Bring Interstellar to the end of the world

Chapter 217 Radiation Scorpion

First class reserve officer?Tang Yan couldn't help slandering the Yunmeng Mercenary Group in his heart for using (pretend) force (X) too much (head).

"Hey, isn't the main activity area of ​​the Yunmeng mercenary group between the south of Jicheng and the inhabited area of ​​Langya? How did you come here?" Tang Yan looked surprised, as if he didn't know that he would meet Yunmeng beforehand. The same as the people of the mercenary group.

"This..." Jun Song didn't answer the question directly: "In short, I am very grateful to Deputy Head Tang for his help."

"It's nothing to do with a little effort." Tang Yan waved his hand very casually.

At this time, another person from the Yunmeng mercenary group walked in. He was not wearing power armor. Judging from his appearance, he was in his 30s, much older than Juniper.

After the man came over, he looked at the dog meat, and said in words full of concern: "For a dangerous place like Calabash Valley, deputy head Tang should bring more people here."

"It doesn't matter, I just want to come here to do some preliminary investigation. I saw the mutant two-headed deer frightened and ran out, and I heard the gunshots of you fighting with the living corpses, so I went deep into the mountainous environment and met you."

"Zhang Tonglin, deputy captain of the Jingzhe team." The man smiled and held out his hand.

Tang Yan shook his hand politely.

"Preliminary investigation? Is deputy head Tang coming here to hunt ferocious beasts?"

Tang Yan shook his head, did not make excuses, and chose to tell the truth: "I believe you have also heard that Gem City was attacked by the Razor Demon, Truth Cult, and Black Saints coalition forces a few days ago. Logic processors. I heard that there might be a pre-war military facility hidden in Calabash Valley, and I thought there might be some stock in it, so I came here to try my luck.”

"Judging from the clothing on the living corpse, the rumors should be true." He glanced at the fallen corpse in front of him and said.

Juniper and Zhang Tonglin's expressions changed slightly.

Tang Yan was keenly aware of their emotional changes, but he didn't say anything, and he didn't ask why these people entered the peninsula.

He was sure of one thing - although the Yunmeng Mercenary Group had a good relationship with the Jicheng Management Committee, if there was no conflict of interest in their attitude towards the pandaren, there was a high probability that they would not turn their backs on the spot.

After all, Gem City has not been torn apart from Jicheng City, and the Jicheng Committee is not monolithic.What's more, the Yunmeng Mercenary Corps is a commercial military organization. It has no grudges with the Pandaren Legion in the past, and has no enmity in the near future. There is absolutely no need to ask for trouble.

In short, Tang Yan regarded the Yunmeng Mercenary Group as a thorn in his side because of Tan Zhen's past experience.The other party is not a roundworm in his heart, knowing that he has already included the Yunmeng mercenary group in the sequence to be killed. As long as there is no direct conflict of interest, Zhang Tonglin and others are of course unwilling to grievances with the pandaren army.

Tang Yan's words are traceable and reasonable, and as shrewd as Zhang Tonglin, it is impossible to detect the murderous intention surging in his heart from the conversation.

Of course, he would not take action now. He was very curious as to why the people from the Yunmeng Mercenary Group came to Hulu Valley.

"Captain...Captain..." At this moment, a soldier carrying a portable radio came out from the crowd behind him, pulled Zhang Tonglin aside and whispered a few words.

Tang Yan didn't move. When the two men finished their conversation, Zhang Tonglin returned to him and said in a concerned tone: "What's wrong?"

Zhang Tonglin thought for a while and said: "In fact, there are more than 50 soldiers from the Yunmeng mercenary group who came to Calabash Valley. Not long after entering Calabash Valley, they were scattered due to the attack of swarms of living corpses. Just now the correspondent tried to contact the lost team, but there was no response... …I am concerned for the safety of the captain and the others."

Tang Yan thought for a while and said, "Well, since what you are going to do now is to find your lost teammates, and my purpose is to investigate in Calabash Valley, why don't you all go together and take care of each other."

Zhang Tonglin said "good" without thinking.

In fact, when he said the above paragraph, he was already ready to invite Tang Yan to go with him. Now that the other party proposes to take action together, he is naturally happy to see it succeed.

That set of advanced power armor can be seen at a glance, and there is also a machine gun—that is a machine gun, a cannon!It's not the 5.56MM Gatling machine gun carried by teammates. The damage they can cause is not in the same order of magnitude.

There is also that hideous mutant dog that can kill even glowing zombies.

To put it bluntly, the combat effectiveness of the combination of Tang Yan and the mutant dog is almost comparable to their 15-member team.

"Let's go, let's take a look at the place where you two left." After saying this, Tang Yan went to the side and picked up the severed arm of a glowing living corpse, and smeared a large amount of green body fluid on a tree at the edge of the forest.

Zhang Tonglin went there to issue new orders. Juniper was very puzzled by his behavior and asked him why he did so.

Tang Yan's answer was based on the information about Gourd Valley collected by bounty hunters active in the peninsula area. Occasionally, strong magnetic fields appear in the valley, which will seriously affect the guide equipment. Be a lost lamb.

After setting a new mission goal, Zhang Tonglin led everyone towards the north.

Tang Yan followed, and the dog meat hung between him and the Yunmeng mercenary team, not being a pioneer like before.

During the journey, Zhang Tonglin briefly told him what happened to them just now.

This is also the question that Tang Yan has been puzzled by.

The Yunmeng mercenary group has more than 50 people entering the peninsula. To disperse these elite soldiers, the number of living corpses must be at least 150.

Are there so many living corpses in Calabash Valley?

You must know that the relationship between living corpses and mutated ferocious beasts is not very friendly. Under normal circumstances, the two will never give up until they fight to the death. Hulu Valley is a famous area where ferocious beasts roam. Will they tolerate the presence of a large number of living corpses?
Zhang Tonglin said that the zombies that defeated them were not only luminous zombies and ordinary zombies, but also a giant zombie that was nearly 4 meters tall.That thing has strong defense and high self-healing power. Let alone ordinary assault rifles, even anti-material sniper rifles equipped with sub-caliber discarding sabots and armor-piercing projectiles cannot penetrate its body.

Under the charge with giant zombies and luminous zombies as the backbone, their people had to choose to avoid the edge temporarily and divided into three groups to flee.

Giant living corpse...

Tang Yan remembered an incident in Gem City. It was said that when a bounty hunter was hunting a mutated two-headed deer outside Calabash Valley, he saw a giant living corpse with enlarged arms and a head that was almost retracted into the chest. At that time, he took that The bounty hunter was so frightened that he didn't even have time to cut off the antlers, so he turned around and ran away. He returned to Gem City and took a long nap to regain his composure.

Considering the power of the sub-caliber armor-piercing shells fired by the anti-materiel sniper rifle, he was really not sure whether the machine gun could kill giant living corpses.

I don't know whether it was because of the large number of living corpses or because the gunfight frightened the creatures in the valley. They were very quiet as they traveled north, and they didn't even encounter a mutant dog.

The people from the Yunmeng Mercenary Group were attacked at the edge of a dense forest. Judging from the traces left at the scene, it seemed that they were attacked by living corpses hiding behind the trees.

He couldn't determine whether the conflict between the Yunmeng mercenary group and the living corpse was an encounter, or that the giant living corpse had a high IQ and could communicate with the living corpse like a ghoul. Fight an ambush.

If it's the former, things are better, but if it's the latter, things are not.

There were dozens of corpses lying in front of the dense forest, most of them were living corpses, and only five or six soldiers of the Yunmeng mercenary group died.

Zhang Tonglin walked around the battlefield, pointed to the shadow on the lower mountain and said, "I remember that the captain led people to evacuate there."

"Let's go." Tang Yan didn't say anything more, carrying the machine gun and walking in the direction pointed by Zhang Tonglin.

After crossing the ridge in front and walking forward for about 20 minutes, he stopped in a flat area and looked at the scene ahead with a cold face.

Zhang Tonglin walked up to him from behind and stood still, seeing the expression of the things in the ditch in front of him change, he jumped off the bluestone without thinking about what to say, and walked quickly forward.

There were seven corpses lying in the ditch, all of them were members of the Yunmeng Mercenary Group, and there were no remains of living corpses.

Tang Yan took a look at the way they came from, frowned and jumped down, walked to the corpses and inspected them one by one.

"Kong Qingxi, Yan Yong, Fei Wenxue...the captain is not here, the captain is not here..."

At this time, Juniper and the others who were walking behind also saw the scene in the ditch, and their expressions were not very good.

A total of 51 soldiers from the Yunmeng mercenary group came to Calabash Valley, and now they left more than a dozen corpses without even finding Mao'er.It really is a fierce place as rumored by the outside world.

Du Song, Zhang Tonglin and others focused on the identity of the deceased. Tang Yan was different. He walked to the body of the soldier wearing P-43 power armor and squatted down. He groped for a while with the help of the searchlight, and broke the body. His shoulders were pushed to the side.

The soldier rolled over, exposing the hole in the belly of the P-43 powered armor.

A collection of plasma and minced meat stuck to it.

Just like the corpses I saw before, judging from the wounds, it was not caused by ordinary living corpses, and even giant living corpses would not leave such wounds.

There were traces of fighting at the scene, and the extent was very deep, and the surrounding area was in a mess.However, there were only the corpses of the soldiers of the Yunmeng Mercenary Corps within the range, and there were no remains of living corpses.

Could it be that giant living corpses are intelligent enough to collect corpses for their companions?
Uh...

A low whimper came from the dog beside him.

He raised his head and glanced at it, his eyes changed, and he yelled, "It's not good, get out of here."

A blue flame shot out from the back of the Son of Korhal's powered armor. His feet were a little bit on the ground, and his body jumped out of the ditch several times in a row.

Just as he dodged, streaks of dust rose up in the ditch under the night sky.

Along with the flying dust, there were also objects shining with a faint cold light.

what……

A shrill scream sounded.

Coming from a place not far from where Tang Yan was just now, the man was picking off the watch worn by his companion's corpse - an object with a faint cold light pierced his back.

what……

There was another scream.

The voice was somewhat familiar because it came from Zhang Tonglin.

Tang Yan turned his head and saw the deputy captain of the Jingzhe team lying in a pool of blood, his feet were separated from his legs.The culprit for this result is a large black claw.

Although Jun Jun was wearing heavy P-43 powered armor, he climbed up the slope as soon as he heard Tang Yan's greeting and escaped death. Now he saw that the deputy captain had lost one of his legs and wanted to go down. Rescue did not dare to go down to rescue, the expression on his face was very complicated.

"Radiation scorpion...radiation scorpion...it's radiation scorpion..." At this moment, someone pointed to something in the ditch and shouted loudly.

"Ah... ah... help me..."

A few more screams came from the bottom of the ditch, from people who did not heed Tang Yan's advice in time.

Although the night was dark, the sparse starlight still showed the appearance of the enemy.

As the soft soil continued to roll down, a scorpion face completely wrapped in thick armor was revealed behind the huge pincers. Ten small, two large and three rows of black eyes above the sharp mouthparts revealed a violent and evil temperament.

da da da da da...

The swelled flames of the muzzle and the light that quickly penetrated into the ground dilute the darkness of the night.

The soldiers of the Yunmeng Mercenary Corps standing outside the ditch immediately shot at the radiation scorpion that broke through the soil layer and revealed its ferocious face.

The sound of the gun and the sound of the bullets entering the ground continued, and the dust rose into the air like a fountain.

Some bullets miss, and some bullets don't.However, when these bullets hit the radiation scorpion's body, there was only a bang, without any real effect.

Assault rifles and submachine guns can't even break through the shell of the radiation scorpion.

Fortunately, the continuous shooting slowed down the attack speed of the radiation scorpions. Two soldiers dragged Zhang Tonglin, who had a broken leg and his shoulder cut by the pincers, from the bottom of the ditch to the outside.

At this time, Tang Yan was thinking about a question.

This was the first time he had encountered a creature called a radiant scorpion, although in terms of attack methods, they had similarities with mud crabs.For example, they all lurk in the ground or in the water, waiting for the enemy to approach and then attack. The weapons are claws that can cut off human hands and feet.

However, the most obvious difference between the radiant scorpion and the mud crab is that the intelligence level is much higher.

Judging from what happened in the ditch, they deliberately waited next to the corpses of Yunmeng Mercenary Regiment soldiers. In order to make the trap difficult for others to see through, they did not even eat the corpses of Yunmeng Mercenary Regiment soldiers and waited patiently for the rest. of prey.

Wisdom, endurance, calmness, teamwork...these are the qualities that high-level hunters have.

On the other hand, the firmness of the radiant scorpion's shell is also higher than that of the mud crab.

"Tang Yan, what are you doing? That thing is heading towards you..." Juniper's kind reminder came from the side of the ditch.

Boom, boom...

The moment Tang Yan came to his senses, two balls of fire burst out in the ditch, and green smoke billowed outwards rapidly.

I don't know who threw two grenades down there.

The explosion was transmitted to the soil on both sides, causing a landslide in a certain area. A soldier was unable to dodge and slipped into the trench.

"Jiang Qinghua, how did you throw the grenade?"

Tang Yan didn't care what the members of the Yunmeng mercenary group said, because a radiation scorpion rushed out of the ditch with astonishing sensitivity and came three meters in front of him.

The radiant scorpion's tail was raised high, and a faint cold light flashed towards the narrowed stinging needle at the end.

(End of this chapter)