While the warship was flying, Huo Neil began to introduce the mission. A three-dimensional map of the planet was displayed on the huge screen, and the distribution of the base was displayed on it.
"Half a year ago, the biotech base discovered that one of the mice had gone missing when they were dealing with the failed and presumed dead mice. There was a hole in the sealed cabin, and no clues could be found even after much investigation. Twenty days ago, an abnormal situation occurred at the waste treatment plant on the other side of the planet. Three workers went missing, and there were bloody pieces of work clothes and claw marks on a few instruments. Similar situations often occurred around the treatment plant in the following period of time. Ten days ago, the base sent out a patrol squad to investigate. Half a day later, the entire squad's vital signals disappeared one after another. Communication was fruitless. "
Huo Neil switched images. The image was of a black mouse that was half a meter long, not counting its tail. He continued, "After that, the patrol squad was mobilized in large numbers and found the cause three days ago. It was this black mouse that caused the current dire situation."
Through Huo Neil's introduction, everyone learned that these black mice had very strong vitality. In the base, the confirmation of a mouse's death was very strict. There was a time limit, and it could only be confirmed dead if there were no signs of life for twenty-four hours. Moreover, it was sealed at super low temperatures while being sent to the treatment plant. Normally speaking, even a living mouse would freeze to death at minus eighty degrees. They also had to go through another vital signs inspection to ensure that there were no mistakes. However, that lab mouse managed to bite through the sealed cabin and escape successfully. It was obvious how strong these mutated mice were.
The black mouse that escaped back then had been experimented on with strengthening drugs, and had mutated during ultraviolet sterilization and super low temperature transportation. After it escaped the base, it endured the magnetic force and radiation outside and mutated once more, becoming what it was today.
"Under the great sacrifice of the base's patrol squad, we finally brought back a living, immature black mouse. The antiserum you injected was provided by the base personnel, but these black mice mutate very quickly. I don't know how effective the antiserum will be when the time comes, so I'll give everyone a heads-up here. Don't think that you're not afraid just because you've been injected with the antiserum! "Huo Neil said seriously.
After the introduction, Huo Neil divided the five thousand operatives into ten teams. The five students were inserted into five of the teams. Pride and Knight's team captains were Gerrard and Huo Neil respectively. These two were personally led by the heads of the security team and training division. He couldn't be at ease leaving them to someone else.
Silin was assigned to the seventh team.
Everyone tidied up their equipment and gathered together in an hour.
The five students put their equipment together, and while they were organizing their equipment, they chatted about their thoughts.
Hard was one of the two who had passed the preliminary test. He was a forthright person and soon started chatting with Knight.
"Say, there was only one lab rat that escaped. How did it develop into a large-scale rat infestation?" Hard said.
Huo Neil had also mentioned this question before, but the answer remained unanswered even now. So now everyone was just guessing.
"He went out to look for a female rat," Sird, the last of the five, said. Sird might not be as forthright and straightforward as Hard, but he was still a straightforward person. He was Hard's childhood friend, and his father served in the military of one of the ten trade Sectors.
"Bullsh * t, there are no living things outside the base. The magnetic field effect is strong, and there's also radiation. Even if there are creatures, they would've been cleaned up during the construction of the base. "Knight said as he put on his combat uniform.
"In that case, our target is very difficult to deal with." Sird sighed.
"Hmph, don't go if you're afraid of death!" Pride said with disdain.
Sird didn't mind either. After being in the training division for so long, everyone knew this little young master's temper.
"What do you think, Silin?" Knight asked.
Silin adjusted the tools in the backpack at his waist. The magnetic field on many asteroids was unstable, and subspace containers were unusable. In the end, he still had to rely on himself to carry them.
"What do I think? I don't have any, but I do have some suggestions. "
"Oh? Tell me. "Knight said curiously.
"Don't think about how many mutated black rats we're going to kill, but how we're going to retreat in one piece."
Before Silin could finish, Pride snorted disdainfully, "Coward."
"Alright, I'm a coward. I don't want to become the shit of those black mutated things. Just like those workers at the waste treatment plant. In the end, only a few bloody rags were left behind, and even their bones were dragged away to feed their descendants … "
"Don't be an alarmist!" Pride roared.
It had to be said that Silin's words did make their hairs stand on end.
"Heh heh, actually, it's fine as long as we get rid of them. We have weapons in our hands." Sird raised the gun in his hand.
"No, I just think that the situation might be much more serious than we imagined. The black rats' group attacks might be even more concentrated than during our primary test. Also, they're intelligent, and they don't just move according to a set program. They have teeth that can bite through sealed lab cabins and sharp claws. Moreover, their saliva is poisonous, and they carry animal viruses on the surface of their bodies, "Cillin said solemnly.
This wasn't Silin exaggerating, but obtained through analysis. Silin had even taken into account the radiation energy of the asteroids and many other parameters to analyze the mutated frequency of the black rats. But looking at the members of this operation, as long as the drugs on the bullets were effective, and the mutated black rats were eliminated thoroughly enough, they should be able to handle it.
The reason why the guns were different, the reason why the bullets were bigger, heavier, and slower than the training guns was because every bullet was specially made and contained drugs. The bullets would explode when they entered the mutated black rats' bodies, and the drugs would quickly and thoroughly kill them once they spread out. At the same time, the drugs could also be sprinkled on the mutated black rats around them to reduce their mobility.
Pride still wore a look of disdain on his face, but he had already memorized Cillin's suggestion in his mind. Who would go against their own life? He didn't want to become the shit of those black and swarthy things.
After the warship arrived outside the asteroid and docked with the space station, Huo Neil and Gerrard led a few people to further understand the situation. The rest of the personnel were on standby.
It didn't take long before Huo Neil and Gerrard came over solemnly. They explained the new information they had just received to everyone.
An hour ago, the black rats had attacked the base from underground. Only the center of the base was the sturdiest underground, and it would take some time before they could break through this layer of defense. However, there wasn't much time left for everyone. Many of the base's flight and communication equipment had been gnawed away. Right now, there were several hundred researchers trapped in the base's center, and a dozen of them were heavily injured. The few antiserum they had injected into their bodies were completely ineffective, and the central lab was currently preparing the corresponding antiserum. But no one dared to imagine how many more unknown toxins were waiting behind. As for the edge of the base, it had already fallen.
"Team 1 to 8 will be responsible for 'cleaning', starting from the area around the base's center. Team 9 will be responsible for protecting the engineers and repairing the base's defense system. Team 10 will assist the trapped researchers in escaping, medical backup …" Huo Neil swiftly issued one order after another. He only arranged the work of each team. As for how each team was arranged, he believed that his men would not disappoint him.
In truth, Huo Neil really wanted to arrange Knight and Pride into the last two teams, but he also knew that the two ancestors probably wouldn't listen to such an arrangement.
The seventh team Silin was in was divided into five teams by the captain. Each team had a hundred people, and each team was further divided into ten smaller teams, advancing as a unit.
The first eight teams of the ten teams went first, and the eight armed carriers landed around the base's center in eight different directions.
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