Umbrella, The Light of Humanity

Three hours later.

The sun is no longer so dazzling and bright, and the temperature has dropped to around 37°C.

Outside Glory City, a convoy of at least 200 off-road vehicles and trucks, accompanied by three atmospheric airships, kicked up dust and headed for the depths of the sandy sea in the northwest direction.

And in this convoy, there are three Warthogs belonging to Lyon, Lin Hong, Lum and others.

At the same time, this convoy was led and organized by the Horatel Gang, one of the three major gangs in Glory City, with a total of more than 4,000 people, and many forces participated.

As for Lyon and the others being able to temporarily and smoothly join the expedition, in addition to providing enough admission tickets, there is another point that is led by the guide Lum.

Pull into view.

This side of the three Warthogs at the end of the convoy.

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Leon, who was sitting in the co-pilot, not only checked the holographic screen in silence, but also tried to stitch together all the information he had collected.

The first is bloody red light.

Glorious City began to frequently witness bloody red light suddenly appearing in the night sky, about six earth months ago, accompanied by unspeakable strange cries.

But similar to the Griffin's scan of everything is normal, Glory City used various equipment for analysis, and even used a warship transformed from a pioneer engineering ship to conduct a bird's-eye view of the desert in the northwest. No abnormalities were found either.

As a result, this abnormal phenomenon instantly spread to the top and bottom of Glory City, as well as the nearby towns, and then to the entire Sri Lanka.

Afterwards, people began to spontaneously form expeditions, and expeditions of various sizes went deep into the desert about 300 times.

As a mercenary, Lumu also began to escort different employers to the desert six months ago, and Leon, Lin Hong and others were Lumu's seventeenth term employers.

Moreover, Lumu said that in the past six months, all the expeditions, in addition to wasting time and effort, wasting a lot of money, and even wasting their own lives, failed to discover the source of the bloody light and the treasure under the source.

Because of this, all kinds of rumors and rumors emerge in endlessly. Some people say that there must be extremely powerful spiritual creatures at the source, and some say that the source is the entrance to another space, another latitude, or even a different space.

But no one can confirm these claims. After all, until now, the source of the bloody light is still a mystery and fog, so people associate various visions with evil gods and demons.

Huh~huh...~!

Hearing the brisk humming from behind, Leon came back to his senses, and looked back a little sideways, and saw Lumu, who lacked two parts of his mouth, lying on the seat with a satisfied face.

This action made an auxiliary soldier who was also sitting in the back seat very unhappy.

The main reason is that this guy is a guide. Although the current situation is that everyone follows the expedition team together and does not need the service of a guide, this kind of carefree attitude, without even covering it up, is really annoying.

However, the tone of Lumu's singing reminded Leon of the plague doctor who had made great contributions to mankind, but had a very weird temperament and never showed his true face.

At the banquet for the establishment of the empire, the plague doctor also rarely left the laboratory, but he always muttered, Ah... why do humans always like to use alcohol to paralyze the central nervous system and cause damage to their brains? It's boring and boring.

Or Don't toast me! I don't drink! Go away!

And Well, it's okay to have a sip, it does have a different feeling... oh~! Otherwise you will like it., and other words.

Although no one can understand how the plague doctor drank the wine in the glass while wearing a beak mask, but no matter what, even the plague doctor did not escape the law of true fragrance.

Think back, when they went secretly in exchange for today's prosperity, how to think, how cost-effective.

Take it easy.

Leon turned around, put his left hand on the seat, and asked Lumu with great interest: I think you were once a soldier or an auxiliary army, how did you get to where you are today?

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Hearing what Leon said, the atmosphere in the car changed suddenly, and Lumu was no longer as idle as before, with a relaxed expression on his face.

Immediately, Lumu finished relaxing, sat down, and looked directly at Leon, who was still smiling.

After a few seconds of silence...

Hahaha~! Lumu smiled generously again, I didn't expect Mr. Kennedy to be an expert at knowing people.

Thank you. Leon continued without any modesty, Why, are you not interested in sharing your past with us?

This is personal privacy...

two thousand.

However, before Lum could refuse, Leon took out four dark gold 500 denomination notes from the backpack beside him.

Seeing this, Lumu hesitated to speak, but in the end he reached out to take the 2,000 banknotes and put them skillfully into his pocket. He sighed helplessly, Why bother? Mr. Kennedy, you just want to know my personal history so much?

I'm just interested in the employee's background, Leon said with a smile.

Okay, it's not a confidential copy. Lumu shrugged and said, UNSC...Actually, I fought for the covenant at the beginning...

Loom still didn't mention his surname, but told the history of nearly a century and a half ago.

The year 2072 of the main universe was the year when war broke out between humans and the Covenant Empire, and it was also the year when humans began to gain the mantle of administrator civilization and gradually became the overlord of the galaxy.

At that time, Lum, who was originally a golden armor elite (colonel level), was suppressed by a prophet (ostrich), so he and his subordinates did not know that the elite family had chosen to withdraw from the Covenant Empire Humans form alliances.

After that, he and a group of subordinates escorted the Prophet to evacuate the colonized planet, but unexpectedly, before the evacuation plan started, they blocked it with the fleets of the 3rd, 4th and 7th Battalions of the Space Wolves.

Control of the track quickly changed hands.

In the ground war that broke out, their covenant army was not an Astartes at all, especially the space wolf opponents who were good at charging and melee.

And he even had a close confrontation with the battalion commander of the 3rd Battalion, a space wolf who called himself Brika Berserker. As a result, he barely persisted for six rounds before being punched by Brika The energy shield was shattered, and the strength of this punch did not decrease, and it successfully knocked him out.

Fortunately, the elite clan has formed an alliance with humans, and the three battalions of the Space Wolves have not been wiped out, imprisoning all of Lumu and his subordinates.

After learning the truth from the Space Wolves and the entourage, Loum and his subordinates were naturally extremely angry, and voluntarily joined the team to conquer the Covenant Empire and the Prophet Clan.

After winning the victory, Loum first served as the ground combat commander of the elite fleet for a period of time, and then waited for the entire elite fleet to be incorporated into UNSC, and he also became a colonel of the UNSC Marine Corps.

next.

He led his original subordinates to try to fight side by side with humans. At first, they looked down on thin humans, but as time went on, after fighting together more and more times, they respected the brave and fearless UNSC soldiers from the bottom of their hearts. , and in turn have great respect for humanity as a whole.

Outstanding military exploits, coupled with the extremely strong combat power of their elite clan, it took only a few years for Loum to become a major general of the UNSC from a prisoner...

Although looking at the entire universe, there are tens of thousands of UNSC major generals, but this is also an extremely honorable position.

But the good times don't last long.

The storm in different space a hundred years ago made everything come to naught.

Since Lum and the others first came into contact with the Space Wolves, when they were incorporated into the UNSC, they were naturally assigned to the Oslo sector that the Space Wolves were in charge of.

When the alien space storm was raging, the Oslo sector suffered the heaviest loss. About 7.2 billion humans (the elites at the time, whose identity was already human) died, including Lum and all his subordinates.

As a major general, Lumu discovered that the army of demons that invaded their colonial planet was led by a degenerate demigod who called himself Amphion. In order to minimize losses and buy enough time to wait for rescue, Lumu Mu resolutely led an elite team to behead Amphion.

In the end, the elite team was completely killed and injured, and half of Lumu's four-petal mouth was cut off by Amphion, who had blue wings growing from his back, a hunchback figure, and wriggling and twisted tentacles.

However, with the belief that they will die together, when he was about to lose consciousness due to his serious injuries, he successfully split Anfes in two with the double-edged energy sword in his hand.

But when he woke up, he found that he had already been transferred to the UNSC medical ship, and none of his subordinates survived.

The only thing worthy of Loum's joy is that the sacrifices made by him and his subordinates were not in vain. At least enough time was bought for the innocent people on the colonized planet to evacuate and transfer.

But since then, Loum has lost his pursuit of battle and glory, voluntarily resigned from the position of major general, and wandered between different planets and different universes.

After that, Lum also became an interstellar mercenary, and in the zero-three universe, he either captured Ada and the rewards of the Dark Eldar one after another, or went to an edge planet to help the local UNSC and the sheriff deal with small-scale Alien plague event.

In this way, Lumu came to Sri Lanka three months ago, and followed different expeditions to go deep into the so-called Scarlet Sand Sea.

Speaking of which.

Lumu's voice became much lower, Last time, I protected my employer and followed the expedition team to the depths of the desert. When night fell, I heard...the roar of ghouls, and the indescribable, purgatory-like Horror dream.

And this phenomenon didn’t just happen to me, it was the rectification expedition team. Immediately afterwards, my employer and the team leader in charge voted immediately and unanimously decided to withdraw from the sand sea overnight.

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Hearing this, the three of Leon fell into silence for a while.

Especially the expressions and demeanor of Lin Hong and another auxiliary army can be called wonderful, because not long ago, the two of them were very upset with Lumu, but after listening to Lumu's past and reality, they immediately put their unhappiness behind Finally, it was replaced by respect and admiration.

After all, it was a major general a hundred years ago. For their auxiliary army, it is indeed the senior among the seniors, and it is almost the same as Leon.

Thinking about it this way, the contempt and disdain they had before made them both feel guilty.

It's like when you are on the bus, you are accidentally stepped on by someone, but you can't help but curse You are blind! because of factors such as bad mood, who would have thought that the other person would really come Ah... I'm sorry, I really can't see. The feeling of guilt.

On the other hand, Leon, although a little surprised by Lumu's life experience, is basically the same as what he expected and guessed, and Leon is more concerned about the ghouls and purgatory dreams that Lumu mentioned.

This situation is indeed similar to the erosion of the different space, but everyone, including Lumu, has been vaccinated, and there is no reason for the different space to make a mess.

What's more, the Milky Way in Universe 03 already belongs to a black domain for evil gods and demons, and cannot be observed in different dimensions, let alone penetrated and corrupted.

Then, Leon speculates that this is very likely to be an unknown civilization, and the defense measures made against their tombs interfere with the thinking of creatures, generate fear, and then achieve the effect of driving away.

You must know that their human empire also has corresponding technology, and it has already been widely used, which can instantly clear the field during riot control.

However, this kind of intimidation effect on Sri Lanka seems to be somewhat negligible. Even though most people know that once they go to the desert, their lives will be in danger, they still cannot stop the expedition.

but…

There is another possibility, which is also the possibility that Leon is least willing to face, that is, evil gods and demons not only exist in different spaces, but also similar evil and original creatures exist in the real universe or other dimensions.

Thinking of this possibility, Lyon couldn't help but be extremely alert.

Although this possibility is very small, after all, his immediate boss (Sui Bian) has never mentioned this kind of creature, but the habit he has developed over the past two hundred years made Leon immediately take out his exclusive mobile phone and narrate this conjecture. Report, and make the Griffin ready at all times, and immediately call the battalion headquarters of the nearby star field to come to support if necessary.

It’s fine if it’s an ancient tomb of an unknown civilization, but if it’s an unknown existence…

That would be difficult to deal with.

Why, why is the atmosphere suddenly so dignified? Lumu, who had returned to his carefree appearance, couldn't help breaking the silence.

We were the ones who were rude before.

I didn't expect you to be a war hero.

Lin Hong and the auxiliary army were the first to apologize.

Hi! No need to apologize. If you don't say it, I don't know what you are thinking, hahaha! Lumu smiled boldly.

. Leon remained silent.

At this time, the mighty expedition team began to slow down. When everyone in the car looked forward, they could find that they had come to a barren mountain.

watch carefully.

The top of the mountain is about 1,000 meters away, and the rocks and walls covered by yellow sand are gray or black.

Lumu, who was looking at the mountain in front of him, said to Leon and Lin Hong, This should be a new location. At least the expedition team I participated in has never found this mountain in the desert.