Chapter 229: Hive Incident, Lin Ye is Dead

48th Year of Longyou, April 15th

On the day originally set for the alliance meeting, the Hive camp, which was completely unaware, was undergoing a earth-shattering upheaval.

Inside Tunnel 21.

"These Zhaoyang dog cubs, why are there so many people? Cough, cough, cough!"

"Cough, brothers, can't let them rush through, kill!"

"Can't hold it, retreat, retreat, retreat to the main area to have hope."

"Can't retreat, Tunnel 21 leads directly to the main area, can't retreat."

"Keep killing, even if you die, you have to hold on. The second leader and the regiment leader are bringing people to set up defenses in the main area, buying more time for them."

"If we are really destroyed by Zhaoyang, we won't have a good end. Brothers, don't retreat, hold on with me for a while longer, even if you die, you have to hold on."

In the underground space of the Hive, many tunnels were filled with thick wolf smoke. In the smoke, only killing, roaring, and growling could be heard. The ground was already covered with an unknown number of corpses, and the eyes were full of broken limbs and arms, the miserable state was shocking to the extreme.

The Hive and Zhaoyang sides were engaged in a desperate fight in narrow tunnels. Judging from the situation on the ground and the degree of confrontation between the two sides tending to stabilize, it had clearly been going on for a long time.

Bang...

The left stone wall of the tunnel area was suddenly blasted out of a big hole, and rolling thick smoke poured in from behind the hole. In the smoke, a burly black figure walked slowly.

"Being a human with my Zhaoyang doesn't work, you have to be a dog for Longshan, stubborn and unyielding. Brothers, the last tunnel, break through and you can reach the Hive main area. Follow me and kill your way over!"

That person held a black long staff, his voice full of anger. Before he finished speaking, he rushed toward the front of the tunnel first.

The Hive elites along the way, although they rushed forward to block one by one without fear of death, their strength was too weak. Before they could rush up, they were smashed into meat paste by that person with the long staff. The more serious ones were even beaten into a group of blood mist, sticking directly to the tunnel stone wall.

"Cold-Resisting Realm, it's a Cold-Resisting Realm expert!"

"Aren't there only three? No. 7, No. 11, No. 18, one in each tunnel, how did another one run out here?"

"Can't block it, run, run..."

The Hive people's reaction was actually very fast. Realizing that the burly man was a Cold-Resisting Realm expert, they immediately retreated and fled toward the rear.

But the strength of a Cold-Resisting Realm expert was really too strong.

And this Zhaoyang Cold-Resisting Realm expert clearly had a very strong killing intent.

While rushing, he swung the long staff in his hand rapidly. The dense staff shadows almost filled the entire tunnel. The Hive guards along the way basically died at a touch and perished at a bump. The tunnel, which was already cruel, became even bloodier.

"Hou Ying, stop playing, quickly take people to the main area. Drag it for two days, so many people died, and this still can't take the Hive, no face to go back to see the leader."

Suddenly, a voice came from the flank tunnel. The burly big man who was frantically slaughtering immediately fixed the long staff, looking at the only six or seven people who were fleeing, a ferocious smile appeared on his face.

"Understood, brothers, follow me!"

Hou Ying shouted sharply, and the dozens of fully armed people in the smoke behind him immediately followed behind him, walking toward the end of the tunnel.

Hive main area, behind the open big iron gate, thousands of people were fully armed, waiting in full battle array. As the people fleeing from Tunnel No. 1 outside the iron gate arrived one after another, everyone's face became increasingly solemn.

Suddenly, Chen Yingba, covered in scars, holding a big saber, appeared from the end of Tunnel No. 1. He only had a dozen people left beside him, all of them rushing toward the iron gate with panicked expressions.

"The regiment leader is back, looking at the situation, it's a bit wrong!"

"Wrong, there is another wave of people behind him."

"It's Wang Long who guards Tunnel 21. Isn't there no Cold-Resisting Realm expert over there, how can he not hold it?"

The people behind the iron gate saw Chen Yingba's disheveled posture, and their hearts sank suddenly. At the same time, they found another wave of about six or seven fleeing figures appearing behind him. Someone saw that the leader was Wang Long and immediately raised a question.

Chen Yingba, who was running wildly and fleeing, also noticed Wang Long's group behind him, immediately slowed down, and asked angrily: "Wang Long, you dare to leave your post without authorization? You let go of Tunnel 21?"

The leader Wang Long was full of panic. Hearing Chen Yingba's inquiry, he immediately answered: "Regiment leader, there is a Cold-Resisting Realm expert, we can't hold it, people were all killed, only six of us escaped."

Chen Yingba's expression was instantly furious, but seeing Wang Long's panicked expression didn't look fake, he suppressed his anger and asked:

"No. 7 is Hou Ming, No. 11 is Lin Ye, No. 18 is Hou Bing, Zhaoyang sent a total of three Cold-Resisting Realm experts, who did you run into?"

Wang Long immediately answered: "Seems to be called Hou Ying."

Realizing that Wang Long didn't lie, Chen Yingba's expression was instantly shocked.

"Four Cold-Resisting Realm experts, actually sent four Cold-Resisting Realm experts, this is determined to wipe out my Hive, Hou Hu, this dog bastard!"

Chen Yingba was cursing, but his expression had already started to panic.

He looked at the scars all over his body, thinking about how he was almost beheaded by Hou Ming and Lin Ye just now, and he was still terrified in his heart.

Two days ago, that was the night of April 13th, the signal of enemy attack came. At first, he didn't react, thinking it was a cold beast that broke into the underground tunnel by mistake, and only sent a few hunting teams to check.

But the subsequent development of the situation was completely beyond his control.

It was not a cold beast, but a large group of people from the Zhaoyang camp who had killed their way over.

Not only that, that group of Zhaoyang people was extremely familiar with the Hive tunnel layout. Once they found the entrance, they went straight to No. 7, No. 11, No. 18, and No. 21, these four tunnels.

The Hive station was underground, with a total of 27 tunnels. The only one leading to the main area was Tunnel No. 1. According to normal circumstances, whichever number you enter from, you must follow the number plate from large to small, and finally you can reach Tunnel No. 1 and go to the main area.

For example, if you enter from No. 9 and want to go to Tunnel No. 1, you have to go through tunnels No. 8 to No. 2. If you miss one, you can't reach No. 1.

This was considered a protection design for the main area when the Hive built the station initially. However, at the beginning of the design, worried that there would be other unexpected situations in the future, such as encountering powerful cold beasts or other major disasters, they still left a backhand.

This backhand was that these four tunnels, No. 7, 11, 18, and 21, actually had intersections with Tunnel No. 1 underground.

As long as the intersection was broken through, one could go straight to Tunnel No. 1 at the fastest speed, and then lead to the main area.

Initially, the intention of this design was to worry that some accidents would happen in the underground space, so that everyone could escape to the ground as soon as possible.

However, now, it had become a convenient tunnel for Zhaoyang to attack the Hive.

"There is a traitor, but now to catch him, it's already too late!"

The matter of the four tunnels, no more than ten people in the whole camp knew. As long as one had the heart to investigate, it was not difficult to catch the traitor. The problem was that the Zhaoyang people had already killed their way to the door, and he had no time to catch them at all.

Thinking of the traitor, Chen Yingba's expression was hateful, but he quickly adjusted his mood and thought about the response strategy.

"Tunnel 21 has fallen, and the three tunnels No. 7, 11, and 18 have all been broken. A large number of Zhaoyang people are about to enter Tunnel No. 1 and attack toward the main area here.

The advantage is that our own people are more familiar with the tunnel situation. Releasing wolf smoke, changing tunnel number plates, plus my secret sneak attacks in the tunnels, not only severely injured Lin Ye, but also killed many Zhaoyang people. It's just that I don't know how many people they sent!"

This was the benefit of the Hive station being built underground.

No matter how many people Zhaoyang sent, they could only fight forward along the tunnels.

Moreover, because the tunnel space was narrow, bows and arrows could not be used at all. The several Cold-Resisting Realm experts of Zhaoyang didn't know the tunnel layout at first, worried about ground collapse, and didn't dare to use their full strength.

But their own people were different. They knew the detailed layout of the tunnels, how many ventilation holes there were, which places were solid, which places were fragile, etc., and they knew everything clearly, which could be said to have occupied the geographical advantage.

It's just a pity that even with the geographical advantage, they only dragged it for two days.

"Before and after reported, plus myself, should have killed more than three hundred Zhaoyang people. These are all Earth-Digging Realm. Our own damage is at most more than one hundred. There are still more than six hundred Earth-Digging Realm in the main area, more than three thousand Woodcutting Realm. Relying on the iron gate and the geographical advantage of the main area, as long as the number of people Zhaoyang sent is not too many, there is hope to hold it, and..."

Chen Yingba turned his head to look at the direction of Tunnel No. 11 on the west side, a look of hope appearing in his eyes. "Lin Ye has been seriously injured. As long as Old Wu can kill him, Zhaoyang will only have three Cold-Resisting Realm experts left. Me plus Old Wu, plus more than three thousand people, waiting for work at ease, the hope of holding them is very great. As long as we can persist until big brother returns, this crisis can be considered to have passed!"

Previously, he was hiding in the dark of Tunnel No. 11 and found Lin Ye injured. Without guessing, he knew it must have been caused by Wu Tianxing. He added another saber later. If Hou Ming hadn't appeared, he would have killed Lin Ye.

Lin Ye was seriously injured, and Wu Tianxing was still in the tunnel at this moment. If nothing went wrong, he should be able to kill him.

If one Cold-Resisting Realm expert could be less, tonight would be very stable.

"Chen Yingba, where are you fleeing, leave it to me!"

An angry shout came from behind. Chen Yingba's body trembled, and he didn't dare to delay for a moment, running wildly toward the iron gate of the main area, shouting at the people behind the iron gate while running:

"Close the gate, close the gate quickly!"

The people behind the iron gate heard the sound and immediately started to move.

Two thick iron chains were connected to the top of the big iron gate, each pulled by a hundred people. Hearing Chen Yingba's shout, they all started to exert force and pull backward fiercely.

*Cish*...

Accompanied by the slow movement of the iron chains, the original three-meter-high iron gate started to rise gradually, and soon it would seal the tunnel.

"The second leader and others haven't returned yet, regiment leader, close it now?"

!

Hearing the voice behind the iron gate, Chen Yingba's brows furrowed. Others were fine, but Wu Tianxing not returning wouldn't do.

"Leave a little, don't close it all!"

While giving the order, Chen Yingba also led people to drill into the main area through the gap in the iron gate. Everyone set up long bows and aimed at the one-meter gap finally left by the iron gate.

Bang...

A big saber slashed from outside the gap. The violent wind swept up by the blade edge actually blew a group of Earth-Digging Realm experts by the iron gate, causing them to retreat constantly.

The power of this strike was evident.

But even so, the silver-shining blade edge only slashed half a centimeter into the iron gate. Not only that, the blade edge even curled.

"Are the bows in your hands all decorations? Greet them for me!"

Chen Yingba shouted angrily, and the more than three thousand people behind the iron gate immediately released the bowstrings that had been taut for a long time.

*Whoosh whoosh whoosh*...

Waves of iron arrows were like a violent storm, accurately shooting toward the person behind the gap.

"Humph!"

The person behind the iron gate gave a cold snort. Facing such dense arrow rain, not only did he not dodge, but he also tried to drill through the gap against the arrow rain.

"Hou Ming, die!"

It's just that, just after shouting once, Hou Ming's words were stopped.

His perception was not wrong.

The big iron gate in front of the main area was the last barrier of the Hive. How could Chen Yingba let him break through so easily?

He held a big saber and stood behind the gap in the iron gate, looking at the Zhaoyang crowd coming one after another in Tunnel No. 1 outside the iron gate, the coldness in his gaze kept rising, and he was also slightly terrified.

"Four hundred... five hundred... six hundred... eight hundred, how can so many people come? Zhaoyang is not fighting Longshan, how can they still spare so many Earth-Digging Realm? This... how is this possible!"

The eyesight of a Cold-Resisting Realm expert was far beyond that of ordinary people.

Chen Yingba could judge the number of people outside the gate at a glance. Realizing that Zhaoyang had more than eight hundred people, his pupils were instantly covered with shock.

This was still the number of people after they killed more than three hundred.

That is to say, Zhaoyang sent a total of more than 1,200 Earth-Digging Realm experts to attack the Hive, almost twice the number of Earth-Digging Realm experts in the Hive.

To what extent had the Zhaoyang camp become strong?

"Chen Yingba, hiding like a tortoise, thinking that hiding inside, I can't do anything to you!"

Hou Ming, who had a relatively thin figure, had a somewhat gloomy voice. Seeing Chen Yingba hiding behind the iron gate, he was angry to the extreme.

"Break this iron gate directly. They killed more than seven hundred of our brothers. If we don't break the Hive, how can we be worthy of those brothers?"

"Break the gate, I want to kill."

Two more people stood out behind Hou Ming, one holding a sword and the other holding a staff. They were the Cold-Resisting Realm experts Hou Ying and Hou Bing.

The two were just as angry as Hou Ming. After roaring, they charged toward the iron gate at the same time.

Hou Ming didn't fall behind, charging with them.

A big saber, a sharp sword, and a long staff, three thousand-forged weapons, supplemented by the terrifying giant strength of three Cold-Resisting Realm experts, slammed into the gap of the iron gate, which was less than three meters high.

Boom...

A huge roar sounded, and the entire underground space of the Hive, whether it was the main area or the tunnel, shook wildly like an earthquake.

*Boom boom boom*... *boom boom boom*...

The violent shaking lasted for more than ten breaths.

The Zhaoyang crowd in front of the iron gate was incomparably expectant, their eyes full of bloodthirsty light; the Hive crowd behind the iron gate was covered with fear, and some directly started praying that the iron gate must not break.

*Boom crack*...

As the shaking of the underground space stopped, the result of the three Cold-Resisting Realm experts bombarding the iron gate also came out.

That iron gate, which was less than three meters high, steadily withstood the bombardment of the three Cold-Resisting Realm experts, and it even moved upward by more than a meter.

"It's not rising, it's been moved by us. The big head of this iron gate is buried deep underground, and it's one with the entire main area space. What a Hive, what a Chen Yingyuan, actually used iron materials to cast the entire main area wall. Judging by the situation, the iron ore consumed is only afraid to be countless."

Hou Ming's tone was incomparably deep, looking at the iron gate gap of more than a meter, his expression was gloomy, thinking about what method to use to break the gate.

"The casting of the main area wall took decades, and it hasn't stopped until now. As long as the camp has extra iron ore, it will constantly cast and thicken the wall. The current thickness is at least more than fifty meters. The iron gate is the only weak point. As long as you guard here, no matter who comes, it's all in vain!"

Chen Yingba looked at the three people outside the iron gate who were frowning, and sneered a few times.

But at the same time, he was also somewhat confused in his heart.

"Hou Ying just said that Zhaoyang was killed more than seven hundred people, how is it possible?"

Suddenly, a guess popped up in Chen Yingba's mind, his eyes lit up slightly, and his expression became incomparably excited.

It must be Old Wu who led people to kill them. Besides him, who else could it be.

"Yingba, fortunately, I didn't disgrace my mission, Lin Ye is dead!"

Coincidentally, Wu Tianxing's slightly excited voice came from the flank of the iron gate.

Chen Yingba looked up toward the outside of the iron gate, saw Wu Tianxing holding Lin Ye's corpse, and his expression was instantly excited.

"Hahahaha, Old Wu, well done! Zhaoyang lost a lot this time."

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