Chapter 36: Arrival
As the battleship flew, Huo Ding began to introduce the mission. A large screen shows a three-dimensional map of the planet, showing the distribution of the base.
"Half a year ago, when the biochemical base was dealing with the mice that failed the experiment and were deemed dead, it was found that one was missing, and the sealed cabin was broken, and there was no clue in the multi-party investigation. Twenty days ago, there was an anomaly at the waste disposal plant on the other side of the planet, three staff members were missing, and there were bloody fragments of overalls and claw marks on several instruments. In the following period, similar situations often occurred in the area of the treatment plant. Ten days ago, the base dispatched a patrol team to investigate, and half a day later, the life signals of the entire team disappeared one after another, and the communication was fruitless. β
Huo Ding switched the image, and the image was a black rat with a tail length of half a meter and continued: "Then the patrol team was dispatched in large numbers, and the reason was found three days ago, it was this black rat that caused the current grim situation. β
Through Huo Ding's introduction, everyone learned that the vitality of these black rats is very strong. At the base, the confirmation of death in general experiments is very strict, there is a time requirement, it lasts for twenty-four hours without signs of life to confirm its death, and it is sealed at ultra-low temperatures during the process of being sent to the treatment plant. Generally speaking, at minus 80 degrees Celsius, even live mice will freeze to death. This also involves a second sign of life check to make sure it's correct. However, the laboratory rat bit through the sealed cabin and escaped, which shows the strength of this mutant rat.
The black rat that escaped at that time was tested with a strengthened potion, and was mutated in the later ultraviolet sterilization and ultra-low temperature transportation, and after escaping from the base, it was mutated again under the effect of magnetism and radiation from the outside, and became what it is today.
"After a great sacrifice by the base patrol, I finally brought back a live black rat that was not yet an adult. The antibody serum you injected is provided by the base personnel, but this black mouse mutates very quickly, and I don't know how much effect the injected antibody serum will have at that time, so here I will give you a preventive shot in advance, don't feel that you are not afraid of the antibody serum injection! Huo Ding said solemnly.
After introducing the information, Huo Ding divided the five thousand operatives into ten brigades, and the five cadets were inserted into five of the teams, and the captains of the squad where Pride and Knight were located were Gerald and Huo Ding, respectively, and the leaders of the two security teams and the training department took them personally, and they were really not at ease when they were handed over to others.
Silin was placed on the seventh team.
Assemble your equipment and assemble in a brigade after an hour.
The equipment of the five trainees was put together, and when the equipment was sorted out, the five of them chatted about their feelings by the way.
Harder, one of the two who passed the primary, had a bold personality and quickly struck up a conversation with Knight.
"You say, only one lab rat escaped, how did it develop into a large-scale rat infestation?" Harder said.
Huo Ding also said this question, which is still unclear. So now everyone is just guessing.
"Let's go outside and find a female mouse." Thatch, the last of the five, said. Thatch wasn't as bold as Hard, but he was also cheerful, and he was a friend who grew up with Hard, and his father served in one of the Sectors of Trade.
", there's no living thing outside the base. The magnetic field is strong, and there is also ray radiation, even if there are living creatures, they are cleaned up when the base is built. Knight said as he put on his combat uniform.
"In that case, our target is very difficult." Thatch sighed.
"Hmph, don't go if you're afraid of death!" Pride said disdainfully.
Thatch didn't care, after being in the training department for so long, everyone knew the temper of this young master.
"Xilin, what do you think?" Knight asked.
Xilin straightened the tools of the backpack belt around his waist, and the magnetic field on many asteroids was unstable, and the subspace container could not be used, so in the end, he had to carry it by himself.
"What do I think? I don't have any thoughts, but I have suggestions. β
"Oh? Let's talk about it. Knight wondered.
"Don't think about how many mutant black rats you will kill, but think about how to get out of the way when the time comes."
Before Cillin could finish speaking, Pride sneered and disdained, "Coward." β
"Well, I'm just a coward, and I don't want to be poop for those black mutant things. It's like the workers of the waste treatment plant, who ended up with only a few bloody rags, and even the bones were dragged by them to feed the offspring......"
"Don't be alarmist!" Pride yelled.
I have to say that Cillin's words did make them a little creepy.
"Hehe, in fact, we just need to kill them, we have a guy in our hands." Thatch raised the gun in his hand.
"No, I just think that things may be much more serious than I thought. The swarm attacks of the black rats are perhaps more intense than they were during our primary tests, and they are intelligent rather than programmed. They have teeth capable of biting through the lab's sealed chambers, sharp claws, and toxins in their saliva and animal viruses on their bodies. Xilin Zhengse said.
These are not exaggerations by Cilin, but are obtained through analysis, and Cillin even brings multiple parameters such as the radiation energy of the rays on the asteroid into the comprehensive analysis of the mutation frequency of black mice. However, looking at the personnel of this operation, as long as the drug carried on the warhead has been effective, and the mutant black rat has been completely eliminated, it should be able to deal with it.
The reason why guns are different, the bullets are larger, heavier, and slightly slower than training guns is because each bullet is specially rushed and contains drugs. When the bullet enters the body of the mutant black rat, it will explode, and the drug will disperse so that it will quickly and completely die, and at the same time, the drug can also be sprinkled on the surrounding mutant black rat to act, reducing their mobility.
Although Pride still looked disdainful, he had actually written down Cillin's suggestion in his heart, who would be unable to live with his own life, he didn't want to be the poop of those black things.
After the battleship came to the asteroid and docked with the space station, Huo Ding and Gerald took a few people to further understand the situation first, and the rest of the personnel were on standby on the ship.
It didn't take long for Huo Ding and Gerald to come over solemnly. Explain the new information you just got to the crowd.
An hour ago, the Black Rats had entered the base from underground, and only the central part of the base was the strongest underground, and it would take some time to break through this layer of protection. But there isn't much time left for everyone. A lot of flight equipment and communication equipment in the base have been gnawed, and now there are hundreds of researchers trapped in the central area of the base, among which more than a dozen people are seriously injured, the toxins have invaded the body, and the injected several antibody serums have no effect, and the central laboratory is preparing the corresponding serum, but how many unknown toxins are behind it, everyone dare not think. As for the periphery of the base, it has fallen.
"Teams 1 to 8 are responsible for the 'cleaning' work, starting from around the central area of the base, the ninth team is responsible for the protection engineers to repair the base protection system, and the 10th team assists the trapped research institute to escape, and the medical reserve ......" Huo Ding's orders were quickly issued, he only arranged the work of each team, as for how to arrange it in each team, he believed that the soldiers he brought would not let him down.
In fact, Huo Ding really wanted to arrange Knight and Pride in the back two teams, but he also knew that if this was arranged, it was estimated that these two ancestors would not listen.
The seventh team where Xilin was located was divided into five squads by the captain, each squad was a hundred people, and each squad was divided into ten groups, which were advanced in small groups.
Ten teams, the first eight teams went first, and eight armed carrier aircraft landed around the central area of the base in eight directions.
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