Chapter 121: How Many People Are Here After All?
"If you encounter creatures from another world, without causing casualties to your own people, strive to see things alive and corpses when you die."
Looking at the image of the unknown and hideous creature displayed in front of his eyes, the sergeant major subconsciously thought of a clause in the mission document when the advance team set off.
Creatures from another world did appear, but he didn't expect it to look like this.
And according to the observation just now, the other party probably belongs to some kind of flying creature, although I don't know how the attack ability is, but judging from the thick scales on the body glowing with cold light, the defense power is estimated to be not too weak.
In this way, if you use the least powerful cruise missile, you should not be able to kill it at once, right?
After assessing the situation on both sides, the sergeant major probably had a judgment in his mind.
Perfection in every mission is the highest commitment that everyone expects from a leader.
Now that they have seen it, there is no reason to let it go, and the best outcome is that their team can catch it alive and go back.
Thinking of this, the sergeant major made a command on the internal channel.
"All of them, mission changes, material collection is suspended, and because of the primary target, try to capture the target according to the plan."
"The team is divided into two, flanked from both wings around the target in front, climbed to the open field of vision with the help of trees, and waited for my specific instructions when the target appeared in the attack range!"
"Roger!"
"Roger!"
The covert exchange of information was done silently and without causing any superfluous sound.
With the gesture of the sergeant major, the fifty mechs quickly separated, and then quickly rushed to the left and right.
At the same time, a command appeared at the top of the display information of all Pioneer mechs.
Agreement 2: Stick to the Task
Task No. 079: The task of the advance team has changed, the primary target appears, and it is attempted to capture it. 〗
The Pioneer mecha was originally developed to meet the needs of planetary exploration, and has the ability to complete exploration tasks under a variety of environmental conditions.
For example, in tens of seconds, using a powerful mechanical grappling hook to climb a giant tree of hundreds of meters is something that a heavy attack mecha can't do.
So less than a kilometer away from the unknown creature entrenched in the canopy, fifty mecha soldiers who had found their place used a projector the size of an egg from under their left arm to aim a mechanical grappling hook with a slender steel cable at the trees above and launch it.
"Boom!"
Like the sound of a pen tip piercing plastic, the sharp grappling hook locked on the wood, quickly dragging the mecha soldiers on the ground up, and in a few jumps, they had already reached the top of the tree, and through the perception system, they saw the behemoth in front of them.
The monster with its slender tail is estimated to be more than ten meters long and more than five meters high, figuratively speaking, it looks like an iguana with enlarged bat wings, its slender head is covered with sharp scales, and its thick limbs are sharp claws, and its appearance is terrifying.
But it didn't matter what it looked like at this point, and that didn't stop them from making plans for the rest of the day.
The sergeant's voice sounded again in the channel: "Attention, I will carry out the first tentative attack on the position of the target's wings, if no damage is done to the opponent, the second group of members will continue to fire missiles at fixed points, and if the target is found to be showing signs of escape, the third group of members will immediately open fire freely." ”
"Understood!"
Position confirmation, distance confirmation, EM Matrix transmitter ready!
"All on alert!"
"Launch!"
With the sergeant major's cold voice coming out, two flattened fusiform missiles, only the size of palms, rose into the sky from the top of the tree where they were hiding, pulled out a parabola, and finally aimed at the wings and flew away.
"Bang!"
Hit the target!
Before the monster could detect it, the two cruise missiles targeted each other with precision.
At an altitude of 100 meters, on the turquoise background, the tumbling flames and gunpowder smoke were accompanied by a deafening loud sound, and the violent shock wave was mixed with a wave of air that could lift people, and it was wrapped in an endless jungle under the stumps and leaves like a rain of bullets.
"Roar~~Whoa~~"
The loud roar of the missiles cleared, and it was possible to hear a continuous and painful wail from the depths of the jungle in the distance.
The sergeant major looked in the direction of the target. The once lush green canopy of trees in that area was now bald from the middle, black, revealing the burning trunks below.
"The target may have been hit hard and fallen to the ground, all eyes are on it, and prepare to search for it."
A few moments later, the members of the advance team who jumped down from the tree gathered and lined up in twos and threes, chasing the wails ahead.
The distance of a thousand meters was moving at high speed, and it was soon there, and when everyone arrived, the high air of the jungle here was constantly drifting in the air with fire, and the burning branches mixed with ashes fell on the ground one after another, and it looked like an earthquake had occurred in this place.
After a careful search, one of the advance team members found a large pool of crimson blood on the ground, as well as a few steaming pieces of flesh and tissue from banana leaves.
The sergeant major picked up a piece and checked it, feeling that it weighed twenty or thirty pounds, and the cyan scales had been blown black, most of them had become carbon-like, and with a light touch of his fingers, they turned into pieces.
"This should be the monster's, judging by the degree of casualties, it should not be able to run far and continue to chase."
As soon as the sergeant's words fell, as if to verify his guess, a feeble hiss came not far ahead.
However, in addition, everyone faintly heard other noisy sounds, which according to the frequency analysis from the Pioneer Mecha Perception System, seemed to be human voices.
"Are there humans here too?"
The sergeant major lifted his steel head and looked into the depths of the jungle, a look of disbelief flashing in his eyes inside the crimson mech.
In fact, the target they were looking for was just over 300 meters away.
The magnified creature that had been hit by the missile, like a lizard with bat wings, was lying on the ground weakly at the moment, the cyan scales did not stop the explosion and burning of the missile, and the flesh was dripping with flesh and blood, large pieces of tissue had been melted, and there were potholes everywhere, and in some places even shredded internal organs could be seen.
With such heavy casualties, he has not yet died, and if he was personally seen by the advance team, he would definitely feel the strength of his vitality.
And this question existed at this time among the creatures from another world who were far away and looked at the terrified expressions that fell from the sky and broke into their team.
It was a long procession, young and old, tall and short, fat and thin, and although the clothes they wore were all rough and short, and there was an illusion that people had traveled back to the Middle Ages, but judging by their physical characteristics, it was almost certain that they should be human.
It seemed as if they were on their way at the moment, dragging their families one by one, carrying rudimentary parcels, and some of them were driving donkey carts, in a long line on a path between the woodlands.
But now that the team had stopped, everyone was looking at the behemoth that had suddenly fallen from the sky, not knowing how to express their panicked feelings.
"That's a pterodactyl!"
"I was so badly injured!"
"It's good that it's not Yanlong, otherwise we would definitely die!"
After the villagers in strange costumes came to their senses, they began to look at the pterodactyls in front of them and talk about it.
There was a subtle hint of greed in the eyes of some of them, as they said, it was a dragon, even a pterodactyl, and the price of a scale of its scale was between thirty and seventy silver Denali, enough for a family of five to eat for more than half a year.
This time, this group of people fled to escape the terrifying Yanlong infestation, abandoned their families and businesses, and lost their land.
Although they were lucky enough to escape, they probably had nowhere to go after that, and if they were not accepted by a lord or nobleman, they might not have traveled far and someone would die of hunger and fever, or be brutally killed by robbers who were plundering everywhere.
Just when some people were about to move, suddenly a green high-engine car that was out of place in this world and looked like a jeep drove from the front of the line.
The fleeing villagers standing on the road hurriedly moved out of the way, allowing the huge steel creature to stop next to the pterodactyl.
"It's the group of people in the green spots!" I don't know who in the crowd said softly helplessly.
"Click!" The doors of the car were opened.
Two men dressed in green camouflage and armed with rifles of unknown model jumped out of the car.
"Second Lieutenant Itami, it's actually a wounded pterodactyl." A man with a small stature, long black hair and a steel helmet looked at the behemoth in front of him, slightly excited.
"Kurata, I saw it, but how could the wounded pterosaur appear here, it looks like its wound was caused by a thermal weapon." The man known as Itami had a puzzled expression.
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Kurata wearing a helmet suddenly became a little obscene: "Haha, maybe it's magic, after all, there are even dragons and elves in this world, and it's not strange to have powerful magicians!" ”
"You're actually talking about elves!" Itami saw through his companion's true purpose, and as a beast girl, the different world that suddenly appeared from the "door" just satisfied the desire that the other party had once fantasized.
Itami's mind came to mind the appearance of the witches and beast girls described in the Eighteen Forbidden Doujinshi, but he also felt a certain horror about these in reality.
The degree of development of one's own world and the other world behind the "door" is very different, whether it is technology, economy, military, etc., it is far more than the other world, but there are fantasy biological races and immeasurable resources in this world, whether it is their genetic factors or the resources hidden underground, it will make the whole world crazy.
When greed crosses the line, it is self-evident what some people who claim to be civilized will do to these strange-looking but charismatic creatures.
As an otaku who was forced to become a second lieutenant in a specially dispatched force, Itami really didn't dare to continue to imagine.
"Let's go, the camp is too far away from here, we can't take this pterodactyl with us now!" The man named Kurata shook his head regretfully.
The two did not care about the villagers fleeing on both sides of the road, and after taking care of the situation on their own, the two prepared to get in the car and leave.
But they didn't see that next to the dying pterosaur's body, near the depths of the dense jungle, on dozens of towering tall trees, a figure in a crimson mecha was looking at them coldly.
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