Chapter 1305 What's the Situation?
The towering Sentinel Tower stands at the border of the dirty and dark wasteland. The huge base of the tower is like a hill made of man-made piles. The simple and thick tower body, inlaid with crystals and elven runes on the surface, is suspended above the base. , a faint stream of light wandered around the surface of the giant tower, constructing a constantly changing angle of light between the runes and crystals, and with these giant towers as nodes, the ancient and magnificent energy barriers flowed from the clouds like a waterfall of shimmering light. Hanging down, there is a clear distinction between the wasteland and the civilized world.
Accompanied by the loud and high-pitched whistle, the armored train "General Winter" rumbled into the advance base, and another group of heavily armed imperial soldiers, combat monks, and armed ladies arrived at this front-line barrier, tall and straight, with a heroic temperament , the imperial commander Philip in military uniform walked quickly through the connecting passage next to the platform, and a tall and strong figure, wearing a set of heavy armor and a heavy prayer book hanging by an iron chain at his waist, appeared in the "General Winter" No. 1 car, this figure walked towards the direction of the connecting passage, and behind him was a group of white knights who were leaving the car in a row.
"Patriarch Wright," Philip quickly walked to the tall figure, and said quickly after saluting the other party, "I didn't expect you to come to the front line in person—I heard that the Holy Setting Sun Squadron was going to go to the front line." I came to support, but I didn’t expect that you would lead the group yourself.”
"Your Majesty is very worried about the situation here, and we are receiving more and more disturbing information," Wright said, with a mellow and powerful voice, "Although it is important to do some paperwork in the church, the Holy Light bestows upon me Responsibility makes me appear where I am needed more—the brothers and sisters of the front battle group need me as the Patriarch very much now."
"We have indeed found some anomalies here," Philip nodded, "The monsters inside the wall have been circling around the inside of the barrier, looking restless as if someone is urging them from behind, and the front detection station Abnormal energy fluctuations in the wasteland have been detected several times in a row, and the direction of each fluctuation is different."
"Let's talk as we walk," Wright said in a deep voice, and then quickly said as he followed Philip to the base, "Has the promotion plan been finalized?"
"It has been set. Now that the vanguard and heavy fire support are ready, the Silver Empire will send a signal to the Sentinel Tower in the near future. In front of the three main propulsion bases of Typhon, Cecil, and Silver-Gaoling, The Great Wall will open a narrow gap, we use heavy firepower and burners to open the way, rush to repair a forward fortress inside, and then erect the purification device, gradually expand the safe zone and advance towards the center of the wasteland.”
"Very good," Wright nodded slowly, but then frowned slightly, he turned his head to look at the shocking energy wall, and looked at the towers and towers floating in the sky not far away The ray of light blooming on the face, "But I always have an ominous premonition..."
"Ominous premonition?" Philip's expression became serious. "Is the Holy Light producing some revelation?"
"……Probably,
Perhaps the Holy Light has sensed the excessive growth of evil forces," Wright said with an unusually serious expression, "The Holy Light is guiding me, let us add 20 heavy artillery pieces and two base incendiary bombs in the direction of advancement. "
Philip thought about it seriously, and his expression slowly became firm: "...I think Shengguang is right."
...
The Temple of Stars is slowly cruising in the sky, a huge shadow is cast on the vast jungle on the northern border of Gaoling Kingdom, the green barrier formed by the ** forest is slowly undulating at the end of the horizon, the powerful guardian ancient tree, silver The legion and the elite ranger troops of the High Mountain Kingdom are ready to go at the end of the forest sea, and on the other side of the dividing line is the towering light curtain of the magnificent wall and the giant sentinel tower floating on the top of the nearby hill.
The barrier separates the two worlds. On one side is the lush green forest defense line, and on the other side is the Gondor wasteland covered with scorched black, dirty soil and wind-eroded boulders. This wall has stood here for seven centuries, but today... For the first time, a mortal will take the initiative to open a gap.
Belsetia sat on the seat of dominion, her vision was integrated with the entire anti-gravity fortress, and she watched all the wind and grass on the border of the distant barrier through the external monitors set up in various places in the Temple of Stars. She felt The high-altitude airflow blows across the deck, feeling the humming and vibration from the engine group. This huge and ancient flight base seems to be another body of hers. The mechanical soul and the senses of the flesh and blood are mixed together. Perception dislocation is enough to make ordinary people faint instantly, but it is something she has long been accustomed to.
She temporarily escaped from the mechanical whispers, looked up at the hall, and saw the magisters and temple instructors busy in front of the control terminals in various places in the hall, while her chief magician, the great astrologist Verania, was silent. Standing on the small platform in front of the throne.
"Our troops have assembled, Your Majesty," Verania said with her head lowered. "Our allies just sent a message that everything is ready."
Belsetia nodded slightly, but did not respond immediately.
She knew that the alliance was not ready yet. Whether it was Typhon, Cecil or Baiyin, there were several "big cards" dedicated to this war that were still on the way. The risk of rushing to counterattack the wasteland was very high Gao, but she knows better...the "sentinels" in the wasteland have already started to act, and there is not enough time left for the mortal kingdoms in the safe zone outside the wall. The only choice at this moment... is to attack in advance.
The spirit of the Silver Queen was condensed, she closed her eyes slightly, and let her soul completely immerse into the main control system of the Temple of Stars, she heard the soul of the machine in the depths of the fortress whispering to herself, and heard the sound of the relationship with the Temple of Stars. With the distant echoes from the connected sentinel towers, she activated the command keys that had been silent for centuries, and then began to authenticate, unlock, and inject commands one by one according to the process deep in her memory...
On the distant horizon, on the top of the sentinel tower floating high in the sky, some subtle ripples suddenly appeared in the originally constant light blue light, and light rays from top to bottom began to appear on the surface of the thick and solid majestic wall. Flowing, Verania subconsciously clenched the astrologist's long staff, staring at the first-person view of the front line from the monitoring device, staring at the crack gradually appearing on the surface of the magnificent wall, not even breathing. come to a standstill.
At the same time, at Typhon's winter wolf advance base and at Cecil's southern advance base, heavily armed knights and mage legions and fully equipped mechanized divisions are also staring at the barrier that is gradually opening in front of them-hundreds of years Come on, this is the first time that the mortal kingdoms took the initiative to open a gap in this wall. This historic scene is enough to make everyone hold their breath.
No one has noticed—or in this era, no one has noticed—that there are actually some clutter mixed in the energy fluctuations and feedback signals released by those sentinel towers during operation. The barrier control system is not fully operating according to the command protocol.
A sharp and ear-piercing sound suddenly sounded in the control hall, and a large number of control terminals were shut down and restarted at this moment. Violent shaking came from the depths of the Temple of Stars. The violent shaking made Verania almost fall to the ground. Hearing the piercing system alarm sound, the attendants and controllers were all exclaiming. Her first reaction was to look at the ruling seat in the center of the hall, and saw that all the lights on the pale golden throne had turned off. It went out, and a bright arc shot out between the large number of cables and pipes used to connect the throne and the fortress!
The operator's reports filled the hall: "The Sentinel Tower system is offline! The Grand Wall is out of control!" "The main antenna is turned off!" "The backup port of the Grand Wall refuses to respond! Something is blocking our signal!"
"Your Majesty!" The great astrologer rushed to the throne in an instant, but the Silver Queen, who had her eyes closed tightly on the throne, opened her eyes suddenly before that. Belsetia slapped a certain rune on the armrest of the throne, cutting off the While connecting, he wiped off the blood dripping from the corner of his mouth, and ordered loudly and quickly: "Restart the main antenna, switch to manual control for all terminals facing the sentinel tower, move the temple to the No. Get closer to that Sentinel Tower! We need to reconnect immediately!"
The order quickly issued by the Silver Queen calmed down the short-term panic in the hall, and all operators immediately began to implement Belsetia's order—at such a time, a clear order is very important, even if people's response effects are limited , "Order" itself can also play a role in rebuilding order.
"Your Majesty," Verania stepped forward to support the obviously pale Belsetia, and asked quickly in a low voice while secretly supporting the Queen's body, "What happened?"
"There was an infiltration of permissions from unknown sources. Just after I completed the authentication of the seat of control, that thing overwrote and tampered with the instructions I issued," Belsetia said quickly, "The Sentinel Tower system was forcibly enforced by me." Closed, this is the only thing I can do just now—otherwise that fake authority will completely take over everything connected to the Temple of Stars."
What the Silver Queen said made Verania's heart almost stop for half a beat. She took a breath, and then noticed the terrifying scene displayed on the monitoring system not far away——
The "passage" of the magnificent wall that is slowly opening has already exceeded the predetermined width, surpassing the front-line troops' attacking surface, but the barrier is still opening, and the passage leading to the wasteland is still widening.
The out-of-control Sentinel Tower is still continuing to execute the order it received from the Dominion Seat just now, and the Grand Wall is about to be completely closed under the influence of this wrong order!
At this moment, a nearby elf in charge of controlling the terminal suddenly shouted loudly: "The main antenna has restarted! Tower No. 6 has resumed responding! But... the 'open door' command cannot be overwritten!"
Verania's heart tightened, and the next second, the Silver Queen she was supporting pushed her arm away and sat back on the seat of control: "I'll connect—Great Astromancer, you will take care of me. "
Verania glanced at the damaged cables around the throne, and subconsciously even wanted to pull the queen up: "Your Majesty, this is not feasible, the connection to the throne has been..."
"It still works, I'm sure, more than half of the connections here were cut off by myself just now, I have a measure," Belsetia directly interrupted the chief consultant's words, "There is no time to hesitate—the entire civilized world is rapidly Exposed to the wasteland of Gondor!"
...
The Wall of Magnificence opened a passage to the interior of the wasteland - but not quite in the way planned.
Cecil pushed ahead of the base. Hundreds of heavy tanks and more multi-purpose combat vehicles assembled on the plain. The artillery positions on the high grounds on both sides pointed directly at the direction of the wasteland. Soldiers and commanders stared at the front That majestic barrier of energy, watch it gradually open a rift through the middle, watch that rift slowly become a wide passage—and then watch the passage continue to open to disturbing magnitude, and the whole majesty The wall, and even the Sentinel Tower in the distance gradually made an extremely disturbing whistling sound.
That movement sounded like the "howling" that a large barrier would make when it was about to be forcibly closed!
Things weren't right -- experienced commanders and veterans had been quick to judge.
And the next moment, the dragoon fighter planes performing reconnaissance missions in the air sent back information—a large number of aberrations that were originally wandering around the inside of the barrier suddenly gathered and began to move towards the magnificent wall in an unbelievable "order". The ever-expanding gap is coming!
"What's the situation?!" Inside a command vehicle of the vanguard, a front-line commander in blue light armor stared at the picture sent by the external monitor with wide eyes, "Is there any news from the elves? "
"Our communication with the southern theater was interrupted just now," a low-ranking officer said quickly, "Sir, the aberrations are rapidly gathering and rushing towards the gap—the rear ordered us to immediately fight on the spot and block it." The gap!"
"Then block it!" The front-line commander gritted his teeth, the dirty smoke rising from the horizon in the distance was chilling, it was the prelude of hundreds of thousands of distortion bodies and large monsters flooding in, but this The soldiers on this front have no room to retreat—the gap in the majestic wall is still expanding rapidly. After losing that energy shield, the glorious First Legion is the only barrier in front of the dark mountains, "Tank The troops adjusted their formation to build a defensive line, all the 'Steel Ambassadors' switched to shield mode, and informed the heavy artillery positions - we need support!"
On the distant horizon, turbulent aberrations have appeared like a tide, and the number far exceeds the theoretical normal value, far exceeding the previous detection and calculation results, and the "discipline" they show... is beyond intelligence .
But in contrast, in the past few months, driven by the serious "firepower shortage phobia", the artillery piled up on the front line day and night by the Cecilians has actually far exceeded the previous plan——
The target comes into range, the magic capacitor activates, and the heavy cannon fires.
Amidst the continuous bangs, streams of light blue light rushed from the human position to the sky one after another, and fell into the wave of aberrations in the distance after a graceful and deadly arc.
The sea of flames in the sky exploded, and hundreds of bright high-temperature explosion points appeared out of thin air in the army of distortions like a black tide, and the powerful shock wave that followed tore apart the strong bodies of the flesh and blood giants and hurriedly supported them. The energy shield, the stumped limbs and arms flew into the sky, and fell like rain a moment later.
Behind the army of deformed bodies, the treant priests in charge advanced step by step under the protection of the guards. The turbulent black tide in front made the dark druid feel infinite confidence, and even brought a sense of heroism. Affection--
Although the action was rushed and the preparations were insufficient, the weak mortal kingdoms outside the wall would only become more flustered and less prepared in the face of this army and the fact that the magnificent wall suddenly collapsed.
After a wave, there will be nothing left for those mortals who were caught off guard.
At this moment, the ear-piercing screeching sound broke the peace in the sky, and the big explosion that filled the entire field of vision set off a "reverse wave" in the opposite direction in the tide formed by the distortion body.
The dark druid who was in charge of commanding this legion stopped, the twisted and withered canopy trembled in the air current, and the sea of flames descending from the distant sky ignited his vision——
"What's the situation?"