Chapter 410: Life and Death
Samantha sat cross-legged on a jutting rock in a rack, resisting the urge to turn on the switch on the rack's helmet to enter the game, yawning in boredom. The gun she carries is an independent system and is not compatible with the "array", so she can't participate in the attack on the "pupa at all" now, and she can sit here and watch others release the gun, all of which makes her feel that this journey to suppress monsters is very boring and not fun at all.
Her sense of boredom was evident throughout the operation. Before leaving, everyone held a swearing-in meeting, and after Uncle Paul finished speaking, she wanted to go up to the stage to say a few words. At this time, she often practiced her eloquence in the game, and her speech level was rising, and this was the right opportunity for her to show off, and she certainly didn't want to let go of this opportunity. But her father and Uncle Paul wouldn't let her speak, saying that they were afraid that she would say something unseemly on such a solemn occasion. What a word! Is she Samantha so unreliable? Can't even say a few clichés for a formal occasion? It really doesn't make sense. She was still angry when she thought about it.
After the action begins, the boredom continues. The two adults didn't even let her go to the front because she had more important work to do. So she could only do some unskilled manual work in the logistics department, such as climbing mountains, carrying monster corpses, and cutting corpses, which was really boring and boring. The only thing that made her feel better was that she heard that the battle ahead was not interesting, and there was neither the treacherous brain-burning battle between humans and monsters that she imagined, nor the wonderful corps-level confrontation. I heard that monsters are completely vulnerable to sharp weapons like "arrays". They retreated in all directions after leaving behind more than a thousand corpses.
Alas! Samantha once again looked at the big chrysalis at the bottom of the mountain and the strange circle of shield monsters around it, and couldn't help but sigh and shake her head. She estimated that the soldiers had already consumed nearly a third of their ammo here, but it seemed that they were always a little bit away from the threshold of the collapse of the protective layer, which thickened and strengthened accordingly if you increased your attacks. I don't know what Uncle Paul will feel distressed about if he continues to consume like this.
When she arrived, she heard that the attack on the chrysalis was quite smooth at first, and that the first few bullets of the soldiers in the vanguard had hit the chrysalis directly, and it was constantly shaking. Later, one end of the chrysalis was suddenly opened, and five hundred shield monsters poured out, and they quickly formed a strange ring, emitting runes to form an unusually strong protective layer. It wasn't until Paul arrived with a large army that they realized that they had missed the perfect opportunity to break the pupae.
Her father arrived at the scene and took a look at it, saying that if he attacked with an "array" before the protective layer on the outside was formed, it would be easy to break the pupa and destroy it. But now, they had to crack open the tortoise shell built by the shield monster on the outside of it before they could say anything else. But the shell of this turtle is quite strong. His father said that the pressure of each shot on it was equivalent to being borne by five hundred shield monsters. And this pressure is nothing to them. After proving that the frenzied indiscriminate shooting was ineffective, Uncle Paul began to analyze the weak points of the protective layer with his detection ability, and then used the "array" to attack these weak points of the protective layer in a unified manner. This proved to be effective, and the shield monsters behind the protective layer began to slowly show casualties, and the protective layer itself gradually weakened at a slight rate. But at this time, some other varieties of monsters will appear in the pupa and temporarily act as shield monsters, although they are not as professional as shield monsters, but they are better than nothing. So the stalemate between the two sides continued. She was curious that there was a portal in the chrysalis, and new monsters were always popping up from time to time.
Samantha guessed that Uncle Paul must be in a state of impatience right now. His troubles are not only from the hard shell and ammunition of the large insect chrysalis, right now, in the rear of the anti-monster camp, that is, the small town of Starlet (Starlight), which has tens of thousands of people, is suffering from the bloody slaughter of nearly 2,000 soul eaters, and behind the starlight town, is the bustling southwest coast city belt, where the population is millions. However, only a few people such as Guo Songshan, Zhang Daochang and Yu Qianhua had the ability to stop the monsters on the spot, and the other warriors and those regular armies were just decorations and cannon fodder in front of the monsters with rough skin and thick flesh and like lightning. Although Guo Songshan and the others are very capable, if they want to rely on only a few of them to encircle and suppress nearly 2,000 monsters of all kinds running around, it is tantamount to a fool's dream.
Over the past hour or so, dozens of institutions and individuals have informed Paul of the situation through StarCraft's in-game communication channels. The president and the Pentagon also gave him orders several times, and later these political bigwigs even begged him to speed up the progress and rush to the front line behind Starlight Town, and make sure to stop the monsters north of the Alaska Mountains to avoid even greater disaster and panic. But now Paul's troops are still haunted by the chrysalis at the foot of the mountain. And it seems that Paul will not give up for a while, and Paul may have secretly decided that no matter what major casualties and dangers occur in the outside world, he will not leave until he takes the last bastion of this monster.
The pace of the advance of the troops was indeed slow, and Samantha did not realize that this was Paul's intention, and it was more likely that he had not thought it through beforehand. At least on the surface, this is the result of a combination of factors.
First of all, she felt that Paul did not design the speed of the troops to move very fast when he deduced. According to his original plan, after their contact battle with the monsters, the monsters slaughtered by the "array" would gather from all over the forbidden area, or form a unified defense line, or send troops to harass the two flanks. And in the process, he will lead the troops, little by little, carefully divide and outflank them, and then annihilate them. As for the scattered monsters that didn't come together, he would have the soldiers pull the nets and push them forward afterwards, like a comb, to destroy every hidden soul eater.
But things didn't turn out as Paul had hoped. The monsters did gather slightly at the beginning of the engagement, but they soon realized that they couldn't do anything after leaving behind more than a thousand corpses, so they dispersed. At first, Paul thought everything was as he expected. But then news came from all over the country that the total number of monsters was much higher than people expected. This forced him to enter the netting stage ahead of schedule. Pulling nets in the vast mountainous area is no simple task. And once the battle line is lengthened, it becomes more difficult to progress on another matter.
This incident is also the second reason for his slow progress. The bullets used by the soldiers of his troops were all active entity aura bullets, and although the bullets made by the soldiers were not as delicate and high-performance as those he used, they also required the corpses of ordinary soul eaters to make them. Before starting this war, including the bullets he had stolen and the bullets he had made himself, he had stockpiled about 60,000 rounds of ammunition, which he estimated would be enough to deal with the war. But once the Soul Eater has been eliminated, is there no trouble? Apparently not. There are still tens of thousands of warriors in the world, and these people also need him to use strong force to deter. And an empty gun without bullets has no deterrent effect. But the crux of the matter is, after this battle, if he really exterminates the monster, where will he go to find monsters to make live bullets? You can't do it with the living! Therefore, in the process of this operation, collecting more corpses of Soul Eaters and finding ways to make more ammunition has become the top priority of this operation.
Therefore, collecting monster corpses becomes as important as destroying them. Paul specially arranged for a large number of logistics personnel to follow the troops to collect the corpses and carry out simple processing. But there's a challenge here, to keep the meat fresh, even if you can't process the bullets on site, soak them in a special potion to keep them alive. However, how to get them out of the monster's thick scale armor is a seemingly simple matter, but it is very troublesome to operate.
It is impossible for an ordinary martial artist to cut through the thick armor of a monster with an ordinary dagger, and a high-level martial artist can cut it if he does his best, but this is impossible to form an assembly line operation. Of course, if a high-level martial artist is armed with a divine weapon, it is easy to do it. But the problem is that there are so many high-level martial artists and so-called divine weapons. The only divine weapon Samansha has seen is Yu Qianhua's short sword, but there are only more than a dozen such things in this world at most, and even Guo Songshan does not have a weapon in his hand, and even Paul needs to carry it outside the forbidden area to cut it with a laser device after hunting the monster. In this way, things turned out like this, the combat troops advanced smoothly in front, but the corpse collection troops in the back had to drag laser equipment and loading equipment to deal with a large number of monster corpses. (As they had assumed, after the monsters were cleared, the electronics would be available in the rear.) )
And poor Samantha was unfortunate enough to become a logistics butcher because she had a sharp dagger that her father had specially made for her. From the beginning of the war, she was mainly responsible for cutting the scale armor on the monster's back in the rear, and then the others were responsible for cutting open the internal flesh and bones, and extracting the large tendons on both sides of the spine. Sometimes there were too many monster corpses, and she had to go up the mountain to work as a corpse collector. Alas! The real war is not only turbulent and full of pride, but in fact, there is more tediousness and helplessness behind it. Who would have thought that in such a great war, a young Sailor Moon like her would be doing a job as a front-line operator in a meat factory in the rear.
Now that the offensive situation is blocked by the chrysalis, she worked overtime to complete her piecework work, so that she had the opportunity to catch up with the vanguard and take a look at the grand occasion of the actual battle on the front line. But she didn't expect to be disappointed at first glance. It turns out that everyone is gathering together to attack a big monster with a protective cover.,It's completely the rhythm of the big boss in the last level of the inferior game.,It's completely a setting that has been played badly.。
Suddenly, she heard what seemed to be movement in the forest in the distance. She immediately perked up and looked over there, hoping that something interesting would happen there.