The sad and beautiful firelight dyed half of the sky red, and there were meteors trailing black tail flames falling to the earth everywhere. The towering crater spewed exaggerated magma rain, which was like an apocalyptic scene.
A spaceship flew rapidly at an altitude of 1,200 meters above the ground. In the dim cockpit, the fluorescent light of the electronic screen shone on a man's face.
"Dear Defender No. 004, Priestess requests a call."
"application passed."
A girl with long black hair appeared in the upper right corner of the screen, her face full of anxiety: "Where are you, and why can't my positioning system confirm your location?!"
"I'm in the fourth battle zone of the planetary ring. It fell two hours ago."
No wonder it couldn't be located. The equipment in the occupied area was basically out of order. Only the dedicated line of the spacecraft could still be used normally.
The priestess said hastily: "Come back quickly, you need to be in charge of the evacuation work. The guidance and advice of Taiyue Base is to retreat to the near-earth zone and wait for the opportunity to counterattack!"
"It's enough for you to handle such small things as the evacuation. I'm not needed. There are still many soldiers in the planet ring who are besieged. I want to take them back, that's it."
"you……"
The priestess's face changed, and just as she spoke, the screen cut off.
The man reached out and put on the helmet on his right hand side, and a deep voice echoed in the cockpit: "After I leave, I will execute the order to return to the near-Earth zone, and the highest authority will be transferred to Taiyue Base."
The spacecraft's intelligent core asked back: "Defender No. 004, what are you going to do?"
"Do what I should do. These beasts attacked my defense area while I was debriefing. I have to make them pay a price."
"Is it just a small price to pay?"
The man was slightly startled and sighed: "I don't like your tone. You have been like this since the age of the earth. Mingyue Xin, I really don't know how Zhang Taiyue created you."
"I have the right to interrogate the needs of all defenders. The priestess's suggestion is correct. You should return to the near-Earth ring now and wait for the opportunity to counterattack."
"Go back by yourself, the priestess will understand me."
"She loves you."
The man was silent for two seconds: "I know."
Ming Yuexin asked again: "Do you love her?"
"No."
"Really?"
The man reached out and crushed the communication device, preventing Ming Yue Xin's voice from being transmitted into the helmet.
He looked at the words on the screen, all of them urging him to go back.
"If the fourth theater is completely lost, this place will become a giant hotbed, incubating those twisted monsters, and the entire near-Earth ring will be threatened. Do we want to withdraw the population of the near-Earth ring to the planet?"
The man said calmly: "Open the hatch."
The words on the electronic screen were eliminated bit by bit, and finally a line of large words condensed. It asked: "Can we not transfer the highest authority?"
"This spacecraft is not my personal property. It belongs to humans. Taiyue Base will make a correct judgment, open the hatch and execute the order."
The hatch of the spaceship opened slowly, and the man turned around and left without stopping for a moment.
On the ground filled with fire, you can still see the battlefield where fierce fighting is taking place. As more twisted monsters cross the sky and come to this land, violent fireballs erupt from time to time. Those are soldiers who have no hope of survival and detonate bombs. They choose to use Fight fiercely by dying together.
This is a war of invasion, a war of races, without compromise, without peace, without taking prisoners, and a war of extermination.
Defender No. 004 fell to the ground from a high altitude. He first came to a battlefield where the battle had just ended. Various twisted monsters were devouring flesh and blood, completely unaware of the arrival of anyone.
boom!
A golden light suddenly appeared, and a kilometer in diameter turned into a circular pit. A large amount of dust rose up, and no monsters survived.
The defender bent down to pick up a nameplate, wiped the blood, and stored it inside the armor.
He looked to the front left. There seemed to be a battle over there. He moved and rushed to the battlefield in an instant. A dozen soldiers armed with chain saws rushed towards an enemy several times their size. This was a suicide charge. They were ready to fight to the death. preparation.
Two kilometers away, a twisted plant bloomed, and purple energy cannons were fired towards the position. The terrifying power could vaporize all living things regardless of the enemy or friend.
However, when the purple energy cannon was flying in the air, it was suddenly captured and returned on the spot. There was a loud noise that shook the earth. The whole earth was shaking violently. The giant flower that could not move let out a miserable howl. It was destroyed in the shells.
A dense rain of golden light swords fell, piercing all the twisted creatures and killing a large area.
After eliminating the enemies in front of them, the defender landed and looked at a dozen chain saw warriors. Many of them were injured and had even begun to show symptoms of erosion.
Someone looked at him expectantly and asked cautiously: "Sir, defender, have reinforcements arrived?"
"I am the reinforcement, and more reinforcements are on the way."
In other words, he is alone now.
The surviving chain saw warriors felt sad. Although they were still alive, they had no supplies, no support, and no medicine. The final outcome was death.
"Sir, if you don't mind, we are willing to fight with you."
"You defend where you are, build a defense line, resist the enemy as much as possible, and fire off flares to remind those who are still alive to move closer. There should be survivors nearby. I will rescue them."
"It's sir, I promise to complete the mission!"
Before leaving, the defender opened the first aid part of the armor and left all three treatment needles.
"Make do with it, and live as long as you can."
"Sir, don't you need it?"
The defender shook his head: "These things are of no use to me."
He turned into golden light again and left, traveling across the land.
A dozen soldiers defended in place. As time went by, more and more soldiers came closer, forming a considerable force. They had certain supplies, a dozen vehicles, two energy cannons, and a defender. .
"Sir, we have some food and water, but we still lack medicine. The medics can only use treatment waves for simple treatment. We need reinforcements."
The defender bit into a tube of nutritious meal. It was salty and greasy, and it didn't taste very good. But in the current environment, it was good to have one bite.
"There is no solution for the drug problem for the time being. Let's make do with it for now. People with high erosion levels should not join the battle for the time being and take turns to rest. We will continue to fight here, and I will be with you."
The soldier who came to report the situation didn't say anything. In fact, he had an idea. The defender's light could dispel the erosion. If the officer could help, the difficult situation would be alleviated. But he couldn't say it. If it weren't for this unknown person, The famous defenders, more than a thousand of them, should have become food for twisted monsters.
A high-intensity battle started two hours later. It was an unequal battle. Facing the tide of twisted monsters, the defense line built by humans was as fragile as paper, and it could poke a hole with a light poke.
But they still survived because there was a defender.
In the eyes of the human soldiers, this defender was powerful beyond imagination, with almost unlimited energy. He kept pouring firepower on the twisted monsters, causing huge damage while maintaining the fragile defense line. Although more than a hundred people died, only a few were left. Everyone below was shocked by his power.
This is definitely a defender with a very high serial number!
"Everyone gather."
A call echoed in the ears of all the living people. They took the initiative to come to the center of the position. Those who could stand stood as hard as they could, and those who could not stand also sat on the ground. Nearly a thousand eyes were focused on the defenders.
Everyone is injured, but the will to fight is high. There is no other choice but to continue fighting.
"Next, I will release light to dispel the erosion in your body, but the consequence of this is that it will attract the elite units of the twisted monsters. There is no light in the planetary ring, and any light will attract their attention. The sky curtain is riddled with holes and cannot be stopped at all, which means that all of you will die in the subsequent battle."
The scene fell into silence. Not long after, someone shouted loudly: "Sir, please leave first. Don't worry about us! Humanity can live without us, but it cannot live without defenders like you!"
The defender's energy is not unlimited. Releasing light means a large consumption of energy. After so many battles, how much energy does he still have?
Everyone spoke out, begging the defenders to leave immediately. This was an unnecessary battle.
"No, this is my decision. I will fight with you until the last moment. Everyone, in the face of this war, we are all soldiers, and we can all sacrifice to protect the homeland behind us."
He raised his hand, and warm and peaceful light burst out from his palm, shining on the earth that was plunged into darkness, dispelling the erosion in everyone's body.
It is also this light that attracts the twisted monsters lurking in the darkness, and they surround humanity's final defense line in the planetary belt.
The defender gave up attacking with energy and focused on killing monsters with weapons. His movements were fast, and no monster could escape from his hands, but he was alone. The twisted monster couldn't stop him, but he couldn't stop the tide either. A twisted monster.
One human being was swallowed up one after another, no matter whether they were new recruits or veterans, warriors or shooters, no one was spared.
"Sir, it's an honor to fight with you. Goodbye!"
The soldier who had communicated with the defenders before pulled the string of the grenade and died together with a ferocious twisted monster, turning into a huge fireball.
They only lived half a day longer.
The fall of the fourth theater is a fact, and only the last battle area is still resisting.
The corpses of the twisted monsters piled up like a mountain. The figure stood at the top holding the defender's weapon, decapitating the monsters that tried to approach, and the fleshy and dried heads flew off.
A cold consciousness passed over.
"Who are you?!"
"Are you blind?!"
The defender jumped down from the mountain of corpses and stabbed the two monsters with long-handled weapons. The light on their bodies was very weak and almost annihilated.
The cold consciousness said in horror: "You are Defender No. 004!"
He actually fought to the point where just one more wave of power could kill him!
It is very tempting to kill a defender with a very high serial number, but I have to suspect that there is a conspiracy behind it. Will this difficult guy be killed so easily?
Although it is unbelievable, this possibility cannot be ruled out.
Thinking of this, the cold consciousness decided to give it a try, and he would not hesitate to invest secret power for this. What if it could succeed?
Hundreds of "meteors" passed through the sky and hit the ground. They were round cocoons. After a while, the shell of the cocoon tore open, and a humanoid creature crawled out of it.
"Is this your secret?"
They have almost human faces, but they are not human beings. They are twisted creatures disguised as humans, with an air of death that is difficult to conceal.
"Kill him!"
With a command, hundreds of humanoid creatures rushed towards the defenders and swarmed them.
The defenders were fearless and rushed forward, one with each hand, and instantly blasted the heads of the two enemies. The originally dim light shone again, but in this golden light, there was a faint trace of blood.
The two twisted monsters picked up the weapons that fell on the ground and slashed them on the defender's broken armor, leaving two marks and a piece of armor falling off.
Another monster rushed over with a broken spear. The blade of the spear pierced the defender's body, and a small stream of blood spurted out.
Almost at the same time, the weapon in the defender's hand swept out and chopped off three heads.
"Ahem, the monster is forged to imitate the defender. It has a strong body and the ability to harm the defender..."
"Defender No. 004, you are really going to die here."
"This is my defense zone. Of course I should die here."
The cold consciousness responded: "These biological weapons are gifts to you humans. Haha, they will get rid of you for us."
The defender pulled out the broken spear inserted into his body, held the weapon, and sneered: "You just told me so clearly?"
"You're going to die here."
"Yes, I will die here."
The sharp weapon pierced his chest from the front, and the broken defender's armor could no longer stop him in the slightest. Only the golden light representing the defender was still shining.
Puff puff puff puff!
Several heads flew up and a row of corpses fell.
Even secret biological weapons cannot stop the defenders.
The big sword supported his shaky body, and blood flowed out from the gaps in the helmet. He coughed twice, and he no longer felt pain, and he gasped for air.
The cold consciousness asked in confusion: "Why are you fighting until now?"
"you guess."
"..."
In the sky above the battlefield, an illusory figure appeared, and a mysterious man in a black cloak descended quietly.
…
"The fourth child is dead."
The man sitting on the sofa crossed his arms, raised his head, and looked at his companion sitting behind the desk opposite.
The other party just nodded: "I understand."
"What do you know?"
"Defender No. 004 is dead, you told me."
The man's tone was stagnant: "That's it?"
"He is dead. Death is irreversible. Do you need me to explain what this word means?"
The man who couldn't bear it rushed over, grabbed the other person's collar, and said angrily: "The fourth child is dead! Do you understand, he is dead, our brother who came from the old times, he is dead! Zhang Taiyue, I I wonder if you still have any humanity at all!"
The man named Zhang Taiyue took off his glasses and said calmly: "When a defender leaves, a new one will be born. As long as you are still there, there is hope for everything, because you are the god on earth."
"I have never admitted that I am a god on earth! Never! Zhang Taiyue, I don't care what plans you have or how many experimental projects you have, please listen to me clearly! I just want those old brothers to live a good life! Follow us from the old days Old brothers who have gone through the times step by step!
I'll take a trip. "
Zhang Taiyue adjusted his collar, as if he was not the one being grabbed, and asked: "Where are you going?"
"I'm going to avenge the fourth child!"
The man gritted his teeth.
"But you are a god on earth..."
"So what if I am a god on earth?! Some idiot must pay the price for No. 4's death!! Zhang Taiyue, I advise you to prepare yourself. The priestess will not let you go. Her relationship with No. 4 , I have no doubt that she will rush in directly and kill you with a gun!"
…
"The observation status is good and the target consciousness has been connected."
"Memory review completed, call allowed."
"Welcome to Taiyue Base, respected defender No. 004."
