PNB Chapter 108 Obstacle
Chapter 108 Obstacle
Kalimdor, Middle Nest.
"Chief! A bomb fell into the team. The preliminary statistics show that the number of infected people is 24!" A subordinate ran to Char and reported the latest battle situation to him.
"Send the doctor and the pancakes over there. We must contain the infection," Char said. "Tell the doctor not to save the pancakes. Everyone else, keep pushing forward. We must retake control of the area around the space elevator at all costs and as quickly as possible."
Suddenly, as if sensing something, Char quickly raised his right hand, and the laser generator on his right hand shot out a long and bright laser.
When the laser went out, a half-naked man fell from the top of a house. The man was covered in festering wounds, and dense maggots were wriggling in his exposed wounds. In many of the wounds, internal organs and bones could be seen.
However, the blood around these wounds had long since coagulated and formed scabs, emitting a foul odor, so these old wounds were not the real cause of his death.
What really killed him was a small, burnt hole between his eyebrows, where Char's laser had struck his brain. In his right hand, he held a green beer bottle, which fell to the ground and shattered, spilling its contents. A spark landed on it, and it instantly burst into flames.
Four hours ago, Zhongchao's wireless communication was interrupted. Char guessed that the signal was blocked, so he quickly activated the more primitive long-wave communication and wired communication.
An hour ago, Char's wireless communication module, which should have stopped working, received a message. The general content of the message was that the negotiations broke down, the operation to the upper nest had failed, and Arabelle and Howard planned to return to the middle nest via the space elevator. The message asked Char to control the situation near the middle nest space elevator as much as possible to ensure the safety of the two.
The message could not be traced back to the sender, but the only person who had the ability to send this message to himself when wireless communications were blocked could be the magical kid who claimed to be the one serving him as the Om Messiah.
Char calculated in his mind the time needed to achieve this goal, and finally replied with a short message: one hour.
At that time, the surrounding wireless signal was zero, and all that was received on any other band was disordered noise. However, after Char edited this short reply, the message was successfully sent after two seconds.
Then he grabbed the wired communication device that had just been connected on the table and began to assemble the troops.
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After shooting dead the enemy hiding on the rooftop who was planning a sneak attack, Char glanced at the time. There were still sixteen minutes left in the one hour he had promised.
At first he thought that the enemies they needed to face were only those infected people who were completely corrupted by the virus, but as they advanced deeper, they encountered new enemies.
These enemies are some armed elements of unknown origin.
These militants were defenselessly exposed to the air in the middle nest filled with germs and toxic substances. Most of them used only crude and simple firearms and homemade Molotov cocktails, and a few had relatively noteworthy firepower such as shoulder-mounted artillery or heavy machine guns.
If their combat power was only at this level, it would not be a threat to Char. However, Char soon discovered a problem. As they went deeper into the infected area, the number of plague zombies wandering aimlessly increased tenfold and a hundredfold. However, these plague zombies never attacked this group of mysterious militants. Sometimes, those zombies that should not still have brains would actually cooperate with this group of militants. They would walk side by side in the front to attract firepower and create attack opportunities for the militants behind.
At the same time, in addition to head-on confrontations, some enemies chose guerrilla warfare. They wandered in imperceptible shadows and pipes, always ready to launch attacks on Char's troops.
Although their crude weapons could not cause effective damage to Char's fully armed men, they only needed to tear even a small hole in their protective clothing to complete their mission.
When the number of people whose protection was damaged reached a certain limit, they would use virus bombs to attack Char's troops. These bombs were also simple, nothing more than a tank of culture medium filled with virus and a detonator.
But it is this simple method of attack that is the most difficult to defend against, because the virus bomb does not even need to hit directly. When the first virus bomb was used, it exploded directly above Char's convoy. The gray-green liquid spread out with the shock wave generated by the explosion, and finally formed a huge aerosol that slowly descended and enveloped the entire convoy.
The virus in the virus bomb seems to be more violent than the virus that spread before. Previously, it took an average of three days for people infected with the virus to go from initial infection to severe infection. However, people whose skin and mucous membranes have direct contact with the virus in the virus bomb will be transformed into plague zombies in less than ten minutes. If there are wounds on the body surface and the wounds are directly infected, the conversion process will be shortened to two minutes.
Two minutes was too short a time. Some infected people could be shooting with guns one second and suddenly coughing out their lungs the next. Many people were transformed into plague zombies while they were still waiting for Jianbing Guozi to rescue them. The few lucky ones completely lost their combat effectiveness even after being cured.
So when only the last fifth of the journey was left, the elite troops of more than 300 people that Char had brought with him at the beginning had been reduced to only more than 100 people, and among them, there were less than 80 people who were still capable of fighting.
Char's expression was solemn; he had made a mistake in judgment.
Although he had received some intelligence about unidentified armed elements roaming around Zhongchao before, he mistakenly judged these people to be small, scattered forces without a unified organization.
But now, judging from the determination of their resistance, there is no strong figure behind these militants to command and coordinate.
Although Char sent people back to convey the order for reinforcements midway, the wireless communication method was lost, and those who went back to convey the order for reinforcements did not successfully return to the camp. Even if the reinforcement team set out, it was still a question of how far away they would be from here.
And the worst thing is that there are not many pancakes left that can curb the infection.
Char had to make a choice. There were still more than sixty wounded soldiers in the team he led. These sixty wounded soldiers seriously slowed down the team's progress. If he gave up on them at this time, the remaining eighty elite soldiers would have a chance to reach the space elevator within the agreed time.
Of course, even if they reach the space elevator, they may not be able to fight back with just this few people, but they can hold their position and wait for reinforcements.
Char looked around and saw that his men were still struggling to resist and advance. If there was any other way, he would never give up the protagonist's men.
But now, protecting Howard's safety is the first goal. Although there are many mysteries about this person, Char believes that he is the key person to solve this crisis. In order to ensure his safety, he will sacrifice as many people as possible.
Just as Char was about to give the order to abandon the wounded and make a full-scale breakout, the sound of gunfire from the surrounding exchanges gradually subsided until it disappeared completely.
Then the armed men of unknown origin began to retreat and soon disappeared.