Chapter Forty-Eight: The Mystery Left Behind in the Laboratory
A large and heavily armed force galloped through the woods without pause, apparently familiar with the route.
Until they reached a large open lawn, the convoy set up in an orderly formation, divided into eight groups and fanned against a slightly higher dirt slope.
I saw a person walking out of each of the two cars facing the slope and head, it was the night owl and the lone wolf.
The two of them glanced at each other, and then they both took out the palm-sized remote control that was placed close to their bodies and merged the two into one.
The red light on the remote control lit up, then flashed rapidly as if it was verifying the data, and after about half a minute, the red light turned solid green.
Seeing this, the night stalker did not hesitate to take a picture of the only button on the remote control.
The earth slope separates from it and slowly sinks beneath the ground, revealing an entrance nearly twenty meters wide.
With the opening of the gate, the ground trembled slightly, but when the gate was fully opened, the trembling of the ground did not stop, but intensified.
The faces of the night owl and the lone wolf changed at the same time.
"Defensive formation! Move fast! ”
In fact, needless to say, the movements of all people are extremely fast and methodical, which shows that this unit is indeed well-trained.
"It's definitely that kind of monster, but it's ...... number of sounds," the night owl on the side was a little surprised.
At this moment, the monsters appeared in everyone's sight along the path, approaching quickly.
"Fire!" At the moment when the monster entered range, the lone wolf gave the order to attack.
The heavy machine guns in the position immediately spat out long tongues of fire, and the monsters directly in front of them were wounded one after another, and began to appear dead and wounded.
When the distance between the two sides shortened again, the monsters were hit head-on by rockets from the position, and under the suppression of the fire of the two heavy weapons, the monsters could not advance at all except for increasing the number of deaths.
After a moment of stalemate, the monster stopped attacking head-on, but began to burrow into the woods on both sides of the road.
Seeing this scene, the lone wolf sneered: "What about the large number? Not a rabble yet! Skynet Group D and Skynet Group H ignited the woods on both sides. ”
I saw the six cars guarding the wings move to the edge of the woods, show the flamethrowers equipped on the body, and quickly build a wall of fire.
Subsequently, the vehicle returned to the team and was ready for battle.
At this moment, a huge figure slowly appeared on the road that had been empty because the monster had burrowed into the woods.
"Oh! My God! What is it? ”
"How can there be such a big monster? How can we get through? ”
The psychological impact of the boss-level monsters on these mercenaries is huge, even if their hands are covered with blood and they kill monsters without mercy, but at this time, they can't help but be afraid.
Even the lone wolf, who had been commanding calmly, couldn't help but change his face when he saw this leader-level monster that he hadn't encountered before.
"Listen to all! Maintain formation and retreat to the door of the lab. The lone wolf ordered.
"Wait a minute, lone wolf." The night owl, who was originally watching the lone wolf command, heard it and hurriedly said to the lone wolf. "We don't know the situation inside, it's too unwise to go in without permission, and now it's better for us to retreat from the flank strategy in this formation."
"Don't forget, Night Stalker, our mission is to monitor the laboratory, and now that the laboratory is out of touch, and we are making such a big move here, the risk of laboratory exposure has greatly increased, and we must immediately find out the situation and report it to the general to determine what we should do next. If we evacuate now, we will most likely not have time to come back and do the investigation and clean-up before anyone else finds out. Then you know what will happen to us! The lone wolf said to the night stalker with a warning hint.
The night stalker suddenly slapped himself on the neck, then looked down at the palm of his hand.
"What's wrong with you?" The lone wolf wondered.
"It's fine!" The night owl put down his hand, and he looked up at the lone wolf and said, "That's right, you're right! ”
Seeing that the night owl agreed, the lone wolf turned and got into his car.
The Night Stalker also returned to his car.
"Listen, if the situation is not right in a moment, listen to my orders, and we will evacuate from the northeast." The Night Stalker said to the three men in the car.
"What? Top dog? Is it that serious? One of them asked.
"The situation is not very optimistic, you just need to be smart." The Night Stalker said no more.
The boss-level monster began to charge towards the laboratory, and behind it, the monsters that had been hiding in the woods to make way for it reappeared, returned to the path, and began to run wildly.
"Group A, Group E, go into the laboratory, clear the retreat for the others, and the rest of the people, fire with all your might!" The lone wolf shouted.
As soon as the words fell, they heard the sound of gunfire, and the frightened soldiers urgently needed to use the guns in their hands to bring them a sense of security and vent the fear in their hearts.
Machine guns, heavy machine guns, and rockets hit the boss-level monster like a torrential rain, and the boss-level monster screamed in pain, but if you look closely, you will find that the wounds on the boss-level monster are constantly healing at a speed visible to the naked eye, to a certain extent, the same speed as the damage caused to it.
"All of you go to the lab!" Seeing the leader-level monster rushing unstoppably, the lone wolf gave the order to guard the laboratory.
"Lone wolf, you take everyone to go first, and I'll break it off." The night owl shouted.
The lone wolf did not doubt him, and commanded the troops to enter the laboratory first.
On the other hand, the night owl pretended to organize the retreat of the troops that fought and retreated, while waiting for an opportunity to move.
Suddenly, there was a loud burst of gunfire in the laboratory, mixed with the loud shouts of the soldiers: "Be careful! There's a monster ambush inside! ”
Hearing the warning, the night owl did not hesitate any longer, and slapped the car hard, urging his men.
"Let's go!"
The men who had been prepared immediately steered the car, and the Humvee drove a long distance in a matter of moments like an arrow from a string.
The Night Stalker's imminent escape caused a flaw in the defensive formation, and caused panic among the rest of the soldiers, and the soldiers who reacted subconsciously wanted to follow the Night Stalker.
The firepower that suppressed the boss-level monster weakened instantly, and the boss-level monster that had suddenly subsided let out a long roar, and the speed of its advance increased significantly, and the distance between it and the soldiers was less than a hundred meters in the blink of an eye.
After entering the laboratory, the soldiers who encountered the monster ambush were forced to evacuate outside, but the outside of the laboratory lost their command, the exit was a mess, and no one organized to make way for the retreating troops, and when the lone wolf led the troops to forcibly rush out, the monster army was already in front of them.
The lone wolf, who saw the scene outside the lab, was furious, and when he saw the night owl driving away, it was not clear what was happening.
The lone wolf who was in a desperate situation was full of resentment, seeing that most of the brothers around him who had been born and died with him were not lucky today, the lone wolf grabbed the bazooka on the car, and the car aimed at the night owl was a rocket.
The rockets trailed the long flaming tail after the Humvee, and the night stalker realized that something was wrong, and jumped out of the car with a greeting. The three men were warned and were ready to abandon the car and flee for their lives, but the driver was blown into flames along with the car because he was delayed by unfastening his seat belt.
The night owl didn't even bat at the dead man, and the figure disappeared in a flash, burrowing into the woods and escaping.
Two cars that had fled with the night owls slammed their steering wheels to avoid the flames, but they crashed into trees on the side of the road because they were too fast.
The flames of the explosion attracted the attention of many monsters, and they moved closer in that direction.
The surviving soldiers in the two vehicles had not yet recovered from the impact before they became food for the monsters.
Having wiped out the humans around the lab, the monster entrenched at the door of the lab, as if waiting for something.
Gradually, the picture began to appear dotted, then the picture distorted, and finally the screen blurred, and no image could be seen again.
The general, who was sitting in the chair, turned off the screen, turned his head to the officer standing next to him and said, "Have you seen all the videos?" Only this paragraph has to do with monsters? ”
"Yes General." The young general who led the team before replied.
"It can't be! If the mutation had spread from a laboratory, how could there have been no signs of it before? The general said gloomily.
"Maybe there is, but we can't see it."
"Huh? Caesar, what do you mean by that? The general asked.
"At that time, the equipment where the monitoring archive was stored was not damaged in any way, and we successfully retrieved all the data, but in the process of reviewing, we found that from April 8 to the time we destroyed the laboratory, the video surveillance inside the entire laboratory did not record any useful information at all. Caesar replied.
"You're saying that someone inside the lab was trying to hide something, so the records were artificially blocked?" The general's eyes were sharp.
"Judging from Dr. Brad's work log, it is very likely that on the night of the 7th, Dr. Brad had a record of entering and leaving, accompanied by a convoy of transports, the exact direction of which is unknown, and returned after more than three hours. After that, the internal video surveillance signal is strongly disturbed, making it impossible to see. Since that day, the research recorded in Brad's work diary has advanced by leaps and bounds. Caesar reported.
"Brad did all this? But if it's him, there's no need to leave such an obvious clue as the work log? Moreover, Brad is only responsible for biochemical research, and Kog is the real person in charge of the underground research institute, and it is impossible for Brad to hide these actions from Kog. Could it be that Corg betrayed me? Absolutely not, Kog's loyalty is unquestionable. But if the suspicion of these two most critical people is eliminated, who else can do this? Also, what exactly did Brad bring back? Where did you get it? Is it to stop the surveillance just to cover up that thing? If all this is premeditated, it means that this laboratory of mine has long been exposed, then the other party used my resources to help them do research in order to occupy the magpie's nest? Or is the other party's purpose to use the laboratory as the location of this incident? How much does the other party know about me, and does it know that I have a relationship with the laboratory? Damn it! There are so many things to figure out! The general's eyes seemed to be covered with a layer of fog, and he couldn't see the truth hidden behind him.
"If it's okay, you go down first." After thinking to no avail, the general frowned and waved his hand at Caesar.
Caesar was about to say something, but he opened his mouth, swallowed it back, and turned to leave.
His appearance fell into the eyes of the general, so the general stopped him again: "Wait a minute, Caesar, do you still have something to say to me?" ”
Caesar hurriedly returned to his desk and said, "Yes General, there is one more thing I would like to report to you. ”
"What's the matter?" The general asked him.
"Yesterday, outside the quarantine zone, there was an exchange of fire......"