Edge of the Apocalypse

Chapter 172: Inch By Inch

Allen raised the devil's salute, and with a thought, his awakening posture was activated. The dagger stretched out and transformed, releasing a bright red light like blood from the Devil Gem. Light flowed and wrapped around the dagger. In the bloody light, the dagger turned into a dagger.

Blood hymn!

Alan held the blood-colored dagger in both hands and forcefully stabbed into the third compound eye in the middle of the queen's head. This compound eye is one of the important organs of the queen. It connects many nerves and blood vessels between the brain and ventricles, so it is also extremely sensitive. The short saber entered her body, and the blood hymn glowed. The queen felt her blood boiling and flowing backwards. The blood essence whistled upwards and was sucked in by the blood hymn one after another.

The line in the middle of the knife was filled with a bloody light. The bloody light centered around the compound eye and spread to the rest of the queen's body. Lucy, Nazi, and the others saw that the queen's body was covered in a layer of blood-colored light that looked like a loop. Light patterns appeared, and many parts of the queen's body trembled, causing the valley to rise. In the next moment, a bloody light rushed out of the queen's mouth.

The blood light condensed like a sharp blade, pointing towards the sky. The queen's body trembled as thick streaks of bloody light broke out, making the queen look like a giant sea urchin. These blades of bloody light buzzed and trembled as they simultaneously declared an explosion. A thick mist of blood burst out from the queen's body, and Lucy and the others were pushed back by the shockwave of the explosion. This explosion came all of a sudden, causing everyone to be in a sorry state. However, they did not see that within the exploding blood mist, an exceptionally dense blood energy was twisted back like a spirit snake, and all of it was retracted into the blood hymn.

The blood energy entered the dagger and the devil gem flashed. Allen's expended Origin Energy was immediately replenished. His life essence lifted his spirits, and the wound that the queen had torn apart instantly recovered by 30%.

Blood hymn removed his awakening posture and returned to his original appearance of an ordinary dagger. Alan sheathed the dagger. The light in the queen's eyes dissipated and her corpse suddenly fell down. He hurriedly jumped down and rolled a few times on the ground, arriving beside Fangs. He picked up the bone knife and looked at Welik and the other two. The battle between the two of them was coming to an end.

All the black ants on Broy's side were ambushed, and one of William's subordinates escaped. At this moment, the entire nest was in a mess. Once the queen died, the colony's consciousness collapsed. The rest of the knife ants fought carelessly and ran out of the nest. Immediately, the figure of the Saber Ant could be seen in all the tunnels of the nest.

By the time Alan dug out a round reddish-brown Origin Jade from the Queen's heart, the Saber Ant had already escaped. This nest was considered useless.

When they walked out of the nest, it was already dawn. Outside, Ye Feng and Mo De's teams were resting, while Hubble and the other two teams looked much more miserable. Especially Hubble. His subordinates had two soldiers killed. They were killed by the knife ants before they could react when the colony attacked them unprepared.

Seeing Allen come out with a round Origin Jade in his hand, Hubble's expression was not good. He jumped up and shouted, "Damn Allen, you are too sinister. You actually set a trap for us to jump in, yet you killed the queen ant and even got the Origin Jade!"

"I don't understand what you're saying." Alan said coldly.

Hubble looked at the other two non-commissioned officers and his gaze fell on Ellen's Origin Jade. "Don't play dumb. Didn't you use us to distract the ant colony? Alright, now that you've killed the queen, it's already a big credit. Give us the Origin Jade so we can get some merit points."

"Your skin is really thick." Sergeant Maud said shamelessly, "Listen, Alan never thought of using you. I even wanted to help you attract the attention of the Saber Ants, but your luck was bad, and you just happened to run into the Saber Ants. Besides, even if I let you kill the queen ant, you still have to have that ability. Now that he has completed the most difficult part, it's good that you jumped out and wanted to share the battle merit. Hubble, have you used all your Origin Energy on your face? "

Hubble pulled out his gun and pointed at Maud, "Be careful what you say to me."

Mo De's soldiers immediately raised their guns, and the squads on both sides immediately became tense. Seeing this, Alan frowned and said, "Everyone, calm down. The nest has already been served. The queen has also been killed. We don't dare to monopolize this battle contribution, so we will naturally share it. As for this Origin Jade, it is an unexpected harvest. I want to trade it for something, please give it to me, and I will take out the corresponding compensation in the future."

Hearing Alan's words, the two sergeants following Hubble had no objections. In fact, Alan's distribution was already extremely fair. Their team, as Maud had said, took on the most difficult part. Even if Alan didn't compensate him, it wouldn't be a big problem for him to own this Origin Jade. The two sergeants waved their hands and ordered the soldiers to put down their guns.

Hubble shouted unwillingly, "You're pretending to be generous. Everyone knows that an ant queen's Origin Jade can be exchanged for at least a third-grade battle merit. You want to exchange it for a battle merit, but you still want to pretend to be generous? I can only say, you're too hypocritical!"

Alan snorted and said coldly, "Sergeant Hubble, you have to know your limits. Be careful that you can't retract your hands if you stretch them too long!"

"You threatened me?" Hubble turned the muzzle of his gun towards Alan.

Everyone's expressions changed behind Alan, and Nazi and the others pointed their guns at Hubble. At this moment, a gray light flashed past Hubble's rifle. This standard rifle was immediately cut off by the gray light. Hubble's attack suddenly caused the entire world to spin. Only when he regained his senses did he feel shocked that someone had sent him flying with a punch. When he landed heavily on the ground, his cheeks were burning with pain, and Hubble was just about to stand up. His eyes darkened, and one of his feet expanded infinitely in his eyes. Then, his head ached and he was kicked away by someone.

When he got up with blood spilling out of his mouth and nose, he saw Major Coggess who had come to the scene at some unknown time and had beaten himself up. Coggess gently waved his long blade and wiped it with his fingers. A pair of blue pupils looked at the icy coldness, revealing a murderous aura that made one's heart palpitate. The Major looked at Hubble, who was trembling under his murderous aura, and squeezed out a sentence from his mouth, "It's disgusting to have a brother like you."

Then he looked at Ellen and the others, "The examination is over. As for the results, I will announce them after returning to the base. Do you want to put away your guns and follow me back now, or do you plan to continue fighting for merit here?"

Of course, no one was willing to continue arguing.

After returning to Blood Eagle Base in a large truck, the soldiers were disbanded. Alan and a few other sergeants brought Kejess to the conference room. Kejess looked at the sergeants with his hands behind his back and said indifferently, "Now, the teams that have passed this exam are Ellen's team, Maud's team "

This time, there were five qualified teams. They were Allen, Mo De, Ye Feng, and the other two squads of sergeants following Hubble. As for Hubble, he was eliminated along with the other four teams that could not even find the nest.

"The eliminated teams will be forcibly sent back to Earth tomorrow. They can't even pass such a simple test. I think the surface garrison is more suitable for you." Coggess said coldly.

"No, no, no!" Hubble cried out and shouted at Coggess, "Damn it, Coggess, you can't send me back. We're brothers, you have to help me!"

Keoghes walked over and almost stuck it to Hubble's face and said, "It's because we're brothers that you're still standing here. Otherwise, I would have killed you with your insults to the Marshal. Hubble, you're just a pile of mud, a pile of mud that can't hold up the wall!"

Hubble looked at the major in despair and remained silent for a long time.

"So far today, there is no need for any other training. The strolling team will go back to the dormitory to pack their luggage and do other free activities." Coggess said.

Ellen took out the queen's jade and said, "Major, I need to trade it for something."

"The Queen Ant's Origin Jade, I'll give it to you in exchange for a rank three battle achievement." Coggess said.

"No, I don't want to exchange for merit points. I want something else."

"Oh? What?"

"Weapons, and some materials." Ellen spread out his hands and said, "There are still two fellows on my team who don't have suitable weapons."

Keoghes nodded and said, "Write me a list later. I'm not sure I can get it. But there are some in the warehouse. I'll give them to you."

He took the Origin Jade from Allen's hand and said, "As for this, leave it to me."

The next day, Alan and the other soldiers received a new uniform. The style of the uniform did not change much, except that there were some emblems on his chest. On his left chest was the image of a white snow wolf, the symbol of the Sirius Legion. On the right side of his chest was a red eagle, representing the organization of the Blood Eagle Base. After putting on these clothes, they were no longer trainee soldiers. Instead, they officially entered the battlefield of Blood Hawk Base. This made the soldiers very excited.

Alan also got what he wanted from Kejess, including a pair of armor, a two-handed heavy axe, two basic templates, and some materials to make the sequence source points. Curtis lent him another set of sequence production tools. However, Alan had to complete the complete sequence production and final embedding, and he had to go to the base's sequence maintenance workshop to complete it.

A single Queen Ant Origin Jade could not exchange for so many items, especially the authority of the Sequence Workshop. But Allen's details were already in Colonel Berry's file. Keoghes took the list Allen gave him and patted it on the Colonel's desk. Berry immediately signed and allowed Allen to use the sequence shop. This was not only for Windsor Belo's sake, but also out of respect for the Sequencer.

Every sequencer, be it technicians or masters, was an important and precious talent in the Federation. Colonel Berry didn't mind opening the door to Allen's production, even if he didn't have the status of a Windsor Belo student.

A week after Ellen passed the exam, a red wolf airship arrived at the base and Windsor Belo arrived late. Upon receiving this news, all the soldiers of the base were greatly encouraged. At the colonel's request, all the soldiers who hadn't gone out on a mission were assembled on the playground and reviewed by Windsor Belo.

The female marshal gave the soldiers in the base some encouragement before leaving the playground with Berry and a few majors. As for the soldiers who were still in a state of excitement, their commanders increased their training to calm them down in another way.

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