"What the hell is this thing?"
"Let's go. Our ammunition and spirit energy are limited. Don't get caught up in the fight. Get out of its hunting range!"
They fired a few rounds of incendiary bullets embedded with red crystals at the green giants, but the moment the flames shot out, they were immediately devoured by more vines and moss. The Piranha Squad made a prompt decision. They took turns to cover each other and retreated from the battlefield.
But a large number of cables covered in moss had been lurking in the bushes around them for a long time. They were like sinister, venomous snakes that launched surprise attacks from unbelievable angles.
The video started to shake and spin violently.
Then, it was covered by flames and smoke.
The Piranha Squad members could only barely be seen being bound by the green tentacles. To break free, they had to take off their motorized armor. They also sacrificed a large number of thinking tanks that were engraved with runes and equipped with biochemical brains and superbrain chips.
A thinking tank in the shape of a six-legged spider with four Vulcan Cannons was deployed at the back of the squad to carry out a blocking mission.
The chains of bullets fired by the four Vulcan Cannons were like burning scythes that harvested the green tentacles in a frenzy.
But even more tentacles surged over from all directions and bound the thinking tank tightly. They covered it completely, turning it into another green monster.
As the vines, moss, and branches on the surface of the thinking tank squirmed, it changed its direction and pounced on the Piranha Squad.
Faced with such a strange scene, even the veterans who had been through hundreds of battles felt their skin crawl.
The video descended into darkness once again amid the continuous firing and roars.
In the next video, the Piranha Squad temporarily shook off the green giants' pursuit and arrived at a seemingly safe cave.
However, a few of the soldiers were covered in wounds.
One of the soldiers was pinned to the ground by his comrades. His face was pale, and he was drenched in sweat. But he struggled madly as if he was possessed and let out hysterical screams.
His nano battle suit had been cut open with a single-molecule scalpel. His pale skin and hideous blood vessels could be seen clearly, as well as the "thing" that was hiding under his skin and moving around.
Something had crawled into his body and was wriggling, tearing, and fleeing in his limbs, bones, and organs!
"Shoot me!"
The soldier cried out in pain. "Shoot me!"
Naturally, his comrades would not give up on their comrades so easily.
They bound his limbs tightly with tourniquets and confined the "thing" to his body cavity.
Then, a large amount of condensation potion was injected into the body of the soldier.
This kind of medicine was used to temporarily freeze the wound in a critical environment where surgery could not be performed in the wild. It was used to delay the pain and aggravate the injury.
But for the "thing" that had burrowed into the soldier's body, the bone-piercing cold was obviously extremely uncomfortable.
It dashed left and right, burrowing in and out of the soldier's body like a little mouse.
After gritting his teeth and waiting for a minute, the commander asked the soldiers to cut the tourniquet on the soldier's left arm.
To open up a path of escape for that 'thing'.
The thing immediately burrowed into the soldier's left arm.
The soldier's left arm instantly swelled to more than double its original size, becoming bruised and swollen. There was even dark green pus secreting from the pores.
The commander roared. Like a silver dragon unsheathing its scabbard, a lightning-fast slash severed the soldier's left arm from the shoulder!
The soldier grunted, but he knew that this was the only choice.
He bit his lips hard, enduring the pain, and rolled to the side, away from his broken left arm.
His comrades immediately came forward to help him cauterize the wound, seal the blood vessels, and inject painkillers, medical drugs, and high-energy nutrients.
As for the broken left arm, it seemed to "realize" that it had been tricked, and it thrashed like a dying python.
From the bloody, festering wound, a large number of thorny grass stems and branches gushed out, tightly wrapping around the broken left arm, making it look like a completely independent monster.
The tips of the grass stems pierced deeply into the muscle fibers and nerve clusters in the arm, controlling the five fingers, crawling around like spiders and scorpions, trying to jump onto the bodies of other soldiers.
The soldiers had already prepared flamethrowers and burned the monster into ashes amidst curses.
"What the hell … is this monster?"
Looking at the ashes, all the veterans were silent.
After a long time, someone asked with difficulty.
"No matter what monster it is, we must complete the mission."
The commander paused and emphasized, "We will definitely complete the mission!"
The next few videos became longer and longer, and the images became more and more blurry.
For a long time, they were aimed at the depths of the grass or the dark clouds in the sky that looked like raging waves. Outside of the video, only the sound of heavy breathing could be heard.
It was as if the person filming was exhausted or seriously injured, and could only lie on the ground, unable to move.
In the few videos that could still be somewhat recognized, the Piranha Squad seemed to have encountered more danger, and their members kept decreasing.
Not only did they lose a large number of thinking tanks and ammunition supplies, but those who were still alive were also getting more and more tired and nervous.
Only the commander remained calm.
He kept cheering for his teammates.
When they encountered danger, he took the lead and faced death with equanimity.
He repeated the phrase "we will definitely complete the mission" several times in almost every video.
Every time, it was filled with determination and irrefutable strength.
And yet, the last time he had said it --
He was holding a bundle of crystal bombs tightly in his arms.
His expression was mournful and determined.
He retreated step by step, away from the soldiers who kept shouting and trying to dissuade him.
"Remember, we will definitely complete the mission," the commander said clearly.
"Even if the Piranha Squad is completely destroyed, we will do our best to explore as many areas as possible before our last drop of blood runs dry and send the data back. We will also leave behind road marks so that the people who come later can use our footprints to reach the deepest part of the monster's nest!"
Before his voice faded away, he had already detonated the crystal bombs.
He blew up his squirming, swollen, and deformed body into pieces.
This was the last video data transmitted by the Piranha Squad.
There were no images after that, only sounds.
They were the conversations of the surviving members in the communication channel.
They were also severely disrupted, and it sounded like more than one hundred piercing noises were mixed together.
After the technical experts in the military analyzed it repeatedly, they were barely able to get some useful information.
After learning that their commander had died, the remaining members did not choose to retreat. Instead, they staked everything on one throw and continued moving forward.
Then, they saw …
"How is this possible? There's such a deep valley at the foot of God Fog Mountain?!"
"This isn't a valley! This is an abyss!"
"Didn't you notice that the depression here is very uniform? It's perfectly circular, as if it was formed naturally!"
"It's impossible for it to be formed naturally. Based on the shape and arc of the depression, as well as the smoothness of the walls, it looks like a crater formed by a meteor crashing into the ground."
"A crater? Just how massive must a meteor have been for it to form such a terrifying crater? The energy released by this impact can practically destroy half of the Other World. It's just like the meteor attack that destroyed the dinosaurs on Earth! "
"Wait, look! What's that?"
"T-That's impossible! It's a city! A human city!"
"Those people … are actually still alive in this stupid place?!"
Their voices fell silent.
Long Feijun told the people in the area that this was the final information the Piranha Squad sent back.
Everyone, including Meng Chao, sucked in a deep breath and circulated their spirit energy to gently massage their cerebral cortex. It was only then that they could extricate themselves from the tense and strange atmosphere.
They remained silent for a full half a minute.
In their hearts, they saluted the brave and fearless Piranha Squad with the greatest respect.
Then, Long Feijun said, "What do you think of the information the Piranha Squad sent back?"
"Including the 'green giants' that are entangled by the UHV transmission towers that are entangled by vines and mosses, although the monsters in the Hidden Fog Desolate Domain are brutal and weird, they are not something that we can't deal with with with our technology and firepower. Carpet bombing is still our top priority.
A young officer pondered for a moment and said, "However, what did the 'piranha' squad find in the depths of the Hidden Fog Desolate Domain in the end? A … gargantuan crater with a human town at the bottom of it?"
"Could it be the ruins of a human city?"
Another military officer asked. "You know that when Dragon City transmigrated to the Other World, aside from the main city area, there were a lot of satellite cities and towns that were torn to shreds and scattered in the depths of Monster Mountain Range.
"Without a large population, it's not enough to support a civilization. These towns are usually devoured by the fog and monsters during the twenty years after we transmigrated. When we discover them, only broken walls and the corpses of our compatriots are left behind. Even if there are a few survivors, they usually eat raw flesh and drink blood. Their faces are unrecognizable, and they've practically been assimilated by the monsters.
"Since Earthlings' UHV transmission towers stand tall in Hidden Fog Wild Region, it's not strange for there to be the ruins of a town nearby."
"It might not be a ruin …" the military officer from before shook his head slowly.
The officer from before shook his head slowly. "The Piranha Squad has participated in several missions to explore abandoned satellite towns. If it were an ordinary town ruin, they wouldn't have made such a big fuss out of it.
"Besides, during their last communication, they clearly stated that the citizens in the town were still alive.
"That's because the Piranha Squad discovered the human town the moment they approached the crater that was suspected to have been left behind by a meteor impact. I believe that they can't be too close to the town.
"If they can tell that the citizens in the town are still alive and are humans from a distance, it means that the town should be quite prosperous. The citizens also have very obvious characteristics of Earthlings."
"But how is that possible?"
The second military officer said in shock. "We're talking about the core of Hidden Fog Wild Region at the foot of Fog God Mountain. There's plenty of evidence that it's the ultimate nest of the monster civilization.
"How can there be an intact, vigorous human town in such a wretched place?"
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