dawn effect

Chapter 39 Armored Armadillos
These rotten logs are very huge, and in the middle of the rotten logs, a mutant beast with a body the size of a tandem auto, dragging a long tail, and covered with large and small scales is digging open the trunk with its long sharp claws, looking for the big bugs inside. .

Those bugs are also mutated creatures. After the cataclysm broke out, many mutated creatures appeared on the planet. There are all kinds of mutated creatures. They have a common feature, that is, their body size is larger than that of ordinary species.

Tang Ning often guessed maliciously that this was nature's crazy revenge on human beings.

If it weren't for the vast forest between the north and south latitudes of the [-]th parallel, where wild animals and plants grew and reproduced wildly, it would have been even more difficult for these giant beasts to find enough food to feed themselves.

The armadillo is happily looking for food. Its sharp claws can easily open a crack in the two-meter-thick giant tree, and then use its head, which is harder than ordinary steel, to split the rotten wood like a big chisel. Find the bug's nest and feast on it.

It didn't notice at all that a pile of dried dung was slowly approaching itself, observing itself, looking for its whole body, and analyzing possible weaknesses.

This process was undoubtedly boring. It took Tangning nearly two hours to complete the last 300 meters.

Everyone who watched the battle felt sleepy, and several big bosses even restarted their daily work, no longer having the surprise that the simulator brought them at the beginning.

Except for scientific researchers like Wang Li and Zhao Qinghai who regard boring as nothing.

The simulator will project the operator's physical fitness data into the system based on the operator's physical fitness analysis, and set the upper limit of the operator's ability.

Because the simulator is not as good as Xiaozhi's, although it can't detect the supernatural powers in Tangning's body, it can still give an upper limit of abilities that is much higher than the side of his body based on the video of his activities.

However, Tangning did not intend to teach Zhao Qinghai to be good, and the purpose of this simulator was not to train supernatural beings, but to train ordinary people.

So although according to the data that Zhao Donghai saw, Tangning's physical fitness is full, which is also a common phenomenon among returnees back then, but in fact, Tangning is now in a state where her ability has been suppressed by the simulator. weak" state.

But fighting mutant beasts in a weak state is also one of the daily training subjects for him and Xiaozhi. Even with that kind of weird ability, it can't be said that there will be three disasters and six diseases, and he will never be injured, right?
Like a chameleon, Tang Ning moved slowly, with a slight frequency vibration that confuses the opponent. Little by little, she stretched her hand to her back and took off the long knife little by little.

The bone knife's ability was also suppressed by Tangning, he didn't want to "cheat" too much.

In the final simulated battle, he became an ordinary person with slightly better physical fitness, using a slightly harder ordinary long knife to show his ability and means to deal with a wild mutant beast.

So this is actually no longer a battle. There are many people like this in the outskirts of the deserted town. Their occupations are almost the same as what Tangning has to do now.

The Revenant.

But even the most powerful wilderness hunter would never be arrogant enough to use a long knife to challenge a huge, armored armadillo that weighs three tons.

The long knife and its scabbard were slowly removed, and Tangning slowly moved forward, crawling to a pile of fresh armadillo droppings, and inserted the handle of the long knife into it.

Then Tangning made an even more disgusting movement, laying her chest on the lump of feces, and slowly pulled the long knife out from under her body.

The blade was smeared with armored armadillo feces, obscuring the shimmer.

By this time, Tangning had already crawled to the side of the armadillo, and waited quietly under the cover of a giant tree.

Armored armadillos are covered in iron armor, including the eyes, which also have thick eyelids, and the ears and nose wings can also be closed.

But there are two places, because of functional problems, even armored armadillos cannot evolve to be covered with iron armor.

Organs that are closely related to the growth and reproduction of organisms are basically their extremely fragile places - mates and cloacas.

Sawdust piled up, branches fluttered.

At the police headquarters, Zhang Yucheng looked at the young soldier beside him who was staring at the light curtain: "You were the person involved back then, how do you evaluate it? How about this treasure that your father picked up?"

The young soldier is called Xiang Hui, and the current brigade commander of the security and reconnaissance brigade in the inhabited area is an elite newcomer in the army. - Police Reconnaissance Battalion.

What's more interesting is that Xiang Shouchuan, commander of the third company of the first battalion of the reconnaissance brigade who brought Tang Ning back to the base, was not only Xiang Hui's subordinate, but also Xiang Hui's father.

Xiang Shouchuan is a survivor who fought in the bloody flames from the beginning of the establishment of the settlement. He and many returnee comrades back then are brothers who can entrust their lives to each other, and he admires them all.

Xiang Shouchuan was not a returnee, but because he opposed the de-returnerization of the team in recent years, he was promoted from the position of brigade commander to company commander.

But Zhang Yucheng appointed his son Xiang Hui to take over the post of reconnaissance brigade brigade commander. It can't be said that he really has no complaints about this policy of the joint council.

Xiang Hui stared at the screen: "Why did he use a cold weapon?"

"Because he can only use cold weapons." Zhang Yucheng replied very simply: "In the alliance era, there was no such thing as hot weapons at all. The so-called hot weapons only exist in your virtual games."

"The thermal weapons in the settlements are all designed by the archaeologists and scientists of the Academy of Sciences, combining games and historical data, and groping and designing in the construction machinery factory."

"By the way, the deputy team leader of the design team, who is in charge of archaeological excavation and deciphering the encrypted military blueprints, is Tangning's father, Tang Pu."

Having said this, Tangning, who had been sluggish to a near standstill in the screen, was like a crossbow bolt that had been lying on the crossbow bed, waiting quietly, now being pulled by someone and pushed by the released crossbow strings. Suddenly violent!

……

Chance came with a ninety-degree turn by the armored armadillo.

The armadillo didn't notice Tangning from the beginning to the end. Even though Tangning had already touched the huge dead tree beside it, the armadillo didn't notice it at all.

It is still busy chopping trees and eating happily.

The special frequency of the worms in the giant wood crawling out of the wood completely attracted the attention of the armadillo, just like a huge chisel, splitting the dead wood with the sharp beak of its head, and chiseling into its target bit by bit.

In the process of grabbing and chiseling, the giant tree was pushed by the armadillo and kept changing angles. Finally, at a certain moment, the most vulnerable part of itself was exposed in front of Tangning below him.

Tangning was like a very patient Revenant Hunter. It had been three hours since she entered the game. Three hours of preparation and waiting were just for this momentary explosion.

The nearly ninety centimeter blade pierced the armored armadillo's body through the vent until it reached the handle without any reaction!
The armadillo froze for a moment. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Tangning pulled out the long knife in lightning speed. During the process, he twisted his wrist, and then dodged several meters away with an agility that is rare for ordinary people.

The armadillo bounced several meters in a strange posture, which was its instinctive mechanism for avoiding danger, and then jumped violently among a large pile of dead wood. .

Tangning quietly sheathed the knife and put her back on her back. Taking advantage of the huge chaos of dead trees flying across, Tang Ning lay on the ground and receded farther and farther away from her previous posture.

But this time it was much faster.

Soon Tangning had retreated hundreds of meters away and hid herself in a pit.

The knife just now had destroyed the vital organs in the lower abdomen of the armored armadillo. Although the armadillo's dying momentum was terrifying, everyone knew that this test was over.

The muscles at the corners of Xiang Hui's eyes kept twitching slightly. The real situation at that time was just like the one in the picture. After being provoked, the armadillo fought back wildly, resulting in the death of more than a dozen left-behind soldiers.

Thinking of the metal weighing several tons, the power of jumping and sweeping in the base, and the final appearance of those soldiers, it is unbearable to witness.

When Tangning was retreating just now, he was always able to swiftly dodge the giant trees approaching from the sky or falling from the sky. From the beginning to the end, the armadillo never noticed him.

"The process is very boring, and the method is very simple, right?" Zhang Yucheng said to Xiang Hui: "Three hours of patient lurking, retreat with all your strength after one blow, and then... just wait until it's over."

"He's very strong." Swollen muscles emerged from Xiang Hui's cheeks.

"Of course he is very strong." Zhang Yucheng said, "With slightly better physical fitness than ordinary people, with a cold weapon with a blade length of 86 centimeters, he can kill a man who weighs three tons and whose outer armor is stronger than steel. Armored Armadillo, of course he's strong."

"What's even more powerful is that his physical parameters, heartbeat, breathing, were very stable throughout the process."

"Facing such a behemoth, even in a virtual environment, you should be a little afraid, right?"

"He didn't."

"So now you know why I insist on absorbing soldiers from the barren town? Physical fitness is only one aspect, and what is more important is here." After Zhang Yucheng finished speaking, he habitually tapped his temple with his finger.

"I want this person." Xiang Hui said.

"The day before yesterday, he stayed in the guard room of the West Security Sub-bureau on the fourth floor of the fourth tower. He took care of what he would do." Zhang Yucheng's tone was very flat: "In the guard room, he also frightened seven or eight gangsters who were looking for trouble. .”

"His home is on the Fourth Lane of Jichang Street. Just last night, the self-management meeting was gone."

"The Ministry of the Interior's action to eliminate the self-management committee went smoothly. The key lies in the fact that Ma San assassinated Tang Ning with a weapon, and finally committed suicide at Tang Ning's home. Before he died, Shen Longcheng and He Jiu were involved, saying that he was framed by them."

"So the Self-Management Association was not killed by the Ministry of the Interior. Like Ma San, it was actually a suicide."

The armored armadillo in the sync shot stumbles a few steps before collapsing dead.

"Understood, this Tangning seems to be wanted by everyone."

"Well, so don't worry. The current situation is only a temporary situation. In settlements, there will always be times when the military is needed."

"The honor of a soldier is not obtained by praying, but can only be won with blood."

Xiang Hui gave a military salute to Zhang Yucheng, then turned and left silently.

(End of this chapter)