Chapter 496
Chapter 496 Inside and Outside the Camp
Five shredders waved their chainsaws and metal fists under the control of the goblins. They charged towards the strange bugs with their heavy footsteps.
This scorpion had acted reckless and fearless until this point. Yet, the moment it saw several metal freaks charging towards it with steam blasting everywhere, it turned into a sly fox and started hiding throughout the lumber mill.
The piles of lumber had now become its best cover.
Compared to the shredders, the bug was no bigger than their rectangular feet. Regardless of how resilient its life force was, or how hard its shell, being stepped on by such a colossal being would mean an overwhelming weight of forty tons.
That was why the insect relied on the logs scattered across the camp to rush everywhere. It occasionally launched rapid assaults at the troll slaves and goblin guards who couldn’t dodge in time.
It quickly threw the lumber mill camp into disorder.
All the troll slaves were lowering their heads and scattering. Some didn’t watch where they were going and ran straight into the insect. Naturally, it slaughtered them. Some brought themselves into the path of a shredder’s charge, where it would reduce them to meat paste in a short yet tragic scream.
Billis had no choice but to cast his attention to the goblin camp and attempt to find more comprehensive information there.
However, what Billis didn’t know was that a goblin helicopter had suddenly taken to the skies while he hid in the cave to research the batteries. The helicopter raced into the distance under cover of night.
The battle during the day had caught Commander Uldum by total surprise and left him with no valuable information or clues. However, when combined with the information brought back by Old Pa Tok, Uldum had more than enough reason to suspect that the insect that had attacked today was most likely the fangs of an otherworldly intruder.
That was why Uldum personally wrote a letter requesting reinforcements after having more guards stationed at the lumber mill camp. He then had Old Pa Tok send the message to General Buzzek of the Seventh Goblin Land Corps.
In the letter, Uldum used skin-crawling language to describe in detail the horror of the otherworldly intruder. He once again mentioned how weak the defenses of Beta Town were.
As Old Tok left the camp with Flying Apprentice Mosaldin, Commander Uldum stood by a wooden window of the second floor, gazing into the deathly silence of the nighttime forest. Indescribable terror and worry filled his heart.
A forest like this one could not possibly be ordinary!
Under normal circumstances, large numbers of wild beasts and monsters would appear around the camp once night fell. Even after the goblin guards placed plenty of torches around the camp, they still couldn’t stop these creatures from circling outside the camp.
However, today, the forest in the night betrayed a silence like death.
It was almost as if countless terrifying demons hid in the darkness where their vision couldn’t reach, and these demons were the ones who slaughtered or scared away the forest beasts.
That meant the insect from earlier hadn’t gone too far away. It was still spying on them from outside. If the goblin guards relaxed, or an opening in the camp’s perimeter appeared, then the insect was sure to visit again, wreaking havoc upon the camp.
As for the opponent’s goal? Commander Uldum had absolutely no idea, even after mulling over it for half a day.