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

Chapter 320 Terminal
Beacon?
Chen Jian didn't even realize what Lin Yu was saying for a moment.

But soon, the other person's voice came through the earpiece again.

"We're in the mountain city!"

"We killed a man from the mountain city! He was a human being! A real human being!"

"He can talk; he's no different from us!"

"He's been tracking us! No! He's controlling those monsters to track us!"

"We've hidden in the mountain town! Those monsters didn't follow us in!"

"They are not allowed to destroy the buildings in the mountain town—the person we killed is controlling those monsters!"

"Beacon! You must open the beacon!"

"This person is controlling the monster through a beacon!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Jian suddenly realized what was happening.

The so-called "beacon" that Lin Yu repeatedly mentioned is the same item that was previously seized by the three Imperial Guards!

That's right, the monsters are indeed controlled by those "beacons".

But the question is, is it still useful now?

Even if it works, can Lin Yu really control monsters through the beacon?
No, now is not the time to think about that.

After a brief silence, Chen Jian decisively gave the order:

"Fuxi, restore the beacon function and immediately arrange for drones to drop the beacon over Jinling City."

"How long do you need? Give me some time!"

"It will take 25 minutes."

Fuxi's voice came through the earphones.

"Understood, 25 minutes."

You still have time.

According to Yu Qian's feedback, the defenses of Jinling City can hold out for at least another two hours.

These two hours are enough time for me to complete the trial and error process!

Thinking of this, Chen Jian continued:
"Lin Yu, how did you get in touch with us? Do you have any other communication devices?"

"no!"

Lin Yu's voice sounded somewhat hurried, and it was mixed with loud clattering sounds.

“We got the communicator from that mountain city guy. This communicator has a radio—it's bundled with a radio, but it's obviously not just for communication!”

"There's a screen on here!"

"There's so much on the screen! There's even a map!"

"I'm trying to learn how to use it, but these monsters have gone mad—"

"careful!"

Another voice suddenly rang out, accompanied by a loud crash, and Lin Yu's voice abruptly stopped.

"Lin Yu! Lin Yu!"

Chen Jian frantically called repeatedly on the radio, but received no response whatsoever.

What happened?!
monster
They've already died at the hands of the monster?
Hey!
They finally got a chance that could potentially end the war, but before even a minute had passed on the call, that hope was dashed again!
At this moment, Chen Jian wished he could fly to the mountain city immediately and rescue Lin Yu from the monster's clutches.

But he knew he couldn't do it!

All he could do was place his hopes on Lin Yu, hoping that he could escape the attack of the "monster that had gone mad" he had described!

But what are his chances?

Chen Jian was extremely anxious, and just then, Lin Yu's voice rang out again.

"Monster! The monster has gone mad!"

"This device is useful! It can control monsters!"

"But it must be connected via a beacon!"

"I can see the location of all the monsters!"

"There are many monsters near Jinling City, but I can't control them!"

"This indicates that the beacon has lost contact!"

"You must find the beacon and open it!"

"As long as we open the beacon, we..."

"The beacon is in our hands!"

Chen Jian interrupted Lin Yu and continued:

"The beacon will be deployed in 23 minutes! What else do you need me to do?"

"No need—wait, I need you to tell me how to operate this thing!"

"It gives feedback when I touch the screen, but I don't know how to actually control those monsters!"

Screen??
feedback?

Without a doubt, it was a touchscreen.

Those mountain city people have built a complete system to control the monsters they control!

What Lin Yu found was a control terminal!
It's stable now.

Chen Jian's heart was pounding.

He forced himself to calm down and then spoke:
"Tell me what's on that screen first!"

"There are many highlights and many buttons, but I don't know what those buttons mean!"

"I can't stop! That level one monster has already broken into the city, I have to get out of here as soon as possible!"

"Don't worry."

Chen Jian's brain was spinning rapidly.

If what Lin Yu has is an operating terminal, then without a doubt, it must be based on an existing combat system.

Whether it's the familiar old system or the Skull War system that I encountered after coming to this world, the actual operation is not complicated.

Select the target, issue the order, select the combat objective, and that's it.

The reason Lin Yu found it complicated was probably because he had never seen this system before and didn't know where to start.

But with just the simplest instructions, he can quickly get the hang of it.

"First, find the highlight that represents the monster! Locate the one closest to you on the map!"

Chen Jian spoke up.

"Got it—found it! What's next?"

"Touch that bright spot! An action option should pop up on the screen!"

"Understood! I see it!"

Lin Yu's voice revealed surprise, and Chen Jian quickly continued:
"If there is a movement option, select movement first, then draw a path on the map, and the monsters will move according to the path you drew!"

"Understood, I—"

"boom!"

Another loud bang, and Lin Yu's voice came to an abrupt halt.

At this moment, Chen Jian was extremely anxious. Just as his communication with Lin Yu was interrupted, Fuxi's voice came through the crack.

"The beacon has been restored and is expected to arrive over Jinling City in 6 minutes!"

"clear."

Chen Jian answered in a deep voice.

At this moment, his fingers trembled slightly due to the excessive secretion of adrenaline.

Just one step left!

As long as contact can be re-established with Lin Yu, the main beacon can fly over Jinling City.
"I understand!"

Lin Yu's voice suddenly rang out in the earphones!
"I know how to use it!"

"The beacon in Jinling City has been restored!"

"Tell me what to do!" As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Jian seemed to have a heavy burden lifted off his shoulders and suddenly relaxed.

He took a deep breath and then spoke:
Select the monster outside Jinling City.

"Use your hand to draw a selection box."

"You probably haven't played games before. But this is almost the same as one."

"Do whatever you want."

"Let those monsters kill each other!"

"understand!"

Lin Yu's voice came again.

"Permissions - This section shows restricted permissions"

"But it does not matter!"

"I'm done!"

Two hours later.

Inside Jinling City.

Yu Qian walked down the city wall in a daze.

The wound on his chest had been torn open by the immense recoil of the shot, and blood had soaked through the gauze, staining his clothes red.

The intense pain distorted his expression, but even so, he felt an unprecedented sense of relief.

He never imagined that this extremely fierce battle would end in this way.

Just an hour ago, just as the monster named "Bei Kun" broke through the last line of defense formed by the Volunteer Corps' religious protection army and pressed its massive body toward Jinling City, an absolutely illogical anomaly suddenly occurred before Yu Qian's eyes.

As if electrocuted, the enormous monster twisted, rolled, and struggled on the spot.

It crushed many houses in Jinling City, but lost its direction of attack.

The soldiers who couldn't retreat were right in front of it. If it had been a few minutes earlier, those soldiers would have been crushed, pierced by its sharp tentacles, and swallowed into its enormous mouth and digested into rotten flesh.

But it seemed to have lost all senses, completely ignoring the target in front of it.

The soldiers who had narrowly escaped retreated frantically, but at one moment, several of them charged forward as if they didn't care about their lives.

Their most lethal weapon was the hand grenade, but when those grenades were thrown into the monster's gaping maw, the damage was still considerable.

A series of huge explosions rang out, and the soldiers who had thrown the grenades immediately retreated.

This desperate charge terrified the others, but they soon discovered that even after such a "provocation," the monster still did not retaliate in any way.
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No, it shouldn't be said that they didn't retaliate at all.

It should be said that its counterattack became a bluff and a weak and ineffective response.

The twisted bodies rolled around everywhere, and the tangled worms scattered as if they had lost their connection, spreading out on the ground as a pile of dying nematodes.

This monster destroyed its own strongest deterrent, which marked the beginning of its death.

Yes, it is still disgusting and horrifying.

Attracted by its bodily fluids, all the maggots in the soil surged out, trying to gather on its body. The dense swarm of maggots assaulted the eyes of the onlookers, making them want to vomit.

But that's all there is to it.

Killing it is still not easy.

But when it is unable to fight back, even if you use cold weapons to wear it down, there is always a way to wear it down.
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But the anomalies don't stop there.

Besides the "Northern Kun," the surging monster horde from the periphery was plunged into even greater chaos.

At first, they were simply disoriented, darting around like ants whose pheromones had been disturbed.

But then, these giant "ants" began to attack each other.

This was absolutely the first, and perhaps the only, scene ever witnessed by any human in the wasteland of monsters killing each other on such a large scale.

The entire outskirts of Jinling City became a battlefield for monsters. Unlike attacks with firearms, the battles between monsters were even more bloody and brutal.

The "survival of the fittest" scenario that Yu Qian had anticipated did not materialize. He watched helplessly as a monster that was clearly level two or even higher was surrounded and attacked by more monsters, and after spitting out its last bit of acid, it was completely torn to pieces.

Not a single monster survived the battle.

Because the entire battlefield has become a complete hell.

The poisonous fog was so thick it resembled a towering wall, and the toxic liquid flowed freely across the ground, even producing a slight crackling sound when it mingled with the blood flowing from the monsters.

The spores spread with the wind, and where high and low temperatures intersect, the gale seems to rise from the void.

And now, Purgatory is spreading towards Jinling City.
"Notify everyone to evacuate immediately."

Despite the excruciating pain in his chest, Yu Qian spoke to the archbishop, who was still in shock.

The archbishop knelt on the ground to pray to his Holy Trinity, when Yu Qian suddenly pulled him up and angrily rebuked him:
"Get up!"

"It wasn't the Holy Trinity that saved you; look closely, it was the Chinese army!"

Yu Qian pointed to the sky, where a drone hovered above the battlefield, and hanging from the drone's pod was the same piece of equipment that Yu Qian had seen in the base before—the captured equipment.

According to the information the commanders had just shared with him, it was called a "beacon".

It was this beacon that caused those originally incredibly powerful monsters to vanish into thin air in a very short time.

Yu Qian didn't know how the beacon worked.

But he knew that his survival had nothing to do with his belief in the Cult of Machines.

The archbishop, pulled up by Yu Qian, had a mixture of ecstasy and bewilderment on his face. Yu Qian wished he could slap him to wake him up.

"Move quickly!"

"We don't have time!"

"The wind is changing direction; the poisonous gas will be blown over here!"

"Everyone must evacuate immediately!"

"immediately!"

Yu Qian practically roared in the archbishop's ear, finally waking him up. He nodded repeatedly and then turned to run towards the remaining dozens of Holy Army soldiers.

Meanwhile, Yu Qian also began to gather his own team.

The 300-strong volunteer company has been reduced to less than 100 men by now.

Their casualties were no less than those of the Mechanicus's Guardians and Holy Spirits.

But Yu Qian had no time to mourn the dead, because he was also responsible for those who survived.

"Ignore the body."

Yu Qian said in a calm voice as much as possible:
"We don't have the capacity to take so many bodies with us, let them rest in peace here."

"Take all the wounded away."

"Everyone, move out immediately!"

At a command, the people who had collapsed to the ground finally got up.

The group staggered towards the outskirts of Jinling City. Just as they rounded the still-struggling corpse of the Northern Kun monster and reached the city walls, dust began to rise from the far end of the road.

Yu Qian looked out into the distance with his head held high.

A battle-scarred convoy appeared in front of him.

It was a convoy of the Huaxia Army.

He immediately rushed over, and the moment he saw Chen Jian jump off the Mengshi vehicle, his body, which was only supported by willpower, finally collapsed once again.

Chen Jian grabbed his arm, glanced at the blood gushing from his chest, and then gave the order:

"Xie Liu, give me a blood transfusion."

"The wound reopened and needed to be stitched up again."

"understand!"

Xie Liu responded and stepped forward. Yu Qian's lips trembled as he tried to say something, but Chen Jian shook his head and interrupted him.

"No need to say more."

"The battle is over."

"have a good rest!"

Yu Qian nodded slowly.

The world before his eyes gradually descended into darkness.

But when he finally lost consciousness, everything he saw suddenly lit up again.
(End of this chapter)