From Titan Corporation to the Empire of Man

Chapter 66 "People"

It's obviously noon.

However, when the sun shines through the clouds on the streets outside the shopping mall, the light turns out to be blood red, and through the hearing amplification provided by the helmet, you can even hear the roars and gunshots coming from the distance.

"Price, there is fighting in the distant neighborhood." Soap immediately reported the situation.

"Received." Price quickly responded in the internal communication: "Our current priority is to determine whether there is a threat in the mall. After the security issues in the mall are resolved and the third ARS infantryman is in charge, After the defense mission, explore the neighborhoods outside the mall.”

"learn."

The five people who received clear instructions remained on standby and patiently waited for the detection results of the four hellhounds.

It didn't take long.

The four hellhounds searched the entire mall. After all, the original intention of the hellhounds being designed and manufactured was to provide rapid ground reconnaissance for combat troops.

And when Cerberus goes to every area and every channel of the mall, the instrument on its back will also store all the data. After the advance team has set up the wired base station, the technicians can directly obtain the structural diagram of the mall's interior. It is convenient for the engineering team to carry out renovation and construction.

The final inspection result was that it was determined that there was no threat in the mall and no signs of a fight were found.

During the investigation, the wired base station has also been set up, which allows all the advance team members to communicate with the ruins base in real time, and also allows the technical personnel in the ruins base to issue various detailed instructions to the Cerberus remotely.

Soon, the third infantry company of the ARS took over the defense work, and the engineering department, which passed through the space door together, will completely "renovate" the mall.

After confirming that everything was correct, Cerberus patrolled and alerted near the mall, while Price led the remaining advance team to join Xiaoqiang, Soap, Ghost and others.

Leave the mall.

Fourteen people, working in pairs, walked through the open-air parking lot located in the north of the mall.

After passing through the open area and arriving at an office building across the street, the group stopped moving and stood guard against the wall.

"Da da…"

"Hoo...ho..."

Coming here, the roars and gunshots became clearer.

But Xiaoqiang always felt that this roar didn't seem to be made by a human being at all. It seemed to be some kind of... beast roar?
  Without too much doubt, he took out three black metal devices the size of table tennis balls from the storage bag on his side and threw them upwards.

Buzz~!

These three "metal balls" that were thrown to the highest point were originally meant to fall freely. As they fell, they made a vibrating sound smaller than the flapping wings of a mosquito and "suspended" in mid-air.

Several comrades also made the same move, and then those "metal balls" quickly floated up and went away in different directions, and soon disappeared.

However, on the abbreviated radar of Xiaoqiang and others, the outlines of buildings, blocks, streets, and even abandoned vehicles and street lights became increasingly obvious.

In fact, those metal balls are pulse scanners developed using superconducting ores, which work with repulsive force to achieve flying effects.

The maximum flight altitude is four hundred meters, and the signal reception radius is three kilometers. It can scan the terrain within this range and then upload it to the operator's abbreviated radar.

At the same time, the operator can also issue instructions to focus all pulse scanners on a certain area to provide real-time dynamic detection. Although the effect of this kind of dynamic detection on the screen only provides the operator with a vague outline rather than a specific picture, its size is much smaller than that of a drone, which greatly reduces the risk of being attacked by enemies. risk of detection.

The disadvantage is that its battery life is only twenty minutes, and it cannot fly for several hours like a drone, so it has its own pros and cons.

Soon, Xiaoqiang realized through the three-dimensional map generated by the scanner that he and his comrades were located in a large city.
  The scanner not only provided this information, but also showed through red markings areas with a lot of biological activity, which were three major streets away from them.

Then, Xiaoqiang and the others controlled the scanner to focus on the red area, and the real-time dynamics transmitted back showed that a two-story building was under siege.

Seeing this situation, Price first used a wired base station to upload and share the city map and real-time status, and then submitted an application:

"Command center, this is Captain John Price, the leader of the advance team. It has been detected that two unknown forces are exchanging fire. They are less than two kilometers away from the space gate. Please investigate closely."

Not long after the report was completed, a female correspondent's response came on the communication channel: "The command center has received it. Your superiors have approved your action. The emergency countermeasures force (AECS) equipped with heavy weapons has been assembled at the base. If necessary, , please call for support immediately."

"receive."

The request was approved, and Price immediately ordered: "Archer, Scarecrow, Merlin, and Meatball, the four of you will work together to find the best sniping point. The remaining people will still be in groups of two, alternating and covering each other, and, Everyone stay hidden, let’s go.”

Hearing this, Xiaoqiang activated the optical camouflage effect of the HEV, and distinguished his comrades who were also in the "invisible" state by using the humanoid green-edged outline displayed on the screen and the nicknames displayed on the outline.

He and Soap's team rushed to the forefront, taking the lead in bypassing the office building and walking quickly along the sidewalk toward the north.

The abbreviated radar showed that they maintained a distance of about ten meters from their following teammates.

As for the archers and others responsible for finding sniper points, they marked the high-rise buildings in the northwest on the abbreviated radar and helmet screens.

Xiaoqiang glanced over there and saw a 30-story apartment building with a view overlooking the site of the exchange of fire.

"Click!" The sound of gunshots became more intense and clearer.

Having crossed three streets, they are about to reach their target location.

Slow down.

Slowly coming to the corner and waiting, Xiaoqiang and Soap didn't rush out, but first watched the real-time updates provided by the scanner.

After confirming that the attention of both warring parties was still focused on the two-story building, they quickly rushed to the intersection as vanguards, turned left, used the front of the scrapped vehicle as a bunker, and then used the helmet screen to pull into the field of view. Finally, Witnessed the scene of the battle.

I saw dozens of human soldiers guarding the two-story building, or to be precise, the two-story supermarket, pouring out ammunition frantically, causing their guns to spit out dazzling flames.

And a group of "people" who were more numerous and tried to attack the supermarket were also equipped with firearms and armor, but they were...

"Die! Die! Hahaha!!"

"Roar!!"

A "person" with ulcerated skin, distorted face, and severely deformed body.

(End of this chapter)