Otherworld Girl Development Guide

After the expedition team members entered the spire, the defensive line quickly contracted, and soldiers from the other two squads inside the spire vacated their positions to assist in the defense.

"Headquarters! Headquarters! This is the excavation site. We've been attacked. Requesting backup!"

Amidst the intense gunfire, the platoon leader shouted into the communications channel.

"Hold on, reinforcements are on their way!"

Rat-a-tat-tat... Two squad machine guns, set up in a crossfire formation, rhythmically fired at the surging underground ratmen, shooting them down one by one.

Pass! Pass! Pass!

The 30mm vehicle-mounted autocannon fired at the dense swarm of rats, each shot blowing up a bunch of rats.

"Oh my god... have we entered Mickey's Mysterious Room...?"

One of the research team members looked at the seemingly endless number of rats and said with a twitching mouth.

"Shut up, if they're all Mickey Mouse, it'll lower your sanity even more. Get ready..."

As another strong member of the expedition team spoke, he assembled the shovel in his hand, stood up and swung it around to get used to the shovel's center of gravity.

"...So many rats are consuming too many bullets. Once we run out of bullets, we'll have to resort to hand-to-hand combat."

The other expedition members exchanged glances and silently took out their shovels from behind them and began assembling them. They still had some sense of responsibility. If they didn't step up when the time came, would they let the women and elderly behind them take their place?

"Liu Xin..." The team leader looked at Liu Xin, who was assembling a shovel, and carefully considered his words. He wanted to persuade him to stay behind, since his body was naturally somewhat weak.

"Team leader, I'm a man too..."

The team leader patted Liu Xin on the shoulder and didn't say anything more. Respect and trust are also a form of fighting power.

Chapter 297 Rat Giant

At the highest point of the spire, the machine gunner pressed down on his squad automatic weapon, firing in short bursts at the approaching Skaven.

Watching the rats being taken down one by one, the machine gunner missed the Type 89 heavy machine gun. The 12.7mm heavy machine gun, mounted on the turret, loaded with double-headed bullets, and sprayed bullets at the attacking ratmen. That was much more satisfying than this squad automatic weapon.

One shot, and a whole row of rats would be shredded into mincemeat...

"Nothing! DEA! DEA!"

Amidst the rats' strange accents, more than thirty rats, who looked like the most muscular rats in the world, charged toward the spire, wielding shields and heavy weapons.

"RPG!"

A gunner quickly emerged from cover, set up a rocket, glanced left and right to make sure no one was behind him, and then pulled the trigger...

With a piercing roar from the rocket engine, it flew straight into the sky, exploding with a deafening boom. Countless projectiles instantly turned into streak of debris, lying haphazardly on the ground.

In a dark corner, a white rat with a body like Dwayne Johnson watched as more and more rats were knocked down. Instead of feeling sorry for them, the rats seemed to be dying a good death.

After all, in this underground ruin, they can only survive in the caves beneath the city, feeding on moss, water droplets seeping from the cracks in the rocks, and the corpses of their own kind.

These dead members of their kind will be taken back, dismembered, and dried into jerky to become food for other rat-men.

"A hairless toy! Amazing! Amazing!"

A rat dressed completely differently from the other ratmen lowered its head and spoke to the white-bearded rat.

"Keep attacking! YES! YES!"

Countless ratmen charged toward the spire, only to be shot down repeatedly, but they also depleted the hairless creature's ammunition. It knew the weapon the hairless creature held was recorded in the murals of its ancestors.

More than ten minutes later, the white-haired ratman, seeing that the firepower of the hairless creature in the spire had weakened, said in a shrill voice, "Giant Rat! YES! YES!"

As the white-haired ratman gave the order, seven or eight ordinary ratmen around him chained a giant rat. Compared to the other ordinary ratmen, this rat seemed to have undergone a genetic mutation, with solid muscles all over its body.

The ordinary ratman struggled to control the rat giant's torso towards the spire. The rat giant was constantly hungry, and extreme hunger drove it into madness. Along the way, a ratman who didn't have time to escape was grabbed by the rat giant.

Amidst the ratman's desperate squeaks, the rat giant gripped one of the ratman's hands in each of his two thick arms, and with a sudden burst of strength, the ratman in his grasp turned into...

Then, it stuffed the bloodied and mangled body into its mouth and began to chew it. In a few bites, it swallowed the entire ratman whole, and the blood made the rat giant's eyes turn scarlet.

Snapped!Snapped!

The ratmen behind him kept whipping the rat giant... Under the orders of the superior ratman, the other ratmen loosened their ropes and fled to the side as if escaping.

Freed from the ropes, the rat giant roared, sniffing the air. The scent of humans reached its brain, and compared to the stench of its own kind, the aroma of human flesh immediately gave it direction.

With a roar, the giant rat charged toward the spire...

"Watch out! A giant target!"

The moment the Rat Giant launched its charge, it attracted the attention of the gunners, and almost all the firepower was directed at the Rat Giant.

5.8mm bullets cannot kill the rat giant quickly when they hit him. The bullets penetrate the rat giant's tough skin, but are blocked by the thick muscle layer. The resulting cavity effect shreds the flesh and blood, but that is all.

Blood splattered continuously on the rat giant's body. While shielding his head with his hands, the rat giant grabbed a ratman who couldn't escape in time and hurled it towards the spire.

*Thud...* The ratman shell struck the bunker in front of the soldier, turning into rat paste. A stench like boiled excrement filled the entire position. The platoon leader shouted without hesitation:

"Cover each other up, put on gas masks!"

The soldiers quickly took out their gas masks and put them on. They felt a little better, but the lingering stench still made them frown from time to time.

*Pfft...pfft...it's not like a few ratman shells were thrown onto the battlefield.*

One even crashed into the interior of the spire through a gap in it.

Meanwhile, inside the spire, a squad of defense forces is engaged in close-quarters combat (CQB) with the ratmen who have infiltrated the spire.

boom! boom! boom!

Military-grade shotgun shells sprayed tungsten steel pellets, turning the charging ratmen into sieves.

The indoor CQB was no easier than the outdoor one. The corridors of the spire were filled with the corpses of ratmen, and the blood emitted a foul stench. However, the ratmen seemed to feel no fear and kept trying to break through the soldiers' defenses.

*Ding...* The grenade's safety ring was pulled out. After silently counting in his mind, the soldier threw it into the passage. The grenade fell into the deep pit through the hole dug by the ratmen and exploded with a bang, killing several ratmen who were trying to climb out.

"Quick! Cluster grenades, blow up the tunnel!"

The demolition expert nodded and strung the grenades together to form a chain grenade.

"cover!"

At the squad leader's command, the soldiers peered out and shot the ratmen that rushed out, then threw grenades into the tunnel, killing the ratmen inside amidst the distinctive squeaking of rats.

Then, two assault soldiers covered the demolition expert as he rushed towards the tunnel. The demolition expert threw the tandem grenades into the tunnel, and then the three of them ran away without looking back.

boom!

With a loud bang, the passage was blown apart, burying several ratmen inside.

"Quickly, Yuan Hua, Yu Tou, and Zheng Guo, stay behind and issue an alert immediately if anything unusual happens. The rest of you, come with me to support the front line."

"Yes!"

Three team members stayed in the passage to monitor the ratmen's every move and prevent them from crawling out of the hole again, while the remaining soldiers followed the squad leader to support the front.

On the second and third floors of the spire, they poked their heads out and opened fire on the ratmen who were charging up.

The arrival of reinforcements made the frontal battle a bit easier.

"Kill it!"

The artillery crew quickly turned the 30mm rapid-fire cannon on the Lynx assault vehicle and fired at the Rat Giant!

Boom!Boom!Boom!

The giant rat, which was like a flesh-and-blood tank in front of 5.8mm bullets, was just a large target in front of 30mm assault guns.

The 30mm machine gun struck the giant rat squarely in the chest, instantly turning it into a bloody mist, with colorful internal organs and some tissue fragments of unknown purpose flying everywhere.

Just then, the roar of engines came from afar, and reinforcements consisting of four Lynx assault vehicles and three quadruped mechs arrived.

Chapter 298 ???? The Garbage Collector (3/13)

The underground ruins, which are usually untouched by sunlight, were now illuminated by the flames of the explosion.

The arriving support troops used the 12.7mm heavy machine gun mounted on the Lynx assault vehicle to fire at the rat horde.

With a low, thumping sound, the machine gunner corrected the trajectory of the bullets with tracer rounds, each 12.7mm heavy bullet tearing a row of ratmen in the path of the attack into pieces.

A mere glancing blow would result in a serious injury, while a direct hit would turn you into a pile of mangled flesh.

The arrival of reinforcements gave the defending troops a jolt of confidence, and they began to organize a counter-offensive, pushing back the ratmen who were almost inside the spire to prevent any escapees from breaking through the firepower blockade and causing trouble inside the spire.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh... The rocket pod on the quadruped mech fired 19-tube 70mm air-to-ground rockets at the swarm of rats. This can be considered an upgrade to the quadruped mech. Considering versatility and cost, the weaponry of the quadruped mech is moving closer to that of armed helicopters.

In this way, except for some special weapons, quadrupedal mechs can be fully compatible with the ammunition of attack helicopters, reducing logistical pressure.

A salvo of rockets, with shrapnel and steel balls inside the rockets, overwhelmed the ratmen's charge, suppressing their attack. Immediately afterward, the laser designator on the machine gun shone into the rat swarm, and the airborne 30mm rapid-fire cannon opened fire.

Amidst rhythmic thumping sounds, spent shell casings spun and fell onto the excavation site, emitting wisps of heat... Four quadrupedal mechs, spaced 20 meters apart, launched a tactical infiltration from the flanks towards the rat swarm.

The infantrymen dismounted and followed behind the quadrupedal mechs, continuously firing at any rats that managed to escape. Due to the limited height of the underground ruins' roof, the Lynx assault vehicle used its onboard 12.7mm heavy machine gun to suppress the ratmen further away.

Crossfire whipped through the ratmen, tearing them in two with bullets. But this wasn't the end. A large gyroplane flew into the midst of the ratmen, its onboard 5.8mm squad automatic weapon strafe them...

The combined air and ground attack threw the ratmen into a panic, especially the four steel machines whose machine guns gave them their first taste of the terror of the upright apes.

Bang... Amidst the sound of air exploding, the chemical defense soldiers, equipped with special gear and wielding futuristic firearms, unleashed a symbol of civilization—a blazing beam of laser light—at the ratmen!

The soldiers did not carry flamethrowers, also out of consideration for the protection of the ruins, since using flamethrowers would burn some carriers of potentially important information.

This is an obstacle for Shangqiu in understanding what exactly happened in the ruins, and the flames would also consume oxygen in the confined space. Flamethrowers will not be used in the ruins unless absolutely necessary.

The intense heat from the focused laser instantly cooked the ratman to a near-cooked state, its skin charred black, as if it had been baked in an oven. The ratman collapsed to the ground amidst its struggles, wisps of smoke rising from its corpse, the air thick with the intense heat generated by the burning proteins.

Faced with an organized, modern army, these ratmen, whose civilization level was still very low, had absolutely no chance of resistance.

With the soldiers working together, without any confusion or hesitation, they efficiently slaughtered the underground ratmen.

"A hairless thing! Amazing! Amazing!"

"Retreat! YES! YES!"

......

Chaos broke out among the rats. Faced with an invincible enemy, the underground rats' biological instincts led them to retreat.

However... soon some strange rats appeared and intimidated these rats that wanted to retreat.

"Back off! DEA! DEA!"