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

Chapter 47 Whacking a Mole

The straight-line distance between the team and the Ordnance Officer School is about 16 kilometers, which means that the most important target point of their reconnaissance operation this time completely overlaps with the activity range of the third-level monster.

Every step closer to the target means huge danger, so Chen Jian has no intention of saving equipment power. After the team started moving, the two drones began uninterrupted reconnaissance to ensure that the aerial vision was always uninterrupted.

But what surprised Chen Jian was that after one hour of continuous reconnaissance, even with the drone's maximum reconnaissance radius of 25 kilometers and its strong night perception capability, no trace of the monster was found.

In theory, this shouldn't happen at all.

After all, the infrared signal of a monster that is 15 meters tall should be extremely obvious. Even if it is covered by the newly grown vegetation in the city, it should not be completely invisible.

What's even more strange is that although no large targets could be found, a lot of small targets were found, mainly wild animals. Chen Jian even discovered a herd of deer living in the green space in the city center.

"There are abundant biological resources here. So do these monsters survive by eating these things?"

Hearing Chen Jian's words, Xu Lie shook his head and replied:
"No monster is purely carnivorous. At least from the information we have now, they eat everything. Some even eat stones."

"But it's true that they mainly eat meat, and they hunt in many different ways."

"Some monsters even build their own dams to trap fish in the water."

"Some people will keep animals that eat grass in captivity and eat them when their numbers increase."

"Is this still a monster?"

Chen Jian asked in amazement.

"We never said that monsters have no intelligence. They just gradually lost their human habits due to their changes in size."

"In fact, this is also why monsters have a strong sense of territory, because if their territory is invaded by other monsters, they may really starve to death."

Quite reasonable.

Chen Jian secretly calculated in his mind that the territory of a wild Siberian tiger is about 500 to 1000 square kilometers, while the territory of this level three monster is about 4000 square kilometers. Considering the difference in hunting success rate and omnivorousness, the so-called Han River ruins should be able to feed it.

So according to this line of thought, this monster should be more inclined to move around in areas with abundant food?
Chen Jian opened the map that the drone had just created and marked out several dense forest areas with dense infrared signals. He planned to have the drone fly over there, lower its altitude, and conduct close reconnaissance.

But at this moment, He Shuo, who had been observing the drone's image transmission, suddenly issued a warning.

"A large number of abnormal heat signals have been detected 1.5 kilometers away. They are moving very fast and are approaching us!"

"It doesn't look like an ordinary wild animal, it looks a bit like a small monster!"

Chen Jian immediately turned on the image transmission screen and combined with the coordinates calibrated by the INS inertial navigation system, he quickly discovered that the team was still 1 meters away from the designated observation point No. 600. If they continued to move forward in the current direction, they would most likely collide with the monster team.

So, he decisively ordered:
"Go down to the ground from the Wujinti Interchange, enter the residential area on the east side, and go to the rooftop to observe!"

"understand!"

At the command, everyone took action.

At this moment, Xu Lie once again realized the importance of "information".

Why did the Mechanicus's previous hunting operations fail? Wasn't it because they had no information?

If they could react as quickly as these chosen ones did when they sensed danger, avoiding detection by monsters and unnecessary conflicts as much as possible, then with their firepower, it shouldn't be difficult to kill the monster, right?

Therefore, the most powerful equipment of the chosen ones may not be the guns and cannons in their hands, but the iron bird flying in the sky, the drone
Following Chen Jian's steps, several people quickly got off the highway, entered the residential area, and searched upstairs.

There is no blood skeleton activity here, and there is nothing in the residential buildings except some small wild animals, birds and bats.

The eight people successfully reached the roof, and at this time, the small monster that He Shuo discovered was running wildly past the street under their feet.

Chen Jian took out a telescope and observed. Under the dim moonlight obscured by clouds and mist, he could clearly see the shapes of the monsters.

It was indeed not an ordinary wild animal, but it was also not like the hunting monster like the "praying mantis" he had seen in Chuansha City before.

Their appearance still retains a considerable degree of human characteristics, but their muscles and bones are very different, mutated in the direction of adapting to quadrupedal crawling.

All the monsters had huge tumors on their backs. There was a small tubular opening in the center of the tumor, which kept shrinking as they ran fast, looking disgusting. "What is this?"

Chen Jian asked.

"I don't know, but I feel like it's the 'mole' in the previous scout records."

"If so, we are in danger."

"Once the mole appears, the monster is not far away!"

"Didn't you tell me earlier?!"

Chen Jian spoke angrily, and Xu Lie replied with guilt:

"I didn't even know this thing existed! No one knew if it really existed!"

There was no point in saying this now, Chen Jian immediately gave the order:
"Everyone retreat immediately, find reliable cover on the ground, and prepare to meet the enemy!"

"Leave now?"

Xu Lie asked in surprise.

"What if the monster comes and we are trapped on the roof and wait to die?"

"Have you never seen a bear climbing a tree? If you encounter a monster like this, the higher you run, the faster you will die!"

Chen Jian's tone revealed obvious dissatisfaction, but he also knew that Xu Lie was not to blame.

Objectively speaking, the other party does not have much more information than he does.

Being able to issue a warning after roughly identifying the type of monster is already a good job.

Ultimately, it’s a gap in professionalism.

These people have no concept of systematic warfare and cannot distinguish the importance of intelligence.

With this level of physical fitness, it’s useless!
Without time to think, Chen Jian immediately led the team to retreat.

As he climbed down the badly weathered stairs, he observed the status of the small group of monsters.

But soon, the thing he least wanted to see happened.

The moles stopped less than two hundred meters from their building and walked around in circles hesitantly.

The tumor on the hamster's back burst open like a carnivorous plant blooming, the unfolded flesh petals exposed to the air, and sticky liquid flowed down its back and dripped onto the ground.

Then the gophers slowly changed direction.

All the flaps of flesh on the back had quieted down, only the flaps pointing in the same direction were still flapping.

The direction that the flesh petal pointed to was exactly the building where Chen Jian and his companions were.

Chen Jian's heart tightened.

He knew what this thing was used for.

That tumor is an enormous olfactory organ. They must be collecting pheromones in the air. If they find anything abnormal, they will immediately report the news back to the real monster!

These gophers have a symbiotic relationship with that level 3 monster!
We can’t let any of them escape, otherwise the whole team will be put in a passive position!
Thinking of this, Chen Jian immediately came down and said:
"Ready to fight!"

"Keep the drones on the lookout and stop these gophers!"

"Fight fast and evacuate fast, but don't let anyone go!"

(End of this chapter)