Chapter 330 – Chinese Army Moves South (5)
The camouflaged Predator put on his helmet and approached with his head bowed.
In addition, the Chinese army’s viewing angle was calculated and the route was maintained so that bushes and tree branches obstructed the line of sight.
As we approached within a distance of 10 meters, we could now clearly see each other’s outlines without any obstruction.
When people think of the Chinese army, they tend to think of quantity, but that is a story from the past.
After going through several reforms and pouring in money, they have equipped themselves with equipment that surpasses that of most advanced countries, if not better than that of the U.S. Military.
In particular, isn’t the Northern Theater a unit that has the potential to respond to Russia, Korea, and US forces stationed in Korea?
It was a strong army among strong armies, well-equipped and trained by the Communist Party.
The four soldiers have very little exposed skin thanks to their uniforms and helmets covered with bulletproof pads. At most the face and neck?
-Aww!
The untimely howl of a wolf rings out. It was exactly opposite where the Predators were coming from.
The Chinese soldiers instinctively looked back without any hesitation.
Wolves are not a threat to them as they are far away and well armed, but this is ultimately a matter of instinct.
When a wolf howls behind its back, mammals have no choice but to turn around.
Well, that wasn’t a real wolf’s howl.
“The beast appears to be well-preserved here. “If you show some courage, you won’t have to worry about eating…”
When the veteran soldier turned around again, what caught his eye was the face of a combat robot that obscured his entire vision.
“All…?”
From a little distance away, he clearly had the features of a colleague, but when I saw him right in front of me, I saw a stranger.
A combination of inorganic eyes, nose, and mouth reminiscent of the uncanny valley.
Before he could scream, a beast-like hand grabbed the veteran’s neck.
“…!”
The electric current suddenly penetrates the spinal cord without any time to stop. The electrical signals flowing throughout the soldier’s entire body were suddenly disrupted, and he fell into a state of paralysis.
It is a suppression technique that is on a different level from striking a vital point or roughly defeating it with an electric shock.
Even when the two people in front were grabbed by the neck and fainted, the two behind them were unable to understand the situation.
“Take it.”
“Yes? Yes?!”
The soldier vaguely responded to the camouflaged Predator’s cold Chinese.
At the same time, the veteran’s body flies away.
“Wait!”
As the soldier panicked and accepted the body of the veteran, the soldier next to him instinctively sensed something suspicious.
Your finger is on the trigger, and you aim the gun forward.
However, there is no opponent where the gun is pointed.
“What?”
Below the friendly soldier, who falls like a doll whose strings have been cut, a strange being close to the ground glares at him.
“Hi!”
The soldier felt the hairs on his entire body stand on end.
The sight of an expressionless face and inorganic eyes looking up at oneself from the floor evoked indescribable fear.
Even though he is almost lying face down, not even his knees are touching the ground, let alone his upper body.
He lunges forward, supporting his body with only his toes. It felt like a shadow was coming over me.
I hurriedly lowered the gun to the ground, but it was too late. Two large hands grabbed both of his ankles.
“Ahh!”
My ankle is pulled straight out with pain that feels like it will be crushed.
Kudang!
Suddenly, he took a hurrah pose and fell backwards, and the Predator climbed on top of him like lightning.
Pajik.
And the soldier’s consciousness was lost.
“Surrender!”
The soldier who received the flying veteran froze when he saw the muzzle of his gun touching his forehead.
Three trustworthy colleagues are lying unconscious in the blink of an eye.
He only fainted for a moment, but in his eyes, he already looked like a corpse.
“Shoot, don’t shoot! “I’ll tell you anything, so please just spare your life…”
The lone soldier suddenly threw away his firearm and raised both hands.
He has traveled through eastern and northern China, Mongolia, and Russia, witnessing various battles, torture, and abuse.
I know very well what the wise course of action is in this situation.
The first thing is not to offend the other person unnecessarily.
The second is to give the other person everything they want.
“Give, give up! I give up! Money shoot! Money shoot!”
He, who had been talking only in Chinese, seemed to have suddenly realized something and started talking enthusiastically in English.
[Put his hands above his head and kneel down.]
However, when the enemies in front of me spoke in dry Chinese, I looked dumbfounded.
“Monster, monster!”
I felt like I was going out of my mind when I belatedly saw the other person’s face in detail.
These unidentified enemies were not human.
Infectious agent for about 0.1 second? That’s what I thought, but that’s not true.
Although he has experienced combat with quite a few mutants, he has never heard of an infected entity using a firearm.
It was very different from the security robots picked up from the political prison and serving in the military.
Meanwhile, additional Predators are joining from all directions.
The robot that distracted the attention by howling like a wolf and the robot that captured the sergeant.
As soon as they arrived, they all put down their weapons and shot dead.
The bodies of the unarmed Predators begin to twist.
Crack.
Wow.
The muscles shook as if in waves, then the skeleton changed and the muscles were retracted. The height and size that used to be that of a center back gradually became smaller.
Then, each person took off the clothes and helmets of the fallen soldiers and began to use them instead.
Even though the Chinese soldiers were of different sizes, it fit surprisingly well.
A Predator stares at the soldier who is looking around in fascination.
“I’ll give it to you!”
The soldier took off everything he had on. Folding and stacking things neatly was the part of a lowly soldier.
His naked body was engraved with grime from not washing properly and skin diseases he acquired from his wandering life.
But the robots don’t mind wearing the clothes those people take off.
[2nd team subdued. We will move to a new location and begin full-scale interrogation.]
Team 2, who completed the camouflage, reported to the shelter’s central control room.
Soon, other teams began to dominate and report one after another as if they were competing for rankings.
[Confirmation of capture target. We will begin suppression procedures.]
Team 3 leader takes out a sniper rifle and takes aim.
What you see in the scope are Chinese soldiers jumping into the valley naked and washing up.
“How long has this been a bath?”
“In Russia, the water is frozen even in spring, but Namgu is as good as ever!”
“Fuck you, those who don’t have time, go to that corner. “The waste is coming all the way here?!”
The last person to yell was a man with a large physique.
“Is this something your superior will do? It has the largest surface area here! “Aren’t you serving food for two by yourself?”
“What? You were so fucking big? “This is a bit of a waste of time, right?”
“Ugh! Please, save me! It is surrender.”
Suddenly, wrestling took place in the water of the valley, creating a noisy atmosphere.
On the other hand, all three Predator teams watching them are lying down as if dead.
An observer holding a telescope next to the leader aiming a rifle captures the optimal timing.
[Shoot.]
Phew! And with the sound of the wind escaping, the bullet flies past the silencer.
Poop!
The head of a Chinese soldier who was armed and on guard was smashed like a watermelon.
The rest, who were playing in the water, only realized the situation right before the corpse sentry collapsed.
But no one could shout, ‘It’s a surprise attack!’
This is because at the same time as the guard was killed, another bullet hit the valley water.
It’s so bad!
The special bullet, which Artemis named an electrocution bomb, penetrated the valley water and exploded with a blue flash.
“… Queak!”
Even though it has been adjusted for capture and its power has been significantly lowered, it will be a bitter taste for those on the receiving end.
The Chinese soldiers froze as if they were performing a performance art due to the pain of the high-voltage current stimulating their nerves and tearing their muscle fibers.
“Off…”
“… Kek!”
Ouch! Ina keaaak! The same classic scream could not be heard.
Strange groans, like a combination of a sigh and a hiccup, come out intermittently and then become limp.
Robots run like bullets to collect bodies floating with their faces in the water. We had to rescue them before they drowned.
[Suppression of 3 teams completed. I will be interrogated.]
Although one person died, it was a great achievement to capture an officer equivalent to the rank of captain in Korea.
[Yes!]
Because the manager’s voice cheering in the central control room reached the robots’ receivers through the microphone.
The male and female Chinese soldiers who were hiding in a secret place and sweating hard were also captured.
[Team 1 captured.]
The man was a corporal with a sturdy build, and the woman was a slim lieutenant.
The manager who was watching in the central control room thought for a moment that it would be pitied to just wait until it was finished, but he did not say it out loud.
At the peak of excitement, the mouth is blocked, and the bond is forcibly released.
The sight of a man and woman being dragged away with their fully erect genitals clearly exposed was very pathetic.
Prisoners from more diverse classes than expected were captured one after another, and interrogations began quickly.
* * *
The faces of various Chinese soldiers appear on the segmented screen.
She was completely naked, which made it easier to interrogate her and catch her if she escaped.
If you run while waving your apricot-colored body, you will be noticed right away.
If you run barefoot on bad roads and mountainous areas, the soles of your feet will be covered in scars, making it difficult to escape.
“These guys blow more easily than I thought?”
It was easy to steal information. The captured prisoners were surprisingly cooperative.
“Isn’t it true that people who are more familiar with evil are more afraid of it? You know that because they have also tortured and abused many people. How to act when you find yourself in that situation.”
Artemis said sarcastically.
“Or maybe they’re just scared of the robots that kidnapped them?”
“That could be possible.”
No matter how elite a soldier is, this would be his first time being kidnapped and interrogated by a non-human being.
If monsters with tremendous fighting power are interrogated while letting out creepy growls just by hearing them, it is natural for them to become cooperative.
Of course, there were some who held out until the end.
[Get out of here, you devils! A shot that will break the will of the great Chinese people?!]
An officer with the rank of second lieutenant shouted.
His eyes sparkled with fervent conviction.
“Is it Unit 4?”
I touched the pad to link the microphone to the Predator on the screen.
[If you want to kill me, kill me! I will never be able to open my mouth!]
“I have no intention of killing you. “If you were going to kill me, why would you take the trouble to bring me here?”
[…!]
My voice was transformed into Chinese in real time and transmitted.
“Start.”
I turned off the microphone and instructed the task.
[What, what! Go away! Get the hell away!]
The Predator, holding a needle-sharp electrode, went behind the officer.
In the middle of his struggling back, an electrode needle penetrates the spinal cord, as if placing an acupuncture needle. And electricity was injected.
[Errrrgh!!!]
A suppressed scream burst out from the mouth covered by the gag. The veins on the Chinese military officer’s neck stand out to a grotesque degree.
“There is no need for you to watch.”
Artemis tried to move the screen away, but I waved my hand away.
“I can do more in the future, but I shouldn’t be this harsh.”
At the commander’s meeting, I performed with pliers and nippers, but there is actually no need to use such barbaric methods as pulling out fingernails or cutting off fingers.
Because electricity knows the answer.
[Kooooo!!!]
An electric shock that goes directly into the spinal cord and spreads to organs throughout the body without protection from the skin and muscles.
In front of him, patriotism and fighting spirit shrink as small as a newborn pepper.
Worst pain intensity, sustainability without bleeding or scarring, stimulation that blocks fainting.
It is an efficient interrogation method in many ways.
To do this, the torturer had to have anatomical knowledge and specialized equipment, but Predators satisfies both requirements.
* * *
Listening to the prisoners ended quickly.
This is because, under the control of Artemis, the information obtained by each robot was exchanged in real time and interrogated organically.
[Doesn’t exist! There is none! What kind of missile is this?]
When one person gave information, all the robots immediately asked for the information and cross-verified it.
[What? Some bastard said that… Kwaaaaa!!!]
Furthermore, we can even come up with new guesses by combining the information we already know.
Artemis completed a task that would take a considerable amount of time surprisingly efficiently.
Thanks to this, the 3rd commander’s meeting was able to be convened sooner than expected.
[To be honest, I was worried when they said they had sent the special forces in advance. But it was a needless worry.]
Each commander who received the interrogation materials smiled in various ways.
There were many friendly smiles, led by hardliners, but there were also those who smiled bitterly due to skepticism about war crimes.
However, there is no one foolish enough to bring up idealism and engage in human rights activism. That was enough.
[Wouldn’t the Chinese military command notice? If it’s just one or two people, I wouldn’t dismiss it as desertion.]
The commander of the garrison near the ceasefire line asked.
They always maintained caution as they were the ones most at risk.
“Even if it was our fault, what would they do? After listening to the situation, they are in a pretty desperate situation.”
[It is as the administrator said. We won’t be able to launch an all-out war with this level of localized provocation.]
[You’re right. A nuclear weapon is most powerful when you have it in your hand, so you won’t be able to do anything foolish. If you really have it.]
Not long ago, hardliner commanders who seemed uncomfortably friendly came to my defense.
[How on earth did they interrogate you to obtain this much information in a short period of time? If I get the chance, I would like to learn more.]
The western commander facing Jeju Island looked impressed as he handed over the Shelter PDA.
Although no warrant officer could catch a single one, veteran soldiers and senior officers were able to know their situation in quite detail.
“Cheetah, do you all remember the Chinese commander who retreated fruitlessly from Russian territory and was purged?”
Everyone participating in the video communication nodded.
“It seems he was the only one who knew the exact location of North Korea’s underground air-raid shelter. Even though his abilities and charisma were not very good, he used that exclusive information to overcome the risk of being kicked out several times.”
These are the remnants of the Chinese army that wandered around like nomads, plundering and plundering again.
It is very difficult to trust only in strength and live in a situation where enemies are enemies on all sides.
Since the commander’s abilities were insufficient, losses began to accumulate at some point.
However, whenever there was a political crisis, the Chinese commander brought out his secret weapon and calmed his dissatisfaction.
‘There is a bomb shelter in North Korea where enormous resources are sleeping! ‘Only I know its location!’
The commander had significant connections with high-ranking North Korean officials, so he benefited from his backroom dealings, and his subordinates also had a taste of the Congo, so no one was suspicious.
But even that reached its limit in Cheetah.
In a situation where there were fewer and fewer places to stand, subordinates who could not stand the continued incompetence rebelled.
They captured the commander and tortured him until he died, but he gritted his teeth and endured. Because it was obvious that I would die as soon as I revealed it.
Then, his aged body could not withstand the torture, and he died suddenly.
The non-commissioned officer in charge of the torture was held accountable and was shot to death, and the commander’s wife and children were also eliminated as they knew nothing after the torture.
It is said that after that, he came down to North Korea.
[Based on this data, it looks like there is a possibility of division even if left alone.]
A moderate commander in the southeast said.
The location of North Korea’s air-raid shelter, which was the last hope, could not be found. The rebel leaders who killed the commander also faced a political crisis.
If they don’t come up with something useful, they will be killed by their own subordinates.
“Control is still maintained. Besides, they have nowhere else to go.”
They have been acting so viciously everywhere that there are enemies everywhere, and everywhere they go has been sucked to the point of desolation, so now the only hope is North Korea’s secret air raid shelter.
“I would like to tell you about my future plans.”
Everyone looked up from their PDA and focused on what I said.
“Even the Chinese soldiers don’t know the exact location of the air raid shelter. It’s the same for us too. But if they find something, we can find out about it immediately.”
As I adjusted the pad, new information and graphs were transmitted to the commanders’ PDAs.
“Thanks to the help of wise staff, we succeeded in partially deciphering the Chinese military’s communication code.”
I glanced sideways at Artemis, who was sitting far away.
She was lying down on the sofa and getting her toenails cleaned by Ayla.
-I’m not interested in getting the glory. It feels better to be embraced by someone who enjoys glory. So take it all.
She is a major contributor to this fight, but she has not revealed herself at all.
“Communication security was poor at lower echelons, but military discipline was tight starting from the battalion command center.”
[It’s a happy yet shameful story. We will do more to communicate in plain text.]
“You only need to completely conceal communications related to us.”
[Don’t worry about that.]
“Maintaining tight security also means, on the other hand, that you are more vulnerable when breached.”
I paused for a moment and looked around at the commanders seriously.
From now on, this was the main point.
“Two fully armed companies are on standby, assuming an all-out war. They are all non-human troops.”
[…
Everyone swallowed their saliva.
I don’t know if I was nervous about an all-out war or the non-human troops.
“We will use all surveillance methods to track the Chinese military’s search operations 24 hours a day. If you find a secret bomb shelter of any kind, there will be a reaction. The first shortwave radio report from the search unit will be filled with cheers. “If I find any circumstantial evidence, my troops will move north.”
[Are you saying that they will occupy it first before the main Chinese army arrives?]
“That’s right. Unless we are found close to their main force, we will be able to get there first.”
Robots don’t sleep or get out of breath. The means of transportation are also in good condition, so the Chinese army will not be able to match the speed of its advance.
[The split search party will only be a handful, and even if the surrounding Chinese forces join, it will be at most the size of a company.]
A colonel touched his chin and agreed. He is said to have served as chief of staff in the division in the past.
“If we recapture it quickly and fortify it, the Chinese soldiers will also be worried.”
In this day and age, receiving rear fire support is almost a joke.
Capturing a fortified base had to go through a process similar to the trench warfare of World War I.
You have to pretend to be crazy and change people’s names.
[It is not a half-baked warlord, but a fortress with a machine army waiting… Breaking through with a conventional army would be close to madness.]
The colonel, former chief of staff, seemed to agree.
[What if they really attack me?]
[These are people who don’t treat people’s lives like their own. He might run like a crazy person.]
“Then there is nothing we can do.”
I said, tilting my head left and right.
“I have no choice but to see blood.”
It became quiet for a moment. This is because I began to feel the long-forgotten ‘war between humans’.
[According to this data, can we assume that there is no means of long-range nuclear delivery?]
“That’s right. This conclusion is based on a combination of satellite imagery, drone surveillance, and interrogation. Even in that case, we will have to rely on conventional launchers with a range of several kilometers.”
[I guess this is why this meeting was convened?]
I nodded.
“Shelter’s army is powerful but small in numbers. “We cannot handle the vast truce line and coastal defense by ourselves.”
I operated the pad and checked the border elements between the Chinese army and us.
“Commanders, you must mobilize your troops to defend the assigned area.”
It was a moment when infantry was needed to occupy and protect the land, which could not be covered only by high-tech technology.
It wasn’t a very difficult request, so I thought it would pass as smoothly as before, but a stumbling block arose.
[I have something to tell you.]
It was Lee Seong-bong who asked for the right to speak.
He was unable to attend the previous two meetings because he was away on an external operation.
He attended the third meeting for the first time, and after studying the data with a stern expression, he spoke for the first time.
[Please reconsider this operation.]
The true soldiers who had maintained a good cooperative relationship opposed it.
