Chapter 137: Anomaly
Night finally fell completely at the moment when the troops were assembled.
The heavy rain during the day exhausted the heavy cumulus clouds, and there was only a thin twilight of the dark blue sky, with brilliant stars and a purple moon.
In the former civilization, if it was a brilliant starry sky, there would not be a bright moonlight.
But in this era, the purple moon is like the most responsible guard, no matter what kind of night it is, it will always appear as usual, like a watch.
"It's a nice day." Tang Ling thought so, and in front of him, an elite warrior was kissing his weapon, a folding spear, and muttering prayers in his mouth.
At this time, the plan of action of the entire team has been announced, and the troops are about to set off.
Who knows how many lives will be lost in tonight's battle? Prayer seems to be the only consolation.
But does it work? Tang Ling didn't believe in anything ethereal, all he was interested in was that the commander-in-chief of tonight's operation turned out to be Ralph.
On the same day, he conducted the first assessment, and during the bloody iron cage battle, the Purple Moon Detachment Captain who was responsible for maintaining order.
Now, in less than two months, they have to fight side by side.
Life is impermanent.
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Friday, July 11th, 2177.
22:16. It had only been two hours since the departure of the team, and the sudden chill had already enveloped the night.
There is no more sweltering heat of summer nights, just the bone-chilling cold wind blowing through the searchlit warehouse area.
Under the illumination of the light, the warehouse area with a ruined wall and standing on the ruined battlefield is delicate, and a total of 37 small warehouses in the shape of a rectangle are like rows of boxes.
One can't help but wonder what's in these boxes?
At the edge of the northwest corner of the warehouse area, warehouse No. 19.
In the densely populated warehouse area, it is only a small warehouse, with the same rectangular shape, perhaps because of the storage of items that need ventilation, and at the top of the roof, there are rows of narrow windows.
Time passes.
Even if the warehouse was close to the Ten Thousand Energy Stone, it was already slightly dilapidated, and the night wind blew through the narrow windows, making the edges of the windows 'creak'.
'Whew', Tang Ling gasped slightly, even such a cold night breeze couldn't reduce the heat brought by the strenuous activity in his body.
The hot sweat on his forehead only instantly formed beads of sweat and rolled down from the corners of his eyes.
"Andy, take three steps back to the left." Some hoarse voices came from Tang Ling's throat, and at the moment of shouting, he had already rushed out.
With a leaping step, he directly crossed a distance of more than three meters, and before he landed, his body stopped suddenly, and with a turn, the C-level alloy long knife swung out...
A series of black, slightly viscous blood rose up, and a corpse on Andy's left suddenly stopped moving, and the next moment the head and neck separated, and the shriveled head fell to the ground, gurgling out of a distance of four or five meters.
"Thank you." Andy was a little shocked, but Tang Ling pulled Andy behind him and said, "Something is wrong..."
Before he finished speaking, Tang Ling's face changed, and he pulled Andy to lean over suddenly, and a mutant corpse with a slightly deformed body and extremely strong jumping ability, a first-level creeper, crossed over from above their bodies, almost against their scalps.
"My mistake." Yu's voice came, and the next moment Yu also crossed over Tang Ling and Andy's bodies, and his right hand with a metallic luster grabbed the back of the crawler who had just stopped, and with five fingers into the flesh, he lifted it hard, and pulled off the spine of this first-level creeper.
The creeper struggled twice and then stopped moving.
Covered in black blood, Vivian ran out of a corner with rags, kicked the creeper lying on his stomach, and then quickly and skillfully disemboweled, searching for the creeper's heart.
A slightly fouled crystal was gouged out of the creeper's heart.
Vivian threw the crystals at Tang Ling.
Tang Ling took the crystal and didn't look at it, so he stuffed it into the small leather bag he was carrying, and at this time, Auston and Amir also ran over from the southeast corner with Christina, all panting and covered in black blood.
"Is there still water?" Auston ran straight to Tang Ling's side and asked loudly before he could sit down.
Tang Ling threw a water bag to Auston and reminded: "There is not much water, remember to wipe your hands, don't drink the blood of the corpse." It's hard to guarantee that there are no deadly fungi inside. ”
Auston poured a few mouthfuls of water, threw the water bag back to Tang Ling, and said directly: "You can still take care of these?" What do you think? Can I get out of the north side of the warehouse? ”
Andy lowered his head a little decadently, his expression already indicating that the situation was not good.
The northern exit of the warehouse has been completely sealed, and at least a thousand corpses have gathered there.
Looking at Andy's expression, Auston burst out with a foul speech and kicked the mutilated body of a corpse at his feet.
"Save a little energy." Looking at Auston's actions, Tang Ling frowned slightly, leaned against the corner, and seized the time to recover his strength.
"What about the savings? We're going to have to die here sooner or later. Choose, do you want to be a corpse and live, or do you want to end yourself completely at the last moment. Auston said with a sneer.
Through the broken window of the warehouse, you can still see the purple moon and stars in the night sky, and the distance that seems to be within reach has become a moat that seems to be insurmountable.
It's no wonder that Auston is so depressed.
The battle has been out of its original 'orbit' since more than an hour ago! No one expected that in this northwest corner, the so-called safest area closest to the exit of the warehouse, there would be so many densely packed corpses that could not be killed.
Originally, it wasn't like that.
The whole plan of action is very clear, with ten Purple Moon warriors forming the 'vanguard' to clean up and lure away all the corpses wandering outside the warehouse.
The entire warehouse area was then divided into twelve zones.
The 100-man elite regiment, the 1st Reserve Battalion, and the 100-man team of soldiers who were on duty tonight were in charge of these twelve areas of different sizes.
The purpose of the mission is simply to clean up the warehouse and all the corpses around it.
Two squads from the 1st Reserve Battalion participated, and the area they were responsible for was the safest area in the world.
Just in the northwest corner of the exit of the entire warehouse area, it is formed by three relatively small warehouses.
Among them, the Pinnacle team is responsible for two warehouses, and the Raptors team is only responsible for one of them.
When encountering an invincible mutant corpse, such as the Iron Slayer, the Five Elements Evolutionary, etc., you can send out signal flares, and naturally the Purple Moon Warriors will come to support.
The Raptors team's initial operations were exceptionally smooth.
Almost without hindrance, they entered the designated Warehouse 19.
In this warehouse, there are about 400 corpses, which is the number determined by Andy.
After all, his movements were the fastest and his actions were the most agile, so Tang Ling arranged for him to go to investigate first.
There are more than 400 corpses, which is a safe number for the Raptors team, and when he learned this answer, Tang Ling still wondered if he was too careful?
In this way, there is no need for superfluous arrangements, and the Raptors team directly slaughtered into the warehouse.
If it goes well, the more than 400 corpses can be cleaned up in less than an hour, and the Raptors team can exit the battlefield.
But the truth is that it was only the first forty minutes that went smoothly, and since then, the small No. 19 warehouse has been surrounded by a sea of corpses.