Chapter 112 Opening
[The world is like a huge grave. Everything is heading for death. The living scatter and scatter, and the dead gather and gather. Later I realized that all of this was for the purpose of reuniting with him...]
When Amber woke up again, she found herself in a huge trench. At five o'clock in the morning, the cold wind blew through the mountains, penetrating into her bones, and a thin layer of frost formed on the exposed skin.
Amber curled up, feeling a splitting headache, and even seeing things was a blur. He struggled to get up from the ground, but suddenly a strong hand fell on his shoulder and pushed him back:
"Don't move, or you'll be exposed!"
The voice was deliberately low-pitched, sounding particularly familiar, as if it was connected to my heart, and every movement and stillness was out of my control.
Amber's heart skipped a beat when he heard that. He slowly raised his head and saw Ludwig's familiar face right in front of him. There was not a single flaw in his cold features. Against the backdrop of the barren land around him, he looked particularly vivid, like a perfect work carved by God's hand.
So far away, yet so close at hand.
Amber frowned and whispered, "Ludwig?"
His voice was blown away by the wind, sounding a little vague and with a hint of uncertainty.
Ludwig raised his eyebrows slightly: "Well, what's wrong?"
He hated seeing soldiers whispering on the battlefield, but whenever he faced Amber, he always had a little more patience that he didn't have for other insects.
Amber didn't say anything. Suddenly, she held Ludwig's face in her hands with a force that was even somewhat rude and inconsistent with her character. Her voice was low and unstable: "Ludwig, is that you?"
Ludwig: “…”
What happened to this male insect?
Ludwig pulled Amber's hand down with some difficulty. There were several red fingerprints on his white chin. It was not difficult to see how much strength the male insect had used. He said incredulously: "Who else could it be if not me? Sir, you'd better not joke. We still have a mission to accomplish."
Ludwig always felt that Amber looked a little abnormal. He frowned and was already thinking about whether to let her go back to the starship to be examined by a military doctor. After all, male insects should not appear on the battlefield. But he didn't expect that when he glanced inadvertently, he suddenly found that Severai quietly got up and left the trench. His eyes suddenly fixed.
"...I have to leave for something and will be back soon. Moga, you temporarily lead the team to contact Joyce and protect Lady Amber!"
Ludwig left the trench and chased after him after saying this. The early morning mist was thick and his figure disappeared from their sight in an instant.
Amber finally realized what happened to Sivley. His face changed and he immediately tried to catch up with him, but he was grabbed by the wrist by the adjutant Moga. "Sir, where are you going? Major General Ludwig told me to protect you."
"Just stay here and contact Major General Joyce!"
Amber chased after him despite Moga's obstruction. Even though Siflai had a die together card in his hand, he couldn't kill him for the time being, but he couldn't let Ludwig fall into his trap!
The black mountains stretched endlessly, making the surrounding environment murderous and dangerous. The peaks reached the sky, forming a winding and rugged canyon. Amber was clearly following the route in her memory, but she could not reach the end, until a gunshot suddenly shook the valley and exploded above her head like thunder.
"Bang!"
Amber suddenly turned and looked towards the southwest, his eyes as sharp as a sword. At that time, he had already made the best and worst plans in his mind. Either Fang Yun was blown into a pulp, or Ludwig was ambushed by Siffre. But he didn't expect that when he hurried to the canyon, he saw Ludwig standing alone on the cliff, holding a light energy gun tightly in his hand, and Fang Yun was lying on the ground not far away, dying.
"Ludwig!"
Amber walked forward quickly and saw that Ludwig was not injured. She looked around and asked with a frown, "What happened just now? Where's Sever?!"
Ludwig seemed to be still in shock until he heard Amber's words, then he said with an unpleasant expression: "I just found that Sifley had left the trench stealthily, so I followed him quietly. I didn't expect that he was going to kill Fang Yun. In a hurry, I opened fire to stop him, and accidentally shot him dead and fell off the cliff..."
Amber raised her eyes suddenly when she heard this: "Killed? Where is the body?"
Although Ludwig and Sivlei had always been at odds, he had never thought of killing each other. Hearing this, he pointed to a cliff not far away and said in a low voice that was almost drowned by the cold wind: "There."
Hearing this, Amber walked to the edge of the cliff and leaned over to look down. She saw a familiar figure in military uniform falling in the rugged valley. There was a small bloody hole in the middle of his forehead. It was Severus who had died.
The other party actually died like this?
Amber frowned unconsciously, feeling that it was unlikely. He used the rock wall as leverage and leapt directly to Severi's body. He reached out to feel his pulse, but found no breath or heartbeat. He was obviously dead.
Ludwig frowned, not understanding why Amber wanted to see the body. He stood on a high place and shouted, "It's dangerous down there, come up quickly!"
Amber slowly stood up from the ground: "Go check on Fang Yun first, I'll be up soon."
Ludwig heard this and then he remembered that Fang Yun was in a bad condition behind him, so he ran over to check on his injuries. Little did he know that not long after he left, Amber suddenly drew her sword as fast as lightning and directly cut off Sivley's head -
"Bang!"
The blond head flew away in an instant, and a small pool of blood spurted out from the neck. Amber shook off the blood on the sword with an expressionless face. She remembered something and rummaged in Severus' pocket for a while, and finally found a silver whistle that had not been used.
If he remembered correctly, Sifley used this to control the alien beast. Although he didn't know if it was effective, it wouldn't be a bad idea to keep it.
Amber flew up and returned to the top of the cliff. At that time, Ludwig was giving Fang Yun first aid. She saw that there were about forty thin bomb fuses implanted under the skin of the male insect's abdomen. They were densely packed together, like a bunch of weird tentacles.
Just now, Siffre was about to detonate the bomb, but was stopped by Ludwig in time. However, Fang Yun's body was still seriously damaged. He vomited blood and his face turned pale. He was about to die.
Ludwig quickly cleaned up the blood that Fang Yun had vomited, lest the bloody smell attract the alien beasts, and said to Amber hurriedly, "No, he is too seriously injured. We must hurry back and let the military doctor treat him."
Amber had no objection. He had just killed Siflei, and it wouldn't be long before the herd of alien beasts would follow the scent and come over. Without waiting for Ludwig to take action, he picked Fang Yun up from the ground and carried him to the camp.
Little did they know that not long after they left, a strange voice suddenly rang out in the air:
[Ding! Use a resurrection card! ]
As the mechanical sound fell, the headless corpse that was originally lying in the valley suddenly moved, and climbed up from the ground with stuttering limbs like a robot, and then stumbled towards the direction where the head fell.
Sifley groped for his head, put it back on his neck, and then turned 180 degrees in a terrifying manner. With a flash of white light, the wounds on his body disappeared instantly, leaving only the bloodstains on the ground as a silent reminder of what had just happened.
Sivley staggered forward, holding onto the mountain wall. His azure eyes were filled with malice, and he gritted his teeth and said word by word: "Amber... Ludwig... I will tear you into pieces..."
At that time, Amber and Ludwig had already handed Fang Yun over to their soldiers to escort back to the starship, and then returned to the trench. They tacitly did not mention Siflai, but continued to lie in ambush, ready to pick up Joyce at any time.
After an unknown amount of time, the communicator suddenly rang with a sharp sound of electricity, and Major General Joyce's anxious voice came from it: "Oh no! When we were strangling the Beast King just now, the underground palace suddenly collapsed and it accidentally escaped. It is summoning nearby monsters to gather here! Ludwig, retreat quickly!"
Ludwig's eyes turned cold when he heard this: "It's injured and can't run far. You must lead your team out to encircle and suppress it. We must strangle the Beast King today!"
The Black Eagle Corps has never lost a battle since its establishment. If they fail to complete the mission this time, not only will they lose face, but even the Insect Emperor will blame them. When the battle situation in the front was reported to Admiral Garth, he issued an order to wipe out the Beast King as expected!
“Boom——!”
When countless gluttons crawled out from underground, it is no exaggeration to say that the entire ground began to shake violently. Major General Joyce led his troops to surround the area from the outside, while Ludwig rushed out from the inside. The sound of gunfire was incessant, and a strong smell of blood floated in the air, which even the whistling wind could not blow away.
Amber rushed into the battle circle with a sword in hand, and her moves were as fast as lightning. Every time the cold light flashed, countless gluttons were harvested. They fought hard in the herd of beasts, desperately looking for the figure of the Beast King, but to no avail.
"Damn it!"
Ludwig crushed the head of a glutton and shouted to Joyce angrily: "What does the Beast King look like!"
Joyce was covered in blood after killing the monster. He took the time to shout, "It's too dark in the underground palace for me to see clearly! I only know that it looks different from the other monsters. Just find the one that is the most different!"
It's the same as saying nothing.
Ludwig wanted to kick him to death.
Amber suddenly realized that it was not a solution to continue fighting like this, so he stepped on his military boots, jumped up, and stepped directly on the thick backs of those gluttons, then climbed up the mountain wall to stand on a high place.
Amber narrowed her eyes, sharp as an eagle, and quickly searched for the figure of the Beast King on the densely packed battlefield. However, every exotic beast looked the same and there was no difference at all.
At the critical moment, Amber suddenly remembered the silver whistle hidden in his pocket. He frowned and put it to his lips and tried to blow it. Suddenly, a mechanical prompt sounded in his ear:
[Ding! Activate a silver whistle! ]
[Skill time limit is 30 minutes, countdown begins! ]
Amber didn't know where this strange sound came from. He only knew that once he blew the whistle, countless noisy voices came from all directions, rushing into his head:
"Hungry... so hungry..."
"I want food..."
"Kill... Kill them all..."
It is the voice of those greedy people.
Amber blew the whistle and tried to communicate with her mind to give the order to find the Beast King. Suddenly, a barely perceptible cry came from the southeast corner. Dozens of alien beasts formed a vacuum circle under the cover of rocks and tried desperately to signal Amber.
"Here...here..."
"Beast King..."
Amber frowned when she saw this, because there was clearly nothing in the vacuum circle, and the surrounding monsters didn't look like the Beast King. Could it be that his order was wrong?
Just as Amber was thinking about whether she needed to re-issue the order, a red sun slowly rose from behind the mountain. As the light changed, a group of unclear colorful shadows suddenly appeared on the empty ground, colliding anxiously from side to side, trying to find a way out.
The Beast King's body is actually transparent!!
In a flash, Amber flew down from the top of the mountain like an arrow, stepping on the dense crowd of gluttons below and heading southeast. His sharp eyes were always fixed on the colorful shadows in the sunlight. When he was still three meters away, he threw the long sword in his hand fiercely with a sound of breaking wind, and it pierced into the ground at an angle. There was a muffled "puff" sound, and suddenly a burst of painful and sharp roars broke out in the valley:
“Aaaaaaaaaaaa——!!!”
A wildly jumping monster gradually appeared on the empty ground. Its body was completely white, and it was stabbed in the abdomen by the long sword. Bright red blood gushed out. It struggled to escape, but could not move.
In the blink of an eye, Amber had landed in front of the Beast King. He drew his sword with his backhand and chopped it down with all his strength, cutting the Beast King in half.
At that moment, the battlefield, which was originally filled with the sound of fighting, suddenly became quiet for a second, and then fell into a frenzy of agitation. The spiritual threads in the minds of those alien beasts were completely cut off because of the death of the beast king, just like beads with a broken string, completely out of control, no longer fighting, no longer looking for food, like ants on a hot pot, madly spinning around, completely losing their backbone.
Ludwig and Joyce were both shocked when they saw this. They had never expected that the Beast King they had been searching for for so long would actually die at the hands of Amber. They immediately increased their firepower and encircled all the confused monsters, controlling the starship to release light energy bombs.
"Bang!"
"Bang!!"
Explosions rang out one after another, rocks and debris flew everywhere, and the monsters suffered heavy casualties. The few remaining ones no longer wanted to fight and fled away in panic.
Amber held the bloody sword in her hand and quickly evacuated onto the starship with most of the troops. The hatch closed and they slowly rose into the air. The outside was filled with devastation and the land was charred, silently telling how tragic the battle just now was.
The surviving female soldier was relieved at first, then she thought of Amber who killed the Beast King, and her eyes could not help but look in his direction, unable to hide her admiration and respect. If their fiery gazes could be condensed into substance, Amber would have been burned through by now.
Ludwig walked up to Amber and handed him a clean towel. His amber eyes seemed calm, but the burning heat hidden inside was no less than that of any insect. He said in a hoarse voice, "Wipe it off. Your face is covered in blood."
Amber probably didn't know how tempting he looked with blood on his face. He had a clean-looking face with black hair and black eyes, and the glaring contrast between the scarlet and his skin color gave her an indescribable sense of lust, which made her feel lustful.
Ludwig wasn't sure if it was because he had just retreated from the battlefield and his mind was still in an agitated state, he just felt like he was even hungrier than those gluttons, and every cell in his body was clamoring to devour the male insect in front of him.
Amber took the towel and wiped the blood off his face. He didn't know what Ludwig was thinking. His eyes occasionally fell on him, and the scene of Ludwig dying at the bottom of the valley in his previous life flashed through his mind. He breathed a sigh of relief and was glad that his fate had finally changed.
Just when the atmosphere in the starship was getting a little too quiet, the military doctor suddenly came out of the sterile operating room with his assistant, and said anxiously, "It's not good! Major General Ludwig, Major General Joyce, although all the micro-bombs in Fang Yun's lower body have been taken out, he is seriously injured and has not yet regained consciousness. I have already contacted the headquarters and he must be sent back to Hayes City for emergency treatment within three days. Any further delay will be dangerous."
He couldn't help cursing before he finished speaking: "Who on earth is so cruel to use such means to deal with a precious male insect!"
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