Alien Relic Hunter

"Ask the Ronin team to dispatch." Terenz ordered.

"Is it okay to send out the Ronin team so soon? In the original attack plan, they were the decisive force that would not be released into the battlefield until the street fighting stage." asked the veteran lieutenant general.

"Plans can never keep up with changes. If we don't solve the obstacles in front of us, we will never be able to penetrate the ruins of the Ancient Bronze City," Terenz said.

"Your Majesty Commander... Excuse me, are you sending the entire Ronin team?" Not to mention the veteran lieutenant general, even the staff officer responsible for delivering the order hesitated after hearing this order.

In this battle, Terenz didn't have many trump cards in his hand, and this Ronin team was one of those few trump cards.

As a result, less than twenty minutes before the battle officially started, this trump card had to be played.

"Yes, all four mobile teams are going out, and the hunting target is the giant erosion seeds underground in areas A20 to B17." Terenz said.

"But...but it's still only a feint attack stage..." the staff officer said again.

"If we can't put pressure on the enemies in the ruins of the Ancient Bronze City, our current actions can't even be considered a feint attack." Trenz paused and added, "After you pass this order, change someone else. Come on, I don't need a staff officer who will question my orders. If this delays the opportunity of fighting, even if you are shot, it will not help."

"Obey, obey..."

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Not long after, twenty-four humanoid mechas with extremely strange shapes jumped out from the belly of a transport ship and landed on the "hunting target" directly below.

These twenty-four are all four-meter humanoid mechas. Rather than saying that they are mechas, it is more appropriate to say that they are larger power armors. These armors adopt a streamlined design, with slender limbs and torsos. Different from the thick armor and hedgehog-like armaments of conventional mechas, the bodies of these twenty-four mechas are extremely thin, especially at the waist and abdomen. The position is almost as thick as a normal person's waist - if someone like Maginot, who has a general's belly, were to be a pilot, he might not even be able to squeeze into the cockpit.

But compared with this armor that is so thin that it is almost negligible, there are two things on these strange mechas that are particularly "more" - the first "more" is that there are many thruster nozzles. In addition to the conventional backpack thrusters and soles of the feet, In addition to thrusters and leg thrusters, these mechas can be seen with large and small nozzles almost everywhere. Even under the "hat"-style helmets on their heads, there are a full circle of propellers tightly arranged. device spout.

The second "many" means many knives.

The mechas of the Ronin team are not equipped with any long-range weapons, and there are no live ammunition guns, laser weapons, or electromagnetic weapons. The extra weapon hanging points are filled with long and short swords, the shortest of which are as long as Japanese knives have similar thicknesses, and the longest one is a long arc-shaped knife with two bare blades inserted on both sides of the backpack, which is more than three meters long.

If Ke Lan and the others could see this scene, they would be very surprised to find that the sword style of these mechas is exactly the same as the one in Asano Akira's hand... Not only are the styles similar, but the materials are also the same. They are exactly the same - the blades of these swords are also made of Nino alloy.

The biggest difference between the two is that the blade of Asano Akira's sword incorporates part of the stalagmite fragments brought back by Ke Lan, showing a matte gray-white texture, while the swords equipped with these mechas are all still black Nino Alloy original color.

Before the Ronin team's mecha landed, the tentacles directly below rolled back into the air. Tentacles several meters thick swept towards them with a whistling sound of breaking through the air - every machine was facing at least one of them. More than ten tentacles came from different directions... Regardless of size or quantity, the Ronin team was at an absolute disadvantage.

"Attack!" A sharp shout came from the leading machine, and only a "swish" sound was heard, and the two largest long knives were already in the hands of the machine.

At the same time, directly below the machine body, more than a dozen tentacles have completed the "encirclement trend", waiting for the prey to fall into it, and then crush it into pieces...

With the propulsion and maneuverability of the Ronin Squadron's aircraft, they can completely increase their height in the air and avoid the attack range of the tentacles. However, they did not do this - the other twenty-three team members also followed their captain's example and pulled out two long knives, pointing the blades outward, then crossed their arms, and the mechanical joints on the arm armor directly After locking, the nozzles on the machine body turned to one side and started spraying, pushing the entire machine body to spin at high speed in the air like a top!

Not only did they not dodge, but they accelerated towards those tentacles!

And when the incoming tentacles tried to attack them, the rapidly rotating blade directly smashed all the approaching tentacles into fine pieces of flesh, and the pus and blood spurted out were even driven by the blade to form... "Waterspouts" hanging in mid-air.

Only at this time can the idiom "bloody storm" be used without being used as an exaggeration.

The tentacles that were cut open by the blade did not heal quickly, but showed signs of necrosis and decay - these swords of the Ronin team are not ordinary cold weapons. In the handles of these swords, there is a storage tank with a built-in freezing device. , which contains compressed active cells of flesh-eating worms. When the valve is opened, these active cells flow forward along the pipes inside the blade and are released from dozens of tiny holes on the blade surface that are imperceptible to the naked eye.

For corrosive seeds, this sword is like quenched poison. The dose of active cells it releases instantly can achieve the effect of "sealing the throat at the sight of blood" against ordinary corrosive seeds.

However, it is not because they are equipped with this kind of weapon that the Ronin team is regarded as the "decisive combat power" in the street fighting stage... In addition to the special characteristics of the mecha, every member of the team is an eighth-level biochemical modification person. Only this level of transformation can allow their bodies to withstand such a terrifying load.

If a non-enhanced person were to pilot this machine, not to mention being able to fully utilize the machine's own performance, the acceleration generated by nearly a hundred nozzles all over the body would be enough to tear the pilot's body apart.

The twenty-four "Ronins" landed on the ground almost unscathed, but the tentacles that attacked them were severely scarred by the rotating long knives - a large amount of "toxins" invaded these tentacles, causing the erosion The self-healing speed of the species becomes extremely slow.

The corrosive seed hidden deep in the ground obviously has extremely high intelligence. When it discovered that the injured tentacles could not be healed and the deadly toxins might spread along the tentacles to the body, it actually cut off the injured tentacles on its own. The tentacles moved so decisively that even Terenz, who was closely watching the changes in the battle situation, was stunned.

"Very special... This guy is very special." Terenz murmured.

It is impossible for "ordinary" erosion seeds, including those SP-type mutants with terrifying destructive power, to take such actions, not because they do not have the courage of a strong man to cut off his wrist, but because they simply cannot resist the active cells of flesh-eating worms. The temptation——

For the active cells of flesh-eating worms, the metaphor of "toxic" is not very appropriate. Veterans of the field corps and agents of the Security Bureau have another theory in private: If these corrosive seeds are compared to hopeless "addicts", then the active cells of the flesh-eating worms are equivalent to what they are. The “drug” you crave…

Although this thing will kill them, as long as they smell the "smell", any corrosive seeds will rush up one after another like crazy... just like moths rushing to the fire.

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But now this "big guy" is able to resist this fatal temptation and take the initiative to cut off his "contaminated" tentacles. This can only show two possibilities - first, this big guy has as much power as Due to human wisdom and strong self-control ability; secondly, there are humans...or human consciousness, directly controlling its behavior.

Trenz prefers the second possibility.

The Ronin team has entered the battlefield. They all threw away the long knives that were "out of ammunition" in their hands, drew out new weapons, and frantically slashed at the approaching tentacles while moving around.

Whenever the "unhealable" wounds on a tentacle accumulate to a certain extent, the Seed of Erosion will actively cut off the tentacle... The first batch of tentacles that emerged from the ground, except for the largest behemoths, Outside, nearly half of it has been cleared away, and during this process, more tentacles emerged from the ground.

These tentacles are almost endless, and one after another is cut down and another one pops up. In contrast, the swords on the "ronin" are decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"We can't delay it any longer, the Ronin Squad will be eaten alive!" the old lieutenant general said in a deep voice, "It's time to take the next step."

"No rush, just wait." Terenz shook his head, "I have calculated the fuel and weapons reserves of the Ronin team, and they can hold on for at least five minutes - what they did is not in vain, every time they cut, They are all truly consuming the power of the Seed of Corrosion."

"But you can't use them as disposable consumables!" the old lieutenant general said with some urgency - a "ronin", from human body modification, martial arts and manipulation technology training, to equipment configuration, etc. All the expenses added up are enough to be worth the more than two thousand "Black Widow Spider" drones that were just destroyed in the first batch... What's more important is that there are very few candidates who meet the conditions, and only eight Super biochemically modified human beings are enough to screen out 99% of the candidates. The Ronin team was formed four years ago and was put into actual combat for the first time. There were only twenty-four people in total.

It's not that the military doesn't want to expand their establishment, it's that they simply can't.

"Soldiers themselves are a consumable in war..." Terenz stared at the screen and said without turning his head, "No matter which battlefield they are put on, they will eventually be 'consumed', as long as they are , they can maximize their own value, and the purpose of forming this team will be achieved."

"..."

Finally, when the two members of the Ronin team who charged the most fiercely lost power due to exhaustion of their body energy and were beaten into discus by the sweeping tentacles, Terenz issued a new order——

"Execute Plan No. 74!"

More than a dozen heavy vehicles slowly drove into the combat area under the protection of armored troops. Taking advantage of the remaining "ronin" to contain the tentacles emerging from the ground, these more than a dozen heavy vehicles advanced nearly 100 meters in one breath. After more than five hundred meters, they stopped until the ground ahead was severely cracked and there was no way out.

A large number of anchors were shot out from the bottom of these heavy-duty vehicles to fix themselves on the ground. Then, the device folded on the back of the vehicle stretched out - it was a large robotic arm at the front end of the robotic arm. It is equipped with a heavy-duty pile driver that uses energy crystals as its energy source.

The accompanying engineering mecha inserted the thick metal pile into the ground. Amidst the deafening hammering sound, the entire thick metal pillar was submerged, while the engineering mecha on the side quickly connected the second metal pile to the ground. to the back.

According to the observation department's report, the main body of the Seed of Erosion is located at least two hundred meters underground. Although this location can be reached with an earth-penetrating bomb, the rock formations that collapse with the explosion will be holes drilled by the earth-penetrating bomb. It is blocked and there is no way to shoot active ammunition through the hole.

And Terenz's decision was to completely tear down this entire rock formation!

It is difficult to achieve this level of bombing by the air force fleet alone. He can only let the ground troops venture into the war zone, directly use pile drivers to drill enough and deep shafts above the heads of the erosion seeds, and then use a large number of explosions to Materials are thrown into these wells.

There is no need to lift off the ground in the entire combat area, as long as one corner can be lifted to expose the body of the Seed of Corrosion.

Every time these pile drivers dig a shaft, the mechas on the side will put more than a dozen crystal energy bombs into it. Relying on the "resonance" between energy crystals, these bombs can release far more terrifying power than nuclear explosions. .

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