Alien Relic Hunter

Chapter 630: An Empty City?

"You two, go and check the building where the sniper was hiding just now." The officer pointed to the two soldiers and said.

"Yes!"

The two walked forward immediately, and after a short run-up, they activated the thruster backpack mounted on the back of the exoskeleton, jumped into the air, and flew towards the window of the building.

Seeing the two flying straight up, the officer was taken aback for a moment. He suddenly remembered something...but just when he wanted the two of them to return to the ground immediately, the two of them had already slipped into the still-emerging Inside the smoke-filled window.

The officers finally realized what was wrong before: Before the battle started, the officers of the troops participating in the battle had participated in a brief online combat meeting, the content of which was to roughly share the known information on the ruins of the ancient bronze city. After a while... and the source of this information is the hunters who had explored this ruins back then.

One item has been repeatedly emphasized: any vehicle with a height of more than five meters is strictly prohibited from entering the urban area. At the same time, no one is allowed to climb to a place higher than five meters from the ground outside, otherwise the protection light of the ruins will be triggered. screen.

The previous situation on the frontal battlefield was so shocking that the officer himself forgot about it, but now, not only the tanks and mechs with a height of more than five meters are safe and sound, even the two scouts who flew directly into the air Also unscathed.

And above their heads, the Air Force fleet was still advancing slowly but steadily.

As for the light curtains described by the relic hunters in their reports, they have never appeared since they entered the relics.

Not only have the defensive facilities of the ruins not been activated, but even some of the existing traps seem to have been closed.

The four big words "Please enter the urn", suddenly emerged in the officer's heart.

He immediately called the communication soldiers, and sent these discoveries and his guesses to the battleship above, and then the high-power communication equipment on the battleship sent it back to the headquarters behind.

In less than 5 minutes, he received a reply - "If there is no abnormality, continue to advance."

My own guess... the superior should have already considered it, right?The officer thought so... Maybe the superiors have already discovered these abnormalities?

But no matter what, he had to obey the orders of his superiors. No matter how much he felt that something was wrong with the ruins, he could only bite the bullet and lead his subordinates to move on.

The two scouts who flew into the window came back soon, and they brought back a sniper rifle that had been blown out of shape and two assault rifles that were completely disassembled-both sniper rifles and assault rifles had long been decommissioned. An older model, and one that has been refurbished and modified several times, it is a standard Exile style weapon.

The so-called sniper rifle is actually nothing more than a crooked mechanical sight welded on the body of an old-fashioned bolt-action rifle, and the scale is not very standard.

At this distance, being able to hit the gap of the powered exoskeleton with one shot with this weapon, I don't know whether it is the luck of the sniper or the bad luck of Pierre.

"How is Pierre?" the officer casually asked the medical soldier.

"There is no serious problem for the time being...but if we continue to increase the number of wounded, our spare plasma may not be enough..." The medical soldier replied.

His worry was not unreasonable. Previously, because of the attack of the fusion tentacles, a large number of wounded were caused to the field army. Now even the field hospital in the rear has a large gap in blood plasma, let alone frontline troops like them.

"Bah!"

Another shot was fired, but this time the person who fired was a soldier of the [-]th Armored Division.

A black, crow-like bird creature with six pairs of eyes fell to the ground—this kind of "twelve-eyed crow" field army soldiers are no strangers to it, and it did not evolve naturally on Planet Alpha. Indigenous creatures, but the product of the biochemical transformation of the Alpha civilization.

There is also a parasitic organ the size of a fingernail that is used in conjunction with this "twelve-headed crow". The "doctor" of the heretical sect will use a crude operation to implant this parasitic organ under the human skull. If most people didn't die from infection or hemorrhage, within a few days, this parasitic organ would penetrate into the human cerebral cortex and connect with the central nervous system.

In this way, the transplanted person can not only gain control of the Twelve-Eyed Crow, but also share vision with it-for heretical sects, these black birds are perfect scouts, not only have no inferior Due to the performance of electronic drones, the maneuvering radius is more than a hundred times that of electronic drones.

For example, if this "twelve-eyed crow" appeared inside the ruins of the Bronze City, his manipulator could hide in the White Ridge Mountains or even further away, and the connection between the two would not appear. No sign of abating.

Just to study the information exchange method between the "twelve-eyed crow" and the parasitic organ transplantation, the research institute has specially set up a subject experiment team of nearly thirty experts... However, until this experiment All members of the team were killed in the "memetic contagion event", and this research has not made any substantial progress.

Since the "Twelve-eyed Crow" appeared here, it means that the heretic sect has been monitoring its own movements... But why didn't they take any measures?

Among other things, as long as those moving light walls are triggered, the troops who invaded the ruins of the ancient bronze city will suffer considerable damage.

The reason why the Tenth Armored Division arranged several heavy defense mechas every few tens of meters was to guard against these light curtain mechanisms—once the light curtain appeared, the heavy defense mechas could rely on their own energy shields and physical The giant shield buys time for the infantry to escape and minimizes casualties as much as possible.In addition, a large number of laser cutting machines are also prepared to cut open the gates of the surrounding buildings so that soldiers can hide inside the buildings in time.

But now, these preparations seem a little unnecessary...

This is like frantically reviewing and swiping dozens of high-level simulation test papers the night before the test, but when you enter the test room and get the test papers, the test turns out to be just addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of elementary school mathematics...

However, if you encounter this kind of thing in the examination room, in addition to making people feel puzzled, it will be more pleasant and relieved-but the problem is now on the battlefield, which is completely different in nature.

"Keep the original pace and continue to advance towards the center of the ruins." The officer ordered, "If you find any abnormalities, report to me immediately!"

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Six kilometers away from the ruins of the Bronze City, inside the collapsed tunnel.

"Ke Lan, just received a message from the mining base, saying that the main force has entered the ruins from the left and right wings of the Bronze City ruins!" Layton suddenly opened the cockpit and shouted a little excitedly.

"So fast?" Ke Lan naturally had a little doubt in his heart, "Aren't they blocked by heretical sects?"

"It is said that before entering the ruins of the Bronze City, there were no enemies or traps along the way... After entering the ruins of the Bronze City, although there were sporadic resistance and attacks, the number of enemies There were very few, and the intensity of the battle was also very low, and no one in the main force was killed after entering the ruins... In such a huge ancient bronze city, the resistance inside is not even as good as the general settlement of exiles."

"What about the fleet? Did the fleet also enter the sky above the ruins?" Ke Lan asked again.

"Yes, the fleet has been following up with the ground troops...but they said that the defense facilities of the ruins themselves have not been triggered at all." Layton grabbed the earphone with one hand and supported the edge of the cockpit with the other, and said, "Oh, yes, there are still There is one thing that an officer in the vanguard specifically mentioned—even if the height above the ground is more than five meters outside, it will not trigger the light curtain falling from top to bottom. Besides, the total number of troops entering the ruins so far is There are [-] branches, about [-] people, and there is no witness report of Guangqiang."

"I think..." Layton scratched his head, "Could it be that in the past few years, the reserve energy of the relic defense device has been exhausted... so it can't be activated?"

"Ke Lan, what do you think?" 33 turned his head, stared at Ke Lan and asked.

"I feel... like a trap." Ke Lan pondered for half a second before giving an answer.

"I think so too." 33 nodded immediately, "The remnants of the Alpha civilization, the energy supply method adopted by the core module is basically permanent, even if the energy stored in the crystal is exhausted, it can still use solar energy, geothermal energy, etc. , rock formation pressure, etc., there is no such thing as exhaustion. I think that someone deliberately turned off the defense facilities of the ruins."

"Empty city plan?" Ivan asked.

"Probably."

"That is to say, the heretic sect deliberately did not fortify. After all the Ark's troops entered the ruins, they activated all the defense facilities at once, killing all these hundreds of thousands of people inside the ruins..." Layton continued. , "But, will Ark be fooled?"

"Probably not." 33 said, "If I were the commander, after discovering this, I would choose to let the vanguard go directly to the core control area in the center of the ruins, and most of the follow-up troops would stay in the ruins." Outside, the soldiers did not move—anyway, the advance of the vanguard was very smooth, and these 20,000 people alone were enough to occupy the entire ruins, so there was no need to invest more troops."

"Then what should we do now? Should we continue digging tunnels?" Layton asked, "According to 33, even without our 'surprising soldiers', the vanguard can still occupy the core control area, so we shouldn't have to Are you going to take the risk?"

"Dig first, keep going, and stop when you reach the edge of the ruins." Ke Lan thought for a while and said, "Then, let's see how the heretics will deal with this situation."

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As 33 said, after discovering that the resistance inside the ancient bronze city ruins was extremely weak, the commander-in-chief of this battle no longer allowed follow-up troops to enter the ruins—until this time, the vanguard troops entering the ruins happened to be two 5000 people.

Although the Bronze City Ruins is considered a large ruin among the many ruins on Planet Alpha, compared to the scale of cities on Earth in the Old Era, it is at best a relatively large town, with 24 soldiers, plus Three fleets in the air are enough to search every corner of the entire ruins within [-] hours.

As of 34 o'clock in the evening, more than three hours had passed since the first troops entered the ruins of the Bronze City, the Ark Army had been attacked by heretic sects [-] times—each attack consisted of three to five people Although the congregants of these heretical sects are all containers of the Seed of Corrosion without exception, the weapons they use in human form are very simple, and the blocking team with the strongest firepower is just too much A few RPG rocket launchers of the old era style did not cause any damage to the vanguard at all.

Most of the vanguard troops are heavily armored units. Even if these rockets hit directly, they will not be able to hurt the soldiers protected by the heavy armor, let alone the accuracy of this type of rocket launcher is horribly low. And extremely short—as long as these people lean out from their hiding places, they will be locked by various machine guns and artillery. If the trigger is not pulled within a second, the ensuing rain of bullets and explosives will instantly destroy the people. The congregation was torn to pieces.

As for the Seeds of Corrosion that entered the catastrophe period in their bodies after they died, they would be dealt with by a special hunting team, which also could not pose a threat.

Some soldiers had even removed their live ammunition magazines and replaced them with regular ammunition.

At this time, a piece of news that felt a bit strange came in from outside the ruins...

The super-giant Seed of Erosion crawled out from the ground on the frontal battlefield, its huge body split into two halves, and slowly moved towards the two wings of the ancient bronze city with its wriggling tentacles.

Although it is "slow", but because the size of this super giant erosion seed is too huge, every "step" is a span of more than ten kilometers, and it has already appeared outside the city in a short time In the field of vision of those troops on standby.

It was completely heading for the main force, and even the commander-in-chief's flagship, the "Pegasus-class" assault airship "Cyan Fortress" took the initiative to attack as a bait, but it completely ignored it.Against the indiscriminate bombardment of the "Blue Fortress", they climbed towards the troops left outside the city.

With the terrifying and destructive power of the super-giant Seed of Corrosion, it will not take much time to slaughter these tens of thousands of people... Not long after, the troops on standby outside the city received the latest order-"All enter the ruins of the ancient bronze city , to lure the super-giant seed of erosion to attack the ruins."

But who didn't expect that just after the two troops entered the ruins of the ancient bronze city, the super giant seed of erosion suddenly turned around and pulled down the "cyan fortress" chasing behind with its tentacles!

(End of this chapter)