Steel torrents pioneering a different world

Chapter 19 Murderous Intent on a Snowy Night (Please continue reading)
Li Xiang paused, his gaze sweeping across the snow-covered window: "What's the situation here?"

"Real-time feedback is still interrupted, which is very troublesome." Zhao Chong yawned heavily, his brows furrowed with exhaustion. "Everything is normal at the camp, except that the wind and snow have gotten damn hard again."

As if in response to Zhao Chong, a sudden gust of wind, like the wailing of ghosts, pounded against the outer structure of the temporary camp.

"What about electromagnetic interference?" Li Xiang asked, his voice a little hoarse.

Zhao Chong operated the equipment for a moment, then shook his head: "The interference intensity is persistent, fluctuates wildly, and has no discernible pattern."

"When the subsequent experimental team arrives with those sophisticated instruments, they'll probably all go bald from the electromagnetic environment of this godforsaken place." Li Xiang rubbed his temples and gave a self-deprecating smirk.

This is another world, a place where even basic long-distance communication is difficult to guarantee. Even high-precision scientific exploration requires a complete overhaul!

He was really looking forward to seeing how people who applied engineering would scratch their heads in frustration.

Zhao Chong stretched his stiff neck and said to Li Xiang, "Engineer Li, you've all been working for too long. Go and get some food first."

Li Xiang did feel a bit hungry and let out a long yawn: "Hmm, have you eaten yet? Want to eat together?"

Zhao Chong yawned: "Yeah, my shift is over. I'll go down and eat something hot to warm myself up. This awful weather is making me burn through my energy so fast!"

People are iron, and rice is steel, so you panic if you don't eat a meal.

In such high-intensity, high-pressure interdimensional exploration missions, sufficient energy is the basic guarantee for maintaining sanity and combat effectiveness.

Zhao Chong was under a lot of pressure because he was in charge of setting up the camp.

Researchers and soldiers are both made of flesh and blood. After nearly 20 hours of continuous work, everyone was starting to feel the strain.

While Zhao Chong and Li Xiang were having dinner...

The night becomes darker and darker.

At some point, the snow outside the camp had turned into a violent blizzard.

The snowflakes no longer drifted down, but instead lashed out like countless white blades, lashing wildly at everything in sight.

Time ticked by, and it was 3:15 a.m. in the other world.

This is the most vulnerable moment for humans, both physically and mentally, as the drowsiness caused by staying up late surges in like a tidal wave.

Although the soldiers on duty had caught up on several hours of sleep beforehand, the nights in this other world seemed to have a magical power to induce sleep, and their eyelids were drooping very frequently.

The soldiers had to force themselves to stay alert, one after another listless.

The cold wind seeped into the camp through the gaps around it, and the biting chill mixed with the strong wind made many people instinctively shrink their necks.

Several kilometers outside the camp, in the darkness beyond human detection by the naked eye and by nearly broken electronic devices—

Thousands of figures are moving forward silently.

These figures were strange; some were emaciated, with a layer of skin tightly wrapping their bones, while others had a large amount of bone exposed, with only a pair of eyes emitting a faint blue light.

Some had normal physical postures, but were lifeless, with stiff limbs, moving forward mechanically.

Even worse, they were simply moving skeletons, with eerie soul flames flickering in their empty eye sockets.

They take advantage of the cover of darkness and rely even more on the howling wind and snow as a natural barrier.

Silently, step by step, they slowly approached the human advance team's camp, which was faintly visible in the wind and snow...

Advance team camp.

Xiao Zhou, who was hiding behind a sandbag fortress against the wind and snow, was struggling to keep his eyelids open, almost drifting off to sleep.

Just then, a muffled explosion, characteristic of landmines, startled him so much he nearly jumped out of his skin!
boom! boom!
Amidst the howling wind and snow, the faint thud of a heavy object crashing onto the snow could be heard.

More than one place!
One explosion after another rang out... The quiet camp instantly turned into a bustling battlefield.

"Enemy attack!!!"

Xiao Zhou's piercing scream cut through the snowy night, almost drowned out by the continuous explosions of landmines!

The entire camp had gone from deathly silent to bustling with activity...

The drowsy, yawning soldier sprang up as if injected with a stimulant.

The safety on the guns was pulled, the crisp, rapid sound echoing throughout the camp, the cold muzzles pointing into the dark, snowy depths.

The flamethrower soldiers swallowed hard, wary of enemies in the darkness.

At the very moment the soldiers moved, Fengxue seemed to notice the awakened soldiers, and knowing that the night raid had failed, he was immediately enraged.

The howling of the wind and snow suddenly intensified, whipping up huge waves of snow, and the soldiers' visibility gradually decreased...

Rumble…

The sounds of landmines exploding, along with the clanging of broken tin cans hidden in the snow by the soldiers, rang out like the bells of death.

Deep in the snowstorm, an inhuman, violent roar pierced through everything, stabbing straight into the eardrums.

Squeak—squeak—

That was the sound of barbed wire being forcibly pulled and cut, frequent and jarring.

The unseen enemy's advance is being slowed by the barbed wire fences built by humans.

The minefield, meticulously laid out during the day, was being brutally triggered, one mine after another.

Incendiary bombs and flares were launched into the air during the attack, illuminating the figures of the attackers.

The continuous explosions, mixed with the cracking sound of steel balls tearing apart the skeleton...

The startled soldiers gripped their weapons, their nerves taut, their eyes fixed on the blurry enemy ranks ahead...

"Squad leader, it's getting closer, even closer! Aren't you going to let us fire?"

"Wait a little longer, the battalion commander is gathering information!"

The inhuman roars and the ever-approaching explosions, like invisible giant hands, gripped the hearts of every defending warrior.

Xiao Zhou, who was the first to sound the alarm, was frantically switching between his multi-functional night vision goggles, futilely scanning the fragmented view ahead, cut off by the wind and snow.

The swirling snowflakes, like an insurmountable barrier, blurred everything.

High-definition tactical equipment, which was originally capable of clearly detecting targets up to two kilometers away, could not even penetrate the snow and wind scene 150 meters away, making it difficult to detect in the dark.

Fortunately, humans never rely on a single eye.

As more flares and incendiary bombs were launched, more and more people saw the approaching enemy.

While the soldiers' attention was drawn to a particular direction of attack, the guards responsible for monitoring the high-tech equipment were reporting on the latest enemy activity.

"Report: Non-cooperative detection and positioning devices have detected multiple batches of targets!"

"Direction: 9 o'clock, 530 meters away! A large number of humanoid creatures are gathering!"

On the screen, countless humanoid figures are moving.

Strangely, these moving targets had absolutely no infrared signature!
Li Jing gasped, wondering if this was an extraordinary being or an army of the undead.
"Report! The enemy isn't attacking from just one place! Three... no, four! These bastards are actually using tactical encirclement?"

(End of this chapter)