In the afternoon, the sun gradually sank. As the shadows of the trees grew longer, the temperature dropped considerably. For convenience’s sake, the people of Silvercity World called the star shining on Desert 5 the “sun”, but her full name, “Seth’s Light”, was rarely known. However, the most important reason was the war 180 years ago. The Light of Seth was named after the first group of Northern descendants who pioneered Desert Number Five. In order to dilute their influence, the victors deliberately ignored this name.

At this moment, three fully armed Viper Sandtrucks were lined up on a certain Gobi Desert to the southwest of the Crimson Peak Stronghold construction site, traveling at full speed on the dry red soil. Wherever he went, smoke and dust billowed and weeds flew everywhere. If one looked at them from high up in the sky, they would find that they did not have a specific direction of travel, as if they were wandering aimlessly.

Four soldiers in earthen-red camouflage uniforms sat in each car, and a large caliber Vulcan Cannon was assembled behind the car. Under the sunlight, the dense barrels of the guns shone brightly, bringing a chill to the hot environment.

A few minutes later, a cloud of dust rose from the distance. Carefully distinguishing, it was a moving sand truck. The driver quickly picked up the walkie-talkie and shouted, “Target, target!”

When the captain heard the report, he immediately picked up the walkie-talkie and was about to give the order to attack, but was stopped by the scouts in the passenger seat.

“Boss, wait …” The scouts observed with binoculars as they spoke.

“What’s the matter?” The captain frowned and asked unhappily.

“There’s a woman who looks pretty good.” As he spoke, the scouts handed over their binoculars.

The captain took the binoculars and looked over. He saw a dark-skinned but pretty young woman sitting in the passenger seat of the sand truck in the distance. He immediately chuckled and picked up the walkie-talkie. “Surround them from three sides and capture them alive …” He then added, “Don’t shoot randomly. If you break that girl, I’ll skin him.”

At the same time, the distant sand truck also discovered them.

“Why aren’t they firing?” The Black Pig King asked.

“Who knows?” Tie Zha replied.

“How?” The Black Pig King asked again.

“If they have any intention of attacking, then do it directly.” Looking at the three Viper Sandtrucks in the distance, Tie Zha narrowed his eyes and said.

Under normal circumstances, the level of the legion could be judged from the brand and model of the vehicle. Usually, small mercenary groups used miscellaneous cars or Great Wall sand trucks. Although the Great Wall Sandy Land Vehicle consumed a lot of fuel, it was cheaper and more durable. Adder sandwiches or “mole” jeeps are usually used by large and medium-sized mercenary groups. Viper Sandtruck is the core product of Wasteland Heavy Industries. It is the same as Sandfish and Wild Wolf Mecha, and its price-performance ratio is very high. The Mole Jeep is a popular product of Central Heavy Industries. It is well-proportioned and has thick armor.

As for jeeps using Harley Industries’ “monsters” and RC’s “armoured crickets”, they were usually the private armies of large legions or nobles, such as the Dawn Expeditionary Army, the Divine Palace Guards, the Bauhinia Legion, and the Dragon City Legion.

Since the other party drove the Viper Sandy Land Vehicle, he was not a big crocodile. As long as his behavior was suspicious, he would directly kill him.

“Alright!” The Black Pig King smashed his fist into his palm and replied in a deep voice.

In the blink of an eye, the distance between the two became closer and closer. At this moment, one of them was watching, while the other wanted to capture him alive, so they all slowed down at the same time.

Buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz buzz

With the rumbling of the engines, the three sand trucks spread out, and the vehicles on both sides accelerated abruptly, surrounding the sand trucks that were heading towards them in an inverted triangle.

In the blink of an eye, before the captain could call for surrender, Tie Zha, the Black Pig King, Tie Ling, and the bounty warriors jumped out of the carriage and split into three groups, each attacking a sand chariot.

“Remember to leave one alive.” Before he could finish speaking, a flame sprayed out from behind Tie Zha. With a “menacing” sound, he had already reached the sky above the sand truck. At the same time, he pulled the trigger with both of his arms facing down.

“Peng peng peng peng peng …”

Countless hot steel balls shot out from the fierce flames, causing the four soldiers below to be riddled with holes and their flesh and blood to fly everywhere. Before they could figure out what was going on, they had already lost their lives. As the distance was too close, the steel balls continued to shoot up and hit the power armor, producing a crisp sound.

At the same time, the Black Pig King’s feet landed on the ground, and its shiny shell instantly appeared. With a “swoosh” sound, it spread out its black elytra wings. Immediately afterwards, he took large strides forward, causing the red soil beneath his feet to flip over and crash into the sand truck in front of him.

“Kuang!”

With a weight of more than two hundred kilograms and the addition of various insect transformation abilities such as ant transformation muscles, the Black Pig King was like a heavy bulldozer. It crashed into the sand truck’s body and flew out, rolling on the Gobi Desert, raising a large amount of sand and dust.

The soldiers in the carriage were knocked into pieces, and golden stars appeared in front of their eyes. One of them had just climbed out of the car when he was kicked in the head by the Black Pig King.

“Die!”

Immediately after, the Black Pig King shouted and swung the portable divine cannon tied to his waist, sweeping across the sand truck that had fallen to the ground.

“Da da da da da da da da …”

Dense bullets poured out, and the smoke-emitting cartridge casings fell everywhere, spitting out flames like invisible sharp blades that forcefully sliced the sand truck in half.

“Boom!” The bullet pierced through the fuel tank and a violent explosion occurred. Fire immediately soared into the sky and the entire sand truck burned.

At this time, Tie Ling and the bounty warrior had also completed their mission, leaving one alive. Just now, she shot as she ran. She killed the driver first, then stealthily went over and killed one of the soldiers. She also broke the tendons on the other soldier’s legs. The bounty warrior also killed one, but he was shot in the shoulder.

In less than half a minute, the encounter was over. Both Tie Zha and the Black Pig King attacked too ruthlessly, leaving no survivors behind.

The soldier whose leg tendons were broken was curled up by the sand truck and looked at the four with horror on his face. To him, everything in front of him was like a dream, seemingly very unreal. Three minutes ago, they were still discussing how to play with that woman, but now he was the only one left.

“Tell me, who are you? Why did you sneak attack our patrol?” The Black Pig King strode forward and said with a ferocious expression.

“I… I…” The soldier’s entire body trembled, unable to speak at all.

The Black Pig King smiled cruelly and clenched his fists. “Tell me properly. I’ll let you die faster. Otherwise, I’ll be happy to crush the bones on your body.” With that, he picked up a cartridge case on the ground and crushed it into a small piece in front of the other party.

“How is it? Do you want to try?” The Black Pig King asked.

The brave soldiers quickly confessed. They were members of the Azure Bee Mobile Corps. They were ordered to attack the patrol of Crimson Peak Stronghold in order to give the other party a warning.

Without asking, the soldier fainted because he had lost too much blood and was overly frightened. Tie Zha had no choice but to have Tie Ling give him an injection, then carry him into the truck and carry him back to continue the interrogation.

When Tie Zha and the others returned to the construction site of Crimson Peak Stronghold, two hundred kilometers away from them, in the living room of Honeycomb Stronghold, the leaders of the strongholds of the five forces were gathered together to discuss matters related to them.

At this moment, sitting on the sofa was a tall man dressed in a red dress. His name was Evgeny. He was the head of Sequoia Investment Co., Ltd. In the No.5 Desert. He was also the commander of Sequoia Stronghold.

Standing beside Evgeny was a woman in her thirties wearing golden spectacles and professional suits. She was shaking her glass of red wine, as if she was thinking about something. Her name is Valeria and she is the director of the Belle Foundation in Desert Five.

Sitting opposite Evgeny and Valeria was a fat man. His gaze swept across Valeria’s chest and buttocks from time to time, but his expression was somewhat gloomy. His name was Daji Tokuda, the person in charge of Sakata Industries in the No.5 Desert, and also the commander of Hirano Stronghold.

Sitting on the right side of Tokuda Dazhi was a man in a green military uniform. His name was Yang Yong, the leader of the Azure Bee Mobile Corps in the No.5 Desert. He was also the commander of the Honeycomb Stronghold.

As for the last one, he was the head of the Red Scorpion Legion in the Fifth Desert, Big Beard, who had been assassinated by Tie Zha. However, ever since he entered, Big Beard had not said a word. He neither opposed nor supported the actions of Crimson Peak Stronghold.

Ever since he had witnessed the strength of Crimson Peak’s assassins, he had dismissed the idea of suppressing them. The reason was very simple. There were Saint-ranked experts on Crimson Peak, but not the Red Scorpion Corps.

In the Silver City World War, Saint-ranked experts had an extremely special status. Although they weren’t invincible existences, if one side had Saint-ranked experts and the other didn’t, the situation would change subtly.

Simply put, a Saint-ranked expert was like a super special forces soldier. He might not be able to defeat a hundred ordinary soldiers head-on, but in the jungle or in the complicated terrain, he could easily drag a thousand ordinary soldiers to death. The large army moved slowly and could not catch up. The small army was lacking in combat power. If they were unable to defeat them, the entire army would be like a piece of fat meat that was being slaughtered by others.

However, if there were Saint-ranked experts in the team, the situation would be reversed 180 degrees. Because Saint Rank could catch up to Saint Rank, if one side used up all of their psionic power when sneaking attacking an ordinary soldier, the other side would chase after them and kill them. Therefore, Saint-ranked experts played a vital role in the war.

In addition, legion operations also involved the issue of “combat strength density.” For example, ten farmers with farm tools could easily beat a heavily armored soldier to death. However, when 100,000 farmers with farm tools faced 10,000 heavily armored soldiers, the latter had unilaterally slaughtered them. Because the area of contact between the two sides was small, farmers were unable to carry out their troops, and there were also morale, communications, logistics and other issues.

Similarly, 50 garrison members could easily kill a Dynamo Armored Warrior, but 500,000 garrison members against 10,000 Dynamo Armored Warriors would probably be a one-sided slaughter by the latter.

As for Saint-ranked experts, they greatly increased their combat strength density. Their effects were similar to the tip of a spear and the blade of a saber. They could greatly increase the penetration ability of a team. On the battlefield, if a legion was repeatedly pierced and sliced through by a rare soldier, it would very quickly fall into chaos and be utterly defeated.