Chapter 568 - Isolated and helpless (1/2)

The Pyro Company members carried the explosives on their backs as they searched for traces of the Experimentals on the battlefield. As long as they saw any Experimentals, they would charge at it in a bid to take the enemy down together with them. It was precisely because the Pyro Company was participating in the battle that the chaotic situation had reversed.

30 members of the Pyro Company had joined the reinforcements this time, a total of six squads comprising three Midnight and three Dusk squads.

Their physical fitness was not as good as the Experimentals that walked upright, but it was enough for them to launch a suicide attack against these creatures. They were trading a life for a life!

Before this, the Zhou Consortium soldiers did not really take a liking to the Pyro Company members, because they always felt they were too shady and did not communicate well with the Zhou Consortium’s troops.

But at this moment, everyone admired them from the bottom of their hearts.

The Pyro Company that clearly did not have a good reputation was now standing up to fight alongside them.

They had always heard of some supernatural beings who were particularly powerful that existed in the Central Plains. But where were those supernatural beings now?

Very quickly, only two out of the dozen or so Experimentals that walked upright were left after the suicide attacks. And without the help of these walkers, the Experimentals found it very difficult to get past the 2nd Division’s heavy machine gun positions.

Just as hope started growing in all the soldiers and commanders of 2nd Division, someone suddenly shouted, “Another dozen walking Experimentals are climbing up the mountain!”

But it was too late by the time that was said.

Suddenly, one of the Experimentals carried a strange-looking bag of items and charged into the Zhou Consortium troops. Following that, dust and pieces of flesh were sent flying everywhere with a loud bang.

The 2nd Division’s commander who was watching from afar was dumbfounded. This time, it was the Experimentals launching suicide bombings against them.

The Experimentals were starting to use firearms and explosives!

The commander of 2nd Division had a heavy expression as he said, “Retreat, orderly retreat!”

Whenever a time like this came, it was always difficult to make any decisions. If a portion of the troops were going to evacuate, it would mean a portion of them would have to stay behind forever. In fact, some of the soldiers might even get assimilated into new Experimentals.

In the end, the Experimentals’ numbers did not really decrease by much after the battle. Furthermore, if the soldiers with stronger physical fitness were turned into Experimentals, they might even end up as those walking Experimentals that were exceptionally strong.

The Experimentals seemed to have their own selection criteria for new Experimentals.

The Qing Consortium had calculated the statistics before. It seemed the Experimentals had a 7% chance of choosing someone to be assimilated as one of them.

If 2nd Division were to retreat now, they should be able to retain two-thirds of their troop strength. After all, a division with more than ten thousand troops was not that easy to defeat.

But the commander of 2nd Division was more concerned about the fact that if the Experimentals were capable of using firearms and explosives, it would make it even more difficult for Stronghold 74, which was isolated and helpless, in future sieges.

They could only hope the Experimentals did not know how to drive tanks.

The Experimentals did not chase after them either and only watched silently from the forest with ferocious expressions as the Zhou Consortium troops retreated.

Meanwhile, the forest by that mountain path was still burning with raging flames. As the fire spread further, it left behind only dark ashes and ruins in its path.

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When news of the reinforcements’ defeat reached Stronghold 74, the stronghold residents felt like they were struck by lightning.