Volume 10: Ancient Battleship Chapter 504: Fortress Blockade
"That's not necessary." Aya said seriously, "As soon as the communication was restored, I reported the situation here to my superiors, and the reply I received was that we must give priority to escorting the ancient battleship 'Aguna Kator' back to the Ark."
"Shit!" The Hound threw a punch fiercely. "If your bastard superior was inside that base, I don't believe he would be able to say that!"
Just when Hound was wondering whether he should take some coercive measures to make these guys from the Security Bureau surrender, Aya's face suddenly changed slightly, and she took out her personal communication terminal from her pocket.
An orange indicator light on the side of the machine was flashing rhythmically, indicating that there was an unread message that had just been sent to her mailbox.
Aya lightly swiped her finger across the screen, and after just one glance, her expression instantly became strange.
"What's wrong? Is your superior planning to send a pilot fleet to escort us? Is he afraid that we've taken the wrong route?" the Hound asked sarcastically.
"...Our superiors told us to..." Aya bit her lip and said stiffly, "Let us...use the 'Aguna Kotor'...to rush to the aid of the Mukach military base."
"Huh?" Upon hearing this news, the Hound was stunned. He first stared at Aya's evasive eyes for a few seconds, and after confirming that the other party was not joking, he laughed out loud -
"Hahahahaha, you didn't expect that! The slap in the face came so quickly! This is really a naked slap in the face, it makes a loud slapping sound! I don't know why, but I suddenly feel that the upper leadership structure of the Security Bureau doesn't seem so unpleasant, hahahahahaha..."
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Mukah military base.
Fifteen minutes had passed since the attack began.
At least two hundred seeds of erosion have been spit out of the giant centipede's mouth, and among these seeds of erosion, one third are Type B mutants with extremely strong combat effectiveness.
The first line of defense established by the base defenders was breached within just a dozen seconds of coming into contact with these monsters - because active ammunition requires special storage devices, soldiers usually do not carry active ammunition with them except for troops going out of the base to perform missions.
Conventional weapons may be able to block the advance of ordinary erosion seeds, but when facing the B-type mutants whose strength, speed and defense capabilities are several times that of ordinary erosion seeds, the role they can play is very limited. These biological weapons that are born for killing can even withstand the close-range direct fire of the 130mm cannon of the main battle tank, and their tentacles with countless suction cups can even tear open the 25mm thick composite breastplate of the heavy power armor with brute force...
The first line of defense didn't even last a minute before it completely collapsed. All the soldiers who stayed behind to block these monsters were killed... Even if there were some wounded who didn't die on the spot, their bodies had already been invaded by the cells of the Seed of Erosion. Even if the Ark was the final winner of this battle, their comrades had to execute these wounded soldiers in tears.
To this day, the Seed of Erosion infection is still a terminal illness for humans. Even if a very small number of infected people successfully eliminate all the alienated cells in their bodies, they are all individual cases that cannot be replicated... What's more, ordinary soldiers are not eligible for treatment from the medical department of the institute... Unless they have very special mutations, the lunatics in the institute may focus their attention on these people... But if that is the case, their fate will most likely be to become experimental subjects on the dissection table rather than recipients of treatment.
Ke Lan had thought about announcing the discovery of the stalagmite fragments. Although he had many ways to cover up the true origin of the stalagmite, the strange island was not accessible to everyone. It was also a resource that was difficult to replicate. Ke Lan would rather leave the few stalagmite fragments on hand to his own people...
Especially after they and the heretic sects became mortal enemies, the chances of encountering the Seeds of Erosion would inevitably increase greatly. From a certain perspective, these stalagmite fragments were like resurrection coins. Although they could not really expect to use them to save lives, they could at least greatly improve the team's survival rate and fault tolerance rate.
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"Retreat quickly! Retreat behind the fifth wall!" A warrant officer shouted to his soldiers, "We can't fight them here! We will be killed by these monsters! We have to rely on fortifications - go to the fifth wall and look down from a high position! Pons! Take a few people and hurry to the ammunition depot. We need active ammunition!"
The warrant officer had already discarded all the spare magazines and grenades on his body, and even took off his helmet and the armor over his combat uniform - conventional bullets could not harm these monsters anyway, and helmets and protective gear could not block their attacks, so it would be better to go into battle lightly, which would make him faster and more flexible.
"Warrant Officer! McCarthy and his men are being entangled by those monsters... The group of brothers who are responsible for covering their retreat are being bitten by the enemy and can't escape at all. I have to go and save them!" The Sergeant Pons, who was named by the warrant officer, roared at the top of his lungs. He stood on the roof of an armored vehicle that had been abandoned by its crew, and continuously fired at the rear with the vehicle's large-caliber machine gun. Bullet casings as thick as thumbs had piled up in a thick layer at his feet.
"Save them? What are you going to do with them?!" the warrant officer said angrily. "You don't even have any live ammunition! Can you kill those things? What do you want to use? Scratch them with your fingernails? Or bite them with your teeth?"
"But! There are more than 20 brothers left behind! I can't watch them die here, less than a hundred meters away from us!" Pons cried out in tears. He felt something liquid get into his eyes, burning the corners of his eyes. He didn't know whether it was sweat or tears...
The camp they had just rushed out of was full of two- to four-story soldier dormitories. The terrain was relatively complex, and if they engaged in street fighting in the camp, they could greatly slow down the advancement of the Seeds of Erosion, and the effect would be much better than the blocking line in the open area... But the biggest problem was that after the large force successfully retreated to the fifth wall, these soldiers who volunteered to stay behind to cover the retreat would basically have no chance of getting out of the camp.
"Pons! I say it again! Take your men to the ammunition depot!" the warrant officer gritted his teeth and said, "I'll go rescue McCarthy and the others!"
"What did you say?" Sergeant Pons turned around in disbelief and looked at the warrant officer behind him. The warrant officer had thrown away the assault rifle without a magazine in his hand, picked up a light machine gun from the ground, kicked open a box of bullets, pulled out the ammunition belt, and wrapped it around his body.
If Ke Lan were here, he would definitely find that the warrant officer's current appearance is 70% similar to Rambo, the protagonist in the classic old movie "First Blood".
"I said! You bastard! Take people to the ammunition depot! I'm going to rescue them!"
"But, Warrant Officer, you said it yourself, ordinary bullets can't kill those monsters...the gun in your hand..." Pons' face showed a hint of hesitation.
He suddenly felt that this might be the last time he would speak to the warrant officer.
Although the old warrant officer often secretly drinks the wine hidden in his shoe cabinet and likes to curse, he is actually quite nice to the soldiers under his command... This team has served with the warrant officer at the Mukach base for two and a half years, and there has not been a single casualty. This is something worth boasting about in the entire field corps.
But just a few minutes ago, this two and a half year record of zero casualties was broken... Pons saw clearly that the dozen people in Paine's team were directly overwhelmed by a large group of erosion seeds, and now, McCarthy's team...
He really wanted to tell the captain that it would be better to just forget about it. If he failed to rescue McCarthy and the others and got himself into trouble...but he just couldn't bring himself to say this.
"Are you an idiot? I didn't say I was going to kill those things. I was just going to rescue them!" The warrant officer glared at him fiercely, "Hurry up, get out of that car! If you don't want to see us die, go and bring us the active ammunition!"
The warrant officer stepped forward quickly, pulled Pons off the armored vehicle, opened the driver's door, and got in.
"Follow me! To the ammunition depot!" Pons took a last look at the started armored vehicle, gritted his teeth, and ran towards the ammunition depot with several of his soldiers.
"Damn it! I could have stayed in this damn place for another two months and then lived out my retirement in peace in the rear, but something like this happened to me. It seems like this is my destiny and I can't avoid it..." The warrant officer started the car while muttering to himself. He stepped on the accelerator and the armored vehicle crashed through several boxes blocking the road and rushed into the camp.
If everything goes well, as long as McCarthy and the others can be found, it will only take a few minutes to pull them out with a vehicle. The speed of ordinary erosion seeds cannot catch up with wheeled armored vehicles... As for the mutants...
Then I can only pray that I don't encounter them.
The road conditions in the camp were very bad - according to the construction plan of the Mukach base, even in the dormitory camp, in order to improve the assembly efficiency, the roads in the camp must meet the conditions for large vehicles to pass through. But now, in order to stop those monsters, many shells have fallen into the camp, and many buildings have been blown down. The degree of chaos is no less than those dilapidated Alpha city ruins.
"Damn, these blind artillerymen! They are just a bunch of people who eat and do nothing!" Finally, after driving more than a hundred meters into the camp, the passage was completely blocked by a collapsed three-story building. In order to cross the obstacle, the armored vehicle had to install several high-powered rocket thrusters on its chassis and fly directly over the ruins.
The warrant officer slammed the brakes while cursing, pushed open the car door and jumped out. After taking two steps, he saw the body of a friendly soldier buried under the rubble.
"Damn it... the monster couldn't be killed, and it accidentally injured its own people... If I can make it back alive and let me know who fired the shot, I'm going to twist the bastard's head off and stuff it in my fucking PIYAN!" The warrant officer only took one look and knew that the guy was dead and there was no hope for him - in the past, the bodies of friendly forces would definitely have to be recovered, but the battle was far from over, and the situation was getting worse... They could hardly take care of the living, let alone the dead.
But the warrant officer had only taken a few steps when he suddenly turned around and quickly returned to the side of the corpse.
Only a section of the corpse's forearm was exposed, and the cuffs of its dark grey uniform were stained with lime.
This is not the uniform of their field corps, this is the uniform of the Security Bureau's special forces!
After confirming the identity of the deceased, the warrant officer couldn't help but feel a little excited - ordinary soldiers would not carry active bullets when staying in the base, but this group of Security Bureau guys were different. The number of Security Bureau members in this base was only one percent of the regular troops in the field force, but their quota of active ammunition accounted for half of the total quota of the entire Mukach military base.
Perhaps because they had too much money, the security bureau members didn't care about wasting resources. After taking out the active ammunition from the special storage device, it could only be kept for ten to fifteen days at most. If they didn't receive any field missions during this period, the active ammunition would basically be scrapped. Despite this, they always carried several magazines full of active ammunition.
The warrant officer took an engineer shovel from the armored vehicle and pried away the rubble that was pressing on the body... and sure enough, in the body's pocket, he found a 0.45-inch caliber combat pistol and two magazines with yellow and black "biohazard" labels.
"Brother, you are really a timely help." The warrant officer took a look at the face of the corpse, then tore off the "dog tag" hanging around the other's neck and stuffed it into his pocket.
No matter what, at least he is now able to fight against the Seed of Erosion.
But it seemed as if God wanted to play a little joke on him. The warrant officer with a pistol just turned a corner and saw three Seeds of Erosion lying on the ground, "swallowing" several dismembered corpses.
The Seeds of Corrosion didn't have mouths, but their tentacles had the ability to absorb flesh and blood. These monsters inserted several tentacles into the corpse, and the warrant officer could even see the deep red flesh and blood flowing into their bodies along the transparent tubes inside the tentacles...
"Damn it! The three... Although they are not mutants, they may be difficult to deal with with just a small pistol..." The warrant officer subconsciously took a step back, but before he could retreat to the alley, the three Corrosion Seeds abandoned the corpses on the ground and rushed towards him quickly!
They had already discovered him!
"Shit!" the warrant officer cursed inwardly, raised his gun and fired -
But at this moment, the sky above suddenly became dark, as if the sunlight was blocked by something.
