Chapter 495 Red Flare
"Hah!!!"
I heard the swordmaster Tirion roar!
The sound waves containing the swordmaster's special will, with Tirion as the center, rippled and spread rapidly, and immediately caused the mist around to stir.
When the sound waves covered the elite soldiers with white eyes, they all woke up as if from a dream and came back to their senses.
They looked down at their physical condition and the surroundings, and their faces were horrified, but years of training allowed them to quickly draw their weapons and form a formation to retreat back to the team.
However, whispering was inevitable.
"What's going on?"
"Why am I here."
"Yes, I was just..."
Ryan immediately judged from the conversation between these soldiers that this voice seemed to have the effect of confusing the mind, and at the same time, it also dragged people's consciousness into a certain illusion.
As for the fact that he, Tirion and Hernandez were not affected, it was probably because both the Dawn Wizard and the Sword Saint had a strong resistance to this abnormal mental state.
However, Ryan would not take it lightly!
Because of the continuous whispering, it was hard to say whether it would have an impact on the three of them.
If this change was very small, in the current environment, as time passed, it would be difficult to detect.
"Your Majesty Hernandez, I think we should block the impact of that voice on these soldiers." Ryan turned to Hernandez on the side and said.
Hernandez nodded. He also saw that as Tirion's roar with special will ended, these elite soldiers, under the influence of that strange whisper, began to undergo some unnatural changes.
"Pay attention, I will cast a Silence spell on you. At that time, you will not hear any sound, and at the same time, you will not be able to make any sound."
As soon as the voice fell, Hernandez immediately cast the spell.
"Silence!"
Hernandez's lips moved quickly, and he raised his hand to cast a spell on the soldiers at the back of the team.
Then, the soldiers all looked surprised.
Because they found that they could no longer hear the whisper that affected their minds.
Although they could not make any sound, it was not a problem for them.
At this moment, Ryan, together with the Sword Saint Tirion, focused most of his attention on the front.
The "click" sound became clearer and more frequent.
Suddenly, in the mist dozens of meters away, many figures more than three meters tall appeared in the shadows. However, these tall figures did not look like people, but some kind of animals.
"Swish!"
After confirming that the other party was an enemy, not a friend, the Sword Saint Tirion shook his wrist, and in an instant, more than ten sharp silver sword lights attacked the front from multiple angles.
"Chi! Chi!"
The sword light cut through some objects.
"Bang! Clang!"
The sound of heavy objects falling to the ground one after another was heard.
"Mechanical Chocobo?"
At this time, the elite soldiers in the rear could see clearly that the clicking sound just now was actually the mechanical chocobo created by the ancient Goblin Empire.
"Strange, it stands to reason that the Goblin Empire has existed for thousands of years, how could there be a mechanical chocobo patrol in operation." Hernandez couldn't help but murmur.
Ryan also had the same question as Hernandez.
If these mechanical chocobos were kept in some kind of closed warehouse and could operate normally, it would be relatively reasonable.
But if they have been operating like this for thousands of years,
it would be very strange to think about it!
After all, even dragons can hardly live for so long, so these goblins
, right, goblins!
When focusing on the goblin controllers, even Ryan's pupils shrank suddenly!
Because he saw that the goblins that were chopped into several pieces had wrinkled skin and looked like mummies.
It was hard to imagine that these things were controlling the mechanical chocobos just now.
If these things are controlling it, then it would explain why the mechanical chocobo patrols have been going on for thousands of years.
But the question is, are these goblin mummies also maintaining the equipment?
Can ordinary zombies retain their consciousness before they died?
Ryan frowned slightly.
"Zombies?!"
"Undead creatures?" Sword Saint Tirion frowned and turned to ask Hernandez.
"It seems that they are not zombies in the general sense. If these goblin mummies are transformed into zombies among undead creatures, it stands to reason that they cannot control the mechanical chocobos." Hernandez said solemnly.
"In other words, the mummies are probably just an appearance." Ryan nodded and walked forward to take a closer look.
The hardened adamantium in his hand quickly transformed into a knight's long sword, which moved the broken corpses on the ground.
Suddenly!
A black bug ran out from the side of the goblin's shriveled head, or more precisely, the ear, at an extremely fast speed.
"Huh?"
And the most important thing is that the black bug quickly followed the knight's long sword and leaped up, trying to pounce on Ren's face.
"Chi!"
The silver sword light flashed, and the black bug was directly chopped into pieces in mid-air.
But what was very strange was that the remains of the black bug did not fall to the ground, but turned into a black smoke and dissipated in mid-air.
If there was anything left, it seemed to be only some undetectable black dust.
At this time, the black bugs in the brains of other goblin corpses also rustled and crawled out one after another.
However, they seemed to feel that Ryan and his group were not easy to mess with, and immediately fled in all directions.
"Want to escape?!"
Sword Saint Tirion swung his sword again!
Suddenly, a silver sword light followed behind each black bug.
In a flash, these bugs were wiped out.
However, as before, the remains of the black bugs that were split apart soon emitted black smoke and dissipated.
"Is this the thing that controlled these goblins just now?" Hernandez's face became more and more ugly.
"It should be. Has Your Majesty Hernandez seen this kind of thing?" Ryan couldn't help asking.
"No." Hernandez shook his head and said.
"However, I seem to have seen in an ancient book that there is a monster called the alien worm, which has records of devouring the brains of intelligent creatures and controlling their bodies."
"But the appearance of the alien worm is quite different from the black beetle-like worm in front of us."
"The most important point is that the other party has a clear entity, while this one looks more like a transformation of some evil energy."
"Yeah." Ryan nodded and said nothing.
It is true.
When he first saw this black worm, Ryan thought he had encountered a creature similar to the Zerg, but now it seems that it is not.
"Or, send these soldiers out first. This place is not something they can explore." Tirion glanced at the group of elite soldiers behind him and said to Ryan and Hernandez.
"Okay." Hernandez nodded and said.
"I'm afraid it's difficult." Ryan shook his head.
"Hmm?" The two couldn't help but look at Ryan in surprise.
Ryan pointed to the back and said:
"Your Majesties, look behind you, I just discovered it too."
Tirion and Hernandez looked up behind them and saw that in the mist, the familiar houses on both sides of the street had changed without them noticing.
Although they were also houses, the two were sure that many of them were the first to appear, such as a store with a huge beer bottle billboard.
"Are these houses moving?" Sword Saint Tirion was also surprised for the first time.
"No, not just the houses, but the ground is changing." Ryan said in a deep voice.
Although the faint gear sound he heard before seemed to be a long distance away, Ryan guessed something when he thought of the gears.
"I suspect that the ground below is not an ordinary ground." Ryan bent down and reached out to touch the ground.
As a strong dark silver light bloomed in his palm.
The ground trembled slightly, and then the square marble blocks paved on the street broke one after another, revealing a hard object with a metallic luster underneath, but it was immediately pulled out by Ryan using metal deformation.
"This is metal. There is metal underneath?" Hernandez couldn't help but look at Tirion.
If the city with such a huge area is all metal underneath, then the technology hidden in this ancient goblin capital is probably far beyond everyone's previous judgment.
"Well, and it's not natural. It's some kind of high-purity alloy." Ryan looked carefully at the dark metal in his hand, nodded, and said.
"Then let's go directly from below." Just as Tirion was speaking.
Suddenly, in front of their position, a bright red light bloomed in the air about hundreds of meters away.
Even through the layers of mist, the slightly glowing dark red light spot can be vaguely seen.
"Hmm?" Ryan squinted his eyes.
"This seems to be a distress flare from the Federation." Sword Saint Tirion said in a deep voice.
Although normal flares are much brighter than this light, if the influence of the special mist here is considered, the current brightness is reasonable.
"Just ask those sergeants and you'll know."
In fact, there's no need to ask. From the excitement of the sergeants who were cast with the 'silence spell' and pointed at the air, it can be seen that this is indeed a distress signal flare used exclusively by the federal army .
"It's not far from us. If it's really a signal flare, it means someone is still alive."
"Yes, and it's most likely the team that Hiram is in." Ryan nodded, his eyes slightly bright.
If Hiram is alive, it would be great, which means that Ryan's Dawn Killer Move has been found.
"Why can't it be the two search teams before?" Tirion said puzzled.
"Tirion, do you think that with the whisper just now, even the most elite military team can resist it?" Hernandez answered for Ryan.
"That's right." With this reminder, Tirion immediately figured it out.
"Then let's continue moving forward?"
"I agree. After rescuing Hiram and the others, we will immediately evacuate." Hernandez nodded and said.
"I have no objection." Ryan naturally agreed.
"Okay." Swordmaster Tirion frowned instinctively and said.
Because although the enemy was easily eliminated by him, somehow, there was always a lingering haze in Tirion's heart.
This place made him very uncomfortable.
Soon, the team adjusted the direction of travel and began to move towards the location of the red flare just now.
Due to the Silence Spell, the small team of elite federal soldiers once again explored the way in front and on both sides. With the blessing of combat-specific sign language, they could not speak or hear any sound, but for these people, it had no effect.
A few minutes ago.
In the ruins, in the force field of the shield.
"Lord Hiram, this is the second last flare. From the previous one-hour launch to the one-hour launch today, there is still no sign of rescue outside."
A second-level liquefied wizard licked his cracked lips while reporting.
"We still have some food, but the water is about to run out."
Although they were almost perfectly protected from the unknown terror and danger in the ruins by the double shielding of the shielding device and the isolation magic array, the problem was that they could not hold on for much longer.
"The shielding device is running low. In order to achieve the best effect, it has been running at full capacity, so it can only last for three more days at most." A hoarse voice sounded.
This was also a second-level liquefaction wizard from the Federal Mechanical Research Institute. He fiddled with the shielding device and looked grim.
"Has the Federation given up on us?"
"No, but it is very likely that the rescue team has encountered the same trouble as us." The major of the previous exploration team shook his head and said.
"But the result is the same, isn't it? We will not get any help!"
"Damn goblins, damn monsters!" A young wizard was obviously a little out of control.
He had been staying in this area of less than 30 square meters for a whole week.
"Sir Hiram, should we try to rush out?"
The major turned his head and looked at Hiram beside him, the person with the highest status at the scene.
"Don't you think we don't want to? But before we met you, we tried twice. In addition to losing personnel, we also lost a lot of supplies. Otherwise, we could have held out longer."
Another wizard answered for Hiram who was thinking.
"Wait one more day. If there is no reinforcement tomorrow, we will give it a try." At this time, Hiram came back to his senses and said.
At the same time.
Ryan and his group quickly advanced in the direction where the flare just appeared.
But maybe it was because they had just killed the strange mechanical chocobo patrol team, but in less than three minutes, Ryan and his team encountered two more patrol teams.
"The frequency of their appearance is getting higher and higher."
"The second time, it was one and a half minutes later, and this time, it was about forty seconds later." Ryan said in a deep voice.
"It doesn't matter how many of these things come, it can be solved in one second." Tirion didn't think so.
"Tirion, you don't understand what Lord Ryan means, what he means is..."
Just as Hernandez was speaking, suddenly, there was a heavy metal collision sound in front.
"Bang! Bang!"
This collision sound was completely different from the previous click sound, and the ground began to tremble slightly.
"It seems that a big guy is coming."
"Hernandez, is this what you just wanted to say?" Sword Saint Tirion looked forward, slowly drew out his long sword, and said.
"No, what I want to say is that there should be something here that is leading the actions of these goblin mummies." Hernandez shook his head and said.
"Hmm? This is the prototype!"
Suddenly, Hernandez, who was speaking, opened his eyes wide and looked at the huge machine that came out of the smoke, and said in shock.
Ryan looked carefully and saw that the other party was a huge humanoid golem about 20 meters high, but the style was very different from the destroyer of the Valzig School.
There were no palms at the end of its arms, but three black barrels. What was more conspicuous was that there were six thick gun barrels in the center of its chest, which looked like a Gatling gun.
But the diameter of these gun barrels was the size of an adult's fist. Obviously, this was a killing machine.
"Prototype? Is it the giant golem that Hiram controlled when he entered here?" Tirion, who was about to take action, was also stunned and said.
Because the previous intelligence showed that Hiram entered this site with a prototype, a giant golem excavated from other goblin ruins and repaired.
Now, the prototype has appeared. Could it be that Hiram has been eroded by the weird black bug just now?
Or is it that the other party is still in a safe place, but just can't get out?
For a moment, Swordmaster Tirion did not take the initiative to attack.
(End of this chapter)
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