As the distance gets closer, the vision becomes clear, and even the ordinary people in the team can see the true face of the artificial building.

I originally thought that the dark area should be a village or town, but when I walked in, I found that it was a fortress and a steel fortress.

The fortress is a square with a length and width of fifty meters. The exterior wall is all made of metal. It looks at least half a meter thick. The wall is ten meters high and slightly tilted outward. The surface is smooth and difficult to climb. The metal fortress has only one entrance, or only one entrance is seen. It is a pure metal gate five or six meters high and nearly ten meters wide. There is also an ordinary small metal door at one corner of the door. The two doors are nested together and seem to be able to open independently.

The interior of the fortress cannot be seen for the time being, but the interior should be open-air. You can see that the outer wall is as concave and convex as the battlements of the city wall. Each depression is equipped with a thick and long metal tube. There are at least forty metal tubes in the fifty-meter city wall. From the metal tube, an ominous aura is transmitted, making people instinctively feel dangerous.

When observing from a distance, the metal fortress was dead and there was no movement inside, as if it had been abandoned. However, when the team was chased by insects and was about to approach the fortress, several lights suddenly lit up.

Since appearing in this world, the mercenaries have not distinguished whether it is night or day. It is said that it is day, but there is no sun. They can only vaguely see the stars in the night sky. But it is said that it is night, and it is not dark at all. Even without any lighting equipment, they can still barely see what is around them. It is just a far-reaching scene, just like it is hidden in the shadows, and it is vaguely unable to see clearly. Therefore, no one can figure out what time it is now. At first, they thought it was just dawn or dusk, but after so long, the brightness has never changed, and there is no sign of night or dawn at all. In the end, everyone can only attribute it to the special weather in another world, and have to endure an uncomfortable low-light environment.

After finally adapting to the dark environment, lights suddenly shot out from the fortress. They were all strong lights shining with light-concentrating equipment, and the brightness was extremely high. Although the light columns shone in the swarm of insects, even when they were watching from the side, the members of the excavation team felt their eyes tingling. Some ordinary people with weak bodies even shed tears.

It would be fine if there was only strong light, but with the strong light, the low-hanging downward metal tubes on the exterior wall suddenly seemed to be restored to life, and raised their heads at the same time, and the black holes were aimed at the direction of the excavation team and the insect tide.

"Start up, hurry up." Seeing the changes in the fortress, Shuer looked a little anxious and urged for the first time, "Try to get close to the city wall. As long as you run over, you will win, especially ordinary people. Those who can't run over will die, no one can save you."

"Do you think this is a weapon of the hostile forces of the bug?" The high-level mercenaries were still very leisurely with this speed transfer, especially Mia and Militi who were tasked with trimming, at least Yu Yu asked, "Will they attack indiscriminately?"

"At least I don't think those metal tubes are here to send a welcome speech." Shure's eyes swam rapidly between the fortress and the insect tide, and answered Mia's question without thinking about it. "And there are usually no intelligent creatures in the projection of another world. I don't think that automatic devices can be smart enough to distinguish objects and avoid humans to fight insects, especially these people are not their own."

"You've seen those metal tubes before?"

"That's right. Although I didn't see it with my own eyes when I was in my hometown, I heard of it."

Indeed, Shuer had indeed heard of it when he was in his hometown. It is said that in the last era of civilization, soldiers fought with weapons similar to this. According to legend, these weapons were very terrifying. No matter how powerful the warriors were, they could not escape the attack of such weapons. However, no one had seen them with his own eyes, and they only regarded them as a legend.

"Gun?" Militi asked softly.

"Well, it's just a gun." Mia looked at the thickness of the muzzle from a distance and sighed, "It seems to be a live-fire weapon, physical attack, and it should be quite powerful. If we don't use an energy shield to defend, even our bodies will inevitably be injured, let alone ordinary people."

"Hear?" Shure shouted loudly in the team, "If you don't want to be beaten into a fishing net by the insect's enemies, force out all your potential and run over as the insect's offensive weakens."

Indeed, the bugs' offensive weakened and were no longer as crazy as before.

Since leaving the purple fungus blanket, the insects seemed to suddenly become unscrupulous, and their speed and strength were reduced a lot, and even their desire to attack was not as strong as before. Although they were still chasing behind the excavation team, the pressure on them was much smaller. The more than 200 meters of the fungus blanket moved, the insects caused at least 100 effective damage to humans, but after leaving the fungus blanket, they had already run fifty meters and no one was injured.

Of course, no one can be sure whether this change is due to leaving the bacterial blanket or because it is approaching the fortress, and the insects need to pay attention to the fortress, but no matter what the reason is, this is a gratifying phenomenon.

"Hurry up, hurry up, Moria, bring the one who is behind, Dak, Saff, retreat a little, don't leave the team too far, Yuli, don't attack the bugs behind, take the load on the two breathless guys."

"Will the person who has agreed to fall behind die by himself?" After getting closer, Dark finally got a little free. "Beautiful Miss Savre, you see this guy who can overturn what he said before at any time is the worst. Don't be deceived by him. It's still the most reliable man like me who keeps his promises."

"Idiot, shut up, I don't have time to beat you now." Dark chose a good time. Shure didn't even have time to bicker with him, so he was even more unlikely to take action. "Do you think your goal is not big enough? Do you have to run with your chest and your head up? When you run, you press down on me. The things on the wall are not against me. In the end, they didn't die in the mouth of unconscious insects, but died under the attack of a bunch of human creatures. Be careful that if you die, you will become a laughing stock."

However, Shuer was wrong. The guns in the fortress seemed to be not incompatible with each other.

"Dadada" is eighty meters away from the fortress. Just as Shuer kept urging, a long tongue of flame suddenly spurted out at the neatly arranged muzzles on the fortress. The brief and crisp explosion sounds were stacked together, making people's eardrums hurt. The flames set off a metal storm, and countless metal warheads shot out from the barrel and splashed into the insect swarm like water. The warheads are not small. Although they are not as powerful as ordinary mercenaries when wielding swords, they are also quite impressive. Even if the insects are protected by hard shells and hit by the warhead, they are also blood holes the size of fists.

The dense bullets formed an invisible curtain behind the excavation team. Most of the surging insect swarms stopped at this barrage. Every insect that touched the barrage was hit by bullets like a sieve. Some even had their bodies broken, and their broken limbs and arms scattered all over the ground. Even if there were sometimes stronger insects breaking through the barrage, it didn't matter. If there were only a few seconds left, they would be fired and killed by guns that were shot to assist in the shooting.

The timing of the fortress fire was calculated quite accurately. As soon as the crowd passed the blockade line, the barrage storm was formed. The members of the excavation team were unscathed, while the bugs were blocked from the other side of the barrage and continued to die. Only more than a hundred bugs were too close to each other, and followed the excavation team to cross the barrage's defense.

"Ah", a scholar in the crowd who was closely protected was stabbed by the insect's claws and was dragged towards the insect swarm with screams. Fortunately, after just a few steps, a dagger stretched out from the shadow and cut off the insect's head silently.

"Are they all idiots? Or do you think you are watching a performance in the opera house now?" Shur roared, waving his hammer, "I have to see when you die, there is time to watch slowly. If you are not dead, I will try my best to survive. Look, look, it's just a massacre. What's there to watch? Have you forgotten the mercenary rules?"

No wonder Shuer was angry. The reason why the scholars were injured was too low.

Article 17 of the Mercenary Code: During the action, you can only have the current task in your eyes. No matter what happens around you, it cannot affect the current action. No matter whether it is a volcano gushing or a crack eruption, even if the end of the world is coming, you must consider it after the action is over. Mercenaries who are prone to interference with the action by the environment will have only one dead end.

Just now, most ordinary mercenaries, including ordinary people in the team, made this mistake. The barrage storm came too suddenly and the effect was quite amazing. The rumbling of insects was endless, and the blood and limbs splattered around like rain. These people were shocked by the scene in front of them, and even forgot Shuer's previous orders, and even stopped running.

They were shocked. The insects didn't. There were more than a hundred bugs chasing around them. Since humans had forgotten to escape and resist, the insects would certainly not be polite, so they almost lost another person before the safe transfer. It was no wonder that Shuer gritted his teeth in anger.

"Run over, don't block the door, gather on the right side of the gate." In the last thirty meters, the insects had not yet broken through the barrage. Shuer saw that the small door of the gate showed no sign of opening, and immediately ordered, "After gathering, relying on the external wall defense, people without combat effectiveness gather on the innermost side, the mercenaries protect the outside, and eliminate the insects that follow as soon as possible. Experts, those who know magic can use magic to shoot and help the mercenaries clean up the insects. For melee combat, stay here and help. Moria, stay here, and the mages come back with me to help this fortress..."
Chapter completed!