He is a warm and gentle child, but... he has been holding it in for a long time."

"?"

Abonya did not answer the question of a person from a different era. She suddenly looked at the top of the pyramid that no one noticed, and muttered to herself:

"However, if you hadn't torn down his door and repeatedly requested, Qianjie would not be willing to come out. After all, his mind is so simple that he is still worried about that ending. I even feel physically uncomfortable with the existence of [human beings]..."

"Hehe, there's nothing I can do. I followed Sister Snake to play tricks on this land thousands of years ago, and I don't know how I was regarded as a god by the humans here. They always give me a lot of good things. I have to do things after receiving their things, and I am very conscientious! Moreover, I'm afraid that Sister Meiyi has contributed more to Brother Jie's willingness to come out!"

The girl's lively voice sounded in Abonya's mind, but she sensitively noticed that the voice of the child who had always been heartless was filled with unresolved sadness. (End of this chapter)