"No retreat! Block them! ”

"Those two-legged animals, weak things! One punch can be brought down! Do you want to be defeated by that kind of thing?! ”

The main entrance of the Champion Biopharmaceutical Research Institute.

The three-meter-long mutant commander roared furiously, like a vicious dog, urging his minions to step forward.

His name was Hogg, and he was named after Garne himself, and he was the most loyal and fierce warrior under the Lord's command.

In the Qi tribe, where the strong are respected, he was cultivated by Garn as the successor to the next patriarch, and it is for this reason that he was entrusted with the important task of guarding the institute.

This is the bond that binds the covenant between the Qi tribe and the Torch Church, and it is also the center of the Qi tribe's prosthetic transformation.

Garn ordered him to lead more than a thousand men to defend the place.

He swore solemnly to Garn that he would never let this institute fall into the hands of the Alliance no matter what!

As long as you can hold on for another two weeks......

The eternal kingdom of heaven will remain in this land completely!

Hogg gritted his teeth and roared.

“…… Rush me up! Eat their flesh, drink their blood, chop them up into minced meat! Make a sofa! ”

The roar sounded full of energy, and it really ignited the blood in the chests of many mutant soldiers, causing many green-skinned animals to roar forward.

Yet in the face of that stormy onslaught, all these struggles pale in comparison.

The main entrance of the research institute has been turned into a bloody meat grinder, and the lives of mutant soldiers on the front line are reduced to flying flesh almost in seconds.

Under the cover of armored combat vehicles, the offensive of the alliance was like an unstoppable spearhead, tearing apart the defense line of the institute's gate with a devastating force.

A Chimera, running up the stairs, crashed directly into the wall of the hall, and the black muzzle of the cannon poked into a burst of thumping fire.

The sandbags piled up in the hallway and stairwell were blasted out in an instant, and along with the mutant soldiers hiding behind, they were crushed into a pulp by the python-thick tracer.

Coming in was followed by a chainsaw-wielding iron bump.

The whistling saw blades were like teeth grinding, and the green paint had been marinated red by blood and minced meat.

It looked like a demon coming out of hell.

The moment he met the sight of the murderous humanoid armor, the green faces were filled with horror for a moment, and the automatic rifles and shotguns in his hands trembled involuntarily.

They couldn't tell the difference for a while—

Who is more like a beast after all!

"Haha! Crazy! Utter madness!! ”

Rampage into the mutant position, Midnight Killer excitedly brandished the chainsaw, already completely red-eyed.

This steel body is simply perfect for him!

The only drawback is that it locks the sequence level and experience, and sometimes the initiation is crazy and can't stop the car...... But these are minor problems.

This is a war between humans and mutants.

It is a war between civilization and barbarism.

There is no such thing as a prisoner in this war.

Naturally, there is no need to show mercy!

Looking at the Jungle Corps that cut the mutants into eight pieces, the players of the Skeleton Corps had no chance to make a move for a while, and they turned off the safety and pressed down the muzzle of the gun.

The main thing is that you can't make a move.

With this narrow terrain inside the building, Brother Ji alone can occupy two-thirds of the corridors, and one or two power-based animals wearing heavy exoskeletons have blocked their way forward.

At this time, when you open fire, more than eighty percent of them must be friendly injuries.

Irena, who was leaning next to the armored car, looked at the chainsaw-wielding iron pimple in front of her with a funny expression.

"Brother Chicken is crazy."

The communication channel soon heard the teasing voice of the rich man.

"What cybermaniac."

Irena: "Haha. ”

"Let him go crazy...... "Sticking his head out of the turret, Mole laughed and quipped, "He doesn't have much of a normal time anyway." ”

The battle went well.

Even smoothly beyond his expectations.

Previously, these mutants were able to fight back and forth with the troops on the front line of the Alliance with the support of vehicles and unexpected modified prosthetics, but as those vehicles continued to be destroyed by Chimera armored vehicles, and the prosthetic mutants were killed one after another, the remaining mutants could not even organize a decent resistance.

In fact, they really don't have much room to struggle. In the previous rounds of the offensive, their own living forces had been depleted, while the Alliance's forces were almost endless.

Suddenly remembering what she had promised to Brother Mosquito on the forum before, Irena looked at the elf king Fugui.

"Speaking of which, we seem to have promised Mosquito to help him find his lost prosthesis."

"Let's go when the fight is over."

"Hopefully it'll be over before dark."

"It's dark?" The rich man smiled and pursed his lips, "Just this little brute, can they last until noon?" ”

As he spoke, a power-based animal wearing a K10 "Iron Wall" exoskeleton approached in the distance and undid the mask of his helmet.

Looking at Lao Na and Lao Wang, who were idle at a glance, the Picheng paratroopers raised their hands to say hello.

"Hey, are you free?"

Irena asked with a smile.

"What's wrong? Need help? ”

The Picheng paratroopers nodded helplessly.

"The elevator to the underground lab was dismantled by the brutes, who seemed determined to fight us to the end, and we attacked down the fire escape, but it was too narrow for our people to get stuck inside."

The underground laboratory is a nuclear bunker, and the fire escape and elevator are not interconnected with the above-ground building, and need to be accessed from the lobby on the first floor.

The Jungle Corps has taken control of the exits of the floors of the above-ground buildings, and is strangling the remaining mutants layer by floor, but the offensive against the underground is not very smooth.

Those mutants blew up elevators and freight elevators, and set up plenty of traps and bunkers in the only fire escape.

As soon as he heard that someone was stuck inside, the elf king Fugui suddenly laughed.

"Damn, who's so ashamed?"

Leather City Paratroopers: "Voldemort told me not to tell anyone." ”

"Poof—"

"Hahahaha!"

Looking at the smiling Lao Na and Lao Wang, the mole who was holding back his laughter coughed twice and said.

"Go and help them."

Irena made an OK gesture and smiled as she reloaded the rifle hanging from her chest.

"Oak!"

……

The Champion Biological Institute, the entrance to the power room of the underground research area, where Hogg is guarding with his most loyal men.

Listening to the gunshots and explosions that were getting closer and closer, the green face full of horizontal flesh finally had a hint of fear written on it.

It wasn't his own death that he feared.

But the situation in front of him made him not see the slightest hope of turning defeat into victory.

Is that the end of their tribe?

This was the case with the second most courageous warrior of the Qi tribe, not to mention the others, the morale of the entire team was extremely low.

Although the leader repeatedly ordered that they should not talk to each other, the mutants crouching behind the cover couldn't help but whisper quietly.

"What about our allies......"

"I heard that they launched an attack on the alliance last night...... They made that cannon sound last night. ”

"That's a lot of movement."

"Did you win?"

"Do you still need to ask...... The airship is still there. ”

"I heard that our patriarch was there last night!"

"Could it be that the patriarch has ......?"

Listening to the louder and louder discussions, Hogg, who was already restless, instantly became angry and yelled at the fellows who were talking to each other.

"Shut up! Cowards! The patriarch is fine now, and I don't need your care! Keep an eye on your zone, and if I hear someone talking about Lord Garn, I'll rip it off!" ”

Looking at Hogg, who was thunderous, the green-skinned animals were suddenly silent, and they didn't dare to whisper anymore.

However, although Hogg kept their mouths shut, he couldn't stop them from thinking nonsense.

It's all at this point, even a pig can guess that most of their heads are already cold, and their allies have already given up on them.

They're simply dying.

This is completely senseless resistance!

As soon as I thought of this, the green faces became even more desperate.

Just then, there was a deafening explosion in the direction of the fire escape.

A crackling of gunfire was followed by the creaking of sawblades tearing bones and a horrible scream.

The hearts of all mutants unconsciously raised their throats, and the pupils hidden in the shadows were filled with horror and panic.

As if to dispel the fear in his chest, Hogg raised the fist-thick iron hammer in his hand and loaded it with a clatter.

"Prepare for battle!!"

Hearing that powerful voice, the mutants roared one after another.

"Oooh oh!!"

……

At the entrance of the fire escape in the underground research area, dozens of corpses lay on the ground.

Most of them are mutants, with green skin that can be seen at a glance, and a small number of them are thrown by the player, mostly embedded in the remains of exoskeletons.

The alloy walls are plastered with war propaganda posters, some of which are clipart cut from magazines or newspapers, mainly about the successes of the front.

Ironically, the battlefield of the three-year war spanned light years and was never touched by the fighting.

Now, more than two centuries later, the dusty alloy walls are covered with bullet holes, and the blood that fills the hallways barely reaches the soles of the boots.

“…… The power room is right in front! Checking the map on the VM, the Picheng paratrooper, who was wearing a heavy exoskeleton and walking in front to clear the way, shouted to the brethren behind him, "Vital signs detected!" This is the last room! ”

Irena clicked on the taskbar and glanced at it.

"The rest of the mutants are probably here, and I think the pseudo-brood is in the power room...... Nuclear fuel appears to be stored in alternate warehouses. ”

"Give them a treat!"

As he spoke, the Picheng paratroopers sneered, and the chainsaw in his hand whimpered, and the air in the entire corridor seemed to be hot.

Looking at the Picheng paratroopers who were about to go forward, the elf king Fugui suddenly stopped him.

"Wait a minute."

The Leather City paratroopers stopped and looked back at him.

"What?"

Elf King Fugui smiled, took out a big baby and carried it on his shoulder, and said with a fluttering eyebrow.

"Try this thing!"

The Picheng paratroopers raised their eyebrows.

Boy!

RPG？

"You brought this thing down?"

"Hey, and it's a new warhead!"

As he spoke, the elf king Fugui had already inserted the thigh-thick rocket into the launch tube.

Seeing that the thing looked quite chic, the Picheng paratroopers took a curious look at it and turned off the chainsaw in their hands.

“…… What the hell. ”

Carrying the loaded launcher on his shoulder, the elf king Fugui said with a fluttering eyebrow.

"Thermobaric bomb!"

"it!?"

As soon as they heard that it was a thermobaric bomb, the players around them were instantly shocked, and whether it was true or not, except for Lao Na, who was quite calm, they all dodged back.

"Imitation TBG-7V thermobaric bomb production...... Don't make a fuss, but the mosquito guy is also awesome, and he has reproduced this thing! ”

When he was introduced, the elf king Fugui also felt a burst of emotion in his heart.

This goblin technology is really getting more and more punished.

Unlike fragmentation grenades, this thermobaric bomb does not have prefabricated fragments and relies entirely on shock waves and high temperatures to kill targets.

The damage effect on targets in open areas is average, but the damage effect on enclosed buildings is ridiculously high.

And the fewer windows, the more lethal!

The temperature and pressure environment of ten to fifteen atmospheres formed in an instant is enough to blast all known carbon-based organisms into slag!

"Stop talking nonsense, hurry." Too lazy to listen to his bragging, Irena had already walked over to the door and grabbed the doorknob.

The rich man smiled and aimed at the door.

"I'll count to three, you pay attention to open the door."

As soon as Lao Na heard this, she didn't dare to play that kind of difficult card point with him, so she immediately opened the activity door.

The bullet whizzed out of the room, startling the rich brother and reflexively pulling the trigger.

A puff of white smoke scurried out of the launch tube, dragging a rickety tail flame into the open movable door.

Luckily, the rocket flew in.

Otherwise, the entire hallway will have to be cooked.

At the same time, in the power room, Hogg was startled when he saw the rockets coming in through the door.

He was ready to fight to the death with the Alliance, but he didn't expect these guys to be so unmartial and bombard them with bazookas.

"Get down!!"

He yelled and fell to his stomach, but he soon realized that the action was so redundant.

The roar of the explosion and the air pressure more than ten times instantly poured into his eardrums, and he lost his hearing before he could even scream.

It's not just hearing.

The scorching heat dried all the bodily fluids of his body in an instant, followed by the carbonization of his skin, followed by the meridians and flesh beneath the skin.

"Ahhh!!h

Hogg, who was blind, let out a heart-rending cry, and now he only hoped that his opponent would give him a good time.

His wish was soon granted.

The pain didn't torment him for long, and soon he was roasted to a bloody char in purgatory, just like the other mutants.

The screams and wails in the power room finally stopped, and the dusty players from their helmets poked their heads out the door into the room.

There was no living creature left in the entire power room, except for a charred or torn corpse.

The temperature of the air is like an oven burning to the limit, and even if you stand at the door, you will be burned, and there is no way to enter.

Everyone waited until the heat cleared before carefully entering the power room.

Looking at the mess in the room, the elf king Fugui couldn't help but smash his tongue.

"Mom...... This weapon is so inhumane. ”

When I go back to the forum, I must criticize it!

The Picheng paratroopers grinned.

"What kind of humanity do you talk to brutes?"

Although it didn't cool off in the end, this way of dying is not cheap for these brutes.

"That's right." The elf king Fugui stepped forward and kicked open the half-dangling door at the end of the power room.

A foul smell wafted from behind the door.

He turned on the flashlight, revealing that it was a ring-shaped device, somewhat similar to the reactor in the Vault.

It's not the reactor that's surprising, it's the shocking pieces of flesh that grow on the reactor.

An ominous dark green color fills almost every corner of this machine.

That's the heart of Nago!

The culprit who caused the spore cloud to spread throughout Geumhe City!

A pseudo-brood synthesized by biotechnology!

"That's what the brood looks like?"

As she walked through the door, Irena glanced at the brood and felt that it looked like both a beating heart and a large nago.

I don't know what it tastes like.

"Scientific name: Nago Core...... I don't know if the one in Qingquan City also looks like this," as he spoke, Elf King Fugui glanced at Lao Na next to him, and said with a strange expression, "You don't want to taste it, do you?" ”

Irena rolled her eyes.

"Am I that kind of person?"

This thing is so green that you can't eat it.

And the key is that it's such a big lump, even if he wants to eat it, he can't find where to put his mouth.

However, the other players standing on the side didn't believe what he said, and they all showed "Isn't it?" expressions.

Ignoring the dogs, Irena took out the explosives she was carrying, installed it near the pseudo-brood, and urged the group to withdraw from the power room.

At this time, a message from his teammates came from the communication channel, and the Picheng paratroopers looked at the crowd and said.

"Power has been restored to freight elevators, and nuclear fuel and other loot have been packed and sent to the surface...... It's time for us to withdraw. ”

The group climbed into the elevator to the surface, and before the doors closed, Irena took the detonator in her hand.

The bomb counts down.

One last glance at the bloody corridor, facing the closed elevator door, the elf king Fugui's face still had a bit of unfinished business.

"This task...... That's it? ”

I heard that the Burning Corps brethren had been on deck last night was a thrill, and they met with little decent resistance on their side.

It always feels like it's over before the fun is over.

Irena said with a subtle expression.

"Pretty much...... The winner was decided last night, and the rest is probably all about cleaning up the battlefield. ”

The elevator arrived quickly.

Almost at the same time as they left the elevator, a tremor of distance came from beneath their feet, and the entire building trembled with it.

The rich guy who had just stepped out of the elevator stumbled and almost fell, but he had to hold on to the wall on the side.

"Holy, how many seconds did you explode the fuse?"

Obviously I didn't expect the power of the inconspicuous bomb to be so exaggerated, Irena was also confused, looking at the gradually sloping ceiling and said.

"I guess half a minute should be enough."

Isn't that a nuclear bomb?

Then it suddenly occurred to him that the brothers of the Burning Corps had captured a batch of tactical nuclear weapons in Boulder City.

The smallest of them is the size of a fist, but it's powerful enough to blow up a street.

Can't you get it......

It's really that.

The Picheng paratroopers felt a tingling scalp.

"Half a minute is enough, yes, but why do I always have a sense of foreboding......"

Seeing that the chain reaction caused by the explosion did not stop at all, the face of the mole sitting in the turret of the armored car gradually changed.

He kicked the driver hard and shouted under the turret.

"Reverse! Fast! ”

Thankfully, the battle upstairs was over.

Almost at the same time that the players were scrambling to withdraw from the institute, the edifice that had stood for more than two centuries slowly collapsed......

……

The bridge of the Iron Heart.

Chu Guang, who was standing by the floor-to-ceiling window, quietly looked in the direction of Singularity City, watching the building slowly fall towards the ruins behind it.

Although the fog outside the window has not yet dissipated, the well-behaved and sensible Xiaoqi has intimately projected the aerial picture of the drone on the floor-to-ceiling window.

It's still the best place to watch the movie.

Yule, who was fixed in a wheelchair, sat next to Chu Guang, looking at the billowing dust, his eyes a little distracted.

That's where it all began.

It became the end of it all.

Half an hour later, his Adam's apple moved.

“…… Is it over? ”

Chu Guang glanced at him and said slowly.

"Far from it, the evil you think you have committed will take ten years or decades to make up for it, and the suffering in this land will probably take a long time before it will end completely."

Yule smiled bitterly and closed his eyes as he looked at the ceiling above him.

Looking at the apostle who had closed his eyes, Chu Guang continued.

"But objectively speaking, the anti-radiation agent and radiation canceling agent you studied still helped a lot of people."

Yule shook his head.

"That's not my credit alone."

"I know, I never said that," Chu Guang said succinctly, "just like the building you see now, that thing is not the result of a single person's joint determination, and our history is moving forward in this way." ”

Yule fell silent, the expression on his face that was as much remorse as it was pure pain.

He took a deep breath to calm himself down, and then looked at Chu Guang, who was standing on the side, and slowly spoke.

"What are you going to do with me?"

Chu Guang said casually.

"It depends on which method you intend to atone for."

Yule looked at him with some surprise.

“…… Do I still have options? ”

"Of course there are, like...... You can go to Vault 79, which is now the Alliance's biological research base, with a group of biologists and a large lizard that has outlived anyone else. We still have a mountain of problems to solve, where you can use your knowledge and the rest of your life to help those who survive. ”

After a pause, Chu Guang looked at him and continued.

"Of course, you can also choose to say goodbye to the world with a 9mm bullet, which is the fastest and painless way to do it."

Yule smiled bitterly.

"The latter sounds a little easier."

Chu Guang glanced at Lu Bei.

The loyal lad immediately understood, stepped forward to help Yul release his right hand, then drew his pistol and loaded it, unloaded it and handed it to him.

Staring at the pistol in his hand for a long time, Yule sighed and closed the open safe.

“…… I'll choose the former. ”

Perhaps death was the easiest option, but he suddenly remembered Yin Yin...... The little girl who wanted to let go but couldn't save it in the end.

Chu Guang stared at his eyes for a while, and suddenly a trace of curiosity appeared in his eyes.

"Now you're Yule or Luo Gan."

He saw it in the previous interrogation.

The two personalities of Luo Gan and Yule exist in this guy at the same time, but one is stored in his brain and the other is stored in the bionic chip.

Strictly speaking, this is true of everyone who has been implanted with a chip, whether it is Yule in front of him or Yin Yin lying in the cryo-dormant pod.

Every single one of them is a Luo Gan.

The ghost had broken itself into countless portions and hid them in every container he saw fit. And that container is the ideal country in people's hearts—the so-called holy realm.

Perhaps recognizing himself, Yule's answer this time was not as hesitant as last time, and he said in a voice with a hint of affirmation.

"Both."

Slowly looking at Chu Guang, Yur continued.

"I can...... Is it a question for you too? ”

Chu Guang said dryly.

"Just ask."

Yule stared into his eyes.

"How do you guarantee ...... The path ahead of you must be different from the one I once chose, not another kind of hell? ”

He didn't know what the end of the road was, he just wanted to know why the manager of the vault in front of him was so confident.

However, Chu Guang's answer was completely beyond his expectations.

"I can't promise it."

Looking at Yule, who was stunned, Chu Guang paused, and continued as a matter of course.

"I am only a mortal, not a savior, nor the power of an unpredictable prophet. The only thing I can guarantee is to live up to the trust people put in me and do what I can to the best of my ability. As for whether it will fall into the pit tomorrow, I don't know. ”

"But I will discuss with them, face common problems or bugs together, and discuss the next way forward. Even if sometimes their opinions are immature, even a little naïve, but that's nothing, and our alliance wasn't built in a day. ”

"If hell awaits us, that's our common choice. But I believe that even if one day we stand in hell with both feet, our unity will allow us to walk out of there shoulder to shoulder. ”

Yule sighed and slowly lowered his head.

"If only I had met you twenty years earlier......"

If the gears of fate hadn't had the slightest deviation, if he hadn't seen that man named Luo Gan twenty years ago......

Perhaps his fate and that of all the survivors of this land will be different.

-

(Don't say I'm a sheep, brothers, it's impossible to be a sheep if you don't have an accident...... But the cold is really uncomfortable, and you shouldn't pretend to be forced. ）

(End of chapter)