Volume 30 Chapter 9 Variation

Zhang Tie and the other two knights from Jinyun Kingdom have been stationed in the southern part of the Kalei Mountains for more than a month.

At this time, as a knight of the Weiyi subcontinent, even if he couldn't go directly to fight Huanglong and share life and death with the Demon Army and the Demon Commander, there were still many things he could do. For a period of time, it is still possible for everyone to stop some knights from the Demon Race and the Three-Eyed Society from crossing the Kale Mountains and directly threatening the south of the Kale Mountains.

The Demon Commander, who had suffered two big losses from the human race under the city of Nein and outside the city of Ampton, adopted a steady advancing strategy of step by step and using the demonized puppet as the forward. Under this advancing strategy, The activities of the Demon Race and the Knights of the Three-Eyed Society have been relatively stable, and there are very few aggressive advances. Because of this, the knights of the two sides have maintained an evenly matched confrontation for more than a month.

Mo Shuai felt that he had a sure chance of winning, and at this time he was unwilling to take risks with the precious knight resources and the soldiers of the Demon Legion, so as not to fall into the traps and pockets arranged for him by the human race again.

For the Demon Commander, the army of 200 million demonized puppets is enough to flatten everything. Therefore, the elite force in his hand is advancing steadily behind the army of demonized puppets is the least costly way to win the Blackson Terran corridor .

And for these knights in the southern countries, at this time, there are even fewer people who want to fight the demon knights here.

If it weren't for the honor and duty of the knights, perhaps most of the knights would have already left the subcontinent by this time.

On September 4th, the demonized puppet forward troops officially walked out of the Kale Mountains, and the situation in the southern countries of the Blackson Terran Corridor took a sudden turn for the worse...

That is, on the same day, Zhang Tie, who was stationed on the south side of the Kalei Mountains, and many other human knights began to evacuate...

After retreating hundreds of kilometers, Zhang Tie, elder Yuchen from the Lan family and Ge Qing from the Ou family boarded the Stormrage-class airship back to Jinyun Kingdom.

Just as the knights of the Zhang family in Huaiyuantang use the character "Mu" as their unique knight name, the middle character of the knight name of the Lan family in Banxintang is "Yu", and the middle character of the knight name of the Ou family in Chui Xuetang is The word "Ge", the titles of the knights of these two families, is also unique in the world.

Although Zhang Tie could always fly back to Jinyun Country from here, Zhang Tie was not stupid enough to do such a thing that shocked the world and exposed his own strength.

The airship that was going to take the three of them back stopped at Silverpine City, the capital of the Principality of Liska in the south of the Kale Mountains. The Principality of Scarlet is a small pocket country. The 40,000 city guards guarding the city, the city has long been empty.

When the airship took off, the 60,000 Yinpine City defenders straightened their waists, raised their heads and saluted, and then watched the airship carrying the human knights leave with their eyes.

Standing on the deck of the airship, Zhang Tie looked at the defenders of Yinpine City on the ground, feeling extremely complicated.

These defenders in Yinpine City were used to sacrifice. They stayed and fought bloody battles with the demons in exchange for the opportunity for their families to leave the Weiyi subcontinent.

Everyone who stays can let their five family members have the opportunity to leave the Weiyi subcontinent first. There are 20 days of food for these defenders in the city. As long as they can hold on to the city for seven days under the siege of demonized puppets, Then, they can leave and run for their lives.

Seven days gave many people a vague hope of survival, but in fact, Zhang Tie, who had experienced the battle in the Celnes theater, knew that under the siege of the army of demonized puppets and many masters of the demon race,

Even if these people can use the defense equipment of Silverpine City to resist, it is very unlikely that they can persist in the siege for three days, let alone seven days. Therefore, it is basically difficult for these people to survive. And what they can delay is not all the demonized puppet troops, but only a small part of the demonized puppet troops. More demonized puppet troops will ignore the existence of this city and continue to advance south.

Except for Silverpine City, all cities in the southern country of the Kale Mountains are the same at this moment. This kind of iron-blooded policy to deal with the attack of the demons has been implemented since the first holy chalk war.

Is this policy fair? Zhang Tie didn't know, because these human warriors who stayed to die with the demons were almost ordinary people from ordinary families, and none of the rich and powerful would stay to die. Can you say it's unfair? Zhang Tie also doesn't know, because under the circumstances that everyone can't be left to die and sacrificed, and there are no resources to ensure that everyone can leave safely, between staying and leaving, as Decision makers always have to make a trade-off. This trade-off follows the simplest law of exchange, which is cold and realistic--only with sacrifice can there be new life. Everything is the simplest number game - a person can destroy at least 5 or more enemies relying on the advantages of city defense weapons and city walls, then the value of the soldier who stays to defend the city can make his five relatives leave.

Those ordinary people who are unwilling to stay and guard the city, or those whose family members do not want to stay and guard the city, if they want to leave the Weiyi subcontinent, their chances will become slim. They will either die under the iron hooves of the demons, or Only by fleeing to those areas far from the city, uninhabited, and not even explored on the map to survive by luck.

Words such as the so-called priceless life and the dignity of life are almost ridiculously naive at this time.

One truth that the Holy War told everyone is that life has a price. Not only is it valuable, but it is also inexpensive.

As a knight who grew up from grass roots, Zhang Tie couldn't calm down for a long time, facing the fate of countless grass roots being harvested.

"Let's go, this is everyone's own choice. Even as a knight, there are many things that we can't do anything about. The power of one person is too small in the holy chalk war. If you want to control the fate of more people, just Only with greater strength!" Elder Yuchen standing beside Zhang Tie said softly to Zhang Tie, this elder of the Lan family seemed to be able to understand Zhang Tie's somewhat complicated mood.

Zhang Tie squeezed his fist tightly, then took a deep breath, and walked into the cabin of the airship with Elder Lan.

Only the stronger the strength, the more people's fate can be controlled - Zhang Tie firmly remembered this sentence.

Back in the cabin of the airship, Zhang Tie didn't say anything more, but directly entered the elemental world to practice.

Three days later, the Stormrage-class airship carrying three Jinyun Kingdom knights landed in a passing city for resupply. In the middle of the night, Zhang Tie woke up from the elemental world when he felt the sudden agitation outside the airship. Come on, push open the hatch and walk out.

At about the same time, Elder Yuchen of the Lan family and Elder Ge Qing of the Ou family also finished their training, walked out of their cabins, and the three of them glanced at each other.

"Let's go to the deck to see the situation!" Elder Ge Qing said.

When the three of them came to the deck, they saw that the night sky of the city was already dyed red by the flames that soared into the sky. The whole city was in chaos, and an aura of violence and killing was burning and fermenting in the night. , Like the fangs in the mouth of a poisonous snake, it pierced into the nerve center of the city and began to inject poison, making everything go berserk.

The captain of the airship quickly came to the deck with a serious expression.

"Report, there is a riot in Xinwu City, and there are more and more mobs outside the airship base!"

"How long will it take for the airship to be replenished?" Zhang Tie asked.

"One and a half hours!"

"Let the crew take precautions, complete the supplies as soon as possible, and then take off immediately!" Zhang Tie ordered.

"Yes!" The captain saluted, and then quickly left the deck of the airship, supervising the rapid completion of the airship's resupply.

"People's hearts are sometimes scarier than demons!" Elder Ogeqing said, shaking his head as he looked at the ferocious flames in the distance.

"A lot of people die in every jihad, but in the last jihad, those who died not at the hands of the demons and the three-eyed society, but at the hands of the human race themselves, accounted for the death toll of the entire jihad Greedy wolves, fear, desire, resentment, these are poisons that corrode people's hearts and make people more terrifying than demons!" Elder Lan Yuchen said wisely, "Facing demons If the human race does not have a strong cohesion, most of the people will kill each other before the demons attack!"

"So, we have to go back to Taixia!" Ou Geqing said firmly, "In this life, there is no shortage of resources."

Elder Yuchen nodded.

Zhang Tie silently watched the flames outside the airship base, squinting his eyes...

An hour later, before the airship could finish resupplying, the outer perimeter of the airship base had already been breached by mobs. The surrounding walls were knocked down, and tens of thousands of mobs with torches and various weapons poured in.

A team of fighters from the airship base, led by an officer, stood in front of the mob.

Seeing these heavily armed soldiers, the footsteps of the mob were stopped.

"This is a restricted area for the military, and it is strictly forbidden to enter..." An officer wearing glasses said loudly to the mob, then turned his head to his subordinates, "These people are citizens of Xinwu City, not demons. Don't do anything without my order!"

The soldiers in armor with spears looked at each other in blank dismay.

The mob slowed down and slowly approached the soldiers.

"There is an airship here, and we also have the right to leave..." The leading mob shouted loudly, encouraging other mobs to rush towards the soldiers.

"You can leave, but the airship here is not yours, and you have no right to use it..." The young officer wearing glasses still yelled righteously, "Please stop your steps and don't come any closer!"

"We just want a chance to survive. We are citizens of Xinwu City, and we have the right to leave..." The leader of the mob tore off the buttons of his clothes, exposing his chest, patted his chest and continued to approach, " What flows here is the blood of the human race. You haven't let the demons shed a drop of blood. Do you want us to bleed? Come kill, come kill, we are all citizens of Xinwu City, you come and kill us what……"

"I'll say it again, please stop, this is a restricted military zone..." The young officer wearing glasses shouted profusely, trying to let more people hear his words, watching the mob getting closer , The soldiers behind him became more and more uneasy.

When the two sides approached to a distance of only a few meters, the young officer with glasses was still opening his arms, shouting loudly...

"The demons haven't reached here yet, please don't get excited, listen to me, you also have a chance to leave, Xinwu City can't be messed up at this time..."

There was a flash of light in the eyes of the leader of the mob, and the whole person suddenly became angry. He did not know when he had an extra dagger in his hand, and the mob directly stabbed the officer wearing glasses with the dagger in his hand. On the heart, the officer stared wide-eyed at the mob who was patting his chest just now with an impassioned face, but now he sent the dagger into his heart, and a mouthful of blood gushed out of his mouth.

The young officer wanted to say something, but couldn't.

The leader of the mob had a hideous expression on his face. He pulled out the dagger, and then stabbed it directly into the neck of the officer who ordered the soldiers not to attack them actively, and fell to the ground together with the officer. .

A stream of blood gushed out from the officer's neck and sprayed the mob's face. Seeing that someone had already made a move, the mob behind rushed up and drowned the soldiers in the airship base in an instant.

At such a close distance, once the soldiers with long spears lost their initiative and were approached by mobs many times their number, it would be a disaster.

After frantically poking dozens of knives on the body and neck of the officer wearing glasses, the entire face of the leader was stained red by the blood sprayed from the young officer's neck.

The mob climbed up, smashed the glasses that the young officer had dropped on the ground, wiped the blood from his face, then pulled out the saber from the young officer's waist, and shouted, "Grab, all If you grab these airships, you can leave here, let the airship crew survive, and drive the airship for us, and kill all the others."

The leading mob raised its arms, and countless people rushed towards the airships.

Zhang Tie was standing on the high deck of the airship, looking coldly at the scene that happened in the distance, watching the young officer wearing glasses fall down with a dazed expression, and died among the people he wanted to protect. hands.

The lines on Zhang Tie's face gradually became hard...

The huge figure of the hurricane-class airship is very conspicuous in the airship base. Compared with the scattered other small and medium-sized airships in the airship base, Zhang Tie's airship stands out from the crowd.

Seeing Zhang Tie's Stormrage-class airship, the leaders of the mob's eyes lit up, glanced at each other, and ran towards this side quickly.

The entourage on the airship has formed a cordon around the periphery of the airship.

This airship is the war airship of the Hurricane Legion, the air vehicle of the head of the legion, and among the accompanying crew, almost everyone is a battle-tested master and fighter, and there are a lot of fighters above the tenth level. The fierce breath of iron and blood and the shining weapons in their hands made the mobs running towards here couldn't help but pause.

"We are the citizens of Xinwu City, and now the city has been taken over by a citizen committee composed of us citizens, we want to requisition your airship!" The leading mob looked at the beautiful Stormrage with greedy eyes The airship slowed down and said loudly while walking.

"Stop!" A black-faced officer guarding the airship said coldly.

"As I said, this place has been taken over by our Citizens' Committee..." The leader of the mob, with a strange gleam in his eyes, said loudly as he walked.

"Get ready!" The black-faced officer of the Hurricane Legion said nothing, but raised a hand, ordering the soldiers guarding the airship to prepare for battle.

With a crash, all the soldiers guarding the airship took a step forward, and the shining weapons were aimed at the approaching mob at the same time.

The mob stopped in their tracks.

"Why, do you still dare to do it? Do you dare to massacre the citizens here in this city..." The leading mob did not stop, but repeated his tricks as he walked. He tore off his clothes and exposed himself chest, "Come here if you have the guts, come here, come here..."

The mob roared.

At this time, the eyes of the elders of the Lan family and the elders of the Ou family were all on Zhang Tie's face,...

Zhang Tie had no expression on his face, he just raised his hand, and a burst of fighting spirit flew out from his fingers, directly blasting the leader of the mob into a pile of minced meat from a distance of tens of meters.

Zhang Tie opened his mouth coldly, and issued an order, "Those who affect the supply of the airship and come within 50 meters of the airship's warning range will be killed without mercy!"

As soon as Zhang Tie's voice fell, the soldiers of the Hurricane Legion guarding the airship rushed out one by one like a tiger, like a tiger entering a flock of sheep. Pieces flew up.

In less than two minutes, the airship was completely cleared within 50 meters around the airship. The bodies of the mob were lying on the ground. The guards of the airship didn't seem to be chasing after them, and they all looked pale in shock at those comrades who had turned into corpses within 50 meters around the airship. No one dared to approach this airship...

After another half an hour, the airship was resupplied, and all the crew and guards returned to the airship. Under the watchful eyes of the mob, the Stormrage-class airship took off and left Xinwu City, which was in chaos. , flew towards Huaiyuan Hall overnight...

After passing through the Kalei Mountains, the army of the demons rushed southward like a flood that swept across the land for a hundred miles a day...

Cities fell one by one, countries perished one by one, and the entire Weiyi subcontinent was trembling under the attack of the demons, and the lives were devastated...

The Hurricane Corps stationed in Huaiyuan County began to withdraw in batches...

By late October, most of the country and regions south of the Kare Mountains had fallen.

At the end of November, several wealthy Chinese families in the north of Jinyun Kingdom have all completed their evacuation...

At this time, Zhang Tie also gradually completed his preparations for the final lore.

On November 23, the head of the Hurricane Legion's garrison was walking...

"Part of the vanguard of the demon army arrived at the north bank of the Yuanjiang River an hour ago..." Director Xingyuan hurried to Zhang Tie's office and reported the news in a calm tone.

Zhang Tie put away his remote sensing crystal. Just now, he just contacted his elder brother. Everyone in the family is very worried about his safety. In the past month, Zhang Tie's mother wants to let Zhang Tie's My brother contacted Zhang Tie three times a day to confirm that Zhang Tie was fine.

"The remaining troops of the Hurricane Legion will board the ship immediately and leave in two hours..."

"Yes!" Director Xingyuan saluted, then quickly turned and left.

Zhang Tie got up, took a final look at the office, and was about to leave...

At this moment, the voice of Hai Le, who hadn't contacted him for a long time, appeared in Zhang Tie's mind, "Master, there is some news, I think you should know by now!"

Zhang Tie kept walking, but only asked Haile through his consciousness, "What news!"

"The poisonous seed of the mutated corpse poison miasma you sent to the Black Iron Castle last time has completed the second mutation..."

Zhang Tie's heart was shocked, and his footsteps stopped suddenly... Monthly ticket, your support is my biggest motivation)