Chapter 676 The spaceship that crashed hundreds of years
ago The city was burning, and the flames spread from the night mountaintop to the city walls and the fields in the distance.
The harvested wheat fields were left with dark red ashes. The bug-shaped machines passing through the city walls made strange noises from time to time. The spiral mouthparts extending from the chest and abdomen kept stabbing out, piercing the closed thick wooden door, and then rushed into it.
The collision of swords and roars sounded in the tower, and then a mouse-eared tribe member wearing knight armor was pierced through the wall by a spear. The spiral spear pierced through the chest and came out from the back, then rotated again, bringing up splattered flesh and blood, and then the mouse-eared knight slipped from the tip of the spear and fell into the ashes and wreckage below.
The buzzing cockroaches formed a formation and patrolled back and forth in the city. They spewed flames and ignited various wooden buildings along the way. Many burning houses slowly fell down in the flames, raising a lot of sparks and gray smoke.
At the end of the night, a team arrived at the foot of the city at the eve of dawn.
The black steel knights' armor was decorated with the emblem of snow cracked flowers. On one side of their waists under the cloak was a long sword and shield, and on the other side was a long lance. They were the Knights of the Iron Rat Kingdom, directly under the royal family, and the most elite soldiers of the Iron Rat Kingdom.
When this elite cavalry of hundreds of people arrived, they stood on the top of the hill and did not rush into the city immediately, but looked at the city in the flames of war.
Half an hour later, groups of figures climbed up the hill one after another and appeared on the hill. They were wearing thick coats, carrying square backpacks like boxes, and wearing helmets specially designed to expose their ears. Each of them held the standard musket of the Iron Rat Kingdom in his hand. Such soldiers continued to form a huge crescent arc outside the city, surrounding the fallen city.
This was all the remaining fighting force of the Iron Rat Kingdom. They were summoned from various strongholds and villages, and came from all over the place, and finally gathered here.
"Everyone, check the ammunition and prepare to load!"
A mounted Mouse-eared knight stepped out from the cavalry. He held up his sword and rode back and forth in front of the formation, passing the order to every soldier standing on the ridge.
In silence, everyone began to move, and various rustling sounds were heard, mixed with the sound of pulling the bolt from time to time.
When these Mouse-eared people gathered, the mechanical bodies in the city that were performing the cleaning and harvesting tasks gradually reacted. They took off again and looked down at the formation below from the air. Then, rockets shot out from the chest and abdomen of the cockroaches, passing through the cold air and rushing towards the Mouse-eared people below.
"Iron crossbows, fire!"
There was an urgent roar from the Mouse-eared formation, followed by bursts of tense ejection sounds from behind the formation.
Several large crossbow arrows shot out as powerfully as spears, piercing the cockroaches in the night sky. Under the spells cast by a group of Mouse-eared priests, the rockets were blocked by the erected barriers and exploded in mid-air, breaking into countless sparks.
As they fought the cockroaches in the air, the originally closed city wall slowly fell down, and a huge mechanical beetle crawled out. It was as tall as the city wall, covered with stacked ring armor, and its lower body was dense with thousands of claws, constantly crawling, pushing its entire body forward.
When this large mechanical beetle appeared, the array on the hilltop began to focus fire under the commander's command. The dense bullets hit the armor, emitting a clanging spark. Then the double-barreled muzzle in the middle of the mechanical beetle poked out, and a deep blue light flashed, and a powerful electromagnetic bullet was fired, penetrating the mouse-ear tribe in the array.
Such an electromagnetic bullet penetrated seven mouse-ear tribesmen with just one shot, bringing up a blood mist. After a gap appeared in the front line, the reserve personnel filled it and opened fire again.
"Prepare to throw stones!"
"Fire!"
The heavy black stone was thrown high up, and then smashed into the mechanical beetle at the city gate, and then exploded violently. The silver powder in it was ignited, and violent sparks burst out, almost incandescent. The fierce burning sparks melted the shell of the mechanical beetle, and the molten metal liquid seeped into the inside. There was a sizzling sound and white smoke.
"Fire!"
Several more black stones were thrown up and fell around the huge mechanical beetle. Some burned through and corroded the armor on its back, and some fell into the city gate, exploding with boiling white flames to block the various mechanical bodies rushing out of the city.
After several shots, the originally oppressive mechanical beetle stopped and fell to the ground. Its body stopped and stood still, and beside it were various small mechanical units that shuttled out.
Although they were far smaller than the fallen mechanical beetle, they were particularly numerous. When they swarmed out, the buzzing sound made people's scalps numb.
Intensive gunfire rang out in the Mouse-Ear Clan's formation, and the flickering firelight almost formed a line in the wilderness. Many individuals in the opposite mechanical unit array also stopped firing, but the firepower was far less neat and dense than that of the Mouse-Ear Clan.
Soon, the mechanical units in the front row approached the Mouse-Ear Clan's formation. The Mouse-Ear Clan who had just finished firing were forced to close combat, and panic began to spread. Many of the Mouse-Ear Clan who were recruited were not familiar with close combat, and the opponent was a mechanical life with a steel body.
In order to stabilize the line that was about to collapse, the Guards Knights on the hill walked out of the separated formation. They were all extraordinary people above Sequence 3, holding large lances specially used to deal with mechanical bodies, and began to accelerate continuously.
It was like a cone-shaped large lance with surrounding patterns on the surface, and bursts of cold light appeared on the lance tip. When it accelerated to a certain degree, it was like a flashing cold star floating in the firelight. Then these flashing lance tips slammed into the mechanical bodies along the way, piercing the solid alloy shell, penetrating the electronic components inside, and disintegrating these mechanical bodies in the exploding sparks.
Because of the charge of these Knight Guards, the Mouse-Eared soldiers on the front finally got a chance to breathe. They began to retreat and reorganize the front, while some shield-bearing soldiers wearing full melee steel armor stepped forward.
These short Mouse-Eared people formed a shield line that stretched for a thousand meters. Soon, with the sound of wheels rolling, large iron crossbows were transported to the top of the mountain. Under the coordination of the Mouse-Eared engineers, these iron crossbows lowered their crosshairs and aimed at the dense mechanical bodies below. More than a dozen engineers behind began to turn the capstan to wind the strings.
The specially made silver iron crossbow arrows were pressed into the crossbow strings, and then the trigger was pulled, and it was shot out quickly, setting off a field of mechanical self-discipline units on the ground.
At this time, the mechanical bodies in front of the front line also gradually changed their previous swarming combat strategy. The units that could shoot from a distance began to climb the city walls and kept firing. The powerful individuals among them unfolded their barrels like honeycombs, and the surging shooting flames drowned their bodies.
The large amount of bullets fired caused the barrier built above the Mouse Ear Tribe's line to quickly shatter and dissipate. After losing their protection, the line began to suffer heavy casualties. At this time, the commander of the Mouse Ear Tribe had to order the entire line to retreat to the shady side of the mountain and use the slope of the mountain to block the enemy's shooting.
The messengers rushed along the front line, shouting for everyone to retreat in an orderly manner, and then re-formed the front line, with long spears raised one by one, slanting upwards to the sky. When the mechanical bodies climbed over the hill, they would face this forest of long spears.
For the mechanical bodies, these long spears could not cause much damage to them, but if they could not break through these forests of spears, they would become targets for the dense musket line behind them.
The guns filled with special gunpowder continued to fire, and at this time the front line slowly entered a stalemate. Both sides were consuming each other. The members in the front kept falling down, and the rear replenished them. If it were soldiers of other races, they would probably have panicked and fled because of casualties, but the reason why the mouse-eared tribe was able to establish a country on this land was because they had unique characteristics.
If they were a single mouse-eared tribe, they would probably be as timid as ordinary mice, but when they formed a group, both their courage and will would be blessed in some way, as if dying with everyone was worth it and acceptable.
Such characteristics made it easy for the Mouse-eared Tribe to unite and become stronger in this land, and finally defeated various other local races to form their own kingdom.
"Sir, all the melee shield guards in front were killed." The Mouse-eared Tribe messenger with blood on his face came to the commander to report.
At this time, due to the fierce battle, the shield-bearing soldiers responsible for maintaining the front line were almost lost, and there were still many mechanical self-discipline units crossing the mountain.
"Let the second reserve team move forward!" The commander ordered.
Then teams of Mouse-eared Tribe soldiers withdrew the bullets from their muskets, inserted bayonets, and moved forward under the command. There were men and women among them, but the male and female characteristics of the Mouse-eared Tribe were not obvious, and they looked very similar. At this time, their eyes passed through the space under the brims of their steel helmets, breathing heavily as they looked at the mechanical bodies that kept rushing over.
The nearly 10,000-strong team that arrived at dawn was now only half left. The hillside was full of fallen corpses and broken mechanical bodies, and the air was filled with the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke.
Replacing the shattered front line, this team armed with muskets and bayonets fought against the mechanical bodies that rushed forward, and there was a continuous sound of musket shooting in the back.
Because they were not equipped with steel armor and shields, their battle against the mechanical bodies was far less easy than before. Almost as soon as they came into contact, various casualties occurred, and the sharp mechanical sickles harvested these fragile creatures.
"Fire! Fire!"
Faced with such a scene, the commander also became anxious. He knew that such a reserve team alone could not support for long. If he could not kill a large number of enemies in this precious time, the consequences would be disastrous.
But at this time, there were not many people in the Mouse Ears team who could fill in the line of support. There were only a few elite knights who charged before, and they were all dismounted to fight, maintaining the most dangerous and fierce central front.
Originally, with the strength of the Iron Rat Kingdom, it should have been able to mobilize more troops and combat forces, but the internal conflict a month ago consumed a lot of manpower, and then the mechanical bodies sleeping in the ruins awakened, which made both sides put aside their previous grudges and work together again.
"Is it too late?" Seeing the gap in the front line, even if someone in the rear added, it would not be able to stop the gap from collapsing. As the commander, Hyacinth clenched her fingers on the hilt of the sword.
She could only try her best. She made up her mind, and then raised the cross sword in her hand, and the dazzling light flashed on the sword.
"Members of the Knights, follow me to charge!" At this moment, there were only more than 30 remaining Mouse Ear Knights behind her.
They gathered behind Hyacinth, forming a solid triangular front arrow, and uniformly drew out their two-handed swords, holding them in their hands, and began to follow Hyacinth.
The team of 30 people charged in the opposite direction and crashed into the dense cluster of mechanical bodies, hoping to disrupt the rhythm of the opponent's attack and reduce the pressure on the front line.
In the early stage, they kept waving the cold and shining two-handed swords, tearing apart the mechanical bodies along the way, giving everyone hope. However, as the battle continued, the number of knights beside Hyacinth became fewer and fewer.
The visor of the knight's helmet was covered by red-hot metal fragments, and the armor on her body was covered with all kinds of blood stains. As she chopped down one enemy after another, Hyacinth's consciousness became more and more blurred. If it weren't for her well-trained body maintaining reaction movements, she would have fallen in the swarming mechanical cluster.
Even though she had tried her best, there was still no end to the endless enemies. In the end, her consciousness fell step by step, until at some point she could no longer resist the dizziness of blood loss and physical exhaustion.
Her world darkened.
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A few days later, a small plane flew across the sky, overlooking the ruined battlefield below. There were piles of corpses everywhere, some of the mouse-eared tribe, and some mechanical bodies. Broken muskets and bayonets were slanted into the ground, and some flies and flying insects kept rising and falling, gnawing at the rotten flesh and blood.
After the last living force of the Iron Rat Kingdom was defeated, the mechanical cluster began to spread unstoppably in the kingdom. They passed through villages and towns like locusts, destroying everything they went.
"This is the sixteenth town we've passed by." Tilan muttered as she looked at the ruined town below.
"There seems to be a faint sign of life below." Flying in the air
, Loloria came to the cabin. "Are there any alive? Let's go down and take a look." Tilan felt a certain joy. Although she had no relatives or friends with these mouse-eared people, she was relieved to see survivors in this tragic scene.
The plane circled and slowly descended. Celitia flew out directly, and only Orles and Tilan walked down.
Orles was a little uncomfortable with the environment here. She leaned behind Tilan, holding Tilan's sleeve and walking slowly, covering her mouth and nose with her sleeve, but she still looked around curiously. Even though there were many corpses here, she was not afraid, perhaps because she did not understand the sadness.
Tilan carefully crossed the debris on the ground and walked to the hill where the corpses and mechanical fragments were piled up. After thinking for a while, she raised her hand and let the piled things float up one by one, revealing the buried figure below. It was a mouse-ear tribe whose life signal was almost endangered. Judging from the armor on her body, she should be a knight of a high rank.
She slowly let it fall to the open space in front of her. Tilan bent down, carefully checked her condition, and began to treat her. Celitia watched curiously on the side, very interested in Tilan's treatment method.
Just like that, about 20 minutes later, some clear water flowed down from the air and fell on the face of the weak mouse-ear tribe. Some of it seeped into her mouth, and she slowly opened her eyes.
The blue sky...
Looking at the blue sky above her head, after a few seconds, she gathered some consciousness and recalled what happened before she fell into a coma.
She was still alive. She wanted to move a little, but the soreness and numbness from all parts of her body told her that she couldn't do it. Even her consciousness was extremely weak, and she thought about things much slower than before.
With tired eyes, she tried her best to turn her eyes and look at the people around her. One of them seemed to see what she was thinking, helped her up carefully, and handed her a glass of water.
Just like that, as the clear water slowly poured into her throat, she felt a little more conscious.
"I am the leader of the Guards Knights, Hyacinth, who are you?"
"We are passers-by from afar. We saw a lot of ruins along the way, but we found that you are still alive." The black-haired girl behind her said, and handed her another glass of water.
The weak Hyacinth looked up and looked at the other woman with wings beside her, and the girl with silver hair and pointed ears opposite, thinking about the race with such appearance.
"Thank you, can you tell me what you saw along the way?"
Tilan thought about it and decided to tell her the truth.
"The situation along the way is not very good. There are ruins everywhere after the ravages of mechanical bodies. The remaining settlements have begun to migrate to other places."
"It's good to be able to migrate out." Hearing this, she seemed a little relieved.
"Phew, I don't have much time left. Ask whatever you want to ask." She didn't think these people saved her just to give her water.
"Well... can you tell me what you found in the ruins?" Celitia asked.
"For the ruins? It seems so." Hyacinth sighed and then slowly told the story.
"...I was not the first person to know the news, but the queen did ask me to lead people to the ruins and block them off."
"The ruins were excavated in Mulan Manor, which is surrounded by several large ranch lords. They have many clansmen and subordinates, as well as their own combat teams. They are very dissatisfied with the people sent by the queen to seize the ruins."
"At first, the conflict was not fierce. They just hoped that Her Majesty the Queen would give more compensation, such as 100 sets of knight armor and weapons, which are within the permissible range."
"But as the excavation progressed, more and more amazing things appeared inside. There were not only intact spaceships, but also electronic equipment preserved in them, and some electromagnetic weapons were also usable."
"These things caused disagreements within the excavation team. Some greedy members wanted to steal them for themselves, and then internal fighting broke out because of uneven distribution."
"Later, the news leaked out, and the local large ranch lords also learned about the amazing treasures inside the ruins. They began to be dissatisfied with Her Majesty the Queen's gift, so they led people to surround the ruins and wanted to take out the treasures directly." "
This caused a conflict with our stationed personnel, and then it intensified until it finally awakened the sleeping mechanical body inside..."
"What happened after that was a disaster. The machines began to kill any living creatures they saw and began to send signals to summon more mechanical life."
"Seeing that things were out of control, the two sides who were originally fighting had to put aside their disputes and began to deal with the attack of the machines. Then I led the assembled troops to this place to blockade and fight a decisive battle."
"As you can see, I failed in the end." She looked at the scene that stretched for several kilometers below the hillside and sighed silently.
"No, no." At this time, Loloria, who had been silent all the time, jumped out.
"These machines are extremely backward models. They are not left by the spacecraft that fell on the planet thousands of years ago." She followed Lady Olivia to the land at that time, and the machines under her command were very familiar to her.
"If it was the machines of that era, there would not be such a fierce battle at all, but a one-sided massacre." She pointed out the loopholes.
The mechanical tribes that roam the planet now are all inferior products that have degenerated several versions. In order to replicate production, many weapons and accessories have been reduced, and the alloy materials used are far inferior to those of the past.
Otherwise, the mechanical bodies made by the Mechanical Council of that era, with their solid metal armor, are simply not something that these mice can penetrate and blow up.
"I don't know about this." Hyacinth shook her head. She knew limited information.
Looking at Loloria talking on the side, Celitia's eyes flickered, as if she was thinking about something, and then several people helped Hyacinth, who had recovered a little, to the plane.
"Just tens of kilometers away, there is our temporary camp, and there are also your fellow mouse-eared people there, who should be able to take good care of you." Tilan told Hyacinth and left her own handwritten letter on the plane.
"Take a nap first, and the plane will take you there in a while." After that, the unmanned plane slowly lifted up and returned, sending Hyacinth inside to a distant place.
Watching the small plane slowly disappear in the sky, Tilan continued to think about the news she had just asked.
If it is not a troop transport ship from thousands of years ago, then it must be a spaceship built in the later era. This means that after hundreds of years, there are still high-level personnel left in the Mechanical Council, and they have tried to use the spaceship to leave the planet, but failed in the end. The spaceship crashed and could not leave.
Thinking back to the fact that the Rose Federation had investigated the entire galaxy and monitored countless silent galaxies, they did not find the existence of this planet. This shows that this planet must have special concealment methods, otherwise it would have been discovered by the Rose Federation long ago.
In other words, even if a spaceship can be built, it may not be able to fly out of the planet. She vaguely came to this conclusion.
The situation is not good, but it is too early to worry about this now. Let's go to the ruins excavation site first. There should be some discoveries there.
(End of this chapter)
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