Chapter 454 The Return of Darkness (Seventeen)
Wherever the mental energy covered, even the movements of the mutants became incredibly slow.
But Xiao Yunzhao quickly withdrew his mental energy.
She was clever; she knew that the chef's reluctance to take action was a way of weakening both sides.
In the eyes of these outsiders, both sides are mutants.
It's simply the difference between early and late distortion.
The sentries need to conserve their strength to deal with the increasing number of monsters in the later stages of the city.
Xiao Yunzhao played with the communicator in her hand; it was something she had grown up.
The pollution concentration remained at 90%.
"What a pity. I was hoping to see what a 100% contaminated area looks like," Xiao Yunzhao said with a regretful expression.
The sentries: "..." No, we don't want to see that.
Xie Tu helped her sit on the roof of the car. "Stop fooling around."
Being on the front lines, the sounds of artillery fire from the battlefield were constant.
They were positioned behind the main battle tank, with robots moving explosives back and forth in front of it.
Xiao Yunzhao pouted.
I just saw many more mutants that are not under the control of mental power.
What would happen if we touched those images?
Xiao Yunzhao had never touched it; she thought it was dirty.
She couldn't control the mutants created by the distorted images; instead, the soldiers were able to kill them.
Xie Tu kept his eyes fixed on the battlefield situation. "Like objects, touching them makes them real."
—Why can things from contaminated areas be taken out?
This is a question that researchers at the four major research bases have been debating for a long time.
There has been no answer.
Xie Tu discovered that the contaminated area was in the same time and space because of Xiao Yunzhao's appearance.
He suddenly realized something.
It is dark matter that alters the physical laws of the surroundings.
The polluted area appears illusory and detached from reality, but in reality, it exists in a wondrous state akin to a quantum superposition.
Items within the contaminated zone have been imbued with peculiar properties by the dark matter.
From a microscopic perspective, the atomic and molecular structures of objects are in an unstable, fluctuating state under the influence of dark matter.
Their positions, shapes, and other aspects are all subject to a superposition of multiple possibilities.
Human touch brings external energy and information interference, causing the microstructure of an object to stabilize instantly, presenting a real and perceptible state in the macroscopic world.
It's like a flickering ghost.
When you reach out and grasp it, it takes on a tangible form in your hand, becoming a real, tangible entity.
Xiao Yunzhao: "Do I have to touch you before I can hit you?"
Xie Tu: "Mm."
The sentries behind them felt a chill run down their spines.
If you encounter a Sentinel mutant and it happens to be an image, you'll have to get close and touch it.
Those monsters were covered in corrosive slime.
Touching it would either kill you or leave you with a bruised and battered skin.
What you fear most is what happens.
Shortly after Xie Tu issued his order, the buffer zone's defenses were hit by an unprecedented attack.
Near Areas A and B, the numerous obstacles set up were broken through, and hundreds of thousands of mutants surged in like a tide.
Satellite signals became intermittent, and all combat drones in the air were wiped out.
As the mutants charged toward the defensive line, a shout came from an officer over the walkie-talkie.
"Fire! Keep firing!"
On the front lines of the battlefield, all kinds of heavy weapons are firing at full power.
Rows of main battle tanks stood in imposing array, their cannons flashing, accurately striking hordes of mutants.
The moment the shell exploded.
The powerful blast wave kicked up layers of dust and hurled the surrounding mutants several meters away.
The tank's machine gun turret was also firing wildly, with dense bullets raining down, riddling the mutant's body with holes and splattering black blood all over the ground.
Even so.
The mutant species is getting closer and closer to the defense line.
More monsters burst out of the smoke, their black forms like a torrent, howling as they charged toward the tank units ahead.
Two of the mutants caught the attention of the sentries.
They were mixed in with the monsters, still retaining their human appearance, moving nimbly with an eerie coordination, seemingly possessing the fighting spirit they had in life.
While running.
One of the mutants suddenly stopped, raised an arm, and with a mighty swing, knocked away a rocket that was flying towards it.
The rocket exploded behind him, killing and injuring countless mutants.
The sentries were dumbfounded. "This must be at least an A-level, right?"
Sentinels of the same level are no match for mutants once they get close.
The sentries behind him tensed up and, without needing to be ordered, locked onto the two mutants almost instantly.
The sniper in Group 8 was a taciturn young man named Lai Yannian. He quickly lay down on the roof of the car, set up his sniper rifle, and found a fulcrum to aim.
—Bang! Bang!
Lai Yannian and Tang Zixuan fired several shots.
The dark figure moved like a ghost through the hail of bullets.
Whether by coincidence or design, the bullets were dodged every time, and all of them hit the mutants around them.
Xiao Yunzhao opened her watery eyes. The battlefield was too chaotic for her to see clearly, but that didn't stop her from noticing from the solemn expressions of the sentries around her that she had missed.
So weak.
"It's not footage, don't stop firing, keep suppressing it!" Xie Tu stood on the roof of the car, having already drawn his gun from his waist.
Those soldiers didn't have the five senses of the sentries. The battlefield was filled with smoke, and they were almost fighting blindly, so you couldn't count on them at all.
Upon hearing this, the two snipers launched another attack.
With its exceptional dynamic vision, it simultaneously fired several bullets into the surrounding blind spots.
Pull the trigger!
The bullet whistled out and struck one of the Sentinel Mutants in the head.
Its movements suddenly stopped, black liquid gushed from the wound, and the powerful black shadow crashed to the ground.
"Hit!" Lai Yannian said in a low voice, his voice carrying a hint of suppressed excitement.
Before the sentries could even breathe a sigh of relief...
The other mutant's muscles swelled instantly, and countless black blood vessels seemed to writhe beneath its skin. Its figure flashed and quickly disappeared into the monster horde.
Tang Zixuan cursed, "Damn it! We can't let it get away!"
He quickly turned his gun around and began searching for the Sentinel mutant.
The other sentries reacted quickly, squinting and trying to lock onto the target through the thick smoke.
Tens of thousands of monsters charged forward relentlessly, amidst constant artillery fire and smoke enveloping the entire battlefield.
All that could be seen were blurry shadows swaying.
The roars of the mutants, the booming of artillery, and the whistling of bullets intertwined, like a chaotic symphony assaulting the eardrums.
"Damn it!" Tang Zixuan cursed under his breath, seeing only a hazy gray fog in the scope.
Despite the corrosive effects of the dark matter, Lai Yannian released a snow owl spirit.
The little guy was very beautiful. He spread his wings and flew towards the pile of mutants, searching for his target at low altitude.
Xiao Yunzhao pointed at the snowy owl, "It's better looking than the old man."
Xie Tu knew she was talking about the peregrine falcon, but there was no time for small talk right now.
His ears twitched slightly, catching every sound on the battlefield, and he suddenly spoke up: "Ten o'clock to the left front, about two hundred meters away."
Lai Yannian and Tang Zixuan were jolted and quickly adjusted their guns.
"I see it!" Lai Yannian said in a low voice, the silhouette of the mutated sentinel faintly visible in the scope.
"Bang! Bang!"
Two gunshots rang out almost simultaneously.
The bullet pierced through the smoke and struck the target precisely.
The mutated sentinel's body stiffened abruptly, then collapsed heavily to the ground.
Xie Tu put down his gun, turned to the two men, and said, "Not bad."
These sentries are highly skilled and mentally resilient, comparable to the logistics reinforcements of Dawn Base.
It seems we need to strengthen the training of the operations department when we get back.
We can't let ourselves be outdone by the Dawn Base.
Lai Yannian and Tang Zixuan didn't even have time to speak.
Suddenly, the remaining streetlights went out at the same time.
The streets in the quarantine zone were instantly plunged into darkness.
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