Warlord Chapter 276 - Night Before Last (2)

Word count: 5321Update time: 2012-12-21 11: 32: 31

Old Brent had once imagined that in a hundred years time, the foundation of Parkland's wealth would be lost to a spendthrift descendant, maybe swallowed by the Dark Council, or simply lost on the stage of history. However, he had never thought that a mercenary in the wilderness would shake the foundations of his family.

In fact, during the whole process, Parkland had many opportunities to eliminate the mercenary completely. After carefully a.n.a.lyzing the whole matter, old Brent came to the conclusion that Parkland's failure was due to him looking down on Zero, a person from the wilderness.

"Pride is indeed the biggest original sin." Old Brent had sighed so once, but nothing had happened.

If it were not for the fact that he was worried about the reputation of Parkland's chauffeur, at the beginning of the journey north, old Brent could have used an overwhelming force to kill the danger in the bud. It was because of this concern that old Brent lost his favorite grandson. After Sauron's death, the Dark Council had sent high-ranking fighters to hunt him down, to restore the dignity it had lost.

Hearing this news, old Brent did not doubt that Zero was dead. However, even though the ninth Knight had come out, his efforts were in vain. No one would have thought that the Heroic Spirit Palace, which had always been enemies with the Dark Council, would actually save Zero. After that, old Brent thought he had no chance to avenge Saurun, but at this moment, the dark merchant sent him a precious message.

Zero, in order to complete the Asgard new barracks graduation test, has to appear somewhere outside of the wilderness. For old Brent, this was his biggest and last chance. He did not hesitate to send out the three most powerful men in Parkland. No matter from which point of view, when facing someone with an average strength at the seventh step, zero had no chance of surviving.

However, the opposite was the case. Up until now, old Brent had not received any news from those three. It seemed like the odds were against them.

Brent sighed softly in his bedroom. The old man's cloudy eyes stared at the fire in the fireplace. The fire had already dimmed down, just like the situation his family was in right now. Sauron's death, the successive failures of the operation, Parkland's reputation in the wilderness had been greatly reduced. To this day, five companies in Parkland's chauffeured subsidiary have announced that they are withdrawing from Parkland's jurisdiction. The Parkland chauffeur did not respond.

If it was in the past, old Brent would naturally mobilize his family's army to teach these conceited fellows a lesson. The death of Saurun, as well as the loss of his main fighting force, had left Parkland with no strength to do these superfluous things. For this reason, old Brent had no choice but to narrow down the clan's business and recruit a dozen low-level talents as a show.

Under this kind of policy, the old Brent family might be able to hold on for another ten to twenty years after his death, but they would eventually disappear. This was an unavoidable problem.

Late at night, old Brent left the rocking chair and went to his bed. The once luxurious bed, now old Brent could only feel an infinite emptiness. He stripped off the furs and lay down on the bed, but it felt like he was lying in a coffin. With his eyes closed, tomorrow would never come.

Tomorrow, of course.

When old Brent fell asleep, the clock on the wall pointed to four o'clock. It was the darkest time of the day.

Morpheus yawned and leant against the cold wall, drowsy. He was the lowest level soldier in Parkland, and his daily duties were standing guard and patrolling. It could be said that this job was extremely boring, but the pay was enough for the Memphis family to live a comfortable life. During the turbulent times, this little bit of reward was enough for an ordinary person to work hard for. Moreover, although Morpheus' job was hard and boring, there were very few dangerous situations that occurred.

After all, this was the home of Parkland's chauffeurs. Although they were not as powerful as they used to be, Morpheus believed that no one would be as daring as they were to come here. If there were no accidents, then there was nothing wrong with what Morpheus had imagined. The problem is that there was never a shortage of accidents in turbulent times.

The area was surrounded by a thick metal wall. Apart from the entrance to the highway, the rest of the area was covered by a twenty-meter tall wall. This height provided sufficient visibility for the soldiers in the watchtower, and the spotlight posts for the evening's work would make the environment within five hundred meters of each of the towers as bright as day, allowing soldiers on duty like Morpheus to see it clearly.

Although there were very few blind spots, there were still blind spots in the beam of light. In addition, the period of time when one was near daylight was when one was the most exhausted. Soldiers like Morpheus were no exception, and as he yawned, a lithe figure moved swiftly in the blind spot of the beam of light. As Morpheus rubbed his bloodshot eyes, the figure was already leaning against the wall, hiding in a corner where the beam of light could not reach.

Nightwalker placed a circular metal device on his hands and knees, and like a gecko, ascended from a vertical wall to the top of the tower. When he reached the edge of the tower, he rapped on the wall with his hand.

Morpheus was alarmed by the noise, and he hurried forward to examine it. As he peered over the edge of the tower, Morpheus saw the Nightwalker. Before he could warn her, she had already covered his mouth with her hand. Suddenly, a cold feeling came from his throat.

As Memphis's consciousness sank into infinite darkness, he saw a long blade. It pierced his own throat. He felt his body suddenly become very light, and then he felt nothing.

Nightwalker withdrew his saber and quickly climbed into the watchtower. Carefully, he pulled Morpheus's body into a corner, then punched a series of commands into the control panel of the spotlight, causing it to continue scanning, ignoring a particular direction.

A moment later, three other figures climbed up from the watchtower. In the afterglow of the light, the faces of those few people could clearly be seen. With a wave of his hand, they quickly left the sentry tower and followed the stairs into Parkland's territory.

At this moment, the darkness before dawn was quiet. No one knew that a life had already been thrown into the embrace of death. By the time the other soldiers found Morpheus' body, it was already ten minutes later. Thus, at 4: 35 PM, an ear-piercing alarm sounded above Parkland's territory, shattering the dreams of countless people!

Salton suddenly opened his eyes and bounced up from the bed. His body that was full of explosive power like a cheetah landed lightly on the ground without making a sound. Although he was a low-ranked, Salton's strength was at the fifth step, and his defence and agility were at the fourth step. Amongst all the people old Brent had recruited, he was the strongest.

It was true that with his abilities of two steps four and five, in the eyes of ordinary people, he was already a nightmare. Salton had no doubt about it. After being appointed as the leader of all the capable people by Brent, he had confirmed that he was the nightmare of those who dared to question his ability. But Salton did not know that tonight would be his nightmare!

"Get up, get ready to fight!" He rushed out of his bedroom and roared in the long corridor. Salton was already dressed in his own tactical uniform, and his aide was hurrying over with a tactical board.

The tactical board displayed a map of the whole of Parkland, with three red dots of light penetrating in different directions. Wherever the light spots pa.s.sed, the functional buildings behind them were immediately marked with damaged skeletons.

The adjutant said hastily, "Sir, we have found an intruder. They invaded from Outpost 4, infiltrating and destroying three areas: the food processing zone, the weapons factory, and the power station. "Right now, our people have been cut off in batches, but these three are capable soldiers, so I'm afraid ordinary soldiers won't be able to do anything to them."

While the aide-de-camp spoke, dozens of capable people had already left their dormitories, surrounding Salton and waiting for his orders.

Salton quickly divided the people who had the ability into three groups and asked them to eliminate the intruders as quickly as possible. He himself would have chosen the direction of one of the invaders to block the attack, but Salton thought better of it and had his aide-de-camp bring in an elite squad to guard the Tulip Building. That was the center of Parkland's territory. The rest of the territory could be destroyed, but not there!

Gunshots rang out in every corner of Parkland, and almost every minute, every second could be seen as the flames leaped and exploded. In all the years they had been built in Parkland, they had never been so brazenly attacked and destroyed. In the whole territory, the most obvious light source was none other than the food processing area to the southwest.

Teams of heavily armed soldiers rushed towards the food processing area like a tide. Several off-road vehicles equipped with high speed heavy cannons shot past the infantry soldiers at lightning speed, heading towards the location where the flames were the most obvious.

Two machine guns spurted sparks from Ma pei's hands, and the slos.h.i.+ng bullets sifted through several soldiers who had barreled around the corner. As the soldiers fell, more and more of them took the opportunity to rush out. Without hesitation, Maple dropped the machine gun as he rolled sideways into the underside of a nearby van. Then a bullet landed in his place and swept toward his hiding place.

Maple rolled on, but when he rolled out from under the car, he had two more machine guns in his hands. Ma pei's counterattack was quick and accurate. The machine gun's barrage covered the location of the soldiers and instantly killed more than a dozen of them. The black man bounced up from the ground and roared as he rushed forward. Five more soldiers were hit and fell to the ground by the machine gun's roar.

By the time Maple reached the corner, all the soldiers in the squad had been wiped out by him. On the road to the capital, the corpses of hundreds of soldiers were lying on the ground.

At that moment, the sharp sound of the tires and the ground grinding together reached Maple. At the end of the side road to the right of Mapes, several Land Cruisers skidded almost horizontally into the street.

Parkland's successors arrived, but not only did Mapes not panic, he even burst out laughing. Instead of retreating, he advanced and fired again with the two-handed machine gun. As they headed toward the convoy, Ma pei smashed the tires of the car driving at the front. The car skidded and skidded too fast and crashed into a street lamp.

However, the off-road vehicles behind them had already opened fire. Four rapid-fire heavy cannons shot out a visible beam of light towards where Maple was standing. The ground was immediately blown into smithereens. Following the constant firing of the heavy artillery, the dust from the bullets also began to roll and rise higher and higher into the air. By the time the heavy artillery stopped firing, the thick smoke had covered the entire street.

The soldiers on the vehicles heaved a sigh of relief. No one could survive such a fierce firepower, not even the capable ones. However, in the thick smoke, there was a sudden m.u.f.fled roar. The ground began to shake slightly, and a huge shadow appeared from the smoke. Then, a huge beast rushed out from the smoke. The rhinoceros's eyes turned red as it spat out white steam from its nostrils. In the blink of an eye, it had charged over.

By the time the shooter had reacted, the armored rhinoceros had already arrived a hundred meters away from them.

The heavy artillery fired again, but this time the sound was very short. The armored rhinoceros that Ma Pei had transformed into was able to withstand less than five seconds of attack. It had already charged into the fray. Off-road vehicles were sent flying one by one, and the armored rhinoceros trampled on the road once again. The vehicles were torn to pieces, and some soldiers who had no time to escape were stomped into meat patties along with the vehicles.

When Parkland's infantry unit caught the rhinoceros's eye, the beast roared and charged again. In an instant, the sounds of gunfire and screams filled the air.

The battlefield in the power station area was undoubtedly quiet, compared to the "bustle" of Ma pei's strategy. Feng Zheng withdrew his Tang Dao, and the corpses of nearly a hundred soldiers fell at his feet. Amongst them, there were a few corpses still warm up. Those were a few capable individuals. They had just arrived at the scene, but under Feng's unceasing attacks, they quickly bade farewell to the world.

Whether it was capable people or soldiers, what Feng left on their bodies was only a small wound. However, when this wound appeared on his throat, it would be fatal.

After killing the invaders, Feng's territory was as quiet as a ghost. He hummed a little tune to himself, then walked to the designated place in the plan. If one were to look at the map, then the end of Feng's path was the tulip building in the center of the plaza.

He walked out a hundred meters, and from the east came the sound of a m.u.f.fled explosion. Feng raised his head and looked over. The force that came from that direction blew his eyes half shut. However, this did not stop him from seeing a hundred-meter-long cloud of dust soaring into the sky. The dust was like a sword, and it was so sharp that it even made Feng's skin feel like it was being pierced by needles.

"Another rude fellow." Feng sighed.

A rough guy means Sue.

Sue looked coldly at the corpses of the soldiers lying at her feet. Beside them was a tower s.h.i.+eld made of fine steel. Undoubtedly, the object of the tower s.h.i.+eld's defense is the pixel type, which destroys the ability to see clearly. The Parkland army's ability to react was commendable, but unfortunately they were too weak. The Berserkers had given up on defending themselves. Their ultimate goal was the ultimate destructive power. Even though they had just advanced, the slashes of the heavy alloy swords were no longer something that ordinary s.h.i.+elds could defend against.

Fifty meters in front of him, Parkland's soldiers once again formed a s.h.i.+eld formation, and twenty machine guns emerged from the gaps in the s.h.i.+eld formation. The next moment, the fire from the machine gun lit up the dark street.

He raised the heavy sword diagonally and with his other hand on the other end of the tip of the sword, Su Ming ran towards the s.h.i.+eld. The heavy sword was placed in front of her, blocking most of her attacks. When he was about thirty meters away, Su suddenly jumped, causing the soldiers' attacks to hit nothing but air.

In mid-air, Su Su took a deep breath and chopped down with the heavy sword held in both hands in a straight line!

In the trajectory of the heavy sword, there was no time for a soldier to escape as he and his s.h.i.+eld were slashed into two halves by Su Kuang. However, Su Su's attack was not limited to that. When the tip of the sword touched the ground. The concrete floor first bulged, and then a wave spread out with Wu Zhu as the center. This circle of waves covered the s.h.i.+eld formation. The soldier was first shaken by the waves until he became unable to stand firm. Then, the force from the ground erupted and sent rubble flying into the sky. Every single one of these stones had the same impact force as a bullet, and the soldiers that formed the s.h.i.+eld formation were immediately penetrated by these stones, turning into broken corpses one after another.

Looking at the tidied up battlefield, he heaved a sigh of relief. But in the next moment, she seemed to have sensed something. He raised the heavy sword, and following the twisting of Su Su's waist, a piercing sound of air being split was heard. The blue wind blade was immediately chopped into pieces.

"After the appetizer, you finally can bear to have dinner?" The heavy sword was pointed at the ground as she silently gazed at a man behind her with his hands wrapped in azure and blue threads of wind.

The next moment, on the factory roof on Su's left, on the roof of a flipped tank behind him, and from the door of a tall building on the right, Parkland's espers came out one after another. The four of them surrounded Su Ming in the middle, but looking at this Eastern girl with a voluptuous figure, the four of them did not have a sense of superiority in numbers.

Salton was agitated.

It had been more than half an hour since his last attack, but there was still no news of him. Fighting in three directions, food processing and the a.r.s.enal were still going on. From the current situation, the food processing area is the most intense. Salton already knew that the intruders in that area were mutation-type espers, and they were now crossing paths with the ordinary soldiers and three espers from Parkland. On the other hand, the situation in the factory was not looking good. The 150 soldiers who were sent to intercept the soldiers had all died, so the only thing they could do now was to rely on the help of the four capable men.

But what really worried Salton was the battle in the power station area, where there was no news at all. Salton's aides had sent out three more scouts, but they were all like stones in the ocean, never to return. That direction was like a huge shadow in Salton's mind.

A strong sense of unease filled his heart. Suddenly, Salton felt an ice-cold killing intent rush towards him. Without giving it much thought, he immediately activated the power of the fourth stage of defense, crossing his arms to protect his chest and head. Salton's whole body shook as he made this defensive maneuver. At the same time, he felt a heart-wrenching pain coming from his wrist.

The soldiers around Salton were very clear. Suddenly, a flame shot out from the darkness at the edge of the square. It struck Salton's wrist, causing a large amount of blood to spurt out. A moment later, the sound of a sniper rifle rang out. Judging by the intensity of the sound, Salter concluded that the sniper was firing at least 1500 meters away.

At the same time, he knew that there were not only three intruders, there was also a fourth person!

(Today is the end of the world. I wish everyone a happy ending.) I hope the sun rises tomorrow, but I don't want to break it.)