I, the undead, save the world with the dolls

"No! The three of us were summoned at the same time. Something must have happened." The assassin retracted the knife and pressed the hunter's sniper rifle.

"We all agree on this. The battlefield has changed, and our master needs us again." The warlock expressed his admiration for the Void Elder at all times.

"I feel like they are scared." The hunter put his gun on his back and complained.

"How dare you spit out obscene words in this holy place!" The sorcerer got furious when he heard this.

"Oh? So what if I vomited?" The hunter still looked nonchalant and looked at the warlock with a smile.

The three men reached for their weapons again, and the atmosphere became sinister once again. Just as a fierce battle was about to break out, the disk in the middle of the platform suddenly lit up with a deep purple flame.

"My children..." The psychic projection of the Aetherial Elder appeared above the disc. "Each of you possesses our power and wisdom. You are our most outstanding creations."

"Your mission is simple. Suppress any resistance that seeks to thwart our grand plans. Until now, we have been content."

The three chosen ones knelt on the ground, not daring to breathe.

"However, our most valuable fighting force was lost, stolen by the enemy. During this time, my strongest warriors did nothing. This is very disappointing to us."

Elder Xu Ling projected a series of video footage.

The video shows Commander Lunna being carried away by a military officer a while ago, and later it shows the XCOM Avenger being shot down, but the hunter failed to retain the people.

"You think yourselves the strongest..." the hunter muttered. Although he knew his mission had failed, he didn't think it was his fault.

It makes sense to let it deal with a dung monster that can't be killed even after running out of bullets, right? What about the Void Elder? I guess it's not even as strong as that Psionic Master. Can you Void Elders take a cannonball and still survive?

However, the Void Elder still heard this muttering. Its psychic projection radiated a massive psychic force, pinning the hunter to the ground.

"Ugh!" The hunter was pinned to the ground, only able to let out a low roar of pain. The warlock next to him smiled with satisfaction at the sight.

"Arrogant, disrespectful, you've spent too much time among humans, corrupted by them. However, you can still find yourself. You still have a chance at redemption. Perhaps you all have a chance at redemption."

"A great war is coming. Our stay in this world is coming to an end. However, we do not need to abandon it completely when we leave."

"Because, one of you will rule this world. One of you... the one who is worthy."

The price offered by the Void Elder was very tempting. Although this wasn't the first time he had promised everyone, the Chosen Ones were still tempted. This was also the reason why the Chosen Ones would not cooperate in the battle.

If there's only one winner, why bother helping the others? Besides, they already dislike each other.

The assassin and the warlock were both quite interested. Only the hunter kept his head down, a sour look on his face. He had witnessed Sun Yang being hit by a cannon and then resurrected, which made the hunter feel that this might be an impossible task.

"Take back what was stolen from us. Crush those who dare to resist us. Those who succeed will be favored by us forever. You are the chosen ones, don't let us down. Now, go..." The Void Elder didn't say much, just waved his hand and teleported these chosen ones away with his psychic power.

Alas... The hunter was teleported back to the depths of his Chosen One's fortress. He took off his weapons and protective gear, laid down on his bed, and contemplated life.

The Hunter has no interest in ruling the world; it simply enjoys the thrill of hunting. While becoming the ruler of Earth by accident would be nice, failing to do so isn't a big deal either.

The elders and those two idiots probably don't know how powerful that Psionic Master is. They'll underestimate XCOM's strength.

The hunter originally wanted to report it properly, but the elder pinned him to the ground and gave him a lecture, which made him very unhappy, so he simply didn't report it.

Never mind, there's always a way out. If you can't defeat me, just surrender. The hunter has a very good mentality; he won't play the game of absolute loyalty. As long as I have no boundaries, then I really have no boundaries.

Thinking of this, the hunter suddenly felt less panicked and turned over and fell asleep. There were still many things to deal with tomorrow. He was very busy.

448 Conversation between the Dolls Who Didn't Go Out and Kill Everyone

After the Avenger left, Sun Yang canceled the Griffin Base's combat readiness and told the humanoids to rest. Everyone in the Griffin Base team sighed in frustration.

"I think the commander of this world can solve the problem by himself. We are all redundant, redundant people~" AK12 got off the armor and let the power armor return to the maintenance compartment by itself.

"I think it's because the Void Elders of that world can find our target location, and Ayang hasn't revealed our presence yet. Ayang intends to use us as a trump card, so we are very cautious about when to put it into use."

AR15 also got off the machine, patted the outer shell, and walked back to the maintenance room with his power armor.

"I guess you can always find an explanation for whatever 'Ayang' does." AK12 raised his eyebrows.

"Of course, that's right, is it not possible?" AR15 responded confidently.

"Okay, of course. I'm not saying that the Commander is incompetent, it's just... I really want to have a fight with the aliens. You know, some humans feel uncomfortable when they see others having fun but they can't. I feel the same way now~" AK12 said with a smile.

"Senior AK12 is right. We've been fighting the rebels in Atlas lately. Senior AK15 said those rebels are about to vomit—Ugh! Sorry, Senior AK15."

RPK16, carrying his machine gun, stood behind and added obediently. Then he was hit on the head by the dissatisfied AK15.

"I shouldn't have said what AK15-senpai was really thinking—Ugh! I shouldn't have said things I shouldn't have said."

RPK16 was hit on the head by AK15 again, and she lowered her head and remained silent. Although under the influence of AK15 and Griffin, RPK16 gradually developed a character that seemed to be a good woman, her personality traits of making strange remarks and making random jokes seemed to be written into her underlying code.

"Instead of complaining here, why not conduct targeted training based on the intelligence sent by XCO丿M?" AN94 saw his team fighting and couldn't help but say something serious.

"Having said that, those aliens aren't that powerful. Their weapons and equipment are pretty good, but the mutants... are just so-so. They're only good enough to fight humans," AK12 said with a shrug.

"Ayang also posted a bunch of supplementary information below the document. The mutant army's magnetic weapons and the aliens' plasma weapons can both cause damage to our bodies. But their weapons' accuracy isn't very good." AR15 pulled up a document.

This information is the content that XCOM has obtained and compiled over the past 20 years of combat, and it mentions the differences between mutant forces and alien forces.

"The biggest difference is the weapons used. Is that something a human can say? It's just a matter of changing weapons, what's the difference?" AR15 almost threw the report in the XCOM people's faces.

"But 15, the commander said that the aliens did separate the mutant troops. It seems that they are very worried that the mutant troops who have mastered plasma weapons will turn against them, so they deliberately gave them weapons of a lower level." Gou Zi said, appearing from behind.

"Humph, worthy of being Ayang. He figured out the things that XCOM didn't." AR15 said proudly.

"No, XCOM was relying on speculation before, and now it has been confirmed that there is indeed a mutant defector organization - the Skirmishers. 15 If you turn the page, you will find it. Don't read so fast." Gou Zi said.

"...Dog, please don't mess with me like this next time, okay?" AR15 twitched the corner of his mouth.

"Okay, okay. Oh, by the way, there's one more thing, the armor those aliens wear... the commander specifically mentioned it." Gouzi shared the video sent by XCOM and the commander's comments.

In the video, XCOM soldiers used their live-fire rifles to fire fiercely at the alien soldiers on the opposite side.

The aliens, dubbed "mutants" by the commander, charged forward under fire. Their heads were covered in metal helmets, their muscular bodies clad in dark green armor.

XCOM's bullets only made a tinkling sound when they hit the mutants. It was not until several soldiers carrying machine guns and grenade launchers bombarded the mutants that the mutants stopped for a moment and fought back on the spot.

The firepower density of those plasma jets that need to be focused for a while before they can be launched is not high, but they are extremely powerful.

The temporary fortifications built by XCOM were quickly melted by the jet attack, and the soldiers shooting behind were also hit by the flying jets.

If they were lucky, they would only lose an arm or a leg, but if they were unlucky enough to be hit in the body, they would just have to wait for death. The plasma jet would cause their body to die quickly.

"These plasma weapons aren't anything special, but their armor... is basically intact. The small-caliber live ammunition didn't even leave a scratch." AK12 zoomed in on the projection. "Commander, do you have any comments on this?"

"Those are alien alloys. XCOM hasn't found the alien name for this metal or the production formula. I'm still looking for this information. After all, Antonina is assisting XCOM in upgrading their network system and the intrusion and anti-intrusion capabilities of the psionic network." M4 said.

M4, RO and Brother 16 also joined the conversation.

"It looks like this alien armor is better than our Saturn alloy. At least, it seems to be much more resistant to heat." Brother 16 said, pointing to the picture that was still playing.

XCOM's soldiers desperately threw a large number of grenades, including many plasma grenades that they had obtained from nowhere. These powerful grenades exploded among the mutants.

As the slurry exploded, the helmets of some mutants dissolved, including the heads inside them. For others, the armor on their bodies simply evaporated into puffs of mist.

Some armors were indeed penetrated by the plasma, and the mutants inside were killed.

Others had melted armor stuck to the flesh underneath. These mutants survived by relying on the not-so-thick armor on their bodies and stubbornly persisted in fighting.

"It looks like these armors can withstand a plasma explosion from five meters away?" RO calculated the distance in the video. "Our bodies would have melted long ago. The difference in physical performance may not be huge, but the resistance to heat is much greater."

"The commander finally asked us to collect more of these armor fragments in subsequent operations. Do you have any ideas?" M4 looked at the humanoids around him.

"This is a perfect substitute for Saturn alloy. If it can be mass-produced, our shortcomings will be made up." AK15 nodded as he looked at the excellent performance of the armor.

449 XCOM's Accelerated Development Period

While the AR team and the Rebellious team were chatting animatedly, XCOM's scientific research and technology were also making breakthroughs with each passing day.

To call it a breakthrough is a bit of an understatement. To be precise, Sun Yang's scientific research dolls provided a lot of mature technologies, and the data that XCOM researchers took over could not keep up with the progress.

However, XCOM wasn't stretched thin for long. After Tegan shared his current psychic network decoding technology, they were shocked to discover that Antonina had managed to compile and categorize a vast amount of information in just a few hours, identifying and marking all the possible traps within it.

After all, there are many traitors among humans who dislike XCOM and truly believe that aliens will save the world. These traitors are causing considerable trouble for XCOM. Antonina simply unlocks their boxes, allowing XCOM to send sleeper agents into offline Mortal Kombat to eliminate the population.

Under Antonina's operation, XCOM obtained an unprecedented amount of intelligence.

Although the movements of the alien forces are unclear, XCOM now has first-hand information on where the mutant army is going and what they are armed with.

This is where the aliens' double standards come into play. The mutant army is essentially a brainwashed, cheap security force used to counter XCOM, while the alien forces are the real force. However, simply understanding the movements of these security forces is enough.

Commander Renna even made another request directly to the Council informant who had been providing them with useful intelligence. She hoped that this Council informant could describe some highly encrypted bases that XCOM was now capable of cracking.

Although the informant was somewhat puzzled by this request, he still complied out of loyalty to XCOM.

The Council Informant is a reclusive, unidentified agent known only as "The Informant."

He was once the public representative of the Council responsible for establishing the XCOM project. However, when the original major political regimes on Earth collapsed and the Elders won the war, all the original Council members, including the informant, surrendered.

But according to him, he has been secretly helping the immature resistance against the aliens. Judging by the actual situation, the informant should be right. Now, after XCOM rescued the commander, the informant is providing intelligence and arranging important missions as usual.

So XCOM relies on the secret information provided by the informant and the intelligence provided by Antonina to spread around the world. However, this frequency is not very high - the informant does not want to reveal too much information and attract trouble, which will lead to him sacrificing himself now. He still needs to provide intelligence to XCOM.

At the beginning, XCOM also needed to ask Sun Yang and Rukatiye to get off the ship to crush the enemy, pick up engineers and scientists who wanted to join XCOM, and carry out various VIP capture missions.

A few times, Sun Yang encountered the hunter while disembarking, but it would simply fire a couple of shots before fleeing. It didn't even dare snipe the hostages Sun Yang had rescued, simply firing a couple of shots from a distance to urge him to get out. Don't wander off in your own territory.

The main reason why Sun Yang did this was that the death rate of XCOM soldiers in every battle was a bit high.

They were truly risking their lives, fighting with inferior weapons. After careful consideration, Sun Yang decided that he and Rukatienu should work hard to build up some assets for XCOM through the first few missions.

About a week later, XCOM, with the help of newly added scientific researchers and engineers, successfully figured out the blueprints brought by the humanoids, the principles of the mutants' magnetic rifles, and the advantages and disadvantages of both sides.

"From the conclusion, the mutants' magnetic weapons are not as good as the magnetic weapons provided by Griffin." A scientist who was pulled into the laboratory to work just a few hours after boarding the ship said to the people in front of him.

"These mutants' magnetic weapons are actually quite bulky, and their batteries are bloated, requiring ample space to house the large batteries to power the bullets. This might explain why mutant soldiers' marksmanship isn't always very good. However, there's no significant difference between the two in terms of magnetic bullet separation systems, so the key to success lies in the other systems Griffin provides."

"3D-printed ammunition and nuclear fusion batteries... provide increased ammunition reserves and a lighter, more stable, and longer-lasting energy source. However, even with a complete set of blueprints, we worked day and night to understand how they work. Now we can produce these weapons on a small scale using the machines provided by Griffin."

"Also, a warning: everyone, please do not enter the nuclear fusion battery production center. It is currently guarded by a machine gun sentry tower provided by Master Sun Yang. Don't even think about going in. I don't want to attend your funeral in the next few weeks or months."

After saying this, the scientist complained that if he hadn't been a PhD in electromagnetism and hadn't brought in someone who studied atomic energy, it would probably take XCOM several months to figure out the principle.

"In addition, we have studied a lot of mutant armor to make our armor more suitable for our soldiers. The material seems to be the same as the one used by aliens on the hull of the Avengers. It is very durable and has magnetism inside. As part of the armor, its magnetism will protect the user from magnetic weapons, especially the Gauss weapons commonly used by mutants. However, we also studied the Saturn alloy power suit provided by Master Sun Yang... We have made some comprehensive integration of this." The scientist displayed the newly launched armor.

Sun Yang did provide several hundred Saturn alloy-inlaid power suits for human use. Sun Yang had no problem giving them away, as they were commonplace.

The power output limit of this power suit is half as high as the previous one, and the response speed is also slightly slower. At the same time, the jet pack system of the power suit is cancelled. After all, humans are not very adaptable to the combat intensity of humanoids, and the jet pack can easily kill humans if they lack training.

XCOM's researchers found a way to cover the outside with their own self-developed armor plating. Although it only reduced the damage of magnetic weapons, it was icing on the cake.

After the XCOM fighters were equipped with new magnetic weapons and power suits that could greatly enhance the user's mobility and did not take up much space, these fighters were truly qualified to fight on an equal footing with the mutant fighters.

With these equipment, plus the smart grenade launchers that Sun Yang secretly gave them from the Advanced Warfare World and which are now in stock, the combat effectiveness of XCOM's soldiers suddenly increased by more than ten times in a short period of time.

Where had the mutant soldiers ever seen a smart grenade that could chase them after it was fired? Furthermore, after several iterations by Griffin, this grenade was powerful enough to kill humanoids. Using these weapons to blow up mutants was easy. Even some aliens with poor armor could be blown apart.

Sun Yang took his time, not equipping XCOM with plasma smart grenades. After all, XCOM theoretically lacked the ability to analyze plasma weapons. The aliens were simply misjudging XCOM's new toys. If the firepower was too overwhelming, the aliens would become restless. At least Sun Yang felt they could still manage to stay put for now.

After all, this weapon can only kill infantry, and it's difficult to kill mutants. Some XCOM soldiers, when facing a small group of mutants during a mission, have to use all their grenades. Otherwise, the firepower coverage is insufficient and they can't kill them.

Now even the three resistance organizations that were originally on the sidelines about XCOM have contacted them, hoping to carry out some tasks together, or to have some exchanges and cooperation between the two sides.

XCOM's Commander, Renna, naturally agreed to all of their requests and tactfully executed their cooperation and diplomatic missions. The Avengers proactively dispatched troops, contacting various rebel groups and delivering new weapons and equipment.

Sun Yang...Sun Yang couldn't pull the humanoid over. That was dangerous, but after testing it with Commander Lunna, he found that if he moved the Iron Blood puppets one by one, Master Xu Lingchang wouldn't notice. At least Commander Lunna wouldn't notice.

Sun Yang then equipped each rebel camp with simple and easy-to-use Iron Blood units to deal with the aliens' possible retaliation at any time.

450 The Dilemma of Manufacturing New Equipment

While the XCOM team was liberating one resistance stronghold after another with great momentum, its scientific research department was working day and night to develop alien equipment.

One piece of high-tech equipment after another was developed and distributed. However, most of them were equipment that increased battlefield advantages, mainly various bombs and grenades, different types of bullets, as well as things like nano first aid kits and super serums.

Panacea has improved some of the effects of combat potions based on feedback from XCOM fighters.

Many fighters responded that Stimulant, Strengthening Spirit, and Injection X were indeed effective, but they hoped to get a Jett with longer effects and duration.

After all, Jet's enhanced reaction speed allows them to complete the task of searching and aiming in a shorter time. It also allows them to kill more enemies on the battlefield and live longer.

Although Commander Lunna and Sun Yang suspected that these soldiers had developed drug dependence, after the automatic doctor's examination, they were not addicted. It was just due to the intense combat environment.

Apothecary Panacea then attempted to enhance the effectiveness of the Jet, but at the same time, the damage to the human body reached a dangerous level. Repeated use of the modified Jet within a short period of time would cause physical and mental damage, but XCOM soldiers still chose to take the risk of death and mental damage.

But these are just pieces of equipment that can give you a tactical advantage. The most important thing is the soldiers' armor and the guns in their hands. This is the key to victory.

Although magnetic weapons are certainly good, Sun Yang actually values ​​the technology tree behind magnetic weapons more.

That is, the plasma weapons equipped by the alien troops, as well as the power armor made of alien alloys and heavy armor with built-in field shields. This kind of equipment is probably impossible for humanoids to research and develop, and it mainly depends on the people of XCOM.