Yamafu Military Affairs

Chapter 508 Rescue
Across the desolate ruins and Gobi Desert is Dushanbe, the former capital of Tajikistan. Tanya Mining's base was built here a full thirty years ago.

When winter came, this "Stalin City" dominated by light industry was not listed as a priority target by hostile countries because it had only a weak heavy industry foundation and the garrisoned military force was mediocre. As a result, the nuclear bomb baptism it finally endured was much lighter than that of other old Soviet cities.

The relatively light radiation makes the living conditions in this city, which developed from a small village, much better than other hellish ruins in the severe winter caused by the nuclear war. The excellent environment that is sufficient to support the normal life of most survivors is the most precious resource in this era.

Tanya Mining's exploration team discovered this treasure land with excellent feng shui and mild radiation very early on. After a detailed and comprehensive evaluation, the roundtable council composed of senior officials from European countries decided to take Dushanbe, which was in ruins after the war, and build it as the second headquarters.

It can be said that the manpower and material resources invested by Tanya Mining in building a base in Area S are in no way inferior to the expenses they spent on expanding their headquarters in Area C on the South Asian subcontinent.

Outside the dome-shaped chimney-shaped nuclear power plant in the north area are factories connected together, mainly used to produce firearms, textiles, canned food, and machinery. The outer periphery is full of brick and tile houses, and tens of thousands of workers live, work, and settle here.

The east and west districts adjacent to the north district are the military camp and the wilderness hunter gathering place respectively. Together with the offices of various departments of Tanya Mining in the south district, they form this industrial city that ranks among the top 16 survival zones in Asia.

The main roads connecting the Zeravshan Valley, the Fergana Basin, the Vakhsh Valley and the Pamir Plateau converge here, and vehicles can go to any corner of Dushanbe along the well-connected asphalt roads.

In addition to the comprehensive office buildings on the ground, engineers from Tanya Mining also "luxuriously" built an experimental base covering an area of ​​more than two hectares here. It is buried hundreds of meters underground in the bedrock layer and is equipped with energy supply, life support and other systems. Even in the event of a nuclear attack, it can ensure the survival of important personnel until rescue arrives at the headquarters in Zone C.

If it were normal times, Qin Huai would definitely see bustling streets and soldiers patrolling everywhere.

But now, there are ruins everywhere and smoke rising high everywhere.

Qin Huai looked around and saw a skinny old man lying in a pool of blood, holding a young child in his arms, under a brick house that seemed to be knocked down by a bulldozer. A giant bucket wheel excavator that looked like a god's axe was raised high and hovered in the air, with dazzling electric sparks bursting out from the boom from time to time. One after another, the barrels of Bear tanks were broken by the wild orcs, and they were silenced on the battlefield and became decorations. The bitter yellow-green poisonous mist floated in the air, and everyone who smelled it had a dark face and difficulty breathing.
Coincidentally, even though Qin Huai now has extraordinary eyesight that can see any object within dozens of kilometers, all he can see is the messy scenes after the war. As for the culprits who caused all this, they have disappeared, as if they had sensed his arrival and retreated in advance.

"Did you use telepathic communication to issue the order to retreat?"

Qin Huai narrowed his eyes, and with a thought, a fierce Nine Heavens Gale appeared out of thin air, sweeping away everything. In an instant, the yellow-green poisonous fog that filled the ruins of Dushanbe was blown up, gathered into a ball, and was burned to ashes by the rose-red flames that emerged from his fingertips.

"【Sky Storm】?! 【Proton Spark】?! How many fourth-level abilities does he have?"

Sitting in the driver's seat of the Lion Armored Vehicle, Christine watched Qin Huai resolve the poisonous fog with a swift and decisive move, pursed her lips, and a strange look appeared in her eyes.

Qin Huai was slowly descending in mid-air. Just as he was about to get back into the armored vehicle to go to the office area of ​​Tanya Mining to check out the situation, he saw Yu Guangzhong's giant bucket wheel excavator made purely of alloy emitting a strong red color!
[Tier 4 Arms: Krupp's Fist]

Category: Heavy construction machinery

Affiliation: Epsilon (formerly Tanya Mining)
Basic parameters: height 95 meters, width 20 meters, weight 18196 tons, front wheel with 18 serrated buckets.
After the severe winter, Krupp manufactured a heavy mining machine based on the research topic "Ultra-deep Drilling and Mining at Tanya" obtained from the European Political and Economic Community, combining design drawings with existing technology. It was precisely with this terrifying machine that could easily peel off dense hard rock and frozen soil that Krupp successfully joined Tanya Mining and became the main force in the current engineering department.

Note: The pilot of this [Krupp Fist] has been controlled by the Epsilon [Level 4 Soldier: Mind Faith] under Ilyich Grigorievitch Ivanov and has become a puppet who has turned against the enemy!
The rough and huge wheel bucket fell down, bringing up large circles of air waves, and the rotating bucket teeth dispelled the air, just like the axe of creation that chopped down fiercely.

A black saw blade as big as a hill pierced through the light blue gale tornado and filled Qin Huai's eyes. It was coming with great force and was unstoppable.

Call ~
Qin Huai's figure suddenly blurred and turned into a flowing shadow that grabbed the front bumper of the armored vehicle. The tires roared violently and flashed out in an instant, escaping the attack range of the giant wheel bucket!

Qin Huai knew that with his own strength, it would be effortless to deal with this "enemy" who had reached the fourth-level army with the help of heavy machinery. Even if [Krupp's Fist] took the initiative to launch a sneak attack, he was confident that he could calmly avoid it and defeat the enemy with one blow.

But the [Lion Armored Vehicle] in the same position as him cannot do that.

Although Christine was an expert driver and the starting speed of the [Lion Armored Vehicle] was not slow, the [Krupp Fist] came too fast. Qin Huai's combat instinct told him that if he didn't use [Moment] to drag the armored vehicle out, Christine and Anna in the car would definitely become iron buns stuffed with meat paste.

"Go, don't get in the way."

When Christine came to her senses, Qin Huai's figure had disappeared. Only his reminder and the loud noise of the huge wheel bucket smashing the ground came into her ears from behind the car.

呲味~
The friction between the explosion-proof tires and the asphalt road produced a series of piercing and shrill sounds that made people shudder. The turbid exhaust gas sprayed into the air from the exhaust pipe. In just a blink of an eye, the angular [Lion Armored Vehicle] had rushed out and away from the battlefield that was about to be affected.

"So fast?!"

In the cockpit of [Krupp's Fist], a bearded man with abnormal purple pupils stared at the high-speed moving target on the screen. He pulled the joystick with both hands, and the irresistible black saw blade rose up again, falling from a height of dozens of meters and rushing towards Qin Huai.

At the same time, the bearded man pressed a red button, and two heavy machine guns with automatic fire control immediately extended from the thick alloy boom of the [Krupp Fist], aiming at the figure approaching at high speed, spewing out a fierce metal storm.

"Go to hell, you damn capitalists!"

The bearded man was venting his firepower wantonly, his face was abnormally flushed, his eyes were closely following Qin Huai who was performing irregular maneuvers through the bulletproof glass. The giant wheel bucket hit by [Krupp's Fist] was like a whack-a-mole hammer, following him like a shadow.

Dust filled Qin Huai's vision, the air was filled with the pungent smell of gunpowder, sonic booms hit his eardrums, and a series of fiery red bullets shot into the frosty Canglan, disabling and slowing down the ship, and soon no longer posed a threat.

Following the long boom all the way up, Qin Huai found the cockpit with its door tightly closed. With a swish, a hand glowing with a glazed green light inserted into the ten-centimeter-thick bulkhead of the external armor. With a grasp and a pull, the entire bulkhead was torn off and thrown more than ten meters away.

The bearded man in [Krupp's Fist] turned around, but before he could see Qin Huai's face clearly, he was knocked unconscious by a fist that suddenly enlarged in his field of vision. The violent machine that was so powerful just now suddenly stopped due to lack of control, leaving only two heavy machine guns with automatic fire control still spewing flames.

After turning off the fire control system, Qin Huai returned to the ground with his beard in his hand, thinking about the definition of the so-called military force in the Winter Era.

After the confrontation with [Krupp's Fist] just now, he suddenly had some new understandings.

From ordinary first- and second-tier troops that are barely capable of traveling alone in the wilderness, such as the [Dual-Gun Savior] and the [Wanderer]; to the third- and fourth-tier troops that are able to crush enemies with ease and will only be deployed when forces scramble for large amounts of minerals, gasoline, and water, such as the [Lion Armored Vehicle] and the [Bear Tank]; and finally to the fifth-tier troops that only exist in legends and no one has ever seen with their own eyes.

From the first to the fifth level, this is a system that was summarized by the people in the wasteland after mixing the residual military forces before and after the coming of winter, the influence of radiation mutation and genetic drug transformation. However, the evaluation criteria of this system are not rigorous and are mixed with a considerable subjective component. Therefore, even if they are both fourth-level soldiers, because of their different areas of focus, their abilities will actually be very different, and it is difficult to quantify them with a unified standard.

For example, as both are fourth-tier troops, in Qin Huai's opinion, the [Krupp Fist] is much better than the [Bear Tank] that the three major powers can mass-produce. Although it also has the disadvantage of slow movement, its terrifying destructive power and amazing defense make it perfect as a heavy mecha used to garrison the base.

Unfortunately, it is easy to be beheaded. Once the pilot in the cockpit is gone, no matter how powerful the weapons and equipment are, they are just a pile of scrap metal.

Qin Huai thought about all these things and couldn't help but guess the ability of the Epsilon [Fourth-level troops: Spiritual Faith].

"Mr. Qin, how are you?"

[Lion Armored Vehicle] braked suddenly in front of Qin Huai. Christine jumped out of the car and asked with concern while she and Anna carried the bearded man into the back of the armored vehicle.

"I'm fine, but your comrade is not in good condition. He is being controlled by a psychic, and I don't know if he can recover."

Qin Huai shrugged his shoulders, and after confirming that there were no more threat prompts within his field of vision, he sat back in the passenger seat and spoke to Christine.

Christine leaned her upper body into the back of the car, pulled open the bearded man's eyelids, and saw the slightly purple pupils. She guessed, "A fourth-level [Visionary]? Or an unknown fourth-level genetic ability?"

"I don't know. This is the first time I've seen this ability."

Qin Huai looked out the window. At this time, teams of fully armed Tanya soldiers had walked out of various war bunkers and began to clean up the mess and confirm the status of the war.

Among these soldiers, there was one man who caught his attention.

Tanya Adams

One of the members of the Tanya Mining Round Table Council, the uncrowned king of Area S, an archaeologist who has traveled to the old ruins of the sixteen survival zones in Asia, and a special warfare captain with unparalleled personal strength.

Status: Winter Soldier
Specialization: Hot weapons 100%, Demolition 100%, Dagger fighting 100%
Injected with genetic modification drugs: Doomsday Winter Soldier, Telekineticist, Red Lotus Soldier, Chariot Judgement.
Comprehensive evaluation: Tier 4 special troops (level 8 peak)

Note: At this stage, she is the strongest individual that can be made by injecting genetic modification drugs among the three major powers!
The woman named Tanya was tall, with smooth skin, chestnut hair, and carried two designer pistols. Her movements and demeanor were very similar to Daisy who stayed behind at the Tianrui base, as if they were cast in the same mold.

She looked around the devastated battlefield, finally fixing her eyes on the Lion Armored Vehicle where Qin Huai was, and walked over.

"Councilor Tanya."

Seeing Tanya coming, Kristen and Anna hurriedly got out of the car and saluted.

"Hello, Mr. Qin, I'm Tanya."

Qin Huai saw the person in front of him extending his hand and nodded: "Councilor Tanya."

"Tanya Mining originally wanted to invite Mr. Qin to be our guest, but we didn't expect the base to be in such a state now. I'm sorry to have made a fool of myself."

Tanya looked at the distinguished guest from Big Ben in front of her, said a few polite words, and then led Qin Huai deeper into the base.

"No, there are always unexpected events. If we could have predicted Ilyich's actions, I wouldn't have sent soldiers to search the entire S area."

Qin Huai, who had read the information beforehand, knew very well that the news about Ilich was told to the Big Ben Research Institute by Tanya in front of him. Naturally, there was no need for him to beat around the bush at this time and he could just speak frankly.

"I just didn't expect that he would dare to put his remaining limited military strength into the battle with Tanya Mining."

Tanya lowered her head and said slowly: "But this also reminds me that in the future, not only should we guard against surprise attacks, but we must also be wary of him plundering resources from other forces in Area S and training a clone army."

"How long have they been retreating?"

Qin Huai thought of the Epsilon soldiers who disappeared without a trace as soon as he arrived, and asked.

"About twenty minutes."

Tanya raised her mechanical watch and answered.

"It's really a coincidence. Ilyich's communication method is extraordinary."

"Psychic communication does have unique advantages. Even Prometheus cannot invade their channels. In addition, Ilyich has soldiers who can interfere with electronic equipment with their minds. This is almost devastating to our combat system."

Tanya's smile was somewhat helpless.

"I have a solution."

Qin Huai said briefly and made a gesture of wiping his neck: "Decapitation operation."

(End of this chapter)