Life as a mercenary turned into a girl is a bit difficult

But when these words fell into Luo Shi's ears, he couldn't help but turn his gaze, which was already firmly attached to the witch, to Hiiragi Jing, the young girl who was taken as a temporary personal operator by Han Nianling not long ago. .

At the beginning of the meeting, let alone a 'temporary personal operator', he even doubted whether Hiiragi Jing had the abilities consistent with his status as a 'mercenary'.

Since there must be a reason behind Han Nianling's decision, and during the period of traveling together, Hiei Jing's indifference when facing the black rat corpses made his doubts slightly lessened, and the short companionship did not give him more opportunities to witness Her strength in all aspects is sufficient, at least mentally.

Does this sentence mean... to hint at him?

Luo Shi was right. Han Nianling was indeed using her perspective and influence to accelerate the change of Luo Shi's impression of Hiiragi Jing.

If it were normal times, Han Nianling would not be so fussy. Compared with verbal words, Hiiragi Jing's own performance would be more directly convincing, but the current situation does not fall into the category of ordinary.

Everything that follows is unknown. It is doubtful whether Hiiragi will have enough opportunities to demonstrate her ability to gain Luo Shi's trust before the real crisis arrives.

The impact of the lack of trust among the team members is extremely huge. At critical moments, it can even determine the life or death of any one person. Since there is no time, she can only take action.

The target... stopped?

Without any warning, the witch in sight suddenly stopped. She simply stood there without any unnecessary action. However, this abnormal behavior made the hearts of several people feel empty again, which had not been stable for a long time.

Could it be that the investigation team was discovered?No, the witch did not attack, but the actions to respond to the witch had to be adjusted accordingly.

Luo Shi frowned deeply. Just when he was about to call the investigation team to distance themselves slightly, Han Nianling had already opened the channel of the communication headset before him: "The investigation team immediately looked for a building that could cover the top of the head to hide!"

"How..." Before Luo Shi had time to think about it, the answer to the question came with a sharp roar and a blast of air. The entire originally peaceful street was immediately shrouded in dust blown by the wind.

"Stay away from windows!"

Han Nianling grabbed Higgin Jing's arm and pulled her close to the wall. Luo Shi reacted very quickly. He reacted immediately. The next second, strong wind pressure burst into the room through the window, and his ears also felt. There was only the roar of the strong wind.

The severely damaged interior was naturally unsealed. The powerful duel swept up the remains of furniture and rubble in the interior, and they were blown and thrown outdoors, landing heavily on the street outside.

Driven by the force of the wind, the dust spread rapidly and became heavier. Among the dusty air, there were countless dark green water droplets. When they fell, they exploded the moment they touched the object, and the liquid splashed in all directions farther away. It spreads from place to place, with a subtle 'squeaking' sound and white smoke rising from the places touched by the liquid.

And the initiator of all this was flying over their heads, flying in the same direction as them, towards the central city of the JD Abandoned City Nuclear Wasteland. The raging strong wind finally calmed down, and the already messy streets became even more unbearable. .

"Corrosion monster bird?"

Looking out the window with wide eyes staring at the huge mutated birds flying behind them, Luo Shi could suppress his voice but could not suppress the shock in his heart. Why...why is there such a situation in the JD Abandoned City Nuclear Wasteland? Monsters exist?Coupled with the witch that haunts here, the danger faced by the Newborn City is several times higher than he imagined.

Han Nianling, who took off his goggles, and Hiiragi Jing looked at each other, and their mutual gazes confirmed that the strange corrosion bird was the same one they had seen before.

"Captain Luo, calm down, that bird is still a baby bird."

Han Nianling coughed lightly as a reminder. Luo Shi immediately restrained his shock and returned to his mental state as the captain of the security team. "The corrosive liquid was sprinkled from its feathers, not from its feathers." The glands secrete it and then discharge it from the tail organ, which is still a long way from that of the adult body.”

Baby bird?Is a baby bird so big?

"I will convey this information to the observation post immediately and request support from the air force." Wiping the cold sweat that was about to flow from his brow into his eyes, Luo Shi only felt that his palms were sore when he came back to his senses. I actually exerted so much force on the hand holding the handle of the gun. Is this fear?It’s really a long-lost emotion.

"It's not over yet! It's not just the Corrosion Monster!" Hiiragi, who returned to the window with the intention of catching the Corrosion Monster, discovered something else. This discovery shocked people no less than the Corrosion Monster, forcing her voice to also He couldn't help but tremble, "To the east, there is another big guy moving towards the central city!"

Chapter 40 The disappearance of the investigation team

big guy?

The person who can still be called "big guy" by Hiiragi Jing despite having just witnessed a huge corrosive monster bird is definitely not small.

The hurricane in the air has subsided, but the hurricane in people's hearts is still lingering. Everyone who has just experienced a shock twists their slightly stiff necks and looks through the telescope along the quiet direction. At the end of the line of sight, a human figure. The shadow is slowly emerging from the hazy dust mist with the pace of progress.

The size change caused by the distance coupled with the seemingly slow movements makes it not as majestic as when the corrosion monster bird appears. However, when comparing the surrounding buildings at the same level horizontally, it can be seen that the height of this figure is almost Two storeys in extent.

"That...could it be..."

Luo Shi murmured, even though he felt a little numb after experiencing the appearance of the Corrosion Monster, the appearance of that figure still made a lot of waves in his heart. This was his first time since becoming the captain of the security team in so many years. This is the first time I've lost my temper.

In the wasteland world, most monsters with humanoid postures can be classified as "walking zombies". As the outline of the figure becomes clearer, its identity has been confirmed.

The blue-grey skin is completely different from that of ordinary walking zombies and fast walking zombies. The basically humanoid shape is also severely deformed. Different from the slender body of the fast walking zombies, the giant walking zombies have an extremely bloated and muscular body. The muscles are more of accumulated fat, which is piled up in circles on the abdomen. Compared with the huge head of the body, it seems unusually small. His walking is more like the movement of a mountain of meat, heavy. Every step taken by the body is a further extension of the cracks in the ground.

Giant walking corpse...

The first time he saw the other party, Hiiragi's mind had already accurately reflected information about it. Like the Swift Walking Dead, the Giant Walking Corpse is also a branch of the walking zombie mutation process. Like the Swift Walking Corpse, it is a relatively It is a common type of walking corpse, and it is not only this reason that makes Hiiragi so memorable, but the more unforgettable past that makes her impression so deep.

Although the category of giant walking zombies is relatively common, the individual giant walking zombie in front of them is not in the so-called "common" category, and the reason why everyone is shocked again is for the same reason: this giant walking zombie is not in the so-called "common" category. The evolutionary level of the corpse.

"Second and a half level... No, no, it's the real third level."

The initial judgment on the level of the giant walking corpse is very simple and intuitive. It is based on the height and shape of the target. Luo Shi has been dealing with monsters for more than ten years. The size of the giant walking corpse is definitely the largest he has seen so far. The largest individual of its kind in the world, with a height of nearly six meters, there was a big gap between it and its second-level counterparts. When he came to this conclusion, even he couldn't believe it.

Level 16... It has been [-] years since the First City was built, and the number of level [-] monsters recorded is only in double digits.

No one doubted Luo Shi's conclusion, and this also reminded Hiiragi Jing and Han Nianling of the second-level headhunting wild dog they saw at the subway station.

Mutated beasts and walking zombies are two completely different species. Mutated beasts and walking zombies of the same level cannot be accurately compared horizontally, but it is obvious that the overall strength of this third-level giant walking zombie is far greater than that of the second-level giant walking zombie. On top of the headhunting wild dogs, the danger level in the central part of the JD Abandoned City Nuclear Wasteland has increased sharply.

"It's heading toward the center of the city."

Following the same route as the witch and the corrupted monster bird, this third-level giant walking corpse that broke into everyone's sight was also heading towards the center of the JD ruined city. This discovery made them more and more convinced that there was indeed a existence in the center of the JD ruined city. What makes the witch and all the high street monsters flock to her.

"Can you hear the second investigation team? The second investigation team please call back!"

When the huge size of the giant zombie disappeared behind the building complex, everyone discovered that the ignored figure of the witch tyrant had also disappeared. Ross immediately began to try to establish contact with the second team, but the continuous snowflake sound behind him Never got a response from the other side.

Just when their attention was briefly diverted, the investigation team lost contact...

Luo Shi's heart plummeted to freezing point. He raised his hand and looked at the signal source from the two members of the investigation team on the display frequency. The rhythmic signal bands came in bursts like a beating heart rate, but Luo Shi didn't feel anything from it. Without the power of life, he had already considered the worst possible scenario.

"The first investigation team immediately approached the signal source of the second investigation team, and the others followed and were ready to respond at any time."

The team that left the building immediately headed in the direction where the second reconnaissance team disappeared just now. However, after experiencing the shock given to them by the appearance of a series of high-risk monsters, no one dared to put down their guard at all. When they approached the second reconnaissance team just now, they finally wanted to avoid corrosion. When the strange bird was building the building, the faint smell of blood made everyone look a little ugly.

His footsteps paused for a moment at the window. When Luo Shi carefully focused his gaze on it, the scene he saw immediately made him extremely angry at this moment.

I saw more than a dozen walking corpses sitting in a group in the dark corner, munching on the broken corpse among them. The bloody corpses with holes in them had long lost their human shape and were difficult to identify, but the fragments of clothing around them had already Proving they were originally part of a security team.

"Damn...shoot!"

As soon as Luo Shi shouted this order, the team members had already pointed their guns at the walking corpses that were eating the corpses of their team members. In just the blink of an eye, the bullets spit from the guns hit these people who were unaware of the danger. While the zombies were still enjoying their meat and active cells, more than a dozen of them were killed on the spot without even having time to roar.

After a few seconds of silence, Luo Shi took the lead and stepped into the bloody center, walking straight towards the bloody center. The dust on the blood-soaked ground had already condensed into lumps, and fell with his feet. A deep bloody footprint was left behind, and the condensed dust could not make any waves. They had been condensed together with the blood.

These military boots have obviously stepped on countless blood, but when stepping on the blood from the team members, it feels like walking into a muddy swamp, and every step is so laborious.

While taking off his tactical gloves, he slowly knelt down beside the broken corpse. He searched for something with his bare hands regardless of the blood and filth. It wasn't until he found an oval-shaped iron piece from the corpse that he walked towards the other broken corpse. That's the security team's nameplate for verifying personal information.

This scene made Hiiragi couldn't help but reach out and touch the mercenary certificate in his pocket that he got before entering the nuclear wasteland of JD Abandoned City. This cold piece of metal separated the realm of life and death, but no matter how cold it was, it was colder than Such a world is warmer.

It seems... the Luo Shi in front of her is not as annoying as she thought before...

"Let's deal with it..."

Luo Shi found all the name tags of the two team members and put them into the pockets of his tactical vests. Luo Shi slowly walked out of the small building and silently broke the silence from beginning to end. The team members who had been watching walked into the building, collected and cleaned up. The weapons and equipment scattered around.

"Ordinary zombies would never be able to do this."

When he came to Han Nianling, Luo Shi lowered his voice and said, his calm tone was more like suppressing something. He had already judged the murderer who killed two of his team members. It was not just him, Hieragi Jing and Han Nianling They all agreed with his statement that just a dozen ordinary zombies could not be the opponent of two fully armed and well-trained security guards, and they did not even have time to sound the alarm.

The broken parts of the corpse are not just the bite marks of the zombies. Those smooth cuts can only be made with sharp tools, and the only one who can do this is the witch tyrant.

"Report our specific location to the observation post, and continue to track the witch."

"understood."

The next second, a sudden high temperature suddenly came from behind them. The strange temperature made Hiiragi look back. The team members responsible for cleaning up walked out of the building one after another, and the blood was engulfed by the rising flames. All traces of the sporadic explosions were burned away.

The black masks under the helmets of the team members reflected the roaring flames. Even the death of the security team members was just like this. At this moment, they were no different from mercenaries, scavengers, and poor people. This is also the best in such a high-risk area. As a result, everything is turned into powder to prevent the corpses from being swallowed by monsters, and the living must take the handover baton from the dead and keep moving forward in the wasteland.

Chapter 41 The battle of the security team

Death, especially the death of two elite security team members, gave Hiiragi a deeper understanding of the 'high-risk' level of the nuclear wasteland, and also made her deeply aware of how difficult it was for their mercenary team to leave at full strength. Fortunately, this is an area where even the security team cannot resist death.

The loss of two team members was a serious loss for the security team, which only had ten members. However, the positioning mission did not end because of this. Finding and reporting the location of the witch was still their primary goal.

"The troops at the observation post have entered the current position from the west of the JD Abandoned City Nuclear Wasteland, and have sent teams to advance towards the central city."

This information, which was just obtained through Han Nianling's contact with the observation post, diluted the gloomy atmosphere caused by the death of some team members.

Death is a common thing in the wasteland. Only the inheritance and memory of survivors will not make death cheap.

After regaining their morale, the security team resumed tracking the witch. Although they had already opened a distance, as long as the monitor in Han Nianling's hand was still operating, they could determine the witch's direction and fish from a distance. at the rear.

However, this distance does not provide much substantial safety. Everyone has a common understanding: fatal dangers not only exist near the witch. In addition to the witch, there is also the young corroded bird, which has entered the third year of life. level of giant walking corpses, as well as all high-risk monsters they have never observed.

The entire 02A... no, the density of high-risk monsters in the entire central city has probably reached its highest level in history. The gathering of these monsters has turned the entire central city into a huge whirlpool, and they are like a leaf boat that can be destroyed at any time. Tear apart by the waves set off by those monsters.

Perhaps just a ripple can be fatal, just like the dilemma they are facing now...

Hidden in a narrow alley with a width of only half a meter between buildings, clinging to the wall as if eager to merge with the darkness, no one dared to make a sound, and even their breathing became extremely weak, allowing them to remain so depressed. One after another, monsters were running past the entrances on both sides of the alley.

Among the monsters are headhunting wild dogs and swift walking corpses. It would not be difficult to find this hidden human team with just a little search. But at this time, they have no intention of hunting and preying. They exist in their minds. Their crystal nuclei have already given top priority to survival and are stimulating the host's brain nerves. These monsters just want to escape from this land of right and wrong, far away from the dangerous central city.

The cause of all this was a fierce conflict hundreds of meters ahead: two monsters several meters long were fighting fiercely. They were tumbling and fighting each other, with two huge tumbling bodies. The nearby area has long been razed to the ground, and dark red and black blood almost pooled under them to form a pool of blood.

There were waves of monsters roaring in my ears, and I could feel the shaking from the ground through my boots. Such fierce conflicts between monsters were rare.

There have always been few conflicts between high-level monsters. They are not irrational beasts when they first gain intelligence. They have learned how to avoid unnecessary conflicts. Especially high-level mutant beasts will use their own pheromones to draw out Territory, so that the probability of conflict is reduced to a minimum.

But with this inexplicable migration of high-level monsters, a large number of them gathered in the central part, and the so-called geographical restrictions on the territory no longer existed. It was the ripples caused by the conflict between these two monsters that brought the current huge situation to the team. crisis.

"Boom boom boom!!!"

Suddenly a thunderous sound exploded in the distance, and the violent vibration caused a series of debris to be peeled off from the wall. The tiny particles fell on the helmets or hoods of the team and others, making a rustling sound, and also The members of the team were startled.

"Investigation team, immediately report the situation around us. What happened?"

The number of fleeing monsters had reduced to one or two, and Luo Shi, who had no need to worry about it, immediately contacted the first investigation team through the communication headset for questioning.

"The low-level monsters have basically left, and the battle between the two high-level monsters seems to be coming to an end... It's just..."

only?

Nothing is more unsettling than the twist after good news, and the second half of the sentence spoken by the investigation team indeed proved that their uneasiness was not wrong.

"To the south... there is a large-scale corpse tide. The current observation is estimated to be around a thousand, and they are moving in our direction."

Corpse wave? !

Hiiragi's heart tightened. The current situation was no worse than the situation of falling into the subway. The monsters in front blocked the way, and there was a large wave of corpses coming from behind. Sandwiched in between Their fate can be imagined.

"Keep watching to see if we can bypass the monster in front and pass through other routes, and meet us depending on the situation."

Luo Shi looked through the gap in the alley at the roof of a building not far away, where the investigation team was currently located.

The destruction of the second investigation team made Luo Shi dare not easily distance himself from the investigation team. The maximum distance between the dispatched first investigation team and them was always kept within 200 meters.

However, this also greatly limits the scope of the investigation team. When the crisis comes, they have no more time to react, which leads to the dangerous scene the team just experienced. It was too late to confirm whether the surrounding buildings are conducive to holding on when facing monsters. , they could only move to the nearest hiding spot. Fortunately, everything passed without incident.

"This..." Luo Shi's question made the voice on the other end of the headset hesitate for a while before saying, "I'm afraid it's a bit difficult. The road surface in the north has collapsed, and there is a large amount of water inside, which makes it difficult to cross. There are also buildings blocking the way in the west. I can’t see the specific situation, but which direction is where most of the monsters fled just now.”

In other words, is it blocked?Bad news came one after another. Luo Shi frowned under the gas mask. After a short silence, he nodded lightly: "Okay, I understand, keep observing..."

Repeating his previous instructions for the second time, Luo Shi turned his eyes to the right and looked back at the team members around him. Without any hesitation, his resolute voice was loud and clear: "Security Team [-] is ready to fight!"

Expected.

The decisiveness shown by Luo Shi made Hiiragi unconsciously think of the memory of Luo Shi in her dream, but it also made her feel a little excited inside. This was a battle of the security team!Even in dreams, I have never seen combat operations conducted on a small team scale.

"Researcher Han, please cooperate with your operators in the next battle."

Han Nianling didn't say much in response to Luo Shi's request. He nodded slightly to express his attitude. Luo Shi was an expert in combat and was most familiar with the operations of the security team. Han Nianling knew very well what his position was in the team.

……

As reported by the investigation team, the battle between the two monsters was coming to an end. Among the collapsed ruins, the reptile giant lizard on one side of the conflict was biting the throat of the headhunting wild dog on the other side. Red blood and a hissing sound of breaking wind kept pouring out from the slit in his throat.

They are all second-level monsters, but their individual combat effectiveness is still superior to the headhunting wild dogs and crawling monitor lizards that are good at group warfare.

As the loser in this fight to the death, the headhunting wild dog can only struggle in vain and twitch and slowly die, while the crawling monitor lizard only needs to maintain its bite and kill the opponent with suffocation and blood loss.

"Combat Team One is in position."

"The No. [-] combat team is in place."

"The explosive bombs have been replaced, and the reconnaissance team can provide fire support to the battlefield at any time."

"..."

Reports on the completion of various security team groups came out from the communication headset, and the faint smell of gunpowder smoke gradually gathered in the air, but these had nothing to do with Hiiragi Jing, but it was more like this battle between her and Han Nianling The onlookers were on the roof of a tall building a hundred meters away, and those who joined the battle were only in sight.

It was a reserve force in name, and even the weapons of the two former security team members were given to her for use, but it was obvious that she was not regarded as a combatant and assigned any combat tasks.