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"The battle has already been noticed by the locals, and there is no prerequisite for secrecy. It is more in line with the strategic goal to take the initiative to grasp the priority."

"Tiberium itself is not fully controllable. The sonic fence can prevent the spread of crystals, but it cannot prevent the spores from flying. And the current location is not the best choice for the base. Find another location. Before that, it is more suitable to collect resources to the greatest extent. Strategic objectives."

Li De fell silent for a long time. He said, "The only way to restrain Tiberium is to harvest it faster than it spreads. Local resources are scarce, so as to collect resources to the greatest extent and then move the base location?"

"Let me approve of your measures. I admit that my original plan was too conservative, but now I still want to talk to you about authority."

"In this field, the only one who can issue orders is me. I have not given permission, and you are not allowed to cross the line! Now, I am issuing the seventh agreement-the ontology has not lost its leadership ability, and any act of commanding on behalf of the body must be approved by the ontology. Now that I have returned, you have two choices."

"Go to sleep, or," he pointed to the stone tablet standing beside him. "Decipher these encrypted technical files for me."

Chapter 28 Deep Underground

a few hours later.

In Orton City, a few kilometers away from the base, among the ruins, the traces of the battlefield have not been completely erased.The fringe urban areas swept by the Intellectual Control Legion are covered with traces of corrosion. Thanks to the Tiberium acid, the surfaces of the buildings have also been stripped into white powder, and the explosives have left a lot of signs of collapse. The silent dead.

Drones fly over the city, detecting every move on the city's surface.The high-magnification camera captures the undercurrent under the calm surface. There may be threats hidden anywhere, but there is really no sign of orc activity on the surface. They were frightened by yesterday's battle and evacuated here?

Li De didn't believe it, and neither did Olivia.

The orcs are not so easy to scare, they are still hiding here, even if their leader has died in battle.Failure is no disgrace to the orcs, and they never give up the territory they occupy. As long as reinforcements arrive, they can always overwhelm all the enemies by virtue of their numbers.

A pair of high-heeled shoes stepped on the bricks and stones of the ruins, and following her footsteps, a dark team quickly moved forward to search the surrounding hidden places.Olivia's gaze swept across the ruined city—dark green crystals had gradually spread on the surface. These crystals exuded a disturbing green light, and from time to time burst out "crackling" noises. Plasma lightning.

Walking in such an environment is fatal, the green light is the radiation of Tiberium, once the naked body is in contact with it for less than half an hour, his body can be collected, not to mention the plasma lightning - this is a good thing that the watchman did, The entire surrounding environment will become a very unfavorable field for living organisms, and only Brotherhood soldiers who know how to avoid harm can fight here safely.

Unlike during the speech, Olivia has already put on a fully enclosed armor suit, which not only covers most of her figure, but also protects the fragile flesh and blood.Not only is Li De's lesson learned from the past, but she, who is fused with flesh and blood, does not have the convenience of changing body functions like the leader.

"Legion Commander, we have found traces of alien activities." The soldiers reported to her, and the video files were projected on her retina.The corpse of an orc soldier collapsed in front of a cluster of Tiberium crystals, half of its body had been crystallized, there was a lot of blood around its mouth, and its chest was covered with scratches—the result of inhaling Tiberium spores. The lungs of a person will be corroded first, and the pain is enough to make people tear their own chest. It seems that this is the same for the alien.

"It's a scout, check to see if there are any traces of caves around."

The apostles took action immediately, and there were more and more orc corpses discovered in the report. These guys all fell down because they were curious about these green crystals.What's more, they tried to use crude tools to collect crystals-the results can be imagined, these crystals released violent ion lightning under the physical impact, leaving only charred corpses.

By searching the area around these bodies, they finally found something - the entrance and exit of the sewer.Not just one, but every sewer entrance in the surrounding streets bears signs of orcs coming and going.

"Interesting. During World War II, GDI laughed at us as burrowing rats. Now we're rat-catchers."

In urban areas, this may be a better choice than natural caves, with well-connected urban sewer entrances that can be moved to any location at any time, and can avoid the Brotherhood's aerial surveillance network.But since you don't come out, then we will go down to find you.

"Deploy tunnel scanner."

The apostles moved a weird device from a liquidator armored vehicle, and a saboteur controlled it to send a violent pulse signal to the ground, and an intricate sewer structure diagram with a radius of hundreds of meters clearly appeared on the tactical terminal .

"The scanning crew continues to move forward, and give me a structural map of the entire urban area!" Olivia issued an order, "Leave four teams on the ground, and you take vehicles to block the places where the enemy may flee , others, follow me down to the ground."

Tunnel blasting explosives were deployed above the sewer mouth, and the sound of explosions sounded one after another. The black hand itself is an expert in urban combat, and the directional blasting bombs they carry are specially used for street fighting to demolish buildings.After a puff of smoke, the rubble collapsed to create a wide entrance.

The apostle squad held their weapons and waited for the order from their legion commander.

"All teams, check your equipment!"

An apostle team is composed of five apostles and a Black Hand officer. Albert is the officer of the team. He is carrying a heavy fuel tank and carrying a flamethrower that is famous in the brotherhood. As an elite unit, they distribute To help them carry more powerful firepower.As an officer, he is not only responsible for the command, but also a pioneer.One of the other five apostles was carrying a three-barreled rotary machine gun, and a bombardier was carrying a grenade launcher. These two were heavy weapon carriers, and the remaining three riflemen were holding an improved version of the large-caliber rifle.

Equipment and arms are not completely tied together. The equipment carried by the troops is always selected based on the needs of the field. This is the tactical system formulated by General Olivia by summarizing the combat experience provided by Li De.Eleven teams will follow him into the ground, and two teams will clean up in groups.

Olivia drew two heavy pistols from her waist, and moved her body—"It's been a long time since I went out in person."

She played with the two particle beam pistols and said, these are the two that Li De used before, but now there are two power cords fixed on the cuffs connected to the battery of the armor suit, which can provide long-term shooting.

Never make the same mistake myself.

"Squads, follow my orders and move forward!"

At the entrances of the blasted tunnels, people in black and armor filed in in battle formation.The brave soldiers rushed to the enemy's base camp. They lined up neatly, and their thick-soled boots crackled, which sounded so pleasant. This is the sound of war that Olivia is very familiar with, just like the war years.So, surrounded by a group of apostles, she also walked slowly into the dark tunnel.

After a while, there was a dense exchange of fire from underground in the city.

"It is expected to encounter fierce resistance." The host in the background of the tactical network analyzed the data, "It is possible to encounter a group of convicts, an orc infantry line, some heavy firepower equipment, an unknown number of burrowing beasts, unknown underground organisms, and traps. Casualties are being estimated..."

"Mission completion rate: 99.999 percent."

Chapter 29 Underground BBQ

The war on Sira has been fought for 14 years. The orcs have broken through countless human cities, but no human army has ever entered the orc territory—humans are afraid of the dark and narrow underground, where countless dangers are hidden. hides terrible secrets.After all, demons always crawl out of their prey from the abyss, so there is no reason for the prey to take the initiative to come to the door.

But they were wrong today, and a group of people are coming to trouble them right now.

"Click", a bent fluorescent stick was thrown into the corner of the pipe, and the chemical energy released a bright light, illuminating the dark sewer, and also attracted the attention of the underground owner.

The roar of the heavy machine gun was magnified many times in the narrow passage, and the two series of parallel chains of fire came from around the corner accompanied by deafening gunshots, hitting the walls of the sewer to splash countless gravels.Machine guns blocked the intersection, and the shouts of orcs sounded one after another from behind the corner. The apostle team led by Olivia was blocked at the intersection, and every careful temptation would attract a series of firepower nets.

"The distance of the gunshot is 25 meters." She heard the voice. "An effective machine gun fire point."

At this moment, there was a piercing sound of rubbing on the ceiling, and an apostle raised his rifle and fired a short burst of fire, and a bloody corpse fell from the ceiling—it was a slave with a rucksack on it. The lead wire is "sizzling" smoking.

Olivia kicked the corpse into the sink of the sewer, and a "boom" exploded into a cloud of dirty water.The air wave from the explosion almost knocked down the entire team, but fortunately the shock wave was absorbed by the armor, and the team was safe and sound.

"All teams, pay attention to the hard labor above your head, they are carrying self-explosives." Olivia instructed in the tactical network, and then gestured to the apostle carrying the grenade launcher, who immediately took one from his waist Ammunition painted in white.

Boom!

The grenade was fired at the facing wall, hit the wall and bounced around the corner.The delayed fuze was activated, and a large cloud of smoke filled the passage. The orcs panicked and took this as a signal to attack, and immediately a series of messy firepower hit.

These orcs were inaccurate.Seeing this, the black-handed officer rushed out of the corner immediately. He let a few stray bullets hit the armor, and the flamethrower in his hand sprayed out a long blue and white fire dragon. In an instant, the entire passage was lit up by the fire .The hot flames greedily licked the walls, and the long dragon of flames crawled along the entrance of the tunnel, filling every gap in the passage.

Blackhand's high-pressure injectors can send mist fuel to a distance of 80 meters. The temperature of the flames filled with aluminum-magnesium agent has risen to 4000 degrees Celsius, and the two oversized fuel tanks can provide continuous injection for 2 minutes.Frenzied fire engulfed the machine-gun bunkers in the opposite corner, causing their ammunition to explode.The black hand continued to spray for three seconds, and there was no more gunfire from the other side.

The dark and narrow passage is filled with smoke and dust after burning. In such an environment, another effect brought by the flamethrower can be exerted-the flame can consume the oxygen that is not much in the underground space, and it will also leave chemical substances. The dye is highly toxic, and the air circulation system provided by the full-face helmets of the apostles is very critical here.The enemy is either burned to death or suffocated to death.

The rock wall was burned red, and the passage was filled with smoke and water vapor. Even through the armor, everyone could feel an unbearable scorching heat.Without Olivia's signal, the apostle team immediately rushed across the corner, and the flashlight shone through the corridor. However, there was only a pile of charred corpses on the other side except for a half-roasted orc lying on the ground and howling.

It seems that it is the machine gunner, the gun shield did not let it be burned to death by the flames immediately, but suffered a lot, and the machine gun on the sandbag has been blackened by the flames, and the bullets that exploded in the magazine Fry it into a twist.The leader said that this thing is called the Three Beast Cannon, but in Olivia's view, it is just an ordinary parallel machine gun.

Suddenly, a loud noise came from the front of the passage, and a partition wall seemed to be washed away by some huge impact.The apostle team moved forward immediately, and a few flashlights were fired over, only to see a tall figure leaning against the stone wall of the sewer, with half of his body embedded in the wall.

"Roar!"

The monster struggled to break free from the stone wall, looked left and right and circled in place, maybe because the air here was too thin, it kept panting heavily, as if it was extremely irritable and restless.The light of the flashlight hit it, but it turned around as if it didn't see it.

The apostles raised their guns, but an order from the head of the legion came from the tactical network - "Don't shoot."

Olivia restrained the team's actions. They were just over ten meters away from the monster, but they didn't attract its attention at all.This monster was uglier than ordinary orcs. It was nearly [-] meters tall. It almost hit the ceiling in the sewer, and it was covered with thick carapace.Looking at its posture of touching rocks like cotton, it is simply a humanoid tank.

"Attention, this creature is a violent female orc, it has no vision, be careful not to make a sound."

But everything did not go as Olivia wished. The female orc groped around the wall and found no obstacle in the direction of Olivia and the others. With a roar, she hammered hard on her thick armor. chest.

"Back to the corner, it's about to charge!"

It was too late, the berserk female orc rushed towards the crowd crazily, her heavy footsteps made the ground tremble.The apostle's grenade launcher shot out an armor-piercing projectile, and behind the flames of the explosion, the tall figure dragged a big hole in his chest and still charged forward without hesitation!

The team fired a volley, but neither bullets nor grenades could stop it, and the team couldn't avoid it in the narrow passage.Seeing this, General Olivia suddenly left the team and rushed towards the female orc at a faster speed.

Airframe output power, maximized!

Olivia soared into the air, her feet were close together, and the thickened steel-soled high-heeled boots slammed into the female orc's face!

The huge impact stopped the female orc from charging, and she fell backwards with it.Olivia stepped on its face and fell to the ground with it. Under the steel-soled boots, something cracked.

"Black hand, spray a small dose!" The legion commander gave the order, stepped on the female orc's face and jumped on the spot, hiding a few meters away.Following her command, Blackhand walked up to the female orc as it struggled to get up, and raised the jet to release a thin stream of fire.

"Ow—"

The flames wrapped the female orc, and the burning agent adhered to its carapace and continued to spread deeper. With the help of the combustion accelerant, the tongue of flame jumped happily. The female orc wrapped in thick armor was like a grilled lobster. The outer shell is red hot, and the blood inside is already boiling - it will be wrapped in a thick layer of iron-like armor and roasted alive.

Threat lifted...

Seeing the translucently roasted female orc, Olivia got up and connected to the tactical network: "All units, report!"

"Team C is advancing and has cleared part of the resistance." "Team E is exchanging fire. Please pay attention. Unknown giant arthropod insects have been found. Their carapaces are hard. Stay vigilant."

The reports of each unit are consistent with Olivia's analysis. So far, the troops have not encountered too much resistance, and the organization of the orcs is very lax.Judging from the battle records, the Intellectual Control Corps has wiped out half of their troops. Is it really because of the loss of the command layer?

The apostles stepped on the corpse and came to the partition wall that was knocked open by the female orc. The flashlight shone inside, but it turned out to be a bottomless cave.

"Legion Commander, there is a deep pit that has been artificially widened ahead." An apostle reported, "Tunnel detectors show that there may be a natural cave connected to the ground."

"The heat source detector shows that there is a dense life reaction there!"

"It seems that we have touched the depths of the lair." Olivia nodded, and then called in the channel, "All units, immediately meet the target." But then, she thought about it and made another decision.

"The ground team immediately planted explosives above the target. Once the underground operation is hindered, I will lift the top!"

PS: Tactical black hands, online barbecue.

Chapter 30 The Purifying Fire Burns! (wormhole)

Looking back to the ground, at the same time, the convoy responsible for exploring the tunnel was stopping at the predetermined target location.This liquidator armor has been transformed into a mobile command vehicle. The cabin is full of monitors and communication circuits, and a high-power radar transceiver system is installed on the roof.

The first company commander of the Black Hand Legion, Maxion, gathered his troops, and this clone, which was collected from the genes of the former Black Hand Legion Chief, was lecturing to his subordinates with passionate words.

"The legion commander has an order! Call all the teams that are wandering around the city to gather here, let the engineers remove the loaded explosives, bury them at the predetermined location, and set up a remote detonation circuit. We wait for the legion commander's order."

"Yes, sir...but the legion commander is leading a team to attack the cave, will the blasting threaten the legion commander and the others?" the soldiers under him hesitated. At this time, the liquidator's hatch opened, and another figure boarded the cave. command car.

It was Li De in military attire——No. [-]. Right now, he was wearing a carapace armor, a black military overcoat, and a narrow-brimmed hat with a large brim.Looks like an ordinary officer, except with a chainsword.

When everyone saw him, they immediately bowed their knees and saluted regardless of the small space.

"Salute to you, leader!"

Li De waved his hand: "There is no need to salute during the war, and now my identity is the same as yours, just a soldier of the Brotherhood."

Then, he said: "A good soldier obeys without questioning, and a good officer does not hesitate to command. Just do what your regiment commander says."

The soldiers dispersed in response, leaving only Captain Maxion looking at Li De excitedly: "My leader, I never knew that you would come to the battlefield in person."

"It's nothing surprising. This time, I'm here to cooperate with your army commander." As he said that, Li De snapped his fingers, and there was a sound of rumbling footsteps outside the car, as if a giant was approaching them.

"This is a gift for your legion."

...

This is the lair of the orcs?

Through the visor, Olivia, who had always been calm, also had a disgusted expression on her face.When they walked into that partition, it felt like they had walked into the stomach of a giant beast, the indigestive kind at that.There may have been an underground air-raid shelter here, but there is no trace of any man-made facilities at all.Both the walls and the floor were covered with a sticky unknown substance, and every time I took a step, it was like walking on glue and being pulled continuously.

The air seemed to be solidified, with a heavy feeling of corruption, and the working pressure of the filter increased sharply.The team walked cautiously along the passage, their boots with spiked soles to hold on to the ground.

"Even the residence of the devil is nothing more than that."

An apostle said in disgust, he carefully used the flashlight on his gun to shine on a pile of eggs of unknown origin—like spider eggs magnified many times, attached to the ceiling with dark green glue.

"Clear this area, these aliens must be purified!" said Albert Blackhand, he raised the flamethrower, aimed at the pile of white eggs and pulled the trigger.The slender but scorching fire wave devoured the ovary, and the heated and expanded eggs burst into green pulp. With the sound of "cracking", some long, unformed creatures jumped out of the flames, bouncing around. Burst and died, and as the eggs were burned, a swollen figure appeared on the wall, looking like a child, densely packed eggs piled up from his chest to the eye sockets, his limbs bulged abnormally, It seemed that the eggs had been buried in every blood vessel.

An apostle took a deep breath—"This child is still alive!"

"Yes, but it's hopeless." Olivia put her hand on her forehead, and the general who has been on the battlefield for many years said calmly, "Just like the bollworm...these bugs use biological enzymes to hinder human metabolism, and then parasitize Eggs can directly provide food for hatching worms. Simple natural law, but I didn't expect that when the object changed from a bollworm to a human..."

"End this child's suffering."

The black hand pulled the trigger. These fighters have experienced countless Shura fields, but the scene in front of them can be described as profound.May the fire of purification burn brightly, washing away all sins in the world.

"The general...and more."

Everyone looked up into the depths of the passage, the beam of the flashlight extended nearly a hundred meters, but they saw such insect eggs densely packed everywhere on the wall, such a disgusting blasphemy, the number may not be less than a hundred!

Without orcs, it looks like a farm?

Albert pressed the pressure valve of the flamethrower without hesitation, and a long fire dragon rushed to the depths of the tunnel. With the tongue of fire licking, the sound of ovaries bursting was as dense as firecrackers.Olivia then gave more orders to the legion——

"We can't let these creatures scurry under our feet, all squads come to me and burn any eggs or anything like that you can find."

Suddenly, an apostle stumbled and fell from them. Olivia turned her head, only to see that her subordinate was bitten by a "big centipede" several meters long and dragged out!

Same as those little things in the ovary, but magnified ten thousand times, and now their parents are back for revenge.

The apostles fired, and the bullets fired from the large-caliber rifles hit the carapace of the giant insect and sparks actually jumped out, and many bullets were thrown to the wall by its solid carapace. "As in the report, the carapace is very strong, aim at its abdomen." Olivia ordered, and the two particle pistols "slapped" a series of scorching rays at the middle part of the bug. Live ammunition is far more effective, and the carapace of the giant worm is cracked by the heat that can melt steel. "Hiss", the giant insect's iron pincer-like mouthparts failed to bite through the apostle's greaves. After being severely injured, it let go of its mouth and dropped its prey, raised half of its body and sprayed a stream of green mist at everyone.

Poison gas - no effect!The team with the self-circulatory system ignored the attack, and the apostle carrying Gatling fired a series of dense bullet rain. The bug just lifted half of its body to meet the storm with its fragile belly, and was completely smashed by the splash of the ground juice .