Reserve Officer 1st Class? Tang Yan couldn't help but slander the Yunmeng mercenary group in his heart, and some of them used (pretending) too much (X) (head).

"Hey, isn't the main area of activity of the Yunmeng Mercenary Group between the south of Jicheng and the Langya Settlement? How did you get here? Tang Yan had a surprised expression on his face, just like someone who didn't know that he would meet the Yunmeng Mercenary Group beforehand.

"This ......" Juniper did not answer this question directly: "In short, thank you very much to Deputy Head Tang for his help." ”

"It's hard work, why worry about it." Tang Yan waved his hand very casually.

At this time, there was another person in the crowd of the Yunmeng mercenary group, who was not wearing power armor, and was in his thirties in appearance, much older than Juniper.

After the man came over, he glanced at the dog meat, and said in a voice full of concern: "In a dangerous place like Hulu Valley, Deputy Head Tang should bring more people over." ”

"It's okay, I just want to come here to do a preliminary reconnaissance, I saw the mutant two-headed deer group being frightened and running out, and I heard the gunfire of you fighting with the living corpses, so I went deep into the mountain environment to meet you."

"Zhang Tonglin, deputy captain of the stunting team." The man smiled and held out his hand.

Tang Yan shook hands with him politely.

"Pre-reconnaissance? Is Deputy Head Tang coming here to hunt fierce beasts? ”

Tang Yan shook his head, didn't make excuses to prevaricate, and chose to tell the truth: "I'm sure you've also heard that a few days ago, Gem City was attacked by the Razorman, Shinrikyo, and Black Saints coalition forces, and Comrade Jiao injured the key logic processor in the battle. I heard that there might be a pre-war military facility hidden in the Gourd Valley, and I thought maybe there was some stock in it, so I came here to try my luck. ”

"Judging by the outfit on the living corpse, the rumors should be true." He said, glancing at the corpse lying in front of him.

Juniper and Zhang Tonglin's faces changed slightly.

Tang Yan was keenly aware of their mood changes, but he didn't say anything, nor did he ask why these people had entered the peninsula.

He was sure of one thing------ although the Yunmeng Mercenary Group had a good relationship with the people of the Jicheng Management Committee, in terms of their attitude towards the panda people, if there was no conflict of interest, there was a high probability that they would not turn their faces on the spot.

After all, Gem City has not yet torn its face with Jicheng, and the Jicheng Committee is not monolithic. What's more, the Yunmeng Mercenary Regiment is a commercial military organization, and it has no grudges with the Panda People Legion in the past or in the near future, so there is no need to ask for trouble.

In short, Tang Yan regarded the Yunmeng mercenary group as a thorn in his side because of Tan Zhen's past experience. The other party is not the roundworm in his heart, knowing that he has already classified the Yunmeng mercenary group into the sequence to be killed, and under the premise that there is no direct conflict of interest, Zhang Tonglin and the others are of course unwilling to unite with the panda army.

Tang Yan's rhetoric is traceable, reasonable, and shrewd as Zhang Tonglin, and it is impossible to detect the killing intent surging in his heart from the conversation.

Of course, he wouldn't do it now, he was curious about why the people from the Yunmeng Mercenary Group came to Hulu Valley.

"Captain...... The captain ...... "At this time, a soldier with a portable radio station walked out of the rear crowd, pulled Zhang Tonglin aside and whispered a few words.

Tang Yan didn't move, and when the two ended talking, Zhang Tonglin said in a concerned tone when he returned to him: "What's wrong?" ”

Zhang Tonglin pondered for a while and said: "In fact, there are more than 50 soldiers from the Yunmeng Mercenary Group who came to Hulu Valley, and not long after entering Hulu Valley, they were scattered due to the attack of a cluster of living corpses...... I was worried about the safety of the captain and the others. ”

Tang Yan thought for a while and said, "That's it, since what you have to do now is to find your lost teammates, and my purpose is to go to the gourd valley to investigate, it is better for everyone to go together and take care of each other." ”

Zhang Tonglin said the word "good" without thinking.

In fact, when he said the above paragraph, he was ready to invite Tang Yan to accompany him, and now that the other party proposes to take action, he is naturally happy to see it come true.

The set of advanced power armor that can be seen at a glance, and a machine gun------ that's a machine gun, it's a cannon! IT WASN'T THE 5.56MM GATLING MACHINE GUN THAT HIS TEAMMATES WERE CARRYING, AND THE DAMAGE THEY COULD DO WAS NOT OF THE SAME MAGNITUDE AT ALL.

And that hideous-looking mutant dog that can bite even glowing zombies to death.

To put it bluntly, the combat power exerted by Tang Yan's combination with the mutant dog was almost comparable to that of their 15-person squad.

"Let's go, let's go to the place where you separated." After saying this, Tang Yan walked to the side and picked up a glowing living corpse with a severed arm, and smeared a large cloud of green bodily fluid on a tree at the edge of the woodland.

Zhang Tonglin went there to issue a new order, and Juniper was puzzled by his behavior and asked him why he did it.

Tang Yan's answer was based on the information about the gourd valley collected by the bounty hunters who were active in the peninsula area, and there were occasional strong magnetic fields in the valley, which would have a serious impact on the guide equipment, and it was also safe to mark them with the bodily fluids of the glowing living corpses, so as not to become a lost lamb.

After setting a new mission goal, Zhang Tonglin led everyone to the north.

Tang Yan followed on the side, and the dog meat hung between him and the Yunmeng mercenary group, not being a pioneer like before.

In the process of moving forward, Zhang Tonglin briefly told him what happened to them.

This is also a question that Tang Yan has been puzzled about.

More than 50 people from the Yunmeng mercenary group have entered the peninsula area, and the number of living corpses must be at least 150 or more to disperse these elite soldiers.

Are there so many living corpses in Gourd Valley?

You must know that the relationship between living corpses and mutant beasts is not very friendly, and in a normal environment, the two will never stop fighting to the death, but Hulu Valley is a famous area for fierce beast activities, will they tolerate the existence of a large number of living corpses?

Zhang Tonglin said that the living corpses that defeated them were not only luminous living corpses and ordinary living corpses, but also a giant living corpse with a height of nearly 4 meters. That thing has strong defenses and high self-healing power, not to mention that ordinary assault rifles are difficult to injure, and even anti-materiel sniper rifles equipped with sub-caliber shelling and armor-piercing shells cannot penetrate its body.

It was under the charge of the giant living corpses and the glowing living corpses that their people had to choose to temporarily avoid the front and flee in three groups.

Giant living corpses......

Tang Yan remembered an incident circulating in Gem City, it was said that a bounty hunter had seen a giant living corpse with fat arms and a head almost retracted into his chest when he was hunting mutant two-headed deer on the outskirts of Gourd Valley.

Considering the power of the sub-caliber shell-piercing shells fired by the anti-materiel sniper rifle, he was not really sure whether the machine gun would be able to kill the giant living corpse.

I don't know if it was because of the large number of living corpses, or if the gunfight frightened the creatures in the valley, but they were quiet all the way north, and they didn't even encounter a mutant dog.

The place where the Yunmeng mercenary group was attacked was on the edge of a dense forest, and judging from the traces left at the scene, it seemed that they were attacked by living corpses lying in ambush behind the trees.

He couldn't be sure if the conflict between the Yunmeng mercenary group and the living corpses was an encounter, or if the giant living corpse had a high IQ and could communicate with the living corpses like ghouls, and their hiding in the jungle was to fight an ambush.

If it's the former, it's fine, but if it's the latter, it's not good.

There were dozens of corpses in front of the dense forest, most of them alive, and only five or six soldiers of the Yunmeng mercenary group died.

Zhang Tonglin walked around the battlefield, pointed to the shadow on the lower side of the mountain and said, "I remember that the captain led people to withdraw over there. ”

"Let's go." Tang Yan didn't say anything, and walked in the direction pointed out by Zhang Tonglin with a machine gun.

After about 20 minutes of walking over the ridge in front of him, he stopped in a flat area and looked at the scene with a cold face.

Zhang Tonglin walked to his side from behind and stood still, seeing that the face of the thing in the ditch in front of him changed, he didn't care about saying anything, he jumped down from the bluestone and walked briskly forward.

There were seven corpses in the ditch, all of them were members of the Yunmeng Mercenary Group, and there were no living corpses.

Tang Yan glanced at the way he came, jumped down with a frown, and walked to the corpses to examine them one by one.

Kong Qingxi, Yan Yong, Fei Wenwen...... The captain is not here, the captain is not here......"

At this time, Juniper and the others, who were walking in the rear, also saw the scene in the ditch, and their faces were not very good-looking.

The Yunmeng mercenary group came to Hulu Valley with a total of 51 soldiers, and now they didn't even find Mao Er, so they left more than a dozen corpses in one go. It is really a fierce place as rumored by the outside world.

Jun Song, Zhang Tonglin and others all focused on the identity of the deceased, Tang Yan was different, he walked to the corpse of the soldier in P-43 power armor and squatted down, groped for a while with the help of the light of the searchlight, and pushed the corpse by the shoulder.

The soldier rolled over, revealing a hole in the belly of the P-43 power armor.

A mixture of plasma and minced meat is attached to it.

Just like the corpse I saw before, judging from the wounds, they were not caused by ordinary living corpses, and I don't think that giant living corpses would have left such wounds.

There were traces of a fight at the scene, and the degree was very deep, and there was a mess around it. However, there were only the corpses of the soldiers of the Yunmeng Mercenary Regiment in the range, and there were no living corpses.

Could it be that the giant living corpse is wise enough to collect the corpses of his companions?

Woo......

There was a low whimper of dog meat next to it.

He glanced up at it, his gaze changed, and he yelled no, get out of the way.

A blue flame shot out from behind the Son of Keha's power armor, his feet were a little on the ground, and his body jumped out of the ditch several times in succession.

At the same time as he dodged, dust rose from the ditch under the night.

Along with the dust, there are also objects that glow with a faint cold light.

Yes......

A terrible scream rang out.

Coming from a place not far from where Tang Yan was just now, the man was picking off the watch worn by his companion's corpse------ an object that shone with a faint cold light pierced his back.

Yes......

Another scream rang out.

The voice is somewhat familiar, because it comes from Zhang Tonglin.

Tang Yan turned his head to look and saw the vice captain of the stunning team lying crooked in a pool of blood, his feet and legs separated. The culprit for this result was a large black claw.

Although Juniper was wearing heavy P-43 power armor, he climbed the dirt slope as soon as he heard Tang Yan's greeting and escaped the disaster, and now he saw that the vice captain was deprived of one foot, and he wanted to go down to rescue but didn't dare to go down to rescue, and the expression on his face was very complicated.

"Radscorpion...... Radscorpion ...... It's a radscorpion ......," someone shouted at the point of pointing to something in the ditch.

"Ah...... Yes...... Help me......"

Several more screams came from the bottom of the ditch, from people who did not heed Tang Yan's advice in time.

Although the night was dark, the sparse starlight still illuminated the appearance of the enemy.

As the soft clods of earth continued to roll down, a scorpion face completely wrapped in heavy armor was revealed behind the huge claws, and the black eyes of ten small two large and three rows above the sharp mouthparts revealed a violent and evil temperament.

Dada......

The flames of the expanding muzzles and the swift rays of the earth diluted the darkness of the night.

The soldiers of the Yunmeng Mercenary Regiment standing outside the earthen ditch immediately broke through the soil layer and opened fire to the radscorpion that revealed its hideous face.

The sound of guns and the popping of bullets into the earth continued, and the dust rose into the air like a spring.

Some bullets missed, and some missed. However, the bullets hit the radscorpion's body with a thumping sound, and did not bring any real effect.

Assault rifles and submachine guns can't even break through the casing of the radscorpion.

Fortunately, the continuous shooting slowed down the attack speed of the radscorpion, and the two soldiers pulled Zhang Tonglin, who had broken a foot and had his shoulder cut by the clawers, to climb from the bottom of the ditch to the outside of the ditch.

At this time, Tang Yan was thinking about a question.

This was the first time he had encountered a radscorpion, though in terms of attack patterns, they had something in common with mirelurks. For example, they lurk underground or in the water, waiting for the enemy to approach and then attack, and the weapon is a claw that can cut off human hands and feet.

However, the most obvious difference between radscorpions and mirelurks is that their intelligence level is much higher.

Judging from the encounter in the ditch, they deliberately waited next to the corpse of the soldiers of the Yunmeng Mercenary Group, and in order to make the trap not easy to be seen, they did not even share the corpses of the soldiers of the Yunmeng Mercenary Group, and patiently waited for the prey behind to enter the trap.

Wisdom, endurance, calmness, teamwork...... They all have the traits that these High Hunters have.

On the other hand, radscorpions' shells are also stronger than mirelurks.

"Tang Yan, what are you doing? That thing is coming towards you......" Juniper kindly reminded from the other side of the ditch.

Boom, boom......

The moment Tang Yan came back to his senses, two flames broke out in the ditch, and the green smoke quickly drummed outward.

I don't know who threw two grenades down there.

The detonation was transmitted to the soil layers on both sides, causing a certain area of landslide, and a soldier was unable to dodge and slide into the earth ditch.

"Jiang Qinghua, how did you lose the grenade?"

Tang Yan didn't care what the people from the Yunmeng mercenary group said, because a radscorpion rushed out of the ditch with surprising sensitivity and had already come three meters in front of him.

The radscorpion's tail was raised high, and a faint cold light flashed towards the stinging needle that had narrowed at the end.