Armor-piercing bullets don't believe in carbon-based monsters

Chapter 1 Dead City Monster
2025, Southern China.

"Fuck, where the hell did this come from?"

Chen Jian held up the VECTOR 23 telescope and looked at the unfamiliar city in front of him. He was completely immersed in bottomless doubt.

Not only him, but his teammates around him also had serious expressions.

Correspondent Shen Yue turned on the radio again, tried various channels and finally came to a conclusion.

"All communications with the rear have been cut off. Even the LF long wave communications have no response."

"All satellites have lost contact, including Beidou and GPS."

"Using the sextant to locate, according to the longitude and latitude, our current location should be about one kilometer outside the city of Chuansha."

"But it is clear that this city is definitely not the Chuansha we are familiar with."

After he finished speaking, Chen Jian nodded slowly.

In fact, it is quite simple to make this judgment.

Because the city in front of them not only couldn't be Chuansha, it couldn't even be any large city in their memory.

The large cities he knew, especially those within the country, would never be as overgrown with weeds and dilapidated as the city before him.

But the strange thing is that whether from the surrounding topography or from the Xiangjiang River flowing through it, this place is Chuansha.

So what went wrong?
Chen Jian turned around and looked at the other three team members. Each of them had the same puzzled look on their face.

Obviously, they couldn't understand why it was just a simple training mission, but everything was fine when they went there, but became a mess when they came back.

The unfamiliar environment brought tremendous pressure to Chen Jian, and the only thing that made him feel a little safe was the 191 rifle filled with live ammunition in his hand.

He put down the telescope, flipped down the Type 20 four-eye thermal fusion night vision goggles on his helmet, and after carefully observing the direction of the city for a moment, he said:

"I can't see anything."

"He Shuo, can you see it over there?"

Hearing the question, sniper He Shuo raised his face from the thermal imaging sight, shook his head slowly and replied:
“No active heat sources are currently visible.”

"Without lights or heat, this city is like a dead city."

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone in the four-member team felt their hearts skip a beat.

Everyone realized the seriousness of the problem, but even under such extreme pressure, Shen Yue was still able to laugh.

"I now believe that this is not a conspiracy of the Manchus."

"No matter how powerful he is, he can't evacuate the entire city."

After Shen Yue finished speaking, the others couldn't help but laugh.

That’s right, just a few hours ago, when they first discovered that the signal was lost and the communication was interrupted, they thought it was another sudden confrontation exercise.

But now it seems that is not the case at all.

"So now there are only two possibilities."

The blaster Lei Jie on the far side said thoughtfully:

"Or the enemy could come while we're training and take down a city in 24 hours without us noticing."

"Or, we have traveled through time, and this is no longer Earth, or at least not our era - so which possibility do you think is higher?"

"Don't even think about it?"

Chen Jian answered without hesitation, and after hearing the answer from his mouth, the others actually breathed a sigh of relief.

They are all special forces who have undergone high-intensity professional training, and their acceptance of emergencies is far beyond that of ordinary people.

What's more, what they feared most was not the unfamiliar environment, but the dead end with no solution.

Obviously, this is not a dead end.

After a brief observation, Chen Jian continued:
"We are preparing to approach the city and look for valuable cultural information. We need to understand the current situation first."

"I will be the vanguard, Lei Jie will provide cover at 30 meters from the flank, Shen Yue will follow Lei Jie to establish electromagnetic shielding, and He Shuo will stay meters behind to observe and follow up." "Goal: occupy the tallest building in front, and quickly disperse and establish defense after entering."

"Let's go now!"

At the command, everyone took action immediately.

Chen Jian held a 3 assault rifle equipped with an HM191X sight in his hand, and on his back was a heavy LG-6 semi-automatic grenade launcher.

These equipment were originally intended to be used for live-fire shooting after the training, but now it is obvious that the target cannot be hit.

Perhaps, these weapons may have to face new enemies?
This thought flashed through Chen Jian's mind and was dispelled in an instant.

He continued to move forward, not too fast, and while moving forward, he constantly determined the positions of others through the real-time information displayed on the Type 18 AR smart tactical eyepiece.

Although all satellite positioning systems have failed, the long-wave triangulation positioning module of the IFF friend-or-foe identification system they carry can still display their approximate location on the glasses in real time, which allows Chen Jian to devote more energy to paying attention to the unknown area directly in front of him.

Starting from their previous position, it took the team of four 7 minutes to slowly advance to within 500 meters of the target building.

Chen Jian's breathing quickened a little, and his right hand holding the gun began to feel slightly sore.

Still unable to see any useful information in the night vision goggles, he raised his hand and made a gesture in front of his eyes. In a flash, the individual PAD interpreted the command with the help of the image recognition function and then transmitted it to the eyepieces of other team members.

The positions of the four members of the team changed silently. Chen Jian continued to move forward, Shen Yue and Lei Jie dispersed to both sides, and He Shuo followed closely behind Chen Jian, forming an arrow-shaped attack formation.

Everyone quickened their pace, and after confirming for the last time that there were no abnormalities, they began to move quickly towards the target building.

200 m.

Chen Jian took off the safety of 191 and moved forward quickly with the gun in hand.

100 m.

Chen Jian had already seen the gate of the building, and the desolate and dilapidated streets were also in full view.

Lei Jie and Shen Yue on both sides controlled the two sides of the street respectively. According to the predetermined tactics, he would break in next.
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But at this moment, a sudden loud noise was heard.

"boom!"

Everyone immediately stopped and was on guard. At the same time, the anti-sniper radar automatically identified the noise as not belonging to the four-man team, and marked the direction of the noise on the eyepiece with a reaction speed of milliseconds.

Chen Jian turned the muzzle of his gun towards the direction where the noise came from. Under the field of view of the thermal fusion night vision goggles, night was no different from day.

"Something fell down on a mid-rise residential building 150 meters away."

He Shuo behind him said:

"A big sofa that fell from the roof."

"There might be someone there!"

"alert!"

Chen Jian immediately gave the order and gripped the handguard tightly with his left hand.

Almost at the same time as he gave the order, another almost imperceptible slight sound was heard.

This time, everyone was staring at the exact direction where the sound came from.

But then, everyone froze in place.

"What the hell is that??"

He Shuo's shocked question came from the headset, but Chen Jian ignored it and quickly squatted down, half-pressing the trigger with his finger, ready to shoot.

At the same time, Shen Yue had already fallen to the ground and unfolded the tripod of the 201 general-purpose machine gun.

Everyone realized that the person on the other side must be the enemy.
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Because it was a monster that was more than 3 meters tall, covered with keratinous spikes, and constantly jumping on the ground with its reverse-jointed legs like a mantis, rushing towards them silently and very quickly!

Chen Jian pulled the trigger and shouted:

"Fire!"

(End of this chapter)