novelhk Chapter 18 Fireflies Flying Towards the Flame, Living Against Death!
Chapter 18 Fireflies Flying Towards the Flame, Living Against Death!
That soul-chilling sense of immersion came more intensely and thoroughly this time than ever before.
It is no longer the perspective of an observer, nor is it a spying through a screen.
Om-!
Accompanied by a ringing sound that seemed to come from the depths of my mind.
Every living being on Douluo Star, whether a high-ranking titled Douluo or an ordinary farmer working in the fields, felt as if the world around them had collapsed in that instant.
The familiar blue sky, white clouds, birdsong, and fragrant flowers vanished in an instant.
Instead, there was a strong, nauseating smell of rust, the distinctive odor of blood mixed with burnt metal.
As their gazes refocused, everyone's pupils contracted sharply to pinpoints.
This is a purgatory.
The earth was scorched black, as if it had been plowed over a thousand times by raging fire, and every inch of soil was soaked in dark red liquid.
On that scorched earth lay countless mangled limbs. There were fragments of metal, human remains, but mostly, insect corpses.
Densely packed, endless.
The insects were not as huge as mountains as in the previous images. What appeared before everyone now were larvae the size of a five or six-year-old child.
They possess sharp mouthparts and hard shells. Although the individuals may appear small, their numbers are... billions!
They are like a wriggling carpet, covering every inch of land within sight, and they are constantly emerging from the ground, making a teeth-grinding "crunching" gnawing sound.
"What...what kind of hell is this...?"
Ning Rongrong turned pale and couldn't help but gag.
The intense fear of being surrounded by swarms of insects made even the little princess of the Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School feel her scalp tingle.
Amidst the swarms of insects that filled the sky, stood a series of slender figures.
Those were hundreds of silver-haired girls.
The sky did not show their faces; only their slender, even somewhat thin, backs were visible.
They had identical long silver hair, which flew wildly in the raging wind filled with gunpowder smoke.
They were wearing simple, even somewhat worn-out white combat uniforms, the fabric stained with oil and blood.
They looked so fragile, as if a gust of wind could blow them over.
However, this group of seemingly fragile girls were like an iron wall, firmly rooted to the ground, not retreating an inch.
In their hands, they tightly gripped a diamond-shaped metal device—the summoning device of the Grammer Iron Cavalry.
The swarm of insects is approaching.
Ten meters, five meters, three meters...
The suffocating stench was already overwhelming, and the hideous maw was almost touching the hem of their clothes.
At this critical moment, a girl standing at the front slowly raised the summoning device in her hand.
Her movements were completely still, showing only a resolute determination that indicated she had long since disregarded life and death.
Immediately afterwards, all the girls raised their hands.
A unified, crisp voice, yet tinged with endless sorrow, rang out across the deathly silent battlefield, piercing through time and space, echoing in the ears of everyone on the Douluo Continent:
"Like fireflies drawn to a flame, they live even in the face of death!"
boom--!!!
The moment the words fell, hundreds of dazzling beams of light shot into the sky!
That wasn't the light of soul power; it was the blazing flame of technology and life!
The slender figure of the girl vanished instantly, replaced by a series of silver-gray mechanical armors with flowing lava-like crimson patterns, exuding a suffocating sense of oppression!
Grammer Iron Cavalry – Firefly IV, has arrived!
Click!Click!
The metallic clanging sound was as rapid as war drums. The approaching swarm of insects was instantly swept away by a terrifying heatwave.
"kill!!"
Without further ado, hundreds of SAM mechs were activated simultaneously.
The thrusters on their backs spewed out two long green flames, which were particularly dazzling on the dim battlefield, just like the wings of two giant fireflies flapping their wings in the deadly night.
They are no longer delicate young girls, but death gods who reap lives.
The crimson fist, carrying temperatures of thousands of degrees, was unleashed, instantly vaporizing dozens of insects in front of it into ashes!
The green wings, sharp as blades, darted through the swarm of insects, leaving behind a trail of severed limbs and a torrential downpour of green insect blood.
This was a massacre, and also a charge destined for no return.
Dessert shop.
"Like fireflies drawn to a flame, they live even in the face of death..."
The firefly stared intently at the sky, its hands tightly covering its mouth, trying to suppress the sob that was about to burst out of its throat.
Tears had already blurred her vision.
She recognized the scene; she recognized those figures from behind.
They are the "Grammer Riders" who share the same genes and the same fate as her.
She can even tell who's who...
"Everyone..." Liu Ying felt as if her heart was being squeezed tightly by a giant hand, and she couldn't breathe from the pain.
The turmoil in her eyes was a sorrow that spanned countless light-years.
She knew what was going to happen next; it was a nightmare that had haunted her countless times in the middle of the night.
The screen suddenly zoomed out.
The battlefield is not only on the ground, but also in the sky, in the vast vacuum of the universe!
With the cover of ground troops, more Grammer cavalry broke through the atmosphere and collided with the main force of the real "Cosmic Locust Plague" in the boundless space.
This scene filled all the powerful figures on Douluo Star with a deep sense of despair.
If swarms of insects on Earth are disgusting, then swarms of insects in space are suffocating.
That was a wall.
A wall of flesh spanning the entire galaxy, composed of countless giant beetles the size of mountains!
They obscured the light of the stars, and they devoured everything in their path.
Faced with this power, the so-called Title Douluo and the so-called million-year-old soul beast are as insignificant as a speck of dust.
"This...this is the global locust plague?"
In the Spirit Hall, the Angelic Holy Sword in Qian Daoliu's hand clattered to the ground.
His angelic power, which he was so proud of, seemed so pale and powerless in the face of this overwhelming swarm of insects.
He felt like an ant facing a tsunami, unable to even muster the thought of resistance.
"These monsters... these monsters are actually found all over the universe?"
Deep within the Star Dou Great Forest, Di Tian's enormous dragon eyes were filled with terror.
As a beast god, he experienced absolute suppression from a racial level for the first time. It wasn't a difference in soul power; it was an absolute crushing defeat in terms of life level and quantity!
However, it was precisely this kind of hopeless enemy that they faced.
Those tiny streams of green light did not stop at all.
They sped through the vacuum, leaving behind two long trails of green flame, as if leaving indelible marks on the canvas of the universe.
"For the Queen! For Grammer!"
The fluctuations of thought reverberate in the vacuum.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Clusters of green flames exploded amidst the swarm of insects.
Each spark that blooms represents the fall of a Grammer Knight.
They used their bodies as bombs and their lives as fuel, illuminating a moment of light in that dark and desperate universe.
tragic.
Extremely tragic.
There were no tactics, no way out, only the most primal clashes, only the madness of trading lives for lives.
In the scene, a Sam mech is severed in half by the pincers of a giant beetle. But in the last moment before the mech shuts down, it clings tightly to the beetle's tentacles, causing the reactor in its chest to overload instantly.
boom--!
The violent explosion shattered the giant beetle's head into pieces.
The mecha, along with its pilot, vanished into nothingness in the vast sea of stars.
She had no name, no tombstone, and no one even knew she had ever been in this world.
This was the fate of the Grammer cavalry.
Seeing this scene, the entire Douluo Continent fell into a deathly silence.
Countless people were already in tears. They didn't understand what interstellar war was, or what genetic modification was, but they understood the tragic grandeur of it all.
That is the kind of courage that comes from knowing you will die, yet still going forward without hesitation.
It was a resolute determination to burn one's last drop of blood in order to protect the homeland behind them.
Compared to these girls battling swarms of insects in the universe, the sect struggles and imperial rivalries on Douluo Continent seem as ridiculous as children playing house.
Just as everyone was immersed in this tragic and shocking scene, the image on the sky refocused.
Deep within that endless swarm of insects, at the heart of that despairing darkness.
A light, distinct from the other cavalry, was slowly rising.
That wasn't an ordinary green flame; it was a purer, more intense one, as if it contained the will of all the fallen comrades—
[Complete Combustion Form]
Inside the dessert shop, Liu Ying slowly removed her hand from her mouth.
Looking at that familiar figure in the sky, that version of herself in dire straits, her eyes gradually cleared, and the original sorrow slowly transformed into a firm resolve.
"I dreamt of... a scorched earth."
She murmured softly, her voice faint, yet perfectly overlapping with the figure about to erupt in the sky.