"Until the demonic cells in their bodies completely crystallize, they will become dehydrated mummies like they are now. This is not important; no monsters will hatch from them. However, if possible, you can help me obtain some samples, because these white crystals on their bodies are the closest to the earliest demonic structure."

This will help the doctor fully restore the demon's normal functions. In that case, the white crystal's functions will be further enhanced, enabling it to perform its original design functions of maintenance, repair, and production, essentially functioning as an ecological shaping machine for the alien planet.

While it cannot manufacture or produce any high-tech items, it can create ecosystems and massively modify the environment, which is of great use for future escape plans.

Moreover, even if we take a step back, it can attract the energy and attention of other countries in Terra, maximizing their motivation to engage in polar exploration. After all, every country has a large area of ​​wasteland abandoned due to natural disasters, and this kind of environmental regeneration technology can be put to good use.

"It's too quiet here." Blitzkrieg carefully avoided the decaying human bones on the ground. "I have a bad feeling."

"Stay alert." Ash quickly illuminated every corner where attackers might be hiding. His palms, encased in sensor gloves, were slightly sweaty, which was quickly absorbed by the highly breathable fabric.

"The door is locked." Flash shook the metal door of the dormitory building. "Open the door, or... enter through another entrance?"

"Open the door, keep it down." There wasn't time to find another entrance, and forcibly opening the door would obviously alert any enemies that might be hiding there. "Okay," Shuanghua took out her Hot Melt Blade and carefully approached the door lock.

"Sizzle~" A faint cutting sound rang out. Just then, as if startled by something, a shapeless fleshy slurry began to gush out from between the crystals. Then, a demonic derivative jumped out. This blood-red, amorphous monster with a single eye quickly twisted its body, absorbing the bones on the ground, and its body was covered with a layer of grayish-white calcified shell.

"Bang!" The newly formed head was sliced ​​off by a Holy Fireball. However, the demon had no core or vital points. Soon, a new head covered with a calcareous shell grew out. One large and six small eyes, clustered together, stared at the group without making any other move.

"It's open, let's go in!" Shuanghua kicked the door open, and the team rushed in before the monster could make any move. Almost immediately after, they heard the dull thud of the monster crashing into the building.

"Watch out for the door!"

"Damn it, this ground!" From the outside, it looks like a concrete building covered in crystals, but inside it is like the body of a living creature, full of blood-red flesh and blood structures. The sound of liquid flowing can be heard from the thick, soft pipes. Soon, a lump of flesh was spat out, hissing as it extended dozens of sharp tentacles to stab at Flash.

"Clang!" The shield deflected the attack, and then the newborn monster was shattered by Frostflower's shotgun. However, the unlit fragments quickly fused into the net-like flesh on the ground.

"Hurry, find the core area, there's no time to retrieve anything." The group put away their weapons and quickly ran along the passage towards the area with less flesh and blood. Then a huge tentacle pierced through the wall, swayed left and right in the passage, and clusters of eyeballs at its end rolled around as if trying to capture some information.

There's a door up ahead!

"I'll do it!" Blitzkrieg, shield in one hand and shotgun in the other, fired two shots in quick succession, blasting open the metal door and revealing a white crystalline world behind it.

It seemed to be a social hall, and you could still see a bit of the magnificent hall from the past. It was full of human figures covered in crystals, like a collection room. "Smack!" Alexander smashed a crystal skeleton and stuffed the crystal-covered skull into his backpack.

"Check it out" and "It's safe for now" seem to indicate that the demons outside believe this place is a digestive zone for other demons and have not launched any destructive attacks, so it is safe for now. However, it's hard to say what will happen as time goes on.

Because it was obvious that outside the blasted-open door, clumps of writhing flesh were being expelled, and the makeshift roadblocks couldn't hold them off for long.

"There's a weapon here!" Shuanghua pulled a long gun from the skeleton of a guard near the door, and without even checking what it was, she stuffed it into her backpack.

"Hurry up, go through the other passage!" Ash jumped out of the doorway and landed on the broken corridor between the buildings, where a huge black crystal was right under his feet.

"Go through the crystals to another building, quick!" Just as the group jumped down, the ground shook violently. The giant demon seemed to have discovered the intruders' presence and turned around from the other side of the building.

"Rat-a-tat-tat!" Alexander opened fire to restrain the creature. The dense barrage of bullets tore through the calcium shell, pulverized flesh and blood, and burned body tissue. The demon had to slow down temporarily. Its root-like tentacles pierced into the inner wall of the crystal, and then its body was quickly covered with a layer of black crystalline armor.

"Come in!" Alexander put away his weapon and slipped into the second building while the other party changed form. The corridor and the crystal passage behind him were interrupted by the tentacles in the next instant.

"Can we find the nest's foothold?"

“These three buildings and these main crystals are the support points.” Ash circled the huge crystal pillar that pierced the annex building, secured the bomb in his hand, set the detonation mode, and then spoke.

"So, there are a total of five detonation points, and the other side broke one of them themselves."

"Only Temporary" seemed to realize that it could cause the nest to collapse. The huge demon let out an unwilling roar and circled the building, seemingly unsure whether destroying the building would cause the crystal to break and the entire nest to collapse.

On the fractured crystal surface, the dark "territory" traces spread, and blood-red demonic flesh and blood, like a spider web, continuously spread out from the opposite building, growing along the fracture surface, clearly forming new supporting pillars.

"We have to blow them all up at once."

"OK, let's do it this way."

"Check the remaining locations. If there's still no salvageable material, execute the demolition plan. Besides, we have new troubles." Blitzkrieg said, pointing to the entrance. Countless thorn-like things wriggled and covered the entrance, making it difficult to get out, which meant they had to deal with this huge monster first.

"Ammunition is still plentiful, and explosives are plentiful, but this is their home turf." This annex building seems to be some kind of entertainment area, with few traces of demonic flesh and blood, but a large number of writhing lumps of flesh are pouring in from various gaps, rushing towards the Rainbow Squad.

"Bang!" Gunfire illuminated the entire corridor. Frosty white liquid followed the gunfire and covered the demonic guard that had been thrown off balance by the shotgun shells. Yelena supported the demon's limbs with one hand, allowing the white frost to quickly cover its entire body, followed by a second shotgun shell.

"Hurry up and don't stop!" The sounds of gunfire and cannons echoed behind them, alarming all the demons in the area. From the rotting tents and dilapidated shacks, a flood of flesh and gore poured out, which then transformed into monsters with numerous twisted limbs.

"Whoosh~" The golden flames swept away several demonic entities that had gotten too close, buying the team time to pass through the corridor on the third floor.

"Jump!" As Yelena descended to the second-floor corridor, she saw the densely packed, fleshy walls opposite her and decisively kicked through the railing, leaping down. The others followed suit. The two tides of flesh met and collided in the second-floor corridor, stirring up countless raindrop-like clumps of flesh that then transformed into a large number of small demons that pounced on the team.

"Ah!" The slowest medic was hit on the head by the sludge. In an instant, the sludge grew a large number of soft tentacles that tightly bound his head. Then, the mud-like flesh burrowed into every crevice and even began to secrete corrosive liquid.

"Never mind that, hurry up and get into the passage, get out of here!" More and more of the fleshy, pulpy demons spilled out, turning into running monsters, not to mention the terrifying wall of flesh like a tidal wave.

"Bang!" The screams of the medical operator behind him were blocked by the door slamming shut. Then the door began to deform, and a large amount of flesh and blood gushed out from the gaps.

"Crack~" White frost spread along Frost Star's feet, completely freezing the demonic flesh and blood that was dismantling the door.

"Hurry up!" The remaining markings on the wall told them that the next floor was the damn generator room.

Chapter Fifty-Two: Infiltrating the Nest

Chapter 52

"Bang!" Golden flames, like dragon's breath, sprayed onto the oncoming demon, sending the small derivative flying. Blitzkrieg decisively fired a shot at the rotting flesh and writhing blood vessels on the wall, splattering viscous blood and flesh everywhere.

"Get through this area quickly!" He discarded the modified shield in his hand and cleared a path with shotgun shells. More and more fleshy pulp squeezed in from the windows and various cracks, turning into demonic derivatives.

"Alright, let's go!" Shuanghua forcefully plunged the dagger strapped with the bomb into the fleshy wall, letting the demonic flesh cover and envelop the bomb.

"This is the last one." Ash planted a bomb on another pillar, and the group quickly crossed the entertainment area's hall. New demons kept spawning along the way, but they were all blocked and torn apart by the fierce gunfire.

"Jump!" Blitzkrieg, who was at the forefront, quickly crossed the broken stairwell. With his power armor at maximum power, he leaped across at least four or five meters and landed on the slightly shorter dormitory building opposite. The floor was instantly smashed through by the heavy armor, and the crystal spikes supporting the floor were also shattered. Black debris fell like raindrops.

The other three followed suit, smashing several large holes through the floor slab and causing partial collapse. This caused some of the evil spirits to linger on the edge due to their instinct to seek advantage and avoid harm, thus hindering the pursuers to some extent.

"Run!" Alexander shouted as he landed and pulled himself out of a pile of debris. He then abandoned his heavy weapons and charged through the twisted and deformed passage, which looked as if countless human bodies were protruding from the wall, carrying only a hand cannon.

"Ash!" "I'm about to plant the bomb!" Ash patted the bomb stuck in the center of the crystalline structure that crisscrossed like tree roots. "Okay, evacuate, evacuate!" Frost and Blitz had already jumped out of the building from the other side.

"The entrance is blocked, how do we get out?"

"Give me five minutes!" Ash pulled a breaching bomb out of his backpack and squatted down next to the entrance, which was blocked by flesh and black liquid, and started fiddling with it.

"Five minutes? Three minutes at most, and we'll be excrement." Blitzcrank loaded the last shotgun shell into the gun, cocked it with a click, and the rather sluggish giant demon slowly turned its body.

The lower body, resembling the hem of a skirt, wriggled and spread across the rubble and broken crystals. Its slender head opened, and clumps of fleshy pulp poured out of the petal-like head as if vomiting, before quickly transforming into the form of a demonic offspring.

"Whoosh!" A streak of fire shot from the small missile launcher on Alexander's shoulder, accurately hitting the demon's head and blasting it to the side as it continued to vomit more demonic offspring. "That was a good shot."

"Get ready, this is going to be a tough battle!" The demon's fear field has no effect on the Rainbow Squad, and the minions seem to have very limited use at the moment. However, the previous airstrikes have proven that the demon also has a ranged attack structure. It's just that because the squad has been fighting while on the move, the demon thinks that their threat is not enough to warrant the use of these weapons.

Of course, it is more likely that the demons are unable to read their fear and surface consciousness, so they can only fight in this "most terrifying" form in an attempt to evoke fear in the Rainbow Squad in order to read their consciousness and some of their memories.

If it were Terrans instead, the anti-phase waves wouldn't be able to protect them from being read and affected by fear in this environment. The demons would quickly realize the existence of the bombs and the importance of long-range attacks, which would increase the difficulty of the battle by several levels.

However, the ever-growing mass of flesh and the enormous monster still put immense pressure on the Rainbow Squad. "Spread out a bit, don't interfere with Lena's work!" Alexander only had his hand cannon left; he had discarded his heavy weapons, which were already nearly empty of ammunition. However, the hand cannon for his power armor was enough to inflict damage on the giant monster.

Each shot could blast a hole the size of a washbasin in the target's body, but for a monster nearly seven stories tall, it was not even a superficial wound. If it hadn't been constantly creating demonic offspring that severely slowed down its self-healing ability, such damage would have healed in less than a second.

The skirt-like feet wriggled, constantly drawing nutrients from the soil and recycling the crystallized demonic cells. In this environment, there was almost no need to worry about running out of nutrients and resources; the only option was to use its limited ammunition and weapons to buy time.

"Hiss~" The spider-like monster pounced on Flash, its four pairs of sharp teeth biting the gun barrel tightly. Flash had no choice but to give up the gun in his hand and pull out the hand cannon from his thigh gun holster, firing a close-range hand cannon shot at the thing.

There was no time to finish him off before the second monster pounced on him. This time, he could only use his melee knife to stab it down. Then, before he could catch his breath, the third one appeared. Fortunately, he had already retrieved his main weapon. He didn't have time to check the damage to the gun, so he could only fire as quickly as possible. Luckily, the gun body made of durable steel was very sturdy, and a single Holy Fire shotgun shell shattered the bat-like creature.

However, at this moment, the enormous demon body raised its tentacles, which were covered with numerous sharp teeth and spikes, and slammed down. "Whoosh!" The second anti-tank missile accurately hit the demon body, causing it to miss its target. Feeling the ground shake, Flash sincerely admired Alexander's superb marksmanship and scrambled towards the exit.

"Alright!" Ash pressed the detonation button hard, and a series of explosions blasted away the flesh and blood and some of the crystals blocking the entrance. "Run!" Amidst the cheers of countless demonic offspring, the group quickly rushed through the passage and arrived at the small square outside. Then Ash pressed another detonator.

With a deafening explosion, the supporting pillars snapped and collapsed, and the entire nest crumbled bit by bit. After the solid crystal dome collapsed, the enormous demonic body let out a roar, rapidly absorbing parts of the nest and growing more limbs, constantly changing its form.

On the rooftop of the office building, a member of the Yeti team lowered his binoculars, a laser pointer beside him aimed at the target. "Rainbow Team, they're about to come out."

"Bang!" A radiating wound exploded on the side of a demon that was about to pounce on Alexander at the back of the line, and it fell to the side.

"One shot, hit!" Miyu, who was half-crouched in the corner of the office building rooftop, pulled the bolt, and a discarded tower heat pipe popped out. Then she fired a second shot, resting the gun on her thigh. The recoil of the Snow Rabbit Improved Rifle was still a little too much for her, and each shot made her body sway backward.

"Bang!" With the support of the sniper, the Rainbow Squad successfully shook off the demon's pursuit, while on the rooftop, the observer completed the artillery calibration.

On the side of the polar behemoth, five sets of ship cannons slowly rotated their barrels, and the automatic loading machine's clamps sent heavy anti-demon holy fire shells into the cannons. "Target clear, close range support artillery fire!" Ten consecutive cannon shots rang out, and the entire ship trembled. Then the explosion engulfed the nest ruins and the huge demon together.

"You should have just shelled it instead of going in and planting bombs!" After entering the safe zone, Blitzkrieg panted heavily and threw his helmet aside.

"Because shelling is not very effective against lairs. Lairs are not all as simple as the one you entered. If a lair has a multi-layered structure and a hidden underground structure, shelling will only bury them and allow them to escape the attack. As long as you leave a single living cell, they can turn into more demons."

"Therefore, it is necessary to send personnel to conduct an on-site assessment, including not only the recyclables but also the internal structure of the lair. Ideally, the bombardment should be carried out from the inside to weaken its defenses and destroy the pillars of the demon lair. Only in this way can the bombardment achieve the best results."

The relentless bombardment shattered the great demon, flames leaping and spreading across its body and lair. Thermite bombs and incendiary bombs dropped from drones rained down alternately, melting and burning the massive demon remains bit by bit in the flames, turning them into charcoal. Meanwhile, artillery fire extended along the lair to both sides, blasting swathes of crystal forests and the demons hidden within them to smithereens.

The intense bombardment lasted for about half an hour before it stopped. All the existing shells had been used up, and the gun itself had overheated due to the dense bombardment. However, as a ship that was similar to a small town, it had a production platform and facilities consisting of more than twenty workshops, which could replenish ammunition and various consumables on the spot.

"Your next target is Nest Number Three. This used to be a research institute. There shouldn't be any large monsters inside, and the number of demons isn't large either. However, the terrain is more complex, and it's difficult to use heavy weapons."

"Besides these?" Ash looked at the structure diagram. In terms of difficulty, this task should be ranked first among the challenges.

"Radiation. There are two reactors under the research institute. If there are no accidents, they must have already leaked by now. The reason we are sending you there now is because we need to rush to make radiation protection equipment."

"Radiation, viruses, and monsters, the perfect trip," Blitzkrieg started spouting nonsense. If this kind of mission happened on Earth, he would just want to smash his supervisor's head, but here, he could only put up with it.

"However, this time, it's not just you. At least for the first half, our people can keep up. But once we go deeper, we'll have to rely on you." This is because operators are prone to acute Oripathy caused by the abundant Originium radiation, while humans don't have this concern, so their protective equipment is relatively simpler.

The load-bearing capacity of power armor allows it to carry thicker lead shielding plates and lead wire linings, making it more effective than normal radiation protection suits.

"Okay, we need a lot of shotgun shells for weapons." In a complex place like a research institute, shotgun shells are more useful. First, the engagement distance is usually relatively close, and shotgun shells can effectively deal with enemies. Second, they can also be used to open doors without worrying about destroying anything dangerous.

"May I ask which research institute it is?"

"Judging from the information, it's an electronics research institute." "Your regional planning is truly appalling." Ash said sincerely, "It's like you've just randomly placed all sorts of facilities and buildings."

"Because this area was originally a refugee camp and temporary resettlement area, the supporting facilities transported from other places simply couldn't fit into the core area of ​​the Tower of Babel. They could only be placed around it, and there was no planning at all," the doctor explained.

"In reality, many research institutes could only be set up in temporary garages or even on land-based ships to make do with their work. We didn't have that much time to plan and arrange them back then."

"And because your buildings are moved or quickly assembled by vehicles or mobile platforms, some areas that were originally planned may also shift when chaos ensues, right?"

"Yes, so your mission will be very difficult."

"Okay, I'd like to ask, do we still have naval gun support?"

"Ready in 50 minutes."

"That's fine then." Since we're already on this pirate ship, there's no point in complaining, right? Meanwhile, in the generator room beneath the underground garage, "My God!" White Rabbit stared dumbfounded at the generator area. Something hard to describe was attached to the generator, resembling a huge fleshy nest or fleshy coral.

"Clean up this fleshy mess and the demonic structures, and repair the power generation facilities."

"Crackling~" The flesh began to writhe, and root-like structures grew out along the metal mesh, launching a large number of spikes at the squad. The dense wooden spikes hit the metal and fence with a crackling sound.

"Fight back!" Yelena pulled out her hand cannon and shot off a root-like tentacle that was coiling up from behind.

"Rat-a-tat-tat!" Various guns and weapons flashed in the basement. Sacred fire bullets and turret bullets bounced on various devices. Demonic limbs were constantly being broken and torn apart, but more limbs began to appear due to the fear of reading.

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