Chen Hao
Chapter 431 Pursuit
"Number 8, Rogers, seventeen three-meter class, ten six-meter class..."
"Number 9, Vett, twenty three-meter class, eight six-meter class..."
After half an hour of bloody battle, they had defeated the first wave of mutated beast attacks, and except for two who suffered minor injuries, the other members were unscathed.
"According to intelligence estimates, there are about three thousand mutated beasts in this ruined city. We wiped out a third of them in half an hour... And so far, not even one perfectly mutated beast king has shown up. This training mission is truly unchallenging." One warrior took off his helmet and mask and said in a mocking tone, "Could it be that those beast kings saw our previous performances and were so scared that they didn't dare to appear before us?"
"The great European Union is the most powerful country on Blue Star. It has been like this for the past hundred years, and it will not change in the next hundred years... How could these slimy beasts, who have only appeared for a few months, be our opponents!" Another tall and burly black warrior said with great confidence, his voice like a bell.
The morale of this team was very high. The victory in the world performance and the subsequent continuous "defeats" of the beast tide had made them extremely confident. The one-sided slaughter of mutated beasts just now gave them a sense of invincibility.
Compared to these overconfident team members, the blonde white man who was the captain seemed much more calm. After tallying the ammunition consumption, he said, "Rest time is half an hour. After half an hour, we will gather and go to the next area!"
The entire Haicheng area was very large. It was impossible for their color burst bombs to attract all the mutated beasts in Haicheng. Therefore, after this area was cleaned up, they were going to another coordinate thirty kilometers away to repeat the process.
They divided the entire Haicheng into ten areas according to size, and within two days, they would completely clean up the mutated beasts in these ten areas.
Only when all the monsters in the ten areas were cleaned up would their training mission be considered complete.
"Numbers 19 and 20..." After the blonde captain announced the rest order, his eyes fell on the names of Number 19 and Number 20 on the recorder form, whose battle record was "0." He picked up the communicator and contacted them, "Number 19! Number 20! Have you caught up with the enemy? Report mission progress!"
"..." There was no response from the walkie-talkie.
"Repeat! Have you..." The blonde captain repeated what he had just said, but there was still no response from the intercom system. He immediately realized that something might have happened to his two team members.
He immediately turned on the portable positioning watch and quickly locked onto an area. The signal sources representing Numbers 19 and 20 were now in a stopped state.
The signal was not lost, which meant that the team members were not in an electromagnetic chaos zone, nor had they encountered a mind-type enemy.
Based on just one signal source, the blonde captain judged some important information. He stood up, looked at everyone with a gloomy face, and said, "Gentlemen, we have encountered some trouble! Numbers 19 and 20 lost contact while pursuing an unidentified evolutionary. We need to go to the area where their signal source is located immediately."
"Rest time is over, let's go now!"
...
The blonde captain and his team members stood in front of a ruin, looking at the communication device and thermal imager that had been thrown on the ground. Everyone's face was covered with gloom.
"Sir! We found the remains of Numbers 19 and 20 three kilometers away." Two team members came from a distance, carrying combat uniforms that had not been burned down in the fire. There were some charred human tissues on the combat uniforms. "Because of the fire, we cannot identify the cause of their death."
If they couldn't determine the cause of death, they couldn't determine what type of evolutionary the opponent was...
This was not good news.
The blonde captain took a deep breath and said, "Collect their identity badges and combat uniforms, bury the remains!"
"Sir! We didn't bring satellite visual devices for this mission. Do we need to request support from headquarters and let them use satellites to help us find this enemy?" One team member asked.
"We are the most elite EU evolutionary warriors. The country has invested huge amounts of resources and energy in us. If we can't even handle this kind of thing on our own, how can we become the future hope of mankind?" The blonde captain picked up the communication device of the dead team member, his eyes fierce, "The other party must still be in this Haicheng. Find him and kill him in the cruelest way possible!"
This was originally an ordinary training mission. If those two evolutionary soldiers hadn't died, the captain might have really called for headquarters support to investigate and expel Lu Chi in Haicheng, because his first goal was to complete the training, not anything else.
But now that his soldiers were dead, his first goal had changed from completing the training to revenge. Moreover, the European Union had invested so many resources in them. As the captain, the blonde man naturally wanted to repay the higher-ups with excellent results.
If they couldn't even deal with an intruder, wouldn't that be too embarrassing?
Under this mentality, the blonde captain did not call headquarters for support to block and investigate Haicheng, but instead asked his team members to form groups of four and conduct a rapid search around the ruins.
In his mind, even if the enemy killed his two team members, he could not possibly be uninjured.
Even if he was an evolutionary, his movements would be affected after being injured. Therefore, he felt that he still had a chance to find the other party before he escaped from Haicheng.
"Damn bastard, I'll let you know what price you'll pay for killing the great EU warriors!" The captain's eyes were fierce and his state was angry.
Just as this group of EU evolutionaries were standing in front of the ruins, venting their anger, Lu Chi had already detoured back to the vicinity of the shelter. After confirming that there were no ambushes around, he turned on the signal band instrument, found the location that the survivors had mentioned before, and with extremely agile movements, quickly sneaked into the interior of the shelter.