Alien Relic Hunter.

Chapter 624 Ronin Squad
"Let the Ronin team go out." Terence ordered.

"Is it okay to send the rogue team so soon? In the original attack plan, they will not be put into the battlefield until the street fighting stage." The old lieutenant general asked.

"The plan will never keep up with the changes. If we don't solve the obstacles in front of us, we will never be able to break into the Bronze City ruins," Trenz said.

"Your Excellency Commander... Excuse me, are you sending the entire ronin squad?" Not to mention the old lieutenant general, even the staff officer in charge of delivering the order hesitated a bit after hearing this order.

Terence didn't have many trump cards in this battle, and this ronin squad belonged to one of the few trump cards.

As a result, less than 10 minutes after the battle officially started, this hole card had to be played.

"Yes, all four mobile groups are attacking, and the hunting target is the giant erosion seed under the ground in the A20 to B17 area." Trenz said.

"But...but it's still only a feint stage..." the staff officer said again.

"If we can't put pressure on the enemies in the ruins of the Bronze City, our current actions won't even count as a feint." Trenz paused, and added, "After you pass this order, change someone Come on, I don't need a staff officer who will question my order, if this delays the fighter plane, even if you are shot, it won't help."

"Observe, obey..."

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Not long after, 24 humanoid mechas with extremely peculiar shapes jumped out from the belly of a transport ship and landed on the "hunting target" directly below.

These 24 are all four-meter-level humanoid mechas. Rather than saying that they are mechas, it is more appropriate to say that they are power armors one size larger.These armors all adopt a streamlined design, with slender limbs and torsos. Unlike the thick armor of conventional mechas and the hedgehog-like armor, the 24 mechas are extremely thin, especially the waist and abdomen. , It is almost as thick as the waist of a normal person-if someone like Magino with a general belly is asked to be a pilot, he may not even be able to squeeze into the cockpit.

But compared with this thin armor that is almost negligible, there are two things on these peculiar mechs that are particularly "more" - the first "many" is that there are many thruster nozzles, in addition to the conventional backpack thrusters, soles of the feet, etc. In addition to the thrusters and leg thrusters, large and small nozzles can be seen almost everywhere on these mechs, and even under the "bamboo hat" style helmets on their heads, there is a full circle of thrusters tightly arranged. Spout.

The second "more" means more knives.

The mechs of the Ronin Squad are not equipped with any long-range weapons. There are no live ammunition guns, laser weapons, or electromagnetic weapons. These extra weapon hanging points are full of long and short swords, the shortest of which is the same as The Japanese knives are almost the same, and the longest one is a curved long knife with two smooth blades that are more than three meters long inserted on both sides of the backpack.

If Ke Lan and the others can see this scene, they will be very surprised to find that the style of the saber equipped with these mechas is exactly the same as the one in Asano Akira's hand... Not only are the styles similar, even the materials are different. Exactly the same - the blades of these war knives are all made of Nino alloy.

The biggest gap between the two is that Asano Akira's knife blade incorporates some of the stalagmite fragments brought back by Ke Lan, showing a matte gray-white texture, and the combat knives equipped with these mechas are still black Nino Alloy primary color.

Before the mechas of the Ronin Squad hit the ground, the tentacles directly below rolled back into the air, and the tentacles several meters thick swept towards them with a howling sound of piercing through the air—every machine was at least facing More than ten tentacles coming from different directions... No matter in terms of size or number, the ronin team is at an absolute disadvantage.

"Attack!" A stern shout came from the leading machine, and only a "squeak" was heard, and the two largest long knives were already in the hands of the machine.

At the same time, directly below the body, a dozen tentacles have also completed the "encirclement trend", waiting for the prey to fall into it by itself, and then crush it into pieces...

With the propelling power and maneuverability of the Ronin squadron's body, it is completely possible to raise the altitude in the air and avoid the attack range of the tentacles.However, they didn't do this - the other 23 team members also followed their captain's example, drew out two long knives, turned the blades to the outside, and then crossed their arms, the mechanical joints on the arm armor were directly locked , the nozzles on the body turned to one side one after another, and began to spray, pushing the whole body to spin in the air at high speed like a top!

Not only did they not dodge, but they accelerated towards those tentacles!

And when those incoming tentacles tried to attack them, the rapidly spinning blade directly smashed all the approaching tentacles into finely minced flesh, and the spewing pus and blood were even driven by the blade. "Waterspouts" hanging in mid-air one by one.

Only at this time can the idiom "reign of terror" not be used as an exaggeration.

The tentacles cut by the blade did not heal quickly, but showed signs of necrosis and decay—these knives of the Ronin Squad are not ordinary cold weapons. Inside the handles of these knives, there is a storage tank with its own refrigeration device , which is loaded with compressed flesh-eating worm active cells.When the valve is opened, these living cells will flow forward along the pipeline inside the blade and be released from dozens of tiny holes on the blade surface that cannot be detected by the naked eye.

For the Seed of Corrosion, this kind of war knife is the same as quenching the poison, and the dose of active cells released instantly can achieve the effect of "seeing blood and sealing the throat" for ordinary Seed of Corrosion.

However, it is not because they are equipped with this kind of weapon that the Ronin Squad is regarded as the "decisive combat force" in the street fighting stage... Apart from the particularity of the mecha, each of the team members is a biochemical transformation of the eighth level. Only this level of transformation can make their bodies withstand such a terrifying load.

If it were a non-enhanced person driving this kind of machine, not to mention being able to fully utilize the performance of the machine itself, the acceleration generated by nearly a hundred nozzles all over the body alone would be enough to tear the pilot's body apart.

The 24 "ronin" landed on the ground almost unscathed, but the tentacles that attacked them were scarred by the spinning long knives - a large amount of "toxin" invaded these tentacles, making the seed of erosion Self-healing speed becomes extremely slow.

The Seed of Corrosion hidden in the depths of the ground is obviously very intelligent. When it discovered that the injured tentacles could not be healed and the deadly toxin might spread to the body along the tentacles, it cut off those injured tentacles by itself. The tentacles moved so decisively that even Trenz, who was watching the changes in the battle situation, was taken aback.

"It's very special... this guy is very special." Trenz murmured.

It is impossible for "ordinary" seeds of erosion, even those SP-type mutants with terrifying destructive power, to take such actions, not because they do not have the courage to cut off the wrists of a strong man, but because they simply cannot resist the active cells of flesh-eating worms temptation—

For the living cells of flesh-eating worms, the metaphor of "extremely poisonous" is not very appropriate.The veterans of the Field Legion and the agents of the Security Bureau privately have another saying: If these erosive seeds are compared to incurable "addicts", then the living cells of the flesh-eating worms are equivalent to what they have. Craving the "drug"...

Although this thing will kill them, as long as they smell the "smell", any erosion seeds will rush up one after another like crazy... just like moths to a flame.

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But right now, this "big guy" is able to resist this fatal temptation and cut off his "polluted" tentacles, which can only explain two possibilities - [-]. This big guy has no inferior It is due to human's wisdom and strong self-control ability; secondly, human beings...or human consciousness directly manipulates its behavior.

Trenz is more inclined to the second possibility.

The Ronin squad had already entered the battlefield, and they threw down the long knives that were "run out of ammunition" one after another, drew out new weapons, and slashed and slashed the approaching tentacles frantically while moving around.

Whenever the "unhealable" wounds on a tentacle accumulate to a certain extent, the Seed of Corrosion will actively cut off this tentacle... The first batch of tentacles that drilled out of the ground, except for the few largest behemoths In addition, nearly half of them have been cleaned up, and in the process, more tentacles drilled out of the ground.

These tentacles are almost endless, and one stubble will pop up after being cut down, while the sabers on the "ronin" are decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"We can't drag it on any longer, the 'Ronin Squad' will be exhausted to death!" The old lieutenant general said in a deep voice, "It's time for the next step."

"No hurry, just wait." Trenz shook his head, "I've counted the fuel and weapon reserves of the Ronin squad, and they can last at least 5 minutes—what they did was not in vain, every cut down, They are all actually consuming the power of the Seed of Corrosion."

"But you can't use them up as one-time consumables!" The old lieutenant general said anxiously—a "ronin", from body transformation, training in martial arts and manipulation techniques, to equipment configuration, etc. All the expenses added up are enough to outweigh the more than 2000 "Black Widow Spider" drones that were wiped out in the first group just now... More importantly, there are very few qualified candidates, only eight The super biochemical transformation person is enough to screen out 24% of the candidates. The Ronin team was formed four years ago and today it is the first time to go into actual combat. There are only [-] people in total.

It's not that the military doesn't want to expand their establishment, but that they can't expand at all.

"Soldiers in war are consumables..." Trenz stared at the screen without turning his head and said, "No matter which battlefield they are put on, they will be 'consumed' in the end. , they can maximize their own value, and the purpose of forming this team will be achieved.”

"..."

Finally, when the two most aggressive members of the Ronin Squad lost power due to the exhaustion of the body's energy and were smashed into discus by the sweeping tentacles, Trenz issued a new order——

"Execute Plan No. 74!"

A dozen heavy vehicles slowly drove into the combat area under the protection of the armored troops. Taking advantage of the remaining "ronin" to restrain the tentacles emerging from the ground, the dozen heavy vehicles advanced nearly It was more than 500 meters, and it didn't stop until the ground in front of it was severely cracked and there was no way to go.

The bottom of these heavy vehicles shot out a large number of anchors, fixing themselves on the ground, and then, the device folded on the back of the body stretched out—that was a large mechanical arm, at the front end of the mechanical arm It is equipped with a heavy-duty pile driver that uses energy crystals as energy.

The accompanying engineering mecha inserted the thick and thin metal stakes embraced by two people into the ground. Amid the deafening hammering sound, the thick metal pillars were completely submerged, while the engineering mechs on the side quickly connected the second metal stake to the ground. behind.

According to the report of the observation department, the body of the Seed of Erosion is located at least 200 meters deep underground. Although this position can be bombed with ground-penetrating bombs, the rock strata that collapsed with the explosion will destroy the holes drilled by the ground-penetrating bombs. It is blocked, and it is impossible to shoot live ammunition along this hole.

And Trenz's decision was to completely remove this entire rock formation!
It is very difficult to achieve this level of bombing by the air force fleet alone. He can only let the ground troops venture into the combat zone, directly use the pile driver to drill enough and deep shafts on the top of the head of the Erosion Seed, and then blast a large number of them. into these wells.

It is not necessary to lift off the ground of the entire combat area, as long as a corner can be lifted to expose the body of the Seed of Corrosion.

Every time these pile drivers drive a shaft, the mechas on the side will put more than a dozen crystal energy bombs into it - relying on the "resonance" between energy crystals, these bombs can release far more terrifying power than nuclear explosions .

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