Armor-piercing bullets don't believe in carbon-based monsters

Chapter 224 Parasite

"Air strike has been implemented!"

"Fuxi, determine the hit and damage!"

By the Nanyi Lake, Shen Yue directed everyone to quickly set up the 152mm howitzer while viewing the aerial reconnaissance images sent back by the drone through the smart eyepiece.

At the same time as he gave the order, Fuxi also quickly reported the results of the air strike.

"Four hits, target No. 4 has fallen to the ground, and target No. was hit by a cruise missile and a Changjian-S air-to-ground missile, but judging from the results, the damage was limited."

"clear."

Shen Yue nodded, turned around and shouted:

"Speed up deployment!"

"The air strikes won't cause enough damage, we may not be able to hold them back!"

"The shelling window is narrow, move quickly!"

At the command, the Chinese soldiers, who had not received much training, once again accelerated their movements, quickly put down their spades, and adjusted the direction of their guns.

At the same time, the drone was constantly sending back the latest location data. After being solved by the battle skull, all of this data was transformed into parameters that could be directly set and output to Shen Yue's PDA.

He rushed to the gun position and completed the parameter setting at the fastest speed. At the same time, Fuxi also operated a humanoid robot to complete the preparation of intelligent ammunition.

The bombardment was ready, and Shen Yue calmly waited for the opportunity.

Now, his artillery position is 20 kilometers away from the monster's location.

He only had one cannon in his hand. If he missed the target with the second shot, it would be very difficult to capture the monster's trace again and fire the third shot.

He must be cautious enough and must pursue that opportunity to hit the target.

After taking a deep breath, Shen Yue continued to give orders:

"Attack-17 continues to fire two cruise missiles to drive the monsters in my direction!"

"clear."

The cold electronic sound of the war skull rang out, and the next second, the Attack-17 drone in the distant sky dived at high speed and fired a second round of cruise missiles less than 2 kilometers away from the monster.

Two cruise missiles flew straight towards the monster, and a moment later, they exploded the moment they hit the monster.

"boom!"

The huge explosion sound had become blurred after being weakened by the woods and terrain, but the sharp roar of the monster was clearly heard by Shen Yue.

Finally, they angered the monster.

The monster, like a war elephant wearing armor, raised its front legs high, and the stratum corneum scales connected by fascia spread out like wings, and then quickly retracted.

With a loud "bang", the monster's two front paws fell to the ground. Its deformed fangs swept through the woods, plowing down all the trees within a few meters in front of it.

Four missiles from the air had blasted bloody holes on its back, exposing its muscle tissue, which twitched continuously with its movements.

Blood was pumped out in streams, and in just a few seconds the monster's body was dyed entirely red.

Then, the dark red blood slowly flowed down the loose "armor curtain" on the monster's body, following the monster's running inertia and flying into the surrounding air.

At this moment, Shen Yue suddenly understood why the monster's thermal signal suddenly disappeared.

The layer of keratin tissue that looks like "armor" is actually a loose and porous tube network structure!

Every time it drinks water, it stores a lot of fluid in its body, and when this fluid enters the pipes, it quickly cools its body down!
I rely on.

What is a natural anti-infrared body?
Shen Yue gently turned the steering gear of the 152 howitzer and continuously calibrated the direction according to the parameters provided by the drone.

The monster was already rushing towards him. As long as the drone continued to lure it, it would soon be within safe shooting range.

For a long time.

Shen Yue calculated the lead time, jumped off the gun position and pulled the fuse.

In three seconds at most, the monster will be able to enter the predetermined shell landing point.

He was not aiming for a hit, but at least the shell had to land close enough to cause enough damage to the monster.

This is not a difficult goal.

The premise is that the monster keeps moving forward.
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But at this moment, the monster that was originally rushing forward furiously suddenly stopped.

It roared and wailed on the spot, letting the blood continue to drip down its back, but it refused to move forward.

"what's the situation?!"

Shen Yue shouted in confusion, and Fuxi's reply was immediately heard through the earphones.

"This monster seems to have been controlled. It is unwilling to change its direction!"

"Fire the last two cruise missiles! Push it harder!"

"understand!"

A brief reply sounded, and the next second, the last two cruise missiles carried by Attack-17 were fired.

"boom!"

"boom!"

Accompanied by two explosions, the monster rushed forward as if it had been whipped.

But then, it couldn't help but stop in place, as if it was a little scared. The huge inertia even made its two front legs bend into exaggerated arcs, and it almost fell to the ground.

This strange scene shocked Shen Yue.

But now, he has no room to retreat.

"Fire!"

He yanked the matchlock.

"boom!"

With a loud bang, the grenade flew out of the chamber.

After a long flight, the shell landed less than 15 meters away from the monster.

"boom!"

The shock wave swept across, and shrapnel shot into the monster's body.

Blood splattered everywhere and the monster stumbled backwards, trying to escape the attack that came from nowhere.

But Shen Yue won't give it a chance.

Immediately after the first shot was fired, he quickly set the new parameters and completed the second shot in less than 5 seconds.

This shell, with extremely high accuracy and strong foresight, fell directly on the side of the monster.

The distance is less than one meter.

"boom!"

A huge explosion sounded directly under the monster, and the overpressure caused by the explosion completely blew away the loose armor plates.

As if being skinned, the monster's body instantly turned blood red.

Without the protection of the stratum corneum, its flank was torn apart by countless shrapnel, leaving a shocking bloody hole.

The dark green internal organs flowed out instantly, and the monster twitched as it crawled forward a few steps before collapsing to the ground with a loud bang.

Its head was still held high, and it even tried to use its curved fangs to support its body and stand up again.

But its life was quickly fading away, and its last bit of strength had been taken away by the surging blood and seeped into the dirty soil.

The wailing sound permeated the woods, and Shen Yue couldn't help but get goose bumps all over his body.

He vaguely felt that this monster was different from the ones he had killed before.

It really seemed to have some kind of purpose.

It didn't seem to be howling because of its own death!
This intuition made Shen Yue feel like he had fallen into some strange uncanny valley. He took several deep breaths before he calmed down.

Then, he gritted his teeth and ordered:
"Everyone, leave the artillery behind and move forward quickly with light loads."

"There's something wrong with these two monsters. We need to dissect them!"

On the other side, near Cangzhou City.

Chen Jian's team had just arrived at this not-so-large town, had just completed contact with the Mechanicus Crusaders stationed here, and had just received a new batch of supplies they had sent.

Chen Jian ordered the convoy to take a short break outside the city, while he held his PDA, ate dry food, and checked the power map that Fuxi had just compiled.

".Going north from Cangzhou City, it is basically the territory of the Holy Blood Temple." "Although the Mechanicus still has some power, it has almost lost its voice and its strength has been weakened a lot."

"Next, we can no longer rely on the Mechanicus for supplies, but must turn to the Holy Blood Temple for cooperation."

"The good news is that our relationship with them is actually pretty good, and the cooperation is relatively smooth."

"But the bad news is that the organizational ability of the Holy Blood Temple is obviously inferior to that of the Mechanicus, and the help they can provide is limited."

"But, we are almost to the imperial capital anyway."

"Our next stop will be Tianjin."

"This will be the first coastal city we have reached in such a long time. Maybe there will be some new clues and discoveries."

Hearing his words, Lei Jie nodded slightly, and then said thoughtfully:

"I wonder if we can see an aircraft carrier. Theoretically, the distance from Tianjin to Sanshan is only 300 kilometers. If an aircraft carrier happens to be operating nearby when the catastrophe occurs, it is still possible for it to dock at the Tianjin port, right?"

"uncertain."

Chen Jian shook his head and said:
"According to the normal emergency response process, returning to the home port is the standard action."

"But who knows? You never know."

"However, from the information we collected earlier, there are no legends about 'big ships' or giant warships in Tianjin. It is very likely that people here have never seen an aircraft carrier from the beginning to the end."

"Warships are a possibility."

"But more than three hundred years have passed. No matter what ship it is, it should have sunk into the water, right?"

"yes."

Lei Jie sighed and said:
"In this apocalypse, the most powerful fighting force we can find may be those giant ships."

"But it's a pity that it can't be used."

"There are too many things I can't use. I want to use the big black fish."

Chen Jian answered casually and swallowed the last bite of dry food in his hand.

After drinking a mouthful of water to moisten his throat, he switched the screen of his PDA and continued to speak to Lei Jie:

"There has been some progress on Shen Yue's side."

"They have already caught up with the two monsters. They used the Attack-17 and the 152mm howitzer to kill them."

"According to him, those two monsters can only reach the fourth level standard. One of them looks a little stronger, but it is still far from the third level monster we fought."

"But that's not the point."

"The key point is that from beginning to end, the two monsters did not put up any decent resistance."

"They just keep running away and hiding."

"It's as if they knew Shen Yue was chasing them."

"This feature is really, really strange."

"Think carefully, are the two monsters we didn't find the same?"

"really."

Lei Jie frowned, thought for a moment and said:
"It is now basically confirmed that these two pairs of monsters are related to the beast tide."

"If discovering pairs of monsters in succession is a coincidence, then it can't be a coincidence if their actions are the same."

"There must be a common reason behind this abnormal logic of action."

“But what is the reason?”

Having said that, Reggie paused.

After a long silence, he finally shook his head and said:

"Have no idea."

"I can't figure it out either. I just intuitively feel that this thing might be related to the so-called Primarch."

"What does it matter?"

Lei Jie asked in confusion.

"Mind control."

Chen Jian put away his PDA, stood up, and replied:
"There is not much difference between controlling people's minds and controlling monsters' minds. God knows whether these monsters have been brainwashed or not."

"That's too much. There are so many monsters in this world. Could it be that someone has installed a brain computer in each of them?"

"Who knows?"

Chen Jian answered casually, then waved to Xie Liu who was sorting his equipment in the distance.

The latter immediately stood up and ran over. Chen Jian asked:
"How is your communication with the Holy Blood Temple going? Do they agree to let us enter the imperial capital?"

"This"

Xie Liu scratched his head subconsciously and replied:

“It seems hard for them to disagree.”

"The time has been set. I told them that we will arrive in Tianjin this evening."

"The environment in the imperial capital is relatively complex, and the monsters around it are quite active."

"When the time comes, the Holy Blood Temple will send someone to pick us up."

"They will lead us through the trade route from Tianjin to the imperial capital, known as the 'Land Bridge'."

"That's the only relatively safe trade route."

"But I don't think we need to worry too much. After all, the monsters active around the imperial capital are mainly small monsters below level 4, and a large number of blood skeletons."

“Even without relying on them, we have the ability to get through.”

"Understood, that's fine."

Chen Jian nodded with satisfaction, and Xie Liu turned and left.

In fact, he really didn't take the Basilica of the Holy Blood seriously, and the so-called "seeking the other party's consent" was just a formality.

It’s a very simple truth. If you don’t let me go, then I won’t go?

Telling you this is just a notification, not a negotiation.

But from a practical point of view, having such a process can save your team a lot of unnecessary trouble, so what is there to resist?

Chen Jian gently rubbed the sore corners of his eyes and was about to return to the Mengshi car to rest for a while.

But at this moment, Shen Yue's voice suddenly came from his headphones.

"Captain! We're in trouble!"

Chen Jian froze in his tracks. He sat up straight and immediately asked:
"What trouble?"

"We have just arrived at the bodies of the two monsters and have just finished dissecting them."

"I blew up this thing's entire body, and finally found its brain tissue."

"I know why they act so strangely."

"It's a parasite! They are all controlled by the parasite!"

"Captain, do you know about the Diplocoriacea? It's something similar to that!"

"I know."

Chen Jian answered.

So, the so-called beast tide is related to parasites?
Indeed, only this answer can reasonably explain the "joint action" of those monsters.

But what kind of trouble is this?
Chen Jian was about to continue asking questions when Shen Yue's voice rang out again.

"No, Captain, you don't know!"

"I'm not done yet!"

"This thing is not a simple parasite!"

"It's made of fucking iron! It's a machine!"

(End of this chapter)