Chapter. 10 Lead and Silver (29)
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If I were to find the easiest criterion to distinguish between victory and defeat in a battle, I would definitely put order first.
When the battle becomes more intense and one side’s superiority begins to be revealed, confusion is bound to come to the defeated army.
At a glance, if one side is orderly and the other is not, it is easy to tell that the orderly side is winning.
In that sense, the current battlefield was a strange scene where victory and defeat coexisted.
Quaaaaaaaaa!
“Plasma charge 7 seconds!”
“The suppression panel is discharging!”
Squeeze!
“Kwaaaaah!”
“Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
Electromagnetic net and plasma injection machine. And aim fire at neutralized enemies.
On one side, trained soldiers were working together like machines, literally grinding out variants.
Crack, crunch, crunch! Wow!
“Don’t approach me! “It’s Abomination hyung!”
“Damn it, who uses a regular shield instead of a bubble?!” “I’ve told you several times not to use a high-defense shield since it’s using sucked corpses as a shell!”
“Ugh! Take it out, take it out! Sergeant Manny Manny! Argh!”
“Summer, watch your step… I told you, you idiot!!!!”
Taang!
On the other side, Type 3 mutants of the Artists’ Union, who had been brought in to break through the front line, were running amok, causing chaos.
It is similar to the Abomination seen underground in Area 45 a few months ago, but it is a variant that devours everything around it in real time and embeds it alive into its shell.
A variant that makes people complain of claustrophobia and throw off their gas masks just by approaching someone wearing a straitjacket and a gas mask.
And
Taaang—
“Uuuukuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu too.
“It’s a sniper! Bow your head! “Bow!”
“Not us! The catapult main wire was damaged! “They… are targeting the equipment!”
If there is even the slightest gap, they will always attack you with a sniper attack.
The professor admitted his misjudgment. I thought that the dome’s garrison-level defense would be sufficient to block the enemy’s offensive, but the enemy’s breakthrough power far exceeded my expectations.
‘The situation… is more serious than I thought. If things continue like this, I’ll just end up getting beaten up.’
Even as he immediately shot down the three mutants that had breached the garrison’s defensive wall, his eyes were endlessly scanning the battlefield.
‘Absence of commanding authority. Commanders were attacked?’
‘There are three types of people who dug in. Abomination straitjacket and the guy who appears to have attacked the commander’s barracks.’
‘Corretting the confusion among our troops is a condition for victory. If we can somehow make it run according to the manual like a front line without Type 3, its true value as an army will be revealed and its combat power will increase several times.’
‘We must capture the enemy elite. Whoever it is, as quickly as possible!’
It was clear what to prioritize.
‘Abomination that forces a bubble shield to peel off even with a light hit. A straitjacket that forcibly removes a gas mask and reduces its chemical protection. This means exposing them to that smoke. Attacking the commander’s barracks means paralyzing the command system. He used snipers to slow down our troops’ movements. All strategies are focused on causing maximum confusion to allies. They know it too. How powerful is Dom’s army, which has really begun to function!’
Those running rampant at the front line expose allies to smoke, soldiers overcome by mania break up formations, and while the confusion is heightened, snipers neutralize key units or equipment.
A strategy completely focused on the vicious cycle of confusion. Dealing with the enemy in this position would only play with the enemy’s will, so we had no choice but to attack the enemy’s weak points.
I can’t go. When the enemy’s ranged team collapses, you need a command unit to take care of the chaos among your allies and issue orders appropriate to the situation.
Vex is also not possible. Even now, if the guy who is running around like crazy and blocking the breached defense line is missing, one side will completely collapse. By some means, he was running through the hole-filled battlefield a step faster than me, and thanks to that, several defense lines that were almost destroyed were barely holding on.
“Ian. Ezel. “Can you do it?”
“Hehehe. When did you do it because you could? “I did it because I had to.”
I wonder if he’s holding a cigarette inside the skin mask! And with the sound of him snorting, dozens of streams of smoke came out from the mask.
A BDSM armored truck whose penetration power has been maximized through tank armor through various modifications, and Ezel’s exosuit loaded inside it.
Now that military firepower is tied up, these two are the most powerful ace cards given to us.
“…Plasma charge is complete. I repeat, if you fire this time, a sniper will fly in and neutralize you before you can activate the cloaking field again. In the future, if three or more high-power equipments are hit, there will be no more wires….”
“We have to open the way for the trucks to go out, so use maximum power. This is the only way. staff sergeant.”
“….This is the second lieutenant. We will fire after the count. “Be careful of rear heat.”
He adjusted his military uniform with the sergeant rank insignia and began giving instructions to the equipment operators.
One of the non-commissioned officers who are somehow reconciling the front lines on behalf of commander-level executives who have not heard any news.
He probably knows too. The moment the cloaking field is caught in the airflow of the plasma catapult and goes out, it becomes the sniper’s most important target. That is why they wear such low-rank military uniforms. It may be because he wants to live, but he probably knows how important his position is in the current situation, so he desperately hides himself and continues to follow orders.
In that situation, I ordered the use of the equipment at the risk of losing my cloak, and he accepted.
He had already put his life on the scale and decided that one shot of plasma was worth more than being exposed and being shot.
Not much was said about it. They just make eye contact for a moment and go back to their respective tasks.
Grung, purr! Hair, hair, hair, hair –
“Count 10. 9. 8. 7-”
“Finish quickly and come back. The damage here has already gone beyond repair. Even if we take care of the enemy’s backline, it won’t be easy to push out the mutants.”
“In an instant, you can go from dead idiots to idiots who don’t even know how to face the enemy. “I’ll be back soon.”
“…I’ve been getting beaten to death by those idiots for a few days now.”
“Hehehe! So wouldn’t that be better? Since I’ve been beaten for so long, I have to beat him up this time. Don’t be scared and jump out. Ezel.”
The two relieve the tension of the battle by telling silly jokes.
“6. 5. 4-”
“….Keuung. “Hey, let me ask you something, Professor Park.”
“why. You don’t want to go? “Even if I asked you to leave, it was too late.”
“Not that one. “Well…you know…and you’re sending it to me?”
A guy who tries to say something out of the ordinary but then hesitates.
Even as he spoke to me, Ian’s eyes were focused on the hill in the distance where the enemy was. Instead of the usual crazy look, the eyes look thoughtful. A look that places something other than death between the enemy and me.
On the battlefield, it is called a ‘mortal prize’.
“Stop talking nonsense and just treat war as war. “For someone so sentimental, I’ve never seen him come back alive and well.”
“…Okay, let’s go and enjoy the appreciation.”
“I, too, just say something! “When I die, I decided to distribute all my assets to the chat room in District 47…”
That penny-pincher is being damned again.
“…If possible, Ezel will come back alive too.”
“Hehehe. well? “If you compare the rate at which sentimental people die, that person is already a corpse.”
“Ha, one more! To Teoluk and Roeru, they were the biggest assholes in the world, but they were still lovely assholes-” “
3. 2. 1. Plasma injection.”
Crackling- crackling weeeeeing-!
Puhwaaaaaaaaaaa!!!
Gigigigigigi-! Ahhh!
“Wow! Damn it! “At least say something about leaving!”
“If you keep nagging me, I’ll bite my tongue! cherry! “Hold on to something in the luggage compartment!”
“Oh not yet! The road surface has all melted! Now let’s cool off and take off-”
“These are metal tires! “It’s nice that you’re warm when it’s cold!”
Plasma, constantly heated through particle acceleration, swept over the battlefield, and in an instant, a truck armed with an automatic turret and saw blades rushed forward, scraping the road surface as the battlefield became a vacant lot.
Part of me wanted to watch them break through this siege, but there was no time to rest even for a moment. Because I also have work to do here.
“The soldiers who went to the command barracks. Have you returned? “I knew that most of the vehicle operators headed there along with the broadcast.”
“Not one person has returned yet.”
The professor listened backwards to those words. The center of the station is extremely quiet, where not a single gunshot can be heard. If there is a battle there will be noise. If there was no battle, they would have returned safely.
“…..All right.”
“I wish you luck.”
“That one too.”
Soldiers struggling to open the gap created by the truck. After giving a brief salute to the second lieutenant heading towards them, I ran towards the inside of the garrison in the opposite direction of the front line.
An eerie feeling that cannot be described. The mutated arms and upper body were vibrating loudly. As if calling me.
It was not a feeling or inference, but a clear sense. Another sense outside of the human senses that has never been felt before.
Something changed physically, not just in my mood.
‘eight. Chest and back. Next… is it the head? Virus child. ‘I secretly hoped you would come down.’
I didn’t realize it when I was running in step with my group, but the speed I was crossing the garrison at now had long surpassed my normal sprinting speed.
change. It was necessary, but the speed of change was too fast, regardless of my will.
‘Write it. It seems like I’m gradually walking down the path of becoming a human being.’
[Because you accepted it in your heart. From the control of your body being handed over to you to rapid transformation. On the surface, these things move according to my will, but in the end, the fundamental change is taking place according to your inner change. It was as if the debt of my mind for saving my life had handed over control of my body as if paying me in return. What on earth are you thinking? Our most important goal was ‘survival’, right? source of life. To survive. Whatever I have to do, I must do whatever it takes.]
Hyde’s worried complaint. Strengthening my legs with a familiar feeling, I jumped over two barracks at the same speed I was running at. OMG it’s better than inside. Because this leg won’t break if you apply too much force to it. Nothing has changed on the outside, but it seems like a lot has changed on the inside. The remaining time may be shorter than you think. I can’t wait until a year, right?
‘They say people always change. There was a lot of work this year, but I guess I’ve changed a bit too.’
My ears were filled with the faint sound of the wind passing by and the noise of the battlefield. Fire and smoke. Combat vehicles cut into pieces and crushed. You played this game so negligently.
Sigh!
As we got down in front of the barracks, the sound of courtesy became even stronger. A feeling of popularity can be felt inside the half-collapsed barracks.
[He knows you’re here.]
‘Because you came to make such a fuss.’
[This is not a guy you can deal with alone. Can’t you see any signs of battle nearby? Everyone suffered at the hands of the same guy.]
‘That’s right. What did you come down here for? If we had pushed the front line with the others, we would have been robbed already.’
[Don’t you know what it means to not move? They’re waiting for us to come find them.]
‘I know, dude. It’s a threat. If you don’t move, they will attack the back of the barely holding battle line.’
Regardless of time and place, the place where the garrison commander stays is the safest and boasts the strongest defense.
A shield for command barracks that boasts an output comparable to that of most tank shields.
A location located in the center of the combat vehicle concentration area, the main combat equipment of the current Area 47 Support Force.
Even veteran soldiers keep their eyes on and watch the surroundings 24 hours a day.
The commander barracks at the center of the garrison were silenced by the hands of just one entity.
It was an example that clearly showed what level of combat power he had.
‘I was anxious because I couldn’t see the guy I was constantly guarding, but he was here.’
Even after cutting down a combat vehicle with a solid alloy frame, the claw marks left behind left deep scars on the ground.
Dozens of rescue signals were confirmed upon entering the radioactive zone starting from Area 41, and deep, sharp marks were always left there.
The reason there was no blood left was because there was no battle. The only traces left were the traces of pain left by the people in the process of being transformed into mutants by Orpheus, and the claw marks of the bastard who disabled the shelter’s shield and defense equipment with a single blow.
“You are waiting inside. This is it…”
An unknown enemy who constantly scratches my nerves and exposes his location as if he were challenging me to a fight.
Looking around, I saw one of the dismembered combat vehicles with an intact front end.
The ammunition box was neatly filled with no gaps, as if he had been killed before he could fire from a perfectly prepared machine gun.
“If you’re looking forward to a cool one-on-one match, you definitely don’t want to do that, right?”
As always, the direction of destroying the enemy is the direction I should move in.
Iron-gagging!
The professor turned the muzzle of the machine gun toward the commander’s barracks and pulled the trigger toward the place where he could feel the presence of people.
Tukwakwakwakwak!
A destructive sound that is fundamentally different from that of a rifle. A tremendous rate of fire that makes it seem like a laser is being fired, not a live bullet.
The torn and charred barracks here and there began to be torn apart by the waves of violence, and what remained inside began to be pulverized without a trace.
“…Not only was he late for the invitation, but he went ahead and sampled it without even saying hello. Maybe it’s because I’m young. Or is it a lack of manners?”
Just one person. Except for places where it felt popular from the beginning.
old man. More precisely, he was an old soldier. An old soldier sitting on a hill of torn and dismembered corpses.
Old military uniform. A bulletproof hat that was broken and had holes in it. Half-untucked military boots and old-fashioned firearms with visible scorch marks.
Despite the deep wrinkles on his sun-tanned face, it felt somewhat taut.
Pop. Pop.
In the old man’s hands was a corpse cut diagonally. The body of the general commander here is familiar to me. The commander’s top-of-the-line shield was deployed in response to the projectile, and the old man appeared to have easily blocked the barrage of machine guns with it.
“Even though he’s senile, he still has a bad taste, old man.”
“You should have come a long time ago when I called you that. I was so bored while waiting for you that I ended up breaking all my toys. Umm, as the wanderer said, I didn’t want to move, so I tried to do it roughly on purpose.”
When the commander’s shield runs out of power, the old man throws him backwards like throwing away trash.
“Wait for me… why?”
“well. Would you say it’s an old man’s curiosity? I saw you a little bit. Through the eyes of our lady. I also watched your broadcast. It was so… boiling. “I watched your video over and over again because I thought there was a young man with rare, excellent toenails.”
“Oh my god! What viewers! You were a fucking stalker, right? I don’t accept fan meetings like this. Especially overly immersive trash like you who equate the characters and players in the game. A character is a character and I am Professor Park, a real human being, you crazy person.”
“Hahahaha! Do you know the saying ‘Nangjungjichu (囊中之錐)’? It can’t be done, it can’t be done. Just because you try to hide it doesn’t mean it’s hidden. Am I not a monster born from the deepest recesses of my soul? I can see it in my eyes. Wolf, leader wolf. I can’t stand it. “I can’t wait to rip out all your claws, down to the last fang!”
The old soldier stood up. A unique figure in a knife fight stance, with one hand holding the rifle slung over his shoulder and aiming, and the other hand holding the broken bayonet pulled from his thigh.
“I ate the appetizer until my stomach exploded. “I guess I can enjoy the main part soon, right?”
“What a diary in the 21st century. “At this level, I feel like it’s more than just old-fashioned, it’s rotten.”
“It is said that famous paintings increase in value as time passes. “If you think about it that way, isn’t it equally old-fashioned for you to accept this old man’s date request?”
“If I hadn’t accepted it, I would have ruined the world.”
For a moment, my vision was blurry. An old man holding a knife and a gun. For some reason, the old man looked like a four-legged animal rather than a human being. It felt like meeting a hungry tiger deep in the mountains.
“iced coffee. I miss you. Old memories. Excitement. Fear! Memories of running across mountains and streams on all fours and memories of living as a human soldier on two legs are all great ingredients that created my existence. “The two old souls and the newly born soul both lived in different worlds, but the law of the fittest remains the same.”
Cluck, cluck, cluck!
Black carapace growing across the arm in an instant and large, hook-like fingers.
Spook. Seo Geo-eok –
The body of an old man begins to swell strangely with a very satisfied smile.
The old man, who was enjoying the air filled with the scent of blood, lowered his posture even further.
“Old ho (老虎) Buru. “To gain insight into life with your claws.”
“A talking tiger. “If we put it in a zoo… we’ll make a lot of money!”
Kwasik!
Green onions!
After completing his search, the professor rushed in first, and at the same time, the old man’s body flew forward like a flash.
I know that not only my arms but my entire body has changed to the same extent as a mutant, but I have not yet confirmed to what extent.
‘I know the feeling of using force. Power… Power enough to make you feel like your body is exploding!’
Ssssssssssssssssss!
Sugaaaaa!
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Ka-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-!!!!!
The professor’s left arm struck from above and the old man’s attack tore through the wind was met.
Tuhwaak!
Metal sounds and shocks that you can’t believe are the sounds of people colliding.
Clap-taang!
The old man easily blocked the second shot, which was fired before the shock flowing through his arm had subsided, by kicking the muzzle of the gun with his combat boots.
“Oh my… Are you not even giving me time to enjoy the afterglow for a while? “It was a blow I wanted to experience for a very long time.”
“Tsk! “When you die, I will give you five minutes at the grave.”
“Hehehehe. “Goyan… lose!”
As the professor spit out the blood that had accumulated in his mouth, the old man’s smile grew even deeper.
Wow!
The claws of the two mutants clashed once again.
‘I’m losing. It’s going to be hard to resist this monster!’
The professor could clearly see his death approaching.
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