Steel steam and flame

El smiled faintly, put down the information in his hand, and turned to think about other things. Theodore also fell silent after that. Only Stian returned to the front of the control room and began to issue a series of orders so as not to miss this good opportunity.

Time passed quickly, and when Stian turned around and wanted to go over to explain the current situation, she found that El and Theodore were already standing behind her.

"The teams have been assembled. There are thirty teams in total, and about 150 people from the nearest area have all arrived together." Stian walked to the console and pressed the button. The black and white and gray map suddenly appeared. A dense patch of red dots appeared, forming an irregular circle that surrounded an area marked in red.

"The prey did not act immediately after escaping from the cave network. Instead, it stayed in this area. It should be resting and recovering from the side effects on itself." Stian said, looking at El and Theodore behind him. , "These teams will be completely reunited in about ten minutes, and it is expected that they will encounter the prey not long before then."

"At this time, you can slow down appropriately and make some noise to let the prey know that it is surrounded. It may be better to give him a little pressure. During this period, the prey will not completely stop in place, knowing that we will rush over, probably Already prepared.”

"It is safest to advance slowly layer by layer." Theodore suggested, looking at the red dots on the magnetic board gradually converging towards the center, not knowing what he was thinking. From his voice, it was obvious that his attention was not on it.

"El, if you were placed in the current situation of the prey, what method would you choose to break out." The sudden question made Theodore still a little uneasy.

"In this situation, being surrounded will not bring any good results. After all, the impact of blue silver bullets cannot be ignored. I will probably use the scaly state to choose a target after figuring out the distribution of firepower points in the encirclement. Make a very fast breakout at the weakest point, rely on your own speed to escape the encirclement and then think about what happens next. But even if the breakout is successful, the number of enemies has not been reduced, and the rest is more than physical consumption. No matter how abundant physical energy is, It just prolongs the time of your own death. Your personal power has not grown in stages, and you still do not have any advantage in front of the group."

"We still have airships. In a war of attrition, we and the prey are not in the same category." Stian said, as if he had foreseen the outcome of the prey.

"It's not easy to make a judgment now. Theodore and I are also very inclined to your idea, but this mission is somewhat special, so we still reserved the last one percent for the prey. This is why Theodore and I The reason why Duo Hui came here in person is to prevent the one percent from happening." El's words seemed to be a rebuttal, "The information about the prey is still incomplete so far, and the unknown can always lead to many accidents.

"I neglected my duty." Stian said with self-blame.

"I can't blame you. If people like Prey could easily collect most of the information, they might not be in this situation now. They would die before meeting us."

During the conversation, a circle of red dots on the magnetic board had reached the edge of the marked red area, and they were less than two minutes away from complete convergence. Iljanstian opened the real-time communication of several stronger teams. Amidst the somewhat distorted sounds of wind, rain and thunder, there were brief exchanges between the team members.

Checking the surroundings bit by bit, although the progress is slow, the carpet-like search can completely prevent prey from escaping from under their eyes. It is unclear whether the prey has developed a surgical program to control their own body temperature. Temperature sensing is very useful in such a climate, but whenever they encounter a suspicious place, they will add more than a dozen shots.

Intermittent gunfire rang out around the encirclement, and before it spread far, it was completely knocked to the ground by the gray rain curtain. The surrounding clouds were billowing, climbing up the hillside under the power of the wind. The accumulated water vapor has not been consumed much, and the heavy rain will continue for a long time before stopping.

This place is close to the southern forest. Although neither of them are truly extreme areas, the climate already has some subtle characteristics.

The communication transmitted into the control room became more intermittent under the influence of the thunderstorm. At this time, the people surrounding the team dispersed as much as possible, and the clouds and rain curtains affected their vision. In this environment, the ballistic line will be very obvious. He does not want to give the enemy any chance to escape. Even the final struggle and counterattack must be killed by the bullets gathered together as much as possible.

"The surrounding teams are about to converge. The distance is about two hundred meters apart." At this time, a report came, which was a team composed of the white knights of the temple.

"One hundred and eighty meters,,,,, one hundred and fifty meters,,,, no prey has been found yet. It is initially estimated that the prey may have the ability to control body temperature."

"one hundred twenty,,,,"

"An extremely weak heat source was detected!"

It seemed that a critical point had been reached. Within a few seconds, a dozen identical reports came to El and the others one after another. The team members with the ability to sense temperature discovered a weak heat source at a similar time.

Dozens of position information observed from different directions and angles were sent to the control room. Stian organized the intelligence personnel to immediately summarize the information and compare it on the map detected in advance.

"It's the same position, it's prey. It should be because of his strong control, suppressing his breathing and heartbeat, and then using the temperature of the rain to lower his body temperature to reach the current temperature." Stian Said, "It has achieved certain results, but it stops there."

"Everyone should get closer, and estimate the impact of wind direction and thunderstorms on ballistics in advance. Please find your own cover." Stian said, looking at the increasingly deformed circle, and waited until the intelligence personnel confirmed Everyone was getting ready, and she looked at El and Theodore.

"We will attack together in ten seconds."

Time was stretched, the second hand on the mechanical watch passed by one by one as if nothing had happened, and the air became solid and no longer fluid. The airship suddenly vibrated several times at this moment, and the control room was completely illuminated by the white light of lightning. A huge thunder exploded not far away from the mountain. The sound shattered the air in the entire space, and the generated thunder and lightning carried countless weak Electricity spreads among the clouds.

The radio signal was interfered with, and a red dot scattered across the mountain on the magnetic plate flashed several times quickly, and then disappeared completely. After a few seconds, the red dots began to slowly return to their original appearance. But the dense dots that represented the encirclement seemed to have been more seriously affected. After disappearing, they did not reappear.

The three of them looked solemn, and Stian turned his head and shouted: "Restore communication immediately!"

Ten seconds passed, and the place where the three of them were looking was still black and white.

"Enable extreme communication mode. There is no need to consider that the communicator will be damaged. Contact them immediately!" The inexplicable emotions rising in his heart made Stian become a little uneasy. After a "sizzling" sound, in the eyes of the three people, the red dot finally appeared on the map of the magnetic board again, and the sound there was also transmitted to the control room.

There were no gunshots or explosions. Apart from the roar of the wind and the violent torrential rain, it could be called absolute silence.

"Please report the current situation..." Before Stian could speak, the sound of wind and rain was replaced by electronic noise. Extreme Communication Mode has damaged every communication device out there.

Stian, who was holding the microphone, was stunned on the spot, not knowing what to say for a moment. The situation changed so quickly that her mood failed to change in time. She tried hard to think of other possibilities, but no matter how she looked for reasons, the only unchanging result in this situation was that the more than 150 people who surrounded her died in just ten seconds. .

"How is it possible..." Stian murmured.

"El, you stay here and command the rest of the people." Theodore's words awakened Stian, "Sitian, you cooperate with El." After saying that, Theodore had taken off his shirt and revealed a A body like cast steel.

He opened the large box he carried with him. Inside were special combat uniforms, steel-cased bombs, flash bombs, and a custom-made firearm that looked similar to a firecracker. On top of the box were dozens of loaded magazines. The caliber of the pistol is also unusually large, and its power is comparable to that of a honeycomb revolver. At the bottom is a pneumatic long sword that is different from the imperial standard. The whole body is light gray, and the blade is dull, with an unusual burnt black color.

"I'll go down and take a look, but in order to prevent the prey from escaping through the gap in the siege, we need to send an airship down to guard the foot of the mountain corresponding to the gap." After speaking, Theodore walked to the back cabin.