Chapter 191: Difficulties (2/2)
Finally, An Ying recovered and said, ”Reporting, sir! There are three light green and green mutated beasts seven kilometers away heading in this direction. Please be prepared.”
Everyone looked tense. Commander Xia quickly pressed on his the walkie talkie and gave a few orders. After a moment, the helicopter flew off the ground and An Ying disappeared again, teleporting one kilometer away. After a while, he had totally disappeared.
A few minutes later, a loud sound came from afar and smoke started rising up. Apparently, there was a fierce battle going on. They could hear the conversations on the walkie talkie.
“Killed a small one. Oh no! It's spraying water! I’m going to lift it now! That was lucky, I almost died man!”
They could hear a man gasping on the other side. He sounded frightened as he said, “You son of a bitch! I’m going to kill you! Damn it!”
“Damn it! Five more are coming! We don't have enough bullets! We need to get more from the base. We're heading back.”
The helicopter flew up into the air and headed back to the military base.
“Damn it!” Commander Xia pressed on the walkie talkie again and said, “Get all the cannons ready!”
“Yes, sir!”
“Yes, sir!”
Every once in a while, they heard a roaring sound, followed by a ground vibration. After a while, two scary sea monsters slowly appeared. Their skin was greenish-black with big yellow spots, and they looked like turtles without shells.
They seemed to have gotten hurt by the attack of the helicopter. There was blood and holes all over their bodies. However, their injuries were not life-threatening for a beast about 20 meters long and over 10 meters tall. Finally, Luo Yuan understood why the soldiers needed their help. No bombs or bullets could hurt the beasts if the soldiers did not aim at their weakest points.
“Let them come closer! Ready, fire!!” Commander Xia ordered as he saw the beasts approaching. Modern cannons could shoot very far those days, even at a 10-kilometer distance, although that was not as accurate. The closer the mutated beasts got, the higher possibility to kill them would be.
Suddenly, the two auto-cannons launched the missiles.
Boom!
One of the missiles hit a beast on the head, making it explode on the spot. Another missile hit the leg of the second beast, wounding it severely. The beast seemed to be in extreme pain as it rolled around on the ground.
The bombs had been modified to be more powerful than the two 2-meter diameter missiles of the helicopter. They had killed a sea monster and injured another one with just a single launch.
“Why did you stop firing?” Luo Yuan asked curiously as he saw Commander Xia not giving any more orders.
“We are short on bullets and bombs,” Commander Xia said with an awkward smile.
It was dangerous everywhere, and the resources in the rehabilitation region were insufficient. Due to the high demand from all the teams, there was a limited number of bullets and bombs given to them. Theoretically, the soldiers should have gone back to the military base. However, the computer center had been safer after the mutated beasts had retreated, so they had decided to take a look around and see if there were any resources that they could bring back to the base. None of them had expected to bump into the sea monsters.
Luo Yuan was stunned as he asked, “How many are there left?”
“Eight 2-meter missiles and 30 mortars, plus 5 containers of machine gun bullets,” the Commander said.
“It should be enough. We just need to keep fighting for another 3-5 hours. It should be alright.” Xiao Fei looked at the worksite as he estimated the time.
Luo Yuan did not feel right. He knew his B-Level Mission would not be that easy to complete.
Note:
Eutrophication is the excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.