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

Chapter 252: Not a Pitiful Victory

The nuclear bomb exploded successfully, and at the same time, the drones in the air and the deployed seismic monitors immediately read the direction of the seismic wave transmission.

Fuxi imported the seismic wave data into the system and overlapped it with the map. After a moment, a vague outline of an underground passage network appeared in front of Chen Jian.

Big.

This was the first thought that came to his mind after seeing the map.

This dense underground network covers almost all the land outside the Jinling ruins. Although the main passage in the center is not too long and is even intermittent, judging from the vibration wave graph, its diameter is at least 6 meters!
"Fuck! That whale eel really dug out a new 'underground great wall' system near us."

Chen Jian sat in the back seat of the cat car and looked at the map carefully, and soon he found that the distance between the exit of the underground passage at the farthest end of the map and their location was an astonishing 60 kilometers.

"Can you catch up?"

Chen Jian asked.

"Attack-17 drone is flying towards the target airspace and is expected to arrive in 4 minutes."

"Traces of the target monster 'Whale Loach' have been found."

"The cruise missile will be dropped in 3 minutes, but I'm not sure if we can hold it back."

"Commander, if you go there now, you will most likely miss it."

"The risk is too high. We suggest you withdraw to base 011 first."

"clear."

Chen Jian nodded decisively and immediately switched his vision to the drone screen.

At this time, the Attack-17 was flying at a speed of more than 900 kilometers per hour. The scenery on the ground passed by at a high speed, and in the distance, a huge cloud of dust was gradually moving away.

That is the whale eel about to burrow back into the ground.

As the distance continued to get closer, Chen Jian could clearly see the shape of the whale loach through the perspective of the drone.

Although he had only vaguely seen it once before in the sea, when the picture was enlarged, Chen Jian could easily see that its size had changed greatly from before.

The originally huge body seemed to have shrunk and became dry and bony. Most of the tentacles were covered in blood, with pale bone spurs exposed.

Is it hurt?

For a moment, Chen Jian felt a little secretly delighted.

But he soon realized that this was not "injury", this was "adaptation"!
It is adapting to the land environment!
A huge body size is no longer necessary to resist water pressure. In order to gain the ability to move quickly underground, it autonomously contracts its muscles and bone tissues, transforming from a fathead fish-like "whale" into a real "loach".

Sure enough, there may be wrong scientific names in this world, but there are definitely no wrong nicknames.

Seeing that the drone had already flown over the whale eel's head, Chen Jian decisively gave the order to attack.

Four cruise missiles flew out at the same time, rushing straight towards the monster at a speed of 4 Mach.

It only takes 15 seconds at most for the cruise missile to hit the target.

But at this moment, as if sensing the coming danger, the monster suddenly stood up.

It's exactly the same as the whale eel that was near the imperial capital before!
The scales spread out, and lightning flashed among the dense cysts.

The plasma swept across, covering the monster's entire body like a light prism tower that Chen Jian had only seen in games!
Green smoke rose up, and the extremely high instantaneous voltage formed a strong electromagnetic interference. The drone image was blurred. Then, the four cruise missiles that were relatively close all lost their direction!

Not an EMP.

Chen Jian can be sure that there is absolutely no carbon-based organism in the world that can produce electromagnetic pulses sufficient to affect the internal navigation system of a missile and the video footage of a drone.

However, if it is UHV.
A short circuit inside a transformer box is enough to create a jumping magnetic field that affects the camera image.

Chen Jian had a deep understanding of this thing when he was on a business trip near the electrolytic aluminum factory.

Apparently, the monster affects electronic devices in the same way as a large transformer!
At least electromagnetic pulses are ruled out!
Chen Jian breathed a sigh of relief, but when he looked at the drone image that reappeared, he felt a sense of powerlessness in his heart again.

His grandma's.

Can't catch up.

Drones that rely on wireless communication navigation cannot cause effective damage to monsters, and ordinary large-caliber artillery cannot reach the edge of monsters at this distance!

If we continue along this line of thought, I'm afraid the subsequent nuclear bomb minefields will be of limited use.

Once the magnetic field it generates affects the trigger device of a nuclear bomb, it may not only render the nuclear bomb ineffective, but may even detonate prematurely!

Chen Jian's brows were tightly furrowed.

He opened his mouth and gave the order:

"Prepare to retreat."

"We can't catch up with it, and we can't kill it with just the two of us."

"Go back first and retreat to the safe area near the base."

"The first round of offensive organized by it has been thwarted. I don't think it will make any major moves in the short term."

"We must seize this window of opportunity and find a way to resolve it as soon as possible!"

"understand!"

Ji Xing obeyed the order, turned the car around and drove towards the 011 base.

Occasionally, monsters startled by the nuclear explosion could be seen in the woods on both sides of the road. Most of them were mantises that had lost their backbone and fled in all directions, but among them were also some small monsters that Chen Jian had never seen before and which appeared for the first time near the Jinling ruins.

"Fuck."

"Is this whale loach a tunnel boring machine? Is it building a highway near the Jinling ruins?"

As soon as Chen Jian finished speaking, Ji Xing, who was driving, nodded and said:
"It seems to be some kind of support monster."

"It gives me a feeling that is indeed different from the level one monster I saw in the mountain city."

"From a certain perspective, it doesn't have much killing power, but if we allow it to organize a beast tide, we will face big problems."

"really."

Chen Jian clenched the grenade launcher in his hand and shot the head of a mantis monster blocking the cat car's path to pieces. Then he continued:

"But if that's the case, then there shouldn't be only this one level one monster that will appear in the beast tide."

"And until now, we knew nothing about the possible enemy."

"The balloon must be raised first."

"Also, we may need a vehicle with a larger payload."

"airplane?"

Ji Xing’s eyes instantly lit up.

“Are we going to build an airplane?”

"Yes."

Chen Jian nodded.

“But maybe it’s not the same airplane you imagined.”

"But it doesn't matter, let's go back first anyway."

"Contact Shen Yue and see what the situation is over there!"

"understand!"

Meanwhile, on the other side.

In the battle zone on the southeast side of the 011 base, the 30A tank stood in the center of the battlefield like a giant elephant. The 50-meter circle around it was like a vacuum zone, and there was not a single monster corpse.

On the contrary, outside a radius of 50 meters, the corpses of the monsters were densely packed and stacked up to form a circle.

The corpses of hundreds of monsters squirmed and collapsed. The seriously injured monsters that showed some movement were quickly shot in the head by the nurse's lone gunman.

By the time the smoke had completely dissipated, there was no sign of any life activity not only in the wasteland that served as the main battlefield, but also in the surrounding woods.

Lei Jie climbed out of the tank and jumped to the ground. The soft ground made him stagger.

After stabilizing himself, he immediately turned to Shen Yue who was giving first aid and asked:
"how is the situation?"

"Two of them are beyond saving."

Shen Yue didn't even raise his head. "Gauze."

Xie Liu on the side immediately handed over the gauze. Shen Yue spread the gauze in his hand, used the clean water in his other hand to quickly rinse the intestines that had flowed out of the body, and then wrapped the intestines with gauze and stuffed them back into the injured person's body.

"sewing."

He continued to speak, and Xie Liu skillfully handed him the equipment he needed.

The somewhat rough suturing work was quickly carried out, and while the needle was being threaded, Shen Yue quickly explained the situation.

"Three were slightly injured and two were seriously injured. This kid's intestines were broken, so the problem is quite serious."

"If the abdominal cavity is not cleaned properly, explosive infection will definitely occur."

"Fortunately, we still have antibiotics available, but I can't guarantee whether they can contain the infection."

"He needs to rest. He may need repeated laparotomy in the next month."

"This is the limit of what I can do. Whether he can survive depends on his own fate."

At this point, Shen Yue had already finished suturing the wound.

Without hesitation, he stood up and walked towards another wounded man, then said:

"This kid was much luckier. Both his legs were amputated, but his aorta was saved."

"The bleeding was stopped promptly, and the prognosis should be good."

"But if possible, you'd better get him an exoskeleton."

"Didn't we get a batch of brain machines from the Holy Blood Basilica? Let's give it a try."

".What mechanical ascension?"

Lei Jie shook his head and replied:
"It's not easy to link the brain and exoskeleton. Let's see what Fuxi says after we go back."

"What about the others? How are the injuries of the lightly wounded?"

"It's just a minor problem, just a superficial injury."

As he finished speaking, a wounded man who was left aside by Shen Yue looked at his chest with a little surprise.

There, a horrific wound almost tore the entire chest apart, even the ribs were broken and collapsed, exposed outside.

He even had a feeling that if he opened the wound a little more, he might be able to see the beating heart and the lungs rising and falling with breathing.

Is this considered a minor injury?
The wounded man couldn't help but find it a little funny.

But when he looked at Xie Liu, who was lowering his head and sorting out adrenaline for Captain Shen Yue, he couldn't laugh anymore.

Indeed, compared to the Holy Blood Man in front of him, he was only slightly injured.

There were not one but three wounds on her back.

Her shoulder blades were completely exposed, and her muscle tissue was struggling to maintain her movements.

Such a horrifying scene might give many people nightmares for several nights in a row, but the two team leaders seemed to have no reaction.
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No, it’s not that there is no reaction.

The captain named Lei Jie finally asked about Xie Liu's injuries.

"How are you?"

The wounded man saw Xie Liu shaking his head casually and replied:

"It's a minor injury. As long as you can still move, it's not a big problem."

"She's fine."

Shen Yue said at the side:

"The heart rate is normal, the breathing is normal, and the bleeding has stopped."

"I can't treat her for now. I'll just sew her up when I get back."

"Li Shi was able to recover from such an injury before, so her problem shouldn't be too serious."

"clear."

Lei Jie breathed a sigh of relief, but still patted Xie Liu and motioned her to go to the side to rest, and then took over her position to assist Shen Yue in rescuing the wounded.

They moved quickly, and within just a few minutes, all the urgent injuries were dealt with.

At this time, the team led by Huang Meng had just completed the final cleaning of the entire area.

"Captain, all the monsters have been cleared."

"There are no other lone monsters around. They all ran away."

"Did he really run away or hide?"

Reggie asked, frowning.

"We used thermal imaging equipment to check the woods within 200 meters and found no monsters left behind."

"I think they all ran away. The number of monsters that died here has reached over 400. Even a well-trained army would have collapsed. It's impossible that these monsters really have no fear at all, right?"

"That's good."

Hearing this, Shen Yue wiped the blood off his hands and stood up. When he looked around, he saw a team that had been pushed to the limit by the high-intensity battle, their equipment was in tatters, their bodies were covered in blood and smoke, but their eyes were extremely determined.

Win the battle.

Nothing can better hone a team's will than a victory.

He waved his hand gently, and the exhausted crowd immediately stood up.

The moment the weapon was in his hand again, Lei Jie suddenly had an illusion.
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These people seemed to give him a familiar feeling.

After a brief silence, he did not make any "sentimental" remarks.

He simply uttered an order.

"Each squad leader counts the number of people and forms a team, then board the bus and take them back!"

"understand!"

"Roger that!"

The reply came immediately, and soon everyone got on the bus and drove towards the 011 base.

The wounded man with a chest injury lying in the truck looked at the roof of the truck a little dazedly. Someone handed him a kettle, as if wanting him to drink some water, but he was immediately stopped by his comrades next to him.

"Are you crazy? The captain said he can't drink water now!"

"I forgot"

The comrade who was stopped coughed, took back the kettle, and took two big gulps of the water.

Then, he exhaled heavily and said:
“I didn’t think I would survive.”

“I thought I was dead”

As soon as he finished speaking, the soldier on the opposite side nodded silently.

"I didn't expect that either."

"But when I saw those monsters, I didn't even think about whether I could survive."

"I was so crazy that my gun barrel exploded. Fortunately, I had a spare gun. Now you know why the commander asked us to carry two guns, right?"

"Now I know that next time I have to bring not only a spare gun but also a spare barrel."

"Don't talk about next time. Such a tough battle doesn't always come."

"People from the imperial capital will be here soon. I guess this might be the last time."

"That's not certain, what if there is more?"

"If there is any more, just fight."

Amid the roar of the engine, the human voice gradually became blurred.

The wounded man closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep.

He saw the setting sun shining in through the open door of the carriage, and the setting sun in the distance seemed to be following the convoy, getting closer and closer to him.
(End of this chapter)