Chapter 427: Extermination Order (1)

Chapter 427: Extermination Order (1)

Just as everyone was discussing the large number of troops that appeared in the sky, one of the small landing ships landed on the top of a nearby building. Soon, the hatch opened, and some fully armed Tig soldiers walked out of the hatch and quickly landed on the ground through the power propulsion system on the armor.

"Did you send the distress signal? Which unit are you from?"

"We... eh? What's going on?"

Xin, the leader of the Tigr team, found that his words turned back into the Tigr language when he answered instinctively. Although the native language of the previous world had not been forgotten, when talking to the Tigr, he would actively answer in the Tigr language.

"We are a special operations unit affiliated with the Rock of Broken City. The specific details are classified as top secret. I need permission from my superiors before I can tell you."

"The City-Breaking Rock? It's right up there. Wait... are you the team that disappeared over a year ago?!"

"What? More than a year ago? There really was an abnormal transfer of time and space. Wait, what do you mean by the Rock of Destruction is up there? Are there other troops in low-Earth orbit? What on earth is going on here?"

"You don't know the specific situation? Forget it, let's talk about it when we get up there. The ground is not very safe. Our main task is to cooperate with Phase Four to break through the atmosphere. Now the mission is over, and we must evacuate immediately. It looks like your weapons and armor have been damaged. You guys! Take your people back! Return to the landing ship immediately!"

"No! We can go up, but we need a container to take the liquid away!"

"Is this something important? It looks like some unknown liquid alloy?"

"This is... um, this is mission secret, we can't tell you, but this thing is very important, we have to take it away."

"Okay. Skull, this is Ground One Team, I need a sealed container."

"Understood. It is being deployed."

The captain of the ground team No. 1 contacted the landing ship parked above the building through the equipment. After receiving the order, the latter immediately dropped a sealed container. The bottom of the container was equipped with a set of extraction devices, and the "liquid" in the pond was quickly completely absorbed and stored inside the container.

While Xin was talking to the captain and the other Tige people were attracting the attention of other soldiers, Gloria quietly threw in Han Zu's arm, which was about to be repaired.

"Who is she? She doesn't seem to be one of our compatriots."

"She is...our agent. Her identity needs to be kept secret."

"I see. Is there anything else we need to take? If not, we must leave immediately."

"Nothing."

"Skull, this is Ground One, retrieving the container, we will return immediately."

"receive."

The tractor beam on the side of the landing ship quickly took the container full of Han Zu back to the central warehouse, and the Tige team immediately followed the ground team No. 1 back to the landing ship. After the headcount was completed, the landing ship immediately took off and returned. The pilot's driving skills were very good. He avoided other armed forces that continued to enter the atmosphere and flew directly out of the planet and reached low-Earth orbit.

"We will send you to the Broken Rock. You can send a contact message to the captain or your supervisor."

"I may need your help with this. There is a problem with our equipment. We are temporarily unable to use the Domination Network."

"What? Then how did you send the letter for help..."

Engineer Sinler tapped the strange signal transmitter at his feet.

"Great job, Engineer. OK, I need your authorization code."

"no problem."

Xin stated his authorization code. The person in charge of the landing ship, that is, the captain of Ground One, used the emergency communication on the landing ship to send a message to the City Breaking Rock. The message was quickly received, and a familiar face appeared on the holographic image, and it seemed that there were more traces of time on his face.

"This is the City Breaking Rock, I'm Captain Xu, please let me know the purpose of your emergency communication, Captain."

"We found a distress signal and successfully rescued the compatriots who sent it. According to them, they are a special operations unit attached to your gunboat, Vice Admiral."

"Are they with you now? I want to have a conversation with them."

When Captain No. 1 on the ground gave the information, Xu's expression changed obviously, but it was quickly suppressed, as if he didn't want to do it deliberately just because his hopes were dashed.

"Great job, bro! You've been promoted three levels in a row. Now you're a lieutenant general?!"

"Wu! You're still alive!!!"

However, when Wu's face appeared in the holographic image, Xu, who was pretending to be calm, almost stuck his head into the communicator. It can be guessed that if he could follow the information flow directly, he might do so immediately.

"What about the others?! How are the others?"

"All members of the special operations unit are in good condition, Your Excellency Lieutenant General."

Wu reported the safety of all members in a pretentious manner. Xu on the other end of the line breathed a sigh of relief. He could be seen clenching his fists with excitement, and the expression on his face changed from stern to beaming with joy.

"Ahem, please be aware of the impact, Your Excellency Lieutenant General."

Seeing Xu looking for people to high-five in the captain's command room and about to lose a small part of his dignity, Xin Shengsheng reminded him, and the latter quickly returned to normal and turned back into the majestic lieutenant admiral.

"Well, Captain, I will now increase your authority and you are allowed to dock at Port No. 1. I will dispatch the floating artillery array to ensure your safety on the return journey. After arriving at Port No. 1, the supply of your landing ship will be the responsibility of the City Breaking Rock. If there is any damage to the hull, you can directly notify the technical sergeant at the port and I will issue the order directly."

"clear."

The communication was soon interrupted, and within a few seconds, the landing ship received an escort notification from the floating artillery group. Through the front porthole and the scanning system of the landing ship, it could be seen that a large number of floating artillery of similar size to the landing ship arrived next to the landing ship, escorting them back to the location of the City Breaking Rock.

"Thank you for your help, Captain."

"It's our duty to protect our compatriots, Lieutenant Colonel."

After arriving at Port No. 1, the captain of Ground No. 1 received complete supplies in the docking area. Not only the landing ship, but also their equipment and weapons were well repaired. After saluting Xin, Ground No. 1 quickly returned to the landing ship that had completed the supply and repair, and left the City Breaking Rock. Judging from their movements, they most likely returned to the planet below again.

"No need for soldiers, we can carry this cargo ourselves."

"Yes, Lieutenant Colonel."

Xin stopped several soldiers who were about to come to help transport the container. Under her command, the remaining team members lifted the not-so-small container. The container was very heavy and required six people to lift it. But just as they lifted it up, the slightly surprised expressions of the surrounding soldiers made Xin's team members realize that they were now without armor.

"You don't even work?!"

In order to prevent the soldiers around him from spreading rumors, Xin pretended to scold his team members, which was very effective. The soldiers around him quickly went back to their work. Everyone was very familiar with the structure of Xu's gunboat, so they immediately left Port No. 1 and prepared to go to Xu's captain's room.

Half an hour later.

"The gunboat has been upgraded? Why is this place a power plant for the secondary guns? Am I remembering correctly?"

"Your brother thinks this gunboat is very important. He is already a vice admiral, so it is only natural for him to upgrade the gunboat. There is an emergency communicator on the wall here. Wu, do you still remember Xu's authorization code?"

"I remember, but he's been promoted now, and I don't know if the authorization code has changed."

"How about we wait here and you go look for it?"

"E!"

Before everyone finished discussing, Xu appeared in an elevator behind them. Wearing a captain's uniform, Xu smiled happily, but he had a scar on his face and looked a little tired. The same was true for the guards who had been following him. Unlike ordinary crew members, these people were very familiar with Xin's team members. They were naturally very happy.

"Brother!"

Xu walked over quickly and gave his younger brother Wu a big hug. It was obvious that he was really happy.

"Let's go back to the captain's room. The gunboat has undergone a major upgrade, and there are many places where I sometimes get lost."

"You've been promoted, and I see your guards have all had their equipment upgraded!"

"Hahaha..."

Soon, everyone followed Xu back to the captain's room. It still looked familiar, with soldiers doing their respective jobs, but this place was much larger than the original captain's room.

"Tell me, what have you been through? Since we received the distress signal sent by Xinle more than a year ago, there has been no news from you. Until today, the war down there has lasted for so long, I thought you had already..."

"Wait, war? What's going on on this planet?"

"You actually don't know?"

"We may have encountered an unstable space-time transfer phenomenon. The distress signal you said was received a year ago actually appeared to us to have been sent last night."

"So that's how it is. No wonder. Well, it happened to be more than a year ago when we received the signal from Sinler. At noon the next day after the signal was sent, we arrived at this planet. At that time, there seemed to be a civil war going on in the area where the signal was sent..."

Based on Xu's description, everyone speculated that it should be a war between the king's army and the Duke's subordinates. According to the information provided by the scouts who entered the planet from the front line to search for distress signals, the Duke's troops were outnumbered and had no commander, so they were defeated in the beginning. However, a month later, these guys somehow opened some giant portals, and some monsters that the Tig people had never seen before appeared in large numbers on the surface of the planet.

"It only took a few days for both sides of the civil war to be wiped out by these monsters that suddenly appeared. Since the threat level on the ground was very high, we could only send mechanical units to search and rescue. Although we didn't find you, our scanning equipment discovered several huge mineral deposits on the damaged ground. They were a kind of mineral that was very similar to element 12. Although after research, they were found to be fundamentally different from element 12, they could provide considerable energy, so the headquarters temporarily issued an order to build a mine."

Although the task was added temporarily, Xu originally wanted to stay here and continue searching for the traces of Wu and others, so he naturally accepted this order. The construction of the mine went smoothly at the beginning. With the escort of Xu's main gunboat, the City Breaking Rock, the monsters around the mining site were quickly cleared. Even those giant portals were ruthlessly torn apart by the main gunboat of the City Breaking Rock. Then, several mines on the ground ushered in a three-month period of peace.

"All the mines were almost completed at that time. In just one month, we harvested a large amount of minerals. Because the mission was completed well, I received my first promotion from Lieutenant Colonel to Colonel. However, the night before I was about to return to my home planet for the commissioning ceremony, traces of hunter biota appeared on other continents of this planet. So under the order of the headquarters, I was ordered to send two landing ships to investigate."

However, not only did the two landing ships fail to send back any news, but they also disappeared without a trace. Xu felt that the situation might be more serious than he had imagined, so this time, he sent a heavy-armored force to conduct an on-site investigation. If possible, they would also try to rescue the two landing ships that had lost contact.

"The frontline commander of the troops was Lazi. After they arrived at the location where the landing ships last lost contact, they found the wreckage of the two landing ships in just two days. The residual energy reaction in the surroundings can almost completely confirm that a large number of hunter creatures did appear there, but the strange thing is that they did not find any monster wreckage, and we did not find any of our people in the wreckage of the landing ships or nearby, whether corpses or survivors."

After Lazi's troops sent back the information, they continued to advance. They continued to advance northward along the wreckage of the landing ship. When their heavily armed vehicles were blocked by the lake ahead, they discovered that a strange phase crack had appeared in the center of the huge lake. In the lake water around the crack, they found the bodies of the scouts on the landing ship.

"Because of the existence of the rift, it was difficult for Lazi's team to recover the bodies of the scouts, so Lazi asked me for permission to stay there for a while. After I agreed, Lazi set up a temporary camp near the rift. However, the next morning, the phase rift on the lake disappeared, but the bodies of the scouts remained."

After recovering the bodies, Lazi's pharmacist examined them and found that their cause of death was not the attack of the hunter creatures. From the fatal wounds on their bodies, it could be determined that they died from mutual shooting, that is, internal strife.

"But this is totally impossible. The leaders of the two landing ships are sisters and have a good relationship. It is impossible for them to kill each other. So there must be some irresistible factors that led to this internal conflict. So based on this information, Lazi prepared to continue to investigate. As a result, just one day later, a large number of hunter creatures suddenly appeared behind Lazi's troops, and the monsters that appeared from the first portal appeared in front of the troops."

Lazi's troops were all elite soldiers, but even so, they were helpless as they were attacked from both sides. Although Lazi's troops were not completely wiped out, the number of casualties was about half, and Lazi himself was seriously injured. If Lazi had not been in contact with Xu all the time, it is very likely that their fate would have been the same as the scouts on the two landing ships.

"I immediately sent a large force to support them, but when we arrived, we didn't see any of the hunter creatures, including the monsters. If it weren't for the traces of battle on the ground, as well as the remains and blood of the hunter creatures and monsters, it would have been difficult to confirm that those things had appeared here. Since that day, more and more such cases have appeared on this planet, and my mission has changed from building and protecting mines to annihilating and searching for those hunter creatures and monsters."