Chapter 788 It’s strange, how come this door opened by itself?

  Chapter 788 Strange, how did this door open by itself?

  ”Damn it! They found us!”

  In the monitoring room of the underground facility, the staff sitting in front of the terminal screamed as they watched the figure appear on the screen that had been repaired with great difficulty.

  A trace of panic also flashed across Arzu’s face.

  Although he often acted with the executioners of the Tribunal before being entrusted with important tasks by the Son of God, and had experienced many front-line battlefields, he was not a professional combatant after all, not to mention that even professional combatants might not be the opponents of so many regular troops.

  Most of the research facilities of the Torch Church were built based on shelters, which is somewhat similar to the Enlightenment Society and even the Alliance.

  This underground facility is no exception. It was originally named Shelter No. 182 and was opened in the early Wasteland Era. Later, it was changed by the Torch Church into Biological Research Institute No. 182, which was engaged in the research of Gestalt life forms and their sub-projects.

  The entrance of this facility is located in the center of the old site of Fortress Town, and at this moment, the Alliance is sending two platoons of troops to search here.

  All the staff members’ hearts were in their throats, and panic appeared on their faces.

  ”It is probably the mutants on the ground who exposed our tracks…” An older researcher swallowed his saliva and cursed, “These pigs who are not good at anything but always make trouble!”

  The researcher standing next to him said nervously.

  ”Mutants… Why are mutants here?!”

  Another researcher wearing glasses said solemnly.

  ”Who knows… Most likely the communication equipment is broken and they came here to ask what happened. Damn… These idiots, they can’t adapt to the situation!”

  From the pictures on the surveillance, there are more than a few mutants hiding in this area, there are a team of a hundred people!

  He even couldn’t help but wonder if these idiots were deserters from the front line!

  Some researchers were arguing in a panic, while others were secretly glad.

  The latter were mainly researchers from the North Island.

  If they were not pointed at by Charas with a gun and threatened by the people here to install some brainwashing chip, they would not be willing to come to this place to design equipment for mutants.

  Although they dared not show it on their faces, they were the happiest at the moment.

  Since the Alliance had landed on the Coast of Death, Charas must have been finished.

  Although they were not out of danger yet, at least their families were safe.

  Ignoring the endless arguments of the staff, Alzu only urged the communication engineer who was responsible for repairing the communication equipment.

  ”How long will it take to fix it!”

  ”Almost, almost! Give me another 10 minutes!” The engineer was facing a tablet, his index finger tapping on the touch screen, and sweat was pouring down his forehead.

  On the tablet screen was a thumb-sized, insect-like robot, which was now lying in a dense mass of threads, rubbing its needle-thin mechanical arm, and occasionally emitting electric light from the tip.

  Finally, just as his sweat dripped onto the floor for the Nth time, the insect-like circuit maintenance robot finally completed all the welding operations and repaired the circuit section burned by the electromagnetic pulse.

  He let out a long breath and leaned back in his chair, wiping the sweat hanging on his forehead and said happily.

  ”It’s done–”

  Before he finished speaking, he was pushed away by Alzu who was standing next to him.

  The latter grabbed the tablet in a hurry, clicked on it with his index finger several times, and connected to the Tribunal in the back.

  When he saw the [Communication Connected] icon appear on the screen, a trace of ecstasy appeared on his face in an instant, and he grabbed the headphones and put them on and shouted desperately.

  ”Calling the Tribunal, this is Research Institute No. 182! The Alliance is approaching us, we need support!”

  Research Institute No. 182 stores a large amount of information about the Gestalt Lifeform Project, and the Tribunal will not leave them alone!

  Compared to those mutant cannon fodders, those combat elites with pre-war equipment produced by black boxes are the real trump cards of the Torch Church!

  After a short silence, a steady and reliable voice came from the other end of the communication channel.

  ”…This is the Punishment Team, we have received an order to go to your vicinity, please close the door and wait patiently!”

  Hearing this voice like the sound of nature, Alzu clenched his fists excitedly.

  There is salvation!

  On the other side, there is a mountainous area only 2 kilometers away from the underground facility.

  About 40 soldiers wearing exoskeletons were quietly lurking at the edge of the jungle, their almost completely transparent silhouettes blending into the surrounding environment.

  With the optical camouflage device, as long as they remained motionless, no one could catch their traces with the naked eye.

  Standing in the middle of the team, the captain-like man stared at the direction of the fortress town with a grim look, and tapped his helmet with his index finger.

  ”This is ‘Hunter’, we have arrived near the target… Confirmed that the target has lost contact due to an EMP attack.”

  The voice of the Son of God came from the communication channel.

  ”How is the battle situation?”

  The man called Hunter said in a deep voice.

  ”The Alliance has landed on the shore, and the local garrison troops have lost completely.”

  There was silence in the communication channel for a while, and about half a minute later, he continued.

  ”… Bring back Alzu and the information in the research institute, and try to take away the others, and deal with those who cannot be taken away.”

  A sharp light flashed in the hunter’s eyes.

  ”Yes.”

  …

  At the same time when Alzu called for reinforcements from the Tribunal, two platoons of the first company of the first battalion of the Burning Corps had arrived at the edge of the fortress town, which was located in the dense forest.

  This settlement is like a castle, and the outer row houses are like towering walls.

  The windows of the first floor start from a height of 6 meters, and without exception, they are all equipped with anti-theft nets wrapped with steel wire strips. The highest window is more than 20 meters, and the roof is designed as a shooting platform with a bunker. The distance

  between the row houses is only three or five steps wide, and there are crooked corridors, which look like gatehouses of the city wall from a distance.

  [Yincha Yangchu] can imagine how the survivors fought against the looters who invaded their homes when there were still people in this settlement.

  They piled obstacles on the corridor bridge, stood on the roof and shot at the invaders, and when the invaders passed the bottom of the corridor bridge, they threw down the obstacles and divided the invaders into two sections.

  However, these brave people have gone to who knows where, leaving only a few green heads poking their heads out.

  [Yiqidengtian] opened the VM and retrieved the data he had downloaded from the official website before.

  ”I heard that a survivors’ self-help alliance called ‘Iron Tower’ appeared in this area more than a decade ago. They used the signal tower of the Human Union era as a sign and formed a militia to patrol between various settlements… It is somewhat similar to us.”

  ”There is information about this settlement on the official website. It is said that it was an outpost built on the surface of Shelter 182 in the early days. Later, for some reason, Shelter 182 and the surface outpost were abandoned. It was not until about 100 years after the Wasteland Era that the facilities here were reused by a group of wastelanders, and the surrounding buildings were widened and improved.”

  ”Then the ‘Iron Tower’ organization was born and took over this settlement. The population of the latter slowly grew from hundreds of people at the beginning to 20,000 later… It was not until the Torch came here that this number was reset to zero.”

  In fact, even if the ruins of this settlement were not within the scope of the Alliance’s third-phase offensive, they would return to search here after the landing operation was completed.

  But just now, their drones found traces of mutant activities in this area, so Brother Killing Dagger asked them to come here in advance to see if there were any big fish.

  The two players who were following him couldn’t help but complain after hearing what Dengtian said.

  ”It’s okay to reset to zero…”

  ”What a joke.”

  ”That’s what it says in the setting book, I just read it, if you have any opinions, ask the planner.”

  Yibu Dengtian took his family brother’s camera and took a few photos of the exterior of the settlement.

  This camera was the only relic left by his good brother in the world, although the dog thing would be alive in a few days.

  ”…Speaking of which, the settlements in this wasteland are really strange.” Bansui Cuotuo sighed, “There are slums with millions of people like Kingalun Port, there are also grids and blocks like the roundabout island, and there are earthen artillery towers like this.”

  ”After all, it’s a wasteland.” Bansui Cuotuo teased.

  ”There are three mutants moving around at the door… I can’t see what’s going on inside,” he put down the camera, looked at Lao Yin, and asked with his eyes, “Should we just do it? Or should we sneak in and see what’s going on inside first?”

  ”It’s too troublesome,” [Yinchaiyangcuo] raised his right hand and clenched it into a fist, and made an attacking gesture to his teammates behind him, “Kill all the beasts here, and then slowly figure out what’s inside.”

  ”Killing all the people is the perfect way to sneak in,” Bansuicuo excitedly picked up the rifle hanging on his chest, loaded it with a click, “Work, work!”

  The mutants standing at the entrance of the settlement didn’t know that they were in big trouble, and were still communicating with each other.

  At this moment, three gunshots rang out almost at the same time, and three heads exploded into a blood mist at the same time, and red and white were scattered all over the ground with a bang.

  ”Alliance!”

  The mutant standing behind the gatehouse yelled when he found the sentry at the door fell to the ground, then picked up his rifle and fired at the door, and then he shot for a long time but didn’t see anyone. He

  accidentally emptied the magazine, and hastily pulled out the magazine to replace it with a new one. However, before he could insert the new magazine, a four-rotor drone with a gun barrel hung on it rushed over the porch and shot his head with a burst of gunfire.

  By chance, he led the three players behind him and rushed into the alley first. He fired a burst of rifles in his hand, killing several mutants who tried to surround him.

  At the same time, the three squads of the first row were divided into nine teams, and rushed into the abandoned town from nine directions respectively. The second row went around the flank of the town to feint and disperse the mutants’ firepower.

  Faced with attacks launched from several directions at the same time, the mutants in the town were dizzy.

  Looking at the bodies lying on the ground in the alley, a strength player reloaded his magazine and couldn’t help but tease.

  ”The mutants in Qingquan City are much smarter than this thing.”

  Another player next to him said succinctly.

  ”They are quite bad, probably new recruits.”

  Mutants are not stupid, but just a little irritable.

  I heard from those old players that the mutants they encountered in the suburbs of Qingquan City a long time ago not only made mines and traps, but also made their own rifles.

  In the end, it was the friends of the Pioneer who took action to kill those beasts.

  The battle video of that time can still be found on the official website forum, so there is no bragging.

  However, the mutants here are completely different. Not to mention using the terrain to fight, they don’t even understand the things in their hands.

  The Torch Church seems to have produced a batch of mutants quickly through some special method, but these mutants are just like the eight-times-fast-growing clones of the Legion. They are far inferior to those naturally grown green-skinned beasts in terms of intelligence and experience.

  60 people against 100!

  The whole battle was completely suspenseful and turned into a one-sided massacre!

  Seeing that this group of mutants was so easy to deal with, some players couldn’t help but feel a little proud.

  However, at this moment, something strange happened.

  A team of four was trying to cross the alley and enter the square in the center of the town to search. Suddenly, a gunshot rang out from the front, and the player walking in the front was instantly shot in the head.

  ”Sniper!”

  ”Disperse!”

  The remaining three were shocked and stopped making jokes in the communication channel. They quickly moved to the bunkers on both sides.

  One player hid behind the concrete pier.

  The other two players broke through the window and climbed into the house next to the alley.

  However, there was another bang at this time.

  The squad leader who had just turned over and hid in the house happened to see with his peripheral vision that the teammate hiding behind the concrete pier was shot through with the bunker, and the flesh and cement slag were shattered.

  ”What the hell?! What the hell is this?”

  The player lying on the window widened his eyes, looking like he had seen a ghost.

  They fought from the edge of the town to the center of the town without losing a single person, but in just a few seconds, two of them were shot down by two gunshots!

  ”It was a Gauss rifle!”

  The squad leader squatting next to him looked solemn, looking at the direction where the two teammates fell. While comparing the map on the VM and circling the building complex in front, he shouted into the intercom.

  ”Team A engages the enemy! Team B and Team C spread out! Press over from both sides, wait for the airstrike and then engage in fire!” After

  giving orders to the other two squads, the squad leader switched the communication channel and continued to shout loudly.

  ”…This is the second squad of the first platoon, we encountered an enemy sniper! That guy shot down two of our brothers! We need air support!”

  After hearing his voice, a reply came quickly from the other end of the communication channel.

  ”Got it, can you lock on to their position?”

  The captain glanced out the window, but didn’t dare to stick his head out, let alone expose himself by the window, so he could only grit his teeth and speak.

  ”The exact location is uncertain, but we have circled the approximate location on the map… Those guys are definitely not mutants! They should be the Torch Tribunal!”

  ”Understood, the coordinates have been synchronized to the Air Force… We will be there in one minute!”

  After hanging up the communication, the captain gave a look to the team member next to him. The latter understood and took out the drone from his back, crouched down and touched the other side of the building and threw it out.

  The four-rotor drone flipped in the air, quickly stabilized its body, and rushed towards the sky with a buzzing sound.

  The drone camera quickly locked the approximate area where the sniper was located, and provided the camera lens and relative coordinates to the approaching P-2 “Lightning” attack aircraft.

  Team B and Team C had already touched the vicinity of the sniper and counted down nervously.

  One minute seemed as long as a century, and the two sides just stood there in silence.

  And at this moment, the explosion of the machine gun bombarding the ground suddenly resounded throughout the square!

  Hundreds of large-caliber machine gun bullets poured out in an instant, crushing an entire dilapidated building complex on the north side of the square with a devastating force.

  It was not until the flames and dust of the explosion shot up into the sky that the roar of machine guns and the whistling of attack aircraft engines finally passed over the heads of the players.

  ”Puff!”

  Seeing the figure flying by, the morale of the players on the ground was greatly boosted.

  Taking advantage of the dust raised by the explosion, the squad leader quickly jumped out of the bunker, driving the exoskeleton to chase the rolling dust while shouting loudly in the communication channel.

  ”Surround them!”

  The three teams immediately took action and attacked the ruins swept by the machine guns from three directions. As expected, they found the retreating sniper and another soldier wearing an exoskeleton next to him.

  It was the Torch Tribunal!

  Seeing the equipment on these people, the players recognized their identities at a glance.

  However, no one was afraid, and everyone’s face showed an expression of surprise.

  ”Oh my goodness, the Inquisition!”

  ”Elite monsters! Elite monsters are spawning!”

  Although the two executioners were not killed by the airstrike, they were obviously injured. They did not dare to entangle with the players who surrounded them and quickly retreated to the rear.

  Seeing that the elite monster was about to run away, the players were not willing to let him go and chased him.

  Then, after chasing him for a few steps along the crooked alley, the captain felt something was wrong.

  Why did these two elite monsters feel like they were seducing them?

  The more he thought about it, the more he felt that there was something wrong. He immediately reset the coordinates of the assembly point on the VM map.

  ”Stop chasing! Team 2, listen to the order! Everyone defend on the spot!”

  They were a little far away from their teammates.

  If the executioners of the Inquisition were ambushing in front, they could easily be eaten by the opponent.

  Although there was a risk of letting the two snipers go, he did not dare to gamble with his teammates’ resurrection CDs and equipment.

  These guys are not easy to deal with!

  Thinking of this, a hint of excitement flashed in his eyes, and sweat oozed from his palms.

  But it was not because of fear.

  It was because of excitement!

  They have been bullying weaklings for a while now, and finally they have a chance to fight against strong ones!

  A rustling sound came from the communication channel.

  Team B captain: “Boss, aren’t you going to chase us anymore?”

  Team C captain: “Why are you still chasing us? Didn’t you notice that these two elite monsters are kiting us?”

  Team B captain: “What the hell?!”

  At the same time when the players stopped chasing, the two snipers who were retreating gradually discovered the situation behind them, and the soldiers who were chasing them suddenly stopped.

  The two looked at each other, and the observer immediately reported the situation to the rear.

  ”The fish is off the hook, the enemy team stopped chasing.”

  At the same time, the hunter who was ambushing in a three-story building hundreds of meters away frowned.

  The entrance to the underground facility is in the square, which has been controlled by the Alliance soldiers.

  The battle on the beach is over now, and they must end the battle before the Alliance reinforcements arrive!

  There is no time to hesitate.

  It only took a few seconds to make a judgment, and the hunter gave the order in the communication channel without hesitation.

  ”Team one, team two, move forward, team three, team four, outflanking from the flank!”

  ”Quick fight, quick decision!”

  ”Yes!” A sonorous answer resounded in the communication channel, and one by one, the figures lurking in the shadow of the abandoned building stepped out of the environment that almost merged with them, and surrounded the Alliance team that stopped chasing.

  At the same time, the other two squads in the first row also noticed that something was wrong, and called the second row to move forward and immediately sent reinforcements in the direction of the second squad.

  At this moment, the news that the troops searching the ruins of the Fortress Town encountered the Torch Church Inquisition reached Old White, who was commanding the construction of the camp and the dock on the beachhead.

  After comparing the intelligence and looking at the map twice, Old White made a judgment in just two seconds.

  ”It’s probably a big fish!”

  ”I think so too,” Fang Chang nodded, stroking his chin with interest, “Why don’t I take a team of people to reinforce and take a look.”

  According to the information they collected, there is a ruin of a shelter there. Although it has been abandoned for more than a century, it is not ruled out that the Torch Church may have transformed it into a scientific research facility.

  Similar situations have also occurred on the northern front.

  Lao Bai smiled heartily and patted him on the shoulder.

  ”Okay, leave it to you!”

  The battle on the beach has basically ended, and there is not much shortage of manpower at the moment.

  The 10,000-man mutant team defending the position was completely disbanded by them, and was running towards the rear like a headless fly. The remaining work, apart from cleaning the battlefield, was to build the dock, so he didn’t need to watch here.

  After coming out of the command tent, Fang Chang immediately took a company of players and got on the “Chimera” infantry fighting vehicle that had just landed on the floating dock, and applied for two Yunting ornithopters as support from the NPC troops, and rushed towards the direction of the fortress town.

  When he arrived at the battlefield, two platoons of the first company of the first battalion were fighting with the Torch Church’s Inquisition team, and the sound of gunfire echoed in the ruins.

  Judging from the steady and ruthless attack rhythm, these guys should be the so-called “executioners” of the Torch Church’s Inquisition, just like the ones they had seen in the eastern suburbs of Qingquan City and Songguomu Farm before!

  Seeing the alliance’s reinforcements rushing to the battlefield, the hunter who was fighting on the front line couldn’t help but feel a touch of despair in his eyes.

  Too fast!

  Just like when they landed, these guys acted without any hesitation. After the strategic missiles were fired, the landing craft and armored vehicles rushed up immediately.

  They had just figured out the reason why the front-line command post lost contact, and the landing troops of the alliance had already penetrated the defense line they had set up on the beach!

  It was the same now. They had exchanged fire with the alliance reconnaissance troops that searched near the fortress town for less than 20 minutes, and the large force behind them had already reinforced.

  There was no chance at all!

  If they continued to entangle like this, they would probably no longer be facing just a few ten-man teams, but would face the encirclement and suppression of battalion-level or even regiment-level combat units.

  Looking at the dozen corpses left by both sides and the position that had been unable to be conquered for a long time, the hunter finally gritted his teeth and shouted in the communication channel.

  ”Retreat!”

  After throwing down this sentence, he immediately turned around and disappeared under the shadow of the buildings in the settlement, not daring to stay here for a moment longer.

  The same was true for the other teams. Just before the “Cloud Ting” flapping-wing aircraft was about to arrive at the battlefield, they all turned around and evacuated the battlefield, hiding in the shadows.

  The mission has failed. All

  we can do now is to reduce the losses.

  However, almost all the executioners felt heavy in their hearts.

  Although their faith was extremely pious and they had no doubt about the supreme Son of God, they could not see any hope of winning, and even “good news” became a luxury…

  The pressure on the front line suddenly decreased, and the players squatting behind the bunkers finally breathed a sigh of relief.

  Although this battle was still quite enjoyable for them, the equipment of these opponents was really a bit outrageous. Almost all of them were optically invisible, plus they had automatic aiming and locking their heads. They almost snatched the position from them several times.

  If the reinforcements had come about 10 minutes later, it would have been hard to say whether the outcome of this battle would be a victory or a defeat.

  Looking at Fang Chang who had walked to the front line, the one who was commanding the battle at the front line walked up by accident and reported the whole process of the encounter and the casualties.

  ”… We were exchanging fire with the mutants at first, and then these guys suddenly showed up. I feel like they wanted to take something away, but they probably didn’t succeed.”

  ”These guys are not stupid. They know that it’s meaningless to continue fighting, so they decisively chose to retreat,” Fang Chang glanced around, narrowed his eyes slightly, and raised a faint smile at the corners of his mouth, “We will soon know what they are desperately trying to take away.” At

  the same time as he finished speaking, a player who came here with him to reinforce came over.

  ”We found an underground passage under the public toilet in the square, which is suspected to be the entrance to Shelter No. 182.”

  Hearing the location of the entrance, his eyebrows twitched.

  ”These guys are really tasteful.”

  ”It may not be the taste of these guys. What if it was designed by the people before the war?” Fang Chang joked with a smile, then looked at the players who came to report and said, “Let’s go down and see what’s hidden in this shelter.”

  If it is a shelter that has been abandoned and restored, the security procedures may not be the original ones before the war, and it is also possible to remove the access control through external hacking programs.

  This mainly depends on the reason for the abandonment of the shelter, the last manager’s arrangement for the shelter to stay or go, and how the successor inherits it.

  For shelters that are restarted through abnormal channels, they can be unlocked with the official offline key. A slightly more complicated access control program is just a matter of setting up an antenna and connecting to the Internet.

  These are the experiences summed up by players active in the pioneer city, and of course they are also effective in other areas of the wasteland.

  Hearing that they were going to “open a blind box”, a group of players immediately showed eager expressions on their faces.

  ”Let’s go!”

  ”Haha, hurry up!”

  At the same time, Alzu was pacing back and forth near the buffer door of the shelter, cursing from time to time.

  ”Fuck, why are you so slow?”

  What are these people dawdling about!

  He has backed up all the data in the shelter on the chip in his brain, and deleted all the original files that could be deleted, and messed up the ones that could not be deleted as much as possible, just to be able to escape faster when retreating.

  At this moment, a staff member hurriedly passed through the buffer door and ran in front of him.

  ”Mr. Alzu… they are coming!”

  Alzu’s face lit up when he heard the words.

  ”Here?! Why don’t you open the door quickly!”

  Seeing that he was still talking in his sleep, the staff member was so anxious that he almost cried.

  ”No, it’s not the people from the Tribunal, it’s the people from the Alliance!”

  In just a moment, the old face under the hood quickly lost its color, and his lips turned blue and white.

  The Alliance is coming…

  How is it possible? !

  In a trance, he saw the gear-shaped door suddenly shake, and rolled to one side under the traction of the mechanical cantilever.

  The staff who ran over to report the news was startled, and collapsed to the ground when he saw this scene.

  As for Alzu, he was completely motionless, standing there in a daze as if he was stupid.

  The huge gear-shaped door slowly opened.

  A man in power armor stood at the door.

  The man raised his left arm, and in his right hand was holding a data cable pulled out from the left arm armor.

  The end of the wire seemed to be about to be inserted into a certain position on the door, but it had not been inserted yet.

  Looking at the old man in a gray robe standing at the door, and the man slumped on the ground next to the old man, Fang Chang was obviously stunned for a moment, and muttered.

  ”Strange…”

  He hasn’t done anything yet.

  How did the door open by itself?

  (End of this chapter)