"Captain, Chen Chao and the others haven't contacted us for half an hour."
In a large wasteland, a team of about twenty people was advancing in an orderly manner. They were all wearing black metal uniforms and carrying strange-looking rifles. Some people's helmet visors were broken, and they looked a little embarrassed.
Liao Xinzheng looked at the data recorder in his hand with a heavy expression on his face. Hearing this, he asked, "Have you taken the initiative to contact them?"
"I have contacted them, but none of the three responded." A deputy worried, "According to the previous order, they must report to us every half hour. Now they suddenly lost contact. I suspect they may have encountered something unexpected."
This is a buffer zone after all, and anything can happen.
As soon as these words came out, Liao Xin, who was already in a bad mood, became more and more irritable and said in a deep voice: "First, order everyone to rest where they are. Ziyuan, you go and count the number of casualties this time."
The deputy looked gloomy, nodded, turned around and shouted "rest where you are", and then walked into the team to count the number of people.
Seeing him leave, another female deputy asked tentatively: "Captain, how is the data collection going?"
After hearing the data collection, Liao Xin's expression softened slightly, he put away the data recorder, and said with satisfaction: "Exceeded expectations, I have sent the relevant data to the group, and the superiors praised that the task was completed very well - so I
I think, even if we give up our target and evacuate, we won’t necessarily be executed when we return.”
The female assistant was stunned for a moment and couldn't help but ask: "Captain, why are you suddenly thinking about giving up your goal..."
"I never said I would give up the goal, I just prepared for the worst in advance. As you can see, this trip to the buffer zone is far more dangerous than we expected. If Aji hadn't sacrificed his life just now to stop that
Things, we may not be able to stand here now."
Liao Xin stuffed an electronic cigarette into his mouth, his eyes a little sad.
The female deputy bit her lip and lowered her head without saying a word.
Like her, Aji is also one of the three deputies of this team. He is a B-level genetic warrior who specializes in leg strength and is extremely fast. He just now clearly had the ability to escape alone, but he was blocked at the entrance of the cave alone.
This gave the others a chance to escape.
Otherwise, even if they are not completely wiped out, they will definitely suffer heavy casualties.
"What the hell is that..."
Not long ago, in order to obtain more equipment data, Liao Xin and others found many forbidden creatures nearby to fight, and finally entered a place called Hansheng Mine.
And this soon became the decision Liao Xin regretted most in his life——
For some reason, all the guard robots at the cave entrance lost their power, and there was blood residue near the cave entrance, which was a bit scary.
Liao Xin guessed that there might be a powerful forbidden creature hidden in this cave, so he planned to go in to check it out and collect more equipment data.
For safety reasons, he did not let everyone enter the cave entrance at the same time, but sent a few clever men into the cave.
However, at this moment, a sudden change occurred.
Suddenly, a powerful suction force erupted from the entrance of the cave, dragging everyone in frantically. A pungent smell of blood wafted out from the entrance of the cave. Only then did Liao Xin notice that the entrance to the cave was filled with broken corpses.
, deeply embedded in the stone crevices, as if being swallowed by the stone crevices.
His scalp was numb, but he saw an even more horrifying scene next.
I saw a man who entered the cave very quickly suddenly froze in place, with a strange smile on his face, but his eyes were full of fear and sorrow. He looked up at the people above who were struggling to resist the suction, and then
Then he danced a strange dance.
Rather than saying it was a dance, it was more like a kind of self-torture. The movements of the subordinate were completely contrary to the body structure of a normal person, as if being manipulated by invisible forces. His body was soon distorted, and blood continued to seep from his clothes.
The wound exposed bone spurs.
Everyone could clearly hear the sound of bones breaking.
What frightens everyone even more is that although his subordinates always have a weird smile on their faces, tears are constantly leaking from the corners of their eyes——
He obviously still retains his own consciousness, but he can only watch himself die of self-inflicted wounds. Even if his whole body is in pain, he can only laugh non-stop. It is simply worse than death.
After that, several more subordinates could not hold on and were sucked into the hole at the same time. Not long after, they met the same end as the first subordinate. They danced and twisted themselves into pieces, and finally became embedded in the soil.
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What was even more frightening was that suddenly there was a strange sound from the ground, and the suction force became stronger and stronger, as if a giant was swallowing a whale after opening its mouth wide.
The ground suddenly cracked, and something like an arm slowly stretched out from the ground, reaching towards the people at the entrance of the cave.
Liao Xin withdrew his thoughts and was afraid to continue recalling such desperate scenes.
He was not exaggerating. If Aji hadn't jumped in in time and blew up the entrance of the cave, they might not have been able to stand here.
"You also know that the current buffer zone is too dangerous. Not only are there creatures in the restricted area, but there are also many unknown existences hidden here, such as the thing we just saw."
Liao Xin took a deep drag on his cigarette and said, "We are still not sure what Chen Chao and the others have encountered, and we don't know what the target is. But once the opponent is too powerful, I will lead you to evacuate immediately.
Punishment is better than death."
"I see."
The female deputy nodded. She was still concerned about what happened before. She thought about it and asked, "What about another place where the target has been appearing frequently recently? Do we still want to go see it?"
"Of course I want to see it. I said I don't want to give up the mission - in this case, you take some people to confirm the situation of Chen Chao and the others, and the rest follow me to that location to have a look."
Although he said that being punished is better than death, Liao Xin is still very afraid of the group's punishment. If he can complete the task, of course he will give priority to the task.
"Yes." The female deputy said seriously.
At this moment, Li Ziyuan also came back and reported: "Captain, including Ah Ji, we lost a total of seven people this time, all D-class members. Although the others were in a mess, fortunately they were not injured.
It’s just that a few of them are not in a good mental state…”
"Not in a good mental state?"
Liao Xin held an e-cigarette in his mouth and sneered, "That's just right. If anything happens later, let them go explore the road first."
The female deputy and Li Ziyuan looked at each other and said nothing.
Others don't know, but Liao Xin knows very well that the data collection in this mission is actually two parts. The data collected is not only the data of the repellent armed forces, but also the data of the genetic warriors under his command.
People whose mental state is damaged after just one encounter with a dangerous situation... can undoubtedly be regarded as defective products.
…
After some rest, the female deputy quickly left with a few people, while Liao Xin took Li Ziyuan and the rest of his men to another location——
According to the chip signal before disappearing, the target has been appearing there for a long time recently and may be staying in that place.
"Captain, we're almost there."
About an hour later, Li Ziyuan signaled his men to slow down and whispered to Liao Xin, "I inquired this morning. This place is a famous noon market near Wuji City. It will only open regularly. Target
The time she appeared here before was not during the opening hours of the market, so I speculate that she might live here."
——This is the news he got during the interrogation this morning.
The reason why they didn't go to the Noon Market immediately this morning was because there were a few bad guys in that underground black market, which brought some trouble to the team leader and tarnished his Taoism. For the sake of safety, they planned to return to full strength before continuing.
Chase the target.
"Yeah." Liao Xin looked calm and thought: "Let's wait for the news from Luye first."
Midori is his female deputy. According to his prediction, Midori and others should have arrived near the black market by now.
As if to verify his suspicion, the phone soon rang on his body.
"Hello."
"Hey, captain, this is Lu Ye. We found the bodies of Chen Chao and three others near the black market. The three of them, Liu Qingqing, were all killed by their own guns. There was no trace of resistance."
Luye guessed, "The creatures in the restricted area do not deliberately use guns to kill people, so I think the opponent should be a human being and very strong. Otherwise, Chen Chao and the others would not have any chance to resist."
"I see, then do you think there is a relationship between the other party and the target?" Liao Xin asked.
"There should be."
Luye said solemnly, "The fuse we left in the black market was triggered, and the entire ground sunk, forming a deep pit. We found some traces of human burial in it. Someone should have buried all the corpses."
Liao Xin frowned and said: "It may also be done by friends of those in the black market."
"But this does not rule out the possibility that the other party has nothing to do with the target. I will carefully look for any clues nearby."
"I see."
Liao Xin thought for a while and replied, "Then please pay attention to nearby clues and I will contact you later."
"yes."
Liao Xin hung up the phone.
To be continued...