Chapter 735 The Battle of Broken Edge Mountain! (1/2)

"…This is Feihu, we have reached the target airspace!"

"Start working! I don't want to miss today's lunch. Damn, the gluttons in Panghuang Swamp are like starving ghosts, have they never eaten meat?!"

"Haha! Maybe they can't eat it in their hometown!"

"The 'wontons' in the morning are good, I think it's called this name-"

"Don't interrupt, keep your eyes on your target."

"Received!"

The west side of Broken Blade Mountain.

Twelve Yunting flapping-wing aircraft vibrated their wings, carrying missiles hung on ammunition racks, and circled towards one side of the mountain with great momentum.

At the same time, three infantry companies composed of mercenaries also completed the assembly and launched an offensive from the north.

It was eight o'clock in the morning.

In the hour before that, their friendly alliance had poured at least 500 155mm heavy grenades on the mountain, washing all the places that could be washed.

As if they had anticipated the coming attack, the mutants on the mountain were already on full alert, staring at the people below with fierce eyes, holding their various weapons tightly, ready to teach these ignorant humans a lesson.

The same was true for the mercenaries below the mountain.

They came here from the distant Yunjian Province just to slaughter these green-skinned people.

For the qualification to live in the ideal city, and for the generous reward!

The two sides almost immediately saw each other, and sparks were visible to the naked eye-

Mercenary leader: "Fire!"

Mutant Centurion: "Chop them up!!"

Two roars sounded almost at the same time, and dazzling sparks and flying tracers burst out between the cliffs in an instant.

Amidst the hail of bullets, a mercenary was hit in the chest by a large-caliber single-headed bullet. The bulletproof lining wrapped in blood was shattered to the ground in an instant. Blood was oozing from his chest and mouth. He was quickly dragged back to the back of the rock by his comrades by the collar.

The mutant who fired the gun was quickly shot into a sieve by a burst of rifle bullets.

However, until the last bullet drilled into his head, the guy was frantically stroking the shotgun in his hand and firing.

The battle was about to break out!

The fighting almost immediately entered a white-hot stage!

More and more mutants rushed out of the bunkers and exchanged fire with the mercenaries who launched an offensive against the mountain.

People kept falling down, including mutants and soldiers wearing exoskeletons.

The scene was extremely chaotic.

The noisy gunshots and shouts mixed together, ups and downs in the mountain stream.

The offensive of the mercenaries was in a stalemate for a while, and they were about to fall behind.

At this moment, missiles carrying metal hydrogen warheads suddenly fell from the sky, and without warning, orange-red flames exploded in the mountains!

The burning flames were like magma that suddenly burst out, and countless goblins were blown away!

And those green-skinned big guys were blown into pieces before they could even scream.

The Yunting flapping-wing aircraft hovering along the mountain continued to fire, and the co-pilot's index finger was almost welded to the trigger. Under the guidance of the infantry, it continued to tilt rockets and machine guns, and harvested hundreds of lives in a blink of an eye.

"Well done!"

Looking at the road opened by the flames, the mercenary lying behind the bunker shouted excitedly to the sky, and then led the team behind him to kill on the winding slope with high morale.

Following them, there were more than 20 "Hellhound" unmanned vehicles.

Facing the continuous rain of bullets, the green-skinned guys were no match at all. The jagged rocks were covered with broken limbs and scorched blood.

Under the cover of the Yunting flapping-wing aircraft, the mercenaries who attacked the top of the mountain were unstoppable and soon reached the halfway point of the mountain.

On the Black Cloud Peak not far away, the young men of the 1st Regiment of the 100th Mechanized Mountain Division were excited, and they were ready to go forward to reinforce.

"Sir, when are we going?" A soldier wearing an exoskeleton walked to the side of the commander and asked energetically.

His name is Tang Feng. The reason why he joined the army was, on the one hand, to fight for the fate of mankind, but more because of the recruitment advertisement on the end cloud that said "Fight for the fate of mankind".

The commander looked at him and then looked at the towering mountain in the distance, and just said briefly.

"Wait until I let you go."

Hearing this nonsense, the people who were eager to try were suddenly disappointed.

They had all arrived at the front line, but could only watch the friendly forces show off in front.

At the same time, the battle situation on the front line changed.

It seemed that the two attack formations composed of the Yunting flapping-wing aircraft, which had run out of ammunition, began to return.

At the same time, the mutant troops, which had been in a slump, suddenly started to move again as if they had taken drugs.

Especially among those big green-skinned guys, some different things began to appear.

Even if their heads were pierced, they would not die immediately, but would rush up like crazy, even more dangerous than before their heads were blown up!

Unprepared, many mercenaries were grabbed by the head by the crazy greenskins and beaten up, and even their exoskeletons and bones were beaten into pieces, and they were even eaten alive and their throats were bitten off, and half of their faces were torn off.

Everyone was frightened by this ferocious attack. They couldn't even die from a headshot or even a puncture through the heart. They were completely fearless in the face of suppressed fire. For a moment, almost everyone didn't know what to do. That's it.

What's even worse is that these "little strong" with extraordinary vitality look no different from other mutants in appearance.

They are like landmines buried in the crowd, exploding at a moment's notice, and each "explosion" will cause huge trouble to the attacking troops.

But these mutants would not give them any time to breathe. Seeing the decline of human beings, they immediately howled and charged forward, and their attack became more and more fierce.

The three mercenary companies that attacked halfway up the mountain immediately fell into a hard fight. In the blink of an eye, one company was crippled and could only withdraw from the meat grinder-like front line.

In the command room.

Looking at the aerial images on the holographic screen, Lin Shangwen, commander of the 100th Mountain Division, frowned and his face was filled with solemnity.

That was the picture captured by the camera on the belly of the "Seagull" fixed-wing drone.

At this moment, the drone is hovering five hundred meters above Broken Blade Mountain. At the same time, it is the only close support that the frontline troops can use.

Chief of Staff Yun Song, who was standing next to him, also had a solemn expression on his face. After thinking for a moment, he spoke.

"We still have the last eight tactical missiles, let's cover their retreat."

As the former captain of the 26th Commando, he knows very well how difficult guys like mutants are to deal with.

Most people will lose more than half of their combat effectiveness if they are shot, but these guys will fight more and more bravely after being shot, until they finally die.

And these green skins are obviously different from other green skins.

The Baobuqi Torch Church not only improved their prosthetics, but also made biological improvements.

Mr. Lin nodded, but thinking of the mocking expressions of the Weiland people, he couldn't help but hesitate.

"But……"

"Whether you face the 'pressure' from Triumph City or face the pressure from Ideal City, you have to choose one."

After a pause, Yunsong continued.

"Even if they are just mercenaries, we can't really let them all die there."

Hearing this, Lin Shangwen no longer hesitated, looked at the adjutant on the side and ordered.

"Let the mercenaries on the front line retreat."

"Also tell them that if they want to receive full reward, at least bring me a mutant body back!"

The adjutant immediately performed a military salute.

"yes!"

…

As the order to retreat was sent to the front line, the mercenaries who were fighting bloody battles finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The remaining two companies alternately provided cover and retreated in an orderly manner along the narrow and winding mountain road.

On the Black Cloud Mountain not far away, Midnight, who was carrying an umbrella but not a knife, opened his eyes wide and said with a surprised look on his face.

"People from the company actually retreated?"

Wasn't that morning's round of shelling in vain?

At this time, [I feel sleepy when I wake up] standing nearby touched his tactical helmet and muttered.

"By the way, what are those mutants? New monsters?"

As soon as he heard that there was a new monster, the outlaw maniac immediately looked at him and asked curiously.

"What the hell? What did you take a picture of?"

When he woke up, he was sleepy and didn't say anything. He just transferred what he had just photographed with the quadcopter drone to the VM and showed it to a few brothers who came over out of curiosity.

In the video, a mutant with half its head missing rushed out from behind a rock mass, swung the ax in his hand, flew an unlucky guy away, and then rushed towards other people behind the guy. Soldier.

A group of corporate soldiers fired at it frantically, but the guy didn't seem to feel anything and fell to the ground until he was shot into a honeycomb.

After watching the video to the end, the players gathered in front of the VM couldn't help but swallow.

Good guy...

Is this a slime mold attachment? !

Meanwhile, the fighting on the front lines continues.

Seeing that the troops who had attacked halfway up the mountain began to retreat, the mutants on the mountain were naturally unwilling to let these guys go. They dragged out all kinds of long guns and cannons from the cave, and all started to greet these human things.

But at this moment, a slender line of white smoke suddenly fell from the sky and struck next to a cave entrance halfway up the mountain.

Several goblins who were struggling to carry the cannonballs let out a scream and were reduced to pieces of flesh and blood mist in the explosion of fire. Even the big green guy carrying the iron tube cannon in front was also swept up by the explosion's flames. He got in, howled and rolled down the mountain.

The missiles falling from the sky shocked the mutants who were about to rush out.

They thought it was those little flies flapping their wings that were flying back again, and they cautiously retreated into their caves.

The Beast King had warned them that rock mass hundreds of meters thick was the strongest natural barrier, and even nuclear weapons were much inferior to it.

Even if it is equivalent to tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of meters, there is not much that can be done to deal with the hard rock mass that has been formed for two billion years. The most is to scrape down some rock blocks and earth, or blow up a few landslides.

They have already dug hundreds of interconnected tunnels in the mountain, and it will be fine even if half of them collapse, but those humans still hope to build roads and bridges above them!

As long as they don't rush down the mountain all at once, they can rely on the supplies stored here to last forever!

By 11 a.m., the three-hour battle came to an end.

This battle ended in a draw!

…

At the same time that the mercenaries were retreating, on the bridge of the Loyalty airship, General Liam had a trace of undisguised ridicule on his face.

He waved his index finger in the air, and a light blue holographic screen unfolded along the path drawn by his fingers, projecting a video window hung with white snowflakes.

The commander of the company did not appear on the screen, and he was probably too embarrassed to turn on the camera.

Liam didn't pay any attention and just said mockingly.

"Can you do it? Or we can send regular troops, don't waste all our time."

Black Cloud Peak was a position controlled by the legion. His people had been watching from the side. The 100th Mountain Division stood still on the position and did not take action at all.

To be honest, he was more curious about the combat effectiveness of the regular army in Ideal City than the performance of those guys' servant army, and this was what Saren, the commander of the Eastern Army, was most curious about.

Although the two sides are friendly forces now, no one can guarantee that they will not fight in the future.

As if to regain face, a voice came from the other side of the communication channel.

"...We have achieved today's combat objectives, and today's offensive is over."

Hearing this, Liam almost laughed out loud.

In other words, I laughed out loud.

"Achieved? Isn't your goal to plant the flag on the top of the mountain?"

Lin Shangwen said with a dark face.

"That's the ultimate goal, figuring out what's going on with these mutants is what we're going to do today."

Liam narrowed his eyes, stared at the white snowflakes in the window, and suddenly smiled.

"Are you afraid?"

He used the provocation method to encourage these guys to send out the regular army.

Unfortunately, the other person was not fooled and continued in a calm tone.

"If you think studying the opponent's weaknesses, seizing the key points and defeating them in one fell swoop is called 'fear', then just understand it as you wish. In my opinion, our lives are more valuable."

After a pause, Lin Shangwen sneered.

"You defeated an army of a thousand men in one day, I really don't know what you are so proud of."

Hearing the vague sarcasm in that sentence, a hint of sullenness flashed across Liam's face.

But that's just a little bit.

It was only the clones that were defeated, not the 310,000th team under General Modlin.

In any case, their casualties were less than one company, and they successfully planted the flag on the highest point of Black Cloud Peak.

Looking at the hung up communication, Liam snorted coldly.

"A dead duck has a tough mouth."

…

"Zhiyuan News"

[At eight o'clock today, the 100th Mechanized Mountain Division and the Seventh Air Force launched a fierce offensive towards Broken Edge Mountain. Annihilated more than a thousand mutants with minimal casualties.

According to the intelligence collected on the front line, more and more clues can directly prove the crimes against humanity committed by the Torch Church.

A large number of survivors were fed addictive drugs and imprisoned for breeding. In addition, the apostles of the Torch Church also applied the biological technology of the Prosperity Era to carry out extremely dangerous genetic improvements on some mutants, resulting in a large number of improved varieties with serious safety risks...

War correspondent Wu Kaian reports for you.

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The next morning.

A two-engine killer whale transport plane and a towed four-engine Overlord parked on the tarmac of the Weifu military base and the airport runway respectively.

In the former sat a team of biological experts from Yunjian University, and in the latter sat technical staff from the Alliance Biological Research Institute.

Although they belong to different camps, they all come to the front line for the same purpose.

Namely, mutants who won't stop fighting even if they get shot in the head.

As the person in charge of the military base, Li Jinrong personally came to receive them and arranged them in a three-story concrete building located at the corner of the military base.

It was originally intended to be a field hospital to accommodate the wounded, but there are not many wounded yet, so this area is not being used for the time being. It is just used as a field laboratory first.

Without a moment's delay, when a body bag containing only samples arrived from the front line, more than 20 experts just gathered together for a brief meeting, assigned their respective tasks, and immediately began the dissection work, analyzing each variant. Human somatic cell samples were assayed.

This work lasted from morning until late at night, and finally some progress was made.

At the same time, Vault 404.

Chu Guang, who had just finished a day's work and was about to close his eyes, received the message from Heya, so he sat up from the bed again and went to the browsing room on the B4 floor to meet her.

"The test results came out, and they are very shocking... There are multiple pairs of chromosomes in the genomes of those mutants that contain coding genes that our current technology cannot even fully analyze. Experts from Yunjian University also said it was incredible. They also claimed that they had never I’ve seen such strange mutants.”

After glancing at the completely incomprehensible report in his hand, Chu Guang nodded while holding his chin in understanding, and then returned it to Heya's hand.

"Surprising...all specimens?"

Heya: "Only part of it! Although they can be generally called super mutants, they are not exactly like those guys, but more like something in between. What do you think it should be called? good?"

Chu Guang took the time to look at the official website and found that there were players discussing this matter, so he picked the most frequently occurring nickname and said.

"...How about we call them zombie mutants, or green-skin zombies, or zombie mutants for short?"

Heya's eyes lit up, she snapped her fingers and said.

"Okay, let's call it this... In short, in addition to the extremely strong recovery ability, this kind of mutilation also has the ability to self-heal brain tissue that ordinary mutants do not have! The clinical performance is that even if they are smashed Even if you lose your head, it can grow back!”

Chu Guang was stunned for a moment and couldn't help but ask.

"how did you do that?"

His recovery ability is also very strong, but it is far from strong enough to grow back after his head was shot.

Even his head can grow back, which is a bit ridiculous.

Are these guys earthworms?

"...Our preliminary speculation is that their nervous system has evolved a 'memory backup' function. As long as a certain proportion of the nervous system remains intact, it can continue to repair the damaged part of the nervous tissue. It's just that when the brain is destroyed When the time comes, their bodies will temporarily lose control of their brain tissue, and their actions will be completely controlled by the remaining nervous system. To put it more easily, their actions are completely controlled by instinct.”

Looking at the dumb Chu Guang, Heya took a deep breath and continued with a serious expression.

"I have to remind you that Torch's biological experts may have more skills than we initially thought. I even have a feeling that when we are testing them, they are testing us..."

Having recovered from the initial surprise, Chu Guang nodded and said in a very soft voice.

"It's normal. After all, there may be a hundred or so experienced experts like you."

In fact, he had already felt it.

While he was testing the trump card in Torch's hand, those guys were also testing the trump card in his hand.

Maybe this war will be the same.

Those guys are testing the strength of all parties in the "Cohesive Community" bit by bit, and are constantly honing and improving their skills on the battlefield of Shifeng Mountain.

The resistance the coalition forces encountered on the third mountain was obviously much greater than the resistance they encountered on Fu Mountain...

In a sense, the greenskins are very similar to the way the players grew up.

Players who cannot truly be killed will become stronger as they respawn again and again.

And those guys are iterating rapidly through death again and again, and the new ones that grow out will be more cruel and more durable than the ones that died before.

Whether in a sociological sense or a biological sense, they are absorbing the fruits of civilization in the era of prosperity in a special way.

And with the help of technicians left over from the Age of Prosperity...

Thinking of this, Chu Guang couldn't help but feel a trace of solemnity on his face, and he began to think in his heart.

Heya was slightly embarrassed by being praised so suddenly, coughed slightly and said.

"It doesn't matter how many experts there are. Research is a systematic thing. Our current research system is borrowed and improved from the academy. It is already relatively mature. At most, it just lacks some accumulation and foundation. It cannot be inferior to Torch. …However, the problem lies in the accumulation. I actually suspect that those people may have some information on the lost projects.”

Chu Guang frowned slightly.

"Lost item?"

"Gestalt Life Form!"

Heya looked at him with bright eyes, a trace of eagerness and desire in her eyes.

"That Singularity-level technology! The unfinished Singularity of the Prosperous Era! Whether it's the mutants, the Velantes and their eight-fold growth clones... they are all by-products of that technology!"

Chu Guang showed a thoughtful expression when he heard this, and couldn't help but think of the laboratory on the east coast that was the trigger that led to the disintegration of the War and Construction Committee a century and a half ago.

That laboratory was like a squashed cockroach, with eggs scattered everywhere.

And that failed military operation became an indelible stain in the company's history, including the destruction of Singularity City, which was inextricably linked to that incident.

Maybe...

Torch probably obtained the information leaked from that laboratory through some method!

Judging from Torch's actions in Jinhe City, they are consciously recovering the information about "Gestalt Life Forms" scattered in the wasteland!

Thinking of this, Chu Guang's eyes couldn't help but twinkle slightly.

Although it's not a good idea to start worrying about friendly forces now, this information cannot fall into the hands of the legions under any circumstances!

Looking at Chu Guang who was silently thinking about his thoughts, Heya continued with a serious expression.

"Anyway, I have to go to the front line, including how to restore the soil of Haiyia Province..."

"Well, it's good to go and see the scene."

Chu Guang nodded, suddenly thought of something again, and continued.

"By the way, you can wait until the day after tomorrow to set off. Then I will go with you."

"Are you planning to go to the front line too?" Heya looked at him in surprise, and then teased in a narrow tone, "Are you worried about me?"

Chu Guang just smiled lightly and said without paying attention to the teasing tone.

"After all, I am also the nominal supreme commander of the coalition forces recommended by all parties, and I was originally going there. It's just that I have been dealing with rear-line work these past few days, and I was only busy recently."

Due to various conflicts between legions, colleges, and enterprises, any representative of one party who is elected as the supreme commander will be opposed by the other two parties. Therefore, the only "acceptable" candidate is actually the alliance and the freedom to participate in the war on behalf of the Great Rift Valley. state.

Although the latter also received a few votes, it was completely negligible compared with the alliance's huge number of votes.

Although the representatives of the legion complained about the results of the vote, they only proposed that Chu Guang himself should serve as the commander, and did not exercise his veto power.

Chu Guang knew that the Weiland people didn't like him very much, let alone what the wastelanders always said, "Weilant people admire the strong."

Those guys were just worried that they would embarrass them by sending Vanus or other Velantians who had been "assimilated" by the alliance.

From the perspective of Triumph City, this is not impossible. After all, the alliance's personnel appointments never ask about background, only original intention and ability.

If a serf can become a city lord, a Wilant man can naturally become a marshal.

It's just that in Triumph City, these guys who defected to the Alliance have almost become synonymous with shame. They don't think the pursuit of equality is anything excusable.

If Vanus becomes the commander of the coalition forces and leads them to victory in the end, no one in the entire Triumph City will be happy.

Including the "Loyalty" sent by the Eastern Legion this time, it seems that there is no evil intention in it.

These guys just have bigger noses, but it’s hard to say how smart they are. They might be smaller than the people in the academy.

Hearing Chu Guang's answer, Heya suddenly showed a bright smile on her face and said happily.

"Great! This way, I don't have to bother you with sending the specimens to the front line."

"The physical examination is not too late these days." Chu Guang coughed dryly and said a little embarrassedly, but saw Heya shaking her head and staring at him intently.

"No, it actually has nothing to do with physical examination, but the research on gestalt life forms."

After a pause, her voice gradually took on a hint of fanaticism, and her eyes became unusually eager.

It's like staring at the results of some incredible experiment.

"...Others don't know, but I clearly witnessed the entire process of transforming some of your non-coding genes into coding genes."

I always feel that the look in this guy's eyes makes people a little scared.

Chu Guang picked up the tea cup and took a sip of water, hiding the fleeting embarrassment on his face.

"so what?"

However, Heya's next words almost made him spit out the water he just drank.

"Perhaps it's not just the Valantians, but your DNA also contains some of the results of that singularity technology!"