Chapter 70 The disaster of extinction
"Woo~~~Woo~~~~" The sharp alarm sounded again through the human fortress. This time the alarm was faster than any previous one, and the volume was sharper. You could feel a clear sense of urgency from it, and it seemed that something serious happened.
According to the time of Pavatiga, it was already night. Before leaving, Shuer had explained that he and Moria might come back very late, so the people in the fortress were not too anxious. Most of them had already returned to their rooms to rest. There were only a few high-level mercenaries, and they were all busy with their own affairs.
The alarm alarmed every Pavatiga, and everyone hurriedly poked their heads out of the room, questioning each other in surprise, trying to find out why the alarm sounded, but unfortunately, it was futile. No one, including the acting commander Mia, knew what happened.
"Keep calm, everyone goes back to the room, organizes their belongings, and gather in the restaurant after that, and prepare for transfer at any time." Mia is the old captain. Although her team leader is not as rich as Shuer's experience in leading the team, it is enough to deal with the current scene. "Militi, Dark, you two follow me, let's go to the control room."
"I understand." At this time, Militi will not have any unprofessional performance. The two mages have been working together for several years, so they naturally know when they can fight and when they must cooperate tacitly. Now, it is time to cooperate.
"Although I can't understand the language of this world, Wei's artificial intelligence has a relatively powerful performance, and we should be able to find a way to understand the current state." Mia has also seen artificial intelligence in her past film-taking process, so she has some understanding of them. "Yuli, Fleisen, Savre, you three stayed in the living area, adjust the emotions of others, don't find any problems, the team has collapsed under pressure, especially you, Yuli, I know you have this ability."
"I understand, I will do my best, and you are making things difficult for me, an ordinary winged man."
Too lazy to continue discussing the issue about ordinary winged people, Mia had a gloomy face and walked towards the control room without saying a word. The alarm sounded sharper and sharper. Mia walked faster and faster, and her heart became more and more irritable. The remaining thirty-three lives were pressed heavily on her shoulders.
Although Mia always acts indifferent and ruthless, the mountain elves are a branch of the elves. Like their distant relatives from all sides, the proud mountain elves also love life. If she is allowed to watch life pass away one by one and she does nothing, she will not forgive herself for a long time.
The problem is that it is not an ordinary mercenary adventure or shadow hunting now. There are thirteen non-combatants in the team. In the current world, just a few bugs pop up and tear these ordinary people without combat ability into pieces. Even the warriors may not be insured. The thirteen victims who have died are examples.
This is a situation she has never encountered in her past experience of chasing shadows. Mia really has no confidence to protect the safety of these people, so she gave them to the inexperienced Shul after entering the projection of another world. This is not to shirk responsibility, but to think that Shul can do better than her. As long as she can fight for more ordinary people to survive, it is worth giving up command.
In fact, Mia doesn't care too much about the death of the warriors. Since she chose this profession and exchanged life and strength for freedom and money, it is normal to face death. Surviving is luck, not being able to survive is fate, and no one can blame it. But ordinary people are different. They are involved. If possible, the more ordinary people can be brought out, the better.
"When Shul is away, let me take responsibility again." Mia clenched her fists in secret and encouraged herself silently. The urgent alarm made her feel an ominous premonition. She instinctively thought that something was going to go wrong. If Shul was here now, it should be possible... By the way, why haven't he come back yet? It's not that he has encountered a problem.
Unable to stop thinking, Mia almost ran to the control room. The necromancer behind her seemed to be infected by her friends and enemies. Her always lazy expression and arrogant posture also became nervous. Even Dake, who had never cared about anything, stopped talking nonsense. She followed Mia without saying a word, and the blood-colored rose that swung his fingertips at a rapid speed showed that he was not calm.
"Bang", push the door of the control room hard, uh, okay, without pushing, the door automatically opened to both sides. Even though I was already very nervous, Mia was still embarrassed by herself. With a dry cough, the elf mage pretended that nothing had happened and entered the control room from the automatically opened door.
"Wei." Mia took a deep breath, imitating Shul's previous appearance, and pointed to the flashing alarm lights on the wall. Sure enough, the mage who deals with academics is the priest who cannot deal with secular people. That guy can pretend to be a high-ranking and domineering temperament with a few moves. Well, it should be pretending, well, it should.
"Pa", Wei, who had already stood on the control platform, responded with the most standard human military salute. Artificial intelligence is very smart. She already knew the problem of language barriers, so she did not try to say anything to the three of them, but directly unfolded a three-dimensional image in front of the three of them.
"Hiss, hell." The faces of the three people changed at the same time. In the image, a large-scale insect swarm had already assembled and started to move. In addition to the carpet-like insect swarm on the ground, there were dragonflies and another flying insect like magnified flies on both sides of the team. In the middle of the team, not only were empty jellyfish floating and cruising, but also a flying army similar to crabs shuttled back and forth.
Although the types of insects are different, they always advance at the same speed, and the speed is neither fast nor slow, the neat queue has fully demonstrated the momentum of nearly 100,000 insects. If you stand in front of the insect swarm, you don’t even need to fight. Just relying on the momentum of tens of thousands of insect swarms is enough to make the timids tremble and completely lose the courage to fight.
"The second unit has set off." The three of them looked at each other, Militi licked her lips, feeling her throat a little dry. "Where are their targets? The alarm sounded so harshly, it wasn't us."
"I'm sorry, it's our fortress." Mia sighed and pointed to the translucent map. A small arrow on the map was sent out from the direction of the mother nest of the insect swarm. Although the route was sometimes curved, it was obvious that the target was the location of the fortress.
"It seems they are preparing to attack." After a casual glance on the insect swarm, Dak, who is familiar with the war, saw the intention of the insect swarm. "These crab-like things, look at their mouthparts, are very long and strong, long-range ammunition attacks, the longer the shooting rod, the greater the power. Their mouthparts are already longer than their bodies. Other long-range insects cannot compare with them. I'm afraid that this guy's range is exaggerated, and the fortress's guns are powerless to them. Looking at these few, their stomachs are big enough and their speed is very slow. These should also be bugs that attack at a very long distance, but similar to catapults, whether they are stones or acids in their stomachs, they should be able to destroy the fortress's defense facilities outside the range."
"The long-range bugs occupy a small half and also bring extremely long-distance troops. There is no other possibility except for strong attacks. However, if it were me, I would send two smaller troops from here and here to move at the same time." Dark walked to the front of the map, pointed his finger at two positions, drew two arcs, and "finally, he encircled the fortress from three sides."
"Swish", as if I mistakenly thought that Dak was giving the order, the three-dimensional image was divided into three, and the images of the two positions indicated by Dak were also displayed.
"You are a spy of the swarm." The two mages stared at Dark with strange expressions, because as he saw it with his own eyes, there were indeed two smaller swarms of insects in the position he chose, which were marching at the same speed as the main force.
"It's trouble now." Dark frowned and pondered, "Are they determined to completely remove us? Fortunately, they have to cooperate with these siege equipment. The swarm is extremely slow, but I don't know how long they will be here."
"I ask Wei, I remember Shuer introduced that this thing is a popular timer in their world?" Mia searched around and finally found a round dashboard on the wall, which consisted of twelve scales. She pointed to the swarm of insects, the red dots representing her base, and finally pointed to the timer on the wall. The elf wizard felt that she gradually understood how to communicate with Wei.
"One, six, three, four, two, seven." It is actually the pronunciation of the numerals in the Pavatiga language. At the same time, the map also shows the numbers of the Pavatiga, sixteen, thirty-four, twenty-seven.
"Sixteen hours, thirty-four minutes and twenty-seven seconds, there is not much time left." Mia pondered for a moment, patted the console to show her gratitude, pulled Militi and ran out of the control room as quickly as possible. "I'll arrange the actions of others, Dak, stay and watch the three-dimensional image."
The restaurant in the living area is now in a noisy state. Most people are nervous and whisper to each other. Even the thirteen ordinary mercenaries are no exception. Everyone doesn’t know what happened, but the more they don’t know, the more nervous they are.
The three high-level mercenaries did not try to calm the discussion. The ordinary winged man who looked like he was in a high position and was very clear that suppression was the worst choice at this time. It would not be possible to make their emotions accumulate more and more and finally burst out completely. It would be better to let them talk to their heart's content and vent their tension. When Mia brings back the exact news, they will naturally be quiet.
Sure enough, when Mia took several deep breaths at our door to calm down, the moment she walked into the restaurant calmly, the noisy discussion suddenly disappeared, everyone looked at Mia intently, and even the breathing sound could be heard in the room.
Chapter completed!