Ten minutes later, seven dead bodies of signalmen were lying on the muddy ground in the rain.
The soldier who opened fire out of nervousness at the beginning had a shocking hole in his abdomen. He managed to keep himself alive with medical drugs, but the brilliance in his eyes gradually dimmed.
When eight signalmen who were caught unprepared engaged twelve fully-armed elite Exos head-on, this was the only outcome.
The Exos who had been shooting at them ferociously a moment ago were standing aside quietly, not knowing what to do, like children who had made a mistake.
Only the medics among them were kneeling next to the soldier on one of their knees and opening the anti-water rune array, creating a dry space for him. They were treating him with a pale face. Futile treatment.
Suddenly —
The few elite warriors were picked up together with their crystal suits and thrown far away brutally!
Several other Exos were kicked in the chest when they turned around. They were blown almost a hundred meters away together with their Crystal Suit, which weighed several tons, smashing the rocks that were as hard as iron into pieces.
In the middle of the lightning and thunder, a furious shadow knocked down all the twelve Exos in the blink of an eye. Then, he fell on his knees and hugged the dying soldier in his arms in the black rain and mud!
Sparks were spluttering out of one of the crimson eyes, while the other bright gray eyeball was filled with tears, which were mixed with sweat and rainwater and splashed on the soldier's face.
The soldier had lost too much blood and was on the verge of death due to the lack of oxygen in his brain. He had forgotten the details of the battle just now and only vaguely recognized the guy who was hugging him.
"Iron … Iron Commander?"
The soldier mumbled weakly. His pupils suddenly widened, and disbelief popped up on his face.
In the black rain, Iron Commander Zhou Hengdao was kneeling in the mud. His magnificent body blocked the rainwater above the soldier's head. Dirty tears were flowing on his face like raging dragons.
The way he looked at the soldier was as if he was looking at his favorite grandson slowly dying in his arms.
"It's alright now, child. I'm here."
Zhou Hengdao sobbed next to the soldier's ear.
Intense brilliance suddenly burst out of the soldier's eyes, which were about to be extinguished. He looked over Zhou Hengdao's shoulder at the night sky that was as dark as ink and said with a smile, "It's really the Iron Commander … Iron Commander … Enemy attack …"
"I know, I know, it's okay, the enemy has been beaten back by us!"
Holding back his tears, Zhou Hengdao said, "You were very brave. All of you … were the best people of the Union Army. You fulfilled your responsibility and persisted until the last moment! Now that the reinforcements are here, your mission is complete. Have a good rest. You will be able to … go home soon! "
"Go home …"
In the cold, rainy night, the soldier seemed to recall the warmth of his home, the steaming hot dumplings, the laughter of his parents and brothers, and many, many other things. His face glowed with an indescribable brilliance, but at this moment, his eyes were forever frozen.
The soldier's hand slipped from Zhou Hengdao's cold arm.
Like a rusted statue, Zhou Hengdao knelt in the mud for a long time. He closed the soldier's eyes with his iron hands.
Because his hands were shivering, he did the movement three times before he succeeded.
Then, he took off his military uniform that was embroidered with gold stripes and placed the soldier's body on the ground carefully as a burial cloth.
The rainwater hit his iron body hard in splashing noises. Zhou Hengdao stood up one joint after another and glanced around with his eyes that were as cold as daggers.
The warriors in the Crystal Suit who were caught by his eyes all stepped back as if they had been struck by lightning, feeling like vomiting blood.
"Who gave you permission to kill? Didn't I say that all the members of the Union Army were our brothers and that you were not allowed to kill them? "
Zhou Hengdao waved his hands. One of the Exos, who was wearing a heavy Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit and weighed more than ten tons, was attracted to him through the air. Zhou Hengdao locked the Exo's throat from three meters away and raised him into the air!
The muscular man, who looked like a black tower, could not even struggle. He writhed in pain in midair, with gurgling noises coming out of his throat!
Zhou Hengdao stared at him coldly, showing no intention of letting go.
"Iron Commander, it was an accident!"
Another warrior was greatly shocked. He shouted, "We were going to spray the anesthetic bullets, but they fired first. All our brothers can prove it! They were the ones who fired first! "
Zhou Hengdao narrowed his eyes. The redness in his crystal eyes gradually dimmed. It was not until one minute later that he snapped his fingers and blew away the muscular man in midair.
BOOM!
The burly man fell into the muddy water and curled up like a red-hot prawn, coughing with difficulty.
"You and them, everybody here is the most distinguished member of the Union Army. Even if you have to die, you should die in the Blood Demon Sector under the claws and venom of the demons. You should never … be killed by each other's guns!"
Zhou Hengdao declared, one word after another. "I don't want to see such a thing happen again. In any case, the Union Army must not attack each other!"
"Understood … Understood!"
The muscular man, whose throat had been locked by Zhou Hengdao for a long time, finally caught his breath. He coughed and said in pain, "This is the last communication base. Right now, from the Dark Desolate Domain to the north of the Grand Desolate Plateau, fifty-two communication bases, including sixteen main bases, are under our control! Except for the accident here, everything went well in other places. There were no casualties. "
"Excellent."
Zhou Hengdao nodded. "What about the signalmen?"
"They are all the same. Locked up with barriers and given enough food and water," the muscular man said.
The burly man said, "Five days later, the restriction will automatically be lifted. Their safety is absolutely not a problem."
"Got it."
Zhou Hengdao took a long breath in relief. He wiped the rainwater on his face helplessly and looked at the bodies on the ground thoughtfully. "Collect the bodies of our comrades carefully and store them for now. Set up defense rune arrays around them. Do not let them be damaged by the rainwater or corrupted by the pests, either! In addition, place a jade slip beside their corpses. Record the process of their sacrifice in detail. Make it clear that they defended their posts and died resisting us! "
"In the end, I will sign the jade chip!
"If we succeed, find the bodies, destroy the jade chip, and give them a grand funeral in the name of 'war heroes'. Their families will be compensated accordingly.
"If … we fail, it will be the government who finds their bodies. They are also great heroes who fought against the Patriots Partnership. Everybody will remember their names. Their families will benefit from it, too.
"Do you understand?"
"Understood!"
In the black rain, the twelve Exos stood at attention at the same time and paid the highest military salute to the eight comrades who had been killed by them.
"Enough."
After a minute of silence for his comrades, Zhou Hengdao said solemnly, "Prepare for action. Creating such an enormous super thunderstorm area and jamming all the communication of spiritual energy will consume too much energy. The 'Thunder Weather Troop' will not be able to persist for long. We must seize every second and finish the operation before everybody realizes what is going on!
"Let's check the time. It is now 3: 12: 35 in the morning. At 3: 15, the 'Mist Plan' will be officially activated!"
…
At 3: 15 in the morning, deep inside the Dark Desolate Domain, at the end of the Thunderous Sound Mountain, a highly-confidential weather troop slowly opened the waterproof cloth in the middle of the mountain, revealing a weather rune array almost a hundred meters in diameter.
Nine Cultivators who were adept at summoning wind and rain were sitting cross-legged at nine nodes around the rune array. They were mumbling to themselves while they were covered in electric arcs and mystic rays. Blood was leaking out of their mouths, noses, eyes, and ears. Their vitality was flowing into the rune array incessantly, making the crystals embedded in the rune array where every spiritual stripe intersected with each other glitter.
When the nine Cultivators were all withered and about to collapse, a hemispherical magnetic field appeared on the rune array, too. As the eight hundred and eight crystals embedded at the center of the rune array broke apart at the same time, an invisible mystic ray soared into the sky like a pillar and exploded above the clouds. Like a giant magnet, it attracted all the violent spiritual energy in the thousands of square kilometers nearby!
BOOM! CRACK!
HUALA! HUALA!
The entire Dark Desolate Domain was like a block of ice that had been thrown into a pot of boiling oil. The storm, the lightning, and the thunder were several times more intense than before. The spiritual energy was more chaotic than ever. A layer of intense mist was popping up in the rainwater, expanding and swallowing everything.
At 3: 15 in the morning, the storm died down, but the mist was even thicker. The entire Dark Desolate Domain seemed to be enshrouded in smoke, unpredictable and unpredictable.
At the center of the Dark Desolate Domain, where the mist was densest, as the three rune arrays exploded brutally, a narrow, long gap appeared in the void weirdly.
Inside the gap, demonic energy was spreading out with all kinds of weird phenomena. It turned out to be a wormhole leading to the Blood Demon Sector!
At 6: 19 in the morning, a soldier wearing a broken Crystal Suit and covered in blood staggered toward the defense area of another legion, only to fall to the ground when he was still outside of the sentry post.
His Crystal Suit was full of traces of corrosion by the venom of demon beasts. The breastplate on the right side had been pierced through brutally by a tusk!
At 6: 33 in the morning, every legion participating in the 'Furious Fist' drill, including Burning Prairie, received a piece of shocking news!
At around 3: 00 in the morning, when the storm was most intense, the magnetic fields deep inside the Dark Desolate Domain collided and generated a natural wormhole leading to the Blood Demon Sector.
In the Dark Desolate Domain, the emergence and disappearance of wormholes were the most common natural phenomena. On many occasions, the beast tides of the Blood Demon Sector had come to the Tian Yuan Realm through the natural wormholes.
However, when the wormhole was generated, a rapid response brigade happened to be having a drill nearby.
Perhaps because the storm was too strong, or maybe because the mist was too dense, the rapid response brigade accidentally entered the wormhole and was teleported to the Blood Demon Sector!
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