I, the undead, save the world with the dolls

Some of them were labeled as rebels because their family members went missing after going to a genetic clinic; some were people who survived the alien raids on settlements outside; and some were people in the city who couldn't stand the alien propaganda and ran out to join the fight.

These individuals have diverse identities and carry out different missions, but their common goal is to kill the aliens. With this belief, the resistance has become a very loosely organized defense force.

Most of the time their mission is to help XCOM collect intelligence, and then provide necessary support to XCOM in guerrilla missions such as looting supplies and attacking strongholds.

Of course, those who become rebels are aware of their own strength and they would not think of carrying out dangerous missions for XCOM. That would be to die.

Although XCOM may feel a bit underwhelming sometimes, it was the most elite force against aliens 20 years ago, and only the most elite soldiers could enter.

As for why the soldiers' shooting sometimes lacked accuracy, it can only be attributed to the psychological impact of close combat. Adequate training cannot replace actual combat experience. Furthermore, the alien troops were also quite experienced in combat.

In general, the rebels' combat effectiveness is similar to that of the militias in most countries, and the level of their weapons is also the same.

Without Sun Yang and XCOM sending them some high-tech equipment, they would still have to fight the enemy with simple chemical ammunition and light weapons. Although they are not invincible, the armor of aliens and mutants is really hard.

After all, 20 years of fighting had used up most of the rebels' available anti-armor firepower. While guns and bullets were certainly inexhaustible, their reliable RPGs and AT4s had long been depleted—and even if they hadn't been, they hadn't been able to use them in the past 20 years.

The small amount of firepower produced by the factories that the aliens have not found is not enough to meet the combat needs of the rebels.

"How long will it take?" one of the rebel soldiers asked his comrades.

"There are still two hours until the scheduled attack time. I'd better sleep a little longer." Although he said this, he was not sleepy at all. These good weapons could not dispel the anxiety and fear in his heart.

In the humid woods, mosquitoes and other insects occasionally bit. A local rebel grabbed a branch from nearby, crushed the leaves, and smeared them on himself and his comrades.

[Zizizizi... Help! Help! We're under attack from aliens! They're attacking the village!] A rebel soldier's communicator suddenly rang out. A woman's wails echoed through the air, interspersed with the sound of gunfire.

Just as he was about to answer the call, he was stopped by his comrade.

"The settlement has been evacuated in advance. XCOM has an action plan for the mutants, and they can't capture your settlement. This is a full-band false communication from aliens. And the other party didn't report the code." said a veteran who looked experienced.

[Tianxing! Tianxing! XCOM's intelligence is wrong! We're surrounded, we can't stop so many aliens!] When the communicator rang again, it was a steady male voice, accompanied by the sound of assault rifle gunfire and the war cries of Mutants charging.

"Damn it, we have to go back and help them! My wife and my parents will die!" The young rebel soldier was about to respond when he was held down by the veteran.

"No, you have seen the soldiers brought by XCOM. Those warriors called Iron-Blooded Humanoids. Do you think they can put us in a tough battle in the settlement? This is an alien conspiracy! This is sound wave synthesis technology!" shouted the veteran.

"How could it be such a coincidence?! They chose our settlement at this time and found our secret code?! Just to trick us into responding?! What if it's true?! Am I going to turn around and see my home--" Before the young man could finish his shout, he heard a roar of artillery fire in the distance.

The magnetically accelerated shells landed in the forest, shattering a patch of trees. A faint spray of blood could be seen in the air.

That was the location of another rebel squad's garrison. Normally, aside from one squad's members, everyone knew only the approximate locations of the various squads. After all, the forest was so vast that hiding people was easy. But this round was clearly well-aimed. The rising blood mist was the best proof of that.

[Tianxing! Come back soon! I'm the only one left! Those beautiful women are useless! They died too quickly!] His intercom shouted again.

"Damn, it's really fake. Those women are so powerful!" The soldier scratched his head in frustration.

"Damn... Damn... Are all the guys in that team idiots?! We're exposed!" the veteran roared in a low voice.

"There is another possibility. There are traitors among our resistance forces." Another soldier stomped out his cigarette indifferently and put the grenade launcher on his back.

***

Beep, beep... The sound of an alarm woke up Sun Yang, who was still sleeping. He immediately answered the call.

[Warning! The resistance team near the Assassin Chosen Fortress has been exposed. The decoy plan has been implemented early! Repeat! The decoy plan has been implemented early!]

[Archer attack group! Warlock attack group! The battle begins early! The battle begins early!]

Commander Lunna's voice rang in Sun Yang's ears for a while before stopping. Sun Yang crawled out from the shadows and looked towards Yuan Fang.

In the distant city, tiny flashes of fire appeared. They were the rebel forces responsible for the feint attack, carrying out their combat mission as planned.

Two hours earlier than scheduled. The Assassin Chosen Fortress had the largest number of people, but due to the limited number of people in each organization and transportation issues, assembling them was also the most complicated. Most of them were wanted by alien forces and could not reach the Chosen Fortress through normal means.

It must be said that Commander Lunna truly trusted the fighting capabilities of Sun Yang and Rukatiye. At the same time, he was also very worried about whether his own troops could defeat the Chosen One.

Plans can never keep up with changes. Being able to hold off until two hours before the attack is ready is already a good thing.

Sun Yang cast three spells on himself in order: Invisibility, Silence, and Controlled Fall. These spells made him undetectable, silenced all his movements, and reduced the damage of falling from a height.

After completing the three steps to steal the chicken, he stretched his muscles and ran towards the distant Fortress of the Chosen One.

454 XCOM's Past History

A battle spanning half the world began, with tens of thousands of rebel troops launching raids in various cities.

This kind of large-scale armed action by the rebels has happened several times before, and the aliens are somewhat accustomed to it.

Even the first few battles were difficult. The surrender of the human government did not mean the surrender of the armed forces. Heavy firepower was unleashed on the alien forces in various places around the world.

At that time, the aliens had not completely defeated humans. The aliens' strength lay in their extremely advanced spacecraft technology. Their attack capabilities were actually comparable to ours, and intercontinental missiles would have no problem knocking down alien spacecraft.

If the heads of government of various countries had not been controlled by aliens using psychic power, causing chaos among humans, I am afraid that the aliens would have to consider hiding in the universe and fighting slowly.

If their spacecraft is discovered, humans will immediately build nuclear warheads that can be thrown into Earth orbit.

The power of nuclear bombs is severely limited on Earth because of the presence of air and other media. If they were to reach space, the EMP alone would be enough to cause great suffering to aliens.

Because the political leaders of each country were controlled, humans were unable to launch nuclear bombs and various intercontinental missiles to attack the aliens immediately. This led to the aliens controlling the losses within an acceptable range.

As the army lacked unified deployment, the air force, army and navy were not coordinated well, and were beaten to death by the high-speed UFOs that the aliens brought in and could fly in the universe. Even so, the aliens almost destroyed the UFOs and transport ships they brought with them, and only then was order barely maintained.

After all, the aliens in XCOM aren't a particularly advanced civilization. They lack the equipment to blast planets, nor can they transport large amounts of weapons. They don't even send many flying saucers—this is largely due to the excessive martial virtue of the rebels.

In the original XCOM 2, there were always guerrilla missions where the rebels would shoot down UFOs, hoping that XCOM would go over and get some supplies.

Sun Yang had also seen XCOM carry out this kind of mission. They excitedly gathered a group of troops, dispatched their SPARKs and elite infantry, and killed all the surviving aliens, recycling the bodies, alien alloys, transuranic alarms, equipment, and power supplies. Not a trace was left.

The aliens saw that any UFO they pulled over would be shot down by the rebels' air defense system. What should they do? They couldn't catch it, and even if they did, there were countless small bases around the world waiting to be exploited for gold.

Over time, the aliens rarely deployed UFOs except when they were hunting XCOM. If a UFO was out for too long, the rebels would appear out of nowhere and launch a few anti-aircraft missiles to shoot it down.

But this is the difficult situation that the UFOs and alien transports are currently facing. In fact, all of humanity's armored forces are already finished.

After suffering huge losses, the aliens wiped out all their organized armored and air forces.

The tanks, rocket vehicles, and armored personnel carriers that could launch attacks in clusters were all destroyed, including the navy's aircraft carriers. All kinds of aircraft in the air force were severely punished.

Alien UFOs can release EMPs, have defensive positions, and fly very fast, making it difficult for aircraft in 2015 to defeat them. Furthermore, Earth's satellite systems were immediately destroyed by the aliens, and the radar system was not immediately effective due to the tampering of the psychically controlled high-level officials and the sudden collective deployment of troops.

This left the three armed forces without any local intelligence support. The land-based air force and naval air force had no intelligence at all. The missile bases were also out of service because their radars were not functioning.

The aliens also targeted and bombed the air force bases, army bases, and naval harbors on the surface that could provide supplies and repairs. Numerous missile bases that could pose a threat to alien spacecraft were also destroyed.

Only a few nuclear missile-launching submarines and secret bases built deep in the mountains remain.

It can be said that the first few resistance activities were wars between the Earth's army and aliens when the top leaders failed.

But this war is bound to fail. After all, the information about those bases is in the heads and documents of the top leaders, and the aliens know the coordinates of almost all the bases.

After several wars, the human army went completely underground, and the remaining armored forces broke up into small groups and hid. This was the original resistance army. The regular army was beaten to a near-death struggle.

It was also from this time that the mutant government came to power and the aliens began to fight urban defense battles and guerrilla warfare.

The intensity of the battles had decreased considerably. Although there were several large-scale counterattacks, the humans, lacking heavy weaponry, were no match for the aliens. The humans grew weaker and weaker, lingering on.

Some well-trained elite fighters joined XCOM over the past 20 years, while others went into hiding to train new recruits. But even more died in the past 20 years.

By the way, there is another reason why humans cannot win... The XCOM commander at the time, Commander Lena, was captured by aliens. She was put into an instrument to execute the aliens' own battle plan.

In the instrument, Lena thought she was commanding the troops to fight back against the aliens, but in fact she was commanding the troops to attack the earth.

This character, who was awarded the title of XCOM Commander 20 years ago, truly possesses exceptional command abilities. If XCOM's Commander Renna hadn't been captured, the aliens' weak tactical abilities would have resulted in seven or eight times more casualties.

Even if Commander Lunna had escaped and commanded the Earth forces at that time, the aliens might not have been able to defeat it. The mothership might have been destroyed by dozens of nuclear bombs fired by the humans who were playing with their hands.

Of course, this is all a matter of later discussion if possible. In the eyes of the aliens, the current resistance forces are seriously lacking in armored units and heavy firepower, and their weapons are also quite poor.

So...when faced with this massive attack, the aliens didn't panic at all and faced the attack with ease.

***

At first, the aliens simply dispatched troops to suppress the reckless human resistance. A large number of mutant troops boarded small transport planes and headed to the city where the fighting took place.

These reckless rebels started a riot in the city, knocked down the border guards, and then allowed the rebels to drive into the city and raid the mutant stronghold.

Without Commander Lena's psychic command, the mutant forces' combat capabilities have been drastically reduced, and they can only rely on rigid tactics. Although they can still fight against the impoverished resistance, they are still not as strong as before.

After all, given the equipment, the mutants are not bad in terms of individual combat capabilities.

455 The rebels fight against the mutants

The mutant reinforcements surveyed the city below. Fierce fighting was raging below them, with both sides bringing in ample automatic weapons fire.

However, the mutant soldiers had no idea what was going on. The rebels who had escaped would soon flee in panic after losing three or four people, and then be broken up into small groups under the pursuit of the mutant army.

However, what surprised them was that the rebels pulled out grenade launchers from their backs and pulled the triggers towards the sky. The mutant soldiers had seen that grenade launcher before, but the amazing thing about it wasn't the launcher itself, but the programmed grenades inside it that could fly automatically and lock onto the enemy.

This thing is highly encrypted, and its explosion is incredibly powerful. Furthermore, its anti-analysis measures are even more stringent than those of the aliens. If the program modifies the code and misidentifies it three times, it will explode immediately.

Even worse, the program used a different code than the aliens and humans. It seemed to be a mashup of two unique algorithmic languages. The alien technicians had no idea how to interpret it.

(Antonina, who had upgraded the product's technology, scratched her head and continued her hacking.)

But that was all it could do. The mutant pilot raised the transport plane slightly, but the grenades had a limited range and couldn't fly too high, nor could they lock onto equipment that was too far away.

After these grenades flew in the air for a while, they ran out of fuel. The mutant pilot smiled and opened the machine gun hatch under the transport plane, ready to fire at the resistance fighters below to provide fire support for his own side.

However, these grenades suddenly exploded in mid-air, spreading invisible electromagnetic pulses and paralyzing nearby electronic equipment. Units with good protection wouldn't be afraid, but the mutant transports were clearly not one of them.

Soon the mutant pilots noticed that the transport plane's engine had stopped in mid-air and began to fall uncontrollably.

***

These multi-functional tactical grenades and launchers from the Advanced Warfare World company, Atlas, stand out for their high volume and sufficient supply. Sun Yang originally produced many of these launchers at the base, but now, due to the increasing demand for combat power, these more cumbersome launchers are no longer in use.

In addition, Sun Yang's humanoid troops have actually been helping Ains deal with large and small rebellions and armed conflicts in various parts of the Advanced War World.

Sun Yang had the mentality of taking whatever he could get if he didn't take it. He not only wanted to take Ains's things, but also the equipment he provided. He also wanted to take back as many good things as possible from the rebels.

The grenades currently in XCOM's possession are a combination of Griffin's highly effective explosive grenades and Atlas's tactical grenades, which have significantly increased range and effectiveness. The launchers they use are also improved versions of Atlas's.

***

"Morataka! Chislik!" the mutant officer yelled at the pilot, but the pilot tried his best to restart the transport plane's power system but failed. The plane could only spin and fall into the nearby street, turning into a burst of fireworks.

"Defeat these mutant bastards and aliens!" shouted the team leader carrying the grenade launcher. He loaded more tactical grenades into it and shot at the mutant team that was struggling to hold on.

He adjusted these tactical grenades to flash bangs. These tactical grenades, with fire underneath, flew into the positions and buildings where the mutants were stationed like miniature missiles.

Accompanied by a violent flash and a loud bang, the mutants' counterattack firepower immediately stopped. The rebels rushed into the building and shot all the mutants who were struggling and wailing in pain.

Just as the rebels were about to cross the building and continue fighting, deafening gunfire rang out from the opposite side of the building. The few soldiers at the front were caught off guard and were torn to pieces, including their armor.

Several crimson mutant heavy MECs rushed out from the other side of the street. These machines, with thick metal armor, magnetic cannons, and small missile launchers hanging on their backs, were the nightmare of all infantry.

They are not just machines with low hit rates and can't hit anything accurately. When necessary, these heavy MECs can shoot down enemies and cover together, which is an absolute firepower advantage.

The reinforcements weren't just Heavy MECs; two towering Destroyers also crushed the ground, charging menacingly behind them. As they advanced, they activated their back-mounted Fury Cannons, indiscriminately attacking all human targets.

Mutants didn't care if there were civilians in the combat zone. A normal civilian would stay away from the combat zone during the battle, otherwise they would be suspected of aiding the rebels! This civilian would definitely take advantage of the mutants' fighting to launch a sneak attack! As for reasons such as being unable to leave due to a leg injury, the mutants didn't consider it.

"Everyone, pull back!" The captain took out several more tactical grenades and loaded them into the launcher. Without waiting for his team to run out in a hurry, he fired them across the building.

The tactical grenade flew through the entire building, hitting nothing. The captain used the grenade launcher's built-in visual targeting system to guide the tactical grenade towards the Mutant Heavy MEC on the opposite side. The grenade hit the ground hard.

Zizizizi! A burst of electromagnetic pulses flashed, and several heavy MECs were paralyzed on the ground. Even the Destroyer, hailed as a perfect weapon of war, was forced to shut down and restart.

Several soldiers carrying grenade launchers rushed over and fired high-explosive grenades at the disabled mechas. The rebels holding magnetic weapons also quickly poured out bullets, destroying the mechas as quickly as possible.

"Why do I feel like we are going to win?" One of the rebels emptied his magnetic bullets and took out a new piece of material from his back and put it into the magazine.

"Impossible, those aliens haven't appeared yet. Surrounding teams! Report the number of remaining grenades! If we keep attacking, the grenades will not be enough!" An old soldier who looked to be in his forties said into the communicator.

The surrounding squads that followed the veteran's orders immediately reported the remaining number of troops and ammunition.

[Assassin Team D! Alien forces near the Chosen One base are heading towards you! I've designated several reliable new defensive positions. There are still sufficient supplies and resources there, so you should hold them firmly! I've also arranged a subsequent retreat!]

Commander Lunna's voice suddenly interrupted, her voice rapid and forceful. She was a little tired from issuing micromanipulation commands in several directions at once.

"Coach, Commander! You all heard it! We will retreat into these buildings. Rely on the fortifications to fight! Our mission is to attract the attention of the alien forces, kill as many enemies as possible, and save our own lives!" The captain shouted and led all the rebel teams that could still run to the designated location.

At the alien base dozens of kilometers away, countless more sophisticated transport planes were launched, loaded with alien combat units armed to the teeth with alien alloy armor and plasma weapons.

I'm going to be busy soon. I have a lot of materials to prepare today. Work and other things have caught up, and I have to travel halfway across China to do it.

I figure I should be able to update on schedule for the rest of this month. But starting in August, I'm not sure. Maybe I'll be able to write normally in two or three days, or maybe I'll have to spend a week getting ready first.