Steel steam and flame

"Remember, we are just checking the situation! Before the Sixth and Eighth Troops move closer to you, you must not engage in direct combat with the enemy." The adjutant's majestic voice left no room for doubt. The information they currently know is far greater than that of these four investigation teams. Too much more. Only they know what the situation of the ground troops on the other side is at this moment. "Remember to keep your distance and make good use of the detection range of the temperature sensing ability. The enemy is very dangerous, and you are allowed to evacuate when necessary!"

The captain of the investigation team heard an unlucky flavor in his words, and the pace he was still running consciously slowed down for half a beat. He looked at the members running around in the woods and gave orders over the LAN communication. The four teams immediately separated and became four equal points on the semicircle, moving closer to the ground team behind them.

The captain has been using the communicator to contact the ground troops, but since the adjutant's contact came through, there has been no sound. The communication machines were obviously on. Someone pressed the answer button on one of them, but no sound came through. There was dead silence. After calling several times in a row, the distance was less than a kilometer. As the captain of the reconnaissance team, because of his expertise in reconnaissance and detection, his sense of survival suddenly took on a vigilant role. He sensed an unfounded danger coming from the side.

Following the instinct of any creature to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, the captain's body forced him to stop. There are no other thoughts in his mind, and the words of the adjutants seem to have been forgotten. The captain only recalls one sentence at this moment - the enemy is very dangerous, and you are allowed to evacuate when necessary.

"Retreat at full speed! Run to both sides, the sixth and eighth ground troops are approaching here." There was no feeling at the moment, but when the brain realized something, the invisible fear increased several times in an instant. When the other members saw the captain running dozens of meters away, they quickly accelerated to catch up with him. No one asked why, and it quickly became the most primitive form of conformity.

But the sudden increase in speed not only failed to give them a sense of security, but, like their own psychological cues, intensified the increase in invisible fear. After a breath or two, everyone felt that there seemed to be something behind them that couldn't be shaken off. This inexplicable atmosphere made them turn their heads and look behind them from time to time to determine if there was really something there.

After turning back several times in a row, the calm scene behind them somewhat reassured them, when a figure suddenly flew over from the front, knocking away heavy branches and leaves, and landed behind the other members.

"Captain...?" The clothes on his body allowed them to guess the identity of the flying figure. No one had time to shout out the words "be careful" or "disperse". There are twenty people in a team, and it is a reconnaissance team with light equipment. It is destined that most of the members do not have good reaction capabilities. Relying on temperature sensing ability, vision and hearing, as well as one's own scattered perception for detection, when encountering ghost-like enemies, one can only compare the detection and concealment capabilities of both parties.

There are twenty people in a team, and the only two words they can shout into the communicator before they die are "Run." Other than that, they cannot provide any effective information. Perhaps the "bang bang" sound of the impact can also be regarded as a piece of information, but it is still unclear how much intelligence the enemy can derive from it.

One team lost communications, causing fear to spread even more among the other three teams. They all began to squeeze their bodies as much as possible and burst out at faster speeds. But not only did the feeling of being chased behind him not lessen, but it was getting closer and closer.

It still took less than a few breaths, and someone in the team was keenly aware of a slight vibration coming from the ground. When he turned around and squinted his eyes to carefully search the woods behind him, a bright red seemed to flash past under the dappled sunlight. Instinctively focusing his gaze, he opened his eyes wide.

"Bang!" He saw the compressed and expanded air forming translucent lines that spread around. He also saw a stream of light shooting out from the center of the expanding air. In response, his body instinctively moved to the side by a distance of nearly two meters. Only then did his legs with swollen muscles stand firm. However, his entire body lost strength and fell directly to the ground under the force of inertia. It wasn't until he felt it was difficult to breathe and something warm couldn't stop pouring out of his mouth that he remembered to look at his chest. The place had completely collapsed, and the heart was also shattered by the force. I lost all sense of time. I don't know when a tactical knife and the handle were halfway in, completely piercing the entire chest.

"Didn't you avoid it?" He wondered, obviously he had seen the stream of light, and his body also reacted accordingly. Struggling to turn over, he opened his mouth. In his mind, he imagined that he was opening his mouth and calling out to his teammates, but except for the blood gushing from his mouth, he could no longer make any sound. The arms that held him up no longer had the strength, even though he had never held himself up in the first place. A faint halo began to appear in his vision, and dizziness was invading his brain. At this time, in the last field of vision that was divided into two halves by the ground, he saw other members who were also lying on the ground about ten meters away and had lost their vital signs, seemingly one next to another.

I can no longer see clearly, and I have no strength to think about what the number is. His last thoughts were spent in darkness. It was an extremely vivid feeling, but without any feeling - such as pain.

Someone came to me and took away the tactical knife...

The communication between the other two teams disappeared at a visible speed, and the sudden silence in the communicator made the reconnaissance team evacuating in the other direction feel terrified. No gunfire was heard, only muffled shouts and a sound like an explosion. The duration is usually no more than thirty seconds, and the actual time span is much faster than this.

Maybe they would feel a little safer and evacuate in the opposite direction, so the distance would be much farther. At this moment, they have tried their best to increase their speed. Even if the enemy pursues them, they should be able to wait until the eighth ground force arrives, right?

No one has confidence in this, they all have doubts. There was no communication among the team, but looking back from time to time revealed what each of them was thinking. After a few breaths, when the feeling of horror hit them from behind again, their expressions changed.

"Everyone, run away!" I don't know who yelled. Then, due to an unusual tacit understanding, the two teams separated by less than a hundred meters formed a huge arc, and the people were completely dispersed among the mountains.

At the same time, on both sides of the 7th ground force, which had only two reconnaissance teams left, the 6th and 8th teams, both numbering roughly 400 people, were approaching at full speed. Thousands of meters away behind him, several airships also accelerated to catch up and came up to support him.

On the other side, the three adjutants on the airship also gave orders to speed up. A formation of seventeen airships gradually accelerated, closing the distance with Isa and the others.

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"Miss Mavis." On the small airship, Mousse said with a more or less helpless voice, "I may have to be about three hours late. The little mouse here seems to be quite big and quite solid. I need Wait until the adjutants confirm the specific situation before setting off to avoid unpredictable consequences on the defense line."