As the airship landed and the hatch opened, Black Spider saw the person dressed in the black robes of a jester outside and immediately covered Qing Chen as they retreated, shouting, "Boss, be careful!"
Qingchen patted her on the shoulder: "Well, they don't seem to be hostile."
The Fate Master outside the door looked at Qing Chen with great interest: "I heard you lost your memory. It's really hard to imagine that the Lord of Daylight would have this day. Darling, come and see your idol."
Black Spider hesitated: "Fifth Princess?"
“Hmm,” the Fifth Princess removed her black hood, “I’ve been waiting for you here for several hours. My subordinates had located a marquis on this relay island, and they happened to see him about to be killed by Mr. Qingchen… so I killed him beforehand. This feeling of defying fate is truly wonderful.”
Qing Chen asked, "What is the purpose?"
Bolton leaned in, even brazenly trying to pinch Qingchen's cheek: "Do you remember me?"
"I don't remember," Qingchen shook his head.
Bolton wailed, "Then all my efforts to save you by jumping into the flood were for nothing?!"
The Fifth Princess smiled and said, "It's alright, he'll remember everything eventually."
Black Spider asked, "Why are you clearing out this relay island?"
“Because when you’re going to make a big gamble, you have to put the chips in the hands of the rightful owner,” the Fifth Princess laughed. “I previously cooperated with Wang Xiaojiu, but in the end, the person in front of me has the final say on the Eastern Continent. I have to let him know what I’ve done. Your civilian airships are too slow. Why don’t you switch to my Fifth Princess?”
Qing Chen asked, "Thank you for your kindness, but I have a more important question. From your perspective, who should the Eastern Continent be wary of?"
"The orc army?" the Fifth Princess pondered. "They filled the gap with the forbidden queen ant, making the originally uncontrollable orc army controllable. If they had obtained the queen ant earlier, the giants might have disappeared from this planet."
"Is there anything else?" Qingchen asked.
“Of course it’s Puppet Master Zong Cheng,” the Fifth Princess said meaningfully. “Recently, the Eastern Continent has been in a mess due to the attacks by Duke Storm and my father. I’m afraid many people have forgotten that there is a highly venomous spider lurking in the shadows.”
"Thank you," Qing Chen turned and walked onto the Fifth Princess ship opposite him. "After the war ends, I will visit you in the Western Continent."
"It's a good thing you're not as irritable as Wang Xiaojiu, otherwise I would be quite scared," the Fifth Princess waved goodbye to him, and Marquis Bolton burst into tears on the spot.
The fifth princess wiped away his tears: "Don't cry."
"Back then, you saw in the fragment of my destiny that I became a duke?" Bolton stopped crying and suddenly asked, "Who bestowed the title upon me?"
The Fifth Princess smiled and said, "I bestowed this honor upon you."
She looked back at the rapidly ascending Princess 5, as if she had already foreseen the end of her destiny.
Right now.
In the mountains of southwest China, a young man was walking along a path. Looking at the magnificent mountain scenery before him, he exclaimed, "The road to Shu is difficult, more difficult than ascending to heaven. This road corresponds to the Shu Road in the real world, which is longer and more dangerous, yet the parents' association has managed to make it passable."
He followed the route the parents had taken, first visiting the Great Compassion Temple, and then returning to the battlefield where Yangyang destroyed the war robots: "It's terrifying. I'm afraid even the old king of the Western Continent didn't expect that the war robots he painstakingly created and hid would suffer such a Waterloo. First, he encountered an old monk who wasn't part of the Five Elements, and then a girl who wasn't part of his destiny. It's tragic, so tragic."
As he spoke, he walked through the devastated battlefield ruins and finally arrived at the deserted Jianmen Pass.
Standing on the mountain ridge, gazing at the southwestern land that will soon stretch out into a vast plain.
The young man looked back and saw that there were still thousands of people following behind him.
Behind him in the first row, twelve elderly men had blank expressions; they looked so old that their white eyebrows drooped down their cheeks.
Behind the old man were thousands of barefoot laborers carrying countless scrolls on their backs.
The young man laughed and said, "The show is about to begin. This time we shouldn't fail, right? It's just that we didn't get the spatial ring from Chen Yu. We'll have to carry so many scrolls around wherever we go, which is a bit beneath us."
The mountain wind howled past, and a thick fog rose from the mountains, shrouding them in it.
...
...
Inside the command vehicle, Zero watched as messages were relayed from the front lines: Qingyu's frontline troops were being annihilated one after another.
Just when the Qing clan's forces thought the orc legion would only engage in close combat, they began to carry heavy weapons and even accompanied them with fighter jet bombing attacks.
No one can find the Storm's location now, but the Storm's carrier-based aircraft are still assisting the orc army in its advance.
These beastmen are even capable of precise laser guidance and electronic beacon guidance. Once a military facility is locked onto by them, it will immediately be attacked by the Storm City Air Force!
Once the more than 200,000 A-level orc legions begin modern warfare mode, the Qing clan's forces will be mercilessly crushed on the main battlefield.
But Zero didn't care about any of that. She simply calmly issued the order: "Units 127, 128, and 129 shall remain in place and hold the Xinchuanjiang defense line. Units 181, 182, and 183 shall continue northward and shall not disobey orders."
After a long time, Qingyu called to question: "Why didn't you order a retreat? In the mountainous terrain of the north, our mechanized troops can't play their full advantage. What's the difference between letting them stay put and continue north? The Qing soldiers are not afraid of death, but they can't die like this."
Zero said coldly, "This Western Continent force is relying on the Storm to penetrate deep into enemy territory alone. Even if the orc legion carries heavy firepower, it's impossible for them to carry too much. Your most important task is to deplete their heavy firepower. I don't expect you to annihilate them on your own. Only by depleting their heavy firepower can subsequent support enter the battlefield."
These words were so cold, instantly defining more than 100,000 people as cannon fodder.
After a long silence, Qingyu asked, "If this is meaningful, then we will carry it out."
After hanging up the phone, the 181st, 182nd, and 183rd Field Regiments immediately set off north without the slightest hesitation.
In the mountains 310 kilometers north of City 5, drones from the 127th Unit of the Qing Army are traversing through the forest.
1,200 drones form a precise matrix to monitor the entire forest, ensuring that no movement can escape detection.
However, ordinary tactics are not very effective against the orc legion with an average rank of A: they can climb cliffs that ordinary troops cannot pass through, and they can swim across rivers that ordinary troops cannot cross, ignoring the piranhas in the rivers.
Some rivers are thousands of kilometers long, and you have no idea which section they swam across from.
Under cover, a soldier wiped the concealed Metal Storm and checked its fully loaded magazine. He said to his comrade beside him, "I overheard the operations staff talking during my meal. They say we're going to be cannon fodder..."
"What do you mean?" his comrade asked, puzzled.
"They said privately that our purpose here is to deplete the orc legion's limited heavy firepower. Reinforcements will only arrive once the orc legion's heavy firepower is exhausted."
A comrade instinctively asked, "Did they say whether we could win?"
By this point in the war, there were no cowards left in the Qing army. They didn't really care whether they were actually defined as cannon fodder; they only cared about whether the war could be won after they became cannon fodder.
Of course they were afraid of dying, but what could they do? They had to win, or what would happen to the city behind them?
Just then, a legion of orc puppets suddenly climbed up the distant mountain ridge.
Instead of directly charging the troops below, they carried heavy firepower on their shoulders and fired directly, causing explosions all over the defensive positions.
There are also orcs wielding single-soldier metal storms, one end for carrying on their shoulders and the other for shooting.
These orcs can not only traverse mountains and valleys, but they can also easily carry heavy firepower individual weapons to cross mountains and valleys!
Only after they tore through the defensive positions with heavy firepower did they charge forward, carrying heavy riot shields—special alloy shields that could even withstand heavy machine gun fire.
The Qing soldiers switched to using individual thermobaric bombs, and the shoulder-fired missiles were launched, instantly creating large areas of high temperature and oxygen-free zone in the orc army.
The working principle of this thermobaric bomb is to instantly burn a large area of oxygen to create high temperature incineration, which is specifically designed to counter mechanized forces with cover, and is perfect for fighting orc legions.
Surprisingly, the orc legions were burned instantly but did not die.
Their fur and skin were melted away, but their powerful vitality drove them to continue charging.
For a moment, the orc army resembled wild beasts that had been skinned alive, ferocious and terrifying, yet they did not die.
The metal storm on the Qing clan's position was activated, but it could only poke the alloy blast shields, leaving them dented and uneven, without actually penetrating them.
The heavy artillery bombarded them, but as soon as the cannons were turned around, the orc legion immediately dodged, the speed of the cannons simply not keeping up with their movement!
Ordinary people simply cannot move at such a fast speed, nor can they lift such a heavy riot shield. When there are too many of these A-level gene warriors, even modern warfare can be broken through by their brutal fighting style!
This small orc legion easily stormed into the position, and nothing could stop their advance.
Soldiers, under the cover of bunkers, fired heavy machine guns.
But before the heavy machine guns could even penetrate the shields, the beastmen had already rushed to the bunker and smashed open the roof with their bare hands! Some beastmen even managed to throw high-explosive grenades into the bunker, killing all the soldiers inside!
The drones in the sky surrounded them, but before they could even begin their attack, the beast soldiers had already rushed to the soldiers connected to the drones by the neurons and torn them apart alive.
In just ten minutes, the entire battlefield turned into a living hell, with the 127th Regiment suffering more than half of its casualties!
The layered defensive positions were easily breached by the beastmen, making it difficult for the soldiers to even aim at them.
Defeat.
This was a rare defeat in the history of the Qing army's warfare; ordinary soldiers were slaughtered without any chance to fight back against these beast soldiers.
They fought and retreated, but they had nowhere left to retreat.
The 127th Field Regiment stood on the battlefield, covered in dust and grime. The deputy regimental commander looked at the beastmen whose fur had been burned off by thermobaric bombs: "Team battle, what do we do now?"
The regimental commander gave a bitter laugh: "What the hell can we do? Grab the 'glory bombs' and fight them!"
At that moment, figures appeared again on the ridge where the orc legion had appeared. They charged without hesitation, their speed no less than that of the orc legion.
The soldier from the Yuqing clan was stunned for a moment. He stared blankly at the figures that looked like tiny black dots: "Is it the Shadow Force? It doesn't seem so. They seem to be moving even faster than the Shadow Force!"
"The slope behind that ridge is 70 degrees; most people simply can't climb it!"
"Wait a minute, the numbers aren't right either. Wasn't the Shadow Force's elite only around three hundred? This... let me count, there are at least two thousand more!"
But then they saw that the two thousand-plus people had completed their charge in an instant, and everyone's speed was getting faster and faster.
Despite the rapid advance, the team remained orderly, divided into more than twenty small teams of one hundred men each.
The well-organized reinforcements, like more than twenty scalpels, precisely pierced the backs of the orc legion in the chaotic battlefield!
Most importantly, although this force was not as tall as the orc legion, it was more agile and more disciplined.
A soldier from the Youqing clan suddenly said, "Isn't that someone from the parent-teacher conference? The one at the front is Xiao Qi, I've seen him in City 5!"
"Wait, a parent-teacher conference?! Didn't the parent-teacher conference just pass through Jianmen Pass? Everyone said they couldn't hold on anymore, how come they've all become so energetic?!"
The next moment, a beastman raised his riot shield and swung it at Xiaoqi, but Xiaoqi slid through the gap between the shield and the ground, sliding along the gap between the beastman legion's groin to his back and nimbly getting up.
"Down!" After getting up, Xiao Qi turned around nimbly and wrapped his arms around the beast soldier's waist, actually completing an extremely powerful back throw with his weak body!
boom!
The beast soldier was lifted up and thrown into the air, its head smashed to pieces by Xiao Qi's powerful arm and waist strength!
Ordinary beast soldiers are about 2.2 meters tall. They don't have the advantage of being 3 meters tall like the Wolf King, but they are still two heads taller than Xiao Qi.
But even such a burly beast soldier, caught off guard by Xiao Qi, had his brute force turned into a 'toy' through his honed skills.
His slender figure exudes an extreme, violent power that is always astonishing.
The surviving Qing soldiers were all shocked: "Holy crap!"
Holy crap!
Holy crap!
Amidst gasps of amazement, the parent-teacher association's team had already slipped in.