Chapter 276 Showers
The last time Lily said this was on the airship, and then everyone encountered an inexplicable storm and almost crashed on the sea.
As soon as Lily finished speaking, Jacques immediately looked at the sky. There were only a few thin clouds in the sky, but it was now swollen with the naked eye and the color gradually became darker.
The catapult was still firing black balls. The heat wave brought by the flames under the city wall made everyone sweat and rain. The flames had burned a hundred meters away from the city wall.
Everyone's attention was on the body of the legion ants rushing into the sea of fire. Although the black ant colony was still gushing out of the jungle, everyone could see that if this continues, the legion ants known as one million would eventually be burned to death under the city.
Marian found that Jacques and Lily were not as happy as others, but kept looking at the sky and asked in confusion: "What's wrong with the sky?"
Jacques pointed to the sky that was already covered with clouds and said, "I think it's going to rain."
Marian took a look and said, "It seems that the weather is about to change, but it's still early to say it rains."
But Lily said, "The last time I was at sea, I felt this was the same. I felt it was going to rain soon."
It seemed that in order to verify Lily's judgment, a strong wind blew from the sea out of thin air, and the wind helped the fire, and the fire spread to the jungle at a faster speed.
First there was the wind and then there was heavy rain. Jacques felt that his experience at sea a month ago might be coming again.
Sure enough, just a few minutes later, light rain began to fall in the sky.
At this time, the crowd on the top of the city gradually became quiet, and the sudden rain poured haze in everyone's heart.
It is indeed wind that helps the fire, but water can extinguish the fire. If the rain is heavier and extinguishes the flames, how should the remaining legion ants defend?
Someone nervously pulled Duan Chang Haide to ask how many legion ants there were and whether they could burn them all before the rain became heavier.
Jacques was also asking Pera whether it had rained during the beast tide before, but Pera's answer made Jacques suspicious.
"Zipewa only has the difference between rainy season and dry season. Beast tides are all coming in the dry season. Rain in the dry season is so rare. It is not rare, but it has never happened!"
Unfortunately, the weather does not change according to people's will.
The rain turned from little to little at the beginning, and soon it escalated into heavy rain.
The flames under the city were not affected at the beginning. After the rain became heavier, it still kept burning due to the aid of yellow liquid, but the fire became much smaller.
After a strong wind that made the people on the city unable to stand firmly, the rain suddenly became heavier, and the flames under the city finally went out after struggling in vain!
Legion ants are still gushing out in the jungle. Their forwards step across the smokey ground and continue to head towards the city wall in the wind and rain.
At this time, everyone on the wall was in panic. Apart from the fire, there was no other plan to fight against the legion ants in Zipeva City. At this time, at least one-fifth of the legion ants were still alive. Zipeva City was brought into crisis by this unexpected heavy rain.
The legion ants came to the city step by step and rebuilt the slope of the city on their companions' scorched corpses.
Although the fire was extinguished by the rain, the temperature on the ground was still very high. Many legion ants stopped walking and were scalded to death by the residual heat on the ground, but their subsequent companions continued to move forward on their bodies.
The ants of the army under the city worked hard to stack the stairs in the wind and rain. Occasionally, a section of the stairs was blown down by the wind and rain, and the vacancies would be filled immediately.
The people in the city also escaped from the initial shock, half awakened by the rain, and the other half was experienced commanders and soldiers on the city to organize the confused extraordinary people.
"Power grid! Go start quickly."
"Class! Don't stop!"
"Don't be afraid, do whatever you should do, ranged teams attack with range!"
"The Scorpion cannon is also firing, otherwise what are you doing?"
Hyde yelled and drove the defenders back to his post, the defensive equipment was opened again, and the legion ants' ladder was pushed down again.
However, everyone quickly realized the difference between legion ants and other insect swarms when siege the city. Their formations are too dense and there are too many.
The first thing that was scrapped was the clapper. After several lifts and drops, no matter how the supernatural earth system controlled inputs the source energy, the clapper was reduced, because the legion ant corpses accumulated too much and could not be suppressed at all.
Then there was the power grid, and the walls were covered with corpses of legion ants. The legion ants coming up behind could no longer feel the electric shock.
At the invisible city gate in the third defensive section, Chipewa's huge city gate opened again, and two thousand legion soldiers lined up in the wind and rain to walk out of the city gate.
The "Square Array" and "Standel" in the front row will rush to the city gate to kill and push them away. After filling up the rear row, they will use the coordinated energy skills to continue to push the front forward.
Small square formations gradually formed a semicircular formation outside the city gate, continuously expanding the range of strangulation.
However, the legion ants are completely different from other siege swarms. They will not be attracted by the legion soldiers outside the city, but will focus on the city wall ahead of them. The legion soldiers' formations strangled these mutant insects very quickly, but they will immediately encounter the embarrassing situation of punching cotton.
There are fewer and fewer legion ants in front of you, but you still have to frequently use the hugely consumed synergistic energy skills.
The first defensive section was attacked by the legion ants on the top of the city. In the next few minutes, several sections were successively rushed to the wall by the legion ants, allowing the extraordinary defenders to be selected into the dangerous situation of fighting with the ant colony.
At this time, the defense sections that can still resist the enemy outside the wall are mostly masters who assist in defense, or powerful extraordinary people use large-scale attack source energy skills to clean up the ant colony under the wall.
The third defensive section is because of the existence of Lily, Alisha and Emma.
Two electric balls with two meters in diameter were hung outside the wall. The electric balls kept firing arcs to all directions to kill the ant colony below. Lily and Alixia each maintained an electric ball, covering half of the defensive section, making it impossible to form a climbing insect ladder under the city wall of more than 30 meters.
In front of Emma, eight black arms extended from the wall and swung like paper in the wind and rain, seemingly weak and weak, but any legion ant will die immediately when touched by the black arms, and its body will shrink into a small ball. Emma, alone, cleared the area of the city wall of more than ten meters.
If you survey in the air, you will find that many legion ants have climbed over the city wall and advanced into the city. They are not entangled with the extraordinary people above, but will continue to move forward as long as there is no one in front of them.
In hand-to-hand combat, the most advantageous one was the city guards wearing armor and using long-handled weapons. Many of them were covered with legion ants, but they were still wielding axes and guns to harvest their lives. Although the mouthpieces of the legion ants were completely ineffective against metal armor, not everyone was wearing heavy armor on the city wall, and some people were not even armed. These unprotected people were the first victims, and the flesh on their bodies were bitten off by legion ants pounced on them. Finally, they were covered with big ants, and they fell to the ground and stopped moving. Blood flowed along the rain at the top of the city.
The storm came quickly and ended quickly. After a few minutes after the legion ants climbed to the top of the city, the strong wind stopped suddenly and the rain gradually became lighter and finally stopped.
Some city walls that were still resisting began to sporadically spurt flames, pushing down the ladders that the Legion ants worked hard to build, but lacked the combustion of yellow liquid and failed to form a fire wall that could prevent them from moving forward.
Chapter completed!