Alien Relic Hunter

"You two, go check the building where the sniper was hiding just now." The officer pointed at the two soldiers and said.

"yes!"

The two immediately walked forward, ran for a short distance, then activated the thruster backpack installed on the back of the exoskeleton, jumped into the air, and flew towards the window of the building.

Seeing the two people flying straight up, the officer was startled. He suddenly remembered something... But just when he wanted to let the two people return to the ground immediately, the two people had already gotten into the still dangerous place. Inside the window with thick smoke.

The officer finally realized what he had always felt was wrong: before the battle started, the officers of the participating troops all participated in a brief online combat meeting. The content of the meeting was to roughly share the known information about the ruins of the Ancient Bronze City. After a moment...the source of this information was the hunters who had explored this ruins back then.

There is one content that has been repeatedly emphasized: any vehicle with a height of more than five meters is strictly prohibited from entering the city. At the same time, no one is allowed to climb more than five meters above the ground outdoors, otherwise the protective light of the ruins will be triggered. screen.

The situation on the frontal battlefield was so shocking that the officer himself had forgotten about it. But now, not only the tanks and mechas with a height of more than five meters were safe, but even the two scouts who flew directly into the air Also unscathed.

Above their heads, the air force fleet was still advancing slowly and steadily.

As for the light curtains described by the ruin hunters in their reports, they had never appeared at all since they entered the ruins.

Not only have the defense facilities of this ruins not been activated, but even some of the traps that originally existed seemed to have been closed.

The four big words "please enter the urn" suddenly appeared in the heart of this officer.

He immediately called the communications troops and sent these findings and his guesses to the battleship above, and then the high-power communication equipment on the battleship transmitted them back to the general headquarters behind.

In less than five minutes, he received a reply - "If nothing abnormal, continue to push forward."

My guess... The superiors should have taken it into consideration, right? The officer thought...maybe the superiors have already discovered these abnormalities?

But no matter what, he must obey the orders of his superiors. No matter how much he felt that something was wrong with this ruins, he could only bite the bullet and continue moving forward with his men.

The two scouts who flew into the window came back soon, and they brought back a sniper rifle that had been blown to pieces and two completely disintegrated assault rifles - both sniper rifles and assault rifles had been retired long ago. An older model, and with many refurbishments and modifications, it is a standard Exile style weapon.

The so-called sniper rifle is actually nothing more than a crooked mechanical sight that doesn't even have a standard scale welded onto the body of an old bolt-action rifle.

At this distance, being able to hit the gap in the powered exoskeleton with one shot from this weapon was either due to the sniper's good luck or to Pierre's bad luck.

"How is Pierre's condition?" the officer asked the medic casually.

"It's no serious problem for the time being... but if the number of wounded continues to increase, our spare plasma may not be enough..." the medic replied.

His worries are not unreasonable. Previously, the attack of the fusion tentacles caused a large number of wounded to the field corps. Now, even the field hospitals in the rear have a huge plasma gap, let alone front-line troops like them.

"Bang!"

There was another gunshot, but this time the shooter was a soldier of the 10th Armored Division.

A black, crow-like bird creature with six pairs of eyes fell to the ground - this kind of "Twelve-Eyed Crow" is familiar to the soldiers of the field corps. It is not something that evolved naturally on Alpha Planet. Aboriginal creatures, but the product of biochemical transformation of Alpha civilization.

This "twelve-eyed crow" is also used with a parasitic organ the size of a fingernail. The "doctors" of the heretical sect will use a crude operation to implant this parasitic organ under the human skull. As long as the operation is performed, If the person does not die from infection or hemorrhage, within a few days, this parasitic organ will penetrate into the human cerebral cortex and connect with the central nervous system.

In this way, the person who receives the transplant can not only gain control of the "Twelve-Eyed Crow", but also share the vision with it - for the heretical sect, these black birds are perfect scouts, not only have no less than Due to the performance of electronic drones, the control radius is more than a hundred times that of electronic drones.

For example, if this "Twelve-Eyed Crow" appears inside the ruins of the Ancient Bronze City, then its operator can hide in the White Ridge Mountains or even further, and the connection between the two will not appear. No sign of weakening.

Just to study the method of information exchange between the "Twelve-Eyed Crow" and parasitic organ transplantation, the institute established a special experimental group of nearly thirty experts... However, it was not until this experiment that All members of the team were killed in the "memetic infection incident", and the research did not make any substantial progress.

Since the "Twelve-Eyed Crow" has appeared here, it means that the heretical sect has been monitoring its own movements... But why haven't they taken any measures?

Not to mention anything else, as long as those moving light walls are triggered, the troops attacking the ruins of the Ancient Bronze City will suffer considerable damage.

The reason why the 10th Armored Division arranges several heavy defense mechas every few dozen meters is to guard against these light curtain mechanisms. Once the light curtain appears, the heavy defense mechas can rely on their own energy shields and entities. The giant shield buys time for the infantry to escape, minimizing casualties as much as possible. In addition, a large number of laser cutting machines are also prepared to cut the doors of surrounding buildings and allow soldiers to hide inside the buildings in time.

But now, these preparations seem a bit unnecessary...

This is like reviewing like crazy the night before the exam and blasting through dozens of high-level math simulation test papers. However, when you enter the examination room and take a look at the paper, you will find that the tests are just addition, subtraction, multiplication and division in elementary school mathematics...

However, if you encounter this kind of thing in the examination room, in addition to making people feel confused, you will feel more secretive and relieved - but now that the problem is on the battlefield, the nature is completely different.

"Keep the original pace and continue to advance towards the center of the ruins." The officer ordered, "If you find any abnormalities, report to me immediately!"

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Six kilometers away from the ancient copper city ruins, inside the collapsed tunnel.

"Ke Lan, we just received a message from the mining base, saying that the main force has invaded the interior of the ruins from the left and right wings of the Ancient Copper City!" Layton suddenly opened the cockpit and shouted excitedly.

"So fast?" Ke Lan naturally had a trace of doubt in his heart, "Weren't they blocked by the heretical sect?"

“It is said that before entering the ruins of the Ancient Bronze City, we did not encounter enemies or hit any traps along the way...and after entering the ruins of the Ancient Bronze City, although we encountered sporadic resistance and attacks, the number of enemies was There are very few, and the intensity of the battle is also very low. No one from the main force even died after entering the ruins... The resistance in such a large ancient copper city is not even as good as that of a general exile settlement."

"What about the fleet? Did the fleet also enter the sky above the ruins?" Ke Lan asked again.

"Yes, the fleet has been following up with the ground forces... but they said that the defense facilities of the ruins have not been triggered at all." Layton grabbed the earphones with one hand and supported the edge of the cockpit with the other, "Oh, by the way, it's also There is one thing that an officer in the vanguard specifically mentioned - even if the height is more than five meters above the ground outdoors, the top-down landing light curtain will not be triggered. In addition, the total number of troops currently entering the ruins There are fourteen groups with about 20,000 people, and there is not a single sighting report of the bare wall."

"I think..." Layton scratched his head, "Could it be that in the past few years, the reserve energy of the ruins defense device has been exhausted... so it can't be activated?"

"Ke Lan, what do you think?" Thirty-three turned his head and stared at Ke Lan and asked.

"I feel... like a trap." Ke Lan pondered for half a second and gave the answer.

"I think so too." Thirty-three nodded immediately, "The energy supply method adopted by the core modules of the relics of the Alpha civilization is basically permanent. Even if the energy stored in the crystal is exhausted, it can still use solar energy. , geothermal, rock pressure and other methods to replenish it, there is no saying that it is exhausted. I think someone deliberately turned off the defense facilities of the ruins."

"Empty city plan?" Ivan asked.

"Probably."

"In other words, the heretical sect deliberately left no defenses. After all the Ark troops entered the ruins, they activated all the defense facilities at once and trapped hundreds of thousands of people inside the ruins..." Leiton continued. , "But will Ark be fooled?"

"Most likely not." Thirty-three said, "If I were the commander, after discovering this incident, I would choose to let the vanguard go straight to the core control area in the center of the ruins. As for most of the follow-up, I would stay Outside the ruins, stay still - anyway, the advance of the vanguard is very smooth. Just 20,000 people are enough to occupy the entire ruins, so why invest more troops."

"Then what should we do now? Do we still need to continue digging tunnels?" Layton asked, "According to Thirty-Three, even without our 'surprise troops', the vanguard can occupy the core control area, then we should There’s no need to take this risk, right?”

"Dig first, keep moving forward, and then stop when you reach the edge of the ruins." Ke Lan thought for a while and said, "Then, let's see how the people from the heretical sect deal with this situation."

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As Thirty-Three said, after discovering that the resistance inside the ancient copper city ruins was extremely weak, the commander-in-chief of this battle stopped allowing subsequent troops to enter the ruins - until this time, the leading troops entering the ruins happened to be It's twenty-five thousand people.

Although the ruins of the Ancient Copper City are considered large among the many ruins on Alpha Planet, compared to the size of the cities on Earth in the old era, they are only a relatively large town at best, with 25,000 soldiers, plus The three fleets in the air are enough to search every corner of the entire ruins within twenty-four hours.

As of 18:00 in the evening, more than three hours had passed since the first army entered the ruins of the Ancient Bronze City. The Ark Army had been attacked by a total of thirty-four heretical sects - each attack was three to five. Although the members of these heretical sects are all containers of the Seed of Corrosion, the weapons they use in their human form are very crude. Among them, the one with the strongest firepower to block the team is just a There were a few more RPG rocket launchers of the old era style, but they did not cause any damage to the vanguard.

Most of the vanguard troops are heavily armored troops. Even if these rockets hit directly, they will not be able to hurt the soldiers protected by the thick armor, not to mention that the accuracy of these rocket launchers is horribly low, leaving only time for the heretical sect’s followers to aim. And extremely short - as soon as these people lean out from their hiding places, they will be targeted by various machine guns and artillery. If the trigger is not pulled within a second, the ensuing rain of bullets and explosives will instantly kill these people. Congregants were torn to pieces.

As for the erosion seeds that enter a period of rapid transformation in their bodies after their death, they will be dealt with by a dedicated killing team and will also not pose a threat.

Some soldiers have even removed magazines containing active ammunition and replaced them with conventional ammunition.

At this moment, a piece of news that felt a little wrong came from outside the ruins...

The super giant erosion seed on the front battlefield crawled out of the ground. Its huge body split directly into two halves. It slowly moved towards the two wings of the Bronze City with its wriggling tentacles.

Although it is said to be "slow", because the size of this super-giant erosion species is so huge, every "step" it takes is a span of more than ten kilometers. Not long after, it has appeared outside the city. Within the sight of the troops standing by.

It was completely heading for the main force, and even the commander-in-chief's flagship, the "Pegasus-class" assault ship "Blue Fortress" took the initiative to attack as a bait, and it completely ignored it. Withstanding the indiscriminate bombardment of the "Blue Fortress", they crawled toward the troops staying outside the city.

With the terrifying destructive power of the super-giant erosion seed, it would not take much time to massacre these tens of thousands of people... Not long after, the troops on standby outside the city received the latest order - "Enter all of them into the ruins of the Ancient Bronze City." , luring the super-giant erosion seeds to attack the ruins."

But what no one expected was that as soon as the two troops entered the ruins of the Ancient Bronze City, the super giant erosion seed suddenly turned around and used its tentacles to pull down the "Blue Fortress" that was chasing behind it!