Samsara Paradise: Dream Weaver of Connections.

The flesh and blood on the ground that was burned by the flames suddenly twitched violently, and countless pustules swelled on the surface, and then exploded with a "pop"!

In the blood mist, tens of thousands of fist-sized flesh-and-blood flying insects flapped their wings and flew into the air.

Their shells have a moist dark red luster, and their spiral mouthparts open and close constantly, making a teeth-grinding "clicking" sound.

"Fuck! This thing can fly?!" A contractor pointed at the black swarm of flesh-and-blood flying insects in the sky, his voice changed.

The head of the artillery regiment turned pale in an instant. He grabbed the communicator and yelled, "Prepare the anti-aircraft guns! Quick! Lock on those ghosts!"

However, before the anti-aircraft guns could turn, the group of flesh-and-blood flying insects swooped down like suicide bombers!

"Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The flying insects hit the defensive facilities outside the artillery position and exploded, and the splashing corrosive liquid burned charred holes in the metal walls.

What’s even more terrifying is that these body fluids will ignite when exposed to fire, and the sparks from the explosion directly ignited the ammunition boxes stacked at the edge of the position!
"boom--!"

The chain explosion overturned the three nearest artillery pieces, and more than a dozen loaders were blown away by the air waves.

“Priest!” Iron Fist roared, but he picked up a cannon barrel that was blown crooked, straightened it with his bare hands and aimed it at the Zerg, “You useless idiots from the technology department! Stop standing there, get me something that can blast a large area!”

"Here we go!" The man with glasses climbed up a turret at some point, holding a exaggerated metal cylinder in his hand, "I'll let you taste the 'arc diffuser' I spent all my savings on in the last world!"

When the switch was pressed, a dazzling blue-white light burst out from the top of the cylinder, and a high-voltage electric arc as thick as a bowl rushed into the swarm of insects like an angry lightning snake.

The electric current jumped wildly between the flying insects, instantly connecting hundreds of flesh and blood flying insects.

The air was suddenly filled with a disgusting burnt smell. The originally dense swarm of insects seemed to be slapped down by an invisible giant hand, and the burning insect corpses fell like a rainstorm.

"Well done!" Lan Yan took the opportunity to throw out a frost storm, freezing the escaped flying insects into ice cubes.

On the other side, Bernard and Lin Yi walked out of the command tent one after another.

The sound of explosions in the distance continued one after another. It was obvious that the enemy on the opposite side had been suppressed by Lin Yi's artillery fire and was desperate, otherwise they would never resort to such means.

"What do you mean? Is it time to send the soldiers into action?" Bernard took out a telescope and took a look at the flying insects that were besieging the artillery positions in the distance. He felt that it was time to send the soldiers behind him into action. Although the spectacular scene of the artillery bombardment was exciting, he did not forget the real purpose of this trip.

"Let the 'Anvil Camp' go first and see what cards the other side has." Lin Yi was not in a hurry to send out all the soldiers in his hands.

Although conventional tactics would have called for the entire army to attack at this moment, his intuition told him that Dark Eclipse's trump card was definitely not as simple as these flying insects.

Bernal raised his eyebrows. "Those crazy people? Are you sure?"

The name of the Anvil Battalion sounds like the signboard of a rural blacksmith shop, but in fact it is a feared special force.

These guys are arms developers on the surface, but they are complete scientific research maniacs at heart.

What they are best at is bringing all kinds of dangerous experimental weapons to the battlefield, calling it actual combat testing - as for whether the test subjects are enemies or their own people, it all depends on luck.

This special force is not part of the Imperial Military, but is directly under the Imperial Academy of Research.

Speaking of this institution, it is one of the five major violent institutions along with the Imperial Sanatorium and the Execution Agency.

It’s just that the main responsibilities of the execution agency and the sanatorium are to deal with matters related to ghosts, demons and awakened people, but the research institute is different. The lunatics in the research institute have an almost pathological obsession with "abnormality".

Whether it's autonomously wriggling flesh and blood tissue, metal with memory repair capabilities, or unknown organs dissected from strange beasts, as long as it goes against common sense, they will drag it back to the laboratory as if it were a treasure.

There, what awaits the samples will be endless torture - high-temperature furnaces, strong acid immersion, million-volt high-voltage electric shocks, and even more bizarre "research" methods, until these anomalies completely lose their activity.

Soon after the order was issued, a troop with a strange style slowly emerged from the rear formation.

Each of them was wearing bulky metal exoskeleton armor, steam was spewing from their joints, and the huge fuel tanks on their backs made a dull sound as liquid sloshed with every step.

The most eye-catching thing is the weapons in their hands - they are neither standard firearms nor cold weapons, but a specially modified welding gun device.

A high-temperature blue flame danced at the nozzle, and the surrounding air was distorted by the high heat.

"Reporting to the Anvil Camp!" The burly leader pushed aside his visor, revealing a face covered with burn scars, and grinned in an almost insane smile, "I heard that there are fresh targets to roast today?"

Bernal rubbed his temple and said, "Pay attention to the safety boundary and don't set fire to the friendly forces as well."

"Don't worry! We have been grilling meat for 30 years!"

He turned around and yelled to the team members behind him, "Brothers, let's get started! Today we are going to have an all-insect banquet!"

The soldiers of the Anvil Battalion burst into a creepy, uniform laughter, like a group of vultures discovering rotten meat.

They arrived at the front line with mechanized steps, and with the "hissing" sound of dozens of safety valves opening at the same time, dazzling blue-white flames instantly burst out of the flamethrower nozzles.

Dozens of high-temperature fire pillars intertwined into a web of death. Those flesh-and-blood flying insects that were so aggressive just now were instantly carbonized upon contact, and the air was filled with the stench of burnt protein.

The flesh and blood tissue on the ground twitched violently and curled up, making a teeth-grinding "sizzling" sound, as if it was making a silent scream.

"Recording team! Record the data quickly!" A soldier wearing a one-eyed observation goggles was so excited that his voice changed. "The regeneration rate of this thing is a full 12 percentage points faster than the ghost dissected last month!" As he spoke, he used a flamethrower to burn the pieces of meat that were rushing towards him into charcoal. His movements were as skilled as a master who had worked at a barbecue stall for twenty years.

Another team member held a special alloy net and accurately caught a charred flying insect that was still twitching.

The flying insects twisted wildly in the net, but he stuffed them neatly into the cold freezer behind him: "Sample collection is complete! The dean will definitely be satisfied this time!"

Bernard's eyes twitched as he watched: "These lunatics, are they fighting a war or conducting a field survey?"

Lin Yi shrugged: "To them, there is no difference between the two."

The soldiers of the Anvil Camp were as excited as primary school students on a spring outing. They pulled out all kinds of strange devices from their tactical backpacks and began collecting the flesh-and-blood insects flying in the air.

A new recruit stared in amazement as a soldier from the Anvil Camp carefully held a freshly caught flying insect as if it were a rare treasure.

The soldier's eyes were terribly hot, even more obsessed than a pervert seeing a stunning beauty.

Out of curiosity, the recruit couldn't help but move closer.

The soldier gently stuffed the struggling flying insect into a transparent culture tank. The "bang bang" sound of the flying insect frantically hitting the tank wall made people's scalp numb.

"Baby, don't be afraid~" the soldier of the Anvil Battalion said in a coaxing tone while injecting a pink gas into the container, "Come, take some happy water~"

What’s even more terrifying is that after inhaling the gas, the flying insect actually slowly calmed down.

As the dynamic music played in the culture tank's built-in speakers, it even began to twist its body to the rhythm, just like a drug-induced nightclub regular.

Suddenly, there was a loud bang, and the flying insect that had been injected with the drug expanded rapidly like a balloon, instantly bursting the special container. Sticky blood and flesh splashed all over the people around.

"Oh, the dosage seems a bit too high." The soldier from the Anvil Battalion scratched his head, turned around and took out a larger container, "But the data has been collected! We will definitely succeed next time!"

The recruit collapsed. He pointed tremblingly at the swarm of flying insects approaching in the distance: "Comrades, sirs, are you going to ignore that?"

The soldiers of the Anvil Battalion turned their heads around as if awakened from a dream, and the leader slapped his forehead and said, "I almost forgot something!"

"Hurry up and add the newly developed chemical reagents one by one. It's a good opportunity to test the combustion effect of the latest reagents."

The soldiers of the Anvil Camp suddenly became excited as if they had been injected with chicken blood. They hurriedly took out a row of test tubes with skull logos on them from their tactical backpacks. The test tubes were also covered with colorful warning tapes.

The leader picked up a bottle with purple bubbles and shouted excitedly: "Try this improved version of 'Rainbow' first!"

"Wait!" The deputy captain hurriedly stopped him, "Last time I used this, I blew up a lab three blocks away! Change to a less powerful one."

"That's why we need to improve it!" The team leader shook the bottle disapprovingly, and the liquid inside immediately turned fluorescent green. "Look, it's much more stable now! It can last at least three minutes before exploding!" The new recruit at the side stared at the label on the test tube: "Warning: Do not use when there are living organisms within a radius of 500 meters." His voice was filled with tears: "Sir, shouldn't we use some conventional weapons? Like machine guns or something?"

"Tsk, young people are just so rigid." The leader shook his head and turned to his companions and shouted, "Attention everyone! Start the fireworks display! Implement plan number three!"

The soldiers sprang into action, pouring reagents of various colors into a specially made multi-barrel launcher.

"emission!"

With an order, dozens of test tubes whizzed towards the swarm of flying insects.

A test tube exploded in the insect swarm, and a ball of strange orange-red flame opened its bloody mouth like a devil, swallowing all the flying insects within a hundred meters radius.

There were constant crackling sounds coming from the flames, which was the death melody of thousands of flying insects exploding in the flames.

The most terrifying thing is that this flame burns very quickly. It jumps and climbs among the insects at a speed visible to the naked eye, and in the blink of an eye it dyes the entire sky a terrifying orange-yellow color.

The swarm of insects that originally covered the sky and the sun now turned into a sea of ​​fire that covered the sky and the sun, making the entire battlefield look like purgatory.

But an even more terrifying scene was yet to come—the flames began to liquefy, transforming into countless orange-red fire rains that poured down from the sky.

Instead of extinguishing itself when these liquid flames dripped onto the ground, they continued to burn, reducing everything they touched to scorched earth.

"Everyone take cover!" Looking at the rain of fire in the sky, all the soldiers immediately looked for cover nearby.

Armored vehicles, broken city walls, and even fallen artillery became life-saving straws.

In the sky, the orange-red rain of fire was still raging.

The liquid flames fell to the ground, making a hissing sound and burning the rocks red.

One minute seemed as long as a century, and when the last trace of fire rain dissipated, the sky finally turned blue again.

The soldiers cautiously poked their heads out, and the entire battlefield was completely unrecognizable. The ground was covered with charred burn marks, and the air was filled with a disgusting burnt smell.

Fortunately, except for a few unlucky people who were directly hit by the rain of fire, most people were safe and sound.

At this time, something strange happened again in Limestone City. The tumor on the ground began to bulge and produce tumor-like objects.

About ten seconds later, new half-demon, half-ghost monsters appeared in the ruins of Graystone City.

The group of monsters in the distance collectively raised their heads, and scarlet light lit up in their empty eye sockets.

The next second, they let out sharp roars, the sound was like metal rubbing against glass, piercing the eardrums and hurting them.

The leader of the Anvil Camp excitedly took out his notebook and said, "Great! A symbiont with dual biological characteristics! This is definitely a new species! If we can catch one and dissect it——"

"Dissect your uncle!" Bernard kicked him over.

He has always felt a headache about the people in the research institute. These crazy people can really do anything for the sake of scientific research.

The group of monsters has rushed over. They are incredibly fast. When they crawl, their entire torso sways from side to side like a pendulum, and each time they push off the ground, they can leap more than three meters away.

A soldier fired his rifle at the monster, but the bullet seemed to have hit the mud, splashing only a few puddles of black blood.

Seeing this, Bernard realized that he could no longer hide it.

The ground suddenly began to tremble, different from the tiny shaking when the monsters crawled, but it was some kind of rhythmic, mechanical roar, and hundreds of steel behemoths tore through the smoke and appeared.

These tanks are new equipment that the scientific research institute has just developed through automobiles. Although their appearance is very simple, the power of their artillery is very strong.

The only problem is that since the tank has no shock-absorbing equipment or cooling facilities, ordinary soldiers must leave the tank after firing three shots, otherwise they will be killed by the recoil force of the tank shells.

But this time, Lin Yi directly let some of the awakened people enter the tank. With the awakened people's physique, they were able to withstand the recoil force and high temperature brought by the tank cabin.

The roar of the tank engines shook the battlefield, their tracks rolled over the scorched earth, and their guns were all aimed at the wriggling group of flesh and blood monsters in the center of Graystone City.

The awakened ones sat in the simple cockpit, the high temperature made the metal walls red, but their eyes were extremely fiery.

When the army went out to fight this time, Lin Yi came over to meet them. Without saying anything else, he simply said that the reward for action would be tripled.

"boom--!!!"

The artillery fire from hundreds of tanks roared at the same time, and the blazing barrage tore through the air, creating a sea of ​​inferno in the center of Graystone City.

The twisted, stitched monsters were torn apart in the explosion, and black blood and flesh splattered on the scorched earth like raindrops.

"Well done! Keep pushing forward! Put the muzzle of the gun on that piece of rotten meat's forehead!"

The whistling sound of artillery shells never stopped, bombarding the outer areas of Limestone City. Flames shot into the sky, and the screams and roars never stopped.

The ruins of Limestone City are now beyond recognition. The ground is bumpy and charred, as if it had been gnawed by a giant beast.

Those newly born monsters didn't even have the chance to wail before they were torn into pieces by the violent artillery fire. Their limbs and arms were scattered all over the ground, and some were even twitching slightly.

After thirty minutes of cleaning, a large area in front of Lin Yi was flattened by artillery fire.

The ground of Limestone City was cut away by nearly five meters, and the exposed scarlet flesh and blood tissue was still slowly wriggling, but the healing speed was obviously much slower than before.

Compared with the almost instantaneous regeneration ability at the beginning, the recovery speed of this strange flesh and blood at this moment is like the last struggle of a dying person.

The underground altar in Graystone City.

Rubble fell and dark red rune pillars collapsed one after another under the shock of continuous bombardment.

Dubois Bertram was suspended in the center of the altar, his black robe moving without wind, and his hands continuously waving out dark energy waves, crushing the huge rocks falling above his head into powder.

His face was distorted and there was a dark fire of rage in his eyes.

The summoning ceremony of the Immortal King has reached the most critical moment - Dark Eclipse is now in a dilemma.

If he dared to leave DuBois-Bertlem's body, this madman would immediately retaliate, even at the cost of dying together with him.

The most core step of the summoning ceremony is that Dubois Bertram needs to sacrifice himself, using the blood of the Seventeen-Eyed Phantom King as an anchor to open a passage to this world for the Immortal King.

The reason why Dark Eclipse was willing to take the risk of cooperation was because the Immortal King promised him a reward that he could not refuse - once he successfully captured this world, the Immortal King would help him break through to an unprecedented realm.

To this end, they signed a contract, and the witness of the contract was a mysterious mark that even Dark Eclipse had never seen before.

At the moment the contract was concluded, the shadow of an indescribable giant tree appeared in the void. Just a glance at it made his soul tremble.

Afterwards, an invisible binding force wrapped around his origin, as if he would immediately suffer a catastrophic disaster if he dared to violate the agreement.

Above the ruins of Limestone City, the roar of artillery fire gradually subsided, and the air was filled with a mixed smell of burnt and blood.

Lin Yi stood on a high place, staring at the bloody land that was shattered by the bombing.

Although the creeping ground's healing speed had slowed down, it was still slowly regenerating, like some stubborn plague that refused to completely die out.

Lin Yi shook his head. It was going too smoothly—too smooth to be normal.

In his opinion, Dark Eclipse is definitely not the kind of person who would sit and wait for death. (End of this chapter)