Chapter 1321: Chapter 509: Army Group (Part 2)
Outside the carriage, on the vast Black Stone Plain, the artillery array of the Iron Guard Brigade resounded continuously. The massive tide of monsters receded quickly, retreating deep into the crimson, leaving behind heaps of monster corpses, which were directly crushed by the Iron Guard Brigade’s heavy armored units.
Witnessing this, Luo Xudong’s eyes widened immediately, and the heavy stone hanging in his heart finally fell. He suddenly took the lead and shouted loudly,
"The Iron Guard Brigade is unstoppable. With our united effort, we can definitely break through the crimson. They must have taken down the S-Class ahead. We’ve survived, we’ve won!!"
"We’ve won!!" The other team members, whose adrenaline was still at its peak, were stirred by his words. Everyone was filled with excitement, utterly exhilarated.
Soon, news of the battle ahead was relayed back, and discussions about the bravery of Infinity and other battle teams began within the convoy.
"Phoenix Society’s support has arrived, and South Heavenly Gate fired a shot to take down that octopus S-Class!!"
"This is great; I told you Phoenix Society would never abandon us!"
"Haha, humanity’s ultimate weapon has finally arrived!"
Watching the eager discussions among the crowd, Luo Xudong exhaled deeply, feeling an overwhelming excitement in his heart.
"Alright, everyone has worked hard; I’ll take the night watch tonight." He suddenly stepped forward, his face filled with determination.
Some were surprised, and someone tried to smooth things over: "Come on, Old Luo, Li’s temper is just like that, it was just words spoken in anger."
"Those cannons are hard to operate; leave it to us."
Luo Xudong was in a mood, determined to regain some reputation in the team, he spoke righteously: "What are you saying? I climbed out from mountains of corpses and seas of blood myself. I’ve handled every kind of gun and cannon. It’s settled then, everyone rest up and recover. We must make it out alive!"
After speaking, he adjusted his power armor, climbed up a machine gun tower, fully aware that since the Joint Fleet began its large-scale relocation, the monster tide had never ceased. But strangely, these monster tides almost always attacked during the day, retreated after attacking the convoy for a few hours, and, crucially, never launched large-scale attacks at night.
Even when they appeared, they were just some crimson zombies, energy-devouring worms, or hunting bodies of ghosts. But these troubles were more the concern of the Iron Guard Brigade and the outside convoys. Relatively speaking, the train was much safer at night.
Luo Xudong had made up his mind, sitting atop the machine gun tower that had ascended to the train roof, gazing at the silent battlefield outside. He couldn’t help but feel somewhat nervous, shivering as the cold wind blew.
At that moment, he suddenly spotted a strangely moving monster fragment on the roof of the carriage.
Luo Xudong thought his eyes were deceiving him, so he focused his gaze and discovered a glowing spine suddenly protruding from under the fragment. Before Luo Xudong could react, a crimson monster worm shot out like a bullet, directly burrowing into his open mouth, piercing through from the back of his head.
A mist of blood sprayed.
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At the Red Stone Rift Valley, the blaze scorched earth under the fiery clouds still emitted a terrifying residual heat. The crimson hurricane howled, while the colossal energy weapon craters and nuclear blast shock waves gave the sky an eerily precise slice feeling, as if done by God. Survivors looking up at the spectacle caused by doomsday-level weapons felt a surreal world idea.
The warships were landing, and the convoy advancing, while units from the 22nd Brigade closed their lines from various directions.
The world was awash in crimson, but at this moment, countless enthusiastic voices transmitted over the communication frequencies.
Excitement, joy, delirium from surviving after a catastrophe, but at the same time, some tried hard to remain calm, worrying about tomorrow, planning for evacuation, and mourning the fallen.
Among the battlefield scorched earth filled with flying sand and rocks, a group of fully covered armor train convoy members were searching the battlefield. Their goal was solely to find survivors and any useful supplies.
Thud~
A group of people pushed aside a leg-sized tentacle that weighed several tons and was five or six meters long, then dragged a soldier from the Iron Guard Brigade out of the sand pit.
"Dead."
A young man in the front squatted and brushed away dust and flesh fragments from the fallen Iron Guard Brigade soldier’s body, reached for a switch on the power armor core on the chest, and with a click sound, released the safety on the triangular port of the chest power source, emitting a puff of black smoke. Subsequently, a palm-sized Micro Star power core gently ejected, and inside the main core pile had already fused into a gray reactive material emitting a pungent smell.
The young man stood up and said to his teammates behind him: "Energy-devouring worm, it’s so fast, not a single core capacitor could be found."
Sun Yuzhen spread her wings descending from the sky, her entire body encased in Infinity’s customized nanometer battle armor. As the leader of the logistics search team, the battlefield cleanup work within the region of Silver Star and Sky Dome in Formation 1 was her responsibility. While it was just a battlefield cleanup team, its danger level was quite high; even the number of people in just one area of the cleanup team reached nearly 600.
"Remove the power armor, don’t miss the identity tags."
"Understood, Sister Sun!"
Sun Yuzhen swept her gaze over the corpses of the fallen Iron Guard Brigade and surviving resistors, sighed softly, then continued flying to other regions.
"There’s not much time left today, finish within 30 minutes, give up everything exceeding the time. Everyone needs a breather and preparation, this is not the time to stir up trouble."
