Last Totem Novel - Chapter 249

Chapter 249 The Queen
“Boom!” “Boom!” “Boom!” “Boom!” “Boom!” “Boom!”

Amidst the chaotic gunshots, shouts of murder, and cries of grief, Mu Qianhe focused his attention on nothing else and calmly commanded the mecha cannons to bombard the Thorn Bug’s position outside the fortress. More than forty Thunder and Fire Styles were divided into four teams, each responsible for supporting one direction. As the cannons continued to fire, the arrays of sting insects were blasted apart one after another. However, there were simply too many stingers. Although the cannons had a longer range than the stingers, they were unable to stop them from advancing.

At this moment, the battle inside the stronghold was exceptionally fierce. Cracks appeared one after another on the city walls in all directions. More than a third of the werewolf legions in the northwest had been killed or injured. However, this was considered good. More than half of the wolves in the other directions had been killed or injured. The situation in the southeast was the most dangerous. Three city walls were cut open by lightning beasts at the same time. Groups of weeping lacewings mixed with self-detonating lacewings flooded in. Arnold led the sixth squad to support them, but they were dragged there, unable to leave for a moment.

Under the command of Tie Zha, Wang Hu, and Jerome, the battle in the northwest had killed four Thunderous Beasts, sealed the only gap with trucks, and gradually regained control of the city wall.

With the support of the artillery, the Thorn Bug’s position in the northwest was blasted into pieces, no longer able to pose a large-scale threat. The soldiers who had seized the city wall began a new round of firing. Although the number of Iron Bladder Rocket Launchers had been completely exhausted, there were still quite a few fragmented grenades left. As the soldiers shot down at the swarm of weeping flies, they threw shards of grenades at the dense crowd. After losing the cover of the Thunderous Beast and the Thorn Bug, the attack of the Screaming Chrysopa Flock gradually weakened. Apart from a small number of people who could climb up the city wall, most of them died on the way forward.

Taking advantage of this gap, Tie Zha spat out a few mouthfuls of saliva at the corpses of the weeping flies beneath the city walls, hatching a large number of scouting ants and scattering in search of the commanders of the swarm.

Not long after, the swarm of insects in the northwest became fewer and fewer, and the offensive became weaker and weaker. Seeing that Tie Zha had defended this side, he sent Wang Hu and Jerome to lead the troops to support the northeast and southwest defenses.

About fifteen minutes later, as the battle situation stabilized, the swarm’s offensive gradually weakened, leaving behind corpses everywhere and retreating.

As soon as the insect tide receded, Giant Ah Mu, who had suffered some minor injuries, immediately led a large number of reinforcements to the scene and began to repair the damaged city wall. They use cars, stainless steel tables and chairs, or scattered steel bars and plates to weld them into gaps and pile up furniture like stones or lockers. Meanwhile, Qin Ke’er led the medical team back and forth in the hall on the first floor of the fortress to rescue the seriously injured soldiers.

While the stronghold was busy, Tie Zha and the uninjured or lightly injured soldiers stayed at the top of the city wall and continued to observe the movements of the insects. At this moment, there was a stinging pain beneath his ribs. He had probably broken several ribs, but he didn’t go down to receive treatment. He just gave himself an anesthetic to alleviate the pain. Because such internal injuries required surgery and could not be recovered immediately, there was no point in dealing with them. Not long after, the next battle was about to begin.

Thinking about it, Wang Hu brought Arnold, Commander Nick, and another Commander of the Academy, Cheng Tong Owen, to Tie Zha to report on the battle damage, results, and remaining troops.

In terms of battle damage, more than half of the Ancient Tree Legion defending the southeast had been killed. Captain Yang Yigu had been killed in battle, and 30% of the seriously wounded had been killed. There were only less than 20% of the people who could still fight, about 30 people. The werewolf army suffered a relatively small loss, with more than eighty people remaining. In addition, the other two legions, excluding the seriously wounded, had 40% of the soldiers left, bringing the total to about 90.

In terms of battle results, he killed 19 Thunderous Beasts, about 4,000 Wailing Flies, and about 1,500 Thorn Bugs.

After listening to the battle report, Tie Zha straightened his body and looked at the swarm of insects gathering in the distance. He turned around and asked, “What are your plans?”

Hearing his words, the four of them looked at each other without saying a word.

‘”I think the reinforcements might not be able to arrive” Tie Zha’s gaze swept across the faces of the four of them as he slowly said.

“Sigh” The four of them sighed at the same time, their faces filled with loneliness.

Just as the four men were gathered together and sighed, Mu Qianhe was leading the mechanic to check the condition of the mecha. There were quite a few cannonballs in the stronghold, and they could still fight a few more rounds, but the degree of wear and tear of the cannons was not optimistic. Just now, in order to relieve the pressure on the city wall, the cannons were basically overloaded. There were already four Lightning Flame Styles paralyzed. If the firing frequency was maintained just now, there would probably be no more artillery left.

At the same time, in the hall on the first floor of the fortress, Qin Ke’er was carrying a bottle and shuttling back and forth among the wounded soldiers. Her pure white battle nurse’s robe had already been dyed red. The wounded soldiers were lying on the ground in a mournful manner. Some of their limbs were corroded to the point that only their bones were left. Some of their skin and flesh were torn apart. Some of their chests and abdomens were cracked, and their organs were exposed …

“Nurse … I feel so … so painful …”

Qin Ke’er came to the side of a seriously injured soldier and crouched down to give him a drip while softly comforting him, “Be good ~ I’ll be fine soon ~”

“Ah … Qin Ke’er … are you Qin Ke’er?” The student soldier opened his eyes with difficulty, looked at Qin Ke’er’s pretty face, and asked weakly.

“Yes.” “You … you’re so beautiful …” “Thank you.” Qin Ke’er raised her head and gave him a faint smile.

“I… Will I die?” “No.” “You … you … can you … let me … let me have a look?” The soldier said intermittently.

Qin Ke’er fixed the needle and put on the adhesive tape. Then, she moved her body and approached the soldier. But at this moment, a salty pig’s hand suddenly touched her buttocks. She immediately let out a cry of alarm and took a step back with a blushing face.

The heavily injured soldier wriggled his pale lips and let out an intermittent laugh.

‘”Bad guy ~” Qin Ke’er snorted and was about to turn around and leave. Seeing this, the soldier hurriedly stretched out his hand and pleaded, “Wait … please wait … wait …”

“What’s wrong? Bad stuff” She scolded, but she couldn’t bear to leave just like that.

‘”Yes … I’m sorry … I … I haven’t … touched … a woman …” The soldier revealed a shy expression and said out of breath, “I … I … I might … I might not be able to live …”

“No … you’ll be fine …” Qin Ke’er squatted down and held the soldier’s hand tightly, comforting him softly.

“Don’t … don’t lie to me … I … I know … or … maybe … I’m very selfish … please … accompany me … for … a minute … just a minute … okay … okay?” As he spoke, his body involuntarily twitched.

“Alright.” Qin Ke’er nodded her head forcefully.

With that, the soldier suddenly struggled in horror. In an instant, his wound began to burst, and thick, dirty blood splattered everywhere. “I … my dream … is … is … is … is … don’t turn off the lights … don’t turn off the lights … I can’t see you anymore … don’t …”

‘”Don’t be afraid! I’m here, Ke’er is right here” Qin Ke’er shouted as she rushed up to hug him tightly, tears flowing out of her eyes.

“Cold … so cold … so cold …” At the last moment, he carried a trace of serenity, as if he had fallen asleep forever.

Not long after, Qin Ke’er let go of the gradually cold corpse, took a piece of clean cotton yarn, wiped her tears, picked up another bottle, and walked towards the next seriously injured person …

Three hours later, it was 6:00 a.m. Silver City Time and 25:00 a.m. Satt Time. A trace of white light appeared on the horizon, as if dawn was about to arrive.

“What’s going on? Why haven’t they attacked yet?” Commander Nick arrived at the northwest wall and pointed at the unusually quiet swarm of insects in the distance. He asked the commander of the stronghold, Sa Jia Qi.

“Could it be” Tie Zha crossed his hands in front of his chest, lowered his head and pondered for a while, then suddenly raised his head and asked, “They are waiting for dawn?”

“The queen insects don’t need light for their movements. They usually live underground, and fighting at night is more advantageous to them unless …” Guild Leader Nick pondered.

“Unless what?” The porcupine asked in a rough voice.

‘”Queen Bee Swarm” Guild Leader Nick said hesitantly.

In an instant, this sentence was like a bomb thrown into the calm lake, causing everyone to be shocked.

After a moment of silence, Bai Xiaoyun said in a daze, “Really?”

“The possibility is very low. In a war of this scale, there will be no cooperation between hindworms.” Jerome analyzed. Among the ant swarm, the queen swarm is the ground combat unit, and the queen swarm is the air combat unit.

The queen insect swarm’s general insect is the ruler, the professional insect is the crypt worker ant, the soldier insect is the cry insect and the thorn insect, the battle insect is the thunderous beast;

The general insects of the queen bee swarm are the rulers, the professional insects are the crypt workers, the soldier insects are the flying lacewings and the sting bees, and the battle insects are the scorpions.

In contrast, the former tends to be domineering in strength and thick shells, while the latter tends to be agile in flight and light in shells.

However, in the social structure of bee ant colony, there are relatively independent individuals between hindworms and hindworms, and there are contradictions between fierce competition and territorial competition. Therefore, there is little cooperation between them unless a full-scale war is waged on a very large scale. However, judging from the current situation, the scale of the war was not large.

“No, there is another possibility” Wang Hu glanced around the crowd and slowly said, “The Queen.”

The moment these two words were blurted out, everyone involuntarily sucked in a breath of cold air. Wang Hu’s guess was that it would rise from one dangerous possibility to another even more dangerous possibility.

There were three types of queen insects in the swarm: the queen, the queen, and the queen.

The Queen is different from her two other hindworms. She is a metamorphosis of humans, Elda, or other female intelligent beings in the multiverse who combine with their Hegemons. Even the lowest Abyss Queen possessed strength comparable to that of a human Saint. Not only that, they also have good communication skills with intelligent creatures. Although it was difficult for hindworms to co-operate with each other, the Queen was different from the Queen, especially the Queen who had evolved from human females.

They are usually cunning, bloodthirsty, and fickle.