Edge of the Apocalypse
Chapter 723: Trap

"Forget about them. Keep going." Alan put away the burning flames. Now was not the time to stay.

Reese and Sock's team continued to move forward. It was their responsibility to reconnaissance the front lines, eliminate the enemy, and detect danger as soon as possible. The Dark Knights at the back followed Celine's lead, ready to support the two hunting squads at any time. The vanguard team advanced, and the people behind them followed suit. Seeing that the tunnel was about to end, Roddy's call rang out.

"Alan, please answer."

"Uncle Roddy, I'm here," Ellen answered on the headset.

"Very good, how is your situation?"

"That went smoothly. What about your side?"

"We just broke through the defensive wall and are now advancing towards the command building." He successfully broke through the first line of defense, but Roddy's tone did not sound happy at all. Another gunshot came from the other side. It should be the second line of defense where Fierce Vulture started attacking the base. It was a camp supported by the command army.

"Uncle Roddy, what happened?"

"Nothing happened," Roddy said solemnly. "It's just that the other party's resistance was much weaker than expected. Just now, we only managed to clear dozens of corpses of enemy soldiers near the defensive wall. This little bit of defensive power is not worth mentioning at all. The intel showed that there were at least 800 troops stationed at this base, but now it seemed that there weren't even half of them. "Moreover, I haven't seen a giant so far. This is too abnormal."

"What do you mean?"

"It could be a trap that tempted us to go deeper and surround us with heavy troops. I've already ordered people to investigate, but it's strange that the Catus don't seem to know how to play these tricks."

Alan thought for a moment and said, "I've read the briefing on the Battle of the Running Stream Stronghold. The enemy feigned attacking all the strongholds first, then quietly split up their forces, and finally gathered their fire to attack the Running Stream Stronghold. This kind of tactic is not something the Catus or the Grai Giants can come up with."

"Are you saying that someone else will direct the plot after them?"

"Uncle Roddy, remember the Chaos Canyon I mentioned to you earlier. At that time, I saw another alien in the canyon. It was neither the Catus nor the Grai Giants. So the invasion of the Chaos Races was probably not as simple as it appeared. After these two foreign armies, there might be other people controlling the war."

'"If that's the case, then that's really bad. If we can't figure out who he is … Damn it, we've already knocked down the barracks. We're going into the command building now. Allen, come and meet us as well. I think something's wrong here." Roddy whispered through his headphones.

A shrill voice suddenly sounded from the headset, almost causing Alan to fall to the ground. After the voice disappeared, Alan called Roddy, but the communication was cut off.

"What's going on?" Lucy asked.

Alan shook his head, "Let's hurry up and go to the command building. Something must have happened …"

At the end of his sentence, Reese cried out in his headset, "Not good, head. Quick, retreat. There's a bomb here. Damn it, it's too late!"

The passageway in front of them suddenly flashed with flames, followed by a loud explosion that instantly spread throughout the passageway. The muffled sound shook everyone's chests, and the fire waves chased after them. For a moment, explosions sounded everywhere in the passageway. Alan subconsciously hugged Lucy and pounced on the ground. Then, his back was boiling hot, and a wave of fire whistled past him, falling into the ground with the falling stones. The passageway shook non-stop, the walls cracked and deformed, the pillars broke and collapsed, and the scene fell into chaos.

Alan didn't know that the tunnel wasn't the only one that exploded. In fact, the entire supply base was filled with pillars of fire. Apparently, the enemy had already buried explosives in various parts of the base, causing the human army to detonate at the same time. The explosion affected the defensive wall, the barracks, the command building, the warehouse, the generator room and so on. Almost the entire base was engulfed in a sea of flames. Especially the generator set, it produced continuous explosions and even exploded with fireballs.

The loud explosion rang out tens of kilometers away, and even though they were far away, they could clearly see a pillar of fire rising from the direction of the base!

A broken rock was pushed away by Alan, who stood up from the rubble and pulled Lucy up. Both of their bodies were only slightly scratched. Fortunately, the replenishment base was strong enough to remain roughly intact under the impact of such an explosion. That was why the tunnel did not completely collapse. Otherwise, Allen and the other two would probably not be as simple as scratches, but buried alive.

At this moment, there were crushed rubble piles everywhere, and there were still remnants of flames struggling to burn. However, a section of the wall in front of the passage had been blown up, and falling stones blocked the way. Alan pulled Lucy and shouted, "Is everyone all right?"

Not far away, a pile of stones suddenly exploded, and Hubble stood up with his beheading knife in his hand. He shook his head and scolded, "These damn stones almost knocked me out."

At this time, people came out of the pile of stones one after another and gradually gathered around Ellen. Alan counted up one of the red warriors who had been smashed by falling stones, and three of the Judges and the Silver Heavenly Horse had been killed. Most of the others had only minor injuries, and one of the unlucky ones had his leg broken, and Lucy and Belmore were bandaging his wounds. Alan contacted Reese again. The situation of the vanguard team was more serious.

Reese was lucky that Luma pulled him in time to survive the explosion. However, Christine was knocked unconscious by the impact of the explosion. Fortunately, her life was not in danger. Three people died on the Shadow Bobcats' side. Soko was directly sent flying by the explosion. Although he wasn't dead, half of his body was burned by the flames. Two of the Black Knights also died. Celine's left hand was seriously injured and her combat strength was reduced.

In this way, half of the vanguard team members died and the rest were injured.

"Now that the passageway has been cut off, we can only retreat first." "You and Celine," Ellen said on the headset, "still follow the same route and command the building to meet up with the army."

"That's all we can do" Suddenly, gunshots rang out from the headphones and Reese shouted, "We're in trouble."

"Enemies?"

"Yes, but not Catus. Oh, bastard, stay away from me." The voice in the headset sounded like Reese was moving quickly. He had no time to talk, so the communication was cut off.

Alan stood up and said, "Things are not going well. Let's get out of here. Hubble, can you carry the wounded man on your back?"

He pointed at the unlucky man with his broken leg, and the Catus walked over without a hitch, lifted him up with one hand, and carried him on their shoulders. Ellen nodded and said to the red-armored man beside him, "Kupang, come with me. Nokia, tell your men to cut off the rear. The others and the seriously injured ones are in the middle. Let's go."

Alan walked at the front, and both Xue Yin and Zhi Yan came to his hands. He held the saber in his right hand and the spear in his left, sensing the movement of the passageway in front of him. Beside him was Gubang, a strict man who looked like a medieval knight. He held a similarly scarlet shield in his left hand, protecting his important position. His right hand was holding a warhammer, and the surface of the warhammer would occasionally shine with red lines.

The remaining four red warriors followed behind them. The four of them spread out a little, forming a human wall for the people behind them.

The team retreated along the path of origin, and when they passed through the two crossroads, Allen felt alarmed.

"Be careful!" He shouted softly and stopped the team. Although there was nothing in his field of vision, the danger signal was increasing.

"They're behind the wall!" The electronics expert screamed.

Almost at the same time that he was not alert, the walls on both sides exploded at the same time. As the rocks flew around, Alan saw a tall figure drill out from each side. If he didn't look at his head, he almost thought he was a Catu. They were also nearly three meters tall, and their bodies were also extremely strong. However, the skin of these two people was green and grey, and their surfaces were covered with bulging blood vessels. As for the heads, the two eccentrics each had three heads, but the left and right had no eyes. They only had a large mouth that split into their ears. A tongue that looked like a snake drilled out from within, and a mouth that looked like a sandworm opened at the front. On the middle head, there were three rows of eyes, each with two eyeballs. A strange face with six eyeballs had no mouth, only a few nostrils.

The anonymous humanoid monsters dragged a two-meter-long coarse sledgehammer in their hands. The sledgehammer's body was wrapped in chains and tied to their arms and chests. The two monsters broke through the wall and each grabbed a giant hammer and smashed it at Alan and Gubang. After them, the long-haired beast, the one-eyed eccentric, and the many-headed monster lizard continuously crawled out of the gap in the wall and pounced towards the team.

The battle suddenly began. Allen and Gubang each fought against a three-headed giant, while the rest were left to the people behind. The strength of these three giants wasn't small. They swung the giant hammer and created a terrifying wind pressure that smashed down on Allen's head. Alan's figure flashed and he flashed under the hammer. The warhammer landed on the ground, causing countless debris to explode, but it did not injure Alan in the slightest. Alan drew a mournful red light from the blood in his hand. The giant's two arms glowed with blood and were sliced off by Alan Qigen from the forearm.

The giant screamed and retreated, its long tongue popping out from its left and right mouths, biting towards Alan.

Alan sprinted, bounced, and jumped above the giant's head. Fiery Flame pointed down and aimed at the head in the middle, sending a flaming bullet into it. The giant's body was like a ball of fire. After it slightly expanded, flames sprayed out from its eyes and mouth. Then, its upper body suddenly exploded, and the blazing flames in its body poured out. When he landed on the ground, Alan looked behind him. Gubang was still fighting with the three giants, while the red warriors stopped a few exotic beasts and one-eyed eccentrics. Belmond and Regis protected the two wings of the team. Dark flames and starlight flickered, killing the beasts that dared to cross the border.

At this time, the wall behind the group exploded, and two more three-headed giants dragged their sledgehammer and sabers out. Hubble scolded and threw the broken foot to the ground, picking up the beheading knife and facing it. The power of the saber spread out, pulling the two giants in, but they fought one against two.

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