Bright!

"Has the Moon Spirit changed?"

Xu Le uses Gu Yinduo's spiritual energy. He can absorb Yue Ling, but he needs to go through a stable ritual. It is faster to ask Ai Li directly now.

"There are changes. The feeling has weakened a lot, but this weakening is compared with the previous red moon."

Ai Li's explanation made Xu Le immediately understand that the red moon had indeed become weaker, but this weakening was compared to the previous red moons.

"According to normal circumstances, the arrival of the black tide is when the power of the red moon is the most powerful. If it becomes weaker at this time, why?"

Xu Le pinched his chin.

Then Ai Li, Wang Shu, Toad and other creatures on the side also pinched their chins.

Xu Le glanced at them:

"Don't you have anything to say?"

"No." These people said in unison.

"Okay." Xu Le shook his head. No one was willing to come up with any ideas. It was difficult to lead the team!

Xu Le opened his ethereal state, thought seriously, made analysis, and reached conclusions.

"Is there a possibility that the red moon dimmed because the moon spirit was harmed?"

Xu Le's statement made several other people look at each other. Will Hongyue be harmed? What a joke.

"But the red moon is in the sky?"

"Yes, the red moon is in the sky." Xu Le nodded, he also knew this.

But he was also very puzzled, what was that whistle made by the red moon every time there was a black tide? It sounded like the scream of some kind of creature...

Moreover, the Kuroshio is called the Red Moon Catastrophe by Gu Yinduo. Doesn’t it mean the Red Moon Catastrophe?

Seeing Xu Le thinking there, Wang Shu took the initiative to walk over and said to the others:

"Everyone is on defense. The situation is unclear at the moment. Even if there is any problem, it is not something that one can control.

Do your job well and protect yourself more than anything else. "

"yes."

As the moonlight faded, the sky attracted many people's attention.

Not only Xu Le and the others, but other mercenaries around them also noticed this. The lights were gradually turned on. The moon was still red, but the entire night no longer had the same bloody night state as before.

It turned into the same dark night as before.

This is not a good sign.

At the very least, in the past, there was no need to consider lighting issues in the dark tide. Now that it has become dark, the first thing that is most stressful is the city defense.

If there is any large monster, it is impossible to focus fire from a distance to kill it due to the darkness. If the monster rushes too close, it is likely to break through the obstacle.

Now we can only hope that Zion’s plains expansion policy is effective.

Woo! ~Woo! ~

When many mercenaries hesitated, Zion's piercing central siren suddenly sounded. Everyone began to look to the sky and saw many steam airships starting to fly towards the city defense area.

"Isn't it risky for a steam airship to go into battle?"

Xu Le looked at Alley aside. Although steam airships have undergone regional airbag reforms, they will not crash due to damage in one place.

But it is essentially a gas-lifted flying device, and such a device itself carries great risks.

Once the gas cannot remain aloft, the airship will most likely fall.

There are a few flying weirdnesses, but they are definitely there.

In a situation like Kuroshio, less has become a relative term.

Alley also frowned slightly after seeing the airship.

"I don't know. I haven't been involved in combat before."

Afterwards, these steam airships turned on their lower lights one after another, and the bright red light almost illuminated the earth.

"This? Is it a moonstone lamp?" Xu Le was slightly shocked.

"It's the moonstone lamp." Levis, who had not spoken much, said.

Xu Le and Levis looked at each other. As warlocks, they both knew that although moonstone could be used as lighting energy, this approach was too luxurious.

Moonstone is considered a resource for warlocks, and they have to be careful when doing research.

Now the Zion government directly uses moonstones as lighting energy. This cannot be described as a luxury. It is simply burning money.

"Is the parliament crazy?" Levis didn't understand.

"Maybe he was forced to panic." Xu Le began to become less optimistic.

The war must be tense and the situation on the front line is not optimistic, so the Zion Council sent steam airships for lighting work.

Moonstone is very expensive, but if Zion is breached, no matter how expensive it is, it will be nonsense. Only when people are alive, money will become meaningful.

However, Xu Le still has to say with emotion, the Zion Council is really rich, they are like big dogs!

"Brother Shu, take a look, I'll go back and get something."

"OK."

Xu Le returned to the bedroom, and Ding Ke rushed towards him as soon as he entered the door.

Xu Le quickly hugged it and rubbed its head.

"Okay, now is not the time to play."

Meow!

Ding Ke yelled obediently, then lay belly down on Xu Le's shoulder.

I haven’t laid down in this position for a long time.

Xu Le took out the pistol he had spared before from the drawer, as well as some handmade anima bullets.

After obtaining the power of Gu Yinduo from the cemetery and forming a spiritual energy pool, Xu Le rarely used this thing.

But now it seems that there is a need to take it out again.

After moving the magazine and switching the safety, Xu Le felt the unique metallic smell of the firearm and smiled with satisfaction.

"Guns are really intoxicating."

Going downstairs again, several mercenaries in Wang Jing's regiment were whispering:

"It's so dark, even darker than before."

"Okay, stop talking. We all know it even if you don't tell us. Isn't there a light?" Gesni said a little irritably.

However, her words also seemed to remind Wang Jing, the group leader who had not expressed much opinions. Tonight, Wang Jing was like a transparent person and did not say much.

Mainly because the current situation is unclear, Wang Shu's performance has been very good.

If she had been in charge before, it is very likely that the team would have been wiped out in the first wave of attacks by the Night Familiar.

After hearing someone say that the light was too dark, as a light warlock, she naturally had to do her part at this time.

"Art - Illumination."

A bright ball of light rose up and floated above everyone's heads. The warlock's lighting consumed spiritual energy and was essentially the same as moonstone lighting.

In Xu Le's view, this is a somewhat unreasonable approach. After all, the total amount of psychic energy involves the state of the warlock himself.

But he didn't say much, there was no need to offend anyone over this matter.

In the darkness, everyone waited quietly.

At this time, apart from the violent explosions of Zion City's defenses, no other sounds could be heard.

As Alley said, Zion's defense is very strong.

At least in terms of the frequency of artillery fire, it would definitely blow up the lighthouse.

In silence, Xu Le and his party spent an hour safely, and the time came to 1 o'clock in the evening.

According to time calculation, it is already January 1, 360.

Today is also the day of the Chinese New Year. In this month, the air is already much colder than before.

Without the blood of the red moon, the night of waiting outside seemed even colder than before.

Standing there, Xu Le shivered unnaturally.

Ding Ke in his arms also subconsciously arched towards Xu Le's arms.

"Do you feel a little cold?"

"It has feelings." Wang Shu also said.

"It's very cold, and there's something wrong with the coldness." Ai Li already frowned.

"Something's not right? What should I say?" Xu Le asked.

Alley looked at the handrail of the fence. The remaining water in the teacup left by the mercenary had formed ice residue. Although it was not completely frozen, it was not far from freezing.

"On January 1 in previous years, the temperature would never have reached freezing levels."

"Will there be cold air coming?"

"I don't know either." Ai Li is not from the meteorological station, so she has no way of judging whether the current situation is related to the Kuroshio.

The conversation between the two seemed to relieve the cold atmosphere.

Ding Ke stretched out his head in Xu Le's arms. Because it was too cold, he didn't even want to glare at Ai Li.

Xu Le was holding it anyway. The owner would not hold such a big dog.

call!

Suddenly, something seemed to pass over everyone's heads. Xu Le and others were startled and raised their guns to their heads.

"what?"

"I don't know. It was too fast and I didn't see it clearly."

"Boss, do you want to shoot?"

When the mercenary asked questions, Alley and Levis also looked at Xu Le.

Only Wang Shu remained silent, because he was the only one who knew that Xu Le would never agree to shoot.

I don't know when a light drizzle began to float in the air, a very thin, cold rain.

When the cold rain falls on Xu Le's glasses, it will form a layer of fog.

Xu Le took off his glasses and put them aside, and said slightly indifferently:

"No, just do your job."

"Don't you need to issue a warning? Those things are probably unknown weird things, and they may be attacking the inside of Zion." Alley said again.

"Raising the alarm now is likely to attract weird things in the dark. There is no way I would risk my life to be a trumpet blower."

Ai Li was silent for a while. Maybe she already knew the answer in her heart, but she still hoped that Xu Le could give her a different answer:

The difference in concepts and ideas was reflected again at this moment.

"I see."

Xu Le saw Alley's expression and said compensatingly:

"If an alarm is issued now, once it attracts the attention of a large number of weird people, you, me, Brother Shu, will all die.

Only if I live well can I fight better for Zion. I am worth living more than they are. "

Ai Li looked at Xu Le and shook his head slightly.

"You don't need to explain this to me, I am a warrior, and my duty is to protect you.

But I do hope that you can show your value in the future, for Zion. "

"Yes, for Zion."

Xu Le put away his usual looseness and slickness. At this time, he may be the most real him.

"Everyone is on alert, there may be something strange that was missed next."

Although everyone doesn't know where Xu Le made this judgment, for now, Xu Le's approach is biased towards personal survival.

This is also an approach worthy of support for the remaining dozen mercenaries.

"yes."

call! call!

As he spoke, two more shadowy flying objects passed over his head, one large and one small.

In the darkness, although Xu Le had no way to determine the appearance of the other party, through Gu Yinduo's vision, he was still able to locate the two strange attributes.

[Jungle Glider, level 4 weird, with many ancient sounds. 】

[Living corpse-dragon, level 4 weird, with many ancient sounds. 】

They are all level 4 weirdness, and just as Xu Le thought, if there is a breakthrough, the first wave of breakthroughs will definitely be flying species.

The two monsters at the moment should both be flying species.

"Brother Shu, they are flying towards the interior of Zion."

"Huh?" Wang Shu didn't quite understand what Xu Le meant.

"If Zion has something that attracts weird things inside, it will actually be safer for us."

Wang Shu nodded, and he agreed with this statement.

Xu Le pondered for a moment and then asked:

"Brother Shu, have you ever felt that there is something similar to you in Zion?"

"Same origin? Golden Light Tree?"

"Yes."

"There is nothing similar. Even if there is something that attracts weirdness, it is different from the Golden Light Tree."

Seeing Wang Shu shaking his head, Xu Le became confused again. What kind of qualities does it have that can attract weird things?

Zion doesn’t have any obvious special buildings, so why does it attract the strange invasion of the black tide?

What about Tianrui Lifeng and Red Moon Temple?

"I heard that the Red Moon Temple is the place most severely attacked by weirdos."

"This is true. It is said that after every black tide, the Red Moon Temple cannot use up all the high-level weird corpses left, so they never lack materials to study taboos."

"Why were they attacked?"

"I don't know." Wang Shu spread his hands.

The conversation without an answer ended, and Alley beside him suddenly tensed up:

"Be careful, it smells like the Night Familiar from before."

"alert."

"yes."

After Ai Li smelled the smell and gave a warning, Xu Le and others naturally took a defensive posture, but his approach was somewhat different from Wang Shu's.

Wang Shu paid no attention to the other mercenaries around him, but Xu Le said to Wang Shu at this time:

"Brother Shu, please use mercenary sign language or other silent methods to inform the next door."

"Okay." Wang Shu nodded and began to gesture to the neighbors.

With their previous combat experience, these studio mercenaries naturally would not sneer at Wang Shu's reminder as they did just now.

The nearby companies quickly reacted defensively, and the companies farther away also took action after seeing them all taking precautions.

Ai Li looked at Xu Le with confusion. What she originally wanted to ask was: "Why are you willing to remind others at this time?

But she is a person who is good at thinking. She pondered for a few seconds before speaking:

"You regard the entire street as a defensive area. Their regional assistance will also reduce the pressure on us. Is that what you mean?"

"You are so smart." Xu Le said sincerely.

However, Ai Li curled his lips and didn't pay attention to this compliment at all.

"This kind of praise is usually given to children."

"Coming." Wang Shu reminded.

From their behavior, Xu Le has already judged one thing.

That is, these Night Familiar and Black Tide Weirdness are completely different.

The strange purpose of the Black Tide is very clear, which is to attack the core area of ​​​​Zion, and the purpose of the Night Familiar is also very clear, they come to kill.

Xu Le had already set up his sniper rifle at this time and fired the first shot of the night battle.

boom!