Industrial Cthulhu, starting from the island lord

Chapter 255 Desperate Situation
The three of them hurriedly ducked and dodged. Fortunately, the flying debris did not take their lives. When Kyle looked up, he found that the three were still alive.

He breathed a sigh of relief and rushed to the basement. He was very close to the entrance!

But the captain behind him pulled him and pointed upwards.

Kyle couldn't hear what he was saying, but he saw what he was pointing at - it was a banshee, her heavy armor already tattered. She had just been smashed into the house, and now she was lying unconscious on the stairs, her life or death unknown.

The captain yelled something, and Kyle understood what he meant: they had to save the banshee.

The banshee was covered in blood and many scales on her tail had fallen off. The captain grabbed her arm and tried to pull her down the stairs, but the banshee didn't move.

When the Banshee stood up, she was more than three meters tall, and with several hundred kilograms of heavy armor and weapons, her total weight was nearly two tons.

The political commissar also came up to help. Kyle rushed forward and grabbed the banshee's armor. He growled and bulged his muscles. With a sudden force of his strong body, he actually dragged the unconscious banshee a distance!
The three of them were anxious. Although they succeeded in dragging the banshee, it was too slow. The monsters' attacks were about to arrive in an instant. How could they make it in time?
Heads popped out of the basement. When they saw the three people and the banshee outside, they were stunned for a moment, and then rushed over.

These people were not in good condition, and most of them were injured, but as long as they could still move, they all came over. They hurriedly dragged the unconscious banshee into the basement, and then collapsed on the ground due to exhaustion.

With a few loud bangs, the fortress collapsed completely. The stairs above were completely blocked by rubble. The sea water had risen and was slowly pouring into the basement.

There was a commotion in the webway behind them. Everyone turned their heads nervously, and only breathed a sigh of relief when they saw it was a team of Crusader Guards.

This group of newly arrived crusaders were obviously at a loss. Seeing the miserable state of several people, they were frightened and stood there stupidly.

The captain dragged his tired body to his feet and directed the reinforcements to take the wounded for treatment.

It was not easy to take the unconscious Banshee away directly, so the captain asked them to get a temporary bandage first and then go find a carriage.

The Crusaders began their work tremblingly. Although they were not very familiar with the battlefield, they were still highly organized and began the rescue in a hurry.

Castel's dispatches on the battlefield are often very timely, and the commander seems to be able to see every detail on the battlefield. It's not that the Banshees have never been injured, and they will come to support their own people soon, but today the webway is eerily quiet, and there is not even a second team of Crusaders coming.

Kyle's heart sank.

A Crusader helped Kyle up: "According to the order of the Lord, abandon all outer fortresses and defend the main church!" After saying that, he led him to the rear, with curiosity and awe in his eyes.

"Recruit?"

"Yes, I was just drafted today. I used to be a boiler operator on the steam engine foundry line!" He puffed out his chest with some pride, then hesitated for a moment before asking cautiously, "Is the war situation not going well right now?"

Kyle glanced at the Banshee not far away. She was still unconscious and the Skitarii were bandaging her.

I heard that banshees can heal their injuries quickly, but the glaring wound on her snake tail was hideous and terrifying.

"It's not very good, but we can hold on. Once we get back to the cathedral, everything will be fine. The terrain there is high and there is no sea water."

Kyle was halfway through his speech when he saw the fear on the recruit's face and couldn't help but change his words and try to comfort him.

Kyle had just arrived at the battlefield a day ago, but he was already a veteran now.

The war situation was deteriorating too quickly.

The sea water was still pouring into the webway, and the Crusaders silently retreated on the water.

In the Castel Cathedral, Hughes moved the command room directly to his office. At this moment, people were coming and going here, various information was constantly being summarized, and instructions were issued one after another.

But at this moment, Hughes was lying on a narrow bed, his face pale and his voice weak. Everyone around him carefully avoided this place. "Hey, Alexi, how is the situation on the front line?"

Alexei looked at Hughes lying in bed and hesitated before speaking. "Due to the rising sea level, the monsters on the outer battlefield have gradually changed their forms. Your order was issued very timely, and most of the troops have been successfully evacuated."

"It's the Banshees." Alexi's voice lowered.

All the Banshees have withdrawn from the combat sequence.

Zeus knew this better than he did. When the sea water flooded the battlefield, Castel's crusader army was caught off guard and several fortresses were breached in an instant.

The fighting power of sea urchin monsters is unimaginable. On land, they are just big targets, but once they are in the sea, it is almost impossible to confront them head-on.

The solid reinforced concrete was directly penetrated. It was a real permanent fortification. Hughes estimated that only the walls of Castel Cathedral could withstand the impact of those monsters.

At this moment, the Banshee stepped forward and blocked the sea urchin monster for a moment, allowing the main force of the Crusader Army to successfully retreat from the webway.

But the price was huge. The Banshees were blessed with heavy armor and symbiotic contracts. Although they did not die on the battlefield, their health pools dropped to a very dangerous level.

Almost all of them were seriously injured!

Just a moment of head-on confrontation made the banshees lose almost all their fighting power. The sea urchin monsters were too powerful, and their numbers were almost endless.

Some banshees even fainted. If the Crusaders hadn't tried their best to rescue them, there would have been casualties.

Zeus didn't even go directly to the battlefield. The vitality extracted by the symbiotic contract made him extremely weak, and he even had to lie down and listen to Alexi's report.

"Alexei, you have been commanding at the front line. Tell me, can the cathedral withstand the attack of the monsters?" Zeus struggled to stand up, grabbed Alexei, and asked seriously.

"If it's fishmen and arm monsters, we should be able to resist them. Our machine gun firepower points are very dense and can repel their attacks. But if the sea level continues to rise and those sea urchin monsters appear on the battlefield..."

He swallowed hard and lowered his voice, "Bullets have limited impact on sea urchins. Only explosives can cause sufficient damage, especially the Banshee who throws explosives."

It is almost impossible to resist the sea urchin monster, not to mention that the sea water is rising without stopping for a moment, and they will eventually be submerged by the sea.

"Really?" Xius lowered his head slowly.

"My Lord, we have an airship. If the battle goes badly, please board it. You are a border earl appointed by the Queen, and you can go to the Empire for help."

Alexei's words were dry. He had never thought that he would say such words. The feeling of shame made him tremble all over, but he still gritted his teeth and stood still with red eyes.

Whether it was new weapons or factories, they were all things he could hardly imagine. He was a soldier and graduated with the first place in the Royal Military Academy. However, there were first-place graduates every year, but a lord empire like Xus might not have one in hundreds of years.

Alexi was absolutely certain that Hughes could change this era and the world. He could climb all the way from an orphanage to a seventh-class civil servant, but Hughes could make sure that there were no more orphans in the world who needed to be saved.

Castel is a miracle. Every factory and school has been planned and built by him. It is the result of the joint efforts of all the people on the island. If sacrifice can save it, Alexi is willing to give his life a thousand times for it.

But as long as Hughes is still there and his lord is still there, when one Castel sinks, a second Castel will be born. The island will sink, but the concepts and ideas will not. There will be the next clerk general manager, and more people will stand by Hughes and build one Castel after another together.

Alexei's eyes hardened.

(End of this chapter)