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Chapter 22: The Enemy's Retreat? (Please continue reading)

Another world, advance team camp.

The attack came quickly and went quickly.

Unable to withstand the losses, the enemy withdrew immediately. Then, the otherworldly blizzard seemed to merge with the attack, and it quickly dissipated after the humanoid creatures retreated.

Five minutes later, Li Jing looked at the gradually quieting snow camp and then at the soldiers who had gone out to scout ahead. Suddenly, he felt a sense of boredom.

"That's it? No follow-up attacks?"

"It's over. Our detectors are back to normal, and the snowstorm has moved away."

"Battalion Commander Li, the enemies from another world prefer to attack at night and can control armies of the undead and create snowstorms. They are definitely intelligent and extraordinary beings. I request permission to capture some targets."

"The risk is too great. Our current mission is to conduct reconnaissance and establish a camp. We should not launch an attack without complete intelligence."

Li Jing poured cold water on Zhao Chong's desire to fight, extinguishing his enthusiasm.

"Well... alright, Battalion Commander Li."

Although Zhao Chong's team got a vanguard mission, his superiors instructed him to mainly carry out reconnaissance tasks and cooperate with Li Jingze in subsequent operations.

"As long as we stay in this other world, we'll have plenty of opportunities to volunteer for battle. I'm going to record this and prepare to report it. By the way, Captain Zhao, did you say we were discovered as soon as we arrived in this world?"

"Well... it's hard to say. If so, then it's troublesome!" Zhao Chong replied with a furrowed brow.

"Hopefully, the enemy doesn't possess any strange or unusual magical abilities." Li Jingze also had a bit of a headache.

The fact that the enemy attacked between 2 and 3 a.m., accompanied by wind and snow, and that they retreated immediately after failing to gain any advantage from the surprise attack, demonstrates that the enemy possessed absolute wisdom in warfare.

Li Jing was not worried about attacks from cunning enemies, but he was worried about attacks from enemies whose situational awareness was completely out of sync with his own and who possessed strange magic.

If the enemy can monitor humanity's every move at all times and also possesses bizarre magical abilities, humanity will definitely have to pay the price with the lives of its soldiers!

Li Jingze shook his head, noting his doubts and previous speculations in his post-war summary notebook.

"Report: Two soldiers have been wounded on the battlefield. An Kang, the deputy gunner of Team A, was hit by an alien enemy, and the other soldier dislocated his shoulder due to firing too many shots."

Li Jing skipped over the soldier with a dislocated shoulder and asked with concern about the soldier who had been shot: "How are the wounded?"

"Report! The enemy's ice spears attacked from several hundred meters away. Although they passed through several obstacles, pierced through sandbags, and penetrated An Kang's magazine and bulletproof vest, fortunately, they did not pierce An Kang's body. He only suffered a few broken ribs!"

Upon hearing that An Kang had broken two ribs and that the ice spear had pierced through the magazine, Li Jing suddenly asked alertly, "Is the isolation suit torn?"

"Report: Yes, the isolation suit is torn and leaking air. The medical team has isolated and is treating the patient!"

"Report! A new clue has been found here!"

Li Jing and Zhao Chong both looked at the person who came to report the information.

The soldiers who went to scout the results of the battle ahead have returned.

"The army that attacked us was indeed the undead! These are the skeletons and tattered clothes we just collected."

Watching the soldiers carefully collect the various skeletons that glowed with an eerie blue light, displaying a large number of decaying corpses, including fragments of giants, Li Jing then looked at the clothing woven from cotton, linen, and animal hides and asked, "Where is Li Xiang?"

"I'm here!" Li Xiang said, panting. "I just went to collect some things too."

He took out an explosion-proof isolation box used for collecting supplies and took out the isolated items inside.

Li Jing looked down and found it was a somewhat broken skull of an alien humanoid creature that looked almost exactly like a human.

Only the basic bones of the skull remain; the lower jaw was struck by heavy machine gun fire and is now missing.

Surprisingly, a blue fluorescence emanated from the skull, with the blue light being even brighter around the eye sockets of some of the undead. Seeing this skull, Li Jing felt as if he were being stared at by a monster.

pat~
Li Xiang closed the lid.

"It's still alive?"

"I'm not sure, it just feels very strange. I speculate that these are the remains of humans from another world. Their appearance is almost 99% the same as that of humans after death, but I found these volatile blue substances inside."

Looking at the substance that emitted a faint blue light but was gradually dimming, Li Jing asked, "What are these? How can there be giants in the middle of winter?"

"There have been other discoveries that defy the principles of natural biodegradation!"

"I suspect it's the key to keeping these creatures active even after they've died! I feel these substances are the medium through which some kind of necromancy operates! I'll take a look with a microscope later."

"Li Xiang, I suggest we start with those broken bones. I remember there's an attack method in the novel called 'corpse self-destruction'."

"Okay!"

Li Jingze exchanged a glance with Zhao Chong beside him: "Have you brought the other damaged remains under control? Be careful that the other side doesn't have the ability to reassemble the remains!"

"The soldiers have separated and collected them, and set up easily flammable fuel! They can be used as firewood at any time!"

Li Jingze finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Just as they were about to continue assigning tasks, Zhao Chong suddenly said, "Commander, I request to change our previous conservative strategy and deploy the Sharp Eagle UAVs to track the receding Feng Xue. It would be best to use high-powered weapons to test the enemy's capabilities."

Seemingly afraid of being disapproved, Zhao Chong emphasized, "Commander, my battlefield intuition is very accurate. I feel we should be able to make a new discovery!"

The enemy attack lasted only a dozen minutes. The intense fighting had the soldiers excited, and none of them could sleep.

The soldiers, who had been disturbed and awakened, were very resentful, and Li Xiang's many discoveries led Zhao Chong to believe that some of his conjectures could be verified.

"The electromagnetic interference is too severe. I hope the Sharp Eagle won't be damaged!" Li Jingze said with a pained expression.

“This is not the time to worry about equipment gains and losses. I remember when the gunner was attacked, the warriors used their barrage to release ice spears. At that time, the warriors must have damaged some elite monsters. The snowstorm almost stopped, and everyone's communication became very smooth! So I think there must be high-value targets in the snowstorm,” Zhao Chong continued.

High-value targets: elite monsters from another world!
The armies that can control the undead are generally chaotic evil forces, enemies of the living. Most chaotic evil magical creatures should be similar creatures.

Now that the enemy has discovered the modern human forces and launched a night attack, humanity no longer needs to hide.

"Combat request approved. Release the Eagle UAV!"

Following Li Jingze's order, the soldiers operating the drones quickly activated the Sharp Eagle drones, which had already been wound up and equipped with thrust devices.

swoosh~
With the sound of springs pushing, the Eagle UAV, which was ready to launch, was released into the air.

Adhering to the principle of not suffering losses, the Sharp Eagle also installed a set of Blue Arrow-7 missiles and inertial guided bombs.

These devices arm the Sharp Eagle, so that even if it encounters aerial units, it can teach the enemy a lesson.

"Report: Severe electromagnetic interference, but no problem with the drone's attitude."

"Reduce the drone's speed, don't break it."

The oxygen density in the other world is several points different from that in the modern world, making it a highly oxygen-rich environment, which has a significant impact on the engine.

An oxygen-rich environment increases the combustion efficiency of an engine, but the significantly increased combustion temperature will inevitably cause internal engine components such as pistons, spark plugs, and valves to melt or be damaged in a short period of time.

High temperatures can also cause detonation, which can severely damage the engine!

The soldiers in the unit cherished their equipment and didn't want to suffer any losses while pursuing the enemy...

(End of this chapter)