Chapter 288 Debris Flow
"To be honest, I don't know very well myself." Sun Hang shook his head.
"You mean...intuition?" Zhulong responded, "Intuition tells you that the 'Three Apes' may appear in this operation and are very dangerous...right?"
"Absolutely." Sun Hang sighed and pretended to hesitate, "It's hard for me to describe that feeling..."
"Understood, I will pay more attention." Zhulong nodded.
Several people looked at each other and then jumped out of the cabin together.
Unlike those forward observation posts with only a few tents, Observation Post No. 7 was rebuilt on the basis of a semi-permanent military fortification. It not only has a concrete waterproof base, but also is equipped with a fully functional air defense Tunnels and a lifting anti-aircraft turret.
There were originally more than thirty special service operators stationed at Observation Post No. 7, but after all observation posts No. 0 to No. 6 were lost, the manpower here was increased to nearly a hundred people.
"To be honest, this terrain is a bit unfavorable." Zhulong raised his head and glanced at the hillside not far away. "If the rainfall continues to increase, the mudslide will bury Observation Post No. 7 at any time. If I were the commander, I would Directly ask your subordinates to abandon this place and retreat to observation post No. 8 in the open area.”
As Zhulong said, the most important job of the special service operators stationed at Observation Post No. 7 is to reinforce the hillside on one side, set up a blocking belt directly in front of the post, and then dig trenches on both sides of the blocking belt. Guiding the mud, earth and rocks that slid down from the top of the hillside... Many figures wearing orange protective suits trudged through the calf-deep mud, driving the steel drills used to fix the blocking belts deeply into the ground. .
Two multifunctional crawler-type engineering vehicles stood at the front, using two huge buckets to push back the mud that kept rolling down from high places - before the blocking belt was completely built, they were the only ones at Observation Post No. 7. safety barrier.
The hunters jumped out of the helicopter and landed on the iconic concrete platform of Observation Post No. 7 - this platform is almost three meters above the ground. Reflected by the flowing mud and rain around it, it looks more like a vast ocean. an isolated island.
"Finally check the equipment you are carrying. You still have five minutes... After five minutes, each team will advance to the target area according to the pre-planned route. Pay attention to keeping communication open at all times!" Ye, who is the frontline commander Xuan's voice came from the communication channel.
Compared with these special service operators who are armed to the teeth, the costumes of the hunters are more varied. One of Wang Xiyi and Sun Hang has the black dragon meme, and the other has the black dragon meme plus the Tai Sui meme. They can almost ignore the radiation of Dirty Rain. Ye Jiu's trick equipment "Killing" can also provide him with all the power. Due to the protection of the direction, as for Zhulong, the pouring rain could not touch him at all.
Among Sun Hang and the others, Zhong Ling was the only one who needed to wear a full set of protective equipment. The thick barrel-shaped protective clothing wrapped the slender girl into a rice dumpling... This equipment walked on dry and flat ground. It’s quite difficult, not to mention the bad weather with strong winds and rain, plus the constantly flowing, greasy and slippery mud...
People who often hike outdoors and trace rivers know that those fast-flowing creeks look crystal clear and the water depth seems to be only enough to cover the instep. However, only after you actually step in do you know the impact of the shallow water on the ankles. How powerful is the impact - and when the water is up to your knees, even master outdoor athletes will stay away from such a stream.
The density and weight of mud far exceed that of stream water, and its slipperiness is even worse than those moss-covered pebbles. These special service operators who work in the mud can only compete with the strength of the power exoskeleton of the lower body. to bear the brunt of the mud on their boots , is also equipped with threaded anchors controlled by a hydraulic device. Every time you take a step, the four anchors on both sides of the boot will be driven into the hard ground. These anchors are directly connected to the frame of the exoskeleton, which makes These field operators were barely able to stabilize themselves in the flowing mud.
"Zhong Ling... Otherwise, why don't you go?" Wang Xiyi glanced at Zhong Ling, "This road is too difficult, and there may be battles along the way, so we may not be able to take care of you."
"I can take care of myself." Zhong Ling said.
A burly, gorilla-like skeleton walked over and put Zhong Ling on his back - the skeleton was wearing a special equipment similar to a combat vest, and there was a Zhong Ling sat directly in the alloy backpack and connected the safety locks on the backpack to her protective clothing one by one.
Obviously, this corpse is the "transportation tool" specially prepared by Zhong Ling for herself.
"...I don't think I've seen you use this guy before." Sun Hang said.
"Because it wasn't used before," Zhong Ling said. "It had been stored in the icehouse of the No. 1 Research Institute. It wasn't until you disappeared in the occupied area that I asked the people from the research institute to send it over."< br>
"This is also one of the most significant advantages of the Puppet Master." Ye Jiu came over, "Although the number of skeletons she can control at one time is limited, there is no upper limit to the number of skeletons that can establish a mental link with her. Different types of artifacts can be replaced according to the needs of different tasks, just like soldiers choose suitable equipment according to different battlefields... But, from another perspective, 'trick equipment' is equivalent to qualified equipment. There is no difference if the equipment is used.”
"But don't you think this look looks familiar?" Sun Hang seemed to have remembered something, with a strange expression on his face.
"Looks familiar?"
"Gargantel." Sun Hang said.
"Gargant... poof!" Ye Jiuyi thought it was the name of some strange creature at first, but after half a second he suddenly realized that Gargantel was the name of the giant zombie in Plants vs. Zombies, and he immediately hugged him. He laughed with his belly full, "Hahahaha...don't say...hahaha...it's really similar!"
"What are you laughing at?" Several hunters nearby who were checking their equipment looked over and looked at Ye Jiu as if they were looking at fools. "Can you still laugh at this time? I hope you will still laugh when you encounter strange things later. To be able to laugh so happily.”
"What's wrong? I love to laugh, am I bothering you?" Ye Jiu pushed the spike in his hand to the ground, and the iron band at the end of the spike immediately made a dent on the concrete base.
"It's okay, just keep laughing." One of the hunters said in a sinister tone, and then complained to his companions in a low voice, "Isn't it said that those who participated in this operation are all carefully selected elites... How could it still happen? There’s this stupid guy sneaking in.”
"Don't worry about him, he's not in our group anyway." Another hunter said, "As long as this guy doesn't lead the weird things to our side."
"Tch." Ye Jiu was too lazy to continue arguing with the hunters and turned to look at Sun Hang, "There are only the last twenty seconds, are you nervous?"
"Why are you nervous?" Sun Hang tilted his head and asked.
"Moderate tension helps to increase the speed of nerve reaction." Ye Jiu moved the joints of his limbs, and there was a clanking and friction sound between the nails.
But compared to the sound of rain all around, this sound was almost negligible.
"Operation begins!" Ye Xuan's voice sounded, and the hunters waiting on the concrete platform jumped out one after another. The giant skeleton, nicknamed Gargantel by Sun Hang, was carrying Zhong Ling on its back in the mud flow. Wang Xiyi directly entered the dragon form and used her wings to tear apart the rain curtain in the air - as for Sun Hang, it was tight He grabbed Wang Xiyi's dragon tail tightly and hung it behind the humanoid black dragon.
There are many hunters with the ability to float or fly, but these hunters are more cautious and almost all choose to fly close to the ground. Only Wang Xiyi rushes into the air hundreds of meters high without scruples, looking down at the earth below.
"Huh...it feels so good!" Wang Xiyi's scale-covered mouth curled up, "Sun Hang, how do you feel?"
"It's fine, but I'm a little dizzy." Sun Hang said expressionlessly, "Can you stop swinging your tail around?"
"The tail is used to maintain balance and adjust direction. How can it not move?" Wang Xiyi turned around and rolled her eyes at him. "If you really feel dizzy, you can climb on my back."
"Then I won't become a dragon knight?"
"It's not like you've never ridden before?" Wang Xiyi said lightly.
"...Forget it, I'd better hang down below to have a wider view." Sun Hang said, "Fly slower, don't throw Zhong Ling away."
Looking from a high altitude, one can see the grouped hunters spreading out - according to the predetermined battle plan, these hunters will take Chimera No. 17 as the center and follow the edge of a circle with a radius of forty kilometers. , completed the siege of Chimera No. 17, and then moved towards Chimera No. 17 from different directions.
Each group must be separated by more than five kilometers, otherwise it will easily cause a "stress reaction" on Chimera No. 17 due to "exceeding the number of people."
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As for this data, it was completely tested with life - when Chimera No. 17 was first discovered, an elite reconnaissance team of thirty-five people went deep into the position only 20 kilometers away from Chimera No. 17. , but just when they were about to get closer, a laser-like energy flow suddenly shot out from the body of Chimera No. 17, instantly vaporizing the reconnaissance team.
In addition, the Disaster Countermeasures Committee also discovered that Chimera No. 17 not only produces stress reactions in humans, but also in response to meme-carrying monsters and infected people. But when the committee tried to use a drone to transport fifty white mice close to Chimera 17, Chimera 17 never fired at the drone until the drone lost control due to ionizing radiation and crashed. energy flow.
But after switching to fifty mice infected with the monster meme, the situation is completely different.
The drone was hit by the energy flow that penetrated the rain curtain as far as twenty-seven kilometers away. Not even the remains of the drone and the box containing the white mouse were left.
The intensity of the energy flow this time was even greater than the energy flow that destroyed the reconnaissance team.
The conditions that trigger the stress response of Chimera No. 17 are very special. It must be a human (or intelligent life?) or an object carrying a meme is close to it - only one of the two conditions is met, but it does not matter if both conditions are met. It will increase the triggering distance or intensity of the stress response. The only thing that will affect these two values is the quantity.
In theory, the fewer people there are, the safer it is.
The route assigned to Sun Hang's group is a straight line from Observation Post No. 7 to Chimera No. 17. It is also the closest route among all the hunter groups participating in the operation. On this route, there are still five missing people scattered. Observation Post No. 0 and Observation Post No. 0.
The set of meme collection equipment that Zhong Ling mentioned earlier requires four people to operate at the same time. Only about one-third of the hunter team is capable of carrying it. As for the remaining two-thirds of the team, their task is to assist as much as possible. If possible, clear out the "other weird things" wandering around Chimera No. 17.
Due to the limit on the number of people, Zhong Ling only brought three skeletons this time. In addition to "Gargantel" and "Skeleton No. 1", she only brought the "Overlord" who had fought against Sun Hang before - in the transformation After becoming a skeleton, the "Overlord"'s abilities have become much stronger than when it was a hunter. Now it can not only The solidified air is used to separate the rain curtain, and at the same time, steps made of "air bricks" can be generated under the feet. From Sun Hang's perspective, it seems to be walking in the air...compared to splashing every time he steps down. With "Gargantelle" splashing a lot of mud, "Overlord" can be called elegant.
However, Sun Hang did not see the elusive "Skeleton No. 1"... Due to the special nature of Skeleton No. 1, even if Zhong Ling did not bring it, it would follow on its own. Since Sun Hang couldn't see it in the sky, it meant that it either had a camouflage ability similar to Skeleton No. 5, or it was swimming in the mud.
Sun Hang is still more inclined to the former possibility.
"Pay attention to the direction and don't go astray." Sun Hang said to Zhong Ling on the communication channel, "Two kilometers ahead is the lost observation post No. 5. There may be traces of strange activity around, so pay attention to identify them."< br>
Wang Xiyi also gradually lowered the flying altitude. Sun Hang saw the opportunity, let go of the dragon tail in his hand, and landed on the shoulder of "Gargantel" accurately.
"Slow down." Sun Hang patted Zhong Ling on the shoulder through the thick protective clothing, "We're almost there."
"Can you feel the breath of strange things?" Wang Xiyi asked, "Isn't your nose always very good?"
"I can feel it...but it's meaningless." Sun Hang squatted on the shoulder of the corpse and looked around with squinted eyes.
"Why?"
"Because it's everywhere...it feels like a monster was beaten into paste with a wall-breaking machine, and then spread evenly on every inch of the land." Sun Hang said.
"What kind of strange metaphor are you talking about?" Wang Xiyi folded her wings and landed.
According to the information provided by the drone, their current location is the No. 5 observation post that lost contact not long ago.
"Found it." Wang Xiyi reached into the mud and pulled out half of the deformed steel pipe. "This thing should be the skeleton of the tent... Did they encounter a mudslide?"
"It doesn't feel like it." Sun Hang shook his head, "With the strength and toughness of this skeleton, do you think the mudslide can turn it into this shape?"
(End of chapter)