Twisted steel burns in the muddy wilderness, and a shattered corpse lies on the edge of the rain-washed riverbank.

After the pontoon bridge was erected, 5,000 Glorious soldiers carrying rifles from the Rippers were the first to charge, followed by 5,000.

Like unleashed hyenas, the clones pounced ferociously on the straggler positions of the Alliance and the Borneo Army.

The fierce fighting turned the entire forest into a brutal meat grinder, and wave after wave of clones filled it were like rolling pieces of meat.

It's the same on the other side.

Under that almost fanatical charge, he suffered heavy casualties.

However, even so, the charge of more than 10,000 clone soldiers still failed to break the position standing on the east bank of the river.

The people on the opposite side were as if they were immortal, and after ten consecutive rounds of charging and shelling, sporadic and piercing gunfire still rang out from time to time.

The bloody scene made all the onlookers swallow and spit, and it was only then that they finally understood what had happened to the brothers of the 360,000th team.

But before they could rejoice, the dead were clone cannon fodder, and they heard the thunderous roar of the chief.

"Our Glorious Army has broken the enemy's defenses! Right now! Check your gear! Get ready for a assault! ”

The Clone Infantry of the Glorious Army is not infinite, just like the cannonballs of the support team, after the bombardment, the regular army has to be charged.

In particular, the clones are not suited to fighting the skirmishers, they are like mad dogs that are difficult to control and communicate, and are only suitable for charging against solid defensive lines.

The 1,000-man team that took the lead quickly completed the assembly at the bridgehead.

Boots straddled over a bloody corpse, and the Willant soldiers in exoskeletons and bulletproof armor stared at the withered forest with wide eyes, venting their fear and courage in the roar of the charge.

"Oooooooooo!!oo

Covered by armoured vehicles and tanks, they rushed through the defense zone on the riverbank and engaged in a fierce exchange of fire with the combined forces hiding in the forests and hills.

The battle began from early morning to dusk, and the blood of the river stained the land, the mountains, the rivers, and the sun scarlet.

The Death Corps are all killed!

Players who held their ground almost missed the last bullet, and even the weapons they picked up.

The same goes for the rocket artillery positions of the Goblin Corps.

Twelve Tempest rocket launchers were completely destroyed by the Horn airship, and only a few 155-mm field guns, scattered scattered in the mountains, survived.

The Borneo Army also suffered heavy casualties.

The 50th, 51st, and 520,000 troops who had just reached the front line were forced to fight a tough battle before they had time to familiarize themselves with the local situation, and suffered heavy casualties for a while.

However, the Southern Army also did not get any benefit.

Regardless of the 10,000 glorious troops, the casualties of the regular army have reached more than 4,000, and the scrapped vehicles have exceeded 300!

Moreover, this is still with airship support, and the Alliance's Burning Corps and the 1st Mechanized Infantry Division of Golden Gallen Harbor have returned to defend Tiandu.

In addition to the losses of ground forces, the losses of air power were not small.

Of the five airships, three lost power.

Even if Xifan Harbor prepared replaceable wings, it would take a week or two to repair the three airships.

Looking at the disgraced river beach in the distance, Captain Ryan Wanfu, who was sitting in the command car, clenched his fists and gritted his teeth out of a creaking sound.

After a while, he squeezed a curse out of his mouth.

“…… A bunch of rubbish! ”

Although they had won the battle, he was not happy at all.

After all, according to his original plan, they would pinch to death the guys stationed on the east bank like a grasshopper, and regain the face and morale lost by the 360,000 people, but they didn't expect to be bitten off a piece of meat by this grasshopper.

No one will cheer at such a costly victory.

He could even see in the faces of the soldiers the horror and trepidation that should never have been on the faces of the Willantes.

Looking at the commander who was angry, the adjutant and staff officer on the side all had a restless expression, and they didn't dare to say a word.

Just then, a communication request came from the holographic screen.

Ryan's heart chuckled unconsciously at the sight of the popping signal, and he was relieved to see that it was John's guy calling and pressed the turn button.

Looking at the face that appeared on the holographic screen, Ryan said expressionlessly.

"What's the matter?"

Probably sensing that Ryan was not in a good mood, John didn't dare to ridicule the army and fight stupidly like before, but said in a businesslike tone.

“…… The blue gopher that General Gurion had placed on my airship wants us to provide him with some corpses, preferably the one to be poisoned. ”

Ryan said impatiently.

"There are so many dead people, where can Lao Tzu find him who has been poisoned."

As soon as his words fell, a pesky collapsed nose snatched into the holographic screen.

"Give me an engineering team! And a medical team! I can build my own front-line research institute! ”

Hearing this request, Ryan sneered in his heart.

One engineering team plus one medical team......

I'm so embarrassed to open this mouth!

"Is this any good for me?"

The blue gopher laughed twice.

"Absolutely! As soon as my project is complete, you will have a virus that only works for the Brahminats...... Even not just the Brahmi, we can customize the recipient's RNA so that the 'dead agent' matches the recipient with a specific DNA to our needs. ”

Not understanding what the guy was farting, Ryan snorted noncommittally.

"So what?"

Martin said softly.

"Equivalent to...... You can make any race you don't like disappear from the planet. ”

Ryan's eyes narrowed slightly, and suddenly a smile curled up at the corner of his mouth.

“…… Interesting. ”

He didn't think this guy really had that ability, but it didn't hurt to give it a try. After all, if it really happens, this war will end immediately.

They don't need to kill all the Brahmins.

It is enough to kill one part and let the rest be afraid.

Martin smiled.

"That'...... Do you agree? ”

Ryan thought for a moment and said.

"The engineering team is fine, but the front-line medical resources are tight, and I don't have the manpower to give you...... Is it okay to change the medical team to a team of 100? ”

Martin said with an embarrassed face.

"Team of 100...... Do you mean your soldiers? I don't doubt their bravery, but I'm afraid it's a little difficult for them to screen the cause of death of the corpses—"

Ryan waved his hand impatiently.

"Then use the living."

Clones of the Glorious Army can be used as they please.

If that kind of quick product doesn't work, you can also go to the local area to catch some.

As long as it reduces the casualties of the Willantes, the inconsequential cost is worth it.

Martin was stunned for a moment, with an expression of disbelief, but soon his face showed excitement and ecstasy.

"Oooh oh...... That's great! Dear General! Thank you for your support of the End of the Wasteland – ahem, I mean thank you for your support of science! ”

Ryan chuckled.

"Don't rush to thank me, I want to see the results."

"No problem! My Lord! ”

Martin bowed deeply.

"I won't let you down!"

On the other side, in the northern part of Akal County, two sneaky figures were looking out at the Willant people cleaning the battlefield on the riverbank.

Looking at the corpses, Ye Shi couldn't help but smack his tongue.

"Mom...... It was a terrible beating. ”

In reality, the area on the map, which is only the size of a fingernail, will have to be rubbed for at least a month or two before it can be fruitful.

It is not possible to fight like this in the wasteland where people are not treated as people.

Because the legion parked five airships here, and the radar was turned on too much, the two of them did not dare to put the drone on the screen, so they could only lie on the ground in gilly suits to reconnoitre.

Tempest glanced at the time on the VM screen, then at the airship in the distance, and then said in a calm voice.

"Judging by the damage, it shouldn't be a problem to get a week...... By the way, how long will it take for your college friend? ”

Ye Shi thought about it and said.

"Almost a week should be enough......"

Tempest nodded, not speaking, just staring at the truck full of corpses in the distance and frowning slightly.

The soldiers of the Southern Legion loaded the corpses of the Borneos into a single cart and drove along the crooked river to the gentle terrain, and then lifted the carriage and dumped all the corpses into the Yongliu River.

Also aware of the situation by the river, Ye Shi also frowned.

"What do they want to do?"

Tempest thought for a moment and said.

"Perhaps it is hoped that these corpses will rush to the lower reaches of Tiandu and be able to break the will of the survivors of the Borneo kingdom to resist."

After a pause, he continued.

"Of course, maybe it's poisoning."

In addition to dying in battle, a significant number of Borneo soldiers also died from poison gas.

According to the fringe brother, the gas bombs used by the Southern Legion do not appear to be simple synthetic toxins, but viruses with some self-replicating ability.

This thing is much more awesome than nuclear radiation.

But that's where the wind is most confused.

If the Southern Legion was aiming to occupy the land and the population, he couldn't figure out what the point of them was in doing so.

Unless—

They are conducting some kind of experiment.

And the part of the virus they put on the battlefield is just an over-product of this experiment, or an "incomplete" of a final product.

That way, everything makes sense......

……

The news of the loss of Akale County has not yet reached Tiandu, but it has already spread to the official website forum with the death of the debtor Big Eye.

And just when the players were gossiping about the afterthoughts, in a secluded corner of the Heavenly Palace, a group of researchers in white coats were busy in front of the tablet.

They were all researchers from the Academy, and there were about 100 of them, the lowest of which was E-level, and the highest-level was B-class.

Since the beginning of the war between the Southern Legion and the Borneo states, the Academy has borrowed parts of the Heavenly Palace from Absec and established research sites.

Although Borneo did not have formal diplomatic relations with the Academy, Absec heard that the Academy could help deal with the Legion, so he nodded and agreed without saying a word, and even arranged for the quacks, scribes, and emcees that the Witch had too late to take with him.

On the surface, it was to help, but in fact, Absec also wanted these guys to learn something from him.

However, the academy obviously looked down on the level of these people, and did not pay much attention to Absec's careful thinking, so they only arranged some work for those people to serve tea and pour water and do chores.

As for the chores that involve research, they still trust their prospectors and apprentices more.

The entrance to the site.

The Captain showed the card with the identification code to the android soldier on duty, and dragged a cart stuffed with body bags across the checkpoint with several players wearing exoskeletons.

Jiang Xuezhou's mentor, Yang Kai, happened to be standing next to a barracks, directing several E-class researchers to operate a boxy terminal device.

Fang Chang's eyes were a little curious, he leaned over to look at it twice, and then asked.

"What is this?"

Yang Kai didn't sell anything to him, and introduced it concisely.

"We redesigned the control terminal for this starship, through which we can connect to the starship's control server, adjust the output power of the reactor, get permission to connect, and so on without entering the starship......"

"Anyway, it's easy to say, but it's not easy to do, the local natives have piled up so many useless structures on the starship's hull that the passage into the starship's interior is almost completely blocked."

Fang Chang asked curiously.

"Isn't this thing going to work?"

Yang Kai laughed and said teasingly.

"It's true that we're lazy sometimes, but we're not blind. If this thing could be fixed, we wouldn't have left this thing here for more than a century. ”

This was so reasonable that Fang Chang couldn't refute it for a while.

After a pause, Yang Kai said in a mocking tone again.

"The gravitational pull exerted by the locals on this starship is too heavy for even the anti-gravity engine to bear...... According to our examination of the reactor operation data, even without this incident, this palace would have been floating for another thirty or forty years at most. If we toss again this time, it is estimated that there will be ten or twenty years of life left, and you had better talk to that chieftain of Ah, and don't rely on us again. ”

Fang Chang nodded and said.

"I'll tell him, but I don't think he's that careful."

Yang Kai smiled and said noncommittally.

"That's not good."

He, a B-class researcher, also climbed up from the grassroots level little by little, and when he was younger, he didn't deal with the survivors in the wasteland.

He knew all too well what those people were thinking......

At this moment, Yang Kai finally noticed the cart next to Fang Chang and the body bags piled on the cart.

His eyebrows lifted slightly, already guessing something.

"These people...... Is that the 'dead' infected person you are talking about? ”

Seeing that the topic shifted to those body bags, Fang Chang also restrained his laughing expression, nodded seriously and said.

"That's right. They were soldiers killed on the front line, and we found on their corpses some unseen viruses with suspected artificially engineered genetic material. At present, the Alliance Biological Research Institute has carried out analysis of the sample...... The administrator wants us to give you some of the samples to study, and maybe you can find some clues that we haven't noticed. ”

Yang Kai touched his chin, and the look on his face gradually became serious.

"Okay, let's put the body here."

Virus weapons are much more dangerous than nuclear weapons, the latter can destroy an area no matter how awesome, while the former can affect the entire ecosystem.

With that, he raised his index finger and tapped twice on his personal terminal, and soon a young man in a white coat walked over.

The young man looked very young, only in his early eighteen, but he had the temperament of a professional.

Especially the shiny brain, which is simply too convincing.

Facing Yang Kai, the young man said respectfully.

"Professor, you're looking for me?"

"Qin Yuanxing, right...... That's right, I've got something to do with you. ”

As if he didn't remember that he had this student, Yang Kai glanced at the name tag on his chest before matching this face with the number in the system, and then continued concisely.

"Our old friend sent some virus samples, I remember that your research direction includes virology, you do RNA and pathological analysis, and then compare it with our database after you have done it, and then see if you can get a solution with the right cost."

As soon as he heard that his profession could come in handy, the young man's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said energetically.

"Don't worry, I'll leave it to me!"

The last thing that the college lacks is to have researchers, and what is lacking is only the opportunity to get ahead.

His ability is not inferior to that of D-level brothers and sisters, and the reason why he is still an E-level is just because he is not qualified enough on his resume.

Looking at the young man who left in a hurry, Fang Chang had a hint of obvious envy in his eyes.

Although there are many researchers in the alliance, it is clear that there are not many to the extent that a single person can be in charge of a large project.

At least in terms of the reserve of research talents, the foundation of the college is indeed deep enough.

If only we could kidnap these E-class to the Alliance!

At this moment, Yang Kai didn't know that just because he was unintentionally pretending to be forced, his corner had been remembered by a certain guy.

Retracting his gaze from the place where the back disappeared, Fang Chang suddenly thought of something again, looked at Yang Kai and continued.

"By the way, according to the latest feedback from our frontline troops, they found that the Willant people threw some corpses carrying the virus into the river, and we are worried that the virus may contaminate the water body of the Yongliu River."

Yang Kai's brows furrowed slightly, and he thought for a moment and said.

"Well, your worries are not unreasonable, it's best to remind the local chief, and let his survivors pay attention to hygiene, such as try not to use river water when washing clothes, and remember to boil drinking water before drinking."

Poisoning the Yongliu River......

These big noses are really ruthless.

Viruses don't just stay in the Yongliu River, sooner or later they will be washed into the sea, and only God knows where the fish and currents will take them.

Fortunately, this "dead agent" has a very high lethality rate, and it is not a perfect virus from a pathological point of view, and the scope of transmission is not too wide.

However, it is clear that the red-eyed madmen will not be satisfied with the current half-finished product, and will definitely find a way to improve the existing sample, so that it can be both destructive and more contagious and spread efficiently.

It is much easier to do bad things with high technology than to engage in construction...... (End of chapter)