This Terra is a little weird.

Just as Makarov was about to leave, the child in his arms spoke up: "You shouldn't have come here."

"what?"

“This is its home.”

Maine stepped on a hard metal object. It was an alloy knife, the kind commonly equipped by militiamen.

"Sergeant, we'd better ..."

Before he could finish his words, Maine saw a huge figure running quickly across the pile of rocks through the night vision goggles. Its eyes were very bright in the night vision goggles.

"Sergeant! Run!"

Makarov flew out in an instant and was nailed to the stone. The child in his arms fell down. He crawled to another stone and hid.

Maine shot at the thing, sparks flew off the stone, and Maine dodged immediately. His helmet was torn to pieces and his night vision goggles fell somewhere, but fortunately he was not injured.

Hiding behind a rock, he finally saw clearly what had just flown over: a thorn that was twenty centimeters long and half the thickness of a finger joint.

Maine crawled to the stone nearest to Makarov.

"How are you, Sergeant?"

"I'm stuck with a thorn, and if I move I'll get cut, and it's almost like a knife on all sides."

"Don't move! I'm going to fire a flare."

Maine pulled out his flare gun and fired a flare into the sky, and red light exploded from the sky.

"Team three encountered the enemy, go!" The storm troopers stood up and ran towards the mountainside.

Makarov grimaced in pain, his clothes were soaked, and his body was still losing blood rapidly, which made him increasingly weak. But as long as he moved, the thorn would cut his flesh from the inside.

"Mayne, I think that thing got irritated by the flare."

"Don't say anything! Just play dead, and I'll give you another one later!"

"Hehe, I'm so tired, Mayne."

"Don't you really die!"

Mayne heard a gurgling sound, especially like the threatening cry of a reptile, and he immediately fired at the source of the sound. The ground trembled, and a huge spike flew towards him from the other direction, almost piercing his chest.

"*Ursus swears*" Mayne quickly changed his position: "Old Ma! Don't really fall asleep! Where is the child?"

"I...didn't see it."

Listening to his increasingly quiet voice, Maine took out the mountable steel pipe, which was an extension of the multi-purpose engineer shovel. Maine inserted one end into the ground and used the other end to support Makarov's arm to support him.

"Mayne, find the child and go... I can't hold on any longer. I've lost too much blood. I'm so cold."

"The general will be here soon, just hold on for a while."

There was a sound of footsteps, Mayne raised his gun and aimed, and found that it was the remaining members of his team, they were holding the children of the Kavan family.

"Where is the enemy?"

"I didn't see it. That damn thing will shoot nails at people. Be careful."

"How's the sergeant?"

"It's pierced, nailed to the stone, dying, and the thorn can't be cut off with a knife."

A stormtrooper's foot was suddenly pierced, and he was quickly dragged into the darkness. His comrades beside him immediately grabbed him and stuck his feet in the cracks of the rocks. However, the power of the thing over there was huge, and the man's shoulder was dislocated, his arms collapsed and loosened, and the stormtrooper was pulled into the darkness.

Just as Mayne pulled the man back from the rock, a bright light flashed in the distance and an explosion was heard.

"Damn it!"

A team member lifted Makarov's eyelids and shone a flashlight under him.

"The sergeant died."

The clucking sound was heard again. Maine alertly shone the flashlight above the stone and finally saw the appearance of the monster. It was covered with scales and barbs, and had a thick tail with something wriggling at the end. It was stretching its claws towards Makarov, trying to hook him away.

It is somewhat similar to a lizard, but the Ursus people have never seen one and have no idea what it is.

The three teams immediately opened fire at him. The bullets shattered the scales and then deflected out. The lizard monster jumped down and pierced a stormtrooper's body with its claws. Maine was knocked away and his rifle was crushed to pieces. Several bone spurs shot out from the lizard monster's tail. The stormtrooper was nailed to the ground before he could hide and lost his breath.

Luo Chen arrived at this time, picked up the automatic rifle and fired. The alloy bullet pierced through the flesh and blood. The lizard monster roared in pain, rolled on the ground, stabbed the bodies of the storm troopers on its back, and fled at a high speed.

Luo Chen put down his gun, helped Maine up, and held the frightened child in his arms.

"I'm late."

"General... the sergeant..."

"You hold the child, I'll put him down."

Luo Chen came to Makarov's body, pulled off his ID card, took off his helmet, and fixed his hair.

He reached out and touched the thorn, leaving a deep wound on his finger. The chainsaw sword carefully cut off the spike. Luo Chen hugged Makarov's body and kept his ID card and the spike.

"Charlie, find a bottle to hold the monster's blood."

Luo Chen led his men out of the forest. He needed to send the child back, send Makarov back to his family, and send the collected samples to the biological laboratory.

He had never seen anything like it before, not any of the primitive creatures he had seen in the Terra Encyclopedia, and even in all his years of fighting the Imperium and the Xenomorphs, he had only seen similar life forms, which were somewhat similar to the Gromon.

But that thing was the empire's main livestock, the source of dinosaur meat, and was very different from what he had seen.

"General, what's the situation?" The adjutant handed over a cup of tea.

Luo Chen took the tea and said, "It's very bad. Many people were killed by that thing."

"The campsite construction is complete and the communication channel is good."

"Good? Our communications were disrupted by a strong magnetic field in the forest. This place is not far from there, so there is no signal interference?"

"No, it's very smooth."

Luo Chen was silent for a while: "Report the situation here to the nearest stormtroopers, ask them to disperse and gather, and write a report and send it to the leader's office."

"Yes!"

"We need to step up our vigilance during this period, especially in the village, and wait for the results from the laboratory to come out."

Chapter 35: Pursuit

The laboratory analyzed the monster's DNA in three days, and the results surprised Luo Chen.

That monster did have reptilian genes, but only 4 percent. The rest were more like some kind of denatured proteins than genes. The question was, how did this creature survive?

Luo Chen didn’t care about the issues that the biologists were concerned about, but about the scales and spikes on its body.

Almost half of the components are chitin, and we have no idea what the remaining half is. We can only find out that their molecular structure is very tight, even tighter than metal.

What surprised Luo Chen even more was that the originium binding rate of this thing was lower than normal, and the cells remained active for a full three days.

In other words, there appeared behind them a creature with strong vitality that could overturn an entire company of stormtroopers. Could this thing really be a biological weapon that came from somewhere?

"Never mind. Compared to the ancestors of Catachan, this is still a little cutie."

Luo Chen thought so, but he didn't have any good solution. He didn't have any heavy weapons on hand, and considering the monster's agility, not many people could catch up with it.

Luo Chen turned to the adjutant and said, "Help me connect Comrade Bozhukas."

"Sir Patriot? They entered the signal isolation zone a week ago and sent out their last communication. Their current location is unknown."

"Try it, we need his help."

"Yes."

While the adjutant was contacting the patriots, Luo Chen picked up the report on the enemy's movements and felt a headache. The integration movement would undoubtedly take more time. Many militia teams were incorporated into the regular army for training.

If there is any way to delay the enemy, even for a week.

"General, connected."

Luo Chen walked over and took the communicator.

"This is the headquarters. Is this Major General Bozhukas?"

"I am."

"Sir Patriot, I am Luo Chen."

"Task?"

"Emergency mission, please go to area F, 0-95, communication code UP52367Z305."

"receive."

"How's the situation with the inner guards?"

"Kill one, injure one, the remaining one, I don't know, maybe, leave."

"Got it, be careful on the road."

Luo Chen put down the communicator. The Patriot's condition had undoubtedly worsened. It was estimated that the Originium crystals had begun to damage his vocal cords. He would receive treatment when there was a chance.

"Okay, I know. Be alert." The adjutant put down the communicator, and Luo Chen stood up and looked at him.

"According to Team Eight, that thing wanted to attack the village, but they scared it away with a bomb. We don't know if it succeeded or not."

"Where are the casualties?"

"Two were seriously injured and were saved in time by medical treatment."

The adjutant sighed: "If this continues, we will lose confidentiality here. Let's withdraw and let a corps take over."

"It's not the right time yet. Who wouldn't be suspicious if a corps ran to the rear? If the internal guards caught up with us, none of us in the command team would be able to escape. Let's wait for the patriot to come. Once we catch this monster, we will move immediately."

Afterwards, the rear command center was commanding the troops while playing hide-and-seek with the monsters. Some soldiers became anxious when they saw their wounded comrades and wanted to go up the mountain with flamethrowers. Fortunately, Luo Chen stopped them, and the arrival of the patriot gave them reassurance.

"Sir Patriot, you came so quickly. The East is very far away from here."

"urgent."

Then Luo Chen told him everything. After listening, the Patriot was silent for a long time. He had never heard of such a thing, but Luo Chen did not disturb him.

The adjutant lit a cigarette for Luo Chen and then lit one for himself: "It's not easy. Aside from the guards of the headquarters and the village, we can only send 40 people up the mountain. Together with the Patriot's troops, there are only about 50 people. That thing is not that easy to catch."

"More people may not necessarily be a good thing." Luo Chen took a puff of his cigarette: "We can't act at night either. Oh, by the way, how about our newly arrived bombs?"

"strong enough."

"Okay, I'll bring a few more with me when the time comes. You stay at the command center to prepare for any special situations."

The patriot stood up and spoke intermittently, which surprised Luo Chen and his adjutant.

"It's not a creature, it's a weapon. There are ruins of an ancient civilization under that mountain."

"Are you sure?"

The Patriot nodded. "That makes sense, interference."

Luo Chen took a few sips of water. It was a biological weapon from ancient civilization. How could such a weird thing survive for so long without the blessing of some evil god?

"Maybe, not, alive, maybe, infected, with, special, items."

Luo Chen sat down. If it was really as the patriot speculated, the monster should have been a reptile that drilled into the ruins of ancient civilization, came into contact with special objects, and became like this.

If that is true, then its mutation should be understandable, although it does not quite conform to scientific laws. According to common sense, it simply cannot withstand large-scale mutation and transformation.

Luo Chen discussed the capture plan with Patriot and gave Patriot and others new equipment, as their clothes had been torn apart in the high-intensity battle with the Internal Guards. As for those who were injured by the Internal Guards, Luo Chen asked them not to participate in this operation but to receive treatment.

After getting dressed, they entered the forest. In order to increase firepower output, the stormtroopers also brought grenade launchers, large-caliber shotguns and other equipment. Although they were powerful, the source stone content in the propellant was higher. In order to prevent their infection from worsening, Luo Chen ordered them not to be used unless necessary.

The Patriot and his black shield guards walked in the front row, Luo Chen and a team of stormtroopers proficient in swordsmanship walked at the end, and the other personnel dispersed to be on guard.

"General, will that thing come out in broad daylight?"

"I don't know, but its nest is halfway up the mountain, so it's a good idea to go over and take a look."

When passing halfway up the mountain, Luo Chen felt something. Recently, he found that he was gradually gaining the ability to predict, but it was very vague, comparable to the descriptive ability of an astrologer.

"Stop, there's something here."

Everyone held their weapons tightly and stood alert.

"Don't tell me that thing can turn invisible."

"I do not know either."

"Damn it."