Chapter 258: Ice Demon

At dawn, a convoy left Leihuo base. Gao Lei stood at the window of the office, watching the convoy leave. Their destination is the Abyss of the Fallen Star. This construction team will be chaired by Allen. Based on the outpost left by the sword demon near the abyss before, the building will be built and expanded to transform it into a forward base.

Gao Lei transferred to Allen a necessary engineering team, including two engineers, some assistants, and 50 engineers at the base. Of course, it is not realistic to rely on this power alone to build a forward base in a short period of time. Therefore, when necessary, the soldiers of the Frontier Army also had to serve as engineers. If you want them to plan a base like an engineer, drawing blueprints is of course impossible. Transporting cement, but laying stone bricks is no problem.

Naturally, the three of Lucy also set off with the army, and they all now have level 14 strength. In addition to Lucy, Gao Lei officially awarded Bloy and Willick the rank of sergeant, allowing them to share some work with Allen.

This road has not been smooth, and now is the season when dangerous species are active. Along the way, many dangerous species stared at the convoy, but the aura emanating from Alan and others made these beasts aware of the danger. Only those who don't open their eyes will attack the convoy, and the end will naturally turn into some corpses on the wasteland, and then be eaten up by other dangerous species.

Due to the rugged roads in the Dongdu Mountains, it was difficult for the convoy to travel. Allen had no choice but to change his course, bypassing the west side of the mountain range and entering the Ice Demon Valley. This place is different from the last time they came. The last time Alan and the others came was winter, and Ice Mordor was hibernating in his lair. And now it's early summer, and these dangerous species of apes are frequent. It's just that the Ice Demons are quite intelligent, they just observe the convoy from a distance, but none of them dare to appear within the range of the convoy.

Allen put down the binoculars.

He was at the back of an off-road vehicle. Just now, he witnessed at least four teams of ice demons moving on the cliffs of the valleys on both sides. Those dangerous species that look like white apes are terribly quiet. It can be imagined that these guys have strict internal discipline, rather like an army.

After leaving the Ice Demon Valley, the convoy stopped near the Star Abyss. Under Peter's order, the Bian Rong army began to set up a temporary camp. There was only one dilapidated trestle bridge connecting the two sides of the abyss, so it was very troublesome for the convoy to pass. To build an advance base, you have to start with bridge building. The original trestle is of course unusable, but the frame is still there, and after being fixed and expanded, the convoy can pass.

However, the engineer said that with the number of engineers in the team, it would take half a month at the earliest to complete the project. Moreover, the completed bridges are only temporary, and will need to be reinforced or even built one or two more iron bridges in order to meet the needs of large-scale marches.

However, this can only be done after the forward base is established.

Allen found Peter and told him that the team needed to stay here for half a month, and then a series of things happened. For example, the safety of the campsite is a top priority.

You know, their location is not far from Ice Demon Valley, and God knows whether those neighbors will coexist peacefully.

This idea was quickly rejected by Allen.

For the first three days, everything was normal. The engineering team began to work, and the sentry and defense work of the camp was also started in an orderly manner. On the evening of the fourth day, some soldiers began to find traces of ice demon activities. There weren't many ice monsters that appeared, at most there were only four or five of them at a time. But as if they were observing the camp, they came and went in turns, and the distance gradually narrowed.

To this end, Allen set up a safety line. The safety line is 300 meters away from the camp. Once an ice demon crosses or even enters the safety line, the sentry will be responsible for killing it.

On the morning of the sixth day, as soon as Allen got up, he heard scattered gunshots outside the camp. He changed his clothes, lifted the tent and went out. Peter came up with a tin flagon, shook the flagon and asked, "Have a sip?"

Allen shook his head, he didn't have the habit of drinking as soon as he got up.

"what happened?"

"The soldiers found that some ice monsters crossed the security line, shot a few of them, and scared the rest away." Peter took a few sips, wiped his mouth and smiled, "But I bet those guys won't let this go Let it go. These things are very cunning, they are probably testing our bottom line, and soon we will be busy."

Allen nodded: "Let everyone get ready."

"It's natural."

At night, Allen asked the soldiers to set up searchlights on the edge of the camp, illuminating the space within three or four hundred meters in front of the camp in white. Under the light, one can see the ice demons gathering. They seem to have developed a deep interest in the human camp, and they got out of the Ice Devil Valley one after another, and came to the open space outside the valley to gather together. The Ice Demon is very quiet, occasionally making chirping noises. The voice was short, as if talking about something.

The atmosphere became oppressive.

After the number of ice monsters exceeded a hundred, the soldiers of the frontier army all put on serious expressions, and the number of ice monsters was still increasing. Peter handed the binoculars to Allen, and the two stood on a rock, and they could see the group of ice monsters hundreds of meters away. In sight, the most numerous ice demons were small, gray-haired, black-faced guys with sharp fangs. Among them were some special ice monsters, one with light blue hair, and one of larger size with silvery white hair.

Allen looked away, and at the exit of the valley where the lights were out of reach, ice demons continued to come out, and it seemed that they were preparing to storm the camp. These guys are very smart, they stick to the exit of the valley, far from the safety line drawn by Allen. After gathering a sufficient number, the ice demons began to advance. They didn't rush forward like other dangerous species, but they were divided into several strands of gray soldiers and meandered towards the camp like an army.

"Ready to fight." Allen said.

Peter continued to laugh, this battle will be in charge of their frontier army, and Allen plans not to intervene if it is not necessary, so as to test the strength of this army. He didn't take the ice demon's attack seriously. There were a lot of dangerous species, but they didn't exceed the strength of the frontier army. What's more, the side has sufficient ammunition, and there are weapons such as fire rifles/guns. If you lose all this, then you don't need to build any forward bases, just return to Leihuo base.

There is a weak source force reaction in the air.

After some training by Windsor Bello, Allen is now much more sensitive to the source force than before. The reaction came from the Ice Demon. He raised his binoculars and saw that those blue-furred Ice Demons were stretching their arms above their heads to catch them. Their claws released freezing air, gradually forming ice cones. These ice demons clasped their ice picks and threw them like javelins in a parabolic trajectory towards the sky above the camp's defense line.

These are throwers, good at long-distance attacks among dangerous species such as ice demons. And those larger ice demons are destroyers. They have a bad temper and are far more powerful than ordinary ice demons. They will always smash their prey to pieces before giving up.

At this time, dozens of ice cones reached the highest point and began to fall, and exploded above the defense line, causing a hailstorm. The soldiers were all wearing helmets, and many of them had five or six levels of origin power. The hail didn't do much damage to them, it just caused a burst of harassment. The ice demons were not going to stop there, they continued to throw ice picks, while a large number of gray-haired ice demons began to scream and attack.

The battle begins.

The soldiers of the Frontier Army began to attack after using the simple cover of stones. The dense firepower net knocked down a large number of ice monsters. Peter is still good at setting up the firepower of the camp. Under his arrangement, the firepower of the defensive line takes into account both the strike range and concentration, which makes the opponents who are attacking from the front suffer a lot.

But if you consider attacking from both sides because the frontal firepower is too fierce, then the two wings, which have been relatively quiet until now, will surprise the opponent. Because on the two wings of the defense line, Peter arranged there were soldiers with fire rifles/guns. Although they were small in number, their firepower was not much inferior to that of the front.

The Ice Demon did not divide its forces.

Throwers no longer throw ice picks in vain, they are lit up with lines of light, and their claws continuously release freezing air. The freezing air sprayed onto the battlefield, met the hot air of the battlefield, and immediately formed a large area of ​​ice fog. The mist became the last cover of the Ice Demon, which surprised even Peter. With the cover of ice fog, the ice demon began to attack the flawed firepower net.

Those saboteurs were even more fierce. They charged behind the ice demon, covered their heads and faces with their hands, rushed directly through the barrage, and jumped towards the soldiers behind the cover. Jumping into the air, the Destroyer opened his arms wide, and the frozen air hovered between his claws, quickly forming a spiked ice ball. Holding the ice puck and smashing it down, even if the soldier rolled away in time, he was still injured by the sharp ice flakes that flew when the ice puck exploded.

The line of defense was slightly chaotic.

Peter snorted, and ordered the officers to take action to clean up the saboteurs as quickly as possible. Although the destroyers were ferocious, they were still no match for those tenth-level veterans, and soon these big guys turned into corpses. At the same time, the soldiers threw blasters/thunders on the battlefield. In addition to a large number of harvesting ice monsters, the shock waves of the explosions also dispersed the ice fog.

As a result, the situation of the Ice Demon is striving to become worse.

Seeing this, Allen knew that if the Ice Demon had no reinforcements, or if high-level aliens appeared, then the outcome of the battle would be almost predictable.

Perhaps it meant that it would not be beneficial to attack again, so the Ice Demon began to retreat. There was no confusion when these guys retreated. Some of the ice demons continued to attack the defense line and were responsible for breaking the rear so that others of the same kind could withdraw safely. Of course, the Ice Demon who left behind turned into a corpse in the end.

The battle was over and the soldiers cleared the field. The corpses of ice demons, especially those of the destroyers, although they have not yet been formed from the source jade, they still have valuable parts. The claws of the Ice Demon are still precious. The crampons of the thrower and the destroyer are some sequence materials used to drive the ice ability, and they can be exchanged for certain military achievements when collected.

When Allen turned to leave, he suddenly felt something, and suddenly raised his binoculars to look in the direction of Ice Demon Valley. Just above the valley, under the moonlight unique to Netherworld Star, a strange figure appeared under the moonlight. r1058

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