Just when Zhu Fu realized that the attack was hopeless, more fatal news came from the rear.
Huron's main formation was attacked by the fleet of man-eating sharks that suddenly appeared, and Soshyan's flagship also broke away from the battle around the Blessing Barrier to join the siege of Huron's main formation. Now Huron was about to be beheaded!
What is even more shocking is that Huron did not dare to fight at all and chose to retreat, causing the entire attack queue to be torn apart. Now they are in a state of attack from head to tail. Some warbands have begun to withdraw from the battle, but overall they are still in a state of attack.
Under control.
Realizing that nothing could be done, Zhu Fu decisively ordered a retreat without hesitation, and ordered that the passages and facilities along the way be destroyed during the retreat to prevent the pursuit of the imperial army.
"Zod..."
Oscar's whole world seems to have collapsed now. Although all battle brothers are blood relatives, they were brothers before the transformation. The pain of losing each other is more cruel than anyone else.
He struggled to stand up, but his vision was blurry, and then he fell to the ground.
After groping for a while and taking off his helmet, Oscar struggled to crawl towards his brother's fallen head.
Gradually, his vision recovered, but——
"Zod...no...no...huh?"
After groping for a long time, Oscar didn't find Zod's head. He looked left and right, turning over the corpses and debris on the ground but couldn't find it.
When he looked at Zod's body, he almost screamed in shock.
Zod's head returned to his body at some point. If he hadn't just witnessed it with his own eyes, Oscar would have almost thought he was in a hallucination.
What's even more incredible is that Zod's head seems to be shaking slightly from side to side.
"This -" Zhi
Oscar propped himself up with his sword. At this time, the end of the battle was still going on. Some of the imperial troops had already chased the fleeing enemies, while Farzad was gathering his company.
"Zod——"
Oscar ran over with difficulty, knelt beside Zod, and found that Zod was still alive, so he quickly took off Zod's helmet.
At this time, Zod's face was covered with blue-gray veins. Oscar knew that this was a sign of using gray marrow, and on Zod's neck, a thin silver line was shining.
"Ahem."
Suddenly, Zod coughed twice and opened his eyes. His eyes were as dark as the void at the moment, but they soon returned to their original appearance.
"Ah, brother, I... damn that heretic couldn't be killed with one sword. It was so dangerous. My head... was almost chopped off by him... Was I knocked unconscious? My throat hurts so much.
...Want to have a drink...or a can of red ant-milk..." Zhi
Oscar, who was covered in cold sweat, wanted to tell the other party that your head has been chopped off.
Then Oscar looked around. No one should have noticed. Maybe there had been before, but not many...
"Grey marrow, Zod, when did you transplant it?"
"Before the expedition...but it never took effect. I thought it failed and I didn't bother to tell you."
"Well."
Oscar frowned and helped Zod up, and he twisted his neck. At this time, the silver thread had disappeared, leaving only a shallow white mark.
Zod touched his neck, and then touched his armor. The originally smooth edges turned into jagged shapes, as if something had violently swept here.
"Huh? Why does this place seem to have been chopped by something... Didn't I get hit on the head and fainted? How do I feel..."
Then he noticed Oscar's strange expression.
"What's wrong with you? Why do you act like someone is dead..."
"Zod, did you just...really lose...consciousness?"
"Otherwise, do you think I'm lying down and sleeping? This place doesn't look like a beach, right -"
Suddenly, Zod's expression froze, and he recalled that it seemed that the Chaos Champion's ax had indeed scratched his -
Zod's eyes widened and he was about to speak when Oscar suddenly raised a finger to signal him to be silent.
Two young battle nuns walked over. They seemed to notice that the two men had been staying in place, thinking that they were in trouble or seriously injured.
"You two, do you need help?"
Oscar shook his head.
"it's okay no problem."
Then he helped Zod stand up, and the two nuns nodded and turned away. At this time, Zod whispered:
"what happened?"
Oscar shook his head.
"I don't know, but I guess it may have something to do with gray marrow. I was suddenly able to use gray marrow just now, and I also sensed similar situations happening to many brothers. I guess your situation is not a special case."
Realizing that he had been resurrected from the dead, Zod's expression was very strange.
"Oh my God, if I tell you this, I might become a heretic... Maybe others will think that I am possessed by a demon."
“So be careful what you say and do.”
"Ah, I suddenly realized why our past army was called the Undead Army..."
"Okay, stop talking. We'll talk about it when we get back."
At this time, the two met three other people in the company. One of them was also being supported. His chest armor and abdominal armor could be seen with large areas of tearing and damage, and there were also penetration holes. Generally, this kind of
In this case, the body under the power armor will not be much better.
But there was nothing wrong with this one except that his face was a bit pale. The five of them looked at each other, and one of them spoke first.
"Oscar, have you ever met..."
Oscar stretched out his hand and made a gesture on Zod's neck. The other person immediately stopped what he was going to say, and then pointed at the person next to him.
"The same goes for Viner. He was already... broken into two pieces before."
"Have you been seen by anyone else?"
"Maybe... maybe not? I'm not sure. It's very chaotic on the battlefield, you know."
Oscar shook his head and signaled the other party not to say more, and then they came to Farzad's side together. The other party was also shocked when he counted the casualties. 10 soldiers who had been marked as dead in the battle were inexplicably resurrected in the post-war statistics.
Sincerely
After Oscar's explanation, Farzad immediately counted again and found that the resurrected warriors had indeed been transplanted with gray marrow, which meant that this was another use of gray marrow that they did not know about, and then an even more surprising thing surfaced.
Out of the water.
In the entire third company, 26 soldiers awakened the gray marrow during the entire battle. Their implantation times were inconsistent, but most of them had no effect. They were still in the "observation period", but they collectively awakened at a unified time.
There's obviously something weird about this.
Moreover, Farzad was not sure whether any outsiders noticed these anomalies. After all, many non-Space Marine personnel were involved in this battle, so there is no guarantee that someone might have seen something.
In the end, he could only order the Third Company to stop all fighting, arrange for pharmacists to collect the fallen soldiers, recover their gene seeds, and then report the matter to Soshyana to see what his superiors said.
Although a certain proportion of fallen soldiers were "resurrected", the Third Company still suffered heavy casualties in this defensive operation. 19 soldiers were killed and 2 others were seriously injured and could only enter the Dreadnought Mecha.
However, they also successfully blocked the last and most ferocious offensive launched by the Red Pirates, after which the Red Pirates began to fully retreat from the Star Castle.
While the Red Pirates' assault force retreated in a hurry, Soshyan and his battleships had already broken away from the formation and were chasing Huron's flagship with the Man-Eating Shark fleet.