Chapter 695 You call this a counterattack? !
Chapter 695 You call this a counterattack? !
In the southern sea area, on the North Island, in a small but luxuriously decorated room, Charas, dressed in a formal suit, was pacing back and forth.
He kept looking at the digital clock on the wall, and then glanced at the door carelessly, his restless expression was almost written on his face.
At this moment, there were three light knocks outside the door.
As if receiving a signal, he immediately walked up and opened the door, only to see a young officer in uniform standing at the door.
”Come in and talk.”
Without waiting for the man to speak, he pulled the officer in, carefully looked outside the door to see if anyone was following him, and then slowly closed the door.
”What’s the situation?”
Looking at Mr. Charas with an expectant face, the officer said nervously.
”Something happened.”
Hearing this, Charas’s mood sank to the bottom of the valley in an instant, and his brows twisted into a ball.
Without waiting for him to ask, the officer spoke quickly without stopping.
”…The gunshots lasted for more than an hour. From the sea to the beach, there was blood and corpses everywhere, both human and mutant.”
Hearing that there were both human and mutant corpses, Charas asked hurriedly with the last glimmer of hope.
”Are there more human or mutants?”
the officer said with an ugly face.
”Human… but those guys don’t seem to be from the Alliance.”
Charas was stunned and blurted out.
”Not from the Alliance?! Whose could they be?”
The officer shook his head.
”I don’t know. There are no obvious marks on their bodies, and their identities cannot be confirmed for the time being. According to the video footage taken by our drone, they entered the Baiyue Strait on two cargo ships and ran into the mutant troops sent by Torch to French Fries Port. Those beasts with fish scales were also blind. They couldn’t move when they saw people. They first fought with the people on the two ships, and then chased those people to the shore. As a result, the landing location was five or six kilometers away from French Fries Port!”
Charas widened his eyes.
”Then what?”
The officer said with difficulty.
”Then… they were all taken in by the Alliance.”
Charas: “…”
The room fell silent.
Because the marine patrol was not there, the Federation’s destroyer stayed in the nearby waters for a long time, and the drones it released almost watched the entire battle until they ran out of power.
Looking at Charas with a solemn expression, the officer’s Adam’s apple moved and he lowered his voice and said,
”… The bad thing is that the guys were completely annihilated. There are too many bodies. There is no time to deal with them, and there is no way to deal with them. Tomorrow morning at dawn, the marine patrol will return to the patrol area, and they will definitely find the abnormality on the beach. The only thing I am worried about now is that there will be people with ulterior motives who will link those bodies with today’s exercise.”
Unlike the navy that is completely loyal to the South Islands Federation, he is very clear that there are two forces in the presidential palace. There are good people like Mr. Charas who stand on the Federation’s side, and there are also some cowards who are hesitant about Shelter No. 70.
If those weak guys realize that there is another hidden reason for the fuse of the war, their weakness will bring the Federation, which has the upper hand in this war, into the abyss.
Charas thought for a long time without any expression, and then slowly spoke.
”It doesn’t matter if they are connected, because that is not our territory.”
Seeing that Mr. Charas was completely unaware of the seriousness of the problem, the young officer looked a little anxious and spoke quickly.
”It is indeed as you said… But what if someone connects those mutants with the cargo ship that crashed in the southern seas? In the past, everyone believed that those guys with fish scales would not leave the Death Coast, but now they have swum for more than a thousand kilometers and emerged directly from our west, and they can also fire torpedoes! It is no longer tenable to use the distance as a pretext to say that they cannot attack our cargo ship.”
After a pause, he lowered his voice and continued, “I heard that someone is investigating those crashed ships recently, including the Golden Coast that the President sent to the Haiya Province for investigation, and the wreckage of the Ocean Current Power Station… If those guys who are peeking out find anything, it will be troublesome.”
A sharp light flashed in Charas’ eyes, and his clenched fist kept rubbing his index finger and thumb.
Observing the expression on the face of the chief of staff, the officer continued in a deep voice.
”What I am most worried about now is what the president knows. No matter what, we have to prepare for the worst. If it doesn’t work, let’s confront the president–”
Regarding the current federal system, the commander-in-chief of the federal navy is concurrently the president, and any military action requires the president’s personal authorization to be carried out.
Although everything they did was for the federation, it was an unauthorized action after all, and it was untenable both legally and rationally.
Sooner or later, things will be exposed.
Especially if this trend continues, the risk of exposure will increase.
Rather than laying the groundwork for greater hidden dangers in the future because of today’s concealment, it is better to be frank and drag the president into their chariot, and continue this war in a more thorough manner.
However, before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Charas without hesitation.
”Now is not the right time. Mr. President and his supporters still have illusions about Shelter No. 70. We have to give some time to our compatriots who have not come out of the past. Don’t worry, I will keep an eye on him. You just need to keep an eye on the Marine Patrol for me. I am worried that the news leaked out from there and the Alliance was prepared in advance.”
”But…”
The officer hesitated and wanted to say something, but was blocked by Charas without any hesitation.
”You go down first. Our meeting has been too long. I will find you again if there is anything.”
”Yes…”
Facing the unquestionable eyes, the officer finally gave up and nodded, turned around and left the room.
Looking at the closed door, Charas sat down on the sofa and stretched out his index finger to pinch his eyebrows.
Showing off to the president?
A group of naive guys.
Mr. Mungo will never stand with them. The Southern Islands Federation was founded by that guy.
If he knew that the Ocean Current Power Station was actually sunk by his own people, and the purpose was just to provide the Federation with an excuse to liquidate Shelter 70, he would definitely kick himself out of the Presidential Palace even if he didn’t kill him.
Moreover, even if that guy agreed to conceal the truth of the war with them, how could he make the Federation his own?
Of course, he would confront the President.
But it is definitely not now when the Presidential Palace and the Navy are on close terms…
Sinking his consciousness into a holy land of shining light, Charas lowered his eyebrows slightly and whispered silently.
”The group of monsters with gills you raised are causing trouble. You’d better keep them low for a while.”
”I’m not complaining… You really should find some decent allies.”
…
The next morning.
The light of the morning sun sprinkled on the north bank of the Baiyue Strait, adding a layer of golden color to the quiet beach.
Standing on the bow of the patrol boat, Muda stared at the direction of the French Fries Port with his eyes fixed, frowning slightly.
The sailor standing next to him whispered the same reaction as him.
”Such a strong smell of blood…”
After a pause, he added.
”It doesn’t look like it was left by a beast.”
Muda nodded, looked at the cabin behind him and shouted.
”Turn on the active sonar.”
”Yes!”
The sailor who was driving the boat nodded in response, reached out and pressed the dashboard of the console, and turned on a red button.
After a while. He shouted with a surprised look on his face.
”There are two sunken ships six to seven kilometers to the west… Judging from the echo pattern, they seem to be civilian cargo ships.”
Sunken ships?!
Muda had a bad feeling in his heart.
The sailor standing next to him looked at him nervously.
”Sir, do you want to go over and take a look?”
Muda said after a moment of hesitation.
”Let’s go to our neighbors first!”
In any case, there are still more than 500 residents of Coral City living in French Fries Port.
Although those guys claimed to have joined the alliance, the friendship of compatriots still made him unable to let them go.
Of course, this also includes other survivors in French Fries Port.
Because he occasionally went to the island to drink, he was familiar with the people there. Although there were many misunderstandings between them at the beginning, after getting along for a while, he found that those guys were actually pretty good people,
completely different from those selfish and cunning wastelanders on land. When they consider problems, they rarely only care about themselves, and often consider the difficulties of others.
Including the water pipe that was being built, the survivors of the roundabout island had a good evaluation of those guys, at least they didn’t hate them.
I hope they are all OK…
The speedboat approached the dock quickly.
Seeing the unexpectedly deserted camp, Muda’s heart sank slightly. When the speedboat stopped, he quickly jumped onto the dock and walked towards the camp with two subordinates.
Just at this moment, a resident of the shelter came out with a plastic bucket and a fishing rod, and happened to meet him.
The two were stunned when they saw each other.
But the resident of the shelter reacted a little faster. He came to his senses and patted his head, and said with a smile in a stumbling human language.
”Oh, you are the captain of the South Islands Federation Maritime Patrol, right? Muda?”
Looking at this strange guy, Muda asked blankly.
”Do you know me?”
The fisherman carrying the fishing rod said with a smile.
”Yes, although this is my first time here, I have heard of it on the forum before.”
Muda: “……?”
Seeing that the NPC didn’t look very smart, the player scratched his head and said.
”What do you want? Looking for someone?”
”Nothing… I just want to ask about the people here?” As he spoke, Muda glanced around, and then looked at the man holding the fishing rod in confusion. “Why is it so quiet today?”
The player smiled and said,
”Oh, this matter, it’s normal to be quiet. There are not many people in this settlement. More than 500 people left early this morning. Many of them followed our elder brother Fang to do something.”
”To do something?” Muda was stunned again, not understanding what this sentence meant.
Seeing that he didn’t understand, the player patiently explained the cause and effect of the matter in an unskilled way.
”Last night, a group of idiots from the Borneo Province came here. I don’t know what was in their minds. They dared to fire at us. Then we killed them along with the fish raised by the Torch Church. After we killed them, we caught them and asked them. They turned out to be from the Xilan Empire.”
There was the Xilan Empire, the fish raised by the Torch Church, and some words he had never heard of. Muda was confused. He took advantage of the pause to change the topic.
”Anyway, I’m glad you’re all okay… By the way, how long will it take for your Fangchang to come back?”
The player said with a smile.
”It’ll probably take a week. Is there anything? I can tell him for you.”
Muda coughed and said.
”No need, I’m just curious… By the way, you just mentioned the fish raised by the Torch Church? What does that mean?”
The player continued with a smile.
”Those mutants! The blue-skinned ones, with fish scales on their bodies and gills on their chins, use all kinds of weapons, including guns, cannons, and even torpedoes. I heard that they came from the Death Coast of Haiya Province.”
Death Coast?!
Muda stared at him blankly, his face full of surprise.
Of course, he had heard that there was a group of blue-skinned mutants living by fishing near the Death Coast, but what surprised him was that mutants would appear here?!
From here to the Death Coast, even if the straight-line distance is nearly a thousand kilometers.
Can those mutants swim so far?!
Especially when he heard that those mutants could also launch torpedoes, his face suddenly changed.
”Can you take me to the scene to see it?”
The player scratched the back of his head, his expression reluctant.
”That place is not far away. You can see it if you drive five or six kilometers west along the coastline. Our people should still be there cleaning up the battlefield… I still have to go fishing. Wait a minute, those idiots will come up and feed all the fish. How about I find someone to take you there?”
Hearing that the battlefield was five or six kilometers to the west, Muda immediately thought of the two sunken ships he had just discovered with the sonar, and a hint of excitement appeared on his face.
If those two ships were sunk by mutants, there might be some clues on them!
Looking at the resident of the shelter who was eager to end the conversation, he did not waste his time and thanked him sincerely.
”Thanks! I can go there by myself!”
After saying that, he took his men back to the speedboat and restarted the engine.
After driving another five kilometers to the west, he saw a group of people wearing exoskeletons on the beach not far away, dragging the bodies washed ashore by the waves into the dug pits to bury them. He
also saw Muda standing on the speedboat. Voldemort, who was standing on the shore, recognized him at a glance, and greeted him with a smile.
”Hey, you’re back?”
Muda shouted back, “Just back. I heard that two ships sank here last night? If it’s convenient, I want to go down and take a look.”
Voldemort waved his hand readily. .
”No problem. Brother Fang told us before he left that if you are interested in the two sunken ships, I will take you to see them. By the way, do you need me to send someone to help you find the location of the two ships?”
Muda: “No, we have already located its coordinates, thank you!”
The model worker smiled and said, “You’re welcome! By the way, just in case, I’ll arrange two ‘electric rays’ to follow you.”
After that, he contacted the engineering team through VM and transferred two newly charged electric rays from French Fries Port to help.
The ability of that thing is not only underwater welding, but also active discharge to drive away alien species. This is a new use they have developed in practice.
Considering the limited power of the mind interference device on the speedboat, Muda did not refuse.
After the two electric rays arrived, he ordered the engine to start and followed them to the sea area where the shipwreck occurred.
The conditions of the two cargo ships were extremely miserable.
A big hole was opened in the hull, and the seawater poured in and sank to the bottom of the sea, one after another embedded in the rocky seabed.
Incomplete and swollen corpses floated around, some were caught by the hull, some were entangled by seaweed, and were left to be pecked by the fish, just like hell.
Muda, who jumped into the water in a deep diving suit, saw this scene in front of him, and felt his scalp tingling and his stomach churning.
Two electric ray unmanned boats with electric arcs on their heads slowly swam in front of one of the cargo ships. A crackling electric current drove away the surrounding scavenging fish, opening a way for him to move forward.
Follow one of the electric rays forward.
After searching around the bow with a flashlight, Muda soon found the inward-concave breach on one side of the bow.
At this moment, his pupils suddenly contracted, and his eyes were involuntarily printed with a trace of disbelief and surprise.
The wound caused by the explosion was exactly the same as the wound on the hull of the “Gold Coast” research ship published in the newspaper before!
Although it still needs professional identification to determine whether it was caused by the same type of weapon, he was still shocked by the discovery. He
took a photo of the wound left by the explosion, and searched around with a flashlight. Sure enough, he found the wreckage left by the torpedo near a reef.
It was a fragment only the size of a palm.
The crudely made stainless steel shell was exactly the same as the one they found near the Golden Coast research ship.
First, the signal of the mind interference device was detected near the ocean current power station, and then the Dolphin, which “carried the blood debt of twelve cargo ships”, could not find even a weapon.
And now, the aquatic mutants who “will never leave the Death Coast” in the mouths of those experts with the title of consultants have not only appeared in the sea 1,000 kilometers away, but also brought with them the weapons that sank the Golden Coast research ship… Is
there any truth in the mouths of these guys?
His pupils were burning with anger, and he clenched his fists involuntarily, and couldn’t help but squeeze out a curse from his teeth.
”Damn it…”
…
Just as the South Islands Federation Maritime Patrol was busy collecting evidence from the two sunken ships, hundreds of kilometers away in the Borneo Sea, a nuclear fusion-powered submarine was speeding towards the Golden Gallon Port at a speed of nearly 50 knots.
A distance of 2,000 kilometers would take a week for a diesel-powered cargo ship and a group of unskilled sailors to dawdle at sea.
But for the Dolphin, it would not even take a day, and 22 hours would be enough if the sea conditions were good.
In addition to the centurion named Dirang and more than a hundred Xilan Empire soldiers who were beaten black and blue, there were more than 500 players belonging to the Burning Legion on the submarine. More
than half of them arrived at the French Fries Port on the Niu Ma airship this morning, and they had just got off the airship and boarded the submarine with the ammunition transported from Dawn City.
They are all elites of the alliance, with the lowest sequence level being 25. They are not only equipped with Type 5 “Light Cavalry” and Type 6 “Heavy Cavalry” exoskeletons, but also with 20 brand new DLZJ-1 “Sunshine”! In
addition to basic infantry equipment, support equipment such as 88mm mortars, Y-2 quadcopter attack drones, and “Dove” missiles are also readily available.
In order to make room for ammunition and spoils of war, Fang Chang specifically asked Captain Chen Jianhong to empty the cargo hold overnight and transfer all the containers to the newly built warehouse in French Fries Port for players who are interested in picking up garbage to sort out.
Looking at the exoskeletons and power armors that exude a murderous aura in the submarine cargo hold, Captain Chen Jianhong always felt that something was wrong, and couldn’t help looking at Fang Chang on the side and said.
”I should have said that the Dolphin is a cargo submarine. We are not warships, and we will not and should not participate in any active offensive military missions.”
Fang Chang said with a smile.
”I know, but any citizen of the alliance has the obligation to uphold the alliance constitution. Moreover, this is not an active attack. The other party is undeclared war, and we are forced to fight back.”
Chen Jianhong rolled his eyes at Hu Lai’s statement and couldn’t help but complain.
”I’ve never heard of a counterattack that can reach a place two thousand kilometers away!”
”Now you’ve heard it, haven’t you?” Speaking in a joking tone, Fang Chang patted his shoulder and patiently comforted him, “Don’t worry, you won’t participate in any battles. You just need to wait in a safe place for us to finish our business, and then pick us up and leave.”
Looking at Captain Chen who still had some concerns, Fang Chang continued.
”If you really can’t accept it, just think of it as humanitarian rescue.”
Captain Chen was stunned.
”…Humanitarian rescue?”
”That’s right,” Captain Fang said seriously, “Based on the clues provided by other residents of the shelter, we suspect that there is human trade and organ trafficking in Golden Gallon Port. Under normal circumstances, we can’t control that far, but since they took the initiative to provoke us, we plan to destroy their port and bring back some people at the same time.”
Captain Chen: “…”
Did this guy slip up?
The previous sentence mentioned something about humanitarian rescue, but the next sentence revealed his true thoughts.
But he didn’t object.
He had heard about what happened in Borneo Province. After all, there were many survivors who escaped from there in French Fries Port.
If more people could be taken away from that hell, it would be a good thing.
The catastrophe two centuries ago turned the entire planet into a wasteland. Not only did civilization decline systematically, but it also became distorted in the decline.
In his opinion, the only normal place on this planet was the survivors led by the residents of the shelter. Almost
all the residents of the shelter had more or less the sentiment of saving the world, and Chen Jianhong, as a resident of the shelter, was no exception.
In fact, there was no need for any rhetoric such as “passive counterattack”.
Save the suffering survivors.
For him, this alone was enough!
On the other side, the thousand-man captain Dirang, who was blindfolded and tied up and thrown into the cabin, finally gave up his futile struggle after several unsuccessful attempts to break free.
That was a rope made of devil silk. Unless his arms could turn into the mouths of devil moths, he would never be able to cut even a single hole in it.
Listening to the sound of the tide coming from below the deck, no matter how stupid he was, he knew what the blue rats were going to do. They were probably going to do to them what they had done before – board a civilian cargo ship to land at Golden Galleon Harbor.
These shameless guys! Insidious villains
!
If you have the guts, let’s have a fair fight!
Dirang cursed in his heart, but he didn’t notice that he was also cursing himself. He didn’t stop the roar that resounded in his heart until he was tired. He pressed his face against the cold deck and panted, and his tired eyelids began to fight.
I don’t know how much time has passed.
During this time, he seemed to sleep for a while, and only woke up from his trance when he was hungry.
At this time, he suddenly noticed that the sound of the tide echoing in his ears seemed different from when he came by boat. It sounded more dull, like the whispering of ghosts.
A faint sense of uneasiness suddenly arose in his heart.
Especially when he thought about being blindfolded and staying in this claustrophobic cabin for a whole week, the slight uneasiness gradually turned into fear.
”Hey!”
He couldn’t help but shout, trying to stretch his chin forward on the deck, trying to attract the attention of the guards here.
”At least take off my blindfold!”
No one responded.
Just when he was feeling uneasy, footsteps and a slight sound of keyholes suddenly came from the front.
Because his eyes had been blindfolded for too long, his hearing was extremely sensitive, and he quickly caught the subtle movement.
Guessing that it was someone who came to deliver food to him, he seized the opportunity and immediately shouted loudly.
”Can you take off my blindfold? Are you still afraid of a captive with his hands and feet tied?!”
However, to his surprise, the man didn’t seem to be here to deliver food to him. At least he didn’t smell the aroma of food in the wind blowing from the door.
”Stop making noise, you’re home, get up and get out.”
Arrived…home?
Dirang was stunned at first, and then a look of fear suddenly appeared on his twisted face.
He did seem to have fallen asleep just now, but he couldn’t have slept for a week. Now he hasn’t even left the Borneo Sea, how could he get there? !
A terrible thought came to his mind.
Could it be…
these guys are going to throw me into the sea to feed the fish? !
”No! I won’t go down!”
Looking at the guy who was yelling like crazy, the player who came down to lead the group was also helpless. Why did he have to do this most boring job?
Too lazy to talk nonsense with the prisoner, he went up and grabbed the guy’s collar, picked him up like a chicken, and pushed him out of the single room.
”Be honest!”
(End of this chapter)
