In the dark basement basement, it didn't become quiet because of the temporary rest of a few people. If the monitoring system in the base can still function, it will be found that a fierce battle is taking place in the A6 area.
The flames of the machine gun illuminated some buildings in the area, and the high-energy guns that exploded from time to time even released orange flames, making the entire area as bright as day. However, neither bullets nor guns can stop their progress.
Living corpses, a large number of ordinary living corpses poured out from the buildings in the residential area, the garage, and any hiding places. They are like a group of blood-sucking mosquitoes, and Rankin's blaster team is the most delicious blood. There are also a small number of living corpses with guns, using their remaining instincts to respond to the firepower of the blaster team with their machine guns. In this kind of confrontation, as long as the head is not injured, the living corpses that will not die obviously have an advantage, and the number of living corpse shooters is far higher than that of the blaster team.
Therefore, after a few rounds, two soldiers in the blaster team were shot and killed.
Just as the living corpses kept approaching the shop that the blaster team had turned into a trench, Rankin let out a loud roar, and khaki flames shot out from his eyes. At the same time, a nearby six-story building suddenly vibrated violently, and then shattered. Nearly tons of gravel and countless steel bars crashed down, falling right into the crowd of corpses.
Immediately, countless living corpses were smashed into a pulp. As the ground shook for nearly a minute, an earth barrier was built in front of the store, and nearly two hundred living corpses were buried.
Rankin gasped for breath.
Due to the environment of the underground base, Rankine's earth element ability was greatly reduced. If it is on the surface, on the endless land, Rankin can hunt and kill a large number of living corpses as long as he summons a large number of ground thorns with low energy consumption. But now in the underground base, there are too few earth elements for Rankine to use. In desperation, he could only use elemental shocks to cause the nearby concrete buildings to vibrate, eventually causing them to collapse, crushing and killing the enemy.
As a fifth-level ability, the elemental vibration is originally a method of large-scale destruction by resonating with the elements in the area of effect, thereby triggering elemental fission and explosion. But in the underground base, the amount of earth element is so small that it can be ignored. Rankin can only use it to affect the nearby buildings. But to use this ability, the price/performance ratio is pitifully small, and it can be described as a thankless job.
"Withdraw." Seeing that the attack of the living corpses was suppressed, Rankin said weakly.
After entering the underground base, Rankin's team encountered a large number of living corpses. At first, Rankin didn't take this mutant creature with low intelligence seriously. But as the number of living corpses increased, Rankin finally realized that no matter how trashy monsters were, once they reached a certain level, quantitative changes would lead to qualitative changes. Although the blaster team is well-equipped, the number of people is limited after all, and it cannot withstand the crowd tactics of living corpses.
So in the tactic of fighting while withdrawing, Rankin's team spent nearly 24 hours, but they only broke through to the edge of the residential area. But there were nearly 2,000 corpses that fell on the path of the blaster team!
However, the blaster team was not without losses. From the ten people who entered the base before, now, including Rankine, there are only five people left. Among these five people, apart from ordinary soldiers with abilities around the third level, Rankine also lost a guerrilla. This made Rankin very depressed, and the death of Guerrilla Mei was a big blow to him.
According to the instructions of the electronic map, they still need to break through at least two areas before they can find a safe passage to the lower base. But below that, there are four full floors of bases waiting for them. God knows how many monsters there will be and how strong their abilities will be.
"Damn it, that old man Kario must be playing tricks on us!"
In a private garage, Rankin's team was resting. As the captain, Rankin saw the long distance on the tactical board, he couldn't help but smashed the tactical board to the ground.
The impact of the strong blow caused the LCD screen of the tactical board to burst immediately, and the electronic components were also damaged to varying degrees. When a faint gray smoke rose from the tactical board, the tactical board was declared dead.
But that didn't vent Rankine's anger. He walked back and forth in the garage like a bull, shouting: "Look at the distance, look at the monsters on the road, this is an impossible task Let alone ten people, even if I were given a hundred-man team, it might not be able to do it.”
Rankin complained about the unreasonableness of the mission, but he never thought that, as the Doomhammer with the smallest number of people among the five major legions, but the strongest. The combat method of this legion is based on squads, known for long-range infiltration and sharp knife tactics. This not only requires the average level of the team members to be above Tier 4, but also needs to test the commanding skills of the captains.
From the very beginning, the task assigned by Cario was originally not intended for the three teams to forcibly clear the level. Cario hopes to test the cooperation between the captain and the players, as well as the team's ability to respond to disadvantages.
It's a pity that Rankin didn't consider the tactical details, but complained about Cario's mission. But now, the blaster team is not only facing the disadvantage of a sharp drop in members, but also the consumption of ammunition is a big problem.
Even if the carrying equipment and firearms of the dead were recovered, the two thousand living corpses killed by the blaster team were placed there. Even if each living corpse was allocated a bullet, the team now has very little ammunition left. What's more, this does not include the consumption of various tactical weapons.
According to the team's remaining ammunition, it is very difficult to even pass through areas B and C.
"Captain, maybe we should search the warehouse in Area C, maybe there is an arsenal." The only guerrilla, Mag, said, and now, he is also the only soldier in the team who has the weight to make suggestions.
Rankin nodded emphatically, this is a feasible solution at the moment. Almost half of the living corpses in Area A were killed by the bombers. If they retreated the same way now, Rankin's team would have at least a 90% chance of returning to the ground safely. But Na consciously gave up the mission, and everyone in the team, including Rankine, would be branded as "coward" and "coward".
Asgard's warriors would rather die in battle than bear such a title.
Therefore, moving forward became Rankine's only choice now. And to continue to go deep into the base, the supplement of ammunition is inevitable. Although the public information given by Cario did not indicate the existence of an arsenal in Area C. But as a warehouse area, the arsenal should also be included.
"It's time for a break, gentlemen." Rankin roared, waving his hands, "Let's set out, find the arsenal in Area C, and then teach these guys who are following us a lesson!"
Rankin's words played a small role in motivating them. The soldiers who were already tired all stood up from the ground, packed up their equipment, and left the private garage.
Outside the garage, there is a private passage. It allows the owner of the garage to drive to the street square in the residential area, where there is a themed fountain. The ground of the square is paved with white stone slabs with a length of one meter on the metal surface. There are dozens of long benches around the square for people to rest. Near the square, dozens of birch trees were even transplanted from the ground, and they were planted in improved soil to allow this old-age tree species to survive.
However, now that the base has been abandoned, the fountains in the square no longer spray clear water, and the dozens of birch trees are only dry trunks. The entire square in the middle of the street was shrouded in a deep sense of death. When Rankin and his party came to the square, they could even see a few living corpses eating their companions.
For monsters like living corpses, which are close to beasts, they don't have the same concept. In their instinct, when there is no food, the same kind is the food to satisfy the hunger temporarily.
The scalp-numbing gnawing sound continued to sound, and as the object of being gnawed, a living corpse in the shape of a teenager let out a cry of pain. The young living corpse without half of his face stretched out his hands to resist his own kind. But the pale, pus-filled arm was quickly eaten away by the same kind.
They used their alienated sharp teeth to bite the flesh of the living corpse, and with a bite and a pull, strips of blood would be torn off, and then swallowed into the mouth and into the stomach.
Rankin gestured for the team to leave quietly so as not to attract the attention of the living corpse. Even with his ego, he didn't want to have a dispute for no reason given the lack of ammunition.
But just as the team started to shift, a bullet flew from the darkness and hit Guerrilla Meg's thigh. Mag's screams and sniper gunshots sounded at the same time, and the sudden cry stopped the eating zombies, and then Qi Qi looked in the direction of Rankin's team.
While Rankin was cursing, the living corpses let out a sharp cry, which was their voice to inform their own kind. No matter what they were doing, the living corpses temporarily stopped their movements when they heard the roar, and then rushed towards the screaming direction like a tide.
But in a short moment, more than a hundred living corpses were attracted by the shriek, including a butcher.
"Damn it, who gave me the cold shot." Rankin yelled while supporting Mag, and commanded the team to retreat from the opposite direction.
The living corpses were unwilling to let go of the fat in their mouths, so they just rushed towards them. And the butcher in the group of living corpses let out a loud roar, followed by his legs as thick as elephant legs, and charged towards the blaster team. Everything on the path of the butcher's charge, whether it was a chair, an ancient tree, or a living corpse, was directly knocked away by the giant, and Rankin's heart sank.
Between a window on the fifth floor of a standard residential building 200 meters away from the square in the middle of the street, a small Caucasian man retracted the sniper rifle mounted on the window, and then said to the back: "Captain, Rankin and the others We are retreating in the direction of B1 area."
In the living room of this house, Anthony is sitting on the sofa. After hearing what his sniper Betsy said, he opened his eyes and said, "Very well, let that idiot Rankin attract the attention of the living corpses for us. We just need to follow the path opened by this idiot. "