“…… This is the Flying Fox, and we've reached our target airspace! ”

"Get to work! I don't want to miss today's lunch. What's the matter, the rice buckets in the Bianhuang Swamp are like starving ghosts reincarnated, haven't they eaten meat?! ”

"Haha! I can't tell them how to eat in their hometown! ”

"The 'ravioli' in the morning is good, it seems to be called that-"

"Don't get out of the way, keep your eyes on your goals."

"Roger!"

The west side of Broken Blade Mountain.

Twelve Cloudfly ornithopters vibrated their wings, carrying missiles loaded with ammunition racks, and circled the side of the mountain with great vigour.

At the same time, three infantry companies of mercenaries also completed the build-up and launched an offensive from the northern flank.

It's eight o'clock in the morning.

In the hour before that, their friendly alliance had rained down at least 500 155mm heavy grenades on the mountain, washing everything they could.

As if sensing the next offensive, the mutants on the mountain were already in full swing, staring at the bottom of the mountain with fierce eyes, clenching the various guys in their hands, ready to teach this group of human things who don't know the height of the sky a lesson.

The same goes for the mercenaries down the hill.

They had come from the distant province of the clouds to slaughter these greenskinned things.

For the qualifications to enter the ideal city life, and for the generous reward!

Almost as soon as the two sides met their eyes, there was a spark visible to the naked eye-

Mercenary Leader: "Fire——! ”

Mutant Centurion: "Chop them up!!" ”

Two roars rang out almost simultaneously, and dazzling sparks and flying traces erupted between the cliffs.

In the rain of bullets, a mercenary was hit in the chest by a large-caliber single-headed bullet, and the bulletproof lining wrapped in blood shattered to the ground in an instant, blood was bubbling from the chest and the corners of his mouth, and he was quickly dragged back to the back of the rock mass by his comrades by the collar.

The mutant who fired the shot was quickly smashed into a sieve by a shuttle of rifle rounds.

However, until the last bullet got into his skull, the guy was frantically firing the shotgun in his hand.

The battle is on the verge of breaking out!

The fight was almost immediately at a fever pitch!

More and more mutants poured out of cover and engaged in an exchange of fire with the mercenaries who were attacking the mountains.

There are constantly people falling, mutants, and soldiers wearing exoskeletons.

The scene was extremely chaotic.

Noisy gunfire mingled with shouts and undulated mountain streams.

The mercenary's offensive was at a stalemate for a while, and it seemed that it was about to lose the upper hand.

And at this moment, one after another missiles carrying metal hydrogen warheads suddenly fell from the sky, bursting into orange-red flames in the mountains without warning!

The flaming flames were like bursts of magma, and countless goblins were blown away!

And the green-skinned guys, who were blown into pieces of minced meat before they could let out a scream.

The cloudfly ornithopter hovering along the mountain continued to fire, the co-pilot's index finger was almost welded to the trigger of the fire, and under the guidance of the infantry, the rockets and cannons continued to tilt, and in the blink of an eye, hundreds of lives were harvested.

"Well done!"

Looking at the path opened by the flames, the mercenary lying behind the cover roared excitedly into the sky, and then led the team behind him to kill the winding ramp with high morale.

Along with them, there are more than 20 "Cerberus" unmanned vehicles.

In the face of the continuous rain of bullets, those green-skinned fellows were no match at all, and the craggy rocks were covered with stumps, broken arms, and charred blood.

Under the cover of the cloud fly ornithopter, the mercenaries who attacked the top of the mountain were like bamboos, and in a short time they hit the halfway up the mountain.

On the Black Cloud Peak not far away, the young men of the 100th Mechanized Mountain Division were enthusiastic when they saw it, and they were all gearing up, eager to step forward for reinforcements.

"Sir, when are we going to go?" A soldier wearing an exoskeleton walked up to the commander and asked energetically.

His name is Tang Feng, and the reason why he joined the army is to fight for the fate of mankind on the one hand, but more because of the conscription advertisement on the end cloud "Fight for the fate of mankind".

The chief glanced at him and then at the majestic mountain in the distance, but said succinctly.

"When I let you go."

Hearing this nonsense, everyone who was eager to try it was suddenly disappointed.

They were all at the front, but they could only watch their allies show off in front of them.

At the same time, the situation on the front line has undergone new changes.

It seems that they have run out of ammunition, and the two attack formations consisting of Cloudfly ornithopters have begun to return home.

And at the same time, the mutant troops that had been in decline suddenly started to act again as if they had taken drugs.

Especially among the big green-skinned guys, something different began to appear.

Even if they are shot through the skull, they will not die immediately, but will rush up like crazy, even more dangerous than before they were shot in the head!

Caught off guard, several mercenaries were grabbed by the crazy greenskin and beaten fatly, even the exoskeleton and skeleton were beaten to pieces, and even their throats were bitten alive and half of their faces were torn off.

Everyone was frightened by this ferocious style of play, they couldn't even die with a headshot, not even if they pierced their hearts, and they were fearless in the face of fire suppression, and almost everyone didn't know what to do for a while.

What's even worse is that these "Xiaoqiang" with extraordinary vitality look no different from other mutants in appearance.

They are like mines buried in the crowd, they explode at a moment, and each "explosion" causes huge problems for the attacking troops.

And these mutants won't give them time to breathe, seeing that the human race is showing its decline, they immediately howl and rush forward, and the attack is becoming more and more ferocious.

The three mercenary companies that had reached the halfway point of the mountain immediately fell into a bitter battle, and in the blink of an eye, one company had been crippled, and could only be withdrawn from the front line like a meat grinder.

Inside the command room.

Looking at the aerial images on the holographic screen, Lin Shangwen, the commander of the 100th Mountain Division, frowned, and his face was full of solemnity.

That's what the Seagull fixed-wing drone captured from its belly camera.

At this moment, the drone is hovering 500 meters above Broken Blade Mountain, and this is also the only close support that the front-line troops can use.

Chief of Staff Yun Song, who was standing next to him, also had a solemn expression on his face, and after pondering for a moment, he spoke.

"And the last eight tactical missiles, cover their retreat."

As the former captain of Commando 26, he knows very well how difficult a guy like a mutant can be.

Ordinary people lose more than half of their combat effectiveness when they are shot, but after these guys are shot, they will fight more and more bravely until they finally die.

And these greens are clearly different from other greens.

The Torch Church has not only made prosthetic improvements to them, but also biological ones.

Master Lin nodded, but he couldn't help but hesitate when he thought of the mocking expression of the Willant people.

"But ......"

"Whether you are facing the 'pressure' from Triumph City or the pressure from Ideal City, you have to choose one."

After a pause, Yun Song continued.

"Even if they're just mercenaries, there's no way we're really going to let them all die there."

Hearing this, Lin Shangwen no longer hesitated, looked at the adjutant on the side and ordered.

"Let the mercenaries on the front line retreat."

"And tell them that if they want to get paid for their all, at least bring me a mutant corpse!"

The adjutant immediately gave a military salute.

"Yes!"

……

As the order to retreat reached the front line, the mercenaries who were fighting bloodily finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The only two remaining companies alternated cover, making an orderly retreat along the narrow winding mountain road.

On the Black Cloud Mountain not far away, at midnight with an umbrella without a knife, his eyes widened, and he said in surprise.

"The people of the enterprise actually retreated?"

Wasn't that round of shelling in the morning in vain?

At this moment, [Sleepy When You Wake Up], who was standing on the side, touched his tactical helmet and muttered.

"What the mutant thing is? New monsters? ”

As soon as he heard that there was a new monster, the outlaw fanatic immediately looked at him and asked curiously.

"What's that? What did you photograph? ”

When he woke up, he didn't speak, but just passed what he had just photographed with a quadcopter drone to the VM and released it to a few brothers who came over curiously.

In that video, a mutant with half of his head missing rushed out from behind a rock mass, brandished the axe in his hand, and picked a hapless guy out of the way, and then rushed at the other soldiers behind the guy.

A group of corporate soldiers frantically set fire to it, but the creature didn't seem to feel it until it was shot into a honeycomb before falling to the ground.

After watching the video at the end, the players gathered in front of the VM couldn't help but swallow their spit.

Boy......

Is this slime fungus possessed?!

At the same time, the fighting at the front continued.

Seeing that the troops halfway up the mountain began to retreat, the mutants on the mountain naturally did not want to let go of these guys, and all the long guns and short cannons were dragged out of the cave, and they greeted these human things in a hurry.

But at this moment, a slender white smoke suddenly fell from the sky and hit a hole halfway up the mountain.

Several goblins who were struggling to carry cannonballs let out a miserable scream, and they became a mist of flesh and blood in the flames of the explosion, and even the big green-skinned guy with the iron pipe cannon in front of him was swept into the flames of the explosion, and rolled down the hill with a howl.

Missiles raining down from the sky stun the mutants who were about to pour out of their nests.

They thought it was the little flies flapping their wings and flew back and cautiously retracted into their burrows.

The Beastmaster had warned them that the hundreds of meters thick rock mass was the strongest natural barrier, and even nuclear weapons were much inferior to them.

Even if it is tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of tons of equivalent, there is not much to do in the face of the hard rock mass that has been formed for 2 billion years, at most scrape some rocks and earthworks, or blast out a few landslides.

They had already dug hundreds of tunnels in the mountains that were connected to each other, and even if they collapsed in half, they would be fine, and the humans were still counting on building roads and bridges above them!

As long as they don't rush down the mountain, they can rely on the materials they have stored here to keep them until they are old!

By 11 a.m., the three-hour battle was over.

This battle, in the end, ended in a draw!

……

At the same time as the mercenaries retreated, on the bridge of the airship Loyalty, General Lium's face hung with an undisguised sneer.

With a flick of his index finger in the air, a pale blue holographic screen unfolded along the trail between his fingers, projecting a snow-white video window.

The commander of the enterprise did not appear on the screen, and eighty percent were embarrassed to turn on the camera.

Lium didn't care, just said mockingly.

"Can you do it? Otherwise, we can send a regular army, and don't waste our time. ”

Heiyun Peak was a position controlled by the legion, and his men had been watching from the sidelines, and the 100th Mountain Division had not moved on the position, and had not made a move at all.

To be honest, he was more curious about the combat effectiveness of the regular army of Ideal City than the performance of the servant army of those guys, and this was what the commander of the Eastern Legion, Saren, was most curious about.

Although the two sides are now friendly forces, no one can guarantee that they will not fight in the future.

As if to save face, a voice came from the opposite side of the communication channel.

“…… We have achieved today's operational objectives, and today's offensive has come to an end. ”

Hearing this, Lium almost didn't laugh out loud.

Or have laughed out loud.

"Done? Isn't your goal to plant the flag on the top of the mountain? ”

Lin Shangwen said with a dark face.

"That's the ultimate goal, figuring out what the hell happened to these mutants is what we're going to do today."

Lium narrowed his eyes and stared at the snowflake in the window, and suddenly smiled.

"Aren't you scared?"

He used the method of agitation to encourage these guys to send out the regular army.

However, it is a pity that the other side was not fooled, and continued in a calm tone.

"If you think that studying your opponent's weaknesses and defeating them in one fell swoop is called 'fear,' then it's up to you to understand. It seems to me that our lives are more valuable. ”

After a pause, Lin Shangwen sneered.

"I lost a thousand-man team in one day, I really don't know what you have to be proud of."

Hearing the mockery in that sentence, a look of gloom flashed across Leum's face.

But that's about it.

It was only the clones that were killed, not the 310,000-man squad under General Modlin.

In any case, their casualties were less than a company, and they managed to plant the flag at the highest point of Black Cloud Peak.

Looking at the hung up communication, Lium snorted coldly.

"Dead ducks have hard mouths."

……

Zhiyuan News

[At eight o'clock today, the 100th Mechanized Mountain Division and the Seventh Air Force launched a fierce offensive towards Broken Blade Mountain. Annihilated more than a thousand mutants with small casualties.

According to the intelligence collected from the front, more and more clues can directly prove the crimes against humanity committed by the Torch Church.

A large number of survivors were fed addictive drugs and artificially imprisoned for reproduction. In addition, the apostles of the Torch Church also applied the biological technology of the Age of Prosperity to carry out extremely dangerous genetic modifications on some mutants, resulting in a large number of improved varieties with serious safety risks......

War correspondent Wu Kai'an, reporting for you.

】

Early the next morning.

A two-engine killer whale transport plane and a four-engine Overlord were parked on the tarmac and airport runway of the Weifu military base, one after the other.

The former sits a panel of biology experts from Yunjian University, and the latter sits technicians from the Alliance's Institute of Biology.

Although they belong to different camps, they all come to the front for the same purpose.

Namely, those mutants who do not stop fighting even if they are shot in the head.

As the person in charge of the military base, Li Jinrong personally rushed to receive them and arranged them in a three-story concrete building located in the corner of the military base.

It was originally intended to be a field hospital for the wounded, but there are not many wounded at present, so this place is not used for the time being, and it is just used as a field laboratory first.

Without a moment's delay, when a shroud bag containing only samples arrived from the front line, more than two dozen experts just gathered together for a brief meeting, assigned their respective tasks, and immediately began the dissection work, testing the somatic samples of various mutants.

The work continued from morning to late night, and some progress was finally made.

At the same time, Vault 404.

Chu Guang, who had just finished a day's work and was about to close his eyes, received Heya's message, so he sat up from the bed again and went to meet her in the browsing room on the B4 floor.

"The results of the test came out, and they were amazing...... The mutant genome contains multiple pairs of chromosomes that contain genes that cannot even be fully resolved with our current technology, and the experts of Yunjian University also expressed their surprise, and they also claimed that they had never seen such a strange mutant. ”

Glancing at the completely incomprehensible report in his hand, Chu Guang pinched his chin as if he didn't understand, nodded, and then returned it to Heya's hand.

"Surprising...... This is true for all specimens? ”

Hea: "It's only partial! While they can be called super mutants in general terms, they don't exactly look like those guys, but more like something in between, what do you think would be better to call them? ”

Chu Guang took the time to take a look at the official website and found that there were players discussing this matter, so he picked a nickname with the highest frequency and said.

“…… Let's call it a zombie mutant, or a mourning greenskin, or how about a funeral mutant for short? ”

Hea's eyes lit up and she snapped her fingers.

"Okay, that's what to call it...... In short, in addition to the strong recovery ability, this kind of mutation also has the ability to heal brain tissue that ordinary mutants do not have! The clinical manifestation is that even if they have their heads smashed, they can grow back! ”

Chu Guang was stunned for a moment and couldn't help but ask.

"How is this done?"

His recovery ability is also very strong, but it is far from strong enough to grow after a headshot.

Even the head can grow back, which is somewhat outrageous.

Are these guys earthworms?

“…… Our initial hypothesis is that their nervous system has evolved a 'memory backup' function, and as long as a certain percentage of the nervous system remains intact, it can continue to repair the damaged part of the nervous tissue. It's just that when the brain is destroyed, their bodies temporarily lose control of the brain tissue, and the rest of the nervous system is completely dictated. To put it more conveniently, it is to let instinct dictate action. ”

Looking at Chu Guang, who was dumbfounded, Heya took a deep breath and continued with a serious expression.

"I have to remind you that the biology experts at Torch may have more technology at their disposal than we originally envisioned. I even have a feeling that when we test them, they test us......"

Having recovered from his initial surprise, Chu Guang nodded and said in a very soft voice.

"It's normal, after all, experienced specialists like you, they probably have a hundred."

He had already felt it.

While he was testing the hole cards in his torch hand, the guys were also testing the hole cards in his hand.

The same is true for this war.

Little by little, those guys were testing the strength of the various parties of the "Sticky Community", and they were constantly honing and improving their skills through the battlefield of Ten Peaks Mountain.

The resistance encountered by the coalition forces on the third hill was significantly greater than that on the Fu Mountain......

In a sense, the greenskins are similar to the way the players grew up.

Players who can't really be killed will be made stronger by respawning again and again.

Those guys, on the other hand, iterate rapidly in death after death, and the new ones will be more brutal and durable than the ones that died before.

Both in the sociological and biological senses, they are drawing on the fruits of civilization in the era of prosperity in a special way.

And with the help of technicians left over from the era of prosperity......

Thinking of this, Chu Guang's face couldn't help but feel a trace of solemnity, and he thought in his heart.

Being suddenly praised like this, Heya was a little embarrassed, and coughed lightly and said.

"It doesn't matter how many experts there are, research is a systematic thing. Our current research system is borrowed and improved from the college, and it is relatively mature, at most it is only a little worse in terms of accumulation and heritage, and it is impossible to be inferior to the torch...... However, the problem is also accumulating, and I suspect that those people may have some information about the missing items. ”

Chu Guang frowned slightly.

"Lost item?"

"Gestalt lifeforms!"

Hea looked at him with blazing eyes, and there was a hint of eagerness and longing in her eyes.

"That singularity-level technology! The unfinished singularity of the Age of Prosperity! Whether it's mutants, or the Willantes and their eight-fold growth clones...... It's all a by-product of that technology! ”

Chu Guang showed a thoughtful expression when he heard this, and he couldn't help but think of the fuse that caused the War Construction Committee to fall apart a century and a half ago—the laboratory located on the east coast.

The lab was like a cockroach that had been trampled on, and its eggs were scattered everywhere.

And that failed military operation has become an indelible stain on the history of the company, including the destruction of Singularity City, which is inextricably linked to that incident.

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

I'm afraid that the torch somehow got the information that flowed out of that laboratory!

Judging by the Torch's movements around Geumkawa City, they are consciously recovering the materials about the "Gestalt Lifeforms" scattered on the wasteland!

Thinking of this, Chu Guang's eyes couldn't help but flicker slightly.

It's not a good idea to start thinking about allies right now, but this information can't fall into the hands of the Legion anyway!

Looking at Chu Guang, who was silently thinking about his thoughts, Heya continued with a serious expression.

"Anyway, I have to go to the front line, including how to restore the soil in Haiya Province......"

"Well, it's nice to go and see it."

Chu Guang nodded, suddenly thought of something, and continued.

"By the way, you wait until the day after tomorrow to leave, and I'll go with you then."

"You're also going to the front?" Hea looked at him in surprise, and then teased him in a narrow tone, "Aren't you worried about me?" ”

didn't care about the ridiculous tone, Chu Guang just smiled faintly and said.

"I'm also the nominal Supreme Commander of the coalition forces elected by all parties, and I'm going to go there. It's just that I've been dealing with the rear work for the past few days, and I haven't been busy until recently. ”

Due to the contradictions between the Legions, the Academy, and the Enterprise, the election of a representative of either side to the Supreme Commander would be opposed by the other two, so the only "acceptable" candidates were actually the Alliance and the Free States that represented the Rift Valley.

Although the latter also received a few votes, it was completely negligible compared to the huge number of votes won by the league.

Although the representatives of the legion had a lot of complaints about the results of the vote, they only proposed that the commander must be served by Chu Guang himself, and did not exercise the veto power in his hand.

Chu Guang knew that those Willant people didn't like him much, let alone what those wasteland guests always said, "Willant people worship the strong".

Those guys were just worried that they would embarrass them by sending Vanus or other Willant people who had been "assimilated" by the Alliance.

From the point of view of Triumph City, this is not impossible. After all, the personnel appointment of the alliance never asks about the background, only about the original intention and ability.

A serf can be a city lord, and a Wilante can naturally be a marshal.

It's just that in Triumph City, these guys who have defected to the alliance have almost become synonymous with shame, and they don't feel that the pursuit of equality is a forgivable thing.

If Vanus is made the commander of the coalition forces, and finally leads them to victory, I am afraid that no one in the entire Triumph City will be happy.

Including the "Loyalty" sent by the Eastern Legion this time, there is no meaning of yin and yang weirdness in it.

These guys just have bigger noses, and it's hard to say what they have in their hearts, and they're probably smaller than the people in the academy.

Hearing Chu Guang's answer, Heya suddenly had a bright smile on her face and said happily.

"Great! After all, you don't have to bother sending specimens to the front. ”

"The physical examination is not bad these days." Chu Guang coughed dryly, and said a little embarrassedly, but saw Heya shake her head and stare at him intently.

"No, it has nothing to do with physical examinations, it's about the study of gestalt lifeforms."

After a pause, her voice gradually took on a hint of frenzy, and her eyes became unusually eager.

It's like staring at some incredible experiment.

“…… Others don't know, but I can clearly witness the whole process of your transformation from some of your non-coding genes to coding genes. ”

I always feel that this guy's eyes make people a little panicked.

Chu Guang picked up the teacup and took a sip of water, hiding the embarrassment that flashed on his face.

"So what?"

However, Hea's next words almost made him squirt out the water he had just drunk.

"It's not just the Willantes, your DNA is also part of the Singularity technology!"

(End of chapter)