Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 617 The monster outside the car
"!!!"

The captain of the gopher team was startled and jumped back a big step, and the next moment, he immediately raised the carbine in his hand and pointed the muzzle upwards.

He didn't see what hit Basil, but years of rigorous training made his body react almost reflexively - no matter what happened, the first thing he had to do was Shoot and notify the squad members who are still in the car with the sound of the gun.

But just when he was about to pull the trigger, he suddenly found out in horror——that he could no longer feel the existence of his fingers... Half a second later, a piercing pain came from his wrist.

The unsupported carbine fell to the ground, and the tactical flashlight mounted on the underside of the handguard happened to shine on his right hand.

The flesh, tendons, and skin of the entire right hand have disappeared completely, leaving only the white bones, which emit a creepy reflection under the light.

"Ah—" The short scream stopped just after it sounded, and he seemed to feel something rushing up from the depths of his throat, and then, there was a salty taste in his mouth...

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inside the car.

"Strange, the captain and Basil have been out for several minutes..." The engineer said, "Just now we told us that the radio communication was interfered, why is there no movement at all?"

"Didn't there be a muffled sound just now, probably because Basil's muffled gourd's power armor hit the stone?"

"I don't think so... Besides, apart from the muffled noise, don't you think it's a bit too quiet now?" the engineer said again.

"The armor of this car is so thick, and there is a special partition between the armor layer and the armor layer to absorb the noise of the drill bit. It's normal that we can't hear the outside sound..." The driver said with a frown.

"8 minutes. According to the normal speed, it won't take so long to patrol the car body?" The engineer subconsciously touched the pistol holster on his waist.

"I don't know, maybe I found the source of the fault?" Another soldier scratched his head and said.

"If you find the source of the fault, shouldn't you tell us? The two of them didn't even bring repair tools, so even if they found the fault, they couldn't fix it!" The engineer spoke faster and faster, and couldn't help but bring With a touch of anxiety, "Lao Le, can the monitor outside the car see them?"

The hunky pilot called "Old Le" shook his head: "This is a modified tank site, and it's not the kind of all-round view cockpit used by fighter jets and mechs. Except for the main monitor directly in front, There are only six cameras installed on the car body..."

As he spoke, he pointed to the surveillance screen that was cut into six pieces at the bottom right of the screen in front of him—however, there was nothing in the screen except the excavated rock.

Due to the design flaws of the mammoth tank, the rotation angle of these surveillance cameras is almost negligible, and the range of visibility is very limited.

But in fact, this cannot be regarded as a design defect. After all, tanks mainly rely on the monitors and peepholes on the turret to provide vision. The surveillance cameras on the chassis are dispensable...but for this tank For the "Super Driller" whose turret was replaced with a large drilling rig, those few cameras are the only field of view.

"They should be in the blind spot of the camera." Lao Le said again, "Why don't you go out and have a look..."

"Hush!" The engineer suddenly stretched out his hand to cover Lao Le's mouth, and said in a low voice, "Listen carefully... there seems to be a strange sound from above..."

Everyone in the team suddenly held their breath, and the entire carriage became silent for a moment—in this way, everyone else heard the "strange sound" mentioned by the engineer.

It was the sound of screeching, sharp and hard objects scraping across the smooth metal surface. Although it was very subtle, it sounded like an itchy and uncomfortable feeling... It is easy to think of some shapes Creepy multi-legged arthropod.

"All, heard, got it, right?" The engineer typed out each word on the screen, and everyone looked at each other and nodded in unison.

"Team, leader, and, Luo, Le, can, can, already, passed, sacrificed, sacrificed." The engineer typed again, "outside, face, de, east, west, down, one, one, purpose, Standard, just, yes, we, us.”

"What should I do?" Lao Le glanced at him and asked with simple tactical gestures.

The engineer didn't answer directly, but pulled out the pistol in the holster, and then pulled out a magazine with yellow and black warning signs on it from the chest pocket.

Due to the particularity of this mission, each unit participating in the battle was allocated a certain amount of active ammunition, and the amount of ammunition allocated to the "Gopher Squad" that needed to go deep behind enemy lines was even more unambiguous, at least A small encounter with Seed of Corruption is definitely more than enough.

One-third of the engineer's magazine is filled with unpacked active ammunition. Armor-piercing bullets, explosive shells, and active ammunition are loaded in groups of three. For those experienced veterans, as long as they can be sure At the position of the "nucleus", a round of three bursts of short bursts can kill a Seed of Corrosion.

Others also silently took out their weapons and replaced them with active ammunition and magazines.

Everyone tensed their faces and tried their best to adjust their breathing—although they could be regarded as elite troops, they were not serious combat units after all. In addition, Basil, who was the most powerful in the team, and the commander in charge The captain's life and death are unknown at this time... No matter from which angle you look at it, the situation can only be described with the word "terrible".

What's more, in this narrow tunnel, there is no room to maneuver at all... If they really encounter an enemy, they can only choose to fight to the death.

The rustling sound gradually moved away from the top of the car, but everyone's expressions became more solemn - because the direction of the sound was the hatch behind the car roof used to enter and exit the car!

"Lao Le, have you sent a message to the headquarters?" The engineer stopped typing on the screen, but said directly... He knew very well that the thing outside knew that there was someone in the car, and wanted to hide his tracks at this time. It doesn't make any sense anymore.

"Just posted." The macho driver nodded, "I said that we were attacked by an unknown enemy in the tunnel. The captain and the fireman were missing, and the rest of the team members were guarding the compartment."

As he spoke, he took out his own weapons from under the seat—they were two zero-one carbines with the barrels cut short and the butts removed. If these guns were used by ordinary people, it would probably be Even if you use two hands to control a gun, you may not be able to suppress the violent recoil.

But the hunk is worthy of being a hunk, and Lao Le held each hand, turned around and lay on the back of the driver's seat, aiming the gun at the passage behind the car.

However, his two explosives were not the most powerful. Another soldier took out a heavy machine gun from the equipment box and inserted it directly into the telescopic bracket reserved at the bottom of the carriage. Turning, the bolt was pulled, and it directly blocked the entrance at the rear of the carriage.

"Lao Le, is there any reply from the headquarters?" The engineer stared at the end of the passage and asked softly.

The macho driver shook his head: "It's been almost ten seconds since I sent it, and there is no reply."

"It seems that the situation can't get any worse..." The engineering soldier couldn't help showing a wry smile on his face.

The communication between the "Super Gopher" and the headquarters relies on the communication cable attached to the mud discharge pipe. According to the speed of wired communication, it takes less than a second for the information sent here to be transmitted back to the rear—and like This kind of emergency communication, even if the headquarters can't come up with a reinforcement plan for a while, at least they will reply with "received" as soon as possible to stabilize the morale of the army...

But now, they haven't even received a "received" short message, which can only mean one thing——

The communication cable between "Super Gopher" and headquarters has been severed.

A soldier couldn't help but took out a photo from his pocket. In the photo was a plump young woman with a smile on her face. The young woman was holding a fat boy under the age of [-] in her arms...

Although looking at family photos on the battlefield is a taboo that will set a death flag, but he always feels that if he doesn't take a last look at them now... I'm afraid he won't be able to see them again in the future.

Not only him, but the other soldiers of the gopher team are also ready to die at this moment.

But the sound outside suddenly disappeared without a trace, and there was no movement from the hatch.

"What's going on?" Lao Le touched the engineering soldier with his elbow in some doubts, "Could it be...that thing can't get in?"

"It's also possible..." The engineer nodded, "After all, the armor of our 'Super Gopher' is still very thick."

"Then what should we do now?" The soldier holding the handle of the heavy machine gun turned his head and asked, "If the other party doesn't come in... shall we go out? After all... whether the captain and Basil are dead or alive, we don't know yet Woolen cloth?"

"I also think... we have to go find them." The soldier who was looking at his wife's photo just now nodded.

"You must not go out now!" The engineer said a little anxiously, even his voice couldn't help but raise his voice, "Maybe that thing is squatting outside right now, waiting for us to go out to die!"

"Then are we just spending time here?" the machine gunner asked.

"The headquarters must have discovered by now that the communication with us has been cut off... It won't be long before reinforcements should arrive, everyone, don't worry." The engineer said, "Lao Le, you are in charge of monitoring the outside of the car." , Tell me immediately if there is any change. Others, don't let your guard down, keep your weapons loaded at all times!"

Except for the captain of the Gopher Squad, the rank of engineers in the entire team was the highest. After the captain disappeared, the responsibility of command naturally fell on his shoulders.

"Okay." The macho driver Lao Le nodded, he turned off the safety of the two guns, and turned around with difficulty—but his body hadn't turned around completely, he just looked back at the screen and said The swear words came out immediately.

"Damn it, the monitor is broken!"

"What did you say?!" The engineer was taken aback, and immediately turned his head, only to see that on the six screens that were originally surveillance images, now there were only large black and white snowflakes left.

"That thing must still be outside!" Lao Le immediately grabbed the gun he had just put down, "Why don't you rush out and fight it?"

"Don't!" The engineer quickly grabbed Lao Le's arm, "Can you check if the engine still works? Let's go back along the tunnel and talk to the reinforcements sent by the headquarters first."

"Backing back will crush the communication cables and pipelines, and our task..."

Before Lao Le finished speaking, he was interrupted by the engineer: "The cable has been cut. As for the pipeline... in this state, the mission can no longer continue. If we can communicate with the headquarters, they will It will definitely suggest that we retreat."

He paused, then continued: "I ordered the gopher team to abandon the mission and withdraw from the operation area immediately - if there is any responsibility afterwards, I will bear it alone."

As soon as the engineer finished speaking, a more violent shock came from outside the carriage than before, and immediately after, the entire carriage began to tilt to one side.

"What's going on? What happened?" The machine gunner immediately hugged the heavy bracket, while another soldier helped him hold the machine gun together to prevent the heavy machine gun from falling off the base.

As for Lao Le and the engineering soldier, they directly stretched out their hands to support the roof of the carriage, and at the same time pressed their knees against the seat below.

The carriage tilted about [-] degrees and then stopped... presumably because the car body hit the tunnel wall and could not continue to turn.

"Outside, that thing outside... seems to have lifted the car..." Lao Le said incoherently, "How is it possible... how is it possible... this thing weighs nearly four hundred tons... the weight of that thing Power...impossible!"

Compared to the panic of others, the engineer soldier was the first to calm down. He immediately put his eyes on the floor under his feet - he couldn't help but think of a very important thing, but it was precisely because of this thought In an instant, his back was drenched in cold sweat.

The standard configuration of the "Mammoth Tank", the bottom of the chassis is equipped with multi-layer composite armor to defend against mines... As a "Super Driller" for engineering equipment, in order to reduce the excess load as much as possible, the armor at the chassis is all They were all disassembled, leaving only a twelve-millimeter-thick shell riveted with steel plates.

Compared with other parts of the body, the bottom is the weakest part of the vehicle's defense.

That thing...it's going to attack from under the car!

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