This game is so weird!

library.

Under the firepower suppression of the main Orc force, Dom and Battlefield Old Bin crouched in a corner next to the stairs on the second floor of the library, struggling to defend themselves.

"Marcus, how much longer?"

Dom fired through the gap in the stair railing, a burst of bullets knocking back an orc soldier trying to rush up to the second floor from the stairwell. After skillfully dodging the grenades thrown up with Old Bin, he turned around and shouted to the room next door.

"Working on it!"

Marcus replied without looking up.

After entering the library three hours ago, spending two hours clearing out the orc soldiers and searching for nearly an hour, they finally found Dr. Adam Phoenix in this room, which was the data analysis room left here by his father—a room full of electronic instruments and computing devices.

Standing before the old-fashioned terminal that looked like it came from the 70s or 80s, looking at the square computer with its small display, keypad, and two port slots, Marcus called out to the door:

"Jack, quickly connect and see what you can find."

"receive."

The portable backpack-shaped robot, a technological masterpiece of the Security Government Alliance that Anya had previously remotely operated, flew in from outside the door.

Upon entering the library, the robot codenamed "Jack" deactivated its energy-saving backpack mode, left Dom's back, and followed the group to assist in locating the signal source. Flying over the night rain that was keeping watch by the window, Jack flew to the front of the computer, carefully examined the terminal's model number with the camera, and then extended its right hand, which had a connection cable attached, and inserted it into the pre-installed connection slot on the computer terminal.

"Reading data, please wait."

As the connection was established, the connection cable and the computer lit up with blue indicator lights. Two minutes later, a pale purple 3D tree-like phantom was projected from the three spotlights on the terminal and floated in the air.

The spotlights flashed rapidly, gradually outlining a complete network of underground tunnels.

"How can there be so many tunnels? It's like a honeycomb." Anya, who had been waiting for news in the office at the front-line base, immediately connected to the robot's data. Looking at the dense network of tunnels, she exclaimed in surprise, "They're everywhere, densely packed throughout the entire earth's crust!"

"With so much information, we should be able to complete our mission?"

"That's enough." After connecting to the Jack robot, Anya scanned the data in front of her with the camera and quickly replied.

"Let's leave then and start downloading the data."

Upon hearing Marcus's voice, Anya typed on the keyboard and started the transfer, but an error message quickly popped up: "There's no way around it, the file is too large, exceeding our transfer capacity."

"Then take the files with you." Marcus made a decisive decision. Since they couldn't be transmitted wirelessly to command center, they'd pack them up and take them. They couldn't afford to linger here. He ordered Jack.

"Jack, download these files."

"Confirmed, but it will take some time."

The Jack robot, hovering in the air, nodded its head, activated the download function, and copied the data to the robot's internal storage via the connection cable.

Marcus breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the dump had started successfully.

Before he could celebrate for long, Bard, who was outside defending against the orc reinforcements, sent him a call:

"Hey everyone, we're still having a really intense fight here."

"Report your location," Marcus asked calmly, pressing his left hand into his headset.

"The house is in front, on the second floor, come quick!"

"We're already on our way." Marcus said, then told Anya and rushed up to the second-floor terrace of the library with Ye Yu.

Seeing Marcus arrive with his men, Bard and Cole breathed a sigh of relief. Most of the players were scattered across the staircases, holding off the orcish attack; the terrace was too much pressure facing the orcish reinforcements directly. Bard quickly said, "Some orcs have circled around to the back. You guys hold them off here, we'll protect the troop transports."

Seeing Marcus nod, Bard continued, "Little Black, take someone with us and don't let them get near the troop carrier!"

"Attack!" A hoarse roar came from the garden square outside the tower, emanating from the elite orcs hidden somewhere. Dozens of orc soldiers, accompanied by laborers, swarmed forward, switching between cover in the square and slowly advancing towards the library.

"attack!"

Marcus shouted, popped his gun out from the side of the small flower bed, quickly aimed, and fired a chain of fire, instantly knocking down an Orc who was switching cover.

Night Rain and the other players also opened fire, suppressing the orcs' advance.

Five minutes later.

Seeing that they hadn't yet breached the library, and that the few orcs who occasionally managed to rush in were being wiped out at the stairwell, the orc commander roared in fury, "Mount the Dragon Beasts!"

"Waaaaah————"

A distinctive horn sounded, and the orcish offensive paused, scattering and retreating to clear the central area from the plaza to the library.

"What happened? Have the orcs retreated?"

Looking at the disappearing bullets, Ye Yu was a little confused. The orcs looked like big, burly guys, so why did they retreat after only a few minutes of attrition warfare?

It looks impressive but is useless. How did such a force manage to defeat humanity so decisively?

Marcus's expression hardened, and he frowned as he peered out at the steps directly in front of the garden square. He could vaguely see a metal cannon barrel swaying back and forth, gradually approaching the library.

"Oh no, it's a giant dragon beast."

"A giant dragon?"

"The Orcs crawled out of the ground like living siege tanks, 15 meters tall and 15 tons of mobile meat mountains, and their appearance was so ugly that it was unbearable to look at."

Before Marcus could finish speaking, a gasp came from the side. A player who had boldly stood up to peek after the gunshots stopped shouted, "What was that?!"

Hearing the sound, Ye Yu and the other players also peeked out.

At the bottom of the steps at the end of the garden, a huge creature was slowly rising.

At first, there was just a thick cannon barrel and orc soldiers sitting behind it. Slowly, a huge and ferocious ape head appeared on the ground. Under the metal-covered head, there was a mouth as big as a small car, panting heavily, with saliva dripping from the corners of its mouth onto the ground.

The bio-weapon called the Giant Dragon Beast raised its right hand and pressed it onto the ground of the square. The barrel of the ridiculously large, heavy wrist-mounted machine gun was stuck into the floor, causing the other corner of the floor tile to stick up high.

With a forceful downward press of its right arm, the giant dragon beast climbed the steps and appeared fully in the square.

Only then did Ye Yu realize that the giant dragon beast in front of her had two heavy machine guns on its wrists and a cannon with a terrifyingly large caliber on its back. It was as if the orcs had forcibly embedded heavy guns into the body of a gorilla, forming an ultimate predator born for destruction.

"Prepare to retreat." Marcus turned to Night Rain and said as he saw the giant dragon beast completely climb onto the plaza.

"How about we give it a shot?" Ye Yu was a little eager to try. Although it looked terrifying, it was a biological weapon after all, with a health bar. Surely we could wear it down?

"Don't even think about light weapons, they're not even good enough to tickle you." Marcus didn't directly refute him, but instead introduced the situation of the giant dragon beast he had summarized in actual combat, "It can overturn the Armadillo armored vehicle we're going to ride in with just one shoulder."

"To take it down, you have to either disable the machine guns on its arms and its legs, or climb onto its back and take out the pilot on top."

"..."

Seeing Marcus explaining, the players who had gathered around fell silent after hearing it.

If you can't even reduce its health, then what's the point of fighting?

Retreat! No, let's make a strategic retreat.