About twenty minutes later...
On a farm in the Principality of Nice, several large agricultural machinery were blocked between two houses.
The faint sound of gunfire came from a distance.
Behind the heavy tractor squatted several heavily armed soldiers. The person in front craned his neck and peered through the gap in the driver's seat at the cold, dark plain.
There were seven or eight other people hiding in the corner, some looking nervous, some smoking cigarettes and chatting in low voices.
A team of twelve people, two wing-shaped mechas, and an abandoned farm formed a small stronghold.
How small exactly?
It's so small that it's not even marked on the commander's tactical map.
But it was these thousands of small strongholds that formed the huge Nice defense line and blocked the advancement of the desert army.
"Boss, why did you join the army?"
Probably to relieve the tension before the battle, a young soldier asked the captain who was observing the front.
The captain is a woman in her early thirties. Although she is not too old, she has a vicissitude and composure that does not match her age.
The female captain looked forward with all her concentration. The young soldier asked several times before putting down the telescope in his hand and whispered, "The reason is not important..."
"It's important that we are here, with our weapons, guarding our country."
"You are really what they say..." the young soldier joked, "a loyal soldier of the kingdom!"
"Maybe..." the female captain said with a bit of self-deprecation, as if she didn't want to talk about this topic anymore, picked up the telescope again, and looked ahead through the gap in the tractor.
Although the captain was not enthusiastic, the young soldier still said to himself, "Do you know why I joined the army?"
"It sounds ridiculous, but I have a beautiful girlfriend and we have been together since high school."
"When the army passed through the street, her eyes were filled with admiration and she said the soldiers were so handsome."
"Then you joined the army?" the female captain asked without looking back.
"I can't let her fall in love with anyone else. If she wants to worship, she can only worship me." The young soldier said arrogantly.
"You are a brave boy." The female captain praised, still looking ahead without looking back.
"I want her to look at me and come back to her with medals all over her body." The young soldier said with longing.
"Your wish will come true soon." The female captain said.
"I heard that meritorious service can be exchanged for a lot of money. After I go back, I plan to buy a big house in the city, propose to her, and hold a wedding that everyone will envy." The young soldier became more and more excited as he talked.
"Well, that sounds good," the female captain said.
"We will go to Neuss for our honeymoon, take the sightseeing train, and go to the Holy Light Church to witness our love."
"It's so enviable..."
The two chatted wordlessly. As time went by, the sound of gunfire around them became clearer and denser. It seemed that the enemy was approaching.
The atmosphere became increasingly solemn. Everyone clenched their guns repeatedly, sweat dripping from their palms.
As the war approached, the young soldiers became panicked, clutching the barrel of their guns and muttering to themselves, "I, I can't die here, I must not die here..."
"If I die, she will find another man. She is so beautiful, she will not wait for me. I must go back..."
The young soldier trembled and repeated one sentence - I must go back!
At this moment, several illumination bombs rose from all directions, illuminating a large area with incandescent light.
A huge body appeared in everyone's sight, with a human head and a scorpion body, a ferocious face, and thousands of golden arcs dancing on its red body, like an ancient evil god standing in an open field.
The moment his eyes touched, the huge pressure made his chest feel like a boulder, making it difficult to breathe.
All the details showed that what they were seeing at this moment was the legend from the Kingdom of Sand - the Scorpion King!
The atmosphere became extremely oppressive, no one made a sound, and everyone had a look of despair on their faces.
Seeing the horrified looks of the team members, the female captain gritted her teeth hard, pulled the gun bolt suddenly, and shouted, "Everyone, prepare to fight!"
A burly man with a shaggy beard was the first to come to his senses and asked the female captain in a rough voice, "Even Ashadoro is here, where are our reinforcements!"
"Didn't I say that the Southern Army led by Commander Bai Ye is in Nice!"
The female captain gave the other party a cold look and said, "Don't ask me why, I'm just a second lieutenant."
"The only thing I can do is to obey the orders of my superiors and hold on to this stronghold!"
"That's the Scorpion King, and we don't even have the qualifications to fill his teeth!" The strong man roared loudly, his voice full of unwillingness and anger.
"No, I can't die here, I can't die here..." The young soldier just now shook his head, looking lost.
"Show some manliness!" the female captain shouted, "We are the warriors of the most powerful kingdom, and nothing can scare us, not even in the face of legends!"
"No, it's impossible!" the young soldier shouted out of control, "I want to go back, I can't die here."
"Captain, let's go, let's go home, Captain, let's go home..." the young soldier said as he stepped back, "If we stay here, we will definitely die!"
"Shut up!" the female captain yelled, "Do you know what you are doing!"
"No, I can't, I can't die!" The young soldier shook his head, "I want to go home, go home!"
"Everyone, let's go together. That's a legend. We will definitely die here..." the young soldier said desperately. The soldiers looked at me and I looked at you, and they were all a little shaken.
They are just the lowest level soldiers, not even cannon fodder in front of the legend.
Seeing this, the female captain closed her eyes, took a deep breath, looked at the young soldier opposite, and said slowly, "You just asked me why I joined the army."
"Okay, I'll tell you now..." She looked around the audience, "Not long ago, the Saudi mob was in front of me..."
"They chopped off my husband's head and slit my five-year-old son's throat, and then all the men from their tribe raped me for three days and three nights. They still refused to let me go until I fainted."
"I am alive now just to seek justice for my dead husband and children!"
With tears in her eyes, the female captain pointed to the dark wilderness behind her, "Look behind you..."
"There are your families there, your parents and children, your relatives and friends."
"If, if you don't want the people you love to be harmed and humiliated to death, please take up your weapons." "No matter what is ahead, we must fight, even if our role is just to plug the gap between our teeth, we must block it. Make the other person feel uncomfortable all over!"
The soldiers' eyes gradually became firm, their strength returned to their bodies little by little, and they clenched the weapons in their hands again.
However, the young soldier did not change at all. He shook his head and muttered, "No, I don't want to die here, I don't want it!"
"We can obviously send reinforcements, why should we die in vain!"
"I'm still young, I have a beautiful girlfriend, and I don't want to die yet!" the young soldier shouted desperately.
"Don't force me!" The female captain pulled out her pistol, pointed it at the opponent, and said sternly, "Escape from the battlefield will be dealt with according to military law!"
"Why!" The young soldier grabbed his hair and shouted almost madly, "Why does that Chen Erliu have so many beautiful women, but I have to suffer here!"
"Why can he hide in the safe rear, but I have to face that lunatic from Saudi Arabia here!"
"Isn't my life life?"
"You're crazy!" the female captain growled.
"Why should he? Why should he?"
"He is just a rubbish mercenary, his background is not as good as mine!" the young soldier shouted hysterically, "Why should I be here!"
"I will never, never die here!" the young soldier shouted, turning around and fleeing.
The female captain gritted her teeth and pulled the trigger.
"Bang!"
Flames spurted out and bullets were fired at the young soldiers. A flash of blue light was seen on his back, and the bullet hit the thin psychic armor. Stars and sand suddenly flew away, and his body fell forward under the impact of the bullet.
The young soldier struggled to his feet and ran forward.
The next second, a dark wind blew from behind. The young soldier thrust his chest forward, and a sharp knife came out of his chest. The shining blade looked particularly pale in the dark night. The young soldier stared at the sky in disbelief with his eyes wide open, and a trace of blood spilled from the corner of his mouth.
"spit!"
The strong man pulled out the bloody sharp knife, spat on the corpse, and cursed, "Coward!"
The female captain raised her pistol, "For the country, for the glory..."
"For revenge!"
"Fight!"
The soldiers were in high spirits and raised their weapons one after another, shouting, "Fight with the sand dogs!"
However, just when the whole team was full of morale and ready to fight, the Scorpion King, who was thousands of meters away, slowly turned around and looked at the farm in the dark night with his two scarlet eyes.
His gaze did not fall on the farm, but on the huge black shadow behind the farm - a steel puppet tens of meters tall and moving slowly.
The next second, the Scorpion King swung the lightning fork and projected it.
A golden light passed through the darkness, the huge power distorted the surrounding space, and countless arcs shot out.
The moment the electric fork passed over the farm roof, it released millions of volts of high-voltage electricity. Before the entire team had time to scream, they were turned into charred corpses on the ground.
The fuel tanks of the two wing-shaped mechas were penetrated by electric current, and the ammunition also exploded, exploding into two fireballs.
The steel puppet in the distance was penetrated front and back by electric forks, and its heavy and sluggish body collapsed, crushing the soldiers behind it into a pulp.
When the electric light dissipated, the abandoned farm returned to silence, with only a faint smell of burnt food, as if no one had ever been there.
