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"...This is Flying Fox, we have arrived at the target airspace!"
"Let's start working! I don't want to miss today's lunch. Damn it, every one of the poor people in Panghuang Swamp is like a starving ghost reincarnated. Have they never eaten meat?!"
"Haha! Maybe they really can't afford it back home!"
"The 'wontons' in the morning were good, it seems to be called this -"
"Don't interrupt, keep an eye on your target."
"receive!"
The west side of Broken Edge Mountain.
Twelve Yun Ting ornithopters vibrated their wings, carrying missiles loaded with ammunition racks, and circled menacingly towards the side of the mountain.
At the same time, three infantry companies composed of mercenaries also completed their assembly and launched an offensive from the north.
It's eight o'clock in the morning.
In the hour before that, their friendly alliance had poured at least 500 155mm heavy-duty grenades on the mountain, cleaning every position they could reach.
As if they had a premonition of the coming attack, the mutants on the mountain were already well prepared, staring fiercely at the bottom of the mountain, clenching the various things in their hands, ready to teach this group of ignorant human beings a lesson.
The same goes for the mercenaries at the foot of the mountain.
They came here from the distant Cloud Province just to slaughter these green-skinned things.
In order to be qualified to live in the ideal city, and also for the generous rewards!
Almost as soon as the two sides met their eyes, there were sparks visible to the naked eye——
Mercenary leader: "Fire——!"
Mutant Centurion: "Chop them to pieces!!"
Two roars sounded almost at the same time, and dazzling sparks and flying tracers instantly erupted from the cliffs.
In the hail of bullets, a mercenary was hit in the chest by a large-caliber single-point bullet. The bullet-proof lining wrapped in plasma shattered to the ground in an instant. Blood was pouring from his chest and mouth. He was quickly pulled by his collar by his comrades.
Drag it back behind the rock mass.
The mutant who fired the gun was quickly beaten into pieces by a hail of rifle bullets.
However, until the last bullet penetrated his skull, the guy was frantically waving the shotgun in his hand and firing.
The battle is about to begin!
The fighting almost immediately entered a fever pitch!
More and more mutants poured out of the bunker and exchanged fire with the mercenaries who launched an offensive on the mountain.
People kept falling, including mutants and soldiers wearing exoskeletons.
The scene was extremely chaotic.
The noisy gunshots and shouts mixed together, rising and falling in the mountain stream.
The mercenary offensive reached a stalemate for a while, and was about to lose ground.
At this moment, missiles carrying metallic hydrogen warheads suddenly fell from the sky, bursting into orange-red flames in the mountains without warning!
The burning flame was like a sudden burst of magma, and countless goblins were blown away!
And those big green-skinned old men were blown into pieces before they could even let out a scream.
The Yun Ting ornithopter hovering along the mountain continued to fire. The co-pilot's index finger was almost welded to the firing trigger. Under the guidance of the infantry, he continued to tilt the rockets and cannons, harvesting hundreds of them in the blink of an eye.
life.
"Well done!"
Looking at the path opened by the flames, the mercenary lying behind the bunker roared excitedly toward the sky, and then led the small team behind him to kill up the winding slope with high morale.
Following them were more than 20 "Cerberus" unmanned vehicles.
Facing the rain of bullets that continued to harvest, those green-skinned guys were no match at all. The rugged rocks were covered with broken limbs and scorched bloodstains.
Under the cover of the Yun Ting ornithopter, the mercenaries attacking towards the top of the mountain were overwhelming, and soon they reached the halfway point of the mountain.
On the Black Cloud Peak not far away, the young men of the 100th Mechanized Mountain Division watched with excitement. They were all gearing up, eager to step forward for reinforcements.
"Sir, when are we coming?" A soldier wearing an exoskeleton walked up to the commander's side and asked energetically.
His name is Tang Feng. The reason why he joined the army was partly to fight for the destiny of mankind, but more importantly because of the recruitment advertisement that said "Fight for the destiny of mankind" on Endpoint Cloud.
The officer glanced at him and then looked at the towering mountain in the distance, and just spoke briefly and concisely.
"Wait until I let you go."
After hearing this nonsense, everyone who was originally eager to give it a try suddenly felt disappointed.
They have all reached the front line, but they can only watch the friendly forces in the front showing off.
At the same time, the battle situation on the frontline took on new changes.
Two attack formations composed of Yun Ting ornithopters, which seemed to have run out of ammunition, began to return.
At the same time, the mutant army, which had been in decline, suddenly started to act again as if they were on drugs.
Especially among the big and old green-skinned ones, something different began to appear.
Even if their heads are shot through, they will not die immediately, but will rush forward like crazy, even more dangerous than before their heads were shot!
Caught off guard, several mercenaries were grabbed by the head and beaten by the frantic greenskin. Their exoskeletons and bones were beaten to pieces, and their throats were even bitten alive, and half of their faces were torn off.
Everyone was frightened by this ferocious attack. They couldn't even die from a headshot or even a shot through the heart. They were completely fearless in the face of suppressed fire. For a moment, almost everyone didn't know what to do.
That's it.
What's even worse is that these "little strong" with extraordinary vitality look no different from other mutants in appearance.
They are like landmines buried in the crowd, exploding at a moment's notice, and each "explosion" will cause huge trouble to the attacking troops.
But these mutants would not give them any time to breathe. Seeing the decline of human beings, they immediately howled and charged forward, and their attack became more and more fierce.
The three mercenary companies that attacked halfway up the mountain immediately fell into a hard fight. In the blink of an eye, one company was crippled and had no choice but to withdraw from the meat grinder-like front line.
In the command room.
Looking at the aerial images on the holographic screen, Lin Shangwen, commander of the 100th Mountain Division, frowned and his face was filled with solemnity.
That was the picture captured by the belly camera of the "Seagull" fixed-wing drone.
At this moment, the drone was hovering five hundred meters above Broken Edge Mountain. At the same time, it was the only close support available to the frontline troops.
Chief of Staff Yun Song, who was standing next to him, also had a solemn expression on his face. After thinking for a moment, he spoke.
"We still have the last eight tactical missiles, let's cover their retreat."
As the former captain of the 26th Commando, he knows very well how difficult guys like mutants are to deal with.
Most people will lose more than half of their combat effectiveness if they are shot, but these guys will fight more and more bravely after being shot, until they finally die.
And these greenskins are obviously different from other greenskins.
The Baobuqi Torch Church not only improved their prosthetics, but also made biological improvements.
Mr. Lin nodded, but thinking of the mocking expressions of the Weiland people, he couldn't help but hesitate.
"But……"
"Whether you face the 'pressure' from Triumph City or the pressure from Ideal City, you have to choose one."
After a pause, Yun Song continued.
"Even if they are just mercenaries, we can't really let them all die there."
Hearing this, Lin Shangwen no longer hesitated, looked at the adjutant on the side and ordered.
"Let the mercenaries on the front line retreat."
"Also tell them that if they want to receive full reward, at least bring me a mutant body back!"
The adjutant immediately gave a military salute.
"yes!"
…
As the order to retreat was sent to the front line, the mercenaries who were fighting bloody battles finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The remaining two companies alternately took cover and retreated in an orderly manner along the narrow and winding mountain road.
Not far away on the Black Cloud Mountain, Midnight, with an umbrella but no knife, widened his eyes and said with a surprised look on his face.
"People from the company actually retreated?"
Wasn't that morning's round of shelling in vain?
At this moment, [I feel sleepy when I wake up] standing nearby touched his tactical helmet and mumbled something.
"By the way, what are the mutants? New monsters?"
As soon as he heard that there was a new monster, the outlaw maniac immediately looked at him and asked curiously.
"What the hell? What did you take a picture of?"
When he woke up, he was sleepy and didn't say anything. He just uploaded what he had just photographed with the quadcopter drone to the VM and showed it to a few brothers who came over out of curiosity.
In the video, a mutant with half its head missing rushed out from behind a rock mass, waving the ax in his hand, flying an unlucky guy away, and then rushed towards other people behind the guy.
Soldier.
A group of corporate soldiers fired at it frantically, but the guy didn't seem to feel anything and fell to the ground until he was shot into a honeycomb.
After watching the video to the end, the players gathered in front of the VM couldn't help but swallow their saliva.
Good guy...
Is this a slime mold attachment?!
Meanwhile, the fighting on the front lines continues.
Seeing that the troops who had attacked halfway up the mountain began to retreat, the mutants on the mountain were naturally unwilling to let these guys go. They dragged out all kinds of long guns and cannons from the cave, and all started to greet these human things.
But at this moment, a slender line of white smoke suddenly fell from the sky and struck next to a cave entrance halfway up the mountain.
Several goblins who were struggling to carry the cannonballs let out a scream and were reduced to pieces of flesh and blood mist in the explosion of fire. Even the big green man carrying the iron tube cannon in front was also swept up by the explosion's flames.
He got in, howled and rolled down the mountain.
The missiles falling from the sky shocked the mutants who were about to rush out in droves.
They thought it was those little flies flapping their wings that were flying back again, and they cautiously retreated back into the cave.
The Beast King warned them that rock mass hundreds of meters thick is the strongest natural barrier, and even nuclear weapons are much inferior to it.
Even if it is equivalent to tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of tons, there is not much that can be done to deal with the hard rock mass that has been formed for two billion years. The most is to scrape down some rock blocks and earth, or blow up a few landslides.
They have already dug hundreds of interconnected tunnels in the mountain, and it will be fine even if half of them collapse, but those humans still hope to build roads and bridges above their heads!
As long as they don't rush down the mountain, they can rely on the supplies stored here to last forever!
By 11 a.m., the three-hour battle came to an end.
This battle ended in a draw!
…
At the same time as the mercenaries were retreating, on the bridge of the Loyal airship, General Liam had a trace of undisguised ridicule on his face.
He waved his index finger in the air, and a pale blue holographic screen unfolded along the path drawn by his fingers, projecting a video window hung with white snowflakes.
The commander of the company did not appear on the screen, and he was probably too embarrassed to turn on the camera.
Liam didn't pay any attention and just said mockingly.
"Can you do it? Or we can send regular troops, so don't waste all our time."
Black Cloud Peak was a position controlled by the legion. His people had been watching from the side. The 100th Mountain Division stood still on the position and did not take action at all.
To be honest, he was more curious about the combat effectiveness of the regular army in Ideal City than the performance of those guys' servant army, and this was what Saren, the commander of the Eastern Army, was most curious about.
Although the two sides are friendly forces now, no one can guarantee that they will not fight in the future.
As if to save face, a voice came from the other side of the communication channel.
"...We have achieved today's combat goal, and today's offensive is over."
Hearing these words, Liam almost laughed out loud.
In other words, I laughed out loud.
"Achieved? Isn't your goal to plant the flag on the top of the mountain?"
Lin Shangwen said with a dark face.
"That's the ultimate goal, figuring out what happened to these mutants is what we're going to do today."
Liam narrowed his eyes, stared at the white snowflakes in the window, and suddenly smiled.
"Could you be afraid?"
He used provocation to encourage these guys to send out the regular army.
Unfortunately, the person on the other side was not fooled and continued in a calm tone.
"If you think that studying the opponent's weaknesses, seizing the key points and defeating them in one fell swoop is called 'fear', then you can understand it as you wish. In my opinion, our lives are more valuable."
After a pause, Lin Shangwen sneered.
"You defeated an army of a thousand men in one day, I really don't know what you are so proud of."
Hearing the hint of sarcasm in that sentence, a hint of sullenness flashed across Liam's face.
But that's just a little bit.
It was only the clones that were defeated, not the 310,000th unit under General Modlin.
In any case, their casualties were less than one company, and they successfully planted the flag on the highest point of Black Cloud Peak.
Looking at the hung up communication, Liam snorted coldly.
"A dead duck has a tough mouth."
…
"Zhiyuan Newspaper"
[At eight o'clock today, the 100th Mechanized Mountain Division and the Seventh Air Force launched a fierce offensive towards Broken Blade Mountain. They wiped out more than a thousand mutants with minimal casualties.
According to the intelligence collected on the front line, more and more clues can directly prove the crimes against humanity committed by the Torch Church.
A large number of survivors were fed addictive drugs and artificially imprisoned for reproduction. In addition, the apostles of the Torch Church also applied the biological technology of the Prosperity Era to carry out extremely dangerous genetic modifications on some mutants, resulting in
A large number of improved varieties with serious safety hazards...
War correspondent Wu Kaian reports for you.
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The next morning.
A two-engine killer whale transport plane and a towed four-engine Overlord parked on the tarmac of the Weifu military base and the airport runway respectively.
In the former sat a team of biological experts from Yunjian University, and in the latter sat technical staff from the Alliance Biological Research Institute.
Although they belong to different camps, they all come to the front line for the same purpose.
Namely, mutants who won't stop fighting even if they get shot in the head.
As the person in charge of the military base, Li Jinrong personally came to receive them and arranged them in a three-story concrete building located at the corner of the military base.
It was originally intended to be a field hospital to accommodate the wounded, but there are not many wounded yet, so this area is not being used for the time being. It is just used as a field laboratory first.
Without a moment's delay, when a body bag containing only samples was delivered from the front line, more than 20 experts just gathered together for a brief meeting, assigned their respective tasks, and immediately began the dissection work, analyzing each variant.
Human somatic cell samples were tested.
This work lasted from morning until late at night, and finally some progress was made.
At the same time, Vault 404.
Chu Guang, who had just finished a day's work and was about to close his eyes, received the message from Hea, so he sat up from the bed again and went to the browsing room on the B4 floor to meet her.
"The test results came out, and they are very shocking... There are multiple pairs of chromosomes in the genomes of those mutants that contain coding genes that our current technology cannot even fully analyze. Experts from Yunjian University also said it was incredible. They also claimed that they had never
I have never seen such a strange mutant."
After glancing at the completely incomprehensible report in his hand, Chu Guang held his chin in confusion and nodded, then returned it to Hea's hand.
"Surprising...all specimens?"
Hea: "Only part of it! Although they can be generally called super mutants, they are not exactly like those guys, but more like something in between. What do you think it should be called?
good?"
Chu Guang took the time to look at the official website and found that there were players discussing this matter, so he picked the nickname that appeared most frequently and said.
"...How about we call them zombie mutants, or green-skin zombies, or zombie mutants for short?"
Hea's eyes lit up and she snapped her fingers.
"Okay, let's call it this... In short, in addition to the extremely strong recovery ability, this mutagenesis also has the ability to self-heal brain tissue that ordinary mutants do not have! The clinical manifestation is that even if they are smashed
If you lose your head, it can grow back!"
Chu Guang was stunned for a moment and couldn't help but ask.
"how did you do that?"
His recovery ability is also very strong, but it is far from strong enough to grow back after his head was shot.
Even the head can grow back. This resilience is somewhat outrageous.
Are these guys earthworms?
"...Our preliminary speculation is that their nervous system has evolved a 'memory backup' function. As long as a certain proportion of the nervous system remains intact, it can continue to repair the damaged part of the nervous tissue. It's just that when the brain is destroyed
When the time comes, their bodies will temporarily lose control of their brain tissue, and their actions will be completely controlled by the remaining nervous system. Another way to put it more easily understandable is that their actions are completely controlled by instinct."
Looking at the dumb Chu Guang, Heya took a deep breath and continued with a serious expression.
"I have to remind you that Torch's biological experts may have more skills than we initially thought. I even have a feeling that when we are testing them, they are also testing us..."
Having recovered from the initial surprise, Chu Guang nodded and spoke in a very soft voice.
"It's normal. After all, there may be a hundred or so experienced experts like you."
In fact, he had already felt it.
While he was testing the trump card in Torch's hand, those guys were also testing the trump card in his hand.
Maybe this war will be the same.
Those guys are testing the strength of all parties in the "Cohesive Community" bit by bit, and are constantly honing and improving their skills on the battlefield of Shifeng Mountain.
The resistance the coalition forces encountered on the third mountain was obviously much greater than the resistance they encountered on Fu Mountain...
In a sense, the greenskins are very similar to the way the players grew up.
Players who cannot truly be killed will become stronger as they respawn again and again.
And those guys iterate rapidly through death again and again, and the new ones that grow out will be more cruel and more durable than the ones that died before.
Whether in a sociological sense or a biological sense, they are absorbing the fruits of civilization in the Age of Prosperity in a special way.
And with the help of technicians left over from the Age of Prosperity...
Thinking of this, Chu Guang couldn't help but feel a trace of solemnity on his face, and he began to think in his heart.
Hea was slightly embarrassed by such a sudden compliment, and coughed lightly and said.
"It doesn't matter how many experts there are. Research is a systematic thing. Our current research system is borrowed and improved from the academy. It is already relatively mature. At most, it just lacks some accumulation and foundation. It cannot be inferior to Torch. ...However, the problem lies in the accumulation. I actually suspect that those people may have some information on the lost projects."
Chu Guang frowned slightly.
"Missing item?"
"Gestalt Life Form!"
Hea looked at him with bright eyes, a trace of eagerness and desire in her eyes.
"That Singularity-level technology! The unfinished Singularity of the Prosperous Era! Whether it's mutants, Wilantes or their eight-fold growth clones... they are all by-products of that technology!"
Chu Guang looked thoughtful when he heard this, and couldn't help but think of the laboratory on the east coast that was the trigger that led to the disintegration of the War and Construction Committee a century and a half ago.
That laboratory was like a squashed cockroach, with eggs scattered everywhere.
And that failed military operation became an indelible stain in the history of the company, including the destruction of Singularity City, which was inextricably linked to that incident.
Maybe...
Torch probably obtained the information leaked from that laboratory through some method!
Judging from Torch's actions in Jinhe City, they are consciously recovering the information about "Gestalt Life Forms" scattered in the wasteland!
Thinking of this, Chu Guang's eyes couldn't help but twinkle slightly.
Although it’s not a good idea to start worrying about friendly forces now, this information cannot fall into the hands of the legion under any circumstances!
Looking at Chu Guang who was silently thinking about his thoughts, Heya continued with a serious expression.
"Anyway, I have to go to the front line, including how to restore the soil of Haiya Province..."
"Well, it's good to go and see the scene."
Chu Guang nodded, suddenly thought of something again, and continued.
"By the way, you can wait until the day after tomorrow to set off. Then I will go with you."
"Are you planning to go to the front line too?" Hea looked at him in surprise, and then teased in a narrow tone, "Aren't you worried about me?"
Not paying attention to the teasing tone, Chu Guang just smiled and said.
"After all, I am also the nominal supreme commander of the coalition forces recommended by all parties. I was originally going to go there. It's just that I have been dealing with the work on the rear these past few days, and it was only recently that I was busy."
Due to various conflicts between legions, colleges, and enterprises, any representative of one party who is elected as the supreme commander will be opposed by the other two parties. Therefore, the only "acceptable" candidate is actually the alliance and the freedom to participate in the war on behalf of the Great Rift Valley.
state.
Although the latter also received a few votes, they were completely negligible compared to the alliance's huge number of votes.
Although the representatives of the legion criticized the results of the vote, they only proposed that Chu Guang himself should serve as the commander, and did not exercise his veto power.
Chu Guang knew that those Weirant people didn't like him very much, let alone what those wastelanders always said, "Weilant people admire the strong."
Those guys were just worried that they would embarrass them by sending Vanus or other Valantians who had been "assimilated" by the alliance.
From the perspective of Triumph City, this is not impossible. After all, the alliance's personnel appointments never ask about origin, only original intention and ability.
If a serf can become a city lord, a Wilant man can naturally become a marshal.
It's just that in Triumph City, these guys who defected to the Alliance have almost become synonymous with shame, and they don't think the pursuit of equality is anything excusable.
If Vanus was allowed to be the commander of the coalition forces and lead them to victory in the end, no one in the entire Triumph City would be happy.
Including the "Loyalty" sent by the Eastern Legion this time, it seems that there are no evil intentions in it.
These guys just have bigger noses, but it’s hard to say how smart they are. They might be smaller than the people in the academy.
Hearing Chu Guang's answer, Heya suddenly showed a bright smile on his face and said happily.
"Great! This way I don't have to bother you with sending the specimens to the front line."
"The physical examination is not too late these days." Chu Guang coughed dryly and said a little embarrassedly, but saw Heya shaking his head and staring at him intently.
"No, it actually has nothing to do with physical examination. It's about the study of gestalt life forms."
After a pause, her voice gradually took on a hint of fanaticism, and her eyes became unusually eager.
It's like staring at the results of some incredible experiment.
"...Others don't know, but I clearly witnessed the entire process of transforming some of your non-coding genes into coding genes."
I always feel that the look in this guy's eyes makes people a little scared.
Chu Guang picked up the tea cup and took a sip of water, hiding the fleeting embarrassment on his face.
"so what?"
However, Hea's next words almost made him spit out the water he just drank.
"Perhaps it's not just the Valantians, but your DNA also contains some of the results of that singularity technology!"