For the Order commandos, with their firepower, it would be simple to deal with a formation of no more than 100 bugs.

Therefore, this final encounter took less than 3 minutes to resolve the battle, and the last high-level wingworm tried to turn around and escape, only to be shot in the head by the Black Iron Death Knight sniper of the Thassarian team from nearly 800 meters away.

"Gather the strongest carapace of these bugs!"

With the scorching muzzle down, Thassarian with a shotgun in one hand, shouted to the Death Knights beside him:

"And those special glands, all of them are loaded and sent back to the base, these things are considered trophies... Tsk, it's cold. ”

As he spoke, the human Death Knight turned and walked towards the protected elf, a female Night Elf, which was easily recognizable, and since Thassarian had a High Elf teammate by his side, he knew some of the Salas language spoken by the elves.

"You... Where did it come from? ”

Thassarian asked in a terrible Salas language, and the visibly frightened Night Elf chick saw the smoke of the gun in Thassarian's hand, and she picked up her body in fear, just now, the chick saw with her own eyes how the terrifying steel wand highlighted the thunder and flames, and tore those ferocious insects to pieces.

In her opinion, these men who wield steel wands are no more peaceful than the wormmen, and as a priest of the moon god, she can easily see through the essence of Thassarian... It's an active undead! In the traditional culture of the Night Elves, blasphemy against the dead is an unforgivable sin.

But... These vicious warriors had saved her life, so it would be rude not to say anything, so under Thassarian's gaze, the Night Elf chick who had been stabbed in the leg by the wormman's claws replied in a low voice:

"My name is Natalia Marlis... It is the wife of Marris, the commander of the Cenarion Fortress, I was ambushed by the Worms while I was out, powerful adventurer, please send me back to the fortress, my husband will pay you enough. ”

Lady Natalia, the Priest of the Luna, did not believe in the undead in front of her, and to make matters worse, the Salas language she spoke belonged to the language family of the Night Elves, which had not changed for thousands of years, it was a very complex language, at least for Thassarian, who could only speak a few words, it was almost the same as the Book of Heaven, and there were no High Elves in Thassarian's team, so in desperation, Thassarian could only make a bad decision.

He knocked the shouting Luna Priest unconscious and placed her on the skeleton horse, intending to bring her back to the Order's makeshift base.

With this chick's current situation, leaving her here can only leave her to fend for herself, and the Order Maintainers pursue their own mission to maintain world order, they are a group of neutral and good camps, and Thassarian can't do anything to let the weak die.

And more importantly, for this desert, the Order is an out-and-out outsider, their knowledge of this desert is limited to the fantasy stories of adventurers, and now, a living life has appeared before their eyes, which proves that there must be other forces in the depths of this desert.

This is already a blessing from heaven for the Order Order, who is in dire need of local intelligence to carry out the hunting mission.

As for the series of stories that this Night Elf chick mysteriously disappears in the desert... Who cares?

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The Glitter Plains, a white, salt-rich plain and the mountains of the Tanaris Desert, where the army from Stormwind is gathering, an army equipped with a large number of thermal weapons, although the overall technology content is several levels behind the Darkblade army, but it has finally achieved the popularization of firearms, so that soldiers no longer need to fight those crazy bugs with swords in hand.

Nearly 2 kilometers in front of the legion front, there is a collapsed surface, under the surface, the Qila worm that infiltrated this place did not feel that the end was coming, and the industrious worker insect was still digging underground passages under the command of the brain worm, and the female worm was still laying eggs, and farther away, the winged soldier insects patrolled the sky around the big tunnel.

It's a forward legion... Less than 10 days after they arrived, the number of bugs here had exceeded 50,000, and their numbers were still growing at a geometric rate, and perhaps in another month, the bugs flying out of this pit would be enough to completely flood New Stormwind.

Fortunately... With the help of the Empire's new "friends", humanity has discovered the hive hidden beneath the glittering plains in advance.

"The evolutionary direction of the insects is primitive, and the combat effectiveness of the workers who account for the majority of the insects in this system is very weak, which shows that they are still relying on numbers to fight, which is not quite logical..."

The silver-white compound eyes of the dismantler Skris shone with a contemplative light, and beside it, Shi Modra asked suspiciously:

"What do you mean? Are you saying that these chila worms are not normal? ”

"Of course, this is not normal!"

The Spider Demon Priest said to the ** master beside him:

"Worm people are a civilization that attaches great importance to "evolution", after the collapse of the Yaki Empire, the spider demon migrated to the Northrend continent, of course, the world has not collapsed at that time, but in short, we evolved ourselves in the ice and snow, and finally broke away from the primitive insect form, and stabilized in the current Naiyou spider demon form, all of which have evolved in nearly 10,000 years. ”

"And the insects have existed for no longer than us, relying on the genetic fragments left by the subunit empire engraved in their souls, they should also have their own evolutionary process, and should evolve into forms that are more adapted to the environment of this desert, but now, except for the lowest-level workers, I don't see any traces of this "evolution". ”

There was a hint of doubt and solemnity in Skrax's voice:

"Obviously, there is something that we don't know about that is influencing the insects, which suppresses this evolutionary instinct and allows the insects to maintain their most primitive posture for thousands of years... This is not normal, human friends, this time you are likely to deal with not only the insects, but also the shadows behind the insects, which makes me... I feel very uneasy. ”

"You mean, there's a man behind the Zerg behind it?"

Shi's expression also became serious, she looked at the griffin knights behind her who were making final preparations, and she whispered:

"Your Excellency, in your opinion, what do you think it would be? An ancient "god"? ”

"Gods? No! At least not the kind of gods you think they are. ”

The dismantler, shaking its odd head, its forelimbs swaying back and forth in the air, said:

"Wormmen have their own gods, and spider demons used to have... Unfortunately, at the moment of the fall of Eldraine-Nirub, we prayed to the gods, but we were not answered, and the undead scourge entered our kingdom and completely destroyed the great underground empire, and our gods did not say a word about it... We, the survivors, have abandoned that meaningless faith, but it is possible that the Worm does not..."

"All I can say is that if there really is an ancient 'god' behind the Qila worm, then you have no chance of winning, at least with the current size of the army... Friends of humanity, you need allies, enough allies, enough allies to flood the world. ”

"Whoa, whoa"

Hundreds of griffon knights steered their mounts to send the winged beasts flying into the sky, the griffons flapping their wings in an astonishing formation, the knights marched forward in a dense formation in the air, and under the guidance of the scouts on the ground, these flying troops carrying strange iron barrels painted red on their claws slowly approached the edge of the glittering plain.

Their arrival alarmed the patrollers around the hive of the Flash Plains, and the wasp-like winged insects screamed and rushed towards the griffon knights, but some of the knights who were escorted around them quickly shattered their bodies in the air with their repeating rifles, and more bugs felt the breath of the battle coming, and they turned over the dust above their heads and rushed from the ground to the ground.

"Bomb dropping!"

The griffin knight leader Kudran. With the roar of the hammer, the knights who flew over the hive manipulated the griffins and threw the red iron bucket clutched in the beast's claws to the ground.

"Boom, boom"

The bucket fell to the ground, smashing the head of the hapless worm into a bloody stream, but this was not a weapon of bombardment, hundreds of buckets fell from the sky were torn apart, and the viscous black liquid inside soon spread all over the hive, like mercury pouring out the ground, and those pungent liquids even flowed to the deepest part of the hive.

"What's that?"

The Spider Priest could clearly "see" the battlefield at the edge of the Shining Plains with his mental power, and he watched with interest as the Griffin Knight threw the iron buckets filled with black liquid on the heads of the bugs, but the liquid was not poisonous or corrosive, it just continued to seep into the ground like a stream of water.

On the surface, it's hard to think of this liquid as a "weapon", but Skris doesn't think that the human air cavalry would risk being torn apart by wingworms just to play a game.

Faced with the dismantler's doubts, Shi Modra shrugged his shoulders and explained:

"It was the "scrap" left over from the Church's making of the Holy Fire Oil, which could not be reused, but it was very viscous and... It's extremely flammable, even more flammable than the oil used by goblins, and best of all, it's not volatile and can burn for a long time... The people in the military department call this thing an "incendiary bomb," which I think is appropriate. ”

As soon as the division's words fell, the last iron bucket also fell from the sky, and smashed accurately at the entrance of the hive, and the speed of the griffin knights, who had lost their loads, became very fast, just like the original plan, they began to retreat as fast as possible, and the captain of the griffin knights, the brave Kudlan. The Brute Hammer took the initiative to shoulder the most dangerous task.

He harnessed his griffon to the ground as the wingworm blocked it, and the dwarf screamed and drew a flare gun from his belt, and the moment he got closest to the surface, in that sweeping scene, the hammer was aimed at the ground and the bugs that jumped up to bite him pulled the trigger.

"Bang"

A flaming flare flew out of the muzzle of the gun and smashed into the hole of the hive filled with viscous liquid below, and the next moment, in the roar of Kudran, the ground around the hive was completely "ignited".

The crazy burning flames roared into the sky, and the flames even rose nearly 5 meters high, and further down, the high-temperature flames continued to burn into the hive of the insects along the black liquid that went deep into the ground, and the insects contaminated with the black liquid were also ignited, they struggled wildly, but the burning flames were difficult to extinguish.

The sturdy carapace covered by the insects would have kept them alive for several minutes, but when the flames ignited, the entire land around the hive was like a burning hell, and there was no escape.

And in the human position, the griffin knights, after a short break, have already begun to load the second batch of "incendiary bombs".

"Flames... Very good weapon. ”

Skris the Dismantler looked at the pillar of fire rising on the ground in the distance, and it shook its head, sighing at the whimsy of humanity:

"High-level spider demons like us are also afraid of flames, you have found a great targeted weapon, however, if it is just ordinary flames, it is not enough to fight against an entire Zerman Empire, human friends, its pulling insects rely on numbers to fight, when they pour out of the nest, no matter how terrifying the flames, they will be forced to extinguish with their bodies... Never underestimate the number of bugs. ”

"I know, we all know."

Master Modra ** whispered:

"This war isn't going to be won so easily, but at least now, we're fighting back, aren't we?"

"Since the defeat in the Battle of the Northern Frontier, my compatriots have been contaminated with too much haze in their hearts, in this case, if the Human Empire wants to be reborn from the ashes, it must first defeat the fear in its heart, whether it is a barbarian or a worm, we must survive it, and we must defeat the opponents... If we can't defeat such an enemy, what should we rely on to challenge the Darkblade Legion in the future? ”

"The Empire of Humanity will not wait to die in fear, we have already lost once, and we have no power to lose again."

Shi looked at the burning earth in front of her, and she whispered:

"They thought they were going to bring us hell, but we..."

"I've seen the real hell for a long time."