Outside the city of Shirol, there was silence in the temporary military camp.
The military tents were connected end to end.
From a distance, they seemed to be a layer of vegetation covering the wasteland.
There is a freeman warrior sleeping in every camp.
Regardless of whether they think the next battle will be easy, the experienced freeman warriors will seize the time to rest so that they can go to the battlefield in the best condition.
No matter how easy a war is, there will still be casualties, and no one wants to be the one who dies in battle.
The military camp and its surroundings were quiet, with no patrols even arranged.
Now within the limits of Shirol City, who dares to sneak into or even attack the military camp where 600 strong freedmen soldiers have gathered?
And as we all know, the Red Archduke himself is in the military camp.
In the military camp, only the large military tent in the center was lit.
On the table in the middle of the military tent, there was an extremely exquisite and detailed hand-drawn map of the northern region.
The map was made of leather, and the two ends were carefully inlaid with hanging scrolls made of copper and gold, which not only protected the relatively fragile material, but also could be rolled up when needed.
The map's writing techniques are delicate and extremely accurate, and only high-ranking nobles can use it.
The Red Duke stared at the map and remained silent.
The seven generals stood aside.
The Grand Duke slowly stretched out his hand, clicked on the city of Shirol on the map, and then slowly extended it to the north, saying: "We will march along this route."
The generals silently took note of the marching route marked by the Grand Duke, but no one knew that this route was almost exactly the same as the route Su had sketched on the sand table.
"If the other side knows something about military affairs, they will set up positions here to intercept us."
The position pointed by the Grand Duke's finger coincided with the main position arranged by Su.
"But" the Red Duke smiled arrogantly and mysteriously, and said: "Of course it won't be that simple.
Once the frontline battle fails, our enemy may choose to escape immediately, and he may not be able to catch him at that time.
Therefore, I will personally lead Those people, take another road and go straight to his lair."
The Red Duke did not say which route he would choose, and the generals did not ask further questions.
No one even raised any doubts about the Red Duke's personal danger.
Neither the Duke's own abilities nor the thirty battle-hardened guards around him should be underestimated.
What's more, there are those people in the temple. red robed warrior.
In the early morning, amid the desolate and long-lasting sound of horns, the soldiers of Shirol City walked out of the military camp one by one and marched towards Maca City along the predetermined route.
They did not line up neatly, but dispersed into more than a dozen small teams, advancing across the mountains and plains.
From Sirol to Maca, there is a simple and disrepaired road, winding and twisting, covering a distance twice as long as the route chosen by Canossa.
For those with abilities, it is not necessary to follow the road.
Rugged terrain has little effect on them.
Leaving the city, the freedmen fighters gradually dispersed.
They first have to climb a mountain with a relative altitude of more than 800 meters.
There are no mature roads in the mountains.
The soldiers have to choose their own paths to climb the mountains according to their own abilities.
Seven generals lead a team and slowly climb towards the ridge.
Of course, such a march cannot be described as any marching formation, but it is also a manifestation of the lack of military literacy among the grassroots officers of the empire.
Their personal abilities may be very strong, but they extremely lack the basic knowledge and command experience of legion-style operations.
The mountains are covered with all kinds of vegetation, including woods, shrubs and all kinds of tenacious, barbed vines.
Venomous insects are rampant, and of course there are blood-sucking mosquitoes everywhere.
In the jungle, a general murmured something and cursed something.
He first raised his big foot and kicked down a large tree blocking the road with a powerful kick.
Then he swung a heavy machete and cut off all the tree vines to create a way for the people behind.
The soldiers opened the way and then moved forward.
He had just taken a few steps when he suddenly stopped and looked around the deep and dark jungle with some confusion.
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There was a crash, and there was the sound of bullets being loaded behind the general.
The soldiers knew that the general might have discovered the enemy, and immediately took the initiative to be on guard, and half-dispersed to seize the surrounding favorable terrain.
The general's eyes swept across the jungle, not missing every detail.
He saw some dangerous venomous snakes and spiders, a few wild wolves that lingered in the distance and did not dare to come over, and several insects that he had never seen before, such as a black wild bee.
For some reason, this wild bee made him feel uncomfortable.
It seemed like a completely new species.
However, the general knew that now was not the time to study this.
During the march, it was not the time to capture specimens.
Moreover, in the rainforest with complex environment, many new species appear every year, and a wild bee is really insignificant.
Even a swarm of wild bees is equally insignificant.
The general shook his head, no longer paying attention to the wild bee lying motionless on the branch, but led the soldiers to continue deeper.
The wild bee resting quietly on the branch had its eyes flashing and its abdomen expanded, revealing a row of dark red internal tissues.
When these inner tissues retract and expand, they can emit specific long-wave signals, which are not within the range of human hearing.
Now this bee is calling its kind.
A few minutes later, with a slight buzzing sound, another wild bee flew over and stopped in front of the previous one.
Hundreds of light spots in the compound eyes of the former wild bee flash rapidly, and in this way the collected information is transmitted to the following wild bee.
A minute later, the newly arrived wild bee flapped its wings and flew high into the sky, then suddenly accelerated and disappeared.
A holographic terrain map flashed in the miniature brain of the previous wild bee, which outlined the possible route of the team in front of it.
Then it flew into the air, circled in a large circle, and landed on the top of a big tree in front of it.
Quietly waiting for the arrival of the team.
Ten minutes later, the dense bushes were cut open with a machete, and the general's huge body squeezed out of the bushes.
He held a blade of grass in his mouth and chewed it.
The juice of this grass leaf is slightly poisonous, but it is a good refreshing thing.
His sharp eyes swept through the mountains and forests, but he didn't see anything strange.
Not even the indigenous tribesmen saw one.
This place is not far from Shirol City.
No settlements have ever been allowed to be stationed within the city's defense range.
The indigenous tribesmen who can be used as slaves have long been cleaned up.
With a loud sound, the commander sprayed out the half-chewed blades of grass, then waved his hand and continued to move forward.
Soon after he left, warriors emerged from the woods one after another and continued to move forward along the path he had opened.
But the corner of the general's eyes kept twitching.
He always felt that something was wrong in this forest, but he couldn't put it in words.
The possibilities of ferocious beasts, mutated creatures, or enemy ambush were immediately denied by himself, but the aura of danger never left him.
In an empire where abnormal abilities are important, every high-level ability user attaches great importance to intuition.
So the general simply stopped, stroking his chin, and carefully recalled every scene he had just seen, filtering through every detail like a sieve.
There was nothing suspicious, except for the dazzling sight of a wild bee on a branch.
He remembered that he had seen a similar wild bee just now, which also made him feel a little uncomfortable, but because it was a bit far away, he didn't want to take the trouble to kill it.
Two identical wild bees don't mean much.
After all, wild bees have a wide range of activities, and in the eyes of humans, wild bees of the same type all look similar.
Even if ability users of their level have first-rate observation of things around them, it doesn't mean they can tell the difference between the six legs of one wild bee and those of another.
With doubts in his heart, the general continued to move forward.
There was still a long way to go, and he didn't have much time to waste.
An hour later, standing on a rock halfway up the mountain, the general squinted his eyes and stared at a wild bee a thousand meters away.
He'd seen the thing six times in the past few hours.
And, now he was finally able to confirm that it was the same wild bee he had seen on at least the past two occasions.
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The general sneered, took out a cigarette from his pocket, lit it, and took a deep drag.
Then he pulled out the dagger from his waist and suddenly swung it towards the wild bee lying motionless on the rock.
With a sharp whistling sound, the dagger actually flew over a distance of nearly a thousand meters and accurately struck the wild bee.
The wild bee immediately flew into the air, narrowly dodging the dagger's blow.
Amid the splashing sparks, the dagger dug into the rock.
But the wild bee still couldn't escape this disaster.
The shrill and sharp whistling sound kept sounding, and several thin flying knives flew in one after another, whirling and slashing at the wild bee.
At this time, the wild bee finally showed its extraordinary abilities.
Its abdomen is constantly contracting and relaxing, and sharp airflow is continuously sprayed out from two rows of small nozzles, rapidly changing the direction and angle of its flight, and can reach its maximum speed in a very short distance.
But the extraordinary speed and flexibility could not change its fate.
Then a crisp gunshot sounded in the woods, and the bullet flying at high speed finally hit its body.
With a metallic impact, its abdomen Almost all of them were destroyed, but the reaction force caused the warhead to deform and bounce away.
The wild bee, which had lost most of its body, fell to the ground.
Its jaws opened and closed in vain, but it was impossible to bite the enemy.
Given its size, a general with an eighth-level ability is simply not an enemy it can defeat.
But the wild bee's powerful vitality and terrifying agility frightened the general.
The general picked up the warhead and looked at the degree of deformation that would only be achieved when it was shot on armor, steel plates and the like, and his face couldn't help but turn a little blue.
He squatted down, stared at the struggling wild bee, and said to himself: "What the hell is this?"
As a confidant of the Red Archduke, the general had seen many biological weapons secretly developed by the empire, but none of them had ever made him feel so nervous.
He used his pistol to fiddle with the wild bee, which was only half of its body.
The little thing's crazy struggle finally came to an end.
Apart from the occasional twitch, there was almost no movement.
The general took out a special specimen test tube from his pocket and prepared to put the remains of the wild bee into it.
The moment he pulled out the plug of the test tube, the dying wild bee suddenly jumped up from the ground and bit the general's wrist like lightning.
The general reacted very quickly.
With a flip of his hand, he had already put the wild bee into the test tube, and then quickly plugged the mouth of the tube.
He pressed the cork, and a stream of white frozen gas was released, filling the test tube.
The wild bee struggled, biting the wall of the tube several times with its jaws, and then fell over and fell to the bottom of the test tube.
The general looked at the two small wounds on his wrist and his face was livid.
There was a hot feeling from the wound, and it swelled quickly.
What oozed out was not blood, but a yellowish body fluid.
The poisonous and neurotic General Poison made an instant judgment, and his face became even more ugly.
His right arm suddenly expanded, the muscles contracted, and the strong pressure forced the blood to flow backwards.
With a splash, long thin lines of blood shot out from the two wounds, forcing the venom out.
But the general's arm still began to become red and swollen, and he was somewhat unable to use his strength.
It appears that left untreated, residual toxicity can still take effect within a few days.
At least the power of this right hand will be weakened by half.
What a powerful poison.
This is a toxin that rarely appears in nature, and it obviously violates the food chain rules of the surrounding biological environment.
It should have come from a biochemical laboratory.
The general let out a long breath and then looked at several clear teeth marks on the wall of the test tube.
Although it was not broken, it would be like if what was put inside was a intact wild bee that was not injured.
His expression looked solemn for the first time.
Carefully put away the frozen test tubes.
The empire's specially made frozen test tubes are made of special materials and have a hardness comparable to high-grade alloy steel.
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However, several deep marks were actually bitten by this mutilated wild bee.
This means that as long as the number of wild bees is large enough, it is not safe even to hide in a tank.
They can easily chew a passage through the tank shell and then kill everyone hiding inside.
When did such a terrifying wild bee appear outside the city of Shirol?
At this time, the general suddenly thought of a key issue: wild bees always swarm He slowly stood up and looked at his right arm, which was still red, swollen and painful, and then at the free folk soldiers in the distance who were marching easily like a spring outing, a shadow cast over his face.
After thinking about it, the general called over a few close associates and asked them to immediately return the frozen test tube to Shirol City as quickly as possible and hand it over to the red-robed high priest.
The Temple of the Sun is the source of the empire's abilities and biological weapons, and it must be able to unlock the secrets hidden in this little thing's body.
After doing all this, the general felt a little relieved and strode away.
But the shadow in his heart has never gone away.
It seems that there is something hidden deep in this forest.
When the general left, an identical wild bee crawled out from the trunk of a big tree.
It looked at the team in the distance, flapped its wings and flew up into the sky.
The mountain wind is very strong, and when it reaches an altitude of more than 1,000 meters, the air current blows it up and down.
This miniature version of Leigna retracted its fragile wings and continued to climb using the propelling method of jets from its abdomen.
Every time it jetted air, it would shoot up more than ten meters like a bullet.
It wasn't until it climbed to an altitude of three thousand meters that it stabilized in the air.
High heat gradually emitted from its dark body, and then a long wave of information-laden waves shot out from its body.
After launching this powerful wave beam, it consumed all the energy of its body and was instantly blown away by the wind.
"The autologous sample has been captured by the enemy, and the second phase command is initiated."
The beam contained such a piece of information.
A moment later, within a range of hundreds of kilometers, dozens of Leigna with a wild bee-like appearance flew away from the surveillance and patrol area at the same time, leaving only a few that continued to follow the army of Shirol City.
They dispersed into the jungle and began to madly attack any creature they could see, whether it was a wild wolf as big as a calf or an insect smaller than themselves.
In an attack state, their speed and strength are almost unmatched.
For example, after landing on the back of a wild wolf, they will tear open the wolf's skin with their jaws strong enough to bite steel, and then get directly into the wild wolf's body and start eating.
Special food.
In just a few minutes, they can eat food several times their own volume, then drag their disproportionately swollen abdomens, lie on their prey, or hang on branches to rest.
A few hours later, the first Leigna began to lay eggs
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