Edge of the Apocalypse

Chapter 196: Winter Solstice

Three days later, a group appeared in the Bailong Mountain Range. This place was adjacent to the wind-eroded wasteland. The ridge moved like a dragon, and the weather was strict. To the southeast of the Bailong Mountains, there is a natural canyon. After passing through the canyon, they could reach another base in the Federation, Neru.

Recently, a supply team traveling between Blood Eagle and Nile discovered traces of Saber Demons in the Bailong Mountain Range. The nearest Neru base to the Bailong Mountains had already sent out a search team to investigate and found a small demon tribe in the mountains. The tribe occupied a hillside in the mountain range and drove out the Earth Drilling Insects to open multiple entrances and exits.

The Nile base had originally planned to sweep through it, but Berry, who had learned of this news, took over the task and handed it over to Alan for the actual combat test of the Fire Fighting Rifle. At this moment, the group that was moving through the mountains was naturally the Bian Rong army that was participating in the test. The team was under the command of Lieutenant Peter, with Ellen and Coggess participating. As the sequence designer of the Fire Fighting Rifle, the former had to record the actual combat details. The latter was for the Hegemon Skimming Formation to avoid any unforeseen circumstances.

According to the intel from Neru base, the team arrived near the Blade Demon Tribe in the afternoon. Peter, Alan, and Coggess were lying on a piece of limestone. Looking down, there was a winding mountain path leading straight to the entrance to a mountain belly. At the entrance, the stones were stacked high, and two tribal flags were fixed on them, painted with sickles and skulls. There were Saber Demons and Horned Wolves wandering in the mountains near the entrance. They should be Sentinels.

This tribe lived in the belly of the mountain and was considered a tradition of the Saber Demon. It was like the abyss of the furnace where the Saber Demon King was located. In fact, it was the belly of a volcano. It led directly to the volcanic lava pool, and it was hot all year round, causing the earth flames to rise endlessly. The Saber Demon used it to become the energy source of the Smelt Abyss and its defenses, making the Smelt Abyss a model for the strongholds in the mountains.

Of course, this small tribe couldn't be compared to the Smelt Abyss in terms of size and combat power. Moreover, they should have migrated not long ago, so they naturally wouldn't have any decent defenses. Allen and the others circled around once more. After confirming the location of the other two entrances and exits, they retreated to the standby point where the team was.

Under Peter's arrangement, three teams attacked simultaneously from three entrances and exits, making sure that the Saber Demon had nowhere to escape. The battle began at sunset, and the three teams of the Border Rong Army attacked the Blade Demon Tribe with their Fiery Rifles in their hands. Sure enough, the Fierce Fire Rifle didn't have any expectations. Even the firepower of a conventional rifle was twice that of an ordinary rifle. The powerful firepower coupled with the Bian Rong Army's completely life-threatening fighting style. When they fought together, the Blade Demon Tribe was in a one-sided situation.

Alan and Coggess watched the battle from behind. When they saw the Saber Demon counterattack, the Bian Rong army did not follow the usual tactic of avoiding first and then attacking. Instead, they directly followed the enemy's counterattack firepower and exchanged injuries for lives. Coggess shook his head repeatedly and called him "Madman".

From their battles, Allen understood a little about these people's minds. Perhaps there was nothing in their lives that could not be lost, including their own lives.

Under the attacks of this group of lunatics, the Saber Demon continued to retreat. The barbaric gunshots of the menacing flame rifles echoed in the mountain's belly, and Alan and Coggess entered the mountain's belly. This hinterland allowed the Earth Drilling Worm to dig out several tunnels. Flames flickered in the tunnels, and the sound of gunfire echoed endlessly. The Bian Rong army took advantage of the firepower of the Fire Fighting Rifle and directly attacked the Yellow Dragon, forcefully charging into the depths of the mountain.

A place similar to a sacrificial ground was dug out from the depths of the mountain. This place was also the chief's residence. When the two of them entered, there weren't many Saber Demons left. The remaining ten or so Berserk Wolf Knights were trying to break through the Border Rong Army's firepower net. Under Peter's orders, the two squads switched their Fire Fighting Rifles to Demon Martial Mode. A round of fire missiles shot down, and more than a dozen Berserk Wolf Knights were blasted into charcoal without even being able to reach the corner of their clothes.

In the end, the remaining chiefs let out angry roars. Origin Energy soared, but they also had strength of Level 18. However, when he rushed over with a battle axe, Peter waved his hand and ordered the warriors to concentrate their attacks. More than fifty menacing rifles aimed their muzzles at the chief. Then, a series of blazing missiles shot out, causing a dense explosion in the belly of the mountain.

The fireball continued to explode within a limited range, and the energy shocks it produced were enough to form a destructive storm. When the explosion stopped, smoke filled the hillside. The sheikh's axe had been sliced off, and his limbs had already been deformed by the explosion, causing him to die in an extremely miserable state.

Looking at the charcoal-like corpse, Kejess whistled, "This is too shocking. With this power, the Awakened ones will have to turn around and run when they see it."

Alan nodded and shook his head before saying, "It's not that simple to meet an Awakened. If it was you, you wouldn't stand there like a log and be bombarded. However, to be able to shock someone, the Flame Fighting Rifle has value in production."

"Perhaps you can also develop other weapons, such as Origin Armor/Thunder, but a single-use consumable would be too costly to use." Coggess shook his head.

"We can talk about this in the future." Alan shrugged. There were many weapons he could develop. However, the next step was to try to develop magic energy armor to increase the defensive power or mobility of the soldiers. This was also to increase their combat strength from another level.

The next step was to clean up the battlefield. However, the specifications of the Blade Demon Tribe were too small, and there were basically no spoils of war. Apart from the Origin Jade separated from the chief's body, there was nothing else of value. Allen picked up two iron swords used by the knights. Their craftsmanship was very rough, but they were full of outsider styles, so it was not bad to use them as decorative tools.

"Sure enough, Blade Demons are all poor ghosts."

Peter threw a backpack on the ground and sat down to drink. He picked up something from it and threw it to Ellen. "This is a souvenir for you," he said.

Alan took it, and on his palm was the bone of some kind of wild beast. There was a strange symbol carved on it. It looked like some kind of hieroglyphic writing. It looked like an abstract painting of a sword. Symbols are painted with blood or some kind of red pigment, which contrasts sharply with the dense white bones. "This is the decapitation order," Peter said. "Looks like this inconspicuous little tribe has also received it."

"What else did you find?" Alan squatted down and opened his backpack. There were some strange accessories inside, and there was even a black finger bone. He didn't know what it was.

Among them, there was a broken piece of stone. There was a pattern carved on the stone. It was a Saber Demon. The sculptor used sharp lines to show the image of the Saber Demon being torn apart by something. Beside the Saber Demon, there was a knife-like pattern. It didn't seem surprising, but when Alan wanted to put it back, he froze.

Peter asked curiously, "What's wrong?"

"Nothing. Right, give this to me too." Alan said as he shook the stone.

"Just take it if you like. En, this thing is not bad as an ornament."

Peter didn't know that Allen wasn't using it as an ornament at all. It was because there was a demon statue on the hilt of the knife. This saber, along with the pattern of the Saber Demon, was extremely simple and crude. Only this Abyss Devil pattern had exquisite lines. Most importantly, it looked very similar to the gem on the Abyss Devil's Praise.

After returning to the base the next day, Alan locked himself up in the workshop and asked Adam to watch the door for him so that no one would disturb him. He took out the Saber Demon Stone Slice and the Evil Demon Praise, scanned the Evil Demon statues of the two with his apparatus, and compared the images with his brain. The final conclusion is that the similarity between the two is as high as 92%. Apart from the fact that the Saber Demon Stone Slice was damaged to a certain extent, it was almost identical to the gem statue on the Devil's Praise.

Alan stared blankly at the dagger in his hand. This Origin Tool was becoming more and more mysterious. Could it be that the devil's praise came from Nether Domain Star? If that was the case, how did his father obtain it? Or did Archimedes come to Nether Planet and obtain this Origin Tool, then roll it to Earth, and finally give it to his mother?

"You mean a device that can understand the language of the Saber Demon?" Keoghes looked at Ellen strangely, "You need this?"

It was already the second day of his return to the base. Yesterday, after discovering that there seemed to be some sort of connection between the Devil's Praise and the Saber Demon, Alan felt that to solve this mystery, he would probably have to start with the Saber Demon. Since that was the case, he naturally needed to understand the language of the Saber Demon first, so he asked Kejess.

Alan could not tell the truth when he heard Coggess's question. He could only find an excuse to say, "It's just a personal interest."

"You have quite a wide range of interests." "There should be a language robot in the warehouse. It's a nano-device," Coggess said after some thought. By injecting it into the body, it eventually reaches the cerebral cortex and attaches itself to it. It allows you to hear and speak a variety of known alien languages, first developed for colonial star development and later used in many areas of the chaotic battlefield, such as intelligence gathering. If you need it, go to the warehouse and collect it. "

"Thank you, Major."

Allen successfully received the language robot from the military warehouse. After using a syringe to press it into his body, he did not feel any discomfort. Unfortunately, the Saber Demon prisoners in the base had already been escorted elsewhere. Alan was unable to test whether the robot worked, so he could only try again when he had a chance in the future.

A week later, the Bian Rong army received a new assignment letter and left Blood Hawk Base. Alan took them to the foot of the mountain and watched the transport truck drive towards the horizon of the wasteland. Half a month later, new news came from the frontlines. The spread of death had already completed its pre-war mobilization, marching towards the center of the blazing earth in batches. At the same time, the Saber Demon Tribe began to move. In late July, more and more Saber Demons appeared behind the war zone.

Even Blood Eagle and Neru had joined forces to sweep through the Saber Demon Tribe. Allen's Flame Fighting Rifles began to emerge on the battlefield. After several consecutive small-scale formation battles, Blood Hawk Base began to build a small arsenal to produce the Flame Fighting Rifles in assembly lines to meet the needs of Blood Hawk and the other two bases around him.

As the war between humans and Saber Demons intensified, Alan welcomed his first winter on Nether Realm.

It was said that the Great Seal had erupted, and that was right, it was today. How many shifts are there? What time?