Chapter 39 Nobody's Strange Change

The village ruins where the ambush site was located were relatively well preserved.

Rows of half-collapsed bungalows, half-collapsed red brick courtyard walls, and willows growing alongside the ruins can naturally conceal many people.

Perhaps because there were no satellite maps from a high vantage point, and no detailed pre-apocalyptic geographical data, or perhaps because the gathering of the Fallen Insects was rather hasty, they did not explore the terrain for their march.

3 kilometers, 2 kilometers... Qi An glanced at the equipment status of each unit.

The cannons are about to fire.

The sound of cannons was indeed the first to break through the thick blue fog that enveloped the earth, catching that line of gray tide off guard!

A hole was burned into a flat gray handkerchief, and then it wrinkled.

Amidst the chaos and commotion of the fallen insect ranks, screams erupted!

But the screams quickly subsided into order, and the handkerchief was torn into several strips, becoming ribbons.

Several ribbons, like long snakes emerging from the grass, lunged towards the direction from which the artillery fire was coming!

The mortar immediately adjusted its angle and fired at the vital spot of the first "snake".

Two 82mm mortars also opened fire, each firing a shot.

Screams rose and fell, and the "snake" was no ordinary "snake"; even if its body was burned off by gunpowder smoke, it could immediately reconnect.

The reconnected "snake" swam even faster, seemingly entering the ambush point within a kilometer radius in the blink of an eye!

Perhaps the lack of prior terrain reconnaissance was a sign of overconfidence, or perhaps the leading worms had anticipated that they would be detected by human drones as soon as they surfaced.

So we don't need to consider ambushes at all; we just need to turn the tables and take out the ambushes!

The ambush force numbered only 200, while this squad of insects comprised nearly 800!

However, as soon as the leader got close, he was met with a barrage of bullets.

Behind a row of single-story houses at the eastern entrance of the village, there is a long ambush zone. This is the frontline assault team, whose marksmanship is excellent. Their firepower is fierce and accurate within a 1-kilometer radius!

The "long snake" looks like it has been peeled off layer by layer, and it is still being peeled off layer by layer!

The shelling continued, and the second "long snake" was hit hard, breaking off several sections.

At the severed point, a "singer" had just given a commanding scream when it was hit in the cyst by a sniper on the high ground!

The fallen insects were thrown into chaos. The dense grass and bushes were drenched in blood, turning an eerie green!

However, the screams did not decrease as the number of fallen insects decreased; instead, they became even louder and more shrill!

Even after being skinned and dismembered, the "head snake" did not slow down its pace; the snake's head was less than 500 meters from the ambush point in front!

Qi An could already hear the alarm, and codes began to pop up in the middle of the screen.

The module in the middle of the screen displays the soldiers' contamination levels.

Each soldier is a code, and this module is designed as a chart with three columns representing Level 2 mutation, Level 3 mutation, and Level 4 mutation.

The horizontal lines represent different teams, and the number of horizontal lines may be increased or decreased depending on the situation of the battle.

For example, Qi An's screen currently only shows two horizontal lines, representing the 200-strong ambush team and the 300-strong defense team that has entered the town.

Currently, only the horizontal grid of the 200 ambush teams is showing codes. The war has just begun, and the codes are mostly concentrated in the "Level 2 Mutation" column.

At this point, most purification specialists should feel the pressure, having to allocate purification resources to these codes that popped up first.

The codes will jump more and more, and as the pressure of the war increases, the codes will jump more into the grids of level 3 or even level 4 mutations.

At that time, for top-level purifiers, every full grid was a full life, and they also had to maintain resonance with many people. How could the pressure not be overwhelming?

It all depends on a general's cold and resolute attitude, as well as the support of harmful drugs!

The tablet in front of Old Wei contained the exact same content as Qi An's screen. She squinted at it and saw that the codes that popped up only stood in the table for a moment before happily disappearing.

The pollution tables were cleared very quickly because the group whose pollution values ​​first rose were the people Qi An had ordered the second-level purifiers to connect to before the battle began.

She demanded that battlefield commanders synchronize the most detailed operational plans, that is, synchronize which group was responsible for the front-line assault, which group was responsible for sniping from the rear, or operating artillery in an ambush.

She requested grouping because it would allow the numbers to be placed in the same group in advance.

People in the same group perform the same combat missions and are in the same environment, so the peak values ​​of pollution levels will naturally be consistent.

Soldiers are categorized and monitored in groups according to the progress of the battle. The peak changes in pollution values ​​of each group can reflect the battlefield situation and provide battlefield commanders with dispatching references.

Isn't this better than the current form where the coding jumps around randomly in the table?

Qi An's requirements for coding and coloring functions, as well as synchronizing the identity information of all soldiers, also took into account the different resistance levels of soldiers in the same group.

She also needs to distinguish those who require special care and mark them in red!

Such mental acumen and battlefield awareness!

The technicians who designed the application functions had never been purification engineers or been on the battlefield, so they were still a bit confused. However, Old Wei was already in sync with Qi An's thinking and gave a simple explanation, which made Chen Huaizhi suddenly realize and clap his hands, and quickly grab a piece of paper to take notes.

"That's impressive, you've thought of so many things! But how can one person remember the information of more than 500 people? When there are more people who need to be purified, we'll be overwhelmed."

"There might be more than 500 people in the future, Dr. Qi..." Xu Hui also understood, but pointed out the problem, and said softly with concern.

Wei Maochun only gave her a cold, sidelong glance: "This doesn't need her to memorize it, it needs to be memorized by a computer, by future AI assistance!"

Qi An is optimizing the entire process! That's the most valuable thing!

Wei Maochun's cold tone startled Xu Hui, who took a step back. She bit her lip and turned to look at Qi An.

The procedures are just for show; once the battle begins, can she really guarantee a smooth victory?

Whether the war goes smoothly depends on many factors and cannot rely entirely on the Purifier.

But the Purifiers were demonstrating their presence everywhere in this battle!

The serpentine insects were less than 500 meters away from the assault team, and a foul stench filled the air; some people's contamination levels had already begun to rise.

Generally, close-range defense teams must retreat once they get within 300 meters of a Fallen Insect.

The ambush team had the same plan, and the squad leader of the first assault team, seeing the distance, was about to give the order to cease fire.

However, his contamination level was not high at all, so he could still fight. His gun was still accurate enough to kill with two shots, and it even became more accurate because of the closer distance!

He delayed for a moment, changed his magazine, and emptied the entire magazine, convinced that he had killed as many bugs in just over ten minutes as he had in an entire battle in the past!

The fallen insects were too close, as close as 200 meters. The "long snake" had already been blasted to pieces by the fierce firepower, leaving it emaciated!

"First line, retreat!" The squad leader finally shouted the order, his voice trembling slightly with excitement.

All the assault team members on the front line put away their guns and ran.

Each small group's retreat route was planned in advance. This was not a rout, but rather a stream flowing orderly through the boulders and then naturally merging behind them.

No one has changed! The counting in the earpiece is neat and loud.

"Hold the line, keep firing!" The captain of the ambush team's voice was also filled with excitement, but he suppressed it tightly.

The assault soldiers on the second line faced the Fallen Insects head-on, but the Purifiers in the two-story snow tower in that hut had already disconnected from the first line and held up the pollution level of the second line!

No one has changed.