Chapter 51: Footprints
Everyone remained silent, partly because of the suspicion that there was a substance in the mist that could affect the human brain, so all members of the reconnaissance team carried cylinders on their backs, wore breathing masks, and wrapped their bodies tightly in biohazard suits. There is an intercom device in the respirator mask, but it is quite inconvenient to speak.
On the other hand, it is because of the tragic situation at the scene.
Many things were still burning, most of them were the trunks of the trees, and the thin branches were all gone.
A charred corpse was scattered and lay to the ground. Some of the corpses clutched their throats with their hands, as if they were suffocating from breathlessness, but many more were clearly burned alive, still maintaining their last-minute movements, their bodies twisted by fear and the excruciating pain of the burning, flesh bursting open, flowing on the ground only to be evaporated by the heat, leaving only red powdery remains.
They quickly advanced in the direction of the village, and halfway through Sun Yang saw the mortar position from a distance, there was a large crater in the ground, which was supposed to be the traces left by the shells detonated by the high temperature. The mortar was **** far away from the impact of the explosion, some parts had been burned to soften and deform, and the armored car was also ignited, and the tables and chairs that were originally placed there were gone.
Sun Yang remembered the long silence and hesitation before Meng Yang gave the order, as a father, of course, he couldn't believe that his son was dead because of the words of a stranger like Sun Yang, but in order to destroy the monster in the mist, he finally gave the order.
He had no way to comprehend the pain in Meng Xuan's heart at that time, but after seeing these corpses, he suddenly understood, and had a strong desire to kill that thing in the mist.
"Debriefing." Meng Xuan's dull voice came from the earphones. While all members of the reconnaissance team have wireless cameras on their helmets, many things are not visible in the video.
"No survivors were found, no suspicious targets were found." Zhang Jiang, the leader of the reconnaissance team, said in a low voice. He was a professional soldier, not very tall, but very strong.
"Sun Yang?" Meng Miao asked.
"I didn't see any obvious ghosts or demonic spirits." Sun Yang replied that this was the only reason why Meng Miao agreed to let him join the investigation team.
"Keep going." Meng Xuan ordered.
They walked the other way towards the village, the epicenter of the missile attack and the explosion of the cloudburst bombs, everything almost reduced to pieces, and nothing could be seen. All that remained of the previous forest was a burning stake, and the village had been almost completely razed.
"Enable the thermal imaging equipment." Zhang Jiang said in a low voice.
Two soldiers dropped the equipment from their helmets and put them on their faces, while the others remained on alert, everything seemed too calm, as if the thing had been wiped out.
"I can't see anything." They whispered.
"Be careful, it's moving very fast!" Sun Yang said to them. The previous overlay bombardment was easily avoided by it in his memory.
"Keep going." Zhang Jiang said softly.
The six men were scattered into two triangles, and carefully walked forward with the two of them as the center.
The thick dust from the explosion was like a layer of snow, leaving a deep footprint with each step taken.
They made their way along what was supposed to be the main road for the village on the map, but nothing happened, nothing suspicious, and nothing unusual was seen in the thermal imaging equipment.
"Has that thing been wiped out?" A staff officer couldn't help but say.
Perhaps the most terrifying thing about the cloudburst bomb is not only the shock wave, temperature field, and fragmentation erosion that far exceeds that of ordinary bombs, but also the fact that the cloudburst consumes a large amount of oxygen during its explosion, thus creating a large area of hypoxia in the target area. Where cloudburst bombs are bombarded, even those who are hiding in fortifications and are not killed by the shock wave are often suffocated to death.
The subject was previously determined to be a youkai of some kind, which means that it should have some biological characteristics, and the need for oxygen to breathe may be one of them.
Meng Miao couldn't be so optimistic.
Normally, clouds are formed by tiny water droplets suspended in the air, and if the target is dead, the heat released by the explosion of the cloudburst should have evaporated the water in the target area, allowing the fog to dissipate.
But now, although the fog has stopped spreading, it shows no signs of dissipating, which may indicate that the target has not been fatally hit.
In this case, there is no longer much point in continuing to use similar large-area assault weapons. He was faced with two options, either to continue to increase the power of the bombs he used, or even to mount tactical nuclear bombs; Either they can only provide more detailed coordinates, improve the accuracy of the strike, and let more explosives cover the target, instead of bombing a wide area again and again.
In contrast, he chose the latter with too many after-effects of the use of nuclear bombs, which could even have serious political consequences.
Meng Miao's hand was tightly grasping a satellite phone, and the two attack planes had already set sail, waiting for specific coordinates, and once they found the target or were attacked, within 30 seconds, four cluster bombs with armor-piercing warheads could immediately carry out a fixed-point attack. If the target is hiding deep underground, the two Ground-Penetrating Bombs can also bring it to destruction.
The GPS device they were carrying was the location of the target.
It's not just a job assignment, it's revenge.
Sun Yang and the others didn't know Meng Xuan's plans at all, they were all ready to sacrifice at any time, but that didn't mean that they were willing to die at the hands of their own people.
"Wait a minute!" As they passed through the ruins, Sun Yang suddenly felt that something was wrong.
Zhang Jiang and the others immediately stopped and vigilantly pointed their guns at the surroundings.
Nothing.
"What did you find?" Meng Xuan asked, unable to see anything on the screen.
"Did you see that? ...... over there," Sun Yang said softly.
It was difficult to make out through the shield, but Zhang Jiang still saw a line of shallow footprints on the dust not far away. The dust was so thick that each of them would form a deep footprint when they stepped on it, but this line of footprints was only lightly touched on the surface of the dust, and if you didn't look closely, you couldn't see it at all.
At first, it was a thin canine-like claw mark, but after a few steps out, it turned into a small footprint, a woman's footprint.
A soldier rummaged through the places where the footprints appeared with a shovel he carried with him, and soon found a small cave, very deep, and shining a tactical flashlight into it, and the bottom of the hole was not visible.
Zhang Jiang quickly followed the line of footprints, and it suddenly deepened somewhere, and then disappeared.
"What's going on?" A staff officer muttered.
"She jumped!" Lu Xiaoling said suddenly.
Sun Yang soon found traces of landing on the dust more than ten meters away, followed by several footprints with a large span, indicating that she seemed to have started to run. After about a dozen steps, another deep footprint, she must have jumped high again.
Sun Yang didn't follow the traces of its movements, his eyes looked in the direction of the footprints.
A chill that penetrated deep into his bone marrow suddenly rushed into his body.
"Run!" He exclaimed. "Run! She's gone to your side!! ”