Chapter 343 - The Split in the Dark (2/2)
Suddenly, the defense lines all turned on powerful full-beaht becaht Moths screeched as the light shone on them, and they lost all sense of direction as they collided with one another, rolling on the ground as if they were drunk Then, quite a nuht Moths landed on the ht Moth’s antennae were sensitive to light, so they could only move in the dark
The Sunils had prepared specific plans for certain types of beasts After reaching the e of the Catastrophe, thebullets Now, the troops had to use specific tactics to deal with certain beasts The tactics had been obtained from all the blood shed of previous Catastrophes, and they would surely reduce the dae
In the end, there were also a lot of enes were an exae
Every single Night Moth was on the saile, and their tails could easily penetrate armor Because of that, a lot of turrets were destroyed, and the defense troops and mercenaries were in a predica
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The intense battle dragged on until dawn The reht Moth finally backed off, and the battle reached a tee At least a few thousand soldiers had died in the span of a single night It was the deadliest battle so far
Countless corpses had been put into corpse bags and sent to the backline Many falorified sacrifice was not only because of their pride but also for their families Their corpses would all be identified by the fa from the city
The soldiers that had still been well and alive the night before turned into corpses in a few hours The morale of the base hit rock-bottoht They could not even take off their arency attack, so they scattered and sat on the ground, staring into the sky without thinking of anything
Hearing the cries of the families, the soldiers realized that they could be one of those corpses in the next few days
In such an atmosphere, the mercenaries could only stay quiet and prepare their equipment
This scene reminded Han Xiao of Planet Aquamarine Nothat war brought was the same
Suddenly, there was soroup of scouts had returned to the base They ell respected by the Sunils A lot of soldiers stared at them, and soical schedule There would always be troops to replace the team for them to come back and rest The players were the troops that had been sent out to replace this team
Han Xiao recalled a conversation with Lerden Lerden hadsoldiers who had reached class B They orking as alaxy, and every year, they would earn large sum of money They were the idols of the entire civilization
The leader of the returning scouts was one of those two—Fernas
All the high officials fro troops
Fernas waved his hand and said, “We have lost a lot of brothers We brought back as many corpses as we could”
The crowd spread out and put doenty or so corpse bags on the ground They were all Sunil Supers Fumay was also one of them
Han Xiao looked around and did not see Lerden’s corpse He looked into the crowd and saw that Lerden was still standing in the tea and two arms, at least he was still alive
“They are all heroes,” the military officials said “We will take care of the rest”
“I hope so,” Fernas replied
The Sunil Supers all looked at the corpses at their friends and showed sorrowful expressions
The atmosphere dropped another notch
Han Xiao kept on observing the expressions of the Supers, and he found out that one group, including Lerden, only showed a despairing expression and roup, other than sadness, they also showed rage and anger