Chapter 972 The name of the lone wolf (twenty-one)
The three teams maintain a distance of two to three hundred meters, which allows each of them to have ample reaction time, and also allows the other party to be within their monitoring range at all times.
In the Leonard family team, Russell walked at the end to prevent the danger of approaching from behind. At this time, Villani came to him from the side of the team.
"What's going on?" Villani looked back and asked, "I thought he would really follow me, but it turns out he was just talking."
"It's not like you to have such high expectations. I don't see any characteristics. You have an ordinary appearance. Apart from being very calm in front of us, your interests have always been so unique?" Russell said, "I will tell you, if I
If you find it. Besides, you don’t have to keep walking closely behind us to follow us. The traces in the snow are easy to identify, and it won’t be a problem to spread out several kilometers in between. If you really want to, you can stay where you are and wait.
Then it will be your own breakfast. Of course, just remember to come back on time, and I can help you with the rest."
"I'm not someone who can't tell the difference between the situation. Compared with the snacks that can be found at any time, the number of places in the assessment is indeed more important. By the way, don't forget your words. If Kleist catches me, I will be gone after one shot.
What happened?"
"I am at your service, Miss Villani."
The sky began to light up completely as we advanced. Around nine o'clock, the overlapping shadows of the mountain peaks fell in front of the three teams. They met a few evacuated assessors. The situation was roughly the same as yesterday, but it was moving in a good direction.
Development, whether it is in clearing up the large number of second-class creatures that have gathered together, or in mastering information about ferocious creatures, is steadily giving the examiner an advantage.
Two more teams seriously injured the ferocious creatures, and although they escaped, they were reportedly chasing after them. Maybe in the next few days, news will come out that the first ferocious creature was hunted and killed.
"The big lizard is near here." At noon, the Leonard family team separated from the other two families, advanced along the foot of the mountain for a distance and then stopped. Russell, Villani and other five captains gathered to discuss the next step.
plan.
"In the end, we still chose it? We suffered heavy losses that evening. But that's okay, at least among so many choices, the one we are most familiar with is this big lizard."
"That's true. Other ferocious creatures have never seen their true form, so it would be unrealistic to just rely on the information collected. We don't know the strength, attack methods, and defenses, and the information we know will mislead us." Villani agreed with this point.
The discussion ended quickly, and there were still a few minutes before starting again. Villani left the team during this period and walked in the snow at the foot of the mountain. When he came back, he met Russell who was waiting.
"It seems disappointing." Russell said, "Everyone can say harsh words, but it is the means and actual actions that can really scare people."
Villani shook his head and asked Russell: "Do you know why my overall ranking has always been higher than yours in the family assessment? Intuition, a woman's intuition is very scary, especially when she cares about something and doesn't feel it.
When it's that simple, it's usually very accurate. Perhaps it's related to women's natural sensitivity and meticulousness, so they naturally observe some subtle things."
"Then should I still keep this expectation?"
"The fact that you came over to ask me already explains the answer in your mind."
"Actually, from a practical point of view, I am also on your side. I know a little about Temple's strength. I have been exposed to it in previous assessments. The toxins in his blood can put Temple directly into the hospital. I have always been aware of this.
Everyone cares about it. It is precisely because of biological poisons that I am vigilant. If there are multiple ways of transmission, it will be very troublesome."
"We'll discuss this later when we have time. It's time to set off. The next stop is where the big lizard is, so we have to be prepared."
The team continued to move forward after resting. When they arrived at the central area, their speed dropped significantly, and the number of breaks they took along the way also began to increase. There was no guarantee that they would encounter other ferocious creatures that suddenly came in, so they could only be prepared to fight at any time.
About ten kilometers away, Cassia was eating food and moving forward slowly following the traces. The evacuated evaluator he met told him that the tracking route was correct, and he was no longer in such a hurry. The other party seemed to have nothing.
People always remember him, even if he does, his position is below the quota.
In the evening, the Leonard family team stopped at the foot of the next mountain. They found a cave, lit a fire, and began to prepare for spending the night. Beside the fire, Russell and the others looked at the map and were guessing the exact location of the big lizard.
and make corresponding plans.
"You can shoot with a heavy machine gun first. The scales are a bit like reactive armor plates. This is why it was able to block the bombardment of the machine guns. Think about it, relying on its regeneration ability and speed, after the scales fall off, we are probably half
It takes a minute to bombard its body. Not too short, but not long either. After most of its scales fall off, it knows how to actively avoid attacks and wander around to look for opportunities."
"The defense mechanism is easy to break, but what about the attack? The main means of attack are the tongue and the surprisingly long tail. Both are very fast, and even we can barely react when the tongue pops out.
Everyone who is still alive now knows what the consequences will be if you are distracted, and that is a big threat."
"We have to find a way to destroy that tongue. The attack range is more than 20 meters. The five of us are pretty good, but it will be difficult for the others..."
The discussion ended in the middle of the night, and everyone, except those who were on guard and sentry, went to rest. Cassia lay down in the snow more than a thousand meters away and waited for dawn with them.
"According to their speed and route, it will probably be tomorrow." Cassia thought before closing her eyes.
The next day, about ten minutes after the Leonard family set off, Cassia sat up from the snow and followed. Not long after advancing, there was the reverberation of an explosion that was about to dissipate from the other direction, and all the ferocious creatures and half of the examiners gathered.
In the central area, it is indeed much more lively than in the outer areas.
During the day, Cassia kept the distance between the two very wide, keeping it ten kilometers away. After noon, when intensive gunshots and explosions rang out from the front, he suddenly increased his speed and quickly shortened the distance to
km.
The Leonard family team began to search for the target at noon. The large number of second-type creatures gathered around them allowed them to quickly find the big lizard. A defensive position was established on a high ground in advance, and all the traps for pre-embedded bombs were placed.
The mechanical detonation device was attached. When ready, Russell carried the single-shot artillery over. When he heard the sound of explosions in the distance, Russell came back again, followed by a group of second-type creatures.
"It's there, and there are still wounds on the body, which were caused recently. There must be other assessors who have encountered it in the past few days, but it helped us." Russell returned to the position and immediately picked up a heavy sniper rifle.
, shooting with several other people in the team who are good at using such firearms.
"Three seconds! Two seconds! One second! Detonate!" Venina looked ahead with a telescope. Following her calm command, dozens of people in the team pulled the thin alloy ropes on their hands at the same time, and then
In front of them, in the snow where a group of second-type creatures were running, more than a dozen fireballs quickly connected with the steam that vaporized in a short time, rising in the air to become a surging dark gray smoke cloud, which instantly froze into frost powder.
The steam made the smoke seem to condense in the cold. The surrounding snow was pushed down by tens of centimeters by the impact, and when a translucent air wave reached them, it was already a gust of icy cold wind.
A large group of second-category creatures were cut off in the middle, and the number of creatures that could still break out of the smoke and move forward suddenly dropped to less than a hundred within ten seconds.
"Fire the artillery! Connect the steel-cased bombs and flash grenades! Then attack freely!" Villani put down the telescope after saying that, and the eight artillery pieces were launched as the words fell. The orange tail dyed the snow red, and they rushed towards the second class.
The flames of the explosion turned into gunpowder smoke, and the space was immediately flooded by intense white light. The snow surface made the effect of the flash bomb even more intense, and the impact speed of the second-type creature was within 10 seconds.
Time slows down rapidly.
"Cluck, cluck," a strange cry came from a distance, and the remaining second-type creatures immediately turned around and retreated. Half of the Leonard family immediately broke away from the team and pursued them.
"Isn't it too late to think about taking command now?" Villani held a firecracker and surrounded the second-type creatures that were spreading out from the side. "The big lizard is nearby. Clean up all these creatures as soon as possible."
The creatures of the second category were quickly defeated under the intertwined firepower net. The examiners in the big family are all of very good standards. After the baptism of the battle that evening, those who can still stand here are very strong. The ordinary second category
With the cooperation and preparation of forty-seven people, the humanoids were not even able to break through the fire network. In the open area, they were just targets for these people to warm up.
The sound of whistling came at this time, and Villani ordered to return to the position immediately. A wave of snow was stirred up by the whistling, and it approached very quickly in a snake-like route. In the snow wave, a huge lizard with a length of more than ten meters ran on its hind legs.
, the two eyes are huge, and the bright red cross pupils penetrate the entire convex small half of the spherical eye, which is completely different from ordinary lizards.
The distance of less than a thousand meters was shortened to less than a hundred meters in just a few seconds. The big lizard was now on all fours on the ground, with its eyes locked in front of it. The scales on its body began to rhythm like waves from head to tail, turning from silvery white to deep red.
.The next moment, translucent air channels bombarded it with machine gun bullets.
The big lizard exploded in a small area on its body, but its speed actually became faster at this moment. A straight red stream opened, moving with a large string of explosions. When it was less than a few dozen meters away from the Leonard family,
The big lizard's body was ejected, breaking through the thin composite bulletproof plate, and came to the position.
"Spread out!" Villani shouted as he pulled away, but the tail with sharp spikes on both sides had already drawn out a huge arc, covering less than half of the position.
Several people were cut in half. The upper body that was still unconscious struggled in mid-air and turned into ice cubes. It landed on the ice with a crisp "clang" sound. The big lizard turned around with the power of its tail twisting back.
The bulging eyes rotated in all directions, and the moment they locked onto the target, there was a loud bang, and in the air, the pale pink tongue seemed to have never appeared at all, but it had already bitten off a person in its mouth.
There was an opening for the attack. Villani and Russell walked around to the side of the big lizard and directly used fire cannons to attack the part where a small part of the scales had fallen off, hoping to completely destroy it so that the scales could not grow back.
It just doesn't have time to aim at all. The big lizard's two eyes make its field of vision almost non-obvious. It can rotate half of the universal axis at will. It knows how to move its body in a small range to let the bullet hit the parts of its body that still have scales.
, the damaged part has been given enough recovery time.
The team surrounding the big lizard was quickly dispersed, and with the cry of "cluck", the remaining dozens of second-type creatures surrounded them and attacked the lone person.
Seeing this, Villani threw away the blunderbuss and shouted at Russell and others: "Russell, Kleist, Salita, Cherif, don't wait any longer, you must control its actions, otherwise you won't have any chance!
Others are looking for flaws in the surroundings, giving priority to attacking the eyes and the parts where the scales have fallen off!" As she spoke, Villani pulled out two short knives from her waist. After two or three seconds, the red heat caused the air around the blades to distort. And her hands
At the feet, the well-fitting cold-weather clothing was held up by muscles, and seemed to be stretched.
Finding an opportunity to get close to the big lizard, Villani waved his two swords, from its head to its tail in half a breath, and exploded in a small area, causing all the scales there to fall off. At this time, Villani also jumped up.
Get up, dodge the slashes coming from your original position, and slide away when you land.
On the other side, Russell and others looked for opportunities to get close from several directions at the same time. However, the scales destroyed by the cannon were very limited. Although the power of the scale explosion was not as powerful as the reinforced steel shell bomb, the combined power of the number and those comparable
The power of steel fragments is completely greater than that of steel shell bombs.
"Kleist!" Villani shouted as he approached again. He was the only one in the team who had completed the surgical development of full bone coverage. Only he could completely ignore the power of the explosion and the fragments.
Kalest, who was wearing glasses, responded, taking advantage of the opportunity of the other four to restrain the big lizard, and slashed at the big lizard's hind legs. The cold-proof clothes were instantly broken into pieces, and a large area of skin underneath was exposed, revealing that it had been hit by the fragments.
The exoskeleton is scratched with white marks.
Withstanding the impact of the explosion, Kleist then slashed horizontally. The red blade broke through the rough skin, and the flesh and blood immediately turned into charcoal, and the hard bones were also scorched yellow. The big lizard felt the pain and rolled its eyes.
Coming over, the crossed pupils locked it like a death aiming crosshair. The tail spun around, and Kleist immediately blocked the pneumatic weapon to his side.
In the "Boom Boom" explosion, Kleist was swept away and had no time to struggle. The moving big lizard had its head pointed at him. At this time, Villani and Cherif rushed over and attacked its eyes fiercely.
, and stopped the attack in time. After landing, Kleist immediately pulled out the spikes embedded in the exoskeleton, and rushed over again the next moment.
The big lizard's hind limbs were injured, and its flexibility had been significantly weakened in their eyes. Fearing that the terrifying regeneration ability was still effective in the body, the five people circled around again from all directions. Among the other family members who had eliminated most of the second-type creatures,
At this moment, a dozen people also drew out their pneumatic swords and joined the siege.
The regeneration speed of the scales could not keep up with the destruction speed of Villani and the others. At this time, the big lizard used its tail to push back the people around its hind limbs, and the remaining scales on its body began to move. With a "ta-da-da" sound,
All its scales stood up, the big lizard stood up, and its eyes closed instantly.
"Disperse," Russell shouted. Villani and others suddenly stopped on the spot and wanted to retreat, but detonating their own scales was not within their scope of consideration. In the battle that lasted for more than an hour that evening,
They did not observe this way of protecting themselves.
The next moment, successive explosions set off a storm on the big lizard, and the debris radiated in a radius of tens of meters.
"Bang!" The impact of the explosion just hit her, and before Villani even took her hand away from her eyes, a blast announcing death made her whole body tremble.
After pulling away, she saw that the big lizard in front of her was still standing. Except for the spikes on its tail, all the scales on its body had fallen off, revealing a layer of tan skin full of blood. And its mouth was biting Clay fiercely.
St, the huge bite force caused the sharp teeth to sink into the exoskeleton.
"Attack! Attack!" Villani shouted at this time, ignoring the broken scales embedded in his body, and directly threw the two knives out and inserted them into the belly of the big lizard.
Feeling the pain, the big lizard made a sharp "gurgling" sound. When it looked at Villani with half-open eyes, it opened its mouth slightly and threw Kleist into the air. The next moment, his tongue caught it and hit him.
On Kleist's body, Kleist was blown away in an explosion of air.
"Two of you go, the others seize the opportunity!" Villani ran and picked up a firecracker and poured bullets directly at the running big lizard. "The regeneration speed is faster than expected, less than twenty seconds."
The two people on the edge rushed towards the direction of Kleist's landing, and the remaining people all chased the big lizard. This was their only chance. When the scales grew back, they would repeat the attack again and again.
.
On the other side, Kleist fell into the snow and rolled for an unknown distance before he stopped. He coughed out a few mouthfuls of blood before he felt better, but his head was still groggy, even though the exoskeleton had helped him relieve the pain.
Although most of the impact was lost, the internal organs were still seriously injured.
He struggled to stand up, but one word made his body stiffen.
"Mr. Kleist, you seem to need help?" Cassia stood up from the snow and said calmly. (To be continued)