In the thick gray-green fog, a ten-man team armed to the teeth was marching slowly.
They wear fully protective exoskeletons, and in their hands are either carrying a compact G9 assault rifle, or a Gauss rifle equipped with an extended magnetic rail, and some have two short and thick portable weapons hanging on their backs.
Rocket launcher.
In the center of the team, there is also a three-meter-wide unmanned tracked vehicle following. The remote-controlled weapon station welded to the roof of the vehicle has a ferocious 20mm gun barrel, and there is also a gun hanging below the barrel.
A 60mm short grenade with a belt attached.
The silver-white paint was incompatible with the surrounding atmosphere, but no one dared to doubt the firepower of this team.
Just a few days ago, the Board of Directors finally approved a batch of new equipment procurement projects and purchased the bottom inventory of Changge Group.
Perhaps they were shocked by the tragic battle conditions on the front line. Finally, no one on the council said, "There is no need for Gauss rifles to deal with a group of guys who don't even have exoskeletons. Our soldiers only need to tell the planes where to blow up."
What a stupid thing to say.
Thanks to this, Tang Feng finally saw the "sniper" he had longed for.
But at this moment, he is no longer interested in this thing. Any messy parameters are just a cloud. Of course, the most important thing is that the guy who saves his life can use it smoothly.
"...Where are we now?"
"Haiya."
"Hai Ya...is this Hai Ya? I thought it was Mars."
The machine gunner carrying the light machine gun glanced at the yellowed and damaged tourist poster in his hand, and then at the viaduct broken in two in front of him, as well as the rusty highway sign lying crooked in a pile of concrete garbage——
[Laishan City, 5km ahead]
Ahead is Laishan City, which is also their first stop on their journey to Haiya Province.
However, there is no city here, and everywhere you look you can see dilapidation and desolation.
This land seems to be not on the earth at all, but on another dead planet.
Dark green slurry flows under the black soil, just like the magma that splits hell. The corrosion from Nago has penetrated every inch of the soil here.
There is not a living tree here, not even a living grass.
The dead trees standing on the land are like bones that have weathered for many years. They have been completely stripped of their nutrients and are used to support the owner of this land - Naguo.
The situation here is worse than in Weifu Wasteland.
Or rather, the hell they saw in Weifu Wasteland was just the tip of the iceberg of this real hell.
With a slight twitch at the corner of his mouth, he threw aside the poster he picked up from nowhere.
Not far from him, a soldier holding a rifle leaned down, took out a test tube from the sample box on his waist, and routinely sampled the soil rich in mycelium on the ground.
This is one of the tasks entrusted to them by the Frontline Research Institute - to collect a soil sample every 100 meters forward after entering Haiya Province.
As for the main mission, it is to "reconnaissance on the edge of the urban ruins of the 'Northern War Zone No. 1' and confirm the location of the enemy."
This sounds very much like the work of a drone, but unfortunately, the drone has flown here twice before, not even a living thing, let alone a human figure.
A reasonable analysis shows that the Torch Church probably slaughtered this land with a total area of nearly 670,000 square kilometers.
Of course, another possibility cannot be ruled out, that those guys are hiding people.
After all, humans are needed to breed mutants, and experiments on gestalt life forms also need humans.
Although human cloning can solve some of the problems, considering a series of factors such as scale, cost, etc., it is of course cheaper to produce humans naturally.
After all, this land has turned into such a ghostly state, and it is not like the great desert that is filled with all kinds of weird and weird Prosperity Era equipment. We can't expect that there will still be a large-scale power station and a large group of skilled workers here.
And a cloning factory filled with sophisticated equipment.
If that were the case, it would be easy to solve.
All it takes is one missile with a nuclear warhead to clear the torch from this land.
Unfortunately, those monsters don't need "industry". They don't need electricity or consumer goods. At most, they only have some discrete processing workshops to improve some weapons suitable for themselves.
According to the analysis of the coalition staff, the Torch Church probably controls several shelters as research and development bases, and it probably also controls a number of black boxes with special functions.
And this can also explain why they clearly do not have a large-scale processing center, but they can come up with some equipment with technical specifications that far exceed the actual conditions of Haiya Province.
"...I heard that there is a famous hot spring in Laishan City." Picking up the poster dropped by the machine gunner, a soldier picked it up, looked at it and said with a smile, "It is located in the suburbs...it seems to be near us."
The soldier next to him whistled and said jokingly.
"Are you going to take a dip?"
"I heard that the guys who were infected in Yongdong City are still lying in the research institute of Yunjian University."
"Haha... I'd better skip it."
A group of people were messing around in the communication channel. Tang Feng, who was standing outside the group, suddenly frowned in alarm.
The dark green slurry flowing under the soil seemed to be surging and gathering near them.
Although the amplitude of the surge was very small, the bionic plug-in attached to his irises recorded the movement parameters, and the digital changes visible to the naked eye were unmistakable.
He opened the safety of the rifle in his hand and pointed the muzzle slightly to one side at the ruins filled with gray mist.
"There is a situation."
The noise in the communication channel suddenly stopped.
The soldiers immediately became alert and dispersed into a vigilant formation.
A heavy infantryman quickly unfolded the folding bunker carried on his back and inserted it heavily into the ground, like a fan-shaped shield.
The machine gunner quickly moved over, placed the light machine gun in his hand above the shooting hole in the center of the shield, and shouted to his teammates behind him.
"The machine gun bunker is ready!"
Another drone operator carrying a backpack squatted on the ground, and the backpack behind him made two banging sounds.
The two folded four-rotor drones ejected into the air, flipped a few times in the air, stabilized themselves, and then shot into the fog like arrows off their strings.
"The drone is in the air! Searching the nearby area...no moving objects seen!"
The sniper with the Gauss rifle looked at the empty thermal imaging screen, with a hint of confusion on his face, and looked at Tang Feng, who was the first to notice the situation.
"Did you see it wrong?"
"On the ground!" Tang Feng took a deep breath and said with certainty, "Those dark green mucus... they are gathering near us. I always feel that something bad is going to happen."
The leader of the team walked up to the drone operator and patted the latter on the shoulder.
The drone operator immediately understood and gave the team leader the view of one of the drones.
Wearing a visual operating device that looked like glasses on his helmet, the captain flew the drone around in a circle, carefully examining the dark green slurry spread across the entire land through the drone's field of view, frowning
It quickly wrinkled.
Indeed, as his team members said, the dark green slurry was stirring at a stable frequency, seeming to be transporting some unknown force to somewhere beneath their feet.
If you look down from above, the pattern is more obvious and more spectacular.
The aerial footage taken by the drone was synchronized to the tactical eyepieces of all the team members. A rifleman couldn't help but swallowed and complained in a low voice.
"I heard that some organs are not used at ordinary times and will only become congested when needed... Damn, I'm starting to have a bad premonition too."
The captain's Adam's apple moved, his expression became more solemn, and he immediately reported the situation on the front line to the headquarters, and then shouted an order through the communication channel.
"Mission cancelled! Prepare to retreat——"
Almost at the same time as he welcomed the fall, a rustling voice passed through the thick fog.
It's like a cicada suddenly chirping.
Catching the fleeting figure, Tang Feng reflexively raised the muzzle of his gun and pulled the trigger without hesitation.
"Tu tu tu tu——!"
The muzzle sprayed orange flames, and traces of light instantly pierced the black shadows emerging from the thick fog.
It was a half-human, half-dog monster with a body as skinny as a sausage, and its bare face and head looked as if they had been burned by fire.
It let out a shrill howl after being shot several times in the chest, and green to black blood spread along the wounds to the ground. But even so, the guy still didn't stop moving, and moved towards the Enterprise team's position with all four hands on the ground.
Run wildly.
At this moment, an electromagnetically accelerated mass bullet instantly penetrated its Tianling Cap and passed between its crotches.
The guy was like being sucked into a meat grinder. His entire body was exploded by the huge kinetic energy, instantly exploding into a black-green blood mist.
The broken limbs and broken arms of the fourth category rolled and fell to the ground, while the black and green blood mist slowly merged into the mist.
"'It's a bacterial mutant'!" The drone operator confirmed the identity of the monster and reported on the communication channel.
The so-called bacterial variant is a general term for the fruiting bodies born from the corrosion of fruit, and is used to distinguish them from the fruiting bodies of mutant slime molds.
Depending on the species, there are several subcategories under the broad category of bacterial variants, such as the common "walking corpses", "cadaver dogs", etc.
As for the guy they encountered, it was a bit like the crawler produced by the slime mold fruiting body in Qingquan City, except that it was smaller in size, strength and speed.
The precision shooter who lowered the muzzle of his gun and looked at the Gauss rifle couldn't help but curse in a low voice.
"Damn it, haven't the drones already swept this area? Why is this thing still coming out?"
Tang Feng's eyes were fixed on the scope, aiming in the direction where the monster rushed out.
"Eighty percent of the situation is the same as in Weifu Wasteland, crawling out from underground——"
"Sun! Down below!"
The screams coming from the communication channel interrupted his words. He subconsciously glanced behind him and saw a skinny hand stretching out from the soil and grabbing a comrade not far behind him.
of calves.
The strength of that hand is not very great, at least it cannot deal with the exoskeleton leggings.
However, the rifleman was still startled, and he hurriedly pulled out the pistol from his waist and pointed it at the bottom of his body.
The arm that had just stretched out from the soil was instantly beaten to pieces, but the splattered shrapnel almost scratched his breastplate.
Seeing what was happening to their comrades beside them, panic appeared in everyone's eyes.
Unexpectedly, the danger came not only from the surroundings, but also from directly under their feet.
But at this moment, shrill screams rang out from all directions, and the sound of running surged up like a tide.
"Three o'clock! Machine gunner fire suppression!"
"receive!"
The captain roared and gave the order to attack. The machine gunner leaning behind the bunker gritted his teeth and his index finger was almost welded to the trigger.
As the roaring machine gun sounded, the silence and thick fog that filled the wilderness were torn apart.
"Roar--!"
Corpse dogs waving their limbs howled and rushed over, followed by a large number of walking corpses.
The riflemen scattered around also immediately pulled their triggers and opened fire, killing the incoming bacterial mutants.
At the same time, the tracked vehicle parked in the center of the team also entered combat mode. The 20mm cannon on the remote-controlled weapon station spurted out thick and long tongues of flame. Under the guidance of the laser of the precision shooter, it headed towards the place where the zombies were densest.
Vent ferocious firepower.
However, even though the firepower of this mechanized team was fierce enough, those ferocious bacterial mutants could not even stand in front of them for two seconds. Faced with the continuous impact, the soldiers still felt a trace of obvious difficulty.
There are too many of them!
These guys are like pus squeezed out of the soil. Apart from the visible part, there is still an unknown amount buried under the ground that has not been squeezed out!
Looking at the increasingly dense bacterial mutants, the machine gunner squatting behind the mobile bunker shouted loudly while changing the magazine.
"How long until the plane to evacuate us arrives!"
Continuing to pull the trigger, the captain yelled in the communication channel.
"Already on the way! We can arrive in twenty minutes!"
"twenty minutes?!"
"Damn...are they planning to collect our bodies for us?!"
The communication channel was full of curses, and the captain couldn't help but yell again.
"Stop talking nonsense! Keep an eye on your target! And watch your steps -"
The enemy attacks not only come from all around them, but also from under their feet.
Arms emerge from the soil from time to time, just like the sprouts that burst out of the soil.
Although it is not difficult to deal with them, you can smash them with a dagger or gun butt, but you still can't stop them from coming out in waves.
Even though they had carried three times the baseline amount of ammunition, they still could not withstand the dense numbers.
Ten minutes left -
Looking at the last magazine in his hand, Tang Feng gritted his teeth and inserted it into his rifle.
If the evacuation plane fails again, they will have to fight hand-to-hand with these twisted things.
At this moment, the captain's voice of surprise suddenly came from the communication channel.
"Yunxiao! It's our air force! They're here!"
Tang Feng subconsciously raised his head. The gray fog blocked the sky and he could not see anything.
But at this moment, the sound of electric current was transmitted into their communication channel.
"This is Raccoon. We have entered the sky above you. Please place an attack beacon to provide us with guidance."
They didn't need to remind them at all. The precision shooters in the team had already taken action and fired the flares under the viaduct where the bacterial variants were densest.
The sound full of security soon continued to come from the communication channel.
At the same time as the countdown fell, a storm of tracer bullets also poured down from the sky, instantly crushing the bacterial mutant running on the concrete gravel into a piece of flesh.
Dozens of rockets fell immediately, and the flames that exploded instantly cleared a vacuum zone in the center of the wave of bacterial mutants.
In the center of the flames, a zombie with half of its body missing screamed miserably, but soon lost its voice.
Blocked by the raging heat wave, the zombies pushed and pushed each other for a long time. In the end, no one dared to step forward. They could only rush towards both sides of the sea of fire, trying to bypass the burning sea of fire.
"Well done!"
The precision shooters in the team cheered excitedly, and then fired the second and third beacons in the same manner.
According to the triangle circled by the beacon, the six Yunting ornithopters on standby in the air confirmed the position of the friendly forces, and completely let go of their hands and feet, while continuing to discharge the 20mm cannon, while clearing the ammunition filled with rockets.
nest!
Walls of boiling fire separated the surging bacterial mutants from the soldiers within the wall of fire.
At the same time, about ten wooden gliders suddenly broke through the smoke screen above the blazing fire and crashed heavily into the rugged wilderness.
About forty or fifty soldiers jumped out of the ten gliders.
They held LD-47 assault rifles in their hands, with bayonets stuck under the muzzles of the rifles. They all wore gas masks on their faces, and engineer shovels hung on their waists.
Obviously they are members of the Alliance.
And looking at the logo on their clothes, it's still the famous Death Corps.
But for some reason, these people didn't wear exoskeletons and only brought some rudimentary equipment.
Those people were shouting noisily, saying words he couldn't understand, and he didn't know what they were shouting...
"Super! What the hell is this thing called an airplane?"
"My ass is going to burst!"
Looking at the noisy gang of newbies, the outlaws couldn't help but think of themselves a year ago.
At that time in Luoxia Province, they were also so noisy when they charged towards the warlords.
However, it was precisely because of that "live-fire training" that in less than a month they grew from newcomers who knew nothing to qualified soldiers.
Now he has been promoted to the ranks of "veteran players" and has become the backbone of the Death Corps.
And this operation is the task entrusted to him by the regiment leader Bian Huishui personally. It is up to him to take these newbies to die - bah, accept the baptism of war!
"Anyway, it's a one-time use... Don't complain, please quickly dismantle the machine gun! This thing can still be used!"
Carrying a shotgun, the outlaw maniac who walked to the front of the formation calmly yelled at the rookies, raised his foot and crushed the palm that came out of the soil and reached for his ankles.
The player who was still lying next to the glider just found his rifle and turned around and shouted to him.
"Captain, where is the ammunition box? Drag it out too?"
The outlaw rolled his eyes.
"Nonsense! Do you even need to ask?"
As soon as he finished speaking, another player shouted.
"Captain! How can we get back if the plane breaks down?"
Seeing that the question was getting more and more idiotic, the lawless man replied impatiently.
"When did I say I was going back?"
Just kidding, this plane doesn’t even have an engine installed, how can it possibly fly back?
However, when all the newbies heard this sentence, they were stunned on the spot.
I'll form the head: "Fuck!"
High-end ingredients: "This is a black truck!"
Sudden death after staying up late: "I'm crying! Captain, is it too late to get off the car now?"
The retreating dwarf: "I can't play the game for three days... I don't want that kind of thing!"
Seeing those cute newcomers crying like wolves and howling like ghosts, the lawless gangsters couldn't help but sneered and roared.
"Didn't you even read the rules before joining the corps? Cheer up!"
"Use your bullets, bayonets, gun butts, engineer shovels, fists, and even teeth. Use every method you can think of and every tool you can find to smash the enemy's skull until they or you stop heartbeating!"
"The Death Corps has no cowards to retreat. No matter what the opponent is, we have only one whistle, that is, move forward! Move forward—!"
"Open your safeties and load your rifles! Let me see where your limits are!"
That roar really ignited the blood in some people's hearts, and the noisy voice finally subsided.
However, he still wanted to say something: There are so many problems with the newcomers nowadays, and one session is really worse than the other!
The outlaw maniac complained like this in his heart, but he forgot how stupid he was when he first entered the game.
Knowing that even if they wanted to get out of the car, it was too late, all the newbies had no choice but to settle down.
Even if they want to live a few more minutes, even if they want to get that generous mission reward, they have to show some real skills.
However, perhaps because they already knew their outcome, these newbies who were on the battlefield for the first time were no longer as nervous as when they got off the plane, and one or two of them were looking forward to the next battle.
Seeing the two soldiers dragging ammunition boxes out of the cabin of the glider, as if they were holding on to their position, Tang Feng, who was leaning against the concrete wall, was stunned for a moment and shouted to them.
"Hey! What are you doing here?"
The outlaw yelled back with a smile.
"Here to help!"
"Help... help? We are all ready to withdraw!" Tang Feng replied with a confused look on his face.
The lawless gangster smiled and said: "We are here to cover your retreat!"
After hearing this, Tang Feng was even more confused. When he came back to his senses, he felt moved and ashamed at the same time.
What moved him was the care shown to them by their allies, which was truly beyond words.
It was the same when they attacked the Fushan position before. If it weren't for their help, I don't know how many people would have died on that mountain.
What made him ashamed was that in order to save his 10 people, they sent out nearly one-third of the company's troops...
What a group of good people who sacrifice themselves for others!
He was not the only one who felt this way, but also most of the soldiers present.
They cheered up again while feeling grateful and guilty.
As support arrived, the situation of the battle suddenly changed.
But even so, there will be no benefit in continuing to struggle here. They have collected the required samples and confirmed the local situation through this initial confrontation. Now it is time to go home with the loot.
Exactly twenty minutes later, a killer whale transport aircraft appeared in silhouette in the sky, and two blue plasma plumes poked into the soft soil like spears.
Dust billowed up, and the tail hatch fell heavily to the ground. A soldier wearing an exoskeleton stood at the hatch, holding a minigun fixed in the cabin with both hands.
"retreat!"
The captain of the Enterprise team shouted in the communication channel, calling for his teammates to retreat towards the open hatch.
Including the tracked vehicle with the remote-controlled weapon station welded to the roof, the team of ten people all retreated to the cabin. Although everyone had tired faces, luckily there were no casualties.
Standing at the door of the cabin, Tang Feng shouted loudly to the friendly troops outside who had not yet boarded the plane.
"We're about to take off! Come up quickly!"
However, what he didn't expect was that the man replied with a smile.
"No need! Have a nice trip!"
After that, the cabin door slowly closed upwards.
Tang Feng's eyes widened and he just watched the figure disappear at the edge of the cabin door.
"Wait, why are you evacuating!"
With disbelief written on his face, he strode up to the crew, grabbed the man's shoulders with both hands and shouted, "Our friendly forces haven't even boarded the plane yet -"
"That's their job!"
A voice from behind interrupted him.
The captain, who had his helmet tucked under his arm, walked next to him and put his hand on his shoulder with a heavy expression.
"Their mission is to test the limits of the 'wave', where they will fight to the end until the 'real enemy' emerges from there... That is the speculation of the Battlefield Research Institute. Nago does not have a mother nest, but there should be something similar
For the incubation organ, they need to study the entire process completely."
In addition, their bodies were also inoculated with biological prostheses with a "Type B strain plug-in".
However, it remains to be seen how effective that thing can be.
"...Let's keep going with respect for them. This war is not over yet, and it is too early to be sad now."
Looking at Tang Feng, whose eyes were wide open in shock, the captain sighed softly, patted his shoulder, said nothing, returned to his seat and sat down.
Although others spoke softly, sometimes he couldn't help but think that they living in the ideal city might really owe a lot to the people in the wasteland.
Their ancestors accomplished miraculous feats, and they were much nobler than those wastelanders. However, even so, this should not be a reason for them to enjoy everything in peace.
When some people sacrifice their lives for a common disaster, those who survive should shoulder the responsibilities and obligations equivalent to "that weight of loss", rather than treating living and wealth as an inherent privilege.
.
They survived because some people died for them...
Just like now.
Just when these young men from Ideal City were feeling heavy, the emotions of the players who were left on the battlefield were getting even higher.
The offensive of bacterial variants is getting more and more fierce!
Completely different from the hesitation just now!
Perhaps seeing some people retreating, they feel that they can do it again and are confident that these people will stay!
At first, there were only some zombies or corpse dogs with danger level 1, but soon more and more danger level 2~3 monsters appeared.
After all, the people present were newcomers, and there had already been some casualties.
Looking at the increasingly turbulent "wave", the face of the outlaw turned into a sinister smile.
Well done!
I haven’t been this happy for a long time!
Shaking off the mucus and blood on his arms, he loaded the shotgun and let out a final roar.
"Brothers! Show those cowards who only dare to hide behind the scenes and play tricks! Let them see who is the real wave!!!"
What he responded to was an excited roar.
"Ouch!"
Looking at the young men with high morale, the corners of his mouth gradually turned up into a smile.
These rookies...
It’s so embarrassing to shout even if you don’t shout in order!
but--
It seems that they have gradually realized the fun of the Death Corps.