Alien Relic Hunter

Twenty-five kilometers east of the ancient Bronze City ruins.

It is now 14:37 in the afternoon, nearly two and a half hours have passed since the battle started.

There are about 4,000 remnants of the 10th Armored Division that survived the fusion tentacle attack. The wounded among them have been taken to the rear of the battlefield by transport ships of the three fleets for treatment, and the remaining more than 1,000 combat-effective personnel have been taken to the rear of the battlefield for treatment. It was incorporated into the left-wing corps that was detouring to the east.

At this distance, the soldiers of the 10th Armored Division could even see with the naked eye the outline of the buildings outside the ruins of the Bronze City.

As a "military fortress", the ruins of the Ancient Bronze City are naturally surrounded by a high granite wall similar to a city wall. However, compared to the inner city buildings made of copper alloy, the material durability of this high granite wall is lower. It's much worse. Today, only the ruins of this ring of high walls are less than one-tenth of the original length.

From a distance, only a dozen severely weathered rock pillars still stand scattered on the plain outside the ruins, just like the common stone forests in karst landforms.

The left-wing army advanced to this position without encountering any blockage or resistance from the heretical sects.

Compared with the brutality of the frontal battlefield, the calmness here can't help but make the soldiers suspicious - a small number of soldiers even began to doubt everything they just saw, including the terrifying monster buried deep underground. It's just my own fantasy...

Of course, the soldiers of the 10th Armored Division would certainly not have such thoughts - many of them had their combat uniforms soaked in the blood of their comrades, and the blood dried and hardened and stuck to the tough fabric, exuding an odor. The strong fishy smell reminded these soldiers who had just passed through the Gate of Hell... But even so, they still had a strong sense of unreality to the scene in front of them.

The ruins of the ancient copper city twenty-five kilometers away... seems to be an empty city?

The distance of twenty-five kilometers cannot be said to be close at hand, but for modern weapons, even squad-level equipment has several types that can attack targets at this distance, not to mention the various tanks and tanks of the armored forces. Mechas and self-propelled artillery.

With the technological power of Alpha Civilization, it should not be difficult for the fortress defense facilities to attack enemies 25 kilometers away.

However, the ruins of the Ancient Bronze City did not take any offensive measures against the Ark field army that was "attacking the city".

"Contact the air force fleet above your head. They must be able to see better than us in the sky." An officer waved to the communications team, "Ask them if they saw anything inside the ruins."

Within half a minute, the communications soldier immediately replied: "They said that no traces of the heretical sect were found inside the ruins... The whole city seems to be really an empty city."

"This is impossible." The officer shook his head in confusion, "If this is an empty city, why would they place such a monster right in front of the ruins... Isn't that giant erosion seed used to guard the ruins?"

The signal soldier didn't reply, and the other soldiers didn't make a sound either. No one could answer the officer's question... In fact, everyone had the same doubt in their hearts.

If it was so easy to enter the ruins, wouldn't the sacrifices of those soldiers who had just died on the frontal battlefield be meaningless?

But regardless of whether these soldiers believed that the ruins of the Ancient Bronze City in front of them were really an empty city, the order from the headquarters still had to be carried out - "If there is no resistance during the advance, directly attack the interior of the ruins of the Ancient Bronze City."

The 10th Armored Division was only five kilometers away from the edge of the ruins of the Ancient Bronze City. Some of the enhanced soldiers with better eyesight could even clearly see the decorative relief patterns on the buildings.

"Stop advancing!" The officer raised his arm, "The members of the second mobile group will serve as the reconnaissance unit, and the rest will stay on standby!"

As soon as the order was issued, a reconnaissance team consisting of six "Biaolang" high-mobility tactical mechas and one "Beidou" high-power communication mecha drove towards the ruins at full speed - four "Biaolang" riding on air cushions "Carrying a large-caliber fully-automatic shotgun, they rushed to the front to clear the way. The other two "Biaolang" holding shields were responsible for towing the slower "Beidou", following closely behind their teammates.

These seven machines directly entered the main road in a certain sector of the ancient copper city ruins, and rushed forward two kilometers deep along the main road that was nearly ten meters wide. They did not stop until a crossroads appeared in front of them.

"The reconnaissance team reported that at a depth of two and a half kilometers, no enemy traces were found, no resistance was encountered, the ruins themselves showed no signs of activation, and there were no abnormalities."

This news was quickly transmitted to the troops on standby in the rear through the high-power communication equipment carried by the "Beidou" mecha. Not long after, the 10th Armored Division began to continue to advance in the direction of the ruins of the Ancient Bronze City. The ship also began to slowly sail into the airspace directly above the ruins of the Ancient Bronze City.

"Don't let your guard down, search every room of every building on both sides of the street carefully, and don't let go of any clues."

A mammoth tank stood at the front of the team, followed by three parallel heavy-duty defense mechas. Three giant door-panel-like shields gathered together to form a slowly advancing shield wall. Further back, they were covered with armor. It has weapons such as rocket launchers, howitzers, and technical laser cannons, and is a fire support mecha that looks like a hedgehog.

Behind these armored vehicles are thousands of infantry wearing power armor and tactical exoskeletons. They hold a variety of weapons in their hands and follow closely behind those iron buttocks.

"Infantry-tank coordination"... a tactic that was extremely mature a thousand years ago and is still extremely practical today, especially in this kind of street fighting, where heavily armored tanks and mechas can serve as infantry very well. In bunkers in open areas, infantry can help armored vehicles clear out some enemies located in the blind spots of attack, or clear some obstacles that the vehicles cannot clear.

"Don't miss every building. It doesn't matter if you advance a little slower. We have already entered the ruins and the primary goal has been achieved——"

Many entrances to the buildings in the ruins of the Ancient Bronze City are locked, and ruin hunters cannot enter to explore the interior - but the same cannot be said for the army. A high-power laser cutting machine mounted on an armored vehicle can cut in just a few minutes. Open a half-meter-thick alloy door, and if the defense facilities are not activated, pure "physical anti-theft methods" will not be able to stop an organized army from advancing.

"Is the intelligence wrong? The defense facilities of this ruins don't look like they have been activated at all..." The officer in the vanguard muttered in his heart. Although he was not a ruin hunter, as an officer of the field corps, he had also Having performed combat missions in Duoche ruins, he is very clear about the power of the defensive facilities built into the ruins of the Alpha civilization... To put it bluntly, he had already prepared the troops under his command from the beginning. They were not mentally prepared for the entire army to be wiped out at the entrance of the ruins, but now, they came in so arrogantly.

"Is it possible that the people above are so anxious to assemble the troops because they expect that the heretical sect will not have time to activate the defense facilities of the ruins? As for the super giant erosion seed on the front battlefield, it is just to delay our pace and buy time for the defense facilities to be activated. A chess piece?" The officer looked up at the friendly fleet in the sky with some irritation. He felt that this should be the most correct explanation, but he always felt that something was wrong.

If we want to delay time, why aren't there any blocking forces set up in other directions of the Ancient Copper City ruins?

Not to mention anything else, if you put in a few mutants and use some of the weapons dug out from the ruins of the Alpha civilization, you can delay it for a few minutes, right?

But now they were let in so easily, which made the officer feel that this ruins... was like a trap.

At this moment, a sudden gunshot interrupted his thoughts. The officer hurriedly looked around and saw a soldier at the edge of the queue covering his neck and falling down. His body was twitching continuously, and blood was red. Foam kept pouring out from between his fingers.

"Enemy sniper! Six-story building at ten o'clock, second window from the left!"

"Pierre was shot! The bullet penetrated through the gap in the exoskeleton and seemed to have pierced his trachea! Medic! Medic, come here quickly! Surgery must be performed immediately to save him!"

"Raise the shield! The mecha raises the shield! We need a bulletproof bunker with an inclination angle of at least 45 degrees!"

The shouts started one after another immediately, but there was no confusion in the formation of the soldiers - these people were veterans who had experienced hundreds of battles, and a mere sniper could not disrupt their formation at all.

A heavy defense mecha immediately took a step back and used a giant shield to protect the infantry behind it. Two medical soldiers quickly passed through the crowd and ran to Pierre who was shot.

A dozen soldiers wearing power armor formed a circle around Pierre, using their bodies to provide the medical soldiers with a safe bunker for surgery.

As for the window where the sniper showed his head, the moment after he fired the shot, it was filled with more than a dozen rocket rounds.

A dense explosion came from the inside of the building, followed by billowing smoke pouring out of the windows.

Even if the sniper retreated into the bunker immediately after shooting, he would never have had time to escape the scope of the explosion.

Sayings like "A sniper's enemy can only be another sniper" only apply to small-scale mercenary groups fighting each other. In war, there is always only one best way to deal with snipers. ——

That's fire coverage.

Simple, crude, and effective.

About ten seconds after the explosion, three corrosive seeds that had not yet completely "transformed" and still had charred human body parts hanging on their tentacles jumped out of the windows and hit the street heavily. Then it squirmed and rushed towards the 10th Armored Division.

Without any orders from the officers, several soldiers specially responsible for dealing with the Seeds of Corrosion had already jumped over the mechas and tanks and rushed forward.

The weapon in their hands is a special steel fork that is more than five meters long. The end of the steel fork is fixed on the arm armor of the power armor, and the front end is a pair of movable mechanical claws, which are directly powered by the engine of the power armor.

These soldiers worked in groups of five and used steel forks to clamp down on the overcoming Seeds of Corrosion. Although the power of Seeds of Corrosion was terrifying, the power that soldiers equipped with high-power power armor could unleash should not be underestimated. In a five-on-one struggle, these seeds of erosion were immediately frozen in place, unable to move forward any further.

At this time, it was the turn of several others to appear with precision shooter rifles. They all wore heavy special helmets on their heads. The eyepieces of this helmet have functions similar to medical fluoroscopy equipment, but military-grade ones are better than medical-grade ones. The power of the weapon is magnified many times. With the help of this thing, they can quickly locate the "core" in the body of the Corrosion Seed. One shot can pierce the explosive bomb and the other the active bullet. The two shots can directly take away a Corrosion Seed, simply and neatly.

This is the fastest and most ammunition-saving way for the field army to eliminate a small amount of Corrosive Seeds - of course, if it is attacked by a large number of Corrosive Seeds, it can only choose a saturation attack to "cut the mess quickly"... Although the saturation attack It kills faster, but the consumption of active ammunition is also extremely terrifying.

The special team here has dealt with the three erosion seeds, and the medical soldiers on the other side have also performed emergency surgery on Pierre.

The medical soldiers directly slit Pierre's throat, used hemostats to clamp the blood vessels, and then connected him to a simple extracorporeal circulation device. This emergency treatment method may seem crude, but at least it can allow the skin to heal. El was out of danger in time and maintained his vital signs for more than six hours.

Such injuries can only be treated by a field hospital in the rear or the medical room of a large airship. But it is still in the combat stage, and they cannot let an airship come down to pick up just one soldier, so they can only It was time for Pierre to lie down in the compartment of the armored vehicle for a while.

"Keep moving forward," the officer said. "Pay attention to the commanding heights of various buildings. For suspicious locations, you can directly apply for fire reconnaissance."

I don't know why, but after being sniped, his inner uneasiness and doubts seemed to dissipate a lot... In any case, they still encountered a certain degree of resistance, and the ruins of the Ancient Bronze City were by no means an empty city.

[P.S. Thanks to Qi Jiujiu for the 5,000 starting coins. 】

[P.P.S. I haven’t slept well these past few days... The day after the bone puncture was done, the anesthesia wore off and there was a dull pain at the puncture point, so I couldn’t sleep. In the next two days, I was waiting for the results in fear and couldn’t sleep... but I was thinking about the report yesterday. I finally felt at ease, but I had a toothache in the middle of the night. The pain lasted until four in the morning, when I went to find the remaining painkillers and took them. I fell asleep at five or six in the morning... I am typing words now, and I feel like I will be sick at any time. I can fall asleep with my head down on the keyboard...]