Chapter 981: Battle for the Tower (16)

Batman stood on the highest dirt pile, overlooking all the demons, and said in a deep voice: "The shadow demons in the mine tunnel witnessed everything just now. If what the overseer said is true, then now, General Fuxin may already know that a riot has occurred in the mine tunnel, and things are already beyond redemption."

When his voice fell, many demons started to tremble. The reason these demons had stayed in the mine tunnel for a long time and become mining slaves was mainly because their races had great defects and simply couldn't contend with the soldiers. Once a conflict occurred, they could only wait for death on the spot.

In Hell, all races are not born equal.

Trolls have tall bodies and strong arm power, and can also use tools, but because of their bone structure, their lower limbs don't have enough support, making them move slowly and turn inflexibly, so they have no way to escape.

Shuttle-snake demons have strong jumping ability, and their burst speed in a short time is very fast, but their snake tails are not suitable for long-distance marching, and they have no way to migrate.

Red demons have a body structure similar to humans, and their development is relatively balanced, but in Hell, being too small is the biggest disadvantage.

Not to mention the subsidiary demons like small demons, shadow monsters, etc., whose defects are obvious. The gap between demons and demons is even greater than the gap between demons and humans.

The reason these demon races with great defects were not eliminated in natural evolution is that Hell, like Heaven, belongs to a high-magic environment. Most demons don't need to spend half of their day like humans on eating and sleeping to maintain survival.

Even the small demons with the weakest constitution don't need to drink water and can eat a meal every three to four days. All demons don't need to sleep. Although they also feel mentally tired and nervous and need relaxation and entertainment, in extreme environments, they can persist much longer than humans.

Many demons' reproductive methods are also not as troublesome as humans'. Demons like shadow monsters are born naturally and don't need to mate, and the base number of demons has always been very stable.

The reproduction of small demons is even simpler. They are unisexual, and after reaching adulthood, they don't need to mate and can immediately start reproducing.

They give birth to 2-3 offspring in about a month, and from birth to sexual maturity, it takes only about a year. Because the environment in Hell is too harsh, the survival rate of the cubs is not high, but even so, these little demons can be seen in almost every corner of Hell.

However, this type of demon has almost no combat ability, and the system in Hell is basically a military state, and the vast majority are classical military states, that is, the whole nation is soldiers, and everything serves the war.

Under these circumstances, demons who don't have the ability to participate in military combat are naturally at the bottom of the food chain, either being slaves in the mines, coolies in the smelting plants, or being sent out as cannon fodder when the war situation is tense.

This group of people has lived like this for generations, and they don't have any consciousness of resistance. Here, it is impossible to shout the phrase "Are kings and nobles born with high status?", because the kings and nobles in Hell are indeed much stronger than ordinary demons.

For example, ancient demons are a major classification of demons. Basically, all humanoid demons can be called ancient demons. They are the descendants of God's creation. Although their body size is not too large and their appearance doesn't look fierce, they can use magic and control the power of the source of Hell.

Human mages trade with demons to obtain this kind of power, and demons who possess this kind of power can kill these ordinary demons with natural defects as easily as flipping their hands. Even powerful demon lords releasing large-scale devouring magic can directly destroy a city.

Many theories believe that the reason humans can still have the opportunity to develop in peace is that the differences between individuals and individuals, and between groups and groups, have not reached the point of absolute crushing. Only in this way will human individuals and society always be pursuing fairness.

If a certain type of person and a certain race, without relying on society, have the power to crush 90% of other individuals from birth, then all rules and morality have no meaning to them, and other individuals will no longer have any room for survival.

But now, Batman is facing a question of Hell-level difficulty. These weak races with natural defects in front of him have just taken the first step of resistance. But next, what they have to face are enemies whose equipment, strength, wisdom, and discipline are several times stronger than theirs.

Under these circumstances, can the collective really be greater than the individual? Does unity really have an effect? Is uniting to resist really a good choice?

Batman doesn't know the answer to these questions yet, but since he has taken this step, it means there is no way back.

He is not a person who will waste too much time in philosophical thinking. He directly jumped down with the whip and said to everyone: "Now, everyone come to me to unlock the shackles. We must first block all the gates of the mine tunnel to ensure no one can get in..."

At this time, the shuttle-snake demon elder slid over with his tail and said in a hoarse voice: "If we block the gate, we can indeed keep those overseers from getting in for a while, but if the entire Central Mine breaks away from General Fuxin's control, he will definitely be furious and send a powerful army here..."

The shuttle-snake demon elder shook his head and said: "We can't be the opponents of those soldier demons. Just one fully armed squad can kill everyone here."

But Batman looked at him and said: "That's why I want to block the gate. Although this may stimulate General Fuxin, once the Central Mine is cut off from the outside world, General Fuxin will definitely think that the entire mine has rebelled."

"Except for our mine tunnel, there are more than 60 other mine tunnels in the entire Central Mine. In the lowest mine tunnels, there are also many powerful lava demons, mud demons, dark red trolls, etc."

"They are still being kept in the dark, and what I want to do is to block the gate and pull them together to join the rebel army."

The shuttle-snake demon elder suddenly realized and said: "That's right, if the Central Mine is cut off from the outside world now, then the overseers and General Fuxin will definitely think that all the demons here have collectively rebelled, even if the demons in other mine tunnels haven't done so..."

"Then, when they attack the mine tunnel, they won't distinguish between friend and foe, and will only throw all the demons in the mine tunnels into the magma. And once other demons know this, they will only be able to unite and resist General Fuxin..."

"That's right, I just want to pull everyone onto the boat." Batman said in a deep voice: "I don't believe General Fuxin dares to use magic to blow up the entire mine."

"Now, the demon lord Belial is in a hurry to send troops to the front line. If the Seven Mountains Mine is the first to have an accident and becomes the bird that sticks its head out, General Fuxin will definitely not have a good end. Therefore, he must maintain stability and cannot make too much noise. At the same time, he also needs enough manpower to help him mine to complete his guarantee to Belial."

"These factors combined are our opportunity to turn defeat into victory. This war may be the breakthrough."

After Batman finished speaking, he turned and walked toward the depths of the mine tunnel. He left the whip to the shuttle-snake demon elder, letting him unlock the shackles on everyone's hands, while he himself went to other mine tunnels to inform other demons.

Although the gate hasn't been completely blocked yet, in Batman's words, this has already become a battle of burning the bridges. He explained the pros and cons to the demons in other mine tunnels. The central idea is one: I have already pulled everyone to rebel. If you don't rebel, you will also be labeled as rebels, then thrown into the magma, waiting for death. Is it worth dying for the country?

Most demons don't understand why he wants to resist General Fuxin, but now, the facts are already before their eyes. This lunatic fired the first shot, the head of the big overseer Jacob became the tribute for the flag-raising, and with the gate of the Central Mine blocked, all the demons in the mine tunnels were forced to go to the mountain of outlaws.

This trick is indeed useful. The vast majority of demons, after the initial anger and fear, also had to start looking for a way to survive, and the first thing they had to do was to search out all the overseers in the mine and kill them.

Whether to rebel or not is another matter, but they absolutely cannot let this group of overseers run to report. Even if they have to die sooner or later, the overseers must die before them.

After killing the overseers who had been oppressing them, many demons seemed to have their bloodthirsty instincts ignited, especially those stronger and more ancient demons. They started to roar and shout, just like demon soldiers appearing on the battlefield.

Since they have already done it, they might as well go all the way. The overseers have already been killed, and there is no need to keep the Beholders. The demons followed the killing desire that kept flowing in their boiling blood and dug out all the Beholders to kill them.

Countless demons surrounded the underground magma sea, pounding the ground with their hands, roaring constantly. One corpse after another was thrown into the magma sea. The roaring sound became louder and louder, and the longing in their eyes became stronger and stronger.

All the cave entrances of the Central Mine were blocked. During this period, many overseers came to check the situation, wanting to break through the gate with violence.

However, the overseers were not particularly powerful demons. Under the military state system, demons with real ability had long since stood out in the troops. Even if they didn't take the orthodox promotion route, they could join General Fuxin's elite troops, instead of being an overseer who was neither here nor there.

It is precisely because their ability, although stronger than ordinary demons, was not enough for a military rank, that they came to such a position. Therefore, they didn't master any powerful area-of-effect magic, and the only whip that could reflect their martial power didn't have a very good effect on the gate built with ore.

However, everyone knew that such tentative attacks were just appetizers. Sure enough, on the third day after the Central Mine was blocked, the official troops under General Fuxin made their appearance.

At the very top of the Central Mine, Batman directed the demons to build several watchtowers. The information about the troop deployment flew across the sky like flowing light, lighting up all the watchtowers one by one. The smoke and fire communicated the news. Batman saw that among the seven mountains, the large army converged into a sea.

In just half a day, the Central Mine was already deeply surrounded, and in the largest mine tunnel of the Central Mine, representatives of various demons had serious faces and heavy expressions, but there was not much fear.

In these three days, they were not unprepared. Killing overseers to raise the flag, arousing bloodiness, Batman organized various clans to show their abilities, built fortifications, demons performed their duties, actively trained soldiers, and several drills had good results, greatly improving their confidence.

Batman jumped to the top of the dirt pile again, scanned the surroundings, and understood that the situation had reached an extremely critical moment. This would be a Hell-level start that was the same inside and out.

In terms of high-level personnel, Batman was only one person, without a military advisor, without a staff team, and couldn't even organize a decent command post. In terms of the bottom level, whether it was the number of soldiers or the quality of soldiers, they were far behind the opponent.

The era Batman was born in was a long time after humanity's last large-scale war, so he had never experienced large-scale war, and had neither strategic reserves nor actual combat experience.

The quality of the soldiers was very poor, their bodies were not strong enough, their thinking was not flexible enough, they were almost uneducated, and they didn't have any actual combat experience.

In terms of equipment and logistics, it was almost equal to nothing. There was quite a lot of ore here, but there was no smelting means at all. Material resources were abundant, but they couldn't be defended, and everything was in vain.

Looking at it this way, this was almost a war that was impossible to win. However, Batman didn't lose confidence.

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Because, in his brain, which was well-versed in ancient and modern times and full of knowledge, there had always been a segment of history that had truly happened to humanity.

Before Batman's eyes, many scenes like old movies flashed by: train wheels rolling over tracks, the horn of assembly piercing through the smoke of gunpowder, the same hurried start of war, the same desperate overall gap.

When the strong ships and cannons knocked open the door of the ancient Eastern country, a period of wasted time, painful but legendary history, was telling Batman what kind of group of people they were, how they won one miraculous battle after another, and what it meant to dare to change the world in Hell. ===== CHAPTER 982 =====