Marvel Magic Event Book

Chapter 1723 Hydra

Although there has never been any transaction with the Kree experimental site, after decades of infiltration and investigation, the situation of the Kree experimental site has been investigated by Eridu. The Kree regard the Inhumans as slaves, and the Inhumans also regard humans as slaves - just like the emperor's warning, even without the manipulation of that special Inhuman, other Inhumans will spontaneously maintain the deformed order established by the Kree. When the Badari people holding stone axes and stone spears blocked the expeditionary team, no one would feel surprised. The Inhumans would definitely enslave the locals in the occupied area to stop the expeditionary cavalry.

"Pick up your spears!" Hammurabi of the Order of the Guard gave orders behind him.

The expeditionary team skillfully inserted their rifles into the saddle belts, and pulled out their spears from the other side of the saddle belt and placed them on the horses. The well-trained soldiers quickly adjusted their postures, speeding up their horses to gain kinetic energy, so that the team could form a cone to penetrate the battle line. Hammurabi gently turned the throttle with one hand, adjusting the speed of the spray-painted motorcycle to keep it in front of the expeditionary team's attack formation, and the other hand also held the garrison spear.

"Accelerate, impact!"

The Badari people, who were still in the pre-dynastic stage, were simply unable to resist the expeditionary cavalry. Perhaps some of them had the courage to wave stone spears at the expeditionary army, but whether it was the guards riding jet motorcycles rushing at them like giant beasts, or the expeditionary army with steel spears hanging on the remains of those who blocked their way, they were far beyond the Badari people's imagination.

Hammurabi opened fire first with the Garrison Spear in hand. The uniformed figures in the distance immediately hid behind the bunkers, trying to avoid the expeditionary team's attack route. Only one unlucky guy was hit by the explosive bullet, and his lower body was blown into pieces of meat and blood mist. The Badari people who were blocking the expeditionary force fell down in groups and then dispersed. The expeditionary team had no interest in hunting down the locals. Their target was the Inhumans behind the locals.

After several conflicts, the Inhumans also gathered intelligence on the Praetorian Guard.

They deliberately chose to block the enemy in Badari's village instead of fighting on the plains, in order to lure the expeditionary cavalry into a narrow area where the cavalry formation could not be deployed, and use their own abilities to fight against the expeditionary army. This method is very effective, especially when facing expeditionary squads without the leadership of the Guards Order. This tactic often causes huge casualties to the expeditionary army. Every soldier in the expeditionary army is an ordinary person. Even the tacit teamwork and long-term training of agility cannot make up for the gap in individual strength between them and the Inhumans.

The Inhumans' irregular abilities caused great trouble to the expeditionary force.

When Hammurabi was about to turn around, several soldiers at the front of the expeditionary force suddenly exploded. There was no flame or loud noise, as if they were suddenly crushed by the air, turning into a piece of broken bones and blood mist, and the fragments of internal organs mixed with thick blood exploded in the air. This hellish scene did not scare the expeditionary force. They still maintained their charging posture and skillfully avoided the overturned warhorse corpses on the ground. They used the spears of the Guardian Order as a guide and continued to charge towards the hiding place of the Inhumans. They also tacitly assigned some soldiers to shoot quickly on horseback to suppress the Inhumans hiding behind the bunkers.

The Guards compared the Inhumans who drove the locals to fight to armored vehicles accompanying infantry to attack the front line, but the Inhumans did not have the bulletproof ability of armored vehicles and could not resist the power of the Guards. According to the established tactics, the expeditionary team automatically divided into two teams to surround the village where the Inhumans were located, and the other team followed the Guards Hammurabi to rush to the bunker and strangle the Inhumans.

Such encounters have happened more than once, and all the expeditionary soldiers knew very well what would happen next. Hammurabi did not believe that the Inhumans with different abilities could change the outcome of this encounter. Only a few Inhumans with similar teleportation abilities could survive the hands of the Praetorian Order and send the Praetorian Order's intelligence back to the Kree or other Inhumans.

The expeditionary force that broke into the village did not confront the Inhumans head-on. Instead, they rushed through the bunkers like a hurricane and threw explosives and smoke bombs into them according to Hammurabi's orders. Then they rushed out to join the other two expeditionary forces responsible for clearing the enemies around the village, and launched a fire blockade towards the target location from another direction.

Hammurabi turned the car around and rushed in again. The high-speed jetbike crashed straight into the bunker a hundred meters away. He felt the air around him being squeezed inward, like a pair of invisible huge hands slapping him violently. The Guards' power armor resisted the invisible explosion. Only the jetbike shook a few times under the impact - the shaking at high speed was extremely deadly, but Hammurabi still controlled the vehicle - he could hear the Inhumans behind the bunker shouting nervously in the Kree language, as if they didn't understand why the Guards could survive such air pressure. Until Hammurabi smashed the earth wall and pierced his body with the Garrison Spear, the Inhuman still couldn't figure out why the Guards could survive, even the all-environment combat suits commonly used by the Kree could not resist such drastic changes in air pressure.

The only remaining Inhuman completely lost his composure.

She was frightened and madly released surging electricity towards the guards without reason, but she could do nothing except singe the edge of Hammurabi's crimson robe. Hammurabi didn't even turn his head to observe her, but simply turned the car sideways to extend the Guard Spear and pulled the trigger. Compared with the Inhumans in the Attila Base on the moon, the Inhumans here are more awkward in how to use their abilities. Hammurabi didn't even want to call them enemies, because it was too insulting to the Guards to pay attention to such enemies.

The jetbike turned around again and finally came to a slow stop in front of the Inhuman's body.

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Hammurabi recorded the result of the conflict by voice and sent it to the headquarters as a brief voice war report. What he had to do now was to determine whether the brains of these Inhumans were infested with Hydra parasites. He used the Garrison Spear to cut open the skulls of the Inhumans to ensure that there were no parasite follicles, and then called the soldiers in the expeditionary force who were responsible for dealing with biochemical infections to come over and pour fuel on the bodies of the Inhumans to prevent the reproduction and spread of the small amount of Hydra parasites that could not be seen by the naked eye.

The locals who were used to stop the expeditionary force were probably the strong men forcibly conscripted from this village. Those people might come back here. Hammurabi did not want to hear the news of the outbreak of parasitic infection here after the war, which meant that they would have to come here again and destroy all the creatures that could still breathe on this land. Before the creation of the Praetorian Guard, the emperor had faced Hydra. Even if Hydra was destroyed with a hydrogen bomb on another planet, it still had to be fully disinfected when returning to Earth.

There are no such disinfection conditions now, so we can only use the fuel made in the temple.

"Three casualties in the battle, one injured. Did you hear that, Captain Miller?"

"I heard you. Continue to move along the planned route to ensure that there are no survivors." Captain Miller's voice in the headset paused. "Did those locals hinder the mission?"

"A minor hindrance."

"You know what I want to ask, Hammurabi." Captain Miller sighed, "How many locals died?"

"About a dozen, all young and strong. This village must be merged with other villages in this Nome, or formed into a larger administrative unit after the war." The guard made a judgment without hesitation, "I think it was this war that led to the integration of Badari culture and the pre-dynastic period."

"I mean, did you see the women and children?"

"No, at least not alive." Hammurabi glanced at the bloody skull in the corner. It was the skull of a young human, with missing teeth, whether it was due to replacement of milk teeth or violence. "They are all dead, and some creatures have feasted on their flesh and blood. There are no tooth marks, so they are not wild animals. The blood is fresh, and there are no maggots, so they can't have been dead for too long."

"That is to say, the target has appeared here before." Captain Miller tapped the tablet. "This is not good news."

The special Inhuman Hydra can release nano-scale microscopic parasites, which can not only break through the blood-brain barrier and enter the brain of organisms, change neurotransmitters and electrical signals, but also eat flesh and blood. The description of Hydra in the archives mentioned that Hydra is extremely keen on eating humans instead of human food to replenish energy. Every empty village encountered by the expeditionary force can find only bones with blood remaining.

A large number of enslaved Egyptians cried to the expeditionary force, saying that they had seen their families being eaten by the terrible "demon". Captain Miller felt sick just by listening to the survivors' stories. He really couldn't imagine how terrible it was for a person to be eaten from the inside in just a few seconds, and he couldn't imagine the despair of the survivors. He had witnessed the barbaric blood sacrifices of this era, but he believed that the people eaten by Hydra were far more desperate than the sacrifices of the blood sacrifices. He still believed that the emperor's sentence of destroying Hydra with a hydrogen bomb was too light.

"The intelligence is correct. Hydra was here." Hammurabi roughly recalled the forensic courses he had taken. "The time of death cannot exceed twelve hours."

Captain Miller marked Hammurabi's coordinates on the map, marked it on the list, and sent it to the General Staff. The archives showed that Hydra was a parasite controlled by a collective consciousness, and it could parasitize different Inhuman bodies, which meant that it could appear in multiple places at the same time - another guard also reported the same situation, the same type of skeleton - the expeditionary force could not determine which Inhuman the main consciousness of Hydra was in, and before Hydra aggregated into an individual, the decapitation strike had no meaning.

In order to ensure that all expeditionary commandos could provide support as quickly as possible when Hydra appeared, the General Staff used a very complex mathematical algorithm. Captain Miller had a headache when he thought of the numbers given by the General Staff. He had excellent math grades when he was a student, but that didn't mean he understood those advanced mathematical principles. He only remembered that the emperor who participated in the calculation mentioned something called "topological coloring map" and claimed that even the Inhumans could not escape the laws of mathematics. Although he didn't understand that mathematical algorithm, Captain Miller knew the process of elimination.

What the expeditionary force can do is to continuously compress the Inhumans' range of activities until it forces Hydra to actively shrink its power and aggregate all the nano parasites. The more Inhumans are killed, the smaller the range of Hydra's main consciousness will be. The Emperor is very sure that Hydra will not take the initiative to fight an opponent whose strength it cannot judge. As the only Inhuman with free will, Hydra cherishes his life very much.

Under the Kree's coercion, Hydra would certainly shrink his scattered parasites to accumulate strength and collect intelligence. But for the Kree, Hydra and other Inhumans are just the products of the slave soldier project, and are cannon fodder to deal with the Skrull War. It is more appropriate to use the Inhumans to fight against the humans who resist the Kree.

"According to the established tactics, when the staff gives the location, the closest squad within 120 kilometers will launch a decapitation strike. Before that, all squads must minimize non-combat casualties and ensure that there are enough troops to wait for support from other squads." Captain Miller reminded.

He had the battle reports of all seven expeditionary commandos led by the Praetorian Guard. While clearing out the outposts around the Kree Research Center, they were also clearing out the Inhumans with combat capabilities on a large scale. He was very worried that these expeditionary forces would suffer too many casualties in this operation, so that there would not be enough soldiers and weapons and ammunition to encircle and suppress Hydra.

"I don't need a reminder." Hammurabi hung up the communication and waved to the expeditionary force, "Continue to move forward according to the route on the map."

Three hours later, in the marching team 30 kilometers away from Hammurabi, Captain Miller jumped off the caravan that served as the staff and rode on a warhorse that belonged to him. He urged the warhorse to trot all the way until he arrived at the command department in the middle of the marching team. Anyone who saw the white winged Pegasus would know that this was the headquarters of the expeditionary force, because where the white Pegasus was, the emperor was there.

"I brought you the latest progress. Hydra's appearance location has been locked in these four villages. The Guards will conduct fire reconnaissance on the four villages. One of the commandos will definitely encounter Hydra, and the other three teams will arrive in thirty-seven minutes." Captain Miller held a piece of parchment with numbers and symbols written on it. "Probability, a trick of the General Staff. I have to admit that the General Staff's method is very effective. At least we don't have to search every village."

"The marching speed is too slow. We still need another 35 minutes to reach the designated support position. If Hydra is in the village farthest from us, it will take another 35 minutes for this 1,000-man combat team to be effective." The emperor said bluntly, "Either we let four expeditionary commandos totaling 400 people and four guards fight against all the Inhumans created by the Kree without our support, or we delay the reconnaissance time and give up letting this expeditionary force set up camp and have a decisive battle with the Inhumans at dusk."

“It’s time slack in the schedule.”

"It has now been proven that this time margin is not enough." The Emperor said, "There are only two choices now, Captain Miller. Either let the expeditionary commandos hold out for seventy minutes, and then we lead a thousand tired soldiers who have been marching for more than six hours to launch an attack, or take the risk of a night battle with the Inhumans."

"Night battle." Captain Miller thought for a few seconds. "Our soldiers are not night blind, and we have plenty of flares. We can create favorable combat conditions. More importantly, we can have time to recover our strength."

"You decide." The Emperor nodded. "The Praetorian Guard can deal with Hydra. I need to attack the Kree research base with other Praetorian Guards."

When Hammurabi received the message, he had already arrived two kilometers away from the village where Hydra might appear. It was located in a valley next to the river bank, and the village was right by the river. The villages in the occupied areas were almost the same. No locals would wander outside the village, and all the farmland was almost deserted. The only thing that was certain was that wild animals did not dare to approach this place, which meant that there were several Inhumans stationed in the village.

He waved back, signaling the soldiers to lie down their horses and keep quiet.

"We have to wait for seventy minutes. During this time, let the horses recover their strength. Check the ammunition reserves, eat and drink water. The patrol range is 500 meters, and we take turns on duty to ensure that no enemy approaches."

As a series of orders were issued, the entire team fell into complete silence, except for the breathing of the horses and the drinking and eating sounds of the soldiers. These highly qualified soldiers fully executed every order issued by Hammurabi, and even fed the horses carefully without making much noise. Even if the enemies in the village heard it, they would only think it was the sound of hungry animals wandering outside the village. It was not until the afterglow of the setting sun sank into the other side of the valley that Hammurabi opened the data board and calculated the arrival time of the support troops in his heart, and then he gestured to indicate that the rest time was over.

The expeditionary commando team spent another five minutes surrounding the village, setting up firepower and defense teams at each exit, and the guards issued an attack order. At the same time, several bright, smoky, dazzling lights rose in the sky not far away, illuminating the exit on the other side of the valley. This was the fire support unit sent by the expeditionary force where the emperor was, specifically to provide indirect firepower and lighting for the expeditionary commando team.

"Begin fire reconnaissance." Hammurabi gave orders to his commandos and fire support troops at the same time, and the simple mortars immediately fired shells at the village. This mortar was a bit bulky due to the manufacturing process, but this simple mortar was equipped with shells made by the temple with fuses and high explosives. After a round of bombing, the houses built of mud bricks and wood were completely blown into pieces. The expeditionary commandos began to compress the encirclement inward, and Hammurabi led another team to rush in as before.

The fire support team saw the red flares rising over the village, and together with the expeditionary commandos responsible for surrounding the village, they placed fires sprinkled with fuel at every exit of the village as artillery indicators. "No one can enter before other commandos arrive." This is part of the meaning of the red flares. Another part means, "Encounter target Hydra."

The other three commandos, the fire support unit, and some of the main forces of the expeditionary force had received the message from Hammurabi and were marching quickly in this direction. The expeditionary assault team responsible for surrounding the village could only hear the continuous gunfire in the village. The already broken village earth wall seemed to be smashed by an invisible crazy beast. The expeditionary soldiers and horses were thrown into the sky by a strange force and then smashed heavily on the ground. Within a few seconds, the soldiers and horses who were still wailing in pain were eaten up by hundreds of millions of tiny teeth that were too small to be seen. The average human body has 5 liters of blood. It was later discovered that the blood left on the corpses bitten by Hydra was less than milliliters. The soldiers abandoned their horses and tried to avoid the sight of the invisible beast. At the same time, they found the right opportunity to throw small pottery bottles filled with fuel and fire at any gathered insect swarms.

At this time, the guards in golden armor were also hunting down the infected Inhumans.

Hammurabi knew that the expeditionary commandos could not stop Hydra for long, so he had to find Hydra's parasite as soon as possible. The fire, electricity and air controlled by these Inhumans could not penetrate the protection of the Imperial Guards armor, and their telepathic abilities could not penetrate the consciousness barrier adjusted by biochemical psychology. The strange physical mutations could not resist the sharp blades of the Garrison Spears covered with decomposition fields. Even the physical strength that the Inhumans were most proud of could not compare with the Imperial Guards.

In the fifth minute of the battle, there were still 65 people in the expeditionary assault team's combat sequence.

The winged winged man (also appeared in Attila) was the first to be killed. Hammurabi immediately locked onto this Inhuman hovering at low altitude and emptied his magazine at it. If Hydra tried to escape, then the Inhuman with the ability to fly would be the best host. Then there was a strange mutant with no eyes in his eye sockets and eyeballs crowded in other parts of his head. This was probably an Inhuman with the ability to manipulate the mind, which would bring huge losses to the expeditionary force. Then there was a beast with a height close to that of the Guards and wearing special armor. It tried to pounce on Hammurabi, but the Guards, who were familiar with various combat techniques, easily distanced themselves from it and pierced its neck with the Garrison Spear.

Hammurabi stretched out his hand towards the air, then suddenly clenched it.

A slender Inhuman suddenly appeared from thin air, scraping the armor of the Guards with a dagger in his hand. Hammurabi's palm grasped its neck tightly like a pair of pliers, and then he threw it aside without hesitation and broke the Inhuman's neck. This Inhuman with extremely fast speed always tried to steal the magazines in the guards' waist belt, but he overestimated his speed and underestimated the guards' reaction ability.

At the seventeenth minute of the battle, there were still 42 people in the expeditionary assault team's combat sequence.

An Inhuman with a clay body, even if it was burned and evaporated by the decomposition field of the Garrison Spear, it was still able to reassemble the separated body. It was not until the Inhuman was lured to a place far away from the water source that other commando soldiers took up a dozen Molotov cocktails left by their sacrificed comrades and ignited them at the same time, and finally burned to death this strange creature that had nothing to do with organic creatures in appearance.

The expeditionary forces began to occupy everything in the village that could be used as cover, and fired at the Inhumans who gathered under the attack of the Guards. They knew that their mission was to delay the Inhumans, these "demons", until other expeditionary forces arrived, and even if they were destined to sacrifice themselves, they had to rush in with the Guards.

Twenty-fifth minute into the battle, there were still 27 people in the expeditionary assault team's combat sequence.

It's too long again, I'll post the rest tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.