Chapter 109: Death
Fang Yun's disappearance did not cause much of a stir. Admiral Giles only sent a small team to search along the way and report any situation to the higher authorities. However, anyone with a discerning eye knew that it would be difficult to find him. There was not enough fuel, water and food, and the chance of survival was infinitely close to zero.
At the same time, the exploration team has also found the lair of the gluttons. There is a giant maze fifteen meters underground. The king responsible for laying eggs is lurking at the end of the maze. The gluttons carry the energy minerals they hunt into the maze every day, and a batch of larvae can be hatched every three days on average.
"Those gluttons deliver food at a regular time, starting at dawn and ending at dusk, and they work during the day. If we want to destroy their nests during the chaos, it's best to do it quickly at night."
A virtual terrain simulation map appeared in the air. Admiral Giles tapped his fingertips and the scene changed. The maze terrain drawn by the exploration team using data popped up: "Major General Joyce will be responsible for leading the team into the maze and destroying the nest. Once the glutton king is attacked, he will immediately use his mental power to control his people to return to fight. Major General Ludwig, you will be responsible for leading the team to block it nearby. You must delay it for at least five hours."
Admiral Giles arranged the battle plan in an orderly manner. By the time the meeting was over, it was already late at night. At the same time, the battle order was quickly transmitted to the ears of every insect:
"All troops on standby! Move at daybreak!"
In such dangerous situations, the male insects were supposed to hide in the starship, but after seeing Amber kill the monsters more easily than chopping watermelons that day, no insect objected to him joining the battle.
Except Ludwig.
"According to instrument detection, there will be more monsters near the nest than on that day. I hope you don't go to the battlefield unless it is absolutely necessary."
Ludwig's expression was more serious than ever. He couldn't tell why, but he always felt an indescribable uneasiness in his heart.
Amber lowered his head to wipe the sword in his hand, the cold light gleaming, clearly reflecting his dark eyes: "Ludwig, we are already on the battlefield. When the situation is critical, it will not be solved by hiding in a starship."
Ludwig knew that persuasion would not work, so he let out a long breath and finally compromised: "Okay, but you must follow me closely and never rush into the encirclement to save that damn male insect like last time!"
When he said the last sentence, there was an inexplicable sense of gnashing of teeth in his voice.
Amber knew that Ludwig had a problem, so she was silent for a moment before asking, "Is Nanla okay?"
Ludwig curled his lips slightly, looking mocking and sad. "His arm is broken. When he returns to Heitz City, he will be forced to retire and perhaps even divorce. You know, the army can't keep a disabled female insect, and no male insect in Heitz City is willing to marry a disabled female insect."
"The rest of his life is ruined..."
Ludwig has been feeling sad about the existence of military henchmen all his life. They stand at the pinnacle of strength, yet they are reduced to humbleness. When they lose the fighting ability they rely on for survival, they are left with only the fate of being abandoned. What is the difference between them and chess pieces?
Amber looked at Ludwig carefully and smiled: "Are you worried that I will abandon you?"
Ludwig paused when he heard this, raised his eyes to look at Amber, and said word by word: "I am not Nanla, and you are not those male insects, so this assumption is not valid."
He never thought about whether Amber would abandon him, because only waste would be abandoned, and Ludwig would never let himself become useless waste.
The entire fleet was divided into two groups and headed for the alien lair at dawn. Ludwig led the team to ambush behind a nearby mountain. Once Joyce and his men started fighting, the nearby aliens would swarm in. Ludwig's mission was to delay them for at least five hours.
Amber and Ludwig were lurking deep in the valley, using telescopes to observe the movements around them. At dawn, the temperature had dropped to minus 20 degrees Celsius. Although their combat suits had a constant temperature function, they were still shivering with cold in the extremely harsh environment.
Amber exhaled a breath of cold air and looked to the right inconspicuously, only to see Siflai lying in ambush behind a mountain not far away. He whispered something to his comrades, then quietly stood up and left, his back disappearing in the morning mist.
Amber narrowed her eyes sharply when she saw this. She had a feeling that something might happen. She lowered her voice and said to Ludwig, "I have something to do. I'll be back soon."
Ludwig frowned: "What are you doing? It's dangerous nearby, don't walk around."
Amber said, "I'm worried that there might be bugs causing trouble. You should guard this place well and don't let other bugs take advantage of the opportunity."
He patted Ludwig's shoulder, turned around and left with his sword in hand. The mountain was steep and sloping, and he disappeared after a few leaps.
Amber followed the direction that Silver left and finally came to a deep canyon. She was surrounded by towering black mountains that looked ghostly and eerie in the mist. Because the terrain was subsiding, Amber felt as if she was in a huge deep pit.
“Woo woo woo—”
The cold wind blew across the mountain valley, making a sound like the weeping of a ghost. In the mist not far away, a black figure seemed to be curled up, sobbing and crying.
Amber's eyes dimmed when he saw this, and he drew out the sword in his hand and walked slowly towards the figure. He originally thought that it was Sifley who was playing tricks, but when he got closer, he didn't expect that it was an unexpected person.
"Fang Yun?!"
A black-haired man was tied up with ropes and curled up on the ground. His body was covered with a thick layer of frost. It was none other than Fang Yun. He was wearing thin clothes and no one knew how long he had been frozen here. He was only breathing once. A cloth strip was stuffed in his mouth, so his cries for help were completely drowned out and sounded like the cry of a ghost.
Amber frowned, swung his sword diagonally, and directly cut the rope on the opponent. He never thought that Fang Yun, who had escaped by flying, would be here. He stepped forward and took off the cloth strip from Fang Yun's mouth, and asked in a deep voice: "Who tied you here? Sifley?!"
Fang Yun was frozen stiff, with a layer of frost on his eyelashes. He shivered and looked behind Amber with an anxious expression. He seemed to want to say something, but because he had been hypothermic for too long, his tongue was completely out of control and his words were unclear: "Yes... yes... Si... Sifrey..."
Amber turned around and saw a familiar figure in military uniform standing on the opposite mountain. It was Sever. He smiled at Amber and the others and clapped his hands: "Sir Amber, it's rare for the three of us to get together. Today is really a day worth celebrating."
The truth is revealed, Siflai is indeed the assassin!
Amber turned her wrist, pointed her sword at the ground, assumed a fighting stance, and said calmly, "Thank you for taking such pains to deal with me."
Sivley spread his hands, seeming a little helpless: "Who said Fang Yun is so useless, otherwise I would have killed you a long time ago, it seems I have to do it myself."
Fang Yun, who was lying on the ground, was emotionally agitated when he heard this. He struggled and crawled for a distance. His anger made him forget the cold, and he asked tremblingly, "Why... I... I am so good to you..."
"good?"
Hearing this, Siflai seemed to have heard a big joke, and he laughed breathlessly: "Have you been confused in the insect tribe? Do you think that as long as you are a little gentle and considerate, all the female insects will be grateful to you?!"
"If you were good to me, why would you get entangled with those messy female insects? In the final analysis, you are just impressing yourself. You think those male insects in Heiz City are all hugging and having sex, so it is a great gift for you to coax and deceive me. But unfortunately, I am not those sad and pitiful insects on Alixia Star."
Severus took off his disguise, completely losing his previous innocent and gentle look. He tilted his head and slowly uttered a sentence: "Because... I am also a human being."
"you……!!!"
Fang Yun was hit so hard that he almost fainted. Seeing this, Amber realized that he had underestimated Severi's cunning. He slowly raised his sword, pointed the sharp tip at the opponent, and asked without any emotion: "Where is the real Severi?"
Sivley paced back and forth on the cliff, not minding a little preface before the "good show" began. Hearing this, he said with interest: "Amber, since you know that I am an assassin, you should know that the system is omnipotent. As long as you have points, you can redeem anything. What Sivley? There is no Sivley in the world."
The world they live in is a novel, and Ludwig is the proud son of heaven in this book. In the original novel, he has no younger brother at all. He is the only son in the family since birth, has the most noble blood, the purest blond hair, the bluest eyes, is invincible in battle, and in a few years, he will even become the youngest marshal of the empire.
Sivley looked pleased with himself, and whispered word by word:
"I took Ludwig's life."
He used his points to redeem items from the system, fabricated an identity, and took away all the halo of the other party.
So Ludwig's original blond hair and blue eyes belonged to him, and the family's favor also belonged to him. Ludwig, who should have become a proud son of heaven, turned into a bastard with impure blood. He was carrying the reputation of being a jinx and no male insect dared to marry him.
According to the revised destiny trajectory, Sieflei will be promoted step by step after entering the military, while Ludwig will be just like everyone else. However, he did not expect that Ludwig, after losing so much glory, could still rely on his own efforts to become the youngest major general in the Kingdom of God, and the biggest variable, Amber, appeared.
Amber frowned: "Why do you do this?"
If the other party just wanted to assassinate him, there was no need to target Ludwig.
"Why?"
Sivley took out a small black remote control from his pocket and tossed it twice carelessly: "Because this is my last mission. After killing you, I will stay in this world forever. How can there be a female insect more dazzling than me?"
"Although I don't know your origins, you are destined to die here today. Don't worry, Ludwig will be down to accompany you soon."
He finished speaking and directly pressed the switch in his hand. There was a slight click and Fang Yun suddenly cried out in pain. He stood up from the ground like a puppet being hung, and his originally sunken belly began to swell outwards at an alarming speed.
Amber's face changed when he saw the situation. He felt something was wrong and immediately jumped up and climbed up the cliff. As soon as his front foot left, he heard a loud explosion. Fang Yun was blown into a bloody mist and meat paste. Countless red blood spots fell from the sky and scattered around the valley. The air was filled with a pungent smell of blood, so strong that it made people breathless.
This strong smell of blood was like a stimulant to the alien beasts. There was a loud tremor, and suddenly countless gluttons crawled out from all around. Their dark armor flashed coldly, their claws swung, and they searched for food everywhere like crazy. More and more of them gathered.
It turns out that Sifley tied Fang Yun up here just to use him as human bait!
In a flash, Amber swung the long sword in his hand and stabbed directly at Severi on the cliff. His eyes were cold and sharp, with an undisguised murderous intent. The latter saw a flash of panic in his eyes, turned around and ran away, throwing the skills redeemed by the system as if they were free:
[Ding! Activate teleportation skill! ]
[Ding! Activate shield skill! ]
[Ding! Activate the sharpshooter skill! ]
Sivley's hidden skills were far more than Amber had imagined. Several times, he stabbed the opponent with a sword, but Sivley either disappeared in front of him like a ghost, or his body was so hard that even the sword couldn't pierce him, and he drew his gun and turned around to shoot at him madly. If Amber hadn't dodged quickly and knocked the gun out of Sivley's hand with gravel in time, he would have ended up like Fang Yun.
Sivley sneered: "I have carried out hundreds of assassination missions. How could I die in your hands?"
Amber's face was solemn, and he finally felt the difficulty. He could only keep attacking Sifley to consume the opponent's skills. The speed was so fast that only the afterimage could be seen:
[Ding! Teleport skill failed! ]
[Ding! The shield skill is invalid! ]
[Ding! Sharpshooter skill is invalid! ]
Severus panted and dodged Amber's attack, and finally hid behind a rock. He cursed coldly, obviously not expecting Amber to be so difficult to deal with. He could only take out a small silver whistle from his pocket and began to blow:
[Ding! Consume one Silver Whistle of Control! ]
A low, shrill whistle suddenly sounded, and the gluttons who had been dizzy and looking for food at the bottom of the canyon suddenly seemed to be controlled and rushed towards Amber. They were so dense that it was frightening, and they could not be killed.
Amber's figure was almost submerged by these huge beasts. He swung his sword quickly, the cold light flashing, and each swing of the sword took away countless lives of the beasts. Sifley hid in the dark, pulled out another gun from behind, waited for the right moment to aim at Amber's arm, and then pulled the trigger -
"Bang!"
A bullet came with a sound of breaking through the air, which was covered by the glutton's roar, and silently penetrated Amber's arm. He groaned, and the sword was almost slipped out of his hand. He quickly realized that it was Sifley who was causing trouble, and immediately raised his palm to hit his wound, forcing the bullet out with his internal force.
However, even the strongest could not stand such endless fighting, and Amber was visibly exhausted. Standing far away, Sifley saw with his own eyes the tide of monsters engulfing Amber's body, and then he stopped blowing the whistle and slowly retreated to leave.
Those monsters have started to go crazy. If they don't leave, he will be in trouble too.
Sivley quickly turned back along the path, looking back from time to time to check on Amber's condition. However, when he turned a corner, he accidentally bumped into a figure, and because the mountain road was slippery, he fell heavily to the ground.
“Plop!”
Before Sivlei could see who it was, a cold gun barrel hit his head, causing his skin to hurt. His pupils shrank, and he looked up in shock, only to see Ludwig's cold and cruel eyes.
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