Cyber ​​Sword Immortal Iron Rain

In the thermal imaging, the nine scarlet "praying mantises" were still pacing slowly, completely unaware of the impending disaster.

The other staff members who were still outside served as the reserve team for the operation: they were deployed along the makeshift bunkers, with half of their guns pointed at the abandoned building and the other half pointed behind them - in case any crazy organization joined the battle and attacked the Noble Response and Processing Section together with the "Mantis".

Employee A did not continue to give orders, but just waited - but his sight went beyond a hundred meters, and the black background and red lines image mapped by thermal energy played the battle situation of the stormtroopers in real time for him.

……

flutter!

Strange noises came from the abandoned building: there were muffled sounds like the sound of water, and also crisp sounds like branches breaking.

"Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!"

The howling sound of sharp objects rubbing against each other resounded in the dark night - this roar that was not like a human voice came from a "praying mantis" that was injected with high-pressure gas by a stormtrooper and exploded from the inside out.

Like the starting gun in a race, the mantis's cry brought with it a storm of noisy noise:

The harsh friction of the long blade scraping against the hard shell, the cutting sound caused by the swinging of the sharp forelimbs, the terrifying scream of the mantis before death, the wet explosion when the internal explosion occurs, the sizzling sound of the electric current when the neural blocker is activated...

They gathered together, mixed with the fishy smell in the air that was different from the smell of blood, and floated in front of Employee A.

He just put his hands behind his back and waited -

……

After a while, the noise just now disappeared, and only the sound of electric currents echoed in the abandoned building; that was the sound of the neural blocker being continuously activated.

A bright white light lit up in the dark abandoned building. It flickered regularly, using light signals to convey the situation on the battlefield to the troops outside the building:

"One Mantis left. Trilobite under control. Five Stormtroopers lost."

The Noble Response and Processing Department has shut down the uplink communication system under the order of employee A to avoid being disturbed by the "epidemic" emitted by the giant beast; after the Mao Gong Ding was unsealed, they could not even transmit the telecommunications signals between the throat microphones.

"it is good!"

Employee A still had no expression on his face, but he quietly clenched his fists. He did not have a device implanted to control the secretion of neurotransmitters to maintain his calmness. Employee A was just born that way.

"This is a big win!"

Chapter 241: The Fifth Day of Civil Unrest (VIII)

……

The plan went much more smoothly than expected:

The fighting power of the Nine-Child Ghost Mother was even lower than expected. The capture was completed without much loss, relying only on the noble response and processing department. Then one of the backup plans for the operation could be implemented - the most ideal direction of "Civet Cat Substitute Prince":

Through the "Ding", a semi-dead zone is maintained to conceal the eyes and ears of all other organizations; the "trilobite" is taken away, and then the fake one made in advance is placed in the coffin, and the original plan in the conference room is continued - driving the target into the encirclement, and then multiple parties work together to complete the capture.

As long as the biggest suspect in the Taihai Chain is removed and dispersed among the various organizations... once the water is muddied, there will be a lot of room for maneuver: Which organization can prove that they did not tamper with any part of the hunting process?

Not to mention, they may not be able to tell the difference between real and fake goods; after all, currently only the intelligence department of the Taihai Chain has done close-range information collection.

When the truth comes out - even if this possibility is basically non-existent - the Taihai Chain will have completed the digestion of the spoils, and the balance will once again tip in a completely new direction:

"Separate the Trilobite from the coffin and transport it to the Palace of the Womb. Take care of the coffin and leave it to the remaining Mantis."

"Prepare to stop using the Tripod, then notify the Axis of the United States to enter and begin further expulsion: wait until the Mantis arrives with the coffin--"

……

……

He stopped halfway through his instructions.

Employee A raised his head abruptly: the light signals originally reflected in his brown-black pupils suddenly dimmed, and the abandoned building turned back into that huge dark mouth.

There was no crash, no screams of injury, not even the swaying beam of light from the light tube being pulled:

But Employee A saw the red explosion through his thermal vision.

He hit his Adam's apple with the back of his fist, and the activated loudspeaker module woke him up, and a deafening roar came out of his throat:

"Evacuate! Evacuate now!"

But this order was too late.

In the thermal imaging of employee A, clusters of dark red and orange-yellow light up on the black background.

Ten, twenty, thirty...hundreds! More, more!

Employee A has given up counting - in the field of vision created by infrared heat energy, a bright color that blocked half of the sight flashed like a lamp, covering the entire abandoned building; it was like a karmic fire that came from nowhere, wrapping the building in it.

The howling of the stormtroopers lasted only a moment: in the thermal imaging, the bright red "mantis" submerged them in an instant.

The "mantises" seem to have a layer of shell similar to vanadium oxide film on their body surface: at a certain temperature, the conductive properties also change, from an insulator to a conductor; and in this process, its optical characteristics also change, thus avoiding the tracking of thermal imaging before.

It's not rocket science - just simple and useful. But... how do these weird looking organisms do it?

……

This is a trap!

But Employee A did not call for evacuation - in the gap when the "Mantises" did not attack immediately, he chose to adjust the suppression team that was waiting outside the abandoned building from mobile response to defense status.

The Yin Lei generator was built, erected, and deployed in a flash; the pipelines were connected and straightened with the shaped foam shelter under the skilled operation of the staff; as the grid rose, dots of blue electric fire flowed through it - the thunder method prohibition would serve as the first line of defense, protecting the staff who were replacing high-explosive ammunition and the Yin Lei generator.

At the top of the abandoned building, the rooftop was filled with the beautiful faces of "praying mantises". They were shoulder to shoulder, silent, and just took off their original disguises and stared at the busy noble response and processing department.

The "mantises" spread their wings on their backs - they were not like the transparent membrane wings made of fiber cell protein like insects, nor were they like the wings of birds, which were made of hard feathers, down feathers, skeletal muscles and blood:

They are more like the "wing arms" of a bat, but their wingspan exceeds three meters; from the spine to the end of the limbs, they are connected by soft but tough dark gray membranes - when they open, light pink mucus flows and drips along the lines between the membranes.

"what--"

"whee--"

High-pitched, human-like shrieks of laughter howled from the mouths of hundreds of mantises. Light golden saliva dripped from the corners of their mouths, taking away some skin and flesh from their jaws and lips. Then, small round pits were corroded on the concrete roof beneath their feet, causing wisps of smoke to rise.

The airflow that was changed in direction by the flapping of its wings blew towards Employee A - the smell was like a strange aroma mixed with shower gel and air freshener, and it did not seem like the scent carried by the living creature itself at all.

"Tactical thinking, thermal concealment, the ability to fly or glide, acidic body fluids, no sense of pain, and the ability to release gases that are suspected to have anesthetic properties."

Although Employee A was able to calmly analyze everything in front of him, he could not suppress the anger in his heart:

These characteristics were not in the previous observation report! What are those useless people in the Intelligence Department doing?!

The "mantises" had pretty female faces. But when they all flapped their wings, tilted their heads, or stretched their necks, and looked at him with their turbid and malicious green pupils under their sword-like eyebrows, even the battle-hardened employee A felt a chill.

……

hum-

Following a sharp sound that sounded like a whistle and a buzzing sound, hundreds of mantis heads turned and looked towards the center of the abandoned building.

The fierceness and viciousness on their faces disappeared without a trace, replaced by...

If employee A saw it correctly, it seemed to be a gentle and satisfied smile. However, this humanistic expression made the scene even more weird.

then--

One after another, the mantis spread their wings, and used their slender but muscular hind legs to stomp on the top of the rooftop, and flew out from the top floor amid the flying debris. They dived towards the ground, and just before hitting it, they suddenly pulled up, drawing an arc, stirring up the dust on the cement and pushing it to both sides like divided waves.

With an indescribable swallowing sound, the mantises rushed towards the staff of the Noble Response Department: their golden hair danced in the wind in the dust they raised - if the deformed and terrifying torsos and limbs were put aside, Employee A might be willing to use a better name to call these mantises at this moment.

But employee A just shouted orders:

"check!"

Spinning, with their wings swinging out in a spiral trajectory - the leading mantises had their heads blown off by the high-explosive warheads. Their headless bodies spun upside down in mid-air, knocking off the flight paths of their fellow mantises around them, and then fell like meteorites, hitting the ground with a loud bang.

Those mantises that were interrupted by the impact and fell to the ground but were not hit directly on the head - even those that collided directly with the concrete floor with their heads - all spun around as if nothing had happened, and even grew sharp bone spurs from their ribs and waists that pierced the flesh. With all five limbs parallel, they pounced on the defense line of the noble response and processing department like cheetahs.

call!

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Chapter 242: Civil War on the Fifth Day (Part IX)

The outer shell of the mantis struck by the Yin Thunder melted rapidly, burning a huge hole - the internal organs were not static, but kept twisting and shifting, like a mouse forced into a stomach; then the internal organs were vaporized by the high temperature, and the plasma formed by ionization was ejected out of the body at high speed, and the azure electric fire penetrated the body - along with the layer of cracks caused by the Yin Thunder, the mantis that was hit exploded into two parts along the midline of the body: the remaining body that burst out finally landed, making a sharp metallic knock.

There was no rain of blood and flesh falling from the sky, only a misty dark red fog covering the air, which was then blown away by the wings of the mantises: the mantises hit by the lightning and their flowing blood were evaporated by the high temperature.

"Prepare the target to stop and maintain the defense line! Keep activating the Yin Lei to annihilate!"

He scanned the battlefield and calculated the exchange ratio - as long as the thunder launcher was not destroyed by the mantis, the casualties in the noble response and processing department would be almost negligible.

But in his heart, he finally understood more clearly the "result" of the "Nine-Child Ghost Mother" and the Kuala Lumpur disaster: Such a terrifying creation! No wonder the head ancestor told him that he must get the first experiment right no matter what.

……

While his staff were busy maintaining the defense, Employee A had enough time to see the changes behind the Mantises:

Behind the endless waves of mantises, a huge but deformed figure appeared outside the abandoned building at some point.

It looked like an enlarged version of a praying mantis: the same human female face, the same torso and limbs that intertwined arthropod and mammal characteristics; but the entire body was more than four or five times larger than the previous year, and it also had densely packed tentacles extending from its body like a garden eel - the ends of its limbs were firmly nailed into the concrete floor, even with cracks appearing: perhaps a locking structure had been deployed inside the concrete.

It opened its thin lips: a pale and slender bone spur slowly protruded from the mouth, the tip of which was a neat hexagonal shape, and the tip of the spur had a metallic gray-black color.

"High air pressure? Chemical energy? Electromagnetism? Elastic deformation?"

Employee A was still thinking about the possible ways to launch the bone spur in the mantis' mouth, but the mouth issued an order before the brain:

"Reposition! Aim for the biggest—"

It's still too slow: there's no connection, so only the most primitive way of command can be used, and this is the result.

boom!

Air gushed out from the pressure relief hole on the back of the giant mantis, as if it had substance - the bone spear turned into a long pale shadow and crossed a distance of more than two hundred meters in an instant; shallow scratches were plowed on the concrete ground by it.

Snapped……

The bone spear set off a dark red and snow-white wave in the front line of the response and processing department: body fluids, bone fragments, the remains of the power grid and the human medulla were thrown high up by the impact force; then they were sprinkled from midair. The bone spur hit the outer wall of the Yin Lei generator, shaking it - the Yin Lei generator had no recoil and was light in weight, so there were not many fixing measures installed.

"Stabilize the generators! Recalibrate! Lock on to the biggest one!"

Upon hearing the order, a clerk next to the generator suddenly accelerated and kicked the ground, using his shoulder to hit the thick tube of the Yin Lei generator, trying to stop it from its swaying state.

Snapped.

The next moment, he burst into a red rain: the air was filled with the smell of burning. The bone spur shattered the clerk, and also exploded in the collision with him, turning into white foam that splattered everywhere.

The mantises no longer tried to break through the defense line directly. They landed on the shoulders of the largest mantis on the ground in an orderly manner, just like a queue. The tentacles with retractable and twisting bristles were now bent and intertwined, forming an elastic firing device like a crossbow.

The largest mantis actually treated the other mantises as cannonballs and shot them at it!

boom!

Another launch.

After being launched, the mantises flapped their wings again to accelerate, even leaving pale trails behind them. They crashed into the crowd and used the bodies of the officers as a buffer: the officers who acted as "stepping stones" to offset the impact all had broken bones and tendons, and the deputy heads embedded in their bodies were squeezed out of the body along with the blood and organs.

The real tragedy happened after the mantis landed on the ground:

Speed! The speed difference of the movements is too big!

At this moment, the "praying mantis" really looks like an insect that has been magnified countless times - even the naked eye, which has undergone a modified nervous system and enhanced dynamic vision, can only barely keep up with the movement of their attack.

They did not seem to be killing, but rather "disassembling": some officers were sliced ​​horizontally into flat thin slices from the top of their heads; some officers had their limbs cut off and were peeled off from their protective suits layer by layer until their skin, fascia and muscles were also removed, and the mantises then picked out their internal organs one by one.

Members in groups of three or five cooperated with each other, and fought back with the use of neural blockers, high-explosive ammunition and gas-injected long blades - but more often than not, they just followed the dancing and spinning of the mantis, and blood flowers bloomed among the crowd; the Mother River was still in deep darkness, and only despair and fear could be heard in the light cover.

"Hahahahahaha!"

The clear laughter like jade colliding with each other rang out all over the battlefield along with the blood fountain-like columns. This crazy yet peaceful laughter came from the corners of each mantis's grinning mouth: the long scarlet tongue stretched out from the dark mouth, licking the cinnabar-like blood that sprinkled in the air.

The only reason the officers hadn't collapsed yet was because of the magic reagents they drank before the battle and the poison planted in their brains - but they could only hold out for so long.

"I miscalculated!"

Employee A now knows that the incomplete suppression team he has does not have the ability to swallow the "Nine-Child Ghost Mother" alone... Even if he can, the cost is far beyond his ability to bear. If he cannot maintain the combat effectiveness of the organization after hunting, even if he gets the prey, it will be taken away by other forces, including the other kings of the Taihai Chain.

"Should we retreat? Should we retreat?"

In employee A's heart, countless thoughts are boiling over at this moment.

Only employee A, who was fighting at home, and other staff members of the noble response department knew how much of a blow they might have on Manila.