Chapter 445 "Infectious Diseases" (16)

Chapter 445 "Infectious Diseases" (16)

At the same time, in the lower port of the space station.

A fully armed, unusually quiet combat team is checking armor and energy weapon consumption.

"Who are you..."

“Buzz~!”

A member of Team Xin who was cut in half tried to confirm the identity of the opponent with his last bit of strength, but what awaited him was only the end of having his head shattered by a particle beam.

He was not the only member of Team Xin who was killed by the combat team. Since the use of the escape pod to land on the space station was not planned, the team members were scattered and located in different parts of the space station. Several team members died directly from the impact, or were turned into food by the mutant monsters in the space station because of their injuries. Only four team members were left.

Engineer Sinler, who was with Gloria, was in the best condition, but his propulsion device suffered some damage. However, he was an engineer and had enough repair materials on him, so after finding a safe place, he immediately repaired his armor and tried to contact other team members.

Although Wu and Hai's armor malfunctioned and they were unable to fully exert their combat effectiveness, the good tacit understanding between the two allowed them to have enough energy to find other team members in the crisis-ridden space station. Through the communication device on Wu's armor, they received an emergency communication from Sinler and are currently heading to the target location to rendezvous. Their current location is still near the top floor of the space station and is temporarily safe.

After Xinle's scan, he judged that they would meet up near Wu and Hai, use the relatively safe environment there to repair the armor of the two, and then look for other team members. As for the original mission, they all thought it was time to give up.

Below where Sinler and Gloria were, in the main building of the space station, there were out-of-control mechanical sentinels and a tide of mutants everywhere. It was like a giant meat grinder that would devour any rational individual. It was like a giant city completely occupied by zombies, except that the mutants here were much more terrifying than zombies.

Whatever caused these mutants to mutate, that thing fused them with their original armor and weapons, making them several times more dangerous. This mutation also greatly enhanced the strength of their twisted bodies, making them difficult to kill unless they were hit in weak spots or caused a lot of damage. They would also devour each other, becoming larger and harder to kill fusion monsters.

Among them and around them, there are a large number of out-of-control mechanical sentinels. These sentinels, whose underlying protocols have been completely destroyed, have become killing machines that are not much worse than those mutant monsters. Their locking sequences will attack anything that moves within the range. These guys who will unleash fire at the slightest disturbance are, together with those mutants, slowly weakening the stability of the main building of the space station.

Below the main building of the space station is the densely packed port area, where this silent and ruthless combat team boarded the landing ship to enter the space station. Their purpose was very clear, which was to find the members of Team Xin who had made an emergency landing inside the space station and then kill them all inside the space station.

The purpose of their trip is the annihilation operation, and the storage modules that need to be recovered on this space station are now being recovered by their own people, with the support of invisible warships near the space station. After the recovery team completes the task, they will be teleported back, and after the annihilation team completes the task, they will immediately evacuate, and then detonate the main propulsion device and main energy core of the space station, making this place disappear completely.

Their mission was going very smoothly. They had killed several members of the team along the way. At the same time, based on the intelligence support from the stealth warship, they also learned the locations of Wu and Hai. However, they could not determine the location of Xinle. That guy had illegally modified his equipment. He could block all locking processes except for level zero permissions. However, when his escape pod entered the space station, the warship's detection system just happened to capture his landing point, and also knew the approximate range.

The only person who made the annihilation team feel a little tricky was the team leader Xin. Although her equipment had been shut down, they had passed by Xin's escape pod before, and her armor was thrown there, but she should not be dead. Although they had confirmed that she was seriously injured through the wreckage of the escape pod and the bloodstains near the discarded armor, the annihilation team believed that she would not live long, but a long time had passed and the annihilation team had not confirmed the location of Xin's body. She might have survived with the help of some medical first aid equipment.

This was not a good thing for the annihilation team. Unstable results would often lead to problems. The annihilation team was able to confirm the location of Wu and Hai, and also knew the approximate range of Xinle's activities, so eliminating them was not a priority. After discussing with the battleship, the annihilation team decided to confirm Xin's location first, and then look for the remaining three people.

"'Reaper', I agree with your judgment. Any unstable factors are not allowed to exist. Find that woman and make sure she will never say anything again."

"clear."

After the annihilation team confirmed the mission target, they immediately began the search. It must be said that these guys were not half-baked. They quickly found the maintenance tool room where Xin first woke up, following the mutant wreckage in the corridors and passages, as well as the traces of "energy weapons" on the walls.

"Analyzing biological residues... Completed, plotting movement trajectory... Analyzing current location... Completed, launching Echo."

Soon, through the tracking sequence on the device, a holographic image appeared in front of the annihilation team. It was the scene of Xin searching for usable items in the room. According to the restoration of "Echo", the annihilation team was able to see Xin leave the room, and following the movement trajectory drawn by the device, the annihilation team also passed through the destroyed hatch and entered the botanical garden area.

"Uu ...

After entering the sightseeing corridor, the vanguard of the annihilation team heard a strange noise coming from afar. He made a gesture, and when the others behind him saw it, they immediately stopped moving and formed a defensive formation relying on the nearby terrain.

"Multiple life signs detected, threat assessment in progress... Threat level low."

"Target locked."

After the vanguard entered the position, the annihilation team immediately opened fire into the darkness ahead. Their shooting was very steady, basically short bursts, and the shooting process was also very short, only a few seconds.

"Target cleared, threat assessment in progress... Completed, no potential threats found."

A few muffled sounds indicated that the danger had been eliminated. The annihilation team resumed their mobile formation and began to continue tracking Xin's movement trajectory drawn by the equipment. After a few minutes, Xin's mark disappeared. This was a fork in the road. On the left was a staircase leading to the upper floor, and in front was a sightseeing corridor that continued to go deeper. However, no biological remains left by Xin were found in these two locations, indicating that she did not choose any path.

The team's vanguard looked around. He had a keen insight and noticed a piece of clothing hanging on the damaged railing without the help of any equipment. He gestured to the other members of the annihilation team to stay alert, and he began to analyze the biological information on the piece of clothing to confirm whether it was related to the target being hunted.

"Matching biological information found."

After confirming the biological information, the members of the annihilation team were able to determine that Xin must have climbed over the railing and entered the botanical garden below, so they jumped directly from the railing. The propulsion system on the armor allowed them to descend smoothly into the botanical garden while maintaining extreme silence.

"We have found various biological information residues and are currently constructing 'echoes'."

After entering the botanical garden, they saw a lot of mutant corpses in front of them after walking a few steps. Their biological remains interfered with the tracking of Xin, so the annihilation team stopped and began to build "Echo".

“Sizzle~Sizzle~”

"Unknown unit detected, threat assessment in progress...Assessment completed, threat level: medium."

Just as the Vanguard was constructing "Echo", the long-range fire support lock sequence in the team detected a distant threat. He immediately made a tactical gesture, and the heavy unit next to the Vanguard, without any thought, instinctively raised the heavy shield in his hand that was half a head taller than the armor, blocking the Vanguard's body. Another heavy unit also raised his shield and merged it with the shield of another heavy unit. The other team members immediately stood behind the two shields. At the same time, a beam of light rushed from a distance. At the moment it was about to collide with the shield, an additional energy shield suddenly appeared on the two shields that were like merged hatches, covering the entire annihilation team, and directly decomposed the attack.

"Buzz~~!!"

At the moment the attack dissipated, part of the sniper's gun muzzle appeared from behind the shield, and a decomposition beam directly hit the source of the attack, decomposing half of its body. Before it fell, it could be seen that the source of the attack was a mutant that could become invisible, had twisted mouthparts growing out of its abdomen that could emit energy beams, and could climb on vertical planes.

The annihilation team's counterattack was not over yet. One of the heavy-armored units threw a projectile towards the mutant's position. After reaching the position, the projectile was sucked onto the wall and then released a special pulse. Under the effect of this pulse, a large number of invisible mutants on the wall lost their invisibility. Just as they began to chirp and prepare to continue attacking, the annihilation team's attack fell on them first.

The precise, dense energy beams annihilated all of the mutants before they could react. A large number of mutant corpses fell from the wall, making a series of dull noises. The battle was so fast that an attack of this scale did not attract other mutants.

"completed."

As the construction of "Echo" was completed, the Vanguard nodded to the commander, but the commander did not order the defense formation to be disbanded. Instead, he gestured to the heavy armored unit to point to a position far above.

"Biological units have been locked, threat level: high."

One of the heavily armored units, following the commander's instructions, locked onto a certain location in the distance. The armor on his back began to change shape, and soon, a small missile launcher appeared on his shoulder.

“Swish, swish, swish~~!!”

The missile launcher quickly fired three missiles, which flew towards the target location with tail flames.

"boom!"

The flames of the explosion appeared briefly and soon disappeared again. Before the flames disappeared completely, a large swollen tumor that had been hiding in the shadows and growing on the wall could be seen appearing at that location. Four or five of the previously invisible mutants were crawling out of the honeycomb-like holes on the tumor.

The explosion destroyed the mutants that had not yet fully formed, as well as the "factory" that manufactured them, leaving nothing behind. However, the explosion was quite noisy, and it should have attracted the attention of some mutants. However, that location was not close to the annihilation team's position, and even if the mutants appeared there, they would not be able to discover the annihilation team's location.

Through this "echo", the annihilation team confirmed Xin's whereabouts. According to the restored scene, she seemed to be acting alone, with no armor or proper weapons, only some tools. However, her movements seemed a little strange, as if she was following someone, but the equipment did not scan other life signals. There were quite a few biological remains of the mutant, but the commander of the annihilation team did not think that Xin would follow a mutant.

While continuing to move forward, the commander connected with the information personnel on the battleship.

"This is Reaper, I need to reconfirm the target list."

"I've sent it. Is there any problem?"

"The target's behavior is abnormal. I suspect she is stalking other targets, but there is no solid evidence yet. I need to confirm the target list to see if my judgment is wrong."

After confirming the target list, which was the list of personnel on Xin's team's spaceship, the commander of the annihilation team did not find anything unusual. The number of people was correct, and he must have overthought it.

"It was my error in judgement."

"Caution is not a weakness. No need to apologize, Commander."

The communication ended and the annihilation team continued to move forward. They still remained quiet and disappeared silently into the depths of the botanical garden area.

But in fact, the commander's suspicion was correct. The crew list he saw was not accurate. Because he needed to ensure that there would be no complications, when Xinle submitted the crew list, the only people registered on the spacecraft to perform the mission were members of Xin's team. As for the other two people, Xinle did not register them at all. With Xu's help, no one actually knew that there were two outsiders on Xin's spacecraft.