In the gray-green fog, a team of ten people, armed to the teeth, was slowly marching.

They wore fully protective exoskeletons, and carried either a compact G9 assault rifle or a Gauss rifle equipped with an extended magnetic track, and some carried two short, thick portable bazookas on their backs.

In the center of the procession, a three-meter-wide unmanned tracked vehicle followed, and the remote-controlled weapon station welded to the roof of the vehicle held a hideous 20 mm barrel, and under the barrel hung a 60 mm short grenade with a chain of bullets.

The silver-white livery didn't fit in with the surrounding atmosphere, but no one dared to doubt the team's firepower.

Just a few days ago, the board of directors finally approved a batch of new equipment procurement projects and bought the inventory at the bottom of the box of Changge Group.

Perhaps shocked by the tragic fighting situation on the front line, no one at the council finally beeped such stupid words as "you don't need a Gauss rifle to deal with a group of guys who don't even have an exoskeleton, our soldiers just need to tell where to blow the plane."

Thanks to this, Tang Feng finally saw the "sniper" he had in mind.

But at the moment, he is no longer interested in this thing, all the messy parameters are floating clouds, and the guy who saves his life is of course the most important thing to use easily.

“…… Where are we now? ”

"Haiya."

"Haiya...... Is this the end of the sea? I thought it was Mars. ”

The machine gunner with a light machine gun glanced at the yellowed and damaged tourist poster in his hand, and then at the viaduct that was broken in two in front of him, and at the highway sign that rusted in a pile of concrete garbage—

[Laishan City, 5km ahead]

In front of them is Laishan City, and it is also their first stop in Haiyaxing Province.

But there are no cities here, and everywhere you can see is ruin and desolation.

It was as if the land was not on Earth at all, but on another dead planet.

A dark green slurry flowed beneath the dark soil, like the lava that had cut through the hell, and the erosion from Nago permeated every inch of the soil.

Not a single living tree is in sight, not even a living grass is in sight.

The dead wood that stands on the land is like a white bone that has weathered for many years, and its nutrients have been completely deprived of its nutrients to support the owner of the land, Naguo.

The situation here is worse than in the Weifu Wasteland.

Or rather, the hell they saw in the Weifu Wasteland was just the tip of the iceberg of this real hell.

The corners of his mouth twitched slightly, and he tossed aside the poster he had picked up out of nowhere.

Not far from him, a soldier with a rifle leaned down, took a test tube from the sample box around his waist, and routinely sampled the soil rich in nano-fruit mycelium on the ground.

This was one of the tasks commissioned by the Frontier Research Institute – to collect a soil sample for every 100 meters of advance after entering Haiya Province.

As for the main task, it is to "reconnoiter the edge of the ruins of the city of the 'North 1 Theater of Operations' and confirm the location of enemy troops."

It sounds like a drone doing its job, but the unfortunate thing is that the drone has flown around twice before, not to mention a human figure, not even a living thing.

According to a reasonable analysis, eighty percent of the Torch Church has slaughtered this land with a total area of nearly 670,000 square kilometers.

Of course, there is another possibility, those guys are hiding.

After all, it takes people to breed mutants, and people are also needed for experiments on gestalt lifeforms.

Although human cloning can solve part of the problem, considering a series of factors such as scale and cost, of course, it is cheaper to produce people naturally.

After all, this land has become like this, and unlike the Great Desert, which is filled with all kinds of strange Prosperous Era equipment, you can't expect a massive power station, a large group of skilled workers, and a cloning factory full of sophisticated equipment.

If that's the case, it's easy to solve.

All it takes is a missile with a nuclear warhead to remove the flare from the land.

Unfortunately, those monsters don't need anything like "industry". They require neither electricity nor consumer goods, at most a few discrete processing workshops to improve some weapons that suit them.

According to the analysis of the coalition staff, the Torch Church probably controls several shelters as research and development bases, and probably controls a number of black boxes with special functions.

And this can explain why they obviously don't have a large-scale processing center, but they can come up with some equipment with technical specifications far beyond the realistic conditions of Haiya Province.

“…… I heard that there is a famous hot spring in Laishan City. Picking up the poster thrown by the machine gunner, one of the soldiers picked it up, looked at it and said with a smile, "The location is on the outskirts...... It seems to be near us. ”

The soldier next to him whistled and teased.

"Are you going to go for a soak in it?"

"I heard that the gang of guys who were infected in Yongdong City are still lying in the research institute of Yunjian University."

"Haha...... It's better to be free. ”

A group of people were gagging in the communication channel, and Tang Feng, who was standing on the outside of the line, suddenly frowned vigilantly.

The dark green slurry that flowed beneath the soil seemed to be surging and gathering near them.

Although the amplitude of the surge was small, the biomimetic plug-in attached to his iris recorded the movement parameters, and the numerical changes visible to the naked eye could not be mistaken.

He opened the rifle safety in his hand, the muzzle of the rifle pointed slightly to the side of the gray misty ruins.

"There is a situation."

The noise in the communication channel came to an abrupt end.

A group of soldiers were immediately alert, and they scattered out in a vigilant formation.

A heavy infantryman quickly unfolded the folding bunker with his back behind his back and slammed it into the ground like a fan-shaped shield.

The Heavy quickly leaned in, placed his light machine gun above the hole in the center of the shield, and shouted at his teammates behind him.

"Machine gun bunkers ready!"

Another drone operator with a backpack was half-crouched on the ground, and the backpack behind his back made two thumping sounds.

Two folded quadcopter drones catapulted into the air, flipped around in the air a few times, stabilized themselves, and then flew into the fog like arrows off the string.

"Drone lift-off! Searching for a nearby area...... No moving objects in sight! ”

The sniper with the Gauss rifle looked at the empty thermal imaging screen, with a hint of confusion on his face, and looked at Tang Feng, who was the first to notice the situation.

"Are you mistaken?"

"On the ground!" Tang Feng took a deep breath and said affirmatively, "Those dark green slime...... They're gathering around us, and I always feel like something bad is going to happen. ”

The leader of the squad walked up to the drone operator and patted the latter on the shoulder.

The drone operator immediately understood and gave the view of one of the drones to the squad leader.

Putting a visual operation device shaped like glasses on his helmet, the captain operated the drone to circle around, carefully examining the dark green slurry all over the land through the drone's field of vision, and his brows quickly furrowed.

Indeed, as his team had said, the dark green slurry was stirring at a steady frequency, as if it was transporting some unknown force somewhere beneath their feet.

If you look down from above, the pattern is more obvious and more spectacular.

The drone footage was synchronized to the tactical eyepieces of all the squad members, and one rifleman couldn't help but swallow and whispered.

"I've heard that some organs don't need them in normal times, and they only congest when they need them...... Damn, I'm starting to have bad premonitions, too. ”

The captain's Adam's apple moved, his expression became more and more solemn, and he immediately reported the situation on the front line to the command, and then ordered loudly in the communication channel.

"Mission cancelled! Prepare to retreat—"

Almost at the same time as his welcome fell, a sound of Si Suo Soo cut through the fog.

It's like an autumn cicada that suddenly chirps.

Capturing that fleeting figure, Tang Feng reflexively raised the muzzle of the gun and pulled the trigger without hesitation.

"Sudden ——!"

The muzzle of the gun spewed orange-yellow flames, and the tracer light instantly pierced through the black shadows that emerged from the dense fog.

It was a half-human, half-dog monster, with a body as thin as a sausage, and its bare face and head looked as if it had been burned by fire.

Shot several times in the chest, it let out a terrible howl, and the green and blackened blood spilled down the wound to the ground, but even so, the guy didn't stop, and ran towards the position of the corporate team with all four hands.

At this moment, an electromagnetically accelerated mass projectile instantly pierced through its Heavenly Spirit Cover and passed through its strands.

That guy was like being caught in a meat grinder, and his entire body was blown up by the huge kinetic energy, instantly exploding into a black-green blood mist.

The severed arms of the four types rolled and fell to the ground, and the black-green blood mist slowly melted into the mist.

"'It's a bacterial variant'!" The drone operator confirmed the identity of the monster and reported it on the communication channel.

The so-called fungus variant is a general term for the fruiting body born from the corrosion of the fruit, which is used to distinguish it from the fruiting body of the variant slime mold.

Depending on the species, there are several sub-categories below the fungus variant category, such as the common "walking corpse", "corpse dog" and so on.

As for the guy they encountered, it was a bit like a creeper produced by the slime fungus fruiting body in Qingquan City, but it was smaller in terms of size, strength and speed.

Pressing down the muzzle, looking at the accurate shooter of the Gauss rifle, he couldn't help but curse in a low voice.

"Damn, hasn't the drone already swept over this area, how can this thing still come out!"

Tang Feng's eyes were fixed on the scope, aiming in the direction that the monster rushed out.

"Eighty percent is the same as the situation in the Weifu Wasteland, crawling out of the ground-"

"Day! Below! ”

His words were interrupted by an exclamation from the communication channel, and he subconsciously glanced behind him, only to see a wizened hand oozing out of the soil and grabbing the calf of a comrade not far behind him.

The strength of that hand is not very great, at least it can't help the leggings of the exoskeleton.

However, the rifleman was still startled, and hurriedly pulled out the pistol from his waist and slammed it under him.

The arm that had just stretched out the soil was instantly torn apart, but the splattered shrapnel almost scratched his breastplate.

Seeing what happened to his comrades-in-arms beside him, a trace of panic appeared in everyone's eyes.

Unexpectedly, the danger came not only from the surroundings, but also directly under the soles of their feet.

And at this moment, a terrible cry sounded from all directions, and the sound of running came up like a tide.

"Three o'clock! Heavy fire suppression! ”

"Roger!"

The captain shouted the order to attack, and the machine gunner, who was leaning behind the cover, gritted his teeth and his index finger was almost welded to the trigger.

As the roaring machine guns rang out, the silence that permeated the wilderness was torn apart by the thick fog.

"Roaring ——!"

The limbed-waving corpse dog howled and rushed towards it, followed by a large number of walking corpses.

The riflemen scattered around immediately pulled the trigger and opened fire, killing the influx of germ variants.

At the same time, the tracked vehicle parked in the middle of the team also entered combat mode, and the 20mm cannon on the remote-controlled weapon station spewed out a thick tongue of fire, and under the laser guidance of the precision shooter, it unleashed ferocious fire towards the densest place of the walking corpse.

However, even though the firepower of this mechanized squad was fierce enough, those ferocious fungus variants could not hold out in front of them for even two seconds, and the soldiers still felt a trace of obvious struggle in the face of the continuous onslaught.

There are so many of them!

These guys are like pus squeezed out of the soil, except for the visible part, there are not many buried in the ground that have not been squeezed out!

Looking at the increasingly dense variants, the Heavy crouched behind the mobile cover yelled as he changed his magazines.

"How long will it take for the plane to evacuate us to arrive!"

Pulling the trigger continuously, the captain yelled in the communication channel.

"Already on the way! You can be there in 20 minutes! ”

"Twenty minutes?!"

"...... Are they planning to collect the corpses for us?! ”

There was a scolding in the communication channel, and the captain couldn't help but roar again.

"Less nonsense! Keep your eyes on your goals! And keep an eye on your feet—"

The enemy attacks not only from all around them, but also from their feet.

From time to time, arms emerge from the soil, like sprouts that break through the soil.

Although it is not difficult to get rid of them, and they can be smashed with a dagger or the butt of a gun, they still can't stop them from pouring out in waves.

Even if they already carried 3 times the base amount of ammunition, they still couldn't stand up to the dense quantity.

Ten minutes to go—

Looking at the last magazine in his hand, Tang Feng gritted his teeth and inserted it into the rifle.

If the evacuated planes don't arrive, they'll have to fight these twisted things hand-to-hand.

At this moment, the captain's cry of surprise suddenly came from the communication channel.

"Cloudfly! It's our Air Force! Here they are! ”

Tang Feng subconsciously raised his head, the gray fog blocked the sky, and he couldn't see anything.

But just then, the sound of an electric current was heard on their communication channel.

"This is the 'raccoon', we have entered the skies above you, please place an attack beacon to guide us."

Without any need for their warning, the team's precision shooters were already in action, hitting the flare under the viaduct with the densest concentration of fungus variants.

The voice full of security soon continued to come from the communication channel.

"Beacon location confirmed, please keep a safe distance...... 3，2，1——”

At the same time as the countdown fell, a storm of tracer bullets also rained down from the sky, crushing the fungus variant running on the concrete gravel into a pulp of flesh in an instant.

More than a dozen rockets fell on the heels, and the flames that burst out in an instant cleared a vacuum in the center of the wave-like fungus variant.

At the center of the flames, a half-missing walking corpse roared in a terrible way, but it didn't take long for it to lose its voice.

Blocked by the surging heat, a group of walking corpses pushed and shoved for a long time, and finally none of them dared to step forward, so they could only rush towards both sides of the sea of fire, trying to bypass this burning sea of fire.

"Well done!"

The accurate shooters in the team cheered excitedly, and then fired the second and third beacons in the same way.

According to the triangle circled by the beacon, the six Yunfly ornithopters on standby in the air confirmed the location of the friendly troops, and completely let go of their hands and feet, while continuing to vent the 20mm cannon, while emptying the nest filled with rockets!

Boiling walls of fire separated the raging mutants from the soldiers within the walls.

At the same time, about ten wooden gliders suddenly broke through the smoke screen above the raging fire and crashed heavily into the rocky wilderness.

About forty or fifty soldiers jumped out of the ten gliders.

They had LD-47 assault rifles in their hands with bayonets stuck under their muzzles, and their faces were all wearing gas masks and sapper shovels hanging from their waists.

Apparently they are the people of the Union.

And looking at the logos on their clothes, they are still the famous Death Corps.

For some reason, though, these people didn't wear exoskeletons, and only brought some rudimentary equipment.

The men were shouting and shouting, saying things he didn't understand, and he didn't know what they were shouting......

"Super! Why is this thing called an airplane? ”

"I'm going to crack my ass!"

Looking at the noisy newcomers, the outlaw fanatics couldn't help but think of themselves a year ago.

At that time, in Luoxia Province, they were also so noisy when they charged towards the battlefield guys.

However, it was thanks to that "live-fire training" that in less than a month, they grew from nothing to a qualified fighter.

Now he can be regarded as a "veteran player" and has become the backbone of the Death Corps.

And this operation is the task entrusted to him by the commander of the corps, the edge paddling, and he will take these budding newcomers to death - phew, accept the baptism of war!

"It's a one-off anyway...... Bennyima complained, quickly dismantled the machine gun! This thing still works! ”

Carrying a shotgun, the outlaw maniac who walked to the front of the formation shouted at the rookie in a hurry, and with a single kick he stepped on the palm that had emerged from the soil and reached for his neck.

The player, who was still haunting the glider, had just found his rifle and turned back to shout at him.

"Captain, where's the ammo box? Drag it out too? ”

The outlaw fanatic rolled his eyes.

"Nonsense! Does this need to be asked? ”

As soon as his words fell, another player shouted.

"Captain! Why should we go back if this plane breaks down? ”

Seeing that this question was becoming more and more idiotic, the outlaw fanatic replied impatiently.

"When did I say I was going back?"

Just kidding, this plane doesn't even have an engine, how can it fly back?

However, when the newcomers heard this, they were stunned on the spot.

I'll compose the head: "it!" ”

High-end ingredients: "This TMD is a black car!" ”

Staying up all night and dying suddenly: "Crying! Captain, is it too late to get out of the car? ”

The retreating dwarf: "I can't play the game for three days...... That kind of thing, don't ah! ”

Looking at the newcomers who were crying wolf, the outlaw fanatics couldn't help but spray and roared.

"Didn't you even read the rules before you joined the corps? Cheer me up! ”

"With your bullets, bayonets, butts, sapper shovels, fists, and even teeth, with every means you can think of, with all the tools you can find, smash the enemy's skulls until they or you stop the heartbeat!"

"The Death Corps has no cowardice to retreat, no matter what the opponent is, we only have one whistle and that is forward! Further on——! ”

"Open your safety and load your rifles! Let me see where your limits are! ”

The roar did ignite the blood in the hearts of some people, and the noise finally subsided.

But he still wants to say that there are so many problems with newcomers now, and it is really not as good as one session!

The outlaw fanatic complained so in his heart, but he left behind his stupidity when he first entered the game.

Knowing that even if they wanted to get off the bus, it was too late, and the newcomers could only settle down.

Even if it's to live a few more minutes, even if it's to get that handsome reward for the task, they have to show some real skills.

However, perhaps because they already know their ending, these newcomers who went to the battlefield for the first time are not as nervous as when they first got off the plane, and they are looking forward to the next battle.

Watching the two soldiers drag the ammunition boxes out of the cabin of the glider, they looked like they were holding their positions, and Tang Feng, who was leaning against the concrete wall, was stunned and shouted at them.

"Hey! What are you doing here? ”

The outlaw fanatic shouted back with a laugh.

"I'm here to help!"

"Help...... Busy? We're all ready to withdraw! Tang Feng replied with a confused expression.

The outlaw fanatic smiled and said, "We are here to cover your retreat!" ”

Hearing this, Tang Feng was even more stunned, and when he came back to his senses, he was both moved and ashamed.

What touched him was the care of his allies for them, which was really ironclad.

It was also the same when attacking the Fushan position before, if it weren't for their help, I don't know how many people would have died on that mountain.

What made him ashamed was that in order to save his 10 people, they sent nearly a third of the company's troops......

What a group of good people who sacrifice themselves for others!

He was not the only one who was in such a mood, but the vast majority of the soldiers present were like this.

With gratitude and guilt, they regained their strengths.

With the arrival of reinforcements, the tide of battle turned around for a while.

But even so, it won't do any good to continue pestering here, they have collected the samples they need, and the local situation has been confirmed through this initial encounter, and now it is time to go home with the loot.

Exactly twenty minutes later, an orca transport plane emerged in the air, two azure plasma plumes poking into the soft soil like spears.

Billowing dust kicked up, the tail hatch slammed to the ground, and a soldier in an exoskeleton stood in the doorway, clutching a revolver machine gun fixed to the cabin in both hands.

"Retreat!"

The leader of the corporate team shouted in the communication channel, beckoning his teammates to retreat towards the open hatch.

Including the tracked vehicle with the remote-controlled weapon station on its roof, the ten-man squad all withdrew to the cabin, and although all of them had tired faces, they were lucky not to have a single casualty.

Standing at the door of the cabin, Tang Feng shouted to the friendly troops outside who had not yet boarded the plane.

"We're taking off! Come on! ”

However, to his surprise, the man replied with a smile.

"No need! Have a nice trip! ”

With that, the door of the cabin slowly retracted upwards.

Tang Feng's eyes widened, and he just watched the figure disappear on the edge of the cabin door.

"Wait, why withdraw!"

With disbelief written on his face, he strode up to the crew, grabbed the man's shoulders with both hands and shouted, "Our friendly forces haven't gotten on the plane yet—"

"That's their mission!"

A voice from behind him interrupted him.

The captain, who had his helmet clipped under his armpit, walked up to him and placed his hand on his shoulder with a heavy expression.

"Their mission is to test the limits of the 'wave', where they will fight to the end until the 'real enemy' comes out of there...... That's the speculation of the Field Research Institute, Nago doesn't have a brood, but there should be similar hatching organs, and they need to be studied in its entirety. ”

In addition, they were inoculated with a biological prosthesis with a "Type B Strain Insert".

However, it remains to be seen how effective that thing will be.

“…… Keep going with respect for them, this war is not over yet, and it's too early to be sad. ”

Looking at Tang Feng, whose eyes widened in astonishment, the captain sighed softly, patted him on the shoulder, said nothing, and returned to his seat and sat down.

Although others are soft-spoken, sometimes he can't help but think that they living in Ideal City may really owe a lot of things to the people in the wasteland.

Their ancestors had accomplished miraculous feats, and they were far more noble than the wastelanders, but even that shouldn't be a reason for them to enjoy it all.

When a group of people give their lives for a common catastrophe, those who survive should shoulder the same responsibilities and obligations as "that lost weight", rather than seeing life and wealth as an inherent privilege.

They survived because someone died for them......

Just like now.

While these young men from Ideal City were in a heavy mood, the players who were left on the battlefield were getting more and more emotional.

The attack of the fungus variant is getting more and more fierce!

It's completely different from the hesitation just now!

Maybe it's because they see some people retreating, they feel that they can do it again, and they are confident that they will stay behind these people!

At the beginning, there were only some trash fish with a danger level 1 such as walking corpses or corpse dogs, but soon more and more monsters with a danger level of 2~3 also appeared.

After all, those present are newcomers, and there have already been some casualties.

Looking at the increasingly turbulent "wave", the face of the outlaw fanatic twisted into a cruel smile.

It's good to come!

It's been a long time since I've had this pleasure!

Shaking off the slime and blood from his arm, he loaded his shotgun and let out a final roar.

"Brothers! Show the cowards who only dare to hide behind the scenes and play tricks! Let them see who the real wave is!! ”

He was responded to by a roar of excitement.

"Whoa!"

Looking at the group of junior brothers with high morale, the corners of his mouth gradually curled up with a smile.

These rookies......

It's a shame to shout unneatly!

But—

It seems that they have gradually experienced the joy of the Death Corps.

It's worth it!

(End of chapter)