Steel steam and flame

"Human?" Frey was confused and immediately picked up the telescope and looked at the place where the light flashed just now. It was still pitch black, all the same color. His eyes briefly left there, and now he even forgot where the flash of light was, and only remembered a general direction in his mind.

"It's really amazing..." Frey didn't know how to evaluate it, so he could only sigh inwardly. The night seemed to have no effect on Shan Erna.

He took out the flashlight hanging from his waist. The light had been adjusted and he began to play the coded signal into the black air.

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"Is there any news over there?" In the woods, the man who had just directed the battle was looking at the bodies sunk in the snow one by one. He asked the signal soldier who had climbed up the tree. Because the surrounding area is filled with interference signals, basic information exchange can only rely on this simple and reliable method.

"You need to wait a moment, it may be available soon." The signal soldier replied. Like Frey, he looked at the darkness in front of him with a telescope, waiting for a weak signal from the other side.

After a few breaths, a faint light flickered in the darkness. The communication soldier opened his eyes a little wider and read the information he wanted to convey.

"Attention, get out of there quickly, everyone!" When he was naturally associating the next content, the information conveyed in the flashing light suddenly changed, because he read from the significantly faster speed of the flash on the other side. Got this.

He was wondering what had happened, but the passage of time gave him no chance. Immediately, something flew towards him with a bright light, covering the entire area where he was.

I just felt an orange fire suddenly appear in the corner of my eye. The signal soldier focused all his attention on the telescope. A faint light suddenly appeared inside, and the darkness was also dispersed a lot at the same moment. He felt that the orange-red light seemed to be shining from behind him, and his own dark shadow was imprinted on the trees in front of him.

"The people below fired flares again?" the communication soldier wondered. The darkness in front of him became darker and blurry because of the light, making it impossible to see anything clearly. And the orange light seems to be getting stronger little by little. There were no more signal lights coming from the other side, so he put down the telescope and turned his head to see what the orange light was.

When he turned his head, his eyes accidentally drifted to the side. The black there looked extremely turbid, as if something had been mixed in. Because they were so close, he felt at this moment that the clustered leaves seemed a bit unnatural.

Then, a pair of red eyes suddenly opened from inside. His black pupils were instantly dyed bright red at this moment.

It felt like a jump, and the signal soldier's body trembled obviously a few times. The violent beating of his heart directly affected his vision, and the scenery he saw trembled slightly at this time. There was also a "dong-dong" sound in his brain at this time, which was the sound transmitted directly from the heart to his ears through the bones.

My head feels a little dizzy, and the parts of my body with developed sweat glands are sweating slightly. He suppressed his heartbeat and opened his mouth subconsciously. The first syllable did not need to be translated, and everyone could understand it.

"Ah!" the communications soldier shouted, and all the people under the big tree looked over. A moment ago, these people were raising their heads, trying to see clearly what was coming in the sky. Because through the tiny gaps in the leaves, some mottled orange light shines into the woods.

"What's wrong? What's that light?" asked the man as the commander. The signal soldier had been staying in the big tree, where he had the best view. The person standing below who raised his head thought he had seen something. Maybe it was because what he saw was so surprising that it made the signal soldier jump.

"Yes..." The signal soldier only had time to say this one word. Everyone below looked towards him, waiting quietly for his answer. But in everyone's eyes, the unknown light approached the location of the communications soldier in the next moment.

The light was dancing, shining through the heavy leaves, and seemed to be expanding instantly from the inside.

The leaves on the tree crown were knocked open by something at this moment, revealing its slightly larger body. It was a cylindrical object close to one meter in length, about twenty or thirty centimeters in diameter, wrapped in a metal shell. The source of the light comes from its end, where there is a long tail of flames, and all the light originates from there.

"This thing seems to be... an artillery piece? A small aerial bomb?" Questions arose in everyone's heads at the same time.

The next moment, the signal soldier didn't finish his words. His body was in everyone's doubts and in everyone's eyes, including the pair of red eyes not far away from him. It was made of steel without any bias. The cylindrical objects collided perfectly.

Completely defenseless, the communications soldier's body was instantly smashed into pieces, leaving him no time to react or dodge. Because of the body of the communication soldier, the steel cylinder whose tail was still spraying flames changed its path slightly. It first plummeted to the ground and landed in the middle of the group of people who were still watching.

At the same moment, more such things arrived here one after another, their tails spraying flames and carrying tail fins for fixed direction. In a very short period of time, one after another broke through the tree crown and entered the eyes of this group of people.

"Boom..." The artillery piece that smashed into the communication trooper was the first to hit the ground. When the people around him had time to make a throwing gesture, it exploded with a bang. The flames suddenly rose, countless shrapnels flew, and the huge impact swept everyone around it with a heat wave. Pieces of snow were lifted up by this power and floated in the air again. The snow was heated by the high temperature at the center of the explosion and instantly turned into steam, which mixed with the thick black smoke generated by the explosion and expanded toward the surroundings.

But at the moment when the artillery exploded, no one heard another sound. It was a burst of gunfire. The terrifying caliber and excellent bullet quality made the gun sound like the explosion of a bomb when it was fired. The shooter grasped the timing very well, and the timeline coincided with the sound of the artillery explosion, so that everyone's attention was attracted by the artillery, and no one heard gunshots during this time. After all, there are far more artillery than that one.

The crowd below became confused, and a gray-brown shadow took the opportunity to jump down smoothly from the ancient tree and landed on the snow at the foot of the tree.

"Tsk..." Just when the gray-brown shadow jumped down from the ancient tree, there was a very slight shuttle and friction sound above his head. The overlapping leaves and branches there also disappeared in an instant, and a thoroughfare filled with air replaced everything that existed there.