Chapter 239: Unscrupulous
The dark basement base did not become quiet because of the temporary rest of a few people. If the surveillance system in the base is still functional, it will be clear that there is a fierce battle taking place in the A6 area.
The light of the machine gun illuminates some buildings in the area, and high-powered grenades that explode from time to time release orange flames, making the entire area as bright as day. However, neither bullets nor grenades could stop their advance.
Living corpses: A large number of ordinary living corpses poured out of the buildings in the residential area, in the garages, and from any place where they could hide. They're like a swarm of blood-sucking mosquitoes, and Rankine's Demoman squad is the freshest blood. There were also a small number of living corpses with guns, and with their remaining instincts, they responded to the fire of the Demoman team with their machine guns. In this kind of shè, the living corpses that do not die as long as they are not injured in the head have a clear advantage, and the number of living corpse shè's hands is far higher than that of the Demoman squad.
As a result, within a few rounds, two of the Demoman's Squad soldiers were shot and killed.
As the living corpses approached the Demoman team and turned it into a trench shop, Rankine let out a loud roar, and the light of the yellow sè spewed shè in his eyes. At the same time, a nearby six-story building suddenly shook violently, and then smashed nearly a ton of rubble and countless steel bars, and fell right among the corpses.
Immediately, countless living corpses were smashed into pulp. In a tremor that lasted nearly a minute, a wall of earth was built in front of the store, and nearly two hundred living corpses were buried.
Rankine gasped.
The environment of the underground base greatly reduced Rankine's earth elemental abilities. If on the surface of the earth, in the endless land, Rankine can hunt a large number of living corpses by summoning a large number of ground spikes with low energy consumption. But now in the underground base, there are too few earth elements for Rankine to use. Instead, he could only use elemental concussions to cause the nearby concrete buildings to concuss, causing them to collapse, crushing the enemy and crushing them.
As a fifth-order ability, Elemental Concussion is a large-scale killing method that causes an explosion by resonating with the elements in the area of action, thereby triggering elemental fission. However, in the underground base, the amount of earth elemental is almost negligible, and Rankine can only use it to act on nearby buildings. But using this ability is pitifully small, and it can be described as a thankless task.
"Withdraw. Seeing that the attack of this wave of living corpses was suppressed, Rankine said weakly.
Upon entering the underground base, Rankine's team encountered a large number of living corpses. At first, Rankine didn't take this low-intelligence mutant creature seriously. But as the number of living corpses increased, Rankine finally realized that no matter how garbage a monster was, once it reached a certain level of quantity, the quantitative change would produce a qualitative change. Despite the Demoman's team's equipment, Jīng Liang is limited in number after all, and he can't withstand the crowd tactic of living corpses.
As a result, in the tactic of fighting and retreating, Rankine's team spent nearly 24 hours only breaking through to the edge of the residential area. But there were nearly 2,000 corpses lying in the path of the Demoman team!
However, the Demoman squad is not without losses. From the ten people who entered the base before, to now, including Rankine, there are only five people left. Among these five people, in addition to ordinary soldiers with abilities of about the third order, Rankine also lost a guerrilla. This greatly dismayed Rankine, and the death of Guerrilla Shimei was a big blow to him.
According to the electronic map, they need to break through at least two areas to find a safe passage to the lower base. But there are four whole floors of base waiting for them down there. God knows how many monsters there will be, and how powerful they will be.
"Damn, that old man Cario must be playing tricks on us!"
In a private garage, Rankine's team was resting. As the captain, Rankine watched the long distance in the board, and he couldn't stop throwing it and smashed it to the ground.
The impact of the strong hit caused the LCD screen of the tactical board to crack instantly, and the electronic components were also damaged to varying degrees, when a faint gray smoke rose from the tactical board, the tactical board was declared over.
But this did not give Rankine's anger to him, and he walked up and down the garage like a bull, exclaiming, "Look at the monsters on that road, this is an impossible task! Not to mention ten people, even if I give me a detachment of 100 men, I may not be able to do it." ”
Rankine complained about the unreasonable mission, but he never thought of being the smallest but strongest of the five legions. This legion is known for its squad-based combat and long-range infiltration and knife tactics. This not only requires the average level of the team members to be at the fourth level, but also to test the captains' command skills.
From the very beginning, this task assigned by Cario did not want the three teams to force the level. Cario wanted to test the team's ability to work with his team and his teammates to deal with weaknesses.
Unfortunately, Rankine did not consider the details of the tactics, but complained about Cario's mission. Now, the Demoman squad is not only facing the disadvantage of a sharp reduction in team members, but the consumption of ammunition is also a big problem.
Even if the guns of the war dead were recovered, the 2,000 living corpses killed by the Demoman squad were placed there, and even if one bullet was allocated to each living corpse, the squad would now have very little ammunition left. Not to mention the consumption of various tactical grenades.
According to the squad now, the remaining ammunition is very reluctant to even pass through Sectors B and C.
"Captain, maybe we should search the warehouses in Area C, and maybe there will be an arsenal. McGonagall, the only guerrilla, said that he was now the only fighter in the team who had the weight to make a suggestion.
Rankine nodded emphatically, it was the way to go. Nearly half of the living corpses in Area A were killed by the Demomans, and if they were to go back the way they came now, Rankine's team would have at least a ninety percent chance of getting back to the ground safely. But the consciousness of giving up the mission, and everyone in the team, including Rankine, will be branded as a "coward" and "coward".
The warriors of Asgard would rather die in battle than bear such a title.
Therefore, moving forward is the only option for Rankine now. And if you want to continue to go deep into the base, then the replenishment of ammunition is inevitable. Although the public information provided by Cario does not indicate the existence of an arsenal in Area C. But as a warehouse area, the arsenal should also be among them.
"It's time for the break, gentlemen. Rankine waved his hand and roared, "Let's go find the arsenal in Sector C and teach these guys who follow our ass a hard lesson!"
Rankine's words served as a small encouragement, and the soldiers, who had been tired, got up from the ground one by one, packed up their equipment, and left the private garage.
Off the garage is a private passage. It allows the owner of the garage to drive to the street square in the residential area, where there is a themed fountain. The floor of the plaza is paved with white stone slabs with a length of one meter, and the metal surface is surrounded by dozens of benches where people can rest. Dozens of birch trees have even been transplanted from the ground near the square, which have been planted in improved soil to allow this old-era tree species to survive.
However, in the abandoned base, the fountain in the square has long since left clear water, and the dozens of birch trees are only dry trunks. The entire street square was shrouded in a deep air of death. When Rankine and his party arrived in the square, they could even see several living corpses gnawing on their companions.
They don't have the same concept of a living corpse, a monster that is close to a beast. When there is no food in their instincts, the same kind is the food that temporarily fills the hunger.
The scalp tingling gnawing sound continued to sound, and as the object of the gnawing, a living corpse in the form of a teenager let out a painful cry. The young living corpse without half of its face reached out to rebel against its own kind. But the pale, pus-filled arm of the hand was quickly eaten away by its kind.
They bite the muscles of the living corpse with their alienated fangs, tearing off strips of jīng blood when they bite and pull, and swallow them in their mouths and into their stomachs.
Rankine gestured for the team to leave quietly, so as not to attract the attention of the living corpses. Even with his conceit, in the current situation of lack of ammunition, he does not want to give rise to disputes for no reason.
But just as the team began to move, a bullet flew through the darkness and hit the guerrilla McGonagall in the thigh. McGonagall's screams rang out at the same time as the sniper rifle shots, and the sudden scream caused the living corpses to stop their movements, and they all looked in the direction of Rankine's team.
As Rankine cursed, the living corpses let out a high-pitched cry, the sound they had to inform their kind. Hearing the roar, the living corpses stopped for a moment whatever they were doing, and then rushed in the direction of the screaming like cháo water.
However, in a short instant, more than a hundred living corpses were attracted by the scream, including a butcher.
"it, who put a cold gun on Lao Tzu. Holding McGranken, he yelled and directed the team to retreat in the opposite direction.
The living corpses didn't want to let go of the fat in their mouths, so they just rushed and pounced. The butcher in the group of living corpses let out a loud roar and charged at the Demoman team with legs as thick as legs. Everything in the butcher's track, whether it was a chair, an ancient tree, or a living corpse, was directly knocked away by the giant, and it was seen that Rankine's heart sank.
Between a window on the fifth floor of a standard residential building two hundred meters away from the plaza, a small Caucasian man retrieved the sniper rifle mounted on the window and said to the back: "Captain Rankine, they are retreating in the direction of Area B1. ”
In the living room of this house, Anthony is sitting on the sofa. After hearing the words of his sniper Betsy, he opened his eyes and said, "It's good to let this idiot Rankine attract the attention of the living corpses for us." We just have to follow the path that this idiot has opened. ”
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