Chapter 338 – Chinese Army Moves South (13)
Fury Fire.
This is a weapon developed for situations where stalker-infantry power alone cannot handle the battle against infectious agents.
Infectious agents burrowed further underground and deeper into buildings to survive the vaccine. A place where air support cannot enter.
In particular, places like the subway have become almost like demon caves.
Arthropod-type infectious agents that are resistant to vaccines are increasing, and colonies that spread out in waves with small size, large numbers, and rapid movement have also emerged.
The arthropod type has a unique tough vitality that allows it to fight until the end even if it has multiple bullet holes in its body.
Stalkers were still powerful, but they needed a unit that could act as a tank.
Stronger firepower, cover ability to sweep on a surface-by-side basis, rough terrain coverage, defense and scan ability.
The Purifier is a four-legged weapon that has all of these.
The reason why it is uniquely equipped with a shotgun minigun as its main weapon is because of its anti-infectious agent combat doctrine.
Even those who approached three-dimensionally by climbing pillars and ceilings while making fun of their disgusting legs fell like leaves in a cold wind when a minigun with pellets passed by.
The decisive battle weapon of the ground forces was deployed in the war against humans.
* * *
“Ugh…”
“Wow…”
The Chinese soldiers got scared and stopped advancing.
But just because they don’t approach doesn’t mean we’ll stay still.
Purifier lowered his posture like a runner waiting for the starting signal.
The internal artificial muscles that make up each leg contract violently.
Since the order had already been given, there was no need to fire a separate signal gun.
A huge figure rushes forward, leaving behind an explosion of dust.
Contrary to its dull appearance at first glance, its four legs moved and ran like a spider.
“Shoot!!!”
An order to fire was issued from the Chinese army, almost like a scream.
Countless bullets rained down on the Purifier, but they failed to inflict any effective damage.
Even though it is strong, it is different from the infantry stalker or the air force that sacrifices armor for flight and bomb load.
The Purifier is a model developed on the premise of fighting against gangsters such as Reaper and Juggernaut.
The attack of the Al infantry firing assault rifles did not cause any damage.
Most of the grenades and grenades that the veteran soldiers and non-commissioned officers had were used up.
There are no more reinforced humans, artillery corps, or electricians anymore. The only thing I can trust is reinforced armored soldiers.
The Purifiers quickly reached the front line and pointed both arms at the Chinese soldiers.
Kiiiiing-!
The minigun barrels on both arms rotate, making a unique mechanical sound.
At that small but bloody sound, the Chinese army’s battle line collapsed and chaos broke out.
“I don’t want any more! “I don’t want to die!”
“Uh-huh!”
Kwaaaaa!!!
Either way, the shooting started.
Hundreds and thousands of iron balls turn the Chinese soldiers into blood clots.
Unlike the Sentry Gun or Stalker Battle Rifle, which at least maintained the human form, dozens of limbs flew around when the pellet minigun passed by.
“Spread out!”
“If we all come together, we will all die!”
The officers and reinforced infantry tried to continue the fight by encouraging them, but the Chinese soldiers were already at their limit.
“I don’t like it anymore!”
There were many people who ignored orders and deserted.
Offensive end point.
It had reached a point where fighting was impossible, both in terms of the number of troops and the mental state of the soldiers.
In fact, just being able to endure so far was amazing.
[Kill those who retreat arbitrarily.]
The new commander gave the order.
[No! If you shoot our troops here, the brigade’s existence will collapse!]
[Even if you let them escape, they will collapse anyway!]
[But that doesn’t work! For the sake of unity after defeat, please at least have a friendly match between allies…]
[What?! Defeat? It’s not even over yet, and you’re already saying defeat?! Are you still an officer of China?!]
In the intercepted radio, there were more arguments among themselves than command orders.
“It’s over.”
Although the Chinese army was still large, I was confident of victory.
There were more people who deserted the front lines than those who wanted to continue fighting. The situation is increasing as they become entangled with each other.
The Purifier looked like it had nothing to do with jumping, but it nimbly crossed over the trenches.
The movement is powerful yet delicate, like dressage.
Coo!
He falls from the air, lands on four legs and looks down at the Chinese soldiers below.
[Kkeeeeek-!]
A roar like a beast.
Big red eyes that seem to be burning.
Ugly muzzles emitting smoke.
There were only two soldiers who returned fire. The rest were busy running away, crying.
“Aaaaah!”
“Everyone runs away!”
Kwaaaaa!!!
The way the Purifier moves its arms under the trench resembles a crab eating food.
The sound of leather bags bursting could be heard endlessly, and the soldiers fleeing inside the trench were cut to pieces.
“Ha, surrender! Hangbook!”
Toupapapapak… Keyring.
The muzzle of the gun that moved diagonally and destroyed six soldiers stopped next to the seventh soldier.
“Hee… Hee… Hiccup!”
The soldier who surrendered sat down.
Right next to it, 6 pieces of shredded meat are piled up. The soldier hiccuped when he saw dozens of bullet marks that stopped 5 cm next to his body.
Urine was leaking from the trembling lower body.
[Drop your weapon!]
Purifier turned his head and shouted.
Then, the sound of weapons being thrown away can be heard from all directions.
“Fight! “Fight!”
The officers tried to fight until the end, but there were more of them who ran away and threw away their weapons.
The large-caliber firearms of the reinforced armored soldiers attacked the Purifier.
The grenades fired from the six-barreled grenade launcher directly hit the body of the steel giant.
[Kkiik-!!!]
But all I could do was flinch for a moment. The body burning with the flames of the grenade spun around and aimed at the reinforced armored soldiers targeting it.
The fire control system instantly scans enemy defense power.
The selective ammunition supply system was activated to stop the supply of pellets and load slug bullets.
The retractable steel wire inside the barrel protrudes and holds ammunition suitable for long-distance shooting.
“Everyone stays in your seats…”
Poop!
The head of the armored soldier who was trying to prevent the enemy from escaping by loading a grenade disappeared.
“Kaaaaak!”
“Aaaaah!”
The reinforced infantry begins to fall, putting the enormous armor to shame.
Slug bullets, which could easily be called mini cannonballs, were crushing them.
The exoskeleton’s skeleton is broken and the reinforced Kevlar armor is torn.
“Wow!”
The waist of an armored soldier who had been hit directly by a slug bullet in the abdomen was bent to 90 degrees.
Although it failed to penetrate, the enormous kinetic energy does not disappear.
“Guweeeeek!”
He vomited out handfuls of blood and broken internal organs and collapsed on the spot.
The stalkers who had finished supplying during that time came out.
It moves down the trench like lightning and blocks any potentially threatening heavy weapon attacks.
Unlike helicopters that had to fight alone, the Purifier, escorted by infantry, showed the dignity of a decisive battle weapon.
Buuuuung!
The attack helicopter that flew in from behind descended close to the Purifier under the cover of the stalkers.
The mechanical transport arm attached to the bottom of the helicopter combines with the handle attached to the Purifier’s back.
Without having to tie it with a rope, the transport agreement was completed in an instant, and it flew into the sky.
The place where the helicopter was heading was the enemy camp where the reinforced infantry was gathered.
“Shoot! “Pour it all out!”
“Drop it!”
Firepower was concentrated on all directions and the helicopter was damaged in several places, but it did not stop the advance.
When it got close enough, the helicopter disengaged.
A huge weapon was dropped from the sky on the enemy camp like a cannonball.
Bang!
The Purifier landed, crushing one Chinese soldier flat, and opened fire in all directions.
The waist rotated 360 degrees and spewed out bullets in all directions.
At the same time, the grenade launcher and rocket launcher located on the shoulder opened fire simultaneously.
The infantry soldiers were swept away by the storm of iron balls, and the armored soldiers were swept away by the explosion and their limbs were disintegrated.
“Oh my god.”
I couldn’t help but be amazed by that feast of absolute destruction.
[KIeeeeeK-!!!]
The Purifier roars in victory in the middle of the battlefield, where huge flowers of fabric bloom.
Fury, and fire.
It was a majesty worthy of its name.
An unexpected incident occurred at a symbolic moment when the outcome of the battlefield was decided.
Some of the Chinese troops retreating toward headquarters sank to the ground with screams.
The surrounding Chinese soldiers, who were not left out, also fell, unable to control themselves as the ground shook.
“Earthquake?”
[No. It’s an extremely local reaction. There is no problem anywhere other than this battle scene.]
By the time Artemis finished speaking, a sinkhole half the size of the playground had formed.
The moment I saw it, something flashed in my mind.
“Couldn’t it be a hole that leads to the secret bomb shelter?”
[Does that seem plausible? It seems that the ground above the poor air raid shelter collapsed in the aftermath of the battle.]
“It exploded all over the place, but it barely got down to that level? “How bad does it have to be constructed?”
[It’s North Korea.]
“…”
The sinkhole was not very deep. The pile of dirt that flowed down together served as a cushion, so there were quite a few people who survived the fall.
Screams of pain and cries for rescue rose like echoes.
And it soon turned into a scream of fear.
“Poetry, poetry!”
“Aaaaah!”
“Put it up! Please bring someone up!”
Between the screams, the sound of a growling sound and a crashing sound began to mix.
There was also a problem with the enemy command’s communications.
[All troops retreat! Retreat!]
[Whoever orders a retreat… Wow!]
[Krrrrential rumbling…]
There was an uproar in communications coming from the enemy command center.
[Jinsu, I’m not kidding, I really feel like I’ve collapsed. Would it be more accurate to say that it felt as if the ground had dug up and responded in response?]
The attack helicopter, which was still intact, scanned the collapsed ground.
The view screen changed by the thermal imaging device was transmitted to the brain implant.
Red dolls lying motionless. This appears to be a corpse.
Dolls that keep falling while trying to climb up the wall of a sinkhole. It must be a surviving Chinese soldier, as it moves briskly and has a deep red aura.
Lastly, there are strange shapes that attack them. From the red one, to the blue one, to the one whose color changes all the time.
“It’s an infectious agent. Has the contamination spread inside as well?”
[I guess so.]
The infected organisms were coming through a tunnel connected to the sinkhole.
The screaming stopped completely. All the fallen Chinese soldiers have already been turned into human flesh.
They are so busy enjoying the long-awaited feast of infected organisms that they are not paying any attention to the area above the sinkhole.
“What is the number?”
[Appears to be less than 300.]
The view was interrupted by the dust, but the sounds of meat being ripped off and teeth hitting bones were clearly visible.
It felt even worse because it echoed against the walls of the hole it had landed in.
The Chinese soldiers are scared and running around the sinkhole. Reinforced armored soldiers who were willing to fight until the end also joined the procession.
Meanwhile, the enemy command center’s communications remained open, so the situation behind enemy lines could be heard live.
[W-What are you doing?! Get your hands off of there right now!]
[Crrrrva!
[Kkieek-!]
The panicked Chinese commander’s voice was barely audible, drowned out by the screams of the infected entities.
Occasional gunshots were heard, and it appeared to be a commander’s pistol.
It seems that the infected organisms that crawled up from underground have almost taken over the enemy camp.
[If you use that, everyone will die…]
[Shut up! Fuck it, we’re already done!]
[Kyarrrrva!]
Now both the gunshots and the screams have died down.
The guarding troops were annihilated and only a few executives remained, and only the sound of the monsters breathing could be heard.
[You monsters crawling from this hell! You Korean bastards who are worse than monsters! Let’s hang out together today!]
[Oh, no! Stop…]
Flash!
Communication was lost.
A huge flash that started from far away covered the world in an instant.
“They really had nuclear weapons.”
My mutterings were drowned out by the vibration that shook the heavens and earth.
* * *
The shadow has disappeared from the world.
The whole world was bleached to a bright yellow color.
The radiant heat arrived faster than the wind generated by the nuclear explosion and began to bake the heavens and earth.
The puddles and blood all over the battlefield were vaporized in an instant.
The fluttering weeds and the leaves on the branches are burning black.
Unknown birds flying in the sky also fell from the rainforest tree. Because the burning feathers were smoking, it looked like a plane being shot down.
The Chinese soldiers could not even scream due to the heat coming from behind.
In order to scream, you need to breathe, but at that moment, your lips, lungs, and vocal cords are all cooked.
Is this an instinctive movement to reduce pain? It turned into a gray stone statue that looked like it was crouching in the winter cold.
The guns held by the corpse statue also melted.
As if a gun made of soap had been taken into a sauna, the black gun barrel stretched limply, forming a U shape.
The limbs and internal organs rolling around here and there were small pieces, so they were easily exposed to heat, so they turned into charcoal.
The stalkers, with smoke rising from their entire bodies, desperately jumped into the trench and dug out the wall. I tried to somehow hide myself in the dirt.
Radiation shielding technology is applied, but it will melt before that.
[Jinsu, you have to hide.]
Artemis said.
Her tone was calm as she was in a machine body, not my real body.
“I’m sorry, but can I be stubborn? “I want to stay like this.”
[What?]
“If not now, when will we intuit a nuclear explosion?”
I jumped off the roof and landed on the wall of the first floor. In this way, no matter how strong the wind is, the building will not be blown away unless it collapses.
All stalkers on the rooftop and adjacent ground were taking refuge inside the labor center.
Paaaaa
In the meantime, a nuclear storm arrived.
A brown sand tsunami surges in, engulfing the land.
The trees that were shaking like crazy and the telephone poles that were barely holding on fell down.
Thump! All kinds of vehicles are flying from the direction of the Chinese army, making noise.
Everything from troop transport SUVs, buses, armored vehicles, and anti-aircraft self-propelled guns were rolled around equally.
It looked like surfing as it floated and rolled over the sand waves.
An attack helicopter that had entered deep into enemy territory was caught in a storm.
“This is a waste.”
[…
The helicopter’s head lifted like a martial artist who received an uppercut.
The helicopter, which lost its balance and tilted, spins and falls to the ground. This is a sight we see a lot today.
Sentry guns that cannot be actively avoided have already been torn apart. The fact that the fixation was weakened due to intense fighting played a big role.
The sentry guns, like billiard balls, hit the trench wall here and there, rising gradually and then flying off somewhere in the sky.
Purifier began to hold on.
High explosive shells fired from a two-handed minigun dug four deep grooves.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
The four legs fit precisely into the grooves. It was a small hole compared to a mechanical foot, but when I forced my foot deep into it, it went in quite a bit.
[Kkiiiii-!!!]
It roars as if it will fight against the man-made and natural disaster approaching.
I lowered my posture to reduce air resistance and held on by putting the minigun on the ground.
However, in front of a strong storm, the legs are pulled off the floor one by one and the body shakes.
Dedeudeude-.
Some aircraft were dragged along while digging grooves tens of meters long.
Unfortunately, there is also an aircraft that flies down the slope that the augmented human came over and falls dozens of meters down.
Thump! Quad deuk!
One aircraft bounced several times in the nuclear blast and ended up on the wall of the labor center.
[Kkeeeee-! Kkeeeeek-!!!]
I struggled and tried to get my bearings in the flesh-torn storm, but each time I tried, I was hit by a minigun arm and four legs, and the wall only collapsed further.
In the end, the wall collapses, and they are thrown into the labor center.
Wow!
The loud sound of all kinds of furniture being broken inside the Labor Center was heard.
The storm of destruction that seemed to tear the world apart stopped after a while, but that was not the end.
Whooooo!!!
The heat and storm created a temporary vacuum at the center of the explosion, and as the surrounding air was taken away, a secondary nuclear storm began to occur.
All kinds of objects that flew outside are dragged towards the Chinese military positions. However, its power was much weaker than that of the first storm.
After everything is over.
A huge mushroom cloud was rising in the distance.
* * *
“They say that if you see a mushroom cloud, you have already been exposed to radiation.”
[What a fuss. If there is enough distance, there is no problem.]
“If it’s this far away, it’s a direct hit, right?”
If you were to exaggerate a bit, it was just a stone’s throw away.
[Okay. It is a viewing area that only strong machines can enjoy. This is impossible for a lump of flesh. Enjoy it to your heart’s content now.]
“I’ve already seen enough.”
I watched from a special seat the sight of everything starting from a flash of light, followed by flames, a storm, and the accompanying dust that engulfed everything.
“By the way, it’s incredibly durable.”
I said, looking down at the tattered body of the machine.
From quite a distance away, with our back to the building, we faced less pressure from the storm, but somehow we survived!
Of course, walking is limited because it’s broken here and there, but it’s not my body anyway.
“It would have been impossible if it were my original body. “When I drink with people, I have something to choose from for the rest of my life.”
[Hmph.]
Artemis seems to have let out steam as she obediently agrees to the sarcasm.
[I have plenty of other things to talk about.]
“Well, if you look closely, there might be quite a few survivors who could have sensed a nuclear explosion. But I guess I’m the only one who has experience touring exoplanets.”
No matter where you look in front, you can’t see anything alive. Both humans and infectious agents were completely wiped out.
“It was something I would have to deal with at some point anyway.”
The Chinese army, monsters, and nuclear bombs were all abominations that needed to be eliminated for the future.
“If this were to happen, would the inside of the bomb shelter have been destroyed?”
[No. There may be some damage, but since the nuke exploded on the ground, it probably won’t be damaged to a serious level. There are definitely things left that can be salvaged.]
Allied troops can be seen standing up one by one, shaking off the dust from various places.
Less than half of the signals were detected and everyone was in the worst condition, but annihilation was avoided.
“What is the radiation concentration?”
[It’s dangerous by human standards. But by machine standards, there is no problem. As long as you avoid the explosion, the shielding device will hold up. However, it is inevitable that your strength will decrease.]
“Even though there is a mixture of this and that, is it still a muscle?”
When I lifted my arm, the rope-like arm muscles were injured in various places.
The strands are broken, revealing a cross-section, or appear to have melted here and there.
I saw a large sinkhole in the ground on the other side.
[You’re not going to just deploy the troops you have now to investigate, right?]
“What are you talking about? “Is there any other master who is as merciful to machines as I am?”
I summoned the troops who had taken refuge in the labor center through the brain implant. They had them tow the allies outside.
“What is the movement in the pit?”
[I don’t think there is one. It’s difficult to see clearly due to severe obstruction of vision and high heat, but I can’t see anything that could be considered an infectious agent.]
“If I had known this would happen, I would have just let the Chinese army eat here… No, it would have been right for us to come after all.”
Although the opponent was bad, the Chinese army fought surprisingly well.
If they were in good condition, they would have simply wiped out a few hundred infected entities and taken over the shelter.
[We won because we fought a defensive battle. What do you think it would have been like if the enemy main force occupied this area, and we were the attackers?]
“All-out war itself would have been impossible in the first place.”
[Okay. There was an incident, but I made the best choice. Besides, you really did have nuclear weapons, right? If we had established ourselves properly in North Korea, the risk variables would have grown infinitely.]
Purifier, with sparks flying from his entire body, staggered closer with his only three legs remaining. It survived despite being hit directly by radiant heat and a nuclear storm on the bare ground.
“The manager gives orders. As of this time, we are lifting the all-out war stance.”
There is no need for complicated procedures or documents.
With just one word from me, the status of all machines connected to the shelter switched to peacetime mode.
Now, each monitor in Police, which used to broadcast only emergency broadcasts, will also begin transmitting normal broadcasts.
“Please withdraw all workers from the Kaesong Industrial Complex and send an official letter to the defense forces at the cease-fire line to maintain their current posture for five days. Although it is unlikely, the remnants of the Chinese army could go down. “Send out a reconnaissance drone and search the area thoroughly.”
[Okay. Also, I’m planning to recruit some of the Shelter and Police defense forces to form an exploration team, right?]
Instead of saying ‘yes,’ I sent an affirmative beep through my brain implant.
[Under! What is that?]
Artemis was embarrassed, but somehow smiled happily.
