Trickster Hunter

Chapter 286 Rain Curtain

"Is something going to happen?" Another person said as he removed the equipment hanging on his power armor one by one and began to replace the batteries.

"Bah, don't fucking talk nonsense, it's unlucky!" The colleague immediately spat, "I'll go out and take a look, remember to reinforce the tent later... Damn, if it doesn't stop raining, I feel like this place will soon be destroyed. It’s going to be a swamp.”

"It's already a swamp now." The man who was changing the battery raised his foot, and the black mud slid down his calf piece by piece and fell on the tarpaulin spread inside the tent.

"When Lao Li and the others come back, we will apply to the superiors to move the observation post a few miles back... I estimate that this area will be flooded in less than half a day." A machine with a yellow and black warning paint He opened the tent with his arm, and the three-meter-high power armor once again penetrated into the rain curtain.

As soon as he stepped down, there was only a "puff" sound, and the boots of the power armor immediately sank deep into the soft mud. The mud and dirty water pouring in from all around instantly submerged his insteps.

Fortunately, the mechanical joints of this power armor have been specially treated for waterproofing, and a sealing film made of polymer materials is also put on the outside. Let alone trekking in a swamp on a rainy day, even under water. Action is no problem at all.

The man glanced at the screen projected on the inside of the mask and saw that the remaining oxygen content was still 67%, which was enough to walk back and forth within the mission area for two times.

He reached out and touched the spare oxygen bottle hanging on his lower back, and continued to walk forward one foot deeper and one foot shallower.

The rain was heavy and the wind was strong. In addition to the harsh noise of electricity in the communication channel, there was only a continuous rustling sound. He reached out and turned on the searchlights on the top and shoulders of the helmet, but the light of the searchlights could not be emitted. Fifty meters was swallowed up by darkness, and things further away could only be seen as a vague outline.

"Xiao Wang, how is the situation over there? Have the video files been extracted?" he asked in the communication channel.

"It's a bit bad. Most of the video files are damaged. I'll send them back first. As for how far they can be repaired, it just depends on luck." Xiao Wang - the field operator who complained about the tingling of his skin before He replied, "To be honest, it doesn't make any sense whether to repair it or not. It's all a black mess anyway, and nothing of value has been photographed."

"I'll go in the direction where Lao Li and the others started. You can quickly reinforce the tent." He turned back and looked at the tent. "The wind is so strong that I feel like the tent will be blown away."

"You're still reinforcing it. Hurry up and grab your stuff and retreat to Observation Post No. 1." Xiao Wang complained, "There's no way we can stay in this place... Damn it, the lens of my camera hit the ground!"

"Okay, but we have to wait for Lao Li and the others to come back first." The man who walked out of the tent switched the communication mode to the public channel, "This is observation post zero Liu Yu, number 0261, calling Li Yimin and Peng Wei, please reply if you hear me. Repeat it, Liu Yu calls Li Yimin and Peng Wei, please reply if you hear me."

There was only the rustling sound of electricity in the communication channel, and there was no reply.

"Brother Liu, if you ask me, you should wait here." Xiao Wang's voice rang on the communication channel, "The visibility outside is only less than 30 meters now, and the rain is still so heavy, I'm afraid of you. Go look for them, and when they come back later and you lose them, that will be troublesome. "

Liu Yu, who had just moved forward for more than ten meters with difficulty, stopped. When he thought about it carefully, what Xiao Wang said did make sense... It was only five minutes beyond the scheduled return time. The other group of people might not have Whatever accident happened, it was just the bad weather that slowed us down.

"Yes..." Liu Yu whispered. He raised his head and looked at the huge fluorescent creature standing in the rain curtain in the distance... For some reason, an inexplicable irritability gradually grew in his heart. out.

"Brother Liu, we have been approved by the superiors to cancel Observation Post Zero." Xiao Wang's voice sounded again, "They asked us to take all equipment and personnel and evacuate to Observation Post No. 1 immediately. In addition, new reinforcements are also on the way. "

"Well, pack your things and remember not to miss anything." Liu Yu nodded, "We'll just wait for Lao Li and the others."

"It's been packed a long time ago." Xiao Wang said, "Just stuff it into the box and stick it on the shelf behind it... As for the tent, don't you want this thing? It's not worth a few anyway. money."

"Of course you don't feel bad if you didn't pay for it." Liu Yu turned around and glanced at the junior who came out of the tent, "I think back then, when the department's funds were tight..."

"Come on, come on, don't do this to me. At this juncture, why are you remembering the bitter and savoring the sweet? Our current situation is already bitter enough." Xiao Wang couldn't help complaining.

Liu Yu turned his head back and did not continue.

"Hey, I'm just wondering, has Tianfu City's own field department been completely destroyed or something? Such an important job has been delegated to us. As soon as the plane landed, I didn't even know what the north, south, east, and west were. Being thrown to the front line... What a bad luck!" Xiao Wang, carrying a pile of boxes high on his back, wandered to Liu Yu's side and never stopped complaining.

"I heard people say that Tianfu City's own field department did suffer heavy casualties." Liu Yu said solemnly, "Now they are all newbies. It is really inappropriate to let those rookies do this kind of work."

"Isn't it? Tianfucheng is also the capital of Shuzhou after all. The field department of the local research institute has at least a hundred people, and they can't even make up four veterans?" Xiao Wang exclaimed.

"Well, it's all thanks to this thing." Liu Yu moved his eyes to the giant glowing thing.

…

As time passed by, the two people gradually began to feel anxious.

"Brother Liu...ten minutes have passed." Xiao Wang glanced at the time on the projection screen, "Are we...still waiting?"

"Wait." Liu Yu said decisively, "I have known Lao Li for more than ten years. With his caution and ability, it is impossible for anything to happen."

"Old horses sometimes stumble..."

"Can you shut your fucking mouth?" Liu Yu turned around and glared at Xiao Wang, "When Lao Li comes back, if he knows you cursed him like this, he will beat you until you can't get out of bed for three days. "

"But, the people behind are already urging..." Xiao Wang said with a look of embarrassment, "We have delayed it for too long. If we delay it any longer, we don't need to go to observation post No. 1. We can evacuate directly to No. 2 and No. 3. Gone.”

"Then we'll evacuate to No. 2 and No. 3 later!" Liu Yu said impatiently.

"However, we have been notified from above to evacuate directly..."

"I'm also wearing headphones, so I can hear the notification above." Liu Yu suddenly felt an unknown fire in his heart, "If you want to evacuate, you evacuate first. I want to stay and wait for them!"

As soon as he finished speaking, two bumpy light sources gradually emerged from the rain curtain in the distance, slowly approaching in this direction.

"Finally here!" Liu Yu gently patted Xiao Wang's helmet, "I told him that nothing could happen to Lao Li and the others!"

"Okay, okay, can we withdraw now?" Xiao Wang responded helplessly.

"Why are you so anxious? You've been waiting for ten minutes, are there still dozens of seconds left?" Liu Yu said, "The two of them seem to be having a hard time walking. I'll go up and take a look. Maybe someone is injured."

"Do you need a medical kit?" Xiao Wang subconsciously touched the shelf behind him.

"This place is unusable. Even if someone is injured, they have to be sent to the rear for treatment." After Liu Yu said that, he controlled the power armor to open his legs, pushed away the mud that was slowly coming in front, and strode toward the front. Go forward.

The rain is getting heavier.

The mud accumulated on the ground is enough to swallow up the knee joints of the power armor - this is because the power armor is taller than a person. If you take off the power armor and step directly into this swamp, The mud is probably reaching the top of my thighs.

This place was originally a rice field. The early crop of rice planted in early April had not had time to be harvested, and eternal night fell in Shuzhou. In the dark mud, you can even occasionally see brown rice ears mixed in.

"Lao Li? Peng Wei?" Liu Yu shouted in the communication channel as he walked forward.

However, except for Xiao Wang's voice and the sound of electricity, the other two people less than a hundred meters apart made no sound at all.

"Could it be that the communication equipment is broken?" Liu Yu thought, "That's right... If the communication equipment wasn't broken, they would have sent me a message long ago... I don't know if they have anything valuable in the other direction. The discovery..."

The other two pieces of orange power armor were trudging through the rain. Unlike Liu Yu and Xiao Wang, who were only covered in mud from the waist down, these two pieces of power armor were covered in mud, as if they were in the mud. It seemed like I had fallen several times.

"What's going on? Are you in such a mess?" Liu Yu gently adjusted the angle of the searchlight and directed the light towards the two people walking over.

Although the surface of the power armor is covered with mud, the name and number painted with white paint on the chest can still be identified. The two people walking towards Liu Yu are Li Yimin, a field operator from the other group, and Peng Wei.

"Both of you, no one is injured, right?" The other party's communication equipment was damaged. Liu Yu could only shout loudly and wave his arms vigorously - but the rain was so loud that his shout could not even be heard from a distance of one meter. It couldn't be transmitted out, so it was caught in the raindrops and knocked into the mud on the ground.

"It's useless, Brother Liu, they can't hear." Xiao Wang said from the side, "If you want to talk to them, you have to put the mask against the mask. Use a solid to conduct the sound, so you might still be able to hear clearly. Some."

"Damn it." Liu Yu cursed, but just when he was about to continue walking forward, his heartbeat seemed to suddenly skip a beat, making him freeze in place for half a second.

As a senior field operator who has carried out dozens of missions, Liu Yu's survival to this day is closely related to his luck and ability, but the most important thing is his ability to predict danger - even half of his colleagues Jokingly speaking, Liu Yu is also a superpower, and his superpower is that he will have a very obvious feeling when danger is coming.

Liu Yu felt that the hairs on his back were standing on end. He did not continue to move forward, but began to retreat.

"Xiao Wang, something is wrong." Liu Yu said in a low voice.

"Huh? Something's wrong? What's wrong?"

"I...I can't see their faces." Liu Yu said.

The distance between him and the two who had returned was less than 20 meters, but the searchlight shone on the helmets of the two people, but they could only see a dark area and could not see their faces clearly.

"Brother Liu, what do you mean by this?" Hearing Liu Yu say this, Xiao Wang shuddered for no reason, "You... don't scare me, Brother Liu... you know, I'm outspoken, sometimes I say whatever I think of... Brother Liu, don't use this method to retaliate against me... This joke is not funny at all."

"Back off, back to the back of the tent." Liu Yu said as he backed off, "Get your weapons ready..."

"Weapons?" Xiao Wang was stunned, "Our power armor is not equipped with weapons?"

"Open the main menu, the spare tools column, the custom auxiliary tools, and enter the code FN097." Liu Yu said, "It can unlock the power limit of the welding gun on your mechanical arm. This thing is your weapon."

"Oh...oh, but it warned me that this is a dangerous operation and does not allow me to unlock it!" Xiao Wang's voice was obviously a little flustered.

"Just repeat it three times." Liu Yu continued to retreat, but at some point, the two people in the other group obviously walked faster, and the distance between them and Liu Yu was constantly shortening.

"Okay, okay... Brother Liu, are you really sure that there is something wrong with Lao Li and the others?" Xiao Wang continued to ask, "Could it be... Could it be that their masks are just dirty, so you can't see their faces?"

Liu Yu did not reply, but controlled the mechanical arm on the right side of his backpack to raise it, and the four mechanical claws that simulated the structure of human fingers were retracted inward, making a fist with the palm facing forward.

In the general tactical action, this gesture means "stop moving forward".

However, the two did not stop, but continued to walk towards Liu Yu silently.

Liu Yu suddenly felt a piercing chill - he and Li Yimin had known each other for more than ten years, and the two had cooperated in missions for at least 20 times, if not 30 times, and they often trained together on weekdays... Liu Yu was really familiar with this old partner.

To put it in a slightly exaggerated way, even if Li Yimin was burned to ashes, Liu Yu would still be able to recognize him.

But now, this power armor with the three characters "Li Yimin" written on its chest gave Liu Yu an extremely unfamiliar feeling.

The cold got a little better, but the coughing couldn't stop, and taking two pills of Asme didn't help much...