Harmonic Battleship Hyperion

But now, when Teresa rushed out of the base with Mei and began to rush in and out of the gathered army of infected bodies, she knew why Commander Renault only sent such a "ghost agent" team to protect the attacking body. The safety of city tanks.

"Very good... Halm is monitoring the entire Meinhof according to your request. We will know soon if there is such an abnormal environment, but what do you plan to do by then, don't tell me you Going to go surfing outside at night."

"It's impossible to make waves, Boss, it's impossible for me to make waves in my life."

"Yeah, I'll listen to that too."

Renault waved his hand very casually, obviously perfunctory, and Lieutenant Morales glanced at Lin Yuan speechlessly, "There are still a few insect nests on this planet, I have already passed on the location to you, remember Get around them."

Obviously, Lei Nuo couldn't be more clear about what Lin Yuan was thinking now, so apart from teasing and exhorting, he didn't even mean to refuse.

"The Hyperion will also be ready at any time. Once the abnormal environment you mentioned occurs, the airborne troops can be dispatched immediately."

"...Farewell, Boss, we still don't know the lethality of the poisonous mist, and considering the scale... I think it's better for Hyperian to prepare to launch the Yamato cannon."

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Yaexia didn't have the habit of dreaming, at least not before her most important master became a fairy.

But now, she is standing where the memory begins.

In the past, this place used to be a bustling village, and through the dilapidated walls that have grown moss, you can still vaguely see the wooden houses, pavilions and stone road slab bridges... They stand quietly in the thin winter snow, and greet the passing travelers. It tells the imprint of disaster left here.

No one knows why the quiet and peaceful Yae Village attracted the attention of monsters and was turned to death overnight, and no one knows why the very few survivors always stared in horror and muttered to themselves: fox demon...

In the era when ghosts and gods dominated the common people's minds, Yae Village, which was destroyed by the raging monsters, had absolutely no possibility of being rebuilt.

In addition to those survivors who were frightened mad, even nearby villages suffered.

It is better to abandon the long-lived homeland than to live in a place where monsters may appear at any time... Driven by this kind of psychology, people abandoned the only houses, livestock and land, and embarked on the road of fleeing far away.

But it wasn't just these that were abandoned...

Yaeka in the ruins raised her head and looked at the shrine on the mountain.

The master is not from the extreme east, nor does he belong to the land of China across the sea, but from farther west.

As for what "the West" refers to, the young Sakura and Kasumi didn't understand it, and they didn't care... because from the night they were thrown at the gate of the shrine by their long-forgotten parents, their master has become their most important thing. people.

Life in the shrine is poor and simple, but full of hope.

The master is obviously not a person who is good at life and has no experience in raising young children, but he did do everything he could for the two little girls.

He taught Sakura and Xia how to read and write, sow seeds and weave. He also taught Sakura and Xia etiquette and morality, and how to cultivate a sense of shame. More importantly, he taught them how to control their innate, cursed power. .

"A cursed power..."

Recalling the first time I met strangers, their fearful and hostile gazes, Yaexia raised her hand involuntarily, but suddenly realized that she had learned how to control that power, and the top of her head was no longer Will wear a pair of long scarlet fox ears all the time.

But what the master said at that time still echoed clearly in her ears...

"Woo...uh...Master, why do they all hate Xia?"

"Huh? Is there any?"

"They... they all look fierce..."

"That's their problem, not yours, Xayah."

"But... but Xia Mingming didn't make a mistake...Xia doesn't know why...why did she have these ears..."

"Maybe it's because of that Herrscher's strange habit."

"master……?"

"Ah, it's okay. I'm just talking casually. Let's take a rest, Xia. I'll continue to tell you stories about the immortals of Shenzhou when I get back."

Thinking of the scene where she fell asleep on the back of her master crying and crying, Yaexia couldn't help laughing softly...

Before the master who came from afar took over, the shrine on the mountain seemed to have been deserted for a while. Although it would not be completely reduced to ruins like the Yae village burned by monsters, the houses with air leakage on all sides and the weeds growing from the floor showed that It's not a place for long-term living.

The two sisters who were abandoned by their parents finally had a chance to survive, so they seemed to obey the instinct of a creature, and they were unwilling to leave their master.

As a last resort, the master had no choice but to take them with him every time he went out, and there was the scene of being rejected by the villagers.

After growing up, Yaexia has learned to ignore the sight of others, and no longer take the rejection that comes from fear and hatred in her heart... Just like the master said, that is their problem and has nothing to do with herself.

She turned around slowly and walked towards the road up the mountain.

As a ninja who hunts monsters, Yaeka knows the importance of calmness and rationality, so even if she sees everything she misses so much, she doesn't have any obvious emotional fluctuations.

After all, this is just an illusory dream.

However, the closer she got to the shrine, the faster she felt her heart beat.

If...just if, this dream was before the master left, would he sit in the courtyard as he remembered, reading those documents he didn't know where to find?

With such thoughts surging in her mind, Yaeka gradually accelerated her pace until she stopped in front of the steps of the shrine that was deeply in her memory.

Among all life skills, the master is best at cleaning work. He can clean the floors of the shrine, the walls of the courtyard, and even the steps laid along the mountain road in a very short time, but he doesn't mind that he and himself My sister sprinkled leaves and soil on it while chasing and fighting.

In fact, except for strength cultivation, it seems that the master has never said harsh words to the two sisters, let alone got angry.

Although, he would often talk about some difficult things to understand, such as the end of all things, the world of nothingness, and the cycle of life and death, but he never let these affect Sakura and Kasumi. I will change my mouth and tell some wonderful stories and experiences.

For example, the warriors chasing the sky and chasing the moon, the scholars who are sympathetic to the world, and the immortals who guard the land of China... To this day, the Yae sisters who have still not set foot outside the extreme east still don't know whether the stories that the master told back then are true. False, but they know that these stories accompany them through their ignorant childhood.

Taking a deep breath, Yaeka began to climb the spotless stairs.

The crisp footsteps echoed on the quiet mountain road, as if some kind of countdown indicated something.

In this way, the ninja girl, who has not moved forward step by step for a long time, stepped on the last step.

There is no one... In the empty and somewhat dilapidated shrine courtyard, there is nothing worthy of attention except for the lush weeds and dead cherry trees.

Is it really the way it is now?

Slightly dazed, Yae Sakura sighed, her expression became a little disappointed.

She still remembers the cherry blossom tree... The master showed his magical power to her sister and her at the beginning, which was to make the cherry blossoms on the tree bloom overnight, and since then completely conquered the young hearts of the two sisters...

But with the master becoming a fairy, the two sisters also decided to leave the shrine, and the unattended cherry blossom tree must have become what it is now.

"It's really... a dream that fits reality..."

Yaexia muttered to herself, ready to turn around and leave here.

However, the next moment, she froze in place... because the cherry blossom tree in the courtyard seemed to have been cast by magic, and quickly began to recover, returning to its original appearance.

Chapter 174

Chapter 174

Under the attack of endless infected bodies, especially a large number of poisonous explosive bodies, Teresa and Mei chose to retreat to the base very rationally.

The physical strength of the Valkyries is not unlimited. Although Teresa is an exception, there is obviously no need to go all out here, and with them, it is difficult for Kowalski's siege tank team to target this area.

Unlike the "unconscionable" high-level empire, in order to minimize the risk of his brothers being accidentally injured on the battlefield, Renault specially spent money to buy the friend-or-foe identification technology of the shock-piercing shock gun, allowing the shell to adjust and detonate at the moment it hits the ground direction, reducing the impact on friendly units.

So there is a reason why the good brothers are willing to follow Reynolds. In fact, except for the sudden decision to cooperate with Valerian to attack Charl, which was opposed by Kaczynski and others, the Rangers basically There have been no problems.

After the two Valkyries delayed enough time, the investigation team also deployed more than half of their defensive firepower to the rear of the base, including automatic cannons, missile towers and flamethrowers, plus the support of siege tanks, It can barely be considered stable.

In this way, the defensive battle has once again entered the most stalemate persistence stage, until just before dawn...

Qiyana and Fu Hua, who went to the air to meet the flying infected body, also returned to the ground... The opponent can rely on numbers to carry out continuous harassment operations, but they don't have unlimited energy and true energy to deal with it, so they can only land first. Attack them on the ground.

In addition, this is also Lin Yuan's request.

"Not to kill them?"

"That's all for the time being. This kind of infected body itself has a certain amount of intelligence, and the psionic energy signals emitted from it are similar to those of the king worm. I think they are probably some kind of 'signal terminal'."

As Lin Yuan spoke, he handed the things he brought to Qiyana.

A C-20 with a pusher barrel, and two spare magazines.

"I have a particle fragmentation gun, Lin Yuan, there is no need to use this anymore." The slightly panting girl raised her arms as if to show off.

"I didn't ask you to destroy them... The magazine is filled with the tracker-attached bullets I just made. Your task is to shoot these things to every flying infected body as much as possible."

"You want to find out where they hide?"

Fu Hua quickly understood Lin Yuan's thoughts.

Raynor's rangers will attack all detected insect nests during the day to rule out the possibility of controlling the existence of infected bodies, but this is not the same as paralyzing the enemy's command system in conventional warfare. It does not mean that destroying all insect nests will We must be able to eliminate or find the commander.

It may be an independent creature like a queen, or it may be a nerve tissue hidden somewhere underground, and according to Stukov's guess, it may even be an independent thinking consciousness in the psionic link.

In short, Lin Yuan didn't think it was easy to determine the commander.

However, these flying creatures that obviously affect ordinary infected bodies and make them strengthen their offensive provided a new way of thinking.

"Lieutenant Morales guessed that all the special infected bodies are higher-level existences in this independent evolutionary system, so as long as the commander is not stupid, he will definitely use them to protect himself."

"So they have to run back before dawn? I understand, Lin Yuan, just leave it to me!"

Kiyana happily took the weapon and the magazine, and then gave a nondescript military salute with a smile, and rushed into the sky again.

The night quickly engulfed the girl's figure, and only the light of the psionic matrix of Sif's armor could be seen faintly flickering.

"I'm going to cover her..."

"No no, Fu Hua, Qiyana is fine by herself."

Lin Yuan stretched out his hand decisively, and grabbed Fu Hua who also wanted to return to the sky, "And your dragon transformation will force those flying infected bodies to retreat, which is tantamount to making it more difficult for her."

Hearing this, Fu Hua froze for a moment, then nodded.

But this is actually only one of the reasons... The more important thing is that the defensive battle has lasted for several hours. Qiyana can rely on the armor to fly without any problem, but Fu Hua is really consuming her true energy.

Therefore, even though her face could not be seen due to the cover of the helmet, Lin Yuan could still hear the unsteady breathing.

In addition, the battle situation on the ground was already a little less optimistic... because at this moment, both of them noticed the thunder that suddenly erupted from the periphery of the base.

Kirin·Death!

The powerful move that once wiped out tens of thousands of Zergs in one blow on Sacoolas finally showed its terrifying power on Meinhof again.

The dense lightning bombarded countless infected bodies like mercury pouring down the ground, completely tearing them apart. The ground that had already been shattered by the bombardment of the siege tanks seemed to have been directly cut off a layer.

But just as Lin Yuan predicted, the terrifying range and attack density of Qilin Tianzhu came at the price of power...not just the muscular body with a strong physique, but even the poisonous explosive body with a rough skin and a thick film became scorched black some, but did not die.

But at this moment, Leiden Mei was a little tired.

Including Lin Yuan, everyone in the base underestimated the hidden pressure brought by the berserk infected bodies, and the sudden increase in speed actually accelerated the frequency of their gathering to launch a tidal charge, just like the waves on the shore It was endless, and the tunnels dug out by the zerg also caused infected bodies from other areas to flood into Cole City, and there was no way to intercept them.